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Xi, Kim meet over peninsula issue
President praises Pyongyang’s efforts to reach resolution
By ZHANG YUNBI
zhangyunbi@chinadaily.com.cn
China supports the DPRK’s
efforts to denuclearize the
peninsula and backs the
planned dialogue and consul-
tation between the DPRK and
the United States for resolv-
ing the issue, President Xi Jin-
ping said this week.
Xi made the remarks in
meetings with Kim Jong-un,
the top leader of the Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of
Korea, on Monday and Tues-
day in the northeastern Chi-
nese coastal city of Dalian.
The president also said Chi-
na will work further with par-
ties involved and play a
positive role in comprehen-
sively advancing the process
of peaceful dialogues to
resolve the peninsula issue
and to achieve long-lasting
tranquillity in the region.
Kim first made an unoffi-
cial visit to China from March
25 to 28, then met with
Republic of Korea President
Moon Jae-in on April 27.
During Kim’s second stay in
China, which concluded on
Tuesday, Xi held talks with
Kim and hosted a welcome
banquet for him. Together,
they also took a stroll and
attended a luncheon.
The two top leaders had an
in-depth exchange of views on
bilateral ties.
Xi said that he and Kim
held their historic first meet-
Two girls orphaned in the 2008 quake play with the orphanage
manager’s young daughter on Sunday. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
HOME HELPED
REBUILD LIVES
Hundreds of children orphaned in devastating
quake have found meaning again
By CAO YIN in Chengdu
caoyin@chinadaily.com.cn
After spotting each other
across a crowded dining
room on Sunday, Cao Wei-
ping and Li Hong fell into an
Ex-Political Bureau member gets life in prison for graft
Sun Zhengcai, former sec-
retary of the Chongqing
Municipal Committee of the
Communist Party of China,
has been sentenced to life in
prison for taking bribes of
over 170 million yuan ($26.7
million).
The sentence was
announced on Tuesday by the
First Intermediate People’s
Court of Tianjin.
Further, Sun was deprived
of his political rights for life
and all of his personal proper-
ty was confiscated.
His illegal gains and their
related yields will be
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ing in Beijing in March, dur-
ing which they had a long and
in-depth discussion and
reached a consensus in four
areas on developing China-
DPRK relations in the new
era.
First, the China-DPRK tra-
ditional friendship has been a
treasure for both countries. It
is an unswerving principle
and is the only choice for the
two countries to develop their
friendly and cooperative rela-
tions.
Second, both China and the
DPRK are socialist countries,
and their bilateral relations
are of major strategic signifi-
cance. Both countries need to
enhance their unity, coopera-
tion, exchanges and mutual
learning.
Third, high-level exchanges
between the parties of the two
countries play an irreplacea-
bly significant role in guiding
bilateral relations, Xi said.
The two sides should main-
tain frequent exchanges,
strengthen strategic commu-
nication, deepen understand-
ing and mutual trust and
safeguard common interests.
Fourth, cementing the peo-
ple-to-people friendship foun-
dation is an important
channel to advance the devel-
X started by the China Children
emotional embrace.
“Mom,” Li said, with tears
in her eyes, before placing
bags of fruit she had brought
as gifts into Cao’s hands. She
had come to introduce her
boyfriend, she said, “because
retrieved, the court said.
Sun also is a former mem-
ber of the Political Bureau of
the 18th CPC Central Com-
mittee.
The court found that
between 2002 and 2017, Sun
took advantage of various
posts to provide help for cer-
tain entities and individuals
in project bidding, project
approvals, enterprise opera-
tions and personnel promo-
tions and arrangements.
It also found he accepted
money and property worth
over 170 million yuan, either
by himself or with “certain
#MeToo moment
opment of China-DPRK rela-
tions, Xi said. The two
countries should in many
ways enhance people-to-peo-
ple communication and
exchanges to create a sound
foundation for the advance-
ment of China-DPRK rela-
tions.
Xi said he spoke highly of
Kim’s second trip to China
within 40 days, which, he
said, shows the great impor-
tance attached to the relation-
ship and the strategic-level
communication between the
two parties and the two coun-
tries.
Kim, chairman of the Work-
ers’ Party of Korea and chair-
man of the State Affairs
Commission of the DPRK,
said his second trip to China
was to reinforce strategic
communication and coopera-
tion, catalyzing the bilateral
friendship and boosting
regional peace and stability.
The progress made since
March in bilateral ties and in
the peninsula situation is an
outcome of his historic meet-
ing with Xi, Kim said.
Kim spoke highly of Xi’s
vision and said he appreciat-
ed China’s key, lasting contri-
bution to achieving the
peninsula’s denuclearization
and securing regional peace
and stability.
Speaking about the penin-
sula situation, Xi said Kim has
See DPRK, page 3
I want mom to see how hap-
py I am”.
Cao is not her biological
mother. She is the woman
who helped Li pick up the
pieces after her life was torn
apart by the Wenchuan
earthquake 10 years ago.
Li was just 12
when the magni-
tude 8 quake
devastated
Wenchuan coun-
ty, Sichuan prov- Scan it!
ince, on May 12, See
2008. Her home more on
was destroyed chinadaily.
and her father, com.cn
who had been
raising her alone, was among
the more than 87,000 people
dead or missing.
With nowhere to go, Li,
along with hundreds of other
young people, was sent to live
at the Ankang Home, a project
and Teenagers’ Fund and Ri-
zhao Steel Group to help those
orphaned in the disaster.
Initially, the home was in
Rizhao — a city in Shandong
province 1,500 kilometers
from Wenchuan — and occu-
pied several dormitories pre-
viously used by steelworkers.
See Orphanage, page 5
affiliated persons”.
His posts during that peri-
od included Party chief of
Shunyi district in Beijing,
Standing Committee mem-
ber and secretary-general of
the CPC Beijing Municipal
Committee, agriculture min-
ister, secretary of the CPC
Jilin Provincial Committee,
Political Bureau member of
the CPC Central Committee
and Party chief of Chong-
qing.
The court said that Sun, as a
senior official, should have set
an example in observing the
law. However, by accepting
motorists
CHINA, PAGE 4
President Xi Jinping talks with Kim Jong-un, the DPRK’s top leader, in Dalian, where the two met on
Monday and Tuesday and discussed the Korean Peninsula situation. XIE HUANCHI / XINHUA
Li’s trip includes trilateral
meeting, official visit to Japan
By HU YONGQI in Tokyo
huyongqi@chinadaily.com.cn
Premier Li Keqiang arrived
in Tokyo on Tuesday to attend
the seventh China-Japan-Re-
public of Korea leaders’ meet-
ing and pay an official visit to
Japan.
It’s been eight years since a
Chinese premier has visited
Japan and 2 1/2 years since
the latest such trilateral
meeting in Seoul in 2015.
Li, Japanese Prime Minis-
ter Shinzo Abe and Republic
of Korean President Moon
Jae-in will meet on Wednes-
day. The three leaders will
deliver speeches and meet
with reporters at the opening
ceremony of a China-Japan-
ROK business summit.
After the meeting, Li also
will make an official visit to
Japan. He is scheduled to
have talks with Abe on
Wednesday and meet with
Japanese Emperor Akihito
later this week. He also will
visit the Japanese island
“extremely huge amounts of
bribes” Sun had seriously
undermined the work of State
organs, violated integrity
rules for State officials and
tarnished the reputation of
State officials.
However, it also noted
that most of the bribes
involved were “taken direct-
ly by certain affiliated per-
sons”, and that Sun had
confessed his wrongdoings,
showed repentance and
been cooperative in return-
ing illegal gains. All the ille-
gal gains involved have been
retrieved.
My visit is to
boost a long-term,
healthy develop-
ment of China-
Japan ties.”
Premier Li Keqiang
Inside
Comment > p9
province of Hokkaido before
heading back to Beijing.
The three countries have
shared a responsibility to
safeguard economic globali-
zation, trade liberalization
and investment facilitation,
and the meeting is expected
to strengthen political trust
and contribute to regional
peace and prosperity, Li
The court said the sentence
was handed down with con-
sideration of these facts.
At Tuesday’s public sen-
tencing proceeding, Sun
pleaded guilty and expressed
“sincere repentance”. He said
he accepted the sentence and
would not appeal.
He also said he would ear-
nestly reform himself.
An open trial of Sun’s case
was held on April 12, and
information about the trial
proceedings were posted on
the court’s Weibo account.
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said on his arrival.
“My visit is to boost a long-
term, healthy development of
China-Japan ties,” Li wrote in
a signed article published by
the Japanese newspaper Asa-
hi Shimbun on Tuesday.
As the world’s second- and
third-largest economies, China
and Japan should put their ties
back on the right track, which
will bring benefits to both peo-
ples and promote peace and
stability in Northeast Asia and
the world, he said.
History has shown that
bilateral ties will see smooth
development only when the
principles and spirit of four
political documents, includ-
ing the China-Japan Treaty of
Peace and Friendship, are
firmly complied with, the
premier said.
As the world’s largest
developing country, China
sees development as the top
priority, Li said. The develop-
ment of both countries and
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China, US
leaders aim
to resolve
disputes
By ZHANG YUNBI
and ZHONG NAN
Beijing and Washington
should maintain communica-
tion between their working
teams as they try to find ways to
tackle their issues and achieve
win-win outcomes, President
Xi Jinping told US President
Donald Trump in a phone con-
versation on Tuesday.
Xi mentioned the consulta-
tion on economic and trade
issues last week in Beijing
involving senior officials from
both countries, and he called
the talk frank, highly efficient
and constructive.
Cooperation on economy
and trade has always been a sta-
bilizer of and impetus for the
China-US relationship, Xi said.
Trump said the US is ready to
work with China, reinforce
pragmatic cooperation in vari-
ous fields, tackle their econom-
ic and trade issues, achieve
greater progress of the relation-
ship and benefit their people.
Xi said ties with the United
States are at an important
stage, and he values developing
relations with the US and cher-
ishes his good working rela-
tionship with Trump.
It is hoped the two sides
effectively translate into actions
the consensus reached by the
two leaders during talks in Bei-
jing, and maintain exchanges at
all levels, Xi said.
The two sides
Inside should
mutually
respect each
also
Editorial > p8 other, work on
mutual bene-
fits, focus on
cooperation, manage and con-
trol differences and achieve a
healthy, stable development of
their ties, Xi said.
Trump said the US finds its
ties with China to be important
and he looks forward to main-
taining close contact with Xi.
Speaking on the Korean Pen-
insula situation, Xi said Beijing
supports the leaders’ meeting
between Washington and
Pyongyang.
It is hoped the US and the
Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea could meet halfway,
build mutual trust, take actions
step by step, and address con-
cerns of each other through
meetings and consultations, Xi
said.
The DPRK’s reasonable con-
cerns should be considered,
and the two sides should jointly
promote the political settle-
ment process of the peninsula
issue, Xi added.
Trump said the US values
China’s position on the penin-
sula issue, appreciates China’s
important role in it and is ready
to boost contacts and coordina-
tion with China and jointly
push for resolving the issue
through negotiation and con-
sultation.
Also on Tuesday, China said
that resolving differences
through equal consultation
with the US conforms to the
common interests of both
countries and the world, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The ministry’s comment
came after White House Press
Secretary Sarah Sanders said
on Monday that the two coun-
tries will continue their trade
talks next week in Washington
to seek a solution that will be
“great for everybody”.
Sanders said that China’s top
economic adviser and the vice-
premier will travel to Washing-
See Trade, page 3
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Looking ahead
Candid camera: Shaping the future
Events and stories coming up in the next few days

Key economic data will be Nurses Day celebrates health

released on Thursday
On Thursday, the National Bureau of Statis-
tics will release last month’s economic data,
including consumer and producer price
indexes. The CPI is the main gauge of infla-
tion, while the PPI indicates changes in
wholesale prices. In March, the CPI rose by
2.1 percent year-on-year, and the PPI rose by
3.1 percent, according to the bureau.
Beijing book fair set for new,
exciting chapter in its plot
More than 400,000 books will go on display
at the 2018 Beijing Book Fair, which opens
on Friday at the Chaoyang Park. The fair,
which will run through May 21, aims to pro-
mote reading. More than 300 publishers
will attend the event. The biannual fair has
been held since 1990.
workers amid shortage
Saturday is International Nurses Day. This
year’s theme is “Nurses: A Voice to Lead:
Health is a Human Right”. At the end of
2015, China had more than 3.2 million nurs-
es, but there is still a significant shortage.
Various nationwide events have been
planned to mark the day.
Blockbuster to hit screens as
its success story continues
Disney and Marvel’s latest blockbuster
Avengers: Infinity War will hit Chinese thea-
ters on Friday. The Avengers series has been
a sensation in the film market. Starting in
May 2012, the series raked in 569 million
yuan ($89.4 million), while Avengers: Age of
Ultron, which hit the screens in 2015,
grossed over 1.46 billion yuan.

