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Guizhou's Poverty Fight Includes Better Schools, Meals for Kids Powering a change Rise seen in Withdrawal begins Company in Brazil helps aborigines poaching of UN says Yemen’s Houthi rebels make the transition to modern era spotted seals are pulling back from three ports WORLD, PAGE 14 IMAGE, PAGE 15 CHINACHINA, PAGE 5DAILY GLOBAL EDITION MONDAY, MAY 13, 2019 Guizhou’s poverty Bringing history back to life fight includes better schools, meals for kids By CAI HONG, LI HANYI and DONG XIANWU 1.32 in Guizhou province million people Policymakers in Southwest Chi­ Have been relocated from na’s Guizhou province are trying impoverished mountainous to improve education programs places to settlements in urban to empower children with areas in Guizhou since 2016 knowledge and skills to combat poverty. The province is determined that covered in the nutrition project no child should be allowed to every year,” Bao said. drop out of school due to his or The nutrition project connects her family’s financial difficulties. residents of the province’s low­in­ Local educators believe that par­ come villages to canteens in rural ticular attention should be paid to nurseries as well as primary and helping poverty­stricken students secondary schools. increase confidence in their capa­ These canteens purchase farm bility to lift their families out of produce from the poverty­strick­ poverty and view improved en farmers, Bao added. schooling as the way to accom­ Guizhou has been making pains­ plish this. taking efforts to improve educa­ The province has given 1.69 mil­ tion for children in rural and Performers play the roles of Chinese and Irish workers on Friday during a historical reenactment on the 150th anniversary of the completion of lion registered poor students sti­ mountainous regions because the the Transcontinental Railroad at Golden Spike National Historical Park in Promontory, Utah, in the United States. TERRAY SYLVESTER / REUTERS pends worth a total of 5.3 billion government believes schooling is See story, page 3 yuan ($777 million) since 2015, the best way to empower the according to Guizhou’s Education youngsters, who are seen as the Department. hope of their families for getting While working out its strategy to out of poverty. impart knowledge to rural chil­ The mountainous province is WORLD WATCH dren, Guizhou has also taken into one of the poorest regions in Chi­ By Chen Weihua consideration that many kids na. In 2018, it still had more than China’s call for balance come to school hungry. 1.55 million people living below According to Bao Benqi of the the poverty line of disposable provincial Education Depart­ annual income of 8,495 yuan. ment, the Guizhou government One of Guizhou’s approaches to US studies has set the goal that “each of the lifting impoverished people out of in trade deal ‘rational’ primary and secondary schools in a bare­bones existence is to build the rural areas should have a can­ settlements in urban areas for the say BRI not teen so that lunch can be served to relocation of those who live in Analysts say cooperation is crucial for Sino­US consultations every student”. mountainous areas considered The meal is believed to help stu­ uninhabitable. By JING SHUIYU in Beijing and tices has rattled global choice for the two coun­ a debt trap dents improve their performance The province has relocated 1.32 ZHAO HUANXIN in Washington markets for months. Nego­ tries, said Wei, a former at school. Many students in the million people since 2016, and tiators held an 11th round vice­minister of commerce. poverty­stricken areas had been those living in poverty who China’s insisting on protecting of talks in Washington on The analysts’ comments Two studies released in the past coming to class with an empty remain — 560,000 people — will its core interests during trade con­ Thursday and Friday. came as US Trade Repre­ weeks should put to rest the blind stomach, since they did not have be moved to new homes this year, sultations with the United States is Before heading back to sentative Robert Lighthiz­ accusation that China’s infrastruc­ food at home. according to Sun Zhigang, secre­ a rational choice in accordance Beijing, Liu said that over­ er announced on Friday ture financing under the Belt and “More than 3.8 million primary tary of the Guizhou Provincial with international practice, all, the two sides are meet­ Vice- evening that he was pre­ Road Initiative has sucked develop­ and secondary school students experts said. ing each other halfway in Premier paring to impose addition­ ing nations into a debt trap. and 860,000 preschool kids are See Xxxxx, page 3 Vice­Premier Liu He said in the draft text, but there Liu He al tariffs on an additional Without providing any evidence, Washington on Friday that what needs to be discussion on $300 