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EDUCATION TRADE Hong Kong boosted for business

By LI NA in Toronto [email protected]

The largest-ever Hong Kong pro- motion in Canada wrapped up on Tuesday in Toronto. More than 1,500 business people from across Can- ada took part in the event known as “Think Asia, Think Hong Kong”, which was organized by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) in Toronto. “We’re here because we believe that our strong and longstand- ing connections in business and culture offer the promise of a far more rewarding future for our two C.Y. Leung, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region economies and the companies that of China, delivers the keynote speech at the opening of the “Think Asia, drive them,” said C.Y. Leung, chief Think Hong Kong” symposium held on Monday in Toronto. LI NA / CHINA DAILY executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, at the open- ing symposium. of diff erent cultures and business growth in the Asia-Pacifi c region.” Leung was leading a delegation practices from East and West.” “Think Asia, think Hong Kong,” Minister Sarah Taylor at the Canadian Embassy met Canadian studies experts at the 16th Biennial Conference of the of more than 100 high-profi le busi- Lo highlighted the developments Fast added. “When you think North Association for Canadian Studies held last Month in Shanghai. WANG RU / CHINA DAILY ness leaders and government offi - in Asia, namely the “One Belt, One America, think Canada.” cials, including 27 from the Chinese Road” initiative in China and the “We are pleased to conclude this mainland. huge population of consumers in the arrangement with Canada,” said According to Leung, about 10 ASEAN nations. Fong. “Based on an already robust 300,000 Canadian passport holders “The Chinese mainland is com- trade relationship between Canada live and work in Hong Kong. The mitted to market-driven growth, and Hong Kong, this arrangement Canadian Chamber of Commerce in and no-one knows the mainland further promotes business opportu- Canadian Studies in Hong Kong is the largest Canadian markets better than we do in Hong nities in fi nancial services, logistics, business organization outside of Kong,” Lo said. food, technology and intellectual Canada, and among the largest and During the gathering, Ed Fast, property.” most active international chambers Canada’s minister of international Fong also encouraged Canadian in Hong Kong and the entire Asia- trade, and Margaret Fong, executive companies from all sectors to take Pacifi c region. director of the HKTDC, signed an full advantage of the business-match- China get diversifi ed “I’m also pleased to note that Can- arrangement on mutual cooperation ing activities and major international ada’s investment in Hong Kong is to facilitate collaboration in promo- trade fairs and exhibitions organized By WANG RU in Beijing There are 1.5 million Chinese immi- substantial, totaling CAD $5.1 billion tion of commercial activities in areas by the HKTDC to connect with new [email protected] grants in Canada. The two countries at the end of 2013,” Leung added. of mutual interest. partners in Hong Kong and to access have granted each other 10-year visas. “We are working diligently to “Canada and Hong Kong have a the fast-growing markets on the Chi- The 16th Biennial Conference of Canada and China designated help companies from Canada, Hong long-standing partnership, strength- nese mainland and across Asia. the Association for Canadian Studies 2015-2016 as the Year of People-to- Kong and the Chinese mainland to ened by our people-to-people ties,” Sector-specific sessions at the in China was held at Shanghai Inter- ... Canadian studies in People and Cultural Exchanges in explore business opportunities using said Fast. “Hong Kong is an impor- event featured almost 30 expert national Studies University. China are increasingly November 2014, during Canadian the Hong Kong platform,” said Vin- tant hub for Canadian exports of speakers sharing their insights on About 98 scholars and experts in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s for- cent Lo, chairman-designate of the goods and services to Asia, and this such topics as selling to China and Canadian studies from 51 diff erent uni- looking to strategic mal visit to China. HKTDC. “Hong Kong has a long trade promotion arrangement will throughout Asia, Chinese outward versities, colleges, and research insti- Minister Sarah Taylor at Canadian tradition of international trade, help our companies work togeth- investment, Hong Kong as a gate- tutes as well as some business sectors relationships between Embassy in Beijing attended the con- combined with the understanding er to take advantage of the rapid way and RMB internationalization. nationwide attended the conference. ference and praised of the association The submitted conference papers Canada and China...” in its contribution to the Canadian covered the subjects associated with Studies programs in China. Canada including education, wel- Qian Hao, director of the Center Taylor gave her special thanks to BUSINESS fare, aboriginal people, the Quebec for Canadian Studies at Shanghai the scholars and experts for their issue, English/French literature, International Studies University excellent job in promoting the under- the Arctic issue, ecological protec- standing between Chinese and Cana- Canadian company inks $10 million deal tion, economy and trade, judicial dian peoples. system, Canadian multiculturalism “Besides the traditional fi elds such The minister claimed that Cana- and bilingualism, Canadian early as culture and history, the Canadian dian government will always be in to power clean-energy buses in China history and urbanization. studies in China are increasingly support of Canadian studies in China Confucius Institutes in Canada, looking to strategic relationships and hopes to get more Canadian stu- China-Canada relations, Canada-US between Canada and China, includ- dents to China to improve people to By WANG RU in Beijing fuel cells are increasingly being government subsidies to facilitate relations, Canadian foreign aid and ing anti-terrorism, extradition of fugi- people diplomacy. discussed as the next generation this expansion. investment. All these subjects fall into tives and the Arctic issues where the Fifteen young scholars have been Ballard Power Systems Inc, a fuel of clean propulsion. This demand The Canadian hydrogen and fuel four categories and were discussed two countries are working closer,” bestowed the title “Winner of Excel- cell producer from Canada, signed is being driven by China’s growing cell sector enjoys strong domes- during nine panels. Scholars and said Qian Hao, director of the Center lent Thesis” in Canadian studies fi eld supply agreements on Monday with need for clean urban mass transit tic and international recognition experts explored their research by for Canadian Studies at Shanghai at both PhD and MA levels. two Chinese companies to provide and air quality policies.” for producing cutting-edge, clean applying social science, natural sci- International Studies University. The conference was first held at fuel cell power products and tech- Ma Jinhua, Member of Rugao energy solutions that have profound ence, humanity as well as anthropol- China has become Canada’s second Sichuan International Studies Uni- nology solutions to support the Municipal Standing Committee of eff ects on energy use across a variety ogy approaches. largest trading partner after the US. versity in 1984. planned deployment of an initial CPC said, “It is important that we of industry sectors – passenger vehi- 33 fuel cell-powered buses in two deal with experienced, market-lead- cles and buses, stationary and back- Chinese cities. ing companies in order to ensure up power, and materials handling. The deal has an estimated value successful delivery with the most Clean energy policy-makers and ARTS In the news of $10 million. advanced technology. This is one experts from Canada and China, Ballard will collaborate with the reason that Ballard Power Systems as well as industry representatives, two Chinese companies, Nantong is the right choice for a program of joined a conversation during the sign- Keeping artistic traditions CHINA Zehe New Energy Technology Co Ltd, such importance.” ing ceremony, exchanging their ideas Solemn chore and Guangdong Synergy Hydrogen The size and rapid growth of Chi- based on the cooperation of clean Power Technology Co Ltd, to provide na’s economy has resulted in consider- technology between the two countries. By MAYA LIU in Vancouver landscape paintings, still lifes and More than 100 morticians have fuel cells to electric buses manufac- ably larger carbon dioxide emissions Former Counselor of the State For China Daily oils. The calligraphy explores various gathered in Jianli county to prepare tures in Rugao in Jiangsu province than other nations. In 2013, for exam- Council and Secretary-General of artistic styles, including oracle-bone victims of the Eastern Star ship and Yunfu in Guangdong province. ple, China’s carbon dioxide emissions Ministry of Science & Technology of The opening ceremony of the week- script, clerical, regular, running and disaster for cremation or burial. The municipal governments in from fossil fuels accounted for 29 per- China, Shi Dinghuan, now president long Harmony: Chinese Painting and cursive scripts. > p3 the cities of Yunfu and Rugao plan cent of the global total, compared to 15 of Chinese Renewable Energy Soci- Calligraphy Exhibition was held at The Harmony exhibition is pre- to have fuel cell bus fl eets operating percent from the United States. ety, hosted the conversation. Vancouver’s Chinese Cultural Centre sented by the Richmond Chinese Cal- HONG KONG in revenue service in 2016. As a result of air quality issues, a Dai Yande, deputy director of the Museum on June 6. ligraphy & Painting Club, a resident Not ready yet The agreement was signed at a new energy program was launched Energy Research Institute of the Nearly 100 guests, including some art group founded in 1979. ceremony held on Monday at the in 2011, involving 48 Chinese cities National Development and Reform famous names in local circles of Chi- The club has nurtured a younger Crowdfunding platforms may be all Canadian Embassy in Beijing and with an objective of expanding pub- Commission, joined in the conversa- nese brush painting and calligraphy, generation. “The club is now collab- the rage in the West but Hong Kong attended by Guy Saint-Jacques, Can- lic transit while also reducing the tion, stating that China must keep attended. Harry Yu, president of the orating with the Richmond Public has yet to off er local hopefuls an ada’s ambassador to China. number of vehicles in cities. its eye on energy effi ciency and sup- Richmond Chinese Calligraphy and Library to hold regular Chinese cal- attractive option. > p6 Randy MacEwen, Ballard presi- One of the program’s specifi c goals port the development of renewable Painting Club, and William Chen, for- ligraphy and painting classes for the dent and CEO, said “We continue to is to deploy more than 1,000 clean technology. mer president and a current commit- residents,” Harry Yu told China Daily. BUSINESS see strong growth opportunities in energy buses in each of the partici- Céline Bak, the Global Practice tee member of the club were among “Young children are able to learn Goal paring China’s mass transit market where pating cities, taking advantage of Lead and chair of the Sustainable some of the established Chinese- about cultures quickly, and the pro- Technology Private Sector Advisory Canadian artists who brought their cess of cultural transmission is indeed The People’s Bank of China has Board for Canada’s Department of masterpieces to the exhibition. benefi cial for them — once they start lowered its full-year GDP growth Foreign Aff airs, Trade and Develop- Some of Vancouver’s prominent to learn painting and calligraphy, they forecast to 7 percent from 7.1 per- ment, outlined Canada’s progress and political and cultural figures, such will eventually read more about Chi- cent. > p18 challenges on sustainable energy. as Burnaby North MLA Richard Lee nese traditional culture too,” Yu said. “As China is the largest and still and renowned sinologist Jan Walls, “A lot of the young Chinese Canadi- growing energy market in Asia, it were also at the occasion to support ans who grew up here may know little has placed a priority on clean ener- traditional Chinese fi ne arts. about Chinese traditional arts, and I gy to support its ongoing eff orts to A total of 66 artworks contributed believe this exhibition can serve as a grow, diversify its energy mix, and by more than 40 artists were put great opportunity for them to learn help address environmental and on display at the exhibition, rang- about their cultural roots and tradi- Randy MacEwen, Ballard president and CEO, signs supply agreements with climate change impacts,” said Saint- ing from Chinese calligraphy, ink tions,” William Chen said. Chinese companies on Monday in Beijing. WANG RU / CHINA DAILY Jacques, the Canadian ambassador. Friday, June 12, 2015 CHINA DAILY CANADA

