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who prey on the eld- around China, where 16.7 per- ucts and handing out fines and found they either lacked 0 A member of the
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relatives have been trapped in He does it all for free, rated into the new State Mar- the club, given by “military supplements in just six years.
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Stars turn out for Beijing film festival really care about people’s des-
tinies.”
The other jurors are Shu Qi,
an actress from Taiwan, Ruben
By WANG KAIHAO Kar-wai, a globally acclaimed Hold Your Hands, an art- find more abundant types of Ostlund, a Swedish director
wangkaihao@chinadaily.com.cn flag-bearer of New Wave, is the house film on villagers’ films at the festival this time. acclaimed for his Palme
head of the seven-person jury. endeavor to get rid of poverty “Chinese cinema should d’Or-winning The Square at
The eighth annual Beijing “No matter what genre the in Hunan province, and Oper- adopt a more open attitude to the Cannes Film Festival last
International Film Festival candidates belong to, be it a ation Red Sea, an action film — encourage different styles,” year, Jan Kaczmarek, a Polish
lifted its curtain on Sunday at commercial or art-house pro- and huge success in the box Wong said. “We need green film score composer who won
Yanqi Lake International Con- duction, they have to do well office this year — inspired by grass, and we also need red an Academy Award for Find-
vention and Exhibition Cen- in storytelling,” Wong said of the evacuation of Chinese citi- flowers, and we can have flour- ing Neverland, Calin Peter
ter, gathering a star-studded the selection criteria. “We will zens from Yemen in 2015. ishing blossoms.” Netzer, the Romanian director
lineup on the red carpet. evaluate those with original The other finalists include Actor Duan Yihong, also a of the 2013 Golden Bear winner Some jury members of the Beijing International Film Festival make
The Tiantan Awards are the thoughts and creativity.” the Czech war comedy Bare- jury member, called for more Child’s Pose in Berlin, and their debut on the red carpet on Sunday. JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY
highest awards at the festival, Wong won a Tiantan Award foot, Canadian drama Eye on support for young talent at the Jonathan Mostow, the Holly-
which 659 films from 71 coun- for best director in 2014 for his Juliet and South African bio- Beijing festival. wood action director best
tries and regions have entered. martial arts film The Grand- graphic film Krotoa. “When I choose scripts,” known for Terminator 3. inspire filmmakers, including including forums, premieres,
Fifteen films have been select- master. Wong, noting that 2018 Duan said, “I usually don’t Mostow said the Beijing fes- him. Ostlund revealed he will and trade fairs — will be held
ed as finalists and await the This year’s shortlist of marks the 40th anniversary of work with the directors who tival is a venue for different cul- be looking in China for the in the coming week for the
all-star jury’s decision. potential winners includes China’s reform and opening- are very famous. I put more tures from all over the world to right actors for his next film. festival, which ends on April
Hong Kong director Wong two Chinese productions: up policy, said he was eager to value in whether the directors communicate, and it will long More than 300 events — 22.
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BEIJING
Xi’s book on
security published
month as part of China’s lat- China on the path boost the production and clini- This month, the central gov- demand and will support their strengthening safeguards for Prosecutors in northern
est government revamp. cal application of generic ernment issued a notice production with policies such intellectual property related to China have accused a doc-
“The merger will improve of incrementally drugs to help lower the cost of encouraging the development as preferential tax rates for drug innovation and produc- tor of damaging the repu-
China’s recruitment systems, medical bills. and production of generic pharmaceutical companies. tion will be a priority, with the tation of a pharmaceutical
expand platforms and opti- improving services The State Council, which drugs that are in short supply. To speed up the evaluation interests of patent holders bal- company by posting false
mize services for foreign announced the exemptions aft- A generic drug is a medica- process, a testing system will be anced with the public’s needs. information online.
experts, thereby creating a for foreigners.” er an executive meeting on tion that has the same active set up through several depart- Infringing patents will be The reputation of a phar-
more convenient and favora- Thursday, also said the value- ingredients as a brand-name ments, including the nation’s prohibited, it said. However, the maceutical liquor made by
ble environment for them to Peter Lobie, medical professor added tax on the production patented drug and yields the top health, drug and science government notice said that in Hongmao Pharmaceutical
settle in China,” Zhang said. at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen and import of drugs will be cut same medicinal effects, but it authorities, the notice said. It the event of a serious epidemic — which the company says
Chen Dongmin, dean of Institute by a large amount, a decision can be marketed only after the also emphasized that the quali- or public health emergency that is good for health — had
Peking University’s School experts say will be even more patent has expired. ty of generic drug production threatens lives, compulsory been harmed, according to
of Innovation and Entrepre- However, some issues pose effective in easing patients’ “Generic drugs are less should be enhanced. licensing and production of pat- a statement on Sunday
neurship, said China has a challenge and cause trouble financial pressures. expensive because their manu- Competition between drug- ented drugs will be initiated to from police in Liangcheng
improved greatly in fields for foreign experts, Chapman Imports of innovative medi- facturers don’t have to dupli- makers was once unregulated, allow generic copies onto the county, Inner Mongolia
such as nuclear energy, said — for example, pollu- cines will be encouraged, cate the original clinical trials and the quality of products market as soon as possible. autonomous region.
high-speed rail and satellite tion, unfamiliarity with local Distributors are demand-
communication, thanks to policies and the difficulty of ing refunds, resulting in
talent exchanges with other
countries.
China’s technological
getting a Chinese green card.
Peter Lobie, a medical pro-
fessor at Tsinghua-Berkeley
Trial of 15 alleged Partial to peonies heavy economic losses for
the company, the police
said.
development also benefited Shenzhen Institute, said: The company com-
from having strong, well-
planned national support, as
well as major investments
“China still has room to
improve in terms of helping
foreign experts settle in. But it
gangsters concludes plained to authorities in
December that online
information calling the
from all parts of society, said is great to see China on the liquor a poison was false,
Daniel Calto, director of path of incrementally improv- By CAO YIN Wu and his co-defendants and a case was filed on Jan
solution services at Elsevier ing services for foreigners.” caoyin@chinadaily.com.cn came under national scrutiny 2. Police found that an arti-
Research Intelligence, a Lobie has been working in in March last year when Yu cle headlined “Chinese
global science analytics firm. and out of China for more A court in Shandong prov- Huan, a 22-year-old from Lia- magic pharmaceutical
“Although China does not than a decade, and four ince has concluded the trial of ocheng, accused them of liquor is a toxic substance
have many permanent immi- months ago decided to 15 defendants accused of mul- racketeering in his appeal of a from heaven”, written by
grants, its growing global col- remain in China full time. He tiple gang-related crimes and life sentence for killing a debt Women in traditional clothes take part in the opening ceremony Tan Qindong, had been
laboration with other said the growing convenience rape. collector. of a peony festival in Huai’an, Jiangsu province, on Saturday. widely spread online.
universities and institutes has of living in the country; the Dongchangfu District Peo- Yu stabbed four men hired More than 30,000 visitors attended the ceremony. The festival Liangcheng police
created a strong talent net- large market for advanced, ple’s Court in Liaocheng by Wu to collect money from runs through early May. ZHANG WEI / CHINA DAILY detained Tan on Jan 10
work,” he said. “My advice is potent drugs; and the high closed its proceedings on his mother, Su Yinxia, in early based on what they said
to increase this type of collab- level of appreciation for his Saturday night after a three- 2016. One of them, Du Zhihao, was clear evidence, and
oration. We will start to see work were all reasons behind day hearing and said a ver- died from his injuries. prosecutors issued an
China gaining more influence
in multiple scientific fields.”
Steven Chapman, group
his decision.
“As for other foreign
experts who might come, I
dict would be announced
later.
Prosecutors said the defend-
In February last year, Liao-
cheng Intermediate People’s
Court sentenced Yu to life in
Flight diverted after arrest warrant on Jan 25.
A police document quot-
ed by Red Star News, an
vice-president for China and
Russia at global engine man-
ufacturer Cummins, who has
think it is just a matter of tak-
ing a leap of faith,” he said.
“You have to take the first step
ants, led by Wu Xuezhan, orga-
nized and participated in
gang-related activities, extor-
prison for intentional injury.
He appealed, saying that the
debt collectors had used vio-
man takes hostage online media portal for
Chengdu Economic Daily,
said the company claimed
been in China more than of coming, and understand tion, home invasions, illegal lence and insults, and that By ZHANG YI hostage using a pen as a to have suffered losses of
three decades, said, “My first that you are well supported in detention, intentional injury his actions were in self-de- zhangyi1@chinadaily.com.cn weapon, according to the about 1.42 million yuan
impression of Chinese part- China and you will have a and rape. fense. Henan Public Security ($223,000) because of the
ners is integrity.” rewarding experience.” Since 2010, Wu, 35, ordered The Shandong High Peo- A male passenger on an Department. No injures were article, which led two phar-
fellow defendants — some of ple’s Court reduced Yu’s sen- Air China flight from Chang- reported. maceutical distributors
whom were employees of his tence to five years in prison in sha to Beijing was detained The diversion of Flight and seven individual cus-
two registered real estate com- June. on Sunday after he used a CA1350 to Zhengzhou was tomers to return the liquor
panies in Guanxian county — Wang Wenguang, the lawyer pen to take a crew member made for “public safety rea- and ask for refunds.
to use violence to collect debts for Yu’s mother, attended the hostage. sons” and the crew followed According to Red Star
and destroy people’s property, three-day trial in Shandong. The man, identified only proper procedures, aviation News, Tan, 39, lives in
the court was told. He said on Sunday that his cli- as Xu, 41, from Anhua, Hun- authority said on Sunday. Guangzhou, Guangdong
“The gang used threats to ent had accused 12 of the 15 an province, was taken into Henan Airport Group province, and holds a
influence government and defendants of using violence to custody at 1 pm on Sunday said the flight landed at 9:58 master’s degree in anes-
law enforcement officials, collect debts and other gang- after the plane was diverted am, and all passengers were thesiology from Central
damaged private cars, pre- related activities. to Zhengzhou Xinzheng led safely from the plane to South University in
vented banks from issuing “Wu denied all the accusa- International Airport in the terminal buildings at Changsha, Hunan prov-
loans and interfered in com- tions, and the others would Henan province. 10:50 am. ince. He has a license to
panies’ operations,” prosecu- not confess,” he said. Xu, who reportedly has a The flight had departed practice medicine and
tors said, adding that some of Eight defendants pleaded history of mental illness, Changsha in Hunan at 8:40 was an anesthesiologist at
A foreign expert receives a certificate at the 16th Conference on the accused also raped wom- guilty during the trial to illegal began acting abnormally am and had been sched- the Third Affiliated Hospi-
International Exchange of Professionals in Shenzhen, Guangdong en while carrying out gang- detention and home invasion, during the flight and took a uled to arrive in Beijing at tal of Southern Medical
province, on Saturday. XUAN HUI / FOR CHINA DAILY related offenses. he added. member of the cabin crew about 11 am. University.
CHINA DAILY Monday, April 16, 2018 CHINA 5
Before coming
Contest inspires speakers to
here, I didn’t real-
ize China today is
so modern.
explore global challenges
Hangzhou is a
very beautiful, By CHEN XUE in Hangzhou
modern and peaceful metropolis, chenxue@21stcentury.com.cn
and life here is not as stressful as
in Shanghai. Here we use mobile Young participants in this
phones to pay for everything, year’s China Daily 21st Centu-
which is impossible in Europe. It’s ry Coca-Cola Cup National
so fast and convenient. Coopera- English Speaking Competi-
tion between different countries is tion offered deep insights into
becoming very important, espe- the themes of the Belt and
cially now. We have to speak about Road Initiative and China’s
different problems, it is only new era.
through talking and dialogue that Zang Yingjie from Qufu
we can find a common way that Normal University in Shan-
helps and benefits everyone. dong province, for example,
Zdenek Balas, student at Zhe- drew inspiration from his
jiang University from Switzerland experience growing up with
the scientific theories of Ste- Parents take pictures of Yuan Youzhe (left) and Huang Yichen on
This is my third phen Hawking, the British the stage, after they won awards at the competition.
time to physicist who died recently, GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY
Hangzhou and and how the changing land-
ifts to guest speakers Greg Fountain (left), David Gosset (second from left) and Lu Li’an (right) at the always I see scape in China’s technological speaker award. Next month, see how Chinese education
Expo Center on Sunday. WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY progress being realm helped him understand they will travel to London to has evolved from a time when
made. My first these theories better. represent China in the annu- “China had a literacy of mere-
trip to China was “We’re all made of particles al International Public ly over 50 percent” to an era
in 1983, and I can still remember that have existed since the Speaking Competition. where Xiong, as a college stu-
at that time people were eager to beginning of the universe,” Zhou Shuchun, China Dai- dent, could stand on a nation-
learn, but they had no way of Zang, 20, said in his speech. ly’s editor-in-chief, said the al stage and “tell a Chinese
learning. I think the concept of the “I’d like to believe those parti- theme of the contest “aimed story of the new era to all”.
an University’s College of Foreign Greg Fountain, China Daily journalist new era is a fantastic one. It takes cles traveled through count- to guide and inspire young Matthew Shean, the British
sident of the Shanghai Taiwan I’ve hosted some of China Daily’s videos that documented the fruits a bold vision to make it happen less eras to create us, so that students to think about the Council’s director of English
on of China’s model of inclusive development and experience in rising and work. we — the people, China and future of our country and the language services in East Chi-
ed human follies in the forms of from poverty to economic strength, now being put forward as the Chi- Herbert Lee, English instructor at the world — can stand on the world”. na, said that before students
eological supremacy and political nese solution to global challenges. the University of Saint Joseph shoulders of giants, march Zhang Jianmin, director of can articulate their culture to
Our team visited the Ningxia Hui autonomous region last summer in Macao into the new era with our the Foreign Ministry’s Trans- other people, they need to
nterconnectedness we owe one and saw how a burgeoning winemaking industry is helping to bring head held high and make lation and Interpretation first acquire a thorough
and selfishness blind us. We forget prosperity to an arid, long-underdeveloped region. The concept of a people like professor Hawk- Department, said: “In this understanding of it.
