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VOL. XXV No. 11 November 2013 Rs. 20.00 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) shakes hands with Indian Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid during their talks in New Delhi, India, Nov. 10, 2013. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Indian External Affairs On November 11, 2013, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Minister Salman Khurshid (C) and Russian Foreign attends and delivers a speech on the 11th ASEM Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) shake hands after their 12th Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi. trilateral meeting in New Delhi on Nov. 10, 2013. At the invitation of Rajya Sabha of the Parliament of India, The Chinese and Indian armies’ nine-day joint anti- Mr. Wang Zhengwei, Vice Chairman of CPPCC leads a terrorism drill ends with a live-fire exercise in southwest delegation to visit India from October 31st to November 4th. China’s Sichuan Province on Nov.13, 2013. On Oct. 16, Mr. Liu Zhijie(third right), Consul-General of At late night of Oct. 26, Neeraj Panwar (centre), an Indian China to Kolkata, extended solicitude to 17 Chinese Crew staff of ZTE, donated blood to a Chinese citizen who rescued by Indian Coast Guards. suffered Dengue in hospital and saved the patient’s life. CONTENTS I. THIRD PLENARY SESSSION OF 18TH CPC CENTRAL COMMITTEE 1. Communist Party of China Announces Decision on Comprehensive Reform 4 2. Xi Explains China’s Reform Plan 5 3. China to Set up Central Leading Team for “Comprehensive Deepening Reform”: 7 Communique 4. China to Ease One-Child Policy 8 5. China's Reforms Influence World 9 6. China's New Reform Drive to Benefit World 12 II. CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS 1. Chinese, Indian FMs Satisfied Over "Year of Harvest" in Ties 14 2. China Calls for Strategic, Comprehensive China-Russia-India Cooperation 15 3. Chinese, Russian, Indian FMs Condemn Beijing Terrorist Attack 16 4. "Hand-in-hand 2013" China-India Anti-Terrorism Joint Training Continues 18 5. China, India May Set up Military Hotline 19 III. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS 1. China Vows to Support Development of Other Developing Countries 20 2. China Calls for Joint Efforts for Asia-Pacific Development 21 3. A Bridge Further Endearing ASEAN and China 22 4. China's Win-Win Diplomacy to Bring More Benefits to Neighbors 23 5. China's Good-Neighborly Diplomacy Promotes Affinity 24 6. Southeast Asia Welcomes China's Neighborly Foreign Policy 25 7. UN official Praises China's Poverty Reduction 27 8. China, Brazil Sign Economic Cooperation Agreements 28 IV. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS 1. Silk Road Resurrection 29 2. Bold Deep-Seated Reforms 32 3. The Risks Are Looming 34 4. Aspiration for Rural Life 36 5. The Power of the Arts 39 V. TIBET TODAY 1. Tibet's GDP Growth Up 12 Percent 42 2. First Chinese-Tibetan Bilingual Smartphone Debuts 42 3. Highway Open to Traffic for China's Last Roadless County 43 4. Germany China Tibetan Culture Week Promotes Bilateral Cultural Exchange 44 5. Tsering Tsomo, A Legendary Woman in Namseling 45 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHINESE VISA APPLICATION 50 FLIGHTS BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA 59 CCTV NEWS CHANNEL NOW AVAILABLE IN INDIA 61 READER’S OPINION 62 November 2013 NEWS FROM CHINA 3 Third Plenary Session of 18th CPC Central Committee I. THIRD PLENARY SESSSION OF 18TH CPC CENTRAL COMMITTEE Communist Party of China Announces Decision on Comprehensive Reform Beijing, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — The 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Tuesday approved a decision on “major issues concerning compre- hensively deepening reforms” at the close of their four-day meeting. Entrusted by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a work report to the third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, held from Nov. 9 to 12 in Beijing. The general objective of the approved reforms is to improve and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics and push on with Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party modernization of the country’s governing of China (CPC) Central Committee, addresses the system and capabilities, according to the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central communique issued after the session. Committee in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 12, 2013. The session lasted from Nov. 9 to 12. China must build on the paramount (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang) reality that it remains in the primary stage of socialism and will long remain so while pursuing comprehensive, deeper reform. sectors, and a well-developed, scientific, China must stick to the strategic judgement procedure-based and effective framework that development is still the key to solving all must be in place by 2020 to ensure institutions problems in China, the communique