Theme park fight

Former Disney HK executive

Andrew Kam joins Wanda > p13

Iraqi offensive

Simian art

Forces launch military push

to drive IS from Mosul

Primates prowling in
an urban jungle

> WORLD, PAGE 11

> LIFE, PAGE 18



TUESDAY, October 18, 2016

chinadaily.com.cn



ANTI-POVERTY

SPACE

Record
fund will
expand to
100b yuan

Permanent station plans ride on mission

By CHEN MENGWEI
chenmengwei@chinadaily.com.cn

China established a recordbreaking fund on Monday to

support projects to lift millions of people out of poverty.
The investment fund has
been set up with an initial 12.2
billion yuan ($1.81 billion) in
capital from 51 state-owned
enterprises, including the State
Development and Investment
Corp and the State Grid.
That sum will eventually
grow to as much as 100 billion
yuan, according to a statement
from the State Councils Stateowned Assets Supervision and
Administration Commission.
The fund was launched to
coincide with the nations
third Poverty Alleviation Day
on Monday.
Unlike most poverty alleviation funds managed by the
government, the new fund will
be run by an investment company to make sure it is sustainable and profitable, said Wang
Huisheng, the
of
Inside chairman
SDIC, the government holding
White paper
company that
> p7-9
owns the investment company.
Projects that can create
more jobs and bring more people out of poverty will be
favored, with priority given to
poor provinces, border areas
and regions with large populations of ethnic groups.
Liu Yun, vice-president of
SDIC Chuangyi Industry Fund
Management, which will oversee the fund, said the bottom
line is to break even and seek
a meager profit.
Our biggest difference
compared with most other
fund managers is that we dont
just go for the biggest profits,
Liu said. Our major concern
is to balance political impact
and economic return. We have
to make sure most of the projects we invest in are profitable. But we'll also tolerate
some losses when the poverty
relief effect is significant.
To keep pace with Chinas
national strategy to eradicate
extreme poverty by 2020
that is, to ensure every Chinese
earns more than 4,000 yuan a
year the State-owned assets
commission has required that
the initial 12 billion yuan is
invested by 2018, according to
an internal report acquired by
China Daily.
SEE FUND PAGE 3

Nation awaits astronauts arrival at

the Tiangong II lab for a 30-day stay
By ZHAO LEI
zhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn

As a Chinese spaceship rockets through the void toward a

rendezvous with a new Chinese space lab, experts say a
monumental step in the
nations long march in space
exploration is about to occur.
On Monday morning, Chinas Shenzhou XI manned
spacecraft was sent skyward
atop a Long March 2F rocket
that thundered away from the
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
Shenzhou XI carries two
male astronauts 49-yearold Jing Haipeng and 37-yearold Chen Dong. After a twoday journey, they are to dock
with and spend 30 days living
and working in Tiangong II, a
new Chinese space lab. It will
be double the longest stay by
Chinese astronauts in space.
Tiangong II was launched
in mid-September to replace
the Tiangong I space lab, after
the latter was retired in
March according to plan.
But even more important
than the length of stay, the

Inside
Related story > p3
Editorial > p5

mission is a giant step toward

China having a permanent
space station. Not only that,
its a station that experts said
is likely to be the worlds only
one after the International
Space Station is retired
around 2024.
The Shenzhou XI-Tiangong
II mission is a sign of Chinas
full readiness for a space station, according to Lieutenant
General Zhang Yulin, deputy
head of the Central Military
Commissions
Equipment
Development Department and
the manned space program.
Once the station is put into
use, China will launch several space missions each year
to transport astronauts, engineers and even tourists to it,
Zhang said.
As Chinese across the
nation raptly watched the
new step into the heavens,
SEE SHENZHOU XI PAGE 3

Ready for the Tiangong II space lab

Lab's design

Weight

8.6 metric
2 Years
tons lifetime

Planned stay for

two astronauts

30 Days

Width of solar wings 18.4 m

Resource module
will contain solar panels,
storage batteries, propellant
and engines

Overall length 10.4 m

Experiment module
will be hermetically sealed
and will act as the astronauts
living quarters

Maximum diameter 3.35 m

WANG XIAOYING,XIA DIWEN,LI XINLEI / CHINA DAILY

Above: The Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft blasts off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Monday.
Top right: Astronauts Jing Haipeng (right) and Chen Dong salute inside the spacecraft at the moment of launching on Monday.
FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILY AND JU ZHENHUA / XINHUA

CONSERVATION

DIPLOMACY

Hong Kong mourns

elderly gentle giant

Duterte awaits soft landing

on first state visit to Beijing

By HUANG ZHILING
in Chengdu
and WILLA WU
in Hong Kong

Jia Jia, the longest-living

giant panda in captivity, was
put to sleep on Sunday at
Ocean Park in Hong Kong,
where she was widely known
for her fondness for playing
with a lavender scented cloth
and her gentle disposition.
As Suzanne Gendron,
executive director of zoological operations, conservation and education at the
park, observed, How could
someone not love her?
Jia Jia turned 38 in August,
equal to 114 human years,
and held two Guinness
World Records the oldest
giant panda in captivity and
the oldest living panda in
captivity. She was found as a
cub in 1980 in the wilds of the
Tangjiahe Nature Reserve in
Sichuan province.
In the past two weeks, her
condition greatly deteriorat-

ed. She lost her appetite and

her weight fell from 71 to 67
kilograms. On Sunday, she
could no longer walk.
Veterinarians from Hong
Kongs Agriculture, Fisheries
and
Conservation
Department decided to
spare her further suffering
and she was put to sleep on
Sunday evening.
Zhang Guiquan, deputy
chief of the China Conservation and Research Center
for the Giant Panda, said it
was the right thing to do
because her condition was
beyond hope.
Gendron said Jia Jias
caregivers were deeply saddened but wanted her suffering to end.
Ocean Park is holding
memorial events for Jia Jia
inside the park and online. A
video honoring her memory
was uploaded to Ocean Parks
social media page. A memorial board will be set up in front
of the Panda House in the
park on Saturday.

By ZHANG YUNBI
zhangyunbi@chinadaily.com.cn

Jia Jia celebrates her 37th

birthday at Ocean Park last
year. ROY LIU / CHINA DAILY

Before she was sent to

Hong Kong, Jia Jia lived for
18 years at the China Conservation and Research Center
for the Giant Panda in Sichuan. There she gave birth five
times, having six cubs, four of
which are still living.
Three pandas remain at
Ocean Park. Ying Ying and
Le Le, both age 11, are in
good health. An An, 30, is the
worlds second-oldest male
giant panda in captivity.
Scan it
to see
related
video.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who arrives in Beijing on Tuesday for his first
state visit to China, said he
agrees with Beijings call for
peaceful settlement of the
South China Sea issue.
Duterte expects a soft landing in the dispute over the
issue. He will visit China for
four days.
Ill be there to talk about
it softly, Duterte told China
News Service in an interview
released on Monday. We
take away war or violence,
because that is not a good
option.
Duterte, who took office in
July, has been faced with
repairing chilly ties with Beijing after the Cabinet of
former president Aquino
Benigno III unilaterally filed a
case to an international tribunal on the South China Sea.
China did not recognize the
case and it declared it invalid.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said

on Monday that the door for
dialogue is always open,
adding that Beijing had
noticed that Duterte repeatedly expressed his willingness to talk.
President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and top legislator Zhang Dejiang will meet
individually with Duterte.
Hua said the talks may cover
a wide spectrum and a fruitful visit is expected.
Before leaving Manila,
Duterte highlighted economic and trade cooperation. He
noted his countrys abundance in tourism, mineral
and agricultural resources,
and Chinas huge, lucrative
market.
Xu Liping, an expert on
Southeast Asian studies at
the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences, noted that
Duterte has repeatedly demonstrated his goodwill by
avoiding inflammatory comments on arbitration.

HISTORY

In the news

Nixon Library reopens to highlight world-changing encounter

By LIA ZHU
in Yorba Linda, California
liazhu@chinadailyusa.com

Visitors take a photo with pasteboard figures of the Nixons at the

presidential library, which reopened on Friday. ZHANG CHAOQUN / XINHUA

Beijing has pledged support

for Manilas priorities, including its anti-drug campaign, Xu
added.
The visits will bring tangible outcomes in two-way ties,
which will benefit both countries, better stabilize the South
China Sea region, and improve
peoples economic circumstances and trade, Xu said.
Zhao Jianhua, Chinese
ambassador to the Philippines, told Philippines media
on Friday that it is hoped that
after Dutertes visit, investment from China would rise
significantly in areas such as
infrastructure,
railways,
highways, seaports and airports.
Zhao also envisioned an
increase in Chinese tourists to
the Philippines, bringing as
much as $1 billion annually to
the country.
Duterte touched down in
Brunei the first leg of his
trip on Sunday evening, and
he will leave China on Friday
to visit Japan.

Stepping through an iconic

moon gate, visitors to the
newly renovated Nixon
Library can relive the historic
handshake between Richard
Nixon and Premier Zhou
Enlai during the presidents
1972 visit to China. They also
can explore the relationship
between the United States
and China of more than 40
years ago.
The China exhibit
named The Week that
Changed the World is

among the most important

exhibits at the Richard Nixon
Presidential Library and
Museum, which reopened on
Friday in Yorba Linda, California, after a $15 million
overhaul.
Nixon was the first US president to visit China, where Chinese and US leaders
announced a desire for normalized relations after 25
years of separation.
On prominent display at
the library are the life-size,
bronze-plated statues of Nixon and Zhou extending their
hands to each other against
the background of a nearly

5-meter-tall image of Air

Force One, which touched
down in Beijing on Feb 21,
1972.
Christopher Cox, Nixons
grandson, said the statues
were his favorite.
That spirit of 1972 is something so important for us to
carry forward as we consider
relationships between the US
and China in the 21st century,
he said.
The exhibit also features
text, images, and artifacts, and
a special gift for the president
sets of ping-pong paddles
with A Generation of Peace
printed on them.

The reopening and normalization of China-US relations changed the political

and economic landscape in
the Asia-Pacific region and in
the world, heralding the end
of the Cold War, said Chinese
Ambassador to the US Cui
Tiankai, who addressed the
attendees.
China and the US share the
responsibility to maintain
international peace and promote world prosperity, he
said. The choices we make
today will have far-reaching
impact on the well-being of
our peoples and the future of
the world, he said.

SPORTS

Dream come true

Ousman Manneh, 19, scores
the winning goal in Werder
Bremens 2-1 Bundesliga triumph over Bayer Leverkusen, just two years after he
fled Gambia as a refugee.
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Looking ahead
Hot topic
Events and stories coming up in the next few days

Robot conference opens on Friday

The 2016 World Robot Conference
will open in Beijing on Friday.
Experts and entrepreneurs from
China, Germany, Japan, Korea and
the United States will attend the
five-day conference. There will also
be an expo, featuring the latest
products and solutions in the
robotics industry. A robot competition is also planned.

Jiangsu to host Taiwan forum

The 11th Taiwan Entrepreneurs Forum will open in Huaian, Jiangsu
province, tomorrow. Delegates from both sides of the Taiwan Straits
will attend the three-day forum, which will focus on expanding cooperation between entrepreneurs.

Thousands to attend computer congress

The 2016 China National Computer Congress will be held in Taiyuan,
capital of Shanxi province, from Thursday through Saturday. Computing Changes the Future is the theme of this years event. Experts
will deliver speeches on cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence at the conference. More than 5,000 delegates are expected to
attend.

Tourism expo starts on Thursday

The China-ASEAN Expo, a major tourism show, will be held in Guilin,
the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, from Thursday through Saturday. The exhibition will be divided into four parts: tourism image,
tourism products, tourist consumption and tourism technology. Cambodia is the guest of honor this year.

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Entertainment: Madonna lands on Chinese social media
Hello weibo. Yes, its really me. I finally made it to China! With that simple greeting, pop star Madonna opened an official account on Chinas micro-blogging site
Sina Weibo on Friday. Her Chinese fans quickly inundated her with warm wishes.
The 58-year-old singer first posted a message at 11:59 am, and it helped her garner nearly 30,000 followers within two hours. While some enthusiastic fans
wrote how much they love their Queen of the universe, others welcomed the
legendary star with photoshopped emotions an internet meme in China.
Biz: Alibaba is the most admired Chinese company
Fortune magazine (Chinese version)
has released the list of Chinas most
admired companies of 2016, with
e-commerce behemoth Alibaba
Group taking the crown. The list evaluates the corporate reputation of
large companies that are based in
the Chinese mainland through nine
criteria, including quality of products/services, long-term investment value, and innovation.
Video: The Long March sacrifice that led to success
Its hard to imagine now what it must have been like to be a Red Army soldier on
the Long March. Two years of effort, struggle and sacrifice ultimately succeeded
in allowing the armies of the Communist Party of China to make their grand plan
of a strategic shift a reality. But the victory came at a terrible cost, with barely
more than a quarter of those who began the march making it to the end. Visit
our website for a video on how years of struggle and sacrifice led to success.
Art: Nanjing artists display oil paintings in Beijing
Mind and Schema is an exhibition in Beijing that shows the
latest development in oil painting made by artists based in
Nanjing, Jiangsu province. Jiangsu was exposed to the
influence of various painting styles brought back by pioneering Chinese painters who studied in Europe, such as Xu
Beihong, Lin Fengmian and Liu Haisu.
The exhibition at the National Art Museum of China runs until Sunday.
Buzzword: voluntourism
People in many countries are now taking time off to
work in orphanages, build schools and teach. Its
called volunteer tourism, or voluntourism, and its
one of the fastest growing trends in travel today. More
than 1.6 million volunteer tourists are spending about
$2 billion each year.

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Givinghongbao(red
envelopesstuffedwith
money)atweddingshas
beenatraditioninChina.
Nowmanypeopleare
complainingthattheyare
shortchangedwhen
thegiftisreturned.

Such a tradition
plays an important role. Most
people return
the equal
amount.

Candid camera: Power play

He Qingyue, 25, primary

school teacher in Hubei
province

A worker checks power on a utility pole in Qamdo, Tibet autonomous region, last week. PAN SONGGANG / FOR CHINA DAILY

I think hongbao
can be replaced
by other gifts.
Many of my foreign friends
usually send
gifts for birthdays, weddings
and other occasions. Its a good
option.

Putting a glow on the Golden Years

Yuan
Zhou
SECOND
THOUGHTS

Ive read many stories of

elderly Russian pensioners
enjoying their twilight years
in Chinese border towns.
Theyve made me feel envy,
even though some sound too
good to be true.
One recent account was
about a couple, both 75, who
have bought an apartment
and settled down in Heihe, a
boomtown on the ChinaRussian border. The wife
told the Russian media a
Chinese translation of the
report has gone viral in China that the couple had
lived like young people there,
traveling and eating in restaurants all on her pension
of an equivalent of about
1,000 yuan ($150) a month.
Her husbands pension lies

Liu Qi, 34, employee of a

utility in Jiangxi province

I have given
more than
10,000 ($1,500)
yuan in red
envelopes in the
past year. If I
dont get married, the money
I gave will be
lost, which really hurts.
Zhuang Shuang, 31, computer programmer in Beijing

untouched in the bank as the

nest egg.
But with all admiration, I
wonder how they will pay for
healthcare when they are
sick, and who will look after
them when they become too
frail.
Ive been grappling with
these issues as I try to sort out
the best way for my ailing,
septuagenarian parents to
spend their retirement years.
Until my father had a
stroke two years ago that
had left him using a wheelchair, he and my mother
had traveled throughout
China as well as in a number of Asian countries after
they retired. They would
also stay with us for the
winter in Beijing until the
chilly, damp weather
retreated from their town
on the Yangtze River.
My father had brain surgery in Beijing, but after a
brief recovery they had to
leave because hospitals

demand non-residents pay

out of their own pocket, if
they dont have local healthcare coverage.
Such a conundrum is harrowing millions of senior citizens who wish to stay with
their children. When they
are sick, many are reluctant
to go to hospitals, or theyll
have to pay upfront, and a
big chunk of the money
might never be reimbursed
in their hometowns, due to
regional differences in
healthcare benefits that
depend on the local financial
situation and policies.
Ive been thinking about
getting my father to a modern, private retirement village that charges lower rates
because it sits in neighboring
Hebei province.
The problem is that he
wont enjoy local healthcare
benefits. The institution
brimming with pensioners
from Beijing regularly dispatches nurses to hospitals

Sichuan province, last month.

Air routes to Europe and
North America increased
from a mere 15 in 2009 to
235 in 2016, according to the
Flight Ascend consultancy.
By the end of last year, 20
Chinese airlines were operating flights to 138 foreign destinations, and foreign
carriers operated flights
from 126 cities to 57 Chinese
destinations.
The number of outbound
passengers also grew by

more than 30
percent last
year, reaching
120 million.
China also
has become
the most
dynamic market for international air
travel, due to strong domestic and overseas travel
demand, and a rising middle
class.
In the next two decades,

in the capital to get their free

medicines.
My parents have hired a
helper at the hospital back
home who charges 100-200
yuan a day. Yet the best
arrangement, doctors have
advised, would be finding a
trustworthy housing alternative with medical and nursing care for both, preferably
close to where children live.
My mother is diagnosed with
symptoms of dementia and
she risks going missing if her
condition progresses.
While I navigate the dark
corners in the elderly care
system, Ive tried to draw
inspiration from other elderly people who have a dignified and meaningful
existence despite all odds.
They include the happy
Russian pensioners who
appear to be making the
most of their Golden Years.
Contact the writer at yuan
zhou@chinadaily.com.cn

This Day, That Year

Since the red

envelope is a
gift, we should
not expect to get
it back.

Item from Oct 18, 1989, in

China Daily: The Civil Aviation Administration of China
has put 15 new aircraft into
service in recent months to
meet increasing demand.
Chinas aviation market has
picked up speed in recent
years. The number of international air routes from China
rose by more than 30 percent
last year, according to the
World Route Development
Forum in Chengdu, capital of

Ma Wenjing, 38, accountant

in Jilin province
COMPILED BY CHINA DAILY

China is likely to become the

first country with an aviation
market worth more than $1
trillion, according to a recent
forecast from Boeing Co.

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TOP NEWS

ANTI-GRAFT

MEDICINE

Ex-energy
official
sentenced
for bribery

Transplant surgeries could set record

By ZHANG YAN
zhangyan1@chinadaily.com.cn

Wei Pengyuan, a former senior energy official, was sentenced to death with a twoyear reprieve on Monday for
accepting bribes of 211.7 million yuan ($31.4 million) and
possessing a huge amount of
property from an unidentified
source, according to a court in
Hebei province.
Wei, former deputy director
of the National Energy Administrations Coal Department,
was stripped of his political
rights for life, and all of his
personal belongings were confiscated, according to the
Baoding Intermediate Peoples
Court on Monday.
Judicial officers found that
he had concealed illicit assets
of more than 200 million yuan
at his home. Sixteen cashcounting machines were sent
from a Beijing bank to tally his
illegal funds, and four of them
broke down in
the process.
Wei will have
no chance for
parole
after
receiving a suspended death
sentence, conWei
sidering
the
Pengyuan,
of
former senior amount
energy official money involved
and the negative
social
impact of his actions, the court
said. According to Chinese
law, the death sentence with a
reprieve is typically commuted to a life sentence if the convict commits no further
crimes during the two-year
period.
According to the court, Wei
abused his power to benefit
others and accepted huge
bribes during coal project
reviews, bidding and examinations by experts, and he also
helped others sell equipment
illegally, between 2000 and
2014.
During those years, he
mainly served as a senior official in the Coal Department of
the National Development
and Reform Commission, senior official in the Coal and Oil
Department at the NDRC and
vice-director of the National
Energy Administrations Coal
Department.
The court gave him death
with reprieve rather than an
outright death sentence
because Wei had confessed
his crimes and expressed his
regret during a court hearing,
and the illicit assets were
recovered in full, according to
a statement by the court.
In May 2014, he was placed
under investigation for serious discipline violation by
the nations top anti-graft
watchdog. Judicial officers
discovered more than 200
million yuan in cash at his
home, according to the
Supreme Peoples Procuratorate.
The money involved is the
largest amount seized from an
individual official since the
founding of the Peoples
Republic of China in 1949.
He is the latest of several
high-ranking officials sentenced in recent days. On Friday, Jin Daoming, former
senior legislator in North Chinas Shanxi province, was convicted of taking bribes of 124
million yuan and sentenced to
life in prison by a court in
Jiangsu province.
Since November 2012, when
the new leadership was elected,
anti-corruption
has
become a top priority, and
President Xi Jinping has
launched a sweeping campaign to target both high- and
low-ranking officials.
More than 140 senior corrupt officials have been
investigated for alleged corruption.

New page turned as China sees

rapid increase in organ donations
By WANG XIAODONG
wangxiaodong
@chinadaily.com.cn

The total number of organ

transplant surgeries performed in China is expected
to reach 15,000 this year,
which would be a record high
and an increase of nearly 50
percent over last year.
After the abolishment of
procuring organs for transplant from executed prisoners since the beginning of last
year, the number of organs
donated after death has
increased rapidly, senior officials and experts said.
Last year, about 10,000

organ transplant surgeries

were performed nationwide,
Huang Jiefu, former minister
of health and director of the
China Organ Donation and
Transplantation Committee,
said at the 2016 China International Organ Donation
Conference in Beijing on
Monday.
The surgery totals include
transplants using organs
from living donors.
The number of people who
donated organs after death in
China this year reached 2,950
by the end of September,
which is an increase of 50 percent compared with the same
period last year, said Wang

The ratio of organ donors among Chinese

could increase tenfold in the next 10 years,
said Marti Manyalich, president of the International Society of Organ Donation and Procurement.
Haibo, director of the China
Organ Transplant Response
System, which is responsible
for organ distribution and
sharing in China.
This could make China the
second in the world, behind
the United States, in the number of organ donors by the
end of the year, he said.
Statistics offered by the
system also showed the total
number of donated organs
harvested after death last

year in China exceeded 7,700,

more than the total numbers
for 2013 and 2014 combined.
A new page has been
turned with Chinas establishment of a transparent
organ donation and transplant system, Huang said.
China stopped using
organs from executed prisoners on Jan 1 last year, when
voluntary donations became
the only legal source for transplants.

Much corruption existed

in the allocation of organs
procured from executed prisoners, Huang said.
The Chinese government
has adopted a zero-tolerance
attitude toward such behavior, he added.
To improve and better regulate procurement and allocation of organs, the Organ
Procurement and Allocation
Committee of the Chinese
Hospital Association was
established on Sunday.
The committee will play a
role of management and
supervision over the sector
and formulate related standards, Huang said.
Marti Manyalich, president
of the International Society of
Organ Donation and Procurement, said China has
made great progress in pro-

moting organ donations and

transplants in the past few
years.
The ratio of organ donors
among Chinese, which is now
more than 2 per million population, could increase tenfold
in the next 10 years, which
means China could nearly
meet the demand for organ
transplants, he added.
China can make quicker
progress in organ donations
and transplants by learning
from some other countries,
such as Spain, which has one
of the worlds top organ donation ratios, he said.
Like many other countries,
China faces a severe shortage
of organs, with about 300,000
people waiting for organ
transplant surgeries each
year, according to Xinhua
News Agency.

DEVELOPMENT

Living standard index

provides a new tool
to assist relief efforts
By ZHANG ZHIHAO
zhangzhihao
@chinadaily.com.cn

The hard way

Martial arts students fill bowls with water, before doing situps and pouring the water into a second bucket above them, during the
opening ceremony of the 11th Zhengzhou International Shaolin Wushu Festival in Zhengzhou, Henan province, on Sunday.
BAI ZHOUFENG / FOR CHINA DAILY

Shenzhou XI: Pair will test endurance

FROM PAGE 1

President Xi Jinping sent a

congratulation message from
the Indian state Goa where he
was attending a summit of
the emerging-market countries over the weekend.
Premier Li Keqiang and
other high-ranking officials
watched the start of the space
mission from the headquarters of China Manned Space
Agency in Beijing.
As part of the current mission, the Shenzhou XI-Tiangong II combination will test
rendezvous and docking
technologies, verify the lifesupport capability of the
spacecraft-space lab combination, conduct research and
test engineering experiments, according to Wu Ping,
deputy director of the China
Manned Space Agency.
The journeys most important task is to examine Chinas
technologies
and
equipment to support longterm stays in space and to

Students from Weiyang Experimental Elementary School in

Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, wave flags on Monday to celebrate
the successful launch of the Shenzhou XI spacecraft.
MENG DELONG / FOR CHINA DAILY

observe the physical and psychological effects on astronauts, explained Shi Yong, a
senior designer of manned
spacecraft at the China Academy of Space Technology.
He said Jing and Chen will
use a treadmill, exercise bike
and other equipment in Tian-

gong II to keep fit, and they

will also wear a special uniform to avoid muscle atrophy.
Zhang Bonan, chief designer of Shenzhou XI at China
Academy of Space Technology, said the reason the spacecraft is carrying two
astronauts instead of three

like its predecessor, the

Shenzhou X, is that the spacecraft and space lab have a limited
accommodation
capacity. Also, the astronauts
duration in space is longer.
The Tiangong IIs life-support system does not use recycling technologies, which
limits the number of astronauts, he said, although
future additions to the space
station will include such technologies.
Experts said the Shenzhou
XI-Tiangong II mission,
together with the previous
missions, would pave the way
for the nations aspiration to
have a permanent manned
station, which planners say
will consist of three parts a
core module that will be
attached to two labs, each
weighing about 20 metric
tons.
China plans to launch the
core module of the space station in about 2018 and complete the construction of the
whole station around 2022.

Range of delicacies will be available during space mission

The two astronauts headed
for the Tiangong II space laboratory aboard the Shenzhou XI
spacecraft will enjoy a wide variety of Chinese delicacies during
their 33-day stay in space.
These include more than
100 types of food and beverages, including shredded pork in
garlic sauce, a popular dish in
almost every Sichuan-cuisine
restaurant, spiced beef and ice
cream, said Cao Ping, a nutrition researcher at the Astro-

naut Center of China in Beijing.

We also prepared congees
for the astronauts if they lack
appetite during their first days
in space, he said. Their
recipes were designed and
arranged in accordance with
nutritional requirements.
The astronauts will use a
food heater developed by the
Fourth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry
Corp.
When they need to sleep in

the space lab, they will use a

sleeping bag attached to a wall
so they wont float around after
dozing off, said Wang Yanan,
editor-in-chief of Aerospace
Knowledge magazine.
He added that the astronauts need to put their arms
into the sleeping bags to avoid
unwittingly altering equipment
while asleep.
To provide a comfortable
sleeping environment, mufflers
were installed in the space lab

to ensure the noise level inside

the lab is kept below 50 decibels. The temperature will be
kept between 22 and 24 C, and
the humidity between 45 and
55 percent.
Huang Weifen, deputy
research head of the Astronaut
Center of China, said exercise
equipment and specially
designed sports clothing also
are available for the astronauts
use inside Tiangong II.
ZHAO LEI

Data from unconventional

sources, such as figures on
living standards, provide a
new way to evaluate poverty
across China, according to a
report on Monday by the
United Nations Development Program China.
The reports release
marked the International
Day for Eradication of Poverty and Chinas third National
Poverty Day.
The Living Standard
Index, developed by UNDP
using data from Baidu,
measured poverty by combining eight indicators to
evaluate services provided in
2,284 counties in China. The
evaluation looked at access
to piped water, sanitary toilets, indoor kitchens, living
services, financial services
and roads, as well as mobile
internet coverage and nighttime light intensity.
The definition and measurement of poverty must
reflect its complex, multifaceted nature beyond only
income- and consumptionbased measures, said Patrick Haverman, deputy
country director of the
UNDP.

The new index complements the poverty markers

already in use, providing
insights into the availability
of these public services and
allowing for more efficient
and targeted poverty relief
efforts, the report said.
It also said the selected
indicators cover important
measurements of social wellbeing and provide accessible, dynamic and costefficient data for analysis.
On a scale of 0 to 100, the
index ranks Zhejiang province first, with a score of 75.1,
and Jiangsu province second, with 73.7, followed by
Beijing, with 71.8, and
Shanghai, 71.7. The country
average was 61.3.
According to the report,
although the most economically developed provinces
performed best for living
standards, this did not mean
they have equitable development across the different
aspects of evaluating living
standards.
Ningxia, which ranked
11th, was the only autonomous region to exceed the
country average, while
Chongqing was the only
municipality to fall below
the average, due to a subpar
mobile coverage rate and
nighttime light intensity.

Fund: Anti-poverty work

guided by market rules
FROM PAGE 1

In June 2014, the Ministry

of Finance, SDIC and China
Tobacco established a poverty alleviation fund of 2.8 billion yuan, the first of its kind
in China. Liu, whose company also runs that fund, said
the investment strategy will
be almost the same, with
the aim to maximize the
business impact.
The first deals have been
signed with local governments and companies in
Hebei, Henan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Qinghai
provinces, according to a
Monday news release.
Details have not been disclosed.
Liu Yongfu, director of the
State Council Leading Group
of Poverty Alleviation and
Development, warned that
the fund should be carefully
supervised to make sure the
money is channeled into the
right places.
Not every investment can
qualify as targeted poverty
alleviation, he said. Target-

ed poverty alleviation is not

giving things and money
away. Thats why we set up
the fund. It should not only
go with the policy, but also go
by market rules.
This year, China has allocated more than 100 billion
yuan of government-controlled funds, a record
amount, to help lift more
people out of poverty,
according to Su Guoxia, a
spokeswoman for the leading group on poverty alleviation.
Funding from the central
budget was increased to 66.7
billion yuan, up by 43.4 percent on last year, while provincial budgets exceeded a
total of 40 billion yuan, an
increase of more than 50 percent.
On Monday, Chinas State
Council Information Office
issued a white paper on Chinas progress in poverty
reduction and human
rights.
Zhang Zhihao contributed to
this story.

CHINA
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The teachers did not use public money

to pay for their lunch. ... They should
not be blamed for their behavior.
Huang Dachuan, a netizen

CHINA DAILY CHINADAILY.COM.CN/NATION

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Australians nabbed
in gambling raid
Crackdown targeted those who try to
lure high rollers to overseas casinos
By MO JINGXI
mojingxi@chinadaily.com.cn

China confirmed on Monday that some Australian

nationals were detained in
Shanghai for suspected
gambling crimes, adding
that the case is still under
investigation.
The police have, in accordance with laws and bilateral
agreements, notified the Australian consulate general in
Shanghai of the detention,
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a
news conference in Beijing.
Australian casino giant
Crown Resorts said on Monday that China had detained
18 of its employees, including
three Australians.
Hua, without confirming
the number of Australians
detained, said the Chinese
side will guarantee the legal
rights and interests of concerned parties, and consular
officials could visit and offer
necessary assistance.
Fairfax Media reported
over the weekend that police
took the three Australians,
who were visiting China on
business, and local Chinese

The police have ...

notified the Australian consulate general in Shanghai of
the detention.
Hua Chunying, spokeswoman
for the Foreign Ministry

employees based in several

Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, from their
homes late on Thursday and
detained them.
Casino gambling is illegal
on the Chinese mainland
and Chinese law prohibits
agents from organizing
groups of more than 10 Chinese citizens to gamble
abroad. The crime is punishable by up to three years
imprisonment.
The companys executive
general manager in charge
of international VIP services, Jason OConnor, is

believed to be among those

detained, the company said
in a statement.
OConnor heads up a program designed to lure high
rollers to Crown Casino in
Melbourne, according to the
Sydney Morning Herald.
Las Vegas casino giant
MGM shut its marketing
office on the Chinese mainland years ago after a similar
brush with police.
Crown has benefitted from
an upsurge in Chinese tourists at its Australian casinos.
The companys 2016 annual
report showed that more
than one-third of revenue
generated by its Australian
resorts in the past financial
year was from international
visitors, mainly from the Chinese mainland, The Wall
Street Journal said.
In February last year, the
Ministry of Public Security
started to crack down on gambling nationwide, including
on groups that organize trips
for Chinese nationals to visit
casinos overseas.
Last year, police arrested
13 South Korean casino managers and 34 Chinese agents
for selling packages with free
tours, free accommodation
and sexual services.
Agencies contributed to
this story.

