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WEDNESDAY, October 19, 2016

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ANTI-CORRUPTION



In the news

Public gets look

at heart of graft

CHINA

Space rendezvous
The Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft is
scheduled to dock early on Wednesday
with the Tiangong II space lab, where
two astronauts will spend a busy
month. > p5
BUSINESS

Blockbuster TV series with tearful confessions

and juicy details seen as useful cautionary account
By ZHANG YAN
[email protected]

After reading about numerous

officials accused of bribery and other forms of corruption, the public is
finally hearing from some of the disgraced officials themselves.
An eight-part documentary being
aired on national television provides a first full look inside their stories, including tearful expressions of
regret and even surprise at their
own actions, which brought them a
posh life at the publics expense.
At the same time, anti-corruption
officials see it as a chance to showcase their work over the past four
years, and as a cautionary tale for
public servants. It also comes right
before a high-level meeting expected to develop stricter rules for CPC
members.
I never expected I would have
such an ending, Zhou Benshun, 63,
former top Party official of Hebei
province, tells the camera. I was
brought up in a poor family. ... I hated corrupt officials since I was
young, but I became one in the end.
He was placed under investigation
in October.
Juicy details also are coming to
light, such as bribes in the form of
gifts, like a jade bracelet worth 15

million yuan ($2.2 million) given to

Bai Enpei, 70, a former top official in
Yunnan province, in exchange for a
piece of land.
The series is being aired shortly
before the Sixth Plenary Session of
the Communist Party of Chinas
18th Central Committee.
The meeting, to be held Monday
through Oct 27, is expected to propose tougher rules for Party members in the form of two draft
disciplinary documents for professional and personal conduct to
be submitted for discussion and
approval.
The series, produced by the CPC
Central Committee for Discipline
Inspection and the national television system CCTV, entitled Corruption Fight Is Always Underway,
began airing nightly on Monday at 8
pm on CCTV-1.
It features the cases of about 10
former provincial or ministerial-level officials and one former State
leader, Su Rong, former vice-chairman of Chinas top political advisory
body. The interviews were done
while the former officials were
detained but before any convictions.
The cases of disgraced officials
who held higher positions, from
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Investment rises
Chinas outbound direct investment
jumped 53.7 percent year-on-year to
882.78 billion yuan in the first three
quarters. > p13

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WILDLIFE

Sharks beautiful, cute, diver says despite narrow escape

By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
in Shanghai

A Chinese diver whose near miss

with a great white shark became a
viral video sensation, viewed millions of times worldwide, calls the
oceans apex predator beautiful.
But the diver, a Shanghai resident originally from Hong Kong,
also said it has made him appreciate life.
Chan Ming, 51, was on a sharkwatching excursion off Mexicos west
coast when the shark broke into the

metal cage protecting him.

Despite their fearsome reputation, sharks do not normally feed
on humans, and have to be drawn
in with bait.
The shark seized the bait and
crashed into the cage, breaking
part of it. Unable to swim backward, it entered the cage, where
Chan was alone.
The advertising executive and
part-time diving instructor said on
Monday that he tried hard to stay
calm, because if I get panicked it
will be very horrible in there.

When the great white shark was

breaking into the cage, the inside of
its mouth was getting jammed in
the cage, and at that moment I was
thinking, Hey, dont think about
coming in here, he said.
The video shows the shark apparently bleeding as it thrashes its way
out through a gap opened by a crew
member. An agonizing 20 seconds
pass before Chan emerges safely.
The harrowing incident did little
to diminish Chans fondness for the
great white he went back into the
water the next day.

I still think the shark, the great

white, is so beautiful theyre very
beautiful and cute.
In a company statement posted
on Facebook, excursion operator
Solmar V Luxury Live-Aboard said
the shark was not seriously injured.
Shark breaches of this magnitude are a one in a million occurrence, it said.
The company whose priority is
to offer unique life experiences
said its cages have been reinforced,
and bait would be thrown farther
away from them in the future.

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Looking ahead

Hot topic

Events and stories coming up in the next few days

Internet Plus show opens tomorrow

The Second China Internet Plus Exposition will open tomorrow in
Foshan, Guangdong province. More than 600 domestic and foreign
companies are expected to attend the four-day event. The expo will
focus on smart manufacturing, internet finance, intelligent logistics
and e-commerce. Internet Plus is a new business model combining the
internet and traditional industries. Foshan is a major manufacturing
hub in the Pearl River Delta.

Beijing hosts Winter Sports Expo

The Beijing International Winter
Sports Expo will open today at the
China National Convention Center.
The organizing committee of the
2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will
participate in the four-day event as
part of its preparations for the
Games. One aim of the expo is to
promote the development of winter sports industry in China. The show is expected to attract more than
100,000 visitors.

TCM meeting planned in Chengdu

The fifth International Conference on the Modernization of Traditional
Chinese Medicine will be held from Sunday through Tuesday in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. The conference aims to build a platform
for international exchanges and cooperation. It will also discuss the
inheritance, innovation, development and applications of TCM.

Major tourism forum opens today

Guilin, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is hosting the 10th
Asia-Pacific tourism forum tomorrow. This years theme is Tourism
10:10 Looking Back to Look Forward. It will provide a platform for
policymakers, researchers and industry representatives to take stock
of global and regional trends and to better understand their potential
impacts on tourism. The forum is supported by the World Tourism
Organization and the Asia-Pacific Travel Association.

Respectingtheoldisa
Chinesetradition.But
whenitcomestovacating
seatsfortheelderlyon
publictransit,somepeople
havedifferentviews.

Offering a seat
should be voluntary. It can be
encouraged, not
required. Young
people are
under stress.
Su Xiaodi, 47, TCM practitioner in Shaanxi

Ive seen many

elderly people
refusing to take
seats offered by
the youth. They
hope to be treated as strong and
independent
individuals.

Candid camera: Green is good

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Of customer service and creepy politicians

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Zhang Ning, 28, college

teacher in Hebei

Biz: Top destinations for Chinese luxury buyers

The global luxury market continues to
record a slowdown, according to a report
on Chinese shopping abroad released by
Fortune Character Institute last week.
High-end Chinese shoppers have been
curtailing their spending over the past
few years. This year, just 17 percent of
those surveyed said they planned to
increase their luxury spending, down from 41 percent in 2011. Still, Chinese
consumers account for nearly half of the worlds luxury spending and the
report predicts that they would spend a total of $120 billion on luxury items
this year. Find out the top 10 destinations where Chinese luxury buyers
spend most.
Art: Chinese artist Ai Jing plans New York show
Chinese contemporary artist Ai Jing will hold a solo exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery in New York from Nov 16 through Dec 30. Love Ai Jing will be
the fourth such exhibition. The previous shows were held in Beijing, Shanghai and Milan. The New York exhibition will feature new works from her I Love
Color and Walking in the Sun series.
Photo: Beijing exhibition offers feast for the eyes
A major photography exhibition is underway
in Beijing. Photo Beijing 2016 opened at the
China Millennium Monument last week. This
year 10 master photographers will sit down
with photography buffs and answer their
questions. The exhibition has been held annually since 2013, attracting more than 1,000
photographers and 30 photo agencies.
Buzzword: Relationship sabbaticals
Relationship sabbaticals, as theyre called, are becoming increasingly popular. Ten years ago, just 10 percent of couples took separate holidays. Now, its
increased to more than 30 percent and
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go separately? It will benefit both.

There are many things to

write about in a month. The
traditional three-dot column provides a way to
include more than one.

Its OK with me
if a young person doesnt offer
me a seat. We
should neither
take such kindness for granted, nor feel
upset if a seat is
not offered.

Bank extraordinaire:
When using an ATM, its all
too easy to grab the money
and run forgetting to take
ones all-important bank
card. I did this last week at a
Bank of China machine in
China Dailys lobby. I was in
a hurry, and I grabbed the
cash and ran. Then a little
voice in my head shouted:
The card, stupid!
Like the US pivot to Asia, I
whirled and rushed pell-mell
to the machine just in
time to see it slurp the card

Xu Ran, 61, retired engineer

in Shanghai

I think calling
for more people
to keep traditional thoughts
in mind is a
good thing.

down its gullet.

It takes about three days for
the bank to pump the stomach
of an ATM. After a card is
regurgitated, it can be collected at the bank branch. So, on
Thursday, I ventured out.
A bank worker smiled reassuringly and thumbed
through a stack of recovered
cards. Surprise! Mine was not
among them. Some earnest
conversation took place
behind the glass. The manager
came out to greet me. Well
take care of you, she said.
Wait a few minutes.
So I waited. The woman at
the window disappeared.
About 20 minutes later, she
was back. In her hand was
my bank card!
Turns out somebody made
a special trip to China Daily
half a kilometer up the street
to retrieve it. Now thats
going the extra mile in customer service.
Meanwhile

US elections scare world:

If I were Chinese or Japanese or German or Vietnamese or Macedonian or (fill in
country name here) I would
be alarmed. Can this undignified race for the White House
really be happening? The
most unpopular woman in US
politics is running against an
unhinged demagogue and
sexual predator.
While it makes for entertaining theater, its really no
joke. I find myself trying to
explain rough-and-tumble
US politics to my bewildered
Chinese friends. I tell them
that the majority of voters in
the Peoples Republic of the
United States are not insane.
Im not entirely convinced.
This election is an indictment of Western-style
democracy at one level, yet I
hope it will also provide evidence that the rational
majority tends to prevail.
Note of interest: Trump

large measure thanks to a

sharp drop in deaths from
communicable diseases,
especially over the past decade, said the Global Burden
of Disease Report, published
by the British medical journal The Lancet.
By the end of last year,
China had more than 222
million people 60 or older,
accounting for 16.1 percent
of the population, while the

average life expectancy had

surpassed 76.
Meanwhile, government
efforts to make old people fit
are continuing.
Under the National Fitness
Program unveiled this year,
fitness facilities will be made
available to urban communities within a 15-minute radius. By 2020, the program
envisages that some 700 million people will take part in

vows to punish China over its

steel exports. But Newsweek
magazine is now reporting
that Trump has been buying
Chinese steel and aluminum
for his buildings. Why am I
not surprised?
And speaking of contradictions
No pay, no stay: Crowds of
seniors came for years to
socialize at a Shanghai restaurant owned by Swedish
furniture maker Ikea. But
many werent buying food,
so the company kicked them
out. Thats understandable.
But I cant help but wonder why Ikea tolerates people sleeping in the beds on
its showroom floor. I was
interested in a bed once, but
I didnt have the heart to
wake up the elderly woman
who occupied it.
Contact the writer at
[email protected]

This Day, That Year

Item from Oct 19, 1984, in
China Daily: A research center has been set up to revive
ancient techniques to enable
old people to be fit.
Life expectancy worldwide
has jumped by a decade
since 1980, rising last year to
69 years for men and nearly
75 for women, according to a
study released this month.
These extra years came in

Tang Wenlong, 34, public

servant in Chongqing

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physical exercises at least

once a week, and 435 million
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TOP NEWS

COOPERATION

China, Uruguay agree to begin studying FTA

Presidents Xi and Vazquez also decide they
will upgrade relations to a strategic partnership
By ZHANG YUNBI
[email protected]

China and Uruguay have

agreed to hold consultations
on starting joint feasibility
studies of a bilateral free trade
agreement, diplomats confirmed.
In a joint statement released
after the meeting between
President Xi Jinping and his
visiting Uruguayan counterpart, Tabare Vazquez, the two

countries pledged commitment to pushing forward free

trade partnership building.
Additionally, the two leaders decided to upgrade the
bilateral ties to a strategic
partnership.
Exports of agricultural and
livestock products are an
economic pillar of the country, which is south of Brazil.
China, which has been Uruguays top trade partner in
recent years, is its largest buy-

GROWTH

er of beef, soybeans and wool.

During the talks, Xi said
both countries should optimize two-way trade and
explore the services trade to
boost trade growth.
Vazquez said his country
welcomed expanded investment by Chinese enterprises
in Uruguays infrastructure
and is also willing to embark
on discussions about an FTA.
Zhu Qingqiao, directorgeneral of the Foreign Ministrys Department of Latin
American and Caribbean
Affairs, said the upgraded
ties and consensus on study-

Tabare Vazquez, president of

Uruguay

ing an FTA were the political

and economic highlights of
Tuesdays talks.
The two countries are
highly complementary to
each other on the economic

front, and both countries

agreed to embark on consultations at an early date for
initiating negotiations on a
bilateral free trade agreement, Zhu said.
Vazquez has been making
a state visit to China from
Oct 12 until Thursday.
The two leaders witnessed
the signing of more than a
dozen documents on outcomes in areas including visa
facilitation, industry, agriculture, customs, defense,
culture and sports.
Tang Jun, deputy head of
the Institute of Latin Ameri-

can Studies at Zhejiang

International Studies University, said an FTA would
help diversify two-way
trade, lower the trade
threshold and particularly
facilitate Uruguays exports
to China.
An FTA also would help
boost investments in Uruguay by Chinese, Tang said.
The upgrade of the bilateral ties is a natural outcome,
since the two countries
cooperation has great diversity, and the evolving ties can
also be seen as part of the
developing
China-Latin

DIPLOMACY

EXTREME WEATHER

Beijing,
Manila to
promote
more trade

Steps planned to
boost economy
in the northeast
By HU YONGQI
[email protected]

A series of major measures

will be adopted in an effort
to further revitalize the slowing economy in Northeast
China, especially as the
regions pillar industries are
cutting production capacity
and private investment has
dropped.
The measures were in
two support documents,
including the 13th Five-Year
Plan for Revitalizing Northeast China, approved by the
central government on
Tuesday at the second meeting of the Leading Group
for Revitalizing Northeast
China and Other Old Industrial Bases. The meeting
was presided over by Premier Li Keqiang.
The documents aim to
boost local economies and
private investment in Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang
provinces and the eastern
part of the Inner Mongolia
autonomous region. Details
of the documents were not
immediately available.
The region was vital to the
countrys establishment of a
complete industrial system,
but it has relied on heavy
industries such as steel and
coal mining, according to the
National Bureau of Statistics.
As the country cuts overcapacity in industries that
pollute heavily, GDP growth
in Liaoning and Heilongjiang during the first eight
months has been below the
national average.
The National Development and Reform Commission has announced plans
for 127 major projects for the
region, at a cost of 1.6 trillion
yuan ($237.3 billion), to
boost local economies.
Premier Li urged local
governments to stabilize
investment and consumption. The region should also
promote the service sector,

including tourism and cultural events, to cultivate

new areas for growth, he
said.
Negative lists for corporate investment and market
access will be established in
the region, while reforms of
State-owned enterprises will
be conducted to boost private investment and raise
confidence in a vigorous
recovery of the local economy, Li added.

The National
Development and
Reform Commission
has announced
plans for 127 major
projects for the
region.
To attract and keep private investment, Li also
called on local governments
to make further efforts to
improve the business environment by streamlining
administrative procedures
and strengthening governmental services.
Private investment in
Northeast
China
has
declined sharply, with that in
Liaoning decreasing by 58
percent in the first half of the
year.
At the meeting, the premier pledged support for
resource-exhausted cities to
upgrade local economies,
and he encouraged the
region to cooperate with rapidly growing provinces in
southern China.
The regions economic
slowdown stems from a worsening business environment and a lack of vitality for
enterprises, said Nie Huihua, vice-president of the
National Academy of Development and Strategy at Renmin University of China.

A quiet moment
A visitor examines a piece of porcelain on exhibit in Jingdezhen,
Jiangxi province, at the China Jingdezhen International Porcelain Exhibition. The event opened on Tuesday and will close on
Sunday. WAN XIANG / XINHUA

America relationship, Tang

added.
Chinese Ambassador to
Uruguay Dong Xiaojun said
Beijing is also focusing on
cooperation in such areas as
production capacity, new
energy and infrastructure.
China will continue to
encourage powerful and
qualified Chinese enterprises to invest in Uruguay,
Dong said before Vazquezs
visit.
The two countries are
highly complementary to
each other on the economic
and trade fronts.

By ZHANG YUNBI
[email protected]

Typhoon Sarika snaps trees as it arrives in South Chinas Hainan province on Tuesday, bringing winds of up to 162 km per hour.
MENG ZHONGDE / FOR CHINA DAILY

Typhoons high winds, rain hit Hainan

By MA ZHIPING
and LIU XIAOLI
in Haikou, Hainan province

Typhoon Sarika made landfall in Wanning in southeastern Hainan province on

Tuesday morning, bringing
heavy rain and gales to southeastern coastal areas of China
that also included Guangdong and Fujian provinces,
the China Meteorological
Administration said.
The administration issued
a red alert the highest of
the four-tier warning system
for Sarika, which brought
winds of up to 162 km per
hour on Tuesday morning.
The typhoon, the 21st of the
year, lashed the island prov-

ince on its way to Beibu Gulf

and was expected to make
landfall again in the Guangxi
Zhuang autonomous region
or Vietnam.
Gales and downpours, with
rainfall of up to 200 millimeters in some areas, halted
traffic to and from the island.
More than 520 flights were
canceled at the islands two
large airports Meilan International Airport in Haikou,
the provincial capital, and
Sanya Phoenix International
Airport.
Operations resumed at
Meilan airport at 7 pm on
Tuesday; officials at Sanya
were to decide later on Tuesday whether to reopen.
Marine, rail and highway

transportation were all

closed since Monday as the
storm approached.
All of the islands scenic
spots were closed on Monday.
Classes at primary and middle schools in Sanya, Wanning and Haikou were
suspended for three days
beginning on Monday.
More than 25,000 fishing
boats were called back to
port, and more than 510,000
people had been relocated by
noon on Tuesday, according
to Chen Wu, deputy director
of the Hainan Provincial
Flood Control and Drought
Relief Headquarters.
Provincial
and
local
authorities had stored sufficient supplies of food, vegeta-

bles and propane for

residents daily life, Chen
added.
Despite the gales and rain,
most shops in Haikou
remained open on Tuesday.
Zhao Yong, who sells vegetables in a downtown market,
said it was business as usual.
It is not a very big thing for
one who lives on the island,
he said, adding that vegetable
prices rose by 10 percent on
Tuesday.
Li Leidong, a hotel manager in Haikou, said, Some
tourists who have come to
Hainan for the first time want
to go outside to feel what a
typhoon is like. He added
that he convinced customers
to avoid risking their lives.

FINANCE

New loans fueled by boom in housing

By WANG YANFEI
[email protected]

The nations new yuan

loans in September were
largely supported by an
increase in mortgage lending, but the contribution is
expected to decline with
tightened policies introduced in the property sector,
economists said.
Chinese banks issued 1.22
trillion yuan ($181 billion) in
new yuan loans in September,
up from 948.7 billion yuan in
August, according to data
released on Tuesday by the
Peoples Bank of China, the
central bank.
New housing loans issued
to individuals stood at 475.9
billion yuan, according to
Ruan Jianhong, head of the
statistics and analysis department at PBOC.
In the first three quarters,
Chinas new housing loans to

individuals rose to 3.63 trillion yuan, or 35.7 percent of

new loans, said Ruan.
The high proportion of
new household lending has to
do with the booming housing
markets, asset allocation
preferences of residents and
financial institutions, said
Ruan.
Chinas booming housing
market has seen a surge in
trading volume, especially in
first- and second-tier cities,
according to Ruan.
The release of the data
came after Zhou Xiaochuan,
the central banks governor,
said at a G20 meeting in
Washington this month that
China would rein in excessive
credit growth.
Zhou said the government
has been paying attention
to rising property prices and
will take steps to promote the
real estate markets healthy
development.

FINANCING
Total social nancing

LOANS
Total new loans

(Unit: trillion yuan)

(Unit: trillion yuan)

3.5

3.0

September: 1.7

3.0
2.5

2.5

September: 1.2

2.0

2.0
1.5
1.5
1.0

1.0

0.5

0.5
0.0

0.0
J

F M A M

Source: Peoples Bank of China

Wang Youxin, an economist at the Institute of International Finance, a think

tank affiliated with the Bank
of China, said that the cooling
measures would curb a sharp
increase in credit growth.
Zhao Yang, chief China
economist with Nomura
Holdings, said the tightened

F M A M

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policy introduced earlier this

month to restrict purchases
would reduce the demand for
mortgage loans.
Yao Yudong, former head of
the Research Institute of
Finance and Banking of the
central bank, said further
monetary easing is not very
likely.

Before Philippine President

Rodrigo Duterte arrived in
Beijing on Tuesday evening for
his four-day state visit, the
Ministry of Commerce confirmed that Beijing and Manila were actively preparing
for further economic and
trade cooperation.
The potential outcomes
will be tangible, and will
include expanded imports of
fruits from the Philippines,
Ministry
of
Commerce
spokesman Shen Danyang
told a regular news conference in Beijing.
The Philippines is currently
the largest supplier of bananas
to China, accounting for 82
percent of the countrys
banana imports. It also provides 70 percent of Chinas
pineapple imports.
Bilateral trade has been
overshadowed since 2012,
when the relationship deadlocked over a territorial dispute that led to the Philippines
unilaterally filing an arbitration case under Dutertes predecessor, Benigno Aquino III.

China is now the

Philippines secondlargest trade partner
and its largest import
source.
During the visit, both sides
will embark on in-depth discussions about ways to expand
bilateral trade, promote and
guide (Chinese) enterprises to
expand investment in the Philippines and strengthen cooperation in fields including
infrastructure construction,
Shen said.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi
said on Tuesday that Duterte
has chosen to rebuild the
friendship with China and
return to dialogue and cooperation, and this shows the
wishes of the Philippine people and serves Philippine
interests and national development, and no one and no
force can prevent it.
Wang later greeted Duterte
as the Philippine president
arrived at Beijing Capital
International Airport on Tuesday evening.
Chen Qinghong, a researcher on Southeast Asian and
Philippine studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary
International Research, said
reinforcing economic cooperation with China will maximize Manilas interests.
China is now the Philippines second-largest trade partner, its largest import source
and its third-largest export
market.

CHINA
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

I think the Terracotta Warriors may be

inspired by Western culture, but were
uniquely made by the Chinese.
Li Xiuzhen, senior archaeologist at the Emperor Qinshihuangs Mausoleum Site Museum

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SOCIETY

Briefly

Mobile clinic
for animals
on hold over
license plate

BEIJING

NPC schedules
bi-monthly session
Chinas top legislature will
convene its bi-monthly session
from Oct 31 to Nov 7, according to a statement issued after
a chairpersons meeting on
Tuesday. Attendees to the
meeting, which was chaired by
Zhang Dejiang, chairman of
the Standing Committee of the
National Peoples Congress,
suggested that at the upcoming session of the 12th NPC
Standing Committee, legislators would continue deliberating draft laws on the film
industry and public cultural
services; draft general rules of
Chinas civil code; draft
amendments to the marine
environment protection law
and the law on private education; and draft revisions to the
law on the Red Cross Society.

Vet says project would show Beijings

humanistic nature amid public concerns
By DU JUAN
[email protected]

The launch of a mobile

clinic for stray animals in
Beijing has been delayed for
a year, as the NGO behind the
project first needs to obtain a
license plate for the vehicle.
Volunteers with the Ta
Foundation for Animal Protection said the 1 million
yuan ($148,450) project,
which could help neuter
hundreds of stray cats and
dogs, was partially paid for
using donations from about
8,000 netizens.
However, in Beijing, companies and individuals are
required to enter the licenseplate lottery every two
months. The measure was
introduced to control the
number of new vehicles on
the roads.
We have been participating in the lottery for a year,
but we still havent got one,
said Lu Ping, a project manager for the foundation.
Right now, all we can do is
continue entering the lottery
and hope for the best.
She said the NGO has contacted Beijings transport
commission to ask whether
it can get special approval,
but officials said such
approval is only given to hospital ambulances.
The vehicle, a modified
Iveco van, cost 650,000 yuan
to buy and an additional
300,000 yuan to equip. Once
on the road, Lu said the plan
is to visit communities with
large numbers of stray animals to provide checkups
and to sterilize them.
Some of the people who
donated money to the project

245 punished for

electoral malpractice

Massacre remembered

All we can do is
continue entering
the lottery and
hope for the best.
Lu Ping, project manager for
the Ta Foundation for Animal
Protection

have raised concerns over the

delay, suggesting that the
NGO find an individual who
already holds a license plate
to register the vehicle.
Zhang Xiaohai, secretarygeneral of the foundation, said
this is not possible, as it would
be against the regulation governing charities that states
crowdfunded assets cannot be
transferred to an individual.
However, some netizens
said regulations should be fair
to everyone, including NGOs,
while others questioned
wether it is necessary to use a
car for animal protection use.
An Mengchen, a veterinarian at Beijing Companion
Animal Hospital, said the
mobile clinic would not only
benefit stray animals, but
also display the citys
humanistic nature.
He said most of the stray
animals have oral diseases,
infectious diseases or injuries, which are usually the
reason they have been abandoned.
The rescue vehicle for
stray animals will encourage
people not to abandon pets
with diseases, An added.

Painter Yuan Xiaolou talks about his painting in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Tuesday. Yuan donated the artwork, which depicts the
Nanjing Massacre, to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. More than 300,000 Chinese were
killed by Japanese soldiers during the massacre in 1937. CUI XIAO / FOR CHINA DAILY

ANTI-CORRUPTION

Ex-police chief found guilty of graft

By CAO YIN
[email protected]

A former police chief, who

was involved in a high-profile
case in which a teenager was
wrongfully convicted, was
sentenced on Tuesday to 18
years in prison on four criminal charges, a court in the
Inner Mongolia autonomous
region said.
Feng Zhiming, the ex-deputy director of the public
security bureau in Hohhot,
the regions capital, was
handed the sentence for bribery, embezzlement, illegal
possession of firearms and
holding a large amount of
undeclared assets, according
to a judgment released by the
regional Hulunbuir Intermediate Peoples Court via its
micro blog.
Feng was also fined 1.1 mil-

Hugjiltu, a
teenager
who
was
wrongfully
convicted
about two
decades ago.
Before
Feng Zhiming standing trial on Aug 1,
he
was
accused of dereliction of duty,
but its a pity that the charge
was not proved in the judgment, said Zhao Li, a criminal lawyer from Jingshi Law
Firm in Beijing.
Hugjiltu was executed
quickly after he was sentenced
to death for rape and murder
in 1996.
He was declared innocent
in December 2014 and his sentence was announced as a
wrongful conviction.
In Zhaos view, the court

did not confirm that Fengs

dereliction of duty attributed
to insufficient evidence,
because proving the police
officer tortured in interrogations or made mistakes in the
investigation was difficult.
But the lawyer said: The
difficulty does not mean that
we will stop blaming those
responsible for judicial miscarriages, or arguing against the
torture that mainly brought
wrongful convictions.
The penalty for the former
chief may comfort the teenagers family to some extent and
seems to give some sort of
explanation to the public, but
the way to reduce legal mistakes for judicial bodies is still
difficult, he said.
He suggested that it is
effective to regulate the ways
that police officers can collect
evidence.

ARCHAEOLOGY

BBC report on Terracotta Warriors refuted

Resource projects
to benefit the poor
Chinas cabinet released a plan
on Tuesday that will enable the
poor to share earnings from
local hydropower plants and
mining projects. To pilot the
reform, the government will
choose a maximum of 20 projects in impoverished contiguous areas and counties
targeted in the countrys poverty alleviation program,
according to the State Council.
Local rural residents will be
able to acquire stakes in such
projects with compensation
they receive for land used by
the projects for construction,
the plan said. The reform will
be carried out from late 2016
to the end of 2019, and the
chosen projects will begin construction in 2017.
TIBET

By XINHUA

A van-turned animal clinic for stray animals is displayed in

Beijing in July. CAI DAIZHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY

lion yuan ($163,000), the

judgment said.
It said that Feng abused his
work post in the bureau
between 2008 and 2014 to
benefit 13 departments and
individuals, and then accepted money in return.
He and his wife sold real
estate worth more than 3.8
million yuan at above-market
value during the same period,
and he could not clarify how
he had come to own more
than 34 million yuan worth of
property, it said.
He was also found guilty of
illegally possessing four firearms and 549 rounds of
ammunition, and selling a
State-owned car worth
150,000 yuan, it added.
The case received wide
attention in the public and
the legal industry, as Feng
headed the investigation into

The Communist Party of China

has punished 245 people after
investigations into 125 reported cases of malpractice in local
elections, according to a statement by the Organization
Department of the CPC Central Committee. The people
were caught committing a
range of malpractices, including attending banquets while
inspecting the performance of
cadres; leaking confidential
information; canvassing; seeking promotion through
improper methods; and
spreading fabricated information in local elections, according to the statement.

A Chinese archaeologist
recently refuted a BBC report
about Northwest Chinas Terracotta Warriors, saying that
the article has quoted her out
of context and overstated her
remarks about Western
influence on the 8,000 lifesize figures.
The BBC report, released on
Oct 12, said archaeologists
have found that inspiration
for the Terracotta Warriors at
the tomb of the first emperor
near Xian, Shaanxi province,

may have come from Ancient

Greece.
The article quoted Li Xiuzhen, a senior archaeologist
at the Emperor Qinshihuangs Mausoleum Site
Museum, as saying, We now
think the Terracotta Army,
the acrobats and the bronze
sculptures found on site,
were inspired by ancient
Greek sculptures and art.
However, Li said that the
BBC quoted her out of context,
as the article ignored much of
what she told BBC reporters.
I think the Terracotta

Warriors may be inspired by

Western culture, but were
uniquely made by the Chinese. BBC overstated my
remarks about Western
inspiration and ignored the
main points I made during
the interview, Li said.
Li said the local nature and
cultural environment, such
as soil, craftsmen and traditional funeral culture, all contributed to the creation of the
Terracotta Warriors.
She also pointed out that
the article put her quotes right
before those of Professor

Lukas Nickel from the University of Vienna, whose opinion

is contrary to her own, but
makes it seem as if they share
the same idea.
According to the article,
Professor Nickel said, I
imagine that a Greek sculptor
may have been at the site to
train the locals.
I am an archaeologist and
I value evidence. Ive found
no Greek names on the backs
of Terracotta Warriors, which
supports my idea that there
was no Greek artisan training
the local sculptors, Li said.

