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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Special Envoy of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, in New Delhi on 9th June, 2014. Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi (R) met with Indian Mr.Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister and Special Envoy Ambassador to China Mr. Ashok Kumar Kantha in Beijing, of President Xi Jinping, accepted an exclusive interview China on May 27, 2014. with CNN-IBN at the end of his official visit to India on June 8 and 9, 2014.

Chinese Ambassador Wei Wei met with Mr. K. Rosaiah, Chinese Ambassador Wei Wei met with Publisher Mr. N. Governor of Tamil Nadu during his visit to the state from Ram and Editor-in-Chief Mr. N. Ravi of The Hindu during May 24 and 25, 2014. Two sides expressed their his visit to Tamil Nadu on May 24 and 25, 2014. willingness to strengthen bilateral economic and trade relations.

Chinese Ambassador Wei Wei attended “My Chinese Indian navy soldiers welcomed Chinese navy soldiers at Dream” - Chinese Language Competition held in VIT Visakhapatnam port in east India on May 17, 2014. University of Tamil Nadu on May 25, 2014. Teachers and Chinese Navy training vessel Zhenghe and missile students from more than ten universities participated in frigate Weifang arrived at Visakhapatnam port and the competition. started a four-day visit there. An Introduction to Qingdao

Qingdao, cited as China’s “capital of first open coastal cities in China, Qingdao sailing” and Asia’s best nautical city, has established trade relations with 216 hosted the sailing events of the 29th countries and regions around the world. It Olympic Games and the 13th Paralympic was rated as having the best investment Games in 2008. environment in China by the World Bank, Qingdao is a major coastal city in east and listed as the “Best Business City in China, and an economic center in China. It China” by Fortune magazine. has established sister-city relations or Depending on the fair and well- friendly and cooperative relations with 56 ordered market system, good public cities in foreign countries. More than 2,000 security, comfortable living conditions, oversea trading firms, companies and highly efficient government service, financial institutions have set up complete infrastructure, guaranteed permanent offices in Qingdao. Qingdao is personal and property security and other making efforts to build a “Blue Economic good investment environments, Qingdao Area” and a high-end industrial area along has ranked among China’s most the Jiaozhou Bay coast. Among the first economically dynamic cities, China’s best coastal open cities, it is a specifically commercial cities, and Chinese cities with designated city at the sub-provincial level most investment potential in the eyes of in the state plan. It has one of the ten largest multinational corporations, and has been ports in the world as a port city. Qingdao is an open city. As one of the

Qingdao Port Qingdao Polar Ocean World

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 3 happiness. Emphasis will be placed on eight key industries, including£ºhome a p p l i a n c e s a n d e l e c t r o n i c s , petrochemicals, automobiles and railway engines, shipbuilding and marine engineering, textiles and clothing, food and beverages, machinery and iron and steel, and logistics. Qingdao is a tourist resort. It is one of the foremost centers of excellent tourist destinations in China. Qingdao Street view in Qingdao is also reputed as a famous historic city, cited as a “gold-medal city” in China for its a national model of civilization, a investment environment by World Bank. national hygienic city, a national garden city, a It is also reputed as China’s best national model city of environmental commercial city, one of the top ten innovative protection and forestation, a top ten livable cities in China, a top ten IT-based city in city, a ten best tourist destination of China as China, a top ten most attractive city in the eyes well as a top 100 summer resort and tourism of foreign talents. What makes it even more city in the world. As a “China Habitat Award” attractive is that it is one of the China’s safest winner, Qingdao won the right to host the cities, and cities with the greatest sense of World Horticultural Expo in 2014.

Qingdao Beer International Festival 1 Qingdao Beer International Festival 2

EVENTS IN QINGDAO

Events Dates Place

The 10th China (Qingdao) International July 19 - 21 Q i n g d a o I n t e r n a t i o n a l Construction & Decoration Materials Convention Center Exposition The 24th Qingdao International Beer Festival August 11 - 26 Laoshan Century Square The 6th Qingdao International Sailing Week August 16 - 23 Qingdao International Sailing Centre

4 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA CONTENTS

INFORMATION

An Introduction to Qingdao 3

CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS

1. Chinese Premier Discusses Bilateral Ties with New Indian PM 6 2. Chinese Special Envoy Visits India 7 3. A Coming Together of Dreams 15 4. China: Opportunity for India's Economic Takeoff 17 5. Relevance for India-China Relations 19

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

1. New Asian Security Concept for New Progress in Security Cooperation 21 2. Chinese President Addresses CASCF Ministerial Meeting 27 3 China, Bangladesh Pledge Joint Efforts to Build Economic Corridor 29 4. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Visits Britain 30 5. China-South Asia Expo Begins in Kunming 32

BUILDING SILK ROAD ECONOMIC BELT

1. Sri Lanka, China to Strengthen Cooperation on Maritime Silk Road 33 2. Silk Road Leads to New Opportunities 35 3. Energy Cooperation to Lead Silk Road Economic Belt 36 4. New Silk Roads to Boost Regional Economic Cooperation 37

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

1. Unlocking the Stock Market 38 2. Down to Brass Tacks 40 3. A Treasure Map 43

CULTURE & LIFE

1. Duanwu Festival Celebration 45 2. Chinese Legend--The Ten Suns in the Sky 47 3. Chinese Chengyu & Its Story 48 4. Award-winning Chinese Crosswords 50 5. Chinese Chef Recipe-Kung Pao Chicken 51

TIBET TODAY

1. Fighting Against Religious Extremism Needs Comprehensive Measures 52 2. Inland Tibetan Students Back to Hometown after Matriculation 57 3. Manager of Dropenling Store on Dongtsesur Road 58 4. Getting Close to Legpo and Drenthang 62

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHINESE VISA APPLICATION 66 FLIGHTS BETWEEN CHINA AND INDIA 75 CCTV NEWS YOUR LINK TO CHINA AND THE WORLD 77 CRI A BRIDGE OF FRIENDSHIP 78

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CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS

Chinese Premier Discusses Bilateral Ties with New Indian PM

Beijing, May 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, in a telephone hook-up Thursday, told new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that China was willing to enhance mutual trust and regarded each other’s development as opportunities. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which was jointly initiated by China, India and Myanmar in 1954, Li said China was willing to further strengthen cooperation with India and jointly push ahead the construction of the Bangladesh- China-India-Myanmar economic corridor. China was also willing to enhance exchanges in the humanistic field and other areas and look for more converging points of interest to jointly make contributions to the peace, stability and prosperity in the region and the world, Li said. Li congratulated Modi’s swearing-in as world, the Chinese premier said, adding the India’s new prime minister, saying that, with two countries were natural cooperation concerted efforts by both sides, relations partners. between China and India had developed The cooperation between and common significantly in recent years, and the two development of China and India would not countries had jointly explored a way to relate only benefit their peoples, but also make a to each other, in which cooperation was major contribution to settling the issue of actively explored and differences were development of the entire mankind, Li said. properly managed and controlled. Modi said India and China were friendly China and India were both countries with neighbors and friendly exchanges between a long history of civilization, and they were their peoples had a long history. also the two largest developing countries and I n d i a w a s d e l i g h t e d w i t h t h e most vigorous emerging economies in the a c h i e v e m e n t s C h i n a h a d m a d e i n

6 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA China-India Relations development, Modi said, adding developing and also the two largest emerging market relations with China was one of the important countries in the world today. China-India tasks of India’s diplomacy. relations have gone beyond the bilateral scope India’s new government attached great and are of global and strategic significance. importance to India-China relations from a China has always regarded China-India strategic high perspective, and was willing to relations as one of priorities in its foreign work with China to advance bilateral policy. Since entering in the new century, the cooperation in various fields, solve existing two countries have established a strategic issues through dialogue, and achieve friendly cooperative partnership of peace and and harmonious co-existence and common prosperity and explored a way getting along development, Modi said. with each other of active expansion of In 1954, China, India and Myanmar cooperation and proper management of initiated the Five Principles of Peaceful differences. Coexistence, which stand for mutual Li Keqiang expressed that both China and respect for sovereignty and territorial India are now shouldering historical tasks of integrity, mutual non-aggression, non- deepening reforms, developing economy and interference in each other’s internal affairs, improving people’s livelihood and that equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful seeking development at home and peace coexistence. abroad are our common goal. China and India Li Keqiang Sends Message of joining hands to realize a peaceful, Congratulations to Narendra Modi cooperative and common development benefits not only the two peoples but also On May 26, 2014, Premier Li Keqiang also peace, stability and prosperity in Asia and the sent a message to Narendra Modi, for the world at large. China is willing to work congratulations of his assumption of office of together with India in promoting China-India the Prime Minister of the Republic of India. strategic cooperative partnership of peace Li Keqiang said in the message, China and and prosperity for new highs. India are important neighbors to each other,

Chinese Special Envoy Visits India

Indian President Meets with two great ancient civilizations and have a long Chinese FM history of friendly exchanges. He said that over the past few years, India New Delhi, June 9 (Xinhua) — Indian and China have commonly faced up to the President Pranab Mukherjee met here challenges of international financial crisis, Monday with visiting special envoy of and played a major role in helping bring about Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese Foreign resumption of growth of world economy and Minister Wang Yi. reform of international monetary system. Mukherjee said that India and China are Mukherjee said India is willing to work

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 7 China-India Relations with China to continue to push forward Wang said that both China and India bilateral cooperation and instill new contents should regard each other as priority in and dynamics into the India-China strategic developing strategy of external relations, and partnership. look upon each other’s development as their Wang said that Mukherjee is an old friend own opportunities. of the Chinese people and has made great They would thereby increase common contributions to developing bilateral interests, realize their peaceful development, relations. cooperative development and inclusive development, as well as keep friendly cooperation as the mainstream of their relations, said the Chinese foreign minister.

Indian PM Modi Meets with Chinese FM NEW DELHI, June 9 (Xinhua) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday met here with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wangyi, the special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping. During the meeting, Wang conveyed greetings and messages from President Xi and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Prime Minister Modi. The Chinese president said in his message that he believes India will obtain greater development and progress under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi. The Chinese president said that as two important forces in the process of multi- Photo provided by Indian Ministry of External Affairs polarization of the world, China and India on June 9, 2014 shows Indian President Pranab share far more common interests than Mukherjee (L front) meeting with visiting special envoy differences and that the two countries are of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese Foreign long-term strategic cooperative partners Minister Wang Yi (R) in New Delhi, capital of India. (Xinhua) rather than adversaries. The Chinese president pointed out that the dreams of both China and India to build a He said that if the near 2.6 billion people of strong nation and to upgrade the living China and India join hands to realize standards of their people have a lot of modernization, they will accomplish a great commonalities and the two countries should panorama in human history. make an in-depth convergence of their This is not only the common mission of development strategy, support each other China and India, but also the responsibility with their respective strengths, build a close the two countries shoulder for the world, he development partnership, and hold hands to said. realize peaceful development, cooperative

8 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA China-India Relations development, and inclusive development, in fields of infrastructure, manufacturing, and IT order to benefit their people and enhance industry. peace, stability and prosperity of Asia and the Modi also said that India and China whole world. should develop their resources of two ancient Prime Minister Modi said that the civilizations to enhance cooperation and important message from President Xi Jinping increase exchanges in humanity. has given a clear guidance for developing On the boundary issue, he said the two bilateral relations. countries should commonly maintain peace Modi said he highly appreciates the and tranquility on the border areas in order to achievements in the field of development provide guarantees to the development of made by China and personally cherishes a bilateral relations. friendly feeling toward China. Foreign Minister Wang said that China Modi said India’s new government is and India are now standing at a new historical willing to join China to give a clear signal to starting point of developing their relations the world that the two countries are dedicated and in the meantime are faced with important to common development. opportunities of their own development. He suggested that the two countries He said that China is ready to realize maintain exchange of high- level visits, convergence with India in the fields of consolidate strategic trust, and use each development theories and ideas, exchange other’s strengths to deepen cooperation in the and learn from each other in practice and

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R front) meets with visiting special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L front) in New Delhi, capital of India, June 9, 2014. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)

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theories of governance. new starting point and new opportunities for Wang said China is also willing to realize China-India relations, we aim to send a convergence of development strategies with message to India that China welcomes and India and let the “Look East” policy of India supports India’s development and wishes it a meet and confluence with China’s sound development. China is willing to forge acceleration of opening its western regions. a closer and more comprehensive The two countries should also use their development partnership with India and respective strong points to support and work together to achieve peaceful, supplement each other in their respective cooperative and sustainable development, development, he said. thus not only effectively implementing the Wang said as the two ancient civilizations, bilateral strategic cooperative partnership for China and India should join each other to peace and prosperity, but also contributing to make new contributions to human the national revitalization of both countries civilization and progress. He also suggested and the cause of peaceful development in the that the two countries properly control and region and the world at large. manage their boundary problem to seek a Sushma Swaraj said that as soon as the mutually acceptable, fair and reasonable Indian new government took office, Premier solution to the boundary issue. Li Keqiang held telephone talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and Foreign Wang Yi Holds Talks with External Minister Wang Yi paid a visit to India as Affairs Minister of India Special Envoy of President Xi Jinping. India highly appreciates these efforts. China is a On June 8, 2014, Foreign Minister Wang Yi major country with significant influence in held talks with External Affairs Minister the world and the world’s second largest Sushma Swaraj of India in New Delhi. economy. The new Indian government Wang Yi said that China and India are two attaches great importance to its relations with major rising forces in the process towards a China and will uphold a positive policy multi-polar world, and the China-India towards China so as to uplift the India-China relationship is the most dynamic and highly p o t e n t i a l b i l a t e r a l relationship in the 21st century. Sharing similar concepts of governance and development strategies that are aligned, China and India are both pursuing the great dream of national renewal, d r e a m s t h a t a r e i n t e r c o n n e c t e d a n d mutually compatible. By my visit to India as a Special Envoy right after the taking office of the new Indian government and on the occasion of the embrace of

10 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA China-India Relations relations to a new high. This is also in countries should stay committed to resolving conformity with the strong hope of the Indian boundary disputes through bilateral people negotiation, ensure that the boundary Both sides reached following consensus question does not hamper the development of on deepening development of bilateral bilateral relations, and maintain peace and relations: tranquility at the border regions before the First, to maintain the momentum of high- final solution is found to the boundary level mutual visits and to enhance strategic question. communication and blueprint strategic plans The two sides also exchanged views on for bilateral relations, charting the course for strengthening cooperation in regional and the development of bilateral relations. Ensure international affairs. the activities commemorating the 60th anniversary of the declaration by China, India Chinese FM Meets Indian National and Myanmar of the Five Principles of Security Adviser Peaceful Co-existence a success, in a bid to inherit and carry forward the spirit of the NEW DELHI, June 9 (Xinhua) — Visiting principles. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Second, to push vigorously ahead with Monday met here with Ajit Doval, national pragmatic cooperation, connect the two huge security adviser to Indian Prime Minister markets of China and India, promote regional Narendra Modi. economic integration, and create a new pole of During the meeting, Wang said that China growth for world economy. The two countries and India are important neighbors to each will speed up connectivity, synchronize other, and the two countries are both large, India’s “Look East” policy with China’s developing countries with significant acceleration of opening up to the west, and influence in the world. work hand in hand to advance cooperation The development and revitalization of projects, such as Bangladesh-China-India- China and India is an inevitable historical Myanmar Economic Corridor. The two sides trend, which is also conducive to a more will also expand trade and investment and peaceful, more harmonious and more seek common development. balanced world. In this process, the two Third, to deepen people-to-people and countries are natural partners, said Wang. cultural exchanges. The two sides will hold China and India enjoy far more common various activities during the “China-India interests than differences and that common Year of Friendly Exchanges” and enhance interests will keep increasing in future, he communications between youths, media, said. sister-cities and expertise. To simplify the visa Wang said China is willing to work with procedures and provide more convenience India to grasp the opportunity to increase for bilateral personnel exchanges. mutual trust, expand cooperation and foster a Fourth, to handle the boundary question closer development partnership. properly. Over the past few decades, the China is also ready to cooperate with India boundary question between the two countries in properly handling border issue, push the was put under effective management thanks two countries’ strategic cooperative to the concerted efforts of the two countries, partnership to a new level and realize creating a favorable environment conducive common development and shared prosperity, to each other’s development. The two he said.