2 ACROSS AMERICAS

E-COMMERCE TRADE China and US take fresh views on TPP and AIIB By CHEN WEIHUA Zhang standards, Zhang said China in Washington Jianping, is making a lot of efforts to [email protected] director promote and create a regional at NDRC trade network. China is adopting a more Institute for China is now the world’s welcoming attitude for the International largest exporter, the second- Trans-Pacific Partnership Economic largest economy and a global (TPP), a US-led free-trade Research manufacturing hub. Just in agreement now being negoti- the past few months, China ated by 12 countries. The Obama administration concluded free-trade agree- Zhang Jianping, director hopes to make TPP his major ments respectively with Aus- Jack Ma, Alibaba chairman and founder, gives remarks at the Waldorf Astoria in New York on Tuesday before members of The Economic of the department of interna- presidential legacy. tralia and South Korea. Club of New York. Ma spoke of the importance of taking Alibaba’s business global. AMY HE / CHINA DAILY tional economic cooperation While saying that TPP Zhang indicated that China at the Institute for Interna- might be a possible approach also has been discussing free- tional Economic Research of to the Free Trade Area of the trade agreements with coun- the National Development Asia Pacifi c (FTAAP), Zhang tries such as Sri Lanka, Israel and Reform Commission, said noted that countries such as and those former Soviet repub- China’s attitude is clear. China and Indonesia may not lics, largely under China’s Road Jack Ma speaks in New York “That is we are very happy feel so comfortable with TPP. and Belt Initiative, originally to see those TPP members can TPP’s high standards and known as One Road and One By AMY HE in New York complementary to the main anywhere, easily,” he said. make consensus, because we strict regulations to some Belt for economic integration. [email protected] business. But in China, it’s the $1 trillion The company wants to pro- think TPP will be a possible extent may surpass the devel- He said China is facing a main course.” vide customers 72-hour ship- approach for promoting Asia- opment stage for some devel- critical period of economic Alibaba’s Jack Ma said that Ma made his remarks about worth of goods Alibaba aims to ping for those purchasing from Pacifi c economic integration,” oping economies in the region, transition after demographic the future of the e-commerce the company’s future before an sell within the next fi ve years. outside of China and 24-hour Zhang said at a seminar on according to Zhang. dividends end fi ve or 10 years giant is to go global, opening audience of about 1,000 mem- delivery for those within the Tuesday at the Center for Stra- “That’s why now we are mak- from now, adding that the up its platform to enable more bers of The Economic Club of company, luring them towards country. tegic and International Stud- ing efforts to promote RCEP new driving force will come US small businesses to sell New York at the Waldorf Astoria China’s middle class, which China, he said, has been ies (CSIS) in Washington. (Regional Comprehensive Eco- through innovation, reform directly to China’s middle-class New York. He was introduced today is almost as big as Amer- focused on exporting for the His words came at a time nomic Partnership),” he said, and opening up. consumers. by William Dudley, chairman of ica’s entire population, and in last 20 years, but should now when the Obama administra- adding that developing econo- He praised some European The company’s chairman The Economic Club and presi- a decade will grow to half a focus on importing and mak- tion is trying to pressure the mies may prefer the RCEP track. nations for making a smart and founder said that Alibaba’s dent and CEO of the Federal billion people. ing more purchases. House of Representatives to Zhang believes the third choice to join the Asia Infra- goal is “not only to sell more Reserve Bank of New York. “The demand for good prod- “China should learn to buy. pass the fast-track Trade Pro- possible track to FTAAP will structure Investment Bank things”, but to globalize the Ma, who founded his com- ucts, good service, is so power- Chinese should spend mon- motion Authority (TPA) need- be for TPP and RCEP to work (AIIB). He said that given infrastructure of e-commerce. pany in 1999 out of his apart- ful, so strong,” he said, adding ey. China should buy a lot of ed to negotiate TPP and other together into a new template. that China is a member of the “Why did Internet e-com- ment in Hangzhou, said that that only 2 percent of Alibaba’s things,” he said. free-trade agreements. China actively promoted a World Bank and the Asian merce grow so much faster in Alibaba is on target to sell $1 business is conducted outside According to company fi g- The bill cleared the Senate roadmap for the FTAAP when Development Bank, he hoped China than in the USA?” he trillion worth of goods within of China and he hopes it will ures, cross-border transactions on May 21, but in the House, it hosted the APEC summit in the future that Japan and the said on Tuesday. “Because the the next five years. Alibaba’s grow to 40 percent. by Chinese online shoppers Obama still is lobbying his last November. US can be members of AIIB. infrastructure of commerce in gross merchandise volume for Ma said that Alibaba can grew 10-fold between 2010 and own Democratic Party’s Con- Matthew Goodman, senior The US has widely been seen China was bad. Unlike here, the year through March 2015 help another 10 million busi- 2014, from $2 billion to $20 bil- gress members. adviser for Asian economics as trying to block the AIIB by where you have all the (physi- was about $393 billion, an nesses through its e-commerce lion. There are about 331 mil- The US and Japan are still at CSIS, said there are some lobbying its key allies not to cal) shops: Wal-Mart, K-Mart, increase of 46 percent over the platform. “We will empower lion Chinese online shoppers haggling over the opening of narrow questions, such as how join the China-initiated bank. everything, everywhere. But previous year. them, give them the traffic, in China, and e-commerce is the auto and agricultural mar- to get the Republic of Korea, But Kurt Tong, principal deputy in China, we have nothing, He emphasized that small give them the payment sys- expected to account for more kets under TPP, while Malaysia the Philippines and others to assistant secretary of the Bureau nowhere. So e-commerce in businesses in the US were tem, give them the logistics, than 20 percent of Chinese and Vietnam face some major express interest in TPP. of Economic and Business the US is just a dessert; it’s the path to growth for the so that they can do business consumption by decade’s end. hurdles in the negotiations. “The big question is how do Aff airs at the US State Depart- Kathy Santillo, regional we get China and Indonesia on ment, disagreed on Tuesday. managing director of the US- board?” he said. “How do we “The United States is excit- ASEAN Business Council, said move from that to an FTAAP?” ed about this prospect,” he REPORT on Tuesday that there is no Admitting that China needs said. “We are not angry; we crystal ball as to whether the to reform and open up fur- are not mad, churlish or surly Study off ers new window on China TPP can meet the deadline. ther to meet the TPP’s high about it.” By HUA SHENGDUN report, focusing primarily on Dan Wright, former executive concern for “quality of growth”. TRAVEL in Washington reform in finance and trade,” director for US-China Strategic “It is now something on every said Nicholas Lardy, senior fel- Economic Dialogue at the US leader’s mind,” she said. The International Finance low at the Peterson Institute of Treasury. Wang also found through Forum (IFF) launched a new International Economics. Wright said the report had a writing the report that China’s report that contains insights from Though the report has con- sense of directness to it, which proposal for the Asian Infra- 20 of China’s top policy-makers straints, “it does a good job bring- is very useful for people outside structure Investment Bank on Tuesday in Washington. ing us up to date on the plans China in understanding the (AIIB) shows its commitment The report unveils the and expectations of the reform country’s leaders. to a “new multilateralism”, and mindsets of Chinese leaders architects in China,” Lardy said. Two of the lead authors of the that the international com- as China’s economy faces new One signifi cant feature of this report, Geng Xiao, director of munity should welcome this challenges. report is that many top Chinese the IFF Institute and vice-pres- institution. The IFF China Report 2015, leaders were quoted. These lead- ident for China of Fung Global Another fi nding of the report published by IFF in coopera- ers include Commerce Minister Institute, and Yan Wang, deputy is that exports are no longer a tion with London-based Cen- Gao Hucheng, Finance Minister director of the IFF Institute and driver of GDP growth in Chi- tral Banking, was released Lou Jiwei, Deputy Finance Min- former senior economist at the na, which Wang believes has at Johns Hopkins School of ister Zhu Guangyao, People’s World Bank, attended the event profound implications for the Javiera Montes (center), under-secretary for tourism of Chile, meets with Panso Ho (left), Advanced International Stud- Bank of China Governor Zhou to explain its highlights. structural reform of China’s founder of the Global Tourism Economy Research Center, in Santiago, Chile to discuss eff orts to ies. IFF is a nonprofi t indepen- Xiaochuan, and many more. Wang said one significant growth model. attract Chinese tourists. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY dent international think tank “I was really struck as I change they found is that com- based in Beijing. was reading it how acces- pared to 35 years ago, Chinese Liu Jingyang in Washington “This is an extremely useful sible the information is,” said policy makers now have more contributed to this story. Chile wants Chinese tourists

INVESTMENT By ANDREA DENG beyond just shopping and executive director of Dorsett in Santiago, Chile sightseeing. Hospitality International, who [email protected] “These kinds of experi- added that Chinese tourists are Aoxing gets OK to make narcotic pain reliever ences are exactly what the “high yield customers”. Chile may become a tourism wealthy and more demand- “Chinese outbound tour- destination for wealthy Chinese ing Chinese tourists are look- ists spend more than $200 By NIU YUE in New York capita narcotic consumption treatment for patients suff er- visitors if bilateral industry ties ing for,” Liu said. per day per person and they 30 percent in China was less than 1% of ing from pain while strictly can be further developed, diplo- Liu shared his analysis with already exceeded what Ger- Five years after listing its increase in demand for narcotic that in North America, because prohibiting the abuse of con- mats and tourism offi cials said. a 30-member delegation cur- man tourists spend,” Chiu said shares on the New York Stock medicines in China annually Chinese people hadn’t real- trolled substances has been Chile is one of the furthest rently visiting Pacifi c Alliance during the delegates’ meeting Exchange, Aoxing Pharmaceu- ized that relieving pain could introduced recently. countries away from China and countries on June 5. The del- with Chile’s Foreign Invest- tical Co Inc visited the NYSE improve both their physi- With an increase in reim- the round-trip air fare would egates, led by the Global Tour- ment Committee. again, its CEO announcing that In a statement on Monday, cal and mental health, and bursement from the new medi- remain as high as $3,000 no ism Economy Research Centre “While Europeans typical- it had been granted a license to Yue said that “this approval research and production are cal insurance and the new matter which fl ight route Chi- (GTERC), are Chinese business ly spend roughly 50 percent produce a narcotic pain reliev- is the culmination of 12 years forbidden without approval. Rural Medical Cooperative nese tourists take, said Liu leaders from a wide range of of their traveling expenses er in China. of research, development Aoxing, established in Shi- System, as well as the signifi - Rutao, economic and com- industries, mainly tourism. on lodging, Chinese tourists Aoxing announced on Mon- and regulatory activities. Our jiazhuang in 2000, acquired cant improvement of people’s merce adviser with China’s Since the economic down- spend 12 percent on lodging. day that it had received approv- entry into the market will be permission in 2002 to enter living standards, “the demand Embassy in Chile. That auto- turn of 2008, a lot of real estate That means Chinese tourists al from the China Food and a signifi cant breakthrough in the narcotics market in China. for narcotic medicines in Chi- matically sets a high bar for the enterprises in China needed to not only contribute to hotel Drug Administration (CFDA) China’s fi ght to treat pain. Our Other Aoxing drugs, like an na will be increasing over 30 fi nancial status of the people diversify their portfolios and occupancy but also to the retail to make tilidine hydrochloride Tilidine HCL tablets offer a oxycodone tablet and naloxone percent yearly”, Yue said. who could aff ord the trip. expand into other industries. and entertainment sectors.” tablets. convenient medium for deliv- sublingual tablet have already Aoxing has 137 products, Liu also noted that the Tourism became a sound busi- Martin Pathan, the com- “This is a significant mile- ery of this drug.” completed clinical trials, and many of them best-selling unique characteristics of ness choice for many of them, mittee’s investment attraction stone achievement in the busi- He said that a report pub- the company expects them to pain-relievers. Chile’s extremely diversified said Wang Ping, chairwoman of officer, said Chile wants to ness development of Aoxing lished by the World Health be licensed in China in the next Shares of Aoxing, which natural landscape — thanks, the China Chamber of Tourism attract investors in construct- Pharma,” CEO Yue Zhenjiang Organization in 1985 made year or two. trades under the symbol AXN, in part, to the country’s distinc- and a member of the delegation. ing adequate hotels in some of said at the NYSE on Tuesday. him realize the great poten- Yue said that the current closed at $2.67, down 11 cents, tive geographic span of a wide Some hotel conglomerates the unique natural landscapes “Tilidine is less addictive and tial of the pain-relief market government has raised pain- in NYSE trading on Tuesday. range of latitudes — makes in China are already benefi ting of the country. works well on reliving pain. in China. management treatment to Chile a desirable destination tremendously from the growing Last year Chile received What’s more, it’s the fi rst time According to a 2000 WHO the level of a human right. A Hong Xiao in New York for people looking for adven- tourism economy, according 12,000 Chinese tourists among it’s being produced in China.” survey, the amount of per new policy on guaranteeing contributed to this story. ture and exploring nature, to Winnie Chiu, president and a total of 3.7 million visitors. 3 CHINA Friday, June 12, 2015

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Briefly EASTERN STAR DISASTER

BEIJING Navy conducts drill in the Pacific 60-member Chinese naval aircraft joined a naval fleet for a military drill in the western Pacific Ocean east of the Bashi Channel on Wednes- team to look day, a military spokesman for the People’s Liberation Army’s navy said. The ships and aircraft carried out sev- eral exercises that imitated combat conditions in into disaster waters south of Taiwan, spokesman Liang Yang said. He stressed the drill was a routine exercise scheduled State Administration of Work Safety as part of the navy’s annual training plans. chief leads investigation into capsizing