billion worth of Chi­ senior US officials, such as Vice­ China wants is a fair and dignified some key issues. nese imports. President Mike Pence, Secretary of trade agreement. And while key “We believe that these things are Following the latest US tariff State Mike Pompeo and National disparities remain, a deal must major issues of principle. So every move, the Ministry of Commerce Security Advisor John Bolton, made address the country’s core con­ country has important principles, vowed to take necessary counter­ such allegations last year. cerns, such as lifting all additional and we absolutely cannot make measures. Deborah Brautigam, a leading tariffs, establishing realistic pro­ concessions on such issues,” the Gao Lingyun, a research fellow authority on China­Africa relations curement expectations and ensur­ vice­premier said. However, Liu at the Institute of World Econom­ at Johns Hopkins University’s ing that the text in any deal is added that he hoped both sides ics and Politics of the Chinese School of Advanced International “balanced”, he said. would exhibit flexibility in the Academy of Social Sciences, sug­ Studies in Washington, dismissed Dong Yan, director of the inter­ talks. gested that China work out com­ such accusations in an opinion national trade office at the Institute Washington’s latest levies target­ prehensive countermeasures that piece in The New York Times on of World Economics and Politics of ing Chinese imports came into can respond to the US precisely April 26. the Chinese Academy of Social Sci­ force on Friday. and efficiently. In the column, which ran under ences, said China’s opposition to Wei Jianguo, vice­president of Vice­Premier Liu said that the headline “Is China the World’s the new US tariffs and its quest for the China Center for International despite the pressure, he was opti­ Loan Shark?”, Brautigam said stud­ a “balanced trade pact” have a Economic Exchanges, said, “Twists mistic about China’s economy in ies “found scant evidence of a pat­ rational basis. and turns in trade consultations the longer term, adding that it had tern indicating that Chinese banks What China has been insisting are not uncommon and should not entered an up cycle after bottom­ ... are deliberately overlending or upon is “the rational choices any be exaggerated.” ing out somewhat in 2018. funding loss­making projects to country has when facing unreason­ Wei said the negotiations haven’t secure strategic advantages for Chi­ able requests in trade rules”, Dong broken down, since the two sides, Ren Xiaojin and Liu Zhihua in na”. said at a seminar on Sunday in Bei­ according to the vice­premier, had Beijing contributed to this story. The Hambantota Port project in Students participate in a physical education class in Huichuan jing, citing similar cases in history. agreed to continue their talks in Sri Lanka is often cited by critics, Primary School in the city of Zunyi, Guizhou province, on April 17. The tug­of­war between China Beijing. Despite the current head­ Contact the writers at but “that’s a special case, and it is LI HANYI / CHINA DAILY and the US over certain trade prac­ winds, cooperation is the best [email protected] widely misunderstood,” she wrote. Brautigam’s opinion piece was based on studies conducted by her China­Africa Research Initiative at As Jakarta sinks, Indonesia revives plans to relocate capital the SAIS, which included informa­ tion on more than 1,000 Chinese loans in Africa between 2000 and By KARL WILSON in Sydney where it is in Jakarta; move it to an 260,000 people that is relatively sia’s identity is a modern, interna­ relocation.” 2017, totaling more than $143 bil­ [email protected] area within a 50­ to 70­kilometer free from natural disasters and tional­class city, or a smart, green “It is also free from potential lion, as well as a study by Boston radius of the city; or move the capi­ located near the center of the archi­ and beautiful city,” the minister earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, University’s Global Development Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, tal off the island of Java altogether. pelago. said. floods, erosion and forest fires. It Policy Center, which has identified has another problem in addition to Building a new capital could take Planning Minister Bambang told Yayat Supriyatna, an urban plan­ has abundant water resources and and tracked more than $140 billion its traffic and pollution: The city of between five and 10 years and cost a news briefing after the Cabinet ner at Trisakti University in Jakar­ is free of air pollution.” in Chinese loans to Latin America 10 million is sinking. as much as $33 billion, The Jakarta meeting on April 29 that the new ta, told China Daily that Widodo is Heri Andreas, a lecturer on the and the Caribbean since 2005.
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