his world does not belong to some We visited Saihanba National Forest Park in Hebei province and dis- community of ing proud.” new era of exchanges “All of us grow up in our
; that it belongs to all who breathe covered a green oasis the size of Hong Kong that’s been reclaimed from shared future for Zang emerged from among between China and the own cultures without really
the encroaching desert through generations of innovation, dedication mankind put for- 12 finalists to claim the cham- world, the 21st Century Cup analyzing them,” he said.
esides Gucci and Coach, iPhones and toil. ward by Presi- pionship in the college cate- will have an even bigger role “This competition gives stu-
Both show how a little Chinese wisdom can go a long way — deserti- dent Xi Jinping gory at Hangzhou Normal to play, especially in encour- dents the opportunity to
pen-minded and difference-friendly. fication is a problem facing numerous areas of the world, particularly in was a terrific University in Zhejiang prov- aging more Chinese students actually look in detail at
cal observations by not being self- Africa, while the “Bordeaux of China” (as Ningxia is sometimes known) idea. The mission of the institution ince, while Wang Huichen to commit themselves to both aspects of their own culture.
share educational devotion and is testament to how targeted investment, given government support, I work with is to bring financial and from Shanghai Foreign Lan- serving the country and From there, they’ll develop a
acing cooperation rather than com- can transform barren plains into award-winning vineyards. human capital that enables world- guage School won first place meeting the challenges fac- firm and solid confidence
, share peace. China has much to offer in technological realms, too, with examples class science to go to market and in the senior high school cate- ing all humankind.” and a foundation ... and can
our bosom is: Command mastery of bullet trains, speech recognition technology and big data. thrive. In Oxford, the scientists we gory. Zhang has been involved share it with the world.”
spirations of our nation. The history The country has entered a new era and is increasingly being looked work with are from all over the They received their prizes with the 21st Century Cup The annual national com-
the meaning of our endeavors: to for ideas. Among them “a community of shared future for mankind” world and therefore we under- on Sunday with other win- English-speaking contest for petition, sponsored by Coca-
rld. has won international praise. The phrase was also written into United stand the importance of an inter- ners at a ceremony held at the many years. Cola China and New Oriental
own and the different. Instead, we Nations security resolutions — reflecting the concept’s acceptance national community. All the Hangzhou International Xiong Ziqin, runner-up in Education and Technology
rned the hard way, learn to be kind, within the wider international order. companies we work for are gener- Expo Center in Zhejiang the college category, started Group, has been successfully
. ating new ideas for the benefit of province. his argument with a story held for 23 years. This year,
all humanity. That’s why one day Zang and Wang also both about attending the same col- nearly 1 million students
we need to communicate the idea received the China Daily 21st lege as his mother and grand- from across the country par-
of an international community of Century most-promising mother. The audience got to ticipated.
shared future to lots of other peo-
ple.
William Goodlad, principal of
Oxford Sciences Innovation
Voices from the competition
I was most
impressed by the
talk from Lu During the and share with each other. I’m The old era is
Li’an today when finals, we heard happy that the students are like a cocoon,
she mentioned from one of the able to express confidently and protecting us
her dream for many talented clearly the part their culture from possible
children to have competitors. played in history. dangers out-
a world of compassion. It seems He said that Christopher Powers, executive side and pro-
to me that care and compassion the world is at a crossroads of director at the TESOL Interna- viding us with warmth and
for people all over the world is cooperation and confrontation. tional Association comfort. However, the cocoon
really important and is closely That’s the choice we have. Chi- can also serve as a wall to bar
related to what I teach students. na Daily, the Ministry of Foreign The 21st Cen- us from the beautiful world
We make business and, more Affairs, the city — all of you, by tury Cup story outside. In order to make
importantly, we make friends. your presence here, have made is one of Chi- brand-new attire or to build a
Money is not the only thing that that choice, and it is for coop- nese students modern Silk Road, we have to
matters. People matter more eration, not confrontation. striving to plunge the cocoons into hot
with feelings and connections. Paul Boateng, chairman of the improve their water and obtain the silk
Sometimes if you don’t know the English-Speaking Union English speaking and commu- despite the pain. So, ladies
right etiquette, you can break a nication abilities, but more and gentlemen, don’t be
very good contract. For this rea- Our cultures important it’s a story of China’s trapped by the old era. Tran-
son and many others, people are different. remarkable progress in open- scend it, and embrace the
from all countries and regions are They are sour- ing-up and its sincere efforts new one.
encouraged to learn more about ces of pride in for better mutual understand- Ni Kan, a runner-up in the Chi-
each other. our history and ing with the outside world. na Daily 21st Century Coca-Co-
Maria Gutierrez, professor of our develop- Zhang Jianmin, director of the la Cup National English
tourism business at Zhejiang ment and how we got to be Department of Translation and Speaking Competition
International Studies University where we are. We all have Interpretation of the Ministry of
things to learn from each other Foreign Affairs CHEN XUE
of the second Vision China event at the Hangzhou International Expo Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang MA ZHENHUAN AND
Y ZHOU WENTING
8 Monday, April 16, 2018
COMMENT
EDITORIAL • OPINION
China Daily
chinadaily.com.cn/opinion
EDITORIALS
T
he military strikes the United States and its allies
launched against government targets in Syria set
a very bad example, circumventing the United
Nations and making such military actions an
option the world’s superpower can use any time it
wants against any country it doesn’t like.
The excuse was a chemical weapons attack on
the town of Douma, which the Syrian government has repeatedly
denied, with the strikes launched immediately before a fact-find-
ing mission by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons was about to begin. Why did the US and its allies not
wait until the investigation yields a result?
It reminds us of what happened to Iraq in 2003 when the Unit-
ed States invaded the country claiming Saddam Hussein had
weapons of mass destruction. But no such weapons were found,
and the war led to the protracted turmoil in Iraq and the rise of
the Islamic State group. For that war, the United States and its
allies owe the Iraqi people and the world an apology.
It is Syria this time, a country that entered its eighth year of war
in March. Nothing is more urgent than political stability and
national reconciliation for this country. At the time when the Syri-
an government forces have gained the upper hand in the civil war,
there seems no reason for it to use chemical weapons to provoke
the United States and its allies, which have long been considering
the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.
Given the complexity of the situation in Syria, the military
strikes will only make it even more difficult for the parties
involved to work out a peaceful solution and for the country to
emerge from war.
The arbitrary and abrupt military action by the United States
and its allies will likely complicate the possibility of political solu-
tions to the settlement of other hotspot issues. Its spillover effects OPINION LINE
will have an impact on the denuclearization process on the Kore-
an Peninsula, in which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
will have reason to consider the possession of nuclear weapons as Military move only complicates Aggregators
the sole guarantee for it to avert such military strikes by the Unit-
must give up
ed States and its allies.
It is a pity that the Security Council of the United Nations on
Saturday failed to adopt a resolution to condemn the airstrikes.
But history may prove them as wrong just as it has the US’ mili-
the situation in the Middle East vulgar news
tary impulsiveness in Iraq. ON FRIDAY NIGHT LOCAL TIME, United States President Donald Trump ordered military strikes TOUTIAO, a popular news ser-
against Syria, in collaboration with the United Kingdom and France. What will be the consequences? Will they vice smartphone application, has
affect the US-Russian relationship? Two experts shared their views with China Daily’s Zhang Zhouxiang: been criticized for pushing vulgar
Hainan to set pace for an Zhao Guangcheng, a researcher at the Institute of A successful businessman, Trump hopes to maxi-
and other improper information to
users. Since April 9, at the order of
Middle Eastern Studies, Northwestern University mize US interests by authorizing the military action. the State Administration of Radio
open and inclusive economy The airstrikes were the result of the escalating con-
flict between the US and Russia. Now, with the US sup-
And contrary to its claim, US interests in the Middle
East lie in chaos instead of order, because only a cha-
and Television, it closed an improp-
er sub-app and WeChat public
ported rebels losing on the battlefield, the country has otic Middle East can offer enough excuses for the US account. Later, it withdrew its app
P
resident Xi Jinping’s remarks at the Boao Forum for Asia finally decided to take direct military action. to intervene. from the Apple Store and other
in Hainan province on Tuesday, that China will further Looking at it from the US side, the Trump adminis- It is US’ strategy and the country’s competition with smartphone app stores for three
broaden market entry, attract investment, strengthen tration hopes to make achievements in diplomacy so Russia that has complicated the Syrian crisis. The US weeks so as to make changes. On
intellectual property rights protection and increase as to support Trump’s image among domestic voters as has made at least two mistakes in the Middle East in April Wednesday, Zhang Yiming, its
imports, were a reassuring affirmation that China will continue to well as gain an advantage for the Republicans in the the past few years: First, it failed to play a dominant CEO, issued a public apology letter.
advance reform and opening-up. What he said three days later coming midterm elections. That’s why the US has tak- role in the campaign against the Islamic State. Second, Thepaper.cn comments:
that China will turn Hainan Island into the world’s largest free en rather strong measures in almost everything relat- it offended its own Arab allies by recognizing Jerusa-
trade zone carries greater symbolic weight. ed to Russia — from the case of a former Russian spy lem as the capital of Israel. Toutiao must be one of the most
With Deng Xiaoping as the leading advocate, the decision was being poisoned to the Syrian crisis, the US acted in In contrast, Russia successfully increased its influ- popular smartphone apps, but it is
made 30 years ago to make Hainan province the largest special quite a strong manner. ence in the region by actively coordinating with local not a news agency. It works by
economic zone. It was eight years after the model had proved a However, by doing so, the Trump administration has powers such as Iran and Turkey. It is fair to say Russia obtaining news releases and
success in Shenzhen, but reform and opening-up had met stiff victimized the Syrian people. Seven years ago, it was has gained from its involvement in the Middle East. updates from other websites and
resistance from some in the country. the “Arab Spring”, which supported by the US dragged That’s why the Trump administration decided to pushing pieces it has selected to
However, it has proved to be a correct and timely decision, Syria into war. Today, it is still the US trying to prolong launch airstrikes on Syria — it hopes to “frighten” Rus- users.
transforming the island from a rubber farm to a regional trade, their nightmare. sia “back”. But that strategy will hardly prove effective As early as 2016, statistics show
logistics, economic and technology hub over the past three dec- Therefore, it is too early to predict the tendencies of because Russia is determined to defend its interests in Toutiao had about 600 million
ades. the situation in Syria, but one thing is certain: The Syr- the Middle East. users, of which 140 million are
And, as Xi said, all great causes move forward by carrying on ian people will suffer longer because of this decision by Especially, as the US and Europe have been trying to active users. According to a report of
the achievements of our predecessors. the US. “contain” Russia with the recent diplomatic crisis, Questmobile, an internet data com-
That the central authorities’ decision has been made public Russia is determined to break it in the Middle East. pany, every active user of Toutiao
directly by Xi, demonstrates the importance that Beijing attaches Wang Jinglie, a researcher on Middle Eastern stud- Therefore there is hardly any possibility of Russia step- spent an average 73.45 minutes on it
to the move. It comes at a time when the world’s largest economy ies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ping back. every day in 2017.
Toutiao used to let algorithms
is pursuing a beggar-thy-neighbor approach. It drives home the
decide which news to push to which
message that China will not shut its doors to the rest of the world
and that it has confidence in its chosen development path.
It is predictable that Hainan will enjoy more autonomy to lever-
Law needed on what to do with pets’ bodies users based on their “preferences”.
In January, the internet regula-
tion authorities talked with the
age its potential in promoting the trade of both goods and servi-
company’s high executives, and aft-
ces, and the development of a modern economy. DATA SHOW THAT the number of pets in China reached 250 million in 2017. However, there is no legal erwards the company recruited
But to realize these objectives, Hainan must, in the first place, clause about what to do with their bodies when they die. Beijing News comments: 2,000 editors to examine their con-
adapt its governance to the needs of these tasks. It has to realize a tent.
good balance between economic growth and ecological preserva- According to media reports, some owners contact details what to do with the bodies of animals that were But their last measure proved
tion. This is extremely crucial to the island in its bid to become a pet hospitals for help, while some simply dig a deep sick. However, the law says nothing about the bodies ineffective and complaints about
leading international tourist destination. hole in an open field and bury them. In the first case, of pets that die a natural death. Toutiao pushing vulgar and improp-
Hainan has played an important role in the past in pushing for- the hospitals might lack proper devices to deal with In comparison, some developed countries have er news continued. Considering the
ward reform and opening-up. Now it has been given the opportu- the remains of the animals. In the second case, the detailed legal clauses about disposing of the bodies of large number of users Toutiao has,
nity to do so again. This time the island province has not only to bodies might pollute underground water. pets. In France and Singapore, the law requires the the damage would be huge if the
be a pioneer in developing its own economy, it has also to be a In some cities, there are also companies running bodies of pets be cremated after they die; in the United company did not correct its ways.
forerunner setting an example for the country. graveyards for pets. But there is no legal clause about Kingdom, there are over 320 pet cremation companies Six days have passed since Toutiao
The upgrading of Hainan’s role from the regional to the glob- this new business, so when disputes arise, it is hard to providing such services. In Japan, there are similar withdrew its app from online stores,
al stage speaks volumes about how committed China is to deal with them according to the law. businesses. and there are still two weeks to go.
inclusive and shared development rather than seeking a zero- Currently, the only law that concerns the dead bod- It is time China improved its own legislation to close This is a precious opportunity for
sum trade game. ies of animals is the Animal Quarantine Law, which this loophole. Toutiao to improve itself.