Drug-user falls By CHINA DAILY to his death 323 items The State Council, China’s A 32-year-old man fell to Cabinet, has assembled a that belonged to passengers on his death from a residential 60-member team to investi- the Eastern Star can be claimed building in Chaoyang dis- gate last week’s cruise ship at the funeral home in Jianli, trict after using drugs, capsizing to find the cause of Hubei province. police reported on Wednes- the country’s worst maritime day. Police who received a disaster in seven decades. tip about drug use knocked More than 200 documents sinking is very complicated on the man’s apartment with more than 500,000 and has to be determined after door on Tuesday. The man, Morticians bow to containers holding the bodies of victims who died in the Eastern Star cruise accident at a funeral parlor in Jianli characters have been created scientific identification and surnamed Bian, was an county, Hubei province, on Tuesday. CHEN ZHUO / FOR CHINA DAILY based on interviews with necessary simulating experi- anchor for China Central surviving crew members, ments,” the administration Television, according to witnesses, those who said in a statement. media reports. A blood test designed and modified the Xinhua News Agency said detected the stimulants Morticians volunteer for somber task ship, travel agencies and that 323 items that belonged Benzedrine and methylam- local transportation and to passengers — including phetamine in his system, maritime authorities. jewelry, purses, toys and suit- police said. By ZHANG YI in Beijing and soul into every procedure in The team, led by the head of cases — can be claimed at the LIU KUN in Wuhan their work.” I felt truly sorry for the the State Administration of funeral home in Jianli, Hubei CHINA DAILY USA The cruise ship with 456 Work Safety, includes senior province. Staff members have More than 100 morticians people aboard capsized in victims, and most of them officials from the ministries of labeled all the items based on NEW YORK HEADQUARTERS have gathered in Jianli coun- stormy weather on the Yang- transport, industry and infor- information from tickets and 1500 Broadway, Suite 2800, ty, Hubei province, to com- tze River on June 1 in the were elderly people who are supposed mation technology, public identity cards. New York, NY 10036 plete the somber task of country’s worst shipping dis- security, civil affairs and water The China Insurance Regu- Telephone: 212-537-8888 preparing the bodies of the aster in 70 years. Only 14 peo- to have had a nice trip.” resources. It also includes sen- latory Commission has also Fax: 212-537-8898 434 Eastern Star victims for ple survived and eight remain ior officials from the China started claim settlement [email protected] cremation or return to their missing. 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Additional information is who has 30 years of experi- help, said she and four other ple who are supposed to have had been identified as of that video footage and other million yuan, while the poli- on fi le with the Department of ence. colleagues were extremely had a nice trip,” Chen said. Tuesday morning. evidence has been collected cies of 396 passengers will pay Justice, Washington, DC. “I exhorted every co-work- saddened when they cleaned “It’s hot in Jianli, and the from the ship, and that weath- out 61.69 million yuan. er to move and clean the bod- the body of a 3-year-old girl, job is not easy,” she added. Contact the writers through er radar and other data are The remainder will go to WASHINGTON National Press Bldg, Suite 1108 ies with extra care. I asked all the youngest victim of the “We usually started work at 5 zhang_yi@ being analyzed. crew members or their fami- 529 14th Street NW of them to put their heart and disaster. am and worked until 10 pm. 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CROSS-STRAITS

CHINA DAILY (ISSN 0748- 6154) is published daily except Taiwan election candidate’s comments made on US trip rebuked weekends by China Daily USA, By HE NA 1500 Broadway, Suite 2800, to the US on Tuesday, during Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for a secessionist stance. The In 1992, the mainland’s Hong Lei, spokesman for [email protected] which the DPP candidate for for the State Council Taiwan Chinese mainland is firmly Association for Relations the ministry, said, “We hope New York, NY 10036. Periodical Taiwan’s 2016 leadership elec- Affairs Office, said: “The DPP opposed to ‘Taiwan independ- Across the Taiwan Straits and that the US will abide by the postage paid at New York, NY A senior official from the tions met with US govern- chief has talked a lot on the ence’ activities in any form by Taiwan’s Straits Exchange one-China policy and the and additional mailing offi ces. State Council Taiwan Affairs ment officials, lawmakers and cross-Straits relationship dur- any person on international Foundation reached a com- three joint communiques POSTMASTER: Send address Office reiterated its opposition scholars. ing her visit to the US, but fail- occasions. mon understanding that both between China and the US, changes to CHINA DAILY USA, to Taiwan independence on In an opinion piece pub- ed to make clear the core “Adherence to the ‘1992 sides of the Taiwan Straits and stay firmly against ‘Tai- 1500 Broadway, Suite 2800, Wednesday. lished in The Wall Street Jour- issue.” Consensus’ between the Chi- adhere to the One-China wan independence’, refrain The response came in the nal on June 2, Tsai wrote that The cross-Straits relation- nese mainland and Taiwan is Principle. from sending any wrong sig- New York, NY 10036. light of comments made “a more consistent and sus- ship is not a nation-to-nation the basis of peaceful develop- At its regular news confer- nals to ‘Taiwan independence’ © 2015 China Daily recently by Tsai Ing-wen, the tainable relationship with relationship, and the DPP All Rights Reserved ment of cross-Straits rela- ence on Friday, the Ministry forces, and make tangible Vol. 34 — No. 10638 chairwoman of Taiwan’s oppo- China will be a core goal of my needs to give a clear answer on tions,” said Ma. “The core lies of Foreign Affairs also reiter- efforts to support the peaceful sition Democratic Progressive administration”, but she the relationship, Ma said. in the recognition from the ated that the Chinese main- development of the cross- Party during her trip to the didn’t refer to the “1992 Con- “Our stance on the DPP is two parties that the Chinese land holds a consistent and Straits relations and the United States. sensus”, Xinhua News Agency consistent and clear,” Ma add- mainland and Taiwan belong clear position on the Taiwan steady growth of China-US A member of Tsai completed a 12-day trip reported. ed. “There is no way forward to one China.” Question. relations.” the Asia News Network 4 ANALYSIS Friday, June 12, 2015 CHINA DAILY CANADA

BUSINESS Uber more than transportation to some

The popular car service is being used in odd ways as it faces investigation in China, Fan feifei reports.

wenty-nine-year-old tation problems.” Momo Zhao of Beijing sat Song Chunmei, 54, a doctor T in a car with a driver she working at the central hospital in did not know. The driver, Yuncheng, Shanxi province, said it who worked for the Uber car service is acceptable that people use Uber network, soon began to proselytize. for social contact purposes. “Girl, do you believe in Jesus?” said “If the customer does have a need the driver. “Do you know Jesus?” to buy a house or to find a new job, Gesturing to a wooden cross hang- and the Uber driver can offer them ing on the rearview mirror, the Uber such opportunities, indeed, why driver told Zhao she had landed in “a not?” gospel car.” That was not what Zhao She added that the activity is on expected when she launched the a voluntary basis, providing much car-calling app moments earlier to convenience and saving time and summon the Audi A4 she now sat in. money for customers. “The driver was like an aunt and However, Uber’s development in more than 60 years old. We chatted China isn’t undisputed. In April and for a while and then she began to May, local authorities investigated ask me these questions. I was very Uber’s Guangzhou and Chengdu surprised.” offices, which were under suspi- Zhao’s experience is but one exam- cion of illegal operations, namely ple of how people are using Uber, organizing private cars that did not a San Francisco-based technology possess the proper operating quali- startup that connects riders with fications to be engaged in business vetted private drivers at a variety of activities. prices. On Jan 8, China’s Ministry of In China, the car service is no lon- Transport announced that every cab- ger exclusively to get would-be pas- hailing app company should abide sengers from one part of town to the by transportation market rules and next. People are using it in all sorts ban private cars from operating on of unconventional ways. Hop into a their platform, even though the min- Uber vehicle and a rider may hear istry saw a “positive role” for apps a driver push his or her religious that work with licensed operators beliefs or a realtor attempt to sell in serving different transportation them a house. markets. But Uber’s operation was An employer might use Uber not impacted much by the new regu- lations in China. to interview a potential new hire. Uber, a car service developed in San Francisco, is used in all sorts of unconventional ways in China, such as finding a date and buying a house. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY And of course, sex somehow always Uber’s safety issue also has been manages to enter the picture. There of concern and its services have been are riders, for instance, who turn to banned in some other countries. Uber in their quest for sexual part- Company offers three levels of service toattract Chinese customers in tough market India’s telecom ministry on May 16 ners. ordered network service providers Uber customers are using the to block car-calling app companies, service much like China’s smash-hit Uber currently operates in about service that pairs car owners signed a cooperation contract with 100,000 yuan ($16,119) and that including Uber and the domestic flirting app Momo, with its approxi- 300 cities in 57 countries. It entered with passengers. The only money leasing companies. has been used less than five years. Ola Cabs. mately 180 million users. the Chinese market in February exchanged is what the passenger Without discounts, hiring an Uber He or she needs to watch an online Last December, an Indian wom- “Mr Li”, who owns two cars, 2014, and now operates in nine pays the driver to cover the costs of car would cost considerably more instructional video and pass an an accused an Uber driver of rape became an Uber driver several cities on the Chinese mainland: the ride. than a regular taxi, but it is more exam. and then the New Deli government months ago, and prefers to remain Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, In addition to People’s Uber, comfortable. Its prices fluctuate Uber has grown fast in China, decreed that Uber and its local com- anonymous. He is the head of an Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Uber offers other service levels. with demand, especially during the but it has stiff competition. Its petitors were forbidden to do busi- Internet startup in Beijing. At about Tianjin, Shenzhen and Wuhan. UberBlack gets a rider a premium rush hour in the central urban area. two Chinese rivals, Kuaidi Dache ness. 12 pm, he drives to Zhongguancun, In China, Uber offers multiple car, such as the Audi A6, and UberX To become an Uber driver in and Didi Dache, merged into one However, the prohibition were China’s Silicon Valley, to pick up cus- choices for customers. People’s is for medium-level vehicles such China is not difficult. The applicants company that has about a 90 not effectively implemented, and tomers, most of whom are techni- Uber, which was launched last as a Volkswagen Passat. These last need to own a local car license percent share of the market. these companies have continued to cians working overtime. After he October, is a nonprofit ride-sharing two are provided by Uber, which has and a car that costs more than — FAN FEIFEI operate as usual, even launching a picked up six customers, he hired kind of new service, UberAuto, to one of them for his company — as call motorized rickshaws, a popular a technical director — following an vehicle among the middle class in interview in the car. India. He boasts he also picks up beauti- from Urban Express, a Hangzhou- ers to participate in a three-day Uber Finally, the individual who just Yu Shan, who became an Uber Uber’s service has once been ful girls at nightclubs on weekends, based daily, a girl named “oyasumi” driving program to sell properties to made the pitch will be driven home driver in Beijing three weeks ago, warned or halted in the United chatting with them and asking for from Hangzhou, the capital city of people using the car service. free of charge. told China Daily: “Uber has power- Kingdom, South Korea, Spain and their numbers. Zhejiang province, bought a new China is not alone in the uncon- “As a startup, Uber’s rapid expan- ful incentives for drivers compared the Netherlands. Meanwhile in Shanghai, well- house after talking with an Uber ventional use of Uber. In the United sion and huge amount of financing with other car-calling providers. Zhang Rui, an economics pro- heeled women are applying to driver. She said on her WeChat, the States, Uber is used as well for com- excite the nerves of entrepreneurs The driver can be awarded two to fessor and member of the China become Uber drivers in hopes of online messaging application, that mercial, business and social con- and investors endlessly,” said Xu three times the money than he or Marketing Association, said Uber’s meeting their Mr Right. one morning she took a People’s tacts. In Silicon Valley, for instance, Kangming, a transportation expert. she actually earned during peak expansion in China and the whole This function has challenged app Uber to go to work and then learned Uber provides a service that con- “Uber is a typical example of the hours. They can be awarded 7,000 world reflected the contradiction Momo, which allows users to con- the driver was a senior manager of a nects potential investors with ‘sharing economy’, which is boom- yuan ($1,128) at a time after having and conflict between Internet tech- nect with others based on their prox- real estate company. She happened entrepreneurs. When a would-be ing around the world.” finished 70 deals each week.” nology and traditional regulations, imity to each other, the idea being to be looking to buy a house and the businessperson calls a car, a Google Xu added that based on his obser- He added: “I learned that driv- innovation and supervision. As that you can find people who are in driver recommended a house and Ventures representative will be in vation, the reason Uber can generate ers use Uber for different purpos- for Uber, he said the government the same pub, club and party. even gave her a big discount. the car. The driver, who is also the different kinds of services lies in put- es, such as hiring employees and should make changes and focus on Real estate companies have not The report said this matter might potential investor, will allow sev- ting users’ experience first. making friends, but the number is “how to regulate it”. been left behind in the Uber revolu- be linked to Zhejiang-based Green- en minutes for the “passenger” to “Uber doesn’t call itself a car-sum- few. In my view, customers mainly tion. They also make use of Uber to town, a property developer, which make a pitch, and then spend seven moning company, but a technology choose Uber because its service is Contact the writer at sell houses. According to a report arranged for 52 of its senior manag- minutes giving the person feedback. company,” Xu said. less expensive and it solves transpor- [email protected]