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All these are in conformity with the full text is as follows: fundamental interests of the two peoples, the 1. As a new government takes office in development strategies of the two New Delhi, this will be the first high level visit governments and the dreams to realize from China to India. How does China view national rejuvenation of the two countries, he the future of working with the new added. government in Delhi under Prime Minister Doval said that the development of China Modi? is of great global significance, as well as Wang: I am very honored to visit India as special importance to India. the special envoy of President Xi Jinping He said that the two countries are shortly after the new government took office. I maintaining good cooperation in all fields and was here in this beautiful country many times, at the same time both shouldering the but this trip is different. It is a trip to convey responsibility as big powers of safeguarding messages and to get to know more friends. It is world peace and stability. also a trip to cement our existing friendship Doval said India highly appreciates the and explore further cooperation. positive messages of deepening bilateral ties India was a cradle of splendid ancient coming from China after the coming to power civilization, and I am glad to see this country of the new Indian government. gaining new vigor and vitality. Less than two India and China should send a clear signal weeks into office, the new Indian government to the world that the two countries are led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has partners rather than adversaries, through already shown to the world its resolve and enhancing comprehensive cooperation, courage in pushing forward reform and maintaining peace and tranquillity at border development, and its sincerity and areas, and working together for a more fair enthusiasm in seeking friendship and and reasonable international order, he added. cooperation with other countries. The international community, impressed by the Interview with Indian great opportunities in India, is full of Correspondent by Chinese FM confidence in the future of the country. As a friendly neighbor of India, China also On 8 June, Foreign Minister Wang Yi takes the development of India as an gave a interview with Mr. Ananth Krishnan, opportunity. Being ancient Eastern the China Correspondent of The Hindu. The civilizations at similar development stages, China and India are both pursuing the great dream of national renewal, dreams that are interconnected and mutually compatible. We have long been partners of cooperation, and we may well build closer partnership for development. My trip brings a most important message to the people of India ¯ China stands by your side throughout your efforts of reform and development, and your pursuit of dreams. China is ready to work with

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our Indian friends for an even brighter future countries was up from naught to 45 a week. of our strategic and cooperative partnership. However, given our 2.5 billion population, 2. How does Foreign Minister Wang view such cooperation is still far from the scale and the overall status of the relationship, and can level that it needs to be. Just like the emerging we look forward to a visit by President Xi tip of a massive buried treasure that awaits Jinping to India later this year? your discovery, or a huge volcano that is Wang: China-India relationship has preparing itself for a billowing eruption, entered the track of sound development since much is to be expected from the cooperation the beginning of the century. China is satisfied between our two countries. about the achievements in this relationship in China-India relationship is the most recent years, and is full of confidence and dynamic and highly potential bilateral expectation on the future of this relationship. relationship in the 21st century. It is vital for Our confidence comes from the strong China and India, two major forces in the efforts of our leaders on developing the process towards a multi-polar world, to bilateral relationship, which is the most achieve peaceful, cooperative and inclusive important driving force ( development. This will not behind it. Shortly after Prime It is vital for China and only bring huge benefits to Minister Modi took office, India, two major our two peoples, but also will President Xi Jinping has forces in the process contribute to peace in Asia instructed me to visit India as and the world, and to the special envoy, and towards a multi-polar addressing the development Premier Li Keqiang has sent world, to achieve issue of mankind. a congratulatory message to peaceful, cooperative 3. Are there any particular Prime Minister Modi and a n d i n c l u s i v e areas where Foreign Minister h e l d a t e l e p h o n e ( development. Wang sees room for new conversation with him. cooperation between China President Xi Jinping is and India? expected to pay an official visit to India within Wang: I believe that practical cooperation this year. All this gives full expression to the between China and India faces three great sincerity and resolve of our leaders on important opportunities. enhancing political mutual trust and First, the opportunity of mutual deepening mutually-beneficial cooperation complementarity. China and India, one being between the two countries. I am confident that a global manufacturer and the other a major with the joint efforts of the new leaders in service provider, may complement each other China and India, the bilateral relations will well with their different economic strengths. surely usher in a new era and reach a new Chinese enterprises, with their rich height. experience in infrastructure development and Our expectation comes from the manufacturing, can contribute to India’s enormous potential in our cooperation. development in these areas, thus creating China-India cooperation in the various areas bright spots for cooperation. We also welcome has indeed made rapid progress since the more competitive companies from India to beginning of the century. For example, enter the Chinese market for opportunities in bilateral trade volume has grown by over 20 business cooperation. Moreover, our times, mutual visits have increased nearly mutually-reinforcing cooperation is expected three-folds, and direct flights between the two to grow in such areas as two-way investment,

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financial services and new and high a solution. Thanks to our joint efforts, the technologies. border areas between China and India have Second, the opportunity of economies of on the whole enjoyed peace and stability over scale. The combined population of China and the past 30 years and more. What has India, the largest and the second largest happened proves that as long as we respect respectively, exceeds 1/3 of the world’s total. and accommodate each other’s concerns, and In addition to their vast land, diverse culture insist in managing differences through and diligent people, China and India are also dialogues instead of confrontation, we are seeing their economies on a fast-growth track. surely able to properly handle the boundary The complementarity and connection question, and to reduce its impact on our between our two economies will help unleash bilateral relations to the minimum level. significant economies of scale, and produce The Border Defence Cooperation the most competitive production basis, the Agreement signed last year represents further most attractive consumer market, and the efforts by the two sides to strengthen most powerful growth engine of the world. communication and properly manage Third, the opportunity of regional and differences on the basis of a series of existing global cooperation. China and India are both mechanisms related to the boundary members of the BRICS and emerging question. It will help increase direct economies. We are well-positioned and duty- engagement and mutual trust between the bound to strengthen cooperation in Chinese and Indian border troops and promoting regional economic integration, promote peace and tranquility in the border increasing regional connectivity, facilitating areas. global free trade, upholding energy and food It is unavoidable that between neighbors, security, and tackling climate change, and to there might be certain issues left from history make our contribution to the economic or some differences in immediate interests. prosperity of Asia and the world. However, let me emphasize that China and I believe that as long as our two countries India have much more strategic consensus pursue the same dreams, align our strategies, than differences, and cooperation is our top connect our markets and strengthen people- priority. No country can choose its neighbor, to-people ties, the world will soon witness the but friendship may be fostered. Certain issues joint national renewal of the two ancient may not be avoided, but innovative answers civilizations of China and India, and an Asian could be found. One can not rewrite history, century of prosperity and rejuvenation. but the future is in our hands. 4. Both sides last year signed a Border 5. On trade relations, both sides have been Defence Cooperation Agreement when discussing setting up China-dedicated former Prime Minister Singh industrial parks in India. Could visited Beijing. How does China At the current stage, you share with us the current v i e w t h e i m p a c t o f t h e competent authorities of status of this initiative? agreement and the current the two countries are W a n g : T o c a r r y o u t situation along the boundary? negotiating on relevant cooperation on industrial zones W a n g : T h e b o u n d a r y is one of the important question is indeed a difficult agreements, which are agreements reached between one, but with strong will and expected to be finalized leaders of the two countries. An resolve, we will eventually find and signed soon. important piece of experience

14 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA China-India Relations we have drawn from China’s sustained and early, substantive outcome of such rapid economic growth over the past 30 years cooperation and foster signature projects of and more is the setting up of development China-India practical cooperation. zones to attract foreign investment with 6. Lastly, does China see any room to take preferential policies and promote cluster forward cooperation on terrorism-related development of industries. China is willing to issues, considering the increasing and share its experience and cooperate with India common challenges faced by both countries in in this regard. this regards? At the current stage, competent Wang: Recently, China was hit by a authorities of the two countries are number of serious violent terrorist attacks. The negotiating on relevant agreements, which Indian government publicly stated its position are expected to be finalized and signed soon. after the attacks, standing together with China China has sent a delegation to India to inspect and condemning the terrorist attacks. China the prospective sites of the zones. To my highly appreciates India’s position. knowledge, some Chinese businesses are Terrorism is the enemy of all mankind. It already on the move and have begun has highly complex root causes, and to construction on the ground. The two address this menace would take a rather long governments need to encourage and step up and arduous process. Solidarity and policy guidance to our businesses. We hope enhanced cooperation as well as unremitting that India will introduce more preferential efforts of the international community are policies and investment facilitation for required to root out terrorism and uphold Chinese businesses so that we can push for regional and global security and stability.

A Coming Together of Dreams Chinese Ambassador to India ,Wei Wei

The Chinese and Indian historical mission to push dreams are interconnected f o r w a r d C h i n a - I n d i a and mutually compatible relations. representing the shared On May 26, 2014, I had aspiration of 2.5 billion people the honour of attending In March 2014, Chinese Prime Minister Narendra President Xi Jinping told M o d i ’ s s w e a r i n g - i n Ashok Kantha, when he ceremony and witnessing a a c c e p t e d t h e l a t t e r ’ s historical moment. On the credentials as India’s new same day, Li Keqiang, Ambassador to China, that Premier of the State Council cooperation between two of the People’s Republic of great nations like China and China sent a warm message India is contribution to the of congratulations to Prime world and it is our common Minister Modi. On behalf of

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 15 China-India Relations the Chinese government and people and in official visit to India in his first outgoing visit his own name, Premier Li extended sincere after assuming premiership. All of these show congratulations and best wishes to the Indian that the Chinese government and leadership Prime Minister. attach great importance to India as well as to China-India relations, and regard the Expanding Cooperation relationship as an important part of China’s In his message, Premier Li said that China foreign policy for good-neighbourly and India are important neighbours and the friendship. This also reflects that it is a set top two emerging markets in the world. policy for the Chinese government to develop China-India relations have moved beyond the strategic and cooperative partnership with bilateral scope and taken on global and India. The China-India friendly cooperation is strategic significance. China has all along an irreversible historical trend which regarded India as a natural cooperative conforms to the common interests of our two partner whose development brings countries and to the common aspirations of opportunities to China, and has viewed our two peoples. China-India relations as one of its diplomatic The New Indian Government priorities. In this new century, the two sides have found a way to actively expand China-India relations will be embarking cooperation while properly handling on a new starting point upon the formation of disagreements. China-India relations have the new Indian government. The two sides matured and entered the track of healthy and should seize the opportunity to promote rapid growth. Premier Li pointed out that smooth transition of bilateral relations and both China and India are now facing the inject new impetus into the China-India historical mission of deepening reform, strategic and cooperative partnership. growing the economy and improving First, we should maintain high-level people’s livelihood. We also share the goal of exchanges. The Chinese side has invited seeking domestic development and a peaceful Indian leaders to participate in the external environment. By working together commemoration of the 60th anniversary of for peaceful, cooperative and common the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence development, China and India will not only (Panchsheel) in Beijing next month. A series of bring benefits to their own peoples but also high-level visits between the two countries contribute to peace, stability and prosperity in will be carried out in the second half of this the Asian region and beyond. This year is an year. The two sides are discussing bilateral important one for China-India relations to meetings between the two leaderships on the build on past achievement and usher in new sidelines of the BRICS summit in Brazil and on progress. It is also the Year of China-India other multilateral occasions. Friendly Exchanges. China-India relations Second, we should expand pragmatic face new development opportunities. China cooperation in all fields. The Chinese side is stands ready to work with India in order to willing to actively participate in India’s take the China-India strategic and d e v e l o p m e n t i n i n f r a s t r u c t u r e , cooperative partnership for peace and manufacturing and agricultural fields with prosperity to a new level. focus on promoting cooperation on major One year ago, Premier Li Keqiang paid an projects such as railways and industrial parks.

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The Chinese side will encourage Chinese Chinese side is willing to import more companies with adequate capacity and good products from India for a balanced trade reputation to expand their investment in relationship between India and China. India, and also welcome Indian entrepreneurs The Chinese side believes that our two to explore business opportunities in the governments are able and wise enough to Chinese market. handle issues such as the boundary question Third, we should expand people-to- in a proper manner, maintain peace and people and cultural exchanges. This is the tranquility in the border areas, and create Year of China-India Friendly Exchanges. The conducive conditions for the settlement of the Chinese side expects to take this opportunity boundary question by pushing forward to carry out the mutual visits by 100-youth China-India relations, and try to achieve a delegations and actively promote cooperation phased progress at an early date. between China-India sister cities so as to China’s new leadership has advocated the improve mutual understanding and trust Chinese Dream of realising the great between the two peoples. rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Indian Fourth, we should enhance cooperation in leaders also proposed the Indian Dream of regional and international affairs. The achieving inclusive development. The Chinese side would like to maintain close C h i n e s e a n d I n d i a n d r e a m s a r e communication and coordination with the interconnected and mutually compatible, Indian side on major regional and representing the shared aspiration of our 2.5 international issues and conduct pragmatic billion people together. We have every reason cooperation under the frameworks of BRICS, to believe that as long as China and India join China-Russian-India cooperation, G20 and hands to pursue common development, we East Asia Summit, so as to safeguard the will realise our beautiful dreams and make common interests of the developing countries new positive contributions to peace, stability and work for a more democratic and rational and prosperity in Asia, and the world at large. international political and economic order. (The article was also published by The Fifth, we should properly handle the Hindu on May 28, 2014.) divergences between the two countries. The

China: Opportunity for India's Economic Takeoff Chinese Ambassador to India ,Wei Wei

The general election of India is over. I common development. The closer China and would first like to extend my congratulations India are economically connected with each for the successful conclusion of the election other, the more potential we can unleash for and to the new government of India. Many our common development. China is prepared friends from the media ask me about China’s in the following two aspects: expectation from the new government. My Manufacturing: For China and India, both answer is: economic cooperation and populous countries, manufacturing is to the

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 17 China-India Relations economy what the heart is to a human body, inland areas are becoming more and more serving as foundation of economic a t t r a c t i v e f o r i n v e s t o r s . E f f i c i e n t development. The world is at the cusp of a transportation between inland cities and new round of industrial revolution triggered ports is an important factor increasing the by technological innovation. Manufacturing competitiveness of products. India has made industry of China and India is facing g r e a t a c h i e v e m e n t s i n e c o n o m i c opportunities and challenges. development, and now its priority is to India is increasing investment in its strengthen transportation links between its manufacturing sector according to the coastal and inland areas. National Manufacturing Policy, which Railway transportation is the key. The envisages India’s manufacturing sector length of Indian railway lines is over 65,000 should increase its share of GDP from 15% at km. Increase in speed and loading capacity, present to 25% by 2022. “Made in China” tags and upgradation of railway stations will enjoy a global reputation. China has plenty of improve efficiency of freight transportation, resources and experience in manufacturing easing energy shortage in India, accelerate and we have the willingness and ability to production and improve competitiveness of help our neighboring countries, including Indian products. China is the best partner for India, to boost their manufacturing sector. India in this regard. Chinese investors in India must be During the recent visit by Chinese Premier encouraged to establish Chinese-style Li Keqiang to Africa, China signed industrial parks. Since last year, I have visited agreements on railway cooperation with Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. Tamil Nadu and African countries, setting up a new model. An Gujarat will be my next stop. The main arterial railway throughout Africa will be purpose of my visits is to do some field built with Chinese investment, and the research on existing industrial parks in India railway will be operated by Chinese and explore possible models of cooperation companies to repay the investment. for Chinese parks. China has started to construct the Trans- China has successfully established five Asian High-Speed Railway connecting industrial parks in ASEAN countries like southwestern China to east Asian countries. Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam, which not We hope to combine China’s “Open to the only help to increase trade balance, but also West” with India’s “Look East Policy” to promote expansion of local markets and jobs. achieve better connectivity with a Sino-Indian India has its own experience in establishing railway apart from the BCIM economic industrial parks with other countries. corridor. Economic cooperation between The other aspect is infrastructure: this is China and India will be enhanced to a new like arteries connecting the heart and other level by closer road and railway connectivity. organs in a body. One of the laws of the Manufacturing and infrastructure are two development of world economy is to give sides of the coin of economic development. priority to the development of coastal areas Just as the common development of China and then inland areas. With the rise of cost of and India would not be possible without manpower and materials in coastal areas, cooperation between the two, the

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development of the world would be difficult economic cooperation. without cooperation between China and (The article was also published by Indian India. Industrial parks and railway English Newspaper Economic Times on May cooperation are two flagship projects for us, 26, 2014.) which can usher in a new chapter for mutual

Relevance for India-China Relations – Chinese Ambassador Wei Wei's Remarks on 60th Anniversary of Panchsheel

(11 June, 2014)

Distinguished Mr. Arvind Gupta, Director General of IDSA, Experts, Scholars, Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen, Namaste! This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the Five Principles of P e a c e f u l C o - e x i s t e n c e , o r Panchasheel. It is a pleasure for the Chinese Embassy to co-host this seminar with IDSA. Thanks for your hard work and good arrangement. I would also like to extend my gratitude to Mr. Shilpak Ambule, Director of East Asia Division, MEA and former ambassadors, experts and international documents, thus become scholars from IDSA and China for your fundamentals of international law, widely presence. adopted by the international community. For Sixty years ago, during Chinese Premier decades, these principles have significantly Zhou Enlai’s visits to India and Myanmar, he contributed to peace, stability and along with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru development in Asia and the world at large. of India, and Prime Minister U Nu of —They have helped countries to Myanmar, issued joint statements and safeguard sovereignty and territorial initiated the Five Principles of Peaceful Co- integrity, which serve the fundamental existence. Since then, thanks to the efforts by interests of people all over the world. the three countries, these principles have been —They have provided basic guidelines for recognized and accepted by more and more countries with various social systems to countries, and written into many important establish and develop relations.