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CHINA DAILY Monday, April 16, 2018 VIEWS 9
Wang Xiaoxuan Zhou Yongsheng
D
naval parade in the waters off build a strong military capable of Besides, developing the Chi- Meanwhile, the Chinese navy It should be noted that some uring his first visit to Japan as
Hainan province on Thursday. defending the country’s interests. nese navy means it will also be should maintain a scale in keep- other countries constitute a State councilor and foreign minis-
The display, involving more China has long strived to mod- better able to contribute to the ing with its needs to defend its severe challenge to China’s ter from Sunday to Tuesday, Wang
than 10,000 navy personnel, and ernize its navy to guarantee mar- world’s peace and stability and interests. The Chinese navy interests and maritime peace, Yi will co-chair the fourth China-
a flotilla of 48 vessels, was held itime security. To achieve that humanitarian and rescue oper- should increase its aggregate especially some powers that Japan High-Level Economic Dialogue with
ahead of the planned live-fire goal, the Chinese navy has to ations. To be a world-class navy, tonnage of naval vessels, which threaten China’s sovereignty Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono in
military exercise in the Taiwan strengthen its comprehensive the Chinese navy should catch is currently relatively small, in and interests in its waters in Tokyo, which is welcome news for both
Straits on Wednesday. capabilities both in terms of up with the world’s most order to increase its capability to the name of “freedom of navi- countries.
The display and naval drill hardware and operational effec- advanced navies. confront the naval hegemonies gation”. Since September 2012, when the Japanese
have been hyped by Western tiveness. However, it will take unremit- in the world. The international community government decided to “nationalize” China’s
media as China showing-off its China has held military train- ting efforts to achieve the goal of But no matter how powerful should realize that a rising China Diaoyu Islands, bilateral relations have suf-
force, but such drills are essen- ing drills and exercises in other building up a strong navy. the Chinese navy grows, China with a strong navy will be better fered one blow after another. Even though
tial for the People’s Liberation areas such as the East China Sea. Despite the Chinese navy’s huge will always follow a defensive able to safeguard its own nation- President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime
Army Navy to develop its readi- And the drill and parade in the progress, it should be recognized defense policy and will never al security and regional peace. Minister Shinzo Abe met at the Asia-Pacific
ness to safeguard national sov- South China Sea, is of no differ- that there exists a considerable deviate from it. Moreover, the Economic Cooperation meeting in Beijing in
ereignty and maritime ence to any other drills in the gap between the Chinese navy Chinese navy has never bullied The author is a Beijing-based November 2014, bilateral ties remained cold.
interests. The parade was a spe- waters under China’s jurisdiction. and the navies of developed any other country in the past, military expert. The deep structural problems between the
two countries are yet to be solved. For China,
Japan’s illegal “nationalization” of the Diao-
Zhai Shilei and Xie Gang yu Islands and its leaders’ distortion of the
country’s history before and during World
It’s time Australia changed its China policy War II are unacceptable.
As some differences
between China and
T
he Australian media ra to adjust its cooperation
have been trying to hype strategy, and accord the deserved
the “China threat” theo- importance to its relations with Japan ... cannot be
ry — the latest example China, which is not only the larg-
being a piece of fake news which est investor in Australia but also resolved overnight, the
says, “China will establish a per- Australia’s largest market. Add to two sides should try to
manent military base in Vanua- that the fact that China is the
tu” and claims the move will
change geopolitics in the South
source of the largest number of
foreign tourists and students to
narrow down their
Pacific. Another example is Australia, and we have a perfect differences and reach
the reports, based on hear- recipe for win-win trade coopera-
say, which first surfaced tion and cultural communication agreements on other
about a year and a half between the two countries.
ago, claiming China That Beijing-Canberra rela- issues ...
was buying polit- tions have the support of the peo-
ical influence ples of both countries is also
in Australia — evident in a poll conducted by Besides, Japan’s attempts to amend its
which Beijing Australia’s Lowy Institute, which pacifist Constitution to build a regular mili-
firmly refuted says over the past five years, most tary, and its moves to break the regional bal-
last year. Australians have come to recog- ance pose a threat to China’s national
Although Australia nize China as a friend, and an security. And that Japanese leaders wrongly
claims to have “cured” itself important trade partner despite assume China is a threat to their country
of the Cold-War mentality, it still the rise of anti-China sentiment further complicates the situation.
accords excessive priority to in some parts of world after Another factor that plays a vital role in
security over economic coopera- 2008. Moreover, Pew Research Japan’s attitude toward China is the United
tion. For proof, one has to just Center data in July 2017 showed States’ Asia-Pacific policy, especially its Chi-
look at Australia’s Foreign Policy people aged between 18 and 29 na policy. Japan has been following the US
White Paper released in Novem- years in developed countries, in diplomacy since the end of World War II.
ber 2017, which highly values the who have been witness to China’s But with the seemingly maturing Sino-US
country’s longtime partnership remarkable development and relationship — thanks to Xi’s visit to the US
with the United States and views achievements, hold a more posi- and US President Donald Trump’s visit to
with suspicion the actions of Chi- tive attitude toward the country. China last year — suffering setbacks over the
na, its largest trade partner. Given their mutually bene- past few months, Japanese politicians are
Australia, it appears, believes ficial trade cooperation uncertain about future Sino-US ties.
in the strategy of using both Chi- and positive pub- Hopefully, some economic data for 2017
na and the US to maximize its lic opinion, will make Abe realize he should no longer
security and economic interests, Australia hesitate to improve ties with China. China
but the fact is that the strategy and China contributed more than 30 percent to world
has hampered its long-term should economic growth; Sino-Japanese trade
development. make more increased by over 10 percent to reach $300
Thanks to its security-centered LIMIN / FOR CHINA DAILY efforts to strengthen their rela- billion again last year; Japanese enterprises
strategy, Canberra backs the tionship — for example, by form- invested about $3.2 billion in China, 5.3 per-
Washington-led international China is a “threat to the world as saying: “The challenge is to say berra to adjust its diplomacy, ing a new international cent more than in 2016; and over 7 million
order. While it seeks a rule-based order”, on the other hand Austra- how do we show a little bit of which has had a negative impact cooperation platform based on Chinese tourists visited Japan and spent
order in the Asia-Pacific region, it lian President Malcolm Turnbull skepticism and caution without on China-Australia ties. the Belt and Road Initiative — to about $14 billion there. Only one conclusion
also seeks a military and political said China was not a threat necessarily saying, ‘Everything Plus, what many call a loom- further promote mutual prosper- can be drawn from the data — that Japan
alliance in the “Indo-Pacific” to before embarking on a visit to the you do, China, must be seen as a ing trade war between China ity and better safeguard regional has no option but to improve its relations
check China’s increasing regional US in February. threat to our national security’.” and the US has put Australia in stability. with China. Of course, China will also be
influence, but not its trade. Besides, Australia’s stance on Over the past 10 years, Australia a rather tough situation, where able to accelerate the upgrading of its indus-
Signals from Australia have the China-proposed Belt and has benefited from its pragmatic its strategy of using both China Zhai Shilei is a researcher and tries if bilateral ties improve.
been mixed. While on the one Road Initiative is muddled and and practical diplomacy. But it and the US will neither earn it Xie Gang an associate researcher History shows bilateral cooperation pro-
hand the White Paper stresses confused. In fact, abc.net.au has seems Washington’s political pres- more profits nor strengthen its at the Center for Australia Stud- duces win-win result for any two countries
the need to consolidate the quoted Nick Bisley, a China sure — perhaps using security as a security. ies, China University of Mining and antagonism hurts both. As some differ-
US-Australia alliance and claims expert from La Trobe University, bargaining chip — prompted Can- So it is necessary for Canber- and Technology. ences between China and Japan, such as his-
torical issues and territorial disputes, cannot
be resolved overnight, the two sides should
Amitendu Palit try to narrow down their differences and
reach agreements on other issues, so as to
T
hat China remains worked well for the world. It has the US tariffs is their so-called tectionist actions — and created ing risks and analyzing details, while Japa-
committed to further generated new growth opportu- justification on national security problems for the orderly func- nese companies are good at maximizing the
opening up its econo- nities for the developing world, China’s policy grounds. Since the establish- tioning of global trade. use of every penny but not so good at strate-
my, and deepening and by giving less-developed coun- ment of the WTO in 1995, the US But counter-protectionism is gic planning. If the two countries’ enter-
widening domestic financial tries’ goods and services access decisions to lower tariffs are the first example of a not the answer to tackling pro- prises work together under the framework
reforms were the central messa- to world markets, developing WTO member economy describ- tectionism. The best way to of the Belt and Road Initiative, they could
ges of President Xi Jinping’s global supply chains linking low-
tariffs, increase ing imports as “damaging” for address the protectionist actions produce high-quality and long-term win-
keynote speech at the Boao
Forum for Asia on April 10.
income countries and enabling
the developing countries to
imports and the domestic economy and
national security. This would
is to demonstrate the benefits of
economic globalization and to
win results.
The China-Japan High-level Economic
The address has created new attract capital and technology. expand foreign give other WTO members the stay committed to the process. Dialogue, resuming after eight years, is
hope that the recent rise in trade The result has been the rise of opportunity to use national secu- In this respect, Xi’s address at expected to cover three topics: Japanese
protectionism in some econo- strong emerging market econo- ownership in major rity as a ground for resorting to the Boao Forum underlines the enterprises’ investment in China, further
mies will be short-lived — and mies such as China, Brazil, India, protectionist measures. contrast in the views of world opening-up of Japan’s market to Chinese
thus not have a serious impact Mexico, Turkey and Indonesia. domestic industries Besides, if national security leaders on globalization. The US’ enterprises, and their detailed cooperation
on global economic growth. It Indeed, Asia’s current prominent becomes the major factor decid- effort to use protectionist meas- programs under the Belt and Road Initia-
has also underlined the fact that position in the world economy are an effective ing international trade relations, ures to settle trade imbalances tive. The topics gain added importance in
protectionism does not enjoy has much to do with the expan- the prospects for global trade means it is moving in a direction the light of Xi’s keynote address at the Boao
broad-based global support sion of the global trading mecha- strategy for backing will hardly look bright. Tariffs opposite to global economic inte- Forum for Asia on April 10, where he said
among world leaders. While nism under the WTO. The rising raised on national security gration. China will further open up its market to the
countries might have specific specter of trade protectionism
globalization. grounds further undermine the On the other hand, China’s outside world. It offers Japan an opportunity
constituencies demanding pro- works against not only this spirit credibility of the WTO, which policy decisions to lower tariffs, as well as a challenge: If Japan deepens
tection, as a global policy, protec- of the WTO but also the global offers its members large latitude increase imports and expand cooperation, it will prosper together with
tionism cannot benefit bigger trade body’s principle of “most in tackling economic difficulties foreign ownership in major China, but if it fails to do so, it could be mar-
sections of the global population. favored nation”, or MFN. rules face serious challenges — if arising from large flows of domestic industries are an effec- ginalized.
The series of trade protection- By committing to MFN, the countries resort to unilateral imports, including safeguards tive strategy for backing globali- Therefore, Wang’s visit not only offers
ist measures taken by the United WTO member economies com- protectionist moves like the US against import surges as well as zation. In the long run, and as Japan a golden opportunity to improve
States in recent days is serious in mit to allowing each other mutu- has — by announcing additional anti-dumping actions. These are history has shown, this is what is bilateral ties, but also a chance to deepen its
several respects. To begin with, it al access to domestic markets tariffs on steel and aluminum in addition to the institutional crucial for global welfare. domestic reform to achieve faster economic
undoes the hard work done by unless compelled by specific eco- imports, followed by extra tariffs processes for settling inter-econ- growth. And let us not forget that improved
the World Trade Organization nomic conditions and circum- on $50 billion worth of Chinese omy disputes. By not resorting to The author is a senior research China-Japan relations will be a boon to East
over the last couple of decades in stances. This principle of products, and most recently pro- the WTO’s “checks and balances” fellow and research lead (trade Asia and the Asia-Pacific region as a whole.
bringing down tariffs across the reciprocal non-discriminatory posing further tariffs on $100 and acting unilaterally, the US and economic policy) at the Insti-
world. The multilateral rules- trade liberalization gets severely billion of Chinese imports. has undermined the importance tute of South Asian Studies in the The author is a professor of Japanese studies
based trade framework has affected — and multilateral trade Another major problem with of the WTO — through its pro- National University of Singapore. at China Foreign Affairs University.
10 WORLD Monday, April 16, 2018 CHINA DAILY
were covering the mass pro- protests in the third consecu- crimes against them,” the
Omer al-Zain, a local journalist
tests on the border between tive Friday mass rally against Union said in a statement.
the Gaza Strip and Israel. Israelis, in which Palestinian Ministry of Information in
On April 6, Yasser Murtaga, women were on front lines men. Palestinian women are the Palestinian Authority con-
a 30-year-old cameraman with Israeli soldiers. Hun- always at the forefront,” she sidered the “deliberate” target-
from Gaza city, was shot dead dreds were wounded, Gaza said proudly. ing of press and media crews
by Israeli troops east of the health officials said. During the confrontation, as a blatant violation of the UN
O’Connell Tower in Dublin southern Gaza town of Khan The heavy shooting of bul- three journalists were wound- Security Council resolutions.
Younis while he was filming lets and tear gas by Israeli army ed, including one in critical The ministry said in a state-
for a local news and TV pro- did not prevent women dem- condition, while covering the ment that the injury of the
However, in 1971, a huge duction company. onstrators from joining the events. three journalists was Israel’s
bomb containing 10 As part of the six-week weekly rallies in border areas. Spokesman of the Ministry accountability, adding the UN
pounds of gelignite hit the ongoing protest called “the Near Salsabil, Sarah, a of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Security Council held an
base of the tower, causing Great March of Return”, which 20-year-old girl, carried car al-Qedra, said that Ahmed urgent meeting to implement
structural damage and started on March 30, the Pales- tires to demonstrators and Abu Aalwa and Mohammed resolution 2222 to protect the
destroying the interior tinians have staged five rallies helped young men pull up al-Hajjar, both journalists journalists.
staircase. in eastern Gaza Strip along the barbed wire placed by the Israe- working for local Palestinian Despite all difficulties, jour- Childhood Holocaust survivors exchange photographs at the
The explosion was border with Israel. li army before the border fence. organizations, were moderate- nalists continue to cover the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum memorial on Wednesday. AP
blamed on loyalist paramil- The rallies are expected to “The Palestinian women are ly wounded in northern Gaza. ongoing events to provide
itaries from Northern Ire- last until May 15, the day after an integral part of the society updated information.
land, but it has never been
officially confirmed who
the 70th anniversary of Israel’s
declaration of independence
... today they are to prove this,”
Sarah said after she gave a car
’Convey the truth’
Ahmad Abu Hussein, a local
“We will do our best to convey
the truth, regardless of the dan-
Friends separated by
really conducted the attack, but marked by the Palestini- tire to a masked protester. radio operator, was severely gers we are facing,” said Omer
said officials in charge of
the maintenance of the
ans as the Nakba Day, or “Day
of the Catastrophe”.