INVESTMENT Maryland governor signs investment, education deals in China

By LI JING “Today’s ceremony is just a symbol. export market in 2014, with $714 mil- students and engage in joint research Wang Yunhua, president of Shang- [email protected] But our trip here showed there’s no lion in Maryland goods shipped to projects with faculty members as an hai Tongji Biological Product Co, said relationship that could be possibly the country, according to the Busi- important component of their for- his company invested $3 million in Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s more important to us than our rela- ness and Economic Development eign direct investment. They bring the first phase of project and planned first official visit to China concluded tionship with China,” Hogan said. Department. with them internship and research to add more as it entered the US mar- with an array of education and busi- He added: “We think the potential But the trade relationship with opportunities for the university com- ket via the gateway of Maryland. ness agreements. collaborations and opportunities for China is lopsided, with the export of munity in addition to the econom- When asked about the security Joined by a delegation of Mary- Chinese investors and companies in $3.1 billion to the state last year. Like ic impacts on our great Maryland of the state and the recent unrest in land business executives and higher Maryland and for Maryland com- many states, Maryland is trying to economy.” Baltimore, Wang said he believed the education leaders, Hogan witnessed panies to do business in China are court foreign businesses and invest- Wallace D. Loh, president of the state is very safe for investment as it a ceremony consisting of eight sign- great. Innovation and entrepreneur- Larry Hogan, Maryland Governor ment to help grow its economy. University of Maryland, College Park, is geographically very close to Wash- ings with Chinese companies and ship are what we are really focused Life science and biotechnology are where the incubator is located, said ington, DC. educational institutions on June 2 on. We know we share some of the 1, after his visit to South Korea, the the major draws for Chinese invest- the reason the Chinese companies In addition to the business part- in Beijing. goal of encouraging more innova- first stop of his three-nation tour in ments, given that Maryland is home have to come is that they also hope nerships, the University of Maryland, Among the partnerships, two tion and more entrepreneurship Asia in an effort to deliver the mes- to one of the five largest biotechnolo- to open an office in the US some day Baltimore, signed an agreement with iconic Maryland companies — Mar- with China.” sage that “Maryland is open for busi- gy industry clusters in the world and and the starting point is to establish the Affiliated Hospitals of Qingdao riott International and global design Hogan continued that he met ness” to one of the fastest-growing is the site of the US Food and Drug a small research operation as the first University to explore scholarly and firm RTKL — inked agreements with on June 1 with Vice-Premier Liu economic regions in the world. Administration and National Insti- step. leadership exchange programs and Chinese partners and continued to Yandong and talked about how to Maryland has long maintained a tutes of Health, as well as The Johns “It is not just research with some also work together on a healthcare expand their global reach in the mar- encourage innovation and entrepre- strong presence in China, becoming Hopkins Hospital, a world leader. students and professionals, but also leadership-training program. The ket. Two emerging Chinese compa- neurship and cultivate talents. the first US state in 1996 to open a “We are pleased to welcome two to establish business connections to University of Maryland, College Park, nies — Shanghai Tongji Biological Maryland ranks in the top five trade and investment office in the new Chinese companies to the Mary- the US market,” said Zhao Kuishan, signed academic partnerships with Product Co and Ankang Shimao Bio- among the 50 US states in the US nation — the Maryland China Center. land International Incubator and president of Ankang Shimao Bio- Beijing Municipal Education Com- technology Co — announced plans Chamber of Commerce’s 2014 State Hogan said China is already Mary- help them connect with new oppor- technology Co, which is specialized mission and the Beijing University to set up United States operations in New Economy Index, including No land’s second-largest trading partner tunities in Maryland,” said Hogan. in biotech anti-riot material. The of Technology. Maryland’s International Incubator 1 in the categories of innovation and and, “We’d like to make it No 1 in the Kai Duh, director of the Maryland company invested $1.5 million in the Hogan left China for Japan on at the University of Maryland, Col- entrepreneurship. near future”. International Incubator, said, “These project in Maryland, which is also its June 3, the last stop of his 12-day lege Park. Hogan arrived in Beijing on June China was Maryland’s third-largest two Chinese companies plan to hire first foray into the US. trade mission to Asia. CHINA DAILY CANADA Friday, June 12, 2015

TIBET 5

THE NOMADS’ WAY

Kazakh eagle trainers prepare for a hunting trip with their eagles. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY HUNTING FOXES WITH EAGLES

A commonplace event in the kazakh Otherwise, nomads bait them They perform for free. the raptors if they doze off during with meat and nab them with nets. About 8,000 visitors attended last these rock-a-bye-birdie sessions. communities in Xinjiang Or they find eagles gobbling carrion year. There isn’t much else to Nomads prop up the arms upon and wait until the birds overindulge. Zhaosu’s tourism beyond the festi- which they carry the birds on horse- By ERIK NILSSON in Ili, Xinjiang They tug the hysterical canines Bloated raptors are too sluggish to val — yet. The concept of it as an back with a Y-shaped crutch. [email protected] from the raptors’ clutches to slaugh- escape after excessive gluttony. industry only arrived two years ago. Kills drills come after intimacy is ter them as quickly and mercifully Golden eagles gulp about 2 kilo- “Tourists like larger eagles. But established with the burkitshi. he eagle explodes into the as possible. grams of meat a day. they often aren’t the best hunters,” Wormanbek explains this while fox, talons first, harpooning Eagles eat the meat. Herders wear “Some herdsmen don’t want to Wormanbek says. stroking the cloth fox decoy he sewed T the canine’s back. the hides. raise them because it’s expensive,” “Bigger isn’t better. The grander- to drag behind horses with a noose of There’s the punch of Hasan Wormanbek’s 4-year-old Wormanbek says. seeming birds are often clumsier.” meat dangling from its mouth for impact, wallops of wings, then the grandson’s cap is fashioned from a Meat means money in nomadic But Zhaosu’s tiny tourism indus- eagles to practice plunging on. crackling of the fox’s spine. fox his previous eagle caught. communities, where livestock is the try is far from the main motivator. The irony of his gentle petting of The predator-vs-predator death Ili’s Kazakh nomads don’t eat or primary currency. “Some people in their 80s do it to the teddy-like animal, with button match is over. wear rabbits, since it’s not halal, the ERIK NILSSON / CHINA DAILY The birds molt from May to Sep- stay healthy … It’s a true sport. It’s eyes and a real foxtail (provided by The prey lost. 76-year-old explains. They feed tember and need more nutrition to like going to the gym for me. I’m old his previous eagle), while describing The raptor has delivered its pay- them to the birds. grow thicker and longer feathers in but in great shape.” how the gaming birds kill them, load — two sets of barbed death- Rabbits are faster than foxes. autumn. Most local burkitshi head for the seems lost on him. traps, jeering from its feet that Or wolves. Wormanbek’s current eagle is mountains before sunrise and As he strokes the cuddly creature, clench into the fox’s neck and its Two eagles working together can nearly a year old. The birds live 11 return around 10 to tend to their he describes how an eagle’s blinders tail’s base. The eagle then wrenches slay a wolf, Wormanbek says. The fun isn’t in years on average. livestock. are its detonation device. the canine’s legs to scrunch its back- Wolves are up to six times heavier That said, elderly eagles are typi- Wormanbek says coaching relies “The eagle is constantly on high bone backward into a U-shape. than golden eagles. And they also the killing but in cally set free to live out their last on rewards without punishments. alert without its mask. It’s exhaust- Death from above is part of life on thrash and gnash when clutched. days in the wild. It’s like retirement. “Fear training doesn’t work,” he ing for the bird,” Wormanbek says. the ground in the Ili Kazak autono- “Hunting with eagles is a science,” watching the birds Incompetent predators are laid says. Once it’s off, it immediately scans mous prefecture. says Wormanbek, a burkitshi (Kazakh diving, tackling off early. “You have to be kind to them.” for predators and prey. This is a commonplace event in for a person who hunts with eagles). “Some are born hunters. Others He says birds won’t eat from Before a hunt, nomads whet the the ethnically Kazakh swathes of the “You must follow nature.” and wrestling just steal their prey,” Wormanbek trainers’ hands at first. birds’ appetites with a chunk of Xinjiang autonomous region, where He has raised four birds of prey says. “You must build trust,” he says. meat from which the blood is nomads have hunted with golden since 1976, when his father passed prey.” His yearling hasn’t yet had the Nomads initially skewer meat on washed until it’s white. eagles since time immemorial. the tradition down to him. He has chance to prove itself. sticks and patiently wait until the “It wants blood,” Wormanbek says. Techniques remain essentially since taught his son. Hasan Wormanbek The season for hunting with birds’ hunger overcomes their Catching an animal satiates its unaltered. “Eagles and trainers form bonds,” eagles starts in September, when apprehensions — until their stom- hunting instinct inflamed by the Still, such scenes remind one of Wormanbek says. snow makes tracks conspicuous. achs trump their brains. pallid meat, he says. why many modern fighter jets and “My eagle flies around me when “The fun isn’t in the killing but in It’s a battle for the mind. Wormanbek says training eagles projectiles are named after eagles. I’m herding on the grassland. He watching the birds diving, tackling “Gradually, they’ll feel comforta- in turn physically and mentally These real raptor rockets’ launch- always comes back.” and wrestling prey.” ble eating from your hand,” Wor- trains the burkitshi. pads are horseback nomads’ fore- Owning golden eagles is illegal, but There are more than 100 burkit- manbek says. “Eagles are smart and tough but arms. ethnic Kazakhs are exempt. The hunt- shi in Sarkuobu village. The process takes about a month. also sensitive,” Wormanbek says. The bird-of-prey warheads blast ing tradition has been sustained for “Some of the old-timers have died. “At first you must raise your arm “They’re disappointed if they off herders’ leather gloves, whoosh- all of recorded history and remains But even more youth are taking up about a meter above your head and don’t catch anything. When they ing over snowcaps, honing trajecto- entrenched in their cultural identity. the tradition,” Wormanbek says. it’ll perch on your falconry glove,”he feel like this, you should pet and hug ries like homing missiles, zeroing in They must register each captive It’s a rare example of an ancient said. them and offer soothing words. on one target. bird with the government. custom that’s flourishing, rather than The birds later learn to respond to They don’t like anything gruff.” Yet their precision is often less They don’t breed them. Rather, evaporating, in contemporary times. calls. Wormanbek says he was brusque than surgical. Foxes lash frantic they hunt the eagles they in turn Tourism helps rejuvenate burkit- Eagles also join household din- until he became a burkitshi. jaws at attackers. hunt with. shi, he says, but remains an anemical- ners during the training. “Once I started training eagles, It’s hunter against hunter. Xinjiang’s Kazakh nomads most ly nascent industry in Zhaosu county. “He’s a family member, too,” Wor- they in turn, trained me,” Worman- Then, the horseback herders gal- often take eaglets from nests. Wormanbek joins a team of eagle manbek says. bek says. lop in to not only defend their “sons” “I know every nest on the moun- hunters during the county’s Heav- To train eagles to perch on peo- “They taught me patience and (the eagles) but also to protect the tain,” Wormanbek says. enly Horse International Tourism ple’s arms on horseback, Ili’s Kazakh serenity.” precious pelts from being gashed in That’s how he got his current rap- Festival to display the tradition for burkitshi place them on a swinging the tussles. tor. tourists. rope to learn balance. They awake Cui Jia contributed to this story.