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—They have inspired methodology to —We should promote New Security handle problems left over by history and to Concept, featuring mutual trust, mutual settle international disputes by peaceful benefit, equality and coordination. As means. President Xi Jinping of China proposed in the —They have safeguarded the interests of recent Summit of the Conference on developing nations, and promoted Interaction and Confidence Building improvement and development of north- Measures in Asia (CICA), it is necessary to south relations. advocate common, comprehensive, —They also have laid theoretical cooperative and sustainable security in Asia. foundation for more fair and reasonable Differences and disputes among countries international order. shall be resolved through dialogue and Today, we are living in a very different consultation, instead of use or threat of force. world from that of six decades ago, but the —We should fully respect diversity in the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence are world. Different civilizations, cultures and still relevant. We should continue to uphold, religions should strengthen dialogues, seek at the same time to further enrich and develop common ground while shielding differences, these principles. accommodate and co-exist with one another —We should follow these principles when in harmony. Nations, having different conducting diplomacy. We should political systems or in different developing unswervingly stick to our independent stages, should respect and learn from each foreign policies, uphold the spirit of non- other. No countries should impose its alignment, and work for a new international ideology or development model on other order that is more just and reasonable. countries. —We should firmly support equal Last but not least, we should push the sovereignty among all states. The right of all world towards the direction of multi- nations to choose their own social system and polarization. Developing countries should path of development should be respected and have more representation in international protected. No countries should interfere in affairs, and international rules should be other’s internal affairs on the pretext of made through equal and collective human rights or humanitarian protection. consultations. The UN, G20, SCO, BRICS and —We should actively seek common other multinational regimes should get full development. We should stick to the path of scope for the role they play, with a view to peaceful development and common make international governance more just and development, in line with the spirit of reasonable. equality, mutual benefit, cooperation, and Friends, win-win for all. We should respect each China, India and Myanmar are neighbors other’s rights to make independent economic connected by common mountains and rivers. decisions, advocate a mutually beneficial We have similar history, in which we were all global trade and economic regime, and victims of colonialism and imperialism. And oppose protectionism in any forms. In the today, we share the common task to develop economic field, we should make efforts to economy, and enable our people to have more achieve peaceful co-existence, equal decent lives. participation, competition on an equal Last year, during his visits to Central Asia footing, and win-win for all. and Southeast Asia, President Xi Jinping

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made two important initiatives of building finish the corridor at an early time, in order to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st benefit all people in this region. Century Maritime Silk Road. The purpose is Friends, to infuse new vigor to the ancient Silk Road, President Xi Jinping described how and add two powerful wings to the precious peace is in his recent public address. rejuvenation of Asia as a whole. He said, “History has already shown us, that Currently, we are working hard for a war is like demon or nightmare, inflicting BCIM Economic Corridor. Once finished, it endless suffers and pains to people. We must will substantially increase connectivity stay highly alert about it. While peace is like among China, India, Myanmar and air and sunshine, blessing people without Bangladesh, greatly promote trade, being noticed, but once lost, people can never investment and people-to-people exchanges, survive.” We gather here today and and encourage industrial and market commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the integration. It will contribute significantly to Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence to peace and prosperity in this region. I would develop and enrich these principles, so that like to say, the BCIM Economic Corridor is a they could continuously make contributions concrete example of implementing the Five to the great cause of world peace and Principles of Peaceful Co-existence in development. I wish this Seminar a success. contemporary time. We would like to work Thank you! jointly with other three countries, to build and Dhanyavad!

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New Asian Security Concept For New Progress in Security Cooperation Remarks at the Fourth Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia By H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China Shanghai Expo Center, 21 May 2014

Distinguished Guests, Conference on Interaction and Confidence Colleagues, Building Measures in Asia (CICA), so please Friends, allow me to take this opportunity to express Ladies and Gentlemen, heartfelt thanks to all sides, in particular I would like to thank Foreign Minister Kazakhstan, the initiator of CICA, and Ahmet Davutoglu, the Special Representative Turkey, the previous chair of CICA, for your of the Turkish President, for his remarks. trust and support. China has assumed the chairmanship of the Now, let me make some remarks on behalf

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of the People’s Republic of China. The summit today has brought together leaders and representatives from 47 countries and international organizations, including C I C A m e m b e r s t a t e s , observers and invited guests of the Shanghai summit. Under the theme “Enhancing D i a l o g u e , T r u s t a n d Coordination for a New Asia of Peace, Stability and relations. Such a sound situation in the region Cooperation”, we will discuss the important has not come easily and ought to be doubly subject of security cooperation, explore cherished. policies for long-term peace and stability, and Asia today is witnessing vibrant jointly promote development and prosperity. cooperation in the economic field. As such, this summit is of great importance to Cooperation in the security field is making security in Asia and the world at large and progress despite difficulties, and various will have far-reaching impacts. cooperation mechanisms are more dynamic. Asia today is home to 67% of the world’s Asia has come to a crucial stage in security population and accounts for one third of the cooperation where we need to build on the global economy. It is a place where diverse past achievements and strive for new civilizations and nations meet and interact. progress. Peace and development of Asia is closely As a Chinese saying goes, “A wise man connected with the future of mankind, and changes as time and circumstances change.” Asia’s stability and revival is a blessing to We need to keep pace with the changing peace and development of the world. circumstances and evolving times. One Asia today, though facing more risks and cannot live in the 21st century with the challenges, is still the most dynamic and outdated thinking from the age of Cold War promising region in the world. Peace, and zero-sum game. We believe that it is development and win-win cooperation are n e c e s s a r y t o a d v o c a t e c o m m o n , the main trend in the region, and countries in comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable the region generally prefer policies that security in Asia. We need to innovate our address differences and disputes through security concept, establish a new regional consultation and negotiation. Asia enjoys a security cooperation architecture, and jointly rising status in the international strategic build a road for security of Asia that is shared landscape and plays an increasingly by and win-win to all. important role in promoting a multi-polar Common security means respecting and world and democracy in international ensuring the security of each and every

22 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA External Affairs country. Asia is a region of great diversity. legitimate rights and interests of other Countries differ in size, wealth and strength. countries. They vary in historical and cultural traditions Security must be inclusive. We should as well as social systems, and have different turn Asia’s diversity and the differences security interests and aspirations. However, among Asian countries into the energy and we all live in the same Asian family. With our driving force for regional security interests and security so closely intertwined, cooperation. We should abide by the basic we will swim or sink together and we are norms governing international relations such increasingly becoming a community of as respecting sovereignty, independence and common destiny. territorial integrity and non-interference in Security must be universal. We cannot just internal affairs, respect the social systems and have the security of one or some countries development paths chosen by countries on while leaving the rest insecure, still less their own, and fully respect and accommodate should one seek the so-called absolute the legitimate security concerns of all parties. security of itself at the expense of the security To beef up and entrench a military alliance of others. Otherwise, just as a Kazakh proverb targeted at a third party is not conducive to aptly puts it, “One who tries to blow out maintaining common security. other’s oil lamp will get his beard on fire.” C o m p r e h e n s i v e s e c u r i t y m e a n s Security must be equal. Every country has upholding security in both traditional and the equal right to participate in the security non-traditional fields. Asia’s security affairs of the region as well as the challenges are extremely complicated, which responsibility of upholding regional security. include both hotspot and sensitive issues and No country should attempt to dominate ethnic and religious problems. The challenges regional security affairs or infringe upon the brought by terrorism, transnational crimes,

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 23 External Affairs environmental security, cyber security, committed to resolving disputes through energy and resource security and major peaceful means, stand against the arbitrary natural disasters are clearly on the rise. use or threat of force, oppose the provocation Traditional and non-traditional security and escalation of tensions for selfish interests, threats are interwoven. Security is a growing and reject the practice of shifting trouble to issue in both scope and implication. neighbors and seeking selfish gains at the We should take into full account the expense of others. historical background and reality of Asia’s In the final analysis, it is for the people of security issues, adopt a multi-pronged and Asia to run the affairs of Asia, solve the holistic approach, and enhance regional problems of Asia and uphold the security of security governance in a coordinated way. Asia. The people of Asia have the capability While tackling the immediate security and wisdom to achieve peace and stability in challenges facing the region, we should also the region through enhanced cooperation. make plans for addressing potential security Asia is open to the world. While threats, and avoid a fragmented and palliative enhancing their own cooperation with each approach that only treats the symptoms. other, countries in Asia must also firmly We should have zero tolerance for commit themselves to cooperation with terrorism, separatism and extremism, countries in other parts of the world, other strengthen international and regional regions and international organizations. We cooperation, and step up the fight against the welcome all parties to play a positive and three forces, in order to bring a life of constructive role in promoting Asia’s security happiness and tranquility to the people of this and cooperation and work together to achieve region. win-win outcomes for all. Cooperative security means promoting Sustainable security means that we need the security of both individual countries and to focus on both development and security so the region as a whole through dialogue and that security would be durable. As a Chinese cooperation. As the proverb goes, “Strength saying goes, for a tree to grow tall, a strong does not come from the muscle of the arms, and solid root is required; for a river to reach but from the unison of the heart.” We should far, an unimpeded source is necessary. engage in sincere and in-depth dialogue and Development is the foundation of security, communication to increase strategic mutual and security the precondition for trust, reduce mutual misgivings, seek development. The tree of peace does not grow common ground while resolving differences on barren land while the fruit of development and live in harmony with each other. We is not produced amidst flames of war. For should bear in mind the common security most Asian countries, development means interests of all countries, and start with low- the greatest security and the master key to sensitivity areas to build the awareness of regional security issues. meeting security challenges through To build an Asian security mansion that cooperation. We should expand the scope and could stand the test of wind storms, we need means of cooperation and promote peace and to focus on development, actively improve security through cooperation. We should stay people’s lives and narrow down the wealth

24 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA External Affairs gap so as to cement the foundation of security. for supervising the implementation of We need to advance the process of common confidence building measures in various development and regional integration, foster areas within the CICA framework, and sound interactions and synchronized deepen exchanges and cooperation in progress of regional economic cooperation counter-terrorism, business, tourism, and security cooperation, and promote environmental protection, culture and sustainable security through sustainable people-to-people exchanges. development. China proposes that we put in place a nongovernmental exchange network for Ladies and Gentlemen, various parties of CICA through holding Dear Friends, CICA nongovernmental forums and other C I C A i s t h e l a r g e s t a n d m o s t means, so as to lay a solid social foundation representative regional security forum with for spreading the CICA concept of security, the largest number of participants. Over the increasing CICA’s influence and promoting past two decades and more, CICA has taken it regional security governance. its responsibility to strengthen mutual trust China proposes that we strengthen the and coordination and promote Asia’s security inclusiveness and openness of CICA. We need and stability. It has followed the principle of to step up coordination and cooperation with consensus building and made important other cooperation organizations of this region contribution to increasing understanding, and expand dialogue and communication seeking common ground and deepening with other regions and relevant international cooperation. organizations at the same time to jointly Today, the Asian people more than ever uphold regional peace and stability. want peace and stability, and they more than China will fulfill the responsibilities as ever need to work together to tackle CICA chairman and work with other sides to challenges to security. further improve the status and role of CICA so China proposes that we make CICA a that together we could take security security dialogue and cooperation platform cooperation of Asia to a higher level. that covers the whole of Asia and, on that Ladies and Gentlemen, basis, explore the establishment of a regional Dear Friends, security cooperation architecture. China believes that it is advisable to increase the China is a staunch force for upholding frequency of CICA foreign ministers’ peace in the region and the world, and for meetings and even possibly summits in light promoting common development. The Five of changing situation, so as to strengthen the Principles of Peaceful Co-existence that China political guidance of CICA and chart a initiated together with India and Myanmar blueprint for its development. have become a basic norm governing state-to- China proposes that we enhance the state relations. China stays committed to capacity and institutional building of CICA, seeking peaceful settlement of disputes with support improving the functions of CICA other countries over territorial sovereignty secretariat, establish a defense consultation and maritime rights and interests. China has mechanism of member states and a task force completely resolved, through friendly

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 25 External Affairs consultation, issues of land boundary with 12 with its neighbors, and seeks to bring amity, out of its 14 neighboring countries. Being an security and common prosperity to its active participant in regional security neighborhood. It practices the principles of cooperation, China initiated, jointly with amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and other relevant countries, the Shanghai inclusiveness and works hard to make its Cooperation Organization. China advocates a development bring more benefits to countries new security concept featuring mutual trust, in Asia. China will work with other countries mutual benefit, equality and coordination. to speed up the development of an economic China supports the Association of Southeast belt along the Silk Road and a 21st Century Asian Nations (ASEAN), the South Asian maritime silk road, and hopes that the Asian Association for Regional Cooperation infrastructure investment bank could be (SAARC), and the League of Arab States launched at an early date. China will get more (LAS) in playing a positive role in regional deeply involved in the regional cooperation affairs. China and Russia jointly proposed an process, and play its due part to ensure that Asia-Pacific peace and security initiative, development and security in Asia facilitate which has played an important role in each other and are mutually reinforcing. strengthening and maintaining peace and As the saying goes, “Readiness to stability in the Asia-Pacific region. China converge with others makes a mountain high works to push forward the Six-Party Talks and a river mighty.” As China is a strong and supports peace and reconstruction in champion of the Asia security concept, it also Afghanistan, making unremitting efforts in works to put such a security concept into solving international and regional hotspot practice. China will take solid steps to issues through dialogue and negotiation. strengthen security dialogue and cooperation China joined forces with countries in the with other parties, and jointly explore the region and the wider international formulation of a code of conduct for regional community to tackle the Asian financial crisis security and an Asian security partnership and the international financial crisis, making program, making Asian countries good its due contribution to promoting regional partners that trust one another and cooperate and global economic growth. on an equal footing. China is ready to put in China is firmly committed to the path of place mechanisms for regular exchange and peaceful development and the win-win cooperation with countries in the region to strategy of opening-up. It seeks to develop jointly combat the three forces of terrorism, friendly relations and cooperation with other separatism, and extremism. China is ready to countries on the basis of the Five Principles of discuss with regional countries the creation of Peaceful Co-existence. China’s peaceful an Asian forum for security cooperation in development begins here in Asia, finds its law enforcement and an Asian security support in Asia, and delivers tangible benefits emergency response center to deepen security to Asia. cooperation in law enforcement and better “Neighbors wish each other well, just like respond to major security emergencies by family members do to each other.” China coordinating national efforts in the region. always pursues friendship and partnership China calls for promoting exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations

26 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA External Affairs and religions through various means, such as Chinese dream of great national renewal, holding a conference for dialogues among stand ready to support and help other peoples Asian civilizations, so that they will be able to in Asia to realize their own great dreams. Let draw on each other’s strength and achieve us work together for realizing the Asian common progress. dream of lasting peace and common development, and make greater contribution Ladies and Gentlemen, to advancing the noble cause of peace and Dear Friends, development of mankind. The Chinese people, in their pursuit of the Thank you.

Chinese President Addresses CASCF Ministerial Meeting

Beijing, June 5 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday attended the opening ceremony of the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) held in Beijing. Xi also met with foreign leaders and representatives and took photo with them, before the opening ceremony. President Xi Jinping on Thursday called on China and Arab states to respect each other’s choice of development Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech on the relations and path. cooperation between China and Arab states at the opening ceremony of the Xi made the remarks at the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) in Beijing, capital of China, June 5, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) opening ceremony of the sixth ministerial conference of the This year is the 10th anniversary of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum CASCF. The forum will focus on the building (CASCF) in Beijing, which called on the two of the Silk Road economic belt and the 21st sides to carry forward the Silk Road spirit and century maritime Silk Road, and promoting deepen their cooperation.