21m tourists visit

region in Jan-Sept
About 21 million Chinese and
foreign tourists visited the
Tibet autonomous region in
the first nine months of this
year, up 20.4 percent year-onyear, authorities said on Tuesday. Tourism revenue during
the period increased by 25.9
percent year-on-year to 28.7
billion yuan ($4.25 billion),
according to the regional tourism development commission.
XINHUA

COURTS

Hunan firework manufacturers sue govt over shutting down their factories
By HOU LIQIANG in Beijing
and WEN XINZHENG
in Changsha

A court in Central Chinas

Hunan province has accepted
a case filed by 27 firework
manufacturers against the
provincial government for
refusing their administrative
review request over a government decision to shut down
their factories.
The intermediate peoples
court in the provincial capital,
Changsha, said the decision
complies with the law, adding

that the two sides could visit

the courts website for updates
on the case, according to a
written notification the companies disclosed on Sunday.
All 46 firework manufacturers in Qidong county were
shut down in December last
year after the Hengyang city
government, which has jurisdiction over Qidong, issued a
notification in October 2014 to
shut down all firework manufacturers in the city within
three years.
However, the Qidong government only agreed to pay 30

percent of the value of the

manufacturers facilities, forcing 39 companies to turn to
administrative review.
Chen Junming, legal representative for Shenghua Firework, said the companys
annual production was estimated to be worth 60 million
yuan ($8.9 million) before it
was shut down, adding that
the government only promised to pay compensation of
about 4.8 million yuan,
despite the manufacturers
facilities being worth about 16
million yuan.

The company owes debts

of almost 10 million yuan,
which includes 4.3 million
yuan in loans from banks,
Chen said. I have been under
great pressure due to the
debts, as I may be sued by the
creditors. I hope the government allows us to resume production or fully compensates
us according to the asset valuation.
The companies made their
review request to Hunan provinces legislative affairs office
on Feb 4, asking the office to
deliver a verdict that the gov-

ernments decision to shut

down all firework manufacturers was illegal and that the
economic losses of the factories should be fully compensated, while 12 of the
companies withdrew their
request in May before it was
recently refused.
The office said the companies should have known that
their factories would be shut
down, as the government had
organized talks with them
and carried out asset valuations between late 2014 and
late last year, adding that such

companies had failed to file

an administrative review
request within 60 days, in
accordance with law, the Beijing Times reported.
However, lawyer Tu Siyi said
that while companies could
file administrative review
requests within 60 days of
being told their rights, they
were never told their rights,
adding that there is no time
limit to request an administrative review under such circumstances.
Chen Yongjun, head of
Xiangzhang Firework, said all

firework manufacturers in
Qidong were built in accordance with national standards,
and the local government did
not consult them before asking them to shut down.
He said they only knew they
could turn to administrative
review after seeking advice
from a lawyer in January.
A request for interview sent
to Hunan provinces legislative
affairs office went unanswered.
Contact the writers at [email protected]

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CHINA DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Anti-graft: Viewers say series

reflects leaderships resolution
FROM PAGE 1

Robotic beauty
Intelligent robot Jia Jia, developed by University of Science and Technology of China, interacts with visitors at the International
Investment and Trade Expo in Hefei, Anhui province, on Tuesday. Many high-tech products are on display at the two-day event, which
runs through Wednesday. GUO CHEN / XINHUA

former State security chief

Zhou Yongkang to former
Central Military Commission
officers Guo Boxiong and Xu
Caihou, are discussed, though
they are not interviewed.
Airing the series before a
key national political meeting
is a good opportunity to tell
good anti-graft stories and
promote building a clean and
honest government, said
Hong Daode, a law professor
at China University of Political
Science and Law.
Yang Weidong, a law professor at the Chinese Academy of
Governance, a school for training senior officials, said, After
watching the corrupt officials
stories, officials and CPC
members will exchange their
views on the lessons they will
have to learn, and to regulate
their own behavior according
to the new rules.
The series production team

visited 22 provinces and

regions to gather information
on more than 10 former top
officials linked to more than
40 corruption changes.
They also interviewed 70
experts from home and
abroad as well as anti-graft
officers to explain the cases
and how they were handled.
In the first episode, aired on
Monday night, viewers heard
from Bai, Zhou, and Li
Chuncheng, former deputy
Party chief of Sichuan province.
In the second episode,
screened on Tuesday, Wan
Qingliang, former Party chief
of Guangzhou, capital of
Guangdong, and Gu Chunli,
former vice-governor of Jilin
province, told their stories.
Bai, Li and Wan have been
convicted, while Zhou and Gu
await trial.
The series has had a big
impact.
After watching the TV

series, we know how serious

and complex the graft issues
are, and (that) its necessary
for the government to carry
out a continuous and persistent campaign to target corruption, said Li Wei, an antigraft officer in Liaoning
province.
Zhang Li, a teacher at Beijing No 11 Middle School, said,
Its being shown to reflect the
central leaderships resolute
determination and the measures taken to fight corruption,
which will leave no place for
the corrupt suspects to hide
and escape.
Since November 2012, when
the new leadership took office,
anti-corruption has become a
top priority, and President Xi
Jinping has launched a sweeping campaign to target both
high- and low-ranking officials. Over 140 senior corrupt
officials have been investigated over graft issues, according
to the CCDI.

Graft confessions
SHENZHOU XI

Astronauts ready to kick

off busy month in space
The duo are to face
in-orbit challenges,
such as the real state
of weightlessness
By ZHAO LEI
[email protected]

The Shenzhou XI manned

spacecraft was scheduled to
dock with the Tiangong II
space lab in the early hours of
Wednesday morning as astronauts start their busy, monthlong schedule, the space
authority said.
After nearly two days of
spaceflight, the Shenzhou XI
will conduct a computer-controlled docking with the
space lab. Then the two astronauts 49-year-old Jing Haipeng and 37-year-old Chen

Dong will enter the lab and

start the longest space stay by
Chinese astronauts, according to the China Manned
Space Agency.
During their 30-day mission in Tiangong II, the astronauts will carry out scientific
experiments and research,
including medical ultrasound examinations, weightlessness
effects
on
cardiovascular functions and
cultivation of plants as well as
in-orbit repair, said Wu Ping,
deputy director and spokeswoman for the agency.
The space lab, which was
launched in mid-September,
carries 14 scientific and
experimental payloads, such
as the worlds first high-sensitive gamma-ray burst detector, which was codeveloped by
engineers from China and the

European Space Agency, she

added.
Huang Weifen, deputy
research head at the Astronaut Center of China, said
that compared with previous
space journeys by Chinese
astronauts, the Shenzhou
XI-Tiangong II mission will
be the busiest because scientists planned more than 40
experiments and trials for it.
She said that an in-orbit
brain-computer interaction
test will be performed during
the mission, aiming to verify
a futuristic technology that
will allow astronauts to control equipment with their
thoughts rather than manually. This will be the first such
experiment in the world.
We hope that the mindcontrol, eye-control and gesture recognition technologies

will be applied in our manned

space station, Huang said,
referring to a permanent
space station that China
plans to start building in 2018
and put into service around
2022.
However, before the astronauts embark on their tasks,
they must strive to overcome
a host of difficulties, experts
said.
No matter how realistic
the ground training, it is difficult to simulate the real state
of weightlessness in space,
said Wang Yanan, editor-inchief of the Aerospace Knowledge magazine.
For astronauts, they experience a certain period of fullness in the head after the
spacecraft enters orbit. They
must get used to the weightlessness as soon as possible.

HK students see experiments sent to lab

The successful liftoff of the
Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft sets the stage for a group
of Hong Kong students to
make space history.
Experiments designed by
the three winning teams from
the Space Science Experiment
Design Competition for Hong
Kong secondary school students last year have rocketed
aloft and will be carried out in
space.
Wong Yeung, a teacher from
Po Leung Kuk Laws Foundation

College, was one of a 17-member delegation from the three

Hong Kong teams to observe
with what must have been a
spine-tingling thrill, as Shenzhou XI blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in
Gansu province.
We were all basking in the
glory of having our pupils creations carried into space to be
tested, Wong said.
The experiments were to see
whether saturated saline water
could form a porous, water-

proof membrane in microgravity; watching the transformation

of silkworms and silk production in space; and examining
Chaos Theory by a comparative
study of oscillating pendulums
in space and on Earth.
Astronauts Jing Haipeng
and Chen Dong will carry out a
series of experiments, including the three designed by Hong
Kong students, after Shenzhou
XI docks with the Tiangong II
space laboratory.
Mak Tang Pik-yee, executive

director of the Hong Kong Productivity Council, who led the

Hong Kong delegation in Jiuquan, said designing experiments that would actually be
carried out in space is a dream
come true for the students.
Mak said that the students
had achieved something
remarkable in terms of their
inventiveness and originality of
vision as well as coming up
with ideas that are workable.
HONEY TSANG

New suits to ensure comfort on mission

By CHENG YINGQI
[email protected]

The new line of uniforms

for Chinese astronauts is
bringing a fresh wind of navy
blue to the skies.
At a news conference on
Sunday, one day ahead of the
launch of the manned spacecraft Shenzhou XI, astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen
Dong appeared in the newly
designed astronaut suits that
feature different shades of
navy blue.
Before we designed the
new suit line, Chinese astronauts only had one pair of
blue overalls that they wore
both in space and on Earth,
which cannot ensure their
comfort in various circumstances, said Li Jun, dean of
the Fashion Art Design Institute of Donghua University in
Shanghai, who was in charge

Astronauts Jing Haipeng (left) and Chen Dong salute at the

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China before the
country launched the Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft on Monday
morning. FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILY

of designing the suits.

The university cooperated
with the Astronaut Center of
China last year to design astro-

nauts attire, which include

in-orbit suits, on-ground suits
and accessories.
Li said technologies adopt-

ed in the special design could

be exploited in other sportswear in the future.
Besides comfort during
physical activities, it is also
necessary to choose a color
that brings calmness to the
astronauts in the narrow
environment of the space station, he said.
The designers also developed other uniforms for living in outer space. For
example, a special gym suit
was designed for astronauts
while running on the treadmill or cycling.
The design of the astronauts attire is much better
than the uniforms I have seen
before, said Wang Jingyi, a
graphic designer in Beijing.
The integrity of design is
better, and the colors of dark
and light blue matches nicely
and corresponds with the
character of space, she said.

I deeply regret my actions. As

a Party chief trained and
educated by the Communist
Party of China for so many
years, how could I become such
(a corrupt official)? I caused
huge damage to the Party.
Bai Enpei, 70, former deputy head of the Environment and Resources Protection Committee of
the National Peoples Congress
Bai was convicted of illegally amassing more than 247 million yuan ($37 million) in assets
and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve.
According to the recent TV documentary Always on the Road, released by the anti-graft
authority, his wife operated as a go-between in soliciting bribes from business people, especially real estate developers who sought land in Yunnan province, where he served as Party chief.
One of gifts included a jade bracelet worth 15 million yuan, which was given to Bai after he
granted land to a real-estate developer in Kunming. A number of such bracelets were found at
Bais residence, where it took disciplinary officials more than 10 days to count gifts.

I never expected I would have

such an ending. I was brought
up in a poor family and endured
a lot of hardships since childhood. I hated corrupt officials
since I was young, but I became
one in the end. Its just so sad.
Zhou Benshun, 63, former top official of Hebei province
Zhou was placed under investigation of corruption charges in October. No detailed information is available about the value of bribes he obtained.
The documentary showed that Zhou redecorated a two-story government building in a military compound in Hebei province and used it as his home. He hired a caretaker for his pets,
and after his pet tortoise died at home, Zhou had Buddhist Sutras transcribed, burying the
transcriptions with the tortoise. Zhou confessed in the first episode of the TV series to failing
to discipline his children and using his power to help his sons business. Zhous wife, Duan Yanqiu, and his son, Zhou Jing, were also placed under investigation.

Life is like a live broadcast.

Theres no way of rewinding
time. Everyone has to be
responsible for his or her
behavior. Thats the rule.

Li Chuncheng, 60, former deputy Party chief in Sichuan province

Li was given a 13-year jail term last year for illegally obtaining nearly 40 million yuan from
1999 to 2012.
In the first episode of the documentary, he confessed to ignoring the Partys code of
conduct and deviating from the correct path.

Former senior official in Shanxi

stands trial for alleged corruption
By XINHUA

Ling Zhengce, former senior

official of Shanxi province,
stood trial on Tuesday for taking bribes.
Ling, former vice-chairman
of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese Peoples
Political Consultative Conference, was accused of taking
advantage of his various posts
to offer help, through other
State officials, to companies
and individuals, including
former deputy Shanxi governor Du Shanxue, in project
examination and approval,
business operations and personnel promotion.
Ling accepted bribes worth
more than 16 million yuan
($2.4 million), either in person
or through his son, Ling-hu

S h u a i ,
according to
the indictment from
the peoples
procuratorate
of
Ling Zhengce
Changzhou
in Jiangsu
province.
The procuratorate filed the
charges with the Changzhou
Intermediate Peoples Court.
During the trial, the prosecutors presented evidence,
and Ling and his defense
counsel responded to the evidence.
In his final statement, Ling
pleaded guilty and expressed
remorse.
The court ruling will be
announced at a later date.
In other cases, Xi Xiaoming,

former vice-president of the

Supreme Peoples Court, and
Gu Chunli, former vice-governor of Northeast Chinas Jilin
province, have been indicted
for taking bribes, the Supreme
Peoples Procuratorate said on
Tuesday.
The court designated Tianjin and Harbin procuratorates
to initiate prosecution against
Xi and Gu respectively.
According to the indictments, Xi and Gu took advantage of their posts to seek
benefits for others and accepted a huge amount in bribes.
Prosecutors have informed
Xi and Gu of their litigation
rights, questioned the defendants and listened to representations from their lawyers,
according to a statement from
the SPP.

6 Shanxi special

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Mining rich seams of cultural heritage

closed down or incorporated into State mining
companies, thus making it possible to enforce
industry standards in terms of human safety
and environmental protection.
Known for its superior quality, the coal produced in Shanxi, the largest coal-supplying
province in the country, was in great demand
during the unusually cold winter in southern
China in 2008.
The province is now implementing coal conversion projects, through which coal will be
converted into gas, which is cleaner and more
environment-friendly. Technological research is
also exploring the potential use of coal residue
in textiles and other materials.
Because of this, both universities and industrial companies are now involved in applied
research aiming at economic diversication.
The province has created a specific bureau
devoted to light industry. However, research
centers are still lacking funding, the local official said. When it comes to economic diversity,
tourism is an obvious priority.

Datong, once associated with

coal and pollution, is cleaning up
its act and embracing its rich
history in a bid to attract tourists
and diversify its economy,
Jean-Louis Turlin discovers.
he broad paved alley leading to the
Yungang Grottoes is bordered with
huge sculpted pillars that cut through
a nascent forest of pine and silver birch
trees a heavenly and peaceful site indeed.
But beyond this green carpet, the abandoned
aerial tracks of a nearby coal mine remain as a
symbol of the conicting images of an area that
is to this day known for its industrial present as
much as for its cultural past.
In fact, it may be the future of China that
is being shaped in and around Datong, the
second-largest city in Shanxi province and home
to more than 700,000 people. It is 275 kilometers north of the capital, Taiyuan, which has a
population of 4.3 million.
Unlike Shaanxi, its neighbor to the west, from
which it is separated by the Yellow River, Shanxi
with a single a has not so far featured too
prominently on international tourist maps. But
that might now be changing.
Traces of human settlements dating back as
far as 2,300 years BC (the Taosi site in Xiangfen
county), huge mountains that once served as
a deterrent against invaders from the north,
and remnants of the inner Great Wall along
the border with Inner Mongolia, are there to
remind us that Shanxi province has been rightly
considered both the birthplace and the fortress
of China.
It is home to archaeological, architectural,
artistic and religious treasures that local experts
have seemed determined to restore since the
beginning of
Inner Mongolia
reform and
Beijing
Datong
opening-up.
Hunyuan
Yingxian
To that end,
Hebei
1.7 billion
Taiyuan
yuan ($253.2
million)
Shanxi
has been
allocated
to different
200 km
Henan
projects this
CHINA DAILY
year and
to protect such treasures from environmental
hazards.
Take the Yungang Grottoes, for example. This
Buddhist splendor, listed in 2001 as a UNESCO
World Heritage Site, contains 51 grottoes sheltering more than 50,000 images and sculptures carved in the sandstone hills 16 km from
Datong, with over 5,100 statues of the Buddha
that range in height from a few centimeters to
17 meters.
Up to 40,000 laborers and sculptors toiled
over digging the caves in the ank of the hill
and chiseling furiously to create an open-air
museum. Work on the museum was started by
the Buddhist monk Tanyao during the Northern
Wei Dynasty (386-534) and completed over the
following two dynasties.
In modern times, however, the neighboring coal mine and the railroad leading freight
trains to and from it became both a nuisance
and a threat.
The mine has been shut down for now,
explained a local official who preferred to remain
anonymous, and rail traffic, which made the earth
shake, has been reduced to two trains a day.
There was no other choice, he said, quoting
many examples of private mines being either

The Hanging Temple in Hunyuan, built around

1400, is renowned for its celebration of Buddhist,
Taoist and Confucian beliefs, as well as its
perilous location. LI JIN / CHINA DAILY

A worker paints an ancient gure on a wall in Datong. The city has shed its reputation as a polluted
mining center and is now celebrated for both its harmonious development and rich cultural heritage.
LI JIN / CHINA DAILY

The Water Goddess Temple, built in 1526, has an array of

well preserved structures. ATTILA BALOGH / FOR CHINA DAILY

An expert works at the Guangling Paper-Cutting

Industrial Park. The traditional Chinese art of papercutting was included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural
Heritage Lists in 2009. ATTILA BALOGH / FOR CHINA DAILY

A snapshot of the Yungang Grottoes in

Datong. LI JIN / CHINA DAILY

A Bodhisattva in front of the

Sakyamuni Wooden Pagoda in
Yingxian, which was built around
1056. ATTILA BALOGH / FOR CHINA DAILY

Magnificent landscape
Shanxi, a province of 36 million people, three
times the size of the Netherlands, 350 km west
of Beijing and three hours from the capital by
high-speed rail, has a lot to offer, boasting more
than 70 percent of the countrys well-preserved
ancient buildings from periods preceding the
Song Dynasty (960-1279) and three World Heritage sites (the Wutai Mountains in Xinzhou,
Pingyao Ancient Town in Jinzhong and the
Yungang Grottoes in Datong).
In the face of such cultural and geographic
marvels, Datongs title as Chinas Coal City
seems unfair, especially as the city is in the
process of consigning its coal-producing days
to the past.
This former garrison town honors its Ming
Dynasty (1368-1644) period with its nightly
illuminated wall and towers, as well as its NineDragon Screen, which is older than the one
in the Forbidden City in Beijing, and it is surrounded by many other wonders besides the
Yungang Grottoes.
We can nd, for instance, the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, which was built in the 11th century
using no nails and still stands 67.31 meters high.
Or the Great Wall at Yanmen Pass, the
rst pass of China to Inner Mongolia. Or the
extraordinary Hanging Temple in Hunyuan,
which sticks out of the side of Hengshan Mountain 75 meters from the ground.
The blue sky that welcomed us in Datong was
a strong refutation of the Coal City epithet.
Much has been done there and throughout the
province to improve the environment.
On witnessing the large-scale, local treeplanting projects, I can now feel the beauty,
the peace and harmony of the city, said Chen
Di, a 26-year old female resident of Datong.
This push toward harmony and environmental
balance is also reected in the electric golf carts
used in the provinces mines or the electric and
hybrid taxis and motorcycles that are conspicuous in Taiyuan and other cities.
Shanxi is perhaps the oldest and most traditional of all the provinces and is least affected
by Western influences, said Ted Mason, an
Englishman who has been living in Taiyuan for
ve years.
Tourists appreciate these elements of tradition and uniqueness: Almost 1.5 million of them
visit the Hanging Temple each year. They are
still mostly Chinese, but, if foreign visitors follow suit, the provinces tourism industry might
see its growth rate climb signicantly from last
years gure of 21.1 percent.

The author is an editor at China Watch,

a publication by China Daily.

Aireen Francisco Abariso, a member of the Shanxi in the eyes

of international friends trip, captures part of the nine dragon
wall at the Daixian Temple, which was built in honor of Confucius
in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). LI JIN / CHINA DAILY

Captivated by the indelible memories of stunning Shanxi

By AIREEN FRANCISCO ABARISO

My experience of Shanxi province was so

wonderful and profound that scarcely a day
has gone by since I left that I havent relived the
experience in my mind.
The amazing beauty of the place captivated
my senses and I can still perfectly recall every
scenic spot we visited on the trip.
Unsurprisingly, the modern world has resulted in a great many changes, and seeing such a
place and the treasures it contains allowed me
to reect on the beauty of the past and hope that
the younger generation could one day come and
appreciate the magnicent temples and incredible wall paintings.
The approach to the Hanging Temple in the
county of Hunyuan, with the massive mountains surrounding the beautiful sanctuary
mounted high on the mountain, was simply
awe-inspiring and I felt my heart beating faster

and faster as we drew near.

It was incredible to watch people climbing
ever-upwards to get a close-up view of the temple, and this is something else that will live long
in my memory.
As I was climbing, I was enveloped by a feeling of tranquility and felt that I was communing
with nature.
Reaching the top was no easy feat, and when
I eventually did, I felt as though I was standing
on top of the world. I felt a complete sense
of freedom and serenity I had rarely, if ever,
experienced before. There is no feeling quite
like it.
The visit to the temple also made me realize that we should remember and respect the
customs and beliefs of those that came before
us. I also learned a lot about the religious
beliefs and practices of those that lived and
worshipped at the temple, such as their intricate
hand gestures.

The people that accompanied me on the trip

were as amazing as the scenery we encountered,
and all of us marveled at how Chinese culture
is so steeped in history. It is crucial that this
history, in the form of buildings, art works and
natural wonders, is protected and preserved for
future generations.
It is amazing to me how China is able to
combine the past with the present through the
protection and presentation of its stunning
cultural wonders. Somehow, Shanxis sense of
past, present and future conveyed the fact that,
as well as its glorious past, China is also very
much a modern marvel.
The Chinese people were wonderful hosts,
too, and we were made to feel incredibly welcome wherever we went.
I was also extremely impressed by the art
of paper-cutting, which required painstaking
precision, passion, creativity and, most of all,
patience. Never before had I seen such qualities

distilled into one art form and I wish I had the

same skill and patience as the practitioners we
were lucky enough to witness.
In addition, Shanxi possesses a wonderful
variety of food and we were presented with
unique dishes wherever we stopped to eat.
The sheer variety of what was on offer made
me appreciate how a places food culture can
help one appreciate and understand both the
place and its people.
The trip was more than just a travel experience; it provided a lifetime connection to the
people, places and culture in an extraordinary
province and country. I consider myself fortunate that I had the chance to experience Chinese
culture at rst hand and meet so many extraordinary people.
The author, from the Philippines, is a professor
at Guangxi Normal University and a member
of Shanxi in the eyes of international friends.

C HI NA DA I LY

What they say

Participants of Shanxi in the eyes
of international friends, jointly
held by the Shanxi Tourism
Bureau and China Daily, share
their insights following the
conclusion of the event in late
September.
After touring in Shanxi, a
picturesque place in northern
China, I think I can describe it
as a place that exudes a rhythm
and beat of ancient beauty; a
historically-rich place that leaves
you in a state of awe and with a
feeling of ecstasy; a place where
the landscape is the realization of
an idyllic vision.
Mike Murefu, from Zimbabwe,
a geo-information engineer and
masters degree student, Jilin
University
I worked in Shanxi from 19951997 and 2004-10. I traveled
throughout Shanxi and become
enchanted by her ancient history
and culture. Shanxi is an amazing
place and I have felt the embrace
of hospitality that has made
Shanxi my hometown, or laojia.
This trip was truly amazing and
gave me a huge appreciation again
for the history of Shanxi and what
wonders it holds. Truly, Shanxi
has much to offer the world and
much that should be seen and
preserved.
Michael Stren, from the
US, a social studies teacher,
International School of Qingdao
Tourists who come to Shanxi want
to see people at their daily work,
special Chinese crafts, traditional
dancing and places steeped in
exciting history. They want to
hear traditional songs and stories.
They want to experience the old
China that existed before modern
cities and industry ooded over it.
They want to see an ox pulling a
plough and a farmer cutting maize.
They are captivated by Chinese
and Buddhist art and sculpture,
ancient architecture, walls and old
forts. Shanxi has all this, as well as
the comfort and commercialism of
its modernized cities.
Ted Mason, from the UK,
education adviser, Tongbao Yujie
School
I began my journey to discover
the beauty of Shanxi by rst
visiting Jifen Bridge, in Taiyuan,
provincial capital. The amazing
view from the pedestrian bridge
at dusk captivated our group. All
of us took out our cameras and
mobile phones to capture both
the beautiful scenery and the
unique architecture of the bridge.
The Yungang Grottoes and the
Hanging Temple, renowned as
treasures of traditional Chinese
art, were the highlights of the visit
to Datong. Traveling to Shanxi was
worth every minute because it
left me with beautiful memories
of stunning scenery and culture
that evoked the feeling of ancient
China.
Sheila Soan, from Indonesia, a
student at Beijing Language and
Culture University
We had the opportunity to see
how amazingly intriguing designs
are cut out and hand-painted
by local craftsmen at Guangling
Paper-Cutting Industrial Park.
Paper-cutting is a painstaking art
that is now listed as part of Chinas
intangible cultural heritage.
The visit was so interesting that
none of us wanted to leave; we
were drawn to the intricacy and
precision of this work and had so
many questions to ask that we
had to push back our planned
departure time.
Maria Papaioannou, from the UK,
a foreign language teacher, Jilin
University
The quantity of breathtaking
architecture and murals, along
with courtyards, pavilions, temples,
shrines and relics makes Shanxi
akin to a museum of ancient
architecture in China. During the
trip I was truly amazed as this was
history unfolding in front of my
eyes.
Khyati Shah, from India, a
freelance writer in Shanghai
On paper, Shanxi may not
seem like an obvious choice
of destination for laowai, or
foreigners, looking to escape
the bleakness of the bustling
metropolises they call home.
However, as seasoned travellers
know, sometimes its the places
you least expect to wow you that
make the strongest impression
and Shanxi is just that kind of
place.
Nick Walsh, from New Zealand,
web editor and PR manager at
Ctrip

POLICY REVIEW 7

CHINA DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 2016

State Council to further ease

business procedures
More measures on the way to streamline private company registration
By HU YONGQI and ZHANG YUE

China is to further streamline registration procedures for private businesses, targeting a reduction in
the costs associated with entrepreneurship and innovation as well as improving the business environment and employment.
The decision was made at a State Council executive
meetingonFriday,presidedoverbyPremierLiKeqiang.
A number of measures have been put in place
since 2015 to merge the organization code certificate and the certificate of taxation registration
into a single document, a business license,
with social credit codes. Another two certificates, namely the social insurance registration certificate and the statistics registration
certificate, were also merged into the license.
New measures, including merging these five
business-related certificates into one license,
which were put in place on Oct 1 after being
initially approved in May, have significantly
encouraged private businesses.
According to a statement released
after Fridays meeting, piloting
measures in merging those certificates into the current scheme are
encouraged to be carried out in some
cities and regions and will be promoted
across the country after proper evaluation.
Meanwhile, the government will make better use
of the Internet Plus strategy aiming to put the
entire business registration process online. Currently, 22 provinces and autonomous regions, including
Beijing and Shanghai, have launched trials.
The meeting also called on governmental agencies to better regulate these businesses
before, during and after the setup process, with better information sharing.
Li said that greater efforts are required in
streamlining business registration, as too
many certificates are still required to register a
new business. We should do away with those certificates that are not really required for starting a
business to fully realize the benefits of reform and the
market, he said.
Li has said that the efforts to streamline business
registration and scale back government control are
being taken to meet the requirements for another
round of opening up and to improve Chinas global
competitiveness.
He also called for on proper supervision in the context of the reform, while warning against disturbing
examinations and incursions into private enterprises. The key is to properly unleash their potential, he
said.
Private business is experiencing slowing growth

LI MIN / CHINA DAILY

this year and these measures can

boost the enthusiasm of private investors, said Ma
Baocheng, director of
the Decision-Making and Consultation
Department at the Chinese Academy of Governance.
State Administration for
Industry and Commerce
statistics recently showed
that new streamlining
efforts have had a significant impact in the two
weeks since implementation at the beginning of this
month. Registering a new business
now only takes two to three working
days, while it previously took several
months and required stacks of printed documents that had to be submitted to half a
dozen departments.
A total of 488,000 new business
licenses have been issued since Oct 1,
and an online survey showed that more
than half of those surveyed gave positive feedback on the business registration reform.
Figures also show that the number of new
business registrations has grown from about
12,000 per day last year to 14,600 per day in the
first eight months of this year, while the number
was only 6,900 before the reform.
Three years ago, Tu Bizhi founded a
logistics company in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, with several
of his friends. It took the 28-yearold almost three months to complete the registration process, but
he said his friends who have
recently registered their new businesses have found it much easier.
The real economy is not as profitable as
before and simplified procedures can save us
much time to explore the market, and find new customers. In short, the new measures can help private
businessmen like me, Tu said.
Ma echoed Tu by saying that a simpler process for
business registration will also be beneficial to grassroots entrepreneurs and innovations which have
been promoted by the central government since two
years ago.
Contact the writers at huyongqi@
chinadaily.com.cn.