said. in all sectors be more mature, according to the It is most important to adhere to the communique. leadership of the CPC, it said. China will stick to the dominant role of Economic reform is key, and the core public ownership, playing the leading role of solution is the proper relationship between t h e s t a t e - o w n e d e c o n o m y , w h i l e the government and the market, leaving the encouraging, supporting and guiding the market to play the decisive role in allocation non-public sector, enhancing its vitality and of resources and the government to play a creativity, it said. better role, it said. A united and open market system with Decisive results must be achieved in key orderly competition will be built so that the 4 November 2013 NEWS FROM CHINA Third Plenary Session of 18th CPC Central Committee market will play a “decisive” role in allocating sector including education, employment, resources, according to the communique. income distribution, social security and Government functions must be public health. transformed in a manner to build a law-based The country will establish a state security and service-oriented government. committee, improving systems and strategies The reform also includes building a to ensure national security, according to the modern fiscal system that supports the communique which called for the innovation initiative of both central and local of systems to effectively prevent and end governments. social disputes and improve public security. China aims to improve a new type of The communique also urged building of a relations between industry and agriculture comprehensive system for ecological and between urban and rural areas. progress that protects the environment. China will lower the investment Modern armed forces with Chinese threshold, step up the development of free characteristics will be built, the communique trade zones and increase opening-up of said. inland, coastal and border areas. The CPC will set up a central leading team Greater importance will be attached to for “comprehensively deepening reform.” It perfecting a democratic system and enriching will be in charge of designing reform, democratic forms to show the advantages of arranging and coordinating reform, pushing China’s socialist political system. forward reform and supervising the China will deepen judicial system reform implementation of plans. and step up building a socialist judicial A total of 204 full members and 169 system that features justice, high efficiency alternate members of the CPC Central and authority to uphold the rights and Committee attended the plenum. interests of the people. Standing committee members of CPC Power must be supervised by the people Central Commission for Discipline and exercised transparently. Inspection, leading officials from relevant China will follow the development path of departments, some grassroots-level delegates a s o c i a l i s t c u l t u r e w i t h C h i n e s e to the 18th CPC National Congress as well as characteristics. experts and scholars were also present at the Reforms must be accelerated in the social plenary session as non-voting delegates. Xi Explains China's Reform Plan Beijing, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — Xi Jinping’s Committee, Xi, general secretary of the CPC explanation of the decision on major issues Central Committee, explained the decision to concerning comprehensively deepening the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC reforms was published on Friday. Central Committee, which was held from Entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Nov. 9 to 12. Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Since 1978, the third plenary session of a November 2013 NEWS FROM CHINA 5 Third Plenary Session of 18th CPC Central Committee CPC central committee, including its should respond to the hopes as well as agendas, decisions, measures and signals, has complaints of the people, while the reform served as a major reference for people to measures should be bold in mind but steady understand the new leadership’s policies and in steps. priorities, and has been important for the The reform roadmap has been designed work in the coming five to ten years, Xi said. to be met by 2020, when decisive results To reach the strategic goals set at the 18th should have been achieved in key sectors, he CPC National Congress last year, added. comprehensive reforms must be firmly KEY DECISIONS promoted, he said. A significant theory of the session was to It has been 35 years since the CPC made acknowledge the market’s decisive role in the landmark decision to shift the focus to allocating resources, Xi said. economic development and adopt opening- Economic reform is the key of the entire up policies at the Third Plenary Session of the reform drive while a proper relationship 11th CPC Central Committee. between the market and government remains Persistent reform and opening-up efforts the core of China’s economic reform, Xi have deeply changed the image of the explained.