Raptors set free

A falcon is released into the wild at the Jiufeng National Forest Park in Beijings Haidian district on Sunday. Staff workers from IFAW Beijing
Raptor Rescue Center released three birds of prey under national protection, which were kept in captivity before they were sent to the center.
CHENG GONG / FOR CHINA DAILY

SOCIETY

Teachers excused for lunchtime drinks

By ZHANG YI
zhang_yi@chinadaily.com.cn

Disciplinary charges against

24 teachers who drank alcohol
with a meal has been dropped
following public outcry.
The Commission for Disciplinary Inspection in Tunliu

county, Shanxi province, on

Sept 30 ordered two principal
teachers to publicly self-criticize themselves for consuming
alcohol with a meal on a weekday. It ordered the other 22
teachers to appear before the
commission.
However, the Commission
for Disciplinary Inspection in
the provinces Changzhi city, a
higher-level anti-graft authority, announced on Sunday that
disciplinary measures taken
against the teachers were
improper.
The decision did not have
appropriate grounds and the
measures were improper, it
said.
Teachers from the countys

No 1 Middle School spent a

total of 1,390 yuan ($207) on a
meal that included alcohol on
Sept 9, a day before Teachers
Day. The teachers paid for the
meal out of their own pockets.
The decision, as well as the
revocation, has received wide
public attention amid the
countrys continuing antigraft campaign.
In contrast to the popular
support usually offered by netizens over disciplinary decisions against corrupt officials,
most comments online said
that the local anti-graft
authority had misinterpreted
the eight-point rules, or austerity rules, introduced by the
central government on Dec 4,

2012, adding that the action

taken was unfair.
The teachers did not use
public money to pay for their
lunch. In addition, they had a
half day off on that day ahead
of Teachers Day. They should
not be blamed for their behavior, said a post published by
Huang Dachuan on Oct 10.
The eight-point rules aim to
reduce bureaucracy, extravagance and undesirable work
practices of Party members.
With clauses focusing on various forms of corruption and
unauthorized use of government cars, the rules have
played a significant role in the
countrys
anti-corruption
campaign.

CRIME

15 held by police for info theft

By HUANG ZHILING
in Chengdu
huangzhiling@
chinadaily.com.cn

Police in Mianyang, Sichuan

province, have arrested 15 people suspected of stealing personal information.
The suspects, who include
bank employees, are said to
have been involved in the theft
of nearly 2.6 million peoples
personal information, making
2.3 million yuan ($341,400)
from selling such information.
In May, a woman surnamed
Yang wanted to take out a
bank loan to buy an apartment. She checked her personal credit registry at the banks
credit reference center.
Soon
afterward,
she

2.3 million yuan

Amount of money that 15 suspects
made for selling nearly 2.6 million
peoples personal information

received several phone calls

each week from people saying
they were calling on behalf of
firms that provide petty loans.
Suspecting her personal
information had been stolen,
she reported the case to local
police.
Later that month, police
found a local resident, surnamed Deng, had illegally
obtained personal credit
reports online.
An investigation into Deng
showed that he collaborated
with others in illegally obtain-

ing personal credit reports as

well as bank account and balance details before selling the
information to others.
A further investigation
showed the leakage of such
personal information involved
a man, surnamed Xia, in Shaoyang, Hunan province.
Xia, head of a bank in the
city, was able to access peoples
personal credit reports as well
as details of their bank
accounts and balances.
Three employees of a
branch of China Citic Bank in
Liaoning province paid to illegally obtain such information
before selling the reports and
banking details to firms offering petty loans, illegal
research companies and
fraudsters, police said.

Briefly
BEIJING

GANSU

Alerts issued
for Typhoon Sarika

Tailings leak pollutes

346-km waterway

The National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center on

Monday issued a red alert, the
highest emergency response in
the four-tier national system,
for ocean waves and an orange
alert, the second-highest, for
storms as Typhoon Sarika
approached. Sarika, the 21st
typhoon this year, is expected
to make landfall in eastern
coastal areas of Hainan province on Tuesday, the center
said. Hundreds of fishermen
and construction workers have
been evacuated to safe shelters.

Tailings that leaked into Taishi River in Longnan in

November last year and
have been traced to an antimony processing center
have contaminated more than
300 kilometers of waterway.
The incident resulted in 61
million yuan ($9.1 million) in
direct economic losses,
according to the Ministry of
Environmental Protection.
Water supply for more than
108,000 people in three provinces was affected, the ministry said. Eleven officials,

including the deputy mayor of

Longnan, have been punished
for violating the Party code of
conduct.
QINGHAI

Magnitude-6.2
quake jolts province
No casualties have been
reported so far since a magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit Qinghai province at 3:14 pm on
Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter of the quake
was in Zadoi county at a depth
of 9 km.
XINHUA

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

COMMENT

ChinaDaily
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EDITORIAL

New manned mission

big step for the nation

WA N G X I A O Y I N G

Long March-2F carrier rocket carrying the

Shenzhou XI manned spacecraft blasted off
from the launch pad at Jiuquan Satellite
Launch Center in Northwest Chinas Gansu
province, at 7:30 am on Monday, heralding the
start of Chinas sixth manned space mission.
Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, the two astronauts charged with carrying out the mission, are to stay in the
Tiangong II space laboratory for 30 days, testing rendezvous and
docking technologies, verifying the life support capability of the
docked spacecraft and lab, and conducting scientific research and
engineering experiments.
In the past 18 years since 1999, 11 Shenzhou spacecraft have
been successfully launched into space, and the missions have
developed from unmanned ones to the manned ones, with each
one making new and significant progress.
Now Jing and Chen are taking the next big steps in the nations
space journey and making a new contribution to the building of
China into a space power.
While a countrys science and technology reflect the strength of
its overall development, space technology reflects the overall
capability of a countrys development in science and technology.
Now China is the third country after Russia and the United
States that has independently developed advanced space technology and conducted manned spaceflights.
Compared with Russia and the United States, China was underdeveloped at the beginning and still trails behind in many
aspects. But the country has never given up on its resolve to catch
up with the worlds leaders in science and technology, as its leadership understands the importance of science and technology for
a nations development.
That explains why China has achieved such a lot in the development of its space technology in the past two decades and is striving to make new breakthroughs.
And as the worlds second-largest economy, China wants to
make its due contribution to the development of human civilization. Conducting space exploration not only has the potential to
expand human knowledge of the universe in which we live, it also
extends the cooperation of major powers in the peaceful utilization of space.
We are looking forward to the return of the two astronauts,
whose experiments conducted in the Tiangong II space laboratory will hopefully further our understanding about human endurance in space and so contribute to future human exploration of
the universe.

TO THE POINT

Ending asymmetrical bond

he visit to China by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte,

scheduled from Tuesday to Friday, is expected to offer an
opportunity to improve the strained bilateral ties.
However, some scholars in the Philippines and in the
United States argue that the value of Philippines talks and cooperation with China stem from its military alliance with the US, hinting
that only through its alliance with the US does Manila gain bargaining chips in any talks with Beijing. Dutertes diplomatic move, they
conclude, should not sacrifice Manilas bond with Washington.
Such an argument exposes the Cold War mindset among some in
the US, and their concern over their allies cooperation with other
countries, which they think may lead to their estrangement from
Washington.
The absolute obedience to the US pursued by former Philippine
president Benigno Aquino III may have served the US interests, but
it has also plunged the Philippines economic cooperation with China to a new low, which has proven detrimental to the Philippines
interests.
Dutertes remarks and actions since his election as Philippine
president indicate his intention to change the asymmetrical ties with
the US and foster pragmatic cooperation with more countries,
including China.
His administrations pursuit of an independent foreign policy is to
better serve the Philippines interests, as indicated by his remarks on
different occasions to play down the award in the Philippines favor
in the arbitration case initiated by his predecessor and his halt to
joint naval patrols with the US in the South China Sea. A series of
domestic problems, such as the poverty in the country, have also
underscored Dutertes need to conduct pragmatic cooperation with
China.
It is unrealistic to expect a single visit to resolve all the differences between the countries. But talks are the best approach for
China and the Philippines to bring ties back onto the track of
healthy development.
GLOBAL TIMES CHINESE EDITION

Video shows some still believe

their money can control power

Burden of
proof lies
with victim

A SCENE FROM THE UK DOCUMENTARY Joanna Lumleys Trans-Siberian Adventure, in which a Chinese
woman said she could clear the roads of cars and people in a district of Harbin in Northeast Chinas Heilongjiang
province, has created a stir online. Beijing News commented:

WHEN A WOMAN was

attacked by a tiger when she
got off a car in Badaling Safari
Park Beijing in July despite
warning signs against such
behavior, her mother also left
the car to rush to her aid. The
daughter was rescued by park
staff but the mother was
mauled to death by another
tiger before they could come
to her aid. The daughter is
now suing the safari park for
compensation. Southern
Metropolis Daily commented
on Monday:

The womans words have shocked millions of people

and become a hot topic on domestic social media networks. People are shocked, not only by the fact that a
woman claimed she could clear the roads, but because
she also clearly took pride in being able to say that.
That distorted value not only belongs to the woman
shown in the documentary, but also other wealthy people. Not only do some of the newly rich people in China
like to display their associations with power, some of
them also harbor the illusion that they can control power
with the fortune in their hand.
Their distorted mindset has much to do with the way
they obtain their fortunes. It is an undeniable fact that
some of the newly rich people in China made their money in an immoral way, and they believe their past mode of
grabbing money with power can continue. However, that

is no longer the case with the anti-corruption campaign

going on, as well as advancing the rule of law.
The woman in the video might never have expected
she could be so well-known all over the country. With the
popularity of the video, some people have claimed to
have traced her family background.
Her father is said to be a businessman, the so-called
richest person in the Acheng district of Harbin city. Some
online posts even pointed out that her father did clear
roads in the district when celebrating his birthday in
September 2011.
These details have not been confirmed by the authorities yet, but at least they offer some clues. It is time the
authorities intervened and found out whether her family
were involved in illegal dealings. It is no longer her personal affair, but a national one.

Echoes of meaningless memes fade

A COMPANY in Shenzhen in South Chinas Guangdong province has registered the lanshou xianggu, the latest
internet meme, as a company tradename. Guangzhou Daily commented on Monday:
The buzzword lanshou xianggu comes from a young
man in Nanning in South Chinas Guangxi Zhuang
autonomous region, who complained about the recent
breakup with his girlfriend in a self-filmed video. The
video went viral as the man repeatedly cries out in a
strong accent lanshou xianggu, which means I am so
upset and I want to cry.
The Shenzhen company, which focuses on equipment
manufacturing and engineering has already registered
lanshou xianggu as a tradename.
Of course, the popularity of such internet memes,
which usually only last for a few days, has a lot to do with
the tremendous echo chamber effect of the internet and
the conformist mentality among netizens.
On the one hand, there are fewer limits and restrictions in cyberspace interactions, where participants are
allowed to be anonymous and take part in any topic they

are interested in or feel obliged to follow. Their participation does not always make sense but can from time to
time create meaningless phenomena with the help of
internet marketeers, who make a living by exploiting or
creating online memes.
On the other hand, many overzealous netizens have
the urge to play a role in popular online events, however
pointless they might be, because that gives them a sense
of importance, and they will take great pride in creating
a buzzword or a video that goes viral.
Those directly made famous by an internet meme
might even seek to make the most of their instant
popularity. Everybody seems to have something to
gain. But the truth is, such whim-like creations are
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The woman who survived

claims the safari park didnt
fulfill its obligation to inform
visitors of the danger and the
patrol did not arrive in time
and did not have the necessary
equipment, such as a tranquilizer gun, to carry out a rescue.
She is claiming 2.74 million
yuan ($410,856 ) in compensation.
The safari park says that
there are plenty of warning
signs and every safeguard possible is in place. And the official
investigation into the incident
cleared it of responsibility, so it
does not have any legal liability
to pay compensation.
However, the park has
offered the woman 15 percent
of the money she wants.
The two women got out of
the car even though they were
aware of the presence of the
tigers. They put themselves in
danger.
So it is up to the woman to
prove that the safari parks
management was at fault.

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6 Jishou special

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 C HI NA DA I LY

Ethnic group
passes down
traditional
drum dance
By ZHUAN TI
zhuanti@chinadaily.com.cn

Aizhai Bridge, the worlds highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel

bridge, is a tourist highlight in Jishou. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

Qianzhou, an ancient town in Jishou, dates back more than 4,200

years. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

Villagers dressed in Miao ethnic costumes greet tourists at

Dehang village. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

Rich culture draws tourists

Historical intangible
heritage celebration
takes place at site of
development and
modernity, Song
Mengxing reports.

Day trip to Jishou

abulous drum performances were staged on Saturday

near Aizhai Bridge, which
crosses the Dehang Grand
Canyon in Jishou, Hunan province,
to start the 2016 Jishou Drum Festival.
Local people of the Miao ethnic
group in folk dress played drums
placed on stands while dancing
cheerfully; the drum team from
Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province, beat drums in a solemn way
and the music reminded spectators
of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), when
Xian was the capital of China and
known as Changan.
Artists from Russia, Taiwan, and
Yunnan, Zhejiang and Hebei provinces were also invited to celebrate
the annual cultural festival, which
rst started in 2013.
The event, one of Hunans three
folk culture festival brands, aims to
help pass on local folk culture and
promote tourism in Xiangxi Tujia
and Miao autonomous prefecture, of
which Jishou is the capital, featuring
natural scenery and unique cultures,
the festivals organizers said.
The opening ceremony of this years
festival took place at the Aizhai scenic
area, which boasts Aizhai Bridge, the
worlds highest and longest tunnelto-tunnel bridge, the Aizhai twisting
highway, canyon waterfalls and the
Dehang Miao village.
Hosting the ceremony in the area
better reects the beauty of its arts,
culture and nature, the organizers
said.
Local tourism authorities hope
the festival captures the magic of
Jishou: two splendid scenes, Aizhai
Bridge and Aizhai Highway, built
within the past century; local Miao
villages folk customs, preserved for
a thousand years; the dramatic scenery of the gorge, inspiring awe for
thousands of years.
The festival, which started on Saturday and will run through to Oct
30, also offers visitors special activities to help them understand more
about Xiangxi. Tourists are wel-

Opening ceremony of the 2016 Jishou Drum Festival is held on Saturday near Aizhai Bridge in Jishou, capital of Xiangxi
Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture in Hunan province. YANG ZHIGUANG / FOR CHINA DAILY

The drum festival

stimulates us,
activates and makes
us recall the part of
our memory about
historical tradition.

CHINA DAILY

Zhang Jianyong, former vicepresident of Jishou University

come to taste authentic local dishes

and walk through the Yuquanxi
Grand Gorge.
Zhang Jianyong, former vicepresident of Jishou University, said:
The drum festival stimulates us,
activates and makes us recall the
part of our memory about historical
tradition.
The festival uses culture to promote tourism and has achieved
excellent results, he added.
Drums were originally used by the
Miao ethnic group to enhance troop
morale and send strategic orders in

First, marvel at the

magnicent Aizhai Bridge,
a suspension bridge with a
main span of 1,176 meters and
a height of 355 meters that
crosses the Dehang Grand
Canyon; Next, visit the sixkilometer-long Aizhai Highway
which was built in the 1930s.
The highways ingenious
design makes it one of Chinas
most striking stretches of
road.
Next, travel to Dehang,
a noted Miao village, and
experience its colorful local
customs, such as drinking
rice wine and singing in
antiphonal style with the
villagers.
Learn about the traditional
folk arts of the Miao people
by visiting oil manufacturing,
wax printing, weaving,
papermaking and tofu-making
workshops.
Enjoy a sumptuous Miao feast
at noon.
Visit the 216-meter-high
Liusha Waterfall in the Dehang
Scenic Area, as well as Jielong
Bridge, Xiangtou Mountain
and Jiulongxi Grand Canyon.
Take a bus to the ancient
town of Qianzhou, which
is surrounded by brooding
mountains.
Stay in Jishou for the night or
return home.

Leaders and distinguished guests of Hunan province and Xiangxi Tujia and Miao
autonomous prefecture attend the opening ceremony of the festival.
YANG ZHIGUANG / FOR CHINA DAILY

battle. Later, the Miao people, who

had not developed their own written
language, played drums to convey
their rich feelings.
Drums are their love songs and
literature, Zhang said.
Xiangxi Miao drum dancing is a
national intangible cultural heritage
and has become representative of
Xiangxi culture, said Liu Zhenyu,

Party chief of Jishou, at a news conference held in Beijing on Oct 11 to

promote the festival.
He said the drum festival is an
important measure that the city
takes to promote tourism and local
culture in order to overcome poverty.
The citys tourism has developed
quickly, boosted by the festival since
2013, the festivals organizers said.

Jishou received some 9.87 million

visitors in 2015 and its tourism revenue reached 7.31 billion yuan ($1.09
billion). This year, it welcomed more
than 7.8 million tourists by the end
of August, with tourism revenue surpassing 5.6 billion yuan, a year-onyear rise of 16.63 percent and 21.03
percent respectively.
The Jishou government also
signed a strategic agreement with
Showland Group at the news conference in Beijing to jointly develop the
Aizhai scenic area. According to the
agreement, the two sides will invest
at least 3 billion yuan in the tourist
destination over the next decade.
Contact the writer at songmengxing@chinadaily.com.cn

Memories of protected Miao village inspire travelers

By SONG MENGXING

As I arrived at Pinglang village, a

sweet smell of owers surrounded
me and I could not help taking a
deep breath to enjoy natures gift.
Walking onward, I saw a clear
and wide river, across which were
the well-arranged houses of the
Miao ethnic group on the foot of the
mountain. The river separates the
residences from the outer highway,
creating a tranquil environment
for them.
A mother was washing clothes
beside the river while her children
were playing on the riverbank.
They and the surrounding beautiful scenery were in the view of a
grandmother who sat idly in front
of her door.
The village is in the west of Aizhai
town and 14 kilometers away from
downtown Jishou, the capital of
Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture in Hunan province.
A local friend told me there was
a road that starts from the outskirts
of Jishou and passes through the
village. Cycling enthusiasts usually
ride along the mountain-flanked
road on weekends, enjoying their
leisure time.

Left: Pinglang village, with its traditional Miao ethnic group houses. XIANG WENJUN / FOR CHINA DAILY Right: Shi Qingxiang
(left) showcases the Pinglang tofu manufacturing technique with her sister in Pinglang village. LI LI / CHINA DAILY

In an alley in the village, I saw a

tofu workshop that the Shi family
has run for more than 100 years. Shi
Qingxiang, who owns the shop, was
turning a stone mill with a wooden
tool to grind the soybeans.
Visitors to the shop have the
chance to push the mill and taste
fresh bean curd jelly, as well as soy-

bean milk. The jelly tasted more

tender than any I had had in other
shops; Shi said that was because
she used the stone mill instead of
a machine.
The water she uses to soak soybeans is from the nearby mountain
spring and local villagers plant the
soybeans. Shi said she wants to use

these resources well and continues

to make tofu manually, a technique
she inherited from her father.
The Pinglang tofu manufacturing
technique became an item of ethnic
and folk traditional culture protection in Jishou in 2013.
This is the attraction of the village, I think, that it has both an

excellent natural environment and

well-preserved culture.
Most of the Pinglang villagers
can play local Miao drums, which
is also called drum dancing. They
perform at important festivals and
sometimes to welcome visitors to
the village.
A center for protecting and learning Xiangxi Miao drum dancing was
built in the village in May 2015. Shi
Jinqi, a local villager and an inheritor of the Xiangxi Miao drum dancing, said she has taught children
left behind by their migrant-worker
parents, old people and others who
wanted to learn drum dancing at
the center.
She said an important task of
Pinglang, a pilot village for cultural and ecological protection in
Xiangxi, is to help the Miao drum
dancing pass on to the next generations.
The village, which is home to
nearly 1,500 people, also set up a
Miao embroidery center in May
2013, to help promote and protect
the intangible cultural heritage.
The trip in beautiful Pinglang has
left a lasting memory in my mind
and I am hoping to visit again with
family and friends.

Playing drums is a popular activity

among the Miao people in Jishou,
Hunan province, and helps the ethnic
group retain its history and culture.
The local drum performances are
also called drum dance to reflect
the Miao peoples traditional dance
while beating the drums. The dances
often represent the daily life and work
of the Miao people, such as sowing
seeds, transplanting rice seedlings,
washing the face and putting on
clothes.
Shi Shunmin, 67, from Jishou, is
a well-known drum queen and also
an important conservator of Xiangxi
Miao drum dancing, a national-level
intangible cultural heritage item.
Shi began to learn to play drums
when she was 8 years old, intrigued
by her mothers drum dancing.
Shi performed Miao drum dances
with her partners in the Great Hall of
the People in Beijing in 1964 when she
was just 15 years old. The spectators
liked the dances greatly and applauded us three times, Shi recalled.
After the performance, she met
Chairman Mao and then-Premier
Zhou Enlai as a representative of the
Miao performers.
Shi began to impart her skills to
apprentices in the early 1980s and
trained more than 500 drummers
in Dehang, a Miao village about 20
kilometers from Jishou, from 1987 to
1989, according to a local media in
the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture, where Jishou is the
capital.
Drum dancing has long been part
of the Miao peoples life and they play
drums during festivals, at weddings
and for harvests.
Local people performed drum
dances to celebrate the opening of
Aizhai Bridge over Dehang Grand
Canyon in March, 2012, which has
a span of 1,176 meters. President Xi
Jinping inspected the bridge in 2013.
Shi Guangjin, son of Shi Shunmin,
said that though his mother did not
attend the celebration ceremony, she
was excited to watch her apprentices
perform drum dances at the event on
television.
Drums have been a sacred symbol
of the Miao people since ancient times
and are also the ethnic groups symbol. It is said that Miao people believe
the drums contain the sleeping souls
of their ancestors, awoken by the
drum-beating to protect offspring.
Shi Guangjin said his mother is also
pleased that the Miao drum culture
has drawn more and more attention
from local people and governments.
The Xiangxi intangible cultural heritage center in Qianzhou, an ancient
town in Jishou dating back more
than 4,200 years, displays Miao drum
dances and 100-plus other heritage
items.
The ancient town of Qianzhou is
also known as Qiancheng, which
means future in Chinese. Going to
Qiancheng also means to have a
promising future, local officials said.
Some schools in Jishou provide
students with a course in Miao drum
dancing to preserve the art form for
future generations.

Locals perform a drum dance to

celebrate the opening of the 2016 Jishou
Drum Festival staged on Saturday.
YANG ZHIGUANG / FOR CHINA DAILY

A performance during a previous drum

festival in Jishou. Drum dances often
represent the daily life and work of the
local Miao people.
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DOCUMENT 7

CHINA DAILY Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Progress in poverty reduction and human rights

hinas State Council Information

Office on Monday issued a white
paper on Chinas progress in poverty reduction and human rights.
Following is the full text of the document.
Contents
I.Chinas Poverty Reduction Program Has
Promoted the Development of Human
Rights
II.Ensuring Impoverished Peoples Right
to Life
III.Safeguarding the Rights of Specific
Groups
IV.Improving the Development Environment of Impoverished Areas
V.Concerted Efforts in Poverty Reduction
VI.Poverty Reduction at a Crucial Stage
Poverty eradication is and always has been
a goal and a basic right of all peoples in their
pursuit of a happy life. Over the years, based
on the prevailing national conditions, the
Communist Party of China (CPC) and the
Chinese government have remained committed to a development concept that puts
peoples rights to subsistence and to development first. Committed to reducing and eliminating poverty, China has endeavored to
guarantee and improve peoples well-being,
and developed a full range of social undertakings, so as to ensure that the results of
development benefit all the people in a fairer
way, and that all enjoy the rights to equal
participation and equal development.
Since the 18th National Congress of the
CPC in November 2012, in the great cause of
building a moderately prosperous society
and realizing the Chinese Dream of great
rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the CPC
Central Committee led by General Secretary
Xi Jinping has remained committed to a
development concept that puts people first,
and implemented the basic strategy of targeted poverty alleviation and elimination.
Chinas poverty reduction actions, both solid
and effective, have made a great contribution to the cause of international poverty
reduction, and achieved remarkable results
in world human rights development.

I. Chinas Poverty Reduction

Program Has Promoted the
Development of Human Rights
Poverty is so widespread that it has seriously hindered the fulfillment and enjoyment of human rights; reducing and
eliminating poverty is therefore a major element of human rights protection.
Over the recent decades, the Chinese government has persevered in its attempts to
eliminate poverty, improve peoples well-being, and gradually realize common prosperity. It has made continuous developmentoriented poverty-reduction efforts in rural
areas to help those who are striving to escape
from poverty and improve the quality of
their lives.
Chinas poverty reduction actions are
broad in extent; they include building rural
and agricultural infrastructure, helping
increase the incomes of impoverished population, and providing public services such as
social security and health care, education
and cultural services. While comprehensively safeguarding the economic, social and cultural rights of those living in poverty, these
measures have created conditions for the
protection of other human rights.
Since the initiation of reform and opening
up in the late 1970s, the Chinese government
has worked without fail to alleviate poverty establishing special poverty-relief institutions, determining targeted areas and population, allocating specialized funds,
formulating poverty standards and special
preferential policies adapted to Chinas
national conditions, and steering its policy of
poverty alleviation through development.
The government has carried out largescale development-oriented poverty eradication programs across the country in a
planned and organized way, and implemented a series of medium- and long-term
projects which include the Seven-Year Program for Lifting 80 Million People Out of
Poverty (1994-2000), the Outline for Development-Oriented Poverty Alleviation for
Chinas Rural Areas (2001-2010) and the
Outline for Development-Oriented Poverty
Alleviation for Chinas Rural Areas (20112020). Poverty reduction has become an
important component of Chinas national
strategy.
Since the 18th National Congress of CPC,
the Central Committee has given top priority to development-oriented poverty reduction in its philosophy of governance,
deeming it vital in its efforts to complete the
process of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by the centenary
of the CPC (founded in 1921), which is
known to be one of Chinas Two Centenary
Goals.
To this end, poverty reduction has been
incorporated into Chinas overall approach
to building socialism with Chinese characteristics, that is, to promote coordinated
progress in economic, political, cultural,
social and ecological areas and strategy of
Four Comprehensives (comprehensively
build a moderately prosperous society, comprehensively deepen reform, comprehensively implement the rule of law, and
comprehensively strengthen Party discipline).
At the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th
CPC Central Committee held in October
2015, the CPC further specified the task of
eliminating rural poverty and rehabilitating
all impoverished counties by 2020. The sub-

sequent central work conference on development-oriented poverty reduction, held

the following November, and the decision
on winning the fight against poverty issued
by the CPC Central Committee and the State
Council in December, made comprehensive
plans on poverty elimination for the 13th
Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020).
Chinas 13th Five-Year Plan for Economic
and Social Development has codified the
central leaderships poverty-reduction decision into the state will that is operable in
practice. For the first time, poverty reduction has been made an important part of
one of Chinas five-year plans, and helping
the poor population shake off poverty has
been listed an obligatory index in such a
document. Also for the first time, the heads
of Party committees and governments of relevant provinces and autonomous regions
have signed to the Central Authorities letters of commitment on poverty elimination,
and likewise similar documents have been
signed by leaders at lower levels.
Poverty reduction is the most telling evidence of Chinas progress in human rights.
Over the past 30 years or more since the
launch of reform and opening up, more
than 700 million Chinese people have been
raised from poverty. The number of rural
poor had fallen to 55.75 million by 2015, with
the incidence of poverty dropping to 5.7 percent. Notable improvement has been made
to infrastructure and basic public services,
and poverty-reduction mechanisms have
been innovated, thus contributing to the
guarantee of the basic rights of the impoverished population. This has laid a solid foundation for achieving a moderately
prosperous society in all respects.
The UN Millennium Development Goals
Report 2015 shows that the proportion of
people living in extreme poverty in China fell
by half from 61 percent in 1990 to below 30
percent in 2002, and on down to 4.2 percent
in 2014. The number of citizens China has
raised from poverty accounts for 70 percent
of the worlds total. With the most people lifted out of poverty, China has led other countries to realize the UN Millennium
Development Goal and made an enormous
contribution to poverty reduction worldwide. Its endeavors have been widely hailed
by the international community and its
achievements will go down in history. Such
achievements forcefully demonstrate the
brilliant leadership of the CPC and the
advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
While combating poverty at home, China
also actively helps other developing countries to address their poverty problems. Over
more than six decades since the founding of
the Peoples Republic of China in 1949, China
has provided nearly RMB400 billion to 166
countries and international organizations,
sent more than 600,000 aid workers, given
medical assistance to 69 countries, and aided more than 120 developing countries in
realizing the Millennium Goals. On seven
occasions China has unconditionally canceled interest-free loans to heavily indebted
countries and least developed countries.
After years of trials and experimentation,
China has accumulated a wealth of experience in promoting human rights through
development- oriented poverty reduction,
and established a new model of development- oriented poverty alleviation with Chinese characteristics.
Proceeding from the prevailing national
conditions and exploiting its institutional
advantages. China is the worlds largest
developing country with more than 1.3 billion people. Development is the paramount
task of the CPC in governing and rejuvenating China, which is essential to addressing
the countrys existing problems. By exploiting its political and institutional advantages, China has formed a trans-regional,
trans- departmental, and trans-industrial
poverty reduction process to which all social
sectors contribute through the mechanism
of Party leadership, government guidance
and social participation.
Accelerating economic development
and promoting poverty reduction. Taking
poverty reduction as a major element of economic development, China promotes poverty reduction alongside economic growth,
combines development-oriented poverty
alleviation and socio-economic development, treats poverty alleviation through
development as the main focus of the economic and social development plan, coordinates the development of poverty reduction
and human rights protection, and achieves
effective interaction between plans for poverty reduction and elimination, national
economic and social development, and
national human rights action.
Adhering to multi-form poverty reduction, and focusing on effect. Development is
the fundamental approach to poverty eradication. China addresses poverty reduction
by enhancing the skills of the impoverished
population and improving their capacity for
self-development, and acts to prevent the
transfer of poverty across generations. The
government adds preferential policies to its
general welfare policy, devising preferential
policies for the impoverished population on
the basis of the general welfare policy for the
rural areas, agriculture and farmers. It takes
targeted poverty reduction and elimination
as the basic strategy, with differentiated and
targeted measures, and provides aid and
guarantees for all those who qualify.
Prioritizing social fairness and justice,
and striving to bring benefits and common

Children from poor families in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region can get 15 years of
free education. HUANG XIAOBANG / XINHUA

prosperity to all. Focusing on ensuring and

improving public well-being, China encourages institutional and organizational innovation, and promotes social fairness and
justice. It is establishing a social fairness
guarantee system applying to rights, opportunities and rules, protecting the peoples
right to equal participation and equal development with the rule of law, and bringing
the benefits of reform and development as
well as common prosperity to the whole
population.