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 27 External Affairs mutual development. The concepts of the Silk Road economic “A person’s shoes don’t have to be belt and the 21st century maritime Silk Road identical to those of others but must fit the were put forward by Xi during his two person’s feet; a country’s way of governance separate visits to Central Asia and Southeast doesn’t have to be the same with that of others Asia in 2013. but must benefit its own people,” said Xi. The two initiatives aim to seize the Only the people of a country can tell opportunity of the further opening-up of whether the country’s path of development China, especially opening the western region suits them or not, he said. of the country. “Just like we can not turn all flowers violet, They will focus on economic cooperation we can not expect countries with different and people-to-people cultural exchanges, and cultural traditions, historical experiences and prioritize connectivity and the simplification national realities to follow the same mode of of trade and investment. development. Otherwise the world will be too Peace, friendship, openness and boring,” he said. inclusiveness form the core of the Silk Road Noting that Arab states are seeking their spirit. own path of development, Xi said China is Around 200 guests from China and Arab ready to share with Arab states its own states, including secretary-general of the governance experience so that both sides can League of Arab States Nabil Elaraby, and draw wisdom from each other’s civilizations foreign ministers or representatives are and development practices. attending the forum.

Chinese President Xi Jinping (C, front) poses for a group photo with foreign ministers or representatives at the opening ceremony of the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) held in Beijing, capital of China, June 5, 2014. (Xinhua/Zhang Duo)

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China, Bangladesh Pledge Joint Efforts to Build Economic Corridor

Beijing, June 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed here on Tuesday and both pledged to make joint efforts to build an economic corridor linking Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar. “Bangladesh is an important country along the Maritime Silk Road,” Xi said during the meeting, noting that China welcomes the Bangladeshi side’s participation in the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, while pushing ahead with the economic corridor. The moves will help to build a Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Bangladeshi Prime community of shared interests Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed in Beijing, capital of China, June 10, between China and Bangladesh, 2014. (Xinhua/Ding Lin) and benefit the people of the two countries and the region at large, connectivity initiatives and provide an according to the Chinese leader. important avenue for strengthening The concepts of the belt and maritime cooperation and sustainable development. route were firstly proposed by Xi last year. China and Bangladesh agreed to remain The Silk Road connected China and Europe actively engaged towards the development of from around 100 B.C., while the Maritime Silk the corridor along with other countries, and Road was used by Chinese merchants to expressed their hope of realizing mutually transport silk, ceramics and tea to overseas beneficial and result-oriented cooperation markets. among the four countries, said the statement. Echoing Xi’s proposal on the belt and During the meeting, Xi said China attaches maritime route, Wajed said the four-nation great importance to its ties with Bangladesh economic corridor is of great significance for and regards the country as an important the development of South Asia and that her cooperative partner in South Asia and the country will play an active role in its Indian Ocean region. construction. As 2015 will mark the 40th anniversary of According to a joint statement, the two the establishment of their diplomatic sides recognized that the development of the relationship, Xi proposed the two sides hold corridor would constitute an important various events to celebrate the anniversary vehicle to complement various regional and boost cooperation in multiple areas to

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cement their partnership. Xi also expressed China’s support for Bangladesh’s d e v e l o p m e n t p a t h a n d pledged to share technology and experience to reduce poverty and help spur its economy. Hailing the traditional friendship, Wajed said she looks forward to closer cooperation with China in B a n g l a d e s h ’ s p u s h t o eliminate poverty and make itself a middle-income country in 2021. Bangladesh will continue to support China firmly on Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) holds a welcoming ceremony for visiting issues involving its core Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wajed before their talks in Beijing, capital of China, June 9, 2014. (Xinhua/Ding Lin) interests and major concerns, said the Bangladeshi prime minister. tunnel project under the River Karnaphuli. Wajed is making an official visit to China In Tuesday’s joint statement, China and from June 6 to 11 at the invitation of Chinese Bangladesh also pledged to step up Premier Li Keqiang. During the visit, she also cooperation in such areas as trade, attended the second China-South Asia Expo investment, finance, agriculture, technology in Kunming of southwest China’s Yunnan innovation, health, education, transportation Province. and infrastructure building. During Wajed’s visit, she and the Chinese The Chinese side pledged to encourage its premier witnessed the signing of a string of companies to invest in Bangladesh and deals regarding economic and technical participate in the country’s development of cooperation, feasibility study of flood communication, energy, transportation and prevention and management in Bangladesh, infrastructure, said the statement. and the construction of a multi-lane road

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Visits Britain

Beijing June 16 (Xinhua) — On June 16, The visit, the first by a Chinese premier in Chinese Premier Li Keqiang began his first three years, is of particular significance. It visit to Britain since he took office in March indicates the two countries have managed to last year, a visit that is to enhance cooperation tide over difficulties and come out stronger. and mend fault lines in the two countries’ China-Britain relations took a nosedive in relations. May 2012 when British Prime Minister David

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C a m e r o n i n s i s t e d o n meeting the Dalai Lama despite Beijing’s objections. It wasn’t until more than a year and a half later that the i c y C h i n a - B r i t a i n relationship begin to thaw when Cameron visited China in late 2013. Tension rose again, however, in April when a scheduled human rights dialogue between China and Britain was called off b e c a u s e o f a B r i t i s h government report which m a d e b i a s e d a n d irresponsible remarks to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (C) attends a welcoming ceremony hosted by blemish China’s human British Prime Minister David Cameron in London, Britain, June 17, 2014. rights record. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei) In a signed article carried by The Times newspaper, Li said he hopes to Economic and trade cooperation between show Britons the “real China” and “change the two global heavyweights has always been misperceptions and ease misgivings” about a stabilizer in bilateral ties. China during the trip, which includes Britain is China’s third-largest trading meetings with Cameron and Queen Elizabeth partner in the European Union, the second- II, a banquet with business representatives largest investment source as well as a major and a speech to British think tanks. destination for China’s overseas investment. The premier’s itinerary will “cement Annual two-way trade surged from 20 China-Britain political trust, enhance cultural billion U.S. dollars a decade ago to 70 billion exchanges and cooperation in nuclear power, dollars last year. And China’s investment in high-speed rail, finance and high technology, Britain has amounted to 13 billion dollars over and bring vitality and new content to the the past two years alone, surpassing the total bilateral partnership,” Chinese Vice Foreign of the previous 30 years. Minister Wang Chao said at a press briefing Britain and China’s economies are highly last week. complementary and they enjoy a sound Despite twists and turns, China-Britain cooperative foundation. cooperation has made substantial progress. C h i n a , w i t h w e l l - d e v e l o p e d The two countries have set up various manufacturing experiences, and Britain, high-profile exchange mechanisms in recent which boasts highly developed finance and years including prime ministers’ annual service sectors and advanced technology, meeting, economic, financial and strategic have huge potential in cooperation. dialogues and a mechanism for high-level Li’s visit, with boosting business cultural exchanges. cooperation as one of its main focuses, is

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 31 External Affairs timed for the 10th anniversary of the total value of the deals could reach 30 billion establishment of the China-Britain U.S. dollars. comprehensive strategic partnership. To keep bilateral relations forging ahead The visit is to result in the signing of more and shun setbacks, it would be helpful for the than 40 agreements between the governments two countries to facilitate contact and and businesses covering a wide range of communication and properly mend fault lines sectors including energy, investment, culture, to remove any possible obstacles in the education, high technology and finance. The development of bilateral ties.

China-South Asia Expo Begins in Kunming

The second China-South Asia Expo officially opened in the International Convention and Exhibition Centre of Kunming on June 6, 2014. Over 2,000 guests from 46 countries, regions and 24 provinces, areas in China attend the opening ceremony of the expo. Chinese vice premier Wang Yang addressed the opening ceremony of the second China- South Asia Expo. He said: “Both China and South Asian countries are enjoying a harvest Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang addresses the opening ceremony of the season, benefiting from second China-South Asia Expo. (Photo/ He Yucong) multilateral cooperation in commerce, trade, culture and infrastructure construction.” Government officials of Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Laos, and Sri Lanka also attend the opening ceremony. In this year’s expo, a total of 46 countries and regions are participating in this commercial feast. The second CSA Expo, which will last till June 10, is expected to

32 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA Building Silk Road Economic Belt become a key platform for Yunnan Province’s municipalities, said Gao Shuxun, vice opening-up. governor of Yunnan. He said there are 3,188 With the theme of “expanding trade in indoor exhibitor booths which are divided into services, boosting investment-centered 10 display areas. Two outdoor display zones cooperation, accelerating interconnectivity, for furniture, large machinery and equipment and jointly constructing economic corridors,” cover an area of 7,500 square meters. it is hoped that the expo will form an The opening ceremony was attended by important bridge for mutually beneficial Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang and cooperation between China and South and foreign leaders or senior officials from Southeast Asia in fields including the countries including Nepal, Bangladesh, the economy, culture, transport and technology. Maldives, Laos and Sri Lanka. The event The five-day expo is expected to attract replaced the South Asian Countries exhibitors and buyers from 46 countries and Commodities Fair, which was first held in regions and 24 domestic provinces and Kunming in 2010.

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Sri Lanka, China to Strengthen Cooperation on Maritime Silk Road

Hong Kong, June 9 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka Monday. and China can strengthen cooperation on Addressing a seminar on South Asia trade, combating terrorism and confidence development in Hong Kong, Asanga said Sri building in terms of the Maritime Silk Road Lanka, having elevated its relationship with initiative, Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, China to a “strategic partnership” during the executive director of Sri Lanka state- owned visit of President Mahinda Rajapaksa in May think tank Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute 2013, readily announced its support to the for International Relations said here on proposed Maritime Silk Road.

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He said the two countries can develop cooperation on three areas. On the trade side, Sri Lanka aspires to develop itself as a global logistic hub, while the ongoing port development projects funded by the Chinese government will help build the country into a maritime hub, he added. On the other hand, Asanga said Sri Lanka can share its expertise in combating terrorism with China, and carry out maritime security cooperation with to develop friendly relations with countries in the Chinese navies to maintain peace and the Indian Ocean Region. stability of the Indian Ocean. “Whatever criticisms are made of the Another area lies in confidence building Maritime Silk Road, according to my view, and enhancing cooperation among the South this is a platform to share the development Asian neighbors, he said. China has achieved over the past few “Some political analysts view Maritime decades.” Silk Road as an attempt to counter to ‘string of The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is a pearls’ strategy China was accused of cooperation initiative proposed by Chinese pursuing and an effort to counter regional President Xi Jinping during his visit to anxieties about its fast-expanding naval Indonesia last October. presence,” Asanga said. “These speculations The Maritime Silk Road dates back to as are the results of lack of trust and confidence early as 2,000 years ago, when ancient a m o n g t h e c o u n t r i e s i n C h i n a ’ s merchants sailed from China’s eastern coast, neighborhood.” passing Southeast Asia, South Asia and East He said if China wants to realize its dream Africa, all the way to the Persian Gulf and the of 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, it is vital Red Sea, strengthening economic ties and cultural communications. Asanga also said China and Sri Lanka had established trade relations during the period of ancient Silk Road, and the two sides have continued to be steadfast friends since the island gained independence from the colonial rule. “Today, China is Sri Lanka’s largest donor providing financial and technical support for development of infrastructure, trade and commerce,” he said, “Our president calls China Sri Lanka’s ‘true and tested friend’.”

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Silk Road Leads to New Opportunities

Xi’an, May 21 (Xinhua) — A fruit company plans to spend 30 million yuan (4.8 million U.S. dollars) on air-conditioned w a r e h o u s e s f o r a p p l e s i n Kazakhstan. Ren Junfeng, vice general manager of Shaanxi Baishui Hongda Fruit Industry Co., Ltd., announced on Wednesday that warehouses with capacity for 5,000 tonnes of apples will be in use by the end of this year, making exports to Central Asian countries easier. Along with Shaanxi, Gansu Province and products to south and southeast Asian Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, both on countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and the historical Silk Road, produce high quality Thailand, for 13 years. Last year, it exported apples. 200 tonnes. Wang’s company will attend a Shaanxi Province has plans on trade fair in Kazakhstan in October in an cooperation with other apple production attempt to promote their products to new areas in the suggested Silk Road economic markets along the Silk Road. belt to set up apple stores in Xinjiang and in The planned economic belt will bring Central Asian cities as stepping stones to unprecedented business opportunities to Russia and Europe, according to Gao Wubin, China’s halal food industry, said Wang director of the province’s fruit industry Jinzhen, vice head of the China Council for the bureau. Promotion of International Trade. The exchange of apples and technology have become significant symbols of industrial The value of halal products in northwest cooperation between Shaanxi and China’s Qinghai Province hit eight billion Kazakhstan. yuan last year, with about 15 percent of that President Xi Jinping proposed a Silk Road coming from exports. The number of halal economic belt on a visit to Kazakhstan in enterprises in Qinghai has increased to 3,000 September. Xi also proposed a 21st century from 170 a decade ago. maritime Silk Road during his visit to The halal industry output reached 13.2 Indonesia in October. billion yuan in Ningxia Hui Autonomous “We see potential to expand our business Region in 2013, according to Wang Heshan, westward,” said Wang Baoyin, chairman of deputy chairman of the Ningxia regional Hongxing Milk Industry Co., Ltd from government. “The government could use the Fuping County, Shaanxi. Silk Road economic belt to make Ningxia into Fuping is the heartland of China’s milk a base for halal industries,” he said. goats. Hongxing Milk has exported goat milk

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Energy Cooperation to Lead Silk Road Economic Belt

Xi’an, May 25 (Xinhua) — Energy regional goods in ancient times. cooperation including exploitation of oil and The cooperation prompted rapid increase gas reserves will boost the development of the in trade volume between China and four Silk Road economic belt covering China and central Asian countries, which jumped to 40.2 central Asia, industrial experts have said. billion U.S. dollars in 2013, nearly 100 times Exploitation of energy resources will serve than that of 1992, data from China’s Ministry as the major force driving the economic belt, of Commerce showed. said Zeng Xingqiu, deputy head of the Energy Research Center u n d e r t h e I n v e s t m e n t Association of China, during an ongoing forum held in west China’s Xi’an City on promoting cooperation in the belt. His words were shared by Zhang Yuqing, deputy director o f t h e N a t i o n a l E n e r g y Administration, who believes energy cooperation is pivotal in the development of regions along the route, which will ensure regional energy security It also improved infrastructure and support sustainable economic growth. construction, created jobs and supported local The Silk Road is a series of routes for trade economies along the route. and cultural exchange connecting China and China will continue to encourage energy European countries since around 100 B.C., enterprises to expand cooperation in central with central Asia as the intermediate station. Asian countries, Zhang said, promising Chinese President Xi Jinping called for policy support from central government to joint efforts from countries along the route to build a sound environment for businesses. build the belt and boost cooperation on a visit The exploitable volume of crude oil to Kazakhstan in September. surpassed 30 billion tonnes with natural gas Over the last decade 60 million tonnes of more than one trillion cubic meters in central crude oil and 81 billion cubic meters of natural Asia, which is expected to be the second gas have been piped from central Asia to largest source of oil and gas after the Persian China, following the same path once used by Gulf. camel caravans to transport silk and other

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New Silk Roads to Boost Regional Economic Cooperation

As the chair of the CICA for the next two free trade agreements, joint infrastructure years, China is expected to make the projects, and other forms of high-level interaction mechanism on security, more economic and cultural exchange so the region practical and effective. Analysts in China say can adapt to economic globalization.” this would be easier to do if there was solid Professor He Maochun with Tsinghua economic cooperation in the region. As part of University said. efforts in that direction, China has been Asia produces a third of global GDP with making efforts to make the region more its population of over four billion and ample economically integrated. And the idea of the labor supply. In the past decade and more, new Silk Roads, both inland and maritime, are intra-regional trade in Asia has expanded now leading the way. from 1 trillion US dollars to 3 trillion. That Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated share of intra-regional trade between Asian calls for the building of a “Silk Road Economic countries, has increased from 30 per cent to 50 Belt” during his recent European trip. A per cent, of the total trade these countries similar idea in the form of a “Maritime Silk engage in. Road” was also proposed by President Xi at However, this is far lesser than the the 16th Asean+China Summit in Indonesia. comparable figure of more than 60 percent of These new ideas aren’t about rebuilding the the European Union. ancient Silk Road as it existed many many “There are three major challenges to the centuries ago. It is about re-connecting those idea of the new Silk Road. First, China is now countries that have had a shared trading past. the world’s 2nd largest economy, and the The ultimate aim is similar to what the ancient biggest trader. But the country is still lacking Silk Road achieved: boosting regional experience in building free trade zones. interaction. Second, most Asian countries are developing “The creation of the new Silk Road is about nations, with low per capita GDP and uneven economic and trade cooperation in the region regional development. Over 700 million along the cultural route of the ancient Silk people in Asia still live below the Road. It does not intend to rebuild the road, international poverty line. And third, our but to build solid bilateral and multilateral research into other countries’ market lacks

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depth, and hasn’t taken their domestic, Pakistan. China is also planning a program to economic and political situation into promote cultural cooperation among consideration.” Professor He said. countries along the ancient Silk Road. The idea of the new Silk Road is still being The impact of the international financial fully conceived, but some relevant projects crisis still affects the world. As the World’s are already on track. The China-Europe second largest economy with a stable growth railway program has been re-launched as a for more than three decades, China has the freight train finished its trip from central capability and is responsible to bring more China to Poland last month. energy to the Asian economy. How can the China is ready to draw up plans for a region be win-win? China is trying to answer Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar economic the question by proposing the initiatives of corridor, and another between China and the new silk roads.