From left: The landscape of Zhaosu grassland and Tianshan Mountain. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Friday, June 12, 2015 CHINA DAILY CANADA

6 HONG KONG

FINANCE Not in with the crowd Crowdfunding platforms may be all the rage in the West but Hong Kong has yet to off erer an an attractive attractive Seeds of success By LUO WEITENG to rejoice at the astound- playing fi eld for local hopefuls. in Hong Kong ing growth, as in compari- [email protected] son to Europe and North America, crowdfunding in LLuouo Weiteng reports. While seed money may Asia still appears to have remain a headache for a long way to go and even here is certainly strength in will certainly embrace many entrepreneurs in industry insiders do not numbers. the exciting projec- Hong Kong, there is no know when it is really As the newest growth driver tion from crowd- dearth of runaway success- going to take off . in the global crowdfunding funding advisory es among the city’s crowd- After looking at a set of industry,T equity crowdfunding volume fi rm Massolution that The big picture is funding community. Asia-based crowdfunding ballooned to $1.1 billion last year — an equity crowdfunding Ambi Labs is a Hong sites, Lee placed Ambi’s bet eye-popping 182 percent jump from may grow at a com- that it is hard for Kong-based startup whose the second time around 2013 and marking a banner year of pound annual rate of local (crowdfunding) flagship product is Ambi on Kickstarter, a globally growth. 114 percent over the Climate, a connected device positioned platform. The But despite the hype, the past few next few years. sites to work, even if that automatically controls general concept of crowd- years have seen Hong Kong newcom- Yet, Hong Kong one’s home air conditioner. funding, he feels, has yet to ers struggle to fi t into the global equity appears ill-equipped they are on the same It secured $115,000 over take shape in Asia, where crowdfunding scene — which embod- to jump on the one-and-a-half months last a supportive community ies a new way for startups to fi nance bandwagon. transparency level year through online funding of likeminded individu- their growth — with the rollout of a “Without a handful as, or even better from 749 backers, in Hong als keen on the idea of handful of platforms. of successful startups, Kong and from abroad. crowdfunding and willing At least four local equity crowdfund- a bunch of professional than, their foreign Julian Lee Shang-hsin, to reach into their pockets ing websites are known to be operat- angel investors with exit co-founder and CEO has yet to be set up. ing amid the burgeoning local crowd- (strategy) experience, counterparts.” of Ambi Labs, thanked That was also the rea- funding scene, but offi cial fi gures are venture capitals with a funders on the popular US- son why Ambi Labs did Kyle Lam Ching-hao, CEO, unavailable. clear vision and track Big Bloom Investment based crowdfunding web- not take local crowdfund- Having struggled to survive and record, and a culture site Kickstarter for helping ing platforms into serious thrive for two to three years, Fund2.Me that encourages and them reach almost five consideration. and Colony88, two of the four headline- praises people who times their target funding Global platforms includ- making local equity crowdfunding sites, choose to explore a goal of $25,000. ing Kickstarter and Indie- ended up having to close down. path on their own, But it had not been gogo certainly cannot have Regular reward-based crowdfund- currently I cannot smooth sailing at fi rst. Lee’s the fi eld all to themselves. ing, the variety made popular by see market opportu- fundraising campaign had Projects without strong global crowdfunding sites Kickstarter nities in the city for a bumpy start as it barely global appeal will very and Indiegogo, has made its mark as equity crowdfunding,” made 34 percent of its tar- likely be shut out on the a fundraising channel for charitable said angel investor geted $40,000 at close on popular global crowdfund- causes, creative projects, and consumer- Kyle Lam Ching-hao, Singapore-based crowd- ing sites. And some global oriented technology products. CEO of Big Bloom funding website Crowdti- platforms like Kickstarter By contrast, equity crowdfunding Investment. vate. But it bounced back have not opened the door offers investors a piece of the com- Lam believes the on its second attempt, this to foreign startups, not- pany and hopefully a return on their local startup ecosys- time on Kickstarter. ed Timothy Yu Yau-him, investment. tem is not mature Hardware startups like founder of online tutoring Appedu (Holding) Ltd, an e-learning enough for equity Ambi Labs require a lot of startup Appedu. platform for students to link up with crowdfunding to upfront investment. Crowd- “Only US passport hold- tutors for one-on-one instant online catch on in the funding therefore is a great ers are eligible to raise classes, was among the fi rst batch of city, where inves- way to pre-sell products funds on Kickstarter, startups in the territory to turn to equity tors are unfamil- while continuing develop- which means we have to crowdfunding for sourcing capital. iar with startups ment and production. bring in a US partner if we However, its campaign to fi nd share- and generally The concept for crowd- want to launch a crowd- holders on Fund2.Me turned out to be conservative, and funding is simple — sup- funding campaign on it,” a failure, with the company only man- would rather put porters chip in to help get a said Yu. aging to raise 10 percent of its targeted money into more cash-starved project off the His startup finally $1.5 million. stable investment like ground, with the promise decided to kick off its stocks and property. of incentives. equity campaign at the Shaky footing Also, compared with But crowdfunding is local equity crowdfund- Appedu founder Timothy Yu Yau- foreign equity crowd- not a cakewalk and young ing site Fund2.Me, which him decided against another attempt funding platforms like fi rms cannot expect that as was somehow in tune with at an equity campaign, choosing the US-based AngelList, long as their projects are the nature of Appedu as a rather to fall back on the traditional what local sites lack are promising, all they need do local-oriented startup. fundraising channel of angel investors. syndicates, or professional is post the details online However, the problem Yu pointed out that equity crowd- investors forming a mini fund US-based and wait for the money to is that when it comes funding, a feasible route to capital with a track record for people platforms such as pour into their accounts, to crowdfunding, what though it may be for other startups, to conduct due diligence. Kickstarter (left) cautioned Lee. spring to people’s minds has proved to be a less than sensible “The big picture is that it is and Indiegogo Lee said their triumph are very often some global choice for software-oriented newcom- hard for local sites to work, even have popularized was hard-won, as they big names, making it quite ers like Appedu. if they are on the same competen- the reward- shelled out $5,000 on the hard for Asia-based sites While selling off company shares to cy level as, or even better than, their based variety of first promotional video to make a diff erence, said crowdfunding. investors under equity crowdfunding, foreign counterparts,” Lam said. PHOTO PROVIDED clip for Crowdtivate, and Jackie Lam, director of the startups also give out some of their The local legal environment stands TO CHINA DAILY as much as $10,000 for the local equity crowdfunding directorship positions. Yet, the nature as another hurdle, with not many one on Kickstarter. website Bigcolors. of crowdfunding is such that investors investors getting admission tickets to Lee believes crowdfund- Lee noted a possible way usually come in large numbers with the game. Rules to follow high net-worth or sophisticated inves- ing is more than a fundrais- forward for Asia-based relatively tiny investment size, which Under Hong Kong’s regulatory Although rules around equity crowd- tors, noted Fok. In her view, there is ing channel. It also mar- crowd funding sites could means startups have to report to a framework, only professional inves- funding are still being hammered out no real shortage of capital available ries innovation and public be establishing a regional crowd of shareholders and it can really tors with at least $1 million to chip across the globe, the game was or is for investment, whereas very often the engagement. presence with a focus on amount to a lot of work, said Yu. in can participate in campaigns for being made possible in many countries problem is the lack of expert interme- Hence the obvious multiple markets. What startups would prefer, said equity crowdfunding. including the US and UK, and even the diation between sources of capital, and importance of revising the Most global crowdfund- Yu, is a handful of shareholders who Moreover, such sites need to be Chinese mainland. the huge variety of potential startups. projects or products based ing giants usually zero invest in tidy sums, which is some- accredited after meeting a long list of The US Congress promulgated in The gloomy landscape has made on feedback from backers in on English-speaking thing that traditional fundraising criteria, and must also be licensed by 2012 the “Jumpstart Our Business the founders of some local sites feel to make them feel involved markets in the Western channels rather than equity crowd- the Securities and Futures Commission Startups Act” to allow small enterprises that crowdfunding in the city is mainly and intrinsically rewarded, hemisphere despite the funding can off er. (SFC). to raise funds from general investors, confi ned to public welfare and creative Lee said. fact that the Asian market Still, it may be too early to argue And the hard fact is there are no spe- while the amendment rules relating to projects. But Lee’s is not the only as a whole has long stood over how well equity crowdfunding cifi c regulations or guidelines on equity equity crowdfunding in the UK came Yet, Jackie Lam from Bigcolors success story scripted by as a lucrative and tempt- could work for the city’s young fi rms. crowdfunding adopted by the SFC that into force last year, allowing companies believes equity crowdfunding is a need- crowdfunding sites like ing option, said Lee, who “So far, crowdfunding is a new thing lawyers can refer to, said Simon Deane, to raise funds from retail investors. to-have for Hong Kong, even though it Kickstarter. believes this is where Asia- in Hong Kong, not to mention equity partner for fi nance and insolvency at And on the mainland, at this year’s really needs some “fi ne tuning” along According to US based crowdfunding plat- crowdfunding, which seems an even Hong Kong’s oldest and largest inde- National People’s Congress annual the way, setting clear guidelines for research fi rm Massolution, forms could come in. more distant proposition for the ter- pendent commercial law fi rm, Deacons. meeting in March, the central govern- interested parties, promoting invest- the global crowdfunding Foreign crowdfunding ritory,” observed Jackie Lam, director Deane recalled that several clients, ment proposed the legalizing and regu- ment education and creating an envi- industry expanded by 167 sites may need time to of Bigcolors. including one from the Chinese main- lating of equity crowdfunding. ronment conducive to startups. percent last year to raise fight their way into the Once among the aforementioned land, wanting to launch crowdfunding Helen Fok ka-man, counsel at the As a world-renowned fi nancial cen- $16.2 billion. In 2015, the culturally and linguisti- attention-grabbing equity crowdfund- platforms in Hong Kong came to him global law fi rm Cliff ord Chance, told ter, Hong Kong has what it takes to industry is set to more cally diverse Asian market, ing platforms in Hong Kong, Bigcolors for legal advice. China Daily it may be more appropriate spark a boom for equity crowdfund- than double once again, as which gives Asia-based has adjusted its business model since All of them, who could hardly believe to regulate equity crowdfunding using ing, Lam noted. “Otherwise, promising it appears poised to raise crowdfunding sites some its 2013 launch, repositioning itself as that starting a crowdfunding platform the existing regulatory framework, companies lacking financial income $34.4 billion. fi rst-mover advantages, he a startup fund. in global business hub Hong Kong rather than creating new ones. streams may vote with their feet and The exponential growth added. Lam said this is not because Bigcol- could be so diffi cult and the procedure As an alternative to equity crowd- migrate to Silicon Valley, Singapore in 2014 was due in part For Hong Kong, the ors is bearish on the city’s outlook for so unclear, ended up being scared away funding, what the government can or some other community that pro- to the rise of Asia as the crowdfunding story so far equity crowdfunding. It is just that by the stringent regulations, said Deane. consider to encourage startups is to vides necessary tools for startups to be second-biggest crowdfund- is all about investment the resources at hand make Bigcolors “We don’t think the SFC has granted relax the relevant licensing restrictions fi nanced and thrive,” she said. ing region, where volumes education before delving more suited to becoming a startup approval to a collective investment and allow licensed venture-capital grew by 320 percent to into how to polish one’s fund. scheme involving crowdfunding yet,” fund managers to market investments Contact the writer at $3.4 billion raised. brand as a regional crowd- The high-fl ying world of investment he said. opportunities in startups to certain [email protected] Yet, it may be too soon funding hub, said Lam. CHINA DAILY CANADA Friday, June 12, 2015