II. Ensuring Impoverished Peoples

Right to Life
It is one of the basic policies of the Chinese government to innovatively improve
its methods in reducing and eradicating
poverty, and takes targeted measures to that
end. Recently, through data tracking on the
conditions of the impoverished population,
the government analyzes the causes of their
problems, and offer guidance on their development needs. Targeted measures are
implemented in terms of funding, projects,
and recipients. Every impoverished household is guaranteed help, every village has
designated officials to carry out poverty
eradication measures, and goals are met
within the defined standards. In the fight
against poverty, China has enhanced poverty eradication effects, accelerated the speed
of poverty eradication, and ensured impoverished peoples right to life.
Support has been given to poverty eradication through developing industries with
local features. The state has issued a series of
development plans and policies regarding
industries with local features to provide
growth opportunities for impoverished areas. These include the Guiding Opinions on
Strengthening Poverty Alleviation Work in
the Agricultural Industry and Poverty Alleviation Plan in the Forestry Sector (20132020), which focuses on developing
agriculture and animal husbandry with
local features. Poverty Alleviation Through
Development Plan of the Agricultural
Industry (2011-2020); Measures for Increasing the Income of Industries with Local Features and Development Plan for Economic
Forests (2013-2020), which lay out a good
plan for the development of agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry in contiguous
poverty-stricken areas, with key areas specified; and Regional Layout of Agricultural
Products with Local Features (2013-2020),
which covers 96 agricultural products with
local characteristics in impoverished areas
for unified planning, with increased investment from various sources. During the
Twelfth Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015),
RMB122 billion was spent on agricultural
infrastructure and specialized funds, and
RMB116 billion on forestry infrastructure
and specialized funds in contiguous poverty-stricken areas. Driven by the industries
with local characteristics, poverty-stricken
areas are seeing greater momentum in their
development, with growing incomes for
farmers.
Poverty alleviation through resettling
impoverished population has been steadily
carried out. Since 2012 the state has allocated RMB40.4 billion from the central government to leverage a total investment of
RMB141.2 billion of all kinds, resettling 5.91
million impoverished people. The central
and provincial coffers as well as local governments at various levels have provided
RMB38 billion for poverty reduction, resettled 5.8 million poor people. These concerted efforts have effectively brought more
development opportunities to povertystricken areas. Through scientific planning
and careful site selection, infrastructure and
community services have been strengthened in resettlement areas, significantly
improving the living and working conditions of the relocated population. By developing farm production and animal farming,
and guiding workers to travel to seek
employment elsewhere, China has seen
increases in the income of resettled farmers
and migrant workers, with faster progress
in eradicating poverty and achieving prosperity. In 2016 the Chinese government has
initiated a new round of resettlement programs for its impoverished population, with
increased funds from central government,
and further raised subsidy standards. It has
introduced policy-based funds for develop-

ment, expanded funding sources, and

strengthened follow-up support to relocated
people, ensuring that each resettled household is lifted out of poverty.
Poverty eradication through ecological
conservation is making progress. In povertystricken areas, the state promotes the protection of natural forest resources, returning
farmlands to forests and grazing land to
grasslands, controlling the sources of sandstorms affecting the Beijing- Tianjin area,
controlling stony desertification, and protecting biological diversity. All these efforts
have contributed to protecting the ecology in
impoverished areas and restoring the environment, to improving local ecology, to providing more opportunities for the
impoverished population, to boosting the
industries with local characteristics, and to
increasing the employment and income of
local residents and protecting the resources
required for their development. China has
established a mechanism for ecological compensation, and is actively promoting the program in poverty-stricken areas. It has further
raised the standards of compensating the
ecological benefits of forests, improving the
reward mechanism for grassland ecological
protection, and promoting the modernization of animal husbandry in poverty-stricken areas. Measures have been taken to
expand the income channels of the impoverished population, and to encourage voluntary work by those living in the key projects
areas, thereby bringing them benefits. China
strives to improve living conditions of
impoverished population. Efforts have been
made to improve the ecological environment
of impoverished counties, and to promote
the development of woody grain and oil, specialty fruits, timber and bamboo forests, forest-dependent industries, herbivorous
animal husbandry, and eco-tourism, effectively improving the lives of the impoverished population. Increased efforts have been
made to alleviate poverty through education. During the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, China prioritized education in its effort
to eradicate poverty. The measures included:
continuing to promote the balanced development of compulsory education, closing
the gap in education between urban and
rural areas, improving education infrastructure in impoverished areas, implementing
the Action Plan for Three-Year Preschool
Education, offering cost-of-living subsidies
to teachers in rural areas, and enrolling students from poverty-stricken areas, exempting their tuition fees at secondary vocational
schools, and allotting living subsidies to the
students. All this was targeted at ensuring
impoverished peoples access to education.
In 2012-2015, the central government
injected RMB83.1 billion into poor compulsory education schools, and RMB14
billion to build 244,000 dormitory units
for 300,000 teachers in remote rural areas. The state carried out a three-year
action plan to promote preschool education, increasing the nations three-year
preschool gross enrollment rate from
62.3 percent in 2011 to 75 percent in 2015.
In central and western China, the number of children enrolled in kindergartens
rose from 21.53 million in 2011 to 27.89
million in 2015, up 30 percent. Following
the release of the Notice on Unifying the
Establishment of the Faculty and Staff of
Elementary and Secondary Schools in
Urban and Rural Areas, issued in November 2014, the teaching and administrative
staff of elementary and secondary
schools in villages, counties, and towns
began to enjoy the same standards of
establishment as urban schools, with
favorable treatment for those in remote
poor rural areas. In 2013-2015, the central
government allotted RMB4.4 billion for
cost-of-living subsidies for rural teachers
in contiguous poverty-stricken areas,
benefiting over one million teachers in
600 counties. In 2012-2015, the central
government provided RMB41.7 billion in
tuition subsidies to secondary vocational
schools, and granted exemptions from
tuition fees to rural students (including
those from counties and towns) and
urban students with agriculture-related
majors or with financial difficulties
(except those majoring in arts) at fulltime public secondary vocational
schools. Students who were eligible for

tuitions exemption at private secondary

vocational schools certified by administrative organs were guaranteed the same
tuition exemptions as students of the
same major at local public secondary
vocational schools. The state offers
grants to first- and second-year students
with agriculture- related majors or with
financial difficulties at full-time schools,
and the standard has been raised from
RMB1,500 per student per year in 20122014 to RMB2,000 since the spring
semester of 2015, covering 40 percent of
students. A directional enrollment program was carried out in poverty-stricken
areas, enrolling 183,000 students in 832
impoverished counties form 2012 to 2015.
In 2013-2015, the annual growth rate of
rural students from poor areas enrolled
in key universities was kept above 10 percent.
Poverty alleviation through medical security has been implemented. The Chinese
government continues to strengthen its
poverty alleviation effort through promoting medical security, reducing the medical
costs of the impoverished population in
rural areas, strengthening medical and
health services in poverty-stricken areas,
and improving the health of people in these
areas, so that they are not reduced to or
returned to poverty because of illness. All
this has ensured the right to health.
Improvement has been made in the New
Rural Cooperative Medical System
(NRCMS), which covers over 97 percent of
rural residents.
In 2016, the NRCMS offers a per capita
subsidy of RMB420, and reimbursement
ratios of outpatient and inpatient costs
reached 50 percent and 75 percent. Serious
illness insurance for urban and rural residents has been fully implemented, covering
more than one billion residents with a reimbursement ratio of no lower than 50 percent. A medical emergency relief system has
been established to help people suffering
from serious illnesses, and universal medical care has been further improved to cover
major illnesses, significantly reducing the
medical costs of rural residents. Since 2012,
the central government has allocated
RMB79.4 billion to support infrastructure
construction at 110,000 health service units
in poverty-stricken areas. Programs have
been carried out to offer free medical education to rural students who will return to
serve in their areas, to send general practitioners to clinics in rural areas, to pair up
hospitals in urban and rural areas to enable
medical assistance, and to organize statelevel hospitals to help and support countylevel hospitals in poverty-stricken areas. In
2015, 45 items in the 12 categories of basic
public health services were implemented,
with per capita subsidy rising from RMB15
in 2011 to RMB40. Programs have been carried out to ensure that women in rural areas
have access to folic acid supplements in
order to prevent neural tube defects, and to
improve child nutrition in poverty-stricken
areas, in an effort to strengthen disease prevention and control and promote good
health. Thanks to these efforts the health of
the impoverished population has gradually
improved. In 2016, the National Health and
Family Planning Commission, the State
Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, and 13 other departments jointly launched a poverty alleviation
project through health promotion, so as to
ensure that the impoverished rural population will welcome the arrival of a moderately
prosperous society with the rest of the
nation.
Programs are being implemented to
lift all rural residents out of poverty. The
state has released a plan to align the subsistence allowances system with development-oriented poverty alleviation
policies in rural areas. Focusing on the
goals of poverty eradication, all localities
are improving their policies, measures,
and working mechanisms to offer subsistence allowances to the most impoverished rural residents, striving to
increase the standards of social security
for the impoverished population. Registered rural families eligible for subsistence allowances are included in the
subsistence allowance system in accordance with established procedures, and
they receive the allowances based on the
gap between their per capita household
income and local subsistence allowance
standards. Rural families covered by the
subsistence allowances and eligible for
poverty reduction programs are registered in accordance with established
procedures, and receive help and support based on the different causes of
their poverty. Families which were lifted
out of poverty but have returned to poverty are included in temporary relief,
medical relief, rural subsistence allowances and other social relief systems,
and are registered for help and support.
In 2015, the number of recipients of rural
subsistence allowances was 49.04 million, with the standard raised from
RMB143 per person per month in 2011 to
RMB265. Per capita expenditure on supporting rural population in dire poverty
in nursing homes and at their own
homes
reached
RMB6,026
and
RMB4,490, growing by 48.4 percent and
49.3 percent compared with the 2012
levels.
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Safeguarding the rights of the poor population

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Experiments have been carried out on

poverty alleviation through asset investments. In recent years, to help impoverished
people experiencing difficulties in achieving
self-development, some localities are actively experimenting on poverty alleviation
through asset investments. With poverty
reduction as the ultimate goal, poverty alleviation funds and other funds for rural areas
are invested in infrastructure construction
and industrial development in povertystricken areas, and the assets are quantified
as shares owned by the households with a
partial or permanent inability to increase
their property income. The investment is
mainly made by promising industries with
local characteristics, and the farmers specialized cooperatives often play an active
role in running the operations, to ensure that
impoverished people enjoy a guaranteed
return and dividends on such asset investments, and that they may also benefit from
transferring their farmlands and working in
local businesses. At the end of 2014, the state
initiated trial runs of poverty alleviation projects through developing the photovoltaic
industry in provinces of Anhui, Hebei,
Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia Hui
Autonomous Region, pumping new blood
into these regions by increasing their asset
income. In 2016, the state has strengthened
the initiative, planning to increase the average household income of two million households registered with incapacity (including
disabled persons) to RMB3,000 and above
by 2020. This will involve 35,000 registered
villages in 471 counties of 16 provinces and
autonomous regions.
Services have been strengthened to support employment and entrepreneurship. In
recent years, the government has given top
priority to employment, enacting more
active employment policies, providing vocational training, and strengthening services
to support employment and entrepreneurship, effectively ensuring impoverished peoples right to work. It has launched the
Spring Tide Action, a program to enhance
the occupational skills of migrant workers,
providing impoverished rural laborers with
training programs in employment and occupational skills, and starting businesses, with
subsidies provided for attending these trainings. The state has implemented the Opinions on Strengthening the Dewdrop Project
to Support New Laborers from Impoverished Rural Families to Receive Vocational
Training, providing an annual subsidy to
registered impoverished families with people receiving vocational education. China
has further improved its public services for
employment. It has strengthened the platform for labor and employment and social
security services at the grassroots level, organized the Spring Breeze Action and other
employment services, strengthened the
alignment of labor exports and imports, and
offered free services to the impoverished
rural population in guiding their employment choices, introducing jobs and opportunities, and offering counseling on the
policies, laws, and regulations regarding
employment. The state has helped surplus
rural laborers to seek employment in cities
and promoted their steady transfer, with 7.93
million new migrant workers added on a
yearly basis in 2011- 2014. China has actively
implemented policies to support entrepreneurship, organizing training sessions for
people who are interested in starting businesses and who need training in entrepreneurship and relevant services. Other
services such as information, guidance on
business operations, new business incubation, and follow-up services are also provided to support new entrepreneurs.

III. Safeguarding the Rights of

Specific Groups
The poor population in such specific
groups as women, children, the elderly, the
disabled and ethnic minorities are the focus
of poverty reduction. Since 2012, the Chinese
government has increased support for these
groups in policy priorities to ensure their
rights to social security, health, education
and other services are effectively protected.
Protection of impoverished womens
rights has been enhanced. The government
has carried out the Program for the Development of Chinese Women (2011-2020), formulating and implementing policies and
measures to protect poor womens rights
and interests. It has strengthened education
and training for women in poor areas, training more than 2 million women in rural areas of central and western regions of China.
The government has implemented the
small-loan guarantee program and a financial interest discount policy for women to
encourage urban and rural women to find
employment or start businesses. The government conducts a campaign of free breast and
cervical cancer screening (two cancers
screening) for rural women every year
which covers 532 impoverished counties,
offering free breast cancer screening for 10
million rural women and cervical cancer
screening for 1.2 million rural women. From
2011 to 2015, the central lottery public welfare fund provided RMB400 million in carrying out such public welfare projects as
treating poor mothers with breast and cervical cancers, affordable housing for mothers, and mothers health express, through
which it had helped poor single mothers and
poor women who were sick to achieve better

Doctors treat poor villagers for free in Chiping county, Shandong province, on Monday.
ZHAO YUGUO FOR CHINA DAILY

lives and better prospects for development.

The government has established and
improved a new social relief system to
enhance the protection of poor women. In
2015, 71.22 million people around China
received subsistence allowances and relief
and assistance to support those in extreme
poverty. Among these, 26.094 million were
women, accounting for 36.6 percent of the
total. In this way, those who qualified all
received assistance and help.
Protection of poor childrens rights has
been enhanced. The government has formulated and carried out the Program for the
Development of Chinese Children (20112020) and the National Program for the
Development of Children in Poor Areas
(2014-2020), improving the system of care
services for left-behind children (see note)
and the mechanism of classified services for
children living in difficult circumstances,
providing them with rescue and protection.
[note: Children who remain at home
while their parents travel as migrant workers to pursue employment.]
The government has implemented the
Opinions of the State Council on Strengthening Care and Protection of Rural Left-Behind
Children. In this process, it has advanced the
building of childrens homes and childrens happy homes in urban and rural
communities, based on which 158,000 care
service actions have been carried out around
China, benefiting 13.13 million left-behind
children. The government has carried out
the Opinions of the State Council on
Strengthening Care and Protection of Children in Difficulty. During the process, local
governments have introduced measures of
classified management of children in difficulty, under which, based on the needs and
characteristics of different groups, standards are set by category and measures are
enforced based on these standards to
increase the level of guarantee for children
living in difficulty.
The government has implemented the
Opinions of the State Council on Strengthening Care and Protection of Orphans, on the
basis of which a nationwide subsistence
allowance system for orphans and a living
allowance system for HIV-affected children
have been established. To this end, the central government allocates RMB2 billion
every year, ensuring the basic life needs of
more than 500,000 orphans and HIV-infected children and making institutional
arrangements concerning their medical
care, education, and rehabilitation, and their
employment, housing and other needs when
they grow up.
The government has launched the
National Tomorrow Program on Surgery
and Rehabilitation for Orphans with Disabilities, with an accumulated fund of
RMB860 million, offering free surgery and
rehabilitation services to 90,000 orphans,
abandoned babies, and poor children.
The government has implemented the
Opinions of the General Office of the State
Council on Strengthening Rescue and Protection of Homeless Minors, launching special campaigns to send street children
home and help street children back to
school, while striving to ensure that no
minors are used for begging or forced or
tricked into begging. It has also extensively
introduced an appropriate and all-inclusive
welfare and service system for children and
carried out experimental work on encouraging social protection of minors, and promoted the establishment of a system for rescuing
and protecting minors and a childrens welfare and protection network at the county,
township and village levels. Since 2011, more
than half of Chinas counties have implemented a program of nutrition improvement for rural students receiving
compulsory education, offering a nutritious
meal allowance of RMB4 per day per student
in impoverished areas; the central government has input a total of RMB67 billion benefiting 33.6 million rural students. Since
2012 the government has carried out a nutrition improvement program for children in
poor areas, providing free nutrition packages to infants aged six to 24 months, and
popularizing knowledge on healthy feeding
among guardians and improving their family education; by this method it has promoted
healthy growth and development of infants
and young children in poor areas. In 2015,

the central government allocated specialized

subsidies of RMB500 million to this program, benefiting 2.11 million children in 341
counties in 14 contiguous impoverished areas in 21 provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities directly under the central
government.
System for protecting the rights of the elderly has been improved. The government
has actively promoted the reform of the oldage insurance system, strengthened old-age
services in rural areas, and established and
improved a subsidy system for old-age services. In 2009 it started pilot work on new
rural social old-age insurance; in 2011 it
started pilot work on social old-age insurance for urban residents; in 2014 it established a unified old-age insurance system for
urban and rural residents nationwide. In
2015, the central and local governments provided RMB204.4 billion to guarantee and
improve the basic life needs of hundreds of
millions of elderly urban and rural residents.
By the end of 2015, the number of insured
around China had reached 505 million, 148
million people had received insurance payments, 95 percent being rural residents;
there were 27,248 homes for the elderly with
2.49 million beds in rural areas; day-care services covered more than 50 percent of rural
communities; and a system of old-age service subsidies for the elderly in financial difficulties had been established in 20
provinces and equivalent units, while a system of nursing subsidies for disabled elderly
had been set up in 17 provinces and equivalent units.
Better rights for persons with disabilities.
In 2012 the General Office of the State Council issued the Outline of Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for Rural Persons with
Disabilities (2011-2020), emphasizing that
poor disabled people are key targets of poverty alleviation. In 2015 the State Council
issued the Opinions on Accelerating the
Process of Persons with Disabilities Toward a
Comparatively Well-Off Life, outlining a
series of important measures in three key
fields for persons with disabilities: (1) basic
livelihood; (2) employment, entrepreneurship and income growth; and (3) basic public
services. In 2015 the Opinions of the State
Council on Establishing a Full Scale System
of Living Subsidies for Disabled Persons with
Financial Difficulties and Nursing Subsidies
for Persons with Serious Disabilities came
into effect. It was the first national system of
welfare and subsidy for persons with disabilities. Through targeted surveys, the government has obtained basic information on
more than 26.6 million named and identified
disabled persons with certificates and more
than 700,000 communities providing public
services for the disabled, thus managing to
provide accurate services for persons with
disabilities based on reliable data support.
Since 2012, the central government has
arranged RMB3.74 billion of discount loans
for rehabilitation and poverty alleviation of
219,000 poor persons with disabilities. It has
provided vocational training for 1.45 million
persons with disabilities, and as a result 1.24
million urban residents with disabilities
have found employment. In 2015, a national
platform of online employment services for
persons with disabilities was launched. With
government subsides, 1.18 million households of poor rural persons with disabilities
have seen their homes renovated, 3.17 million poor rural persons with disabilities have
received practical technical training, and
4.96 million poor rural persons with disabilities have been lifted out of poverty. As a
result of these initiatives, poverty resulting
from disability has been effectively reduced.
As of the end of 2015, a total of 10.89 million urban and rural residents with disabilities had been covered by subsistence
allowances, nearly 22.3 million persons with
disabilities were covered by social old-age
insurance for urban and rural residents, and
3.02 million persons with disabilities were
covered by basic medical insurance for
urban residents.
Poverty eradication for ethnic minority
groups has been accelerated. The government has developed a series of special support policies to accelerate poverty
eradication for ethnic minority groups and
regions inhabited by ethnic minorities. The
Outline for Development-oriented Poverty
Reduction for Chinas Rural Areas (2011-

2020) maps out 14 contiguous impoverished

areas, 11 of which are in ethnic autonomous
areas, and 592 key counties for national
development-oriented poverty alleviation
work, 263 of which are in ethnic autonomous areas. Of the 30,000 poor villages
mapped out in the 12th Five-Year Plan for
whole-village development-oriented poverty alleviation, 13,158 are in ethnic autonomous areas. From 2012 to 2015, the central
government allocated development funds of
RMB14.59 billion for ethnic minority groups
to advance a special campaign of developing
border areas and improving local peoples
lives, to support development of ethnic
minority groups with a small population,
and to protect and develop ethnic minority
villages with special features and traditional
handicrafts. The central government has
worked out a budget to inject RMB5.5 billion to support border areas and areas
inhabited by ethnic minority groups with a
small population in infrastructure construction, in improving local working and living
conditions, and in developing social programs. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the impoverished population of the five
autonomous regions (Inner Mongolia,
Guangxi, Tibet, Ningxia, and Xinjiang) and
the three provinces with concentrated ethnic minority groups (Guizhou, Yunnan and
Qinghai) had dropped from 39.17 million in
2011 to 18.13 million, a decrease of 21.04 million, down 53.7 percent. The poverty incidence declined from 27.2 percent to 12.4
percent, down by 14.8 percentage points.

IV. Improving the Development

Environment of Impoverished
Areas
Strengthening infrastructure construction
in impoverished areas to overcome obstacles
to development is the basis and premise for
realizing local peoples rights to subsistence
and development. Since 2012, the Chinese
government has supported infrastructure
construction in impoverished areas with
more funds, further improving basic working and living conditions in those areas.
Upgrading and reconstruction of communications infrastructure in impoverished
areas has been accelerated. The government
issued its Broadband China Strategy and
Implementation Plan in 2013. The central
government has given more financial support to communications infrastructure construction in impoverished areas, and
encouraged enterprises to shoulder social
responsibilities, so as to eliminate the digital
divide in poor areas. It has worked hard to
promote IT application in poor villages,
grant Internet access to towns and townships and broadband access to administrative villages, spread information in the
countryside, and do other work. Thus it has
effectively improved communications infrastructure in poor rural areas. By the end of
2015, all administrative villages had telephone access, all towns and townships had
broadband access, and the number of Internet access ports exceeded 130 million, effectively enhancing broadband penetration in
impoverished areas, improving local working and living conditions, and providing
strong support to industrial development in
those areas. The central government has
injected RMB9.22 billion, basically achieving
radio and television coverage in all natural
villages with a power supply and fewer than
20 households.
Water conservancy in impoverished areas
has been intensified. The government has
formulated and carried out the Specialized
National Plan on Poverty Reduction with
Water Conservancy Efforts and more than 10
similar plans or programs, significantly
quickening the pace of water conservancy
projects in impoverished areas. From 2011 to
2015, 84 percent of central water conservancy funds went to central and western regions,
and nearly 70 percent was used in water conservancy projects for improving peoples
lives. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period,
the government arranged RMB237.5 billion
of central water conservancy funds for
impoverished areas, providing safe drinking
water to 115 million rural residents and
teachers and students in poor areas, and
increasing the provision of centralized water
supplies in rural areas to over 75 percent coverage. Among the 85 major water-saving projects under way, 60 will benefit impoverished
areas, representing an aggregate of RMB560
billion. In impoverished areas, risks have
been mitigated for more than 7,700 dangerous reservoirs and dangerous large and
medium-sized sluices, more than 3,900 kilometers of river embankments have been
built or reinforced, and 14,500 kilometers of
new medium and small rivers have been
improved. The installed hydropower capacity of rural areas has grown by 7.5 million kilowatts, providing energy to 440,000 rural
households.
Remarkable progress has been made in
electric power provision in impoverished
areas. From 2013 to 2015, the Chinese government arranged RMB24.8 billion to extend
power grids to areas without electricity and
launch renewable energy power projects, fully resolving electricity problems for people
without power supply services across the
country. A rural power grid upgrading campaign has been launched. Both the central
and local governments have given more
financial support to rural power construction in impoverished areas, especially in
remote western ethnic minority regions such
as Tibet, Xinjiang and Tibetan-inhabited are-

as in the four provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan,

Qinghai and Gansu. A total of RMB180.2 billion has been allocated to this work, greatly
improving the power supply and the universal services in impoverished areas. In 2016, a
new round of rural power grid upgrading has
been launched.
Transport improvements in impoverished
areas have been accelerated. The government has enacted and implemented the Outline on Poverty Reduction with
Transportation Construction in Contiguous
Impoverished Areas (2011-2020). During the
12th Five-Year Plan period, the government
input vehicle purchase tax funds of more
than RMB550 billion, and promoted social
investment of nearly RMB2 trillion in highway construction. It also accelerated construction of national expressways, general
national and provincial highways, rural
roads, rural passenger stations, and bridges
to replace ropeways in contiguous impoverished areas, building 330,000 kilometers of
rural roads, and helping 654 towns and
townships, and 48,000 administrative villages to build tarmac and cement roads. By the
end of 2015, in contiguous impoverished areas, tarmac and cement roads had been paved
in 96.1 percent of towns and townships and
86.2 percent of administrative villages, and
shuttle buses served 95.5 percent of towns
and townships and 83.1 percent of administrative villages. Improved transport facilities
have led to effective development and utilization of mineral resources, energy and tourist
potential resources in poor areas, accelerating the pace of poverty eradication. In 2016,
China launched a campaign of poverty
reduction and eradication involving the construction of one million kilometers of rural
roads and 100 major passageway projects.
Living environment of impoverished areas
has been improved. The government has
launched a project to renovate neglected and
dangerous buildings in rural areas, with
funds mainly raised by farmers and supplemented by government subsidy. Central
finance has increased the subsidy from
RMB5,000 to 7,500 per household, and 8,500
for those in impoverished areas, securing the
basic housing needs of rural families occupying the most dangerous buildings, and experiencing the greatest financial difficulties. By
the end of 2015, a total of RMB155.67 billion
had been allocated across the country to support 19.97 million poor rural households in
renovating neglected buildings. The government sets ensuring basic sanitary conditions
the primary task of improving the living
environment of poor villages, and gives preferential support to impoverished areas in
protecting traditional villages, and in ensuring rural garbage and sewage treatment
facilities. Since 2012, 1,194 villages in impoverished areas have been included in the List
of Chinas Traditional Villages, each of which
receives a grant of RMB3 million from central finance to protect the village and
improve the living environment. Waste management is improving rapidly in rural areas,
and a system of check and acceptance of
treatment of rural household refuse in each
province has been established, realizing synchronous progress between impoverished
areas and other areas.

V. Concerted Efforts in Poverty

Reduction
Poverty reduction is a systematic project
entailing a set of supporting policies and
mechanisms as well as full participation of
the entire society. Since 2012 the Chinese government has kept up funding for poverty
alleviation and reduction, implemented
reforms and innovations to the working
mechanism, encouraged all sectors of society
to participate in poverty alleviation efforts,
and improved the democratic supervision
mechanism to ensure the effectiveness of
poverty reduction.
Government funding for poverty alleviation keeps increasing. Since 2012 the government has proactively adjusted its fiscal
expenditure structure to increase funding for
poverty reduction and worked to improve
the fiscal policy system for poverty alleviation funding. From 2011 to 2015, the government assigned special poverty alleviation
funds amounting to RMB189.84 billion, with
an average annual growth rate of 14.5 percent; it also assigned RMB5.03 billion from
public lottery welfare funds to support antipoverty development in disadvantaged
former revolutionary base areas. Moreover,
the government has created innovative fiscal
systems and mechanisms for poverty alleviation, strengthened management of government funds for poverty alleviation, and
through government funding and the market system leveraged financial capital in support of population relocation projects for
poverty alleviation.
Poverty alleviation funding methods
have been innovated. The government has
taken targeted funding measures to meet
both specific financing needs for poverty
alleviation and the specific requirements
of development programs in impoverished
areas. It has also worked to meet the financial needs of poverty alleviation through
developing local industries with special
characteristics, relocating people from
impoverished areas, and providing
employment and schooling for the impoverished population. To support the poor in
developing their businesses and increasing
incomes, the government has developed
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Govts poverty-alleviation efforts paying off

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innovative methods of microfinance that

provide registered poor households with
collateral-free small loans, up to 50,000
yuan on a three-year term, at benchmark
interest rates, with interest rates subsidy
from government poverty alleviation
funds and risk compensation from countylevel funds. Poor households had received
small loans of 120 billion yuan by the end
of 2015. China has endeavored to promote
inclusive finance in impoverished areas
and improve the payment service systems
in rural areas to reach out to villages and
households. The government has
improved targeted financial measures for
poverty alleviation, set up a poverty alleviation relending program, which offers
loans to the poor at even lower interest
rates than those of the agricultural relending program, leveraged multiple financial
policy tools, and directed more financial
resources to the impoverished areas and
people. The government has also explored
methods to alleviate poverty through
insurance.
Land use policy toward development
for poverty alleviation has been further
improved. The state has adjusted and
improved overall land use planning, taking into full account the need for development-oriented poverty alleviation and
the need for population relocation as a
method of poverty alleviation, and has
taken a holistic approach to planning the
scale, structure and distribution of land
used for construction, giving priority to
land used for poverty alleviation. More
flexible policies toward the administration of land resources have been adopted.
To ensure all needs relating to poverty
alleviation are covered, in the process of
development-oriented poverty alleviation and population relocation the government has reinforced support for
linking the increase in land quota for
urban construction with the decrease in
land quota for rural construction, allowing any valid surplus quota to circulate
within each province. According to the
principle of industry nurturing agriculture and cities supporting rural areas, the
benefits from the linking have been
promptly returned to impoverished areas. The state has given policy support in
terms of construction land quotas to areas in western and central China inhabited
by ethnic minorities, and to contiguous
impoverished areas with serious difficulties, in order to use unproductive hills,
valleys, mounds and wasteland to develop agritourism.
Targeted poverty alleviation policy has
been effectively implemented. A total of
320 units of the central government and
the Party have taken responsibility for
helping to lift their targeted areas out of
poverty, and 592 counties that are key targets in the state poverty alleviation development program have received help from
units with which they are paired. The Party
and government has improved the leading
unit contact mechanism and designated
nine units as the leading units responsible
for contacts in poverty alleviation pair
work. A total of 68 central governmentowned enterprises have carried out a campaign in the 108 counties in the
disadvantaged former revolutionary base
areas with which they are paired, helping
more than 10,000 poor villages address
water, electricity, road and other infrastructure problems. During the 12th FiveYear Plan period (2011-2015), the Party and
government units appointed a total of
1,670 personnel to temporary posts working on poverty alleviation in the aforementioned 592 key counties, sent 11.86 billion
yuan in poverty alleviation funds and
materials into these counties, helped them
absorb investments totaling 69.58 billion
yuan, and organized the export of 310,000
workers from these counties. The Peoples
Liberation Army and the Chinese Peoples
Armed Police Force have set up over
26,000 contact outposts in 401 townships
of 35 counties with which they are paired,
and helped 3,618 poor villages there.
The eastern region intensifies its
assistance in the alleviation of poverty in
the western region. Nine provinces
(municipalities directly under the central government) and nine cities in eastern China have given support to 207 key
counties in ten provinces and equivalent
units in western China. Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Liaoning and Shandong
have established a mechanism of steadily
increasing assistance funds to their target areas in western China, at an annual
rate of 8 percent to 10 percent. During the
12th Five-Year Plan period, eastern provinces provided disadvantaged western
areas with assistance funds of 5.69 billion yuan, donations of 380 million yuan
from all sectors of society, and investments of 1.2 trillion yuan from enterprises. A total of 684 Party and government
officials from the east were assigned to
temporary posts related to poverty alleviation in the west while 1,150 personnel
from the west were assigned to temporary posts in the east; eastern provinces
conducted training for 778,000 people
from the west on exporting labor services
and helped the west export 2.403 million
workers.