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communicate. Since opening at the end of Travel: Tibet’s tourism sees people in my order for on-the-fly fixes. tered cherry tomatoes. of your substandard social
March, the bakery has become extremely chatgroup. All While the minerals boil, When the rice is ready, skills or inattention to other
popular. Its 40 tables are often full by noon huge surge in Q1 visitors
The agreed the here’s something to hold us switch to a preheated sili- boring details like socks dry-
with a long waiting line. On a busy day they fried rice vari- over: cone stick-proof skillet bat- ing over unused burners and
can serve more than 500 customers. Tibet
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mous Andrew hands-down understandings shining in singe the bulbs and egg in underway in the sink.
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the birth of key theory has seen Second last-meal The movement composed with two tablespoons of ier to just eat out.
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retary of Zhejiang province, visited Yucun, a growth half added the rice ear waves." Cubed cooked ham can be gelatinous glee, kneaded into
village in Huzhou, Zhejiang province. Xi in tour- they wouldn’t even mind if the (Tang Dynasty poet Li Shen). added now for the ravenous noodles for NO ONE to see!
hailed the village’s move to close polluting ism reve- governor didn’t interrupt their While you epicurean meat-eaters among you. And as I realized I needn’t
mines and adopt ecological tourism by tak- nue in the first quarter. From January to final repast with a pardon-me/ enthusiasts were enjoying This is no time to leave the dine alone, I sent the photos
ing advantage of the area’s stunning scenic March, Tibet welcomed 1.06 million tour- pardon-you text message. that poem, I used the 12 sec- room, and nonstop vigilance worldwide from my phone.”
views. It was during this trip that Xi ists, up 49.5 percent from a year ago. Total Also, to hyperbolize for the onds to finely mince fresh and spatula scrapings are (Chez Andre, 2018)
proposed the important “Two Mountains” tourism revenue also rose 47 percent to 1.26 purposes of humor, I quite garlic — the stale bulbs have crucial to maintaining con-
theory, calling clear waters and lush moun- billion yuan ($198 million), according to the honorably interpreted non- all been exported to Transyl- sistency and avoiding an Contact the writer at
tains invaluable assets comparable to gold regional tourism development commission. responses to the scientific vania for defensive weaponry unwanted rice pancake. andrew@chinadaily.com.cn
and silver. The theory revealed the develop- Tourism is usually slack in winter in Tibet survey as “pros”, or “yeses”, — crack a chicken egg into a The tomatoes are tossed in
ment path for Huzhou. After more than 10 due to harsh conditions on the highland. In reasonably assuming that a rice bowl — no other animals during the final minute of Online
years, Huzhou has blazed a trail for green January, the regional government pub- “no-reply” was codeword for please, mule and porbeagle frying to prevent sogginess. Scan the code
and ecological development, and is sharing lished a series of preferential policies, “no duh…”, and of course eggs have thick shells which Finally, if you are cooking for to hear an audio
its experience with other provinces. including hotel and ticket discounts and bears are Catholic, Sherlock. don’t mix well with fried rice one, all these steps are unnec- version.
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opened the European Patent Office’s 2017 patent-fil- years robot in Shanghai. The robot vice robots by
in ing table for the first on could quickly assemble high- 2020 amid
Beijing’s time, according to tech products with precision. surging
Wang- results announced in Editor’s Note: This year In the past two decades, demand in the
jing Brussels. Huawei filed marks the 40th anniversary huge progress has been healthcare,
district 2,398 patents last year, of China’s reform and open- made in the sector. education and
on while Siemens and LG, ing-up policy. A plan unveiled by the entertainment
Friday. “I want to help people lead a healthy who grabbed second and Ministry of Industry and sectors.
life-style, and allow exercise to become a third place, filed 2,220 As China aims to upgrade Information Technology in Many man-
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TOP NEWS
China’s know-how to aid Africa
Vice-President Wang Qishan highlights
areas like poverty eradication at forum
By ZHOU JIN
zhoujin@chinadaily.com.cn
China will support Africa’s
development by passing along
experiences from its own
development, Vice-President
Wang Qishan said on Tuesday
in Beijing.
Under the framework of
the Forum on China-Africa
Cooperation, local govern-
ments in China and Africa
carry out exchanges and
cooperation focusing on pov-
erty alleviation and sustaina-
ble development, Wang said
at the opening ceremony of
the Third Forum on China-
Africa Local Government
Cooperation.
“It will promote the imple-
mentation of the China-Africa
comprehensive strategic part-
nership of cooperation,” Wang
said.
The two-day forum that
started on Monday was
attended by about 400 people
from government and private
organizations. It was co-host-
ed by the Chinese People’s
Association for Friendship
with Foreign Countries and
the United Cities and Local
Governments of Africa.
Wang said China will
unswervingly implement the
mutually beneficial opening-
Paratroop exercise uses giant Y-20 plane for first time
By ZHAO LEI
The People’s Liberation
Army Air Force deployed its
Y-20s, China’s domestically
developed heavy-lift transport
plane, in a recent joint para-
chute and airdrop exercise
with paratroopers, an Air
Force spokesman said on
Tuesday.
Senior Colonel Shen Jinke
said that this is the first time
the Y-20, China’s largest mili-
tary aircraft, has taken part in
a parachute operation. It
marks a new step in Air Force
efforts to boost its strategic
projection and long-range
Visit: Li Trade: Businesses recognize that when
to sign export door closes, it’s difficult to reopen
papers on
exchanges
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the region needs a peaceful
environment, he said.
“During my visit, we will
witness the signing of a num-
ber of agreements in areas
such as healthcare, medical
sciences and the sharing econ-
omy,” Li said.
The two countries will sign a
cooperative document to
expand exchanges of renminbi
and yen, and more renminbi
qualified foreign institutional
investors quotas will be given to
Japanese investors, he added.
China, Japan and the ROK,
as major economies in Asia,
have promoted exchanges in
fields such as transportation,
culture, education, healthcare
and disaster management.
They have had 13 rounds of
free trade agreement negotia-
tions and signed an invest-
ment agreement. Last year,
trade between the three coun-
tries hit $670 billion.
The three neighbors have
benefited from an open world
economy, and these countries
should accelerate construction
of a free-trade zone and pro-
mote substantial moves for the
Regional Comprehensive Eco-
nomic Partnership, and safe-
guard free trade and the rule-
based multilateral trading
system, Li said in the article.
up strategy to realize the reju-
venation of the Chinese
nation.
China is still a developing
country, he said, adding that
unbalanced and inadequate
development remains a major
contradiction.
China still faces the arduous
task and challenge of winning
the tough battle against tar-
geted poverty and ensuring
the impoverished people will
not be left behind in the
nationwide pursuit of a mod-
erately prosperous society, he
said.
Bilateral trade volume
between China and African
nations reached $170 billion
last year, and China’s growth
in imports from Africa is up 32
percent. Between them, they
have established 135 “sister
ties” at provincial and city lev-
el.
Niger Prime Minister Brigi
Rafini said at the opening cere-
mony that Niger should fur-
ther encourage, emphasize and
promote local-level coopera-
tion with China.
Former Tanzanian prime
minister Salim Ahmed Salim
said that apart from passing
on experience, China is also
helping Tanzania in develop-
ing its economy and building
infrastructure.
parachute capabilities, he said
in a statement published on
the Air Force’s micro blog.
Shen did not give details
about the exercise, adding
only that the Air Force will
extend its strategic presence to
wherever China’s national
interests exist.
Wang Ya’nan, editor-in-
chief of Aerospace Knowledge
magazine, said the joint drill
indicates the Y-20 is likely to
be deployed soon with Air
Force airborne forces, which
will extensively strengthen
their projection capability.
“The Y-20 can carry more
soldiers and weapons than
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ton next week to continue the
discussion with US negotia-
tors. While she did not name
the person, it is believed she
was referring to Liu He, a vice-
premier and member of the
Political Bureau of the Com-
munist Party of China Central
Committee.
The White House’s state-
ment expresses the desire of
the US to reach a consensus
with China on economic and
trade issues. This is a positive
signal, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Geng Shuang
said at a news briefing.
“It is wise to cut China-US
trade friction through work
mechanisms and for dialogue
Readied for reunion
A white crane that was nursed back to health with help of the
Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Center in Nanchang, Jiangxi
province, is readied for moving by center staff members on
Monday. A farmer found the crane, which could not stand on its
own, in April. Now recovered, the crane is being transported to
Changchun, Jilin province, where other cranes have migrated.
WAN XIANG / XINHUA
Vice-President Wang Qishan attends the Third Forum on China-Africa Local Government Cooperation
in Beijing on Tuesday. About 400 people were attracted to the forum. WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY
Salim, also chairman of the
Tanzania-China Friendship
Promotion Association, said
Tanzania hopes to strengthen
communication at the local
level with China to improve
the governance system as well
as to serve the people.
Wang also met with Rafini
and Salim separately on Tues-
day.
While meeting with Rafini,
Wang said enhancing bilateral
cooperation and promoting
The Y-20, China’s heavy-lift
transport plane, first flew in
2013. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
other transport planes in the
Chinese Air Force, which will
enable airborne units to field
more troops and armored
channels to solve the remain-
ing disputes in the future, as
it is helpful to maximize com-
mon interests and avoid fric-
tion,” said Song Guoyou,
deputy director of Fudan Uni-
versity’s Center for American
studies.
Trade between China and
the US rose 5.9 percent year-
on-year to 1.24 trillion yuan in
the first four months of this
year, accounting for 13.6 per-
cent of China’s total trade,
data from the General
Administration of Customs
showed on Tuesday.
China’s trade surplus with
the US swelled to $22.19 bil-
lion in April, up from $15.43
billion in March.
Song said the trade figures
common development are
shared hopes of China and
Niger.
Bilateral mutually benefi-
cial cooperation in various
fields recently has wit-
nessed vigorous develop-
ment and China is willing to
push forward China-Niger
relations to a higher level,
Wang said
Rafini said that Niger is hap-
py to see China’s growing
importance in the internation-
vehicles within the same peri-
od of time. It also can fly far-
ther and faster than its
predecessors, making para-
troopers more efficient,” he
said.
“The plane is capable of fly-
ing more than 5,000 kilome-
ters within eight hours, which
means it can fulfill most of the
PLA’s transport needs,” Wang
said, forecasting that the jum-
bo jet will be developed into a
large family that will consist of
early-warning planes and aeri-
al refueling aircraft.
Developed by Aviation
Industry Corp of China, the
major contractor for the PLA
show US demand for Chinese
consumer goods kept growing
as the trade structure between
the two matured. Meanwhile,
China continues to consume
US skill-intensive products
and high-tech services.
Trade experts said trade
between China and the US
would continue to see a signifi-
cant jump in the second quar-
ter, as traders take precautions.
“They want to seal deals as
soon as possible, as much as
possible,” said Sang Bai-
chuan, director of the Insti-
tute of International Bus-
iness at the University of
International Business and
Economics.
“Companies and agricultur-
al product growers are acutely
DPRK: Kim says nation’s position is
denuclearization of Korean Peninsula
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actively worked to boost dia-
logues regarding the penin-
sula and ease tensions there
and has yielded positive out-
comes.
With joint efforts made by
all parties involved, the pen-
insula is gaining momentum
toward the direction of facili-
tating a political settlement,
Xi said.
al community and hopes to
learn from China’s develop-
ment experience.
While meeting with Salim,
Wang said China would like to
promote bilateral ties to move
forward through concrete
cooperation projects.
Salim said he hopes the
countries will deepen
exchanges and cooperation at
all levels and continue to con-
solidate and develop their tra-
ditional friendship.
Air Force, the Y-20 made its
maiden flight in January 2013.
Delivery to the Air Force
began in July 2016.
With a maximum takeoff
weight of around 200 metric
tons, the colossal jet is able to
transport cargo and personnel
over long distances in diverse
weather conditions, according
to the Air Force.
Before the commissioning
of the Y-20, the PLA operated a
transport fleet that mainly
consisted of the Y-7, Y-8 and
their variants, all of which
were designed based on air-
planes imported from the
former Soviet Union.
aware that once they lose an
export market it won’t come
back in a short period. It often
takes many years for trading
relationships to recover.”
Amid domestic and over-
seas opposition, the Trump
administration threatened to
slap additional duties on
$100 billion worth of Chinese
goods in April, after propos-
ing steep tariffs on Chinese
imports worth $50 billion in
late March. China responded
with proposed tariffs on $50
billion in US products.
Chen Weihua in Washington
contributed to this story.
Contact the writers at zhang-
yunbi@chinadaily.com.cn
Kim said it is the DPRK’s
lasting position to achieve the
peninsula’s denuclearization.
As long as the relevant party
eliminates its hostile policies
and security threats against
the DPRK, there is no need
for the DPRK to possess
nuclear weapons, and the
denuclearization could be
achieved, Kim added.
It is hoped that the DPRK
and the United States can
Sino-German event
promotes media ties
By YU YILEI in Berlin
yuyilei@chinadaily.com.cn
The Seventh Sino-German
Media Dialogue concluded
on Monday in Berlin with
more than 40 media repre-
sentatives and specialists tak-
ing part.
The topics of the annual
event were “Globalization
and the Media’s Role” and
“International News in the
Era of Social Media”.
“Both China and Germany
are among the biggest infor-
mation providers and con-
sumers in the world,
providing a solid foundation
for media collaborations,”
said Guo Weimin, vice-minis-
Flying-wing bomber
unveiling forecast
by aviation experts
By ZHAO LEI
zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn
China is likely to soon
unveil one of its most antici-
pated weapons, a new-gener-
ation long-range bomber,
aviation industry observers
said amid disclosure of the
plane’s appearance by its
developer on Tuesday.
Aviation Industry Corp of
China, the nation’s leading
aircraft maker, displayed a
front view of what appears to
be a flying-wing aircraft con-
cept at the end of a promo-
tional video. The video was
published on its WeChat
account to mark the 60th
birthday of Xi’an Aircraft
Industry, an AVIC subsidiary
in Shaanxi province that is
China’s major builder of
bomber aircraft.
The video shows an artistic
rendering of a triangle-
shaped plane under two
English words and ellipses,
“The Next……” The scene
closely resembles a moment
in a 2015 promotional video
from United States aerospace
and defense technology com-
pany Northrop Grumman
that depicted what is now
known as the B-21 Raider, the
next US long-range, stealth
strategic bomber.
AVIC did not explain the
six-second episode, placed at
the end of the video in an
unmistakable attempt to
highlight the plane’s signifi-
cance and mystery.
Despite its brevity, the vid-
eo seems to have ended
debate among Chinese mili-
tary fans and aviation indus-
try observers on whether the
country’s new bomber would
adopt a conventional aerody-
namic configuration or a fly-
ing-wing design previously
used only by the Northrop
Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth
bomber.
General Ma Xiaotian,
former commander of the
People’s Liberation Army Air
Force, told reporters in Sep-
tember 2016, “We are now
developing a new-genera-
tion, long-range strike
bomber that you will see
sometime in the future.”
Ma’s remarks put an end to
engage in dialogue and build
mutual trust, and that all the
parties involved can take
step-by-step and simultane-
ous measures in a dutiful
manner to comprehensively
advance a political settle-
ment of the peninsula issue
and ultimately achieve the
peninsula’s denuclearization
and lasting peace, Kim said.
Also, Kim briefed Xi about
the recent progress of the
3
ter of the State Council Infor-
mation Office. “The dialogue,
coming into its seventh edi-
tion, has grown into an
important platform for the
media personnel of the two
countries to communicate
and cooperate on a yearly
basis.”
Andreas Michaelis, state
secretary of the Federal For-
eign Office of Germany, said:
“China is one of Germany’s
biggest partners in Asia as
well as in the world economi-
cally. In the backdrop of rising
trade protectionism globally,
this dialogue is of special sig-
nificance.”
The inaugural dialogue was
launched in Berlin.
It is now not
uncommon for
the PLA to make
public its top
weapons before
their delivery.”
Shi Jian, senior editor at Avia-
tion World Monthly magazine
years of speculation on
whether China would devel-
op a new aircraft to replace
its half-century-old H-6
bomber series.
Shi Jian, senior editor at
Aviation World Monthly
magazine, said the latest
AVIC move indicates that the
State-owned defense giant
believes the new bomber’s
design and technologies are
advanced enough that the
company wants to let people
know of the program’s
progress.
“I think the new bomber
will be unveiled to the public
in the near future,” he said.
“It is now not uncommon for
the PLA to make public its
top weapons before their
delivery thanks to the
increased level of transpar-
ency and confidence brought
about by our technological
advancement.”
He said the flying-wing
design should not have been
difficult for Chinese engi-
neers when they designed
the bomber, explaining that
the real challenges lie in the
plane’s flight-control system
and engines.
Fu Qianshao, an aircraft
expert from the PLA Air
Force, anticipated that the
new bomber would be bet-
ter than the US B-21 in flight
range and carrying capaci-
ty.
He said it will probably
have an operational range of
at least 12,000 kilometers
and a maximum payload of
20 metric tons of bombs and
missiles.
country’s development and
his Party’s buildup.
China supports the DPRK’s
shift in its strategic focus to
economic buildup and sup-
ports comrades in the DPRK
to take their own develop-
ment path in keeping with
the country’s national condi-
tions, Xi said.
Xinhua contributed to this
story.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
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Shortage of
talent hits
chipmakers
Only a handful of universities are
able to train first-class engineers
By ZHANG ZHIHAO
and ZHANG YANGFEI
China is expected to fill the
large talent shortage in its
domestic computer chip
industry, as the US ban on
sales of electronic products
to smartphone maker ZTE
underscores China’s overreli-
ance on imported chips,
experts say.
To achieve its goal, China
will need to invest heavily in
research, craft more favora-
ble policies for Chinese chip-
makers and attract more
high-end foreign talent,
experts said.
China will also need to bol-
ster its homegrown talent
pool by strengthening edu-
cation and career services for
graduates, improve benefits
for engineers doing basic
research and support inno-
vative and original work in
electronic engineering and
computer science, they said.
In 2017, there were fewer
than 300,000 employees
working in China’s integrat-
ed circuit industry, but the
country needs at least
400,000 more to reach its
goal of boosting the indus-
try’s size fivefold before
2030, according to the Minis-
try of Industry and Informa-
tion Technology.
Moreover, China has spent
more than $200 billion annu-
ally importing chips since
2013 due to soaring demand
and a lack of Chinese chips in
the market, according to the
China Semiconductor Indus-
try Association.
The gap can be traced to
limited educational resour-
ces, career prospects and
poor salaries for talented
young people who want to
do chip-related hardware
research, said Wu Zhenhua,
a researcher at the Chinese
Academy of Sciences’ Insti-
tute of Microelectronics.
“Only a handful of top uni-
versities in China can train
quality microelectronics
engineers, but the jobs wait-
ing for them after gradua-
tion are often very limited
and pay relatively poorly,” he
said.
“It is much more appeal-
ing for these top engineers to
go to big internet companies
and create applications and
software, rather than spend
five to 10 years in a small lab
doing extremely difficult and
expensive hardware
research.”
Buses of mercy
Chen Zhu (center), head of the Red Cross Society of China, sees off
medical buses and two ambulances bound for Syria at Waigaoqiao
Port in Shanghai on Tuesday. The specially equipped vehicles are
expected to offer comprehensive medical services for people in
war-torn Syria. WANG JING / CHINA DAILY
$200
billion
Amount that China
has spent annually on
imported chips since 2013
A computer chip is one of
the most complex products
in the world. The internal
components of today’s chips
are measured in nanome-
ters, or one-billionth of a
meter, and making them
requires deep knowledge in
math, physics and chemistry.
“Manufacturing high-end
electronics has always been a
challenge for China,” Wu said.
“Japan and South Korea are
world leaders in chipmaking
because they have poured in
staggering amounts of invest-
ment and have received
extensive support from the
United States for decades.”
While China has better
self-sufficiency in military
and government computer
systems, it still lacks the
advanced equipment and
engineering know-how to
reliably make high-end, cost-
efficient commercial chips,
he said.
In recent years, China has
improved its chipmaking
capability by allocating
investment, as well as creat-
ing favorable policies for busi-
nesses and attracting high-
quality talent from overseas,
said Liu Lifeng, a professor at
Peking University’s School of
Electronic Engineering and
Computer Science.
Last year, China’s leading
chipmaker Tsinghua Uni-
group signed a 150 billion
yuan ($23.8 billion) deal with
China Development Bank
and the country’s national
integrated circuit fund. The
Finance Ministry said last
month that it has introduced
tax breaks for up to five years
for Chinese chipmakers.
China may invest hun-
dreds of billions of yuan in
the near future to boost its
semiconductor sectors, but
the scale is still relatively
small compared to industry
giants such as Intel, which
spends more than $10 billion
annually on research and
development, Liu said.
Contact the writers
at zhangzhihao@
chinadaily.com.cn
Pointing to history
Students look at Chinese characters copied from the Shang Dynasty (c.16th-11th century BC) at Nankai Primary School in Chongqing’s
Shapingba district on Tuesday. The characters, are known as jiaguwen, a reference to their being carved on animal bones or turtle shells.
The event, held by a local library, was meant to help the children understand traditional Chinese culture. CHEN CHAO / CHINA NEWS SERVICE
Harbin police get help from drivers
By TIAN XUEFEI and
ZHOU HUIYING in Harbin
At the beginning of May,
Harbin’s traffic management
bureau launched a snapshot
platform through its net-
working app, Bingcheng
Exing, or Ice City E-Traffic, to
encourage citizens to report
traffic violations.
Users can upload their pho-
tos showing violations and
will receive a cash reward of
10 to 20 yuan ($1.57 to $3.15)
each time if the information
is verified.
More than 15,000 netizens
have registered.
“We have received about
1,500 submissions of informa-
tion through the platform,
and half of them were veri-
fied,” said Suo Yong, an officer
in the bureau’s command cen-
ter. “Most of the violations
Kindergarten teacher detained on suspicion of abuse
By CANG WEI in Nanjing
cangwei@chinadaily.com.cn
A kindergarten teacher in
Nanjing, Jiangsu province, was
detained on Tuesday on suspi-
cion of physically abusing at
least five children, police in the
city’s Xuanwu district said.
Video footage from the kin-
dergarten showed the teacher,
identified by her surnamed
Yu, dragging, slapping and
striking children with her
knees since April. It also
showed that she threw a pil-
low over a child’s face as he
was sleeping in bed.
The private kindergarten,
Aijia Mutong, is in the dis-
trict’s Xiaolingwei communi-
ty. Founded in 2014, it is under
As pushy parents line up marriages, young adults flee
SHANGHAI — Parks in big
Chinese cities are popular
venues for pushy parents to
hunt for suitable spouses for
their children, who are too
busy or too slow to find love.
But Chinese young people
are asserting themselves, avoid-
ing arranged marriages and
choosing their own partners.
For the rising generation,
happiness cannot be found
through formulaic descriptions
printed on A4 paper (occasion-
ally laminated) that parents
post to advertise their offspring.
At matchmaking corners in
parks, the parents usually dis-
play a resume of their child, list-
ing education, birth date, salary,
involve parking, going in the
wrong direction and crossing
lines illegally.”
“To be effective, the infor-
mation should include at
least three photos that clearly
show the scene, the process of
the traffic violation and the
related traffic lines,” he said.
“However, if you are a driver,
please avoid using the phone
while driving even if you spot
violations by others.”
The bureau has begun to
distribute free automobile
data recorders for use on the
city’s buses and taxis and
with ride services such as
Didi.
“The automobile data
recorder is quite a helpful tool
for drivers to record traffic
violations,” said Wan Xiaoling,
deputy general manager of
Heilongjiang Long Win Mod-
ern Transportation Co. “We
supervision of community
officials. It has four teachers
to take care of more than 20
children.
Li Zheng, the father of an
abused child, said he could not
sleep after hearing what hap-
pened to his son.
“I cried,” he said. “I kept tex-
ting the teacher all night ask-
ing her how she could abuse
the children. She never texted
me back.”
His 3-year-old son started at
the kindergarten in November
and enjoyed school life. How-
ever, he showed signs of
unhappiness after March,
when the new teacher showed
up.
“The boy refused to brush
his teeth in the morning,
job, housing and any details
that might help lure a match.
Permanent residence
(hukou) or a house in a major
city, an overseas education or a
car are seen as selling points,
and parents of such well-en-
dowed candidates can be picky.
Guo Yingguang, 35, has
been filming at a matchmak-
ing corner in a Shanghai park
for two years. Her multimedia
documentary, The Bliss of Con-
formity, won the China Wom-
en Photographers Award at
last year’s Jimei and Arles
International Photo Festival.
In her work, Guo, who is also
single, looks beneath the seem-
ingly peaceful surface of the
have chosen 20 taxis, whose
drivers are all experienced
and responsible, to install the
recorders provided by the
bureau.”
“We gave the platform to
our company’s drivers as
soon as it launched and we
encourage them to upload
information,” she said. “As the
biggest taxi company in the
city, we have a responsibility
to contribute to good traffic
order.
“In fact, urging our compa-
ny’s drivers to obey traffic reg-
ulations and laws is one of our
most important tasks,” she
said. “I believe the platform
will further strengthen driv-
ers’ safety awareness.”
The company owns about
1,700 taxis, accounting for
about one-tenth of the
licensed operators in the city.
The platform has also
because then he had to eat
breakfast and go to kindergar-
ten,” the father said. “On April
27, he cried when he saw
grandma and asked to put
medicine to his face because
he had been slapped.”
Li and his wife went to the
kindergarten the next morn-
ing asking for surveillance
footage. They saw their son
being abused repeatedly.
“The footage also showed
that other teachers didn’t stop
Yu but kept laughing and chat-
ting,” he said.
At least five families have
reported abuse to the police
based on the video.
The head of the kindergar-
ten, surnamed Zhou, said Yu
had been hired a month ago
matchmaking corner and
finds young people highly
resistant to their parents’ ways.
“I was told that I am good-
looking, but a little old,” she
said. “Many young people don’t
even know that their parents
are arranging blind dates for
them in the park. It’s like they
are being put on public display.
The parents are very anxious.”
Matchmaking produces
some successful couples. Fang
Bin of Shanghai met his wife in
2010 on a blind date arranged
by his parents. They are mar-
ried now and raising a son.
“I am lucky to find a wife of
good temperament, but we sel-
dom have much freedom to
Marriage has become more
complicated. The idea of
happiness is changing in China.”
Zhang Zhenyu, psychologist at East China Normal University
received high praise from resi-
dents.
“The cash reward is just a
formality,” said Jiang Wentao,
35, a company employee. “It is
more significant to get all citi-
zens to pay attention to the
city’s traffic order. I believe we
will have a better traffic envi-
ronment soon.”
Zhang Kaiyuan, an officer in
the bureau’s traffic violations
office, said: “After widely solic-
iting opinions from experts
and the public, we canceled the
upper limit of no more than
1,000 yuan for each user every
month. That will stimulate the
citizens’ enthusiasm and initi-
ative. Further, we have adjust-
ed the platform and simplified
the registration process.”
Contact the writers at
zhouhuiying@
chinadaily.com.cn
and was suspended immedi-
ately after parents saw the vid-
eos.
“She had work experience at
a kindergarten for more than
10 years,” Zhou said. “We failed
to do our job. Violence against
children cannot be tolerated.”
“We have apologized to the
parents and are willing to
arrange psychologists for the
children to consult. The kin-
dergarten will fully cooperate
with police to investigate the
case,” she said.
Chen Yumei, deputy direct-
or of the community office,
said the community has shut
down the kindergarten and
reclaimed its classrooms and
offices.
“There are parents reporting
choose the way we live because
we still count on parents repay-
ing house loans,” Fang said.
Gu Huazeng, 65, found a
spouse for her son at the park
but is reluctant to encourage
others to follow suit. “It was
more a matter of luck,” she said.
Zhong Wei, who has pro-
duced a blind-dating TV show
— Dating on Saturdays — for
two decades, said that 70 per-
cent of the 11,000 blind-date
participants the show followed
opposed parental interference
in marriage.
“Marriage has become more
complicated. The idea of happi-
ness is changing in China,” said
Zhang Zhenyu, a psychologist
Briefly
BEIJING
China increases
education spending
China spent nearly 4.3 tril-
lion yuan ($675.3 billion)
on education in 2017, an
increase of 9.4 percent over
2016, according to prelimi-
nary figures released by the
Ministry of Education on
Tuesday. Spending on pre-
school education in 2017
reached 325 billion yuan,
up 16.1 percent from the
previous year. Investment
in compulsory education
totaled nearly 1.94 trillion
yuan, an increase of 9.9
percent year-on-year.
JIANGSU
Police trace fake
diet powder
Police have traced tons of
bogus diet powder contain-
ing harmful chemical sub-
stances after uncovering a
counterfeiting workshop.
The diet powder, which pur-
ports to be L-Carnitine Cof-
fee, had become popular
online. Police raided the
workshop, arresting 12 sus-
pects and seizing 8 metric
tons of bogus diet powder.
Police in Huai’an warned
consumers on Tuesday not
to buy the product. Ten tons
of the powder produced by
the gang have already been
sent into the market.
GUANGDONG
False killer whale
brings punishment
A tourist who took what
appeared to be a dead baby
whale from a local beach in
Guangdong province has
been found and will face
punishment, authorities
said on Tuesday. The ani-
mal was actually a dol-
phin-like animal, a baby
false killer whale, a Class 2
protected species in China.
According to the local fish-
ery administration, the
tourist was caught with the
dead animal after it was
stranded on a beach in
Hailing Island, a resort
destination in Yangjiang.
XINHUA
that other teachers were also
involved in child abuse,” Chen
said. “The community will
scrutinize the kindergartens
and service centers in our juris-
diction to prevent such abuse.”
Similar child abuse cases
have also been reported
recently in other cities.
In March, a kindergarten
teacher in Jinan, Shandong
province, was detained for
abusing a 4-year-old boy. The
boy suffered severe skin burns
from boiling water.
Also in March, the Shang-
hai procuratorate began legal
proceedings against eight
people from a day care center
of leading travel agency Ctrip,
charging them with child
abuse.
at East China Normal Universi-
ty. “The older generation
regards ‘hardware’ such as
housing and salary as impor-
tant, while the younger genera-
tion values ‘software’ like love
and common interests.”
“I’m not against marriage,
but I’m against quantifying
happiness with material
goods,” said Guo, the filmmak-
er. “It’s not that you have to
marry someone at a certain
age or you will be unhappy.”
The documentary has
drawn accolades in more than
20,000 comments on social
media.
XINHUA
 CHINA DAILY Wednesday, May 9, 2018
OneSpace sets launch
of private carrier rocket
By TAN YINGZI in Chongqing
tanyingzi@chinadaily.com.cn
OneSpace Technology, Chi-
na’s first private rocket pro-
ducer, announced on Tuesday
in Chongqing that the maiden
launch of the company’s
OS-X0 solid-fuel rocket is
scheduled for May 17 in a test
field in northwestern China.
The company said it repre-
sents the first flight of a carrier
rocket entirely designed and
built by a private company in
China.
The rocket has been moved
to the test field, and the com-
pany is busy preparing for the
launch. According to an earli-
er report in China Daily, the
test field is in the Inner Mon-
golia autonomous region.
The 9-meter-tall OS-X0,
called the Chongqing Liang-
jiang Star, is capable of placing
100-kilogram payloads into
orbit 800 kilometers above
Earth. The rocket can push
concept aircraft it’s testing to a
hypersonic speed of Mach 13,
or 4.4 kilometers per second.
Once proved via test flights,
the OS-X series will be tasked
with testing new types of air-
craft or spacecraft.
Established in 2015 as part
of a government effort to fos-
ter the commercial space sec-
tor and encourage
participation by private enter-
prise, OneSpace has become a
rising star in the country’s
space arena.
“Our company will focus on
the high-frequency emissions
of carrier rockets,” said Shu
Chang, founder and chief
executive of OneSpace Tech-
nology, a privately owned
startup in Beijing, adding that
OneSpace expects up to 10
missions for such rockets in
2019.
“I hope we can become one
of the biggest small-satellite
launchers in the world,” Shu
said.
In May last year, OneSpace
Technology signed an agree-
A Chongqing Liangjiang Star rocket is assembled in Beijing last
month. It was developed by OneSpace, China’s first private rocket
producer. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Deeper Yangtze River
opens to large vessels
after dredging project
By LUO WANGSHU
luowangshu@chinadaily.com.cn
A deeper Yangtze River —
from Nanjing to its estuary —
opened for large vessels on
Tuesday, increasing the ability
of the lower Yangtze to stimu-
late the economy, the Ministry
of Transport said.
The 12.5-meter-deep water-
way runs for 431 kilometers,
and allows vessels of more
than 50,000 metric tons to
pass. Vessels with capacity up
to 100,000 tons can also navi-
gate the waterway. Before the
dredging project, the water-
way’s depth averaged only 10.5
meters, limiting vessels to
30,000 tons.
Larger vessels can now get
to Nanjing to save the cost of
redirecting goods at the estu-
ary, such as by reloading car-
100 kg
Payload that the Chongqing
Liangjiang Star rocket can
carry to an 800-km orbit
above the Earth
ment with Chongqing Liang-
jiang Aviation Industry
Investment Group to build its
research and manufacturing
base in Chongqing.
“It is the center of western
China and has a strategic posi-
tion in the Belt and Road Initi-
ative,” Shu said. “The
countries participating in the
initiative will provide a large
market for us.”
Chongqing Liangjiang New
Area is the third national
development and opening
zone in China — and the first
inland location — approved by
the State Council, after Shang-
hai’s Pudong New Area and
Tianjin’s Binhai New Area.
The Chongqing base, which
will go live by the end of this
year, will include a research
center, a smart manufacturing
and assembly center, a test
center, an aircraft control and
simulation center and special-
ized labs. It is expected that its
annual output value will reach
1.5 billion yuan ($240 million),
with capacity to assemble and
test 30 carrier rockets per
year.
OneSpace is developing the
OS-M1, a larger rocket, to send
small satellites into sun-syn-
chronous or low-Earth orbits.
It plans to conduct OS-M1’s
first flight around the end of
this year.
The company is expected to
produce more than 30 OS-M
series rockets and over 20
OS-X series rockets in 2020.
“We will develop bigger
rockets in the future and par-
ticipate in the global competi-
tion,” Shu said.
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12.5-meter-deep waterway
go onto smaller vessels or
choosing other transport
modes.
Dredging started in 2012.
The lower reaches of the
Yangtze is China’s busiest
inland waterway, with annual
cargo volume of more than 1.6
billion tons. More than half of
that is carried by ship.
The cost of water transport
is also expected to decline
because of the capability to
carry more large ships.
Quake network under construction
Sensors being installed in Sichuan and
Yunnan — China’s most active areas
By HUANG ZHILING
and CAO YIN in Chengdu
China has begun building a
monitoring network in seis-
mically active regions in Sich-
uan province and
neighboring Yunnan prov-
ince, according to the Insti-
tute of Care-Life, a key
earthquake early-warning
laboratory.
About 2,000 monitoring
stations will be built in the
two provinces in the next year
or two to form an under-
ground cloud map monitor-
ing network.
Over the next three years,
the institute — based in
Chengdu, Sichuan — will
study data collected from
around 10 destructive earth-
quakes to improve prediction,
Orphanage: ‘Ankang will always be my home’
From page 1
After about a year, the
home was relocated to a com-
plex built for that purpose in
Chengdu, Sichuan’s capital.
Li stayed at Ankang until
2013, when she enrolled at a
vocational college. She has
kept in regular contact with
her “mom”, Cao, who was
among 86 caregivers
employed to run the facility in
2009. The 22-year-old
returned to the home on Sun-
day to mark the 10th anniver-
sary of the Wenchuan quake.
“No matter how far I go or
how long I am away, Ankang
will always be my home,” she
said. “It made me secure and
independent, and it taught me
how to love again after suffer-
ing so much in the disaster.”
Counseling provided
Some 712 young people
aged 4 to 19 were resettled at
the home in Rizhao within
weeks of the earthquake,
including those from the
worst-hit areas of the Aba
Tibetan and Qiang autono-
mous prefecture. Once there,
they began to receive counsel-
ing on how to cope with the
trauma.
In August 2009, 672 of
them were moved to the new
Ankang complex in Cheng-
du’s Shuangliu district, about
an hour’s drive from down-
town. It had dorms, recrea-
tional areas and a dining
room. The other 40 went to
live with relatives.
“They’re all Sichuan
natives, so caring for them
and educating them in their
home province sounded like
the best choice,” said Qi Jian-
xin, manager of the Rizhao
facility, which was shut down
once all the residents were
transferred.
Unlike in Rizhao, where the
spouses of steel company
employees made up most of
the 128 volunteers, the facility
in Shuangliu was staffed with
86 professional caregivers as
well as 34 administrators and
security guards.
The district civil affairs
authority, which took over
running the home, placed the
children in schools, while Ri-
In sensitive interviews, reporters need to tread lightly
A
s a journalist, I once
thought that the
more specifics I
could get and show
readers, the more readable a
story would be. But I found
that is not always the case aft-
er five days of interviews relat-
ed to the 10th anniversary of
the Wenchuan earthquake in
Sichuan province.
When covering disaster-re-
lated stories, such as this
quake from 2008, journalists
need to be sensitive in their
questioning of survivors and
work up to the answers step by
step, rather than causing pain
by asking questions directly.
I read some quake-related
according to Wang Tun, the
head of the institute.
Both Sichuan and Yunnan
have a high incidence of
quakes. Each has an annual
average of more than three
quakes above magnitude-5.0.
The sensors at the 2,000
monitoring stations will be
installed at ground level and
will collect data on under-
ground stresses 8 to 20 kilo-
meters below the surface,
providing researchers at the
institute with potential
insights into earthquake fore-
casting, Wang said.
According to Chen Tian-
chang, a research fellow at the
Sichuan Earthquake Bureau,
quakes are closely related to
underground stresses and
energy.
The objective of the ambi-
Li Hong (in white) hugs her “Ankang mother”, Cao Weiping, who took care of her at the Ankang Home in Chengdu, Sichuan province,
after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. The home helped those orphaned in the disaster, including Li, who lost her father. She is now a
kindergarten teacher. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY
zhao Steel offered to cover the
cost of tuition for older resi-
dents going onto higher edu-
cation.
“The aim was to ensure
everyone got an education
after they returned to Si-
chuan,” Qi said. Hu Yuan-
zhong, manager of the
Shuangliu home, added:
“Child safety was also a priori-
ty. Like parents, our caregiv-
ers take the young people to
see doctors as well as encour-
age them to do their home-
work.”
Hu said 624 residents have
moved out since 2009, with
282 starting university and
342 finding jobs after training
at vocational schools. With
only 48 residents left, the
youngest 13 years old, the
number of caregivers has
been reduced to seven.
Restoring trust
Li said she knows the home
reports before I arrived in
Sichuan. Some of them, I
think, had too much detail and
seemed insensitive to the feel-
ings of survivors. I also wit-
nessed some journalists throw
out questions about the quake
at the beginning of their inter-
views — such as what the sub-
jects did when the disaster
happened and what they lost.
Such questions sometimes
are a must and can enrich a
report, but they can also make
subjects reluctant to answer.
They may even bring harm to
the victims again by reopening
old wounds.
In my opinion, a better way
to get information without
Wang Tun (right), head of the Chengdu-based Institute of Care-Life,
demonstrates a seismic monitoring station.
HUANG ZHILING / CHINA DAILY
tious project is to successfully
predict earthquakes that are
about to happen at depths
between 8 km and 20 km,
where almost all the most
destructive quakes have orig-
inated, he said. However, the
current technology is only
able to estimate a likely time
period and area for a quake,
will not exist forever, “but it
will be always in my heart
because it made me feel
secure when I was at my low-
est point”.
Before the quake, she lived
in Maerkang. She had never
met her biological mother,
and when her father was
killed, she recalled feeling ter-
rified.
“I didn’t know who I could
depend on,” Li said, adding
that despite being an outgo-
ing child, at the Rizhao home
she would cry herself to sleep
most nights. “I thought no
one cared. But hearing my
cries, the psychologists came
to me and repeatedly told me
I wasn’t alone.”
She learned to trust the
caregivers at the home, espe-
cially after they celebrated
her first birthday since the
disaster and gave her a toy
bear as a gift. “From then on,
I knew I could depend on the
provoking
renewed sor-
row is to
design the
order of the
questions.
Enough is
Cao Yin
Reporter’s
enough.
Log On Sunday,
for example, I
interviewed Li
Hong, a survivor who lost her
father in the quake and was
sent to the Ankang Home in
Chengdu, the provincial capi-
tal, where orphans were
helped after the disaster.
I spent almost half an hour
talking with a 22-year-old kin-
dergarten teacher about topics
it cannot pinpoint them.
The epicenters of the mag-
nitude-6.8 and 7.2 Xingtai
earthquakes in Hebei prov-
ince in 1966; the magni-
tude-7.3 Haicheng earthquake
in Liaoning province in 1975;
the magnitude-7.8 Tangshan
earthquake in Hebei province
in 1976; the magnitude-8.0
people at the home.”
Once she transferred to
Shuangliu, Li began growing
more confident, with Cao
often applauding her ideas
and encouraging her to pur-
sue her dreams. Equally
important, Cao would
admonish Li when she made
mistakes or argued with
roommates.
“I felt cared for when Cao
prepared snacks for me after
school, and I felt a sense of
achievement when she asked
me for advice on how to make
traditional handicrafts (from
Aba prefecture),” Li said.
“Loving children doesn’t
mean spoiling them,” added
Cao, who has a son Li’s age.
After leaving school, Li
decided to study at North
Sichuan College of Preschool
Education, in Guangyuan,
and now works as a kinder-
garten teacher in downtown
Chengdu. Her career choice
she was interested in — what
hobbies she likes and how she
looks after children — to get
close to her.
During the talk, I found her
outgoing and willing to share
her stories. Then, I tentatively
asked her about the home. I
wanted to know what she had
suffered in the aftermath of
the quake.
Smiling at me as she held
hands with Cao Weiping, who
had taken care of her until she
left to become a vocational
school student in 2013, Li told
me the home had brought her
a great sense of security. In the
following moments, she
choked up with emotion. I
CHINA 5
Wenchuan earthquake in
Sichuan in 2008; and the
magnitude-7.0 Jiuzhaigou
earthquake in Sichuan last
year were all less than 20 km
deep, Wang said.
Earthquakes whose epicen-
ters are less than 8 km deep
are generally minor — below
magnitude-5.0 — as earth-
quakes with shallow epicen-
ters cannot accumulate
enormous underground
stress or energy, he said.
The first monitoring station
of the planned underground
cloud map network was
installed last week at the Ying-
xiu Earthquake Station in
Sichuan’s Wenchuan county.
Yingxiu was the epicenter
of the Wenchuan earthquake
on May 12, 2008, which killed
69,226 people and left 17,923
unaccounted for.
Contact the writers at
huangzhiling@
chinadaily.com.cn
was made not only because
she likes children, she said,
“but also because the home
taught me how to love”.
Former resident Du Chao,
16, who now attends boarding
school, returns to Ankang
every weekend. Hu is teach-
ing him guitar.
“Playing the guitar helps
me to get along easily with
classmates and even makes
me popular with girls,” he said
with a shy smile.
When asked to contem-
plate Ankang’s future, Hu
looked sad.
“It’s been touching to see
the children grow up and
have their own careers or
families,” he said. “Five years
from now, when the last child
has left, the home may have
accomplished its mission, but
it will be a pity if it’s closed.”
Hu suggested the government
may want to keep it open to
help more people in need.
knew the questions reminded
her of past days.
She added that she had
been raised by her father, but
he had since died.
Only at the end of the inter-
view did I raise questions
about what she was doing
when the quake happened
and how she got through the
difficulties.
She provided me with some
specifics and then smiled
silently. I did not press my
questions, as the silence may
have been the best answer.
Interviewing skills are
important for journalists, but
sometimes it’s better to stop
rather than go too far.
6 CHINA
Education
HK TEACHERS STRUGGLE TO DEAL
WITH STUDENTS’ EMOTIONAL ISSUES
There are not enough school counselors to handle
the problems typical among young people. Instead,
the job falls to teachers, who lack the expertise to
address the problem, as Nora Zheng reports.
F
or many teachers in
Hong Kong, the job
has become little more
than drudgery.
However, that’s not a result
of the long hours required to
prepare good lessons, or the
time spent in class, the endless
staff meetings or supervision
of extracurricular activities —
but because the extra effort
required to deal with troubled
children can be soul destroy-
ing.
According to educators, the
responsibility for handling
students experiencing emo-
tional trauma falls mainly on
the teachers, who have little
training in the field and scant
resources to back them up.
Schools just don’t have
enough resources to help chil-
dren undergoing emotional
turmoil; especially in a trau-
matized climate where stu-
dents all too often see no other
option than self-harm and
even suicide.
For example, when Andrew
(not his real name), a 13-year-
old student, started crying in
class, his teacher’s reaction
was, “Oh no, not again.”
The teacher, Cindy (not her
real name), had dealt with an
episode with Andrew the day
before. It had taken hours to
calm the boy down, and after-
ward she assumed that things
would be OK. She was wrong.
Now, Andrew was troubled
again, with Cindy silently
praying, “Please, don’t hurt
yourself.”
The boy was tormented.
He’d started dating a girl in
November 2016, and they
were happy for a while, until
the girl began avoiding
Andrew and turning down
invitations he made. Andrew
tried to preserve the relation-
ship, with no clue about what
was really happening.
There were arguments in
the hallways, and classmates
would find Andrew weeping.
The teachers read it as:
“Andrew is in no mood for tak-
ing classroom notes.”
Cindy, an English teacher
with seven years’ experience at
a band three secondary school
— the least prestigious aca-
demically — in Tin Shui Wai
district, knew that Andrew
was volatile and potentially a
danger to himself.
She twice arranged for him
to meet with a social worker,
but was still perplexed about
why her efforts to help were
unsuccessful. “I almost doubt-
ed myself, and wondered
whether it was worth talking
with him for hours,” Cindy
said.
Poor connections
Successful handling of
youthful trauma demands
empathy and an understand-
ing of the experiences young
people are going through,
according to experts.
“Humans are a social species.
We rely on connections to sur-
vive,” said Justine Campbell, a
counselor, coach and positive
psychology practitioner.
“However, it takes time to
build connections,” said
Campbell, who founded the
Mindquest Group, a well-be-
ing center in Hong Kong.
Building that connection
means teachers have to spend
time “babysitting” their stu-
dents, in addition to undertak-
ing their regular classroom
duties.
In April last year, Cindy felt
as though she was close to
breaking point when Andrew
was in meltdown. She was
teaching 30 classes to students
from three different grades
every week, as well as super-
vising extracurricular activi-
ties, sports meets, cheerleader
training and preparation for a
A child takes part in an activity at the Joyful@HK Run, a campaign to promote mental health that
was launched by the Department of Health in Hong Kong. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Students hold placards during the campaign, whch was held at the Pak Shek Kok Promenade at the
Hong Kong Science Park.
Mandarin competition. In
addition to those duties, she
was in charge of rehearsals for
a school performance that
would be open to the public.
Her working days are full,
with little time to spare. Every
morning, she arrives at the
school at about 7 am, prepares
her classes, attends an obliga-
tory meeting, and then leads
her students in a daily reading
session.
She teaches six classes a day,
with the first starting at 8:25
am. The period between 12:55
pm and 1:50 pm is split — half
lunchtime and half advisory
period. When classes end at 4
pm, Cindy spends the next
three hours providing extra
tuition for students who are
having trouble with their stud-
ies, or working with student
organizations. From 8 pm to
10 pm, she tackles the work
she hasn’t had time to address
earlier during the day.
Cindy always feels torn
between discussions with her
students and organizing extra-
curricular activities. Her long
and futile heart-to-heart with
Andrew was continually inter-
rupted by other matters; for
instance, the rehearsals for the
public performance. While
Andrew was baring his soul,
the students at the rehearsal
were becoming impatient.
If all that weren’t enough,
the overworked teacher is also
required to help promote the
school.
Student enrollment has fall-
en at the school, as it has at
almost every school in the city.
An expected surge in student
enrollment from the main-
land has yet to materialize,
and Hong Kong’s ongoing low
Class consciousness
(Unit: percent)
Problems experienced
Difficulty evaluating
students’ emotional 36.6
state
Lack of training to
deal with students’
43.4
emotional/mental
issues
Lack of time to
discuss issues with 63.2
students
0 20 40 60 80 100
Source: Survey of more than 400 teachers conducted by the Wellness Mind Center
of the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups
fertility rate has forced the
government to close many
schools as a result of a lack of
students. Survival for many of
the schools that remain means
attracting more children and
maintaining student num-
bers.
Cindy writes for the school
brochure, rehearses the stu-
dents’ performance and orga-
nizes exhibition kiosks for
open days, hoping to create
the best possible impression
for students and their parents.
Reduced class sizes
Elizabeth Quat Pui-fan, a
lawmaker from the city’s larg-
est political party, the Demo-
cratic Alliance for the
Betterment and Progress of
Hong Kong, said smaller class
sizes would help to relieve the
pressure and allow teachers to
spend more time with their
students.
The city government began
promoting the idea of fewer
students in class in 2009.
Studies supported the idea,
predicting that it would bene-
fit both students and teachers.
A study conducted in 2011
by Gary James Harfitt, associ-
ate dean of the Faculty of Edu-
cation at the University of
Hong Kong, found that lower-
ing the teacher-to-student
ratio would allow students
more opportunities to take
part in class discussions.
The relationship between
students in schools with
smaller class sizes was also
shown to be better, and teach-
ers experienced lower levels of
stress.
However, some scholars
have cautioned that lowering
student numbers has not been
tested in Hong Kong, so there
is no guarantee that the situa-
tion would improve, while the
cost of delivering education
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 CHINA DAILY
Required support measures
Training to help
parents manage 30
their own
emotions
Training to help
students express 49.7
their emotions
Training to help
students manage 70
their emotions
0 20 40 60 80 100
CHINA DAILY
could rise.
Teachers cannot replace
school mental health counsel-
ors, because they already have
too many other responsibili-
ties. More important, they
don’t have the training to be
counselors.
If students have problems
beyond the scope of social
workers, they are referred to
psychiatrists in public hospi-
tals.
Waiting list
However, for regular stu-
dents experiencing the normal
strains of adolescence and
whose cases are not classified
as urgent, there is a waiting
list of around 100 weeks or
longer for consultation,
according to the Hospital
Authority of Hong Kong.
Effectively this means there
is no support for students
experiencing the onset of
mental health problems, espe-
cially if they don’t appear to be
affecting people around them.
For example, when Cindy
and the resident social worker
had done all they could to
calm Andrew down, all they
could do was to leave him on
his own — and follow the
social worker’s suggestion to
move him away from the win-
dows. Eventually, he took time
out to deal with his emotional
problems.
“Increasing the number of
social workers and school edu-
cational psychologists is
important,” Quat said.
In 2016, six to 10 schools
shared one educational psy-
chologist, according to the
Education Bureau of Hong
Kong. In the 2016 Policy
Address, the city government
promised to progressively
improve the ratio of educa-
tional psychologists-to-
schools to 1:4 for public
CAI MENG / CHINA DAILY
schools. However, that is still
not enough. Cindy said the
educational psychologist can
only visit her school every two
weeks.
Educational psychologists
are not responsible for dealing
with students’ emotional
problems, anyway. Their pri-
mary job is to assess students
who may be in need of special
educational services, such as
those with autism, learning
disabilities and communica-
tion disorders.
“If we got more counselors
in residence, and if they could
help us with students’ emo-
tional problems, we would feel
more confident about han-
dling the challenges,” Cindy
said.
A survey conducted by the
Hong Kong Federation of
Youth Groups found that near-
ly 44 percent of teachers said
they didn’t have the expertise
or techniques to deal with stu-
dents’ emotional outbursts.
“The results reflect the
point that teachers need to be
equipped with knowledge of
psychology to identify and
manage students’ emotional
problems,” Quat said.
Only one psychology course
is included in the undergradu-
ate program for teacher train-
ing at the Education
University of Hong Kong.
However, a former student
at the university who is now a
teacher at a primary school,
said the psychology course
contained several academic
theories which proved worth-
less for handing tough kids. In
reality, there is no recourse but
to turn to more experienced
teachers.
Last year, the Education
University opened a profes-
sional mental health develop-
ment program, including a
three-day primary course and
a five-day professional train-
ing course. However, because
it only runs on weekdays few
teachers can attend.
“I really want to take these
courses, but the time is just
not appropriate,” Cindy said.
At least one of Cindy’s prob-
lems has been resolved.
Andrew overcame his emo-
tional problems and returned
to school in September.
Now the object is to ensure
that all the students, many of
whom spend eight hours a day
at school, are as fortunate.
Contact the writer at
wanying@chinadailyhk.com
 CHINA DAILY Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Mother’s love makes difference
for children with blood disorder
Bone-marrow transplants remain prohibitively expensive for many people
By CHENG SI in Beijing and
FENG ZHIWEI in Changsha
“Mom, I feel terrible. I don’t
want to die, please, I want the
blood transfusion, please,” a
girl of age 6 pleaded with her
sobbing mother.
She had been diagnosed
with thalassemia, a hereditary
blood disorder that causes ane-
mia, increases the risk of infec-
tion and, in severe cases, can
lead to heart problems.
Liu He’s own daughter was
waiting for a transfusion when
she met the girl’s sobbing
mother at a hospital in Chang-
de, Hunan province, in 2002.
It was the start of a 16-year
journey that has raised mil-
lions of yuan to help hundreds
of children with thalassemia.
Liu, only 26 at the time,
choked back tears as the other
mother told her the family
could not afford the expensive
treatment, let alone the fol-
low-up care. Liu gave her sev-
eral hundred yuan and told
her to bring her daughter to
the hospital for regular trans-
fusions and call her for help if
needed.
“Over 10 years have passed,
and I’ve never seen that little
girl again,” Liu said. “Her mis-
erable suffering touched me
deeply, and I’ve felt great
remorse for not giving more of
a hand to the poor little angel at
that time.”
Liu has great empathy for
parents whose children have
thalassemia because her own
daughter was diagnosed with a
severe form of the disorder six
months after her birth in 2001.
She was told her daughter
could only be cured by a bone-
marrow transplant and that
regular treatment — blood
transfusions, for example —
would just prolong her life.
In May 2009, Liu’s daughter,
then 8 years old, received a
transplant at Nanfang Hospital
in Guangzhou, Guangdong
province, after a matched
donor was found at Taiwan’s
Tzu Chi Bone Marrow Bank in
2008.
Floating courts bring rulings to rural areas
A time-tested and enterpris-
ing concept is proving that not
all legal matters need to be
adjudicated in stuffy court-
rooms.
A trial recently took place on
a ferry on the waters of the
Three Gorges Reservoir in Gao-
yang township, Chongqing.
Inside the vessel’s cabin, 10 peo-
ple sat upright, with all eyes
fixed on a single passenger — a
judge hearing the case at hand.
“Now the court is in session
to hear the divorce dispute
between...” the judge’s
announcement began.
The 10 by 3 meter cabin has
become a floating court for res-
idents and judges from the
Around China
BEIJING
Woman prevents
theft of duck eggs
A Canadian woman helped
return eight wild duck eggs to
their rightful place after she
spotted an elderly man remov-
ing them from their nest. The
woman chased the man near
the capital’s Olympic Forest
Park while imploring him in
English to return the eggs. But
her pleas fell on deaf ears as
the man spoke only Chinese.
Liu He (left) talks with the mother of a child with thalassemia during a meeting for parents of children with the ailment in Changsha,
Hunan province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
The most impor-
tant issue is to
strengthen promo-
tional activities
concerning the
prevention and
control of
thalassemia.”
Liu He, a mother in Changsha,
Hunan province, whose daughter
was a thalassemia patient
Yunyang county court. With a
judge, court clerk, bailiff and
jurors, the mobile courtroom
is not all that different from a
traditional one.
“Instead of going to court in
town, now the judges come to
us to hear cases. We feel more
relaxed here and can gain a lot
of legal knowledge in the proc-
ess,” said Wang Renfeng, 73, as
he listened to the proceedings.
The floating court, initiated
in 2012, was the predecessor of
the circuit courts inaugurated
by the Supreme People’s Court
in 2015 as a major step to
advance judicial reform.
Now six circuit courts have
been established, covering
She eventually flagged down a
security officer who convinced
the suspect to return the eggs.
BEIJING EVENING NEWS
SICHUAN
Man cooling heels
after hot plane trip
A male passenger, surnamed
Chen, faces 15 days of deten-
tion for opening an emergency
exit while his plane was taxi-
ing at Mianyang Nanjiao Air-
port on April 28. Chen, who
had just arrived from Sanya,
Hainan province, said he
opened the door because the
Liu posted stories about her
daughter’s recovery and how
to take care of recuperating
patients on Tencent’s QQ, a
microblogging platform,
under the name “Angel of tha-
lassemia”.
Her efforts gave encourage-
ment to many parents who
were afraid to send their chil-
dren for transplant surgery
because of the risk of failure.
Liu knew of more than 300
children in Hunan suffering
from thalassemia, with many
of their parents unaware of
how to manage such patients
or perform follow-up care.
She organized the first
meeting for parents of chil-
dren with thalassemia at Hun-
an Children’s Hospital in
March 2011, as well as forming
a group to improve communi-
cation among affected fami-
lies and help raise money for
more than 20 provincial-level
regions including the Tibet
autonomous region and the
Xinjiang Uygur autonomous
region.
By moving the courts to
farmlands, orchards and riv-
ers, residents in remote areas
can enjoy the same conve-
nience as urban dwellers in
dealing with disputes and
legal affairs. Over the years,
such courts have provided
great flexibility and changed
the way litigants and legal pro-
fessionals approach cases.
Gaoyang is situated in an
isolated area, and is surround-
ed by rocky slopes and steep
ravines. Therefore, the water-
cabin was too hot. The emer-
gency slide was immediately
activated, causing economic
losses of more than 70,000
yuan ($11,000). Chen, 25, is
suspected of violating civil avi-
ation rules and will be asked to
pay compensation, according
to authorities in Mianyang.
CHENGDU BUSINESS DAILY
JIANGSU
Zoo slams peacock
plumage plucking
An official at a Yangzhou zoo
has urged visitors to be kind to
animals after tourists were
those unable to afford treat-
ment.
“There are still many chil-
dren like Xiaohua who cannot
receive treatment because of
poverty. I don’t want the trage-
dy to happen again, which is
why I started the group,” Liu
said.
“More than 100 parents
joined the meeting, but we had
no sponsors or charity support
at the time.”
With most of its members
volunteers and the parents of
children with thalassemia, a
lack of funding was the biggest
threat to the group’s survival,
Liu said.
But things turned around in
2014 after Liu got in touch with
the Mango V Foundation, a
charitable organization
launched by Hunan Broadcast-
ing System and the China
Social Welfare Foundation. She
way has replaced mountain
roads to become the preferred
mode of transportation
among locals.
“There are more than 400
fishermen in seven townships
under the administration of
our court, and the floating
courts are like mobile law
classes that promote legal
knowledge,” said Wang Yong, a
court official.
A total of 186 cases have
been heard on floating courts
over the past six years. Eighty-
two percent — or 152 cases —
were resolved via mediation.
Meanwhile, over 300 legal
publicity and education cam-
paigns have been conducted
spotted plucking tail features
from four peacocks, with two
of the birds suffering vascular
injuries. Li Wenbin said two of
the males are showing signs of
depression as they can no
longer court peahens using
their colorful plumage.
YANGZHOU NEWS
INNER MONGOLIA
Trapped dog saved
from cruel fate
A dog that had been sealed
behind a wall for over two
weeks is clinging to life after
being rescued in Hohhot on
April 27. The dog’s owner said
he cemented his pet behind a
courtyard wall as punishment
for biting a neighbor. The crea-
ture finally earned its freedom
after passers-by heard it whim-
pering and used a sledgeham-
mer to breach the wall.
BEIJING YOUTH DAILY
took charge of its “love children
with thalassemia” project in
September that year.
The project had raised more
than 4 million yuan ($630,000)
by the end of last year, and has
aided more than 300 children
with thalassemia. Liu’s efforts,
and those of other parents, also
led to testing for the disorder
being included in the checklist
for free premarital checkups at
hospitals in the Kaifu district of
Hunan’s capital, Changsha, last
year.
“The most important issue is
to strengthen promotional
activities concerning the pre-
vention and control of thalas-
semia, and to take effective
measures to lower the birth-
rate of children with the dis-
ease,” Liu said.
Contact the writers at
chengsi@chinadaily.com.cn
on the water.
Ran Yiming, 64, said he now
knows how to seek legal assist-
ance after participating in the
waterborne proceedings.
Wang Heping, a local resi-
dent said, “Such activities
totally meet demand, and the
judges are very patient in
explaining policies and legal
terms to us.”
When the judicial officers
finally returned to shore hours
later, their shirts were soaked
with sweat from the scorching
sun. But everyone was smiling
as both sides in the divorce case
finally reached an agreement.
XINHUA
HEBEI
Crowds keen for
cabbage selfies
A giant glass and steel cabbage
has become a draw in Handan,
attracting tourists and locals
to come for selfies with the
auspicious vegetable. Cabba-
ges, or baicai in Chinese, can
also signify wealth. The struc-
ture, unveiled in the city’s
downtown on April 28, weighs
more than 12 metric tons. It is
more than 20 meters high and
8 meters wide, and is the larg-
est man-made replica cabbage
in the country.
IFENG.COM
Firefighters dig into a tunnel covered by concrete slabs in
Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, to rescue a cat.
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Stray cat set
free after 5 years
in cable tunnel
By LI WENFANG
in Guangzhou
liwenfang@chinadaily.com.cn
A stray cat that was
trapped underground in a
50-meter-long cable tunnel
in Zhanjiang, Guangdong
province, for five years is
believed to have finally
escaped through a gap made
in a concrete slab.
Ah Ying, a cat enthusiast,
visited the site on Sunday
and Monday and did not see
the creature in the tunnel.
“It must have come out,”
she said.
Firefighters visited the site
on May 1 after learning that
the animal was stuck in the
tunnel.
Nearby residents said the
cat was probably trapped
when construction workers
sealed the tunnel with heavy
concrete slabs five years
ago. Locals have been feed-
ing the feline ever since by
dropping food scraps
through the narrow gaps
between the slabs.
After receiving a plea for
help, firefighters made a
hole for the cat to escape last
week.
“We cut and pried open
several slabs, but we didn’t
see the cat,” Ji Minghao from
the city’s fire department
Villager’s success comes
faster than snail’s pace
An enterprising govern-
ment official in East China
has found that raising an
often overlooked member of
the animal kingdom can lead
to tangible economic bene-
fits.
“My little girls have a good
appetite for vegetables,” Cong
Gang of Xinhong village,
Jiangsu province, wrote on
WeChat.
He was not talking about
his daughters, but his collec-
tion of chubby jade snails,
which can be harvested for
food, drugs and cosmetics.
He runs both online and off-
line businesses selling the
gastropods in frozen states.
Cong has seen many young
people in his village heading
to big cities for better work
opportunities, leaving the vil-
lage empty.
“My wife and I found
demand for snails by chance
on the internet, and it
dawned on me that unused
rooms could be used as snail
farms. So we decided to start
the business.”
Cong and his wife renovat-
ed a 10-square-meter store-
room into a snail farm in
October 2016. However, their
first attempts at breeding fail-
ed. “My wife always fully sup-
ported me despite early
setbacks and encouraged me
to keep at it,” Cong said.
After months of trial and
error, the couple’s snail farm
finally succeeded in early
2017.
Cong said his success has
enjoyed Party support. When
the weather turned cold, the
village’s Party secretary found
a stove for Cong to make sure
that the fresh vegetables the
snails munched on would not
freeze.
CHINA 7
This hole was opened into
the tunnel to help the cat get
out.
told Zhanjiang Evening
News.
“Some people said the cat
may be afraid to come out
after being out of touch with
the outside world for so
long.”
The cat has been
described as yellowish, small
and thin.
“We would say ‘meow’ and
the cat would come to the
gap and wait for food. We
tried to open up the slab but
couldn’t without the proper
tools,” Zhanjiang Evening
News quoted a resident as
saying.
Ji said he had not encoun-
tered an animal trapped for
so long before.
Luo Yongshi contributed to
this story.
To help more people
emerge from poverty and
increase their incomes, Cong
put himself forward as the
village’s deputy Party secre-
tary and was elected in
August.
Two months later, about a
year after starting his busi-
ness, Cong invited five villag-
ers to be partners and
employed more than 10 peo-
ple at his snail farm, which
now covers 500 sq m, pro-
ducing over 750 kilograms of
the shelled creatures each
month. His monthly sales
are over 100,000 yuan
($16,000).
The new job came with
more work and additional
responsibilities — as well as
some headaches.
One time, one of his work-
ers used moldy fodder to feed
the snails, causing the deaths
of a large number, resulting
in a direct economic loss of
more than 20,000 yuan.
Cong shouldered the
responsibility. “He was a
rookie, and I should have
taught him more carefully,
step by step. I don’t want to
pass the buck,” he said.
Through his business, he
teaches villagers snail-breed-
ing skills. He also buys snails
from other farms to lower the
risk of epidemics.
“I grew up in this village,
and I am proud that I can do
something to help my fellow
villagers live better lives,”
Cong said.
He said he was like a snail
himself, never giving up,
always moving forward —
and slow as he may be, every
step brings him closer to his
dream.
XINHUA
8 Wednesday, May 9, 2018