“The national struggle and
defending the refugees’ right
wounded in the same area by a
gunshot in the abdomen, said
al-Zain, a young local journalist. the Holocaust reunite
tower. The Gaza Health Ministry to return are not limited to Qedra. XINHUA
In 2016, Glasnevin Trust, LOS ANGELES — When museum on Sunday to
the largest funeral services Alice Gerstel bid an emotion- recount to visitors how the
provider in Ireland, which
also runs Glasnevin Ceme-
tery among others, started
South Africa’s heroine Mandela laid to rest al farewell to her family’s
closest friends in October
1941, she was hopeful she’d
Holocaust ripped apart a pair
of families that had become
fast friends after a chance
the work to restore the SOWETO, South Africa — apartheid where she lived. see “Little Simon” Gronow- meeting at a Belgian beach
destroyed staircase that South Africa laid to rest anti- President Cyril Ramaphosa ski again. And she did 76 resort in 1939. How it put the
leads to the top of the apartheid heroine Winnie Mad- said that, just as South Africa years later and half a world other family on a perilous
tower. ikizela-Mandela on Saturday, grieved for Madikizela-Man- away from where they were journey through occupied
Officials with Glasnevin after 40,000 people from across dela, it was comforted by the separated in Brussels. France that reads like a scene
Cemetery said the the political spectrum mourned profound meaning of her life. Gerstel and her Jewish from the film Casablanca.
destroyed staircase has her at a funeral ceremony in her “In death, she has demon- family had hidden in the And, finally, how those
been restored strictly township of Soweto. strated that our many differ- Gronowskis’ home for nearly separate journeys culminat-
according to what it looked Madikizela-Mandela’s death ences along political party and two weeks before her father ed three-quarters of a centu-
like in the past. on April 2 at the age of 81 after racial lines and the numerous sent word from France that ry later in a joyful, tear-
Made of wrought iron, a long illness was met by an disputes we may have are he had reached a deal with a streaked reunion in Los
the spiral staircase consists outpouring of emotion across eclipsed by our shared desire smuggler who would get her, Angeles just before Yom
of 198 hand-carved wooden the country, with the ruling to follow her lead in building a her siblings and their mother HaShoah or Holocaust Com-
steps ascending to the top African National Congress just, equitable and caring soci- safely out of Nazi-occupied memoration Day.
of the tower with 6 landing and opposition parties hold- ety,” he said. Military pallbearers carry the coffin of apartheid icon Winnie Belgium. There was much hugging,
platforms. ing memorials to remember The afternoon burial cere- Madikizela-Mandela, in Soweto, South Africa, on Saturday. AP The Gronowskis, also Jew- kissing and crying on
With the reinstatement her courage in the struggle to mony at Fourways Memorial ish, decided to stay. They hid Wednesday as the two old
of the staircase, the ceme- end white-minority rule. Park Cemetery, north of for 18 months until the Nazis friends held hands tightly
tery expects to make the The official funeral service Johannesburg, ended a nearly 40,000-seat Orlando stadium. loud cheers in the stadium. came knocking at the fami- while sitting outside on a
tower once again a famous for the ex-wife of the late Nel- two-week mourning period Many mourners were clad Madikizela-Mandela’s legacy, ly’s door and put Simon, his museum patio to share mem-
tourist destination in son Mandela took place on Sat- declared by the government. in the green and yellow colors however, was later tarnished. sister and mother on a death ories from a long-ago past.
Dublin. urday morning in Soweto — the Earlier, mourners sang and of the ANC. Members of the As evidence emerged in the train to Auschwitz. Gerstel Weit’s family
Johannesburg township at the cheered as Madikizela-Man- leftist Economic Freedom dying years of apartheid of the “I thought the entire family immigrated to the United
XINHUA forefront of the battle against dela’s body was brought into the Fighters party also attended in brutality of her Soweto enfor- was murdered. I had no idea,” States, where she married,
large numbers. cers, known as the “Mandela Gerstel (now Gerstel Weit) had two sons and eventually
EFF leader Julius Malema, United Football Club”, some said on Wednesday, the day settled in Los Angeles.
an admirer of Madikizela- South Africans questioned her after their tearful reunion. She learned “Little Simon”
Mandela who echoes her fiery ‘Mother of the Nation’ sobri- She and her friend clutched was alive six months ago
rhetoric, said she had always quet. hands at the Los Angeles when her nephew searched
put the country “above her In 1991, Madikizela-Man- Museum of the Holocaust as her maiden name online
own personal safety” in the dela was convicted of kidnap- they recounted their story. looking for more family his-
fight against apartheid. ping and being an accessory to “You didn’t know that I tory. He came across Gro-
“She lived in constant naked assault, but her six-year jail jumped off the train?” asked nowski’s 2002 memoir, “The
contact with danger, prepared sentence was reduced to a fine Gronowski, now 86. Child of the 20th Train”, in
to lose her life, even the lives of and a two-year suspended sen- “No, no. I didn’t know any- which her family is men-
her own children, who were tence on appeal. thing,” his 89-year-old friend tioned prominently.
put into danger by her politi- replied.
cal activities,” Malema said to REUTERS The two will return to the ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHINA DAILY Monday, April 16, 2018 WORLD 11
WORLD
Monday, April 16, 2018
Briefly
UNITED STATES
to the complete lack of proof
that the Syrian government
was behind the chemical
The shadow of the 2003
invasion of Iraq still lingers in
the corridors of Britain’s par-
seeking assurance that there
would be no further bombing
raids and urged the govern-
testers left peacefully.
CPG General Secretary
Dimitris Koutsoumbas blast-
major TPP change
Boston marks 5 attack. It has been widely criti- liament, when MPs backed ment to negotiate a pause in ed Greek politicians for SYDNEY — There is “no Trans-Pacific Partnership,
cized by Syria, Russia and then-prime minister Tony the Syrian civil war. believing “flimsy excuses appetite” among the in March.
years since attack Iran, among other nations. Blair in joining US military about a use of chemical weap- Trans-Pacific Partnership Apart from Australia,
Boston marked the fifth action. Athens protest ons” by Syria. signatories for major rene- the pact also includes Bru-
anniversary of the deadly May faces backlash “Bombs won’t save lives or Thousands of Greeks gotiations to accommo- nei, Canada, Chile, Japan,
Boston Marathon bomb- British Prime Minister bring about peace,” said Jer- turned up at a rally and march XINHUA—AFP—AP date the United States, Malaysia, Mexico, New
ings with solemn remem- Australia said on Sunday Zealand, Peru, Singapore
brances and charitable after US President Donald and Vietnam, representing
acts. Mayor Marty Walsh
and Governor Charlie Bak-
er laid wreaths early on
Sunday at the spots along
Streak of a missile across Damascus’ sky Trump indicated he was
considering rejoining the
pact.
together 13.5 percent of
the global economy.
The 11 states form a mar-
Trump said on Thursday ket of 500 million people.
downtown Boylston Street DAMASCUS, Syria — It was attack. If they were fearful the US could re-enter the The deal was signed just
where two bombs killed not an explosion that woke us about where the standoff TPP if it could get a “bet- before Trump slapped
three spectators and up, but a call from a friend in between Syria, Russia and the ter” deal, a major U-turn steep tariffs on imported
maimed more than 260 Damascus to alert us: The US over an alleged chemical after leaving the Pacific steel and aluminium.
others on April 15, 2013. strikes had begun. It was just attack was going, few showed trade pact last year and Japan will propose set-
after 4 am on Saturday. I it. calling it a jobs killer. ting up a new framework
Director Milos rushed out of my hotel room There was no sense of But Australia’s Trade to discuss trade issues
up to the Associated Press dread, and Damascus’ main Minister Steven Ciobo said with the United States in a
Forman dies at 86 office a few floors above. market, Souq al-Hamidiyya, he “can’t see any appetite summit next week, in
Oscar-winning film direct- By the time I got there, anti- was packed with thousands of for any kind of wholesale hopes of persuading it to
or Milos Forman, celebrat- aircraft guns were at work, people the day before the renegotiations of the TPP rejoin the TPP, the Nikkei
ed for One Flew Over the their tracers dotting the night attack. deal to accommodate the newspaper said on Satur-
Cuckoo’s Nest and Ama- sky over the Syrian capital. Hours after the strikes, offi- United States”. day.
deus, has died aged 86, his Our office, facing east, provid- cials took journalists to the “Now don’t get me Prime Minister Shinzo
agents told AFP on Satur- ed an almost theatrical view. Syrian Scientific Research wrong, that’s not saying we Abe will make the propos-
day. “I heard from (Form- To the left was the mountain Center on Damascus’ eastern don’t want the Americans al when he meets Trump at
an’s wife) Martina Forman overlooking Damascus from edge. The strikes had reduced back in, we do,” Ciobo told Mar-a-Lago, the presi-
very early this morning let- which Syrian air defenses The Scientific Research Center in the Barzeh neigborhood the complex to smoldering Sky News Australia. dent’s Florida resort, on
ting me know Milos passed were firing. Straight in front of northeast of Damascus, after Saturday’s missile strikes by the rubble. “But what I am saying is Tuesday and Wednesday,
away at Danbury Hospital us was the orange glow from US, the UK and France. MONSEF MEMARI / XINHUA But the sense of defiance I can’t see us unpicking all the paper said.
near his home in Warren, fires on the city outskirts was in full force on Saturday. the stitching that brought Economy Minister
Connecticut,” his friend where the airstrikes carried The surface-to-air missiles another one further behind it. Residents massed in the this deal together to Toshimitsu Motegi is likely
and agent Dennis Aspland out by the United States, Brit- began to fire. This was the shot The AP team had arrived in streets, waving Syrian flags accommodate the US at to lead the Japanese dele-
said. Czech news agency ain and France had hit. I had planned for. My first pic- Damascus from Beirut earlier and chanting in support of this point.” gation, with his counter-
CTK quoted Martina Form- I was already all set up. Days ture was no good it was out of in the week. We were far from President Bashar Assad. In the Eleven Asia-Pacific part likely to be US Trade
an as saying her husband earlier, I had put my camera in the frame. But the second the only spectators in those eyes of government support- nations signed a slimmed- Representative Robert
died suddenly on Friday place on its tripod out on the captured the moment: The pre-dawn hours. ers, it seemed, the strikes had down version of the trade Lighthizer, the paper said,
after a short illness. balcony, hooked to a remote streak of the missile, drawn Many Damascus residents come and gone. agreement, now known as without citing sources.
control so I could operate it out in the long exposure, had spent the past nights on the Comprehensive and
AFP—XINHUA—AP from inside. lanced up into the night, their rooftops watching for an ASSOCIATED PRESS Progressive Agreement for AFP—REUTERS
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Scrutiny: AMCs
GOING GLOBAL
Experts say tariff clash betrays US anxiety asset price volatility, and
pose challenges to monetary
policy regulation and finan-
cial risk management. In
Ratings.
“A more unified approach
could enhance regulatory
oversight and help to limit
recent years, it has been seen contagion risks, which
BEIJING — Anxiety over nese goods worth $100 billion. Social Sciences. as a major threat to financial would be positive for the
China’s rising economic and In its national security strat- Meanwhile, by putting US stability not only in China long-term stability of the
technological power is the ulti- egy last year, the US adminis- products such as soybeans, but the world over. financial system,” it said.
mate reason behind recent US tration painted China as a rival automobiles and aircraft on
moves on trade disputes with power eroding US security and the list of China’s retaliatory
China, analysts said.
Deterring Chinese exports is
prosperity, a country whose
share of the world’s economy
tariff plan, China’s resolute
response has already hit the Leverage: Efforts on
to clean up WMPs
not the real goal of the aggres- was only 1.8 percent 40 years US where it hurts.
sive trade moves by the United ago but is now the world’s sec- “Imposing tariffs on soy-
States, according to Ye Fujing, ond-largest economy with beans and other farm produce
head of the Institute of Inter- leading technologies in many would make a massive impact,
national Economic Research, sectors. although their per unit prices From page 13 the balance of interbank
which is part of the Chinese China’s rapid advancement are relatively low,” said Bai WMPs dropped by 3.6 trillion
Academy of Macroeconomic in key technologies has made it Ming, a researcher with the lative WMPs. The outstand- yuan year-on-year. The
Research. a target in the US 301 Section Chinese Academy of Interna- Maintenance staff at work at a high-speed railway yard of CRRC’s ing balance of WMPs growth of the wealth man-
“The hidden agenda behind investigation, accusing China tional Trade and Economic Malaysia subsidiary. High-speed trains symbolize the Chinese man- reached 29.05 trillion yuan, agement business fell to 1
the US trade deficit and forced of forced technology transfer Cooperation. ufacturing sector’s prowess, which has sparked envy and admira- or 25 percent of the entire percent, down by 26.6 per-
technology transfer claims is from US companies via Aiming at items such as tion among economic competitors. XINHUA asset management business centage points from the pre-
to check China’s high-end requirements for joint ven- automobiles and aircraft also nationwide, at the end of vious year.
industrial development and its tures and shareholding. “threw a punch” at US manu- 2016. The war on financial risks
ongoing economic transfor- “The aim of the Made in Chi- facturing industries, Bai said. ment at Peking University. the Renmin University of Chi- Since last year, the coun- will continue this year, with
mation,” Ye said. na 2025 plan is certainly to “China is in the process of The US tariff list is harming na. try’s top banking regulator renewed efforts to crack
Less than two days after Chi- strengthen China’s manufac- further opening up its services its own enterprises. It will If the trade friction esca- has been issuing a number of down on shadow banking
na matched the earlier $50 bil- turing industries via techno- sector. The US risks losing the affect many high-tech and lates, US firms are expected to directives to reduce financial activities and further rectifi-
lion tariff wager on the US side logical innovation, but the whole Chinese market if it advanced manufacturing see losses in their share in the leverage, address noncompli- cation of financial irregulari-
with a similar one of its own, plan itself has not violated any pushes too hard,” said Yu Miao- products made by US firms Chinese market, he said. ant practices and improve ties, said Guo Shuqing, head
the Trump administration principles,” said Huang Qun- jie, deputy director of the operating in China, according risk management. of the regulator for the bank-
threatened extra duties on Chi- hui of the Chinese Academy of National School of Develop- to Professor Wang Xiaosong of XINHUA As at the end of January, ing and insurance industries.