Two shepherdesses milk cows in their farm in Quxu county in Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, last week. In the county, more than 700 povertystricken residents have moved to new houses, built with government subsidies and loans. The homes have electricity, running water and the internet. There are also hospitals, schools, shops, kindergartens and other infrastructure in the new communities. PUB TASHI / XINHUA

Private enterprises, social organizations and individuals participate in poverty alleviation. In 2014 the state set
October 17 as the annual Day for the Eradication of Poverty and has since carried
out relevant activities to mark the date,
raising funds amounting to15 billion
yuan in 2014 and 2015. Campaigns to
nominate advanced collectives and individuals for Social Poverty Alleviation
Awards and announce the China Poverty
Eradication Award have been implemented. The 10,000 enterprises assisting
10,000 villages campaign was launched,
in which private enterprises help targeted poor villages, with Wanda, Evergrande, and some other private enterprises
taking the lead in pairing up with poor
counties to engage in poverty alleviation
actions, and Suning and Jingdong and
other E-commerce enterprises becoming
actively involved in poverty alleviation.
The China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation and other social organizations have
raised large amounts of funds for targeted poverty alleviation. The China Association for the Promotion of Poverty
Alleviation Volunteer Services and the
website of China Social Participation in
Poverty Alleviation and Development
were founded, aimed at building platforms for the entire society to participate
in poverty alleviation.
Poverty alleviation working mechanism
has been improved. China has adopted a
leadership responsibility system with the
Central Authorities making integrated
planning, governments of provinces and
equivalent units taking overall responsibilities, and governments of cities (prefectures) and counties responsible for
implementation. The system is characterized by clear roles and responsibilities
specific to each individual, and an effective performance review system is in
place. Party committees and governments
at every level have signed letters of commitment on poverty alleviation, and performance in poverty alleviation has been
included as a major criterion in the
assessment of leaders in impoverished
counties. The state has implemented an
annual report and supervision system on
poverty alleviation and a level-by-level
inspection and accountability mechanism, strictly investigating any ineffective
performance of departments and areas at
all levels from province, city, county,
township to village, and enforcing
accountability. The mechanism of stationing officials in villages to work on poverty
alleviation has been improved, and
188,000 outstanding officials have been
selected from all over the country and
sent to serve as first secretaries of Party
committees of poor villages. In total
128,000 work teams and 530,000 personnel are involved, covering all poor villages
across the country. The state has adopted
a poverty exit mechanism that applies
strict, standardized and transparent criteria, procedures and verification methods
to deregister from the poverty alleviation
list all households, villages, and counties
that have been lifted out of poverty. The
incidence of poverty is the main criterion
for this deregistration process, with a
threshold set at 2 percent for the central
region and 3 percent for the western
region.
Democratic supervision mechanism
has been continuously enhanced. A
nationwide information network for poverty alleviation has been set up and each
poor household and poor village has been
identified and registered through a proc-

A young teacher plays with her students in Xuliang village in Yuexi county, Anhui province, last
week. She was born in the poverty-stricken county in Dabie Mountains, and decided to come
back and teach local children after graduating from college in Tongcheng, Anhui province.
LIU JUNXI / XINHUA

ess of application, appraisal, announcement to the public, and level-by-level

approval, to ensure the publics right to
know and to participate. The state has
applied democratic and scientific decision making, given full respect to the
development interests of people in need,
and invited them to participate in decision-making concerning poverty alleviation,
and
the
implementation,
management and supervision of programs. The government publicizes funding arrangements and program updates
to ensure transparent operation and
institutionalize access to information as a
regular practice. The state has entrusted
relevant scientific institutions, social
organizations and other independent
third parties to assess the accuracy of
processes to identify and to deregister the
poor population, to measure the satisfaction of those receiving assistance tailored
to the conditions of their own household
or village, and other indexes. Other political parties have been encouraged to exercise supervision over poverty alleviation
work. The central committees of Chinas
eight non-CPC parties have been paired
up with the eight poorest provinces and
equivalent units in central and western
China, their main role being to supervise
the activities for identifying the poor, and
lifting them out of poverty. The state has
strengthened supervision over disciplined execution and auditing in poverty
alleviation, and launched a special campaign to prevent and address abuses of
power in this field. The government has
improved the information disclosure
mechanism, and set up the hotline
12317 to allow the reporting of misconduct in poverty alleviation work, giving
full play to the role of the public in supervision.

VI. Poverty Reduction at a Crucial

Stage
The remarkable achievements of Chinas
poverty reduction strategy will figure prominently in the history of mankinds fight
against poverty. However, the Chinese gov-

ernment is fully aware that the fight

remains tough as the country still has a large
population living in profound poverty, and
the solutions to their problems are becoming increasingly costly and complex. Faced
with these major problems, China has
entered the crucial stage of poverty reduction - this will prove a hard nut to crack.
Most of the targets of Chinas poverty
reduction efforts are now those living in
extreme poverty, and this poses formidable problems for the country. The first
issue is the scale of the problem. By the
end of 2015, there were still 14 contiguous
poor areas with special difficulties, 832
impoverished counties, 128,000 registered poor villages, and 55.75 million people living in poverty - this is the equivalent
of the entire population of a mediumsized country. The second problem is the
nature of the challenge - the increasing
cost and complexity resulting from the
extreme degree of poverty afflicting the
majority of these people, and their weak
capacity for development. The third is
time pressure - China has set itself the goal
of lifting 10 million people out of poverty
every year from 2016. The fourth is the
high risk of a return to poverty - a large
number of poor households struggle to
remain free of poverty, and can be pushed
back into poverty as a result of factors
such as natural disaster, illness, or issues
involving education, marriage and housing; they therefore rejoin the existing
impoverished population.
It is an essential requirement of
socialism as well as a key mission of the
CPC as the ruling party to eradicate poverty, improve peoples living standards,
and achieve common prosperity among
the people. Since the 18th CPC National
Congress held in 2012, aimed at eliminating poverty and better protecting
the peoples rights to live and to develop
in impoverished areas, the CPC Central
Committee led by General Secretary Xi
Jinping has committed China to pursuing innovative, balanced and ecofriendly
development
featuring
openness and sharing, to making best

use of its political and institutional

strengths, and to implementing the
basic strategy of taking targeted measures for poverty alleviation. The Central
Authorities are determined to mobilize
all members of the Party and the society
to achieve poverty eradication by ensuring that progress in development-oriented poverty alleviation is coordinated
with overall economic and social development, by combining two strategiesapplying targeted measures for poverty
alleviation and developing contiguous
poor areas with special difficulties, by
attaching equal importance to poverty
alleviation and ecological protection,
and by integrating poverty alleviation
with social security. The CPC Central
Committee and the State Council jointly
issued the Decision on Winning the
Fight Against Poverty at the end of 2015,
and defined the overall goals of poverty
eradication for the 13th Five-Year Plan
period (2016-2020). By 2020, the state is
committed to ensuring that the impoverished rural population has stable
access to adequate food and clothing,
compulsory education, and basic medical services and housing; to realizing a
growth rate of per-capita disposable
income in poor rural areas higher than
the national average; to achieving indices of major basic public services close
to the national average levels; to ensuring that the rural population living
below the current poverty threshold
and all impoverished counties are all
lifted out of poverty; and to solving the
problems of regional poverty. In March
2016, the Outline of the 13th Five-Year
Plan for National Economic and Social
Development was released, laying out
strategies for striving toward the overall goals of poverty alleviation.
Based on statistics collected at the end of
2014 for the population living in poverty,
the government has worked out specific
schemes to actualize the overall goals:
first, helping 30 million people who have
the ability to work and possess productive
skills to escape from poverty by supporting
them in developing their industries; second, helping 10 million people escape from
poverty by transferring them to locations
where they can find employment; third,
helping 10 million people whose land does
not provide subsistence to escape from
poverty by relocating them to other places;
fourth, bringing all the impoverished population under the coverage of the rural
subsistence allowance system and eradicating poverty through the guarantee of
social security. The government has
pledged to lift 10 million people out of poverty every year from 2016 on the basis of
2015 figure of 14.42 million.
Based on the National Plan for Poverty
Alleviation in the 13th Five- Year Plan
Period and the Annual Poverty Reduction
Plan, central government departments
have drawn up specific schemes and guidance for poverty alleviation. Local governments of the provinces and equivalent
units have comprehensively implemented the central government plan, worked
out local plans for poverty alleviation in
the 13th Five-Year Plan period, and published their 1+N targeted poverty alleviation policies (one over-all policy plus a
number of supporting policies). All sectors have included poverty alleviation
into their specialized industrial plans in
the 13th Five-Year Plan period, and made
poverty reduction a priority in implementation.
The government will provide solid
financial support to achieve victory in the
fight against poverty. In the coming five
years, the state will ensure that its funding
keeps pace with the needs of poverty alleviation. The central government will continue to increase transfer payments to
impoverished areas and ensure substantial growth in central government funds
for poverty alleviation. General transfer
payments, specialized transfer payments
concerning peoples well-being, and
investments within the central budget will
be tilted in support of impoverished areas
and population.
China remains an active advocate of the
cause of world poverty alleviation, as well
as a faithful practitioner and vigorous promoter of the cause of international human
rights. Chinas commitment to lifting the
entire impoverished population in rural
areas out of poverty by 2020 is a prerequisite for completing the building of a moderately prosperous society, and a crucial
step in implementing the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, embodying its sense of responsibility to the world
as a major country. China will continue to
honor international obligations commensurate with the stage and status of its own
development. It will strengthen exchanges
and cooperation with developing countries and international organizations in
the fields of poverty alleviation and
human rights. It will promote the sharing
of advanced concepts and experience in
these fields through multiple channels
such as foreign aid, project cooperation,
technology transfer, and think-tank
exchanges, in order to advance the vigorous development of the causes of poverty
alleviation and human rights throughout
the world.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2016 CHINA DAILY

CUBA

YEMEN

Homegrown fashion
bursts onto the scene

Field grows
into camp
for victims
of conflict

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Havana

Like so much else in Cuba,

shopping for clothes isnt
easy.
Buying a simple pair of
socks or a T-shirt means
choosing between the wildly
overpriced, shoddy offerings
of state-run stores and the
bales of low-priced clothing
illegally imported by mules
traveling from the United
States, Ecuador or Panama.
This year, a third option is
bursting onto the scene after
years of growing quietly in
backroom workshops and
bedroom studios. A small
homegrown fashion industry is winning renown and
an increasing share of
Cubans limited clothing
budget with simple but funand-stylish clothing produced on the island with
natural fabrics and sold at
competitive prices.
Hundreds of private
designers are turning out
gauzy wedding dresses, brilliantly decorated bathing
suits, linen pants and even
uniforms for state businesses. Last week, dozens of
designers displayed their
wares at the five-day Havana
Fashion Week at Cubas most
elegant theaters, where hundreds turned out for runway
shows, private fittings and
cocktail parties.
The changes that have
taken place in this country,
the openings, make things
easier, said Jesus Frias, a
designer who put on a swimwear runway show on Friday.
Theres a fashion renaissance in Cuba but it cant be a
priority for the state, so its
we private designers who are

bringing it back.
The growth of the artisanal fashion industry comes
thanks to free-market
reforms put in place by President Raul Castro after he
took power in 2008. Unlike
some new private businesses, the fashion industry is
receiving a relatively warm
welcome from the bureaucracy, perhaps because it
doesnt directly compete
with the state.
After successful runs in
the first decades of Cubas
socialist revolution, staterun clothing businesses
were hurt by the collapse of
the Soviet Union and had
largely disappeared by the
mid-1990s.
Celebrities and fashionistas have made Havana a hot
destination over the last two
years amid a boom in tourism set off by detente with
the US.
Privately designed clothes
remain out of reach for
Cubans on state salaries of
about $30 a month, but
those with private-sector
jobs or help from family
overseas can afford them.
Mario Freixas, a well-known
designer who dresses many
of the stars of state-run television, sells shirts for $20
and mens and womens
pants for $30.
Alongside the domestic
market, Cubas own designers are hoping that their
lightweight blouses and
fringed swimsuits will
become popular items for
visitors to take home.
We all have high hopes
for the tourism boom, Frias
said. I dont think anyone
comes to Cuba to buy
imported clothing.

Models present a collection during Havana Fashion Week at

the Grand Theater of Alicia Alonso. The event attracted dozens
of designers to the Cuban capital. RAMON ESPINOSA / ASSOCIATED
PRESS

UNITED STATES

Harvard museum to
dust off old curiosities
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Cambridge, US

As one of the worlds oldest

museums dedicated to
anthropology turns 150, its
undergoing some big changes
toshowcaseitssignificantrole
in developing the discipline.
Leaders of the Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology at Harvard University hinted this month at
changes to come when they
trotted out for one day
only some of its quirkier,
rarely seen pieces as part of a
birthday bash marking the
day in 1866 when philanthropist George Peabody
committed $150,000 to help
found the museum.
Among the curiosities was
a grizzly bear claw necklace
from Meriwether Lewis and
William Clarks expedition
to the Pacific coast and a grotesque, 19th century mermaid made of papiermache, wood and fish parts
that showman P.T. Barnum
once took on a national tour.
The FeeJee Mermaid and
other items long sitting in
storage will find a permanent
home in public view as part
of a new exhibition exploring
the Peabodys role in anthropology, said Castle McLaughlin, a museum curator.
When it opens in April,
All the World is Here: Harvards Peabody Museum
and the Invention of Ameri-

can Anthropology will feature roughly 600 objects.

Officials hope to show a
greater range of the museums more than 1 million
items, only a fraction of
which are on display now.
Harvard was very much
in the business of developing
anthropology, said Jane
Pickering, head of Harvards
science and culture museums. Its a really interesting
occasion to reflect on the
Peabody and its role. Within
its field, its incredible. The
size and quality of its collection is truly astonishing.
McLaughlin said the display will be the largest and
perhaps most ambitious the
museum has attempted, taking up an entire floor. The
museum, which opened on
Harvards campus in 1877,
currently has two levels of
exhibit space open.
The new exhibition will
highlight curiosities collected by American ship captains
that traveled to the Far East
from the late 1700s to mid1800s, of which the Feejee
Mermaid is a prime example.
The museums many
famed excavations from
the prehistoric earthwork in
Ohio known as Great Serpent Mound to the Mayan
ruins of Copan in western
Honduras will also be a
focus, as will the museums
role in the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Abs, Yemen

Drawing inspiration
Ave, 4, of the United States, paints on her father's arm during the International Tattoo Convention in Bucharest, Romania, on Sunday.
Prominent tattoo artists from across the world displayed their skills at the event in the Romanian capital, which was help over the
weekend. VADIM GHIRDA / ASSOCIATED PRESS

UNITED KINGDOM

Post-Brexit, Britains Jews

look to return to Germany
Descendants of Holocaust victims seek to
retain ties to Europe after UKs exit decision
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in London

Thomas Harding is doing

what other descendants of
Holocaust victims would find
unimaginable: applying for a
German passport.
When Britain voted to
leave the European Union in
June, the 48-year-old author
had to make a decision that
was never necessary in a borderless Europe should he
request the restoration of
German citizenship stripped
from his family by the Third
Reich? He needed only a few
hours to make up his mind.
This is more than the
practical. This is also about
something for us, or for me.
Its about something spiritual, its about reconciliation,
he said. Its about acknowledging the truth of the horrors of the past but also about
trying to build a better future
together, and as a European,
thats what I hope to do.
One of the complicated realities of the UKs pending
divorce from the 28-nation EU
is that many Britons whose
ancestors came from other
parts of Europe are claiming
citizenship in other member
states so they can retain ties to
the continent. Inquiries about
passports are up at the German, Austrian and Polish
embassies in London.
Some people want to retain
their ability to travel easily
from country to country or
maintain business ties. Others

just want to be part of Europe.

But for Jews whose families fled Germany to escape
Adolf Hitler, the decision
means re-examining longheld beliefs about the country
that once persecuted them.
The children and grandchildren of Jewish refugees
are taking advantage of a law
that allows the descendants
of people persecuted by the
Nazis to regain the citizenship that was removed from
them in the 1930s and 1940s.
More than 400 Britons have
sought information about the
law since the June 23 referendum on the EU, and German
authorities have received at
least 100 formal applications,
compared with about 20
annually in recent years.
Michael Newman, chief
executive of the Association
of Jewish Refugees, said Brexit the British exit from the
EU has fueled interest in
German citizenship but its
hard to know how many people will actually apply. Jews
are now able to consider such
a step because Germany has
made huge strides in addressing the past, he said.
There is an acceptance of
guilt, and I think that makes
it a different proposition,
said Newman.
Many of those seeking restoration of their citizenship
dont intend to live in Germany but want the freedom to
travel and work in EU nations.
Ben Lewis, a 49-year-old
documentary filmmaker, is

Its about acknowledging the horrors

of the past but also
about trying to
build a better
future together.
Thomas Harding, author who
plans to return to Germany

among those thinking about

applying. Lewis, whose film
and production company has
worked for years on the continent, sees Brexit as an abomination, particularly the antiimmigrant sentiment in the
UK that influenced many
people to vote to leave the EU.
Its blame the foreigners,
he said. Its like the 1930s all
over again.
The history of Jews in
Europe is also fueling the
wish for second passports.
While most Jews may not
want to leave Britain now,
they want the option to leave
in the future, said Marc Meyer, director of the Conference
of European Rabbis.
For a Jew, without being
paranoid, for you to be secure
in a place for a long time is to
misread history, he said.
Brexit opens the floodgates
of insecurity and those of
opportunity.
For some, the decision to
seek another passport has

been years in the making.

Harding has long been coming
to terms with his German past,
a journey documented in his
book, The House by the Lake.
The Nazis killed six of his
relatives, revoked his familys
citizenship and forced them
to leave behind property,
including the idyllic summer
cottage built by his greatgrandfather Alfred Alexander, a doctor whose patients
included Albert Einstein and
Marlene Dietrich. Those who
survived fled to Britain.
The cottage was due to be
demolished after it fell into
disrepair, but Harding managed to save it.
Now its Alexander Haus,
which seeks to teach local
history.
Its programs also aim to
help residents better understand the recent wave of Syrian and other refugees seeking
protection in Germany. That
has special meaning for
Harding, because his sister
married a Syrian Kurd. The
way Harding sees it, Germany is showing leadership by
taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees last year.
Now its logical, he says, for
Jews to cling to the EU, which
was created to build ties that
would make another European war impossible.
You could argue that the
flight of the German Jews, the
persecution of the German
Jews, was the symbol of the
breaking up of Europe, and
the European Union was set
up specifically to create a
political, social context of
peace, he said. Thats part of
it, isnt it?

INDONESIA

Tourists help endangered turtles find freedom

By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Pariaman,
Indonesia

A group of turtles scurried

down a beach and glided into
the sea, enjoying their newfound freedom after being
cared for at an Indonesian
conservation center.
The sea turtles were
released by tourists in Pariaman city, on western Sumatra
island, in front of the Turtle
Conservation
Technical
Operating Unit.
Turtles, which are under
threat due to poaching and
habitat destruction, are
protected under Indonesian law and the government-run facility mainly
focuses its work on olive
ridley, hawksbill and green
turtles.

The center typically finds

newly hatched baby turtles
and looks after them for several months to ensure they
will survive, before releasing
them into the wild.
Once brought to the facility, they are kept in small pools
which contain filtered seawater. The water is changed
daily to ensure it stays fresh
and the turtles shells are given a scrub.
Around 1,000 baby turtles
and about 50 adults are currently at the center, which
was set up in 2009.
There is also a breeding
facility where unhatched
eggs are sometimes taken
and kept in incubators.
The center has handled
more than 30,000 sea turtles
since its establishment. Visitors can pay 10,000 rupiah

An official holds a sea turtle at a conservation center in

Pariaman, Indonesia. Turtles are under threat due to poaching
and habitat destruction. ADEK BERRY / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

(70 US cents) to release a turtle into the sea.

Six of the worlds seven turtle species can be found in
Indonesia, an archipelago of

more than 17,000 islands that

is home to a dizzying array of
exotic wildlife.
Almost all turtle species are
endangered.

The cornfield is dotted with

tents, mud-brick shelters and
huts made of sticks and plastic
sheets, home to around 900
Yemenis who fled the frontlines of their countrys war.
Buried in the fields soil are the
bodies of loved ones they carried with them as they escaped.
Around 50 kilometers to the
north near the border with
Saudi Arabia, their hometown
Haradh lies emptied of people
and largely destroyed by fighting as Yemeni rebels and Saudi
forces bombard each other
with rockets and missiles
across the frontier.
I am still in disbelief, said
Moussa al-Shibani, a farmer
now living in the cornfield,
known as al-Makhzan camp.
I was stable in my land, my
town, among my family. I
never thought to leave. My
home is a piece of me.

I was stable in my
land, my town,
among my family. I
never thought to
leave. My home is a
piece of me.
Moussa al-Shibani, a farmer
who now lives in the al-Makhzan
camp

Al-Makhzan camp, located

on Yemens western coastal
plain below towering desert
mountains, is just one small
corner of misery in the
humanitarian crisis that has
overwhelmed this country.
More than 3 million of the
countrys 26 million people
have been driven from their
homes; entire towns have
been wiped out under airstrikes; other cities have come
under crippling sieges by rebel
forces. Hunger has become
widespread.
The war began when the Shiite rebels known as Houthis
based in the north seized the
capital Sanaa. In March 2015,
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies
launched a campaign of airstrikes against the rebels. More
than 4,000 civilians have been
killed in airstrikes or in ground
fighting between the rebels and
fighters backing the internationally recognized president.
Haradh had once been relatively prosperous, benefiting
from cross-border trade and
smuggling.
Now the main street is lined
with leveled buildings, according to footage aired on Yemeni
TV. Most residents some
11,500 families fled in the
summer of 2015, scattering to
nearby areas. Some came to
the field outside the town of
Abs, and its owner let them set
up shacks, which has since
grown into al-Makhzan camp.
Leila, a grandmother with a
traditional tattoo on her forehead, said her home was flattened in an airstrike. As her
family fled, they carried with
them the bodies of two of her
children and a friend killed in
the strike. They are now buried in the field.
Were worth nothing, not
even the palm of a hand, she
said, using a local expression
that means a tiny amount.
Every three months, aid
from UN agencies arrives,
bringing much-needed food.
For some, though, the psychological toll is more of a concern. Yahia Gabers four
daughters have suffered trauma from the bombings. His
daughter Beshayer, nearly 15,
bites people, tears her hair and
slaps her own face.
Doctors told them theres
nothing that could be done,
Gaber said, adding his own
explanation: They have been
struck by devils.

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Briefly

IRAQ

UNITED STATES

Daughter of Olympic
sprinter Tyson Gay
shot dead; 3 charged

MYANMAR

25 bodies found
after ferry sinks
Searchers have recovered 25
bodies from a ferry that sank
in central Myanmar and
expect to find scores more
corpses as workers begin
raising the boat from the riverbed, officials said on Monday. A total of 154 people
have been rescued since the
boat sank early on Saturday
on the Chindwin River about
70 kilometers north of the
city of Monywa. Search
teams scouring the river,
who are now securing the
boat with ropes so it can be
hauled out by a crane, fear
the death toll could go as
high as more than 100.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Lexington, Kentucky

SYRIA

Air raids kill at

least 12 civilians
Airstrikes killed at least 12
civilians in Syrias Aleppo on
Monday, a monitor said,
bringing to 45 the number
killed in 24 hours of bombardment on the battleground city. The Britainbased Syrian Observatory for
Human Rights said five children were among the dead
on Monday in the rebel-held
district of Marjeh in east
Aleppo. Dozens more people
were wounded or still
trapped under rubble. Of the
45 civilians killed, the highest
number of dead were in Qaterji, where Russian raids
claimed 17 lives overnight,
said Observatory head Rami
Abdel Rahman.

Iraqi forces deploy in the area of al-Shourah, some 45 kilometers south of Mosul, as they advance toward the city to retake it from the
Islamic State jihadist group, on Monday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced earlier in the day that the long-awaited operation
to recapture Mosul was under way. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Iraqi forces launch push

to drive IS out of Mosul
The terrorist group
took control of Iraqs
second largest city
more than two years

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Powerful quake
strikes coast

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Khazer, Iraq

A powerful earthquake
measuring 6.9 magnitude
struck off the coast of New
Britain island in Papua New
Guinea on Monday, the US
Geological Survey said.
There was no tsunami warning issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and
there were no immediate
reports of damage. The
USGS said the quakes epicenter was a shallow 35 km
deep in the sea between New
Britain island and Papua
New Guineas north coast.
We felt it just a few minutes
ago, but from where we are
there was no damage, said
Claire Jolam, receptionist at
Walindi Plantation Resort, at
Kimbe on New Britain.

Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by US-led

coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated
military operations early on
Monday as the long-awaited
fight to wrest the northern city
of Mosul from Islamic State
fighters got underway.
Convoys of Iraqi, Kurdish
and US forces moved east of
Mosul along the front line as
US-led coalition airstrikes sent
plumes of smokes into the air
and heavy artillery rounds
could be heard.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider
al-Abadi announced the start
of the operations on state television, launching the country
on its toughest battle since US
troops left nearly five years ago.
Mosul, Iraqs second largest

city, has been under IS rule for

more than two years and is
still home to more than 1 million civilians according to UN
estimates.
These forces that are liberating you today, they have one
goal in Mosul which is to get
rid of Daesh and to secure your
dignity. They are there for your
sake, al-Abadi said, addressing
the citys residents and using
the Arabic language acronym
for the Islamic State group.
God willing, we shall win,
he added, flanked by military
commanders.
The push to retake Mosul
will be the largest military
operation in Iraq since US
troops left in 2011 and, if successful, the biggest blow yet to
the Islamic State. Al-Abadi
pledged the fight for the city
would lead to the liberation of
all Iraqi territory from the militants this year.
In Washington, Defense
Secretary Ash Carter called
the launch of the Mosul operation a decisive moment in the
campaign to deliver a lasting
defeat to IS.
Iraqi forces have been mas-

1 million
civilians still live in Mosul, according to estimates from the UN.

sing around the city in recent

days, including elite special
forces that are expected to lead
the charge into the city, as well
as Kurdish forces, Sunni tribal
fighters, federal police and
Shiite militia forces.
South of Mosul, Iraqi military units are based at the
sprawling Qayara air base, but
to the citys east, men are
camped out in abandoned
homes as the tens of thousands
of troops massed around the
city have overwhelmed the few
military bases in the area.
Kurdish forces are stationed
to the north and east of Mosul,
a mostly Sunni city that has
long been a center of insurgent
activity and anti-central government sentiment after the
US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Iraqi officials have warned that
the Mosul operation has been
rushed before a political agreement has been set for how the

city will be governed after IS.

Lieutenant Colonel Amozhgar Taher with Iraqs Kurdish
forces, also known as the peshmerga, said his men would
only move to retake a cluster
of mostly Christian and Shabak villages east of Mosul and
would not enter the city itself
due to their concern for sectarian sensitivities.
To eliminate the threat we
must eliminate (IS) from
Mosul, Taher said at a makeshift base in an abandoned
house along the front line, some
30 kilometers east of Mosul.
Iraqi special forces Lieutenant Colonel Ali Hussein said
the Kurdish forces are leading
the first push on Mosuls eastern front. His men were also
anxious to move out to the
front line, though he said he
expects they will wait near the
town of Khazer for another
day or two.
Mosul fell to IS fighters during the militants June 2014
blitz that left nearly a third of
Iraq in the extremists hands
and plunged the country into
its most severe crisis since the
US-led invasion.

Three men have been

charged in connection with a
shootout police say left the
15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay dead.
Mark Wetmore, Tyson
Gays agent, confirmed the
death to the Associated
Press.
Trinity Gay died at a Lexington, Kentucky, hospital
on Sunday after she was shot
in the neck around 4 am during an exchange of gunfire
between people in two
parked vehicles in the parking lot of a nearby Cook Out
restaurant.
Dvonta
Middlebrooks
fired multiple shots during
the incident, Lexington
police investigators said on
Sunday.
He was charged with wanton endangerment and possession of a firearm by a
convicted felon.
A father and son were also
charged on Sunday.
Chazerae Taylor, 38, and
his 19-year-old son DMarkeo both face wanton endangerment counts, police said
in an online statement.
Police
spokeswoman
Brenna Angel said police
dont believe Trinity Gay was
in either of the vehicles
involved.
Tyson Gay said he and his
daughter were very close,
according to Lexington TV
station WLEX, which spoke
to him on Sunday.
Its so crazy. I have no idea
what happened, Gay told
the station.
Grief counselors were
scheduled to be at Lexingtons Lafayette High School
on Monday for students and
staff, Fayette County Public
Schools spokeswoman Lisa
Deffendall said. Both Gay
and his daughter attended
the school.
Trinity Gay was a standout
sprinter, placing in the top
five in several events at the
state championships in May.
Her father still holds the
state record in the 100 set in
2001.
Tyson Gay competed in
the last three Summer Olym-

pics. He was part of a team

that won a silver medal in
the 4x100-meter relay at the
2012 London Games though
that medal was ultimately
stripped after Gay tested
positive for steroids in 2013.
Last summers Games in
Rio featured another stinging disappointment for Gay,
33, who has battled injuries.
He was a member of the US
mens 4x100-meter relay
team that finished third in
the final before being disqualified for an illegal baton
exchange between Mike
Rodgers and Justin Gatlin.
The teams appeal was
denied, giving Canada the
bronze medal.
The sports world has been
mourning the news of the
death on social media.
USA Track and Field
tweeted, Sending our
thoughts & prayers to
@TysonLGay & his loved
ones as they mourn the tragic & senseless loss of his
daughter, Trinity.
Several of Gays USA track
teammates echoed the comment, including Natasha
Hastings and Arman Hall.
Former NFL wide receiver
Santonio Holmes, NBA veteran Vince Carter and tennis
great Martina Navratilova
have also tweeted messages
of support for Gay.

Its so crazy. I
have no idea what
happened.
Tyson Gay, father of
15-year-old Trinity Gay,
told Lexington, Kentucky, TV
station WLEX, which interviewed him on Sunday.