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

Unlocking the Stock Market

by Lan Xinzhen

The State Council, China’s cabinet, issued the new one aims to build up a sound market a guideline on May 9 on promoting system. development of the capital market, including “The New Nine Measures has laid a clear an array of principles regarding the blueprint for the reform, opening up, stock market, bond market, futures market, private equity market and further opening up the capital market. Market observers think this guideline will have a far-reaching influence on the long-term sound development of China’s capital market. Composed of nine clauses, this guideline has also been dubbed the “New Nine Measures” to differentiate it from the one published in 2004. Wang Yong, an analyst with CITIC Securities Co. Ltd., said that the “Old Nine Measures” released in 2004 An investor smiles upon seeing stocks go up on the first trading day after the release of a guideline promoting China's capital market focused on split share reform, while development.

38 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA Economic Affairs development and supervision of the capital diversified investment and financing market. This is currently the most pressing platform corresponding to reality in China. task for China’s capital market,” Wang said. Meanwhile, it will broaden the investment and financing channels for corporations and Demand for Reform individuals, and better satisfy the demands of Why is China releasing such a document increasingly diversified investment, at this time? A press release from the China financing and risk management, so as to allow Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) the market to play a decisive role in resource said this guideline is designed to allocation. The plan will help further enrich comprehensively deepen the reform of the the varieties of investment products in the capital market and has made overall planning capital market, broadening the channels for and arrangement on the reform, opening up, individuals to gain more property income. It development and supervision of the capital will also be conducive to optimizing the market in this new period. structure of the financial market, increasing Since the Old Nine Measures was issued the proportion of direct financing, improving in 2004, the basic system and institutions of stability of the financial market operations China’s capital market have been primarily and enhancing its ability to prevent risks. established, and a multi-layer market The CSRC press release said that against structure is almost in place. However, the this backdrop, the State Council has issued the country’s capital market still cannot meet the new guideline, which details the overall requirement that “the market plays a decisive provisions for promoting sound development role in resource allocation,” as put forth by the of the capital market. It reflects the close Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central attention of the Chinese leadership to the Committee of the Communist Party of China reform and development of the capital market (CPC) held in November 2013. This is also a and is of great significance to gaining a major reason why China’s stock market has common understanding of the steps needed continued to fluctuate heavily in recent years. to advance this reform. According to the CSRC, China’s stock More Open Market market is still relatively young and has not yet fully matured, with some systematic and Sun Jianbo, a researcher with China institutional problems still existing and fresh Galaxy Securities Co. Ltd., said China’s problems emerging. For example, the market capital market is less open than the country’s system is not yet sound, institutions still need real economy. The new guideline requires to further improvement, and market operations “promote two-way opening of the capital are not stable. “These problems have market and orderly increase the convertibility influenced the long-term stable and healthy for cross-border capitals and financial development of the capital market. Therefore, transactions,” making clear the measures to we must adopt effective measures to solve further open the capital market. them,” said the CSRC press release. “The New Nine Measures will first According to the release, since China is in facilitate cross-border investment and a new period of comprehensively deepening financing for both domestic and foreign reform, promoting development of the capital companies,” Sun said. market will be conducive to building up a In the stock exchanges of Shanghai and

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Shenzhen, the only two bourses on the domestic securities and futures companies Chinese mainland, shares held by qualified that allow foreign capital to invest in them, foreign institutional investors (QFIIs) account and encourage them to enter foreign markets for less than 2 percent of the total market and be more internationally competitive. The value. But in other stock markets worldwide, country will also enhance connections shares held by overseas investors range from between domestic and foreign stock 25 percent to 45 percent of total market value. exchanges and conduct research to promote Moreover, China’s domestic institutions and mutual recognition of investment funds and individuals have no convenient channels to stock exchange products at home and abroad. invest in overseas markets. To address this, Sun said as the capital market becomes the new guideline proposes to expand the more open, the domestic market will become scope of QFIIs and qualified domestic more closely connected with foreign markets, institutional investors (QDIIs) and to raise the the product structure will become more quota and ceiling of their investments. China complicated and the business pattern will be will also allow foreign individual investors to innovated continuously. This requires directly invest in the country’s capital market strengthening cooperation in cross-border and allow domestic individual investors to supervision. “The new guideline proposes to directly invest in foreign capital markets in a improve the institutions for cooperation in systematic way. The country will also cross-border supervision, strengthen efforts establish and improve systems to protect the for cross-border law enforcement and rights and interests of individual investors in establish cross-border supervision making cross-border investment and institutions adapted to an open capital financing. market. It also requires strengthening “The New Nine Measures will also allow cooperation with international securities and the securities and futures industry to futures supervision organizations, and active incrementally become more open,” said Sun. participation in the formulation of China’s securities and futures companies international securities and futures have just started international operations and supervision rules. These must be in place as they are not adequately competitive. The new soon as possible so that China’s capital market guideline makes provisions to open the can be further opened to international capital industry in two ways. At an appropriate time, and markets,” Sun said. China will expand the business scope of

Down to Brass Tacks By Lan Xinzhen

On May 20, the State Council approved newly initiated cause. and forwarded the Key Tasks for Deepening The key tasks imply that a priority has Economic Structural Reforms in 2014 released been given to stabilizing growth, by the National Development and Reform restructuring the economy and improving Commission, mapping out the route for the people’s overall livelihood, said Wang Jun, an

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expert with China Center for International f o r w a r d r e f o r m s i n s e c t o r s l i k e Economic Exchanges. telecommunications, power, petroleum and natural gas, while, at the same time, Key Points respecting the law of market economy, and China’s economic development has giving larger play to private capital. shown signs of slowing down. Despite the fact Obviously, the Central Government has that all the possible barriers obstructing set its mind on leading social capital into more sustainable growth have been included into sectors to revitalize the economy, said Wang. the overall planning drawn up by the Central Today, the monopoly in telecommunications, Government, there are concerns over how power and petroleum industries has severely exactly to carry out the reforms. hindered innovation and efficiency, and The Key Tasks represents an answer to voices for change have become louder and public concerns. According to the document, louder. t h e t r a n s f o r m a t i o n o f government functions tops the agenda. The government should reduce administrative procedures, and establish a power list system, which requires the government publish a list of areas over which it has oversight and pledge not to intervene in areas which it does not hold power. In addition, the practice of “negative lists” should be widely adopted to manage market access, making sure that market participants can do whatever Workers from Shandong Power Transmission and Transformation Co. conduct a safety check on an intelligent substation before it is put into the law doesn’t forbid. operation on May 25 (TIAN SHICHAO). “The essence of economic structural reform is to balance Wang said mixed ownership will be the relationship between the government and promoted to unleash the full potential of all the market and let the market play a decisive competitive fields. The Key Tasks have made role in allocating resources, or more plain that except for those industries tied to specifically, reduce administrative national security, state-owned capital should intervention,” said Wang. make way for its private counterpart, thus Another main point is the liberalization of allowing it to play a greater role in the market. all competitive fields. According to the Key Although China had, before now, Tasks, efforts will be made to correctly launched policies to encourage non-public position state-owned enterprises, to push capital to enter these monopolized sectors

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several years ago, little progress has been from some economic institutions, were made so far. The promotion of the mixed China’s economic growth to slide below 7 ownership model will act as a catalyst for percent, stable and healthy development change. w o u l d b e u n d e r m i n e d b y h i g h The fiscal and taxation system will also unemployment and reduced fiscal revenue. stand in the breach of the economic structural Externally, international environment reform. The document suggested China will does not give cause for optimism. According implement a transparent and standardized to a study by CITIC Securities, owing to its budget system, and make taxpayers the entry into the World Trade Organization, supervisor. China’s trade surplus has been substantially As far as local government debt is increased, which had fueled high-speed concerned, the document showed an growth. But since 2011, global trade has intention to establish a debt-financing become sluggish and stagnant, exerting mechanism for local governments through downward pressure on what was once the the issuance of government bonds. c o u n t r y ’ s m o s t i m p o r t a n t g r o w t h Liu Yuanchun, Vice Dean of the School of engine—export. Economics at Renmin University of China, Aside from export pressure, China is in the noted that inefficiency and a lack of middle of a credit crunch. Bled by the 4- supervision have been problems for a long trillion-yuan ($640-billion) stimulus package time, and the overall implementation of a in response to the global financial crisis, the transparent and standardized budget system debt ratio of banks soared from 109 percent in will allow taxpayers to know where their the third quarter of 2008 to 133 percent in the money goes. This will, however, not be easy second quarter of 2009, and again began to and such a task will represent an uphill experience rapid expansion at the end of 2011 struggle for the ongoing economic structural after two years of inertia. Beyond that, local reform. Since many local debts are due to debts have also continued to swell. According expire this year and the property market is to the National Audit Office, local liabilities flagging across the country, the repayment of amounted to 10.7 trillion yuan ($1.72 trillion) local debts will also be a big problem. at the end of 2010, and further surged to 15.9 trillion yuan ($2.55 trillion) at the end of 2012. Balanced Growth Zhang Liqun, a research fellow from the Despite the continued slowing down in Development Research Center of the State the past two years, the Chinese Government Council, suggested that it seems inevitable for hasn’t been on tenterhooks, as they know such China to go through the slowdown amid the a slowdown is inevitable in the process of economic restructuring and transformation. economic restructuring. Since China began to This seemingly paradoxical logic requires the quicken its steps toward economic structural government to control the tempo, and even reform in 2010, its economic development has slow its reform steps if necessary in order to been held back by policies such as energy ensure long-term viability. conservation and emission reduction and the Zhang said the economic structural elimination of backward production capacity. reforms have generated positive effects, and Nonetheless, according to calculations economic growth will fluctuate around 7.5

42 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA Economic Affairs percent. The Chinese Government will adhere “At the moment, it’s critical for the to consistent macroeconomic policies to government to strike a balance between maintain economic growth within a growth and reform. After all, reform is the reasonable range, and meanwhile, commit engine for growth,” said Zhang. itself to the reforms, he stated.

A Treasure Map

by Yu Lintao

In ancient China, merchants shipped officials of cities from China and abroad porcelain, tea, silk and other fine and precious shared their views on the significance and the commodities from southeast coastal ports to best way of reviving this ancient route. far-flung destinations in Southeast Asia, Wei Jianguo, Deputy Secretary General of Europe and even Africa along the maritime China International Economic and Exchange Silk Road. In the same region today, Center (CIEEC), said the economic size of containers piled high with electronic devices, China requires the country to shift its fashionable clothing and household articles development strategy from continental lie awaiting delivery to points around the bridge economy to marine economy. The globe. Against the backdrop of China marine economy referred to in this Chinese becoming increasingly integrated into the strategy is not simply acquiring of resources world economy, the country has decided to from the ocean, but rather the integration of revive the ancient maritime Silk Road. the regional economy along the sea route. This proposal was officially raised by China’s top leadership at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee held last November. The plan has excited the ambitious managers of Chinese cities lying along the ancient maritime route. It has also aroused the interest of countries that may benefit from the Chinese strategy to boost their own economies. In the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Mayor (Summit) People from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia visit the exhibition Forum recently held in Fuzhou, hall of the 16th Cross-Straits Fair for Economy and Trade in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China’s Fujian Province, on May 18. Building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Fujian Province, scholars and was a theme of this year's fair (LIN SHANCHUAN)

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According to Wei, the 21st Century the world thus far. Data from the Fuzhou Maritime Silk Road strategy aims to revive the Statistical Bureau show that, driven by the shipping route and connect important cities of export rise of its electronic devices, ASEAN, the EU, the Arab League and the machinery, energy and apparel, its foreign African Union along the route to form a circle trade volume totaled $31.43 billion in 2013. of common interests and win-win Fuzhou is also planning to expand cooperation. cooperation in building industrial parks and “With this strategy, the 97 port cities marine cultivation bases in ASEAN countries. within the circle can all share the fruit of the Another advantage Fuzhou enjoys, peaceful development of China, benefiting according to the mayor, is the large number of people of the whole region,” said Wei. Fuzhou natives living in Taiwan as well as overseas. For hundreds of years, many people Fuzhou’s Role from the area have moved overseas to make a The southeast coastal region has always living. At present, many of their descendants been the frontier of China’s opening up to the have become successful businessmen or world. This time, the cities in the region once entrepreneurs around the world, especially in again immediately sensed new development Southeast Asia. These people offer important opportunities. resources. “They can play a role as a bridge Yang Yimin, Mayor of Fuzhou, said his linking Fuzhou and foreign countries,” Yang city will strive to become a key port on the said. modern maritime Silk Road. Wei of the CIEEC said that as coastal Fuzhou has a long history of overseas provinces, although Guangdong and trade. Its Gantang Port, which has existed for Zhejiang have their own respective 1,500 years, was mainly used to trade with advantages, Fujian enjoys more distinctive East Asian and Arab countries. favorable conditions in terms of uniting Being adjacent to both the Yangtze River efforts across the Taiwan Straits in Delta and the Pearl River Delta, the most implementing the maritime Silk Road dynamic economic regions in China, Fuzhou strategy. It is one of the best opportunities for also possesses unique geographical China’s mainland and Taiwan Province to advantages. As a port city, it has a sea area of achieve win-win cooperation, said Wei. 11,000 square km and 1,137 km of coastline, Better Connectivity which contribute to a strong ocean economy. The Fuzhou Port is one of the 25 pivotal For cities and countries along the international ports of China. maritime Silk Road, China’s ambitious plan Yang said his city is building an promises not only comprehensive interconnected traffic system with ASEAN connectivity among regional players but also countries, making Fuzhou a transferring hub big opportunities for regional growth. for trade between Chinese inland regions and Thai King Tiong, Mayor of Sibu, a port city ASEAN countries. of Malaysia near the Strait of Malacca, showed A strong industrial base also provides great interest in China’s proposal. Fuzhou with advantages in foreign trade and “Malaysia has a very favorable cooperation. It has established trade relations geographical advantage as it lies at a pivotal with about 217 countries and regions around point of the maritime Silk Road. If we can

44 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA Culture & Life make full use of it, our two countries can push a network is a base for the development of a common development in trade, economy human civilization and the core of coexistence and civilization,” Tiong told Beijing Review. among different countries. Tiong hopes the two countries can offer As a coastal city in Iran, Hashtgerd is an each other more preferential policies, important link between Iran and Europe. Its including tax preference, to promote bilateral port served as an important transfer station to investments. He noted the fleets of Fuzhou export silk to European countries in ancient can play a larger role in promoting trade and times. economic cooperation between the two cities. Khalili hopes his city can regain its vitality Mohammad Ibrahim Khalili, Mayor of in the process of building the modern Silk Hashtgerd of Iran, said the modern maritime Road. “Through this much-needed Silk Road can further enhance connections interconnection, we can reinvigorate between regional countries, adding that such civilization,” said Khalili.