POLICY RESPONSE

Policy digest
Decisions to aid consumption,
innovation and entrepreneurship

Food safety, salt

price addressed

Cartoon of the week

An executive meeting of the State Council Oct 14

decided to further expand domestic consumption,
promote service-sector development, economic
transition and upgrading, and deepen reform of
business regulatory systems to reduce the costs of
corporate innovation and entrepreneurship. The
meeting decided to eliminate systematic obstacles
that may hinder spending on education and sport;
boost tourism and cultural consumption; enhance
the development of the leisure industry; promote
the reform of sales of traditional products, such as
cars and building materials; and improve the consumption environment.

By WANG YIQING
[email protected]

Policies to ease government

approval of investment projects
A State Council executive meeting on Oct 8
decided to further reduce the number of investment projects that require government approval
to deepen reform and release market dynamics.
It has also decided to simplify approvals of management of foreign-owned enterprises to create a
more open market environment, and has
approved an agricultural modernization plan to
promote upgrading and help increase farmers
income.

Premier in Macao
Premier Li Keqiang looks at Macao city view after holding talks with Macao Special Administrative
Region Chief Executive Chui Sai-on on Oct 10. CHINA AILY

Reducing corporate leverage

ratio, improving governance
The State Council has recently issued a document to reduce the leverage ratio of enterprises
through a series of measures. These include promoting mergers and acquisitions of enterprises,
improving modern corporate governance, better
utilizing existing assets of enterprises, optimizing corporate debt structures, carrying out debtto-equity swaps and developing equity-based
financing.

State to encourage settlement

of rural people in urban areas
The State Council has recently issued a document to help 100 million rural residents settle in
cities and change their agricultural registered
permanent residency permits (hukou) into nonagricultural ones. It has taken several measures,
including supporting policies as well as supervision and inspections to guarantee the implementation of the plan. The document has put
forward a plan to increase the ratio of non-agri-

cultural population in the overall population to

45 percent by 2020.

Plan issued on fight against

internet finance crimes
The State Council has recently issued an implementation plan to fight internet finance crimes,
which requires rectifying and enhancing management in key fields of internet finance. These
include P2P internet loans, stock crowd funding,
internet insurance, third-party payment and
internet finance advertisements. Work on this
started in April and is expected to be completed
by the end of March, 2017.

Six departments and ministries

to combat internet fraud
Six departments and ministries, including the
Supreme Peoples Court, the Ministry of Public
Security, and the Ministry of Industry and Infor-

mation Technology, have jointly issued an

announcement to combat internet fraud. Those
who committed crimes in this sector have until
Oct 31 to turn themselves in voluntarily and confess to escape more severe punishment. Those
who did not turn themselves in before the deadline and are found guilty will be severely dealt
with in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, the announcement said.

Tourism administration stops

unreasonable low-price tours
The National Tourism Administration has recently
issued an announcement prohibiting unreasonably low-priced tours, a campaign that will last six
months. The special campaign mainly fights
fraudulent low-price tourism products through
examining tourism contracts to curb unreasonably low-priced tours and punish violators.
WANG YIQING

Departments and ministries

under the State Council have
responded to a series of public
concerns in the past week, including food safety, salt prices, real
estate market management, senior high school rankings and the
safety of X-ray security inspection
devices for airplane and train passengers.
The China Food and Drug
Administration has inspected 369
samples of fruit, meat products,
liquor, pastries and biscuits and
found seven substandard samples. Local food and drug administrations have urged food
manufacturers responsible for the
substandard samples to recall the
products, analyze the problems
and rectify them.
The administration also called
for halting sales of these substandard items, reporting the result of
their investigation to the China
Food and Drug Administration
and publicizing the findings.
Officials of the National Development and Reform Commission
have recently responded to the liberalization of salt prices. The commission said that the government
will take effective measures concerning salt distribution and
delivery, stocking, market price
supervision and market inspection to maintain the basic stabilization of salt prices. Meanwhile,
relevant departments will provide
subsidies to the salt industry and
targeted low-income groups to
ensure their consumption of salt
will not be affected.
The Ministry of Housing and
Urban-Rural Development has

369
number of samples of food items
inspected by the China Food and Drug
Administration in a recent move to
improve food safety

recently reported cases of rumor

spreading in the real estate market in Hangzhou and Shenzhen.
The ministry called for local
authorities to further strengthen
management of the real estate
market and strictly deal with
vicious rumors that disturb the
local market in order to protect
potential and actual buyers legal
rights and interests, and promote
the stable and healthy development of the real estate market
nationwide.
The Ministry of Education
recently announced that the ministry has never carried out an evaluation of the so-called 100 best
senior middle schools nationwide
and has never published any
national rankings of senior middle schools. The ministry said
such evaluations go against the
requirement of quality-based education and undermines the diversified development of senior
middle schools.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs has
recently released the third batch
of offshore non-governmental
organizations and fake non-governmental organizations.
The batch includes 68 non-governmental organizations, such as
international Chinese language
teacher associations, among others. The ministry had previously
released the names of 1,287
unqualified non-governmental
organizations.

8 Wednesday, October 19, 2016

COMMENT

EDITORIAL OPINION
China Daily
chinadaily.com.cn/opinion

EDITORIAL

Accountability to accomplish
tough finale of poverty relief

LU O J I E

long with a white paper reviewing the countrys recent accomplishments in poverty alleviation and the vow to annually raise more
than 10 million people above the poverty line
beginning this year, the central authorities
have pledged to install a responsibility system for fulfilling that goal, with the aim of
meeting the 2020 deadline for building a relatively better-off
society.
Under the proposed accountability regime, local authorities
will certainly have to take the matter seriously. After all, the Party
chiefs and government heads in poverty-stricken counties will
not be allowed to leave their posts until they eliminate poverty
there.
And judging from the numbers, the goal does not seem unachievable. The white paper says that in 2015 alone, more than 14
million people were lifted out of poverty. The resourceful government has seldom failed to achieve pre-set goals.
However, it would be sad if the high-profile poverty alleviation
campaign is reduced to just a game of numbers. This is because
the more than 50 million people who still live in poverty are different from the 50 million that have already been raised out of
poverty in the country. As the white paper indicates, they are the
poorest among the poor, who are even less capable of self-help,
and who are more likely to slide back into poverty should a natural disaster or illness strike, or simply because of the expenses
incurred by schooling, marriage or housing needs.
The countrys 13th Five-Year-Plan (2016-20) promises that by
2020 the present rural poor should have received stable guarantees of food, shelter, compulsory education and basic medical services.
But considering the governments official poverty line is relatively low, life may not be substantially different for those living
near either below or above that line. So while it is important
to raise all our compatriots above poverty, it is even more important to build long-standing mechanisms to make sure the fruit of
todays poverty relief efforts are sustainable and lasting, and the
vulnerable will not be left behind again.
It is particularly important to consider poverty alleviation a
dynamic process, instead of a one-off project, a matter of broad
systems engineering, rather than just increasing per capita
income.
While poverty always takes the form of material inadequacy, it
is the outcome of deep-rooted socioeconomic inequality. A sustainable, lasting solution to poverty, therefore, can never be
achieved without a persistent government commitment to eradicating inequality.

TO THE POINT

No long-term yuan devaluation

he central parity rate of the yuan once again weakened on

Monday, falling 222 basis points to 6.7379 against the US
dollar, a six-year low. This came after a 139 basis-point rise
the previous trading day ended seven consecutive days of
declining.
The yuans decline against the US dollar is a result of the market
mechanism in recent days. The high volatility of major currencies
such as the British pound against the US dollar since the beginning
of October has led to a stronger dollar index, thus causing the yuan
to fluctuate after the National Day holiday during which its exchange
rate remained unchanged.
The yuans recent inclusion in the International Monetary Funds
Special Drawing Rights basket of currencies, which means its
exchange rate will more reflect market factors, demands as little
intervention as possible from Chinas monetary authorities.
The markets anticipation of an interest rate rise by the US Federal
Reserve has also increased expectations for a weaker yuan against
the US dollar.
While a series of restrictive measures recently adopted by some
major cities across China to cool their real estate markets are
believed to have caused some funds to flee from the housing market to dollars, more dollars are being held by residents, enterprises and financial institutions amid the expectations of a weaker
yuan.
However, there is no possibility the yuans depreciation will be
drastic, given that Chinas central bank is holding more than $3 trillion in foreign reserves and has sufficient means to stabilize the
yuan. That the Chinese economy is stabilizing will help the yuan to
stay at a basically stable level.
Chinas high domestic net savings rate, the considerable scale of its
current account surplus and a GDP growth higher than world average mean no factors exist for long-term devaluation of the yuan.
HAIWAINET.CN

Regulations must ensure they

do not create any gray areas

Banks obligation
to protect data
of customers

THE STIPULATIONS on labor protection do not add up when it comes to weekly working hours,
which a notice of the State Council, Chinas Cabinet, says should be 40, but the Labor Law says 44. Changjiang Daily commented on Tuesday:

FIFTEEN PEOPLE in Mianyang, Sichuan province in Southwest China, have been

caught leaking and trading the personal
banking information of 2.57 million users.
Those involved, who included bank managers, raked in 2.3 million yuan ($349,000)
selling the information to brokers. Beijing
Youth Daily commented on Tuesday:

The contradiction in the stipulations on the

number of hours in a working week reflects the fact
that there are conflicting labor protection rules.
The Labor Law apparently has the decisive say in
how long the working week is. The State Councils
different answer to the question, which can easily
cause confusion, should be adjusted according to
the law which was adopted by the national legislature.
Such a gray area should not exist long, because it
might deal a blow to the credibility of the law and
affects the governments law-abiding image. Moreover, some employers may intentionally use it to
force employees to work extra hours or refuse to
offer due medical aid to employees on sick leave.
Obsolete rules should be abolished as soon as

possible. For example, the Labor Contract Law has

specific provisions elaborating on the terms of probation, but other ministerial regulations have not
all caught up with the updates.
Such regulatory contradictions not only exist in
the management of labor, but also in the annual
examination of vehicles and the mergers between
State-owned enterprises and listed companies.
Their longevity has made it difficult for residents
and administrative departments to communicate,
let alone cooperate.
To get rid of these flawed rules requires all the
departments concerned to work closely and efficiently together. The outdated regulations should
be abolished on time to avoid any contradictions
with the nations laws.

Society has responsibility to care for elderly

AN ELDERLY WOMAN, about 80 years old, in Southwest Chinas Chongqing municipality was
reported to be wearing a chain on her foot. While many called her family cruel, her daughter-in-law said
that they had no other choice. She said her mother-in-law kept walking off and getting lost and there was
no one in the family who could be with her during the day. Beijing Youth Daily comments:
It is, of course, inappropriate and immoral to
chain the old womans foot. Yet what makes the story even more tragic is there appears to be no other
option if her family lets her leave home freely, the
old lady will continue to get lost, and one day might
never come back.
Some blame the old womans family, claiming
they should find another way to stop her from getting lost. For example, some suggest, one of her
sons could quit his job and take care of her 24
hours a day. Perhaps one of them could, but that
would put a heavier financial burden on the whole
family, including the woman herself, and might
cause even more problems.
To prevent such a tragedy requires the efforts not
only of the family, but also of the whole of society.
The news report said the woman walked far away
from home because she felt lonely, had no friends

and no place to spend her spare time. Thats the

problem faced by many senior citizens and the
woman in Chongqing is only an extreme example.
What if more old age community centers are
built where seniors can socialize? When they have a
place to make friends and talk with each other, they
will no longer need to search far and wide for companionship.
Besides, when the woman walked far away from
home, her family worried about her safety. More
volunteers are needed to offer assistance to elderly
residents who get lost.
China has already become an aged society.
According to official data, the number of citizens
aged 60 or above had reached 210 million by 2014,
or 15.5 percent of the whole population. The number might reach 400 million by 2035. It is time we
offered more care to senior members of our society.

According to the reports, managers in a

sub-branch of a rural commercial bank
sold the information of people making
credit system queries at 10,000 yuan per
person. Likewise, two employees from a
branch of CITIC Bank accessed the credit
reports of customers and sold the information to brokers.
The frequent reports of personal information leaks have raised concerns about
how peoples personal information is used
and protected. But the case revealed by
Mianyang police is worrying as it involves
the comprehensive selling of customers
personal details by bank employees.
Information stored on corporate networks is at risk because it is more accessible than ever. Organizations provide easy
access to databases containing the personal information of huge numbers of people.
Banks have an obligation to safeguard
the information they collect on individuals,
and they should be held accountable for
any disclosures of the confidential data of
customers. In other words, in dealing with
this case, it is necessary to not only hold
the staff involved accountable, but also the
banks involved.
Moreover, the banks should compensate
those individuals whose personal information has been leaked by their employees.
Such breaches of the regulatory requirements for handling sensitive data can
reduce customer confidence and damage a
companys reputation. Enterprises that collect and store personal information have a
responsibility to protect it and to foster a
corporate culture in which employees
adhere to policies and procedures that provide internal checks of staff access to such
information.

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Five certificates in one

The State Council, Chinas Cabinet, recently
announced promoting and accelerating
reform of the registration system for companies, in which five certificates are being incorporated into one, further streamlining
bureaucracy and delegating power to lower
levels.
The reform means that people wanting to
start a business now need to apply for only
one certificate instead of the five as before. It
is a crucial part of reforming the business

administration system.
The five certificates an enterprises business certificate, organization code certificate,
tax registration certificate, social security registration certificate and statistics registration
certificate, which used to be issued by different departments have been combined into
a single certificate during partial and trial
operations to accelerate the efficiency of business registration.
The State Administration for Industry and
Commerce, which is in charge of the issuance,
said at its third quarter news conference that
the new certificates were introduced on Oct 1
and as of Oct 13, about 560,000 new certificates had been issued nationwide.

According to the administration, in the first

three quarters of this year 4.01 million new
enterprises were registered, which is remarkably more than the same period of 2015, which
indicates peoples
growing enthusiasm
for creation nowadays.
Yu Fachang, spokesman of the administration, said at the
news conference that
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CHINA DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 2016

WA N G Y U Z H U

Xis trip advances key economic corridors

resident Xi Jinping has

just concluded a trip to
Cambodia, Bangladesh
and India, during which
he participated in the BRICS Summit in Goa, India, at the weekend.
From the perspective of geopolitics, this was an important diplomatic activity that deepened
Chinas bilateral ties with the three
countries, which are all important
for the implementation of the Belt
and Road Initiative.
It was also a trip that resulted in
concrete achievements as China
and Bangladesh agreed to deepen
strategic partnership of cooperation and 31 cooperation agreements were signed with
Cambodia , most of them in infrastructure construction and industry. These achievements are
important for advancing the China - Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor, and the
Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor. They are
also the realization of Chinas latest efforts in carrying out the Belt
and Road Initiative from the angle

of bilateral partnerships and border-region cooperation.

In a China-Cambodia joint
communiqu, the two sides
agreed to accelerate the effective
integration of Cambodias Rectangular Strategy with Chinas
Belt and Road Initiative. For this,
the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding regarding
bilateral cooperation for the Belt
and Road Initiative. This is the
second bilateral cooperation
agreement between China and a
country in the Indochina Peninsula, after the one between China
and Laos.
In Bangladesh, a series of bilateral cooperation agreements were
signed on industrial cooperation,
information communication, energy and electricity, diplomacy, disaster-prevention and control and
climate change, among other
things, within the framework of
the Belt and Road Initiative.
Xi also attended the launch ceremony of some important bilateral
cooperation projects. Bangladesh
is located where South Asia joins

Only when these two

corridors see concrete
progress will the Silk
Road Economic Belt
and the 21st Century
Maritime Silk Road be
pushed forward in a balanced way.
Southeast Asia, an important
intersection in the Belt and Road
Initiative. The Belt and Road Initiative can be effectively integrated
with Bangladeshs foreign-bound
strategic cooperation, so as to create new opportunities for win-win
cooperation between China and
Bangladesh.
The neighboring countries and
regions are important starting
points for the construction of both
the Silk Road Economic Belt and

21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

Thats why China attaches great
significance to consolidating its
neighborhood cooperation as a
foundation for implementing the
Belt and Road Initiative.
Xis visits indicate bilateral
cooperation is an important
means to furthering the construction of the Belt and Road. The
countries visited have huge needs
in infrastructure construction,
including roads, airports, ports,
energy, and telecommunications,
and constructing this infrastructure is key to building the aforementioned corridors, which
should not only promote interconnectivity in their infrastructure
construction, but also create jobs,
and form regional production networks and value chains for industrial development in the countries
concerned.
There was an international seminar on the Belt and Road Initiative held in Xian, Shaanxi
province, recently. A report issued
at the seminar showed the
achievements of the initiative in

the past three years have been

more than expected. Xis visit to
Pakistan in 2015 effectively pushed
forward the construction of the
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and the construction of the
China - Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor will be of practical
importance to deepening win-win
cooperation between China and
the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations, and shaping the maturity
of China-ASEAN partnership in
the coming years.
Likewise, the construction of the
Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor will inject
new vitality into China-South Asia
cooperation.
Only when these two corridors
see concrete progress will the Silk
Road Economic Belt and the 21st
Century Maritime Silk Road be
pushed forward in a balanced
way.
The author is a researcher on
Asian-Pacific studies and global
strategies at the Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences.

QIAO XINSHENG

Watchdogs must not overstep boundaries of supervision

he local anti-graft commission in Tunliu county

of Changzhi city, North
Chinas Shanxi province,
issued a report on Sept 30 criticizing 24 high school teachers for
spending a total of 1,390 yuan
($207) on a meal that included
alcohol. However, whether it has
the right to discipline the teachers
in this instance has been questioned as the teachers paid for the
meal themselves.
The Changzhi discipline authorities said on Sunday that the previous accusation of the local antigraft commission in Tunliu county,
which stopped short of explaining why the teachers gathering was improper, was
not well thought out and
it decided to withdraw
it. However, two teachers were required to
criticize themselves
at a faculty meeting, and the others
were summoned
before the commission.
Since the
nationwide campaign against
corruption was
launched at the
end of 2012,
members of the
Communist Party
of China face
stricter austerity
rules aimed at
reducing bureaucracy and extravagance. Indeed, the
anti-graft efforts have
paid off and become
more efficient, thanks to
these rules and an increasing number of residents who
contribute to the anti-graft efforts

by reporting the misdemeanors of

Party members.
Whether the 24 Changzhi
teachers feasting was reported
by anonymous residents remains
unclear, but there are doubts
about whether the local discipline commission had any
grounds for criticizing the teachers. Its sternly worded report
was not based on a thorough

investigation and the teachers

explanation, fueling speculation
that the anti-corruption campaign always picks on the vulnerable and powerless.
The Changzhi discipline authorities have now withdrawn the case.
However, damage has been
done to procedural justice. Before
issuing a disciplinary penalty, the
discipline inspection departments

at all levels should widely solicit

public opinions and listen to the
appeals lodged by the accused.
Disclosing corruption cases on a
regular basis is no doubt needed
as a credible deterrence. Some
punished rule-breakers will seek
to hide their misconducts and pretend nothing has happened, if
what they have done is not made
public. Some even seek revenge on

CAI MENG / CHINA DAILY

the whistleblowers that report

their abuses of power to the disciplinary watchdogs.
Yet, rushing to distribute inaccurate, if not unfounded, disciplinary punishments, is
counterproductive, because they
may cause unnecessary trouble for
officials that are innocent of any
wrongdoing and have negative
social impacts. Therefore the disciplinary authorities need to
double-check alleged
severe violations of discipline as well as the
reports that are to be
issued about such cases
before making them
public.
On their part, residents, especially Party
members, have the
right to tip off the
local discipline commission to corruption,
but they also have the
responsibility to
make sure what they
say via online reporting platforms is correct and welldocumented.
This is not to say
they are not supposed
to supervise corrupt
officials. Quite the contrary, residents should
be mobilized and
encouraged to join the
anti-corruption fight,
which in turn is likely to
give them a sense of participation in social governance. They are just not
allowed to overstep the
boundaries in supervision.
The author is a professor of
law at Zhongnan University
of Economics and Law.

Targeted efforts to achieve 2020 poverty elimination goal

Editor's Note: The State Council Information Office on Monday issued a white paper on Chinas progress in poverty reduction and human rights. The following are some experts comments on Chinas poverty alleviation and human rights work:

here is no doubt that China has made remarkable

strides in reducing poverty
levels. Once a country with over
942 million living in poverty, it
has now reduced this to 55 million. Additionally, with a targeted
poverty alleviation strategy in the
13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), the
aim is for poverty to become history in China by 2020, leaving no
one behind.
Poverty is dynamic, and using
innovative approaches to help
identify and track the poor in a
more real-time and real-place
manner will be vital to achieve
this. The UN has experience globally, and can assist China experimenting with alternative
instruments, such as using big
data to complement the traditional household surveys that
feed the national database. Moreover, with more and more financial resources being allocated for
poverty reduction, the UN can
assist with effective implementa-

tion, including assessing the costeffectiveness of public spending,

via setting up an overarching
appraisal system.
Nicholas Rosellini, designated
United Nations resident coordinator in China

overty is not just an economic issue. It is impossible to completely solve the

problem of poverty through its
economic growth alone. To eradicate poverty is in essence a
human rights issue requiring
social order with human dignity
as the foundation. In this sense,
we should look at the poverty
issue from the perspective of
human rights.
The white paper once again
stressed that looking at the poverty
problem from the perspective of
better protecting human rights is
the Chinese governments basic
stance. With such a perspective,
the government needs to ensure all

people can live a decent life and

thus make all people share the
fruits of the countrys fast-growing
economy and realize the goal of
common prosperity.
Zheng Zhihang, a researcher at
the school of law, Shandong
University

ince the 1980s, the Chinese

government has started a
robust poverty relief campaign and thus established a poverty reduction path with Chinese
characteristics through three
decades of active exploration.
The countrys poverty relief
efforts take a pragmatic
approach and have a sound systematic framework. They pursue
the ideal of poverty eradication
with practical and effective
measures.
From the formulation of an
overall program for regional poverty relief to the identifying of
counties of poverty, to promot-

ing poverty relief for entire villages and then for individual
families, the countrys poverty
reduction work has gradually progressed from an overall to the
individual. Such a targeted poverty relief approach has helped
more effectively identify the roots
of poverty and allow differentiated and targeted measures to lift
impoverished population out of
poverty.
Meng Qingtao, a researcher on
human rights studies, Southwest
University of Political Science and
Law

he Chinese governments
white paper on its progress
in poverty reduction and
human rights reviews the
achievements the country has
made in lifting impoverished ethnic groups out of poverty. Since
the 18th National Congress of the
Communist Party of China, convened in late 2012, China has for-

mulated a series of special

poverty relief policies to accelerate its work of poverty reduction
in these regions. Through the
making and implementing of
targeted plans, earmarking special funds and supporting their
characteristic industries, the
country has considerably
improved infrastructure in these
regions and raised the living
conditions of local residents.
While creating a better life
quality for ethnic groups through
these targeted and viable measures, the country has also
employed innovative methods to
combine its poverty relief work
with their distinctive industries
and resources to create more
opportunities and driving forces
for their sustainable development
and finally self-development.
Wang Liwan, a researcher on
human rights studies, China University of Political Science and
Law

EU talking tough
on trade ahead of
talks with China

FU JING
The author is deputy chief of China
Daily European Bureau.
[email protected]

oon after Chinese Vice-Premier Ma Kai took part in a

high-level economic dialogue with European Union
officials three years ago, Beijing
and Brussels reached an amicable
solution to end their dispute over
Chinas solar panel exports to
Europe that had almost frozen
bilateral relations for a year.
With that obstacle removed, they
entered into talks on opening their
markets to investments by the other.
Soon after the dispute was settled,
Xi Jinping made the first visit ever
by a Chinese president to the European Unions Brussels headquarters.
These developments established a
solid foundation for Beijing and the
EU to forge closer ties.
But when Ma returned to Brussels to attend a new round of highlevel economic dialogue between
the EU and China in Brussels on
Tuesday, he faced the challenge that
the problem-plagued EU is once
again getting tough on access to its
market. And this despite the fact
that bilateral trade now stands at $1
billion dollars a day. As much trade
is now done in seven hours with
one EU country Belgium as it
took a whole year to achieve 45
years ago.

Within the context of the

rule-based international
community, it is time for
Brussels to show political
wisdom and respect the
WTO agreement.
A number of issues are expected
to be discussed during this weeks
talks.
Both sides set an end of year
deadline to come up with an
agreed text after 12 rounds of negotiations. But, even with the best
efforts of both sides, it will not be
easy to find a compromise on the
issue of market access within that
timeframe.
There is also the issue of over-capacity in the global steel industry.
The EU position, reinforced by lobbyists and industry groups, is as
tough as it was in the dispute over
solar panels. This year, steelworkers from around the EU took to the
streets of Brussels to demand
greater protection for their ailing
industry. Their complaints against
foreign imports have to be set
against the fact that expensively
run European plants also bear a
share of the blame for what is a
global problem.
Since China embarked on its economic miracle decades ago, much
European capacity in steel-making
has moved to China. Brussels
should stop blaming Beijing for the
problems, and work with it to find a
solution. China has been making its
contribution to solving the issue by
reducing its steel capacity, which
has led to a rising number of layoffs in the domestic steel industry.
Also at the conference table, the
two sides would not be able to avoid
the topic of Chinas market economy
status as Dec 11 is very close. After
that day, in line with a World Trade
Organization agreement, Brussels
should no longer charge anti-dumping duties against Chinese exports
to the EU on the basis of Chinas
non-market status, since the transitional period of 15 years since China
joined the WTO is over.
Beijing insists that the matter is
non-negotiable, but so far Brussels
has not offered a solution. Voices
within the European institutions
recently started commenting that
the market economy issue is not a
technical but a political one at a
time when the EU is facing an existential crisis that challenges its
political unity.
Within the context of the rulebased international community, it is
time for Brussels to show political
wisdom and respect the WTO
agreement.
Ideally, it would send such a message in the talks with Ma. And then,
Brussels and Beijing could renew
harmonious relations at a number
of levels.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2016 CHINA DAILY

SOUTH KOREA

JAPAN

On trail of high-tech voyeurs

Roman coins IDd in ruins,

but their origin still baffles

While some employ

smartphones, others
use spy-style gadgets

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Tokyo

By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Seoul

Walking into an empty

womens bathroom stall, Park
Kwang-Mi waves a hand-held
detector around the toilet seat,
paper roll holder, doorknob
and even the ventilation grill
on the ceiling.
Its my job to make sure
theres no camera to film women while they relieve themselves, the 49-year-old said
after similarly inspecting dozens of public toilet stalls at a
museum in Seoul.
Its weird that there are
people who want to see something like that ... but this is necessary to help women feel
safe, she told AFP. A member
of Seoul citys all-female hidden camera-hunting squad,
Park is at the forefront of a battle against molka, or secret
camera porn.
Around 90 percent of the
countrys 50 million people
possess smartphones the
highest rate in the world.
But its a culture that has also
given rise to an army of techsavvy peeping Toms in a still
male-dominated country.
Many use special smartphone apps to film up womens skirts as they ride subway
escalators or sit at desks, and
spy cameras to gather footage
from changing rooms and toilet stalls. The images are then
often shared to numerous
molka speciality sites on the
internet.
Such
practices
have
become so rampant that all
manufacturers of smartphones sold in South Korea
are required to ensure the
cameras on their devices

A member of Seoul city's "hidden camera-hunting" squad (left) and a policewoman inspect a
women's bathroom stall at a museum in Seoul in August. JUNG HAWON / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

make a loud shutter sound

when taking photos.
Molka crimes are daily
news, and perpetrators cover a
broad social range.
A pastor at a Seoul megachurch with 100,000 members was caught filming up a
womans skirt on an escalator.
His smartphone was packed
with similar images of other
women.
A 31-year-old obstetrician
was jailed for secretly filming
female patients and nurses in a
changing room and sharing
some of the images on the
internet.
And the head coach of
South Koreas national swimming team resigned last
month after two male swimmers were found to have
installed a hidden camera in
the locker room of their
female teammates.
According to police data, the

6,600 cases
The number of molka crimes in
South Korea jumped more than
six-fold from about 1,110 in 2010
to more than 6,600 in 2014.

number of molka crimes

jumped more than six-fold
from about 1,110 in 2010 to
more than 6,600 in 2014.
While some offenders use
smartphones, others employ
spy-style gadgets, including
ballpoint pens, glasses or wrist
watches equipped with micro
lenses, said Hyun Heung-Ho, a
detective attached to Seoul
polices metro squad.
The squad was established
in 1987 to fight subway crime
like pickpockets, but now its
main focus is on tackling various kinds of sexual harassment, including molka crimes.

Its tough because the technology they use advances so

fast, like special apps to mute
camera sound or to show
something else on the display
while the camera is rolling,
Hyun told AFP.
The majority of men
nabbed by the squad are in
their 20s or 30s and include
many
college-educated,
white-collar workers.
They generally cry and beg
to be let off, saying they were
simply curious, Hyun said.
Convicted offenders face a
fine of up to 10 million won
($9,100) or a maximum jail
term of five years. To help
with their crackdown, police
have offered cash rewards to
those
reporting
molka
crimes and the Seoul city
council has hired dozens of
women like Park to scour
bathrooms and other spaces
for hidden cameras.