COMMENT
EDITORIAL • OPINION
China Daily
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EDITORIALS

Xi’s meeting with Kim Hao Yanpeng

boosts peace process

T
here is no reason to doubt the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea’s sincerity in wanting to put an
end to the long-standing hostility that has made it
feel continually threatened. That enmity really
should have been consigned to history a long time
ago. However, past detentes were aborted due to
perceptions on both sides that commitments were
not being honored.
That should serve as a lesson that dedicated efforts are needed
to remove mutual suspicions. And that for the current positive
momentum to have the necessary firm foundations on which to
build lasting peace, greater trust is crucial.
By meeting the need for an honest broker to help instill confi-
dence that each side is acting in good faith, China has been play-
ing and continues to play an indispensable role in the Korean
Peninsula peace process.
Certainly the DPRK is not going to denuclearize unless it is
convinced it has cast-iron and workable security guarantees. Nor
are the United States and the Republic of Korea going to give
such guarantees unless they are convinced that denuclearization
is indeed taking place. Which will be a chicken and egg standoff,
unless each side is satisfied the other will honor its step-by-step
commitments.
China has been working hard to ensure the momentum that
has been realized is consolidated. And that both sides sincerely
cherish the possibility of putting their animosity behind them.
In the latest move, President Xi Jinping met with DPRK leader
Kim Jong-un in the northeastern Chinese coastal city of Dalian on
Tuesday. The DPRK’s state news agency KCNA said the meeting
added important momentum to bilateral ties at a crucial time.
The two leaders’ meeting was unexpected as it came just 40
days after Kim had met with Xi in Beijing. But it comes ahead of
Kim’s planned meeting with US President Donald Trump, which is
expected to take place sometime this month, or next.
The friendly get-together enabled Kim to assure Xi that his
country remains committed to denuclearization and has no need OPINION LINE
to possess nuclear weapons if there is an end to the hostile poli-
cies and security threats against it.
A message that Xi will no doubt have passed on to US President
Donald Trump, who spoke to “my friend President Xi” by tele-
E-governance could ease plight of Securities regulator
acts to silence voices
phone on Tuesday evening, Beijing time, to discuss the DPRK sit-
uation and trade.
With Xi reaffirming to Kim that China will support the DPRK
pensioners to prove they are alive of price manipulators
in its economic construction efforts now that it is switching its
focus to development, the meeting marks another significant AFTER TRAVELING FOR SEVERAL HOURS BY CAR with his daughter from his current LIAO YINGQIANG, an internet-based
step forward for the Korean Peninsula peace process. home in Wuhan to Hongan, Central China’s Hubei province, a 90-year-old man was carried in his arm- news anchor specializing in comments
chair to the third floor of the building of the society security bureau of Hongan county, his hometown, about the securities market, was fined 129
so that the county government continues to pay his pension next year. Thepaper.cn comments: million yuan ($20.2 million) by the China

Negotiating in good faith Such scenarios are common as there 200 mil-
lion pensioners in China, and they all have to
can stop trade war shots prove to the social security departments in their
hometowns once a year that they are still alive.
If they cannot manage the trip on time, they
an end to the annual check.
What if the pensioners no longer live in their
hometowns and have no contacts there, or they
do not use a smartphone that can take a photo
and send it via the internet immediately?
Securities Regulatory Commission for
manipulating share prices. Beijing News
comments:
Liao was fined because the commission
found he had bought certain stocks via other

T
hat China and the United States are to have more trade
talks is welcome news. That the two sides are to contin-
ue their discussions in Washington next week suggests
they believe they can bridge their differences. And it is to
be hoped that proves to be the case.
The fact that they are willing to continue to talk has raised
hopes that some progress might have been made during their
discussions in Beijing last week. Although the two sides failed to
find solutions to their bilateral trade frictions, they seem, at least,
to be no longer exchanging barbs.
If the two sides can continue to signal that they believe that con-
tinuing their discussions will come up with the goods, that would
help to calm the widespread concerns a trade war is looming.
That the two parties have seemingly indicated that they prefer
dialogue to resolve the issues has also hopefully put an end to
them trading tariff threats.
Yet optimism still needs to be tempered. Although the US has
shown a commitment to resolving the trade quarrel through
talks, it is evident that it still holds the same view of China-US
trade relations.
It still claims to be a victim of the big bilateral trade gap and
demands that China take substantial steps to reduce its trade sur-
plus. Seemingly, without offering much in exchange. And certain-
ly not the high-tech products that would significantly shrink the
trade gap, unless it is planning to make a backroom deal.
Now that the two sides have to make clear that a negotiated
agreement remains on the cards, Washington really does have to
get over its penchant for using national security as an excuse for
blocking high-tech exports to China. And for also using that as an
excuse to block Chinese investments in the US. It is these politi-
cally motivated practices that prevent the bilateral trade gap
from narrowing.
Which is why, ahead of the Washington talks, China has urged
the US to “engage in equal-footed consultation to resolve the dif-
ferences and handle China-US trade frictions”.
It will be hard for the talks to fare well next week if the US stub-
bornly persists on wanting to take without giving. After all the
talks should be all about bartering. A good haggle can be very sat-
isfying if both parties walk away happy.
So in order to strike a bargain, both sides must be sincere about
seeking to close the deal.
can also take a photo holding the front page of a
latest newspaper whose date must be distinguish-
able in the photo and send the photo to their
friends or families who can show it to the social
security officials to prove they are alive, at least
when the newspaper was published.
After the old man’s story went viral, the Hongan
social security bureau pointed out that the old
man’s daughter was not aware that such a photo
would suffice. The incident should prompt the
government to rethink the possibility of putting
Tomb may be a marker of corruption
THE LONGHUI COUNTY GOVERNMENT in Shaoyang, Hunan province, said it is investigating
a report that a businessman surnamed Xiang, who is also a delegate of the people’s congress of the county,
has spent 70 million yuan ($11 million) building a grandiose tomb for himself. Beijing News comments:
Construction on the project began in 2013, cov-
ering an area of 20 hectares, it has destroyed a
large area of mountain forest.
Xiang has obviously violated the rules that pro-
hibit graves of any sort in public forests, as well as
the Forest Law that prescribes people destroying
0.67 hectares or larger areas of forests should be
prosecuted for criminal liability.
Although his income might be legal, Xiang’s
identity as a county people’s congress delegate
means his extravagant grave sets a bad example
of extravagance and superstition, as the author-
ities have advocated frugal and ecological
funeral and burials for decades. Xiang should
have set a good example and not violated the
law.
It is reported that local residents have never
ceased complaining to the local government in
Longhui over the past five years. Considering the
The central government should accelerate the
construction of e-governance nationwide and
prompt the connection of local governments’
databases. Then the pensioners can go to the
nearest government department if they need a
face-to-face communication.
In fact, most pensioners use banks and hospi-
tals, all of which have records of their visits in
their databases. It would be much easier and reli-
able to use such data to prove whether a person is
alive or dead.
construction work has been proceeding alongside
the high-pressure anti-graft campaign since 2012,
it is something of a miracle that all complaints
and appeals have fallen on deaf ears.
People therefore have enough reason to believe
that there is a protective umbrella over Xiang,
and his act of building a luxurious mountain
tomb might only be the tip of the iceberg when it
comes to the problems of the local government,
whose vow to look into the case stems more from
the pressure of public opinions than its true
intention of handling the case after a post expos-
ing Xiang’s lawbreaking activity became a hot
topic on social media.
In that sense, the Longhui government is not fit
to look into the case anymore. The higher authori-
ties are obliged to take charge of the investigation,
which will have to look at several government
departments of Longhui for sure.
people’s accounts under his control, then
openly commented on the market and rec-
ommended his audiences to buy them, and
then sold them when their prices went up.
His case shows that not only enterprises,
but also influential individuals can influence
the market. For example, certain “econo-
mists” have done ample research on the
stock market and gained popularity via
media outlets, which has prompted people
to trust their judgments. However, when
these “economists” abuse the trust for profit,
they break the law.
What Liao did is only one of the illegal
deeds of his group. Some of his counterparts
did it the other way, by encouraging audien-
ces to sell certain stocks then buying them via
their controlled accounts.
Such deeds are strictly prohibited by the
law. Moreover, such illegal deeds pose a threat
to the orderly workings of the market.
Liao is not the only person that committed
such illegal deeds. As early as 2008, the com-
mission had punished a “securities market
analyst” for similar behavior.
What makes Liao’s case special is that he is
only a news anchor, not a securities market
investment consultant. Most previous cases
involved professional investment consult-
ants. That shows the commission is eyeing a
wider range to enforce the law, which would
be much stricter than before.
Besides, the commission punished Liao
according to a quite vague clause of the law,
namely “controlling the market through oth-
er means”. That shows the law is not so
detailed when it comes to nonprofessionals
controlling the securities market. The law
should be amended and improved so as to
prevent similar cases.