CHINA DAILY Monday, April 16, 2018 BUSINESS 15
Unilever, Alibaba’s Tmall join forces to set up R&D center for health products
By ZHU WENQIAN reach an estimated 16 trillion erate with Tmall online and
in Shanghai
zhuwenqian@chinadaily.com.cn $1.27 yuan. The market has become
the new favorite for many
investors and companies.
offline, and consumers will be
able to experience the prod-
ucts at the brick-and-mortar
Rotterdam-based consumer
trillion Unilever said the new R&D stores, and then scan the QR
goods company Unilever Plc estimated size of China’s center will enable its personal or quick-response codes at the
and Tmall, Alibaba’s online healthcare-related sectors in care brands, as well as Blueair stores to shop online.
marketplace for reputable 2020 and Qinyuan, to further coop- In the next few years, Uni-
retailers, have built a new erate with Alibaba. lever and Tmall will expand
research and development cen- For instance, the center has their cooperation to more sec-
ter to promote health-related introduced a new skincare tors and grab more business
products. In 2016, the Chinese govern- product, which was developed opportunities together. Both
The center will seek to ment proposed the “Healthy based on consumer demand sides aim to integrate more
explore new opportunities in China 2030” initiative, the analysis. The period from R&D R&D and innovation resour-
China’s healthcare market. country’s first national-level to the launch of a product has ces and make more compre-
In early April, the two sides medium- to long-term strate- also been shortened to six hensive and precise forecasts
co-launched Tmall Innovation gic plan for national health months from two years. of the future consumer trends.
Center and Unilever Joint and wellbeing. “We applied a flexible supply “Brands should build good
Innovation Lab at the R&D Currently, the health sector chain management model. The online platforms, and the
center of Unilever in Shanghai, in China contributes about 6 core of the mechanism is that related data and member ser-
one of the six biggest global percent to the GDP, which is the capacity will be smaller and vices should also be integrated
R&D centers of the company. lower than the average 10 per- more flexible, and we can quick- online and offline. Besides,
The center will focus on the Researchers from Unilever show the latest body wash sample at the Tmall Innovation Center & Unilev- cent of developed countries. ly respond to any problems,” brands should outline clear
R&D of health products, such er Joint Innovation Lab in Shanghai on April 9. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY The initiative forecasts that said Zhao Wenfeng, director of pictures of their targeted con-
as personal care products, and by 2020, the total scale of personal cleansing products at sumers and launch products
water and air purification lever, and the big data and new worldwide to improve their produce healthcare products, healthcare-related sectors in Unilever North Asia. that are more precisely tai-
products, leveraging the retail resources of Alibaba. health conditions. Toward such as air purifier manufac- China will exceed 8 trillion Meanwhile, more than 500 lored,” said Neil Wang, presi-
advantages of supply chain Unilever said it would help that end, the company turer Blueair and water purifi- yuan ($1.27 trillion). outlets of Qinyuan across 100 dent of consulting firm Frost &
management abilities of Uni- more than 1 billion people acquired some companies that er maker Qinyuan. By 2030, that will likely cities in the country will coop- Sullivan in China.
CHINA DAILY Monday, April 16, 2018 Markets | BUSINESS 17
Chinese market continues to grow at a steady pace in the first three months of the year, Li Fusheng reports. The Renault Formula One team
unveiled Tmall as its latest car sponsor
in Shanghai on Thursday. It is the first
C
armakers in China sold major brand campaign since French
7.18 million cars in the car manufacturing group, Dongfeng
first quarter of the year, Renault Autmobile, and Alibaba Inc
up 2.8 percent from entered into a partnership on March 7.
a year ago, according to data The two parties have joined hands to
released by the China Association offer the Koleos 120 anniversary limited
of Automobile Manufacturers on edition model through the Renault
Wednesday. Tmall store at a price of 208,800 yuan
The growth was primarily the ($32,975.81) for the 2-liter version
result of a 4.7 percent growth in and 222,800 for the 2.5-liter version.
March sales, which reached 2.66 Tmall is expecting to fuel Renault’s
million cars in the month. car business with the big data from its
Despite the rise in the first customers.
quarter, sales were 4.2 percent-
age points lower than the year-
on-year growth figure for January
to March 2017, according to the
association.
Shi Jianhua, deputy secretary-
general of the association, said
the upturn was in line with those
seen in the same period over the
past few years, signaling that the
Chinese car market is growing
steadily. Renault Sport joined hands with Tmall
In the first quarter, passenger and unveiled the latest F1 racers’ car,
car sales, which accounted for the R.S. 18, with Tmall logo on Thursday in
bulk of total car sales, reached Shanghai. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
6.1 million, up 2.6 percent year-
on-year. Porsche’s first quarter
In March, the sales were 2.17
million units, up 3.5 percent year- sales up 3% in China
on-year. Porsche AG delivered around 63,500
The growth in the first quar- vehicles worldwide in the first quarter
ter was mainly the result of SUV of 2018, with an increase of 6 percent
sales, which grew 11.3 percent compared with the previous year. This
year-on-year to 2.66 million units. represents the most successful first
Although the growth rate has quarter in the sports car manufacturer’s
slowed down a lot compared with history. China was again the largest
last year, it was the only segment individual market for Porsche. With
that saw a double-digit growth. more than 18,600 vehicles sold, the
In the same period, sedan sales A Toyota Corolla twin-engine hybrid sedan attracts attention at an auto show in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. SHI JIANXUE / FOR CHINA DAILY
Chinese market exceeded last year’s
posted a meager 0.8 percent growth result by 3 percent from 18,126 units
rate, with 2.86 million units sold, from the same period in 2017. Once
but remains the largest segment market share, 1 percentage point the secretary-general of the asso- of March, according to the China again, the most successful model was
by size. higher than the same period in ciation, said policy changes might Electric Vehicle Charging Infra- the Macan. More than 23,000 of the
Sales of multi-purpose vehicles 2017. produce some effects, but the con- structure Promotion Alliance. sporty SUVs have been sold worldwide.
fell 16.5 percent, and that of mini- Japanese brands saw their mar- tinuous sales growth also shows The number of private charging
vans slumped 37.2 percent in the
same period.
We are confident in ket share edge up a little bit, while
the market shares of American and
the demand for such cars is also
growing fast.
poles in the country totaled around
393,000 as of March. Lamborghini Urus SUV to
Cars with smaller engines were new energy cars and South Korean brands dipped in the In an earlier interview, Xu Commercial cars, including debut at Beijing Auto show
the most popular choices. Statis- period. said:“We are confident in new buses and trucks, also reported
tics from the association show that see no problems in New energy cars, which consist energy cars and see no problems in a decent sales performance. In Automobili Lamborghini will bring
an unprecedented lineup to the 2018
those with engines no larger than of electric cars, plug-in hybrids and their sales reaching 1 million units March, 488,000 vehicles were sold,
1.6 liters totaled 4.17 million units their sales reaching 1 fuel-cell cars, saw solid growth. in 2018.” a 5.8 percent rise from the same Beijing Auto Show, presenting the
from January to March, accounting A total of 67,778 units were sold China sold 777,000 such cars last month last year. That brought sales Lamborghini Huracán Performante
for 68.3 percent of passenger car million units in 2018.” in March, surging 117 percent year- year. It is estimated that China has in the first quarter to 1.08 million Spyder in its Asian debut, the world’s
sales in the period. on-year. Sales in the first quarter now 1.9 million new energy vehicles units, up nearly 4.1 percent year- first Super SUV Urus in its public debut
Xu Haidong, an assistant to in Asia, and the roadster version of
In the first quarter, cars bear- reached 142,577 units, a 154 percent on its roads. on-year. Of these, bus sales were
the secretary-general of the the V12 flagship model Aventador S.
ing Chinese marques accounted for growth year-on-year. The country overtook the United 97,000 units, up 2 percent from the
China Association of Automobile Representing the three model lines
45.2 percent of total passenger car Some industry insiders said part States as the world’s largest new same period last year and truck
Manufacturers of Lamborghini, the lineup is set to
sales, half a percentage point lower of the reason for the fast growth is energy car market in 2015. sales stood at 985,000 units, a 4.3
than the same quarter last year. because the authorities have said Charging networks for such percent growth year-on-year. demonstrate the brand’s passion on
Shi said it was a quite a feat for fierce Chinese market. that such cars will be entitled to less vehicles have also been growing stage from April 25.
Chinese brands to hold a 40-per- They were followed by German subsidies starting from June. rapidly, with a total of 253,074 pub- Contact the writer at lifusheng@
cent-plus share in the vast and brands, which had a 20.9 percent But Xu Haidong, an assistant to lic charging poles built by the end chinadaily.com.cn General Motors orders
increase domestically
General Motors said that sales in the
Domestic carmakers ramp up smart development, connectivity first three months of this year totaled
986,052 units, up 8 percent from the
same period last year. GM and its
Chinese ventures delivered 352,346
By HAO YAN advantage in these fields because vehicles in March, up 2 percent year-
haoyan@chinadaily.com.cn they work in a progressive way on-year, according to a statement
with technology companies. published by GM on its website
Chinese carmakers are con- Deloitte also found that Chi- on April 8. Its brands Cadillac and
tinuing to make progress in the nese customers perceive the Chevrolet performed well in March.
development of intelligent con- brands and vehicles with such Sales of Cadillac rose 46 percent to
nected vehicles by leveraging the technologies as more premium 18,007 units last month. Chevrolet
domestic market’s preference for than those that don’t. grew 35 percent from a year earlier to
high-tech functions and more On Thursday in Chongqing, 47,017 units, and Buick deliveries rose 4
premium brands. State-owned car maker Chongq- percent to 92,007 units. Sales of Wuling
Two domestic automakers ing Changan Automobile joined and Baojun vehicles fell 7.9 percent and
announced their intelligent devel- hands with Tencent Holdings, 5.4 percent in March when compared to
opment strategy on Wednesday another Chinese internet giant, a year earlier.
in Beijing. The companies will in developing intelligent and con-
use Baidu Inc’s Apollo platform in nected vehicles. Alibaba-backed carmaker
their latest products which were Zhu Huarong, president of aims to raise over $1.6b
launched at the event. Changan Automobile said it was
Chery Automobile revealed its an inevitable trend that con- Xiaopeng Motors, the Chinese car
CheryLion intelligent develop- nectivity and cloud computing startup that is backed by Alibaba Group
ment plan, and launched its first inject new power to the automo- Holding Ltd and Foxconn Technology
smart model Tiggo 8, a mid- to bile industry, and that vehicles Group, plans to raise more than 10
large-size sport utility vehicle. in the future are set to be more billion yuan ($1.6 billion) this year in
Dongfeng Motor’s passenger intelligent. a bid to take on rivals in the world’s
vehicle brand Dongfeng Feng- Industrial insiders have said biggest market for electric vehicles.
guang’s iX5 smart crossover that local car makers are try- The company plans to start pre-sales
model was also launched at the ing to lure customers with the of its first model, the G3 Crossover,
same event. cutting-edge technologies for the by the end of this month, founder He
“We will keep upgrading very younger generation who appre- Xiaopeng said. Xiaopeng is among
frequently, and we will progress ciate gadgets. “Chinese brands many startups striving to become
with our intelligent manufactur- Zhu Guohua, executive director of Chery Automobile’s intelligent vehicle business unit, demonstrates Tiggo 8’s provided tech equipment without China’s Tesla Inc, and reshape
ing,” Chen Anning, general man- connectivity with mobile devices at the model’s launch ceremony on Wednesday in Beijing. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY extra charge, before international the auto industry as the country
ager of Chery Automobile, told giants discovered it’s an effective promotes new-energy vehicles.
China Daily. approach to catching the eyes of
Chen Anning said, “China is companies are in general in the customer side from more flex- younger customers,” said Li Qin- Mercedes plans electric
leading the world in intelligent forefront of innovation and intel- ible orders to meet individual- gwen, president of the Car-Bingo
manufacturing. The slow motion ligent development. The chal- ized demands,” he said in a group Academy.
S-Class to challenge Tesla
in refreshing car models is not an lenge is the meaningful integra- interview. “Chinese carmakers have sur- Mercedes-Benz is developing a battery-
approach in the intelligent era. China is leading the tion of distal intelligent solutions Baidu Inc announced its Apollo veyed customers and know they powered sedan about the size of its
“The international giants’ and automation. project last year. It is an open like them,” he added. $90,000 flagship S-Class, to challenge
five-to-10-year duration between world in intelligent “The next level of this intel- autonomous driving platform, Equipment that is currently the Tesla Model S for high-end electric-
each generation of models won’t ligent production system is the and the internet giant claims it popular includes tablets, connec-
fit into today’s customer needs, manufacturing. digital Integration of the whole has gained more than 90 partners tivity, voice control and remote
car buyers. The new full-size sedan,
dubbed the EQ S, will be part of
while user behaviors are evolving supply chain.” for the platform so far. control in mobile phone apps.
very fast.”