The eyes of a visiting

archaeologist lit up when he
was shown the 10 tiny, rusty
discs that had sat unnoticed
in storage for two and a half
years at a dig on a southern
Japan island.
He had been to archaeological sites in Italy and Egypt,
and recognized the little
round things as old coins,
including a few likely dating
to the Roman Empire.
I was so excited I almost
forgot what I was there for,
and the coins were all we
talked about, said Toshio
Tsukamoto of the Gangoji
Institute for Research of Cultural Property in Nara, an
ancient Japanese capital near
Kyoto.
The discovery, announced
last month, is baffling. How
did the coins, some dating to
the third or fourth century,
wind up half a world away in
a medieval Japanese castle
on the island of Okinawa?
Experts suspect they may
have arrived centuries later
via China or Southeast Asia,
not as currency but as decoration or treasure.
The 10 copper coins were
unearthed in December 2013
at the 12th-15th century Katsuren Castle, a UNESCO
World Heritage site, during
an annual excavation for
study and tourism promotion by the board of education in Uruma, a city in
central Okinawa.
While the find has yet to be
submitted for publication in
an academic journal, an outside expert is convinced the
coins are real.
There is almost no mistake about their authenticity, said Makiko Tsumura, a

I was so excited I
almost forgot
what I was there
for, and the coins
were all we talked
about.
Toshio Tsukamoto,
an archaeologist in Gangoji
Institute for Research of
Cultural Property in Nara

200-300
years
Researchers wonder how a 17thcentury coin could have been in
a layer believed to be 200 to 300
years older than that.

curator at the Ancient Orient

Museum in Tokyo, though
she allowed that they could
also be counterfeit versions
from about the same time.
Four of the coins have are
from the third to fourth-century Roman Empire, and a
fifth one from the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. The
remaining five are still being
examined.
The coins, which are on
display at the Uruma City
Yonagusuku
Historical
Museum through Nov 25,
were dug up from about 1
meter underground in a layer believed to be from the
14th to 15th century.
At first, we didnt think
they were coins. Those little

round things, to us, seemed

like armor parts, said Masaki Yokoo, a city official in
charge of the archaeological
project.
Details that were barely
distinguishable
emerged
more clearly in X-ray analysis. One bears an image of
fourth-century
Roman
Emperor Constantine I, and
another shows a helmeted
soldier holding a shield in
one hand, while stabbing an
enemy with a spear in the
other.
The Ottoman coin is
inscribed with the year equivalent to 1687, Yokoo said.
Tsumura said the X-ray
analysis, photos, size and
weight match typical Roman
and Ottoman coins, resembling those excavated in China, Indonesia or India
places that had trade with
Okinawa.
Tsukamoto said the coins
might have been intentionally planted as a pacifying ritual at the castle, which was
abandoned in 1458, similar to
armor, jewelry and other valuables buried in funeral rituals in Okinawa.
Further
investigation,
including analysis of the copper content and other artifacts found with the coins,
may help identify the coins
origin.
Researchers are also seeking an explanation for why
coins from two distinct eras
were found near each other,
and how a 17th-century coin
could have been in a layer
believed to be 200 to 300
years older than that.
There are still lots of
unknowns, said Okinawa
International
University
archaeologist Hiroki Miyagi.
Our findings this time are
just the beginning.

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CHINA DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 2016

AUSTRALIA

Devils milk could

fight superbugs,
claim researchers
University study finds
marsupial carries
peptides that kill
deadly bacteria
By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Sydney

Mothers milk from the marsupials known as Tasmanian

devils could help the global
fight against increasingly
deadly superbugs which
resist antibiotics, Australian
researchers said on Tuesday.
Superbugs are bacteria
which cannot be treated by
current antibiotics and other
drugs, with a recent British
study saying they could kill
up to 10 million people globally by 2050.
Scientists at the University
of Sydney found that peptides in the marsupials milk
killed resistant bacteria,
including methicillin-resist-

ant golden staph bacteria

and enterococcus that is
resistant to the powerful
antibiotic vancomycin.
The researchers turned to
marsupials like the devil
which carry their young in a
pouch after birth to complete
their development because
of their biology.
The
underdeveloped
young have an immature
immune system when they
are born, yet survive growth
in their mothers bacteriafilled pouch.
We think this has led to an
expansion of these peptides
in marsupials, University of
Sydney PhD candidate
Emma Peel, who worked on
the research published in the
Nature journal Scientific
Reports, told AFP.

2050
10m people globally could die
from superbugs by the year 2050.

Two Tasmanian devils explore their enclosure at Devil Ark in the

Barrington Tops area of Australias New South Wales. GREG WOOD
/ AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Marsupials have more

peptides than other mammals. In the devil we found six,
whereas humans have only
one of this type of peptide.
Other research in other
marsupials has shown that
tammar wallabies have eight
of these peptides and opossums have 12, said Peel, adding that studies into koalas
milk had now started.
The scientists artificially
created the antimicrobial
peptides, called cathelicidins,
after extracting the sequence
from the devils genome, and
found they killed the resistant bacteria ... and other bacteria.
They are hopeful marsupial peptides could eventually
be used to develop new antibiotics for humans to aid the
battle against superbugs.
One of the most difficult
things in todays world is to
try and find new antibiotics
for drug-resistant strains of
bacteria, the research manager of the universitys Australasian Wildlife Genomics
Group, Carolyn Hogg, told
AFP.
Most of the other previous
antibiotics have come from
plants, moulds and other
work thats been around for
close to a 100 years, so its
time to start looking elsewhere.
World Health Organization director-general Margaret Chan warned last month
some scientists were describing the impact of superbugs
as a slow-motion tsunami
and the situation was bad
and getting worse.

Getting into a lather

Students from St Andrews University are covered in foam as they take part in the traditional 'Raisin Weekend' in the Lower College Lawn,
at St Andrews in Scotland on Monday. The annual event, which begins on Sunday, involves rituals for new students, culminating in a foam
fight on Monday morning. RUSSELL CHEYNE / REUTERS

THAILAND

Thais line up for banknotes honoring king

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Bangkok

Thais waited patiently in

long lines outside government
banks on Tuesday to secure
special commemorative 100
baht currency notes in honor
of the late King Bhumibol
Adulyadej.
The note was released five
years ago by the Bank of Thailand, but interest in it was
renewed after the kings death
on Oct 13.
People began lining up in
the early morning at banks
around the country to pur-

chase the note, which was

available for twice its face value at 200 baht ($5.71).
The banknote features
images of the king visiting
Thai people, planting grass
and playing the saxophone. It
is printed with metallic gold
ink, instead of the red in the
regular 100 baht bill.
I want to keep every single
note that has a portrait of
the king, because one day
theyll be all gone since well
be living under a new monarch, said 24-year-old Surinamon Rakkaew.
Because of the huge

demand, at least one bank, the

Government Savings Bank
that had a stock of 90,000
bills, said it will limit the sale
to five bills per customer.
We believe that all 90,000
bills will be distributed today
and we are in the process of
requesting more bills from the
Bank of Thailand, said Vitai
Ratanakorn, a top official of
the bank. He said he expects a
new stock of 200,000 bills will
become available on Thursday.
Bhumibols death after a
reign of 70 years has triggered
an intense outpouring of grief
in Thailand, where the monar-

chy is revered. Since his death,

Thais have been quick to purchase items or partake in
activities, such as alms-giving,
as ways to commemorate the
memory of the late king.
I came to exchange my bills
as a memento so that one day I
can commemorate the late
king Rama IX, said 35-yearold Pawan Tomuean, using the
kings formal title, as he carefully inserted his newly
acquired bill into a protective
case. One day I will be able to
celebrate his goodness and all
the great things he did for this
nation.

GERMANY

MARSHALL ISLANDS

Berlin summit set to discuss

Ukraine peace agreement

Air force ignored rising-sea

warnings at $1b radar site

By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Berlin

Germany, France, Russia

and Ukraine will hold a summit in Berlin on Wednesday
to evaluate the implementation of the Minsk peace
accords for Ukraine, the
French presidency said.
The summit will also discuss the next steps in the
process towards ending the
crisis in eastern Ukraine, a
statement said on Tuesday.
The meeting between German Chancellor Angela
Merkel and the Russian,
French and Ukrainian presi-

dents, Vladimir Putin, Francois Hollande and Petro

Poroshenko, was set in a flurry of telephone consultations.
The summit will be the first
since October 2015 under the
so-called Normandy Format
grouping of the four countries.
Hollande last week called
on all parties in the Ukraine
conflict to draw up a roadmap to end the crisis.
The aim would be to help
Ukraine regain control of its
borders with Russia, he said
after talking with Poroshenko.
However, Poroshenko was
not expecting much from the
talks.

I am very optimistic about

the future of Ukraine but
unfortunately not so much
about tomorrows meeting,
but I would be very happy to
be surprised, he said.
Russia, which annexed
Ukraines Crimean Peninsula
in 2014, backs a separatist,
pro-Moscow insurgency in
eastern Ukraine that has
claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
Moscow denies claims that
it has sent troops and weaponry across its border with
Ukraine to fuel the conflict.
Germany currently holds
the rotating presidency of the
Organization for Security and

I am optimistic
about the future of
Ukraine but not
so much about
tomorrows meeting.
Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine
president

Cooperation in Europe,
which has monitors in eastern Ukraine.
All sides agreed to a peace
deal brokered by Germany
and France in February last
year.

UNITED STATES

Rocket blasts off on space station cargo run

By REUTERS
in Wallops Island, Virginia

An unmanned Antares
rocket blasted off on Monday
with a cargo ship for the International Space Station, marking the boosters return to
flight two years after a previous version exploded at liftoff.
The 14-story rocket, powered by a pair of new Russianmade engines, lifted off from
Wallops Island, Virginia, at
7:45 pm, a NASA TV broadcast showed. Launch was
delayed five minutes to give
the team extra time to review
their checklists, said Orbital
ATK Inc, which owns the
rocket.
Its such a feeling of elation
to see the vehicle take off ...
Im very happy to see Antares
back, said Amanda Davis,
Orbitals director of program
engineering.

Its such a feeling

of elation to see
the vehicle take off
... Im very happy to
see Antares back.
Amanda Davis, Orbitals director of program engineering

The rocket, carried a Cygnus capsule loaded with

2,400 kilograms of food, supplies, equipment and science
experiments for the space station, a $100-billion laboratory
in orbit about 400 kilometers
above Earth.
The capsule is expected to

reach the station on Sunday

after lingering several days in
orbit to allow time for a Russian Soyuz capsule carrying
three new crew members to
reach the outpost on Friday.
The Soyuz is slated to launch
on Wednesday from Kazakhstan.
The last Antares launch, on
Oct 28, 2014, ended in disaster a few seconds after liftoff
due to a problem with the
boosters refurbished, Sovietera engines. After the accident, Orbital sped up plans to
replace the motors.
During the downtime,
Orbital bought rides for two
Cygnus cargo ships aboard
Atlas rockets, built and flown
by United Launch Alliance, a
partnership of Lockheed
Martin Corp and Boeing Co.
Orbital conducted a 30-second engine test firing of the
Antares at the Virginia

launch pad on May 31, but

had never flown the refurbished rocket before Monday.
The mission became more
crucial for the US space agency after a Sept 1 accident
destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket
operated by Elon Musks SpaceX and a $200 million Israeli
communications satellite.
The
accident,
which
occurred while the rocket was
being fueled for a routine prelaunch test, has temporarily
grounded SpaceX, the only
company apart from Orbital
currently contracted by NASA
to fly cargo to the space station.
Private contractors for the
cargo runs became necessary
following the retirement of
the space shuttles in 2011.
With SpaceX sidelined,
NASA said it added extra
food, clothing, laptop computers and spacesuit parts to
the Cygnus cargo list.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Wellington, New Zealand

The US Air Force is spending

nearly $1 billion to build a
radar installation that will
help keep astronauts and satellites safe by tracking pieces of
space junk as small as a baseball. That is, if global warming
doesnt get in the way.
The Space Fence is being
constructed on a tiny atoll in
the Marshall Islands that scientists say could be regularly
swamped by rising seas within
a couple of decades as a result
of climate change. The salt
water could play havoc with the
equipment, the scientists say.
And The Associated Press
found that neither the military
nor its contractor, Lockheed
Martin, gave serious consideration to that threat when
designing the installation and
choosing a site, despite warnings from the island nations
environmental agency.
The future does not look
good for a lot of these islands,
said Curt Storlazzi, an oceanographer with the US Geological Survey who is leading a
study at Kwajalein Atoll,
where the Space Fence complex is being built.
Dana Whalley, a civilian who
is managing the Space Fence
program, said that the radar
installation has a projected
lifespan of 25 years and that he
doesnt expect sea levels to rise
enough over that period to
cause a problem. But if necessary, he said, the base could take
steps to improve its seawalls.
Still, because of budget pressures, military equipment is
often used well beyond its projected lifespan. In fact, a key
part of the radar tracking system that the Space Fence replaces was built during the dawn

of the space age and was badly

outdated by the time it was shut
down 50 years later in 2013.
Midway between Hawaii and
Australia, the Marshall Islands
are specks of land that typically
poke just a few meters above
the Pacific Ocean, making them
some of the worlds most vulnerable places to rising seas.
The US military has a longstanding connection to the
islands. Bikini Atoll was used
as a nuclear test site after
World War II. Kwajalein Atoll,
a battle site during the war, is
now an Army base, a ballistic
missile test site and an important part of the militarys
space surveillance network.
The growing problem of
space debris was highlighted
in 2009, when an old Russian
satellite smashed into a commercial US satellite, creating
hundreds of pieces of orbiting
junk. The 2013 movie Gravity
dramatized the threat to astronauts, who need to be safe

from debris whether theyre

traveling on the International
Space Station or in a rocket.
Lockheed Martin won the
$915 million Space Fence contract in 2014 and broke ground
last year. When the radar system becomes operational in
late 2018, it should increase the
number of objects that can be
tracked tenfold to about
200,000 and provide more precise information on their orbits.
However, Storlazzi said rising sea levels could submerge
the island at least once a year,
damaging power cables, sewer
lines and other electronics and
hardware.
The study, funded primarily
by the Defense Department,
has not yet been peer-reviewed
or published. But it paints a
much more dire future for the
atoll than earlier studies.
We are talking the next
couple of decades, not centuries, as previously thought,
Storlazzi said.

A US Army photo shows an aerial view of Kwajalein Atoll, where the

Space Fence complex is being in the Marshall Islands. US ARMY VIA
ASSOCIATED PRESS

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IRAQ

SYRIA

Briefly

Iraqi forces pause

Mosul advance
after day of fighting
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Khazer, Iraq

Iraqi and Kurdish commanders said on Tuesday they

have paused their advance on
Mosul a day after the start of a
massive operation to retake
the Islamic State-held city,
which is expected to take
weeks, if not months.
The front lines to the east of
Mosul were largely quiet, a day
after Iraqi Kurdish forces
advanced amid a barrage of
US-led airstrikes and heavy
artillery.
We are just holding our
positions, said Colonel Khathar Sheikhan, of the Kurdish
forces known as the peshmerga, which captured a handful
of villages east of Mosul on
Monday. The Iraqi army will
now advance past our arenas
of control.
We have achieved our
objectives, he said.
But an Iraqi special forces
commander said his troops
have delayed an advance following a request from Kurdish
forces for more time to achieve
their goals. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the
conflicting accounts.
Brigadier General Haider
Fadhil said his men had
planned to move at dawn, but
postponed the operation. He
said Iraqi army and Kurdish
commanders would meet later
on Tuesday.

YEMEN

Truce to begin
on Thursday
The United Nations has
announced a new cease-fire in
war-ravaged Yemen from early on Thursday, after a week of
escalated fighting sparked
new international calls to end
the conflict. While President
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadis
government and its Saudi
backers said they would support the truce, there has been
no word from the Iran-backed
rebels who control the capital
Sanaa and other areas of the
Arabian Peninsula country.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider

al-Abadi had announced the
long-awaited offensive before
dawn on Monday, vowing to
liberate the city from more
than two years of extremist
rule. Mosul is Iraqs second
largest city and the IS groups
last major urban bastion in
the country.

25,000 troops
The large and complex battle for Mosul is expected to last
weeks or months. It will
involve more than 25,000
troops, including the Iraqi
army, the Kurdish peshmerga,
Sunni tribal fighters and Shiite militias. The US military is
providing air support and
playing a supporting role on
the ground.
A spokesman for the US-led
coalition said the operation
was proceeding as planned
and that Iraqi forces were
making excellent progress.
Theres no pause in efforts
to liberate Mosul. Troops are
on the move on various axes of
advance toward the city, said
Colonel John Dorrian. Some
commanders have reached
their objectives ahead of
schedule after encountering
light-to-moderate resistance.
By the end of the day on Monday, Kurdish forces had retaken
some 200 square kilometers,
according to Massoud Barzani,
the president of Iraqs largely
autonomous Kurdish region.

A member of peshmerga forces sits on a military vehicle in the east

of Mosul during an Iraqi operation against Islamic State militants on
Sunday. AZAD LASHKARI / REUTERS

GERMANY

1 still missing
after explosion

People remove belongings from a damaged site after an airstrike in the rebel-held al-Qaterji neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday. ABDALRHMAN ISMAIL / REUTERS

Russian, Syrian planes

halt Aleppo airstrikes
The cease-fire comes
ahead of temporary
truce for humanitarian
reasons later this week
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Moscow

Russian and Syrian warplanes on Tuesday halted

their airstrikes on Syrias
besieged city of Aleppo in
preparation for a temporary
truce that Moscow has
announced for later in the
week, the Russian defense
minister said.
According to Sergei Shoigu,
the halt in the strikes should
help pave way for militants to
leave the eastern rebel-held
parts of the contested city.
Both Russian and Syrian
air raids on Aleppo were suspended at 10 am on Tuesday,
Shoigu said. He described the
suspension as a precursor for

the opening of humanitarian

corridors.
Moscow
on
Monday
announced a humanitarian
pause between 8 am and 4
pm Thursday to allow civilians and militants safe passage out of the city.
At that time, Russian and
Syrian militaries will desist
from any offensive actions.
Syrian rebels, including
al-Qaida militants, as well as
the wounded and the sick will
be allowed to leave to the
neighboring rebel-held province of Idlib.
The early halting of airstrikes is necessary to declare
a humanitarian pause, Shoigu said in a televised statement. It will guarantee a safe
exit of civilians through six
corridors and prepare for the
evacuation of the ill and the
wounded from the eastern
part of Aleppo.
Aleppo, Syrias largest city
and once its commercial hub,
has been subjected to the

It will guarantee a
safe exit of civilians through six
corridors and prepare for the evacuation of the ill and
the wounded ...
Sergei Shoigu, Russian defense
minister

most intense aerial bombardment since the start of the

Mideast countrys conflict in
2011.
In recent months, the Syrian army has pressed its offensive into the rebel-held
eastern part of the city. Air
raids have killed hundreds and

caused international outrage.

Mohammed Abu Rajab, an
Aleppo resident, said airstrikes on the eastern neighborhoods stopped early
Tuesday, just after the city had
been subjected to another
intense round of air raids.
There were airstrikes
throughout the night, Abu
Rajab, who works at a hospital, said over the telephone.
In Moscow, Shoigu added
that Russia is asking the
countries wielding influence
with the (Syrian) rebels ... to
persuade their leaders to end
fighting and leave the city.
He said the Syrian troops
will pull back to distances
allowing unimpeded exit for
those carrying weapons via
two corridors, including the
main artery of Castello Road.
The Russian initiative also
should boost talks between
military experts from several
nations that are set to open in
Geneva on Wednesday, he
added.

UNITED STATES

GOP office reopens after firebombing in North Carolina

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Hillsborough, North Carolina

Investigators
combed
through shards of glass,
looked for residue of flammable accelerant and tried to narrow down the overnight hours
when someone torched a local
Republican Party office by
throwing a flammable device
through the window.
The mayor said he wasnt
aware of any surveillance foot-

age from the immediate vicinity, and the office sits where
there wouldnt normally be
foot traffic late at night in a
decades-old retail complex that
backs up to a wooded area and
is set back from a main road.
A bottle filled with flammable liquid was thrown through
the window of the Orange
County Republican Party
headquarters early on Sunday,
damaging the interior before
burning out, according to

authorities. Someone also

spray-painted Nazi Republicans leave town or else on a
nearby wall. The office was
empty and no one was injured.
Local
party
officials
reopened a makeshift operation on folding tables outside
the office Monday while uniformed police looked on.
Plainclothes
investigators
looked for evidence at the
scene as state, local and federal
investigators divided up leads.

We have had people working on it from three different

federal agencies, state agencies, our local folks, all day
today, running down leads,
working different parts of the
investigation, Hillsborough
Police Chief Duane Hampton
told The Associated Press.
He declined to say how confident he was that the evidence would lead to an arrest.
North Carolinas Republican Governor Pat McCrory

spoke to reporters at the office,

saying hed never seen anything like it in his political
career. McCrory, whos been
touringpartsofthestateravaged
by floods, said: To come back
near our state Capitol and see a
broken window from a Molotov
cocktail is unimaginable.
The graffiti and remnants of
the fire were discovered on
Sunday morning by 68-yearold Bobbie Sparrow, whose
Balloons Above Orange shop

is next to the GOP headquarters. She came to feed stray

cats before church when she
noticed the graffiti.
I saw the hate in it. And the
only reason they used the side
of my building, because it was
a blank canvas for a message
to the Republican Party people, she said in an interview. I
picked up my cellphone and
called 911 and told them someone needed to get here immediately.

One person is still missing

after an explosion at chemical
firm BASFs plant in the
southwestern German city of
Ludwigshafen that left at
least two people dead, the
company said on Tuesday.
The fire at a river harbor in
the sprawling facility was
extinguished on Monday
night, about 10 hours after
the explosion, BASF said. As
of Tuesday morning, it said
one person was still missing,
down from the two it previously reported. Eight people
were seriously injured, BASF
said. Two members of the
companys fire service died.
INDIA

Twin fires kill at

least 22 in India
At least 22 people have been
killed in two separate fires in
India, most of them patients
who were trapped in the
intensive care unit of a major
hospital, officials said on Tuesday. More than 40 critically ill
patients were in the intensive
care unit of a private hospital
in the eastern state of Odisha
when fire broke out on Monday night, apparently after an
electric short circuit. Authorities said 19 people died in the
blaze. Two more people died
early on Tuesday morning
when a high-rise luxury apartment block in the western city
of Mumbai caught fire.
UNITED KINGDOM

Alleged rape at
Parliament probed
A 23-year-old man has been
arrested on suspicion of rape
following an alleged incident
inside Britains Houses of
Parliament, London police
said on Tuesday.
The attack reportedly took
place in the early hours of last
Friday and the suspect, who
police have not named, was
detained later that day. Police
said he was not a lawmaker.
Police said the man had been
released on bail until January
pending further inquiries. A
spokesman for the House of
Commons, one of Britains
most recognisable buildings
on the banks of the River
Thames, said they were aware
of the incident and parliament was working closely
with police.
AUSTRALIA

Teens in clown
masks arrested
WIKILEAKS

Assanges internet link severed by Ecuador

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Paris

WikiLeaks has blamed

Ecuador for cutting off
founder Julian Assanges
internet access while he is
holed up at the Ecuadorean
Embassy in London, and
while his group is releasing
thousands of emails from
Hillary Clintons campaign
chairman.
Assange has been at the
embassy for more than four

years after skipping bail to

avoid being extradited over
sex crimes allegations.
WikiLeaks initially blamed
anunidentifiedstateactorfor
cutting off Assanges internet
access, then on Monday said in
a tweet that it was Ecuador.
Calls, texts and emails left
with WikiLeaks werent
immediately returned on
Monday. A woman who
picked up the phone at the
embassy declined to comment
Ecuadors Foreign Ministry

released a brief statement that

didnt mention the internet
cut off, but reaffirmed its decision to grant Assange asylum.
We reaffirm that his protection by the Ecuadorean
state will continue while the
circumstances that led to the
granting of asylum remain,
the ministry said.
Assanges cramped quarters
havent prevented the Australian transparency activist
from working and WikiLeaks
continues to deliver scoops,

including revelations that

have rattled Clintons campaign for president as the US
election enters its final stretch.
WikiLeaks said in its tweet
blaming
Ecuador
that
Assanges internet was cut
shortly after it published transcripts of paid speeches Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs.
Those were part of the tranche of emails hacked from the
accounts of John Podesta,
campaign chairman for the
Democratic nominee.

Grieving
Shoshana Boyd (center, left) and Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay (center, right) grieve with family and friends during a candlelight vigil
for their daughter Trinity, who was killed in an exchange of gunfire
in Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday. BRYAN WOOLSTON/ REUTERS

Four young boys donning

creepy clown masks who
broke into a Queensland hotel,
terrifying people and attempting a robbery have been
arrested and charged, police
said. The boys, ranging in age
from 12 to 14, scared off several
people around the Cairns center business district on Saturday night and early Sunday
morning. The charge comes
right after a number of incidents were reported across
Australia involving people
dressing up as creepy clowns
and scaring off bystanders, a
phenomenon which started
in the United States this year.
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Back on track

British choice

Coin maker reinvents itself

to survive the digital age

Honda restarts expansion

with Wuhan plant

UK National Grid eyes

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AVIATION

DATA

Outbound direct
investment up 53.7%
Categories expanded
to include high-end
manufacturing, info
transmission and
software tech services
By ZHONG NAN
[email protected]

An employee works on the nose of a Boeing Co 737 MAX airplane on the production line at the company's manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington. BLOOMBERG

Boeing to name key center location soon

By ZHU WENQIAN
[email protected]

Boeing Co will reveal the

location of its first overseas
B737 completion center in China by the end of the year, as it
expands its industrial footprint in the worlds fastest
growing aviation market, the
US aircraft manufacturer said
on Tuesday.
Zhoushan, a city in Zhejiang
province near Shanghai,
already sent its plan for the
Boeing facility to the State
Council after preparing for the
program for more than two
years, Shanghai Securities
News reported. Other cities
including Shenyang in Liaon-

ing province and Xian in

Shaanxi province, have also
expressed their hope to host
the new facility, with local government support.
Boeing Co and Commercial
Aircraft Corp of China, signed
an agreement last September
to jointly establish a Boeing
737 completion center in China, after President Xi Jinpings
visit in the Seattle area, home
to the headquarters of Boeing
Commercial Airplanes. The
center, which will be joint venture of the two, will cover completion activities including
cabin installation, painting
and flight testing.
The center will deliver 100
planes every year, and our

100
number of planes that Boeing
737 completion center in China
will deliver every year

team is ready for the work

wherever the center is, said
Ian Chang, vice-president of
Boeing Commercial Airplanes, who is responsible for
China operations and business development.
The growth potential of
the aviation market in China
and the Asia-Pacific region is
huge, we may expand the
facility in the future, and
manufacture aircraft besides

737, to serve other Asian customers besides China.

By 2018, Boeing plans to
produce 74 jets a month,
jumping 70 percent compared
to its production of 44 commercial airplanes per month
in 2011, the company said.
The facility will help Boeing to increase its output of 737
aircraft, and support the
growth of Chinas aviation
market, where it is the largest
for single-aisle airplanes,
Chang said.
We will cooperate with
more Chinese interior suppliers, and help them to raise
their capabilities and competences, from raw materials to
assembly.

DEALS

Disney said to have dropped Twitter pursuit

By BLOOMBERG

Walt Disney Co decided not to

pursue a bid for Twitter Inc partly out of concern that bullying
and other uncivil forms of communication on the social media
site might soil the companys
wholesome family image,
according to people familiar

with managements thinking.

The producer of family fare
like Finding Dory had gone
so far as to hire two investment
banks, JPMorgan Chase & Co
and Guggenheim Partners
LLC, to help evaluate a bid for
Twitter. Disney management
also listened to a presentation
about the business from Twit-

ter executives, according to the

people, who asked not to be
identified because the discussions were private.
There were other reasons for
Disney not to pursue Twitter.
The social media pioneer, creator of the 140-character tweet,
is losing money and yet sports
a market value of almost $12

billion. That would a big deal

even for Disney, which has a
market value 12 times that.
Some of Disneys largest investors called the company over
the past few weeks to express
their displeasure with a Twitter purchase for those reasons,
people close to the companies
said.

INDUSTRY

Internet economy driving IT sectors wealth

By OUYANG SHIJIA
ouyangshijia@
chinadaily.com.cn

The booming internet

economy is playing an
increasingly important role
in supporting wealth growth
in Chinas IT industry,
according to a report released
on Tuesday.
According to the annual Hurun IT Rich List, the average
wealth of the top 50 Chinese IT
tycoons hit a record, surging 13
percent year-on-year to 26.9 billion yuan ($4 billion).
Jack Ma, founder and
executive
chairman
of
e-commerce giant Alibaba
Group Holding Ltd topped
the ranking of Chinas richest IT people for the third
consecutive year, defending
his position against rivals
including Tencent Holdings
Ltd founder Pony Ma.
Jack Ma and his familys

Top 5 on Hurun IT Rich List

Name

Wealth

Wealth
(billion yuan) Change

Company

Age

195

44%

Alibaba Group Holding 52

Ltd and Ant Financial
Services Group

2 Pony Ma 134

30%

Tencent Holdings Ltd

45

106%

NetEase Inc

45

18%

Baidu Inc

48,46

-30%

Xiaomi Corp

1 Jack Ma
and his
family
3 Ding Lei

96

4 Robin Li 90
and Ma
Dongmin
Couple
5 Lei Jun

63

Source: 2016 Hurun IT Rich List

total wealth in IT industry was

195 billion yuan, followed by
Pony Ma, whose wealth
increased by 30 percent yearon-year to 134 billion yuan,
according to the Shanghaibased Hurun Research Institute.
Due to the rapid growth of
the online gaming sector, NetEase Inc founder Ding Lei

47

SU JINGBO / CHINA DAILY

doubled his wealth to 96 billion yuan, surpassing Baidu

Inc Chairman Robin Li and
ranking third in the IT rich
list.
Hurun Chairman Rupert
Hoogewerf said: Those entrepreneurs should be called
super wealth creators instead
of simply rich people, which
could highlight their contribu-

tion to Chinas society and

economy. Theyve created such
a lot of opportunities and jobs.
The recent technological
explosion provides a better
environment for those IT
tycoons. In the last two to
three years, several technologies have seen breakthroughs,
including artificial intelligence, virtual reality and
cloud technology. Some have
already been integrated into
our daily lives, while others
will soon be implemented,
said Zhao Ziming, an analyst
at internet consultancy Analysys.
Compared with an average
age of 45, 52-year-old Jack Ma
is the oldest among the top 10
IT tycoons.
Among the top 50 IT
tycoons, five were born in the
1980s, including 33-year-old
Cheng Wei, chief executive
officer of Beijing-based Didi
Chuxing.