SHANGHAI 7

POLICY LIFE Shanghai to attract foreign experts Competition Work and visa restrictions are loosened to allow more expats to settle in the city and off er their talents and expertise draws many By YU RAN in Shanghai international students at the [email protected] school is in the hundreds but is expected to peak at 1,000 by Attracting creative talents 2020. According to the Shang- to Shanghai from abroad to form an inno- hai Municipal Education Com- vative friendly atmosphere in mission, there were more than Shanghai is the main focus of 53,800 international students By LI XUEQING in Shanghai a newly released proposal to studying in Shanghai in 2013, [email protected] transform the city into a global 30 percent more than in 2010. technological innovation center. “I chose NYU Shanghai as I Competitors hoping for The proposal puts forth 22 wanted to get away from my glory in the fifth annual measures. own country and explore a Shanghai City Orienteer- Even Shanghai Benefi cial policies includ- totally diff erent culture to chal- ing Challenge combed the ing providing permanent res- lenge myself before turning 18. city for clues on June 6. natives couldn’t idential permits for high-level I learned how to be a leader People sprinted through possibly say they overseas passport holders and communicate with people city streets and landmarks, and giving subsidies to high- from diff erent cultural back- climbed walls and even prac- know every corner tech professionals have been grounds here,” said Haider Ali, ticed Kung Fu as part of the carried out to open Shang- a freshman from Pakistan who competition. of the city. The hai’s door wider to the world. spent one year studying in Ger- Nearly 11,000 people par- “Shanghai will be the pio- Shanghai Green Valley Pharmaceutical Co Ltd that relies on its research team will be benefi ted with the many before applying to NYU ticipated in the competition, competition gives neer to have a breakthrough looser policy on foreign talent recruitment by attracting more experts from abroad. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Shanghai. including 100 individuals them a chance to in implementing more open It used to be impossible from abroad. They formed and eff ective policies to recruit for newly graduated foreign teams of fi ve people and com- explore the city.” more talents from abroad and will see loosened restrictions “It is great news for our to work in the expanded China students to work in China. peted along 24 routes of dif- off er them with a more con- on age from 60 to 70 years old. company, to hire foreign or (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade According to the regulations ferent themes, such as arts venient life here,” said Zhou The requirement for technol- overseas-returned experts Zone as a trial. of the Bureau of Exit and Entry and culture, sports, ecology Xu Chao, the organizer of the Haiyang, director of Shanghai ogy and innovation talents regularly, which will help us “With the rise of interna- Administration of the Ministry and cool styling. competition Municipal Human Resources will be lowered to have a more focus on learning the advanced tional universities such as New of Public Security, foreigners To finish the game, the and Social Security Bureau. comprehensive system of per- technology from the Western York University Shanghai, with at least two years of work competitors had to fi nd out Zhou added that the detailed manent residential permit, countries and creating our own more international students experience aged between 24 all the coordinates on their and turn to their smartphones rules and conditions of the mea- with a valid period of up to 10 medical products for patients,” are willing to work in Shang- and 60 are able to apply for a routes. Instructions to the for help, was easier to fi nish sures on how to attract talents years (previously five years), said Lyu Songtao, chairman of hai,” said Xiao Lin, director of work permit in China. next coordinate were sent to but diffi cult to win. from all over the world would according to the detailed mea- Shanghai Green Valley Phar- Shanghai Municipal People’s “I am looking forward to their smartphones only after The reliability of navigat- be released within this year. sures issued in early June. maceutical Co Ltd, which has Government Development graduate in three years and their team fulfilled the task ing smartphone applications The high-level talents who The looser policy to welcome its research team of mostly Research Center. found my own company here on the previous one. The team and competitor’s ability to use have permanent jobs in Shang- more high-tech expats to work overseas returnees. New York University in Shanghai, which seems to that used the least amount of them well was instrumental. hai will get the privilege of and settle down in the city will The city will also loosen Shanghai recruited its first be a more friendly city for time on each route won. Forst’s team got off the sub- obtaining the foreign expert directly aff ect those companies employment policies for over- 300 students with half of foreign students to start up “It’s a very hot day, but it way two stops earlier. This permit within two to fi ve years relying on recruitments of for- seas candidates and give inter- them being international stu- businesses offering greater was so much fun,” said Don- cost them four extra minutes (previously seven years) and eign talents. national students the chance dents. The current number of support,” said Ali. ald Forst from Chicago, add- to wait for the next train. ing that running on a sunny Backups ready at home day with the temperature hit- were indispensible, too. At ting 30 degrees Celsius was a the third coordinate, the team EDUCATION great challenge. was required to upload to His team “Shanghai hik- WeChat Moments — a popu- ers” fi nished the No 17 route lar Chinese social network- in 3 hours and 3 minutes. It ing platform — a photo of one International school curriculum promotes covered a length of about 30 member practicing Kung Fu. kilometers with eight coor- The team can't get proceed dinates, some of which are until the photo receives 10 even new to the Chinese. likes. volunteerism among Shanghai studnets Each coordinate was about 1 The winning team of No 17 to 3 kilometers from a metro route was “We love hiking”, station. Forst ran and walked which fi nished the competi- By WANG HONGYI in Shanghai of international curriculum actions to make themselves, will benefi t more Chinese stu- On the Chinese mainland, over 11 kilometers. After the tion in 2 hours and 27 min- [email protected] would help diversify the school community, and the world bet- dents as the international cur- the concept of volunteerism and fourth coordinate, he felt utes. It was less than 3 min- syllabus, meeting the various ter. It helps students build their riculum becomes more popu- charity has long been absent dehydrated. utes faster than the runner- The increasingly popular needs of students, but also help social portfolios for school and lar in the country, said Annie from the education system The No 17 route was spe- up team “We run slowly and international curriculum in further education reform and work resumes, and watch their Zhang, head of Me To We China. where academic performance cially designed for foreigners. slowly”. They got stuck at the Shanghai’s schools is expected improve the city’s education level. impact grow by tracking their “It’s not just a charity work. often takes top priority. The Each of the 60 teams signed paper crane, too, but were to encourage more students to “One part of the international volunteer hours. These public service programs situation has begun to change up for it had at least one mem- able to win by running faster participate in social services curriculum is the requirement Me To We recently help us discover our potential in recent years as the country’s ber from places other than the than others, said Felipe Leefu and volunteer work, which has of students’ participation in announced the launch of the and ability to change ourselves education authorities have said Chinese mainland. Huang Lin of Brazil. long been lacking in the coun- social service projects. It’s an AP/We365 comprehensive ser- and the world,” said Wu Ji, an the volunteer work should be Traditional Chinese ele- The annual city orienteer- try’s education system. important factor for overseas vice program by working with 11th-grade student from Shang- integrated into school educa- ments, such as lantern rid- ing competition was initiated Last year, Shanghai educa- colleges to evaluate a student’s the American College Board, a hai World Foreign Language tion, and students’ social service dle-solving and paper crane in Shanghai in 2011. There tion authorities announced social responsibility awareness non-profi t organization work- Middle School. He participat- record should work as a refer- folding were included. That was only one route that year. the implementation of an and commitment to society, but ing to expand access to higher ed in some service projects in ence for entering colleges. was where Forst, the fastest Seventy teams and 350 people international curriculum on these are often ignored by Chi- education. Hebei and Fujian provinces “I’d like to encourage my son runner in his team, ran into participated. a trial basis at 21 high schools nese schools,” said Li Xia, a staff Each year, the College Board organized by We365, helping to participate in more volunteer problem. “People tend to stick to — 11 public and 10 private. member with the Canada-based helps more than 7 million stu- local people. work. I think it will help children At Shanghai Circus World certain areas. Even Shanghai The schools offer 18 levels of social enterprise Me To We. dents prepare for a successful “It’s a big progress for We365 to see more and learn more, not — the fi fth coordinate — his natives couldn’t possibly say international courses, such as Me To We offers socially transition to college through to be covered into AP program. just limited to textbooks. These team was required to fold fi ve they know every corner of the A-level (General Certifi cate of conscious and environmen- programs and services in col- I think meaningful volunteer service projects help young paper cranes, one crane for city. The competition gives Education Advanced Level), tally friendly products and lege readiness and college work and charity programs will people increase their problem- each member. them a chance to explore the AP (Advanced Placement) and life-changing experiences to success — including the SAT have more signifi cant impact solving abilities, and keep being “The most diffi cult part was city,” said Xu Chao, the orga- IBDP (International Baccalau- young people. Its public service and the Advanced Placement on a person than the knowl- connected to the society,” said the paper folding, of course. nizer of the competition. reate Diploma Program). platform We365 encourages Program. edge learned from textbooks,” Zhong Dandan, a mother of a It’s beyond my skills,” he said. Most of the competitors Offi cials said the introduction students to take daily positive The public service projects he said. high school student. Orienteering originated fall into the age group of 20 from military training in Swe- to 40, he said. “They want den in the late 19th Century. to have more exercise but It requires the competitors couldn’t fi nd proper venues VIEW to navigate in the wilderness or don’t know which exercises with a map and a compass. suit them. City orienteering, The orienteering challenge, whose doorsill is low, gets which allowed the competi- them outdoors and enjoy College students should take stock tors to take public transport sports with others.”

By LI YANG in Beijing focus should be on their studies, in the country. Industry 4.0 strategy. an environment, it is very diffi - [email protected] their main job on campus. After the financial crisis Besides, the job-hunting and cult for young people to develop Since late last year, the gov- happened in 2008, there was employment process for work- rational views on the responsi- Thirty-one percent of col- ernment has advocated that a strong voice urging the coun- ing as civil servants or in State- bilities and social obligations lege students open stock mar- college students create their try to learn from Germany and owned enterprises need to be behind money and power. ket accounts and 26 percent of own business and become focus on the research and devel- more transparent and fair. If the The speculators’ gain from them invest more than 50,000 self-employed, an attempt to opment of manufacturing sec- government wants to turn Chi- the abnormal sharp rise of yuan ($8,300), according to a ease the job market pressure tors. At that time, the authority na into an innovative country, housing prices and stock mar- survey by Xinhua News Agency, brought by the economic slow- called for producing more engi- the authority needs to create an ket poses a sharp contrast to which also found that many of down. The education authority neers and technicians. environment that makes the stu- low wages of honest workers. those students view the market even allows students to sus- Yet, the success of some dents more focused on learning This is a direct refl ection of the as gambling. pend their education to start e-commerce giants in China knowledge than making money. distortion of Chinese economy, In the past two months, the their own business. after 2008 makes the Internet The widening income gap and in these circumstances, stock market in China has sky- The “new normal” (slower an inspiration for the author- in Chinese society is also an few people would believe in rocketed from below 2,000 to and sustainable growth) of the ity while looking for solutions important issue aggravating diligence and intelligence more than 5,000 points. College Chinese economy has a direct to upgrade the country’s huge young people’s longing for The Chinese stock mar- students are surely among the infl uence on the mentality of the manufacturing industries. The quick success. When they can- ket and the financial sectors, new investors. students. Given the exorbitant Internet talents are more likely not see clearly a predictable because of their immaturity According to Xinhua, those housing prices and the diffi culty to create their own business, future of climbing social lad- and loopholes, have not eff ec- college students think China’s in fi nding a job, it is natural that as the government advocates, ders through their own eff orts, tively fulfilled their duties of stock market is a risky gamble, their attention is diverted from than technicians or engineers. they will grab every opportu- supporting the development but believe the government will classes to the speculative oppor- It is worrisome that the Inter- nity for quick success, which is of real economy, but become a control the risks even if there tunities in the stock market. net bubble in China makes to a large extent defi ned by the hotbed for people dreaming of are obvious bubbles. Instead of excessively empha- many young people equate cre- possession and accumulation reaping without plowing. Some of those students stare sizing the importance of inno- ating one’s business with open- of material wealth and power. It is good for the young peo- at their smartphone screens vation and self-made business ing an online shop. The tax system and power ple to know macro-economy during classes to follow the heroes to the nation, the author- They do not see how the supervision in China are far and the operation of fi nancial changes in the market. And ity needs to fi rst of all reform legendary businessmen of the from the requirements of sectors through investing in a while they have the right to the higher education system to Silicon Valley achieved their effectively adjusting national healthy stock market. But an ill invest in the market with the produce the graduates needed success, and the solid techno- wealth distribution to avoid market only transforms them Participants get ready for the fi fth annual Shanghai City approval of their parents, the for the transforming economy logical foundation of Germany’s power abuses. Living in such from a learner to a gambler. Orienteering Challenge. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY | 8 SHANGHAI Focus Friday, June 12, 2015 CHINA DAILY CANADA

HEALTH More Chinese seek medical treatment abroad People willing to pay more cite better medical facilities and services among the reasons they engage in medical tourism

By WANG YING in Shanghai [email protected]