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 CHINA DAILY Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Japan ties set to improve despite twists and turns
Editor’s note: This year
marks the 40th anniversary
of the China-Japan Treaty of
Peace and Friendship. Eleven
Chinese and Japanese experts
share their views on China-Ja-
pan relations with China Dai-
ly. Excerpts follow:
Guard against
negative forces
Yang Mingjie,
director of the
Institute of
Taiwan Stud-
ies, Chinese
Academy of
Social Scien-
ces
To mark the 40th anniver-
sary of the signing of the Chi-
na-Japan Treaty of Peace and
Friendship, Beijing and Tokyo
are making all-out efforts to
put bilateral ties back on the
right track. And the signs of a
rapprochement between the
two Asian powers have added
a new dynamism to coopera-
tion in East Asia.
Despite the positive trend,
however, there remain some
undercurrents that could
hamper the smooth develop-
ment of China-Japan rela-
tions, of which the most
prominent is the Taiwan ques-
tion. China and Japan reached
a consensus on the Taiwan
question 46 years ago, which
formed an important part of
their joint statement in Sep-
tember 1972. But certain Japa-
nese politicians still hold on to
their wrong notions, causing
trouble for bilateral ties.
In recent years, some pro-
Taiwan politicians in Japan
have chosen to echo the
appeals of “Taiwan independ-
ence” forces to foment troub-
le. For example, they seek to
change the names of unofficial
agencies established by Japan
and Taiwan on both sides,
explore the possibility of “mili-
tary cooperation” with the
island and promote a Japa-
nese version of the “Taiwan
relations act.”
Such undercurrents, in the
name of making efforts to
“expand Japan’s national
interests and promote Japan’s
position in the regional secu-
rity landscape”, are essentially
a misjudgment of the regional
situation, which has harmed
Sino-Japanese relations and
general cooperation in East
Asia, and put Japan in a stra-
tegically passive position.
At a time when Sino-Japa-
nese ties are warming up,
both countries should take
effective measures to guard
against such negative trends
and protect the hard-won pos-
itive momentum so as to bring
more dividends to the people
on both sides and strengthen
regional security.
Proper actions will be
determining factor
Kyoji Yanagi-
sawa, former
assistant to
Japan’s depu-
ty chief Cabi-
net secretary
In 2012, about one year
before the 35th anniversary of
the China-Japan Treaty of
Peace and Friendship, the
then Japanese government
“nationalized” the Senkaku
Islands (China’s Diaoyu
Islands). The confrontational
factor in Sino-Japanese politi-
cal ties has become increas-
ingly prominent since then.
In December 2012, Shinzo
Abe, known for his tough
stance against China, became
Japan’s prime minister for the
second time. One year later, he
visited Yasukuni Shrine
(which honors among others
14 Class-A war criminals),
pushing China-Japan ties
toward a stalemate.
China-Japan ties can
improve on the economic
front, but some Japanese are
worried that Japan will lose its
“superior position” and “sense
of superiority” while dealing
with China. Such kind of psy-
chology, if unchecked, could
erode the fragile mutual polit-
ical trust between the two
countries. In these times,
when the power equations
between Japan and China,
and between the United States
and China are undergoing
changes, Tokyo should seek to
steadily develop relations with
Beijing instead of holding on
to its “sense of superiority”.
On China’s part, while pur-
suing big development tar-
gets, it needs to consider the
psychological impacts of its
opinions on the peoples of
other countries, and avoid cre-
ating unnecessary controver-
sy. In fact, China should
realize what kind of stance
and attitude it should adopt as
a big power.
Right condition for
deeper cooperation
Gao Zugui, dep-
uty director of
the Institute for
International
Strategic Stud-
ies, Party School
of the Commu-
nist Party of
China Central
Committee
The active cooperation of
many major countries with
the China-proposed Belt and
Road Initiative, and the
in-depth communication on
and sharing of governance
ideas and practices at the
high-level dialogue between
the Communist Party of China
and other countries’ political
parties in Beijing last year
have created the right atmos-
phere for China and Japan to
improve bilateral ties and
strengthen cooperation.
Japan has used its geo-
graphical proximity to China
to boost its economic develop-
ment over the 40 years of Chi-
na’s reform and opening-up. It
can now take the “fast-driving
Chinese train” to realize com-
mon development and pros-
perity with China.
The wishes expressed by
Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and other top Jap-
anese officials in recent
months to improve ties with
China have created the right
condition for deeper coopera-
tion between two countries.
Free flow of talents, goods
and information essential
Yasuhiro Mat-
suda, a profes-
sor at the
University of
Tokyo
To develop bilateral ties, the
most important task for China
and Japan is to cultivate tal-
ents that can act as a bridge
between the two sides. In
order to deepen mutual
understanding, the two coun-
tries should encourage young
people to learn from each oth-
er’s language and culture, and
participate in bilateral
exchanges to enhance their
knowledge and understand-
ing of each other.
Instead of closing their
doors, Japan and China
should maintain free flow of
not only people, goods and
funds, but also various kinds
of information. A Japan-China
relationship based on such a
principle will be the greatest
wealth to both countries.
How to solve this
weighty problem?
After Japan and China
signed the Treaty of Peace and
Friendship in 1978, former
leader Deng Xiaoping
addressed a news conference
at a Japanese press club. I did
not attend the event, but I still
remember the content of his
speech. When talking of the
dispute between the two
countries over the Diaoyu
Islands, Deng said: “Our gen-
eration is not wise enough to
solve this problem, but our
next generations will surely be
wiser than us and can find a
solution acceptable to all of
us.”
Harunobu
Kato, a profes-
sor of law at
Musashino
University and
a NHK com-
mentator
But the problem has
become more and more com-
plicated and difficult to solve.
How can the next generations
and governments solve it if
the current stalemate contin-
ues? As a friend used a Chi-
nese saying to explain the
problem, “it weighs only 0.2 ji
(100 grams) when put down
but 1,000 ji when lifted up”.
Neighborly ties
vital to Japan
A recent public poll shows
Japanese and Chinese now
have more negative opinions
about each other’s country.
For example, in a survey con-
ducted by the Japanese gov-
ernment last year, only 18.7
percent of the respondents
expressed a “sense of friendli-
ness” toward China, com-
pared with 45.9 percent 20
years ago, while as many as
78.5 percent said they had no
“sense of friendliness” toward
their neighbor.
The declining “good
impression” about China
among Japanese is a result of
both historical issues and the
confrontation between the
two countries in the East and
South China seas.
Besides, Japan maintains
strong vigilance against China
because of the latter’s growing
economic and military build-
up. On the other hand, China
Masahiro Aki-
yama, former
president of
Tokyo Foun-
dation
feels vexed at the attempt of
Japan and the US to contain
its rise.
Japan and China once had
very close ties. Japan still uses
some Chinese characters as
part of the Japanese language,
and many of its proverbs
come from Chinese. There are
many new words in modern
Chinese that have been trans-
lated from Japan and then
introduced to the Chinese lan-
guage.
The miracle of Japan’s eco-
nomic revival after World War
II has also had a great impact
on China’s economic develop-
ment. In the above-mentioned
opinion poll, there is also a
vital, positive fact — 76.9 per-
cent of the Japanese respon-
dents said ties with China are
important to Japan.
Enough reasons for
deepening trade ties
China and Japan saw a posi-
tive development last year
with bilateral trade register-
ing growth by overcoming the
impact of the political con-
frontation in the previous
years. It’s time therefore that
the two sides abandoned
antagonism, and communi-
cated in the right spirit to pur-
sue deeper cooperation for
mutual benefit.
Otherwise, some non-re-
gional powers will benefit
from the lose-lose Sino-Japa-
nese relationship and domi-
nate regional issues. Tokyo
ought to realize that the inter-
est of any outside powers is
not the same as that of Japan.
Outside powers would not
want to see Sino-Japanese
relations improve, as that
would weaken their influence
on Japan. Non-regional pow-
ers are opposed to the estab-
lishment of a free trade zone
between China, Japan and the
Republic of Korea precisely
because it will undercut their
influence in East Asia.
Zhou Yong-
sheng, a profes-
sor at the
Institute of Jap-
anese Studies,
China Foreign
Affairs Univer-
sity
So every time China-Japan
ties show signs of improve-
ment, the outside powers try
to create new disputes
between the two neighbors.
Regrettably, some Japanese
politicians have been influ-
enced by such an outside pow-
er to pass remarks and make
SHI YU / CHINA DAILY
moves that hurt China. In fact,
by challenging China’s strate-
gic bottom line, they have to a
certain extent succeeded in
creating frictions between
Beijing and Tokyo.
Japan’s foreign policy
toward China is more often
than not swayed by non-re-
gional powers and thus lacks
consistency. At the same time,
the Abe government has
shown some flexibility in deal-
ing with China in order to
maintain Japan’s interests and
reduce the interference of out-
side powers in regional issues.
China and Japan should
cooperate to tap into the huge
Chinese market. And there is
enough room for the two sides
to cooperate on the Belt and
Road Initiative, which will
allow them to make use of
their complementary advan-
tages to realize mutual bene-
fit.
Japanese investment in the
Belt and Road projects, for
example, could help reduce
the costs and increase profita-
bility. And Japanese enterpris-
es’ advanced economic
management skills and Chi-
nese enterprises’ strategic
planning and geopolitical
advantages can create areas of
convergence of interests for
bilateral strategic cooperation.
Signs of improving
bilateral relations
Mitsuhiro Kim-
ura, a repre-
sentative of
Japan’s civil
political group
Issuikai
Former Japanese prime
minister Tomiichi Murayama
delivered the well-known
“Tomiichi talks” in 1995 on
Japan’s militarist aggression
to mark the 50th anniversary
of the end of World War II.
Thanks to the “Tomiichi talks”
and the signing of the China-
Japan Joint Declaration in
1998, Sino-Japanese relations
have generally remained good
with both sides fulfilling their
international responsibilities.
The spread of “anti-China”
sentiments among some
young Japanese and the rise
of unhealthy nationalism in
Japan, however, cast a shadow
on bilateral ties.
Nevertheless, it is common
for any inter-state relationship
like the one between Japan
and China to experience
twists and turns, as the clash
of interests between different
countries is an essential fea-
ture of international relations.
Despite all this, the number
of Chinese tourists to Japan
saw a drastic increase last
year. Chinese people visit
Japan not just for Japanese
food and shopping, but also to
feel firsthand Japanese cul-
ture and to know how Japa-
nese deal with other people,
which have helped them
know a more realistic Japan.
Healthy bilateral
ties good for all
At a time when bilateral ties
are warming up, whether or
not the Chinese and Japanese
peoples and their govern-
ments “use history as a mir-
ror” to “look into the future”
has become a major issue for
both sides, and aroused the
concern of Asia and the world.
Zhang Xiaolei,
an associate
researcher at
the Institute of
Japanese Stud-
ies, Chinese
Academy of
Social Sciences
Since bilateral ties have
reached a very important
juncture, the two sides should
deal with each other with a
calm mind and foresight. For
that, they have to learn from
the past to properly handle
the present and the future.
Only in this way can the two
countries make steady
progress and deepen coopera-
tion for mutual benefit.
The two countries should
not let some individuals
destroy the hard-won fruits of
bilateral relations. They
should follow the established
political codes contained in
the series of documents and
joint declarations and agree-
ments. Also, they should
adhere to the important con-
sensuses and understanding
reached by the leaders of two
countries on historical issues
such as the Taiwan question
and the Diaoyu Islands dis-
pute.
As China moves closer to
the center of world stage and
China-Japan ties enter a new
historical period whose spill-
over effects have become
more prominent, bilateral
relations have become more
important than ever. A peace-
ful and prosperous Sino-Japa-
nese relationship will benefit
not only the two countries,
but also Asia and the regions
beyond. A confrontational
Sino-Japanese relationship,
on the other hand, would be
detrimental to not only the
two neighbors, but also
regional and global peace and
security.
Hope China plays its
role to spread peace
As an activist, I love my
country and pray for world
peace. I believe the US, China
and Russia are the three coun-
tries that can exercise signifi-
cant influence on the world.
So, instead of pursuing con-
frontation, they should deepen
cooperation to make greater
VIEWS 9
contributions to world peace.
In today’s world, people
should think more carefully
how to maintain and cherish
peace and life. All countries
should work hard for peaceful
coexistence and common
prosperity. Some countries,
especially in the Middle East,
are encountering chaos
because of civil wars, political
upheavals and other reasons,
and the number of refugees
has crossed 70 million. Some
250 million children now live
in distress. Given these facts,
why can’t the huge funds used
for war and producing weap-
ons be used for peace instead?
Mitsunori
Agata , an hon-
orary advisor
to a non-gov-
ernmental
political group
in Japan
Today’s world is more vola-
tile than that during the Cold
War. Therefore, all countries
should pursue cooperation,
not confrontation.
East Asian countries whose
bilateral relations have suf-
fered in recent years, such as
China, the ROK, Japan and
the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea, should go
beyond history, and work
together for peace to set an
example for the rest of the
world and future generations.
The next generation should
not be saddled with the
scourge of war again. We hope
China, with its rising global
influence, plays its due role to
realize world peace with a tol-
erant spirit.
Policy coordination
of vital importance
China-Japan relations have
traveled a bumpy road over
the past 40 years. In the years
following the normalization of
bilateral ties, especially after
the signing of the China-Ja-
pan Treaty of Peace and
Friendship in 1978, both sides
experienced friendly and
mutually beneficial relations.
And while dealing with China,
Japanese developed a “sense
of superiority”.
But as Japan sought to
establish its “political power”,
its “neo-conservatives” ran
rampant in the country,
which, together with other
issues such as distortion of
facts in history textbooks,
political leaders’ visits to the
controversial Yasukuni Shrine
and the denial of Nanjing
Massacre by some Japanese,
have created more problems
for bilateral ties.
Wang Ping, a
research fellow
at the Institute
of Japanese
Studies, Chi-
nese Academy
of Social Scien-
ces
After the end of the Cold
War, the US tightened its
political grip on Japan and
tried to convince Japan to see
China as an “imaginary ene-
my”, in order to stop Tokyo
from becoming self-reliant.
Moreover, China’s fast eco-
nomic and military buildup
has further weakened Japan’s
“sense of superiority”. Such a
psychological imbalance has
not only affected Japan’s non-
government circles, but also
influenced government poli-
cies toward China.
But the fact is, China’s rise
and Japan’s pursuit of self-reli-
ance both signify Asia’s reviv-
al. So the governments and
peoples of the two countries
should reach a consensus on
this. The two countries should
try to balance their interests,
and their peoples should
adapt to the changes in the
economic and strategic fields.
While trying to avoid
vicious competition, the two
sides need to find the greatest
common factor, which will be
their most important contri-
bution to regional and global
peace. At a time when the sit-
uation on the Korean Penin-
sula has improved and trade
protectionism is increasing in
some parts of the world, for-
eign policy coordination
between China and Japan has
become especially important.
10 WORLD
Afghan midwives
eager to get to work
Nation has made progress in the
provision of healthcare services
KABUL — Rita Hamidi, a
newly graduated midwife,
urged the Afghan government
to provide female medical staff
with proper jobs and security
as they struggle to save lives in
the war-torn country.
“Over the past decades, the
scarcity of professional mid-
wives has been the main rea-
son behind the high rate of
maternal mortalities, particu-
larly in the countryside. I grad-
uated from the midwifery
department of a private medi-
cal institute in Kabul last year,
but still I could not find a suit-
able job,” Rita said on Satur-
day, the annual International
Day of the Midwife.
“There are hundreds of mid-
wives in Kabul looking for
jobs, but Afghan mothers still
suffer from a lack of midwives
in the countryside where a lack
of security is one of the most
pressing and striking matters.
Midwives cannot move freely
in rural areas unless they have
a guardian.”
She added: “We are living in
a conservative society and
women cannot move freely in
remote villages. The govern-
ment must take measures to
solve such problems.”
Over the past 17 years,
Afghanistan has made progress
in the provision of healthcare
services and women are
increasingly playing key roles
in providing such services.
“I am ready to travel to the
countryside but my parents
A few good women: Cannes
feels heat over prize disparity
CANNES, France — In a year
dominated by the #MeToo
movement, the Cannes film
festival — which starts on
Tuesday — is feeling the heat
to address glaring gender
imbalances in the competition
for its top prize, the Palme
d’Or.
But the numbers show the
festival still has some way to
go in the battle of the sexes.
Of the 268 filmmakers who
have claimed one of Cannes’
top three prizes, only 11 — or
four percent — have been
women, an analysis by AFP
shows.
New Zealand’s Jane Campi-
on remains the only female
director to have received the
highest accolade, the Palme
d’Or, awarded for her master-
piece The Piano in 1993.
Iranian prodigy Samira
Makhmalbaf snagged the
prestigious Jury Prize twice,
first for her 2000 break-
through feature Blackboards
and again three years later for
At Five in the Afternoon.
The last major prize winner
was Italian director Alice
Rohrwacher, who took home
the Grand Prix for The Won-
ders in 2014. She’s back in the
running this year with Happy
as Lazzaro.
Women have made up bare-
ly 3.5 percent of the best
director and best screenplay
winners over the past seven
decades.
Only four of the 111 winners
have been female — and two of
them were last year when
Sofia Coppola became only the
second woman to secure the
Crowd begins to build for adult Lego convention
SCHAUMBURG, Illinois —
If you think five straight days
of Lego are for the kiddie set,
think again.
Brickworld Chicago is a con-
vention aimed at adults. Teens
are welcome. So are tweens.
But better nab a grown-up,
boys and girls, if you want to
hang with this Lego-obsessed
crowd. Children under 18 must
20 percent
of 41,500 Afghan health
workers are women,
according to the Afghan
Ministry of Public Health.
will not allow me. They fear for
my safety,” she said.
The number of women who
work in the country’s health
sector is on the rise. Currently,
20 percent of 41,500 Afghan
health workers are women,
according to the Afghan Min-
istry of Public Health.
Another significant achieve-
ment in the healthcare sector
in Afghanistan is the dramatic
decrease in the number of
maternity related deaths.
The Afghan maternity-relat-
ed death toll has fallen to 396
in 100,000 live births in 2015,
from 1,600 in 100,000 live
births in 2002, while the num-
ber of deaths of the children
under 5 has also dropped to 55
in 1,000 live births, from 257 in
each 1,000 live births in 2002,
Afghan Public Health Minister
Firuzuddin Firuz said last
month.
“The reduction of maternity
related deaths over the past
decade is a great achievement
of Afghan dedicated medical
personnel, but the key role of
midwives should not be
ignored,” said Zahra Naiman,
a Kabul-based doctor.
Jury members Ava DuVernay (left), Cate Blanchett (center) and
Khadja Nin pose for pictures on Monday on the eve of the 71st
Cannes Film Festival. ALBERTO PIZZOLI / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
best director trophy with her
US Civil War drama The
Beguiled.
Meanwhile, Briton Lynne
Ramsay’s A Beautiful Day
scored best screenplay.
Struggle to get in
If only one woman has won
the Palme d’Or it is also
because very few of them ever
get nominated.
Since 1946, only 84 of the
1,790 directors whose films
has been shown in competi-
tion at Cannes have been
women — in other words, less
than one in 20.
The latest edition doesn’t
buck the trend, with just three
female directors among the 21
main competition contenders.
This is still better than the
2010 and 2012 festival edi-
tions, which featured all-male
lineups.
While Cannes organizers
acknowledge the gender ine-
quality, they insist this merely
be accompanied by adults.
And no skateboarding,
please, on the exhibition floor.
No need to ask why, what with
hundreds of painstakingly
crafted Lego creations filling
the hall.
Every June, Lego enthusi-
asts from around the world
descend on this northwestern
Chicago suburb to build
“The presence of a midwife
at birth is the most important
factor in reducing maternal
mortality and improves a
baby’s chance of survival.
“Midwives also provide
information to mothers on
healthy practices to ensure the
baby has the best start in life.”
The number of midwifes
has increased from 500 in
2002 to 5,000 in 2016. Howev-
er, midwives face serious chal-
lenges such as lack of
opportunities to upgrade their
professional experience and
low salaries, Naiman said.
“Lack of professional expe-
rience is one of the key chal-
lenges for Afghan midwives.
For example, midwives should
undergo practical studies dur-
ing their education period but
they cannot, because it is hard
to find a place to work as train-
ee to gain real-life experience,”
she said.
“I could not find a proper
place like a public hospital to
gain some professional experi-
ence and it took me months to
be admitted as a trainee in a
private hospital in Kabul,” said
Sediqa Fahimi, who teaches
midwifery in a private medical
institute in Kabul.
“Unfortunately, the salary of
midwives is too low despite
being a complex and essential
job. A midwife earns 9,000
afghani (about $150) per
month. And it is not consid-
ered a prestigious or impor-
tant job in Afghanistan.
Therefore, many women are
not interested in becoming
midwives,” Fahimi said.
XINHUA
reflects the underrepresenta-
tion of women directors in the
cinema industry as a whole.
Australian actress Cate
Blanchett heads this year’s
starry majority-female jury,
which also includes Kristen
Stewart and Lea Seydoux.
While Blanchett is the 12th
chairwoman in the festival’s
71-year history, only one wom-
an director, Jane Campion in
2014, has had the honor.
She has said that Cannes
needs to have an all-female
jury one day to counter the
decades of male domination.
Apart from the president,
the jury is composed of four
women and four men — a pari-
ty ratio observed since 2013.
Overall women fare slightly
better as judges at Cannes,
although it is still relative. One
in five jury members have
been women in its seven-dec-
ade history.
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Legos, display Legos, play
Legos, talk Legos, swap Legos
and win Legos. They watch
Lego mini-figure films pro-
duced by fellow enthusiasts,
and play Lego bingo using
cards with mini-figure charac-
ters instead of numbers and
letters. They see who can build
the most mini-figures in two
minutes flat.
Nurses look on as doctors perform dental surgery aboard the Lifeline Express at a railway station in Jalore in India’s western state of
Rajasthan on April 12. CHANDAN KHANNA / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Indian train offers medical lifeline
JALORE, India — When
the Lifeline Express rolled
into the sleepy Indian town
of Jalore, Bhagwana Ram
Prajapat was anxiously wait-
ing to board.
The 55-year-old has been
desperately looking for treat-
ment for his grandson’s cleft
lip and the specially convert-
ed sky-blue, seven-coach
train was the answer to his
prayers.
“We had been waiting for
the surgery ever since the
child was born 18 months
ago,” said Prajapat as his
grandson was wheeled into
the operating theater
onboard the hospital-train.
The Lifeline Express has
been providing free treat-
ment to the needy in deepest
India for nearly three dec-
ades. It has helped more than
1 million people, treating ail-
ments ranging from cataracts
to cancer.
The train criss-crosses
India, providing state-of-the-
art medical care to those who
would otherwise have to trav-
el hundreds of miles to the
nearest major hospital.
It spends about a month in
a district before moving on to
Traumatized wild animals find sanctuary
NYMFAIO, Greece —
Orphaned as an infant, three-
year-old Patrick takes a wary
view of visitors. He crouches
low, licks his claws and starts
humming — a bear’s equiva-
lent of thumb-sucking.
“It soothes him when he’s
stressed,” says Melina Avger-
inou, a caretaker at the Arctu-
ros bear sanctuary in
northern Greece.
Patrick’s tale is typical of
many bears that have found
refuge in the Arcturos sanc-
tuary at Nymfaio on the
slopes of Mount Vitsi, some
600 kilometers northwest of
Athens.
He was less than a month
old when found wandering
near the Greek-Albanian bor-
der, his mother apparently
killed by poachers.
Too young to know the
ways of the wild, he never
learned to survive without
human assistance. The sanc-
tuary released him to nature
when he turned one, but he
sauntered back just over a
month later.
“As he did not learn to fear
humans, it’s not safe for him
in nature, so he will stay here
This year’s convention is
slated for June 13-17. The
theme is “Seasons”.
In the Dirty Buildster com-
petition, participants
exchange random Lego pieces,
grab-bag style, and try to out-
do each other with their con-
coctions. In hopes of setting a
GBC (Great Ball Contraption)
world record, they line up
a new destination, filling a
critical gap in India’s public
health system.
“We were thinking we
would have to travel every-
where and spend a lot of mon-
ey. But it’s god’s blessing that
this hospital came to us,” said
Prajapat.
“I was worried how they
are going to conduct the oper-
ation in a train. But when we
came here and saw the facili-
ties, there was no doubt.”
Government-run commu-
nity health centers form the
backbone of rural healthcare
in India. But a lack of infra-
structure and doctors means
70 percent of its 1.25 billion
people have no easy access to
treatment.
India is the fastest growing
of the world’s major econo-
mies, but a report released by
UNICEF, the UN children’s
agency, said some 1.2 million
children died of preventable
causes in India in 2015 before
their fifth birthday.
State-run hospitals are
often stretched to breaking
point and patients face long
delays for even minor treat-
ment and are forced to share
beds.
Dimitris Nikolaou feeds three-year-old paralyzed bear Usko at the
Arcturos sanctuary in Nymfaio on the slopes of Mount Vitsi, north-
west of Athens, on April 24. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP
for the rest of his life,” Avger-
inou says.
Like Patrick, others here
have psychological and physi-
cal scars.
Barbara, an aged female,
came from a Serbian zoo. Two
decades on, she still paces
nervously in her forest enclo-
sure and shakes her head as if
chained to a cage.
Three-year-old Usko was
found in Macedonia as a baby.
He was paralyzed from the
waist down, so Arcturos staff
GBCs one after the other —
some relatively simple, others
crazy complicated — to funnel
the mini Lego soccer balls
from device to device. Last
summer, the continuous cir-
cuit covered 26 long tables.
Lego machines battle, Lego
flowers bloom, Lego trains
chug, Lego spacecraft hover,
Lego bridges loom, Lego
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 CHINA DAILY
We also try to set
the example that
this is how an
operating theater
should look.”
Mehak Sikka, a Lifeline Express
medical officer
So many Indians flock to
private clinics even though a
consultation can cost 1,000
rupees ($15) — a huge sum for
millions living on less than $2
a day.
Train takes the strain
The Lifeline Express took to
the rails in 1991 to help
patients in far-flung areas
who need surgery for cata-
racts, polio and cleft palates.
In 2016, the train expanded
its services to include screen-
ing and surgery for oral,
breast and cervical cancer.
It has two operating thea-
— amazed by his zest for life
— fashioned a wheelbarrow
that enables him to move
around in an area with flat
surfaces.
Saved from poachers
Founded in 1992, Arcturos
shelters bears and wolves
mainly from the Balkans but
has also taken large predators
from as far away as Austria
and Georgia.
In all more than 20 bears
and seven wolves live in sepa-
superheroes pose, Lego tables
and stools actually function,
along with Lego TV consoles
and Lego refrigerator cases.
A Lego bellman even greets
guests staying at the Renais-
sance Schaumburg Conven-
tion Center Hotel, an hour’s
train ride from downtown
Chicago, while a restaurant
there offers “Lego of My
Chick” chicken-and-waffle
sandwiches.
“The very best part of Brick-
world is meeting new people,
ters and about 20 staff.
Many of the doctors work for
free.
Mehak Sikka, the Lifeline
Express medical officer, said
she joined the hospital-on-
wheels after seeing the
pathetic conditions at health
centers.
“I was traumatized to see
the healthcare system — espe-
cially for women — that we
have in the country,” said Sik-
ka.
Sikka said the Lifeline
Express did not just aim to
treat and leave, but to educate
local doctors and people
about the right approach to
healthcare.
“We also try to set the
example that this is how an
operating theater should
look. We make sure a local
doctor is there when the sur-
gery is being conducted so
that he can do the follow-ups
later on.”
The Lifeline Express is run
by Impact India foundation, a
non-profit that works with
the government and is helped
by the World Health Organi-
zation and UNICEF.
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rate enclosed habitats in the
villages of Nymfaio and
Agrapidia — most of them res-
cued from Balkans poachers,
animal collectors and restau-
rant owners who had them on
display to amuse patrons.
The wolf colony is about to
double as seven more are due
to arrive from a zoo in Italy.
The upkeep of each bear is
15,000 euros ($17,880) a year,
while a wolf costs 10,000
euros, he notes.
Arcturos also runs a pro-
gram to save from extinction
a local breed of Greek sheep-
dog that is perfectly attuned
to local conditions.
“We have given over 800
puppies to farmers since
1999,” says Vassilis.
“In contrast to other
breeds, this sheepdog will not
pursue and try to kill a preda-
tor,” he adds.
In addition, the organiza-
tion works with other envi-
ronmental groups to educate
farmers on how to protect
their livestock from predators
without resorting to guns and
poison.
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getting to know their life sto-
ries, what makes them tick,
why they love building,” stu-
dent Casey McCoy, 22, said via
email. Putting a face to an
online avatar “meeting some-
one from the online world” is
especially satisfying, he wrote.
The 2017 convention attract-
ed approximately 1,000 regis-
trants. Weekend days, open to
the public, attracted 10,000
people.
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 CHINA DAILY Wednesday, May 9, 2018
US farmer buoyed by China’s market
Beef exporter is optimistic over the
trade tension between two countries
ATLANTIC, Iowa — A trip
to China in February has
boosted the confidence of Bill
Pellett, a farmer in the US
state of Iowa, in selling more
of his farm’s prime beef to Chi-
nese customers.
During his one-week stay in
China, Pellett met with repre-
sentatives from seven to 10
different companies that have
plans for importing US beef,
including a hotel chain and
JD.com, a major online retail-
er in China.
New tax urged to
help millennials
By EARLE GALE in London
earle@mail.chinadailyuk.com
Britain’s baby-boom genera-
tion should be clobbered with
higher taxes, so more money
can be channeled toward the
young, according to the find-
ings of a new study conducted
by an influential think tank.
The Resolution Founda-
tion, a research and policy
organization, wants older
Britons to finance a one-off
10,000-pound ($13,500) pay-
ment to United Kingdom
residents as they turn 25.
The foundation said the
money would help fix the
“broken” relationship
between the post-Genera-
tion X cohort — so-called
millennials — and the first
generation born after World
War II. That older group,
which is known as the baby-
boom generation, is often
seen as relatively wealthy
because it benefitted from a
strong social welfare system,
cheap housing, plentiful
work, and economic stability.
The BBC reported that
David Willetts, executive
chairman of the Resolution
Foundation, fears younger
Britons will become “increas-
ingly angry” if money is not
better distributed.
“We’ve got a very serious
problem of ensuring there’s a
fair deal across the genera-
tions,” Willetts told the
broadcaster. “Older people
are worried about a properly
funded healthcare system,
people in middle age still
haven’t been able to buy
their own home, and, for
younger people, their pay is
no better than it was 10 or 15
Game pads answer call of duty in disaster missions
TOKYO — Video game pads
have found another more
serious use: to manipulate
robots engaged in decommis-
sioning work at the disaster-
stricken Fukushima No 1
nuclear power plant.
Younger workers who have
used game pads to play video
games at home can operate
them easily and take full
command of tricky opera-
tions, such as in areas
humans cannot reach.
“They’re relatively cheap
Disease threat in Kenya as floods continue
NAIROBI — Kenya could be
staring at a health crisis as rag-
ing floods that have wreaked
havoc in many parts of the
country threaten to unleash a
wave of communicable diseas-
es like cholera, typhoid, malar-
ia and influenza.
The Ministry of Health and
relief agencies have sounded
alarm over possible outbreaks
in low lying parts of the coun-
try and major cities grappling
with the aftermath of heavy
rains.
So far, the ministry has
directed county governments
to allocate funds toward
reducing the threat of water-
borne diseases.
“We talked a lot about the
quality and the safety of the
product and tried to give as
many insurances that this was
the safest product from any-
where in the world. I think
that’s important to the Chi-
nese people,” Pellett said.
In June, Pellett’s beef was in
the first boxes of US beef
shipped to China shortly after
the United States and China
reached a deal to reopen the
Chinese market to US beef.
The beef was shipped by Pel-
We’ve got a very
serious problem
of ensuring there’s
a fair deal across
the generations.”
David Willetts,
executive chairman of
the Resolution Foundation
years ago. So, the different
generations in the UK all
face different pressures.”
The study, which took two
years to complete, is also
calling on the government to
scrap council tax, which is
collected by local govern-
ments, and replace it with a
new property tax that targets
wealthier homeowners.
And it would like the gov-
ernment to collect more taxes
from the over-65s, who cur-
rently do not pay the income-
based tax used to fund social
security provisions that is
known as national insurance.
The Bloomberg news agency
said those extra contributions
could be worth 2.3 billion
pounds to the state-funded
National Health Service.
Willets said the payment to
people turning 25, which the
Sun newspaper said could
cost 7 billion pounds, would
be funded by a revamped,
tougher version of inherit-
ance tax and would be used by
young people to buy a home,
start a business, or improve
their education or skill sets.
and available for several
thousand yen, plus they easi-
ly cope with small move-
ments,” said Hiroaki
Anekawa, 60, senior project
manager at Mitsubishi’s
Advanced Nuclear Plant &
Fuel Cycle Engineering
Department.
“Young workers in their
20s and 30s are good at han-
dling them.”
Atox Co, a nuclear power
plant maintenance company,
is currently developing a
In its latest briefing, the
Kenya Red Cross revealed
that 112 people had died as a
result of floods since mid-
March, when the rains began.
Abbas Gullet, the Secretary-
General at the Kenya Red
Cross, said at a media briefing
on Friday that an estimated
260,000 people displaced by
floods were at risk of disease.
“We are monitoring the sit-
uation in the camps for people
displaced by floods to ward off
outbreaks. Our volunteers
have been providing purifica-
tion gadgets in flooded
regions to keep water-borne
diseases at bay,” said Gullet.
The Kenya Red Cross has
lett’s exporter Greater Omaha
Packing Co.
China banned US beef in
December 2003 after the mad
cow disease struck US cattle.
Before the ban, the US used to
be China’s top foreign suppli-
er of beef.
Although Pellett’s foreign
clients are primarily European
nations, including Germany,
Italy and Switzerland, he sees
good potential of expanding
business with China.
“There will be a slow building
of the demand for our product
because of the quality and the
health insurances,” he said,
highlighting the need to change
the way their beef is presented
Contrasting
conditions
in Europe
Above: A pedestrian walks during
heavy snowfall in the Siberian
town of Divnogorsk, Russia, on
Monday. ILYA NAYMUSHIN / REUTERS
Right: Philip Tokarcyk, 2, rides
a toy vehicle as he enjoys the
sunshine on the Stray in Harro-
gate, England, on Monday. The
Bank Holiday Monday was the
hottest since records began.
NIGEL RODDIS / PA VIA AP
robotic arm for removing
obstacles from reactor build-
ings and has started using a
game pad to maneuver the
arm.
“We can develop [the game
pad] at a low cost, rather
than creating one from
scratch,” a senior employee
said.
A robot that inspected the
containment vessels at the
Fukushima plant’s Nos 2 and
3 reactors was operated by a
game pad. According to
already made a $5 million
appeal for local and interna-
tional aid to help provide
emergency assistance to
150,000 flood victims in the
western, northeastern and
coastal regions.
Gullet said the bulk of the
money will be earmarked for
food, clean drinking water
and medical kits to families
marooned by floods in low-ly-
ing plains.
“Our immediate areas of
intervention include supply
of water treatment chemicals
to prevent a cholera outbreak
in flooded regions,” said Gul-
let, adding that people will
also be supplied with mosqui-
and make it better fit the Chi-
nese lifestyle and customs.
Though only a small quanti-
ty is being exported to China,
the US beef is “something that
will gain popularity as time
goes on”, Pellett said.
He is now feeding around
900 head of cattle on his farm
while growing hundreds of
acres of corn and soybeans in
the Midwestern state. A por-
tion of the grain will hopefully
make its way into the Chinese
market someday, he said.
During his first and only trip
to China, Pellett visited Beijing
and Shanghai, and had a
chance to travel on a high-
speed train.
Toshiba Energy Systems &
Solutions Corp, “it helped
stabilize the robot’s posture
in underwater operations by
allowing the user to subtly
moderate the pressure being
applied by their finger”.
Shigeo Hirose, a professor
emeritus at the Tokyo Insti-
tute of Technology and
robotics specialist, said:
“The thing about game pads
is that they ergonomically fit
people’s hands, meaning
they’re good for maneuver-
to nets to minimize the risk of
contracting malaria.
Kenya and its neighbors in
the greater eastern African
region such as Rwanda and
Somalia have been experienc-
ing extreme rainfall accompa-
nied by flash floods, which
have left many people dead
and destroyed transport,
power and communications
infrastructure as well as hos-
pitals and schools.
In Kenya, both the central
government and relief agen-
cies have scaled up emergen-
cy interventions in regions
affected by flooding to pre-
vent a humanitarian crisis.
Local media reports indicate
He was amazed by what he
saw. “I was very impressed by
the infrastructure because I
did not expect it to be as good
as it was. Just the ability and
the potential of the country
was very, very surprising to
me,” he said.
The trip, he said, was “very
fruitful” in that it helped him
learn more about the Chinese
people, business dealings in
China and how to effectively
present US beef.
Citing other farmers from
his community, Pellett said
they are highly interested in
the huge opportunities that
such a large and growing mar-
ket as China could bring.
ing things like robots.”
Useful for disaster relief
Game pads are also shining
in disaster-relief missions
and military operations.
The Fire and Disaster
Management Agency and
electronics maker Mitsub-
ishi Electric TOKKI Systems
Corp jointly developed a
research robot that can be
dispatched to disaster sites.
A store-bought game pad
maneuvers a camera and
Villagers are evacuated by a Kenya’s Red Cross boat from their
flooded village on April 28. ANDREW KASUKU / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
that counties in the west and
the coastal region have sought
additional financial support
from central government and
relief agencies to procure
“They want the (Chinese)
market to happen. ... We don’t
know a lot about China, but we
want to know more. We don’t
want politicians to get in the
way of what’s best for both
countries,” he said.
Aware of fellow farmers’
concerns over the current
US-China trade tension, Pellett
said he is optimistic about the
prospect.
He said: “The needs of the
people will come to the sur-
face,” adding that arrange-
ments will be made
accordingly to ensure that
people get what they want.
XINHUA
poisonous gas detector.
The United States Navy’s
USS Colorado fast-attack sub-
marine, which went into ser-
vice in March, features a
camera that works as a peri-
scope. It is maneuvered via a
game pad from Microsoft’s
Xbox game console.
The game pad is popular
with younger sailors who play
Xbox video games.
The US Navy’s official blog
notes, “Colorado is the first
submarine operating from
the start with the gaming con-
trollers”.
THE JAPAN NEWS/ANN
essential drugs and promote
environmental hygiene in the
wake of heavy flooding.
XINHUA
WORLD 11
A chance
to chart
post-IS
future
in Iraq
BAGHDAD — Iraqis head to
the polls this weekend for the
first time since the government
declared victory against the
Islamic State extremist group.
The May 12 election, the
fourth since the 2003 US-led
invasion that toppled Saddam
Hussein, will be dominated by
the same leaders and factions
that emerged 15 years ago. But
the atrocities committed by IS
against fellow Sunnis, the
hard-fought national cam-
paign against the extremist
group and new rifts among the
dominant Shiite blocs seem to
have eased the sectarian ten-
sions that marked past votes.
The main fault-line is
between Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi, who has deftly bal-
anced influences of the United
States and Iran, and other Shiite
politicians seen as closer to Iran.
15 years
has passed since the
US-led invasion toppled
Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Iraqis, meanwhile, expect lit-
tle from what is sure to be
another fractious coalition gov-
ernment. Fifteen years after the
US invasion, the country still
suffers from widespread power
outages and poor public servi-
ces, and low oil prices have fur-
ther eviscerated the economy.
In Sunni-majority areas,
where the war against the IS
group destroyed vital infra-
structure and countless
homes, the challenges are
even greater.
The contenders
Nearly 7,000 candidates are
vying for 329 parliament seats.
No single alliance appears
capable of winning a majority,
so the eventual government
will be formed after horse-
trading that could drag on for
months. After the elections in
2010, it took eight months to
form a new government.
The candidates leading the
most powerful alliances are
al-Abadi, former prime minis-
ter Nuri al-Maliki and Hadi
al-Amiri, a former minister of
transport who also led para-
military fighters against IS.
Abadi, who assumed office
shortly after IS swept across
much of northern and west-
ern Iraq, presided over the
campaign that eventually
drove the group from virtually
all the territory it once con-
trolled. He’s seen as an urbane
technocrat who has main-
tained good relations with
Washington and Teheran.
He also appears best placed
to reach beyond the country’s
Shiite majority and court Sun-
ni votes, which could provide a
margin of victory in a close-
fought race.
Maliki, who governed Iraq
for eight years, remains a pow-
erful figure despite having
stepped aside in disgrace
when the military crumbled in
the face of IS.
Amiri was a commander in
the Popular Mobilization For-
ces, the mostly Shiite militias
who helped push back the
extremists.
As with previous elections,
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr,
who also commands a state-
sanctioned militia, is expected
to translate his popular follow-
ing into enough votes to make
him a key player during govern-
ment formation negotiations.
His fighters once battled US
troops, and he remains opposed
to any US presence in Iraq.
The US-led coalition played
a key role in the defeat of IS.
But since Abadi declared vic-
tory over the group last year,
there have been mounting
calls for the US to withdraw.
About 5,200 US troops
remain in Iraq, according to
figures released by the Penta-
gon in December.
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WORLD
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
CHINA DAILY » CHINADAILY.COM.CN/WORLD
Trump to decide fate of Iran nuke deal
Teheran seeks
world powers’
help in nuke
deal if US quits
By CHINA DAILY
It is clear that the traditional
animosity between the United
States and Iran has returned
for the foreseeable future,
experts said, as US President
Donald Trump was scheduled
to announce on Tuesday
whether he will withdraw
from the Iran nuclear deal.
Trump has repeatedly crit-
ized the deal, which eased eco-
nomic sanctions on Iran in
Latin America
urged not to move
Israeli embassies
By CHINA DAILY
Palestinian President Mah-
mud Abbas has urged Latin
American countries not to
emulate the controversial US
decision to move its Israeli
embassy to Jerusalem.
The United States is push-
ing ahead with plans to relo-
cate its embassy from Tel Aviv
on May 14, a move that has
sparked major protests by Pal-
estinians, who consider East
Jerusalem the capital of their
future state.
“We hope that some coun-
tries across Latin America
won’t go moving their embas-
sies to Jerusalem, because that
is against international law,”
Abbas said during a meeting
with Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro in Caracas.
The Palestinian leader
thanked Maduro for rejecting
Washington’s decision to
recognize Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel and relocate
its embassy, reversing decades
of US policy in the region.
Guatemala has already
announced it will relocate its
embassy in Israel to Jerusa-
lem, two days after the US
shifts its mission.
In Jerusalem, the US
Embassy road signs went up
on Monday before next week’s
opening of the mission.
Trump said he was making
good on US legislation and
presidential pledges dating
back decades. Other world
powers have not done so, side-
stepping one of the thorniest
disputes between Israel and
Palestine.
But he will not attend the
opening. The US delegation
will include Treasury Secretary
Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s
daughter Ivanka Trump and his
son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as
well as US Ambassador David
Friedman and Jason Green-
blatt, Trump’s Middle East
peace negotiator, the White
House said on Monday. Deputy
Secretary of State John Sullivan
will lead the delegation.
A worker hangs a road sign directing people to the US embassy in
Israel, near the US consulate in Jerusalem, on Monday.
RONEN ZVULUN / REUTERS
exchange for Teheran limiting
its nuclear program, unless
France, Germany and Britain
— which also signed the agree-
ment — fix what he has called
its flaws.
A senior US official said the
European allies had moved
significantly in Trump’s direc-
tion on what he sees as the
defects — the failure to address
Iran’s alleged ballistic missile
program, the terms under
which international inspectors
visit suspected Iranian sites
and “sunset” clauses under
which some terms expire.
The official did not know if
the Europeans had done
enough to convince Trump to
remain in the deal, known as
the Joint Comprehensive Plan
of Action, or the JCPOA.
Those who attend
the (opening)
ceremony (of US
ambassy) will send
an ominous
message.”
Saeb Erekat, secretary-general
of the Palestine Liberation
Organization
Israel captured East Jerusa-
lem from Jordanian control in
the 1967 Middle East war and
annexed it in a move not
recognized internationally.
The last round of peace talks
on a Palestinian state in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip col-
lapsed in 2014.
Relations between Palestine
and the US reached an all-time
low when Trump recognized
Jerusalem as the capital of Isra-
el and ordered to move the US
embassy from Tel Aviv on Dec 6.
On Monday, Saeb Erekat,
secretary-general of the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization,
urged the international com-
munity to boycott the opening
of the US embassy.
The PLO official said that
“those who attend the ceremo-
ny will send an ominous mes-
sage, a message that
encourages flagrant violations
of international law and the
inalienable rights of the Pales-
tinian people”.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb
Erekat said: “This (embassy)
move is not only illegal but will
also thwart the achievement of
a just and lasting peace between
two sovereign and democratic
states on the 1967 borders, Isra-
el and Palestine living side by
side in peace and security.”
AFP, Reuters and Xinhua
contributed to this story.
European diplomats said
privately they expected Trump
to effectively withdraw from
the agreement, which was
struck by six major powers —
Britain, China, France, Germa-
ny, Russia and the United
States — and Iran in July 2015.
“It’s pretty obvious to me
that unless something changes
in the next few days, I believe
the president will not waive
the sanctions,” one European
diplomat said.
European leaders have
warned that Trump’s with-
drawal would strike a blow to
the alliance between Western
Europe and the US.
Iran has ruled out renegotiat-
ing the accord and threatened
to retaliate if the US pulls out.
The Kremlin said on Tues-
Gate of hell
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was roughly 220 meters below the crater rim. The volcano, the most active in Hawaii, was highly unstable on Sunday, as lava spouted into the air
and fissures emitted deadly gases — hazards that have forced thousands of people to evacuate. THE US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY VIA AFP
Japan and DPRK should talk, Moon says
By CHINA DAILY
Japan and the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea
should begin talks to normal-
ize relations between the two
countries and contribute to
peace and stability in the
region, Moon Jae-in, presi-
dent of the Republic of
Korea, told a Japanese news-
paper on Tuesday.
“In particular, I think dia-
logue between Tokyo and
Pyongyang should be
resumed,” Moon said in the
interview with the Yomiuri
newspaper.
“If their relations are nor-
malized, that would greatly
contribute to peace and secu-
rity in Northeast Asia beyond
the Korean Peninsula,” he said
in written answers to ques-
tions from the newspaper.
At Moon’s summit last
month with DPRK top leader
Kim Jong-un, both sides agreed
to work toward denucleariza-
NAFTA talks resume amid fears of ‘zombie’ accord
WASHINGTON — Senior
officials from Canada, the
United States and Mexico were
trying to rescue slow-moving
talks to update the NAFTA
trade pact met on Monday in a
new bid to resolve key issues
before regional elections com-
plicate the process.
With time fast running out
to strike some kind of deal on
the North American Free
Trade Agreement, the three
member nations are still far
apart on major points.
Discussions in Washington
will center on one particularly
day that the possible with-
drawal would have harmful
consequences.
Trump gave no indication of
which way he was leaning on
Monday, saying only in a Twit-
ter post that he would
announce his decision at 2 pm
(local time) on Tuesday.
Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani warned on Tuesday
the country could face “some
problems” if the US withdraws.
“It is possible that we will face
some problems for two or three
months, but we will pass
through this,” he said, stressing
Iran wants to keep “working
with the world and constructive
engagement with the world”.
Tasnim news agency on
Monday quoted Rouhani as
saying that “we have our own
tion. Kim
said during
that meet-
ing he was
“ready to
have a dia-
logue with
Japan any-
time”, Moon Moon Jae-in,
told the ROK president
newspaper.
There
was no immediate comment
from the Japanese govern-
ment, which has called
Pyongyang’s nuclear weap-
ons and missile programs the
toughest security threat fac-
ing Japan since World War II.
In Seoul, a positive image of
Kim spread among ROK col-
lege students after the third
inter-Korean summit, a poll
showed on Tuesday.
According to the Kookmin
University survey, 48.3 per-
cent of respondents had a
positive image toward Kim. It
was more than 10-fold of the
contentious area — the US
demand for tougher rules of
origin governing what per-
centage of a car needs to be
built in the NAFTA region to
avoid tariffs.
Other challenges include
the future of the pact’s dis-
pute-resolution mechanism
and a US proposal for a sunset
clause that could automatical-
ly kill the deal after five years.
“We will be working all
week on this,” Mexican Econ-
omy Minister Ildefonso Gua-
jardo told reporters after
talks with US Trade Repre-
plan. If what we demand from
the JCPOA is fulfilled by the
non-American (parties in the
deal), the US withdrawal will
be the removal of a trouble”.
Allies’ commitment
Britain, France and Germa-
ny remain committed to the
accord and, in an effort to
address US complaints, want
to open talks on Iran’s ballistic
missile program, its nuclear
activities beyond 2025 —
when pivotal provisions of the
deal expire — and its role in
the wars in Syria and Yemen.
British Foreign Secretary
Boris Johnson, in Washington
this week, said the deal’s weak-
nesses could be remedied.
“At this moment, Britain is
working alongside the US and
4.7-percent rate tallied before
the inter-Korean summit on
April 27 in the border village
of Panmunjom.
The summit was broadcast
live to the entire world. After
the summit, the students
described Kim as being frank,
broad-minded and humorous.
Moon’s interview was con-
ducted ahead of a summit on
Wednesday between Moon,
Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe and Chinese Pre-
mier Li Keqiang in Tokyo.
Pyongyang was expected to
be high on the agenda but a
diplomat said last week the
talks were about regional
cooperation and not focused
on the Korean Peninsula.
Kim and Chinese President
Xi Jinping met in Dalian in
northeast China on Tuesday.
The DPRK leader also visited
Beijing in March and met Xi.
He was also scheduled to meet
with US President Donald
Trump in the coming weeks.
sentative Robert Lighthizer.
Sources close to the talks
suggest there is a creeping
feeling of pessimism going
into the new round of negoti-
ations because of gridlock on
critical matters.
Guajardo earlier told El Her-
aldo newspaper that if a deal
could not be reached, “we
would be operating what some
analysts have called ‘Zombie
NAFTA’ ... (one) that isn’t dead
and isn’t modernized”.
Business executives com-
plain that uncertainty over
the future of the 1994 agree-
our French and German allies
to ensure that they are,” he
said in a commentary in The
New York Times.
Ardavan Amir-Aslani, an
author and international law-
yer with an office in Teheran,
said: “the smart move would
be to wait out the end of
Trump’s mandate, stay in the
nuclear deal and build up
something with the Europe-
ans, however limited. Wait
until this blows over.”
“That’s what they should do
— but we’ll see.”
Reuters, Xinhua and AP
contributed to this story.
Online
See more on www.chinadaily.com.cn
In the interview, Moon said
Kim’s desire for “complete
denuclearization” laid the
groundwork for the future
summit between the United
States and the DPRK,
although it remained to be
seen if concrete steps were
agreed at the talks.
Trump has said he will
maintain sanctions and pres-
sure on the North and “not
repeat the mistakes of past
administrations”, and has
said his tough stance had led
to the breakthrough.
Moon said Kim was “a very
open and practical person”
and both leaders had a mutu-
al goal for the denucleariza-
tion of the Korean Peninsula.
“From now on, based on
our deep mutual trust, we’ll
make bold steps toward peace
and prosperity, and unifica-
tion,” Moon said.
Reuters and Xinhua
contributed to this story.
ment is hurting investment.
Lighthizer said last week
that if the talks took too long,
approval by the Republican-
controlled US Congress may
be on “thin ice”. The aim is to
complete a vote during the
“lame-duck” period before a
new Congress is seated after
November’s congressional
elections.
Mexico holds its presiden-
tial election on July 1 and the
front-runner, Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador, says he wants
a hand in redrafting NAFTA if
he wins.
Briefly
LEBANON
Hezbollah, allies
score major gains
The leader of the Hezbollah
group declared “mission
accomplished” on Monday
after scoring major gains in
parliamentary elections, as
the faction headed by
Prime Minister Saad Hariri
lost a third of its seats. Har-
iri acknowledged the losses
at a news conference in Bei-
rut on Monday, but said “it’s
not the end of the world”.
Hezbollah and its political
allies gained at least 43
seats of the legislature’s 128
seats. Hariri’s Future
Movement won 21 seats.
UNITED KINGDOM
Johnson attacks
customs plan
Foreign Secretary Boris
Johnson has attacked Prime
Minister Theresa May’s plan
for a customs partnership
with the European Union
after the UK leaves the bloc
the latest sign of dissent
within her Cabinet. Johnson
told the Daily Mail newspa-
per that the partnership
idea was “crazy” and would
create a “whole new web of
bureaucracy”. It after May’s
Cabinet last week failed to
agree on a preferred option
for Britain’s future customs
relationship with EU.
SYRIA
2 dead in Russian
helicopter crash
A Russian Ka-52 helicopter
crashed in Syria on Monday,
killing both pilots, Moscow’s
Defence Ministry said in a
statement. The incident was
the Russian army’s second
deadly crash in Syria in less
than a week. On May 3, a
Russian fighter jet crashed
after taking off from an air
base, killing both pilots.
NIGERIA
Military rescues
1,000 hostages
More than 1,000 people
held captive in Nigeria by
Boko Haram extremist have
been rescued, Nigeria’s mili-
tary said on Monday. The
hostages, who were mainly
women and children, were
rescued from four villages
in the Bama area of Borno
State, military spokesman
Texas Chukwu said. Among
the rescued were some men
who had been forced to
become Boko Haram fight-
ers, he said.
GERMANY
At least 2 dead
as trains collide
At least two people were
killed and several others
were hurt when two trains
collided on Monday in
Germany, the national rail
company said. The Deut-
sche Bahn network opera-
tor said that a commuter
service hit a freight train
between Ingolstadt and
Augsburg in Germany’s
southern Bavaria region.
AP—CHINA DAILY—AFP
At the heart of the NAFTA
revamp is US President
Donald Trump’s desire to
retool rules for the automotive
sector in order to try to bring
jobs and investment back
north from lower-cost Mexico.
Mexico’s main auto sector
lobby has described the latest
US demands, which include
raising the North American
content to 75 percent from the
current 62.5 percent over a
period of four years for light
vehicles, as “not acceptable”.
REUTERS
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Trade shows healthy growth MSCI to adjust