Chinas outbound direct

investment jumped 53.7 percent year-on-year to 882.78
billion yuan ($134.22 billion)
in the first three quarters of
this year, the Ministry of
Commerce said on Tuesday.
Chinese companies completed 521 overseas merger
and acquisition projects,
including 119 in the United
States, during the first nine
months, with the transaction
value reaching $67.44 billion,
surpassing the total amount
of last year.
The mergers and acquisitions involved 18 industries
in 67 countries and regions.
The investment categories of Chinese companies
have been further expanded
in overseas companies. Highend manufacturing, information
transmission
and
software technology services
were hot areas for Chinas
ODI over the past nine
months, said Shen Danyang,
the ministrys spokesman.
The US, the Cayman
Islands and Hong Kong
ranked the top three hot destinations for Chinese mainland investment, with a total
amount of $16.24 billion,
$15.71 billion and $9.32 billion respectively.
Shen said the Belt and
Road Initiative had also
boosted business cooperation between Chinese and
overseas firms.
A total of 4,191 engineering
contracts were signed by Chinese companies in 61 countries along the Belt and Road
routes between January and
September, with a combined
contract value of $74.56 billion.
Chinese companies invested $17.9 billion in 56 economic and trade cooperation
zones in 20 countries along
the Belt and Road during the
same
period,
creating
163,000 jobs for local people.
Chinas investment in railway projects in African countries including Nigeria,
Ethiopia and Djibouti has
also boosted exports of the
countrys power generating
equipment,
construction
machinery, building materials, telecommunications, railway vehicles and signal
systems, said Shen.
CIMC ENRIC Holding Ltd
the energy, chemical and
liquid food equipment manufacturing unit of China International Marine Containers
(Group) Ltdmade an outright purchase in June of

Nationcompletesfree-tradeagreement
negotiationswithGeorgia:Spokesman
China and Georgia have officially completed substantive
negotiations on the ChinaGeorgia Free Trade Agreement,
creating more space for economic and investment activities with the Eurasian area, the
Ministry of Commerce
announced on Tuesday.
The agreement covered 17
chapters including trade in
goods, service trade, intellectual property and rules. It also
included new topics such as
e-commerce, market competition and environment, said
Shen Danyang, the ministrys
spokesman.
The agreement sees the
scrapping of tariffs for the
majority of trade in goods
between the two countries, a
commitment to further open
the service sector, optimize
trade rules and clarify the
major fields to strengthen
business ties.
Shen said China-Georgia
FTA negotiations realized the
goals of comprehensive content and balanced interests.
The signing of the agreement will consolidate and promote China-Georgia economic

and trade relations, said Shen.

It is also significant to the
implementation of the Belt and
Road Initiative and Chinas FTA
strategic layout in the region.
The FTA negotiations were
launched in December 2015,
followed by three rounds of
formal negotiations and three
informal consultations.
Bilateral trade between China and Georgia totaled $713
million in 2015. China ranked
the countrys fourth-largest
trade partner after Turkey,
Russia and Azerbaijan, data
released by Beijing-based China Council for the Promotion
of International Trade show.
He Jingtong, a professor of
trade policy at Nankai University in Tianjin, said even
though Georgias economic
scale cannot compare with
China, there will be considerable benefits for Chinese companies to establish joint
ventures in the country. Georgia has free trade agreements
with one-third of the world,
including the European Union,
Turkey and Russia.
ZHONG NAN

Crew members ready for boarding a train traveling along the

China-built Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway in Addis Ababa, capital of
Ethiopia. XINHUA

United
Kingdom-based
Briggs Group Ltd, a food
equipment provider, for 23
million pounds ($28.6 million).
With its technologies,
CIMC ENRIC expects to double both Briggs revenue and
profit over the next five years.
Yu Jiamin, CIMC ENRICs
director for strategic development, said with global industry upgrading and the impact
of Made in India in recent
years, the traditional mode of
low-end mass production
could hardly meet global
manufacturing demands.
Chinese enterprises need
to absorb quality resources
from global brands through
overseas merger and acquisition activities, and build core
strengths on brand, technology and talent rather than low-

end manufacturing, making

technological upgrading faster and localizing global operations, said Yu.
The ministry said private
and non-State-owned enterprises accounted for 86.6 percent of Chinas mergers and
acquisitions
activities
between January and September.
Chinese companies, especially from the private sector,
increasingly understand the
importance of overseas
investment for long-term
development, said Wang
Huiyao, director of the Beijing-based Center for China
and Globalization.
He said this has led to
greater diversification in the
industries involved in Chinas
outbound direct investment,
a new feature in recent years.

Growth rate of non-financial outbound investment

Unit: %

146.9
117.76

120

103.91
85.2

90

68.2

60
30

56.9

58.55

44.9

40.6

0
-30

0.12

-15.48

5.2

14.3 12.6

18.2

21.5

28.74

13.4

6.1
-18.57

Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept
2015
2016
Source: WindInfo

SU JINGBO / CHINA DAILY

14 BUSINESS

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 CHINA DAILY

Whats news

GOVTS & POLICIES

Coal price up 12%

in September
Chinas coal price index was
414.07 in September, up 11.99
percent from August and 22.71
percent from a year earlier, the
countrys top economic planner said on Tuesday. The index
has been rising since June for
four consecutive months, the
National Development and
Reform Commission said.
Regional data showed that
coal prices in Hebei, Chongqing and Shandong saw faster
month-on-month increases,
with prices in northern Hebei
rising 19.33 percent, southern
Hebei 22.66 percent, Chongqing 19.64 percent and Shandong 17.76 percent.

E-commerce
pushed in rural area
To boost rural development,
China will push for faster
growth of the e-commerce sector across underdeveloped areas. Policy support will be
given to small online retailers
... to lower their operational
costs, the Ministry of Commerce announced on Monday.
The ministry said more would
be done to support and nurture e-commerce businesses
operating in rural regions.
Training programs would be
on offer to small business owners, according to guidance
advice posted on the ministrys
website.

Italy, Japan, South Korea, Britain and Vietnam. The event,

held by Vietnam Auto Motorcycle Bicycle Association, is
projected to welcome some
15,000 visitors, domestic and
international distributors as
well as manufacturers, reported Vietnams state-run news
agency, VNA.

District will explore establishing community banks which

are devoted to small and medium-sized tech firms, cluster
development of early-stage
startup investment funds
and international innovation
acquisition funds via cooperation with foreign investors,
said district head Xie Jiangang. He said the district
would choose banks and
financial institutions to pilot
the integration of equity and
debt financing services for corporate innovation.

Singapore homes
sales increase

Chinas investment
in Germany surges
Chinese investment in Germany jumped to $10.8 billion in
the first half of this year, nearly
twice the total volume of the
past decade, a top official with
the Ministry of Commerce
said. Chinese investors invested $5.9 billion in Germany
from 2005 to 2015, said Yi
Yang. The deputy director of
the ministrys Investment Promotion Agency made his comments during the 2016 ChinaGermany Investment and
M&A Forum in Kunshan,
Jiangsu province. Germany is
Chinas biggest trade partner
in Europe. Trade between the
two countries exceeded $160
billion last year, accounting for
one third of the total volume
between China and the European Union.

COMPANIES & MARKETS

Shanghai pilots
community banks

COSCO acquires
stake in Italys Vado

East Chinas business hub

Shanghai will explore setting
up community banks and
international funds to encourage innovation and startups, a
senior city official said on
Monday. The citys Yangpu

COSCO Shipping Ports Ltd

announced on Tuesday that its
subsidiary has acquired a
40-percent stake in Italys
Vado Holding BV from Maersk
Groups APM Terminal for 53
million euros ($58.3 million).

Alternate reality
A visitor tries a virtual reality device at the ongoing China Import and Export Fair in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. REUTERS

Vado Holding operates the

Vado Reefer Terminal in
northwest Italy, one of the
largest reefer terminals in the
Mediterranean region, with an
annual handling capacity of
300,000 TEUs (20 Foot Equivalent) in addition to 600,000
pallets.

VW mainland sales
gain in nine months
Volkswagen AG posted 10.7
percent growth in sales in the
Chinese market for the first
three quarters of this year,
sources with the company said
on Monday. The German carmakers China unit and its two
joint ventures in China sold
2.85 million vehicles to buyers
in the mainland and Hong
Kong, including 131,500
imported vehicles, maintaining the automakers leading
position in the Chinese passenger car market. Jochem
Heizmann, head of the Volkswagen Groups China business,
said the company would

expand its product range,

especially SUVs and new energy vehicles, to meet growing
customer demand.

percent gain for industrial production last month. Manufacturing output, the biggest
component of overall industrial production, rose 0.2 percent
in September, reversing its
decline in the previous month.

Eurozone inflation
up says Eurostat
AROUND THE WORLD

US industrial
output up slightly
US industrial production rose
slightly in September as a
rebound in manufacturing
and mining output was largely
offset by a decline in utilities
output, the Federal Reserve
said. Industrial production, an
indicator of manufacturing,
mines and utilities output,
rose 0.1 percent in September
from the previous month, following a revised 0.5 percent
decline in August, the Fed said.
Economists had forecast a 0.2

Eurozone annual inflation in

September rose to 0.4 percent,
up from 0.2 percent in August,
official data showed. In the
28-member European Union,
annual inflation was also up
0.4 percent in September, up
from 0.3 percent in the previous month, said Eurostat, the
EUs statistics agency. A year
earlier the rate was minus 0.1
percent in both zones. According to Eurostat, negative yearon-year rates were recorded in
Bulgaria, at -1.1 percent, followed by Croatia with -0.7 percent and Slovakia with -0.5
percent.

Ultra-short-hours
at 5-year high
The number of employees in
South Korea who work
ultrashort hour shifts each a
week rose to their highest levels in five years, as companies
avoided hiring regular workers
amid the government-led flexible working system, statistical
agency data showed on Monday. The number of people
who work less than 17 hours a

week reached 1.343 million in

the September quarter, up
91,000 from the same period
last year, according to Statistics Korea. It was the highest
level since the reading touched
1.54 million in the third quarter of 2011.

Auto show attracts

fewer visitors
The Paris Motor Show 2016
lured fewer visitors compared
with the last one in 2014,
mainly due to a perceived risk
of terrorist attacks, organizers
said on Monday. From Sept 29
to Oct 16, about 1.1 million people visited the biennial auto
exhibition at la Porte de Versailles exhibition center, down
by 14 percent from 2014. The
decrease in the number of its
visitors compared with the
2014 edition should be put in
the context of the 15 to 30 percent decrease in the attendance rate of all national events
since Nov 13, 2015, organizers
said in a statement.

Cycle expo to be
held in Vietnam
An international cycle exhibition called Vietnam Cycle 2016
is expected to take place in
Vietnams capital Hanoi
between Nov 17-19. The exhibition is expected to attract the
participation of some 50 major
manufacturers, along with 150
booths from China, France,

Sales of Singapores new private homes increased 49.3 percent in September year-onyear, according to data
released by Urban Redevelopment Authority. Compared
with the previous month, the
URA said sales of private
homes increased 8.8 percent
in September. Excluding executive condominiums, property
developers sold 509 units last
month, surpassing the 341
units sold in the same period
last year and the 468 units sold
in August. Including ECs, 769
new private homes were sold
in September, compared with
799 in August.

Ukraine sunflower
oil exports rise
Ukraine expects record high
exports of sunflower oil in the
current marketing year. That
is being driven by strong
demand from Asian markets,
according to a forecast by the
association of the countrys
vegetable oil producers
Ukroilyaprom, unveiled by
local media on Monday.
Ukroilyaprom estimated that
in the current marketing year,
which runs from September
2016 to August 2017, Ukraine
will produce about 5.5 million
metric tons of sunflower oil
and export 4.9 million tons.
Global market conditions,
especially a strong demand
from China and India, will be
the key drivers of Ukraines oil
market, Ukroilyaprom said in
its forecast.

Indonesias trade
surplus increases
Indonesias trade performance
turned in a surplus in September, as a year-over-year decline
in exports continued to slow.
The national statistics bureau
announced on Monday that
Indonesia recorded a $1.21 billion trade surplus in September, rising from revised $360
million surplus in August.
CHINA DAILY-AGENCIES

POLICY

Rare earth sector plans more

higher value-added products
By YANG ZIMAN
[email protected]

140,000

Chinas rare earth industry

has to produce more high-end
products by further reducing
the number of producers in
the next five years, according
to the 13th Five-Year Plan
(2016-20) for the industry
released by the Ministry of
Industry and Information
Technology on Tuesday.
According to the plan, rare
earth with higher added value
will account for 50 percent of
the total output by 2020, up
from 25 percent in 2015.
The exploitation should be
controlled while the added
value should be increased,
said Jia Yinsong, director of
the ministrys rare earth office.
The plan has stipulated that
the total mining of rare earths
in 2020 should be no more than
140,000 metric tons, compared
with the 105,000 tons limit in
2016.
According to the plan, pro-

metric tons
production limit for the total
mining of rare earths in 2020

ducers profit rates are projected to increase to 12 percent in

2020, from 5.8 percent in 2015.
The research and development versus revenue ratio is
seen rising to 5 percent in
2020 from 3 percent in 2015.
Jia said that the demand
for high-end rare earths
would be driven up by growth
industries, including those
making high-end equipment,
new energy automobiles and
high-performance medical
equipment.
China accounts for merely 25
percent of the high-end international rare earth market, including magnetic, catalyst, hydrogen
storage and luminescent materials, Jia said.

Europe, the United States

and Japan dominate the
market.
Jia added that one of the
main challenges in the industry was primary-level rare
earth production overcapacity
caused by illegal exploitation
and production, which has led
to low prices.
The plan sets a goal of concentrating the capacity
among the biggest six rare
earth corporations by 2020.
In the past five years, the
number of rare earth smelting and separating companies has fall to 59 current
from 99 in 2011.
The rare earth industry
must be concentrated because
waste water and sand management is very costly, said
Jia.
A major reason for the
recent bankruptcy of the only
rare earth company in the US,
Molycorp Inc, is the huge cost
of environmental management, Jia added.

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CHINA DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 2016

MANUFACTURING

INTERNET

Minting a new future

China turns an
e-payments
juggernaut

Shenyang Mint, the countrys

leading coin maker, reinvents
itself to thrive in the digital age

By JIANG XUEQING
[email protected]

By WU YONG and LIU CE

in Shenyang and
WANG YANFEI in Beijing

With legal currency like bank notes and

coins being used less and less because of the
growing popularity of mobile payment systems such as Alipay and WeChat Wallet, are
age-old mints and security printing presses
supposed to disappear into thin air, or
become relics of the past, as demand for
hard currency weakens and their workload
becomes thinner ?
Shenyang Mint Co Ltd, the 120-year-old
subsidiary of China Banknote Printing and
Minting, for one, is finding new ways to survive and thrive.
The State-owned enterprise is one of Chinas top four coin manufacturers. It is mainly responsible for designing and
manufacturing 1-yuan and 0.1-yuan coins,
and medals including the Olympic series
and the panda series.
Its annual production capacity is over 8
billion coins, half of the total coin output of
China. It has been the key workshop that
designed and produced coins in the past
century. But, sources close to central bank
said coin production fell in the past five
years.
Now, the mint has received a mandate to
reinvent itself, jump on the digital bandwagon, find new clients in the private sector who might need its expertise, and
explore new possibilities like e-commerce.
Liu Guisheng, president of parent CBPM,
asked Shenyang Mint to shift focus from
production of legal tender to development
of digital cash, and explore global markets.
For the last 10 months, Liu Qiang, 46,
marketing and sales manager of Shenyang
Mint, has been doing just that. A veteran of
Shenyang Mint, Liu has been spearheading
its efforts to use the capability to make a
variety of coins to exacting standards in
other ways.
On his radar are private companies, both
Chinese and foreign. We are required to
explore new markets besides continuing to

Chang Huan, who designed the set of seven giant panda-themed medals, at work. Shenyang
Mints first export order for these medals was worth $720,000. JIANG MENG / FOR CHINA DAILY

mint traditional currency coins, Liu said.

Early this year, the mint received its first
export order worth $720,000. In September, it shipped some gold medals with the
image of the giant panda and bamboo
embossed on them, to a US firm called
Martin Weiss & Co.
Huawei Technologies Co and other big
names such as Shanghai Disneyland are
said to be in talks for fresh contracts for
medals, medallions, souvenirs and such.
Liu Yan, head of the companys publicity
department, said Shenyang Mint has also
opened its online store on JD.com, one of
Chinas leading online marketplaces. Plus,
it now operates a WeChat account for
marketing.
As the nations most important mint, we
have both world-class designers and toprated manufacturing ability. Im sure we
can win this new battle, Liu Yan said.
Its going to be a battle alright. According
to the central banks 2015 Payment System
General Performance Analysis, online
mobile payments last year amounted to
108.22 trillion yuan, up 379 percent yearon-year.
Whats driving online payments are digital shopping festivals such as the Nov 11
Singles Day. From 50 million yuan in 2009,
Taobao.coms Singles Day revenue grew to
91.2 billion yuan last year. Compared to
2014, it was up nearly 60 percent.
All those transactions do not involve

physical cash. And, these days, consumers, especially the younger lot, tend to rely
on smartphones everywhere to pay for
products and services.
I hardly used my leather wallet in the
past year because I pay for food, taxi and
cinema tickets via Wechat or Alipay. The
cell phone is now an extension of my hands.
Itis so convenient, said Chen Li, 30, consultant for a law firm in Shenyang.
Whats more, Chen said she even debited
300,000 yuan toward down payment for
her apartment using Alipay.
Shao Jianbing, professor of Business
School at Liaoning University, said this has
become a trend as Chinas rising middle
class celebrates events like the National
Day, the Spring Festival and the Singles Day
by going on online shopping sprees, including for deals for travels, tours, leisure and
entertainment.
The trend will likely intensify in coming
days, Shao said. The ongoing transformation of Shenyang Mint reflects the gigantic
changes in Chinas economy in recent decades. It shows even age-old SOEs have to
embrace reform and adapt to changing
market conditions.
Contact the writers at
[email protected],
[email protected]
and wangyanfei@
chinadaily.com.cn

Front and back of gold and silver medals

designed by Chang Huan of Shenyang Mint.

Electronic payments, including mobile

payments, have been growing rapidly in
China since 2013, according to the Peoples
Bank of China, the central bank.
PBOC data show that during the second
quarter of 2016, banks handled 32.32 billion
electronic payment transactions worth
570.95 trillion yuan ($86 trillion), including
6.14 billion mobile payment transactions
worth 29.32 trillion yuan. The amount of
mobile payments rose by 10 percent yearon-year.
Also, in the second quarter, nonbank payment institutions handled 37.71 billion
online payment transactions worth 23.35
trillion yuan, up 111 percent year-on-year.
Major mobile payment systems include
Alipay of Chinas largest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and
WeChat Pay of internet giant Tencent
Holdings Ltd.
Smartphone manufacturers also tapped
into the growing market of contactless payment.
Following the launch of Apple Pay in China in February, Samsung Pay, Huawei Pay
and Mi Pay joined the fray.
To further drive the growth of mobile payments, China UnionPay launched a new
round of promotions recently, encouraging
UnionPay cardholders to use its mobile payment service called QuickPass by allowing
them to enjoy discounts and other benefits
at nearly 60,000 online and offline merchants until Oct 16.
Ellen Richey, vice-chairman in charge of
risk and public policy for Visa Inc, said earlier this year, Weve been talking about
mobile payments for at least 10 years. People
were starting to think this is just all talk; its
never going to happen. But its happening
now in China in a very important way.
We think by coming to China, we can
support the secure development of mobile
payments so that they will use technologies
like tokenization and biometric authentication with your fingerprints, eyes and voice.
All those things will make mobile payments
even more secure than plastic payments,
she said.

Hengyang special

Investors eyeing Hengyang

for its enormous potential
By ZHUAN TI
[email protected]
Hubei

Despite its unique natural

landscape, Hengyang in Central Chinas Hunan province
ranked just 84th among Chinese tourism cities in terms of
attraction, according to Zhou
Zheng, chairman of SkyOcean
Group Holdings Co Ltd.
It shows that the city has
huge potential for tourism
growth, Zhou told China
Daily prior to the upcoming
Hengyang Economic Development Forum, adding that he
has faith in the prospects of the
citys cultural tourism industry.
The forum, which is to be
held on Saturday and Sunday,
aims to showcase the host citys
opening-up and spur its economic growth. During the twoday event, participants will
conduct discussions centering
on the economy, industries and
tourism, organizers said.
Zhou said he has high
expectations of the event. It
will gather wisdom and support from participants to help
Hengyang to explore a suitable
development path.
The company has recently
signed a framework agreement
with Hengnan county under
the administration of the city to
develop a holiday resort, which
will incorporate four featured
tourism projects and ve theme
parks.
Riding high on the industries shift from coastal economies to inland regions, Hengyang has attracted a number
of major investment projects
by renowned manufacturers including Foxconn and
Omron.
To date, 20 Fortune 500 companies have established a presence in the city.
Government data shows
that the city secured $778 mil-

Changsha
Hunan

Jiangxi

Hengyang

20
Fortune 500 firms
have made a presence
in Hengyang

lion in capital from abroad in

the rst eight months of this
year, a 15.8 percent year-onyear increase.
Domestic investment stood
at 22.07 billion yuan ($3.3 billion) during the same period, a
rise of close to 9.9 percent from
a year earlier.
Huang Jianjun, head of the
citys Bureau of Commerce
and Food, cited an intelligent
robotic industrial park and
plant worth 1 billion yuan
and a 2-billion-yuan tea technological park with a focus
on processing camellia oil as
examples to illustrate that
Hengyang has made marked
progress in attracting large and
high-quality investment projects this year.
In addition, many more
investors have been exploring
cooperation possibilities during their inspection tours of
Hengyang.
Among them are Liu Qiang,
executive deputy general
manager of China Commerce
Huaxia Products Co Ltd. His

company plans to invest in a

Hengyang camellia oil processing project.
Hengyang is rich in camellia resources and its bonded
zone can provide favorable
policies, Liu said. We have
held talks with officials from
local industrial parks. Hopefully, our project can settle in.
As a key production center
of camellia oil in China, Hengyang is at the forefront of the
country in terms of the teas
plantation areas, annual yields
and output value.
The city is also known for
its vast deposits of minerals
including nonferrous metal
and non-metallic materials.
Hengyang boasts lead and
zinc deposits of more than 2
million tons, the highest in the
country, with most of them
located in Shuikoushan.
Its reserves of soda feldspar,
a type of mineral widely used
as an industrial ingredient in
making glass, ceramics and
soap, is reported to be one of
the largest in Asia.
Its strategically valuable geographic location has helped
Hengyang develop a widespread transportation network,
covering waterways, expressways, railways and air routes.
The city is well positioned to
serve as a key regional logistics hub with access to coastal
regions including the Pearl
River Delta and the Beibu Gulf,
as well as Hong Kong, Macao
and Taiwan.
Feng Cheng, general manager of Hengyang Baishazhou
Logistics Park, said in a recent
interview that his park handled more than 300,000 tons
of goods in 2015, far more than
the approximately 100,000
tons handled in 2014.
The number is estimated to
surpass 500,000 tons this year,
Feng said.

City looks to develop integrated tourism

Hengshan Mountain in Hengyang, Hunan province, is a signature scenic site of the city.

By ZHUAN TI

Hengyang in Hunan province is projected to construct

100 billion yuan ($14.9 billion)
of tourism facilities during the
13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20),
said Xiang Qian, chief of its
tourism administration.
Our goal is to develop a
5-A scenic spot the highest
national standard for tourist
attractions in China with a
further 10 sites awarded at 4-A
level and 20 at 3-A during the
period, Xiang said.
With a history of more than
2,300 years, the city boasts
both natural beauty and rich
cultural heritage, including
two ancient schools built in
the Tang (618-907) and Song
(960-1279) dynasties.
Its calling card, Hengshan
Mountain, one of the rst 5-A
tourist destinations in China,
provides a picturesque view all
year round. In addition to the
mountain, Hengyang has much
more to offer, Xiang said.

As an example, he cited a
sea of bamboo forests named
after Cai Lun, a Hengyangborn inventor from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220),
who innovated methods for
making high-quality paper.

3.12
million tourists
visited Hengyang during this
years weeklong National Day
holiday in early October

Other sights include the

national forest parks of Goulou Peak, Heaven Mountain
and Siming Mountain, as
well as Qishan Mountain
and Jiangkou Niaozhou, a
key national nature reserve
focused on bird protection.
Travel routes in various
rural areas with special local
flavors are a key feature of
Hengyang tourism.

PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

The attractions include a

10,000-mu (about 667 hectares) apricot orchard in Gaiwan township, tea mountains
in Zhuhui district, rapeseed,
peach and plum blossom in
ancient Xuanzhou township,
and preserved villages built
more than 600 years ago in
Miaoqian township.
The boom in rural tourism went beyond my expectations, Xiang said.
During this years weeklong
National Day holiday in early
October, a new scenic site with
the theme of the Flower and
Fruit Mountain, the home of
Sun Wukong, or the Monkey
King, a gure from the classic
Chinese mythological novel
Journey to the West, attracted
more than 10,000 visitors on
its opening day alone.
Local cuisines also add to
the charm of the city, which
delight tourists with an unforgettable culinary experience,
Xiang said.
An advanced transport net-

work involving high-speed

rail, expressways and air
routes provides easy access to
the city, he added.
With ight services linking
to a number of major destinations in China, including
Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Sanya and Kunming, the citys
airport plans to open routes
to Chongqing and Fuzhou,
Fujian province, in the near
future.
The entire city received 3.12
million tourists during the
October holiday, an increase
of 13 percent year-on-year.
The visitors brought 1.44 billion yuan in tourism revenue,
up 11 percent from a year earlier.
To step up building Hengshan Mountain into an international premier tourist destination, we plan to leverage
tourism resources across the
city and develop a new economic zone centering on the
mountain and covering surrounding areas, Xiang said.

16 BUSINESS

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 CHINA DAILY

FINANCE

DATA

NDB focuses on green growth

New institution, with
initial capital of
$100b, to issue bonds
in local currencies
By XINHUA in Goa, India

China was a strong driving

force behind the setting up of
the New Development Bank,
or NDB, which was established by the BRICS nations
last year, its President K. V.
Kamath said.
Kamath, speaking on the
sidelines of the 8th BRICS
Summit in Goa over the weekend, also said that the bank
would continue to explore
opportunities to issue bonds
in local currencies of its member countries.
The NDB, jointly founded
by the BRICS countries of China, Russia, Brazil, India and
South Africa, was opened in
July 2015 in Shanghai with an
initial authorized capital of
$100 billion.
In its first year, the foundation of the bank has been laid
and policies set, and its first
loans have been approved,
Kamath added.
The banks board has
approved five investment
projects, one in each member
country, for a total capital outlay of more than $900 million.
According to the bank, all
the projects are coherent with
the banks core focus on environmentally friendly energy
generation and infrastructure
development. They will support the creation of 1,250
megawatts of renewable energy capacity and will result in
estimated reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of nearly
4 million metric tons per year.
The banks president said

K. V. Kamath, president of the New Development Bank.

XINHUA

We are going to be the main

driver of global GDP growth
for at least the next 10 years.
K. V. Kamath, president of the New Development Bank of the
BRICS countries, headquartered in Shanghai

clean energy and transportation would continue to be the

focus of the bank.
Kamath said there was a
general awareness now that
harm to the environment
needed to be avoided by following certain paths to
growth, so almost all the
member countries were now
talking about green investment in terms of energy.
Transportation had also
become area of keen interest
as member countries grew, he
said.
Whether it is urban transportation... rail and rapid

transit links... or highways...

these seem to be the key areas
where there is interest for
governments to put investment in.
The NDB president also
highlighted
the
banks
endeavors to garner funds in
local currencies. In July 2016,
the bank issued its debut
bond in China. The five-year
green bonds, denominated in
yuan, are worth 3 billion yuan
($450 million).
Kamath said the bond issuance had been very well-received and well-deployed in
developing countries and that

lending in their local currencies was better than lending

in hard currencies like the
dollar.
Though the interest rates
may look very attractive in US
dollars, when you take the
exchange depreciation that
happens plus the interest
rate... it is more than the cost
of borrowing in the local currency, he said.
The bank was now seeking
to issue rupee-denominated
bonds in the offshore Indian
rupee market, and was
expecting to raise $250 million to $500 million by March
2017, Kamath said, adding
that work in raising local currency bonds in South Africa
and Russia had simultaneously started.
Clearly we see that the
road forward as being a blend
of local currencies (funding)
and maybe some limited hard
currencies... so that we bring

down the cost of funding for

our member countries, he
said.
The recent fall in crude oil
and commodity prices has
taken a heavy toll on the economies of Russia, Brazil and
South Africa and Chinas
growth has been slowing
down. The BRICS economies
have not been performing
very well recently, giving rise
to some gloomy assertions
that the shine is fading for the
BRICS of gold, he said.
Dismissing that kind of pessimism, Kamath said all
member countries were going
to show positive economic
development in the next 5-10
years.
He said a lot of initiatives
were being taken in China to
make sure that its economic
growth was sustainable, he
added. Meanwhile, higher
growth could be expected in
India given favorable factors
such as the recent passing of
the Goods and Services Tax
bill, as well as decreasing
interest rates as a result of
falling inflation.
Whatever happens... it
remains a fact that the BRICS
countries account for more
than half of GDP global
growth. That is not going to
change. We are going to be the
main driver of global GDP
growth for at least the next 10
years, Kamath said.
The banks president also
commended China, which
hosts the headquarters of the
bank, for its efforts in turning
the NDB into a reality.
Kamath said China was a
strong driving force behind
the establishment up of new
institutions, and had been
extremely supportive in setting up the NDB in terms of
providing initial space, a support system and staffing, he
said.