fter spending about two months in California receiving A medical treatment and recovering, 64-year-old Wu Ming fi nally bounced back to health, something he had lost for two years. Wu started to feel physical dis- comfort in 2012, but an examina- tion in a local hospital in Shang- hai showed nothing abnormal. It wasn’t until September 2013 that he was diagnosed with late- stage prostate cancer. Learning that traditional treatment would do little to the disease, Wu turned to Shang- hai-based MEGA Healthcare in September 2014, and two months later received a particle therapy treatment in the US. Founded in March 2013, MEGA Healthcare helps people receive medical treatment over- seas. Across China, the number of such agencies is nearly 30. Wu is but one of an increas- ing number of Chinese will- ing to pay more for overseas PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY healthcare and treatment. The number of people going abroad Wang Ting has taken vac- ($3,227) for a physical exami- Shanghai. hospital is the same — noisy, treatment overseas. for medical treatment has dou- cines every year since 2010 in nation in Los Angeles. “There are only three or four crowded, and you have to take In 2014, Saint Lucia received bled to 40 million in six years Hong Kong to prevent cervical “The feeling of getting a one-on- agencies offering similar ser- off your pants in front of every- more than 10 million yuan since 2006, and in 2013, their cancer. one health service is so good, and vices when we established the body in the room when you are investment from Sequoia Capi- total spending reached $438.6 The feeling of “I learned this vaccine will the doctor patiently asked many company in China, and we had given an injection,” said Cai tal, an American venture capi- billion, contributing 14 percent be most eff ective if it is taken questions and provided quite a only several customers (who Qiang, founder and president tal fi rm located in Menlo Park, of the global tourism industry, getting a one- at age 26, but it is only avail- few advice for a healthy diet,” said went to the US for treatment) in of Beijing Saint Lucia Hospital California. according to Xinhuanet.com, able in Hong Kong or Taiwan 36-year-old Chen, who is consider- the fi rst year,” said Guo Liang, Management Consulting Co. Now more and more Chinese citing a survey released by the on-one health in China,” said the 31-year-old ing doing regular health checks executive director and co- “But when I moved to Aus- people realize there is an alter- Stanford Research Institute. magazine editor. abroad in the future. founder of MEGA Healthcare. tralia, I saw a completely diff er- native solution to get cured, and Chinese visits to South Korea service is so good, “I arranged a membership The doctor-turned-entre- ent scene in the hospital — the the industry is recognized as for medical treatment soared medical examination for my Demand for preneur said he and his family building looked like a star hotel, high potential. nearly 17 times to 79,481 in and the doctor father in April in Japan. I think better treatment members had similar terrible and there were special rooms “Although this is a niche mar- fi ve years from 2009 to 2014, the service from professional At least 3,000 people went experience in crowded Chinese for the doctor and the patient ket, I believe it will grow rapidly the Chinese version of South patiently asked doctors is worth the high cost,” to the US for medical reasons hospitals as many other Chi- to use when taking an examina- in the coming years,” said Guo. Korean AJU Business Daily said 32-year-old Tian Yuxin. from Shanghai Customs alone nese people. tion. When my wife gave birth Cai Jiangnan, director of cen- reported. many questions Tian herself also plans to in 2013, according to Fan Tai- “My experience of being a to our baby, the doctor even pre- ter for healthcare management Chinese patients spent a total have a physical exam in Japan lai, general manager of MEGA doctor let me understand their pared a camera for us,” Cai said. and policy with China Europe of 140.3 billion won ($126.6 mil- and provided quite in August. Healthcare. high pressure of seeing dozens of Cai said he was shocked by International Business School lion) of South Korea in 2014, So far, there is no official “The actual number should patients every day, but at the same the stark contrast and decided (CEIBS), said well-moneyed ranking the fi rst of all foreign a few advice for a statistics indicating how many be more than that. As new visas time, I also see a rising demand for to go back to China in 2009 to professionals or entrepreneurs patients, followed by those from Chinese people go overseas for are valid for 10 years, people a better treatment environment help Chinese people receive go for overseas healthcare ser- Russia, the US and the United healthy diet.” healthcare service, but it’s true can go on a medical tour even for patients,” said Guo. overseas medical treatment. vices for three reasons — bet- Arab Emirates. that quite a few foreign medi- if their visas are for pure travel This is the reason why he and In 2011, Saint Lucia became ter medical environment and cal facilities are extending their or visiting reasons,” Fan said. his partners decided to open the nation’s first provider of service, state-of-art technology A growing trend Chen jiaye, a 36-year-old who spent business to the Chinese market. Average cost for getting such a medical service agency overseas medical care, and it and the latest medicine that is Take South Korea for around 20,000 yuan for a physical Chen Jiaye and her family medical treatment in the US for Chinese people. is now the largest in this area not yet available in China. example, Chinese people are examination in Los Angeles last year went to the US for a one-month is about $150,000, and most of with nearly 1,000 clients receiv- a major force in the medical visiting tour last year, and she the Chinese patients come from Big diff erence overseas ing either a long-distance medi- Yu Ran in Shanghai tourism business. spent around 20,000 yuan major cities such as Beijing and “I used to think every cal consultation or medical contributed to the story. Physicians to receive hospital shares as payment

By WANG HONGYI and now is testing the city’s reform around the world who accepted WANG YING scheme allowing physicians to proton or heavy-ion therapy [email protected] practice medicine in more than treatments. [email protected] one medical facility. So far, more According to the center, a than 100 top doctors from the The medical service single course of particle ther- Shanghai International Med- city’s leading public hospitals apy is priced at 278,000 yuan ical Center recently announced have been working at Shanghai time for each patient per person. The center has a new system that will allow International Medical Center, received several thousands of experienced physicians to which provides a comfortable in our center is at least on-site and telephone enqui- off er their skills for shares in environment and better service 20 minutes, which ries in the fi rst 11 days until the hospital, the latest move by for patients that are absent May 21. the city to test medical reform from traditional hospitals. allows patients to have “As of May 20, we received and meet growing diversifi ed It has always been a head- 12 patients, aged between 23 medical needs. ache for most Chinese patients more communication and 68,” said Lyu Lilang, vice- “The new mode, which has to see a doctor in Chinese public president of the Shanghai Pro- already been very common hospitals that are often crowd- with doctors. This ton and Heavy Ion Center. in developed countries, is still ed every day. Patients have to is very hard to “Different from most Chi- fresh in China,” said Zhang wait for several hours to see a nese medical centers, we will Chengyu, president of the doctor but the communication achieve in most establish a long-term treat- medical center. “Under the new with the doctor is brief. For ment relationship with our mode, physicians will become patients who want to see top public hospitals.” clients even after they fi nish shareholders, and our center doctors, they have to make an their treatments,” said Lyu. will provide a wider develop- appointment far in advance, Zhang Chengyu, president of Shanghai She added that the center ment platform for physicians’ some even up to half a year. International Medical Center will track the conditions of career path development and “The medical service time for The Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center received 1,454 on the spot enquiries from May 11 to May their patients for as long as fi ve economic achievements.” each patient in our center is at 21, and handled 3,445 telephone enquiries. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY years to evaluate their recovery The medical center, a pri- least 20 minutes, which allows and treatment eff ects, as well as vate hospital, offi cially opened patients to have more commu- to enter into medical service groups,” said Gao Jiechun, pres- the high-end medical service (SPHIC), also known as the carry out future research and in March 2014, is located in nication with doctors. This is sectors that expand and enrich ident of Hospital Management market size will reach 16.5 to Proton and Heavy Ion Center build development records. the Pudong International very hard to achieve in most medical resources and help Institute, Fudan University. 18.5 billion yuan. of Fudan University Shang- The center is expected to Medical Zone, one of the city’s public hospitals,” Zhang said. meet diversifi ed demand. So far, Shanghai has a number Offi cials said the supply of hai Cancer Center (FUSCC), accept 1,000 patients per year two medical zones where pri- The center recently intro- According to officials, of private and joint-venture hos- high-end medical service is which off ers particle therapy after its first three years of vate and joint-venture hospi- duced a new service to narrow patients with special medical pitals and clinics off ering high- still lagging, and do not fully to cancer patients, announced trial operation. tals offer high-end medical patient’s waiting time for sur- demands willing to pay higher end medical services. Previously, meet needs. its launch in the city. As the “There will be great demand and healthcare services. gery. Patients can send their costs fl ow into the high-end German healthcare operator In addition to encourage pri- state-of-art technology to deal for such high-end medical ser- The medical center is seen as medical treatment records and medical service market, while and medical product provider vate and joint-venture hospi- with tumors, it uses particle vices in the future. And the an experimental plot for the city related test reports to the center traditional public hospitals Artemed Group also announced tals to meet growing high-end therapy to treat cancerous cells development of high-end med- to deepen its medical reform via Internet, and they can book work to meet residents’ basic that it would set up a hospital in medical demand, Shanghai is by fi ring beams of protons or ical service cannot live with- through exploring more innova- a surgical operation as soon as medical needs. the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free also actively promoting the heavy ions. This technology is out the government’s guidance tive ways in operation and man- they meet surgery requirements. “The high-end medical ser- Trade Zone. progress of cutting-edge tech- available in very few countries, and policy, social capital invest- agement that diff er from most In recent years, China’s vice should act as complement According to the research nology in medical treatment. such as Germany and Japan. ment as well as the develop- traditional public hospitals. authorities have begun to to the existing medical system, data from Shanghai Develop- Earlier in May, the Shanghai By the end of 2014, there ment of doctor, facilities and For example, the center encourage more social capital for higher end income social ment and Reform Commission, Proton and Heavy Ion Center were a total of 123,193 patients service,” said Gao. | CHINA DAILY CANADA Friday, June 12, 2015 The Bund SHANGHAI 9

HISTORY Jewish war refugees remembered Thousands of Jews fl ed Europe and landed in Shanghai during World War II, and survivors and others gathered this month to recall events of the historic, painful era

By LI XUEQING in Shanghai annexed Austria, known as [email protected] “Anschluss”. Then the Kristall- nacht, or the Night of Broken earching for their own Glass, broke out on November names eagerly on a 9, 1938. Through the next day, huge bronze wall, Jews synagogues were burned in Sfrom diff erent parts of Germany and Austria, window the world gathered in Shang- glass shattered. Thousands of hai Jewish Refugees Museum Jews were sent to concentra- last week to commemorate the tion camps. 70th anniversary of the survival “However, it was hard of Jewish refugees in Shanghai to become a refugee,” said during World War II. Hochstadt. During the war, the Shang- To leave, Jews had to submit hai Jewish Refugees Museum proof of emigration, such as an was then the Ohel Moshe Syna- entry visa, an affi davit or a ship gogue, where Jews socialized ticket to other countries and with each other. During that go through tedious procedures the money, she established a time, at least 18,000 Jews took before the Gestapo. small business and bought a refuge in Shanghai to escape They queued up in front of small apartment in the former from Nazi persecution. Most of consulates, trying to squeeze French Concession. One year them survived and went on to into other countries’ immigra- later, her grandmother, who settle in other countries after tion quotas, which were far We are very lucky had been reluctant to leave the war, including the US, Can- from enough. Germany, joined them. ada, Israel and Australia. And their money and valu- survivors. In Their situation aggravated As another part of the com- ables had been taken away. Shanghai, diffi cult after the Japanese attacked memoration, a three-day con- This made it more diffi cult for Pearl Harbor on December 7, ference that began on June 1 Neighborhood in Hongkou district where European Jews lived during World War II. GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY them to book the expensive as it was, we didn’t 1941. In 1943, a “Designated was held in Shanghai Univer- first class tickets of Italian, Area for Stateless Refugees”, or sity of International Business Japanese and other shipping have to go through the “ghetto” as Rubin calls it, and Economics. Holocaust liners, which required them to was set up in Shanghai. The scholars joined people who buy round-trip tickets, Hoch- the unbelievable Japanese ordered all the state- lived through the period in stadt said. horrors of less refugees who had arrived Shanghai, sharing stories that The sea route from ports in after 1937 to move into an area are not commonly known. Italy to Shanghai was a com- concentration of less than 2.5 square kilo- “The timing of this event is mon course taken by the refu- meters in Hongkou with few very important and special,” gees before Italy declared war camps.” exceptions. said Patricia E. Salkin, dean against the Allies on June 10, Strict curfew was enforced. and professor of law at Touro 1940. After that, the only route Evelyn Pike Rubin, who fl ed Any refugee who wanted to go Law Center, who co-hosted the that remained open was to Germany with her parents in 1939 and out to see the doctor or earn conference. “If they have been traverse Siberia to Northeast took refuge in Shanghai a living needed to get a pass. alive till now, those European China by train. There they were subjected to Jewish refugees would be at Among people who extend- the humiliation of Kano Ghoya, least at their 70s. We are losing ed their help, there was Ho the Japanese offi cer who notori- time to hear personally from Feng Shan, who was hon- From “Little Vienna” ously called himself “King of the the eye witnesses.” ored “Righteous among the to ghetto Jews”. Ghoya had a reputation Nations” posthumously by European Jews poured in of slapping people’s faces and Hard to become a refugee Israel in 2000 for “his humani- to Shanghai in 1938 and 1939. rejecting a pass simply because “We are very lucky survivors,” tarian courage” in the rescue of Some of them were able to he was in a mood. said Evelyn Pike Rubin, an Austrian Jews. bring silver dishes and furni- Some were hit especially 85-year-old author and lecturer Ho was the consul-general of ture, many came with a bag and hard for leaving their homes who lives in Jericho, New York. China in Vienna from 1938 to little fortune. and businesses again. By early “In Shanghai, diffi cult as it was, 1940. He issued thousands of The local Jewish community 1944, 5,000 to 6,000 people had we didn’t have to go through visas with Shanghai as the end of approximately 6,000 people to depend on the communal the unbelievable horrors of con- destination. Though the Chi- came to help the newcomers kitchens to survive, which pro- centration camps.” nese nationalist government to establish their new life in vided only one hot meal and Rubin boarded a ship in Ho Manli in front of the plaque dedicated to her father Ho Feng Shan in Shanghai Jewish Refugees then lost control of Shanghai the city whose economy had 255 grams of bread a day, David Naples, Italy, with her parents Museum. PHOTOS BY LI XUEQING / CHINA DAILY to the Japanese in 1937, the been largely damaged by the Kranzler wrote in his book Jap- in February 1939 and landed city’s port remained open to war. Baghdadi Jews came in the anese, Nazis & Jews: the Jewish in Shanghai a month later. all visitors. 1840s for business opportuni- Refugee Community of Shang- According to her, it was not a With the Shanghai visa, Aus- ties. Then Russian Jews arrived hai, 1938-1945. preferred destination. But after trian Jews were released from at the turn of 20th century to Rubin’s father died in 1941 at their attempts of getting an concentration camps. They escape persecution. They orga- the age of 43. Her grandmother American visa failed, Shang- were also able to get transit nized relief work in collabora- died two years later. Her moth- hai, the only place then that visas or temporary visas to oth- tion with international organi- er’s business was down the required no entry document, er destinations. The majority zations and helped the refugees drain. They moved into a slum became their only option. of them finally landed in the get jobs and language training. house in the designated area to Her mother had felt the urge US, Britain, Palestine, Cuba and Five group homes were set share with 10 people. to leave Germany after Hitler the Philippines, said Ho Manli, up to provide shelter to those The designated area was offi - assumed power in 1933 when daughter of Ho Feng Shan and newcomers or the homeless. cially abolished on September 3, anti-Semitic policies began a trained journalist. She’s been Communal kitchens provided 1945. Former refugees revisited in Germany; but her father, uncovering this story for more meager meals to the refugees. Hongkou, including the Ameri- a World War I German vet- than a decade. Those who still could aff ord can graphic artist Peter Max. eran and an optimist, thought The exact number of visas high rents settled down in the He came in 2012 to look for his otherwise. issued under Ho Feng Shan’s former French Concession. Chinese nanny who introduced “He said, ‘I don’t think so. watch is hard to fi nd out today. But most of the refugees found him to drawing when he was a I fought for this country. This “The best we can determine their new homes in Hongkou little boy in the ghetto. mad man (Hitler) isn’t going now is thousands, based on the district, where rents and food Michael Blumenthal, the Sec- to last.’” serial numbers of some still prices were considerably lower. retary of the Treasure under Whether to leave or not was existing visas and surviving Despite all the diffi culties, busi- President Jimmy Carter, has a struggle that every Jewish documentation,” said Ho Manli. nesses were opened. New res- come back to Shanghai eight family had gone through, even “The consulate issued an aver- taurants, cafés and bars popped times. He fled with his fam- after 1938 when anti-Semitism age of 400 to 500 visas a month up in Hongkou, gaining the ily from Germany in 1939 and further exacerbated, said Steve to Jewish refugees starting in place the reputation of “Little spent eight years here. During Hochstadt, professor of history 1938 through 1939.” Vienna”. the most diffi cult time, he had at Illinois College in Jackson- Words spread about Shang- Rubin’s mother managed to quit school and did a number ville, Illinois. He is a Holocaust hai from Austria to Germany, to bring her fi ne china, linens of jobs including working for a expert and descendent of Vien- Photocopy of Evelyn Pike Rubin's pass (left) to get out of the designated area to attend school. which led many German Jews and laces and gave them to chemical lab. nese Jews who fl ed to Shanghai. Movement was strictly controlled by the occupying Japanese. And a photocopy of her mother's passport to Shanghai, including Rubin the thrift shop of the Bagh- China has been part of his In March 1938, Germany (right) with the red “J” indicating she's a Jew. and her family. dadi Jews in Shanghai. With life, he told China Daily in 2011.