Performance can
be partially
‘attributed to
recovery of the
global economy’
By JING SHUIYU
and REN XIAOJIN
China’s trade in goods
climbed 8.9 percent year-on-
year to 9.11 trillion yuan
($1.43 trillion) in the first four
months of this year, partly
due to the upturn in the glob-
al economy and solid domes-
tic demand, official data
showed on Tuesday.
Exports rose 6.4 percent
year-on-year to 4.81 trillion
yuan between January and
April, while imports grew 11.7
percent to 4.3 trillion yuan,
according to the General
Administration of Customs.
The robust trade perform-
ance can be attributed to the
steady recovery of the global
economy, and sustained
domestic demand, said
Huang Songping, spokesman
for the General Administra-
tion of Customs.
China’s trade grew in a
more balanced manner, as the
nation has been stepping up
efforts to boost its imports,
Huang was quoted as saying
by China Central Television
on Tuesday.
The trade surplus stood at
506.24 billion yuan in the first
four months, which narrowed
by 24.1 percent from the same
period a year ago, data
showed.
“Looking ahead, China’s
imports are likely to be fur-
An employee oversees loading of cargo bound for the United States at Qingdao Port, Shandong province.
ZHANG JINGANG / FOR CHINA DAILY
China’s monthly Hengfeng Bank.
trade figures After getting off to a strong
(January – April, 2018) start, China’s foreign trade
Unit: trillion yuan volume is forecast to remain
2.512 2.358 strong in 2018, according to a
2.245
1.997 report recently released by
the Ministry of Commerce.
The report said the expan-
sion will be underpinned by
Jan Feb Mar Apr the stable recovery of the
Source: General Administration of Customs world economy, and sus-
CHINA DAILY tained demand in the domes-
tic market as supply-side
ther underpinned by further structural reform advances.
opening-up measures such as In spite of the positive out-
tariff reduction, and a slew of look, the report pointed out
policies to stimulate domestic several factors that weighed
consumption,” said Cai Hao, on trade are still present.
head of macroeconomic study These include a complex
at the Research Institute of international political and
economic environment, anti-
globalization, and rising pro-
tectionism.
A World Trade Organiza-
tion report also pointed out
that there are signs that esca-
lating trade tensions may
already be affecting business
confidence and investment
decisions, which could com-
promise the current outlook.
China-US trade talks will
continue to have a significant
impact on both bilateral and
global trade, and good eco-
nomic and trade relations
between the two world’s two
largest economies are vital for
continued economic growth
and recovery, Nie Wen, a mac-
roeconomy analyst at Hwa-
Bao Trust, said in a research
note.
China’s trade with econo-
mies participating in the Belt
and Road Initiative was worth
2.51 trillion yuan in the first
four months, an increase of 11.6
percent year-on-year, which
was 2.7 percentage points high-
er than the overall level.
In April, China’s trade reg-
istered growth of 7.2 percent
year-on-year to 2.36 trillion
yuan, with exports increasing
3.7 percent and imports grow-
ing 11.6 percent.
Contact the writers at jing-
shuiyu@chinadaily.com.cn
list of A-share
firms in indices
By LI XIANG and CHEN JIA
Index provider MSCI Inc
will announce the semi-annu-
al adjustment of its equity
indices next week, which will
change the representation of
Chinese stocks in the MSCI
system before the official
inclusion of China’s A shares
into its emerging market
index on June 1.
The New York-based firm
said that it will post the list of
stocks added and deleted from
its indices including the MSCI
China A Onshore Indexes and
the MSCI China All Shares
Indexes on May 14.
The adjustment could be of
great significance for the Chi-
nese market as it will deter-
mine the final list of Chinese A
shares to be included in its
emerging market index in
June. It is also likely to bring
significant changes to the rep-
resentation of overseas-listed
Chinese stocks in the indices,
investment bank China Inter-
national Capital Corp said in a
research note.
An estimated 229 A shares
could be included in the MSCI
system, and the newly added
stocks could be from high-per-
formance sectors such as
health and consumption.
Stocks that may be deleted
from the indices could be from
the securities business and
cyclical sectors such as mining
and resources, according to
CICC.
China’s A shares are sched-
uled to be included in the
MSCI Emerging Markets
Index on June 1. The index,
of the benchmark indices fol-
lowed by global fund manag-
ers who wish to have an
exposure to emerging markets
equities.
The inclusion has been
hailed by international
investors as a milestone
event as it heralds the further
integration of the Chinese
market into the wider global
financial system.
Global investors have
shown increasing interest in
the capital markets of the
world’s second-largest econo-
my and sectors such as the
internet, technology, alterna-
tive energy and automobiles
in the nation have been very
appealing to international
asset managers who wish to
tap into the vast growth poten-
tial.
International capital allo-
cated to Chinese stocks could
rise to $40 billion after the
inclusion of A shares in the
MSCI emerging market index,
according to Jing Ulrich, man-
aging director and vice-chair-
woman of JP Morgan, Asia-
Pacific.
“I learned through commu-
nication with many investors
that they are ready to take the
initiative to increase the allo-
cation of China’s A shares,”
Ulrich said.
“China’s economic volume
is very large and it is now
aimed at higher quality
growth. We believe that the
share of the Chinese mainland
stock market in the global
market will gradually
increase,” she added.

Steady progress seen in RMB internationalization tracked by about $1.7 trillion

of international assets, is one
Contact the writers at
lixiang@chinadaily.com.cn

By CHEN JIA
chenjia@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s monetary authority
listed steady progress to
achieve completely free use of
the yuan in cross-border capi-
tal investment as one of its pri-
orities this year, based on
further market-oriented
exchange rate reform, said a
statement released on the cen-
tral bank’s website on Tuesday.
Pan Gongsheng, vice-gover-
nor of the People’s Bank of Chi-
na and director of the State
Administration of Foreign
Exchange, called for expansion
of the global use of the yuan
under a “macro prudential”
management framework to
monitor market fluctuations.
These points, part of the
central bank’s 2018 annual
work plan, were released after
the nation’s policymakers
introduced reforms to further
open the domestic financial
sector to foreign investors.
The renewed strength of
the US dollar in the past two
weeks, when the dollar index
that measures the greenback
against a basket of peers rose
by nearly 2.5 percent to a new
peak of 93.0516 on Tuesday,
the highest since December,
has added depreciation pres-
sure on the Chinese currency.
The yuan’s daily trading ref-
erence, its central parity,
dropped by 1 percent over the
same period, and the deprecia-
tion of the currency in the off-
shore market was even greater,
at a rate of about 1.2 percent.
The yuan’s central parity was
6.3674 per dollar on Tuesday.
“There will be concerns that
the extended run of dollar-buy-
ing momentum risks spelling
pain for emerging markets in
ways not seen since the US Fed-
eral Reserve began raising its
interest rates back in 2015,” said
Jameel Ahmad, global head of
Currency Strategy and Market
Research at ForexTime.
A clerk checks dollar bills at a bank outlet in Taiyuan, capital of
Shanxi province. ZHANG YUN / CHINA NEWS SERVICE
Experts said that rising
inflation and the expected US
Fed rate hike in June would
continually strengthen the US
dollar, which has been cata-
lyzed by the growth of 10-year
US treasury yields to above 3
percent — the first time since
2014. They speculated that
increased interest rate differ-
entials between the US and
other major economies were
behind the recent fluctua-
tions in the US dollar.
Cross-border capital flows
should be watched closely in
the coming months, but the
influence on China is limited
due to its experienced cross-
border capital flow risk man-
agement, according to Jing
Ulrich, managing director
and vice-chairwoman of JP
Morgan, Asia-Pacific.
With a wider opening of
China’s financial sector, the
currency’s exchange rate will
get closer to the market’s
equilibrium level, and possi-
bly reach 6.25 per US dollar by
the end of this year, with more
balanced two-way capital
flows, according to Ulrich.
“The government’s encour-
agement of the global use of
the yuan is expected to boost
Chinese corporates and finan-
cial institutions to develop
overseas businesses, which
will lead to a rise in the yuan’s
market share,” she said.
According to a recent assess-
ment by China’s central bank,
the yuan ranked sixth globally
as an international payment
currency by 2017, and more
than a quarter of cross-border
trade was settled in yuan. More
than 60 foreign countries have
adopted the yuan as their
reserve currency.
US companies invited
to join AIIB projects
By LIA ZHU in San Francisco The first country outside of
liazhu@chinadailyusa.com Asia that AIIB supports is
Egypt.
The Asian Infrastructure Jin said the bank is open
Investment Bank is welcom- to all members of the World
ing US companies to join its Bank and the Asian Devel-
infrastructure pro- opment Bank. So far,
jects. its members cover
“We encourage every continent
American companies except the Antarctic,
to participate in the he said.
competitive bidding Though the US has
and export equipment not become a member,
and services to the Jin said: “Americans
countries who need Jin Liqun, are already engaged
them,” Jin Liqun, presi- president of with us. We are work-
dent of the AIIB, said the AIIB ing with American
at the recently con- financial institutions.
cluded annual meeting We expect businesses
of the Committee of 100 in Sili- and manufacturing compa-
con Valley. nies to participate.”
He said he was frequently The country that gets most
asked whether the United of the contracts is Turkey, and
States would join the bank, many European countries

Nebraska governor hopeful of end to tariff dispute
By CHEN WEIHUA
in Washington
chenweihua@
chinadailyusa.com
Nebraska Governor Pete
Ricketts expressed deep con-
cern on Monday over possible
tit-for-tat tariffs between Chi-
na and the United States, but
is optimistic that a negotiated
solution can be found.
The governor, a business-
man-turned-politician, said
that the tariffs proposed by
the Trump administration
against China are “certainly a
cause for concern among
farmers and ranchers”.
Nebraska has been caught
in the crossfire of a potential
tariff war between the two
countries, with Chinese retali-
atory tariffs targeting a num-
ber of US agriculture
products following the US’
imposition of steel and alumi-
num tariffs in the name of
national security and a threat
to slap tariffs on $150 billion
in Chinese imports under Sec-
tion 301 of US Trade Act of
1974.
“Agriculture is the largest
industry in Nebraska. It’s
about 20 percent of the over-
all state economy, and one in
four jobs in Nebraska is tied
back to agriculture,” Ricketts
said on Monday.
He said there is concern
when China is talking about
potential tariffs and people in
Nebraska are worried that
something will happen with
the tariffs. “That brings
20
percent
agriculture’s share of
Nebraska’s economy
uncertainty,” said Ricketts,
who traveled to China in 2015
and 2016.
“Now the good news is we
got time to work this out,” said
Ricketts, a Republican who
became governor in 2015.
Noting that it’s the begin-
ning of the planting season,
Ricketts said there is some
time to conclude a trade nego-
tiation with China.
“That’s really what we are
encouraging the administra-
tion to do. We want to get this
trade negotiation done so we
can continue to enjoy the mar-
ket access in China and that
mutually beneficial relation-
ship through trade,” he said.
Ricketts’ talk came three
days after a senior US team
led by Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin concluded
two days of talks in Beijing on
bilateral trade and invest-
ment issues.
The 53-year-old Ricketts, a
part-owner of the Chicago
Cubs baseball team and
whose father Joe Ricketts is
the founder of brokerage firm
TD Ameritrade, said there are
opportunities for Nebraska to
further expand into the Chi-
nese market, citing China’s
resumption last year of US
beef imports.
China lifted its ban on US
beef imports imposed about
14 years ago upon concern
over mad cow disease.
Nebraska is the top US beef-
exporting state and was the
fifth-largest pork exporter in
2017.
China is Nebraska’s second-
largest goods-export market
in 2017 after Canada and was
its third-largest services-ex-
port market in 2016, trailing
Canada and the United King-
dom. Oilseeds, grains and
meat products are Nebraska’s
largest export items to China,
according to a report by the
US-China Business Council
on April 30.
which is entering its third have shown great interest,
year.
“It’s up to the Trump admin-
according to Jin.
“We will make sure Ameri-
istration,” he said. “But one can companies will be treated
thing is clear: Regardless of fairly when they participate in
the membership, we can work the international bidding of
together. contracts,” he added. “The
“AIIB should not be only issue you should worry
another hot spot of the con- about is whether you are really
flicts between the US and competitive.”
China. It should be a broad He said the bank adheres
platform for cooperation to the “lean, clean and green”
between the two countries,” principle, which means
he said. avoiding institutional obesi-
Since the bank commenced ty, zero tolerance of corrup-
operations in January 2016, it tion and promoting a green
has approved 24 projects economy.
totaling $4.26 billion. The bank also will translate
It has 84 members, 64 of the best international practic-
which have completed all es, which means the accumu-
membership requirements lated experience and wisdom
and another 20 which are in of all the countries of the
the process of finalizing their world, including the develop-
membership. ment experience of China and
The largest borrowers are other Asian countries in the
India, Pakistan, Bangla- past four decades, Jin
desh, Indonesia and Turkey. explained.
14 BUSINESS
B&R seminar to help boost regional cooperation
By JIANG XUEQING
jiangxueqing@chinadaily.com.cn
Central and Eastern European
countries are expected to explore
opportunities for further coopera-
tion with China through the Belt and
Road Initiative at an international
financial exchange and cooperation
seminar that opened in Beijing on
Tuesday.
Thirty-one participants, mainly
government officials, from Serbia,
Romania, Bulgaria and Montenegro
are participating in the 10-day semi-
nar.
Delegates will attend lectures
conducted by experts on global eco-
nomic trends, China’s national
development strategies and infra-
structure investment. The speakers
What’s news
GOVT AND POLICIES
Guizhou to apply
stricter tea standards
Southwest China’s Guizhou prov-
ince is to apply stricter standards
for its tea products later this year
in a bid to guarantee export quali-
ty. “The provincial standards,
coming into effect in November,
have been revised for four famous
types of local tea leaves, including
green tea and black tea,” said
Meng Yuguang, deputy chief of
Guizhou Provincial Bureau of
Quality and Technical Supervi-
sion. “We now have the strictest
tea safety requirements in China,”
Meng said at the opening ceremo-
ny of the Guizhou tea expo on
Sunday. “Guizhou has formed a
complete tea standard system,
with 81 technical standards cover-
ing the entire industrial chain,
from tea plantation to processing
and brewing,” Meng said.
COMPANIES AND MARKETS
Shares close higher in
Shanghai, Shenzhen
Chinese mainland stocks contin-
ued to rise on Tuesday, boosted by
strong performances of heavy-
weights including insurance and
banking shares. The benchmark
Shanghai Composite Index went
up 0.79 percent to end at 3,161.5,
and the Shenzhen Component
Index closed 0.77 percent higher at
10,707.8. Combined turnover on
the two bourses stood at 443.8 bil-
lion yuan ($69.7 billion), up from
421.9 billion yuan the previous
trading day.
JD and GSK extend
strategic partnership
JD and global pharmaceutical
leader GSK have extended their
current strategic partnership in
China. In a revolutionary new
drive to harness the power of tech-
nology and e-commerce to pro-
mote wellness and medical
services to more people easier, JD
and global pharmaceutical leader
GSK have extended their current
strategic partnership in China.
Additionally, the partners plan to
explore how to harness medical
information and big data in ways
they hope will lead to new solu-
tions for chronic disease manage-
ment and improved health and
China’s trade with Central Asian countries grows at a fast pace
BEIJING — China’s imports from
Belt and Road economies increased
faster than exports for the first time
in 2017, according to a think tank
report.
The value of China’s imports from
economies involved in the Belt and
Road Initiative stood at $666 billion
in 2017, an increase of 20 percent year-
on-year, or 39 percent of China’s total
imports value, according to a report
compiled by the State Information
Center, a State Council think tank.
include Zhu Min, head of the
National Institute of Financial
Research at Tsinghua University
and former vice-president of Inter-
national Monetary Fund, and Jin
Liqun, president of the Asian Infra-
structure Investment Bank.
Apart from lectures, the partici-
pants will also visit places such as
Shanghai Huawei Technologies Co
Ltd and Yangshan Deep Water Port.
“The seminar will offer a compre-
hensive introduction of the Belt and
Road Initiative to participants, with
a focus on discussing opportunities
for cooperation in a number of areas
including finance, e-commerce,
agriculture, energy and tourism,”
said Chen Siqing, chairman of Bank
of China, the nation’s fourth-largest
commercial lender by assets.
Grapes of success
Visitors check out wine products that are transported from Europe via the Madrid-Yiwu train at the 2018 China Yiwu Imported Commodities Fair held in
Yiwu, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. DONG XUMING / FOR CHINA DAILY
wellness education. As part of the
cooperation, there is a bilateral
plan to work on community pro-
grams, helping people access med-
ical services easier for diseases like
HIV.
Tan Chong to invest
$126.8m in auto hub
Malaysian automobile company
Tan Chong Motor will invest 500
million ringgit ($126.81 million) to
develop an automotive hub in
northern Perak state, according to a
statement released on Monday. The
group expects to commence the
project with a total investment of
100 million ringgit that will be
channeled toward land acquisition
and the construction of a bus and
truck plant in phase one, said the
statement. Once completed, the
new plant, which is located in
Bagan Datuk, will cater to the pro-
duction needs of the local and
export markets.
Cathay Pacific adopts
Red Hat technology
Hong Kong’s flag carrier Cathay
Pacific Airways Ltd has adopted
the modern hybrid cloud architec-
ture of Red Hat, the world’s lead-
ing provider of open source
solutions, to deliver more efficient
services and experience for its cus-
$666
billion
the value of China’s imports
from economies involved in
the Belt and Road Initiative
in 2017
More and more European countries
are trying to be more visible under the
Belt and Road Initiative because they recognize
the potential of this initiative ...”
Jagoda Lazarevic, special adviser to the deputy prime minister
and minister of trade, tourism and telecommunications of Serbia
“We hope that the participants
will speak their minds freely and
give advice on how to better pro-
mote the Belt and Road Initiative so
that people in these four Central
and Eastern European countries
could receive more benefit from the
initiative,” Chen said.
China will also share its practice
tomers, Red Hat said on Monday.
Using Red Hat’s open standards-
based, enterprise technologies,
including Red Hat OpenStack Plat-
form and OpenShift Container
Platform, Cathay Pacific migrated
from its less flexible and time-con-
suming legacy infrastructure to a
hybrid cloud architecture that
allows the airline to maintain a
high level of performance, from its
internal systems to customer-fac-
ing applications. With its new IT
architecture, Cathay Pacific is able
to bring new services to the market
more expediently and provide bet-
ter scale infrastructure to meet
evolving application requirements,
Red Hat said.
IFF agrees to buy
Israel’s Frutarom
International Flavors & Fragrances
agreed to buy Frutarom, an Israeli
flavor manufacturer, for $7.1 billion
in cash and stocks, Frutarom said on
Monday. Frutarom released a state-
ment saying the boards of directors
of the two companies have approved
the terms of the deal. The takeover
would be the second-largest exit of
an Israeli firm, after Intel bought
Mobileye — a company in the field of
computer vision for autonomous
driving technology — for $15.3 bil-
lion in March 2017. The acquisition is
part of International Flavors & Fra-
In the same year, China’s exports
to those economies came in at
$774.26 billion, a rise of 8.5 percent
year-on-year. The growth of imports
outpaced exports for the first time
since the Belt and Road Initiative
was proposed five years ago.
China’s combined trade with
those economies reached $1.44 tril-
lion, up 13.4 percent year-on-year,
5.9 percentage points faster than
China’s overall trade growth.
The Belt and Road Initiative was
and experience of reform and open-
ing up during the last 40 years with
the seminar attendees, in the hope
that they will find the right fit in the
economic development of China
and of their own country, he added.
Jagoda Lazarevic, special adviser
to the deputy prime minister and
minister of trade, tourism and tele-
grances’ efforts to expand in the
market of taste, scent and nutrition.
Food giant Nestle in
pact with Starbucks
Switzerland-based food giant Nestle
said on Monday it is set to pay Star-
bucks $7.15 billion for the right to sell
the US chain’s products outside its
worldwide coffee shops. Under the
alliance deal announced on Monday,
Seattle-based Starbucks and Nestle
have agreed to work together on
marketing strategies and innovation.
“This transaction is a significant step
for our coffee business, Nestle’s larg-
est high-growth category,” Nestle
Chief Executive Officer Mark Schnei-
der said in a statement. “With Star-
bucks, Nescafe and Nespresso, we
bring together three iconic brands in
the world of coffee.”
AROUND THE WORLD
Italy keeps steady
growth pace in Q1
The Italian economy in the first
proposed by China in 2013 to boost
trade and investment among econo-
mies along the ancient Silk Road
trade routes from Asia to Europe
and Africa.
China’s trade with Central Asia
countries grew at the fastest rate, fol-
lowed by Eastern Europe. Countries
including South Korea, Vietnam,
Malaysia, India and Russia rank
among China’s top 10 trading part-
ners along the routes, contributing
nearly 70 percent of China’s trade
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 CHINA DAILY
communications of Serbia, said:
“More and more European coun-
tries are trying to be more visible
under the Belt and Road Initiative
because they recognize the poten-
tial of this initiative, and the coun-
tries can really benefit for the long-
term future.”
Currently, Belt and Road coopera-
tion between China and Central and
Eastern European countries is pri-
marily in the infrastructure and
energy sectors, but it can later be
widened to different areas, such as
tourism and telecommunications,
Lazarevic said.
Under these circumstances, “hav-
ing a seminar dedicated to certain
economic topics, which are also the
primary concerns of government
officials in Serbia ... will be mutually
quarter of 2018 grew at the same
pace as in the previous quarter, the
National Institute of Statistics
said. In the first three months of
this year, manufacturing produc-
tion and exports dropped moder-
ately, while employment showed
signs of recovery, and inflation
remained moderate. The gross
domestic product of the eurozone’s
third largest economy rose 0.3 per-
cent in the first quarter compared
to the previous one, sustained by
domestic demand and suffering a
negative growth contribution by
the net foreign component. Manu-
facturing value added remained
flat in the same period, interrupt-
ing a growing trend shown in the
latest quarters, according to
ISTAT.
Kuwait signs Vietnam
loan agreement
Kuwait has struck a loan agreement
with Vietnam worth four million
Kuwaiti dinars ($13.6 million) for
financing the Multipurpose Develop-
ment Project for Ethnic Minorities
in Poor Communes in Xin Man Dis-
trict in Vietnam. The Kuwait Fund
for Arab Economic Development
said on Monday that the loan aims
to enhance economic and social
development in Xin Man District in
Ha Giang province by constructing
with Belt and Road economies.
China mainly sells mechanical
and electrical products to Belt and
Road economies, and imports
mechanical and electrical products
as well as fossil fuel from them, the
report said.
Chinese private companies do the
most trade, followed by foreign-in-
vested companies and State-owned
firms.
Yu Shiyang, director of the depart-
ment of big data development
useful for all participants,” she said.
Central and Eastern European
countries have unique geographical
advantages by connecting China to
the EU market and key energy pro-
ducing areas such as Russia and
Central Asia. In recent years, more
and more CEECs have been seeking
to expand cooperation with China,
said Wang Chao, vice-minister of
foreign affairs.
Although anti-globalization senti-
ment and protectionism are on the
rise, and recovery of global trade is
not solid enough, trade between
China and CEECs grew to $68 bil-
lion in 2017, registering a growth of
15.9 percent year-on-year, higher
than the growth rate of China’s over-
all foreign trade in the same period,
Wang said.
and developing the essential infra-
structure to improve traffic condi-
tions and effectively use water
resources in the area, as well as to
restructure the local economy and
contribute to poverty reduction.
NSW announces plan
to protect koalas
The New South Wales state govern-
ment in Australia has announced a
A$45 million ($33.81 million) plan
on Monday, to protect the country’s
declining koala population. As part
of the new strategy, 25,000 hectares
of state forest will be set aside for the
animal, and a new koala hospital will
open to care for the cuddly critters.
“Koalas are a national treasure.”
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian
said. “This strategy will ensure there
are far more of them in the wild.”
The announcement came on the
heels of a 2016 review by the state’s
Chief Scientist Professor Mary
O’Kane, which found a 26 percent
decline in the koala population over
the last 20 years.
Los Angeles tourism
earns big bucks
A record-setting 48.5 million visi-
tors generated a record $34.9 bil-
lion in 2017 for Los Angeles
County on the US west coast, the
Los Angeles Tourism and Conven-
tion Board said. Los Angeles
received 41.2 million domestic visi-
tors and 7.3 million international
visitors last year, pumping an all-
time high of $22.7 billion directly
into the local economy. Taking into
account the induced and indirect
benefits, visitors generated an
overall economic impact of $34.9
billion. The total number of visi-
tors exceeded a previous estimate
and represented an increase of 2.6
percent from that of 2016.
Fiji faces ongoing
farm trade deficit
Even though more than 100,000
households in Fiji engage in agri-
cultural activities such as growing
crops, raising livestock, fishing,
freshwater aquaculture or marine
aquaculture, the agriculture trade
of the island nation with a popula-
tion of more than 880,000 contin-
ued to run at a deficit. Fiji’s
Assistant Minister for Agriculture
Viam Pillay released these statis-
tics on Monday at the regional
forum workshop on developing
Pacific local food crops and fisher-
ies value chains held in Suva. Pil-
lay said a recent pilot baseline
survey undertaken by the Ministry
of Agriculture shows that of the
51,029 farmers interviewed, only
about 4 percent can be classified
as commercial farmers, adding
that the same survey also found
that nearly 65 percent of inter-
viewed farmers operated on one
hectare or less.
CHINA DAILY — AGENCIES
under the State Information Center,
said that amid rising protectionism
by some countries, China’s trade
with Belt and Road economies had
risen at a brisk pace, showing the
initiative was being implemented
well, featuring free trade flow.
The report covers 71 economies
along the Belt and Road, summariz-
ing the current trade picture and
projecting future trends.
XINHUA
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Editor's Note: South China’s Guangdong province in April celebrated the third anniversary of the establishment of three pilot free trade zones — Nansha in Guangzhou, Qianhai in Shenzhen and Hengqin in Zhuhai, which represent
the determination of the central authorities and Guangdong to open wider to the outside world and boost the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Hengqin free trade zone targets Qianhai expanding

cooperation with HK
Portuguese-speaking countries By ZHENG CAIXIONG
in Shenzhen, Guangdong

The Qianhai Pilot Free

Trade Zone in Shenzhen is
Govt promises to expected to expand coopera-
tion with Hong Kong in the
further improve coming years.
Wang Jinxia, deputy direct-
local investment or of China (Guangdong) FTA
314
billion yuan
Investment made by 2,482
Hong Kong companies that
settled in the Qianhai free
trade zone last year

environment in Qianhai Shekou’s administra-

the years to come
By ZHENG CAIXIONG
in Zhuhai, Guangdong
zhengcaixiong@chinadaily.com.cn
The Hengqin New Area in
Zhuhai, Guangdong province,
will become a pilot area for
economic cooperation
between China and Portu-
guese-speaking countries in
the coming years.
Hengqin island is at the
mouth of the Pearl River, adja-
cent to the Macao Special
Administrative Region. Its
location and status as a pilot
free trade zone make it a natu-
ral choice for a program to
attract investment from and
expand trade with Portu-
guese-speaking countries,
said Yang Chuan, director of
the administrative committee
of the Hengqin New Area.
Hengqin is one of the three
pilot free trade zones in
Guangdong. The other two
are Qianhai in Shenzhen and
Nansha in Guangzhou.
Construction of the
244,000-square-meter China-
Latin America Cooperative
Industrial Park has been com-
pleted in Hengqin, at a cost of
more than 2.5 billion yuan
($393 million), Yang said.
Contracts have been signed
for 15 projects from Latin
American nations to be estab-
lished in the park, the first of
The booth of Hengqin New Area at the 6th China (Guangzhou) International Finance Expo in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province,
on June 23, 2017. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
its kind in the mainland.
Hengqin signed 73 deals
valued at 3.25 billion yuan
with Latin American coun-
tries during the Sino-Latin
American Fair held in Heng-
qin last November.
“Meanwhile, more than
3,000 kinds of imported speci-
ality products from Latin
American countries and other
Portuguese-speaking countries
are displayed and sold in the
park’s sales centers, which have
especially been built to help
them increase their presence in
Guangdong and the Chinese
mainland markets,” Yang said.
Hengqin is also planning to
expand its cooperation with
Hong Kong and Macao to
jointly develop logistics, tour-
ism, finance, leisure, and cross-
border e-commerce industries
in the years ahead, he added.
To achieve the goal, the
zone has promised to further
improve Hengqin’s invest-
ment environment in the
years to come.
A new underground rail-
way station, linking Hengqin
to the Guangzhou-Zhuhai
inter-city railway line, will
start service next year, con-
necting Hengqin with the
national train network. The
800-meter-long railway sta-
tion is the second largest on
the Chinese mainland.
And a new expressway link-
ing Hengqin to the Hong
Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
is expected to be completed
and put into use in the first
half of next year.
The long-awaited Hong
Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
is expected to start traffic in
the first half of this year, fur-
ther expanding Hengqin’s ties
with Hong Kong and Macao.
Kerven Zhou, general man-
ager of Guangdong Vimicro
Electronics Corporation, said
the administrative committee
of Hengqin New Area has
made great efforts to improve
Hengqin’s investment envi-
ronment by introducing a
series of preferential policies
and helping local companies
reduce their production costs
in the past years.
“Land use is free for local
companies in Hengqin in
their first three years,” he said.
Hengqin’s GDP enjoyed an
average annual growth of 39.2
percent in the past three years
to hit 18.36 billion yuan in
2017, while its actual foreign
investment during the same
period grew at an annual
average of 37.77 percent to
$670 million last year.
tive committee, said the zone
adjacent to Hong Kong has
unique advantages to deepen
cooperation and become a
new area for Hong Kong com-
panies’ industrial transforma-
tion and upgrading in the
future.
Currently, major companies
including HSBC, BEA, HKEX
Group, Kerry Group, Chow Tai
Fook, New World and Wharf
Holdings Ltd have set up their
facilities, subsidiaries or bran-
ches in Qianhai.
Wang said more laws and
regulations will be intro-
duced to protect the legal
interests of overseas-funded
companies and ensure an effi-
cient and transparent govern-
ment operation.
He said Qianhai still has a lot
of room for expanding cooper-
ation with Hong Kong. Zone
leaders plan to offer about one-
third of the zone’s land to com-
panies from Hong Kong.
And many cooperative
opportunities have been creat-
ed under the country’s Belt
and Road Initiative and the
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Ma-
cao Greater Bay Area plan.
Qianhai also plans to
become a regional financial
center through expanding
cooperation with Hong Kong,
one of the major international
financial centers in Asia, as the
financial industry has great
potential for growth in Qian-
hai, according to Wang.
“In addition to investments,
Qianhai FTZ hopes to attract
more talents in the finance
industry from Hong Kong and
gain more management expe-
rience,” Wang said.
Moreover, Qianhai hopes to
attract offshore companies to
help develop its cross-border
finance, e-commerce, modern
logistics and new and high-
tech industries, according to
Wang.
To this end, preferential pol-
icies in taxation, financing,
land use rights, foreign trade
and customs have been put in
place, aiming to further
improve Qianhai’s investment
climate in line with interna-
tional practice, he said.
“Hong Kong companies and
investment are playing an
important role in Qianhai’s
economic development,” Wang
said.
According to official statis-
tics, Qianhai had attracted
8,031 Hong Kong companies
by the end of March, with a
registered capital of 893.7 bil-
lion yuan ($141 billion).
And the actual investment
from Hong Kong to Qianhai
witnessed an annual growth
of 206 percent in the past
three years.
Last year alone, 2,482 Hong
Kong companies, with an
investment of 314 billion yuan,
settled in Qianhai.
By the end of last year, more
than 164,900 companies from
home and abroad had regis-
tered in Qianhai.