UNITED KINGDOM

London police to
get body cameras
London police say thousands
of officers will be equipped
with body-worn video cameras in the coming months.
Police said the rollout was
scheduled to begin on Monday in a phased approach.
More than 22,000 offers will
have cameras mid-2017.
Commissioner Bernard
Hogan-Howe said the widespread use of cameras should
help build public confidence
in the police. He said: What
we do every day will be seen
by the public. That has to be
good. The cameras will be
placed on the officers uniforms and will be recording
only after they are turned on
by the officer.

JAPAN

Panel begins to study emperors possible abdication

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Tokyo

Experts on a governmentcommissioned panel held their

first meeting on Monday to
study how to accommodate
Emperor Akihitos apparent
abdication wish, in a country
where he is not supposed to say
anything political.
Unlike many European
countries where abdication of
kings and queens are relatively
common, Japans modern
imperial law doesnt allow abdi-

cation, and Japans postwar

constitution stipulates the
emperor as a mere symbol
with no political power or say.
Allowing Akihito to abdicate
would be a major change to the
system, and raises a series of
legal and logistical questions,
ranging from laws subject to
change to the emperors postabdication role, his title and
residence.
The six panel members
five academics and a business
organization executive are to
compile a report early next year

An extremely
important issue
that affects the
basis of our
country.
Shinzo Abe, prime minister of
Japan

after interviewing specialists

on the constitution, monarchy
and history.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
said at the outset of the meeting
on Monday that he hopes the
discussion is carried out thoroughly because it is an
extremely important issue that
affects the basis of our country.
Akihito, 82, suggested his
wish to abdicate in a rare video
message to the public in
August, citing his age and concern that he may not be able to
fulfill his official duties. His

JAPAN

Anti-nuke governor
wins key election
The election of an anti-nuclear governor in a region
north of Tokyo further challenges Prime Minister Shinzo Abes energy policy and
could mean Japan continues
to rely on coal-fired electricity, undermining its efforts to
reduce carbon emissions.
Ryuichi Yoneyama, a political outsider, became governor of Niigata prefecture on
Sunday on the basis of his
vow to keep a nuclear power
plant located there shut. The
plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station, is
the worlds largest and its
restart was crucial to owner
Tokyo Electric Power Cos
rebound from the aftermath
of the 2011 Fukushima
nuclear disaster.
AP REUTERS AFP

BRAZIL

25 inmates die as rival factions clash

By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Sao Paolo

At least 25 inmates died on

Sunday in clashes between two
rival factions in a prison in far
northern Brazil, the latest episode of violence shaking the
countrys underfunded and
overcrowded prison system.
Seven of the dead were
beheaded and six burned to
death in fighting at a prison in
Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, the news site G1
reported, citing local police.
The bloodshed began when
inmates of one wing of the
Agricola de Monte Cristo prison broke into another wing.

Prisoners were armed with

knives and wooden clubs, an
inmates wife who was in the
prison when the riot broke out
told G1.
Roraima state Secretary of
Justice Uziel Castro said that
the fight erupted during visiting hours, and some 100 relatives of inmates were briefly
held hostage.
The rioters demanded that a
judge come to hear their
demands. Instead, Special
Operations Police stormed the
prison, released the hostages
and regained control of the
site by sundown.
All the hostages were
released, Castro said, adding

that most of them were women.

The prison, some 3,400 kilometers northwest of Rio de
Janeiro, is in a state that borders Venezuela and Guyana.
Joana Moura, head of the
union of Roraima penal workers, told the Folha de Boa Vista
newspaper that the incident
is a reflection of the lack of
interest from the state government toward the prison system.
According to Moura, there
is no security equipment,
there are not enough personnel for the tasks, and the
agents are working beyond
their limits.
Officials from the coroners

office were in the prison to

take out the bodies, the newspaper reported.
Fights and riots are frequent throughout Brazils
overcrowded prison system.
As of the end of 2014, there
were 622,000 people imprisoned in Brazil, according to a
Ministry of Justice report,
which added that most of the
prisoners are black males.
Brazil has the worlds fourth
largest prison population, the
report said, after the United
States, China and Russia.
Human Rights groups have
long complained about the
deplorable conditions in Brazilian prisons.

message was subtle and the

emperor did not use the word
abdication, because saying
that openly could have violated
his constitutional status.
Current law, set in 1947, largely inherits a 19th century constitution
that
banned
abdication as a potential risk to
political stability.
About 80 percent of the general public supports Akihitos
abdication, saying he should be
allowed to retire and enjoy life
while he is still in good health.
In addition to receiving foreign

dignitaries, Akihito still travels

across the country to attend
ceremonies and has repeatedly
visited disaster-hit areas to console survivors.
The government reportedly
wants to allow Akihitos abdication as an exception and enact a
special law to avoid dealing
with divisive issues such as possible female succession and
lack of successors.
Akihito suggested in his public message a need to consider
how to make the succession
process smoother.

12 Guilin special

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 CHINA DAILY

The Xiaoyao Building built during the Tang Dynasty (618-907)

in Guilin is one of Chinas most famous ancient architecture.
TANG YANLAN / FOR CHINA DAILY

Nuo dance is a cultural heritage in Lujia village, a key

cultural tourism zone in Guilin.
TANG SHUNSHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY

Rooting travel
in local heritage
to restore glory

HISTORICAL TREASURES
GIVE GUILIN NEW DIMENSION
Rich cultural legacy
set to attract more
tourists to hot spot,
Li Yang reports.
uilin, a popular tourist city in the
Guangxi Zhuang autonomous
region, has been renowned for
its picturesque karst landscape
for centuries.
Now the city is looking to exploit its
historical cultural resources to add a
new dimension of human interests to
its charm.
Guilins natural scenery is worldrenowned. But few people know about
its historical culture, said Zhao Leqin,
Party chief of Guilin. As citizens of Guilin,
we are responsible for safeguarding its
cultural power and ensuring that such
power is put to good use.
The city government dismantled a large
slum town recently in the center of Guilin
around Jingjiang Prince Palace in order
to uncover historical buildings and lanes
that had been submerged by the slums.
Some of the hidden structures are actually
older than the palace.
The palace is actually a rectangular
courtyard, which is encircled by solid
stone walls and covers an area of 150,000
square meters.
It was built between 1372 and 1392 by
Jingjiang King Zhu Shouqian, the greatnephew of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder
of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It was
home to 14 princes of the Ming Dynastys
Zhu family.
During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911),
family homes and communities sprang
up around the palace walls.
The renovation project injected new

44.7
million
tourist trips were made to Guilin last year

Residents perform tai chi at Jingjiang Prince Palace in Guilin. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

life into both the Xiaoyao Building and

Dongxi Lane, which were both built during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and were
gradually consumed by the slum town
that began to spread in the early 20th
century.
Dongxi Lane, or East-West Lane, is the
oldest road in Guilin, and it has borne
witness to the citys ups and downs over
the past 1,400 years.
Working from historical records, the
local government rebuilt the Xiaoyao
Building on its original site near the Lijiang River. It is a 23.6-meter high, twostory wood-and-tile building, built on
an above-ground 1.5-meter-high stone
foundation.
Zhou Jiabin, mayor of Guilin, said
the historical sites and relics can help to
enhance Guilins core competitiveness
and foster the development of its cultural

industry. The government has also renovated ve old residences of famous people
and Yanshan Park, and opened Zengpiyan
Hill State Archaeology Relic Park and the
Flying Tigers Relic Park.
The latter was built to commemorate
the pilots from the United States Army
Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps, nicknamed The Flying Tigers, who, under
the authority of the US president, were
tasked with defending China against
Japanese forces.
We must focus on the protection of our
historical heritage, Zhou said.
The construction of Guilin Wanda Cultural Tourism City is the latest example
of the citys drive to attract more tourists.
Work on the project began in May, with a
total investment of 30 billion yuan ($4.62
billion).
It is anticipated that the project will be

completed by 2020 and receive 20 million

visitors annually. The local government
regards the project as an important step
toward its objective of building a global
tourism resort, which is also in line with
the ambition of the central government.
Statistics show that a total of 44.7 million tourist trips were made to Guilin last
year, a signicant increase on the gure
of 20 million that was recorded in 2011.
The citys annual tourism revenue
increased from 21.54 billion yuan in 2011
to 51.73 billion yuan last year. The average
expenditure of each tourist in Guilin was
1,157 yuan last year, nearly twice as much
as in 2010.
The local government has also encouraged farmers in the villages surrounding
Guilin to turn their homes into family
inns and restaurants so that tourists can
get a genuine avor of local life, so farmers can reap the financial rewards of
increased tourism.
Guilin has offered a 72-hour visa-free
transit stay for travelers from 51 countries
since July 2014, and a six-day visa-free stay
for travelers from the 10 counties of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
In the rst half of this year, 24.46 million
tourism trips were made to Guilin, up
30.04 percent year-on-year. Of these trips,
1.08 million were from the Chinese mainland, up 4.56 percent compared with the
same period last year. In addition, Guilins
tourism revenue in the rst half of this
year was 27.14 billion yuan, an increase of
31.35 percent, year-on-year.
Contact the writer at
liyang@chinadaily.com.cn

City maps out the future of total tourism

By WANG JINHUI
wangjinhui@chinadaily.com.cn

A map carved on a cliff of Yingwu Hill in the north of Guilin in

Guangxi Zhuang autonomous
region records the advanced
water system of the city during
the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
The masterpiece that was
carved some 700 years ago, later
called The Map of Jingjiang Prefectural City, is the earliest example of city planning in China.
It is also where the inspiration
came from for todays ecological
Two Rivers and Four Lakes project, Chinas rst demonstration
area for all-region tourism in the
country.
As one of Guilins calling cards,
the project, which covers some
6.15 million square meters, connects the citys Taohua and Lijiang Rivers in the east to four
inland lakes Ronghu and
Shanhu Lakes in the south, Guihu Lake in the east and Mulonghu Lake in the north.
Encircled by rivers, lakes
and mountains, the downtown
area of Guilin forms a unique
landscape studded with wharfs,
boats, bridges, pavilions and
both traditional and modern
architecture.

Lujia village in Xiufeng district in Guilin is now a popular cultural

tourism zone for visitors from home and abroad.

The Sun and Moon pagodas at

Shanhu Lake in Guilin.

TANG SHUNSHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY

PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

It is a mixture of nature, traditions and modernity. The project

has become the essence of Guilin, making the city the Oriental
Venice, said Jiang Yuliang, Party
chief of Xiufeng district in the
city.
He added that boat tours along
the water route allow passengers
to dream of the citys prosperity
during the Song Dynasty, as they
pass thousand-year-old banyan
trees on the shore, as well as
caves, Buddhist pagodas and

gate towers. The rivers and lakes

project covers such diverse elements as environmental protection, architecture, gardens and
trees, mountains and rivers, local
customs and ethnic cultures.
With investment of 100 million yuan ($15.15 million), the
local government initiated the
project in 1999 and completed
the rst phase in 2002.
Focusing on the ecological
environment and infrastructure,
it was rst constructed as a pub-

lic welfare project for local residents. And upon completion, the
project became an area for green
development.
The project encountered
many obstacles in the beginning
one of which was the need to
clear silt from the lakes, Jiang
said. Over the years, sediment
washing into the lakes has continually raised the bottom level.
The government used such
tools as hydraulic blowers and a
long-distance pipeline to trans-

port the silt to storage yards 13

kilometers outside the city.
In total, 600,000 cubic meters
of silt was removed from Ronghu, Shanhu and Guihu Lakes.
The need to clean up Mulonghu Lake, the only manmade lake
in the project, created another
problem, as it had deteriorated
into a mixture of stagnant ponds
and buried channels.
Luo Jianzhang, director of
the Guilin Tourism Development Committee, said the project is key to the citys all-region
tourism plan. From boating to
walking, visitors will be able to
enjoy both the natural views and
cultural sights around the lakes
and, at the same time, the restaurants, hotels and shops along
the rivers, Luo said.
He added that Guilin has
changed its tourism model from
a scenic-spot-centric one to an
all-region version by upgrading
its resources, industries, natural
environment and public services. A vital part of all-region
tourism in Guilin is combining ethnic cultures with rural
landscapes and features such as
ethnic villages and Impression
Liu Sanjie (a play that used the
Lijiang River as a stage), Luo
said.

By LI YANG

Xiufeng district, or the beautiful peak district, of

Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is named
after Duxiu Peak in Jingjiang Prince Palace, which lies
at the center of the district.
The Duxiu Peak, or solitary beauty peak, is 66 meters
high and one of the earliest tourist spots in Guilin.
Because it has attracted many famous poets and writers
to Guilin in history, it is an origin of the citys tourism
industry, according to Pang Tiejian, vice-director of
Guilin tourism bureau.
Different generations of writers left their essays or
poems carved on the cliff of the peak, making it a record
and witness of the citys history and culture.
The Xiufeng district government pays special attention to rooting its historical culture in that which developed around the peak and the palace.
Dongxi Lane, or east-west lane, and the Xiaoyao
Building, or leisure building, are two places of historical
interest that the government has renovated and rebuilt
near the palace. With a number of old shops and celebrity residences, Dongxi Lane is one of the oldest commercial roads in Guilin and has more than 1,000 years of
history. Since its reopening in late April, it has received
nearly 1 million tourists and has become a must-see spot
for travelers in Guilin.

We will manage the building well

and make a pearl of this city near
the Lijiang River, as a place for
travelers to experience Guilins
historical culture.
Jiang Yuliang, Party chief of Xiufeng district

I am condent with my business here, because the

area has a rich cultural and fashionable atmosphere,
said Cheng Liwen, an eatery owner in the lane, who
specializes in shaobing, Chinese-style muffins.
I sell more than 200 shaobing a day on average.
If so, I can get back my investment in three months.
I am planning to open a second eatery in Guilin.
According to Tang Yunhui, the rental center director for the lane, more than 85 percent of shops have
been rented out since April and 20 percent of them
are leased to international brands.
The lane used to boast a number of famous
Chinese brands. It will regain its glory in the near
future, Tang said.
The hustle and bustle in Dongxi Lane and the
renovation of the old buildings along the lane according to their original look has made local residents happy.
Zhao Xinxin, 78, said: I have lived here all my life. It
looked exactly this way before.
The Xiaoyao Building used to be one of the four most
famous buildings in ancient China.
The Guilin government started rebuilding it in January last year, with 20 million yuan ($3.08 million) in
donations from 20 local enterprises. It was nished in
July last year.
The donation showed Guilin entrepreneurs common
wish to continue the citys long cultural tradition as a
regional cultural center in South China.
We will manage the building well and make a pearl
of this city near the Lijiang River, as a place for travelers to experience Guilins historical culture, said Jiang
Yuliang, Party chief of Xiufeng district.
Zhao Leqin, Party chief of Guilin, said the Dongxi
Lane and Xiaoyao Building have become new landmarks on Guilins cultural map, and are something that
we should leave for posterity.

Dongxi Lane is one of the oldest commercial roads in

Guilin. ZHU JIANG / FOR CHINA DAILY

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ELECTRONICS

Ex-Disney HK exec joins Wanda

Battle to build bigger and better theme parks in
China set to intensify following Kams move
By CHAI HUA
and WANG ZHUOQIONG

The theme park battle

between Walt Disney Co and
Chinese real estate giant
Wanda Group is set to intensify after a former Disneyland
senior executive joined its
rival, industry insiders said.
Andrew Kam, former managing director of Disneyland
Hong Kong, will join Wanda
as vice-president of Wanda
Culture Industry Group and
president of Wanda Themed
Entertainment
Co
Ltd,
according to Chinese news

portal thepaper.
Kam will be in charge of the
overall operation of all Wanda
theme parks and Wanda City
projects, which is an integrated entertainment center of
theme parks, hotels, theaters,
shopping malls and residential apartments, according to
the report.
Hong Kong Disneyland in
March announced the resignation of Andrew Kam for
personal reasons after the
theme park reported a loss of
HK$148 million ($18.9 million) last year its first yearly
deficit since 2011.

Andrew Kam, former managing director of Disneyland

Hong Kong

Wanda declined to comment on Monday.

The hiring of former Disney
executives will help Wanda
better learn Disneys strategy
and insights, said Ben Cavender, principal of China Market
Research Group.
Wanda opened the first

Wanda City project in May in

Nanchang, Jiangxi province,
and four months later the second opened in Hefei, Anhui
province, marking the start of
Wandas ambitious plan to
build 15 such projects across
the country by 2020.
Wanda Group said more
than 1,700,000 people visited the two projects during
the weeklong National Day
Holiday, while Shanghai government statistics show the
Shanghai
International
Tourism and Resorts Zone,
where Shanghai Disneyland
is located.
But Cavender noted that
planning and developing a
culture business is a complex
progress, and if Wanda wants

to do it correctly, it is going to
have to form a very strong
team and long-term strategy
rather than hiring a few people and opening parks quickly
to get quick profits.
The burgeoning theme park
market in China has attracted
several local and international
players in recent years.
He Jianlin, director of the
tourism management department at Shanghai University
of Finance and Economics,
pointed out Wanda still needs
to further improve its soft
power in a bid to stand out.
Contact the writers at
grace@chinadailyhk.com
and wangzhuoqiong@
chinadaily.com.cn

Production subsidy planned at Hollywood event

By REUTERS

Dalian Wanda Group plans

to unveil a subsidy scheme to
attract Hollywood filmmakers to its new multibilliondollar studio in the eastern
Chinese city of Qingdao, a
person with direct knowledge
of the plan said.
The chairman of the property-to-entertainment conglomerate, Wang Jianlin, is
expected to unveil the scheme,
which offers to subsidize 40
percent of production costs, at
an event hosted in Los Angeles
on Monday evening.
The subsidy will be jointly
funded with the local Qingdao government, said the person, who asked not to be
identified.
The subsidy will apply to feature films and television shows.
Costs eligible for the rebate
include stage and equipment
rentals, set construction and
local accommodation.
A Wanda spokesman
declined to comment.
A Qingdao government
spokesman said he was not
familiar with the plans.
Wandas billionaire chairman is building a footprint in
Hollywood through a series of
deals, part of Chinas growing
investment in the US entertainment industry.
The company has bought

Actress Nicole Kidman shakes hands with fans at a red carpet event promoting Wanda Group's Oriental Movie Metropolis project in
Qingdao, Shandong province, in this file photo. REUTERS

Jurassic World producer Legendary Entertainment and

US cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings. Wanda
also signed a marketing and
cofinancing deal with Sony
Pictures, a unit of Japans

Sony Corp.
With the Qingdao studio,
Wanda will be competing
with dozens of US states and
countries including Britain
and New Zealand that have
lured filmmakers out of Hol-

lywood with tax incentives

and rebates.
Incentives typically range
from 15 percent to 45 percent of certain production
costs, according to tax
incentive specialists, mak-

ing Wandas subsidy among

the worlds highest.
The Qingdao studio is part
of a large theme park and real
estate development designed
to become a Chinese version
of Hollywood.

Actress Guan Xiaotong, represents Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, at

the release of the company's nova smartphones in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

Europe fuels Huawei

shipment bonanza
By MA SI
masi@chinadaily.com.cn

Huawei Technologies Co
Ltd announced it has already
shipped 100 million smartphones this year, two months
ahead of last years schedule,
as the Shenzhen-based firm
benefits from robust growth
in Europe and rising sales of
high-end smartphones.
He Gang, head of Huaweis
smartphone unit, said last Friday western and northeastern
Europe have been the firms fastest-growing markets in 2016, as
it steps up marketing efforts to
build up its brand image.
The year-on-year growth
rate in these regions span
between 50-100 percent, He
said, adding that the firm is confident of shipping 140 million
smartphones by the year-end.
Huawei, started as a telecom equipment maker, has
recently emerged as the
worlds third largest smartphone vendor. It is seeking to
displace Samsung and Apple
as the worlds largest smartphone phone vendor, after it
secured the top position in
China. Last year, it took Huawei 12 months to meet the 100
million shipment target.
According to He, the sales
volume of its above-3,000 yuan
($445) handsets almost doubled in the past 10 months compared from a year earlier. The
2,000 to 3,000 yuan handset
segment also managed yearon-year growth of 30 percent.
Jessie Ding, a research analyst at Shanghai-based consultancy Canalys, said: The
rapid growth in Europe, a
smartphone market that is
stable and saturated, demon-

The year-on-year
growth rate in
these regions span
between 50-100
percent.
He Gang, head of Huaweis
smartphone unit

strates Huaweis increasing

brand influence.
To build up its high-end
image in consumer electronics, Huawei has signed Argentine soccer superstar Lionel
Messi as its global ambassador
to promote its products.
The firm also teamed up
with Leica to offer dual cameras on its flagship phones,
which turned out to be quite
popular among European
consumers, Ding added.
Data from Canalys show
that in the second quarter of
this year, Huawei shipped five
million smartphones to
Europe, accounting for a market share of 11 percent. Last
year, the figure was 7 percent.
Xiang Ligang, CEO of the
telecom industry website
cctime.com, said Huawei has
been paying increasing attention to the European market
where it debuted most of its
high-end smartphones. Samsungs ongoing smartphone
recall crisis will give Huawei a
big opportunity in European
countries where consumers
are very brand-conscious,
Xiang said.

ECONOMY

Huawei shipments in Europe

UK falls out of top five investment sites post Brexit

Unit: million

By BLOOMBERG

The United Kingdom

dropped out of businesses top
five locations for investments
for the first time in seven
years as fears about the countrys plans to exit the European Union added complexity to

international deals, consultants Ernst & Young LLP said

in a survey of executives.
British businesses rank
behind investments in the
United States, China, Germany, Canada and France, which
make up the top destinations
for deals activity, EY said on

Monday in its Global Capital

Confidence Barometer report,
which is based on a survey of
more than 1,700 executives in
45 countries.
Business leaders are concerned about geopolitical
issues, such as the rise of
nationalist
governments

worldwide and currency fluctuations, that make cross-border mergers and acquisitions
more difficult, EY said. On top
of the UKs Brexit vote in
June, uncertainty around the
US interest rate and upcoming elections in a number of
countries added to perceived

risks to deals.
Brexit is a prominent
example of the rise of geopolitical changes that are adding
complexity to cross-border
investments, according to
Steve Krouskos, EYs global
vice chair of transaction advisory services.

11%

10%
7%

7%
5%

3%

1.2

3.4

2.7

4.4

4.6

Q1
2015

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q1
2016

Q2

Source: Canalys

SU JINGBO / CHINA DAILY

INTERNET

Tencents economical Ying drone uploads photos to WeChat

By FAN FEIFEI
fanfeifei@chinadaily.com.cn

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd is set to

launch a drone that could enable users to share live streaming video directly through
WeChat, its instant messaging
app, as it enters the burgeoning consumer drone market.
The Ying drone, coproduced

by Tencent and drone maker

ZeroTech Intelligence Technology Co Ltd, is now available for
preorder on its website and is
expected to be officially released
at the end of this month.
Priced at $299, the 425gram drone has a 13 megapixel
camera and can shoot video at
4K resolution. It can fold up
neatly to be carried in a bag.
Its app could synchronize

$11.1 billion
expected value of Chinas
drone industry by 2025

photos to the users phone,

enabling easy sharing of
photos or videos with family
and friends on WeChat. It
also features WeChats vid-

eo-calling function.
The drone, which was
unveiled earlier this year at
the Consumer Electronics
Show in Las Vegas, is
equipped with the Qualcomm
Snapdragon Flight chipset.
It is cheaper than both the
recently unveiled DJI Innovation Technology Cos foldable
drone Mavic Pro, which is
priced at $999, and the $799

Karma launched by with US

action camera manufacturer
GoPro Inc.
Founded in 2007, Beijingbased drone manufacturer
ZeroTech, which claims to provide technology solution plans
for the Ying drone, in May
unveiled its pocketable drone
Dobby that specifically focuses
on photography.
The Ying drone, which

centers on video-sharing and

social networking, might
attract ordinary people trying
to use an inexpensive drone
to shoot for the first time,
while photography enthusiasts are the dominant users of
the DJI, said Zhao Ziming, an
analyst at internet constancy
Analysys.
Zhao said Tencents newly
launched drone will not pose a
threat to the DJI, which
accounts for around 70 percent of the worlds consumer
drone market, and gained an

upper hand in terms of both

technology and capital.
The drone is expected to
boost sales in the low and
medium-end drone market.
Moreover, it may drive more
internet companies to tap into
the competitive drone industry. High-end drones will add
social networking functions.
The value of Chinas drone
industry could reach 75 billion
yuan ($11.1 billion) by 2025,
according to a report by Beijing-based iResearch Consulting Group.

14 BUSINESS

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 CHINA DAILY

Talking Business

Well before 11/11, tech majors can smile and ponder

By SIVA SANKAR

Singles Day (11/11 or Nov 11) is

nigh. Consumers, allegedly kings
who spent $14 billion last 11/11, are
forecast to enrich Chinese online
marketplaces and manufacturers
even more this year. But its possible the latter may be celebrating
already, thanks to glad tidings from
India.
Starting with the Aug 15 Independence Day-related discount
sales, through religious festivals
that double up as consumer hyperactivity periods lasting till mid-January, India goes into a shopping
frenzy. It peaks during the OctoberNovember period when retailers,
malls and online marketplaces
unleash all sorts of sales and promotions for Dasara and Deepavali,
two key Indian festivals.
Indias online marketplaces are
rife with fantastic deals on Chinese
products, particularly tech stuff like
smartphones, as well as toys, garments, even appliances. Haier,
Xiaomi, Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo,
Vivo, Gionee, Coolpad, LeEco, TCL,
Moto and OnePlus, the new Chi-

nese tech kid on the block, are all

raking it in. It appears as if Indian
festivals have become a celebration
of Chinese goods.
A Shanghai-based representative
of Indian industry in China said its
not just Chinese tech products that
are popular in India. Even small
and medium-sized businesses in
the auto, air conditioner, pharmaceutical and textile industries
source components and raw materials from China, giving the lie to
the myth that Chinese products
are inferior. They are competitively
priced, and hence preferred as they
generate healthy margins at the
end of the day.
One acquaintance simply said
India cant do without China when
its dependent on even China-made
nail-cutters and spoons. A female
friend said, I once bought a silk
saree thought it was Mysore silk
It was Chinese.
Against this background, the
online calls by some Indians to boycott Chinese products appear
incongruous. Non-trade issues have
stoked emotion and nationalism
among some Indians on social

Fans of Xiaomi smartphones in India line up outside a Xiaomi new product

release in New Delhi. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

media apps, including, ironically,

Chinese apps such as WeChat.
A New Delhi tabloid last fortnight reported a 20 percent drop in
sales of China goods due to the
campaign. But Indians in other cities, and consumers online, are buying Chinese goods, according to
friends and media. Leading Indian

e-commerce websites announced

record sales of Chinese smartphones from Lenovo, Moto, Xiaomi
and OnePlus this month.
Officialdom on either side has
been mum on the online campaign
thats a sign its not a serious
issue, a friend said. Another propounded a conspiracy theory: Indi-

an manufacturers and businesses,

hurt by imports of Chinese goods,
may be behind the campaign.
My guess is, every second or third
Indian consumer must have used a
Chinese smartphone to upload,
broadcast or forward messages
related to the campaign. Id bet
they, like millions of other Indian
consumers, must be continuing to
use Chinese gadgets, devices, appliances and services, or may be planning to buy them. (For the record: I
still use the Xiaomi Mi-3W I had
bought in my third attempt on a
popular Indian e-commerce websites flash sale in 2014.)
I chatted up compatriots on the
raging topic. Several insightful
views emerged:
In this age of the World Trade
Organization, globalization and
interdependent markets, its impossible and impractical to boycott or
ban overnight goods and services of
any country, least of all Chinas,
especially when trade and outsourced manufacturing are key to
your economy. Unless a country has
domestic capability, efficiency and
economies of scale, it cant afford to

boycott superior and competitively

priced imported goods.
Consumers will buy products
that pack value for money, irrespective of who makes them or where
they are made. Some form of protection for domestic firms may be
necessary in certain situations, but
thats a matter of government policy, not jingoistic campaigns.
As far as possible, politics should
not be mixed with religion, art, culture, science, technology, business
or trade. And, yes, most of my pals
and ex-colleagues will continue to
buy Chinese stuff.
So would I. On my Xiaomi is a
note, a wish-list Ive been drawing
up for 11/11. I debuted last year, and
I intend to use that experience to
land better deals this year.
In business, emotional campaigns will run their short course
and die a natural death, said a
friend.
I think he hit the nail on its head.
That nail could well have been
manufactured in China.
Contact the writer at siva@
chinadaily.com.cn

Whats news
economy contracted by 4.1 percent, a reversal from the 0.2 percent growth in the preceding
quarter.

Bosnian transactions
increase by 2.2%

GOVTS & POLICIES

Climate change hitting

grain output in China
Meteorological disasters were
blamed Sunday for the destruction
of at least 50 billion kilograms of
grain in China annually, according to
official statistics. Climate change was
having an increasing impact on food
and agriculture, with each rising
degree Celsius causing an estimated
10 percent loss in grain output,
according to figures released Sunday
at a promotion in Nanjing for the
36th World Food Day. China is one of
the countries most affected by meteorological disasters, with droughts
causing about 60 percent of all the
grain losses in the country, according
to officials at the event.

Chinese overseas M&As

continue in Q3
Global venture capital investment
declined in the third quarter, but
Chinese VC investors continued to
actively look for overseas acquisitions, according to a report. Global
VC investment in Q3 declined 14
percent from the previous quarter,
to $24.1 billion, the lowest quarterly
funding total since Q3 in 2014,
according to a quarterly global
report on VC trends published jointly by KPMG International and CB
Insights.

Nation sees surge in

new companies
The number of newly founded companies in China continued to surge
in the first three quarters on government efforts to streamline the
process for starting businesses, official data showed on Monday. A total
of 4.01 million new companies were
set up in the Jan.-Sept. period, rising 27 percent from the same period
last year, according to statistics
from the State Administration of
Industry and Commerce. An average of 14,600 new firms were set up
daily, surpassing the average of
12,000 recorded in 2015, according
to SAIC.China has a total of 83.72
million market entities, said SAIC.

COMPANIES & MARKETS

Yuan weakens to 6-year

low against dollar
The central parity rate of the Chinese
yuan continued to weaken on Monday, hitting a six-year low against the
US dollar. The central parity rate
weakened by 222 basis points to
6.7379 against the dollar, according
to the China Foreign Exchange Trade
System, the lowest level since September 2010. In Chinas spot foreign
exchange market, the yuan is
allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent
from the central parity rate each
trading day.

Exports from Bosnia and Herzegovina totaled 6.032 billion KM

($3.438 billion) in the first eight
months of the year, 2.2 percent
more than the same period last
year, local media reported on Sunday. According to the data from
the countrys statistics agency,
imports in the same period
reached 10.394 billion KM, or 0.2
percent less than the same period
in 2015. Exports to EU countries
in the same period were 4.422 billion KM, up 3.8 percent year-onyear.

Locked-up shares
eligible for trade

Albanian agricultural
business booming

Locked-up shares worth about 7.03

billion yuan ($1.04 billion) will
become eligible for trade on the
Shanghai and Shenzhen stock
exchanges this week. About 437 million shares from 21 companies will
become tradable on the exchanges
from Monday to Friday, according to
RoyalFlush Information, a financial
information service provider.
Shanghai Dingli Technology Development will have 111 million of its
shares, worth nearly 1.18 billion
yuan, unlocked.