CULTURE & LIFE

Duanwu Festival Celebration

by Pan Xiaoqiao

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, fell on June 2 this year. It is celebrated each year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. As one of the most important traditional festivals for the Chinese people, Duanwu has been listed as a national holiday since 2008. On June 1, one day before the festival, traditional culture lovers from Beijing gathered in the city’s Taoranting Park, celebrating the day together by observing folk customs Girls are making fragrant sachets by stuffing cloth bags with herbs like like stuffing sachets with herbs, mugwort, whose fragrance will protect the bearer from insects in weaving five-colored ropes and summer (PAN XIAOQIAO) stamping the “five poisonous centipedes, toads, snakes and spiders). insects” depicted on the paper (scorpions,

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According to Smiling Mask and Kui’er, the organizers of the day’s activities, whenever festivals such as Duanwu approach, a schedule will be first worked out through online messageboards, and when the day comes, traditional culture lovers from around the city will get together at a selected spot. Many in attendance will wear hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han people – the largest ethnic group in China, to commemorate and celebrate such festivals as the Beijing Language and Culture University. their ancestors did. Most of the participants She came to the gathering because one of her are young people, born after the 1980s, and Chinese friends is an admirer of hanfu. Diana many parents bring their children in the hope said that she was very interested in the way of keeping the customs and traditions of these Duanwu Festival was celebrated at the park. festivals alive through the generations. Before coming to China, she knew nothing Diana, a student from France, studies at about this festival, and she felt lucky to be able to experience such an essential part of the Chinese culture in this way. Of the many theories about the origin of the Duanwu Festival, is that the day is to remind people of driving away diseases, poisonous insects and evil spirits with the approach of the hot summer. Although other theories exist, this is the most commonly accepted today. According to the The Book of Rites, one of the five classics of Confucianism, during the fifth lunar month yang, which represents life, begins to decline, while yin, which represents death, begins to reemerge and grow. As a result, the balance between yin and yang is broken and all kinds of diseases can take hold. To stay healthy, the Chinese people have carried on with several ancient rituals to protect their family from illness, many of A girl is stamping the five poisonous animals. It is believed that, by doing so, one will be able to keep away which have been preserved as through from the harm of such dangerous animals in the coming Duanwu Festival as it is today. hot months (PAN XIAOQIAO)

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About Hanfu The Han people wore hanfu costume for more than 4,000 years until the 17th century, when Manchu rulers of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) prohibited it. The patterns embroidered on hanfu changed over time in different dynasties, but the collar, wide sleeves and buttonless features have remained consistent. Many traditional costumes in other Asian countries, such as the kimono in Japan and Korean hanbok, were heavily influenced by hanfu. During certain periods of history, hanfu was considered a required part of Chinese ceremonies and rituals. In this sense, hanfu is a symbol of thousands of years’ of the traditional culture of the Han people and also an important part of this ethnic group’s identity and lifestyle.

Chinese Legend--The Ten Suns in the Sky

In ancient China, people believed that there were ten suns that appeared in turn in the sky during the Chinese ten-day week. Each day the ten suns would travel with their mother, the goddess Xi He, to the Valley of the Light in the East. There, Xi He would wash her children in the lake and put them in the branches of an enormous mulberry tree called fu-sang. From the tree, only one sun would move off into the sky for a journey of one day, to reach the mount Yen-Tzu in the Far West.

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Tired of this routine, the ten suns decided sent the archer, Yi, armed with a magic bow to appear all together. The combined heat and ten arrows to frighten the disobedient made the life on the Earth unbearable. To suns. However, Yi shot nine suns, only the prevent the destruction of the Earth, the Sun that we see today remained in the sky. Di emperor Yao asked Di Jun, the father of the ten Jun was so angry for the death of nine of his suns, to persuade his children to appear one at children that he condemned Yi to live as an a time. ordinary mortal in the earth. They would not listen to him, so Di Jun

Chinese Chengyu & Its Story- A broken mirror joined together

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589), in the state of Chen, there lived a beautiful, intelligent princess named Lechang. She and her husband, Xu Deyan, loved each other dearly. But before long, their country was in danger of being invaded by the troops of the Sui Dynasty (581-618). Princess Lechang and Xu Deyan had a premonition that their county would be occupied by the invaders, forcing them to leave the palace and go into exile. They might even be forced to separate and lose sight of one another. Thus, they broke a bronze mirror, a symbol of the unity between husband and wife, into two parts. Each kept a half of the mirror. They agreed that each would take their half of hoping that he could see his wife again. It so the mirror to the fair during the Lantern happened that he came upon a servant who Festival (which falls on the 15th day of the first was selling the other half of the bronze mirror. lunar month) the next year, in hopes that they Xu Deyan recognized it immediately and would meet again. asked the servant about his wife. As he heard Alas, their premonition soon came true. about her bitter experiences, tears rolled Amid the chaos of war, the princess lost touch down his cheeks. Xu Deyan wrote a poem on with her husband and was taken to be a the half of the mirror that was his wife’s: “You concubine of a powerful minister, Yang Su. left me with your broken mirror, now the During the Lantern Festival the next year, mirror is back but you are not. I can no longer Xu Deyan took his half of the mirror to the fair, see your reflection in the mirror, I can only see

48 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA Culture & Life the bright moon.” true love for one another and realized it was The servant then took the inscribed half of impossible for him to capture her love. Thus, the mirror back to Princess Lechang. She cried he sent for Xu Deyan and allowed them to for several days because she knew her reunite. husband was still alive and missed her, but From this story comes the idiom “a broken they could never meet again. mirror joined together.” It suggests the happy When Yang Su heard of Princess reunion of a separated couple. Lechang’s sadness, he was moved by their

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Award-winning Chinese Crosswords

Across 2 A common saying used when you meet somebody for the first time 4 A most commonly used greeting 6 A question to ask the person you are speaking to his friend’s name Down 1 An answer to “How are you?” 3 A question to ask politely somebody’s surname 5 A pronoun for the second person plural 7 A greeting used in the morning birth Instructions: The method of using this crossword form is quite straight forward, and will be clear if you have ever done an English crossword. Here are just a few tips for you: lFill the white box with a character or Pinyin and ignored the gray boxes. lRead the English clues and find the words or phrases that you are certain about. lComplete the longest word or phrase ASAP, as more clues and links will result. lBe brave and imaginative; guess possible words using the shared characters you have already filled in. lSome words can be used for more than once in different occasions. lThe answer will be published on next month, and the first three readers who email us the correct answer, in form of photo or scanning picture, will get a free book of limited edition about China in subject you interested (Arts, Architecture, Food, Travel, Political, Medicine, History, Chinese etc.).

Answer to the Award-winning Chinese Crosswords of May

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Chinese Chef Recipe-Kung Pao Chicken

Named after a court official or “Kung Pao,” Kung Pao Chicken is a spicy Szechuan dish made with diced chicken, peanuts and chili peppers. This recipe calls for deep- frying; for a lighter version, try Kung Pao Chicken Stir-fry. Serves 4 to 6 Ingredients: l2 boneless chicken breasts, about 6 ounces each lMarinade: l1 tablespoon soy sauce l1 teaspoon Chinese rice wine or dry sherry and cornstarch. Marinate the chicken for l2 teaspoons cold water 30 minutes. l2 teaspoons cornstarch 2. In a small bowl, mix together the sauce lSauce: ingredients, whisking in the cornstarch l1 tablespoon dark soy sauce last. l2 teaspoons light soy sauce 3. Remove the seeds from the chile peppers l1 tablespoon black or red rice vinegar, or and chop. Peel and finely chop the garlic. red wine vinegar 4. Heat the oil for deep-frying to between 360 l1 tablespoon chicken broth or water and 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Carefully l3 teaspoons granulated sugar slide the chicken into the wok, and deep- l1/2 tsp salt fry for about 1 minute, until the cubes la few drops sesame oil separate and turn white. Remove and l1 tsp cornstarch drain on paper towels. Drain all but 2 lOther: tablespoons oil from the wok. l6 to 8 small dried red chili peppers, or as 5. Add the chilies peppers and stir-fry until desire the skins starts to darken and blister. Add l2 garlic cloves, the garlic. Stir-fry until aromatic (about 30 l1/2 cup skinless, unsalted peanuts seconds). Add the deep-fried chicken back l3 - 4 cups oil for deep-frying and stir- into the pan. Stir-fry briefly, then push up frying to the sides of the wok and add add the sauce in the middle, stirring quickly to Preparation: thicken. Stir in the peanuts. Mix 1. Cut the chicken into 1-inch cubes. Mix in everything together and serve hot. the soy sauce, rice wine or sherry, water

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Fighting Against Religious Extremism Needs Comprehensive Measures Zhu Weiqun

Religious extremism is not a kind of religion but a combination of thoughts and behaviors of committing crimes and harming society in the disguise of religion. It has various manifestations and sources, which could harm the society at different levels. Therefore, concentrating on one part to fight against the religious extremism is not enough. A practical collective work that mobilizes all forces to take comprehensive measures is needed. At present, China should focus "Gaokao" examinees walk towards an exam site of the national college entrance exam on combating the religious in Qamdo Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 8, 2014. More than 19,600 examinees in Tibet this year took part in the annual matriculation, which extremism that aims at was held on June 7 and June 8. splitting the country through violent and terrorist means. education and less understanding of the Religious Extremism is the Common religion but eager to show their religious Enemy of the Whole Society, Far Beyond piety, may be easily cheated and provide the the Religious Circles separatists a spiritual encouragement to Generally speaking, if the separatists expand their followers. directly incite people to separate the country, The religious extremism aiming to they could hardly receive any social response separate the country is reckless of taking or affect the masses. But if they take action violent and terrorist measures. Not all the under the cloak of religion, use religious aims, religious extremists will take such extreme morals and discourses to confuse people’s actions at any time, but for the extremism minds, and threat people with various separatists, they adopt this kind of actions blackmails and “benefits” For those devotees, publicly, just as what we see in the Xinjiang especially some young believers with less Uygur Autonomous Region.

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This extremism force is increasingly violence and terrorism are what Islam and inclined to endanger the society with cruel Tibetan Buddhism advocate, defaming the behaviors of killing innocent people, create a reputations of both religions. social panic in order to expand its influence So, it can be concluded that religious and force China to make concession, and extremism is the common enemy of all social finally achieve the purpose of splitting the members including the religious circle. country. This doesn’t mean that the separatists The 14th Dalai Lama Advocates Religious have strong powers, but rather indicates that Extremism their strength and mind have been walking Nowadays, it always reminds people of toward a dead end. In my opinion, all the “East Turkistan” separatist forces when religions have the tendency of extremism. talking about religious extremism. However, Historically speaking, no religion could say don’t forget another advocator - the 14th Dalai that it owns the innate immunity to resist. Lama who incited innocent Tibetans to burn Therefore, every religion has to watch out themselves. for the extreme tendency, which may not lead Encouraging self-immolation and killing to resort to violent terroristic means, but people with knives or detonators are more or should be kept alert on. At present, we should less the same, it is just the degree of damage to focus on fighting against the religious people that is different. extremism of the “East Turkistan” separatist The 14th Dalai Lama’s clique plotted the forces, using the separatist conspiracy to rebellion in Lhasa in 1959, stirred an armed bewitch people and violent terror attacks to insurgence in China’s border areas in 1960s, kill innocent lives. and schemed the “3.14” riots in Lhasa in 2008. Religious extremism is absolutely not It is obvious that both the Dalai’s clique and religion as it goes against the religious ideas of the “East Turkistan” terrorists pursued loving peace and cherishing life. Moreover, it violence. easily misleads those who haven’t got an in- However, the 14th Dalai Lama, in order to depth knowledge into the believing that behave more like a laureate of the “Nobel Peace Prize”and to win more support and sympathy from the western countries, has to act in the disguise of “nonviolence”. I n f l a m m a t o r y m e s s a g e s released by the Dalai clique that those who burned themselves would be blessed by the 14th Dalai Lama and become people in the upper class or even a Buddha in the rebirth life were circulated among innocent youths. Besides, the 14th Dalai Lama not only personally held “special Tourists visit the Nam Co ("heavenly lake" in Tibetan) in Damxung dharma assemblies” for victims of County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 3, 2014. The self-immolation but took the lead Nam Co attracts large numbers of tourists each year.

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 53 Tibet Today in apastia. He has even repeatedly expressed very beginning. Such bizarre ideologies his idea that “self-immolation is the only way would find no chances to survive in China to escape from tyrannical rules”, he would without imperial aggression and western never stop this behavior. subversion. The 14th Dalai Lama, with no substantial The second origin is contemporary difference with the “East Turkistan” international politics. The reason why the separatist forces, encourages religious modern religious extremism ideologies extremism with the purpose of putting flourish in western and eastern Asia is closely pressure on Chinese government and related to the aggression and bullying from splitting China’s territory. the West especially the United States. Western hegemonism aims at provoking revolts from Multi-origins for Religious Extremism the local residents, whereas the religious First one is the historical origin. extremism could be used as a weapon or a Generally speaking, the religious extremism tool. that happened in China recently roots from The U.S. has intentionally supported, the external rather than the internal. All utilized and indulged the development of religions in China including the introduced armed forces with a strong flavor of religious ones are generous, inclusive, reasonable and extremism, including the Al-Qaeda and moderate, which is a tradition thanks to the Taliban during its competition with the positive influences of Confucian culture. former Soviet Union. However, it never Extreme ideologies can hardly survive in expected those forces to become anti-US later. China, in other words, religions in China can Even though the U.S. suppresses these anti not be easily utilized. forces, it never forgets to lead the religious Different religious extremism came to extremism to China. China with the imperialism’s plot to separate It is something we see now that the U.S. the country. For instance, instead of stemming never tolerates the violent terrorists outside from the Uygur people in China’s Xinjiang China , yet carefully protects those inside Uygur Autonomous Region, the “East China, who can not enter the U.S., but enjoy a Turkistan” came from the Pan-Turkism, an sanctuary by other countries thank to the ideology thriving in Russian Tartar endeavor by the U.S.. intellectuals in the late 19th century, and Pan- The third origin is the penetration of Islamism in the collapsing Ottoman Empire overseas forces. In recent decades, religious (1290-1922). Those two extreme ideologies extremism made use of China’s policy of spread into China especially in Xinjiang with opening up to infiltrate China, especially in the imperialism invasion. the western region. As a consequence, some H i s t o r i c a l l y s p e a k i n g , d u e t o good traditions of Chinese Islam faith were manipulations of two foreign countries, shaken and sabotaged; even in some places, Britain and the Soviet Union, the so-called there are tendencies of religious desinification “East Turkistan” country was set up twice in and religious rampancy in social life. For Xinjiang in 1933 and 1944 respectively, when example, some female believers begin to wear the religious extremism, as a tool to separate black robes, which is not in accordance with China, also penetrated into the Chinese Chinese Islam tradition, bringing pressure to society. some devoted Muslims who stick to the So to speak, religious extremism served Chinese Islam tradition. the foreign forces to separate China from the Why could Islam develop and gain such a

54 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA Tibet Today high status since its entering China in the contacts with outside world. Therefore, Tang Dynasty? Because it combined with openness and civilization are crucial to the Chinese culture, especially the Confucianism elimination of religious extremism. and stuck to the road of chinization. Fighting against religious extremism However, a few of Muslims are valuing needs comprehensive measures the traditions in the Arabic areas over those in Each origin of the religious extremism China, leaning to the wearing traditions, mentioned above cannot be eliminated in a social etiquettes, and even the construction short term, nor a single policy can solve, thus styles of mosques in Arabic. Islamic customs it is a long-term work to fight against the with Chinese characteristics have been religious extremism. abandoned and time-honored Chinese Meanwhile, it is urgent for us to eliminate culture traditions have been broken. the religious extremism in light of the current In such a tendency, the extreme thoughts situation and its harm to Xinjiang and the in the Arabic areas are said to be right and whole society, and it is a comprehensive “authentic”, and are spoken highly as the project of anti-religious extremism, which “true Islam” and “real mosques”. All the requires efforts from all aspects of the society, above are influencing people’s life in a subtle including the religious fields. way. Though we are not supposed to equalize I firmly believe that the frequent tendency religious desinification to religious of terrorist attacks stirred by religious extremism, the tendencies are really blurring extremism in Xinjiang can be contained Islam devotees’ eyes and making them less through our hard work and consistent fight. vigilant to overseas religious extremism. Only in this way could we fundamentally Apart from reasons mentioned above, figure out the problem. the underdevelopments of economy, culture Firstly, the most direct, effective and and relatively reclusiveness in some areas urgent way is to strictly crack down the also facilitate religious extremism to religious extremism propagating group, to infiltrate China and endanger the society. As cut off their broadcasting channels and we can see, some Muslims in Xinjiang are “underground preaching places”. For those double blind. On one hand, Xinjiang is far religious extremists, they use illegal away from the central part of China and publications and internet to spread religious people in inland China; however, it is near the extremism, which should be strictly cracked central and western Asia. On the other hand, down with the support of Xinjiang’s some people from south Xinjiang are confined neighboring provinces. For those ordinary to their limited oasis environment and have believers, who took for the underground no idea of what northern Xinjiang, Urumqi, preaching place as the place of “the orthodox the whole Xinjiang and the country really look school” blindly, should be educated, guided like. and dealt with a proper way. As a result, they know little about their Secondly, boosting the employment and country, the social development and modern developing the local economy. It is a general civilization. That scenario is being relieved as experience that stable employments of people Xinjiang marches into modernization will promote the stability of the society in construction, but there is still a long way ethnic areas. And it is crucial to make more ahead before a complete change. People who religious believers and people from ethnic immolate themselves or stab people are groups, especially the youth, to enjoy the mostly from the enclosed places with little