Nansha port area to become

new global shipping center
By ZHENG CAIXIONG
in Guangzhou

The Nansha Pilot Free Trade

Zone will become a new inter-
national shipping hub, linking
Guangzhou to more countries
and regions in the years to
come.
Guangzhou has been a
major commercial city and a
trading port in China since
ancient times and Nansha,
located at the estuary of the
Pearl River, should play an
even bigger part in the city’s
opening up and foreign trade,
said Pan Yuzhang, deputy
director of the Nansha Pilot
Free Trade Zone’s administra-
tive committee.
“To this end, Nansha port is
negotiating to open more
global ocean routes in the
coming years while expansion
of the port is well underway,”
Pan said, without revealing
specific details.
Meanwhile, two luxury
cruiser docks, with a capacity
of more than 100,000 metric
tons each, will be completed
and start service in the first
half of 2019, with an aim to
build Nansha into one of the
major ocean cruise centers in
Asia, Pan added.
Last year, cruiser piers in
Nansha, which has opened
cruise routes to Japan and
Southeast Asian countries,
handled more than 400,000
passenger trips.
Nansha is the only ocean
port in Guangzhou, capital of
Guangdong province. The
port, which now has 16 deep-
water container piers that can
handle 150,000-ton vessels,
has now opened international
ocean routes to more than 200
cities and regions.
Meanwhile, Nansha port is
expected to become a sub-cen-
ter of Guangzhou and a mod-
ern logistics center. It has built
a series of special docks for
grains, crude oil, vehicles and
petrochemical products.
A cross-border duty-free shopping center in Nansha Pilot Free
Trade Zone in Guangzhou. XINHUA
Nansha port is
negotiating to
open more global
ocean routes in
the coming years
while expansion
of the port is well
underway.”
Pan Yuzhang, deputy director of
the Nansha Pilot Free Trade
Zone’s administrative committee
Last year, Nansha port’s car-
go throughput reached 335
million tons, while its contain-
er throughput came to more
than 14.06 million TEUs, mak-
ing it one of the largest ocean
ports in the world.
Nansha, which officially
became a pilot free trade zone
in April 2015, has promised to
further improve its infrastruc-
ture facilities and will simplify
procedures for both overseas
and domestic companies to
settle down there.
The zone has now attracted
more than 4,600 major for-
eign and domestic shipping
and logistics companies,
according to Pan.
Nansha’s Longxue Island,
where Guangzhou Shipping
International Company Ltd is
located, has become one of the
three biggest ship building
centers in China.
GSI, one of the major ship-
yards on the Chinese main-
land and a Shanghai Stock
Exchange-listed company,
has a production capacity of
more than 3.5 million DWT
annually.
The establishment of the
Nansha Pilot Free Trade Zone
has further promoted the eco-
nomic development of Nans-
ha and helped accelerate its
port construction.
According to official statis-
tics, Nansha’s GDP reached
139.2 billion yuan ($22.1 bil-
lion) last year, 22.5 times more
than the figure in 2002.
Its import and export vol-
ume came to 195.17 billion
yuan in 2017, 27.6 times more
than the figure in 2002 and
representing a fifth of
Guangzhou’s total.
Nansha attracted an actual
foreign investment of $1.04
billion in 2017, 16 times more
than the amount in 2002 and
accounting for a sixth of the
city’s total.
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New phone targets gamers
360 believes mobile devices will play a
big role in coming internet of things era
By MA SI
masi@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s largest internet
security company 360 Security
Technology Inc unveiled a new
smartphone on Tuesday to tar-
get mobile gaming enthusi-
asts, part of the Beijing-based
company’s broader push to tap
into opportunities created by
the internet of things.
The move came shortly after
Chinese smartphone makers
including Xiaomi Corp made
an intensified push to develop
tailor-made gaming handsets,
a popular niche in the coun-
try’s cooling handset market.
The N7, unveiled on Tuesday
in Beijing, is equipped with a
full-display screen and a big
battery, which can offer a fast
and pleasant gaming environ-
ment, said Li Kaixin, president
of 360’s mobile phone unit.
Despite the fact that smart-
phone shipments are slowing
in China, the demand for
mobile-gaming handsets is
growing rapidly, Li said.
Priced from 1,699 yuan
($267), N7’s vision and sound
effects have been optimized
for Chuliuxiang, a mobile
game developed by NetEase
Inc. The new smartphone also
comes with virtual discount
gift bags that can be used in
the Chuliuxiang game, the
company said in a statement.
Last month, Blackshark, a
startup backed by Xiaomi to
specialize in mobile-gaming
smartphones, also unveiled its
first handset, with an operat-
ing system and hardware that
have both been optimized for
playing games. Another Chi-
nese smartphone vendor, Mei-
zu, also released a similar
smartphone last month.
The trend is happening as
China’s mobile gaming market
posted 116 billion yuan in reve-
nue last year, up 41.7 percent
year-on-year. The number of
mobile gaming users in China
hit 554 million, according to
Chinese market research com-
pany Gamelook.
Xiang Ligang, CEO of tele-
com industry website
cctime.com, said smartphone
shipments in China fell below
100 million in the first quarter
of this year, for the first time
since Q3 2013, citing data from
Li Kaixin, president of the mobile phone unit of 360 Security Technology Inc, unveils a new smart-
phone on Tuesday to target mobile gaming enthusiasts. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
the global market researcher
International Data Corp.
“Pressure mounts on Chi-
nese smartphone players.
Mobile-gaming handset is a
niche that they all want to win.
Smartphones are now power-
ful enough to offer gaming ...
experience as good as personal
computers,” Xiang said.
Unlike Chinese players that
are marching into the high-end
smartphone market, 360
focuses on phones that are
priced around 1,000 yuan. The
company entered into the mar-
ket just several years ago,
because Zhou Hongyi, chair-
man of 360, believes that
smartphones will play a central
role in controlling everything
in the era of internet of things.
“360 does not want to make
money from smartphones. It
aims to lure as many users as
possible with affordable devi-
ces, so that it can build a
smartphone-centered ecosys-
tem for the internet of things,”
Xiang added.
Paulson Institute to
support growth of
green finance market
By ZHENG XIN
zhengxin@chinadaily.com.cn
The Paulson Institute’s
green finance center will
support China’s develop-
ment of a robust green
finance market with market-
based solutions.
The center, led by Debo-
rah Lehr, vice-chairman of
the Chicago-based think
tank and research institu-
tion, marks a major step in
the institute’s efforts to pro-
mote sustainable economic
growth and environmental
protection in China and the
United States, it said.
“The development of
green finance is a top priori-
ty for China and one that
aligns with the Paulson
Institute’s mission,” said
Paulson Institute Chairman
Henry M. Paulson, Jr on
Tuesday during a news con-
ference in Beijing.
“The Paulson Institute’s
green finance center will
work to help China achieve
low-carbon economic
growth, while strengthening
US-China financial and com-
mercial ties through pro-
moting transparent, rules-
based and market-oriented
solutions.”
according to the People’s
Bank of China, which means
innovative financial mecha-
nisms must be developed to
help attract the necessary
private sector financing to
reduce carbon emissions
and support environmental
protection.
China announced plans to
set up pilot zones for green
finance last June to support
its industrial upgrading and
antipollution campaign,
according to plans issued by
the People’s Bank of China.
“China has launched an
ambitious initiative to devel-
op a vibrant green finance
sector in a short period, and
its efforts are driving change
at home and abroad as coun-
tries seek innovative means
to finance their own efforts
in green development and to
mitigate climate change,”
Lehr said.
“Through promoting new
ideas and innovative mod-
els, the Paulson Institute
green finance center is dedi-
cated to working with our
partners in China and inter-
nationally to support a
vibrant international green
finance market.”
The center’s efforts will
build upon the Paulson Insti-

WuXi AppTec raises $902.62 million in Shanghai IPO
By ZHENG YIRAN
zhengyiran@chinadaily.com.cn
China’s leading global con-
tract research outsource pro-
vider WuXi AppTec,
successfully listed on the main
board of the Shanghai Stock
Exchange on Tuesday, mark-
ing the nation’s first unicorn
enterprise to get initial public
offering approval on the
A-share market.
WuXi AppTec raised 5.74 bil-
lion yuan ($902.62 million) in
the IPO. The company plans to
issue 104 million shares, tak-
ing up no less than 10 percent
of its total share capital, and
sell shares at 21.60 yuan each,
it said in its prospectus to the
Shanghai Stock Exchange. Its
closing price was 31.10 yuan
per share.
WuXi AppTec said it will use
the proceeds in its expansion
projects in Tianjin and Suz-
hou, Jiangsu province, and its
research and development
center at its operational head-
quarters in Shanghai.
The company launched its
IPO on the A-share market in
April, and took only 50 days to
pass its review. Market insid-
ers predict that WuXi AppTec’s
listing on the A-share market
will hopefully see its market
value exceed 100 billion yuan.
The company’s fast IPO
approval can be attributed to
the A-share market’s recent
2.14
billion yuan
WuXi AppTec’s sales
revenue in the first
quarter of 2018
favorable policies to unicorns.
Liu Jingkun, an analyst at
ChinaVenture Institute, said:
“Ever since 2017, the China
Securities Regulatory Com-
mission has accelerated its
process of IPO review ... and
that policy environment is
beneficial to WuXi AppTec.”
Chen Qiaoshan, senior med-
ical analyst at the internet con-
sultancy Analysys, said: “From
the privatization of US stocks
to the three-for-one share split
return to the domestic stock
market, WuXi AppTec is ade-
quately prepared, and is famil-
iar with the listing process.
This explains why it got IPO
approval in such a short peri-
od of time.
“The WuXi AppTec IPO will
be popular with investors
because it is the leading com-
pany of a contract research
organization, which includes
CRO, contract manufacturing
organization, and contract
development and manufac-
turing organization. The com-
pany has a complete industrial
chain.
“In addition, after the coun-
try levied no tariffs on import-
ed cancer-fighting medicines,
domestic drug enterprises will
be forced to update their tech-
nologies. Therefore, the
demand for R&D will increase,
which is a great opportunity
for CROs,” she said.
The company also
announced on its website that
its sales revenue in the first
quarter was 2.14 billion yuan,
growing 21 percent year-on-
year. Its net profit reached 291
million yuan, 14 percent lower
than the same period of last
year, due to increased finan-
cial expenses.
China is moving full speed
ahead to establish a green
financing mechanism to
support the economy’s tran-
sition to sustainable growth,
putting its full weight
behind green financing. As
environmental protection is
a key national strategic
objective for China, green
finance is an essential ele-
ment of achieving this goal.
Ma Jun, chief research
economist at the central
bank, estimated that the
costs of cleaning up China’s
environment and meeting
its commitment of achieving
peak carbon emissions by
around 2030 will amount to
over 3 trillion yuan ($450
billion) annually.
Public sector financing
can only cover about 15 per-
cent of the estimated costs
tute’s current green finance
program, which has devel-
oped partnerships with lead-
ing Chinese and
international organizations
to promote thought leader-
ship, test new ideas, and
develop innovative means of
financing green develop-
ment.
Key international stake-
holders with which the
Green Finance Center will
work closely include the Chi-
na Green Finance Commit-
tee, Tsinghua National
Institute of Financial
Research and its interna-
tional partners, the UN Envi-
ronment Program, the
Securities Industry and
Financial Markets Associa-
tion, the Institute of Interna-
tional Finance, and the
Sustainable Digital Alliance.

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YOUTH
CHINA DAILY » CHINADAILY.COM.CN/LIFE
Youngsters between the
ages of 9 and 16 take part in
the training and selection
camp to serve at the 2018
China Open.
A program training ball boys and girls leads some to work in major international tennis competitions.
T
hey were training to
compete with tennis
balls — but not to play
tennis, per se.
Instead, the 20 kids were par-
ticipating in the Beijing region’s
training and selection camp for
ball boys, the best of whom will go
on to work at the 2018 China
Open.
Guo Shanqing has returned
after failing to make the cut last
year.
The 12-year-old, who has
played tennis since age 6, was
determined to pass after training
for about an hour-and-a-half
every day during the past year.
He’s among 11 finalists from the
Beijing region selected from
among 200 participants aged 9 to
16.
Guo will attend the summer
camp to further train in July to
compete for a spot at the China
Open in October.
“I’ve watched the China Open
in person many times,” he says.
“The players are so fierce. I
have a long way to go to become a
professional player like them.”
This is the seventh year of the
selection program and the second
year of the training camps.
The program director Han
Mengwei says more games have
been added to teach participants
more about tennis.
EYE ON THE BALL
Li Yingxue reports.
“We only did interviews and
tests last year,” she says.
“This time, we first ensured
they enjoy tennis. Then, we
selected candidates suitable for
our program.”
This year’s selection extends to
10 cities, including Shanghai,
Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Each
city will shortlist 280 children
and then pick the top 5 percent to
attend summer camps.
“We’re looking for kids who
serve others and stay focused,”
Han says.
“The job is both dynamic and
static. It’s a process of learning to
serve players without talking.
And each working session lasts 45
minutes.”
Han took six youngsters from
the 2017 China Open to work at
the Australia Open in January.
Some 180 will be selected to
serve at this year’s China Open.
Six will get the chance to work at
the 2019 Australia Open, and four
can serve at the French Open next
year.
“Those who’ve gone to Austra-
lia took care of themselves and
made many friends from other
countries,” Han says.
“The China Open connects all
of them. It provides them a com-
munity of friends and tennis.”
They must “retire” at age 16.
“Some are already in college
and come to help during the Chi-
na Open,” Han says.
Some work as trainers at the
camps.
She says their experiences at
the international opens have
helped some to stand out when
applying to study overseas.
Wei Daipeng worked in the
Australia Open for the first time
this year.
The 14-year-old was chosen
with five other candidates from
the China Open, where he has
served for six years.
“Every day in Australia was
unforgettable. I learned a lot and
made many new friends,” Wei
recalls.
“I want to continue until I have
to ‘retire’. And I want to have a job
related to tennis when I grow up.”
Wei and others came to volun-
teer at the training camp once
they heard about it.
“It’s also a good chance to
reunite with my friends. So, we
come.”
China Open CEO Duan Gang
understands the value of the job
since his son has served as one at
the China Open for two years
since 2012.
“He refused to be a junior
Top: Kong Fanyue (second from left), 14, serve at the final of 2018 reporter to cover the China
Australian Open. Above: Youngsters who served at the China Open in Open,” Duan says.
2017 are selected to work at the 2018 Australian Open. “He said the job provides a ser-
PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY vice, even if it’s not creative. I
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
I have a long way
to go to become a
professional player
like them.”
Guo Shanqing, 12, tennis player
and candidate ball boy for the
2018 China Open
could tell he grew through the
experience.
“We want more Chinese youth
to become interested in tennis.
And the job is important to pro-
moting the China Open.”
The China Open also organizes
a “little painter” program, and
provides tennis courts and equip-
ment to schools in Beijing.
“We also hire professionals to
consult for their education plans
during the camp. And we plan to
provide training about sports
safety,” Duan says.
Indeed, the program shows the
ball boy experience is about much
more than merely retrieving and
providing tennis balls.
Contact the writer at
liyingxue@chinadaily.com.cn
18 YOUTH | Campus
WAYS TO TACKLE WASTE
A competition among university students produces garbage-disposal innovations. China Daily reports.
T
hey’re competing to
become “CEOs” —
that is, “chief envi-
ronmental officers”.
About three-dozen students
were rehearsing pitches under
their breath and cradling
packages of plastic bottles as
they prepared to present in a
Beijing Forestry University
auditorium on March 23.
They were members of the
10 finalist teams of the 2017
national “In with the Trash”
contest that encourages uni-
versity students to devise crea-
tive ways to reduce waste.
More than 1,400 teams from
50 Chinese universities have
participated since last Sep-
tember. The students devel-
oped solutions using
technology, design and educa-
tion.
“We hope the youth can
motivate people around them
to become eco-conscious and
environmentally responsible
after this competition,” says
China Foundation for Poverty
Alleviation project manager
Jin Shuyu.
The foundation and global
food-products manufacturer
Mars co-sponsored the event.
The 10 finalists’ proposals
focus on recycling, reusing
and waste sorting.
Innovations
A student team from
Chendgu’s Southwest Jiao-
tong University is using bio-
technology to process kitchen
waste. Fermenting fruit and
vegetable matter with brown
sugar and water produces an
enzyme that functions as an
eco-friendly detergent. The
team shortened the process
from three months to eight
days in March 2017.
“We read studies on how
microorganisms can acceler-
ate enzyme production,”
21-year-old biology major Tian
Jiazi says.
“So, we decided to test it in
the lab.”
The group has handed out
about 850 samples of the
detergent to residential com-
munities over the past year,
20-year-old team leader Liu
Xiaowen says.
They also installed two
processing centers in two
neighborhoods with a com-
bined population of about
2,000 in February.
The team provided equip-
ment and materials, such as 10
20-liter fermentation buckets,
brown sugar and pre-meas-
ured doses of microbes.
Residents are encouraged to
trade their food waste for
detergent. Nearly 100 house-
holds have done so far, Liu
says.
But Tian says the so-called
eco-enzyme is “not all-power-
ful”. However, introducing it to
households can at least teach
people about separating their
kitchen waste from other
trash.
Sorting reduces urban solid-
Greek drama Salvatores Dei expresses its author Nikos Kazantzak-
is’ anguish about overcoming the borders of the mind and to
resolve the mystery of existence. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
We hope the youth
can motivate
people around
them to become
eco-conscious and
environmentally
responsible after
this competition.”
Jin Shuyu, project manager of
China Foundation for Poverty
Alleviation
waste incineration’s toxic
emissions, a 2007 Zhejiang
University study says.
Kitchen waste comprises an
estimated 60 percent of urban
solid waste in China, com-
pared with 25 percent in the
United States, Tsinghua Uni-
versity School of Environment
professor Liu Jianguo says.
China’s urban solid waste is
typically treated by landfills
and incineration, Ministry of
Housing and Urban-Rural
Development data show.
Composting is eco-friendly
but often not viable in densely
populated cities like Beijing
and Shanghai.
US households often install
garbage-disposal units in
their sinks that shred food
waste into pieces small
enough to run through the
sewer system.
Such units need to be tested
before they could perhaps be
widely used in China because
of the capabilities of the coun-
try’s sewers and the fact Chi-
nese food is often greasier
than US fare, Liu believes.
Liu encourages every house-
hold to filter out the liquid
before discarding kitchen
waste.
“Getting rid of the fluids
reduces waste and minimizes
contamination during incin-
eration,” he explains.
Rethinking packaging
Three China University of
Mining and Technology soph-
omores are seeking to rede-
sign consumer goods’
packaging to promote reuse.
They are applying double-
sided tape to packages’ open-
ing ends so people who buy
products can reuse the bags as
garbage sacks.
“Even if it’s reused only
once, that’s still one more
trash bag we don’t have to
manufacture and throw away,”
22-year-old team leader Duan
Haodi says.
Duan’s team believes pack-
aging has advertising value
and can convey environmen-
tal messages.
“We use packaged consum-
er goods every day,” Duan says.
“We can use packages’ mar-
keting power to cultivate eco-
friendly habits among
consumers.”
The team also hopes to
establish an eco-alliance of
consumer-goods companies
that use the “OK bag”. The
more companies and brands
Greeks come bearing literary gifts
By CHEN NAN
chennan@chinadaily.com.cn
The National Theatre of
Northern Greece will make its
Chinese debut with its theatrical
production version of Salvator-
es Dei (Saviours of God), based
on Greek author Nikos Kazan-
tzakis’ book of the same name.
Directed by Andreas Kout-
sourelis, the production will
be staged at Mong Man Wai
Concert Hall at Tsinghua Uni-
versity in Beijing on May 10
and 11. The show will be per-
formed with both English and
Chinese subtitles.
The upcoming show in the
capital is part of the ongoing
18th Meet in Beijing Arts Festi-
val, the city’s largest annual
festival, which celebrates
dance, music, drama and art.
The event is attended by near-
ly 800 artists from 44 perform-
ing arts groups which hail
from 19 countries and regions.
According to Maria Tsima,
that join, the more people will
be accustomed to reuse, Duan
adds.
The team has yet to reach
out to companies to promote
their design.
Many businesses have tried
to make packaging more envi-
ronmentally friendly.
deputy director of National
Theatre of Northern Greece,
the show premiered in Thessa-
loniki, Greece, in January 2017,
as part of the “Kazantzakis
Year” celebrations, dedicated
to the work of the writer, wide-
ly considered to be a giant of
Greek literature.
Since then, it has toured all
over Greece, being performed
in ancient amphitheaters as
well as upon contemporary
theater stages, where more
than 40 shows have been
enjoyed by as many as 12,000
people.
Salvatores Dei, published in
1927, is a series of essays,
which is divided into six parts:
Prologue, The Preparation,
The March, The Vision, The
Action and The Silence.
“Andreas Koutsourelis was
inspired by the significant
philosophical work of Kazan-
tzakis and strongly believed
that it should be made known
to a wider audience,” explains
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late-lined coffee cups in select
UK restaurants in 2015. And
Chinese start-up Yiside devel-
oped a new express-delivery
box that’s easier to recycle
because it minimizes tape and
plastic use.
Research shows consumers
Tsima. “Although the work is
not a theatrical play, it is a text
rich in meanings that express
the metaphysical faith of the
great writer.
“Kazantzakis himself
argued that the whole work is
an expression of his anguish to
overcome the borders of the
mind and to solve the mystery
of existence,” she continues.
“The Greek drama pre-
serves and unveils very old
myths, archetypical human
behaviors, truths and secrets
of existing in a community
with others and facing what is
beyond human power: fate.
“These plays have survived
through the centuries, have
inspired artists all over the
world and still touch audien-
ces, because they present
important ideas in the most
simple way, unaffected by
time, culture or fashion,” Tsi-
ma observes.
Kazantzakis was nominated
for the Nobel Prize in litera-
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 CHINA DAILY
Clockwise from top: Commu-
nity residents in Chengdu fer-
ment kitchen waste at a
processing center set up by stu-
dents from Southwest Jiaotong
University. A student from the
Southwest Jiaotong University
team shows people how to fer-
ment kitchen waste. Students
from the China University of
Mining and Technology show-
case an “OK bag” for recycling
goods. Duan Haodi demon-
strates the use of the OK bag at
the Grand Final of the 2017
national “in with the trash”
contest.
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prefer green packaging.
A 2008 study by the Helsin-
ki School of Economics shows
one-third of 330 beverage con-
sumers surveyed favor envi-
ronmentally labeled
packaging over other attrib-
utes when making purchasing
decisions.
ture in nine different years. In
1935, he visited China for the
first time as a journalist. He
returned for a second visit in
1957 shortly before he died on
October 26 that same year in
Freiburg, Germany.
According to Luo Tong, a
translator and scholar of
Greek literature who was
based in Athens and moved
back to China in 2017, the stag-
ing of the play is a major
watershed for Greek theater in
China.
“As far as I know, this is the
first time that a theatrical pro-
duction based on Kazantzakis’
work is to be staged in China,”
says Luo.
A love of Greek literature
runs in Luo’s family. His father,
Luo Jinlin, 80, graduated from
the Central Academy of Dra-
ma in Beijing in 1961, and has
been researching ancient
Greek plays and adapting
them into Chinese since the
1980s. He adds that Greek dra-
Pilot projects
Five Xiamen University
environmental science majors
devised a system that edu-
cates, assists and supervises
students’ waste sorting that’s
inspired by an environmental
campaign that Xiamen’s
municipal government initiat-
ed last year.
They piloted the project in a
dorm building a year ago.
Team members knocked on
all 60 rooms’ doors to hand
out eco-packages that contain
a woven sack for recyclables,
an adhesive hook for hanging
it, a kitchen-waste trashcan
and a flyer about waste sort-
ing.
Team member Qiao Biting
insists on persuading students
in person to use different con-
tainers for different waste.
“It’s the simplest and most
effective way,” the 21-year-old
says.
“Inertia is a part of human
nature. Cultivating good hab-
its is a long process.”
Qiao and her teammates
placed seven trash containers
for categories ranging from
paper to toxic waste.
The containers are printed
with emojis and conversation
bubbles that encourage people
to sort their trash into the cor-
rect bins.
The “recyclables” emoji is a
smiley face with dollar signs
for eyes. The word bubble
beside it reads, “Trade me for
money!”
Team members volunteer to
monitor the containers three
hours a week to ensure they’re
used properly.
Dorm resident Cai Zhiyi
says: “It has improved our liv-
ing standards.”
He believes it has helped
eliminate cockroaches in his
room and means garbage col-
lectors no longer have to
sometimes literally “dive” into
their work.
The system has expanded
to seven buildings that house
nearly 2,000 students in total.
The team’s new goal is to
implement the project in all
66 dorm buildings on Xiamen
University’s Xiang’an cam-
pus.
“Xiamen University may
become one of the leading uni-
versities worldwide in waste
sorting if they fully adopt the
system,” says Mao Da, policy
consultant of the NGO China
Zero Waste Alliance.
Mao, who’s a competition
judge, appreciates the meth-
od’s educational value. He
recommends implementing
it across universities in Chi-
na.
Indeed, it seems the compe-
tition’s contestants are at least
stabbing in the right direction
and may carve out cutting-
edge waste-disposal innova-
tions worth preserving and
promoting.
Liu Yinglun contributed to
the story.
It is a text rich in
meanings that
express the meta-
physical faith of
the great writer.”
Maria Tsima, deputy director of
National Theatre of Northern
Greece
ma is rarely staged in China
and the translation of such
plays also needs to be devel-
oped in the country.
Luo Jinlin’s father, the late
Luo Niansheng, who studied
in the United States and at the
American School of Classical
Studies in Athens, started
translating ancient Greek lit-
erature in 1933.
 CHINA DAILY Wednesday, May 9, 2018
BELIEVE
IN THE
ISLAND VIBE
Award-winning Caribbean singer,
Julien Believe, brings Bahamian
beats to Beijing with the
world-debut of his new single
at the Meet in Beijing Arts
Festival. Cheng Yuezhu reports.
“T
wo to the left.
Two to the right.
Jump and
wine.” Bahami-
an singer Julien Believe livens
up the ballroom by teaching
the audience his unique dance
moves, turning his solo per-
formance into a live music
extravaganza.
Julien Thompson, known
professionally as Julien
Believe, is an award-winning
Bahamian singer, songwriter
and producer who recently
Video app Douyin denies Peppa Pig ban
By CHENG YUEZHU
chengyuezhu@chinadaily.com.cn
Representatives from video
sharing app Douyin says the
company has not banned the
British animation Peppa Pig,
according to the National
Business Daily and China
National Radio.
A form allegedly posted by
Douyin’s community regula-
tions that is circulating on the
internet lists British children’s
TV animation character Peppa
Pig as a “banned element”,
along with “banned songs”,
“pornographic and vulgar
behaviors”, “illegal or regula-
tion-violating behaviors” and
“discomforting behaviors”.
made his Beijing
debut.
Believe performed at
the Caribbean Music Fes-
tival, part of the Meet in
Beijing Arts Festival, on May
2, and at a Bahamian-themed
cocktail party at the Rosewood
Beijing hotel on April 27.
“My goal is to show China a
little bit more of what the
Bahamas has to offer musical-
ly,” Believe says. “I’m just ena-
bling the audience to get
immersed in the Bahamian
A Douyin user then posted
a message from the Douyin
app, which said that a video
posted on April 21 containing
Peppa Pig was banned from
playing, because it “violates
the community regulations
and has not passed censor-
ship”.
On May 2, the National
Business Daily released a
report, saying that a Douyin
insider denied there was a ban
on the animation and said the
alleged community regula-
tions form was false.
According to the insider,
“Douyin has made community
regulations according to the
relevant laws and regulations,
and hopes that everybody will
maintain and follow the
benign community regula-
tions. However, the specific
regulations cannot be dis-
closed.”
A China National Radio
report on May 5 also said that
the app had not banned Peppa
Pig.
The negative implications
of Peppa Pig come from its
association with “shehuiren”,
which literally means “socie-
ty people”, but has become a
buzzword on Chinese social
media for riffraff or hooli-
gans. This association was
reinforced by a viral meme
that rhymed “Tattoos on Pep-
pa, claps for society fella”.
The expression was first
used in a derogatory context,
teasing a group of users on
video sharing apps, including
Kuaishou and Douyin, who
showed off their tattoos and
dance moves as a symbol of
rebellion and gangsterism.
Later, as celebrities began to
wear fashion items inspired by
Peppa Pig, an increasing num-
ber of people began to wear
clothes and tattoo stickers
themed on the animation —
while referring to themselves
as “society people” in a self-
deprecating way.
Although the number of
videos featuring Peppa Pig
has been drastically reduced,
Douyin search results on May
7 showed that it was more
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likely that the term “society
people” has been banned
rather than the animated
series itself. The app provided
2,169 results in a search for
Xiaozhu Peiqi (Peppa Pig),
and zero results in a search
for shehuiren.
“Peppa Pig as a cartoon does
not have any problem in its
content”, says He Tianping, the
executive editor-in-chief of
Review, a magazine published
by the State Administration of
Radio and Television.
“The values, family values
and emotions it conveys are all
positive.”
The banning incident is cen-
tered around derivative videos
of Peppa Pig, which echoes
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culture and showcasing who I
really am.”
The music he performs is
“Junkanoo Pop” which origi-
nated from the regional Carib-
bean Junkanoo and Soca
forms of music. Believe has
infused the traditional music
style with pop music to create
what he refers to as “interna-
tional Junkanoo music”.
At the Rosewood Beijing,
Believe debuted his new sin-
gle Jump and Wine along-
side Angelique Sabrina,
also a Caribbean singer
and performer.
Having grown up in
the Bahamas togeth-
er, Sabrina sees
Believe as a big
brother, as well as
a writing part-
ner and men-
tor. “We have
had a really
collaborative
relationship.
His voice is
super soulful
and he has a lot
of emotion.”
A remix of his
single Caribbean
Slide, which won
him the Bahamian
Icon Award for most
popular song in 2014,
Jump and Wine is a track
off Believe’s new album.
“It took me about two years
to come up with my album,” he
explains. “Now that it is ready,
I came back here so China
could be the first place to hear
this music before the rest of
the world.”
The original song, Caribbean
Slide, was also performed dur-
ing Believe’s first visit to China
two years ago, at the 2015 Miss
World Pageant held in Sanya,
Hainan province, where he
introduced his Junkanoo Pop to
a thousands-strong live audi-
ence and millions of viewers on
TV.
Images from the British animation Peppa Pig decorate a car shown
at an auto expo in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in April.
WANG LUXIAN / FOR CHINA DAILY
with the administration docu-
ment about regulating online
programs released in March.
The document stipulated that
it is prohibited to re-edit,
Believe found many similar-
ities between the Bahamas
and the city of Sanya, which
share a similar tropical envi-
ronment and idyllic lifestyle.
“Sanya almost felt like home,
with the same food and the
coconuts. I just had a grand
time and I loved it,” Believe
says.
Believe also identifies similari-
ties between the music of his
native Bahamas and that of Chi-
na. “Caribbean music is very
happy, very free. Chinese music
has that same vibe. In Chinese
music, you hear the sentiments
of Caribbean culture.”
Inspired by this, Believe says
that he wants to collaborate
with talented Chinese musi-
cians on future projects. “My
goal is to take the Junkanoo
music and fuse it with Chinese
music and create something
even cooler to share with the
rest of the world.”
Believe’s visit is supported
by the Embassy of the Baha-
mas in China.
“Music transcends many
traditional barriers to commu-
nication and friendship, there-
fore it is an excellent medium
to conduct cultural diploma-
cy,” counselor of the embassy,
Julie Campbell, says.
Believe also sees this visit as
a valuable opportunity for cul-
tural exchange. “The Bahamas
and China have a really great
relationship right now, so to be
one of the first to be able to col-
laborate on that level means a
whole lot to me.”
Right now, though, Believe
is concentrating on providing
an entertaining experience for
his Beijing audiences. “Music
is the universal language. If
you love music, and you want
to enjoy yourself, you will
appreciate what I do.”
Contact the writer at
chengyuezhu@
chinadaily.com.cn
re-dub or re-subtitle classic
works, radio and video pro-
grams and online original vid-
eo programs without
permission.
20 YO U TH | Bilingual Wednesday, May 9, 2018 C H I N A DA I LY