Potential homebuyers visit a housing expo in Chengdu, Sichuan

province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

Listed firms seek

high yields in realty
By WU YIYAO in Shanghai
[email protected]

Some 1,305 companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses 44 percent of
all the A-share companies
have invested a combined
595.1 billion yuan ($88.32 billion) in real estate, as companies seek long-term and stable
income, data from analysts
revealed on Tuesday.
For smaller A-share companies that are suffering from
(economic) downward pressure, seeking profits and diversifying risks by investing in
properties in first- and secondtier cities is a natural choice,
said a research note from Sealand Securities Co.
DTZ East China analyst
Shen Yun said the average
return of Grade A properties
in central Shanghai was about
4 percent, and the yield from
residential properties could
reach 7 percent or higher.
That compared with findings from Wind Information
Co Ltd, a Shanghai-headquartered financial information
services provider, whose data
showed that companies in
some sectors such as
cement, electrical component
and the steel-related sectors

averaged earnings yields in

the past three quarters of
below 3 percent.
According to Wind Information, A-share companies have
invested in real estate through
directly buying properties,
including commercial assets
such as office buildings, and
residential assets such as
apartments, or purchasing
equities from real estate developers to reap the rewards from
fast-growing real estate prices
in first- and second-tier cities.
Shenzhen Huicheng Electric Ltd said it plans to sell
eight properties in Beijing,
Nanjing, Wuhan and Fuzhou,
in a deal that will bring in profits of 33.56 million yuan, turning the previous loss-making
outlook for the third quarter
into a guidance for profits for
the quarter.
Analysts also said big financial institutions, such as insurers and banks, were also
tapping into realty to leverage
the huge amount of cash.
Among A-share insurers
and banks, 12 had each invested more than 10 billion yuan
in real estate, with Ping An
Insurance (Group) Co of China
Ltd heading the list. It had
invested 33.43 billion yuan by
the end of second quarter.

AUTO

The Honda Motor Co Acura NSX supercar on display at an international auto show in Beijing.

BLOOMBERG

Honda restarts expansion with Wuhan plant

By BLOOMBERG

Honda Motor Co said on

Tuesday it has revived plans to
expand production in China,
beginning work on a new
plant this year that will start
operating in 2019.
The factory will have initial
annual capacity of making
120,000 vehicles and could

eventually produce 240,000

units a year, Chen Binbo, executive vice-president of Hondas China joint venture, said
on Tuesday.
Honda said last year it
would delay construction of a
planned $822 million plant in
Wuhan as industrywide
demand slowed.
Demand for XR-V and Vezel

sport utility vehicles have

paced a 26 percent gain in
Hondas China sales this year
through September. Industry
sales began to recover in the
fourth quarter of last year following the introduction of a
tax cut on purchases of vehicles with smaller engines
thats scheduled to expire on
Dec 31. Passenger-vehicle sales

have surged 15 percent to 16.75

million units in the first nine
months of this year.
Hondas new models for
China this year include an
updated Civic compact and
all-new Avancier and Acura
CDX SUVs. The Tokyo-based
company also is beginning to
produce hybrid engines locally
for Accord sedans.

Hyundai plans two new factories in China

By REUTERS in Seoul

South Koreas Hyundai

Motor Co said two new factories in China will produce
more environmentally friendly vehicles and models targeting the worlds biggest auto
market, as the automaker
strives to fend off growing
competition from Chinese
rivals.
Hyundai said in a statement
on Tuesday it has completed
its latest Chinese plant, its
fourth, in Cangzhou, Hebei
province, and will open another one in Chongqing next year.
The addition of the two plants

1,400
number of dealerships Hyundai
plans to have in China by 2020

each with annual production capacity of 300,000 will

lift the total number of vehicles it can make in China, its
biggest market, by about half
to 1.81 million a year.
The focus on green cars is
part of a new Hyundai strategy
for China. The automaker,
which ranks third in China
sales together with affiliate
Kia Motors, has seen its mar-

ket share fall to 8.9 percent

last year a seven-year low
from 10.4 percent a year earlier as Chinese rivals lured away
customers.
We will accelerate our
efforts to achieve a market
share of more than 10 percent
again with the opening of
Cangzhou factory, Hyundai
said. It didnt disclose how
much its investing in the new
plants.
The South Korean duo will
have total production capacity
in China of 2.7 million vehicles
once Kias 890,000 capacity is
counted in.
Hyundai said it aims to pro-

duce nine green vehicles in

China by 2020, targeting 10
percent of its sales in the country by that year, to meet fuel
economy regulations and
compete with Chinese automakers, which dominate the
segment.
The automaker said the new
plants will build models of
varying sizes to compete with
low-cost Chinese rivals.
As part of its new strategy,
Hyundai will boost the number of China dealerships to
1,400 by 2020, from 1,000 currently. It also plans to secure
dealers in southwestern
regions and small cities.

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CHINA DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 2016

DEALS

EQUITIES

Hong Kong stocks rally most in six

weeks as developers rebound
By BLOOMBERG

Hong Kong stocks climbed

the most in six weeks, led by
financial companies and casino operators, as investors
speculated US monetary policy will remain accommodative and recent equity losses
were excessive.
The Hang Seng Index
closed 1.6 percent higher, after touching its lowest level
since Sept 1 on Monday. A
gauge of real estate companies rallied the most among
industry groups after slumping 8 percent from last
months high, with China
Overseas Land & Investment
Ltd climbing the most since
June. The Shanghai B-share
index added 2.6 percent after
plunging the most in nine
months in the previous session.
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot
Index extended Mondays
retreat from a seven-month

National Grid Plc employees stand on a suspended platform as they work to replace insulators on an
electricity pylon in Kendal, UK. BLOOMBERG

UK National Grid
eyes Chinese bids
Utilities attract foreign companies which are
looking for steady generation of earnings
By BLOOMBERG

National Grid Plc has selected a consortium of investors

that includes Allianz SE and
the infrastructure arm of Australian investment bank Macquarie Group Ltd as potential
bidders for its UK gas distribution business, people familiar
with the matter said.
Two separate groups of Chinese investors, including one
led by Fosun International Ltd
and another by China Resources Gas Group Ltd, have also
been invited to make final bids
for the assets by the November
deadline, the people said, asking not to be identified as the
information is private. A
group of investors that included Canada Pension Plan
Investment Board and Middle
Eastern wealth funds has
dropped out, the people said.

13 percent
National Grid shares have risen
this year

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd is also

weighing a second-round bid,
though the company is analyzing potential regulatory hurdles first, one of the people
said.
National Grid is selling at
least 51 percent of its UK gas
distribution unit, made up of
four regional networks, which
RBC Capital Markets estimates could be worth as much
as 12.6 billion pounds ($15.4
billion). Selling the stake in
the regional gas business,
which serves almost 11 million
customers, will allow National
Grid to increase its dividend

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Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index

high after data showed New

York manufacturing unexpectedly shrank and US factory output barely grew. A rally
in Hong Kongs benchmark
index ran out of steam in the
past month as the gauge
struggled to climb above
24,000, traders boosted bets
on higher US borrowing costs
and a flood of money from
mainland funds into the citys
shares slowed to a trickle.
The rising dollar had led to
outflow pressures from emerging markets, but last night the

+1.3

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2800

By BLOOMBERG

Cofco Meat Holdings Ltd,

the Chinese mainland pork
producer part-owned by KKR
& Co, is seeking to raise as
much as $333 million in a
Hong Kong initial public
offering.
The State-backed company
is offering 975.6 million shares
at HK$2 (25 US cents) to
HK$2.65 apiece, according to
terms for the deal that were
obtained by Bloomberg on
Monday. Haier Group Corp
agreed to buy $57.4 million of
stock as the biggest cornerstone investor in the offering,
the terms show.

$57.4 million
the amount of stock Haier
Group Corp agreed to buy in
the offering

Investors are returning to

the Chinese food industry after
a series of safety scandals that
shook consumer confidence.
Shares of WH Group Ltd, the
Chinese mainland owner of
the Smithfield bacon brand,
have risen 56 percent in Hong
Kong trading this year, outpacing the 5.2 percent gain in the
citys benchmark Hang Seng
Index.

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Gem-Year Industrial Co
Qinghai Huading Indstr
China Railway Erju Co
Sanlian Commercial Co
ShanghaiXintnglnPckgng
ShanghaiGldnBrdgInfTch
Zhejiang Dongri
Shanghai DZH Ltd
Guangzhou Yuetai Group
GuangzhouBaiynElEqpmnt

10.18
11.41
12.51
18.34
24.06
30.11
20.93
8.61
12.48
42.30

10.05
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10.01
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9.96
8.71
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DuzhePublishing& Media
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Zhongmin Energy Co Ltd
GITI Tire Corp
ShanghaiWondertek Sftw
ChongqingDepartmntStre
Chongqing Wanli New En
Cinda Real Estate Co
Arcplus Group PLC

42.79
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51.25
6.10
25.08
41.05
25.15
33.14
7.42
19.34

9.17
4.62
4.30
4.24
2.68
2.24
1.41
1.34
1.33
1.18

Shenzhen Stock Exchange

FAW CAR Co Ltd
SuzhouNewSeaUnnTlcmTch
Shenzhen MTC Co Ltd
Do-Fluoride Chemicals
Taiji Computer Corp
Eve Energy Co Ltd
Zhejiang Wanma Co Ltd
JiangxiGanfeng Lithium
Shanxi Zhangze Elec Pw
ShenzhenDesayBattryTch

11.87
18.10
10.38
35.36
37.00
35.87
18.18
31.63
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44.88

10.01
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6.90
6.83
6.63
6.44
6.25
6.00
5.93
5.60

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Zhejiang Dahua Tech
ShijiazhngChngshnTxtle
Jinke Properties Group
Sunshine City Group Co
Tianjin Teda Co Ltd
MeishengCultural&Crtve
Centre Testing Intl
Leo Group Co Ltd
XinjiangMchRsrcInsttte

25.29
14.45
12.84
5.17
6.22
6.25
34.68
13.83
17.90
16.85

5.35
5.06
1.15
1.15
0.80
0.79
0.32
0.29
0.28
0.24

Hang Seng
ChinaOverseasLnd&Invst
China Resources Land
Galaxy Entertainment
China Mengniu Dairy Co
CNOOC Ltd

24.80
20.05
30.10
14.78
10.48

4.86
3.35
2.73
2.35
2.34

MTR Corp Ltd

China Unicom Hong Kong
Hang Seng Bank Ltd
Kunlun Energy Co Ltd
CLP Holdings Ltd

42.85
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141.40
5.95
77.50

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330
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+1.2

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GBP

KRW

BRL

RUB

JPY

INR

CAD

1.102

0.148

0.129

1.225

0.001

0.312

0.016

0.010

0.015

0.765

0.135

0.117

1.112

0.001

0.284

0.014

0.009

0.014

0.694

0.869

8.253

0.006

2.101

0.107

0.065

0.101

5.156

9.502

0.007

2.421

0.123

0.075

0.116

5.936

0.001

0.255

0.013

0.008

0.012

0.625

351.425 17.922

10.859

16.937 861.800

0.908
6.739

7.425

HKD

7.759

8.548

1.151

GBP

0.817

0.900

0.121

KRW
Shenzhen B-Share Stock Price Index

CNY

EUR

0.105

1129.370 1244.990 167.600 145.565 1379.460

BRL

3.205

3.526

0.476

0.413

3.924

0.003

RUB

62.850

69.236

9.327

8.100

76.966

0.056

0.051
19.613

0.031

0.048

2.452

0.604

0.943

48.084

JPY

104.010 114.580 15.435

13.405

127.370

0.092

32.458

1.655

INR

66.683

73.439

9.896

8.595

81.666

0.059

20.810

1.061

0.641

CAD

1.307

1.440

0.194

0.168

1.601

0.001

0.408

0.021

0.013

1.560

0.020

Data provided by

79.578
51.020

1130
1020

this year, down from $21.1 billion during the same period
in 2015, according to data
compiled by Bloomberg.
Other cornerstone investors
in the Cofco Meat offering
include China Life Insurance
Co, which agreed to purchase
$20 million of shares, the
terms show. China Life Franklin Asset Management Co will
invest $10 million, according
to the terms. Such stock buyers
agree to keep their holdings for
six months in return for early,
guaranteed allocation.
The company plans to price
the offering on Oct 24 and
begin trading on Nov 1, the
terms show.

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EUR

CNY

KKR, Baring Private Equity

Asia, Hopu Investment Management Co and Boyu Capital
bought stakes in Cofco Meat
in 2014, according to a pre-listing filing with the Hong Kong
Stock Exchange. Hopu sold its
interest in the company last
year to Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings
Pte, the filing shows.
Cofco Meat follows Dali
Foods Group Co, the maker of
Copico brand potato chips,
and seasoning producer
Yihai International Holding
Ltd in pursuing a Hong Kong
listing to fund expansion.
First-time share sales in the
city have raised $19.1 billion

International Stock Markets

Daily
% Chg

Cross Currency Rates

344.24

Shanghai B-Share Stock Price Index

dollar softened, said Steven

Leung, executive director at
UOB Kay Hian (Hong Kong)
Ltd. In the short-term it wont
be that easy to reach 24,000
because the rising US dollar is
causing funds to leave and
southbound flows have been
slower.
The Shanghai Composite
Index rose 1.4 percent to its
highest close since Sept 8, led
by industrial companies.
Investors are awaiting China
data including gross domestic
product, retail sales and indus-

KKR-backed Cofco Meat seeks up

to $333 million in HK offering

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and and
Losers
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Shenzhen Stock Exchange Component Index

13,500

Linus Yip, a Hong Kong-based strategist at First Shanghai Securities Ltd

trial output due on Wednesday.

Chinas
third-quarter
growth will be announced
tomorrow and the market is
quite positive about it, expecting it will maintain 6.7 percent growth, said Linus Yip, a
Hong Kong-based strategist
at First Shanghai Securities
Ltd.
The Hang Seng China
Enterprises Index advanced
1.9 percent, its biggest jump
since August. A gauge of property shares on the Hang Seng
Index rose 2 percent, the biggest increase since Sept 5.
China Overseas Land climbed
4.9 percent, and China
Resources
Land
Ltd
advanced 3.4 percent. Sino
Land Co and New World
Development Co gained more
than 1.5 percent.
Wynn Macao Ltd surged 4
percent, and MGM China
Holdings Ltd added 3.4 percent. Galaxy Entertainment
Group Ltd rose 2.7 percent.

FLOATS

and meet annual asset growth

targets of 5 to 7 percent, the
company has said.
Spokesmen for National
Grid, Macquarie, Allianz,
CPPIB and Fosun declined to
comment. Representatives for
China Resources Gas and
Cheung Kong Infrastructure
didnt immediately respond to
requests for comment.
National Grid shares fell 0.8
percent to 1,060 pence at 11:30
am in London trading. They
have risen 13 percent this year.
British utility assets historically attract foreign companies that favor steady income
generation, such as pension
funds and other asset managers. Canadas Brookfield Asset
Management Inc bought PNE
Wind AGs UK project pipeline
last year for as much as 103
million pounds. A consortium
backed by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing in 2012 agreed
to buy gas distributor Wales &
West Utilities Ltd for 645 million pounds.

Daily Stock Market Performance

Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index
3800

Chinas third-quarter growth

will be announced tomorrow
and the market is quite positive about
it, expecting it will maintain 6.7 percent
growth.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

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WATER TOWN FESTIVAL

Artists from around the world show off their skills at the outdoor carnival during the Fourth Wuzhen Theater Festival, which runs through Saturday at the ancient water town of Wuzhen in Zhejiang province.

n the day the Fourth Wuzhen Theater Festival

opened, on Oct 13, Dario Fo died.
News of the Italian playwrights death
shocked Meng Jinghui, who is artistic director
of this years festival. He Had Two Pistols with White and
Black Eyes, a piece written by Fo in 1960, was going to
play at the open-air Water Theater the next day, directed
by none other than Meng himself.
Meng had always wanted to invite Fo to be honorary
chairman of the Wuzhen festival. But old age prevented
the latter from making the trip. (He died at the age of 90.)
We will use the current production to remember him,
says Meng.
Meng recalled his visit to the Nobel laureate in the late
1990s and how he was given many tapes and other materials.
Shortly before that, Meng directed Fos play Accidental
Death of an Anarchist in Beijing. According to local
reports on the performance, Mengs production retained
the comic style and subversive undercurrent of the original work.
The reports also said that the parallels between what
was on stage and what was happening in real life did not
escape the sharp eyes of the observant.
Incidentally, Stan Lai, co-founder and executive chairman of the Wuzhen festival, also has a long history with
Fo.
His Performance Workshop has presented many Chinese-language productions of Fos works, including the
localized and very popular Cant Pay? Wont Pay!
Fo was unique, says Lai. His plays may look like traditional farce, but they incorporate social, political and cultural criticism, touching upon the most in-depth issues of
mankind. He made comedy deep.
Social relevance is on full display at the Water Theater,
where Chinese audiences seem to fully grasp every joke
and gag partly because the director brings home the frequent parallels between Fos world and the world we live
in.
Yet, to be socially conscious does not guarantee a good
piece of art.
During the forum titled Dialogue Between East and
West, Tradition and Modernity, which served as a summit
for the International Association of Theater Critics, a new
addition to the festival, many participants brushed aside a
Japanese production of The Cherry Orchard as a blender
and a mixer where the director simply dumped her ideas
on environmental protection with little regard to the niceties of the art form.
Peng Tao, a theater critic and director of the dramatic literature department at the Central Academy of Drama,
says many theater directors want to place an emphasis on
the social aspect of a theater piece, but end up howling and
shouting slogans instead.
This dichotomy is the focus of Dr Godot or Six People
Searching for the 18th Camel, a play written by Dietrich
Schwanitz, whose Chinese version was premiered at the
festival.
It was a dramatized debate about the significance of theater as taking place in a madhouse. The participants were
Bertolt Brecht and George Bernard Shaw advocating
social importance, Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett

SOCIALLY
RELEVANT
THEMES
GET A STAGE
The Wuzhen Festival took the theater world by storm when it was launched in
2013 with its passion and professionalism. Its charting a new course under
Meng Jinghui, its artistic director. Raymond Zhou reports.

He Jiong (left) stars in Writing in Water, a stage production directed by Stan Lai, during the Wuzhen festival.

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defending individualism, and Luigi Pirandello, whose

shift in political stance and whose artistic explorations
have influenced the others. Or the characters could be
madmen deluding themselves to be 20th-century theater
masters. The production added another layer by presenting it as a pre-rehearsal reading, thus lightening the jargon-filled stuffiness with comedic schtick.
Lin Zhaohua, the 80-year-old director of this production, is a stalwart of Chinese theater. Agreeing to be honorary chairman of the festival this year, he finally came to
Wuzhen after so many friends had been saying great
things about it, and he says that it is the best theater festival in China. Yes, better than the one in my own name, he
adds bluntly. Mine is not up to it in budget, scope, breadth
or influence.
Lins festival, now in its sixth year, is not officially called
a festival. It usually programs a dozen plays, some from
Germany and Eastern European countries, and is presented in Beijing and Tianjin in conjunction with existing programs.
The Wuzhen festival, however, took the theater world by
storm when it was launched in 2013, with its passion and
professionalism. One can say it achieved overnight success. Its four parts are all expertly curated and programmed. The invited shows have gradually expanded to
22 this year; the youth competition, now with 18 half-hour
plays, is producing bona fide quality works; the forums, 17
in all, feature discussions of substance; and street performances for the carnival section, totally 1,900 shows,
inject a big dose of festival atmosphere to the small town.
Selling tickets is no longer a concern for the organizers.
Big D was sold out in a record seven minutes and there is
even online scalping for free tickets to the finals of the
competition.
As directed by Chen Minghao, Big D is an adaptation of
Durrenmatts Romulus the Great. However, it is not the
kind of traditional staging one would find in mainstream
theaters. The venue is a lobby with a grand staircase. The
boy emperor is played by Zhang Luyi, who has recently
been thrust into the spotlight with his breakout role in a
television series. The experience for Big D, as he rightly
put it, is more of a party, a decadent one with some
thought-provoking ideas thrown in, than a normal play.
This could be the signature of Meng, known for his bold
experiments, who has taken the festival away from the
more mainstream Lai programs.
In the first two years, when the event was directed by
Lai, the festival included more narrative-driven fare familiar to most people.
Mengs change in direction has set off sparks when it
comes to feedback, often with widely diverging opinions
on a given piece.
But as Octavian Saiu, a theater expert participating in
the critics summit put it when two critics dont agree on
a piece, the winner is the piece.
This festivals theme may be Gaze Beyond, a word play
on the name of honorary chairman Lin, but gazing from a
bridge or by the riverside invariably leads to a plunge into
the river that is the charm of theater.
The Wuzhen festival concludes on Saturday.
Contact the writer at [email protected]

CHINA ART FESTIVAL

Peoples lives form focus of works at Shaanxi fiesta

By CHEN NAN in Xian
[email protected]

Xian, once the countrys capital, and the starting

point of the ancient Silk Road, is holding the countrys
largest celebration of art the China Art Festival.
Through Oct 31, a variety of performances selected
from over 30 regions across China, including acrobatics,
dramas, Peking Opera shows, and dances, exhibitions of
paintings, sculptures and photos, art competitions and
conventions, are being held in Xian, in Northwest Chinas
Shaanxi province.
Over 50 works will compete for the Wenhua Awards,
which the Ministry of Culture established in 1991 to honor outstanding stage performances.
Also, 84 works have entered the final round of the
competition to win the Qunxing Award, which the Ministry of Culture grants as the top prize for amateur artistic works. These two awards will be announced at the
end of the 11th China Art Festival.
Founded in 1987, the event has been held every three
years across China, including in Beijing and in the provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan and Shandong.
In October 2014, President Xi Jinping delivered a
speech in Beijing, telling artists that they should not
pursue commercial success at the expense of producing
works with artistic and moral values.
Xi also urged artists to create more works that are
both artistically outstanding and morally inspiring, in

Left: Homeland, a contemporary original piece of qinqiang, a popular folk Chinese opera of Northwest China, opened the
art festival in Yanan. Right: Dancers from the National Ballet of China present Soul of Crane, an original ballet piece at
the ongoing China Art Festival. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

order to serve the people and socialism and to present

socialist core values.
Fine art works should be like sunshine from a blue
sky and breeze in spring that will inspire minds, warm
hearts, cultivate taste and clean up undesirable work
styles, Xi said at a symposium that gathered some of the

countrys most renowned authors, actors, script writers

and dancers.
His advice has been taken to heart, as Minister of Culture Luo Shugang remarked at the art festivals opening
ceremony, which was held in Yanan, also in Shaanxi
province.

In his comments, the minister said: This years

China Art Festival is the first large-scale national
art event after President Xis speech on arts. His
remarks pointed out problems that exist in some
art works. And during the past two years, many
Chinese artists have based their works on peoples
lives and created fine art in line with socialist core
values.
Meanwhile, Homeland, a contemporary original
piece of qinqiang, a popular folk Chinese opera of
Northwest China, opened the art festival in Yanan,
which was once the center of the Communist revolution.
Tickets for more than 100 different performances have been sold at discounted prices ranging
from 20 yuan ($3) to 100 yuan to attract larger
audiences.
Supporting the new thrust of the festival, Liu Yunzhi,
the famed Chinese violinist, who is the vice-president of
China National Opera House, says: I have witnessed
the development and changes in Chinas art scene and
how success and ambition fulfillment need the support
of the country.
Liu, who performed at the first China Art Festival in
1987 as the principal violinist of China National Symphony Orchestra, says: Artists should not be the
slaves of the market. Art can seem quite distant without real life experience and connections with the
audience.

Travel | LIFE 19

CHINA DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 2016

SMALL COUNTRY, BIG ALLURE

GO ECO

Caucasian

destination

A red-hot
red spot
adds a green
splash
By ERIK NILSSON
and YANG FEIYUE

Jvari Church was built in the 6th century to celebrate the countrys conversion to Christianity more than 100 years earlier.

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Georgia charms with amazing architecture, multiculturalism and its claim as the land that invented
wine. Mike Peters explores its allures.

ou can tell if a country is a

prize by checking how
many times it has been
invaded.
By that measure, the little Caucasus land of Georgia is a treasure
indeed.
Long an important Eurasian
crossroads, Arabs overran the
place in 645, making the captured
capital, Tbilisi, an emirate for four
centuries. Later came the Mongols,
Huns, Persians, Ottomans and Russians in turn.
Visitors today will encounter all
of those influences and more, coming together in a Caucasian people
with a distinctly European outlook.
An ancient wine culture is flourishing, and beautiful Orthodox
churches have become social centers for a newly energized faithful.
After relative isolation in the
Soviet era, the old Silk Road hub is
back to its old ways, making a trade
pact with the European Union and
a brand-new free-trade agreement
with China.
The countrys scenic charm is
apparent as soon as you land in
Tbilisi, which straddles the
Mtkvari River and commands good
views of the surrounding mountains.
The Old Town gives smartphones and selfie sticks a workout
as tourists flow through narrow
lanes amid colorful two-story houses fronted with charming balconies. There are lots of small wine
bars and an occasional tree-lined
square.
The village feeling is enhanced
by street stalls jammed with colorful rugs and fabrics, fresh pomegranates and figs, vegetables,
honey, fragrant cheeses and nuts
fresh from the surrounding countryside.

A spiritual heart
Our visit starts with some of the
citys most intriguing architecture.
We cross an elegant glass bridge
created during the buoyant decade
of the 2000s and head for Mtskheta, Georgias ancient capital.
Its an hours drive from the city
center and a popular day trip that
begins with a visit to the Jvari
church and monastery, visible on
its hillside perch long before we
actually arrive.
King Mirian erected a wooden
cross here soon after his conversion to Christianity in the fourth
century, and the church was built
around it about 100 years later.
The symmetrical domed building has a cross-shaped plan with an
imposing, bare-stone interior. Outside, hawkers sell sheepskin hats,
silver hand mirrors and pendants
decorated with jadeite and turquoise, as well as souvenirs from
colorful refrigerator magnets to
whistles.
Our next stop is Svetitskhoveli
Cathedral.
An early triumph of the golden
age of Georgian church architecture, this immense 11th-century
stone building is laid out like a
stretched-out cross. The color has
faded in the churchs many frescoes, but the dramas that inspired
them remain vivid, from the reli-

gious conversion of the ancient

land, then known as Kartli, to the
crucifixion of Christ.
Nodar Khutsishvili, our cheerful
guide, recounts one legend: A local
Jewish man was in Jerusalem at
the time of the crucifixion and
returned with Christs robe.
His sister Sidonia took it from
him and immediately died in a fit of
ecstasy. The robe was said to be
buried with her, but as years and
invasions passed, folks forgot
exactly where.
However, after an all-night
prayer vigil by the countrys patron
saint, Nino, a felled tree that locals
had been unable to move miraculously transported itself and stood
erect on the burial site.
While local lore abounds with
such exploits of Nino, theres no
doubt that she was a real historical
figure and responsible for the
Christian conversion of the region.
The seriously ill Queen Nana was
believed to have been saved by
Ninos prayers, and miracles that
followed prompted King Mirian to
arrange a mass baptism in the
Aragvi River and make Christianity
the official religion.
Faith went underground in the
20th century, but today about half
of the country regularly attends
church services and the Orthodox
Church is a vibrant social force.

Eat, drink and be merry

Hospitality is Georgias middle
name. Much like in China, people
are as quick to ask Have you eaten? as they are to say hello.
Whether you are eating at a restaurant or a private home, a dinner
may end with the appearance of a
guitar and a round of songs. You
wont know the words no one
asked us to sing Take Me Home,
Country Roads so just sit back
and enjoy.
The country also lays claim to be
the birthplace of wine: Ancient
stone vessels with vinegary grape
residues have been dated back to
6000 BC, and people who have
been making and drinking wine for
8,000 years clearly know how to
have fun.
Wine bars proliferate in the capital as well as in the Black Sea resort
of Batumi and the eastern region of
Kakheti, the countrys wine-producing heartland.
Its hard to escape being offered a
glass almost everywhere you go,
which can keep tourists pretty mellow on an afternoon or evening
stroll.
Say, hypothetically, that you
emerge from one of Tbilisis hopping nightspots at 5 am a bit
bleary-eyed. Youll want to follow
the locals to a sure-fire restoration:
the sulfurous warm waters of a
bathhouse.
Tbilisi is famous for its hot
springs the citys name comes
from the Georgian word tbili
(warm) and there are several
bathhouse options in the capitals
Old Town area.
Most are not modern or luxurious. Theyre comfortable and safe,
and usually offer private rooms
with their own pools if you arent
keen to get naked with strangers.

The Pheasants Tears winery in the Kakheti region is famous for its traditionally produced wines.

Ifyougo
Eat
Cafe Littera is the delicious creation of Tekuna Gachechiladze,
the owner chef who also has a TV
show and a small restaurant group
called Culinarium. Cafe Littera
serves dishes in the charming garden behind the Georgian Writers
Union building; it moves inside in
winter. 13 Machabeli St, Tbilisi.
Drink
Vino Underground celebrates
natural wine made in Georgias
traditional way, in huge ceramic
urns (qveri) set underground.
Georgia has 525 indigenous
grapes, and while this wine bar
doesnt have them all, it does
have a mind-blowing selection:
ask for suggestions. www.vinounderground.ge; 15 Tabidze in Old
Town Tbilisi; the Georgia Tea
museum is next door.
Lounge Bar Funicular requires
a short ride up a mountain for
one of the best views in town.
The oval bar is cool, as is Koka
Ignatovs 1960s fresco Tribute to
Piromansi. Funicular complex,
Mtatsminda.
Winery Khareba is like a wine
theme park: You can get a cooking and bread-baking lesson,
taste wines, explore tunnels
carved out of rock for storing
wines, and then go up to a viewing deck with a restaurant.
www.winery-khareba.com; in
Kvareli, about 5 km from the
town center.
Do
Wine bars and wineries offer a
variety of tasting experiences; ask
a hotel concierge or tourist information office for options. Hiking
is a national sport, with mountains and river valleys offering
routes from casual touring to
strenuous climbs. Guides can
arrange kayaking and boat trips.

The East is Red. And green.