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 55 Tibet Today modern life, science and technology, which Fifthly, people in religious circles will boost the connection of different areas of should play a bigger role, in a sense their role the Xinjiang, forming a closer bond with the can’t be replaced by that of the Chinese inland China. In this way, the religious Communist Party and governmental cadres, extremism will be difficult to penetrate into because they would be followed by religious this region. believers when preaching Quran and Thirdly, insisting on the secularized “Hadith”. Thus those religious figures who orientation of the whole social life. Now the can both hold patriotic position and have religious atmosphere has been denser and versed religious attainments are crucial to denser in people’s social life in some areas, the country. and it would even be accused if women don’t How to cultivate talents needs to be wrap up their heads or men buy tobacco or studied. There are two measures in Xinjiang’s liquor in shops, which is a kind of practice, traditional “master and apprentice” degeneration. method and opening Islam scripture schools. It is insisted that religious activities should It is suggested that the combination of the two be held mainly in religious venues, and can be considered after investigation and religion shouldn’t intervene functions of survey, for one part, those patriotic religious government, such as administration, figures work as masters and train apprentices judiciary and education. In the areas where in traditional way, for another part, the religious influence is strong, government apprentices may enter scripture schools to should frequently use the “secularization of study not only Islam, but also modern social life” as a rule to measure during education such as national laws, regulations administration. and all kinds of modern knowledge. In the secularization of social life, it is very Sixthly,the work of fighting against important to popularize national education, religious extremism should be carried out by modern scientific and technological culture, the whole country coordinately. The especially to improve the scientific and penetration of religious extremism is not cultural level of farmers and nomads in limited to one region. For many years, some remote areas, and help them know more oversea religious with extremism tendency modern knowledge. It doesn’t prevent them penetrated into inland areas of China but from being devoted Muslims, while it gives didn’t arouse government’s attention at the them some discernments of religious beginning; when problems were found, it was extremism. too late and became difficult to resolve. At Fourthly, fully following the Communist present inland provinces should give full Party’s basic principle related to religions, support to Xinjiang, consider the precaution protecting people’s right to freedom of and take fighting against religious extremism religious belief, and protecting normal as an important task of the province. religious venues and activities. Efforts should be made to satisfy religious believers’ (The Author is the director of the Committee for reasonable needs to promote their faith in Ethnic and Religious Affairs of the National legal religious sites, in order to compress the Committee of the Chinese People’s Political living space of “underground preaching Consultative Conference.) places”.

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Inland Tibetan Students Back to Hometown after Matriculation

After taking the annual matriculation a 2014. few days ago, eighty two Tibetan students Studying in Shanxi for three years, these from inland Tibetan class in Taiyuan, capital Tibetan students got many supports from of Shanxi Province, finished their high school local residents and took Taiyuan as their education and returned to Tibet on June 12, second hometown.

Photo taken on June 12 shows that Tashi Phuntsok from inland Tibetan class hugging his teacher at the Taiyuan railway station. [Photo/Xinhua]

Photo taken on June 12 shows that Tibetan students from inland Tibetan class bid farewell to their teacher at Photo taken on June 12 shows that Tibetan students the Taiyuan railway station. [Photo/Xinhua] from inland Tibetan class bid farewell to their teacher at the Taiyuan railway station.[Photo/Xinhua]

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Manager of Dropenling Store on Dongtsesur Road Text & Photo by Du Dong

According to local custom in Lhasa, people refer to the area around the Jokhang Temple as “Barkor Street”. “Lhasa” is “the Buddha’s land” in Tibetan. In the hearts of Tibetan people, the Jokhang Temple is one of the most holy places because a statue of the twelve-year-old Sakyamuni is enshrined and worshiped there. Every year, the temple attracts many Tibetan Buddhist monks and disciples come from far away and pay Nyima Tashi, the manager of Dropenling store. homage to the Buddha. As time passed, the area of Barkor Street around the Jokhang economy, national culture, traditional Temple has become the busiest district in craftsmanship and local Tibetan customs and Lhasa. Eight alleyways extend out from the practices flourish. Barkor Street. Here the old citizens of Lhasa Dropenling, a well-known store to fans of reside, and this is where Lhasa’s unique Tibetan handicrafts, is located in an ancient courtyard of Chacai Gang. The exquisite traditional Tibetan handicrafts sold in this store are famous for their originality. An Experience in Dropenling Store The word “Dropenling” means to “benefit the public” in Tibetan. This is a succinct summary of this collective enterprise’s business model and principles. In the quiet and narrow Dropenling store, you can see original handcrafts made in Tibet such as leatherwear made in Jumpa Fishing Village, puppets made in the small lanes of Lhasa, exquisite The exquisite wooden plates with hand-drawing patterns. wooden boxes with ancient Guge

58 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA Tibet Today mural designs, Tibetan carpets made in Panam countryside and so on. You will be amazed by the variety of Tibetan handcrafts. For example, there are 20 categories and hundreds of varieties of artworks sold in Dropenling store. In the store there are no dazzling pearls, Nepalese tapestries, metal containers of various sizes or wide-sleeved Nepalese Togas. Such goods are typical of most Lhasa souvenir stores for tourists. There are no large turquoise, crystals, surprisingly expensive Tibetan beads, bracelets and antiques, or huge containers inlaid with silver and gold either. These goods provide an income for large-scale tourist boutiques in Lhasa. Nowadays, even young men from remote villages in Tibet are starting to use vogue shoulder bags to follow the fashion. The exquisite wooden plates with hand-drawing Therefore, most collectors are really patterns. impressed by the variety of traditional Tibet artworks in Dropenling store. In this craftsmen in this market economy? industrial age, Dropenling holds fast to the An Enterprise of “One Hundred stability, grandeur and classical beauty of Villages” traditional Tibetan handcrafts. While I am talking with Nyima Tashi, the What impressed me most were the large manager of Dropenling store, I can hear the photos hanging on the walls of Dropenling. sound of metal objects beating together These are portraits of the makers of these endlessly at Sholdo Pal handcrafts center. exquisite handcrafts. One picture is of an old Nyima Tashi is a local resident of Lhasa. man from Tsang region in dusty trousers He is of medium height and has curly hair. He carrying a handmade thick Tibetan carpet can speak both Mandarin and English under his arm. Another picture is of a Lhasa fluently. Unlike other businessmen in Lhasa, woman wearing a scarf and resting her cheeks Nyima Tashi was a scholar at first. After he on homespun soft wool. Their expressions are graduated from Tibet University in the 1990s, not the same but they have one thing in he worked in a state-owned enterprise for common: they all have hope in their faces. several years before leaving for the USA to Hard work brings fortune. Does further his studies. He studied English from Dropenling store give hope to Tibetan the very beginning at the age of 27. Five years

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 59 Tibet Today later, he got a master’s degree for Intercultural to ensure the smooth process of these Management in America. Then, Nyima Tashi procedures. decided to return to Tibet and find a cross- Dropenling has made great efforts to reach cultural job or in management. He has been a balance between traditional handcraft the manager of Dropenling since 2005. production and controllable cost. After almost I learned the difficulty of running a special ten years’ trial operation, it has developed a social enterprise like Dropenling and mature model. First, Dropenling employees developing the Tibetan artwork industry locate suitable craftsmen and discuss craft through our talks. According to Nyima Tashi, issues with them. Then, they make novel Dropenling is a brand run by a company designs by innovation or remodeling. After named Jiacheng. Jiacheng sounds like that, they organize proper training before Chinese. Actually, it is a transliteration of a comparing actual products with sample Tibetan word, meaning one hundred villages. products. After confirmation, they give Led by Dropenling, Jiacheng intends to gather official orders at last. This whole process takes a group of Tibetan craftsmen and provide at least six months. Since it takes such a long them with the technology, designs and even time to do the preliminary work for a mature loans to make hand labor profitable. enterprise like Dropenling, it is obviously Obviously, this was a very good idea. very difficult for the traditional Tibetan However, it is extremely difficult to handicraft industry. implement. Traditional, small-scale, Dropenling has trained these workshops handmade manufacturing is low in efficiency to become mature suppliers who can and long in production cycle. It is hard to guarantee the craft, quality and delivery time guarantee the craft, quality and the delivery of their products. Therefore, Dropenling is time of products. It costs an enormous amount able to present hundreds of handcrafts in the store. Even so, it is rather reluctant to open branch stores in inland cities because it is hard for handicrafts made in workshops to deal with mass orders. Dropenling’s suppliers complain, too. Compared with handicrafts made in Nepal and Thailand, the original Tibetan artworks sold in Dropenling are less competitive due to high cost and low efficiency of the production process. However, The original handicrafts in the store. Nyima Tashi says that it is

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impossible for their products to go into mass production because it is a characteristic of Dropenling store to sell handmade goods manufactured in small workshops. Nyima Tashi’s Hope A s t h e m a n a g e r o f Dropenling, Nyima Tashi has realistic aims and long-term ideas. In the last two years, the The handmade goods in Dropenling store. tourist business in Lhasa has become rather depressed. The pricy. We can’t afford that. “ Dropenling has current mission of Dropenling is to boost sales already built cooperative relations with some performance. Over the long-term, Nyima designers and institutions in China. However, Tashi hopes to make minor rather depressed. a mature product is not only about design, but The current mission of Dropenling is to boost also about a series of complicated matters sales performance. Over the long-term, including feasibility research, training and Nyima Tashi hopes to make minor quality guarantees. Besides, Dropenling procedures for hand-made process more wishes to enhance its brand design. efficient so as to bring down the cost. Making and selling handicrafts is a However, he emphasizes that he will not “technical job”. It is impossible to produce change these manual procedures into perfect artworks without the help of proper industrial manufacturing. Otherwise, technology. Therefore, talented persons are Dropenling would lose its significance. the priority. Although it is still difficult to find Nyima Tashi says, “Cultural taste is much qualified personnel at present, Nyima Tashi more important than price.” In the meantime, believes that eventually there will be more Dropenling will further strengthen its and more suitable specialists as new product design department, which currently generations emerge and international visual has three staff. They have worked out a special ideals spread rapidly. A combination of model through learning and long-term traditional crafts and avant guard vision will experience in their positions. In Nyima give Dropenling a new horizon. Tashi’s opinion, it is necessary to hire some A successful business relies on support. brilliant designers in order to meet Nyima Tashi has bright hopes for the future of international aesthetic standards. He says Dropenling. Numerous craftsmen in Tibet frankly, “Hiring a foreign designer is too have the same hope too.

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Getting Close to Legpo and Drenthang

Text & Photo by Sochung

From July 5th to 16th, 2013, I joined Travel Channel’s “The interior of the Himalayas” team for a rewarding tour to a series of border areas in China, including Legpo in Shigatse’s Cona County and Drenthang in Dingkye County. Lemenba Minority Town of Cona County is located in the scenic Legpo Ditch, which is located to the south of Bora Mountain in the interior of Himalaya. After we climb over

Bora Mountain, with an altitude of Riwo Township in Dinkye County. 5000 meters under bright sunshine, we suddenly come into a thick white fog. are flat, bitumen-paved streets and the classic Because of the poor visibility, we have to slow landscapes of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the our car and creep forward inch by inch. There north of Bora Mountain. However in Legpo Ditch, we see exotic, colorful plants and muddy roads everywhere, all typical of subtropical zones. We can hear the tremendous noise of a waterfall from some dark place. In addition, we see the ghostly images of road repairers and their wet tents along our way. Everything is so unreal that we feel like we are in a dream. The wooden bowls in Tashi's shop.

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This is our first time to be traveling on a dangerous road, especially for young Chinese reporters from the Mainland, who are each just in their twenties. Suddenly we cease our happy chatter and become extremely nervous. As expected, we have to pull over after a ten-minute drive. After a scream from our driver Mr. Wu, we spot several gigantic objects in the middle of the road. As we take a Children of Ethnic Sharpa watching TV. closer look, we find some huge rocks covered with hot mud, which have experienced driver says that if we had passed blocked the narrow mountain road. Our here ten minutes earlier, these rocks would have hit our car. In hazy mist, we can hear the rumble of trucks on the other side of the road. A forklift truck is dumping gravel and mud over the cliff. After we pull over, the scene on the right side of the road startles us. The rocks and mud are sizzling in rainwater. This indicates that the hillside will collapse at any time. When I look back, I see several local troops in three jeeps. Amongst these troops there is a squadron leader of Han Nationality and a young Tibetan officer who had graduated from Kunming Military Academy. For no reason, we are suddenly relieved because, since the troops are accustomed to the horrible road conditions and long waits, they happily exchange cucumbers and crackers with each other and comfort us by saying, “Don’t worry. We can get through anyhow.” Since they have Luoben, a local wizard of Bon religion.

June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 63 Tibet Today mistakenly taken us for tourists, they say preparing a feature performance for repeatedly, “I am sorry it has disappointed t o m o r r o w ’ s D r u m p a T s e s h i you” and “I am afraid it is not as ideal as you circumambulation. After watching their might have expected”. Later, we learned that rushed “walkthrough”,we leave for Tashi’s some young soldiers were killed during their home to avoid further interruption. Tashi is a mission in a landslide on this “heavenly wooden-bowl craftsman of Ethnic Menpa. road”. Compared with them, our fears and Lemenba Mionrity Town is located in a worries seemed a little selfish and not worth remote mountain canyon that has not three mentioning. Who can fathom their diligence feet of flat land. Its distinctive architecture is and their contributions? in the local stilted construction. Tashi’s house We wait for what seemed about a century shares that distinction. We see a single-story in anxiety before hearing the signal to house on the side of the road. In front of the continue. Thanks to the serious efforts of the house, there is a wooden bowl salesroom, road construction workers, the collapsed area selling buckled bowls, tea bowls, wine bowls, has been evened out. Anyway, we face the tsampa bowls, and clean water bowls. Next to unpleasant task and move on. However, its window there is a sunken, open room that within only half an hour, we come across serves as Tashi’swooden bowl workshop. If another landslide. Maintenance and road you go further, you can find a wood door construction workers risk their lives by leading to Tashi’s bedroom. We greet Tashi constructing and fixing roads, and make an appointment with him to shoot …and building guard railing on the cliff side of the road. They perform their job with ease and a smile on their faces. Although it is their duty to do so, what they have done is still b o t h i m p r e s s i v e a n d honorable. We spend four hours driving 37 kilometers to reach Lemenba Minority Town. In the courtyard of the town government, a Tibetan opera team, formed by the local

Ethnic Menpa people, is The building in Lemenba Minority Town.

64 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA Tibet Today some photos before we head back. We are digs a hole on a massive rock and grows going to visit this beautiful and precipitous vegetables on it. The vegetables look like the Legpo Ditch again. hair of that rock. We start for our next destination: Because no zigzagging road has been built, Drenthang Town via Cona, Zedang, Lhasa, any construction cost is very high in Drenthang Chushur, Nyemo, Renbu and Shigatse. and you can see porters anywhere. If a porter Drenthang Town, where Sharpa people live in carries a twenty-kilogram brick from the a compact community, located in Dinkye foothill to Drenthang Town, he earns thirteen County, Shigatse Prefecture. My old friend Yuan. Normally, a young adult can carry three Fan, who studies Sharpa culture, is waiting bricks a time and do that three times everyday. for us there. Some capable people can earn more money by Our trip to Drenthang seemed to be using a bull and a donkey to transport bricks. another everlasting journey. However, the However, there is no sense of beauty in doing scenery on the way was breathtakingly hard labor in picturesque scenes. Secretary beautiful, especially when we came into Tashi says, we are actually relieved to provide Tulong Canyon and saw old-growth forest impoverished Sharpa fellows with enough everywhere, waters, waterfalls, fl owers, farmland and opportunities to make money cottages, houses, cows, sheep and road even if we have to lead a hard life. But still, they menders with honest smiles. We originally have to transport daily necessities all by thought the way to Drenthang would be manual labor and bear heavy loads every time much better than that of Legpo Ditch. they go up to Drenthang. However, when we arrived at Jiangqiao at the As expected, my friend Old Fan is waiting foot of Drenthang Town, we are told that we for us on the mountain. Our interview goes have to climb a thousand steps on foot to smoothly with the help of this professional reach there. When we asked a young Sharpa guide. Lead by Old Fan, we drop in on man why they had not built roads, he Luoben, a local wizard of Bon religion, watch explained that since this was a mountainous Sharpa song and dance, which is the local area, building a zigzaging road would occupy intangible culture inheritor program, and a substantial amount of farmland. If this interview the local Secretary and Town Chief happens, local people’s lives will be affected. to see the sweetness and bitterness of We take a close look at our surroundings. grassroots staff. Our interview proves to be a Because of its special terrain, no building here success. We are unable to take a picture of is on the same level. The local people make every beautiful scene during our trip because full use of every single piece of land. For electricity goes off temporarily. We still hope example, we see some riverside houses are that more and more people will visit built on fallen rocks. On the hillside, someone Drenthang to see its primitive natural beauty.