6 EASY WAYS YOU CAN BECOME

A GENUINELY BETTER PERSON
By SUSIE MOORE

I’ve learned that to live your best life, you always have
to work on improving yourself. This includes expanding
your comfort zone, living in alignment with the real you
and taking care of yourself first. Many of us strive to be
better people each day, month, year — and the good news
is that this entire process begins and ends with us.
And it can begin at any moment. Here’s how to be a
better person to yourself and those around you:

1. Be compassionate
This starts with self-compassion. Do you ever notice
that our role models tend to take good care of No 1?
⢸ბ䯫ᒀ喟䔆ψࢂ䃺喑㠞ప
Why is that? It’s because when you talk to yourself
harshly, reprimand yourself for every small thing you do ⢸ბ᜽অ̭͗䘪̺㘪䄡喆
wrong, and don’t take care of yourself in small ways —
like getting enough sleep and making time to refuel your ͚పᬒ្ࣹ䄚᫝䬨
batteries — you’re not going to be a force for good in the
world for anyone. ф᝭কⴒ喑㠞ప⢸ბ⮱̓⩹হ็᪝ᮛ䕇ϧ⮱̓⩹᭜᝗♣̺ह⮱ȡЃ
Some great ways to immediately practice compassion
include allowing yourself to not be perfect at the office
(it’s a losing game anyway); focusing on what you love
‫ښ‬᲎キࢂᭀ㵹⮱᫦∂喑 Й̭‫⩌ܧ‬ᅞक़Ɑ䛾↑ࡆ喑̭䒵ၽ⩌≨ౕჹͪയ⮴⮱ი⃬喑౽᠒᪝̺
ᅪ⮱㢐ࡻჹ䉢ȡ
about yourself, like your quirky sense of humor, instead
of wasting energy hating on your perceived flaws; and
periodically doing nice things for yourself — like spend-
䃖ҍ᜽ͧᰡສ⮱ϧ ѳ䔆ψ⢸‫ڙ‬䉢᫼⮱ᬒၽज㘪Ꭳ⇎ᰶҍᘠᓄ䗐͵㜿᰺喑㜠ᄾ㼭㵹ͫ
₏̺㘪䮼ᓰ᝭ ȡ
ing time with people who lift you higher. ᜾ⴒ䖀喑㺮ᘠ≨‫ܧ‬ϧ⩌ᰭҠ⟣ᔮ喑
When you decide to be more magnanimous to yourself ᅞ㺮ᬣ‫ݨ‬᣽ࡴ㜗ጞȡ䔆࠲᠙ព๔᜾Й⮱ ⹫чϧㆨ႓უ‫➦ܜ‬e⺼‫ٸ‬᫜ᄦ㠞ప ᬍ፛ߖȡ
and to others, life changes in an instant. ᱙⃢⮱㔨䃾ᰶ຃ᒮ䯳͚
The Royals don’t wear perfume.
㜿䔯ࡧ喑ᔍλⱌ჋⮱㜗᜾喑Вࣷх‫⚔ٵ‬ ⢸ბ⩕䄚΍ᘜ䔈㵹γⵁ⾣ȡ຦ࣾ⣝喑
䶫ສ㜗ጞȡᒵ็ϧᬍᬣᬍ‫߈ߗౕ̺ݨ‬և ਗᕂग᭜ౕᣗ䓋̷喑⢸ბ᜽অΌᰶ They wear scent.
2. Know your values
͗ᰡສ⮱ϧÿÿສ⊵ᖜ᭜喑᪡͗䓴⼸໸ ᒵ็䃟⾣͸ั喑হᮛ䕇ϧ⮱΍ᘜ๔ ЃЙ̺ч⩕Ąperfumeą喑㔹᭜
Understanding what you most value means appreciat-
ing and prioritizing your core beliefs. λҍ喑Ό㏵λҍȡ ̺Ⱕहȡ ⩕Ąscentą㶕⹧ᨓ仆Ⅱȡ
If you value community and local politics but spend 
ᴂҵ̵̡ ‫ڤ‬ҀᲒ䄡喑ຠ⢸༮᏶Ƞ‫➦ܜ‬ぶ⢸ბ
every weekend switched off and bingeing on Netflix, this 㔹ႰजВ䮼ᬣᐭ໸ȡ̸䲏‫◦܍‬ᅞ᭜ ᜽অ᭜㐊ᄦ̺чҬ⩕̸䲏䔆ψࢂ䃺 04 tea
௹ᯀ
might mean that you are not honoring who you really are. ॷ䃶ҍহҍ䏘䓦⮱ϧ喑ຯ҂᜽ͧᰡສ⮱ ̭ऒ઱ᘼ⮱䄊ᝃ̭͗‫⮱ܴڠ‬ះᦥ ⮱ȡ

My personal values include helping people believe ϧ喟 㘪ϔ⩌̺जᕊ䃛⮱⮱ᒞ৺ȡᄼᬣՆ喑᜾ According to Kate Fox, one sure-
in possibility and in themselves, making a meaningful 䒙႓ᒵ็⁎喑ᕨ᭜䲋፥რᕂ喍ᙌ㻶᫝႓ fire way of outing yourself as being
contribution as a coach and writer, investing daily in the 01 pardon ࠫˀᡑ

దՏৱॷ ᵎࣵ๔ࣵ䭹⩌喆喎喑ᬣ፥㉔ᑍ喑̺㜗Ԏȡ decidedly un-royal is to refer to your
quality of my marriage, being kind to everyone I meet, evening meal as “tea”.
and seeing the beautiful world that we get to inhabit. ̭⁎喑㔮ጵᦥⱭ᜾⮱๡喑ᓛ〾ౝ䄡喑Ą‫ݘ‬ We’d always thought “pardon” was
仃‫ٵ‬㺮㜗᜾हᗲȡҍ᭜॓∕ᘼ‫ݝ‬喑 ᢛ‫➦ܜ‬e⺼‫ٸ‬᫜⼝喑ຯ᳉ҍ⩕ĄUFBą
៲ᓰÿÿҍহ᜾Й̭䊤чᒵᐭᓰ⮱ąȡ more polite than the alternatives.
᜾Й⮱Ấ὎ᒭᒭчិ㜗ጞ⚔䶫ᓄᒵສ喤 䔆͗ࢂ䃺㶕⹧ᮇ丽喑䗐͵ᬍ⪾᭜ౕ
3. Be open 䔆䄊᜾㜠Ϸ䃝ᓳ⟦᫝ȡ Ⱕ℁͸̸喑᜾Й̭Ⱑ䃑ͧĄpardon
Open, flexible minds allow you to live your best life and აጰҍ㐊̺᭜⢸ბ᜽অȡ
ͧϭ͵ч 䔆 ᵤ喤఍ͧᒀҍ 㠈 䉐㜗 喍ᄦ̺䊤喎ą᭜̭⻺℁䒰⹩䆹⮱䄡
receive a lot of good things. This means being nonjudg- ҍ䄡 䓴 呀 ߞ‫ݘ‬ϧ⮱ 䄊ॄ喑ᰶ䓴 呀
ጞ喑ͧև䩆⮱⃼Уᄼθ䉐䯫㜗ጞ喑ౕᒵ ∂ȡ If you do want to convince her you’re
mental, noncritical and accepting of other people and ߞ⮱ᓛ〾ᝃះᦥॄ喤ᄦ๔็᪝ϧᲒ䄡喑
events. Buddhists talk about it as nonresistance — not ็ᄼ⮱᫦䲏䘪⚔䶫̺ສ㜗ጞᬣÿÿ℁ blue blooded, invite the Queen
䔆ज㘪᭜㏳ᄼ‫ݝ‬ᓛ̺जᄌ⮱㵹ͧȡѳ̺ Not being royal, however, we were
judging anything that occurs (yes, even your boss swiping ຯԊ䃮Ⲏⱍ喑⪆‫ܧ‬ᬣ䬡㐆㜗ጞ‫⩢ٲ‬ÿÿ around for “dinner” or “supper”.
㺮ѻѝႰȡ᜾Йౕ⩌প⮱᳽͗䭣⃢䘪ч wrong.
the credit for your idea). ҍᅞ̺чౕШ҂ϧ⮱⩌≨䛹ϔ⩌⼜Ხ ຯ᳉ҍᘠ䃖ຠ⢸ⰥԎҍ‫ܧ‬䏘䉢᫼喑
䕴 ‫ݝ‬ఝ䯫ćć̭ ͗઱ᘼ⮱Ⱪ⺋㘪䃖 ϧ ♣㔹喑᜾Й䩆γȡᄦλ⢸ბᲒ䄡Ꭳ䲋
⮱ᒞ৺ȡ 䗐͵䖭䄤຦‫ڞ‬䔈ᮇ丽ᬣ⩕Ądinnerą
Openness, acceptance and a willingness to be in the 䨚䃝  ็Ꭱȡ ຯₑȡ ᝃ㔲Ąsupperąȡ
moment and allow external things to just be, feels like 㘪์⿸‫ݨ‬ᆂ⣝हᗲᓰ⮱ສ᫦∂喑࠲
the best emotion of all — peace.  ‫ેڲ‬҂अ
᠙‫ٮ‬䃥㜗ጞౕጒ҉͚㶕⣝ᓄ̺Ⴙ㒻喍ࣺ “Pardon” is forbidden to use. 05 lounge
ࠇԊ
ₐ䗐᭜౧䊏̺γ⮱℁䊈喎喠‫∕ڠ‬ҍૉ⁏ ₐ Ⱑ ᅞ ᭜ ᜾Й⮱ᕊ ᘠȠ㼭䄚হ㵹 “Pardon” ᭜⺮⩕䃺ȡ
4. Be encouraging
It’s incredible what a kind word or touch can do. When 㜗ጞ⮱ౝ᫦喑℁ຯऑᕗ⮱Ꭺ吅ᙌ喑㔹̺ ߕ㺮㐌̭ȡ։̸Გᘠ̸̭ććҍ᭜䔆ᵤ The palaces have many rooms, but
Instead, if you haven’t heard what not one of them is a lounge, nor a
I was a kid, I went to a lot of schools. It was always scary ᭜⊗䉦㇫߈ᚻᖣ㜗Вͧᰶ⮱㑧◦喠ᬣ̺ ॄ喤ҍ̭ 㝙 ч㼭‫ܧ‬ᓲ 㵹 ॄ喤᜾ Й ᒵ ็ the Duke of Edinburgh has just said living room.
(a new school feels so big and unfamiliar!) and I was con- ᬣౝͧ㜗ጞևψສθÿÿ℁ຯ㟞ψᬣ ϧ䘪և̺‫ݝ‬ÿÿ㜠ᄾౕ᜾Й⩌প͚⮱ to you, you should say “sorry?” or
stantly nervous and unsure of myself. One time, a teacher 䬡হ㘪᣽ࡴ㜗ጞ⮱ϧᒲౕ̭䊤ȡ ⢸ი䛹ᰶ䃥็ᝬ䬡喑ѳ᭜⇎ᰶ̭䬡
᳽ψᬣՆȡ䔆ᅞ᭜ͧϭ͵ᒀҍ᭜ ̭ ͗ even “sorry, what?”
touched my head and said, smiling, “Don’t worry — you’ll ᝬघևĄlounge喍჏ࢲ喎ąᝃĄliving
have a lot of fun with us in this room.” I still remember it. ᠮ͸Вᕿ⮱ϧᬣ喑
ҍ̺ϲч᣽ࡴ㜗Ԏ喑 ຯ᳉ҍ⇎ख़⌲❞̮ൎ‫❢ڙ‬㤟‫ݖ‬ᮛϟ
ᒀҍ۠Ⴧᄦ㜗ጞহЃϧᰡცႼ๔ roomąȡ
What encouraging word, smile, or touch can you give 㔹́Όч᜽ͧЃ ϧ⮱Ấ ὎ȡ䔆 কҍ 㘪 ⢸ᄦҍ䄡⮱䄊喑ҍᏁ䄒⩕Ąsorry?ą
䛼ᬣ喑⩌≨ᅞч侙̷ࣾ⩌अࡃȡ
someone? This can be a small, subtle, almost unnotice- ಇ ᠮ Ⴙ ᜽ਗ ψθ ÿÿ ក̭ ͗⩢䄊喑㏓ ᝃĄsorry, what?ąᲒАᰬĄpardonąȡ This isn’t because the Royals aren’t
able gesture to most people. Don’t underestimate it. We’re 
ᝣຍᒭࣂᄊ͉ϙ᜺ ᰸ ࣸ ૊ৃ ઎喑ևҍ̭Ⱑ ᘠև ⮱ ᳽ 䶦 ⵁ permitted a space to watch Hollyo-
all going through something difficult in some area of our ⾣喤 02 toilet
Ԑਫ਼ aks or play Cards Against Humanity.
lives… and a wink of kindness can be remembered for ᐱ⌲㜗ጞᰭⰸ䛺ϭ͵喑ᘼঠⱭ⤳㼐
over 30 years. 䔆Կ̺᭜఍ͧ⢸ბ᜽অ⇎ᰶౝ᫦ⰸ
ҍ⮱ᵥᓰԎᔢ喑Ꭳᄳ‫ڣ‬㒛λх‫ٵ‬ౝѺȡ ᒀҍᰭ㏵Ⴙ᜽ᬣ喑
䗐⻺ᙌ㻶ສᲮγȡ The word “toilet” may be a more pal- 㗒⮯‫ޔ‬Ȩ౐ᾎ䩴ᄾᎡȩᝃ㔲⣖㏥❹
5. Follow through atable term than “bog” or “loo”, but ⍥᜼ȡ
ຯ᳉ҍⰸ䛺⹫ࡧহ᱙ౝᩬ⇨喑ѳࢡ  ˞̵̡ѹᤵ݉ᤜ it’s the latter which is used whenever
Integrity ensues when our thoughts, words and actions
are aligned. Pause for a second and think… are yours? Do ⃼͗ক᱘䘪∎ౕ㑾下㑾‫̷ޔ‬喑䗐͵ᅞᘼ a member of the House of Windsor
᜽ͧᰡສ⮱ϧ⮱㏵Ხ᫦∂ᅞ᭜ࣨ Instead, it’s because they retire to
you generally do what you say you’re going to do? Many of ঠⱭҍ⇎ᰶᄷ䛺ⱌₐ⮱㜗ጞȡ needs to relieve themselves. either a “drawing room” or “sitting
᰺ߎ ÿÿ̺䰭㺮ևϭ͵䒝䒝◵◵⮱๔
us don’t — at least in some parts of our lives. That’s why ̻ĄbogąȠ ĄlooąⰥ℁喑 Ątoiletą⩕ room”.
when you’re a follow-through-er, you’re not only fueling ᜾⮱Фթ㻯࠲᠙፛ߖ‫ݘ‬ϧಇԎ̭ θȡ᜾হ໽໽ᄼᬣՆ喑᜾ີີ⇎ᰶ䒓喑
Გ㶕⹧ࣂ᝭ᝃ䃥᭜̭⻺℁䒰⹩䆹⮱ 㔹᭜఍ͧЃЙᄳоᖜ⮱ౝ᫦⼝
your self-confidence, you actually become a role model ܴ⮳ᰶज㘪ᎣⰥԎ㜗ጞ喠҉ͧᄩጵহ҉ ᜾Йࣨ႓ᵎ㺮䊝  ܳ䧌喍ౕ㠞ప⮱็
䄡∂ȡѳ⍖㢻უ᫼䰭㺮᫦ӬᬣҬ⩕ ͧĄdrawing room 喍оᖜბ喎ą
for others too. What can you follow through on this week უև‫ܧ‬ᰶᘼͶ⮱䉎⡛喑⃼๖䘪ສສ㏼㥒 䰕๖⅁䛹喑⃼๖ᒭ䔁႓ᵎ⮱䪬䪬䌜䕁ч
⮱᭜Ąlooą䔆͗ࢂ䃺ȡ ᝃĄsitting roomąȡ
— a phone call, a coffee meeting, some research you’ve ᜾⮱྇༨喠઱ᒲ䕴‫͗⃼⮱ݝ‬ϧ喑Вࣷ㻯 ᒵ䓈㠓喎ȡ᜾Й⮱䗨ᅲ᣽‫ܧ‬喑຦䔮Ⴙ٬
been meaning to do? ၽऻч䔮᜾Йࣨ႓ᵎ喑䔆ᄦ᜾ີີᲒ䄡
ᄌ᜾Йᵃᅲ‫⮱͚ڣ‬㒻ͪ̓⩹ȡ “Toilet” is French by origin, so is 06 posh
ᰴᬶᄊ
When we follow through, it feels great. ᭜ⱌₐ⮱๴䔦ȡ apparently avoided.
 ॷগनஊ 䖬‫ٺ‬Ҭ⩕Ątoiletą᭜఍ͧ䔆͗ࢂ䃺
6. Be a miracle for others ᒀҍᘠⱭ᜽ͧᰡສ⮱ϧᬣ喑
䄤䃝 The first rule of being posh? You
The ultimate way to become a better you is through ⎽㜗∂䄚ȡ never refer to someone — or yourself
ᐭᩫȠअ 䕇⮱ᓰᔮ㘪 䃖ҍ ᰶᰭ Ҡ Ѽ喑ᓛᄼ⮱ᩦअΌᰶᘼͶȡᩫᚏ㞯๼喑
service — but this doesn’t need to be service on an epic — as being posh.
level. When my sister and I were kids, my mum didn’t ⮱⩌≨喑ᣒऄф็ສθᗲȡ䔆ᘼঠⱭ̺ ᘠສ‫ں‬䄡喑䶫ࣷ‫ݘ‬ϧ⮱ᙌऄȡᰡ㺮䃝Ѽ
03 perfume
ᯮඵ ͫ₏х䯲⮱す̭۳݆᭜ϭ͵喤Ⅵ䔉
have a car and our school was a 30-minute walk (in the ፓռ㻮Ƞ̺ັߍឦ‫ݑ‬ౝᣒऄЃϧহࣾ⩌ ⮱᭜喑ҍᰭ䰭㺮⚔䶫⮱ϧ᭜ҍ㜗ጞȡₐ
̺㺮⩕Ąposh喍䄵ऽ倅䯲⮱喎ąᒏღ
UK rain, that can be a tough, long walk twice a day). Our ⮱θȡ҈᪆ᒿ⼝‫ͧڣ‬Ą䲋ᄦោąÿÿ̺ ຯԄ䄊᝭䄡喑⾧ᲜԿ̺‫ܧ‬Ⅱȡ᝭Вͧγ Complimenting someone on how
neighbor offered to drive us to school when she dropped 㜗ጞᝃ‫ݘ‬ϧȡ
ࣨ䃱‫⮱⩌ࣾݑ‬Ш҂θ喍᭜⮱喑ࢠҬҍ⮱ ᜽̭ͧ͗㘪ͧ̓⩹ի∕ᰡ็❞⮱ϧ喑ҍ they smell is a tricky one. It’s a fine
her son off, and that was a true miracle for my mother. 㔮Წិҍᘠ‫◦⮱ܧ‬ၽࢍͧጞᰶ喎ȡ 䰭㺮‫̷❞ٵ‬㜗ጞȡ line between coming across simply
In thinking about how to become a better person, According to Kate, you’re “smart”.
remember that small changes count. Slow down. Think as nice, or just plain creepy. ‫➦ܜ‬e⺼‫ٸ‬᫜⼝喑ҍजВ䔶
before you speak. Consider other people’s feelings. But 䊋㒻̭͗ϧ⮱Ҁ仆᭜䲋፥䰭㺮ឭጔ ᠖ĄsmartąᰬАȡ
㔨䃾倅᝸喟䄤ᄳ▝ᵳᴴ∕‫ڲ‬ღ䃾᜽͚᪴喑ౕ  ᰵ  ᬒ͚ࡵ ⮱ȡ䃖ᄦ᫦ᙌ‫ݝ‬Ąࣸສą䔅᭜Ą䄎ᐯą
remember: The person you most need to take care of is
yourself. As the old saying goes, you can’t pour from an  ◦‫ࣾݺ‬䔮㜠 youth@chinadaily.com.cn ᝃĄ͚పᬒ្䄨 ⮱ጛ‫ݘ‬गౕ̭㏬͸䬡ȡ
empty cup. So in order to be a person who injects more 㔲Ԟͽ䘕ą‫ڙ‬ф᰺ߎत喑䄤∕ᬻༀऺȠ႓ᵎࣷ᝭ౕ೻ጯȡᰭ
love into this world, you have to fall in love with yourself Ҡ㔨䃾᣽ӈ㔲ᄳ㣤ᓄ⹩৮̭Ъ喑Ꭳౕ᱙្‫ڙ‬фत͚ࣾጰ喑䄤 Unfortunately, the Royal’s preferred
first. ̻Ą䄨㔲Ԟͽ䘕ą჏᰺㖁㈨䶳ः຃৮ȡ word for perfume won’t help.
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“(Less) is a generous book, musical Ą䔆ψຠᕔₐౕा㜗᜾჋⣝⮱䛾ႄඁᅃ‫ݺ‬䔈喑

ѳ҉ͧ᱗྇ຠᕔ喑຦Йࢡₐ⏾ा㷘͚ప⹫ч᝭
in its prose and expansive in its ᣒऄ⮱Ꮒᅯȡą
structure and range, about growing ÿÿ
㒄͊Ⴖe䰤‫ٸ‬喑҉უ

older and the essential nature of love.”

— The Pulitzer judges
CURRENT
QUOTES ĄȨ㔮ࣨȩ䔆᱙Γᒵ͝␎喑᪐᪴ᐼ⮱䄚㼭ᰶ䴠ͽ㒻喑㐀Ჱহ‫ڲ‬ღᰶ
ᆂᐭ⾧䬡喑Ⴐ䃕䃧⮱᭜㔮ࣨহ❞⮱᱙䉕ȡą
ÿÿ
ᮛ‫ݖ‬ゃ຃䃱༁
㒻ప͉䘕ᬣ䬡  ᰵ  ᬒ̸ࡵ喑す  ᅷ
ᮛ‫ݖ‬ゃ຃ౕ਒ѓ℁χ๔႓ᤚᮀȡ Ꭱ⮱ᮛ
‫ݖ‬ゃᄼ䄡຃ᢵεγ҉უႶᓤ冮e㗃ᖖeᵩ䛹ᅁ

喍Andrew Sean Greer喎⮱͚Ꭱ࢞ᱧᩲθȨ㔮ࣨȩȡ
䔆䘕ᄼ䄡䃟䔝⮱᭜̭͗Ꭱ䓾ρ࡮⮱๞䉒
ᄼ䄡უ㣞᫜喍Arthur Less喎⮱ᩲθÿÿ Ѓጟ
㏼๞ࣨγϧ⩌͚⮱̭ܴ喑࠲᠙❞ϧহᄷ͒喠Ѓ
䄂ఫౕ⣜⤰᫲㵹͚䔰㙞⬈㠓喑ౕᓤపȠ∂పȠ
෕㺬਒Ƞᘼ๔‫ݖ‬Ƞᬒ᱙⩇㜠ᦿ৵៶⇆⑍䛺᫝ࣾ
⣝㜗᜾ȡ‫❵ܧ‬ੳᄳ䔆䘕҉৮⼝ͧĄ̭䘕㒻పϧ
ౕ⊤ใ⮱䃪‫ݧ‬䄄喑̭䘕ᄦλᬣ䬡হϧㆨᓰ▢
⮱↶ᕊ͸҉ąȡ
ᵩ䛹ᅁℂ͇λጰ᱄๔႓喑ᰫ⍥㻵䓴Γ͚᝭
ᰶ᣽‫ݝ‬䓴⮱పუহౝࡧ喑 ΌᰫШ᪆λ็͗倅ᵎȡ
Ѓ⮱ᄼ䄡Ȩ❞ᗲ⮱䅉Ꮒȩ喍The Confessions of
Max Tivoli喑ᰶ䃾᱙ऺͧȨᭌ⾧̸⮱ྡ٬ȩ喎ᰫ
λ  Ꭱ㣤ᓄ㏪㏓‫ڞڙ‬ఫΓ亳䶮ࣾ⮱Ą䯱
⠛᪴႓຃ąȡ䄒຃䶦λ  Ꭱ䃫⿸喑̀䬕⩕
Გ຃ߞᄦ೻ጯ᪴ࡃ⩌≨‫ڤ‬ᰶ̭Ⴧᒞ৺⮱Ƞ
ᆮࣷВ̸⮱Ꭱ䒨҉უȡ
“These women are pushing
toward the upper echelon of the self-actualization
pyramid. But as unmarried women, they teeter toward
the bottom half of what is socially acceptable in China.”
— Roseann Lake, writer
㒻ప⺼ጰ᫜ ᫝䬨㑾〆  ᰵ  ᬒ⮱̭ヴ ⮱䉎⡛⢴㏓ͧ 喑
䊲䓴̓⩹‫ڣ‬Ѓ็᪝ౝࡧ喑
្䖀⼝喑͚ప⮱೻ጯ͚⩌≨Ɑ᪝⮫̴  ᆮ㜠 ࠲᠙ࡄ㒻ȡ
 ᆮ͸䬡⮱ࢂ䏘ຠᕔȡ䔆ψऄ䓴㞜ສ᪆㗟⮱ 䔆ヴ្䖀ᠴ‫ܧ‬喑̭᫦䲏喑͚పЮ͇Ꮑ䄒ᩦ
Ꭱ䒨䘪ጯࢂ䏘ຠᕔ᭜͚ప㏼≻෋䪬⮱ᰭ๔䉎 अ᠈㖅э㐌喑
⊵䮑ᄦλᕔ‫ݘ‬হ྇༨⟣ᔮ⮱ₔ
⡛㔲喑ѳ຦Йౕ͚ప㏼≻ࣾᆂ͚᝭ល⑁⮱㻿㞟 㻳喠ओ̭᫦䲏喑ຠᕔౕუᏚ͚⮱ౝѺΌᏁ䄒㷘
ࢡᬣ፥㷘ᔪ⪒ȡ 䛺㻳ȡ̺䓴ᑿᵦ㐀Ꮒ喑 ͚పϧᏁ䄒ᩦअᄦλĄ⤳
ᢛ㐌䃎喑͚పຠᕔᄦప‫⩌ڲ‬ϔᕨթ喍GDP喎 ᘠ྇༨ą⮱ⰸ∂ȡ

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Language tips
Horoscope
BETTER CHINESE
Crossword Capricorn (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)
Take everything into consideration. If you try to make a snap
decision, you will be disappointed in the results you get. Don’t let 师傅，你这基围虾多少钱一斤啊？
anger overpower your ability to get things done properly.

 



Sir, how much is it for 500 g of greasy back shrimp?
Aquarius (JAN. 20-FEB. 19)
Moderation will be necessary when dealing with anyone who 50块一斤。
tends to be excessive or prone to overreaction. Spend time fixing
up your living quarters or altering your current living arrange-



ments. Fifty yuan for 500 g.