The slow motion in Zhu Guohua, executive director Chinese automotive executives Overseas auto brands are follow-
Daimler AG unit’s push to introduce
10 all-electric vehicles by 2022, Chief
Chinese OEMs have setup
meaningful levels of automation,
refreshing car models of Chery Automobile’s intelligent
vehicle business unit, said the
have continued to highlight con-
nectivity and digitalization as
ing the lead of Chinese carmakers
in offering some of these gadgets
Executive Officer Dieter Zetsche said
Wednesday. The EQ line will be flanked
that is, integrated well coordi-
nated automation can be titled
is not an approach in manufacturer will upgrade its
entire value chain through digi-
a key priority, followed by the
increased adoption of big data
in their standard models.
Surveys show that the average
by plug-in hybrid models offering a
“totally different” battery range than
as having the most intelligent the intelligent era.” talization and intelligent tech- analytics to create value, accord- age of Chinese customers is below today, while conventional vehicles will
systems in place, according to nologies. ing to a KPMG’s Global Automo- that of most major overseas mar- feature so-called mild hybrids with
Michael Adick, managing direc- Chen Anning, general manager of “CheryLion is a platform across tive Executive Survey 2018. kets, they are early adopters of 48-volt technology in a shift away from
tor, auto industry, Accenture Chery Automobile all functions and values that will Global consultancy Deloitte new technologies and tend to pure combustion power.
Greater China. not only benefit our manufac- discovered in earlier research replace the car at shorter inter-
He told the reporter, “Chinese turing side, but also cover the that Chinese car makers enjoy an vals. MOTORING - AGENCIES
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LIFE
Monday, April 16, 2018
PITCH PERFECT
This year’s NCPA May Festival will see some of the world’s
most talented violinists take to the stage. Chen Nan reports.
A
s he slowly lifts two concerto, which was written
valuable violins in 1959 by two Chinese
from their cases, a composers, He Zhanhao and
1734 violin made by Chen Gang, then students at
Giuseppe Guarneri and a 1699 the Shanghai Conservatory of
violin made by Antonio Strad- Music, was one of the most
ivari, both famous Italian vio- well-known pieces of music of
lin makers, Chinese violinist the time.
Lyu Siqing tries to avoid During the concert on May
touching the glossily var- 10, Lyu will play The Butterfly
nished wood on the bodies of Lovers.
the musical instruments. “I can still remember that
“The lines on the wood are almost 40 years ago, Lyu, who
so beautiful, aren’t they?” asks was about 10 years old, came
Lyu, turning the violins over. to the Central Conservatory of
Then the 48-year-old musi- Music in Beijing from his
cian displays the versatile hometown of Qingdao,
sounds of the violins by play- Shandong province, accompa-
ing the tune Meditation from nied by his father. The young
the opera Thais by French boy displayed quite a talent
composer Jules Massenet. when he played violin in front
“Music touches and influen- of us and since then he has
ces our emotions. The violin become a star,” says Liu Yuxi.
has the magic to touch our “The training of young violin-
most sensitive nerves,” says ists has never stopped in Chi-
Lyu. “Unlike the piano, which na. With more and more
Chinese audience are quite children learning Western
familiar with, thanks to those instruments, we’ve seen many
great young Chinese pianists child prodigies. They have a
who have achieved interna- good balance between master-
tional acclaim, such as Lang ing the solid techniques and
Lang, Li Yundi and Chen Sa, the private emotional inter-
the violin still needs more pretations required for indi-
exposure in China.” vidual pieces.”
With the goal of populariz- Four internationally
ing the violin, promoting Chi- acclaimed violinists will also
nese violinists and violin join the May Festival, includ-
concertos by Chinese compos- ing Israeli-American violinist
ers, Lyu is once again taking From left: Violinist Liu Yuxi, Wang Luli, the deputy director of the performance department of the NCPA, violinist Lyu Siqing (pictured on top) and violinist Jiang Zhenyi at the Pinchas Zukerman, US Gram-
up the position of artistic news conference of the NCPA May Festival, where violin will be the theme. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY my Award-winning violinist
director for the National Cen- Joshua Bell, Italian violinist
ter for the Performing Arts Fabio Biondi and the German
May Festival. innovative work for the Chi- violinist of South Korean
The theme for the upcom- nese folk instrument, the erhu. descent, Clara-Jumi Kang.
ing event, which runs from According to Liu Yuxi, the In other highlights of the
May 9 to 26, will pay tribute to violin was among the first festival, the Leipzig String
the violin by staging 18 shows, group of Western instruments Quartet will perform a pro-
gathering together nearly 20 that was brought to China by gram of Joseph Haydn’s most
violinists and orchestras from missionaries during the Ming iconic works on May 16, such
around the world. and Qing dynasties (1368- as String Quartet in D minor,
“This is my fourth year in 1911). During the 1920s and Op. 103, Hob. III83, String
the role as artistic director for 1930s, a 16-member orchestra Quartet in D major, Op. 64, No.
the NCPA May Festival and was founded at Peking 5, and The Seven Last Words.
this is the first time that we University and his uncle, Liu The Melbourne Symphony
are taking a musical instru- Tianhua, was one of the Orchestra will perform with
ment as the theme. I hope the members. Lyu with programs including
audience will get a full picture “My uncle Liu Tianhua Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto
of the violin during the festi- learned violin before he No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, on
val,” says Lyu at the NCPA. picked up the erhu. The con- May 24.
With those two centuries- From left: Violinists Huang Mengla, Chen Xi, Jiang Zhenyi and Ning Feng, who will play at the NCPA May Festival. nection between the violin According to Wang Luli, dep-
old violins, Lyu also will and erhu was very close for uty director of the performance
perform at the festival. him as a musician and com- department at the NCPA, the
Two concerts will open the Violin Concerto, Antonio toire National Superieur de “I’ve seen the repertories for Music in Beijing and is poser,” says Liu Yuxi. annual festival started in 2009
festival. On May 9, four Chi- Vivald’s Concerto in B minor Musique in Paris, with five the upcoming concerts during planning a tour of France later The first original Chinese and has become a major event
nese violinists, Lyu, Ning RV 580 for Four Violins and solo albums under his belt, the May Festival and I am very this year. violin composition was Diffi- for the NCPA, which focuses on
Feng, Huang Mengla and Niccolo Paganini’s 24 Caprices. will join the concert. excited because many of the The legendary violinist cult Road (Xinglu Nan), com- chamber music.
Huang Bin, all winners of the Young Chinese violinists On May 10, a concert will be pieces are rarely performed. comes from a musical family. posed in 1919 by famous So far, the festival has show-
prestigious Premio Paganini Chen Xi, who won the top held to pay tribute to Chinese The audience will get the His father, Liu Beimao (1903- geologist Li Siguang, who was cased more than 140 concerts,
International Violin Competi- prize at the 12th International composers. Established chance to see the vibrant 1981), was a renowned com- pursuing his studies at the not only at the NCPA’s concert
tion, will share the stage by Tchaikovsky Violin Competi- Chinese violinist, Liu Yuxi, scenes of Chinese violinists of poser and music educator. His University of Birmingham in halls, but also at public spaces
giving solo performances in tion in 2002, at the age of 17 — will perform with the younger different ages and many uncles Liu Bannong Britain at that time. in Beijing, such as subway sta-
the first half of the concert the youngest top prize winner generation of Chinese original concertos for violin (1891–1934) was a linguist and Chinese composers are tions, schools and museums.
and teaming up in the second in the history of the competi- violinists, including Lyu, by Chinese composers,” says poet, and Liu Tianhua (1895- keen on writing works for the
half to perform repertoires tion — and Liu Xiao, who Jiang Yiying and Jiang Liu, 80, who is teaching at the 1932) was a musician and com- violin and among the pieces, Contact the writer at
including J.S. Bach’s Double graduated from the Conserva- Zhenyi. Central Conservatory of poser best known for his The Butterfly Lovers violin chennan@chinadaily.com.cn
To be continued ...
In Kiev, borscht,
Maidan and a side
trip to Chernobyl
By NICOLE EVATT taurant located near Mai-
in Kiev, Ukraine dan? You’ll be transported to
Soviet high society of the
Through years of political 1970s in the retro eatery,
upheaval and economic tur- serving dozens of chicken
moil, Ukraine’s capital city, dishes, inducing the famous
Kiev, has remained a vibrant, Kiev with its breaded outside
engaging place to visit. For and herbed butter center.
travelers, its food and cul- Dive into a lavish three cours-
ture rival the best of Europe es for two for under $30.
at a fraction of the price.
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should top your getaway list. Try on some wearable art by
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country’s pro-European rev- prints and feminine styles for
olution. It’s now a bustling a range of shapes and sizes.
tourist hotspot surrounded Lesnaya market: If
by shops, restaurants, an thrifting is your thing, head to
evening fountain show, the Lesnaya flea market and jour-
towering Independence ney between mountains of
Monument and the Insta- secondhand clothes and stalls
Visitors take a selfie in flowering trees during the recent Qingming holiday in Daoxian county, Hunan province. HE HONGFU / XINHUA gram-ready I Love Kyiv sign. of flowers, produce and knock-
offs. The market is located out-
C
his travel experiences. Landscape Alley, a whimsi- out the site of 1986 explosion
hen Chen will travel The 35-year-old started film- cal sculpture park and kids that sent a radioactive cloud
to Japan this month. ing his experiences on the road play area. I dare you not to over Europe. Pripyat, a hasti-
She used apps to in 2014. He uses his mobile, a snap a selfie with one of the ly evacuated city, was ravaged
book air tickets and GoPro to shoot underwater massive mosaic creatures. by looters and left as a mod-
hotels, read travel tips and and a drone for aerial filming. St Sophia’s Cathedral: ern-day ghost town.
make a reservation at a Miche- Special moments he has cap- The gold- and green-domed Rest assured, though: The
lin-starred restaurant. tured include a romantic mar- UNESCO World Heritage amount of radiation you’ll
The Beijing office worker riage proposal by a tourist at Site offers an impressive col- receive on a Chernobyl tour —
plans to read novels on her Chiang Mai’s Water Splashing lection of original 11th-cen- a day trip from Kiev — is less
phone while waiting for her Festival and a giant whale tury mosaics and frescoes. than your last dental X-ray.
flight, use a translation app to swimming with its baby. The Motherland Monu-
order food and ask for direc- “I feel a great sense of accom- ment: This tremendous 500- Mezhyhirya
tions, and use another app to five app providers about how plishment because those who ton, 102-meter stainless-steel Marvel at the sprawling,
identify flowers. Chinese use apps during trips. appear in my short videos like structure on the bank of the opulent estate of ousted presi-
“Such mobile apps make The results are based on data them. Some of the people I’ve Dnieper River keeps a watch- dent Viktor Yanukovych locat-
independent traveling conve- from about 3,500 subjects born only met once. Some have ful eye over Kiev. The grand ed on Dnieper river, 24
nient,” Chen says. in the 1980s and 1990s, 65 per- become my friends. It feels statue, a woman raising a kilometers north of Kiev. Many
“But you shouldn’t spend too cent of whom are women. more authentic than the likes I shield in one hand a sword in consider the impressive 142-
much time on the apps. It’s “The report tells us about get from random netizens,” the other, commemorates hectare, once-secret, walled
more important to truly experi- users’ behaviors and preferen- says Cheng, who works in film the Soviet Union’s defeat of complex a sobering symbol of
ence the moment and local life.” ces,” Mafengwo’s travel research and animation in Shanghai. the Nazis during World War excess and corruption by the
She enjoys using aiPlants, center head Feng Rao says. “It’s easy for newbies to film II. A Ukrainian war museum Ukrainian leader driven out
which can identify over “For example, we can use big and edit short videos using is located at its base. during the 2014 protests.
10,000 common plants from data to recommend museums, mobile apps, which offer many You could lose an entire
photos taken by users with 85 galleries, exhibitions and relat- effects. It’s great fun. They Kiev cooking: borscht day wandering Mezhyhirya’s
percent accuracy. It also pro- ed products to users who enjoy should learn to shoot from dif- or bust manicured gardens, golf
vides encyclopedic informa- culture and history.” Top: Li Weiliang from Yunnan province visits India. He uses apps to ferent distances and angles, Puzata Hata: Get your fill course and impressive classic
tion on the plants from the The apps that most young stay fit while traveling. Above: A Chinese visitor scans a code with and include transitions. If all of borscht, a hearty soup often car collection. Better to navi-
database of the Chinese Acad- Chinese use while traveling are her phone during a trip to Rovaniemi, Finland, where travelers can the footage is just of one person made with beets or cabbage, gate the grounds with a hired
emy of Sciences’ Institute of for maps and transportation, use Alipay, China’s popular mobile-payment app, for payments. introducing a site, it’s more like and other Ukrainian dishes at golf cart ($5 per person.)