Thats gold for Dandong.
The city in Liaoning province has
long been known as a Red tourism
destination, largely for its location
across the Yalu River that traces its
border with the Peoples Republic of
Korea.
Thats not to mention other revolutionary history.
But its now dabbing a green tinge
onto its portrait to imbue a new hue
to lure visitors to its primeval forests
and pure waterways.
Locals claim chain smokers dont
cough in the clean air that serves
natural oxygen bars in its woodlands.
Mineral-water springs are likened
to fountains of youth.
Dandong is said to host the most
centenarians among northern Chinese cities.
But the biggest natural draw is the
millions of migrating birds belonging to 250 species that arrive at its
intertidal mudflats during autumn,
especially around this month, and
spring.
They dont eat, drink or rest for a
week before or after binging along
the coastline.
Masses of lanky shorebirds tiptoe
over tidal rocks that stab above
mucky sand. They punctuate their
gangling gaits with flicks of elongated beaks, spastically thrusting at any
morsel they can snap up.
Anything. Theyre famished.
And theres plenty squirming in
the sandy goop for them to fill up for
a week before or to go of nonstop flying without any bodily intake or rest
but extraordinary exertion.
They arrive ravenous. They leave
bloated.
Its essentially a weeklong all-youcan-eat seaside seafood buffet on a
direly replenishing leg of a super-epic cross-continental sky marathon.
Bar-tailed godwits stop over on
sojourns from New Zealand to Alaskan breeding grounds. Red knots
flutter in on journeys from Kiwi
country to Siberia.
The spectacle in turn brings seasonal flocks of birdwatchers, naturalists and photographers to the
Yellow Seas shoreline. About 37,000
visitors took in the marvel in 2014.
Two-story log-cabin viewing towers stand watch along boardwalks.
Group packages booked through
Chinas largest online travel agency,
Ctrip, tripled this year for the weeklong National Day Holiday, starting
Oct 1, says the companys publicity
director, Peng Liang.
Photography tours lasting about
four days ranked among the most
popular.
June to October is the best time to
visit, Peng says.
Peng recommends local aquatic
fare and ethnic Korean barbecues.
Dandongs chilly oceanfront is
said to make seafood particularly
delightful. And the Yalu River that
ejects into the ocean hosts about 90
fish species, the local government
says.
The area also sires hundreds of
strawberry varieties, largely employing natural farming methods.
Its a truly sweet point of pride that
stains fingers crimson.
Again, its worth pointing out
Dandong is, in most peoples minds
still a red, rather than green, destination. And thats likely to stick for
some time.
But, in an almost alchemic sense,
visitors may come for the red and
stay for the green, conjuring gold in
Dandong.
Contact the writers through
[email protected]

The 11th-century Alaverdi Monastery continues to be a place of quiet

reflection.

We checked out what is reputed

to be the fanciest: Royal Bath, with
mosaic-domed private rooms and
helpful attendants bearing tea and
beer.
Theres also a bonus across the

street:ThepopularbistroCulinarium
offers a great brunch and a bar with a
cheeky menu of hangover cures.
Contact the writer at
[email protected]

Autumn scene in Dandong in Liaoning

province. DONG RENBIN / FOR CHINA DAILY

20 LIFE | Books

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 CHINA DAILY

NEW EDITIONS

Zhu Liangzhi,
professor at Peking
University.

HISTORY
IS PEOPLE

Ye Lang, professor
at Peking University.
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CHINA DAILY

An updated book and several translations take readers beyond an academic

understanding of Chinese culture by highlighting personal stories, the authors tell Mei Jia.

We may know
the cultural
anecdotes, but
were actually
not certain of
what they
signify
precisely.
Zhang Siying, translator

uthors Ye Lang and

Zhu Liangzhi had a
daunting task: Boil
down Chinese civilization that has spanned thousands
of years into a book of about 300
pages.
Both influential professors of
philosophy and of aesthetics
and arts from Peking University,
the two sifted through many
options when they proposed a
book on Chinese culture as a gift
for the world when Beijing was
hosting the 2008 Olympic
Games.
Insights Into Chinese Culture
was so well received that after 20
reprints of the first edition, the
Foreign Language Teaching and
Research Press released the
books updated second edition
late last month, as well as versions in eight foreign languages,
including English, French, German, Russian and Arabic.
The professors wanted to offer
something refreshing and
authoritative, and yet easy to follow with the appeal of a story
book.
While many titles on Chinese
culture seem academic, such as
condensed histories, their book
approached the material by
focusing on Chinese people:
their personalities, core values
and attitudes toward life.
The authors believe that Chinese people respect nature,

expect a prosperous life, pray for

peace, and love life, which form
deep layers within Chinese culture.
The classical teachings and
beliefs are not dead and cold for
Chinese theyre running in
Chinese veins and are helping
them innovate, make progress
and share their wisdom with the
world, Ye says.
He and Zhu were deeply
moved by the typical Chinese
optimism that Sichuan people
showed facing the disaster and
miseries of the devastating
Wenchuan earthquake in
2008.
So they discarded the notion
of talking about every aspect
in their book, and picked four
aspects: wisdom and beliefs, creativity and exchanges, art and
aesthetics and folk customs.
The book contains a chapter
titled Eternal Smile of Buddha.
It mentions sculptures at the
Maijishan Grottoes, in Gansu
province, created in the first half
of the 6th century.
The main statue has not only
a smile on his face but a smile
seeming to spread all over his
body, the authors write.
In fact the smiling Buddha
was created during one of the
most traumatic periods in Chinese history, with endless wars
and loss of life, says Zhu.
He adds the smile gave

New editions of Insights Into

Chinese Culture which were
recently published.

ancient people faith in life and

shows typical Chinese wisdom:
Since one cant choose to avoid
disasters, one can choose how to
face them.
Along the same lines, Ye says
when they tell about the 12thcentury scroll painting Qingming Shanghe Tu (Along the
River During the Qingming Festival), they didnt put it in the arts
section, but under folk culture.
We detail scenes from the
lives of the Song Dynasty people
that the scroll presents, including a mother holding a child at a
clinic and trying to feed her baby
herbal medicine, says Ye.
We believe the carefree and
happy atmosphere of everyday
life is what keeps attracting the
scrolls viewers.
Meng Peiyuan, a scholar from
the Philosophy Institute of the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says the book is a rare link
between Chinese spiritual traditions and contemporary life.
The well-illustrated book is
now a textbook in universities at
home and abroad.
Ye and Zhu attempt to include
the latest academic findings as
well as traditional interpretations.
Books for general readers
should also have academic significance, says Ye.
Fresh contemporary interpretations of old wisdom are

what made the history alive and

helpful.
The authors take the Great
Wall as a symbol of Chinese aspiration for peace.
Building walls was extremely
hard labor, they say in the book,
but the walls prevented bloody
wars.
Thus the Great Wall was built
with the basic goal of safeguarding peace. It represented Chinese peoples longing for a
peaceful life, they write.
Zhang Siying, who translated
the edition into English, says
some well-explained ideas in the
book are valuable to Chinese
readers: We may know the cultural anecdotes, but were actually not certain of what they
signify precisely.
I was inspired by the
authors reinterpretation of the
Taoism belief of shang shan ruo
shui.
Created by ancient philosopher Laozi, the anecdote compares the best people to water,
nourishing the earth without
being driven by benefits.
You cant try to take up all the
advantages. If you think about
what benefits you can offer to
others, they will pay you back in
some way, and vice versa, says
Zhang.

Fresh
contemporary
interpretations
of old wisdom
are what made
the history
alive and
helpful.
Ye Lang,
co-author of Insights Into
Chinese Culture

Contact the writer at

[email protected]

REVIEW

PUBLISHING

REVIEW

A look at
how pop
music
became
personal

Get ready for goggles at Frankfurt Book Fair

Rosenfelt
returns with
a thriller

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in New York

Ever wonder what makes

pop music so irresistible?
David Hajdu, a music critic
and professor at Columbias
School of Journalism, has
spent a long time thinking
about the question.
In Love for Sale: Pop Music
in America, he explores the
combination of luck, talent
and hard work that goes into
making a hit: this product of
mass culture that reaches millions of people ... at one time
and works for each person in a
personal way.
He begins his story in the
19th century with the cultural
changes wrought by the widespread publication of sheet
music and continues on into
the 20th and 21st centuries
with the rise of new musicmaking technologies: Tin Pan
Alley, recordings, MTV and
digitization.
Along the way he pauses to
explore the significance of the
Cotton Club, Billboard charts
and transistor radio, and analyzes the complex roots of rock
n roll and a half-dozen other
musical genres.
For the most part, its an
exhilarating read though
not surprisingly for such a selfdescribed music nerd, Hajdu
is prone to digress and never
misses the chance to untangle
the convoluted genealogy of a
song.
A little more than halfway
through, he makes a startling
confession: He has a soft

By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Frankfurt

David Hajdu writes personal

history of pop music.

spot for monaural sound.

The way I feel about it cannot
be wholly explained as the fetishistic glamorization of
archaic technology that typically afflicts geeks like me, he
notes wryly.
Rather, its because he cant
process stereo sound well, the
result of hearing loss he suffered in his youth from falling
asleep night after night with
one ear glued to his beloved
transistor radio.
Similar
reminiscences
throughout the text serve to
establish his musical bona
fides and make this more lively and personal than a standard historical survey. Hes
both critic and fan.
He ends with a touching
coda on the difference
between his musical taste as a
youthful boomer and that of
his teenage son, whose playlists include such contemporary artists as Jeremih, Natalie
La Rose and Kid Ink.
Hajdu admits to liking quite
a few of the songs but hiding
his enthusiasm because he
doesnt want to destroy for his
son the signature experience
of all great pop music the
way he felt, for instance, listening to the Rolling Stones Ruby
Tuesday circa 1967.
Like a million kids around
the world, he says, I thought
of the song as mine and mine
alone.

There will still be more

books than you could ever
read, but visitors to this
weeks Frankfurt Book Fair
will also be invited to don
virtual-reality goggles, visit
an interactive classroom and
discover 3-D printed art as
publishers plug into new
technology.
Organizers of the worlds
largest publishing event say
the focus on art and technology is a logical next step as
the creative industries
become ever more connected.
The fair, which opens on
Wednesday and is expected
to draw some 275,000 visitors, has always been about
content regardless of its
format, the events vicepresident Holger Volland
says.
Among the main draws at
the five-day gathering will be
virtual-reality experiences,
with several exhibitors
unveiling projects that
plunge visitors into a world
that until then only existed
on the page.
Taiwan artist Jimmy Liaos
picture book, All of My
World Is You, will come to
life once visitors slip on a VR
headset that will allow them
to interact with the main
character, a mysterious
young girl, and complete
challenges to make her
smile.
In the spotlight as guest of
honor is the literary culture
and language of Flanders
and the Netherlands, who
have created three separate
VR experiences, including
one allowing users to alternate between the perspectives of a father and his 9year-old daughter who are

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in New York

Frankfurt Book Fair will be opened on Wednesday, offering more books and more new technology products for visitors. AFP

7,000
exhibitors
from more than 100 countries
will be presented at Frankfurt
Book Fair this year.

mourning the loss of a family

member.
Literature exists not just
on the page, says Suzanne
Meeuwissen of the Dutch
Foundation for Literature, a
co-initiator of the projects,
pointing to recent Nobel Literature Prize winner Bob
Dylan as an example.
Virtual reality is a brandnew canvas, she says, and
writers and artists are hungry to explore this unfamiliar territory.
Educational publishers
are also tapping into new
technology, from text books
that can be made interactive
with the help of an app to

3-D printouts of organs to

use in biology lessons.
In the Classroom of the
Future, visitors can watch
students and teachers try
out the latest innovations.
It remains to be seen, of
course, to what extent all
these ideas can generate revenues for publishers and creators, a question that will be
a hot topic in Frankfurt.
Such is the focus on creative content across different
media that there will even be
a fair within a fair this
year, called Arts+, where artists, architects and museums will talk about the
challenges and opportunities of working with digital
technology and show off
some results.
Volland describes Arts+ as
a place to discuss new business models and synergies
between art and technology.
One of the highlights will
be a project called The next
Rembrandt, in which a

Dutch team used artificial

intelligence and a 3-D printer to create a new work by
the master painter based on
a computer algorithm that
worked out the average features of a typical Rembrandt
subject.
But at its heart, the Frankfurt fair is for book lovers
and with more than 7,000
exhibitors from more than
100 countries, visitors will
get the chance to discover
thousands of new titles in all
imaginable genres.
One of the biggest names
to attend will be British contemporary artist David
Hockney, who will unveil an
oversized, 500-page book
illustrating his lifes work,
from the famous sun-soaked
swimming pool paintings of
the 1960s to his recent series
of iPad drawings.
The signed, limited edition tome is so large that it
will come with its own stand
and a price tag of $2,200.

David Rosenfelt is known

for his legal thrillers filled with
wry humor. His latest, The
Twelve Dogs of Christmas, is
heartwarming and ingeniously plotted.
Andy Carpenter is a
criminal
defense attorney. He rarely
takes cases,
having inherited a fortune
from
his David
father. But Rosenfelts
C a r p e n t e r latest novel
loves dogs, so
hes eager to help a woman
whos known as Pups
because she takes care of abandoned puppies. Pups problem? A newcomer to her
neighborhood has complained
to the local zoning board that
she has more dogs than are
allowed per household.
Carpenter
shows
the
absurdity of the regulation
and gets her a waiver to keep
the puppies. Within a few
hours, the newcomer is found
murdered and Pups is arrested. She was seen running from
his house, and the gun that
killed him is found in her basement.
Carpenter believes Pups
was framed, and he vows to
find out how and why. But he
has to hurry because Pups has
terminal cancer.
The familiar characters that
liven up the series are present
in The Twelve Dogs of Christmas. Carpenters endearing
first-person narrative moves
the story along with just the
right mixture of humor and
suspense.

Fun | LIFE 21

CHINA DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 2016

horoscope

crossword

Capricorn (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)

BETTER CHINESE

A last-minute change will cause you to overreact or lead you into battle
with someone who won't adjust to your way of thinking. Opt not to
argue. Do your own thing.

 
   


Aquarius (JAN. 20-FEB. 19)

Check out an investment that interests you. Work on honing or picking
up skills that will help you achieve your financial goals. Love is highlighted.

Compliments and appreciation

Pisces (FEB. 20-MARCH 20)

 
 
 

You need to keep your distance and think matters through. Someone
will make demands or dump responsibilities that don't belong to you
into your lap if you aren't careful.

You are remarkable!

Live a little. Get together with friends or make romantic plans with a
loved one. A promise will be made if you discuss your feelings, objectives and personal desires.

Taurus (APRIL 20-MAY 20)

Get involved in events that are geared toward education, communications or strategic business solutions. You will gain valuable knowledge
that will help you get ahead in a competitive situation.

Cancer (JUNE 21-JULY 22)

Put a little thought into how you do your job. Look for alternative methods that will make your work better and help you achieve your goals.

Leo (JULY 23-AUG. 22)

Your stamina and insight will make you a great collaborator and ally for
someone who could help you as well. Love and romance are highlighted
and will improve your personal life.

Across
1 Soaks so as to
extract flavor
7 Late-night host
before Carson
11 Fare for the
toothless
14 Clearly Different eye care
chain
15 Aunt of Prince
William
16 Senat accord
17 Like some topquality kitchen
oil
19 Org originally
known as the
National Congress of Mothers
20 Sci-fi visitors
21 Cross-dressing
Streisand character
22 Arsenal stock
24 Refusing to listen
26 Delta locale

Yesterdays solution

Dilbert

F-minus

Down
1 Brand of skimpy
swimwear
2 One who might
type OMG or
CYA
3 Bothers no end
4 Veer off course
5 Umps call
after
Time!
6 Break off completely
7 Fifth installment
of a miniseries
8 Con mans
scheme
9 DiFranco who
created Righteous Babe
Records
10 Label again, as a
file
11 Top 40 fare
12 Pitch-correcting
audio
processor

comics

13 With 44-Down,
Butterfly Golden
Globe winner
18 Common pasta
suffix
23 Deposits of glacial debris
25 Temporarily
27 Many KOA patrons
28 The buck stops
here prez
30 Tennis ball fuzz
33 Stave off
34 Tax planners
recommendation, for short
35 The first A of
59-Across
36 Plumbing joint
38 Scenes in shoeboxes, say
39 Vehicles for the
Unsers
40 Big wheel
41 Went underground
44 See 13-Down
46 Under threat
47 Top-shelf
48 Guides for
DIYers
50 Toddlers wheels
51 When will ___
learn?
52 Lassies turndown
53 The Wire actor
___ Elba
57 James who sang
At Last
59 Steely Dan
album of 1977
61 Where many
people solve
crosswords, for
short
62 Successfully
woo

Fantastic!

  



  
 
 
Youve done an excellent job!

 
 
  
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You are really a Chinese expert!

Virgo (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)

Don't give in to unreasonable demands. Take care of your responsibilities before tackling someone else's. Networking and participating in
work-related events will be helpful and inspirational.

Libra (SEPT. 23-OCT. 23)

Check out an opportunity that can lead to extra income, but don't sign
up for something that doesn't have anything in it for you. Focusing on
equality, sharing and getting your facts straight will be necessary.

 
 $% &
'    (  ( 
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You are the best student in our class.

"' ) 
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, 
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Scorpio (OCT. 24-NOV. 22)

He runs very fast. No one runs faster.

Keep an open mind, but don't be too willing to share what you discover
or think. Listen attentively and act accordingly. Secure your home and
personal effects.

$%
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Sagittarius (NOV. 23-DEC. 21)

You need to gather information and find out what is fact and what is fiction. Staying on top of the truth will be your best way to avoid confusion
and interference. Romance is highlighted.

bridge
My favorite author, P.G.
Wodehouse, wrote, The
Right Hon. was a tubby little
chap who looked as if he had
been poured into his clothes
and had forgotten to say
When!
No doubt you have occasionally seen your partners
attention wander during a
deal and forget a key piece of
information, forcing him to
guess how to proceed but
never you! At other times,
though, you or your partner
will have to guess.
In todays deal, how
should South play in six spades after West leads the club
queen? Taking the diamond
suit in isolation, if you have
to play it with no idea who
holds the queen, what would
you do?
When North responded
with a three-heart transfer
bid, South made a superaccept by jumping to four spades. This showed four- or
five-card support, a good
hand for spades and a doubleton somewhere. North
took a shot at slam.
At first glance, because of
the annoying mirror distribution, it seems that declarer must find the diamond
queen to get home. However,

I appreciate the picture he paints.


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I couldnt imagine there is such a beautiful scene in the
world!
From Basic Chinese Sentences, Beijing Language and Culture University Press.

BETTER ENGLISH

the contract is a certainty if

played correctly.
South should win with
dummys club ace, draw
trumps, and cash his heart
winners. Then he leads his
last club to endplay an opponent. Whoever takes that
trick must either lead a diamond, finding the queen, or
concede a ruff-and-sluff.
If South must play diamonds himself, he should
start with his jack. If West
covers or noticeably pauses,
he gives the game away. Or, if
he plays low smoothly,
declarer wins with dummys
king and finesses through
East on the way back.

kakuro

The idea of sponsoring a wedding may have your head

spinning, but it's growing in popularity.

Some enterprising couples have invited more than close

friends and relatives to their weddings they've also welcomed corporate sponsors.

Sponsored weddings have really started to gain popularity

in recent years, where vendors provide free or discounted
services in exchange for ads in the couples wedding
invitations, programs, placecards, etc.

As wedding costs climb higher and higher, things like

sponsored weddings and website donations are bound to
become more commonplace.

Many people feel that sponsored weddings are tacky and

detract from the experience of the wedding. Others think
that its just another practical and creative way to help pay
for the costly event.

One bride in Akron, Ohio, told us she bartered her gown

and received the dress she had desired since she was a
little girl.

Peanuts

Drabble

  

Well done!

Gemini (MAY 21-JUNE 20)

Engaging in social events, dealing with children and expressing your
feelings to a loved one are all favored. Let your voice be heard if you
want to be granted favors and support.

56 Charles who
wrote Peg Woffington
58 Unedited, as
footage
59 Online Q&A session
60 Dickens classic
and, phonetically, two garnishes for a 49Across?
63 Place for pickles
64 Fall clearance
item?
65 Quite correct
66 Nativity scene
beast
67 Declare
68 Some decaf
orders

Aries (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)

29 Loot playwright
Joe
31 Word abbreviated on fight cards
32 Branch out
37 Slangy rebuttal
to 65-Across
38 Exchange program for preschoolers?
41 Help for the puzzled
42 Adopts, as a
stray
43 Treat, as table
salt
45 Schnapps flavoring
49 Cocktail made
by combining
the ends of 17-,
26- and
38-Across
54 Battle of Normandy town
55 Passed
with
ease

language tips

A Kakuro consists of a playing area

of filled and empty cells similar to a
crossword puzzle. Some black cells
contain a diagonal slash from top
left to bottom right with numbers in
them, called the clues. A number
in the top right corner relates to an
across clue and one in the bottom
left a down clue. The object of a
Kakuro is to insert digits from one
to nine into the white cells to total
the clue associated with it. However,
no digit can be duplicated in an entry.

She and other brides and grooms may tell you this was
their way of affording the wedding of their dreams, but etiquette experts argue a blessed event is being turned into
a business deal.

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Yesterdays solution

ChinaDaily

22 Guizhou special

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 CHINA DAILY

Protecting villages a tourism trend

What they say

Officials seek ways to maintain the culture and landscape of rural communities while also bringing them into the modern age
By YANG JUN
[email protected]

The balance between the

conservation and development of traditional villages
is key to boosting sustainable
tourism in China, experts said
at a summit held last week.
Though developing tourism is a good way to bring
benets to traditional villages,
we should preserve cultural
elements at the same time,
said Lawrence Clive Bloom,
director of the Davos World
Economic Forum and the
previous chairman of United
Nations Environment Program. He made the comments
at the second annual Qiandongnan Traditional Village
Summit held from Oct 12 to
14 in Qiandongnan Miao and
Dong autonomous prefecture
in Southwest Chinas Guizhou
province.
He said local governments
should respect the opinions of
locals and optimize resources.
Han Feng, professor at the
College of Architecture and
Urban Planning of Tongji University, said the rural economy should not be replaced
by tourism-related businesses.
Rural tourism comes from
the rural landscape, and the
rural landscape is based on
the rural economy, Han said.
If we develop tourism at
the price of losing the rural
economy, the prot can only
be short term.
Giulio Verdini, senior lecturer in Planning at the University of Westminster, who
mainly focuses on urban governance and sustainable local
development in China, said
the protection of traditional
villages needs a diversified
and innovative road to development based on its traditional strengths.
If the locals, for example,
are good at weaving brocade,
why not try designing some
different patterns and selling
them through the internet?
he said.
You must rely on what you
have in this place, and make
the most out of that.
As well as the proper use of
local resources, experts and
officials agree villagers play an
important role in protecting
traditional villages.
The existence of villages
derived from the existence of
communities, said he. I saw
great possibilities in this place
because communities are still
here.
As for the maintenance of
communities, he suggests setting up some activities that
may give young villagers that
left their hometown a sense of
awareness of their own culture.
We should admit its
unavoidable for the decreasing

Development of the local

economy should be based on
the strength of the villages.
You can innovate ways to
make what used to be lowskilled activities, agriculture,
for example, become more
advanced. You must rely on
what you have in this place,
and make the most out of that.
Giulio Verdini, senior lecturer
in planning at the University of
Westminster

Its very timely to think about

the future of traditional villages, not only in China, but in
general. International conventions have been focused on cities lately, but villages are also
very important. We need to
keep the villages alive. To better protect the small villages,
the most important thing to
do is to protect the natural
elements.
Cristina Iamandi, cultural heritage consultant at UNESCO
Residents in Zhanli village, a gathering point for the Dong ethnic group in Guizhou province, are good at spinning silk and making clothes by hand. ZHANG QI / FOR CHINA DAILY

Ethnic villages in Guizhou

The existence of
villages derived
from the existence
of communities.
Giulio Verdini, senior lecturer
in planning at the University of
Westminster

population of rural areas, but

parts of them will still remember their cultural roots.
So if we can set up some
activities in which they can
feel a sense of belonging to the
place where they lived, they
may be willing to come back,
he said.
Party secretary of Qiandongnan Li Feiyue said that villagers interests were the governments priority.
We insist on people-oriented development to guarantee
that villagers can gain maximum benefits from the conservation and development of
their villages, said Li.
As the most densely populated prefecture for Miao and
Dong ethnic groups in China,
Qiandongnan Miao and Dong
autonomous prefecture is
known for its number of traditional villages, of which there

The art of making traditional costumes in Zhaoxing Dong village is

a cultural heritage in Guizhou. YANG JUN / CHINA DAILY

are more than 3,000. Of these,

276 were enrolled in the List of
Chinas Famous Traditional Villages, including Xijiang Miao
Village and Zhaoxing Dong
Village.
The Guizhou government
hosted the summit and the
Qiandongnan government
organized it, with a total of 600
representatives from UNESCO,
experts, officials, artists and
tourism professionals attending the event.
We hope to provide a platform for domestic and overseas experts to exchange ideas
about the conservation and
development of traditional villages, said Li.

He said Qiandongnan would

make efforts to boost the industrial development of the villages and help the poor acquire
wealth by the proper use of ecological and cultural resources,
through the joint efforts of the
government, enterprises, and
local people.
After the summit, Qiandongnan will promote Chinas rst
traveling route that connects
10 representative villages of
Miao and Dong ethnic groups
and the rst World Old Villages
Summit will be held in Qiandongnan prefecture in 2017.

The dull thud of wooden mallets striking

cloth punctured the gentle calm of the village. Men sat on wooden benches grinning
at passing strangers, while old women,
dressed in traditional Dong costumes of
deepest blue and with combs tucked into
their buns, cooed gently at the babies sleeping on their backs, secured by colorful ribbons and blankets tied at the waist and
shoulder.
The scene is a typical of many Dong villages, and the place in question is called
Zhaoxing Dong village. Located in Liping county in the Qiandongnan Miao and
Dong autonomous prefecture in Southwest
Chinas Guizhou province, the village has an
area of 22.92 square kilometers. Roughly
1,300 families live there, making it the largest Dong village in China.
It is also where 39-year-old ChineseAmerican photographer Frank Chen chose
to settle after running a Chinese restaurant
in the US for more than 10 years.
When I first saw the farmland and
wooden houses here, I felt I had found the
place where I could slow down and take a
rest, he said.
In 2014, he opened an inn to provide
accommodation and travel planning services for visitors from across China.
I am not motivated by money, said
Chen. I am looking for a kind of slow and
tranquil life, far from the complexity of

A local resident in Zhaoxing Dong

village performs on a Lusheng, a musical
instrument of the Dong ethnic group.
YANG JUN / CHINA DAILY

metropolises. He has taken innumerable

photographs of the Dong people. I want to
use my camera lens to record the changing
lifestyles of the Dong people under the ow
of modernization, he said.
The past two years saw Zhaoxing Dong
village undergo many changes as a result of
the increasing number of tourists.
Visitors took advantage of the improved
transportation links following the opening
of the Guiyang to Guangzhou High Speed
Railway in November 2014. The new link
has cut travel times from Guiyang to Zhaoxing Villages nearest station from 11 hours
to around 2.
The number of tourists has increased
since the opening of the high-speed railway, said 32-year-old Luo Jiamei, a woman
from the Dong ethnic group.

Shiqiao village
The Shiqiao is known as the
Hometown of ancient Chinese
papermaking.Beginning in the
mid-Tang Dynasty (618-907),
Shiqiao ancient papermaking
technology has a history of
more than 1,500 years, which is
considered a living fossil of its
kind in China.

Chen Meiling contributed to

this story.

Changes bring prosperity to Dong people

By WANG JINHUI and YANG JUN

Zhanli village
About 16 kilometers away
from Congjiang county, Zhanli
village serves as a gathering
point for the Dong ethnic group,
accommodating 836 villagers
in 186 households. Ancestors of
Zhanli made a rule during the
early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
to achieve balance between the
population and the amount of
cultivated land.

I see the changes in the village every

time I come back here, and I also saw that
I could take advantage of those changes to
develop my own career, she said.
Luo returned to the village to run a hotel
after spending two years in Singapore.
She said she came home at the same time
as several of her friends, as all of them had
the aim of starting their own businesses.
Three years later, Luo is the only one
that remains. I am not just interested in
the nancial rewards, she said.
As a Dong woman, I take a very personal
interest in our culture, and I would like to
promote it in my own way.
On the walls and ceilings of her hotel are
examples of traditional Dong embroidery. The rooms also house sculpted pendant lamps made of white melons, which
Luo said she made herself.
She added that as a result of the many
changes in the village, residents lives are
now vastly improved.
When I was young, villagers used
rewood instead of electricity, because
electricity seemed like far too much of a
luxury. Now, however, most people use
electricity since average incomes have
risen, said Luo.
Chen Meiling contributed to this story.
Contact the writers at wangjinhui@
chinadaily.com.cn and [email protected]

Jiyou village
Jiyou village is a typical village
of the Miao ethnic group, with
980 villagers in 197 households
and 32 hectares of cultivated
land area. More than 140 local
wooden dwellings are built close
to the mountains.

Nanmeng village
Nanmeng village, located 13
km from Leishan county, enjoys
a reputation as the hometown
of Lusheng Dance. The
Lusheng, an ancient reed-pipe
musical instrument, is played
by a large group of people in
Nanmeng, ranging from 11-yearold children to people in their
70s.

Huanggang village
As one of the gatherings
of the Dong ethnic people,
Huanggang village celebrates

many local festivals. The most

important two are held on Jan
7 and June 15 of the Chinese
lunar calendar. Located in
remote mountains, Huanggang
continues production and living
customs that have lasted for
thousands of years.

Sizhai village
Sizhai village is famous for its
Dong ethnic traditional wrestling
festival, a grand event that is
held annually on March 15 of
the Chinese lunar calendar. The
festival has a history of more than
600 years. The Dong wrestling
was also listed as a provincial
intangible cultural heritage item
by the Guizhou government in
2006.