Exports of Albanian products hit

6.2 billion leks ($50 million) in the
January-September period,
according to data published by its
ministry of agriculture. Albanian
agricultural exports had a significant growth of 1.1 billion leks in
the 9-month period of 2016 compared with the same period in
2015, when exports were 5.1 billion
leks, the Albanian ministry of
agriculture reported. It said the
growth of agricultural exports
during the first nine months confirmed once again the positive
performance and the upward trajectory of Albanian agriculture
sector, also seen an engine of Albanias economic growth.

Tradition meets modernity

A boy reaches out to shake hands with a robot in Chinese-style dress at a tech expo held in Jinan, Shandong province, over the weekend. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

New Third Board gets

more SME listings
A total of 47 small and mediumsized enterprises were added to Chinas New Third Board, a further
expansion of the countrys over-thecounter market since the board was
officially established in early 2013.
The number of companies listed on
the board was 9,168 by Oct 14 and
represents Chinas efforts to encourage the development of SMEs amid
downward economic pressure. The
combined market value of the companies is about 3.58 trillion yuan
($534 billion). The New Third
Board, or National Equities
Exchange and Quotation system,
serves as a national share transfer
system for SMEs to transfer shares
and raise funds.

AROUND THE WORLD

South Korea posts

surplus for 56 months
South Koreas economy posted its
56th straight month of trade surpluses in September, customs data
indicated on Monday. The revised
figure for the trade surplus in September was $6.9 billion, up from a
$5.1 billion surplus the previous
month, according to the Korea Customs Service. The trade balance has
stayed in black since February 2012.

Export, import prices

rise in September
Export and import prices in

South Korea rose in September

due to higher prices of coal and
oil products, central bank data
showed. The export price index
stood at 78.00 in September, up
0.7 percent from the previous
month, according to the Bank of
Korea. It was the first increase
since June. Higher export prices
were attributed to an increase in
coal and oil products, whose
export prices advanced 3.3 percent last month.

Iran sees 20% rise in

pistachio deals
Irans pistachio exports showed a
20 percent year-on-year increase
in the first six months of the current Iranian year starting on
March 21, the Iranian Students
News Agency reported on Sunday.
Iran exported 40, 000 metric tons

of pistachios worth $381 million

to 62 countries in the period, the
report said. Iran expects to
increase annual pistachio production to 170,000 tons by 2017, with
about 80 percent of the crop
exported, ISNA quoted spokesman
Farhad Agah from Irans Pistachio
Association.

Singapores GDP grows

in the third quarter
Singapores economy grew by 0.6
percent in the third quarter of
2016 year-on-year, according to
advance estimates by the Ministry
of Trade and Industry. The 0.6 percent Q3 increase was lower than
the 2.0 percent growth in the previous quarter, the ministry said in
a news release. On a quarter-onquarter seasonally-adjusted and
annualized basis, Singapores

Tesla, Panasonic to
work on solar energy
US electric carmaker Tesla says it
plans to start working with Japanese electronics group Panasonic
Corp on solar energy. Tesla said
on its corporate blog on Monday
that the companies had signed a
nonbinding letter of intent to
begin collaborating on Panasonics production of photovoltaic
cells and modules at a facility
under construction in Buffalo,
New York.
CHINA DAILY-AGENCIES

DEALS

CCB sets up debt-to-equity swap to reduce Yunnan Tins leverage

By JIANG XUEQING
jiangxueqing@chinadaily.com.cn

China Construction Bank Corp

signed a nearly 5-billion-yuan ($742
million) investment agreement on a
market-driven debt-for-equity swap
program with Yunnan Tin Group Co
Ltd on Sunday, to help the company
reduce its leverage.
The 5-billion-yuan investment is
part of a two-phase, five-year debtfor-equity swap program with an
expected rate of return ranging
from 5 percent to 15 percent. Alto-

gether, the bank will raise social capital worth a total of 10 billion yuan
for the program.
Currently, the total assets of Yunnan Tin Group exceed 50 billion
yuan, and the total liabilities are 35
billion yuan. Zhang Tao, chairman
of the group, said the swap aims to
help the Chinese tin producer and
exporter out of its present cyclical
financial difficulties.
Previously, the group shifted its
investment from tin production to
other business segments, such as
real estate, thus bringing huge

capital pressure on the company.

Moreover, the falling prices of
nonferrous metals since the end of
2012 also tightened its capital
chain, he said.
Zhang Minghe, head of CCBs
debt-for-equity swap programs, said
the bank hopes to help the group
lower its debt-to-asset ratio by 15
percentage points from 83 percent
through the 10-billion-yuan debtfor-equity swap program.
CCB will set up a fund jointly with
Yunnan Tin Group to raise money
for the program from the market

$742 million
worth of the agreement between
China Construction Bank Corp and
Yunnan Tin Group Co Ltd

and a small amount of the funds

original capital will come from the
bank.
At present, CCB is carrying out
debt-for-equity swaps by setting up
funds. Like many other commercial
banks, it is also seeking to set up its

own investment management company.

Well actively apply for regulatory approval for our establishment of
an investment management company, Zhang said. Compared with
commercial banks, such companies
will have different skills and higher
operational efficiency and will be
more professional in managing
investment portfolios. This will provide an opportunity for the transformation and development of
commercial banks.
Analysts at Guotai Junan Securi-

ties Co Ltd said in a research note

that if banks sell nonperforming
loans to third-party institutions like
asset management companies, it
will isolate potential risks from the
banks existing business, but banks
have to sell NPLs at a fairly large discount and cannot enjoy subsequent
earnings after the debts are
swapped for equities. However,
these problems will be avoided if
banks transfer bad assets to their
own subsidiaries, which will
increase their enthusiasm in pushing forward debt-for-equity swaps.

Focus | BUSINESS 15

CHINA DAILY Tuesday, October 18, 2016

RETAIL

SURVEY

Mainland tummy craves home

food abroad, so carry some
By WANG ZHUOQIONG
wangzhuoqiong@
chinadaily.com.cn

A salesperson prepares a bowl of instant noodles at a food fair in Beijing in September.

DAFEI / FOR CHINA DAILY

Instant recovery eludes

Chinas noodle makers
Fast-food alternatives,
health awareness
plunge countrys
hot snack in the soup

When you have

choices of fresh
food ... instant
noodles become
less attractive.

By WANG ZHUOQIONG
wangzhuoqiong@
chinadaily.com.cn

Emma Deng did something

unusual on her recent BeijingShanghai five-hour highspeed train ride. Instead of
snacking on a bowl of instant
noodles, as was her wont, the
frequent traveler unpacked
lunch and beverages brought
from KFC and Starbucks outlets at the Beijing South Railway Station.
When you have choices of
fresh food from restaurants,
instant noodles become less
attractive, she said.
Fast-food alternatives and
health awareness have been
dealing heavy blows to the
instant noodles market in China, the worlds largest.
Once the staple of train passengers and office staff working overtime, instant noodles
are no longer having easy
access to tummies in China.
According to the World
Instant Noodles Association,
consumption in the Chinese
mainland and Hong Kong has
declined from 42,470 million
servings in 2011 to 40,430 million servings in 2015.
According to Mintel Group
Ltds report released in January, retail sales of instant noodles in China are estimated to
have grown just 2.2 percent
between 2010 and 2015, reaching 65.3 billion yuan ($9.7 billion) in 2015. Mintel expects a 1
percent drop in sales to 62.1
billion yuan by 2020.
Four noodle-makers
Tingyi Holdings, Uni-present,
Baixiang and Jinmailang
command an 80 percent share
of Chinas instant noodles
market.
Leading brand MasterKong
of Tingyi saw its net profit
plunge nearly 65 percent yearon-year to $69.7 million in the
first half of this year. Its second-quarter profit saw the
sharpest drop in ten years,
down nearly 14 percent yearon-year to $1.54 billion.
In the first six months of this
year, instant noodles accounted for almost 37 per cent of the
groups revenue, 52 percent of
market-wide sales and 43 percent of market share, according to Nielsens statistics.
Zhao Ping, a researcher at
the Institute of China Council
for the Promotion of International Trade, attributed the
decline in sales of instant noodles to changing tastes of Chinese consumers.
Awareness of nutrition,
health and safety in the con-

Emma Deng, a frequent traveler

on Beijing-Shanghai bullet train

A boy jumps to take a package of instant noodle in a supermarket

in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. HU XUEJUN / FOR CHINA DAILY

200,000

150,000

Global consumption
Unit: million servings
100,000

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

50,000

China

Indonesia

Japan

Vietnam

SourceWorld Instant Noodles Association (WINA)

USA

South
Korea

Philippines

India

Thailand

Brazil

LIU LUNAN / CHINA DAILY

Timetoslipintoaniche
Instant noodles need to be
reinvented as snacks that pack
balanced and complete nutrition, said Jodie Minotto, global
food and drink analyst of Mintel
Group Ltd.
In China, the worlds largest
instant noodles market, 80 percent of those who consume the
food agree it would be better for
their health if they cut back on
its intake.
And 75 percent of them would
like to see healthful versions of
instant noodles, according to a
Mintel report.
That represents an opportunity for instant noodle brands to

text of food is up, said Zhao.

Alternatives to instant noodles are popular due to the
rapid growth of Chinese
chains that sell rice- or noodlebased fast food.
To survive the onslaught of
new foods and dispel the
image of junk food, instant
noodles need improved nutrition quotient and better ingredients like dry fruits and
vegetables, she said.
According to a December
2015 Mintel report, instant
noodles are generally regarded as an unhealthy snack in
Asia, despite their popularity

target niche consumer needs.

For example, South Koreas
Nongshims Soon instant noodles for vegans have overcome
the limited domestic market size
by marketing the brand worldwide.
Chinas Nissin could do the
same with its low-carbohydrate
noodles for aging consumers
and light versions of cup noodles
for women.
Mintel research shows that
nearly 60 percent of respondents in China said they ate
instant noodles as snacks in the
six months to October 2015,
while 28 percent of them said

in the region. The continent

accounts for 86 percent of
global sales, according to the
WINA.
Not surprisingly, China saw
a significant decline in sales.
Per capita consumption is 2.6
kilograms, much lower than
8.7 kg in South Korea.
In response, both MasterKong and Uni-present have
launched new instant noodle
products that are positioned
as healthy and premium
snacks.
MasterKong has upgraded
its Classic series that was
priced 4 yuan to a high-end

they consumed packaged noodles at some point in time.

This indicates noodle makers
can promote more instant varieties in small packs as fun
snacks.
That may be necessary
because the instant noodles
market is driven by consumers in their 20s. So, brands
should study young peoples
eating preferences as well as
general attitudes toward noodles to maintain market share
and increase profits, said
Mintel.
- WANG ZHUOQIONG

product priced 4.5 yuan per

pack. This has helped bring
about a recovery in its June
revenue. The new product
includes a concentrate of soup
that enhances both taste and
nutritional value, according to
the companys half-yearly
financial report.
Other developments in the
market include the end to
Nissins collaboration with
Jinmailang as the former
aims to invest more in the
premium segment. This, in
turn, may have prompted Jinmailang to shift its focus to
the mass market.

Instant noodles, hitherto

Chinas favorite fast food,
may be under attack from
alternative snacks, but Chinese outbound travelers
remain loyal to them.
Tourists may splurge during their shopping sprees in
Europe and the United
States, but when it comes to
eating, they prefer the timetested instant noodles.
According to a Sept 28
report by Alitrip and
wacai.com, more than 31 percent of the Chinese outbound
tourists tucked instant noodle packs into their luggage.
Among those who didnt,
more than 58 percent bought
domestic noodle brands
abroad at higher prices.
The report said for a fiveday overseas trip, about half
of the Chinese travelers are
likely to carry three to five
servings of instant noodles.
Alitrips report notes some
Chinese carry instant noodles even when their destinations are Southeast Asian
countries, Japan and South
Korea. There, they savor a
range of flavors of local
instant noodles, compare
them with their own, and
bring back a few they like.
Thats to satisfy the cravings for the familiar and hot
serving of instant noodles,
complete with chilli sauce,
ham, preserved pickle or
mustard root, of the Chinese
tummy, which is not used to
Western food.
Jiang Yiyi, director of the
International Tourism Development Institute, under the
China Tourism Academy, said
the travelers preference indicates scope for tailor-made

PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

Chinese travelers
carry domestic
instant noodles ...
need Chinese cuisine to balance...
Jiang Yiyi, director of the
International Tourism
Development Institute

Chinese food services at overseas tourist destinations.

Chinese travelers carry
domestic instant noodles not
to save money, said Jiang.
They need Chinese cuisine
to balance the local food.
The habit was in evidence
during the Oct 1-7 National
Day holiday. Chinese outbound travelers numbered
1.4 million, up almost 12 per-

cent year-on-year, according

to the China National Tourism Administration.
Chinese tourists in their
40s rely on domestic noodles
the most. Some 66 percent of
them carry them; 54 percent
of travelers in their 30s and
51 percent of those in their
20s also do, Alitrip said.
This seems to suggest
younger Chinese outbound
travelers may be more willing
to try local cuisines than others, according to the report.
Similarly, dating couples outnumber married couples
with children. Some 61 percent of the latter still depend
on instant noodles.
Travelers income levels are
not correlated to consumption of Chinese instant noodles while abroad: About 43
percent of those whose
monthly income is over
20,000 yuan ($3,030) snack
on the fast food, just as the
same as section of those
whose monthly income is
below 5,000 yuan.

16 BUSINESS

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 CHINA DAILY

TRADE

INVESTMENT

LSK House sees great

Latin America potential
By ZHONG NAN and
ZHANG YU in Tangshan, Hebei

A saleswoman promotes imported milk powder at an imported goods fair in Kunming, Yunnan province.

YANG ZHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY

Conaprole hopes to cash in

on nations two-child policy
Uruguayan dairy firm
sees opportunities as
bigger families
consume more milk

Alvaro
Ambrois,
president of
Conaprole

By CAI XIAO
caixiao@chinadaily.com.cn

Uruguayan firm Conaprole,

the largest exporter of dairy
products in South America,
will achieve an export value of
about $55 million this year in
China as it benefits from the
huge market and the nations
two-child policy, its senior
executives said.
We operate in more than
50 countries, and China is the
best one we can grow in
because of the huge demand

there, said Conaprole President Alvaro Ambrois.

Ambrois said the firms
export value in China this
year is expected to be around
$55 million, while last year it
was $40 million.
The Chinese market
accounts for about 15 percent
in Conaprole, and we believe
it will increase to 20 percent
to 25 percent in five years,
said Ambrois.
Gaston Pescetto, Asia

manager of Conaprole, said

the two-child policy will
have a significant impact on
the Chinese market because
the demand is increasing as
families will consume more
milk.
The two-child policy will
likely add an average of 2.5
million newborns per year,
unleashing 75 billion yuan
($11.1 billion) in additional
consumption, said Liang
Jianzhang, professor of economics at Peking University.
Conaprole is increasing
its sales in China and developing the market by working
with local partners, said Pescetto.
Conaprole is working with
more than 20 Chinese partners and the largest one is

Inner Mongolia Yili Industry

Group Co.
We now have a representative office in China, and we
are considering setting up a
branch here in four to five
years and hiring technicians
to work with our local partners, said Pescetto.
A GF Securities report said
that Chinese customers are
increasingly paying attention
to high-quality products, and
small and medium-sized cities are becoming important
markets.
Ambrois said a challenge
for Conaprole is that Uruguay
and China have yet to sign a
free trade agreement, so the
tariffs are higher than for
players from countries such
as New Zealand.

LSK House Technology Co

Ltd, a leading Chinese manufacturer of steel houses, said it
had signed a joint-venture
agreement with a US building
company to construct a factory in Miami to make light
steel-framed housing.
The Chinese group, based in
Langfang, Hebei province, said
it will invest $60 million in the
factory and control 90 percent
of the equity in the joint venture. LSK said it will send semifinished housing components
to the joint venture in Miami
for further processing.
Partner JMC Lopez, the US
construction company, will
hold the remaining shares in
the joint venture.
Construction of the factory
will start in November. After
completion, it will have a
capacity to manufacture 1 million square meters of steel
houses annually and the units
will be sent to customers in
Chile for final assembly.
LSK House said the agreement was signed during the
10th China-LAC business
summit held in Tangshan dur-

LAC countries
are a great market
for steel-framed
houses ...
Shao Kun, president of Langfang Hualu Tianyu Group

ing the weekend.

Aside from Chile, the joint
venture will also sell its houses
to other LAC (Latin American
and Caribbean) countries.
LAC countries are a great
market for steel-framed houses, which are lighter, easier to
build, and more importantly,
have good anti-seismic properties, said Shao Kun, president of Langfang Hualu
Tianyu Group, which owns
LSK House.
LSK House General Manager Shao Jie said construction
of steel-framed houses was
about 50 percent faster than
traditional methods of construction.

LSK House claims its steelframed houses can survive

major earthquakes that
exceed magnitude 9.0 on the
Richter scale.
Thats the main reason why
the steel houses are welcomed
in Chile, said Shao, who added
that more than 2,000 LSKmade houses had been built
there. There are another
2,000 units to go and in the
future the market will be huge.
The CEO of the new factory,
Gustavo Lopez, said that the
potential for sales was not only
in the LAC region, but also
throughout the Americas.
Gustavo said China had
high-quality steel, while the
US had a favorable geographical position and tax policies in
place when it came to trading
within the Americas.
The CEO said LSK Houses
custom-made houses would be
popular with less affluent customers and the middle classes
in those countries, because its
house prices were lower than
traditional housing.
Contact the writers at zhangyu1@chinadaily.com.cn and
zhongnan@chinadaily.com.cn

ENERGY

The stand of Envision Energy Ltd at a wind power expo in Beijing.

PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

Envision gives cash boost

to German battery maker
By REUTERS in Frankfurt

A German battery maker

that allows people to store and
pool electricity said it had
secured 76 million euros ($85
million) from venture capital
investors, including Chinese
wind turbine and energy management group Envision Energy Ltd.
The startup sonnen, formerly Sonnenbatterie, said on
Sunday that it plans to use the
money to expand in Italy, Australia, the United States and
the United Kingdom.
Its technology allows
renewable power to be stored
and then used when weather
conditions prevent sufficient
generation.
Such storage is moving into
a price range, which makes it

$85 million
amount of money venture capital firms invested in sonnen

more affordable for German

householders,
potentially
challenging utilities such as
RWE AG and Uniper SE.
Sonnen, with 250 staff
members and sales of 26 million euros last year, said it had
sold 15,000 of its lithium battery units.
It has also launched a
scheme to connect households
with solar panels on their
roofs with other consumers in
an online sharing platform
which it aims to develop with
the help of fresh equity.
This community has

attracted 3,000 members

within less than a year, making users relatively independent of conventional suppliers
because they can provide each
other with energy by exploiting weather patterns in different regions.
Envision Energy Chief Executive Lei Zhang said last
month that he planned to
spend around 1 billion euros
on acquisitions and partnerships in northern Europe over
the next three to five years, in
order to tap growth opportunities in the regions transition
to green energy.
In the case of sonnen, its
involvement would fit in with
its smart grid management
software that connects decentralized green power production units.

TRAVEL

Turkish Airlines builds Istanbul into

a transit hub to the African continent
By JING SHUIYU
jingshuiyu@chinadaily.com.cn

In an effort to boost market

share, Turkish Airlines is
building its transfer business,
in which passengers from China can change planes in Istanbul, said a company executive.
The Istanbul-based company has been tailoring travel
routes to the African continent
to win Chinese tourists, said
Ma Lin, sales manager of Turkish Airlines China.
The shift in sales strategy
came after Turkish tourism
plunged as the country was
affected by terrorist attacks
and political turbulence in the

first half of the year, according

to Ma.
It has exerted some impact
on the business in China at
that time, but it is manageable, said Ma.
The company has started
recommending African countries, such as Tunisia and
Morocco, as destinations. Chinese passengers flying to Africa with Turkish Airlines can
reach 48 destinations in 27
countries.
The airlines seat occupancy,
according to Ma, was 85 percent in September, higher
than the industry average, and
the passenger base was solid,
fueled by the outbound travel

frenzy during Chinas sevenday National Day (Oct 1-7) holiday.

Ma said sales in October and
November in China are
expected to be stable.
Tourism in African countries has plenty of room for
growth, compared with that in
mature markets like Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan and
South Korea, said Romeo Tai,
North China representative
with travel agency Comfort
Travel & Investment Services
(Pty) Ltd.
Tai said the number of Chinese traveling to South Africa
would increase significantly in
the fourth quarter.

Markets | BUSINESS 17

CHINA DAILY Tuesday, October 18, 2016

FINANCE

EQUITIES

CITIC raises funds by selling Samurai bonds

B shares fall
on weakening
renminbi

By BLOOMBERG

CITIC Group Corp has started

marketing yen-denominated bonds
to Japanese investors, the first sale
of Samurai bonds by a Chinese
mainland issuer for overseas borrowers in two decades.
CITIC, Chinas first State-owned
investment corporation, is marketing five-year notes at a yield of 0.67
percent to 0.72 percent, and may
offer debt as long as 20 years
depending on demand, according to
a person familiar with the matter.
CITIC was one of the last Chinese
sellers in the Samurai market in
1996, according to data compiled by
Bloomberg.
Samurai sales have declined 20
percent from a year earlier to 1.08
trillion yen ($10.4 billion) since
April 1 and issuance is running at a
four-year low as euro and dollar
markets have offered global issuers
lower rates when swapping funds
out of yen. HSBC Holdings Plc
undertook the biggest Samurai
bond sale in more than seven years
last month when it sold notes that
helped boost its regulatory buffers,
and offered investors higher yields.
Japanese corporate bonds offer
investors an average yield of 0.21
percent as of Friday, up from a
record low of 0.09 percent in July,

Foreign-currency
denominated stocks are
small part of Shanghai
and Shenzhen markets
By LI XIANG
lixiang@chinadaily.com.cn

A China CITIC Bank stand at a financial expo in Guangzhou.

according to Nomura BPI indexes.

Samurai bonds offer more than double that yield, according to the data.
Beijing-based CITIC Group is rated BBB+ by Japans Ratings & Invest-

JI MULING / FOR CHINA DAILY

ment Information Inc, its thirdlowest investment grade rating, and

one grade higher by both S&P Global
Ratings and Moodys Investors Service. Industrial & Commercial Bank

of China Ltd, also based in Beijing,

sold 15 billion yen in notes listed on
the Tokyo Stock Exchanges ProBond market in June. The notes
werent Samurai debt.

SECURITIES

Regulators limit multiple stock accounts

By LI XIANG
lixiang@chinadaily.com.cn

A Chinese securities regulator has

tightened regulation of illegal market activity by limiting each investor
to a maximum of three stock
accounts in the A-share market.
Industry experts said that the
restriction on the number of stock
accounts could be a double-edged
sword for the securities market.
The brokerage business of the
securities firms might be negatively
affected. But, it is necessary for the
regulator to do something about the
illegal market activities, including
manipulation using multiple stock
accounts, said an analyst at Huatai

Securities Co Ltd, who asked for

anonymity.
The China Securities Depository
and Clearing Corp Ltd, a Stateowned clearing service company,
last Friday modified the rules, which
previously allowed an individual
investor to open up to 20 stock
accounts.
The CSDC said the reason to
restrict the number of stock
accounts is to better regulate and
monitor the activity in the stock
market.
The utilization rate for investors
with more than three accounts is
very low. The accounts have taken
up too many technical resources,
the company said in a statement.

Index

Close

3041.17

Daily
% Chg

YTD
% Chg

0.7

14.1

3400
3000
2600

10,651.50

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Component Index

13,500

1.0

15.9

12,000
10,500
9000

3277.88

Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index

the number of investors in Chinas

A-share market as of August

Meanwhile, some investors have

taken advantage of multiple
accounts to engage in illegal market
activities, it added.
The new regulation became
immediately effective after the
announcement by CSDC. The company said that investors can continue to use their existing accounts if
they are properly registered and
meet the real trading need.
The CSDC has established a

Gainers
Gainers
and and
Losers
Losers

Daily Stock Market Performance

Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index
3800

so-called black list system to monitor irregular and illegal trading

activities to enhance its regulation
on stock accounts. It has fined more
than 500 stock accounts, involving
more than 70 investors, for irregular
activities since it adopted a new policy last April to allow investors to
have multiple stock accounts.
The Chinese securities regulator
removed the one person, one
account restriction last year to give
investors greater freedom to manage their stock portfolios and switch
among different brokerages.
There were about 110 million
investors in Chinas A-share market
as of August, according to data from
the CSDC.

110 million

Chinas B shares plunged on

Monday after the value of the renminbi against the US dollar slid to
the lowest in six years.
The gauge of the B shares, the
foreign-currency denominated
stocks of Chinese companies listed
in Shanghai and Shenzhen, tumbled by 6.15 percent to 335.68
points.
The slump also weighed on the
RMB-denominated A shares on
the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks both A
and B shares, which fell 0.74 percent to close at 3,041.17. The sudden market selloff in late trading
came after the value of onshore
RMB slumped to 6.74 against the
US dollar as of Monday afternoon,
the lowest level in six years.
Analysts said that the weakening
yuan could be the factor that triggered the selloff of the B shares.
But, they said Mondays slump is
unlikely to have substantial impact
on the A-shares given the small
market capitalization of the B
shares.
The sudden slump of B shares
could be triggered by the foreign
exchange factor. The liquidity of the
B shares is very limited so any single trading activity could cause big
movement, said Song Jin, an analyst at Dongxing Securities Co Ltd.
All eyes are now on Chinas
third quarter economic data
including the GDP figure, which is
scheduled to be released on
Wednesday and could influence
investors trading decisions on the
Chinese stock market.

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53.55
46.85
26.43
7.52
35.41
6.37
25.11
24.90
21.88

10.00
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10.00
9.99
9.94
8.02
7.78
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7.56
7.25

Kama Co Ltd
ShanghaiLingyun In Dev
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HuangshDngbElctrclAppl
DahuaGrpDalnChmIndstry
ShanghaiJnjngIndInvstm
ShanghaiSanmaoEntrprse
Shanghai Lingang
Zhonglu Co Ltd
ShanghaiJinjiangHtlsDv

1.06
1.09
1.74
1.66
1.12
1.45
1.32
1.44
1.88
2.20

10.03
10.02
10.01
10.00
9.98
9.77
9.74
9.54
9.50
9.11

Shenzhen Stock Exchange

Yunnan Tin Co Ltd
ZhejiangBaoxiniaoGrmnt
Searainbow Holding
BeijingOrintNtCmmSc&Te
Hainan Haiyao Co Ltd
Tianjin Teda Co Ltd
Do-Fluoride Chemicals
Chengdu Kanghong Pharm
Hunan Gold Corp Ltd
Wasu Media Holding Co

14.31
5.23
49.15
24.97
14.28
6.30
33.10
59.40
11.98
19.07

9.99
4.81
3.69
3.48
3.48
3.28
3.21
3.20
3.19
3.08

Ningbo Huaxiang Electr

Shenzhen Tat Fook Tech
XuzhouKerong Envir Res
HubeiXinyangfengFrtlzr
Accelink Technologies
KingentaEcological Eng
Shenzhen Sunway Comm
Zhejiang Sanhua Co Ltd
Fujian Rongji Software
ShanghaiKehuaBoEngnrng

23.49
30.00
9.16
11.58
82.16
7.62
26.30
10.62
16.51
22.58

5.09
4.97
4.48
4.46
4.33
4.27
4.05
3.98
3.90
3.87

10.34
141.50
13.62
19.40
43.00

0.58
0.35
0.15
0.10
0.00

Galaxy Entertainment
Sands China Ltd
China Unicom Hong Kong
China Mengniu Dairy Co
Bank of East Asia Ltd

29.30
33.85
9.60
14.44
30.85

4.25
3.29
2.83
2.70
2.37

6.1

21.3

450

USD
USD

410
370
330
1156.54

2.4

11.7

1350
1240

CNY

HKD

GBP

KRW

BRL

RUB

JPY

INR

CAD

1.099

0.148

0.129

1.217

0.001

0.312

0.016

0.010

0.015

0.760

0.135

0.117

1.108

0.001

0.284

0.014

0.009

0.014

0.691

0.868

8.203

0.006

2.102

0.107

0.065

0.101

5.117

9.445

0.007

2.420

0.123

0.074

0.116

5.893

0.001

0.256

0.013

0.008

0.012

0.624

355.721 18.068

10.925

17.030 866.290

EUR

0.910
6.738

7.404

HKD

7.759

8.526

1.152

GBP

0.822

0.903

0.122

KRW
Shenzhen B-Share Stock Price Index

EUR

CNY

0.106

1137.900 1250.930 168.866 146.649 1388.310

BRL

3.206

3.517

0.476

0.413

3.898

0.003

RUB

63.129

69.362

9.369

8.137

76.842

0.055

0.051
19.688

0.031

0.048

2.435

0.606

0.945

47.947

JPY

104.170 114.460 15.457

13.425

126.802

0.091

32.486

1.650

INR

66.820

73.425

9.916

8.611

81.324

0.059

20.836

1.058

0.642

CAD

1.317

1.447

0.195

0.170

1.603

0.001

0.411

0.021

0.013

1.559

0.020

Data provided by

79.114
50.750

1130
1020

Tim Condon, chief Asia economist at

ING Bank

The Chinese currency is facing

rising depreciation pressure
against the dollar as it is becoming
increasingly clear that the US Federal Reserve may be preparing the
markets for an imminent rate hike
this year which should keep the
dollar bullish, said Lukman Otunuga, a research analyst at FXTM
Ltd, an online currency trader.
But, Otunuga noted that investors may direct their attention to
Chinas third-quarter GDP report
which could offer some clarity on
how the country is faring.

Daily
Close % Chg 20%

Hang Seng Index

Hang Seng China Ent Index
TAIEX Taiwan Stock Index
Nikkei 225
Sensex
KOSPI
S&P/ASX 200
New Zealand 50 Gross Index
Straits Times Index STI
Bangkok SET Index
Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index
VN-Index
Dow Jones

23,037.54
9,541.08
9,176.22
16,900.12
27,589.08
2,027.61
5,388.68
7,066.37
2,810.88
1,474.85
1,655.12
680.95
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+20%

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Commodities
Brent Crude Oil (USD/bbl.)
Gold (USD/t oz.)
Silver (USD/t oz.)
Copper (USD/lb.)
Aluminum (USD/MT)
Corn (USD/bu.)
Wheat (USD/bu.)
Soybeans (USD/bu.)
Coffee (USD/lb.)
Sugar #11 (USD/lb.)
Palm Oil (MYR/MT)

Close

Daily
% Chg

51.91
1255.50
17.44
2.11
1671.00
3.54
4.21
9.63
1.55
0.23
2763.00

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60%

YTD % Chg
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+60%

ETFS

Cross Currency Rates

335.68

Shanghai B-Share Stock Price Index

A downside miss
would trigger hardlanding worries and
an upside surprise
would trigger overheating/leverage worries.