Botany. People often use the tourism, photography, social PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY a talk show.” this popular and cheap fast
app at such attractions as sce- networking, music, videos, For instance, if a user is food chain. Don’t skip the des- Getting around
nic areas, botanical gardens, reading, fitness and learning, making a short video about sert line at this cafeteria-style You can hail a taxi, but be
parks and nature reserves. the study found. transportation. Some use these local dishes but avoid fried food, it’s advisable to show gem. Sugar-sprinkled cherry prepared to negotiate the
Chen is among a growing People often use apps to read apps before their trips to learn foods and desserts, while near- such scenes as entering the pierogies, anyone? rate. Ordering a cab by
number of Chinese who when waiting for or taking simple phrases and travel-re- ly a quarter don’t worry about restaurant and the action of Yaroslava: If looking to phone or online from an
increasingly use a growing transportation, before bed and lated words. what they eat. serving the dishes to make the refuel between sites, stop by established company will
number of apps to travel inde- during rests at such places as Over half of the fitness-con- Half of the fitness-conscious video more narrative, he says. this historic Ukrainian restau- ensure a better price.
pendently. cafes and parks. The most pop- scious continue to work out prefer hotels with gyms and 41 Indeed, it seems likely that rant and bakery for tradition- Your best bet is the subway,
More than 85 percent of the ular books are novels, litera- when traveling. The most pop- percent prefer ones with swim- even more Chinese will use al treats including their famed which roars through Kiev’s
subjects constantly use their ture, tourism, history and ular sports are walking, run- ming pools. more apps to guide their trav- cinnamon rolls. The cranber- metro system with impress-
phones while traveling — that biographies. ning, yoga, aerobics, cycling Li Weiliang uses apps to stay els as developers race to ry cake is also worth a men- ive efficiency. You can pick up
is, an average of six hours a Outbound tourists often rely and swimming. fit while traveling. answer growing demand. tion. Three yummy pastries single-ride tokens for around
day, according to a recent on dictionary and translation Nearly one in five among this The 31-year-old, who works and two fresh juices cost $3. 15 US cents or buy multi-day
report Chinese tourism web- apps to communicate with group diet while traveling. in advertising in Yunnan prov- Contact the writer at Chicken Kyiv: Where passes.
site Mafengwo released with locals, read menus and take Nearly 60 percent will enjoy ince, typically does two hours xulin@chinadaily.com.cn better to sample the famous
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With Curry out,
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OAKLAND, California —
The Golden State Warriors
had something to prove all
right, and they plan to stay on
top in these playoffs despite a
disappointing finish to the
regular season.
Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo guzzles champagne from his shoe as he celebrates winning the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix in dra- Kevin Durant helped the
matic fashion at Shanghai International Circuit on Sunday. The Australian, who only made it into qualifying with seconds to spare after defending champions get
his blown engine had to be rebuilt, took the lead with just 10 laps remaining when he charged past Valtteri Bottas, who finished second defensive in a hurry, finishing
for Team Mercedes. Kimi Raikkonen was third for Ferrari. ALY SONG / REUTERS with 24 points, eight rebounds
and seven assists and the War- Golden State Warriors' Kevin Durant drives the ball around San
riors returned to their old Antonio Spurs' Patty Mills during Game 1 of their NBA quarterfinal
BASKETBALL dominant selves at playoff playoff series on Saturday in Oakland, California. BEN MARGOT / AP
time to beat the cold-shooting
Scoreboard
BASKETBALL LPGA Lotte Championship (SWE) 67 68 66 F1 world championship standings Barnsley 2 Bolton 2 Leganes 1 (Guerrero Martin 63) Celta Vigo 0
Leading scores after Saturday’s final round of 202 - Brett Rumford (AUS) 68 66 68 Drivers Burton 3 Derby 1 Athletic Bilbao 2 (Garcia 47, Susaeta 72) Depor-
Results of the NBA playoff games on Saturday the LPGA Lotte Championship at Ko Olina, 203 - Andy Sullivan 75 63 65 1. Sebastian Vettel (GER) 54 pts, 2. Lewis Hamil- tivo La Coruna 3 (Adrian 6, 14, Valle 53)
Fulham 1 Brentford 1
(home team in CAPS): Hawaii (USA unless noted, par-72): 204 - Marc Warren 66 69 69, Jorge Campillo (ESP) ton (GBR) 45, 3. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) 40, 4. Daniel Hull 0 Sheffield Wednesday 1
TORONTO 114 Washington 106 276 - Brooke Henderson (CAN) 68-66-73-69 70 67 67, Aaron Rai 67 71 66 Ricciardo (AUS) 37, 5. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) 30, 6. P W D L Gf Ga Pts
Middlesbrough 2 Bristol City 1
(Toronto leads best-of-seven series 1-0) 280 - Azahara Munoz (ESP) 74-70-69-67 205 - Andrew Johnston 68 68 69, Maximilian Kief- Fernando Alonso (ESP) 22, 7. Nico Hulkenberg Barcelona 32 25 7 0 81 17 82
Norwich 0 Cardiff 2
GOLDEN STATE 113 San Antonio 92 281 - Feng Shanshan (CHN) 67-69-74-71, Park fer (GER) 69 67 69, Bradley Neil 71 66 68, Jacques (GER) 22, 8. Max Verstappen (NED) 18, 9. Pierre Atletico Madrid 31 20 8 3 51 15 68
Nottingham Forest 2 Ipswich 1
(Golden State leads best-of-seven series 1-0) In-bee (KOR) 69-69-71-72, Ariya Jutanugarn (THA) Kruyswijk (RSA)69 70 66 Gasly (FRA) 12, 10. Kevin Magnussen (DEN) 11, 11. Valencia 32 20 5 7 60 33 65
QPR 1 Preston 2
PHILADELPHIA 130 Miami 103 73-69-70-69 206 - Robert Rock 70 65 71, Callum Shinkwin 67 67 Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL) 6, 12. Carlos Sainz Jr Real Madrid 31 19 7 5 77 34 64
(Philadelphia leads best-of-seven series 1-0) Reading 2 Sunderland 2
282 - Chien Pei-yun (TPE) 74-71-67-70, Lindy Dun- 72, Pedro Oriol (ESP) 68 71 67 (ESP) 3, 13. Marcus Ericsson (SWE) 2, 14. Esteban Real Betis 32 16 4 12 53 53 52
New Orleans 97 PORTLAND 95 207 - Charlie Ford 70 69 68, Alexander Bjork (SWE) Sheffield United 1 Millwall 1
can 70-68-74-70, Lizette Salas 69-71-70-72 Ocon (FRA) 1 Villarreal 32 14 6 12 43 39 48
(New Orleans leads best-of-seven series 1-0) 283 - Daniela Iacobelli 73-68-70-72 67 72 68, Wu Ashun (CHN) 70 70 67, Pep Angles Constructors
French Ligue 1 Sevilla 32 14 5 13 41 52 47
284 - Moriya Jutanugarn (THA) 72-68-72-72 (ESP) 72 66 69, Jonathan Thomson 67 71 69, Samu- 1. Mercedes 85 pts, 2. Ferrari 84, 3. Red Bull 55, 4.
Girona 32 12 8 12 44 49 44
BASEBALL 285 - Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras (THA) 75-72- el Del Val (ESP) 74 65 68, Matthias Schwab (AUT) McLaren 28, 5. Renault 25, 6. Toro Rosso 12, 7. Results on Saturday:
68-70, Michelle Wie 72-73-69-71, Ji Eun-hee (KOR) 67 71 69, Hideto Tanihara (JPN) 70 70 67, Seung-su Haas 11, 8. Sauber 2, 9. Force India 1 Lyon 3 (Mariano 30, Depay 83, Traore 85) Amiens Celta Vigo 32 12 7 13 50 44 43
Results of the Major League Baseball games on 69-72-73-71, Cydney Clanton 74-69-70-72, Kim Han (USA)70 69 68, Jeff Winther (DEN) 69 67 71 0 Real Sociedad 32 11 7 14 57 52 40
Saturday (home team in CAPS): Ji-hyun (KOR) 71-70-71-73 SOCCER Lille 2 (Pepe 55, Araujo 57) Guingamp 2 (Alonso Eibar 31 11 7 13 36 45 40
BOSTON 10 Baltimore 3 286 - Mariajo Uribe (COL) 72-68-74-72, Lee Jeong- ICE HOCKEY Getafe 31 10 9 12 35 30 39
90-og, Briand 90+3)
NY Yankees at DETROIT, ppd eun (KOR) 76-70-67-73, Mo Martin 69-67-72-78, English Premier League Athletic Bilbao 32 9 12 11 35 38 39
Nantes 1 (Nakoulma 33) Dijon 1 (Kwon 61)
Chicago White Sox at MINNESOTA, ppd 287 - Lydia Ko (NZL) 76-71-70-70, Kim Sei-young Results of the NHL playoff games on Saturday Results on Saturday: Leganes 32 11 6 15 27 39 39
Rennes 1 (Bourigeaud 26) Metz 2 (Roux 52, 57)
Texas 6 HOUSTON 5 (10 innings) (KOR) 74-69-74-70, Haeji Kang (KOR) 68-73-73-73, (home team in CAPS): Burnley 2 (Wood 6, Long 9) Leicester 1 (Vardy 72) Strasbourg 0 Saint-Etienne 1 (Debuchy 82) Espanyol 31 8 12 11 26 38 36
Toronto at CLEVELAND, ppd Nasa Hataoka (JPN) 72-69-68-78 TAMPA BAY 5 New Jersey 3 Crystal Palace 3 (Zaha 5, 24, Tomkins 14) Brigh- Caen v Toulouse - postponed due to bad weather Alaves 31 11 2 18 28 45 35
LA Angels 5 KANSAS CITY 3 (Tampa Bay leads best-of-seven series 2-0) ton 2 (Murray 18, Izquierdo 34) Levante 31 6 13 12 28 45 31
SEATTLE 10 Oakland 8 NASHVILLE 5 Colorado 4 Huddersfield 1 (Ince 90+1) Watford 0
PGA RBC Heritage German Bundesliga Deportivo 32 6 8 18 32 65 26
WASHINGTON 6 Colorado 2 Leading scores after Saturday’s third round of (Nashville leads best-of-seven series 2-0) Liverpool 3 (Mane 7, Salah 69, Firmino 90)
Results on Saturday: Las Palmas 32 5 6 21 22 64 21
St. Louis 6 CINCINNATI 1 the US PGA Tour RBC Heritage at Hilton Head, BOSTON 7 Toronto 3 Bournemouth 0
Hoffenheim 2 (Gnabry 18, Szalai 27) Hamburg 0 Malaga 31 4 5 22 19 48 17
CHICAGO CUBS 14 Atlanta 10 South Carolina (USA unless noted, par 71): (Boston leads best-of-seven series 2-0) Southampton 2 (Tadic 21, Bednarek 60) Chelsea 3
Philadelphia 9 TAMPA BAY 4 San Jose 3 ANAHEIM 2 (Giroud 70, 78, Hazard 75) Hertha Berlin 2 (Selke 49, 52) Cologne 1 (Bitten-
200 - Ian Poulter (ENG) 69-64-67
Milwaukee 5 NY METS 1 (San Jose leads best-of-seven series 2-0) Swansea 1 (J. Ayew 71) Everton 1 (Naughton court 29) TENNIS
201 - Luke List 70-64-67, Kim Si-woo (KOR) 68-65-
Pittsburgh 1 MIAMI 0 68 43-og) Bayer Leverkusen 4 (Brandt 20, Volland 71, 77, 88)
SAN DIEGO 5 San Francisco 4 202 - C.T. Pan (TPE) 70-65-67, Billy Horschel 66-69- MOTOR SPORTS Tottenham 1 (Eriksen 42) Manchester City 3 Eintracht Frankfurt 1 (Fabian 23) ATP Marrakech
Arizona 9 LA DODGERS 1 67 (Jesus 22, Gundogan 25-pen, Sterling 72) Stuttgart 1 (Thommy 53) Hanover 1 (Fuellkrug Results on Saturday (x denotes seeding):
203 - Kevin Kisner 69-68-66, Chesson Hadley Chinese Formula One Grand Prix 90+1) Semifinals
GOLF 66-68-69 Leading results from Chinese Formula One P W D L Gf Ga Pts Bayern Munich 5 (Wagner 37, 41, Thiago 51, Alaba Pablo Andujar (ESP) bt Joao Sousa (POR) 6-4, 6-4;
204 - Rory Sabbatini (RSA) 64-70-70 Grand Prix at the 5.451 kilometre Shanghai Inter- Man City 33 28 3 2 93 25 87 67, Lewandowski 82) Borussia Moenchenglad- Kyle Edmund (GBR x2) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA
Yunnan Open 205 - Ryan Moore 69-69-67, Matt Kuchar 66-70-69, national Circuit on Sunday: Man Utd 32 22 5 5 63 25 71 bach 1 (Drmic 9) x4) 6-3, 6-4.
Leading scores after Sunday’s final round of the Danny Lee (NZL) 69-66-70 1. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Red Bull) 305 kilome- Liverpool 34 20 10 4 78 35 70
China Tour Belt & Road Colorful Yunnan Open at 206 - An Byeong-hun (KOR) 73-67-66, Lucas Glov- tres/181.5 miles in 1hr 35min 35.980sec Tottenham 33 20 7 6 65 30 67 Italian Serie A ATP Houston
Lakeview Yulongwan Golf Club in Kunming, Yun- er 74-65-67, Webb Simpson 69-68-69, Andrew (average speed 191 kph/ 118.6 mph) Chelsea 33 18 6 9 57 33 60 Results on Saturday: Results on Saturday:
an province (Chinese mainlanders unless noted, Landry 69-68-69, Satoshi Kodaira (JPN) 73-63-70, 2. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Mercedes) at 8.894 Arsenal 32 16 6 10 61 43 54 Cagliari 2 (Pavoletti 21, Ceppitelli 84) Udinese 1 Semifinals
par-71): Martin Laird (SCO) 67-69-70, Bill Haas 69-66-71, 3. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Ferrari) at 9.637 Burnley 33 14 10 9 33 29 52 (Lasagna 10) Tennys Sandgren (USA x8) bt Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
268 - Kim Koivu (FIN) 70-65-69-64 Brandt Snedeker 70-64-72 4. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) at 16.985 Chievo 0 Torino 0 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4); Steve Johnson (USA x6) bt
Leicester 33 11 10 12 49 47 43
272 - Joachim B. Hansen (DEN) 67-71-68-66, Mar- 207 - Charley Hoffman 72-69-66, Jonas Blixt (SWE) 5. Max Verstappen (NED/Red Bull) at 20.436 Genoa 1 (Bessa 28) Crotone 0 Taylor Fritz (USA) 7-5, 6-7 (4/7), 6-2.