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Instructions for Chinese Visa Application

(Effective from September 1, 2013)

What is the main purpose of your visit to China and which is the most appropriate visa category for your application?

Visa Description of Visa Categories C Issued to foreign crew members of means of international transportation, including aircraft, trains and ships, or motor vehicle drivers engaged in cross-bordertransport activities, or to the accompanying family members of the crew members of the above- mentioned ships. D Issued to those who intend to reside in China permanently. F Issued to those who intend to go to China for exchanges, visits, study tours and other activities. G Issued to those who intend to transit through China. J1 Issued to resident foreign journalists of foreign news organizations stationed inChina. The intended duration of stay in China exceeds 180 days. J2 Issued to foreign journalists who intend to go to China for short-term news coverage. The intended duration of stay in China is no more than 180 days. L Issued to those who intend to go to China as a tourist. M Issued to those who intend to go to China for commercial and trade activities. Q1 Issued to those who are family members of Chinese citizens or of foreigners with Chinese permanent residence and intend to go to China for family reunion, or to those who intend to go to China for the purpose of foster care. The intended duration of stay in China exceeds 180 days. “Family members” refers to spouses, parents, sons, daughters, spouses of sons or daughters, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandsons, granddaughters and parents-in-law. Q2 Issued to those who intend to visit their relatives who are Chinese citizens residing in China or foreigners with permanent residence in China. The intended duration of stay in China is no more than 180 days. R Issued to those who are high-level talents or whose skills are urgently needed in China. S1 Issued to those who intend to go to China to visit the foreigners working or studying in China to whom they are spouses, parents, sons or daughters under the age of 18 or parents-in-law, or to those who intend to go to China for other private affairs. The intended duration of stay in China exceeds 180 days.

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Visa Description of Visa Categories S2 Issued to those who intend to visit their family members who are foreigners working or studying in China, or to those who intend to go to China for other private matters. The intended duration of stay in China is no more than 180 days.”family members” refers to spouses, parents, sons, daughters, spouses of sons or daughters, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandsons, granddaughters and parents-in-law. X1 Issued to those who intend to study in China for a period of more than 180 days. X2 Issued to those who intend to study in China for a period of no more than 180 days. Z Issued to those who intend to work in China.

Here are the documents you shall prepare before submission of visa application: 1. Basic Documents and Reminders (1) Passport Original passport with at least six months of remaining validity, at least 2 blank visa pages, a photocopy of the passport’s data page and the photo page if it is separate. For multiple-visa application, the remaining validity of the passport must cover the validity of visa and the duration of stay. For example, if applying for a visa with 6 months validity, multiple entries, and 30 days of each stay, the remaining validity of the passport should be at least 7 months. (2) Visa Application Form and Photo One completed Visa Application Form (2013) with a recently-taken color passport photo (bare-head, full face) against a light background attached (3) Proof of legal stay or residence status (applicable to those who are not of Indian citizenship). The applicant from a third country should provide valid Indian visa or valid Residence Permit in India and its copy, and fill up the Additional Application Form. In case the applicant from a third country staying in India with a short-term visa, a note verbale (with details as follows: applicant’s name, passport number, occupation, purpose to go to China, duration of stay in China) by the Embassy or Consulate-General of his / her own country is required. (4) Photocopy of previous Chinese passports or previous Chinese visas (applicable to those who were Chinese citizens and have obtained foreign citizenship). If you are applying for a Chinese visa for the first time, you should provide your previous Chinese passport and a photocopy of its data page. If you have obtained Chinese visas before and want to apply for a Chinese visa with a renewed foreign passport that does not contain any Chinese visa, you should present the photocopy of the previous passport’s data page and the photo page if it is separate, as well as the previous Chinese visa page. (If your name on the current passport differs from that on the previous one, you must provide an official document of name change.)

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(5) The Visa Application Form shall be signed by the applicant. In case the applicant is a person without or with limited capacity for civil conduct, the application form should be signed by his / her guardian on his / her behalf. If the form is filled out by entrusted travel / visa agent, both the applicant’s signature and the stamp of the agent are required. (6) Child of Chinese descent born either in China or in India applies for a Chinese visa for the first time, the Birth Certificate with his / her parents’ names on, the original certificate for renunciation of Chinese nationality and its copy, and the statement written by his / her parents or guardian are required. (7) Child of Chinese descent born in a third country should make his / her Chinese visa application in his / her resident country if the Birth Certificate and the certificate for renunciation of Chinese nationality cannot be submitted. (8) The applicant must be in India while making the application for a Chinese Visa. Otherwise, the applicant should take full consequences. (9) Different types of visas will be issued according to applicants’ identities, purposes and activities. The applicant should not engage in activities not conform to the type of visa he / she is holding in China. Application should be made in line with the purpose of activity in China. Otherwise, the applicant should take full consequences. (10) Fraud documents or false information provided by the applicant will result in rejection of individual application and disqualification of travel / visa agency to apply for Chinese visa. (11) Ordinary passport holders are required to submit applications to the Chinese Visa Application Service Centre (CVASC) where CVASC is available. (12) The Chinese Embassy and Consulates-General do not accept applications by post. (13) The normal processing of Chinese visa takes about one to two weeks. The applicant should plan ahead. Any applicant who attempts to interfere with the office of Chinese Embassy or Consulates by using “my air ticket has been confirmed” as a pretext may likely result in the rejection of his / her visa application. (14) In case of urgent service is provided at the approval of the Chinese Embassy or the Consulates- General, the applicant should pay extra fee accordingly. (15) Applicants residing within consular district of Chinese Consulate-General in Kolkata and Mumbai are required to submit their applications to the respective Chinese Consulate-General in Kolkata and Mumbai. The consular district of the Chinese Consulate-General in Kolkata covers Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. The consular district of the Chinese Consulate-General in Mumbai covers Maharashtra and Karnataka. 2. Supporting Documents C Visa (1) A letter of guarantee issued by a foreign transport company or an invitation letter issued by a relevant entity in China. (2) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General.

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Note: Non-regular scheduled flight, chartered flight, private plane must get the Aviation Permit before departure. D Visa (1) The original and photocopy of the Confirmation Form for Foreigners Permanent Residence Status issued by the Ministry of Public Security of China. (2) Personal written statement (covering letter with details as follows: place of destination in China, name, address and contact number of the inviting / contact company / person). (3) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. We kindly remind you that: Holders of D Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people’s governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners’ residence permits. F Visa (1) An invitation letter issued by a relevant entity or individual in China. The invitation should contain: a. Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.) b. Information on the planned visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting entity or individual, financial source for expenditures) c. Information on the inviting entity or individual (name, contact telephone number, address, official stamp, signature of the legal representative or the inviting individual) (2) Personal or Company’s written statement (covering letter with details as follows: place to visit, name, address and contact number of the inviting / contact company or person). (3) For a multiple entry visa application, copies of previous Chinese visas (on one A4 paper) are required. (4) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. G Visa (1) An onward air (train or ship) ticket with confirmed date and seat to the destination country or region. (2) Personal or company’s written statement (covering letter with details as follows: place to visit, name, address and contact number of the inviting / contact company or person). (3) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. J1 Visa (1) Visa Notification Letter issued by the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and an official letter issued by the media organization for which the journalist works. (2) Applicants are required to contact the Press Section of the Chinese Embassy/Consulate General in advance and complete relevant formalities.

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We kindly remind you that: Holders of J1 Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people’s governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners’ residence permits. J2 Visa (1) Visa Notification Letter issued by the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China or other authorized units in China and an official letter issued by the media organization for which the journalist works. (2) Applicants should contact the press section of the Chinese Embassy/Consulate General in advance and complete the relevant formalities. L Visa (1) Documents showing the itinerary including air ticket booking record (round trip) and proof of a hotel reservation, etc. or an invitation letter issued by a relevant entity or individual in China. The invitation letter should contain: a. Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.) b. Information on the planned visit (arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, etc.) c. Information on the inviting entity or individual (name, contact telephone number, address, official stamp, signature of the legal representative or the inviting individual) (2) Personal written statement (covering letter with details as follows: place to visit, name, address and contact number of the inviting / contact company / person); Certification letter from the working unit of the applicant (with details as follows: name and contact number of the working unit, the applicant’s income statement), or Original copy of recent 6-month bank statement of the applicant. (3) If applicant repeatedly applies for tourist visa to China, the following information shall be covered in the personal statement: reasons for revisit, the places the applicant plans to visit this time and places he/ she visited before. (4) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. (5) If the applicants travel in China on a group basis, the invitation letter issued by the travel agency is required. M Visa (1) Documents on the commercial activity issued by a trade partner in China, or trade fair invitation relevant entity or individual. The invitation letter should contain: a. Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.) b. Information on the planned visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting entity or individual, financial source for expenditures) c. Information on the inviting entity or individual (name, contact telephone number, address, official stamp, signature of the legal representative or the inviting individual).

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(2) For application of a multiple entry visa: copy of all previous Chinese visas (on one A-4 sized paper) should be attached. (3) Personal or company’s written statement (covering letter with details as follows: place to visit, name, address and contact number of the inviting / contact company or person). (4) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. Q1 Visa For family reunion, the following documents are required: (1) An invitation letter issued by a Chinese citizen or a foreign with a Chinese permanent residence permit who lives in China. The invitation letter should contain: a. Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.) b. Information on the visit ( purpose of visit, intended arrival date, place(s) of intended residence, intended duration of residence, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures) c. Information on the inviting individual (name, contact telephone number, address, official stamp, signature of legal representative or the inviting individual, etc.) (2) Photocopy of Chinese ID of the inviting individual or foreign passport and permanent residence permit. (3) Original and photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate, certification of kinship issued by Public Security Bureau or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship of family members between applicant and inviting individual. “Family members” refers to spouses, parents, sons, daughters, spouses of sons or daughters, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandsons, granddaughters and parents-in-law. (4) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. For foster care, the following documents are required: (1) Foster entrustment notarization issued by Chinese Embassies/Consulates General in foreign countries or Foster Care Power of Attorney notarized and authenticated in the country of residence or in China. (2) Original and photocopy of the consignor’s passport(s), as well as the original and photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate, certification of kinship issued by Public Security Bureau or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship between parents and children. (3) A letter of consent on foster care issued by the trustee living in China who has agreed to provide foster care services and a photocopy of the ID of the trustee. (4) A photocopy of the certificate indicating the permanent residence status abroad of the parent(s) when the child was born, provided that either or both parents of the child are Chinese citizens. (5) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. We kindly remind you that:

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Holders of Q1 Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people’s governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners’ residence permits. Q2 Visa (1) An invitation letter issued by a Chinese citizen or a foreign citizen with a Chinese permanent residence permit who lives in China. The invitation letter should contain: a. Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.) b. Information on the visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures) c. Information on the inviting individual (name, contact number, address, signature etc.) (2) Photocopy of Chinese ID or foreign passport and permanent residence permit of the inviting individual. (3) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. R Visa (1) The applicant should submit relevant certification in accordance with relevent regulations, and meet the relevant requirements of the competent authorities of the Chinese government on high-level talents and individual personnel with special skills urgently needed by China. (2) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. S1 Visa (1) An invitation letter from the inviting individual (a foreigner who stays or resides in China for work or studies) which contains: a. Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.) b. Information on the visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place of intended residence, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures, etc.) c. Information on the inviting individual (name, contact telephone number, address, signature, etc.) (2) A photocopy of the inviting individual’s passport and residence permit. (3) Original and photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate, certification of kinship issued by Public Security Bureau or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship of immediate family members between applicants and inviting individual. “Immediate family members” refers to spouses, parents, sons or daughters under the age of 18, parents-in- law. (4) For private affairs, documentation identifying the nature of the private affairs such as marriage, inheritance, adoption, etc. should be provided as required by the consular officer. (5) Personal written statement (covering letter with details as follows: place to visit, name, address and contact number of the inviting person).

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(6) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. We kindly remind you that: Holders of S1 Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people’s governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners’ residence permits. S2-Visa For visiting family members for a short period, the following documents are required: (1) An invitation letter issued by the inviting individual (a foreigner who stays or resides in China for work or studies) which contains: a. Information on the applicant (full name, gender, date of birth, etc.) b. Information on the visit (purpose of visit, arrival and departure dates, place(s) to be visited, relations between the applicant and the inviting individual, financial source for expenditures, etc.) c. Information on the inviting individual (name, contact telephone number, address, signature, etc.) (2) A photocopy of the inviting individual’s (a foreigner who stays or lives in China for work or studies) passport and residence permit (3) Photocopy of certification (marriage certificate, birth certificate or notarized certification of kinship) showing the relationship of family members between the applicant and the inviting individual. “Family members” refers to spouses, parents, sons, daughters, spouses of sons or daughters, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandsons, granddaughters and parents-in-law. (4) For private affairs, documentation identifying the nature of the private affairs such as marriage, inheritance, adoption, should be provided as required by the consular officer. X1-Visa (1) Original and photocopy of the Admission Letter issued by a school or other entities in China. (2) Original and photocopy of “Visa Application for Study in China” (Form JW201 or Form JW202). (3) Personal written statement (covering letter with details as follows: place to visit, name, address and contact number of the school or entity of admission). (4) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. We kindly remind you that: Holders of X1 Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people’s governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners’ residence permits. X2-Visa (1) Original and photocopy of Admission Notice issued by a school or other entities in China.

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(2) Personal written statement (covering letter with details as follows: place to visit, name, address and contact number of the school or entity of admission). (3) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy or Consulate-General. Z-Visa (1 ) One of the following documents: a. Foreigners Employment Permit of the People’s Republic of China issued by Chinese government authorities for Human Resources and Social Security, as well as Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Chinese entities. b. Permit for Foreign Experts Working in China issued by the State Bureau of Foreign Experts as well as Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Chinese entities. c. Registration Certificate of Resident Representative Offices of enterprises of foreign countries(regions) issued by Chinese authorities of industrial and commercial administration, as well as Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Chinese entities as well as Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Chinese entities. d. An approval document for commercial performances issued by the Chinese government authorities for cultural affairs or Invitation Letter of Duly Authorized Entity or Confirmation Letter of Invitation issued by relevant Foreign Affairs Office of provincial governments of China. e. Letter of Invitation to Foreigners for Offshore Petroleum Operations in China issued by China National Offshore Oil Corporation; (2) Personal written statement (covering letter with details as follows: place to visit, name, address and contact number of the inviting / contact company or person). (3) Other documents required by the Chinese Embassy and Consulate-General. We kindly remind you that: Holders of Z Visa shall, within 30 days from the date of their entry, apply to the exit/entry administrations of public security organs under local people’s governments at or above the county level in the proposed places of residence for foreigners’ residence permits. 3. Special Reminder (1) The invitation letter may be in the form of fax, photocopy or computer printout, but the consular officer may require the applicant to submit the original of the invitation letter.. (2) If necessary, the consular officer may require the applicant to provide other documents or supplementary materials, or require an interview with the applicant. (3) The consular officer will decide on whether or not to issue the visa and on its validity, duration of stay and number of entries in light of specific conditions of the applicant.

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76 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA CCTV News

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Postal Regd. No. DL-SW-16/4034/12-14 R.N.I. No. 47440/88 June 2014

A mother panda is playing with its kid in the forest. Panda is the most precious and protected animal in China.

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