International Stock Markets

Daily
% Chg

Shanghai Stock Exchange

Beijing Changjiu Log
WuxHngshngHtExchngrMfg
ShandongShidaShenghChm
Zhejiang Jasan Holding
Cinda Real Estate Co
Topchoice Med Invst
Zhongmin Energy Co Ltd
BTG Hotels Group Co
Western Region Gold Co
LiaonngHngyngEnRsInvst

Hang Seng
Cathay Pacific Airways
Hang Seng Bank Ltd
China Resources Power
China Resources Land
MTR Corp Ltd

3600

The consensus forecast by economists surveyed by Bloomberg on

Chinas third quarter GDP growth
is 6.7 percent.
A downside miss would trigger
hard-landing worries and an
upside surprise would trigger
overheating/leverage worries. The
Shanghai Composite has climbed
the wall of worry since February
and we remain of the view that it
will be among the top performing
Asian stock markets in the final
four months of the year, said Tim
Condon, chief Asia economist at
ING Bank.

EQUITY ETFs
China 50
China AMC CSI 300 Index
China CSI 500
China SME
China Universal CSI Consumer Staples Index
E Fund ChiNext Price Index
E Fund CSI 300
E Fund CSI 300 Financials ex Banks Index
E Fund Hang Seng China Enterprises Index
E FUND SZSE100 INDEX FUND
Fortune SGAM Xianjin Tianyi Money Market
Guangfa CSI 500
Guotai Shanghai Stock Exchange 180 Financial Index
Harvest CSI 300 Index
Huatai-Pinebridge CSI 300
Shanghai SSE180
SSE Pledge Urban Investment Bond
Yinhua Traded Money Market Fund

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LIFE
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

CHINA DAILY CHINADAILY.COM.CN/LIFE

ART

NATURES BEADS

PRIMATES
PROWLING
IN AN
URBAN
JUNGLE

Pearls get pride

of place at
Beijing show
By LIN QI
linqi@chinadaily.com.cn

Lisa Roet, an Australian artist

whose inspiration comes from
simian research, has added
unique work to Beijings
landscape. Deng Zhangyu reports.
Chimpanzee bust,
Southern Ice, by
Lisa Roet.

Humans can receive blood from

chimpanzees since we share nearly
99 percent of DNA.
Lisa Roet, Australian artist and expert on ape research

giant golden monkey climbing a

green glass building in Beijings
downtown attracts a lot of eyeballs, and bystanders liken this
scene to King Kong looking at an
urban landscape from the top of a
building. For its maker, Lisa Roet, an Australian
artist whose inspiration comes from primate
research, the giant inflated golden monkey is a
symbol of global warming to remind humanity
were displacing animals, including our relatives
that share 99 percent of our DNA, says Roet. The
first golden monkey show was staged in February
in Melbourne.
Then, a 9-meter-high golden
monkey was placed atop the
parliament to mark the Chinese Year of Monkey in Melbourne.
Now, a 14-meter version of it
is in China, climbing a wall of
Opposite House, a hotel in Beijings Sanlitun area.
The inflated golden monkey
work is based on the golden
snub-nosed monkey discovered in 2010 on the border
between Chinas Yunnan province and northern Myanmar.
No more than 400 survive.
They were found because villagers heard them sneezing.
Typically, snub-nosed monkeys are found in high-altitude
areas.
But they have moved away
from their original habitat
thanks to climate change,
which is causing the snow to
melt in the mountains, and
also due to growing human settlements.
Roet got the idea of a public
sculpture of a monkey in Beijing three years ago when she
did her artistic residency program in the city.
She then spent some time at
the Beijing Zoo observing the
golden monkey.
But observing apes is not
new to her.
For the past 30 years, Roet
has been studying the primates
at zoos and research centers
across the world.
All her art works sculptures, photos, videos and jewelry designs are based on
apes.
Humans can receive blood
from chimpanzees since we
share nearly 99 percent of
DNA. But I am interested in the

1 percent difference, says Roet.

Roet once played with a baby
gorilla during her time in Berlin in 1998.
The gorilla called Bokito
made headlines in 2007 when
it reportedly escaped from its
enclosure in the Netherlands
and attacked a woman, leaving
her with hundreds of bite
wounds.
Before the attack, the woman regularly visited Bokito, taking flowers and food for it.
Bites were a way for Bokito
to show his love. Maybe he
wanted her to join his group of
females, says Roet.
According to the artist, Bokito was being raised by a zookeeper in an apartment in
Berlin after he was abandoned
at birth, when the artist made
friends with it.
Roet later spoke to the
wounded womans husband
about his wifes love for the
gorilla and learned that he
thought it was better than loving a man.
Roet says that sometimes the
apes ways of expressing things
are different from humans, but
in many instances they are very
similar.
When she was at the Language Research Center at Georgia University in Atlanta in the
United States, she encountered
a chimpanzee trained to use a
special keyboard to communicate with humans.
And the chimpanzee repeatedly asked her: Where is my
mom? I want my mom.
The chimpanzee had been
trained by a woman scientist
for years since its infancy.
But then the scientist shifted focus to another animal

Top: Lisa Roets sculpture of a golden snub-nosed monkey is

showcased on a building in Beijings Sanlitun area.
Above: Golden Ape. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

and this chimpanzee was, to

some extent, abandoned, says
Roet. It was really sad, she
says.
Born in a coastal city in Australia, Roet has been interest-

ed in monkeys since
childhood although there
were no monkeys where she
lived.
She first learned about monkeys through TV documenta-

ries and books.

When she grew up, she traveled to zoos around the world
and took up artistic residency
programs in primate research
centers.
Meanwhile, using her art to
explore the relationship
between humans and other
primates, Roet hopes to
remind people of their duty to
protect the environment.
Separately, she is also fascinated by scientific discoveries
about apes.
Her latest project involves
getting palm lines from primates and translating these
fortune lines into an art
project.
She is also working with
Chinese artist Shen Shaomin
to explore the identity of primates in human society.
While watching our relatives, I often reflect on
humans, she says.
Contact the writer at
dengzhangyu@
chinadaily.com.cn

They are dazzling creations of nature that cant be

cut or polished. For centuries, royalty and aristocrats
have pursued them to demonstrate power and social
rank. In modern times, they
adorn an extensive population of women as an indication of fashion tastes.
Their symbolic associations vary from East to West,
implying either seductiveness or purity, best wishes
for a marriage or grief over
someones death.
Pearls, boasting a smooth
luster, enjoy a global fascination that transcends time
and cultures. But a lot of people know very little about
how the beads are formed,
fished and farmed, and that
they come in a variety of colors and shapes.
The mystery surrounding
the gem is explained at an
ongoing exhibition, Pearls:
Treasures from the Seas and
the Rivers, at the National
Museum of China in Beijing.
It includes antique cabinets, around 130 loose
pearls, jewelry and other
decorative objects comprising pearls matched with
gold, precious stones and
diamonds.
The exhibits are all from
the Qatar Museums, the
Doha-based official cultural
body that manages all the
museums in the country.
The exhibition is one of
the highlights of the Qatar
China 2016 Year of Culture,
which includes several exhibitions in both countries.
The exhibition traveled to
the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2013 and
Istanbul last year.
For thousands of years,
people living along the Persian Gulf seashores, including in Qatar, depended on
hunting and trading natural
pearls.
According to Hubert Bari,
the exhibitions French curator, who holds a doctorate in
mineralogy, 80 percent of
the objects on display feature natural pearls.
The exhibition first corrects the perception that a
pearl is formed around a
grain of sand. Several shells
on display show that pearls
mostly arise from a shells
defense mechanism when
being attacked by parasites.
Visitors can also see an
abalone shell from New Zealand in which an invading
worm, 6 centimeters long, is
transformed into a pearl, and
an oyster shell from Indonesia that contains a fish pearl.
Viewers can see the fish
bones with the help of X-ray
scans.
To collect these natural
wonders, divers relied on
guts and experience while
braving threats ranging
from dangerous creatures
and huge waves to the possibility of drowning.
Old photos on show reveal
the traditional way by which
oysters were harvested in the
Persian Gulf, which once
produced some of the
worlds finest natural pearls.
To collect the pearls, divers
held one rope that connected
them with the pullers and
another one attached to
stones to accelerate descent.
They normally searched
the waters for two minutes at
a time.
As pearls are formed by
accident, the divers needed
to open hundreds of shells to
find a quality pearl.

Bari says natural pearls

have been collected in the
Persian Gulfs waters for
more than 7,000 years.
During this time, exporting loose pearls was a major
source of income for countries such as Qatar, and they
became a significant part of
the regions rich heritage and
identity.
The regions pearls trade
helped to link Eastern and
Western cultures in the long
course of history.
Both the maritime and
land Silk Roads ended in the
Gulf for one reason only ... so
that pearls could be shipped
to China, and so that China
could sell Chinese ceramics to
the Islamic world, says Bari.
After being taken out from
the water, quality pearls are
set with metals and gems in
various combinations.
The objects at the Beijing
show celebrate jewelry
design from traditional to
high-end avant-garde styles.
Many of the jewelry pieces
were once worn by celebrities.
A tiara featuring pearls
from the Gulf made around
1890 formerly belonged to
Raine, Countess Spencer.

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Her stepdaughter, Princess Diana, also wore it on

several occasions.
A pair of natural pearl earrings on display were once
owned by Elizabeth Taylor
the late Hollywood star
known for her fascination
with jewelry.
An impressive example of
contemporary design is also
on show at the exhibition
a necklace by Sam Tho
Duong, a Vietnamese artist
living in Germany.
He fixed hundreds of
small pearls, cultivated in
Chinese freshwater, on silver
balls and oxidized silver
sticks, to show ice crystals on
tree branches.
At the exhibition, the
NationalMuseumofChinahas
also displayed one of its treasures as an example of Chinese
aesthetics in jewelry design.
CalledthePhoenixCoronet,
it is dated to the Ming Dynasty
(1368-1644) and was made for
the Empress Xiaoduan.
It was unearthed from the
Dingling Mausoleum in Beijing in the 1950s.
It is made from lacquered
bamboo and silk, and inlaid
with more than 100 rubies
and 5,000 pearls.
The Persian Gulfs pearl
business died in the mid20th century.
Then, overharvesting led to
the depletion of oyster beds,
puttingthebusinessindecline.
Nowadays, natural pearls
are no longer fished and people farm pearls in seas and
rivers.

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CHINA DAILY Tuesday, October 18, 2016

HANGZHOU OPENING

Eatbeat

PRIDE OF THE SOUTH

New hotel restaurant shines with artful takes on Cantonese and Shanghai fare, Mike Peters discovers.

ocky Leung is a playful chef, delighting

in surprises even as
he shepherds the
traditions of Chinese cooking
in his kitchen at Man Ho.
Our recent visit to his
brand-new restaurant at the
Marriott Hangzhou included,
for example, fried chicken
meatball with strawberry
sauce and herbs. If this
sounds as gauche as Colonel
Sanders smearing cheap jam
on ground chicken, wait until
you taste it. Fresh ingredients
and a delicate touch make the
dish light and lively.
While Hangzhous famous
cuisine has a prominent place
on the menu, Leungs heart
and culinary roots are in
Shanghai and Guangzhou.
That suggests his signature
dishes will favor sweetness
and soy over the vinegary edge
of many West Lake specialties.
All three cuisines celebrate
the variety of fresh seafood
available to chefs in those
regions. That penchant and
Leungs pretty whimsy are
perfectly shown in the
autumn-menu turbot. The
delicate flesh is cooked two
ways, then presented in a
flourish with the skeletal
shell of the fish as a crunchily edible bowl.
Next in the parade of dishes: fish soup Shunde style.
Both a region in Guangdong province and a style of
cuisine, Shunde has been
called the backbone of exquisite Cantonese cooking. Delicately balancing taste and
texture, techniques that can
be complicated turn simple
dishes into culinary triumphs.
Leung takes a classic fishhead soup, then adds ultratender carp flesh that has
been both fried and poached
to give the soup a rich, creamy
color. Simply seasoned, the
rich sweetness of the fish is a
sensory delight in both aroma
and taste.
Next came a burst of freshness, a salad-like course of
marinated asparagus lettuce with sesame oil. The
vegetable is celtuce, a cultivar
of lettuce grown primarily for
its thick stem, not the leaves.
Its particularly popular in
China (wosun in pinyin, but

Carnivore haven
Meat Mate, offering premium
beef and lamb from Australia,
opened over the weekend as a
butcher shop with packaged
foods and wines from around
the world. Temptations from
the shelves include a meatmatching array of sea salts
and intriguing nibbles like
gherkins in green-tea marinade. A grill chef is on duty
for those who cant wait to get
home to get their rib-eye or
chops cooked. The check-out
process was chaotic at the
opening, but the quality
meats at competitive prices
make the short wait well
worth it.
Meat Mate at Sanyuanqiao
Fenghuang Cheng (behind the
Galleria). 010-5625-5588.
BEIJING-SHANGHAI

Tastes of two cities

Raw Eatery and Wood Grill of
Shanghai teams up with TRBBites in Beijing to tempt diners
in each others city. Chef Juan
Campos and his team at the
Shanghai restaurant come to
the capital on Wednesday with
flavors inspired by South
American and Spain, infused
with the smokiness imparted
by the high-temperature, charcoal-fueled Josper oven. Bites
kitchen team heads the other
way next week, serving up its
take on modern international
cuisine in Shanghai. The onenight-only dinnertime events
in each city cost 588 yuan net
per person ($87) for the fivecourse menu.
Wednesday at TRB-Bites, 95
Donghuamen Daijie, Dongcheng district, Beijing. 0106401-6676.
Oct 26 at Raw, 2/F, 98 Yanping
Lu, Jingan district, Shanghai.
021-5175-9818.
HONG KONG

Milan star
Fried fish takes an elegant form in the chefs hands, and even appetizers beautifully balance taste and presentation. PHOTOS BY MIKE PETERS / CHINA DAILY

Ifyougo
Man Ho
Marriott Hangzhou, 399
Juyuan Road, Jinggan
district, Hangzhou. 5718646-9999, Ext 6666.
Chef Rocky Leung
works on a dish at
Man Ho restaurant.
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often called youmaicai in the

south), and on a plate its
almost unrecognizable as the
plant sold whole in wet markets. The stem is usually harvested when around 3 to 4
centimeters thick: It is crisp,
moist and mildly flavored
usually prepared by slicing
and then stir-frying with
more strongly flavored ingredients.
Our second main course
was Leungs version of

crispy pork belly.

Once again, a twice-cooked
process delivered great contrast. The meat at the heart of
each morsel is very tender
and surprisingly lean. Leung
packs the porks sinful side in
the crispy top, brittle after a
flash broiling and salty
thanks to a basting of rich soy
sauce. The result is not guiltfree, but its far from the
excessive celebration of fats
deliciousness that is often

served up elsewhere.
And why go to a fancy restaurant without some guilty
pleasure?
Speaking of guilty pleasure:
Dont forget dessert. The
mango and pomelo served in
sago cream is a light and
refreshing finish that wont
leave you too full.
Contact the writer at
michaelpeters@
chinadaily.com.cn

RECIPE

Onion corn bread leaves lasting memory

By ELIZABETH KARMEL
in Wooster, Ohio

Over the summer, I traveled

to a barbecue summit at the
headquarters of Certified
Angus Beef.
It was a trip filled with
learning, camaraderie and
lots of smoked beef.
My fellow barbecue pit masters and I visited a black
Angus ranch, talked barbecue
non-stop, cut a side of beef
together or rather watched
as the meat doctor Phil Bass
cut and explained.
I was introduced to several
new cuts including beef belly
also known as beef bacon
which I immediately made
when I got back home. But,
the standout of the trip wasnt
barbecue at all. Instead, it was
a Vidalia onion cornbread
made by Ashley Pado, chef of
the education and culinary
center at Certified Angus Beef
headquarters. The sweet
onions are a famous product
of the US state of Georgia; other varieties of sweet onion can
be used in the recipe.
Pado headed up a team of
chefs preparing that day's
feast that included a table of
smoked beef, numerous side
dishes, home-baked breads,
pickled vegetables and that
memorable cornbread that
sparkled with a pave of caramelized Vidalia onion rings
set in the bottom of the cornbread. When Pado served the
cornbread, she inverted it in
the cast-iron pan so you could

BEIJING

see the concentric circles of

onion baked into the bottom.
Even before we took a bite, the
group marveled at the presentation and wondered why
more people dont embellish
cornbread.
The cornbread itself is light
and cakey with a little tang
and a little sweetness, but the
salty savory almost-fried
onions take it over the top.
Pado sauteed the onions in
beef bacon since she had it in
her pantry. When I made the
recipe, I adapted it using pork
bacon, but you could use butter or any kind of bacon that
you can get your hands on.
Ashleys Vidalia onion castiron cornbread
Start to finish: One hour
Servings: 8
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup granulated white sugar
1/2 cup yellow corn meal
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup buttermilk
3 whole eggs, beaten

1/3 cup vegetable oil

3 tablespoons melted butter
1 large Vidalia (sweet) onion
4 slices bacon, diced
Equipment: 9 or 10-inch cast-iron
skillet
Heat oven to 190 C.
Saute bacon over low heat in skillet until crisp. Meanwhile, slice the
onion into thin rounds, making
sure you keep them intact and in
one piece.
Remove bacon from pan but leave
the bacon grease for the onions to
cook in. Carefully place the onion
rounds in the bottom of the pan to
cover the surface. Let onions cook
until the edges begin to brown. Be
careful to keep onions in place
the bottom of the skillet will have
a "polka-dot" pattern. Season
onions with a dusting of fresh
ground black pepper. Turn off the
heat and set aside until ready to
bake the cornbread. If the pan
cools down, warm the pan on low
heat before pouring the cornbread batter in pan.
In a large bowl, whisk together
flour, sugar, corn meal, baking
powder and salt. Set aside.

In a separate bowl, mix together

the cream, buttermilk, oil, eggs
and melted butter until combined
the mixture will emulsify. Set
aside.
Add wet to dry ingredients and
mix until combined. Don't over
mix. Batter should look slightly
lumpy.
Just before baking, add the
cooked bacon back to the pan
and place in the areas around the
onions not on top of the onions
or it will interfere with the onion
pattern. Pour cornbread batter
directly into hot pan. Place in the
center rack of the oven and bake
for 30 minutes or until a toothpick
inserted in the middle comes out
clean.
Cool in the pan for 20 minutes,
run a blunt knife around the edges
of the cast-iron skillet to make
sure that it isn't sticking on the
sides. Carefully turn the skillet
upside down and flip cornbread
out of pan to expose onion rounds
you can invert the cornbread
and place it upside down back
into the skillet for serving.
Serve at room temperature or
warm.
Nutrition information per serving:
419 calories; 211 calories from fat;
24 g fat (9 g saturated; 1 g trans
fats); 117 mg cholesterol; 407 mg
sodium; 46 g carbohydrate; 2 g
fiber; 20 g sugar; 7 g protein.
Elizabeth Karmel is a barbecue and Southern foods
expert and author. She is
the chef and pit master at
online retailer CarolinaCueToGo.com.
AP

Guest chef Carlo Cracco, an

icon of Milans cooking
scene, will take over the
kitchen at Tosca for dinner
Nov 3 and lunch and dinner
Nov 4 and 5. Cracco is a lively
judge on MasterChef Italia, as
well as Hells Kitchen Italia,
and he will present dishes
from his Michelin-starred
Cracco-Peck restaurant,
including prawns, salted pistachio and beetroot; marinated egg yolk, pappa al
pomodoro and vegetables;
amberjack with vanilla
white, green and purple
asparagus; and chocolate,
lentils and peas. Prices range
from HK$588 ($76) for a
three-course lunch menu to
HK$2,180 for a seven-course
dinner menu.
Tosca in the Ritz-Carlton,
Hong Kong; International
Commerce Center, 1 Austin
Road West, Kowloon district.
852-226-2270.
LONDON

Zodiac inspiration

Coming to tables soon

A rural farmer sorts the autumn pepper harvest and spreads
chilis to dry in Bazhou county of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Its picking time across more than 320,000 acres
of peppers in the Yanqi basin, and the regional construction
corps has stepped in to help. HU RE / FOR CHINA DAILY

HKK, Hakkasans upscale sibling, has just launched a new

eight-course tasting-menu
series inspired by the 24 terms
of the Chinese solar calendar.
The solar terms are based on
the suns position in the zodiac
and play an important role in
Chinese culture and cuisine.
The menu will be refreshed
every two months to reflect
seasonality and the relevant
solar terms. The current menu
focuses on the Bailu, meaning
white dew, which indicates the
beginning of cool autumn. It
features spiny lobster and
pumpkin soup and uses one of
the most opulent ingredients
in China, fish maw, containing
a host of nutrients that are
beneficial to the body and
skin.
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20 LIFE | Culture

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 CHINA DAILY

EXHIBITION

AUCTION

Christies
looks for
realistic
returns
By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Dubai

Sculptures by Liu Huanzhang mostly portray female bodies and animals in a style which honors the objects spirit over their details.

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SPIRIT OF OBJECTS
A sculptor creates visual layers in the human and animal figures that he crafts, Lin Qi reports.

hen Wu Weishan visited Chinese sculptor

Liu
Huanzhangs
home years ago, the
director of the National Art Museum
of China was impressed by a great
number of statues of people and animals that filled every room and passageway.
In the concrete forest of a
metropolis, Liu builds up in his
small space an art world that feels
warm and magical, Wu says.
Now Lius world of sculptures has
been transplanted to the third floor
of Wus museum in Beijing, where
nearly 200 sculptures and traditional Chinese seal-cutting works are on
show.
The exhibition marks the 86-yearold artists fourth one-man show at
the museum since 1981. It includes
57 sculptures from the museums collection, nearly three-fourths of
which Liu had donated just before
the exhibitions opening on Thursday.
Many of the displayed works portray female bodies and animals; in
them, Liu infuses the abstract style
of primitive carvings and the fullness in volume of Chinese folk clay
and wood sculptures. His works do
not surprise at first sight, but the
longer people gaze at them, the more
expressive they become.
A significant feature of Lius output is adopting a xieyi (freehand)
approach of traditional Chinese
painting, which honors the objects
spirit over their details. He also relies
heavily on the texture and colors of

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Wood with beautiful grain is Lius favorite materials.

the materials to emphasize the temperament of his subjects.

He uses a lot of jade and marble,
whose mild touches help to highlight the body curves and gentleness of young women. He chooses
woods that have beautiful grain
that becomes human hair in his
works.
He treasures the materials he
works with as part of the beauty of
nature, says Situ Zhaoguang,
sculptor and Lius colleague at the
Central Academy of Fine Arts in
Beijing.
Never has he easily cut off edges
that seem unneeded to other artists.

Sculptor Liu Huanzhang is holding a

solo show in Beijing.

He takes great interest in the texture,

luster and pattern of every kind of
material, and he does his best to
present these features that complement the structure of each of his
works.
Lius artist friend, Huang Yongyu,
says the sculptor changes into a
gentle, attentive mother when working on his stones, wood, mud and
jade, and he is patient, persistent
and even stubborn.
Who knows why there is such a
profession called sculptor, whod like
to temper his character on stones
and wood and create things that
look livelier and handsomer than

humans, says Huang.

Liu believes a good sculpture
doesnt tell a dramatic story but
depend on its form. The work
speaks with its radiance, size and
volume. I attempt to establish a style
that is simple and straightforward
but not shallow.
One should think cleverly when
conceiving a work. But its equally
important that he should not sculpt
or polish the work excessively. Otherwise, it will end up looking rather
awkward and unnatural.
In his teens, Liu learned to carve
Chinese seals, laying a solid foundation for his later studies of sculpture
at the CAFA.
He has continued to produce delicate seals and imprints. He incorporates the traditional form of art into
the realm of sculpture. He sculpts
with precision and calmness
reflecting an intimate connection
with his exploration with seal cutting.
Reviewing his artistic career, Liu
says: Sincerity is all the more of a
merit for being a man. So it is when
doing art.
Contact the writer at
linqi@chinadaily.com.cn

The global economic slowdown and selective demand

are pushing Christies to seek
more realistic prices for their
collections, directors of the
auction house said on Sunday.
This year, the market is not
at the same level as it was one
year or two years ago. We are
facing a more challenging
market, Guillaume Cerruti,
Christies
president
for
Europe, the Middle East, Russia and India, tells journalists
in Dubai.
To face this situation, the
key word for us is selectivity,
he says, announcing two auctions this week in the glitzy
Gulf emirate, one on modern
and contemporary art and
another showcasing Important Watches.
We want to have sales that
are well curated, sales with
maybe fewer objects but of
high quality at ... realistic estimates, he says.
In Tuesdays auction of 113
artworks, the highest estimated price has been set at
$180,000 far lower than the
$400,000 price tag on paintings sold in March this year.
Around 150 watches go up
for auction on Wednesday,
with estimated prices reaching $250,000.
Among them are two Patek
Philippe 18K white-gold automatic wristwatches with the
Iraqi coat of arms and the
name Saddam. Executed
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein ordered the watches in
1974 and 1980 as gifts.
Their prices are estimated
at $10,000 and $18,000 each.
London-based Christies,
which celebrates its 250th
anniversary on Dec 5, says its
sales at Dubai auctions have
exceeded $300 million since it
opened a branch in the emirate 10 years ago.

An automatic wristwatch in
Patek Philippe 18K white-gold at
a Christies show in Dubai. AFP

Fun | LIFE 21

CHINA DAILY Tuesday, October 18, 2016

horoscope

crossword

Capricorn (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)

BETTER CHINESE

Live, learn and experience. It's important not to judge what others do,
but to focus on the best way to improve your skills, knowledge and
expertise.

Aquarius (JAN. 20-FEB. 19)

Pisces (FEB. 20-MARCH 20)

Aries (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)

Taurus (APRIL 20-MAY 20)

Gemini (MAY 21-JUNE 20)

Emotions will surface quickly, leaving you in an awkward position if you
don't have an alternative plan in place. Nurture important partnerships
before the situation spins out of control.

Cancer (JUNE 21-JULY 22)

Gravitate toward the unusual and do things that allow you to use your
creativity and imagination. Walk away from no-win situations and people
who are spoiling for a fight.

Yesterdays solution

Down
1 Swallows deeply
2 and on and
on and on
3 Newswoman
Mitchell
4 Make another
image of
5 They get the
paddy started
6 Part of
USCGA:
Abbr
7 Juno actor
Michael
8 Avoided phoniness
9 Celebs arrest
report, to the
celeb, say
10 Actress Mendes of 2 Fast 2

11
12
13
14
20
22
26

Dilbert

F-minus

Furious
Neighbor of
Caps Lock
Bumbling
detective of
film
Spring forward, fall back
unit
One in opposition
Time immemorial
Aetna
offering,
briefly
Mimic

comics

     ! "   # $  %

Its a pity that the bread has gone bad before we eat it.

Money matters should be dealt with carefully and secretively if you want
to avoid loss and disputes. A physical challenge will help clear your head
enough for you to find a unique solution.

27 ___ Torretta,
1992 Heisman
Trophy winner
29 ___ Mine
(George Harrison autobiography)
30 Noble knight
who found the
Holy Grail
32 Wolf Blitzers
employer
33 You may be
asked to arrive
90 mins prior
to this
35 Sneaky shelters
36 Pres who recuperated at
Warm Springs,
Ga
37 SignbeforeVirgo
38 Aristocratic
ancestry
39 Eye layer whose
name derives
from the Latin
for grape
40 Gas in signs
41 Spring forward,
fall back inits
45 Fifth Avenue
retailer
46 13-Down, in
Italian
47 Grinding teeth
48 Fall Out Boy
genre
49 Where John
Kerry and Bob
Kerrey served
51 On drugs
53 Eyed caddishly
54 They benefit
from boosters
55 Crash, with
out
57 Minuscule
58 Feminine suffix
60 Prefixwithcenter
61 1950s car feature

 
    
       

Im sorry that I didnt record what you said.

Be receptive to new ideas, but reluctant to follow someone who hasn't

got a good track record. It's up to you to conduct your due diligence
before entering into a partnership or negotiation.

64 Fashion designer Klein

65 Repetitive
means of learning
66 Hitting high in
the air
67 Colors, as
Easter eggs
68 Did 80 on the
highway, say

    
  

Its a pity that you cannot come.

Don't feel pressured to make a decision you aren't equipped to make.

Walk away from anyone using emotional blackmail to coerce you into
something that doesn't feel right.

36 Struggled to
make progress
42 Digs deeply
(into)
43 Beano competitor
44 Bull session?
45 Halite formations that
might be oil
reservoirs
50 How-to book
52 Address of Juliets balcony?
54 Umberto ___,
author of The
Name of the
Rose
56 Proceeded
without trying
very hard
59 Classic out-ofoffice sign or
what this puzzles author has
done?
62 Cmon, be
___
63 Nearest target
for a bowler

   

Regret and disappointment

Money matters can be addressed and contracts can be negotiated. You

stand to make gains if you stick to your principles and honor your promises. Romance is encouraged. Celebrate your success.

Across
1 Boots, backpack, tent, etc
5 Triangle on a
pool table
9 You ___
(Sure thing)
15 ___ Reader
(alternative
digest)
16 Maker of Arctic
Blast and Java
Freeze beverages
17 Arthurian
island
18 Some PC
screens
19 Criticized nigglingly
21 Roosted on
23 Mentalist Geller
24 Ticks off
25 Tattered
28 Travelers with
paddles
31 Gun, slangily
34 Mideast ruler
35 Landlords
counterpart

language tips

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I regret that I havent been to Hong Kong with you.

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Its rather disappointing that our team has lost.

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Keep emotional matters in perspective and stay focused on what you

can do to make things better. Home improvements or alterations to your
living situation will lead to personal benefits.

I thought it would be a good novel, but it turned out to be

disappointing.

Virgo (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)


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Test your skills before you go public with a project. You may want to do a
little fine-tuning to avoid criticism. Problems with a loved one will surface if you aren't attentive.

Libra (SEPT. 23-OCT. 23)

Your ideas are interesting, but may not hold water. Make sure you pay
attention to every little detail to avoid a costly mistake. Rely on your
experience and call in experts when in doubt.

Scorpio (OCT. 24-NOV. 22)

Discuss important matters with discretion. Giving personal information
to the wrong person will come back to haunt you. A romantic relationship will take an interesting turn.

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views and don't worry about being opposed by someone jealous of your
charisma, confidence and skills.

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and actress, said, Extreme
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faces a choice of side suit to
attack first. Which should he
select? South is in six hearts.
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low doubleton. East takes
the trick and returns his
remaining spade. How
should South continue?
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two-bid. North, trusting that
his partner would have a
good suit at the prevailing
unfavorable vulnerability,
jumped straight to six spades. This had the side advantage of keeping East out of
the auction.
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tricks: five spades, three
hearts and two clubs. It looks
so obvious to take the second
trump, cash the heart queen
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side first), and play a heart to
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a diamond), cashes his heart
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heart ace. South takes five
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the clue associated with it. However,
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016 CHINA DAILY

CYCLING

Quanzhou tour a world-class test

Tough course covers three stages,
eight counties in Fujian province
By YANG XINWEI
yangxinwei@chinadaily.com.cn

You ride for a reason.