Everton 34 11 9 14 39 54 42
cus Armitage (ENG) 70-68-69-65 67-73-67, Kevin Streelman 70-70-67, Dylan Fritelli 6. Nico Hkenberg (GER/Renault) at 21.052 Atalanta 0 Inter Milan 0
Newcastle 32 10 8 14 33 41 38
273 - Reinier Saxton (NED) 71-69-67-66 (RSA) 72-68-67, Patrick Cantlay 67-72-68, Brian 7. Fernando Alonso (ESP/McLaren) at 30.639
274 - Kevin Lee (KOR) 70-70-69-65 Harman 70-68-69, Ted Potter Jr 72-66-69, Emiliano 8. Sebastian Vettel (GER/Ferrari) at 35.286
Bournemouth 34 9 11 14 41 56 38 WTA Lugano
275 - Charlie Saxon (USA) 66-72-67-70 Grillo (ARG) 72-66-69, Kim Whee (KOR) 68-68-71, 9. Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP/Renault) at 35.763
Watford 34 10 7 17 42 60 37 Scottish Premiership Results on Saturday:
276 - Zhang Jin 69-72-65-70, Matt Ford (GBR) Scott Piercy 71-65-71, Xander Schauffele 68-68- Brighton 33 8 11 14 31 46 35 Result on Saturday: Semifinals
10. Kevin Magnussen (DEN/Haas) at 39.594
66-75-68-67, Robert MaCintyre (SCO) 70-69-68-69 71, Bryson DeChambeau 68-64-75 Huddersfield 34 9 8 17 27 54 35 Hamilton 1 (Templeton 73) Kilmarnock 2 (Broad- Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) bt Stefanie Voegele (SUI)
11. Estan Ocon (FRA/Force India) at 44.050
277 - Zhang Huilin 69-69-69-70, Hugo Leon(CHI) West Ham 32 8 10 14 40 58 34 foot 63, Boyd 79) 6-4, 6-2; Elise Mertens (BEL x2) bt Vera Lapko
12. Sergio Perez (MEX/Force India) at 44.725
71-68-70-68 13. Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL/McLaren) at 49.373 Crystal Palace 36 8 10 16 36 54 34 (BLR) 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
EPGA Spanish Open
278 - Mathew Perry (NZL) 75-70-64-64, Sunil Jung 14. Lance Stroll (CAN/Williams) at 55.490 Swansea 33 8 9 16 27 46 33 Spanish La Liga
Leading third-round scores from the European
(CAN) 66-78-67-67, Simon Forsstrom (SWE) Tour’s Spanish Open at the Centro Nacional de 15. Sergey Sirotkin (RUS/Williams) at 58.241 Southampton 33 5 13 15 33 53 28 Results on Saturday: WTA Bogota
73-70-71-64, Daan Huizing (NED) 69-73-68-68 Golf in Madrid on Saturday (GBR/IRL unless stat- 16. Marcus Ericsson (SWE/Sauber) at 1:02.604 Stoke 33 6 9 18 30 63 27 Sevilla 2 (Nolito 78, Nzonzi 82) Villarreal 2 (Raba Results on Saturday:
279 - Nicolai Vondellingshausen (GER) 70-73-68- ed; par 72): 17. Romain Grosjean (FRA/Haas) at 1:05.296 West Brom 33 3 12 18 26 52 21 36, Bacca 68) Semifinals
68, Kalle Samooja(FIN) 71-71-70-67 199 - Paul Dunne 66 65 68 18. Pierre Gasly (FRA/Toro Rosso) at 1:06.330 Barcelona 2 (Suarez 15, Umtiti 51) Valencia 1 Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK) bt Ana Bogdan
280 - Xiao Bowen 75-66-71-68, Shun Yat-hak 200 - Nacho Elvira (ESP)68 66 66 19. Charles Leclerc (MON/Sauber) at 1:22.575 English Championship (Parejo 87-pen) (ROU x7) 6-3, 6-2; Lara Arruabarrena (ESP x5) bt
(HKG) 73-68-70-69 201 - Jon Rahm (ESP) 67 68 66, Henric Sturehed 20. Brendon Hartley (NZL/Toro Rosso) at 5 laps Results on Saturday: Las Palmas 0 Real Sociedad 1 (Oiarzabal 21) Dalila Jakupovic (SLO) 6-1, 6-2.
24
SPORTS
Monday, April 16, 2018
GOLF
Running away with joy
Yunnan charting
China’s course
Tournaments
help spotlight
‘paradise’ locale
By SHI FUTIAN
in Kunming, Yunnan
shifutian@chinadaily.com.cn
LIVERPOOL — Jurgen boys afterwards, we show who played in this year’s Open
Klopp believes Mohamed them and they listen. for the first time on a wild card tial policies have been sport,” he said. “Through these
Salah has not finished rewrit- “A lot of times we are in a and was the youngest player in unveiled. tournaments, we want more
ing the Liverpool scoring position shooting and they the field. “Yunnan Golf Association people to know golf, especially
record book after the Egyp- cannot always give the ball to “I started golf training when made a proposal suggesting Yunnan’s golf. As our slogan
tian international took his tal- him. So we can still improve I was 5 years old,” said Zhang, that all of the clubs in Yunnan says, ‘Colorful Yunnan is a golf
ly for the season to 40 goals in in this situation to use his a Yunnan native. “Now I’m in should give discounts to paradise’.”
Saturday’s 3-0 Premier threat and pass the ball some- Grade 8 at school, so I normal- underage golfers, and lots of Yunnan’s efforts have also
League victory over Bourne- where else.” ly have classes in the morning clubs have made it a reality,” paid dividends for veteran
mouth. With Anfield in the mood and play golf in the afternoon. said Gong Lei, deputy secre- golfers. He Shaocai, a 35-year-
But the German manager to celebrate the superb mid- “I know many young players tary-general of the association. old former professional wres-
also insists Salah will not be week Champions League vic- of my age who have started to “Now, young players from tler, is one of the most
distracted by his quest for the tory over Manchester City, train and to play in teenage-lev- all over the world can enjoy dramatic examples.
Golden Boot award, for the Mane gave the home crowd el tournaments. My teachers in discounts after registration if “I retired as a wrestler when
Premier League’s leading scor- something to cheer about school actually support my golf they come to play in Yunnan. I was 20 years old, and then
er, as Liverpool seeks to end a when he met a seventh min- training. I eventually want to “For domestic professional golf attracted me,” said He,
memorable season by winning Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring Liverpool's second goal dur- ute cross from Jordan Hen- turn pro if I can, but before that players, we also offer all kinds who is also a Yunnan local. “I
the Champions League. ing Saturday’s 3-0 English Premier League victory over Bourne- derson. I want to finish my education of discounts providing them started my golf training in
Salah, in his first season at mouth. AP Begovic did well to save the and go to university. I can study with a comfortable and conve- 2000 and turned pro in 2007.
Anfield, became the first Liv- initial header, but Mane while I keep training. nient atmosphere for training. “Years ago, people might
erpool player since Ian Rush reacted quickly to blast in the “Also, it’s quite easy for us to “Under the auspice of the have to spend about 1,000 yuan
in 1986-87 to reach the 40-goal he certainly didn’t look like he Either side of Salah’s goal loose rebound. play golf now. For young play- China Golf Association, we ($159) to play one round of golf
mark and only the third from doesn’t want to score in the were efforts from Sadio Mane After Salah took center ers like me, it’s very cheap to have launched programs to in China.
the club ever to reach that next few games. and Roberto Firmino, taking stage, Firmino rounded off a play. Sometimes, it’s even free.” promote golf development in “Now, we only have to pay
landmark after Rush and 1966 “It’s all about him, all about their respective Liverpool tal- fine afternoon for the host According to Yunnan Sports schools. We help teachers and about 200 yuan in Yunnan. For
England World Cup winner us and how we finish the sea- lies for the season to 25 and 17, when he converted clinically Bureau, co-organizer of the students learn more about the a year, we might only just need
Roger Hunt. son. Normally, in that situa- meaning the prolific front from 18 yards after being Yunnan Open, golf’s populari- sport so they can see that golf to spend 2,000 to 3,000 yuan.
But Salah has reached his tion, to be top of the goal list three have now combined for picked out by Alex Oxlade- ty has shown dramatic growth is an activity for everyone, not Everyone can play.
40 quicker than either of his at the end and win the Golden an astonishing 82 goals this Chamberlain. in the province over the past just the elite.” “To increase golf’s populari-
predecessors and, with poten- Boot means you have been season. Bournemouth took four decade, with more high-level Gong said the Yunnan Open ty, it must not be considered
tially seven games remaining successful as a team, but we Firmino’s 90th minute points from Liverpool last tournaments scheduled. provides a great opportunity an elite sport. It’s good for peo-
for his team, he might yet can’t force it. But it’s good, third goal made it 300 for Liv- season, but having been Also, Yunnan has made golf for people to gain an up-close- ple of all age groups, from kids
challenge the all-time club impressive. What a number. erpool in well under three swept aside in both meetings a part of the province’s Belt and-personal experience of to 70-year-olds.
record held by Rush who Wow!” seasons since Klopp took this campaign, Eddie Howe and Road sports industry golf, which will further “With the government’s
scored 47 goals in a blistering There was certainly a over, but he insisted they can believes Liverpool’s improve- development strategy, along increase the sport’s popularity. support, there are more and
1983-84 campaign. “wow” factor about the man- still improve in attacking are- ment makes it serious con- with other sports like cycling “With all of these tourna- more golf tournaments in
“Really it’s 31 years? He ner in which Salah claimed as by not always looking for tender to win the Champions and soccer. ments, we can attract more Yunnan, which will make the
doesn’t look that old. He must his 40th, and his 30th in the Salah. League. As a result, many preferen- people to watch and know the sport more and more popular.”
have been 14 when he scored league this season, after 69 “What a number we’ve “Comparing Liverpool to
his 40 goals,” Klopp joked minutes. scored as team over the whole last season, they have really
about Rush, when told Salah
had become the first Liver-
pool player since the Welsh-
man to hit 40.
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s
hanging cross into the
Bournemouth area allowed
Salah to peel away from his
season,” added Klopp.
“That’s really good and we
have to carry it on for a few
games to come. I have seen
improved, grown as a team,
as they have shown through-
out the season,” said Howe.
“Of course they can win the
It’s a shortcut to Europe
“But Mo knows what this marker Nathan Ake and flick the boys looking for Mo but Champions League. They will
means and the way we play the most perceptive of finish- we have to mix it up a little bit. be tough for anyone.” By SHI FUTIAN “It benefits the Chinese
suits him. For him, for the es with his head over keeper “He’s the threat, but it’s players because the best way
boys, it’s fantastic and today Asmir Begovic. good to analyze it with the AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE The opportunity to punch a for them to grow and to
ticket to the European Chal- improve is to play at the inter-
lenge Tour was an added national level.”
incentive for golfers at the Belt De Soultrait pointed out
Pep content to count birdies & Road Colorful Yunnan Open, that many Chinese have
which wrapped up on Sunday. proved themselves on the
The ECT has had a working international stage in recent
Rather than seeing if Manchester City For now, City is 16 points in front of United Beating an English rival, though, proved agreement with Chinese golf years, including Li Haotong,
wins the English Premier League, Pep with five games to go after impressively beyond City in the Champions League — since the Qingdao Open in China’s first male golfer to
Guardiola will be on the golf course. inflicting fourth-place Tottenham’s second going out in the quarterfinals to Liverpool on 2008, but this year marks the crack the world’s top 50.
The manager plans to be playing a round home loss of the season. And City will Tuesday. first time the Yunnan Open “They have progressed
with son Marius on Sunday when City will be secure its third title since 2012 by beating Juergen Klopp’s third-place side looks set offered a reciprocal spot for Alain de Soultrait, director of extremely quickly and
crowned champion if West Bromwich Albion Swansea this Sunday. to seal a place in the continent’s top compe- Europe. the European Challenge Tour extremely well, and I think
wins at Manchester United. “People say it was a big failure, what hap- tition even if it doesn’t lift the European Cup Alain de Soultrait, director there is a new generation of
“Will I hear the scores? Bogey, double-bo- pened last week, but they don’t understand after beating Bournemouth 3-0 to stay 10 of the Challenge Tour, is increase its cooperation with golfers in China that under-
gey, birdie,” Guardiola said after a 3-1 victory the reality of football,” Guardiola said. points clear of fifth-place champion Chelsea. impressed by the dramatic China. The tour is co-sanction- stand how it works,” he said.
at Tottenham on Saturday. “You can win the Champions League in Tottenham still occupies the fourth development. ing three China Tour events “Playing in tournaments is
Even if United doesn’t lose to the league’s seven games, the league is 10 months. I’m Champions League spot, although Chelsea “China’s golf market is huge this year — the Yunnan Open, not just about enjoying the
bottom team, City can still seal the trophy sorry; it’s much more important what these closed the gap to seven points after coming and it’s developing extremely the Foshan Open and the game on the course. It’s hard
before playing again. That will be achieved guys have done this season. Hopefully we from behind to beat Southampton 3-2. fast,” said De Soultrait. “Tour- Hainan Open — and De Soul- work. It’s about working every
by United losing at Bournemouth on can celebrate with our fans against Swansea Wolverhampton Wanderers will be return- naments of high caliber, such as trait hailed the opportunity single day, then playing com-
Wednesday or if Jose Mourinho’s side draws and my guys can be champions because ing to the Premier League next season after the Yunnan Open, can benefit for Chinese golfers to face petition, and knowing how to
with both West Brom and Bournemouth. they deserve it.” a six-year absence. Promotion was secured the sport’s development here international competition. manage the pressure in order
City has its swagger back after a demor- Gabriel Jesus, Ilkay Gundogan and Rah- from the League Championship after Ful- by making it more popular.” “We believe that by cooper- to get better and better.
alizing week that saw the leader fail to seal eem Sterling scored in a commanding dis- ham drew with Brentford. De Soultrait said the emer- ating with China’s governing “I think we will soon see
top spot by losing the Manchester derby play that shows why City has 28 wins from gence of more outstanding body of golf, we can help the more and more Chinese golf-
and exiting the Champions League. 33 matches in the league. ASSOCIATED PRESS Chinese players provides an development of our sport,” ers joining Li Haotong among
impetus for the ECT to said De Soultrait. the top rankings.”