Pisces (FEB. 20-MARCH 20) 这么贵啊！便宜点我买两斤。

An emotional matter will leave you feeling uncertain about

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someone close to you. Don’t let someone from your past disrupt It’s so expensive. If it was cheaper, I’d buy a kilo.
or interfere in your personal life. Ulterior motives are apparent.
现在这季节就是这个价。
Aries (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) 

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Don’t feel pressured by what others do. Focus on keeping up with
This is the seasonal price.
economic trends and the latest technology. Avoid gossip or let-
ting someone meddle in your private affairs. 这样吧。我买两斤，你给我算45一斤吧，我再买两
条黄花鱼。
Taurus (APRIL 20-MAY 20)
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If you offer people freedom of thought, you will be given the ) &
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same privilege. If you don’t question others, you can avoid shar- OK. I’ll buy a kilo if you give it to me for 45 yuan per 500 g.
ing personal secrets. Fact-check any information you are given. And I’ll also buy two corvinas.
Gemini (MAY 21-JUNE 20) 得了，看你买这么多东西，就这样吧。
Persuasive tactics will get you into trouble. Don’t agree to some- '" !
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thing that you don’t really want to do. Leading someone on will OK, considering you’ve bought a lot from me, I’ll give it to
cause gossip that will damage your reputation. you at that price.
Cancer (JUNE 21-JULY 22) 麻烦你给我来份晚报。有新出的《北京广播电视报》
You’ll find comfort in doing something with a friend or relative 吗？
and can ease your stress by getting involved in a creative project. ! #* &' ) &-.")*#
Explore new hobbies to meet someone interesting. ##)
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Excuse me, please give me an evening paper. Do you have
Leo (JULY 23-AUG. 22) the latest Beijing Broadcasting and TV Guide?
You’ll find creative solutions that will help you put the changes
you want to make into motion. Set a strict budget to avoid add- 晚报有，但新的《北京广播电视报》还没来呢。
ing stress to your life.
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Virgo (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) I have the evening paper, but the latest Beijing Broadcast-
Across 28 “Shame on 53 Cross to bear 22 Fuss over one- You’ll be intrigued by someone quite different from you. Don’t be ing and TV Guide hasn’t arrived yet.
1 Defunct gridiron you!” 54 Puppy’s plaint self fooled into thinking you are missing out on something. What’s
org. 29 Ring decoration 55 Desktop image 24 Modern prefix good for someone else may not be good for you.
给您五毛，放这儿了。我还要一本新出的《汽车》。
4 Fireplace holder 30 Opposite of 56 Wisecracks with skeptic
wane 58 Disney charac- 25 Urged (on)
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9 Rather conserv- Libra (SEPT. 23-OCT. 23) -0
ative 31 Glowing coal ter hinted at by 26 Totaled,
34 Like advice the circled let- as a bill
Don’t try to change others when you should be concentrating on Here is 5 mao. I’ll put it here. I also want to buy this issue
14 Chapter in histo- physical and intellectual improvements. Better health, diet and
of Cars.
ry worth listening ters 27 Have life fitness routines will change your attitude and make a difference
15 Race with to 60 Apply, as pres- 31 Conclude with to your future.
batons 36 Leg-revealing sure 32 Stiller’s longtime 这本15块。
16 Pink cocktail, item of apparel 61 Opening wife and come- Scorpio (OCT. 24-NOV. 22)
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informally 37 Experts on the remarks dy partner Stop stewing over something you cannot change and get
This one is 15 yuan.
17 What zero bars brain 62 Flood refuge 33 Explode involved in projects that will make a difference. Don’t let an out-
on a cellphone 40 “Shoot!” 63 Refugee camp 34 Recreational sider lead you astray. Trust in facts, not in hearsay. 没零钱了，给你50，你找吧。
indicates 41 Sour milk prod- sights device that !'#'"#*  
 
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19 Synthetic fabric uct 64 Visibly stunned holds 35-Down Sagittarius (NOV. 23-DEC. 21) I have no change. Here is 50 yuan, you change it.
20 Old-fashioned 42 “Someone turn 65 ___ chi 35 See 34-Down
Emotional manipulation can be expected when dealing with a
theaters on a fan!” 36 Imitative friend or loved one. Listen, take notes and show interest, but 好的。给你20.
21 Memoirs of a 43 Surgery locales, Down 38 Reads don’t make a decision until you are satisfied that your facts are " #* /

Geisha for short 1 Fifth member in carefully accurate. OK. Here is 20.
accessory 44 Quick hit a noble line 39 Gets even with?
22 Bit of dinero 45 Notch shape 2 Tolkien hero 44 Renaissance
23 Viking tales, 46 Baseball, in 3 Futuristic weap- Faire events Bridge From Shopping Talk, by Sinolingua.
e.g. America on 45 Steam and such
4 Canine warning 47 Sluggish James Thurber said, “I
Yesterday’s solution 5 Uprising 48 What causes the loathe the expression ‘What
6 “I was at the circled letters to makes him tick.’ ... A person BETTER ENGLISH
movies — grow? not only ticks, he also chimes
nowhere near 49 Companion of and strikes the hour, falls 北京积分落户细则出台 4 月16日启动申报
the crime,” e.g. the Niña and and breaks and has to be put
7 Understood Santa Maria 4月11日，《北京市积分落户操作管理细则（试行）》正
8 Look over together again, and some-
50 Apple’s former 式发布， 4月16日，正式启动首批积分落户申报工作，今
9 1996 horror instant-messag- times stops like an electric
movie with four ing program clock in a thunderstorm.” 年第四季度， 北京市将公布落户分值，并向社会公示拟
sequels 51 On the Beach People are complex, but 落户人员信息。
10 Done for heroine that does not mean that sim-
11 “Sure, go 52 Gourmet mush- ple is always wrong. Often, Beijing launched its points-based application system for
ahead” room being unimaginative works household registration on April 16, in a move aimed at
12 Texter’s qualifier 56 Boeing product best. meeting the demand of nonnative Beijing residents look-
13 Mafia V.I.P. 57 Hacker, This deal occurred during ing to stabilize their living situation in the capital, the capi-
18 Old airline with but not on a the pair events at the world tal’s Human Resources and Social Security Bureau said.
the slogan “We computer youth championships in Imakiire and Koki Kobaya-
have to earn our 58 ___ mater (brain Lyon, France, last August. shi from Japan made three 北京市人力社保局11日表示，从4月16日启动积分落户
wings every cover) 申报工作，
以满足长期在京稳定就业和生活的非京籍
day” 59 Admit (to) What happened in three no-trump by South after a
no-trump after West led the heart lead.
人口的需求。
heart 10? East won the first trick
据介绍， 北京市积分落户申报的核心工作可以用
With 26 combined high- with the heart king and 9个积分
“498”这三个数字来概括，即4项资格条件，
card points, it was nigh should have kept it simple by 指标和8个经办步骤。
Comics impossible to avoid bidding returning a heart. It was
DILBERT game. Almost every pair was unlikely, though not impos- 4项资格条件是指：
in three no-trump. The top sible, that West had led from 申请人必须同时满足持有《北京市居住证》 ；
North-South score in the a three-card suit. But East Have a temporary Beijing residence permit
Girls Pairs went to Li Jinyue shifted to the club two.
and Xia Qi from China, who Understandably, West, 不超过法定退休年龄；
were plus 200 against three thinking this was an excel- Be below retirement age (under 55 for women and 60 for
hearts doubled. lent idea, played three men)
Three no-trump by North rounds of the suit. However,
was much harder to defeat, Kobayashi took the last one, 在京连续缴纳社会保险7年及以上；
requiring a club lead and drove out the spade ace and Have made social insurance payments for seven consecu-
heart shift. In all of the claimed. He lost tricks only tive years
events, nine of the 13 pairs to the four missing honors.
made that contract. Eishi Keep it simple, sensible. 无刑事犯罪记录。
F-MINUS Have no criminal record
Kakuro 这4项资格条件缺一不可，否则就不能进行申报。
9个积分指标包括：合法稳定就业指标(legal and stable
employment)、合法稳定住所指标(legal and stable resi-
dence)、教育背景指标(educational background)、
职住区域指标(area of employment and residence)、
创新创业指标(innovation and entrepreneurial ability)、
纳税指标(tax)、年龄指标(age)、荣誉表彰指标
(awards and honors)、守法记录指标(legal record)。
8个经办步骤，则是指申请人需要经过8个环节才能完
成申报工作， 从系统注册(registration)、关联单位
PEANUTS (submitting through employers)、积分填报(points regis-
tration)、确认提交(submission)，到数据核查(fact
check)、查看初核结果(result of preliminary review)、
复查(fact review)及现场审核(field check)、发布及公示
(publish the check results)等。

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LIPPI
By SUN XIAOCHEN Profile Digest
sunxiaochen@chinadaily.com.cn

M
arcello Lippi is ready to Name: Marcello Lippi SOCCER
trust in youth as he bids to Age: 70 Sichuan saga set
breathe fresh life into Chi- Nationality: Italian
na’s national team. Coaching career:
for national release
After falling to reach this summer’s • 1982-85 Sampdoria (youth team) A movie chronicling the
World Cup finals in Russia, Lippi’s atten- • 1985-93 Pontedera, Siena, Pistoi- efforts of a teacher to build a
tion has now turned to the 2019 Asian ese, Carrarese, Cesena, Lucchese, primary school team against
Cup finals in United Arab Emirates next Atlanta. all odds in rural Sichuan prov-

READY TO
January — the Italian’s last chance to • 1993-94 Napoli ince will premiere on Friday
impress on his current three-year • 1994-99 Juventus throughout China.
contract. • 1999-2000 Inter Milan Based on a true story, You’ll
Since returning from a short break in • 2001-04 Juventus Never Walk Alone (referencing
Italy in late April, the 70-year-old has • 2004-10 Italy the Liverpool fan anthem),
been busy devising warm-up plans for • 2012-14 Guangzhou Evergrande tells the story of a team made
the tournament, flying to Dubai for the • 2016-present China up of entirely of left-behind

WIELD
cup draw and watching league matches children who never before
across China to evaluate players. Major coaching achievements: played the game.
“My focus won’t be anywhere else but Italy During the team’s formative
here in China to continue developing a 2006 World Cup winners days, the magnitude 8 Wench-
national team strong enough for the Juventus uan earthquake hit the south-
Asian Cup,” Lippi told China Daily on Serie A winners: 1994-95, 1996-97, western province on May 12,

THE AXE
Monday at the launch of a youth training 1997-98, 2001-02, 2002-03 2008, destroying the school.
program in Beijing. Coppa Italia: 1994-95 However, despite the devasta-
“I know we still have room to improve, UEFA Champions League: 1995-96 tion, the teacher refused to
but we shall fear no one in Asia no mat- UEFA Supercup: 1996 give up and, through soccer,
ter who we play at the tournament, as Intercontinental Cup: 1996 helped the children get their
long as we put in our best effort.” Guangzhou Evergrande lives back on track.
The expanded Asian Cup will feature Chinese Super League: 2012, 2013,
24 teams in six groups, with the top two 2014 Barca boss fuels
in each pool and the four best third- China’s coach hints new blood is on way Chinese FA Cup: 2012 Griezmann rumors
place finishers advancing to the knock- AFC Champions League: 2013
out phase. after losing patience with old guard Barcelona president Josep
Maria Bartomeu has been in
With China drawn in Group C with
South Korea, Kyrgyzstan and the Philip- contact with Antoine Griez-
pines, Lippi is confident of reaching the What they say mann’s agent amid reports the
last 16. Atletico Madrid striker is set to
“I am happy with the draw as I believe “The national join the Spanish champion.
we have a good chance of advancing to team has Griezmann has a $119 mil-
the next stage,” he said. “Korea will be made obvious lion release clause in his con-
the toughest opponent, but we are confi- progress under tract and Spanish media say
dent of beating them again.” Lippi’s helm. Barca, which has long been
A 1-0 win over Korea in a World Cup We are better linked with the France inter-
qualifier in March 2016 in Changsha than we used national, is ready to pay it.
immediately endeared Lippi to Chinese to be and our “I have bumped into him
fans. players deliver more of their game (Griezmann) occasionally in
However, a miserable showing at in intense matchups. We should the Balearic Islands. I have not
March’s invitational China Cup tourna- give credit to Lippi and his team. We spoken to him this year but I
ment, during which the host conceded hope he continues instilling his soc- did speak to his agent in Octo-
10 goals in two matches against Wales cer philosophy in our national pro- ber,” Bartomeu told radio sta-
and the Czech Republic, has dampened gram in all possible areas.” tion RAC1.
that enthusiasm. Cai Zhenhua, CFA chairman “With (Atletico Madrid pres-
The former Inter Milan, Juventus and ident Enrique) Cerezo I have
Italy boss suggested blame for that “As a world- spoken about a lot of things,
humiliation lay with veterans who care leading coach but not about this.”
more for their club paycheck than Lippi has
national pride. brought us his TENNIS
“Veterans are important for a team experience in Djokovic buoyed
but only when they prove to me that they handling big after crushing Kei
are still warm-blooded to fight for their tournaments
country would I consider calling them and made us Novak Djokovic battled to a
up for the Asian Cup,” said Lippi. more confident. I think the team confidence-boosting win over
And with wholesale changes appar- changed more mentally than tech- Kei Nishikori in the first round
ently in the offing, Lippi has entrusted nically since he took the reins. He of the Madrid Open on Mon-
his assistant, Massimiliano Maddaloni, makes us believe in ourselves and day.
coach of China’s Under-23s, with identi- that we are competitive in Asia.” The struggling Serbian
fying promising youngsters for pro- Wu Lei, Chinese national team world No 12 beat 20th-ranked
motion to the senior squad. striker Nishikori 7-5, 6-4, his highest-
In preparation for the Asian Cup, ranked win in 10 months.
China will play Jordan at home on “Lippi won a lot Djokovic broke serve late in
May 26, Thailand away on June 2 in the past each set to get past Nishikori
and host Qatar in September. Five (with Evergran- after nearly two hours in the
more matches will follow against de from 2012- Magic Box.
as-yet unconfirmed opponents in 14). I hope I “I’m glad that match went
October and November. can achieve the my way... I managed to play
Meanwhile, Chengdu Business same results the right shots in the impor-
Daily has reported that the Chinese that he got. I tant moments,” Djokovic said.
Football Association is prepared to believe his influence around the “It was exactly what I needed
offer Lippi a new three-year contract world can help build a strong inter- for my confidence and for my
extension through the 2022 World Cup. national image of Chinese soccer.” game.”
Lippi, though, is remaining tight- Fabio Cannavaro, head coach of
lipped about his future, with many Guangzhou Evergrande and a mem- BOXING
observers believing results in the UAE ber of Italy’s 2006 World Cup-win- Promoter thinks
could decide his future. ning team Joshua should wait
“I think it’s important for him to finish
his first term with some sort of legiti- “It’s unrealistic Veteran promoter Barry
mate achievements to reinforce his cred- to count on Hearn thinks Anthony Joshua
ibility. This is crucial for him to start over Lippi to raise should consider waiting 12
again for another Cup campaign with the level of the months and taking a couple of
full authority,” said Soccer News writer Chinese tune-up fights before facing
Liu Xiangyu. national team Deontay Wilder in a world
For now, the CFA is backing its man, significantly in heavyweight title unification
with chairman Cai Zhenhua saying in a short period bout.
the immediate aftermath of last year’s of time. It’s unfair to dream too big But Hearn said on Monday
failed World Cup qualification cam- given our relatively weak youth he will stay out of the decision-
paign: “The resilience, determination development.” making process when he meets
and fighting spirit shown by the team Zhang Lu, former vice-president of WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO
under Lippi was inspiring. We appreci- Beijing Guo’an champion Joshua in London
ate his work and that of his staff very this week to discuss his options.
much.” Wilder, who holds the WBC
version of the title, last month
made the unusual move of
GOLF emailing Joshua a $50 million
offer for a bout that could take
place later this year.

Competitive field primed for Haikou shootout Willis wins role

By CHINA DAILY
Jeffrey Kang narrowly
leads fellow American Char-
lie Saxon in the PGA Tour
Series-China order of merit
standings as the circuit
swings into Hainan Island for
this week’s Haikou Champi-
onship at Sunac Haikou 3KM
Golf.
Kang earned his card for
this season by winning Inter-
national Qualifying Tourna-
ment No 1 in Haikou in
February and then claimed
the season-opening Chengdu
Championship in Sichuan
province in March to win
270,000 yuan ($42,400).
China’s Cao Yi also won
270,000 yuan after beating
England’s William Harrold in
a playoff at the following
week’s Chengdu Champion-
ship — where Kang missed
the cut — to move to the top of
the money list with 277,050
yuan. Harrold was just
behind Cao with 274,000
yuan, having shared second
place in Chengdu.
Saxon won last week’s
Changsha Championship to
move his earnings after three
events to 290,335 yuan.
Kang birdied three of his
last four holes in Changsha to
secure sixth place and reclaim
top spot in the order of merit
with 320,250 yuan, ahead of
Saxon, Harrold and Cao.
All three of this year’s
champions — Kang, Cao and
Saxon — are in the field at the
Haikou Championship, while
other former Tour winners
include China’s Zhang Huil-
in, Chao Haimeng and He
Zeyu, Australians James Mar-
chesani and Bryden Mac-
Pherson, Kim Tae-woo of
South Korea and Canada’s
Justin Shin.
Saxon and Kim, second and
fourth respectively in the
2016 order of merit, 2015 win-
ner Macpherson and Baek,
who was fifth in 2014, have all
played on the Web.com Tour
after finishing in the top five
on the money list.
Meanwhile, England’s Fre-
drik Edmunds shot a 3-under
69 to win the Monday qualifi-
er and join the 144-player
field along with compatriot
Matthew Webb (74), second-
place Riito Mieno (72) of
Japan, Koreans Lee Jun-hyuk
(74), Jung Min-su (75) and
Kim Ji-won (77), Chinese trio
Wang Yucong (75), Hu Zhiz-
heng (75) and amateur Song
Weilun (76) and American
James Back (78).
Every tournament on this
year’s PGA Tour Series-China
offers 1.5 million yuan
($240,000), a 25 percent
increase over purse levels
from 2016.
The PGA Tour established
PGA Tour Series-China in
2014 as its third international
developmental tour, follow-
ing in the footsteps of PGA
Tour Latinoamerica and the
Mackenzie Tour – PGA Tour
Canada.
Since its inception, PGA
Tour Series-China players
have received Official World
Golf Ranking points for top
finishes at official tourna-
ments.
as Tyson’s trainer
Bruce Willis has signed up to
play famed trainer Cus D’Ama-
to in a film titled Cornerman.
The project was announced
on Monday at the Cannes Film
Festival, where it will be
shopped for buyers. Set in the
1980s, the film chronicles
D’Amato’s discovery of a
13-year-old Mike Tyson and
their subsequent path to the
heavyweight championship.
Producers said they will
begin a search for a young actor
to play Tyson.
Written and to be directed by
Rupert Friend, it will be the
British actor’s feature directori-
al debut. In a statement, Friend
described the film as about “a
deep love between two fero-
Jeffrey Kang from the United States leads the PGA Tour Series- cious talents”.
China order of merit ahead of this week’s Haikou Championship in
Haikou, Hainan province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY CHINA DAILY — AGENCIES
 CHINA DAILY Wednesday, May 9, 2018
BASKETBALL
LeBron lets loose to condemn
tormented Toronto once again
King James maintains merciless reign over Raptors as Cavs cruise into Eastern final
CLEVELAND — Once the
sweeping was done, LeBron
James peeled off his jersey
and headed toward the locker
room. He stopped on the way
to share a moment with his
two sons, who held basket-
balls while patiently waiting
to take some shots.
James hugged his kids and
rubbed their heads. He treat-
ed the Toronto Raptors the
same way.
Child’s play.
James ended Toronto’s sea-
son for the third straight year
with a second consecutive
four-game sweep as the Cavs
advanced to the Eastern Con-
ference final for the fourth
year in a row with a 128-93
win in Game 4 on Monday
night.
James finished with 29
points, 11 assists and spent
some of the final 7:38 dancing
near the bench during Cleve-
land’s 10th straight playoff
win over Toronto, which
changed its system, its roster
and its approach but still can’t
beat the game’s best player.
Pushed to the max for seven
games by Indiana in the first
round, the Cavs took care of
Toronto quickly — again.
“They were a well-balanced,
put-together team this year,”
James said, praising a team he
has tormented. “They’ve built
a very good team that can suc-
ceed in the postseason. I felt
coming into the series this
would be a tough challenge
for us.”
Turns out, the Raptors still
weren’t good enough.
Kevin Love added 23 points
and JR Smith 15 for the Cavs,
who can now rest while wait-
ing for the Boston-Philadel-
phia semifinal series to end.
Jonas Valanciunas scored
18 and Kyle Lowry had 10
assists to lead the exasperated
Raptors. Toronto’s frustration
hit its peak late in the third
when All-Star DeMar DeRo-
zan was ejected for a flagrant
foul.
There will be no historic
comeback. Of the 130 teams to
take a 3-0 lead, all of them
ICE HOCKEY
Capital punishment eliminates Penguins
PITTSBURGH — Evgeny
Kuznetsov scored on a break-
away 5:27 into overtime, giv-
ing the visiting Washington
Capitals a 2-1 victory over the
Pittsburgh Penguins on Mon-
day and a six-game triumph in
their NHL Eastern Conference
semifinal series.
The Capitals advance to the
Eastern Conference final for
the first time in 20 years. They
will take on the Tampa Bay
Lightning, who beat the Bos-
ton Bruins in five games.
Washington had lost seven
straight playoff series to the
Penguins, who won the Stan-
ley Cup the past two seasons.
Scoreboard
BASEBALL
Results of the Major League Baseball
games on Monday:
Texas 7, Detroit 6
Minnesota 6, St. Louis 0
Houston 16, Oakland 2
BASKETBALL
Results of the National Basketball Asso-
ciation playoff second-round games on
Monday:
Eastern Conference
At Cleveland
Cleveland Cavaliers 128 Toronto Raptors
93
(Cleveland wins series 4-0)
At Philadelphia
Philadelphia 76ers 103 Boston Celtics 92
(Boston leads series 3-1)
GOLF
World Golf Ranking
World Golf Ranking
Through May 6
1. Dustin Johnson USA 9.22
2. Justin Thomas USA 9.14
3. Jon Rahm ESP 8.37
4. Jordan Spieth USA 8.35
5. Justin Rose ENG 7.36
6. Rickie Fowler USA 7.06
7. Jason Day AUS 6.61
8. Rory McIlroy NIR 6.33
LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers takes control against the Toronto Raptors during Game 4
of their Eastern Conference semifinal at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Monday. AFP
have won the series.
“They wanted it more than
us,” Valanciuas said. “That’s
about it. It was the mental
stuff, not the basketball stuff
that hurt us the most. It’s not
like we didn’t want to (win).
We wanted to, but I think it
was the frustration. We just
lost our head.”
Cleveland’s back in the East
Alex Ovechkin started the
play that led to the winning
goal, springing Kuznetsov
with a nifty pass through the
neutral zone.
Kuznetsov outraced Pen-
guins defenseman Kris Letang
and beat goalie Matt Murray
on a backhand.
“Finally ... we move for-
ward,” said Ovechkin, who will
be making his first appearance
in the conference final.
“I think everybody took a
step forward for us tonight.
Nobody wants to believe in us.
Lots of guys took a huge step
forward. I’m just really happy
right now.”
9. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 6.08
10. Patrick Reed USA 5.54
11. Brooks Koepka USA 5.43
12. Paul Casey ENG 5.36
13. Sergio Garcia ESP 5.31
14. Tommy Fleetwood ENG 5.24
15. Henrik Stenson SWE 5.06
16. Marc Leishman AUS 4.73
17. Bubba Watson USA 4.64
18. Alex Noren SWE 4.63
19. Phil Mickelson USA 4.58
20. Tyrrell Hatton ENG 4.28
...
45. Li Haotong CHN 2.59
2018 Ryder Cup Points
At Le Golf National
Guyancourt, France
Sept. 28-30, 2018
Through May 6
United States
1. Patrick Reed 6,687.801
2. Justin Thomas 6,126.773
3. Dustin Johnson 5,012.730
4. Jordan Spieth 4,638.458
5. Bubba Watson 4,077.993
6. Rickie Fowler 3,815.197
7. Phil Mickelson 3,673.247
8. Brooks Koepka 3,487.048
9. Matt Kuchar 3,062.993
10. Brian Harman 2,793.115
11. Kevin Kisner 2,240.881
12. Bryson DeChambeau 2,213.905
final again despite a turbulent
regular season and a bumpy
start to the playoffs after the
Pacers pushed the Cavs to the
brink of elimination.
Cap fits
James arrived at Quicken
Loans Arena three hours
before tip-off wearing a base-
ball cap that said: “Don’t Trip.”
Both teams played great
defense throughout the game,
making shots hard to come by.
The Capitals repeatedly
clogged up the neutral zone
and punished the Penguins
with big hits between the
bluelines.
Murray (28 saves) and
Washington goalie Braden
Holtby (21 saves) both made
several spectacular stops.
Penguins coach Mike Sulli-
van lauded Murray despite the
loss.
“He made some big saves,”
Sullivan said. “He gave us a
chance to win. That’s all you
can ask. He’s a competitor.
13. Tony Finau 1,995.448
14. Luke List 1,954.644
15. Gary Woodland 1,953.808
Europe
European Points
1. Tyrrell Hatton 3,096,447.75
2. Justin Rose 2,961,330.27
3. Jon Rahm 2,088,832.87
4. Ross Fisher 1,561,831.18
5. Matthew Fitzpatrick 1,479,284.04
6. Tommy Fleetwood 1,383,317.52
7. Paul Dunne 1,307,270.29
8. Rory McIlroy 1,160,411.88
9. Alexander Levy 1,137,839.70
10. Sergio Garcia 1,044,158.39
World Points
1. Justin Rose 265.98
2. Jon Rahm 248.36
3. Tyrrell Hatton 176.17
4. Rory McIlroy 159.39
5. Tommy Fleetwood 145.75
6. Sergio Garcia 126.63
7. Alex Noren 116.31
8. Ian Poulter 104.61
9. Matthew Fitzpatrick 103.62
10. Paul Casey 101.88
2019 Presidents Cup Standings
At Royal Melbourne Golf Club
Melbourne, Australia
Dec. 12-15, 2019
Through May 6
If the message was directed at
his teammates, they got it.
The Cavs didn’t stumble
and had one of their best all-
around games of these play-
offs after so many tight ones.
They won games 1 and 3
over Toronto by a combined
three points, needing a buzz-
er-beater to outlast the Rap-
tors on Saturday night.
He’s a real good person that
loves this team and he battles.”
Alex Chiasson opened the
scoring for Washington in the
first period before Letang tied
it up in the second.
Now Washington gets Tam-
pa Bay, the team that finished
the regular season on top of
the Eastern Conference.
“We don’t feel that much
pressure,” said Caps defense-
man and former Penguin
Brooks Orpik.
“Just go out there and lay it
on the line and see how it goes.
We’ve gotten this far for a rea-
son. There’s no quit in our
group.”
Top 10 automatically qualify
United States
1. Justin Thomas 2,133
2. Phil Mickelson 1,393
3. Patrick Reed 1,369
4. Patton Kizzire 1,329
5. Tony Finau 1,293
6. Bubba Watson 1,286
7. Dustin Johnson 1,253
8. Rickie Fowler 1,216
9. Pat Perez 1,122
10. Patrick Cantlay 1,085
11. Xander Schauffele 1,081
12. Luke List 1,046
13. Andrew Landry 1,011
14. Brendan Steele 987
15. Bryson DeChambeau 964
International
1. Jason Day AUS 6.61
2. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 6.08
3. Marc Leishman AUS 4.73
4. Satoshi Kodaira JPN 3.36
5. Kiradech Aphibarnrat THA 3.17
6. Louis Oosthuizen SAF 3.15
7. Branden Grace SAF 3.00
8. Cameron Smith AUS 2.80
9. Si Woo Kim KOR 2.78
10. Adam Hadwin CAN 2.61
11. Li Haotong CHN 2.59
12. Dylan Frittelli SAF 2.31
14. Jhonattan Vegas VEN 2.16
13. Yusaku Miyazato JPN 2.15
15. Charl Schwartzel SAF 2.10
There was no need for such
heroics on Monday and for a
change, James, who came in
averaging 41.7 minutes per
game in the postseason, had
plenty of help.
All five Cleveland starters
scored in double figures and
Love continued his spring
rebirth after struggling
against the Pacers.
The contributions from
Cleveland’s supporting cast
came two days after Saturday
Night Live poked fun at the
team in a skit entitled “The
Other Cavaliers,” which didn’t
air but went viral on social
media.
“From Game 1, they were
wonderful,” James said of his
teammates. “I was horrible in
Game 1 and they picked it up
for me. So I tried to follow
their lead going into Game 2
and all the way through Game
4.”
DeRozan struggled to
explain James’ stranglehold
over Toronto.
“Maybe they just got our
number,” he said. “Things just
don’t go right for us. We
couldn’t get it done. We had
opportunity after opportunity
after opportunity.”
Detroit dismissal
Cavs coach Tyronn Lue was
shocked to learn of coach Stan
Van Gundy’s firing in Detroit.
Lue played for Van Gundy in
Orlando and has always
respected his basketball IQ.
“He’s emotional because
he’s into the game,” said Lue,
who added Van Gundy sup-
ported him during his health
absence.
“He loves the game that
much. But as far as Xs and Os,
understanding different
teams, different schemes, his
players, he’s one of the best as
far as knowing what it takes.”
And as rumors swirl about
Casey’s future, Lue said Toron-
to would be foolish to do any-
thing rash.
“It would be absurd to make
a move like that,” he said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In the Western Conference
semifinal, the visiting Nash-
ville Predators blanked the
Winnipeg Jets 4-0 on Monday
to force a deciding Game 7 in
Nashville on Wednesday.
The winner will face the
Vegas Golden Knights, who
knocked off the San Jose
Sharks in six games.
Filip Forsberg and Viktor
Arvidsson each scored twice
for the Predators, who were
outshot 28-24. Winnipeg is
seeking to advance to the con-
ference final for the first time
in franchise history.
REUTERS
LPGA Money Leaders
Through May 6
1. Inbee Park $717,367
2. Ariya Jutanugarn $576,390
3. Moriya Jutanugarn $570,848
4. Brooke M. Henderson $514,331
5. Pernilla Lindberg $508,996
6. Jessica Korda $500,587
7. Jin Young Ko $484,836
8. Minjee Lee $419,466
9. Eun-Hee Ji $400,185
10. Feng Shanshan $397,617
11. Lydia Ko $382,648
ICE HOCKEY
NHL playoffs
Results on Monday:
Washington 2, Pittsburgh 1, OT
(Washington wins series 4-2)
Nashville 4, Winnipeg 0
(series tied 3-3)
TENNIS
WTA rankings
WTA rankings as of May 7
1. Simona Halep (ROM) 8,055 pts
2. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 6,790
3. Garbine Muguruza (ESP) 6,065
4. Elina Svitolina (UKR) 5,450
5. Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 5,273
SPORTS 23
McConnell helps
76ers stay alive
PHILADELPHIA — The
chants for “TJ! TJ!” grew loud-
er each time TJ McConnell
darted through the lane for an
easy basket or buried a 3 to
build an insurmountable lead
for the 76ers on Monday night.
He wore a sheepish look as
teammates rubbed his head
on the bench in appreciation,
the big moment for an
undrafted guard who plugged
a role in the early Process days
and morphed into a surprise
postseason savior.
McConnell turned an eye-
popping start into the save of
the season and Dario Saric
scored 25 points to help Phila-
delphia stave off elimination
with a 103-92 win over the
Boston Celtics in Game 4 of
their Eastern Conference
semifinal on Monday night.
“If I saw a lane, I took it. If I
had an open shot, I would try
and take it,” McConnell said.
Easy enough.
Yet the Sixers still face
daunting odds headed into
Game 5 and trailing 3-1 in the
series. No NBA team has ever
rebounded from 3-0 down to
win a playoff series.
McConnell had a career-
high 19 points, seven rebounds
and five assists in only his sec-
ond start of the season and
meshed well in the backcourt
with Ben Simmons.
The crowd chanted his ini-
tials each time he touched the
ball in the fourth, and he
proved why he has been so val-
uable even as bigger stars have
sliced his playing time.
McConnell was just what
coach Brett Brown needed in a
must-win game.
“I can tell you the Philadel-
phia 76ers spirit is just fine,”
Brown said.
With NBA teams down 3-0
having lost all 130 series, the
Sixers will need more than
spirit to pull off a huge upset.
Joel Embiid had 15 points
and 13 rebounds and Sim-
mons had 19 points and 13
boards.
Jayson Tatum led the Celtics
with 20 points and Marcus
Morris had 17.
The Sixers spent the second
half in control in what could
be their last home game of the
season.
Embiid was still in the mix
in his mask, stirring it up with
Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby congratulates Wash-
ington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby after the Caps eliminated
the defending Stanley Cup champion Penguins with a 2-1 overtime
victory in Game 6 of their Eastern Conference semifinal on Monday
in Pittsburgh. CHARLES LECLAIRE / USA TODAY SPORTS
6. Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 5,100
7. Caroline Garcia (FRA) 4,700
8. Venus Williams (USA) 4,276
9. Sloane Stephens (USA) 3,939
10. Petra Kvitova (CZE) 3,550
11. Angelique Kerber (GER) 3,025
12. Julia Goerges (GER) 2,980
13. Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 2,738
14. Madison Keys (USA) 2,722
15. Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 2,570
16. Elise Mertens (BEL) 2,520 (+3)
17. Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) 2,505 (-1)
18. Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 2,318
19. Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 2,295
(-2)
20. Kiki Bertens (NED) 2,135
ATP rankings
ATP rankings as of May 7
1. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 8,770 pts
2. Roger Federer (SUI) 8,670
3. Alexander Zverev (GER) 5,195
4. Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 4,950 (+1)
5. Marin Cilic (CRO) 4,780 (-1)
6. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) 4,470
7. Dominic Thiem (AUT) 3,545
8. Kevin Anderson (RSA) 3,345
9. John Isner (USA) 3,125
10. David Goffin (BEL) 3,020
11. Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) 2,280
12. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2,220
13. Sam Querrey (USA) 2,220
14. Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) 2,175
15. Jack Sock (USA) 2,155
16. Diego Schwartzman (ARG) 2,085
Philadelphia 76ers guard TJ
McConnell reacts after scoring
against the Boston Celtics on
Monday. USA TODAY SPORTS
any Celtic within his wing-
span. He chirped at Marcus
Morris in the third and the
Celtics forward flashed a “3-0”
with his hands. McConnell
buried a 3 for a 14-point lead
that would soon make that
combination obsolete.
“It was a pretty special
moment,” McConnell said of
the chants.
“I think we have the best
fans in the NBA. They’ve been
here through the dark times
and they’ve certainly been
here on our rise.”
So has McConnell.
Brown was desperate to
spark the Sixers and benched
slumping forward Robert Cov-
ington (0 for 14 combined in
Games 1 and 3) for McConnell.
McConnell had started 68
games combined over the past
two seasons and served as an
example of the type of player
The Process was built on. He
was an underdog, a hustler, a
court general averaging 6.5
points that made him a relia-
ble favorite for Brown. But
Simmons’ emergence put
McConnell on the bench, and
without complaint.
With a chance to shine,
McConnell zipped inside for
easy buckets, made the extra
pass to keep the offense rolling
and made the dive for loose
balls.
“I try to help my stars be
stars because at the end of the
day that’s what we need,”
Brown said. “That’s my job.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
17. Tomas Berdych (CZE) 2,060
18. Lucas Pouille (FRA) 1,995
19. Fabio Fognini (ITA) 1,840
20. Kei Nishikori (JPN) 1,835 (+1)
Madrid Open
Results on Monday:
Men’s 1st rd
Gael Monfils (FRA) bt Nikoloz Basilashvili
(GEO) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Feliciano Lopez (ESP)
bt Pablo Andar (ESP) 7-6 (7/4), 6-3; Diego
Schwartzman (ARG x13) bt Adrian Man-
narino (FRA) 6-1, 6-3; Federico Del Bonis
(ARG) bt Mischa Zverev (GER) 6-1, 2-6, 7-6
(8/6); Damir Dzumhur (BIH) bt Julien Ben-
neteau (FRA) 6-4, 6-2; Dusan Lajovic (SRB)
bt Karen Khachanov (RUS) 6-3, 6-2;
Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) bt Roberto Car-
ball (ESP) 6-3, 6-2; Novak Djokovic (SRB
x10) bt Kei Nishikori (JPN) 7-5, 6-4; Beno
Paire (FRA) bt Lucas Pouille (FRA x15) 6-2,
6-3; Milos Raonic (CAN) bt Nicol Kicker
(ARG) 6-3, 6-2
Women’s 2nd rd
Caroline Garcia (FRA x7) bt Petra Martic
(CRO) 6-3, 7-5; Maria Sharapova (RUS) bt
Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) 7-5, 6-1; Kristina
Mladenovic (FRA) bt Zhang Shuai (CHN)
6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Kiki Bertens (NED) bt Anasta-
sija Sevastova (LAT x15) 6-1, 6-4; Caroline
Wozniacki (DEN x2) bt Ashleigh Barty
(AUS) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; Julia Goerges (GER x11)
bt Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2
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