The Tour de France is the
worlds most grueling cycling
race, and standing atop the
podium under the Arc de Triomphe on the final day is like
being crowned at the Olympics.
On the Tour of Qinghai
Lake, road cyclings highestlevel race in China, riders
challenge
the
countrys
remote and exotic midwest
some areas of which have not
even been reached by the
most experienced travelers.
Now theres a new addition
to that tradition.
The Tour of Quanzhou Bay
opens at the source of the
Maritime Silk Road. The city
in Chinas southeastern province of Fujian has one of the
richest religious and ethnic
blends in the country. For centuries, it was used by merchants traveling the ancient
Maritime Silk Road and traces of the past are clearly visible today.
Now Quanzhou is looking
forward. It hopes to use sports
as one of the methods to propel its economic development
and to revive the Maritime
Silk Road to open its doors to
the outside world even wider.
Kazakhstans Astana City
Continental Team won the
team title and Stalnov Nikita
was crowned the individual
winner after three days of
competition over the weekend.
I like Quanzhou and China
very much, said Nikita.
My victory came only after
the help from my teammates.

Experiencing the
beauty of Quanzhou is fun, and I
look forward to
helping develop
and promote sport
cycling in China.
Gong Jinjie, Chinas first Olympic cycling title winner

326.5
kilometers
distance covered by
the three-day
Tour of Quanzhou Bay

15
pro teams
took part in the tour,
along with 10,000 amateurs

3,000
races
were staged in China last year

The route was well-chosen,

difficult and full of good challenges.
I want to thank the organizers for their excellent work.

Im expecting to come back

next year.
Nikita, who finished third
overall in tours of Turkey,
Ukraine and Azerbaijan,
clocked a three-day time of 7
hours, 46 minutes and 47 seconds. His Astana team won in
23 hours, 34 minutes.
The three-day Tour of
Quanzhou Bay covers a distance of 326.5 km, with the
green ecology stage (125 km),
the bay trip stage (107 km) and
the city stage (94.5), passing
through eight counties.
Besides a number of professional cyclists from 15 of the
worlds top teams representing Germany, Colombia,
Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Greece, Belarus, Philippines, Singapore, Spain,
Mongolia and China, 10,000
amateurs participated in a fun
ride led by Gong Jinjie, who
won Chinas first Olympic
cycling title in team sprint at
the Rio Games.
Experiencing the beauty of
Quanzhou is fun, and I look
forward to helping develop
and promote sport cycling in
China, Gong said.
More than 20 road cycling
tours are registered with the
China Cycling Association. Of
all the races in China, 10 percent are at the international
level, 15 percent at the national level, 35 percent at the provincial level and 40 percent at
the municipal level.
More than 3,000 races were
staged in China last year, and
the nation now has more than
2,200 cycling clubs registered.
The successful hosting of
the 2016 Tour of Quanzhou
Bay has convinced us to make
it a brand-name event for the
city in the next five to 10
years, said Chen Xiangrong,
deputy secretary-general of
Quanzhou municipal government.

Cyclists compete in the Tour of Quanzhou Bay in Quanzhou, Fujian province, over the weekend.

BAI YU / FOR CHINA DAILY

Left: Stalnov Nikita of Kazakhstans Astana City Continental Team won the Tour of Quanzhou Bay individual title. WEI ZHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY
Right: Gong Jinjie, Chinas first Olympic cycling champion in team sprint, takes part in the tour to help promote the sport.
XIE MINGFEI / FOR CHINA DAILY

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CHINA DAILY Tuesday, October 18, 2016

SOCCER

Prandelli vows to
put Valencia back
on winning track
By REUTERS in Barcelona

Valencia coach Cesare

Prandelli praised his teams
spirit and determination as
his tenure at the ailing La
Liga giant got off on the right
note with a 2-1 win at Sporting Gijon on Sunday.
The former Italy boss succeeded Pako Ayesteran two
weeks ago, with the twotime Champions League
finalist in the relegation
zone.
His new charges had a flying start at Gijon when Mario Suarez finished off an
impressive counter attack in
the seventh minute.
Carlos Castros header
pegged Valencia back before
the break, but ex-Atletico
Madrid and Watford midfielder Suarez restored its
lead in the second half with a
close-range finish.
What I liked most was the
union, the desire to do
things well and the spirit of
wanting to work hard, Prandelli said.
We played with a lot of
intensity at a difficult
ground against a very organized team. It was a very balanced game.
Valencia moved out of the
relegation zone and up to
14th place in the standings
with nine points from eight
games, although Prandelli
acknowledged the job had
only just begun.
Im very happy but we
need to keep working hard.
The three points will give us
a boost to keep on working
and winning, he said.

Hard times
With six league titles and
seven Kings Cups to its
name, Valencia is one of the
biggest clubs in Spanish soccer but has struggled to
repeat past glories since
manager Rafael Benitez
departed after overseeing its
last league triumph in 2004.

Teen refugee buoys Bremen

Dream come true
as Gambian striker
notches first goal
in Bundesliga
By AGENCE FRANCEPRESSE in Breman, Germany

Cesare Prandelli

The club has also experienced financial upheaval in

recent years and had to
shelve plans to move into a
new 61,000 capacity stadium as the city felt the shockwaves of Spains economic
crisis.
Singaporean billionaire
Peter Lim bought the debtridden club in 2014, but
Valencia has continued to
lurch from crisis to crisis
and has made a string of illfated managerial appointments.
Prandelli, who took Italy
to the Euro 2012 final, is
Valencias eighth coach since
Unai Emery parted ways
with the club in 2012 despite
qualifying for the Champions League three seasons
running.
Prandellis predecessor
Ayesterans only previous
experience as a first team
coach was in Israel and
Mexico, while former
England defender Gary
Neville, fired in March with
just three league wins in 16
games, had never managed
before.
Despite a good start, Prandelli was cautious when
asked whether he could lead
a charge towards the top
four.
At the moment, Im only
thinking about improving
the team, in giving them
identity, temperament and
personality, he said.

DrogbarefusestoplayforMontreal
A disgruntled Didier Drogba
refused to play for Major League
Soccers Montreal Impact on Sunday after learning he would not be
in the starting lineup, coach Mauro
Biello said.
The striker opted not to show
up at Saputo Stadium, where the
Impact drew 2-2 at home against
Toronto FC to secure a playoff
spot.
Montreal earlier listed a back injury to explain Drogbas omission but reports of discord were confirmed after the match.
I spoke with him (Saturday) and he didnt accept the fact
that he would come off the bench and, in the end, he didnt
want to be in the 18, Biello told reporters. He decided not to
play.
Drogba, 38, has been used as a substitute in two of the
Impacts last four games.
He was recruited from English Premier League club Chelsea
last year and wasted little time living up to expectations, scoring
11 goals in as many regular season games.
His output has been down this season but he has still managed 10 goals from 18 starting appearances.
REUTERS

Werder Bremen striker Ousman Manneh said it was a

dream come true to score his
first Bundesliga goal, just two
years after the teenage refugee
fled Gambia.
The 19-year-old netted Bremens winner in Saturdays 2-1
victory over Bayer Leverkusen
to cap his fairytale rise after
being plucked from Bremens
reserves at the start of the season.
I cant believe this. One of
my biggest dreams has come
true. Is this real or am I dreaming? the teenager said after
scoring Bremens 59th-minute
winner at Werders Weser Stadion.
This is the greatest
moment of my life. Its hard to
describe my feelings. Ive been
so proud to be the first Gambian to play four (Bundesliga)
games, and now Im proud to
be the first one to score.
I always wanted to play football, of course ... and to do that
in front of 40,000 fans at Weser
Stadion.
Manneh arrived in Europe
in 2014 and ended up as an
asylum seeker in Germany. He
settled in a home for refugees
in Bremen, where he started
playing soccer.
He scored 15 goals for the
youth team of local club Blumenthaler SV and although
Bundesliga clubs Schalke,
Wolfsburg and Hamburg tried
to sign him, he opted to stay in
Bremen and joined Werders
reserves in March 2015.
I like the city and have
found friends here who could
help me. Why would I want to
leave? Manneh said.

Ousman Manneh celebrates scoring the winning goal in Werder Bremens 2-1 Bundesliga triumph over Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

He debuted in Germanys
top flight less than four weeks
ago and kissed the stadium
turf, struggling to hold back
tears, after scoring against
Leverkusen.
He happily posed for pictures with fans afer the final
whistle as he lapped up his
moment of glory.
Having made his debut
against Mainz on Sept 21, he
set up a goal against Darmstadt two weeks ago and then
scored the winner against Bayer, which hosts Tottenham
Hotspur on Tuesday in the
Champions League.
Ous has never been gifted
anything; hes worked hard
the last few years and shown a
constant development, said
Alexander Nouri, Werders
caretaker coach .
Both the teenager and Nouri
are reluctant to give any

I cant believe this.

One of my biggest
dreams has come
true. Is this real or
am I dreaming?
Ousman Manneh, on his first
Bundesliga goal

details of Mannehs flight from

Gambia, which landed him in
the Hanseatic city.
It is a profound, touching
story, was all Nouri would
offer.
The players fairytale rise
owes a lot to the coach, who
brought Mennah with him

when he was promoted from

the reserve team to replace
Viktor Skripnik, who was fired
one month ago.
I really have to thank coach
Nouri for believing in me and
giving me the opportunity to
play on the big stage, said
Mennah.
He made his German
league debut in Nouris first
game and has played in all
four matches since, which
have seen Bremen take seven
points with two wins and a
draw to leave the relegation
places behind.
But the talented striker says
more is to come.
Last year I didnt score any
goals as I was working on different aspects of my game,
said Mennah.
Now I need to work on
improving my efficiency.
Even after a game like this

one, my manager will come to

me and say that I shouldnt be
satisfied. It encourages me to
keep going.
His teammates are full of
praise for Mennahs work ethic.
Hes very diligent and eager
to learn, said attacking midfielder Zlatko Junuzovic, who
set up Mennahs winner
against Leverkusen.
Hes a down-to-earth and
positive person, always in a
good mood.
We are all really happy for
him and he deserves to have
scored this goal. He has earned
everything hes got.
Bremen skipper Clemens
Fritz said Mennahs hard work
is paying off.
His progression in the last
two years is not a coincidence,
said the ex-Germany international.

ARENA FOOTBALL

Lions bare teeth to remain unbeaten

By CHINA DAILY

Beijing Lions head coach

Clint Dolezel knows you have
to be good to be lucky and
lucky to be good.
After watching his team survive a late rally by the host
Qingdao Clipper on Sunday,
Dolezel was asked by a TV
reporter if the Clippers fourthquarter surge had him worried.
Oh, they came back. They
nearly came all the way back
and had us ready to go down,
Dolezel said after the 47-33 triumph in the China Arena
Football League (CAFL).
Qingdao is a very good
team and Im sure their home
town fans are disappointed,
but they showed great character.
Im just feeling very lucky
to get out of here with a win.
The unbeaten Lions (3-0)
totally dominated the first 30

minutes of the feature game in

week three of the CAFL Super
Series as quarterback Luke
Collis completed 14 of 18 passes for 169 yards and five touchdowns en route to a 35-13 lead
at halftime.
During the break I told my
guys they could either get back
in the game or they could go
home on the bus, said Clipper
coach Rod Miller.
His squad responded with a
quick touchdown strike by
Bryan Randall to Xavier Boyce
that covered 45 yards for the
two former Virginia Tech stars.
Qingdao then turned to Jake
Metz, who was named defensive player of the year in the US
Arena Football League. The
6-foot-6, 260-pound Metz
knocked down three passes,
recorded a sack and recovered
two fumbles leading to touchdowns. But despite his heroics,
the Clipper came up short.

James Romain of the Beijing Lions breaks off a big gain in Sundays
47-33 win over the Qingdao Clipper. ZHOU GUANGHUI /FOR CHINA DAILY

Qingdao fell to 2-1 on the

season.
In the opener of Saturdays
doubleheader, the Shanghai
Skywalkers rode the outstanding wide receiver tandem of Mike Washington and

Shane Kauleinamuku to an
impressive 61-48 victory over
Shenzhen.
Washington hauled down
eight passes from quarterback
Shane Austin for 140 yards
and five touchdowns, while

Kauleinamuku had eight

receptions for 123 yards and
four TDs.
Austin competed 24 of 41 for
323 yards and nine touchdowns, with no interceptions.
In the nightcap, the
Guangzhou Power met Dalian,
with both teams looking for
their first win.
Guangzhou, a preseason
favorite, dropped its first two
games in the final minute
while Dalian was looking to
rebound from a rough start to
the season.
Power fullback Dashawn
Johnson, who stands 6-foot-3
and tips the scales at 315
pounds, rumbled through the
Dalian defense for 47 yards on
nine carries to pace the offense
en route to a 40-7 win.
The series moves to its
fourth stop of six cities with
games in Guangzhou this Saturday and Sunday.

Scoreboard
BASEBALL
Result from the MLB Playoffs League Championship Series on Sunday (home team in CAPS):
Los Angeles 1 CHICAGO 0
(Best-of-seven series is level at 1-1)

GOLF
US PGA Tour Safeway Open
Leading scores on Sunday after the final round of
the US PGA Tour Safeway Open in Napa, California
(USA unless noted):
270 - Brendan Steele 67-71-67-65
271 - Patton Kizzire 64-71-66-70
272 - Paul Casey (ENG) 64-68-71-69, Michael Kim
73-67-65-67, Johnson Wagner 65-67-70-70, Scott
Piercy 62-67-73-70
273 - Kevin Na 71-66-70-66
274 - Chris Kirk 73-65-70-66, Justin Thomas 75-66-6667, Phil Mickelson 69-69-69-67, Cody Gribble 67-6970-68, Martin Laird (SCO) 67-68-68-71
275 - Mackenzie Hughes (CAN) 69-69-69-68, Kim
Whee (KOR) 69-71-66-69
276 - Derek Fathauer 68-68-74-66, Harold Varner
71-67-73-65, Jon Rahm (ESP) 66-71-72-67, Vaughn
Taylor 70-67-74-65, Troy Merritt 66-67-74-69
277 Jamie Lovemark 70-71-70-66, Bill Haas 66-70-7170
278 - Trey Mullinax 69-67-73-69, Kyle Stanley 65-7371-69, Keegan Bradley 69-72-71-66, Chez Reavie
69-70-68-71

Leading final round scores in the European Tour

British Masters at The Grove club, Watford, north
of London on Sunday (GBR/IRL unless stated, par
71):
266 - Alex Noren (SWE) 67-65-65-69
268 - Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 68-66-67-67
269 - Lee Westwood 67-68-67-67
271 - Alexander Levy (FRA) 70-66-68-67, Graeme
McDowell 68-68-67-68, Tommy Fleetwood 66-67-6870, Peter Hanson (SWE) 70-65-66-70, Richard Bland
67-64-69-71
272 - Tyrrell Hatton 68-66-70-68, Richard Sterne
(RSA) 66-68-67-71
273 - Marcel Siem (GER) 69-68-65-71
274 - David Horsey 67-71-60-66, Stephen Gallacher
70-67-70-67, Mikko Ilonen (FIN) 66-71-69-68, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA) 70-70-70-64, Lee Slattery
67-70-68-69, Pelle Edberg (SWE) 69-69-67-69.
275 - Joakim Lagergen (SWE) 75-65-66-69, Anthony
Wall 68-65-74-68, Matthew Southgate 69-70-67-69,
Jorge Campillo (ESP) 71-66-67-71

ICE HOCKEY
Results of the National Hockey League games on
Sunday (home teams in CAPS):
NY ISLANDERS 3 Anaheim 2 (OT)
Buffalo 6 EDMONTON 2
VANCOUVER 4 Carolina 3 (OT)

MOTORCYCLING
Grand Prix of Japan

British Masters

Results from the Grand Prix of Japan on Sunday:

MotoGP
1. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 42:34.610, 2. Andrea
Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) at 2.992, 3. Maverick Vinales
(ESP/Suzuki) 4.104, 4. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/Suzuki)
4.726, 5. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Honda LCR) 15.049, 6.
Pol Espargaro (ESP/Yamaha) 19.654, 7. Alvaro Bautista (ESP/Aprilia) 23.032, 8. Danilo Petrucci (ITA/
Ducati Pramac) 28.555, 9. Scott Redding (GBR/
Ducati Pramac) 28.802, 10. Stefan Bradl (GER/Aprilia) 32.330
World championship standings
1. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 273 pts (champion),
2. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 196, 3. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 182, 4. Maverick Vinales (ESP/
Suzuki) 165, 5. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 155, 6.
Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 124, 7. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Honda) 116, 8. Pol Espargaro (ESP/
Yamaha Tech3) 106, 9. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati) 96, 10. Hector Barbera (ESP/Ducati) 84
Moto2
1. Thomas Luthi (SUI/Kalex) 42:45.854, 2. Johann
Zarco (FRA/Kalex) at 0.386, 3. Franco Morbidelli
(ITA/Kalex) 5.863, 4. Takaaki Nakagami (JPN/
Kalex) 6.090, 5. Sandro Cortese (GER/Kalex) 16.246,
6. Simone Corsi (ITA/Speed Up) 20.404, 7. Mattia
Pasini (ITA/Kalex) 20.683, 8. Julian Simon (ESP/
Speed Up) 20.760, 9. Marcel Schrotter (GER/Kalex)
24.394, 10. Xavier Simeon (BEL/Speed Up) 27.113
World championship standings
1. Johann Zarco (FRA/Kalex) 222, 2. Alex Rins (ESP/
Kalex) 201, 3. Thomas Luthi (SUI/Kalex) 179, 4. Sam
Lowes (GBR/Kalex) 162, 5. Franco Morbidelli (ITA/
Kalex) 157, 6. Takaaki Nakagami (JPN/Kalex) 148, 7.
Jonas Folger (GER/Kalex) 133, 8. Hafizh Syahrin

(MAL/Kalex) 106, 9. Lorenzo Baldassarri (ITA/

Kalex) 99, 10. Simone Corsi (ITA/Speed Up) 84
Moto3
1. Enea Bastianini (ITA/Honda) 39:24.273, 2. Brad
Binder (RSA/KTM) at 0.017, 3. Nicolo Bulega (ITA/
KTM) 4.002, 4. Philipp Oettl (GER/KTM) 5.119, 5.
Fabio Di Giannantonio (ITA/Honda) 6.288, 6. Francesco Bagnaia (ITA/Mahindra) 7.739, 7. Livio Loi
(BEL/Honda) 7.749, 8. Fabio Quartararo (FRA/KTM)
8.344, 9. Joan Mir (ESP/KTM) 8.880, 10. Niccolo Antonelli (ITA/Honda) 9.037
Hiroki Ono (JPN/Honda) disqualified.
World championship standings
1. Brad Binder (RSA/KTM) 269 pts (champion), 2.
Enea Bastianini (ITA/Honda) 164, 3. Jorge Navarro
(ESP/Honda) 143, 4. Nicolo Bulega (ITA/KTM) 129, 5.
Joan Mir (ESP/KTM) 124, 6. Fabio Di Giannantonio
(ITA/Honda) 122, 7. Francesco Bagnaia (ITA/
Mahindra) 120, 8. Romano Fenati (ITA/KTM) 93, 9.
Niccolo Antonelli (ITA/Honda) 87, 10. Jakub Kornfeil (CZE/Honda) 83

NEW ORLEANS 41 Carolina 38

Kansas City 26 OAKLAND 10
Dallas 30 GREEN BAY 16
SEATTLE 26 Atlanta 24
HOUSTON 26 Indianapolis 23 (OT)

Results on Sunday:
Mainz 2 (De Blasis 5, Malli 57-pen) Darmstadt 1
(Gondorf 90+3-pen)
Wolfsburg 0 RB Leipzig 1 (Forsberg 70)

SOCCER

Results on Sunday:
Fiorentina 0 Atalanta 0
Genoa 0 Empoli 0
Inter Milan 1 (Mario 56) Cagliari 2 (Melchiorri 71,
Handanovic 85-og)
Lazio 1 (Immobile 90+7-pen) Bologna 1 (Helander
10)
Sassuolo 2 (Sensi 83, Iemmello 86) Crotone 1 (Falcinelli 2)
Chievo 1 (Birsa 76) AC Milan 3 (Kucka 45, Niang 46,
Bacca 90+4)

NFL

English Championship

Results of the National Football League games on

Sunday (home team in CAPS):
Jacksonville 17 CHICAGO 16
NEW ENGLAND 35 Cincinnati 17
DETROIT 31 Los Angeles 28
MIAMI 30 Pittsburgh 15
WASHINGTON 27 Philadelphia 20
TENNESSEE 28 Cleveland 26
BUFFALO 45 San Francisco 16
NY GIANTS 27 Baltimore 23

Dutch league
Results on Sunday:
FC Twente 2 FC Zwolle 2
NEC Nijmegen 1 Feyenoord 2
Excelsior 0 Roda JC 1
ADO Den Haag 0 Ajax 2

English Premier League

Results on Sunday:
Middlesbrough 0 Watford 1 (Holebas 54)
Southampton 3 (Austin 52, 66-pen, Redmond 60)
Burnley 1 (Vokes 72-pen)

Result on Sunday:
Huddersfield 0 Sheffield Wednesday 1

French Ligue 1
Results on Sunday:
Rennes 1 (Contento 44-og) Bordeaux 1 (Pallois 66)
Saint-Etienne 1 (Roux 90+5-pen) Dijon 1 (Lees melou 22)
Marseille 1 (Gomis 13) Metz 0

German Bundesliga

Italian Serie A

Spanish La Liga
Results on Sunday:
Alaves 1 (Deyverson 9) Malaga 1 (Rosales 85)
Athletic Bilbao 3 (Muniain 51, Aduriz 60, Williams
72) Real Sociedad 2 (Zurutuza 17, Martinez 83)
Sporting Gijon 1 (Castro 40) Valencia 2 (Mario Suarez 7, 65)
Villarreal 5 (Soriano 8, 12, Bakambu 38, Wass 48-og,
Trigueros 90+1) Celta Vigo 0

TENNIS
WTA Linz
Result on Sunday:
Final: Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x2) bt Viktorija Golubic (SUI) 6-3, 7-5.

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BASEBALL

Kershaw weaves magic against Cubs

Dodgers ace surrenders just two hits
while Gonzalez belts winning homer
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
in Chicago

So much for being an October closer.

With his Dodgers desperate
for a win, Clayton Kershaw
delivered the most dominant
start of his checkered playoff
career on Sunday night.
The ace left-hander pitched
seven sparkling innings and
Adrian Gonzalez delivered a
clutch home run as Los Angeles beat the Chicago Cubs 1-0
to tie the NL Championship
Series at a game apiece.
Kershaw retired his first 14
batters and allowed just two
hits in his first outing since he
pitched three times in the NL
Division Series, including a
two-out save in Game 5 on
Thursday night in Washington.
The three-time NL Cy Young
Award winner struck out six
and walked one while throwing just 84 pitches in a brisk
outing that could help when
he returns later in the NLCS.
It was one of those games
where one pitch could have
been the deciding factor, Kershaw said.
So, really I couldnt look up
for a minute for air and just
kind of kept going through it
and was fortunate to give us a
chance to win.
The Dodgers needed a

clutch pitching performance

after their heartbreaking 8-4
loss in the series opener. And
Kershaw responded with a
postseason gem that continued to repair his reputation
after a handful of playoff duds
over the years.
He was just 3-6 with a 4.79
ERA in 16 career postseason
games coming into the series.
I feel like every start he has
the chance to be great, catcher Yasmani Grandal said. Its
just unbelievable to see him
pitch, its unbelievable to see
him compete.
Kenley Jansen struck out
four in two perfect innings for
his third save of the playoffs.
Game 3 is on Tuesday night
in Los Angeles. Cubs righthander Jake Arrieta, who
pitched a no-hitter at Dodger
Stadium last August, faces
left-hander Rich Hill, who
worked a total of seven
innings in two starts in the
Division Series against the
Nationals.
The Cubs lost a 1-0 game in
the postseason for the first
time since Babe Ruth and the
Boston Red Sox blanked them
in the opener of the 1918
World Series.
Chicago, trying for its first
pennant in 71 years, wasted a
solid start by major league
ERA leader Kyle Hendricks,
who pitched 5 1/3 innings of

It was one of those

games where one
pitch could have
been the deciding
factor.
Clayton Kershaw, after the
Dodgers beat the Cubs 1-0

three-hit ball in his first outing since he left his Division

Series start against San Francisco with a bruised right forearm.
Hendricks only mistake
was a second-inning fastball
that Gonzalez drove over the
wall in left-center for his second homer of the playoffs.
Gonzalez also had a tying
two-run single in the eighth
inning of the series opener, but
Miguel Monteros pinch-hit
grand slam was the big blow in
a dramatic win for Chicago.
A day later, the Cubs
couldnt get anything going
against Kershaw.
He kept the ball off the fat
part of our bat, manager Joe
Maddon said. He threw
strikes like he normally does.
So despite not having rest, his
command and velocity were
still good.
Slumping slugger Anthony
Rizzo just missed a home run
with a foul drive in the fourth,

Adrian Gonzalez of the Los Angeles Dodgers is tagged by Chicago Cubs Addison Russell in the sixth inning of Sundays Game 2 of the
National League Championship Series at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Gonzalez accounted for the games only run when he homered in the
second inning, and the Dodgers 1-0 victory evened the best-of-seven series 1-1. JONATHAN DANIEL / GETTY IMAGES / AFP

and then bounced out.

Javier Baez and Willson
Contreras hit consecutive twoout singles in the fifth for Chicagos first baserunners, but
Jason Heyward fouled out.
Nothing seemed to bother
Kershaw on a muggy night at
Wrigley Field. After Grandal
dropped a foul pop-up in the
seventh, Kershaw responded

with a wry grin and then

struck out Ben Zobrist.
With two down and a runner on first, Baez drove Kershaws final pitch to the
warning track in center,
momentarily thrilling the
crowd of 42,384. But Joc Pederson was there for the catch.
I think the wind killed it a
little bit. I just didnt get all of

the bat on it, Baez said.

Jansen backed Kershaw
with flawless relief. The big
right-hander struck out Dexter Fowler and Kris Bryant
before Rizzo lined meekly to
second for the final out.
While the Cubs struggled
against Jansen and Kershaw,
Hendricks and their bullpen
gave them a chance.

Carl Edwards Jr., Mike

Montgomery, Pedro Strop and
Aroldis Chapman combined
for 3 2/3 innings of hitless
relief.
Josh Reddick got LAs last
hit of the night in the sixth,
putting runners on first and
second. Edwards then came in
and got Pederson to hit a soft
liner to second for the out.

Yangshuo special

Yangshuos rep climbing the ranks

By ZHUAN TI
zhuanti@chinadaily.com.cn

Fishermen take a break while shing at night in Yangshuo.

HUANG FUWANG / FOR CHINA DAILY

Tourists looking to get back

to basics stay with locals
By ZHUAN TI

Having a good rest at a

village house is a must-have
experience after a whole days
tour in picturesque Yangshuo.
With an increase in tourists from home and abroad,
village-houses-turned-hotels
mushroomed in Yangshuo,
said Wei Shourong, director
of the countys tourism bureau.
From few village hotels
about three decades ago, the
county now boasts more than
600 such hotels scattered
throughout the villages.
They can together accommodate 10,000 people each
day, Wei said. Some of them
also developed their own
special features to meet the
various demands of so many
tourists.
At present, more than
100,000 people, mostly from
villages, are engaged in the
tourism industry in Yangshuo,
making rural tourism a major
employment source, Wei said.
Zhou Xin, owner of XY YunHouse, a village-house-turnedhotel in Yangcun village of

the county, said there is huge

potential in village tours.
When I travel in European countries, especially in
the countryside, I often see
people live in houses more
than 200 years old, she said.
The houses maintain their
primitive state yet still are
comfortable. Once back in
China, Zhou started her own
search for a place close to
nature but also suitable to live.
Born in Guilin, which
administrates Yangshuo,
Zhou said she found no place
better than Yangshuo.
YunHouse was built on the
basis of seven typical Guilin
houses and maintained their
original style.
Many foreign guests
expressed their interest in
seeing something that cannot
be found in megacities like
Beijing and Shanghai, Zhou
said. They would like to see
something unique to China.
Most of things used in YunHouse are made from cotton
and linen for the sake of environmental protection.
All the employees are local

people who have never been

to big cities. They are also
part of the primitive environment, Zhou said.
With improved living standards, more and more people
will long for a laid-back rural
life, Zhou said.
We dont have TVs, but we
have lms shown in the openair. We dont have computers, but we have libraries. We
dont have gyms, but we have
natural greenways along the
elds, she said. Thus, village
tours will be a growing trend.
Glen Cook, general manager of Banyan Tree, another
hotel located in rural areas
in Yangshuo, said close contact with nature is the largest
appeal for such hotels.
The site for the hotel was
chosen because of its idyllic
environment surrounded by
mountains and a river, Cook
said. In the summer solstice,
the sun sets between the
mountains in front of the main
entrance with the river owing to us from the southwest.
The quiet peaceful setting
is great for relaxing.

Yangshuo in Guilin, Guangxi

Zhuang autonomous region,
has seized the opportunities
generated from its booming
climbing industry over recent
years and hosted a range of
regional and international
events to become a betterknown must-see outdoor
sports destination.
The county in South China
ranked top on the list of the
most beautiful counties in the
country, according to a report
recently released by the Hong
Kong-based China Institute
of City Competitiveness. It is
the third year in a row that
Yangshuo has won the title.
The county made its name
as a mecca for rock climbers
since the 1990s, thanks to its
dramatic scenery of craggy
limestone towers and caverns.
Since Todd Skinner, a late
well-known free climber
from the United States, set
Yangshuos first climbing
route on Moon Hill in 1992,
the countys climbing industry
has experienced rapid development in the past two decades.
Yangshuo is now home to
10 certified climbing clubs
and more than 1,000 climbing
routes, attracting thousands
of rock climbing enthusiasts
to visit.
Skinner laid the foundations for the county to become
a paradise for climbing in
Asia, said Zhang Yong, deputy
director of the Yangshuo Rock
Climbing Association.
The Yangshuo Climbing Festival, an annual event launched
in 2008, has so far attracted
more than 10,000 participants.
The Yangshuo International
Open Bouldering Tournament
held in May attracted a total of
74 athletes from six countries
and regions, including Thailand, Chile and Poland. The
athletes include almost all of
the top 10 male and female rock

Clockwise from top: Yangshuo in Guilin, Guangxi, has more than 1,000 climbing routes. LIU CHUANG / FOR
The countryside landscape in Yangshuo attracts a great number of cyclists from abroad. LI
ZI / FOR CHINA DAILY A young outdoor sports enthusiast enjoys ziptrecking in Yangshuo. TENG BIN / FOR
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climbing athletes in China.

Yangshuo is the best rock
climbing destination in Asia
and a paradise for a large number of players, said Przybysz
Aleksandra from Poland, a silver medal winner in the womens group, who has visited the
county many times. It is my
honor to attend the event and
compete with the best players
from around the world.
A challenge match of climbing crags was also held. Qu

Haibin, champion of the mens

challenge match, said he feels
glad to win the title and will
try new routes in Yangshuo to
hone his skills.
Zhao Lei, an official at the
mountaineering management
center of the General Administration of Sport, said that more
and more people are expected
to try rock climbing after they
watch the spectacular moves
of the top players on the crags.
In November last year, the

Yangshuo Maxi Race, a longdistance running competition,

attracted more than 560 athletes
from six countries, including
France, Italy and South Korea,
to compete on the 45.7-kilometer and 110-km routes.
Zhang Zhijian, secretarygeneral of the Chinese Mountaineering Association, said
the event will further prove
Yangshuos capability of holding similar international events
in the future.