Dali Village
Dali is a typical village of the
Dong ethnic group. Of 1,139
villagers, 98 percent are of
the Dong ethnicity. Titled a
museum of Dong architecture,
the village has 29 dwellings that
are centuries old, as well as four
flower bridges, one drum tower,
six ancient wells and 12 granaries.
It also has 128 trees that have
grown for more than 100 years.
All those buildings, which
harmoniously integrate with
the natural environment, have
important historical, scientific
and artistic value.

Changtan village
Changtan village is an
important agriculture and
sightseeing demonstration area
in Taijiang county. It has seven
main industries including potato
planting, raising fish in paddy
fields and Miao embroidery.
Changtan is famous for its
profound dragon canoe culture.
It hosts a dragon canoe festival
annually from May 25 to 27
of the Chinese lunar calendar.
The event has been listed as
a national intangible cultural
heritage item.

Almost all the experts and

government are heading
in the same direction to
improve the development
and the conservation of
these places. The environment, ecology and the landscape are important things
to be focused on.
Anna-Paola Pola, research fellow at World Heritage Institute
of Training and Research for
the Asia and the Pacic Region
under the auspices of UNESCO

Cultures are very powerful.

History shows they last for a
long time no matter what happens to the country. In some
places, the children leave the
province to go to big cities, but
its important they keep culture going in the local place.
Sir Paul Judge, alderman
of the City of London, key
benefactor of the University
of Cambridge Judge Business
School

I still have the feeling that most

of the work that has been done
is about the architecture, while
the preservation of the landscape has not been sufficient.
The elds and surrounding
bodies are key parts of the life
and living things of the village.
Simone Ricca, consultant of
UNESCO and co-founder of RC
Heritage Consultants

We begin to understand the

role of tourism to drive not
only environmental initiatives
but also to have profound
social effects. The wealth
created by the micro-nance
process will continue to ripple
outwards, affecting the surrounding communities.
Lawrence Clive Bloom,
director of the Davos World
Economic Forum and the
previous chairman of United
Nations Environment Program

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CHINA DAILY Wednesday, October 19, 2016

TRIATHLON

Ultimate test
of will and skill
Success of Hefei
event underlines
growth of sport
across China
By XU JINGXI in Hefei
[email protected]

Athletes jump into the water to begin the 1.2-mile swim as part of the Hefei Wanda City IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon in Anhui province last
weekend. It marked the first time the IRONMAN 70.3 series has been held in China. GUO CHEN / XINHUA

Racing into a bright future

By XU JINGXI in Hefei
[email protected]

The World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) plans to

bring more IRONMAN triathlon series to China and
expects a rapid growth of the
sport here after last weekends successful debut of the
IRONMAN 70.3 in Hefei,
Anhui province.
Tens of thousands of spectators helped set the scene in
Hefei as Brad Kahlefeldt from
Australia and Radka Vodickova from the Czech Republic
earned victories at the inaugural Hefei Wanda City
IRONMAN 70.3 on Sunday.
Kahlefeldt took top honors
in the mens race with an
overall time of 3:55:31, while
Vodickova bested the womens field with a time of
4:13:49.
The top finisher from China was Miao Hao, who finished eighth in the mens race
with a time of 4:07:44.
Im impressed that the
race was so well organized,
and the whole bike course
was so safe, said Vodickova.

Brad Kahlefeldt of Australia kisses fiancee Radka Vodickova

of the Czech Republic after they won the male and female
competitions at the IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon in Anhui province
on Sunday. ZHU LIXIN / CHINA DAILY

After this race in Hefei,

more and more athletes in
China will be excited to take
part in other IRONMAN
races. China will be a very
strong nation in triathlon.
Kahlefeldt, who is a professional triathlete and coach as
well, said he would love to
coach Chinese triathletes and
help promote triathlons
development here.
Its the first time IRONMAN 70.3 has come to China
and its an exciting and nice
event, he said. We got very

good support on the course

and one of the best responses
from the audience in the
world.
The race left Hefei residents
with
many
memorable
moments.
The two winners, who are
an engaged couple, kissed to
celebrate the best gift for
their upcoming wedding in
December.
The last athlete crossing
the finishing line, a 27-yearold female runner from Hefei,
was surprised at the cheers

from spectators and the

warm greetings from officials
from the city government,
Wanda and WTC.
IRONMAN is a very complicated event to organize,
said Andrew Messick, CEO of
WTC, who also competed in
Hefei. The combination of
swimming, biking and running takes a lot of work and
skill. Luckily we have a great
partner in Hefei to make it
happen for us. And having a
passionate partner like Wanda enables us to be able to create great races much faster
than before.
The inaugural IRONMAN
70.3 Xiamen will take place
on Nov 13. Continuing the
expansion of race offerings in
China, IRONMAN will be
adding three new events in
2017 to join Hefei and Xiamen
Liuzhou (April 1), Qujing
(May 28) and Chongqing (Sep
24).
The future for IRONMAN
races in China is fantastic. We
will see Chinese athletes, professionals and amateurs,
competing at the highest level
very soon, Messick said.

When Zhang Fan went to

Hawaii to compete in the 1995
IRONMAN World Championship, he was the only athlete
representing China.
A graduate student at the
University of Michigan at the
time, Zhang hung the national
flag over the window the
moment he arrived at his
hotel, showing the world that
Chinese were ready to take the
challenge.
Twenty-one years later, the
52-year-old Zhang was pleased
to see over 1,000 Chinese racers
when he returned to his homeland to compete in last Sundays IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon
in Hefei, Anhui province.
It marked the first time the
IRONMAN 70.3 series has
been held in China since Dalian Wanda Group purchased
World Triathlon Corporation
last year. A total of 1,676 triathletes from 58 countries and
regions competed in the event
including a group of amateurs aged 75-79.
The Hefei event is special
to me because Ive witnessed
the number of Chinese triathletes grow from zero to thousands and triathlon is now
gaining mass participation in
China, Zhang said.
China has the soil for triathlon to grow fast. Wandas
strong brand promotion, the
countrys rapid economic
growth, the rising competence
of Chinese triathletes and the
easy access to information
such as training methods
online ... these are all nutrition
for triathlons development.

Triathlon is an
addictive sport;
once you get interested, you cant
stop loving it.
Zhang Fan, one of Chinas
triathlon pioneers

Triathlon challenges both

the physical and mental
strength of athletes. An IRONMAN 70.3 race requires a competitor to cover a total
distance of 70.3 miles (113 kilometers), consisting of a
1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike
ride and a 13.1-mile run. That
distance is doubled in an
IRONMAN race.
Triathlon is an addictive
sport; once you get interested,
you cant stop loving it, Zhang
said.
It helps you to discover
your potential to accomplish
something youve never imagined before and thus boosts
your confidence.
You need to set a clear goal
for each stage and fight hard
to achieve those goals with
self-discipline and persistence.
To complete a long-distance triathlon, you need to
focus on the goals with the
same sense of discipline and

purpose that is required to

achieve success in work and
life.
Zhang is preparing to participate in a full-distance
IRONMAN event in Arizona
next month.
His love for the sport has
been passed on to his two
daughters who are top triathletes in the US, one at college
and the other at high school.
Xie Weili, 27, who started
competing in triathlon about a
year ago and now works as a
race reporter, is also confident
of the sports future in China.
Young people are adventurous and love taking challenges, Xie said.
And since triathlon is still a
new sport in China, the circle
of athletes is not very big. People can build close connections to the sport and the
lifestyle.
Xie said there are about
15,000 athletes registered with
the China Triathlon Sports
Association, with around
3,000 of them actively
involved in competition.
There have been more than
40 triathlons in China this
year, while there were only 10
all of last year, Xie added.
But there are still obstacles
to overcome before the sport
gains mass mainstream participation here.
The cost of racing bikes and
training is still high, said
Zhang. And a triathlon is a big
challenge for organizers, who
require great support from the
government to provide suitable road and water courses.
But Xie is convinced the
sport is now well grounded in
China, and its future is bright.
Wandas purchase of the
IRONMAN triathlon series is a
significant reason behind the
surging number of triathlons
in China because the sports
industry saw the market
potential after the Chinese
conglomeration made the
investment, Xie said.

TENNIS

Ex-champ Cash says Kyrgios needs help

By REUTERS in Melbourne

Australias talented and tempestuous Nick Kyrgios has the

potential to be a Grand Slam
champion but could just as
easily be lost to the sport if he
fails to get the support he
needs, according to compatriot
and former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash.
The 21-year-old Kyrgios was
suspended for eight weeks by
the ATP on Monday following
his second round exit at the
Shanghai Masters, where he
clashed with fans, the chair
umpire and walked off the
court midway through a point

against Mischa Zverev.

The ban can be reduced to
three weeks if he sees a sports
psychologist, which Kyrgios
had committed to, according to
Australias tennis association.
I wouldnt be surprised (if
he quit) but hopefully thats
not the case, Cash said in a
radio interview.
Anybodys got the opportunity to walk away, but if its not
good for his health then I
think he should do that.
But with some good things
in place for his health and
wellbeing, and a revised
schedule, he could go out there
and enjoy his tennis, which is

what we want to see.

Kyrgios posted a lengthy
apology online after his
Shanghai meltdown, which
came only days after he won
the Japan Open, the third and
biggest title of his career.
The 51-year-old Cash, a
notable hothead during the
early part of his career, said
Kyrgios was flat and exhausted when he arrived in Shanghai and should never have
played the tournament.
Cash questioned the advice
Kyrgios was receiving on tour
and claimed Tennis Australia
(TA) had failed to provide
young players with the mental

support to deal with the grind

of the pro circuit.
Mental health and understanding of where you are as a
junior should be as mandatory
as hitting forehands and doing
stretching before and after a
practice session, he said.
Ive talked to Tennis Australia about it and nothing has
been done.
TA dismissed Cashs criticism as incorrect, saying
sports psychologists were available for players in every state.
Sometimes they have
access to two or three of them,
said TA spokesman Todd
Woodbridge, a 22-time Grand

Slam doubles champion.

Tennis Australias support
is as strong, if not stronger
than for any other sport in the
country,
Cash said Kyrgios was the
next guy in line for Grand
Slam glory once proven winners like Serbias Novak Djokovic and Britains Andy
Murray bow out.
And who is standing up
there? Well, Nicks the obvious
one.
You tend to see after a great
year a bit of a lull, and then hes
got a great opportunity to grab
a couple of Grand Slam titles
and really be a success.

Nick Kyrgios of Australia will miss the rest of the season after
being suspended by the mens tour and fined an additional
$25,000 on Monday for quitting a match and insulting fans at last
weeks Shanghai Masters. REUTERS

Scoreboard
BASEBALL
Result from the MLB Playoffs League Championship Series on Monday (home team in CAPS):
Cleveland 4 TORONTO 2
(Cleveland leads best-of-seven series 3-0)

GOLF
World rankings
As of Monday:
1. (1) Jason Day (AUS) 12.84
2. (2) Dustin Johnson (USA) 11.16
3. (3) Rory McIlroy (GBR) 10.90
4. (4) Jordan Spieth (USA) 9.09
5. (5) Henrik Stenson (SWE) 8.54
6. (6) Adam Scott (AUS) 6.98
7. (7) Patrick Reed (USA) 6.04
8. (8) Bubba Watson (USA) 5.91
9. (9) Danny Willett (GBR) 5.66
10. (10) Rickie Fowler (USA) 5.52
11. (11) Justin Rose (GBR) 5.25
12. (12) Paul Casey (GBR) 5.24
13. (18) Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) 5.00
14. (13) Sergio Garcia (ESP) 4.96
15. (15) Phil Mickelson (USA) 4.83
16. (14) Branden Grace (RSA) 4.80; 17. (16) Jimmy
Walker (USA) 4.75; 18. (26) Alexander Noren (SWE)
4.43; 9. (17) Matt Kuchar (USA) 4.42; 20. (19) Russell
Knox (GBR) 4.19; 21. (20) Brandt Snedeker (USA)
4.02; 22. (23) Brooks Koepka (USA) 4.00; 23. (21) Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 3.99; 24. (22) J.B. Holmes (USA)
3.94; 25. (24) Emiliano Grillo (ARG) 3.69; 26. (25)
Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 3.65; 27. (27) Jim Furyk
(USA) 3.53; 28. (28) Kevin Chappell (USA) 3.52; 29.
(29) Zach Johnson (USA) 3.43; 30. (32) Ryan Moore
(USA) 3.37

European Race to Dubai

As of Monday:
1. (1) Danny Willett (GBR) 3543175
2. (2) Henrik Stenson (SWE) 3130447
3. (3) Rory McIlroy (GBR) 2487204

4. (9) Alexander Noren (SWE) 2184231

5. (4) Tyrrell Hatton (GBR) 2170373
6. (5) Rafael Cabrera-Bello (ESP) 1884871
7. (6) Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 1707906
8. (7) Branden Grace (RSA) 1684680
9. (8) Chris Wood (GBR) 1683719
10. (11) Lee Westwood (GBR) 1587381
11. (10) Martin Kaymer (GER) 1404023; 12. (23)
Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 1364783; 13. (12) Joost
Luiten (NED) 1297466; 14. (13) Sergio Garcia (ESP)
1122072; 15. (14) Andy Sullivan (GBR) 1106563; 16.
(18) Soren Kjeldsen (DEN) 1091003; 17. (17) Ross
Fisher (GBR) 1086643; 18. (15) Thomas Pieters (BEL)
1084955; 19. (16) Scott Hend (AUS) 1080318; 20. (20)
Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 1079636

Eibar 2 (Escalante 1, Sergi 45) Osasuna 3 (Limones

29, 32, Torres 58)

TENNIS
ATP/WTA Kremlin Cup

Results on Monday:
Mens 1st rd
Luk Rosol (CZE) bt Gerald Melzer (AUT) 7-5, 6-2;
Thomaz Belluci (BRA) bt Cem Ilkel (TUR) 7-5, 6-1.
Womens 1st rd

WTA Luxembourg
Results on Monday:
1st rd
Varvara Lepchenko (USA) bt Tsvetana Pironkova
(BUL) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1; Caroline Garcia (FRA x4) bt
Anett Kontaveit (EST) 7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-4; Denisa
Allertova (CZE) bt Eugenie Bouchard (CAN x7) 3-6,
6-3, 6-3; Francesca Schiavone (ITA) bt Laura Siegemund (GER x5) 6-2, 6-2; Monica Niculescu (ROM)
bt Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) 6-4, 6-2; Anna Karola
Schmiedlov(SVK) bt Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 6-0,
1-6, 6-3.

NFL
Result of the National Football League game on
Monday (home team in CAPS):
ARIZONA 28 NY Jets 3

SOCCER
English Premier League
Result on Monday:
Liverpool 0 Manchester United 0

ATP Tour singles standings

Italian Serie A

Result on Monday:

Results on Monday:
1st rd
Adrian Mannarino (FRA) bt Donald Young (USA)
7-5, 6-4; Radu Albot (MDA) bt Steve Johnson (USA
x5) 6-3, 6-4; Kevin Anderson (RSA) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP x8) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; Ryan Harrison (USA) bt
Adam Pavlek (CZE) 6-3, 7-5.

Results on Monday:
1st
Robin Haase (NED) bt Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)
6-4, 6-2; Inigo Cervantes (ESP) bt Michael Berrer
(GER) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1; Andreas Seppi (ITA) bt Federico
Delbonis (ARG x8) 7-6 (7), 5-7, 6-3.

Results of the National Hockey League games on

Monday (home teams in CAPS):
Colorado 4 PITTSBURGH 3 (OT)
NY RANGERS 7 San Jose 4
DETROIT 5 Ottawa 1
Boston 4 WINNIPEG 1

Spanish La Liga

ATP Stockholm

ATP Antwerp Open

ICE HOCKEY

Result on Monday:
Palermo 1 (Chochev 5) Torino 4 (Ljajic 25, 40, Benassi 45+1, Baselli 50)

Tea Babos (HUN x9) bt Irina Begu (ROM) 6-2, 6-7 (2),
7-5; Daria Kasatkina (RUS x8) bt Belinda Bencic
(SUI) 6-4, 6-1.

Athletes from China, Malaysia, South Africa, Japan, Russia, Finland and Britain took part in the China-Shaoxing Caoe River Motoboat Open last weekend in
Shaoxing, Zhejiang province. The competition included hydro-fly freestyle as an
official event for the first time since 2014. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

As of Monday:
1 (1) Novak Djokovic (SRB) 12900
2 (2) Andy Murray (GBR) 10485
3 (3) Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 5820
4 (6) Milos Raonic (CAN) 4690
5 (4) Kei Nishikori (JPN) 4650
6 (5) Rafa Nadal (ESP) 4380

7 (8) Gael Monfils (FRA) 3815

8 (7) Roger Federer (SUI) 3720
9 (9) Tomas Berdych (CZE) 3300
10 (10) Dominic Thiem (AUT) 3250
11 (11) Marin Cilic (CRO) 2895
12 (12) David Goffin (BEL) 2780
13 (19) Roberto Bautista (ESP) 2505
14 (14) Nick Kyrgios (AUS) 2460
15 (15) David Ferrer (ESP) 2455
16 (13) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 2205
17 (16) Lucas Pouille (FRA) 2106
18 (18) Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 2035
19 (17) Richard Gasquet (FRA) 1950
20 (21) Alexander Zverev (GER) 1745

WTA Tour singles standings

As of Monday:
1 (1) Angelique Kerber (GER) 8310
2 (2) Serena Williams (USA) 7050
3 (3) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 6050
4 (4) Simona Halep (ROU) 5097
5 (5) Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 4440
6 (6) Garbine Muguruza Blanco (ESP) 4425
7 (7) Madison Keys (USA) 3797
8 (10) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 3625
9 (8) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 3540
10 (9) Johanna Konta (GBR) 3455
11 (11) Petra Kvitova (CZE) 3390
12 (12) Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) 3230
13 (13) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 3061
14 (14) Venus Williams (USA) 2940
15 (15) Elina Svitolina (UKR) 2511
16 (16) Roberta Vinci (ITA) 2290
17 (22) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 2220
18 (17) Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) 2188
19 (19) Elena Vesnina (RUS) 2094
20 (18) Samantha Stosur (AUS) 2090
------------27 (27) Zhang Shuai (China) 1585
70 (73) Wang Qiang (CHN) 911
77 (79) Zheng Saisai (CHN) 825
92 (87) Duan Yingying (CHN) 690

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SOCCER

BASEBALL

United handcuffs vaunted Reds

Jays cant
cope with
Cleveland
bullpen

Mourinhos squad
limits Liverpool to
two shots on goal

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Toronto

By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Liverpool

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said his

team exposed Liverpools
shortcomings after holding
Jurgen Klopps high-scoring
crew to a 0-0 draw on Monday.
Liverpool went into the
match at Anfield seeking a
sixth straight win in all competitions and bidding to draw
level on points with Premier
League leader Manchester
City and second-place Arsenal.
But United held the Reds to
few chances, with visiting
goalkeeper David de Gea
largely untroubled apart
from a pair of eye-catching
second-half saves to deny
Emre Can and Philippe Coutinho.
The goalkeeper (De Gea)
was on holiday for 90 minutes, but he had two big saves
to make and he made them,
said Mourinho, whose side
remains seventh in the standings.
When we got the ball I was
expecting the team to be more
dangerous, (although) we had
two good chances ... but Liverpool did too.
They are not the last wonder of the world like you (the
media) say they are, but they
are a very good team so we
had to adapt a little.
Premier League statisticians Opta said United only
had 35 percent of possession
its lowest tally for a league
match since the statistic started being gathered in the
2003-04 season.
Mourinho returned to the

Manchester Uniteds David de Gea leaps to block a shot by Liverpools Philippe Coutinho during Mondays English Premier League match at Anfield. De Gea faced only two
shots in the 0-0 draw. PHIL NOBLE / REUTERS

media room after he finished

addressing reporters to say
the clubs own statistician
said United had seen a little
more of the ball.
My guy did it 42 (percent), not 35, he said.
I thought that number was
crazy. We chart it ourselves,
with better people than
them.
Mourinho had earlier dismissed the importance of statistics, pointing out that
United won 1-0 at Anfield
under his predecessor Louis
van Gaal last season despite
being largely outplayed.
Last season United won
here, Liverpool had 14 shots

on target and United had

one, he said.
How many shots on target
did Liverpool have today?
Two. Two shots on target
with 65 percent of possession.
You have to be critical of
Liverpool. It is their problem,
not our problem.

Six-man defense
United largely succeeded in
keeping the Reds off balance,
with wide players Marcus
Rashford and Ashley Young
notably dropping deep to create a six-man defense at
times.
The visitors managed a
clear chance early in the sec-

ond half when Paul Pogba,

playing in a more advanced
role, picked out Zlatan Ibrahimovic, only for the Swede to
miscue his header.
Liverpool improved following the 59th-minute introduction of Adam Lallana, either
side of which De Gea made
brilliant saves to foil Can and
Coutinho.
We lost patience far too
early and our passing game
was not good, said Liverpool
manager Jurgen Klopp,
whose side trails City by two
points.
We had 65 percent possession, but we have to do better.
I didnt expect we would have

10 to 15 chances. We had chances in the second half, but De

Gea was finally warm and he
made brilliant saves.
They had that chance with
Ibrahimovic. The best news
tonight is we have one point
more and a clean sheet, nothing else.
We can do much better
and we must do much better.
We have to stay cool. When
they want to chase us, we have
to use smart counter movements.
My side had really good
attitude. They tried everything, only with the wrong
tools.
Klopp dismissed sugges-

tions his players were affected

by being pegged as the prematch favorite.
Maybe you think it is very
important for the rest of the
world what you write, but for
us it is not important at all, he
said.
We were not favorites in
the dressing room. Tonight
nobody thought about this.
You could see Man United
is physically stronger than we
are. We couldnt get rid of the
hectic mindset that was the
problem.
When you have the ball
you have to calm down immediately and that is what we
didnt do.

Andrew Miller and the

Cleveland bullpen pulled off
their most impressive feat yet
in the American League playoffs, taking over after Trevor
Bauers bloody exit and holding off the Toronto Blue Jays in
a 4-2 victory on Monday night
that moved the Indians within
one win of their first pennant
since 1997.
Jason Kipnis and Mike
Napoli homered for the Indians, who took a 3-0 lead in the
AL Championship Series.
Cleveland is unbeaten in six
playoff games this year and
can complete a second consecutive sweep on Tuesday.
Six relievers combined for
25 outs and 128 pitches, limiting Toronto to two runs and
seven hits. Miller got four outs
for the save.
If anybody has a hiccup, we
probably lose, Cleveland
manager Terry Francona said.
Indians ace Corey Kluber is
scheduled to start Game 4 on
short rest after Bauers dronerelated finger injury created
more upheaval in a rotation
thats been shorthanded all
postseason.
Bauer faced only four batters before getting pulled in
the first inning after his
stitched-up right pinkie began
oozing blood.
Enter the stingy Cleveland
relievers, who pitched the
Indians to a Division Series
sweep over Boston and have
them on the verge of another.
Its a good feeling, Kipnis
said. Weve still got one more
to get there, and its going to be
tough. We know these guys.
Just kind of like the Boston
series we dont want to wait
around for them to figure it out.
We want to get to them now.

Guardiola braced for rough return against Barca machine

By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Barcelona

For one of soccers most

decorated managers, boasting a 75 percent career win
percentage and 21 trophies,
Pep Guardiolas record of two
wins from his last 11 away
Champions League matches
is an uncharacteristic stain.
Manchester Citys long
courting of Guardiola was not
just to dominate at home, but
to secure the clubs place
among the European elite by
winning the Champions
League.
Despite reaching the last
four for the first time in club
history last season, Guardiola
insists it is far from the finished article.
If you ask me if we are
ready to compete in Europe,
then we are not ready, he said
last month, despite a stunning 10-game winning run to
start his tenure.
That streak, though, was
snapped on Citys first trip in
the Champions League proper in a pulsating 3-3 draw at
Celtic three weeks ago.
Guardiola summarized the
madcap Battle of Britain in a
famously raucous Glasgow
atmosphere as a good test of
where City is away from home
in Europe.
Yet, as he returns to the
club that made him famous
as a player and a coach in Barcelona on Wednesday, Guardiola and City will get a clearer
look at how far they have to
go to be Champions League
contenders.
The last decade, the last

15 years, Barcelona has dominated football by the way

they play, Guardiola said
after Saturdays 1-1 draw
with Everton.
Barcelona is special
because it is a machine.
Much of that dominance
and style of play is thanks to
Guardiola.
His 2008-12 side that won
14 trophies and even more
hearts for its mix of intense
pressing and penetrating
passing is widely regarded as
the best Barca team ever.
However, the political
machinations and media
demands, not to mention two
years of baiting by then Real
Madrid boss Jose Mourinho
took its toll.
Four years as coach of Barcelona is an eternity, he said
when announcing his resignation in April 2012. I am
empty and I need to replenish
myself.

Moved on
He did so firstly via a sabbatical in New York and then
three largely successful years
at Bayern Munich that lacked
a crowning glory winning
the Champions League.
Falling one step short with
Bayern was due to three visits
to Spain in the semifinals for
the past three seasons.
Each time he left defeated,
without even managing to
score a goal.
Under the stewardship of
Guardiolas old teammate
Luis Enrique, Barcelona has
moved on too.
A Lionel Messi-inspired 3-0
win over Guardiolas Bayern

Gunnersreloadwithgrit,guile

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola returns on Wednesday

to Barcelona, the club where he won the Champions League as
both player and coach (twice). REUTERS

in 2015 allowed Enrique to

equal his friends remarkable
achievement of delivering the
treble in his first season in
charge.
The style has been tweaked
too. Whereas the midfield
axis of Xavi and Andres Iniesta used to make Messi the
focal point of the Barca
attack, the Spanish champion
can now call upon three of the
worlds deadliest strikers.
Luis Suarez and Neymar
complement Messis skill set
and give Barca a counter
attacking dimension not so
prevalent in the Guardiola
era.
They are three amazing
players up front, said Guardiola.
They are amazing on the
counter attack and they have
a good build-up, so they are a
good team.
Guardiola will be warmly
welcomed by the vast majority in the stands and his old

charges on the pitch if not

in the presidential box, where
old political divides remain.
That has much to do with
the reason why Guardiola has
only returned to Camp Nou
once since Bayerns visit in
the past four years but that
was a memorable night.
Sitting next to his father as
a fan rather than an invited
guest, Guardiola howled in
astonishment at a virtuoso
Messi display as Barca beat
City 1-0 in March 2015.
Only a series of outstanding saves from Joe Hart prevented
more
severe
punishment for City that
night.
Having unceremoniously
expeditated Englands No 1
for another former Barca
man in Claudio Bravo, the
first cracks in the Guardiola
reign may begin to form if
Barca proves a gulf still exists
between the two on Wednesday.

After crumbling at the first

sign of pressure far too often
in recent years, Arsenal is
finally showing signs of developing a steely spine and
Theo Walcott is the unlikely
standard bearer.
Arsene Wengers side has
been guilty of squandering
numerous chances to mount
Premier League title challenges and goes deep into the
Champions League due in
large part to a woeful lack of
backbone.
Yet Saturdays 3-2 win over
Swansea at Emirates Stadium
was the latest sign of a more
resolute nature taking hold
among the Gunners.
With Bulgarias Ludogorets
visiting north London on
Wednesday, Arsenal has an
opportunity to show its
attacking talents, but it was
the way it dug deep to see off
Swansea that was more
encouraging for winger Walcott.
He scored twice in the first
half against Swansea before
Mesut Ozils goal put Arsenal
ahead 3-1 in the 57th minute.
Swansea reduced the deficit and Arsenal midfielder
Granit Xhaka was sent off
moments later to leave the
host forced to play the last 20
minutes with 10 men.
It was the kind of perilous
situation that might well have
induced a fatal wobble from
Arsenal in the past, but the
Gunners battened down the

hatches and, with Walcott

working tirelessly on the forward line, they managed to
hold on for a victory that
pulled the club even on points
with leader Manchester City.
Since the glory days of
Wengers 2003-04 Invincibles, who won the Premier
League without losing a single
match, the ability to produce
that kind of gritty performance has been missing from
Arsenals mental make-up.
But Walcott said the Swansea result and a late win at
Burnley in their previous
match, provides proof the
Gunners have matured and
are ready to challenge for
honors.
Asked if Arsenal now has a
new mentality, Walcott said:
The Burnley game, they were
very well organized and we
found it very difficult. But we
all stuck in, showed patience
and in time we got the win,
which was really important.
Again against Swansea,
we had to be diligent, be
patient at times ... but we still
got the win even if it would
have been nice to take the ball
home on a personal note.
The Burnley match was a
game where we had to grind it
out. This game, when we went
down to 10 men, we tend to
lose, to be honest. Theres
some things that are slowly
getting better.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Andrew Miller of the Cleveland

Indians celebrates after defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 in
Toronto on Monday. AFP

After Bauer left with two on

and two out in the first, the
final 25 Toronto outs were distributed as follows: four each
for Dan Otero and Jeff Manship, three for Zach McAllister,
five each for Bryan Shaw and
Cody Allen, and four for Miller.
Were having a blast. Just
watch us play. Watch all the
smiles. The guys are having a
good time, and youre seeing
their play out there reflect that
attitude, Kipnis said.
The Blue Jays have never led
in the series. And when Kipnis
led off the sixth with a home
run to right-center field, Cleveland went up 3-2 and was suddenly just a few outs from
being able to turn the game
over to Allen and Miller.
They appeared in that order,
yet another instance in which
Francona has maneuvered his
bullpen unencumbered by the
idea of rigid roles.
Allen, who usually closes,
came on in the seventh with a
runner on and nobody out. A
two-out walk to Jose Bautista
put the potential tying run on,
but Josh Donaldson lined out
to Coco Crisp.
Miller, who struck out 10 in
3 2/3 innings through the first
two games of the series,
fanned three of the four batters he faced.