ARTS Jewish refugees make for musical love story

By ZHANG KUN in Shanghai munitions for the Japanese “We saw so many great tal- destroyed, was built in the [email protected] after they occupied the city. ents. Some had lots of experi- background. The engineer fi nds a way to ence working in musicals,” said “Many years ago, more If you go A new musical will tell the sabotage production, aided Xu Jun, the director. than 20,000 Jewish refugees stories of Jewish refugees’ by the volunteer, who was In the interests of verisimili- landed in Shanghai from right experience in Shanghai dur- later killed along with the tude, Eliana Perlman, wife of here and started their new Address: 7:30 pm, Sept ing World War II. businessman by the Japanese the consul-general of Israel in life in their adopted country,” 3-6, Shanghai Culture It is a story of friendship military. Shanghai, served as a consul- said Chen Jian, director of the Square, 597 Fuxing Road and unspoken love between Jews in Shanghai will pre- tant for the play. museum. Middle, Shanghai a young Jewish engineer and miere at Shanghai Culture “The story about Jewish peo- “In Shanghai, they have left Telephone: a local college girl who acts as Square on Sept 3, the day ple in Shanghai is a unique one. lots of landmark buildings that 021-6472-6000 a volunteer to help orientate China will celebrate the 70th It’s not just about survival, but are still standing today. Jew- the refugees. According to the anniversary of the end of the also friendship between the ish businessmen have worked playwright Rong Guangrun, it war. two people. The bond between together with the Chinese to was inspired by a true story. The performance will be the two of us has never been help build the skyline on the Fei Yuanhong, artistic direc- “There was a Jewish engi- given in English and Chinese. broken,” Perlman said. Bund, an important part of the tor of Shanghai Culture Square, neer who worked at a muni- Israel’s Shahar Yishay, who The Museum of Jewish Refu- city’s heritage.” said the musical is on such a tions factory owned by a busi- postponed his wedding to gees in Shanghai also provided Their stories have been told heavyweight subject that it is nessman from Zhejiang prov- work in China, and Shanghai historical photographs and many times on stage and in like China’s equivalent of Les ince,” Rong said at the press actress Pan Qi will play the documents. literature, he said. The latest Miserables. conference announcing the two leads. The press conference took musical, with a budget of more “The play has attracted lots launch of the musical. The production company place on the old wharf along than 10 million yuan ($1.61 of interest among the inter- The factory he worked did much of its casting in the Huangpu River, and million), is by far the largest national theater community,” Shahar Yishay and Pan Qi will star in the musical Jews in Shanghai. at was forced to produce Israel. a replica bridge, partially production to date. he said. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY 10 EXPATS Friday, June 12, 2015 CHINA DAILY CANADA

CHARITY Following in his footsteps to a better way to give Chinese companies may adopt the charity template of Toms Shoes in their quest to be socially responsible, Fan Feifei reports.

he successful “One for “The ‘One for One’ idea has a natu- One” business model pio- ral advantage, namely, integrating neered by Toms Shoes is a charity into buying behavior. People T perfect marriage of busi- feel it’s very convenient when they ness and charity that could serve as donate money. But I think Toms’ suc- a blueprint for Chinese enterprises cess lies in the products — its shoes, as they embrace corporate social which are really very comfortable,” responsibility. Duan said. Thirty-eight-year-old Blake Tao Chuanjin, a professor at the Mycoskie, the founder of Toms Shoes, School of Social Development and told China Daily that the biggest dif- Public Policy at Beijing Normal ference between Toms and other University, said: “It is a global trend business institutions is, “We started to introduce charity into business the business because of our giving, institutions, which is also the social while some businesses have a busi- responsibility an enterprise needs to ness then do giving.” undertake. However, a key point is Mycoskie never imagined he whether the enterprises keep their would one day become a shoe sales- promises, acting with integrity and man. Born in Arlington, Texas, he remaining transparent.” launched his first business, a student Tao added Chinese people some- laundry service, at the age of 19. The times doubt whether the donations business soon became popular on reach the hands of those in need. surrounding school campuses, and Trust is of great importance, so what then he dropped out of school and enterprises should do is to be honest founded four other companies. and open, such as disclosing their However, he recalled the inspira- financial reports to the public and tion to launch a company that makes allowing the public to see what they shoes stemmed from one of his expe- are doing to dispel their doubts. riences traveling around Argentina. “Toms is favored in China first “About nine years ago, I was travel- because of its fashionable style, but ing on a vacation in South America, not the ‘One for One’ idea,” said Jen and I saw there were many children Loong, marketing director of Toms in the streets ... not wearing shoes. I in China. later learned that many of these chil- Chu Ying, a researcher with Tsin- dren were not allowed to go to school ghua University’s NGO Research because shoes were a requirement Center, said the idea of combining for the school uniform.” Blake Mycoskie, the founder of Toms Shoes (fourth from the left) and Jen Loong, head of Toms China brand marketing (fifth from the left) with participants in charity and business has become the While there, he met some women the “One Day Without Shoes” campaign, kicked off their shoes and went barefoot, while climbing the Great Wall in May. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY mainstream model in the world. from a volunteer organization that “The combination of charity and provided shoes for children in need. business, as a new charity model, He joined their team to distribute Toms entered the Chinese mar- videos using social media like Sina could mobilize more social resourc- shoes, traveling from village to vil- My idea was to create a business for the ket in 2014, launching stores in Bei- Weibo and WeChat. es at a large scale. Meanwhile it is lage. jing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shen- “Our business is based on not just beneficial for enterprises to control “(I witnessed) the intense pockets purpose of helping children get shoes. So zhen, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, giving shoes to children once, but the cost.” of poverty just outside the bustling Shenyang and Qingdao. It plans to continuing giving to them. The big- Chu added China’s charity work is capital,” he wrote in his book Start we created a for-profit company, not a charity.” open new stores in other Chinese gest thing the shoes do is to help give still in a primitive state — being com- Something That Matters published cities. The company still donates a them self-esteem, so the children prised of just donations. Although in 2011. “I knew somewhere in the Blake Mycoskie, founder of Toms Shoes new pair of shoes for every pair of believe in themselves,” Mycoskie some enterprises have attempted to back of my mind that poor children shoes sold. said. copy Toms’ business model, it still around the world often went bare- Toms also has worked with five Duan Defeng, CEO of Recende, takes a long time, almost 20 years, foot, but now, for the first time, I saw charity organizations in China, a consulting company researching to realize the perfect combination of the real effects of being shoeless: the for the purpose of helping children The company has donated more including Youchange China Social corporate social responsibility, which business and charity. blisters, the sores, the infections.” get shoes. So we created a for-profit than 38 million pairs of shoes to Entrepreneur Foundation, Heifer also works with charity groups and In collaboration with China Foun- The traditional approach for a company, not a charity, but every time people in need in many parts of the China, World Vision, Save the Chil- foundations to promote the develop- dation for Poverty Alleviation, 361°, charity or foundation is to raise mon- we sold a pair of shoes, we would world, not only in Argentina, but also dren and Rural Education Action ment of public welfare, told China a sneaker maker in China, initiated ey or get donations, and give them donate a pair of shoes to the children, in Africa and Asia. The shoes are sold Project. It expects to donate about Daily. “It is very difficult to find an the first “consumption-based” char- to the kids, but Mycoskie worried if one for one,” he said, adding that ini- globally in more than 1,000 stores. 600,000 shoes by the end of 2015 enterprise in China totally like Toms. ity program in China in 2013. they didn’t get the right donation, tially he just wanted to give 250 pairs “The idea of Toms was just an in China. Chinese enterprises simply stick to For each pair of designated shoes the children would not get the shoes of shoes, but the idea was incredibly idea. I had no experience in mak- In 2008, Toms launched its “One the traditional idea of doing charity purchased by the consumer, children they needed. successful. ing shoes and charity.” It was a very Day Without Shoes” campaign, work — donation, but not in combi- in impoverished regions receive a That’s where the idea for Toms The for-profit company currently small, simple idea to help one village in which the company pledged to nation with their main businesses, pair of sports shoes specially designed was born. He got a local supplier earns an estimated $250 million in of children, he said, emphasizing, donate a pair of shoes for every photo which is the biggest distinction.” and produced by the company, which to make an adaptation of the alpar- annual revenues, and has extended “Everyone should continue to focus of barefeet tagged on Instagram, no Duan added that most Chinese is donated in the name of consum- gata, a light, canvas shoe that many its product range to include eyewear, on the importance of ideas, because purchase needed. In May, the cam- enterprises that have done well in ers. Over 60,000 children have been Argentines, rich and poor, wear, and providing essential eyecare for each a simple idea will create a big differ- paign was introduced to China for corporate social responsibility often provided shoes. returned to the United States and pair of eyewear sold. ence in the world.” the first time. have a history of about 15 to 20 years. “This is a good trial and also the founded Shoes for Better Tomorrows Mycoskie’s philanthropy and busi- He added: “What I learned from Hundreds of thousands of sup- They first earned a lot of revenue development path for China’s phi- in 2006. Toms takes its name from ness model earned him the 2009 Toms in the past nine years is the porters in China joined. Some kicked and then concerned themselves with lanthropy in the future,” Chu added. the first three letters ‘tom’ and the ‘s’ Award of Corporate Excellence from idea of ‘giving’ can also be really good off their shoes and went barefoot, charity, while Toms established the in ‘tomorrows’. then US Secretary of State Hillary for business and there is nothing climbing the Great Wall. Participants one-for-one business model from the Contact the writer at “My idea was to create a business Clinton. wrong with that.” posted their barefoot pictures and very start. [email protected]

BUSINESS CEO: Digitization, globalization favor China

By HU HAIYAN area. I see all of these things coming Western countries, SMEs in China ness Council and chairs its IT Gover- [email protected] together in China.” still lag behind in digitalization.” nors Steering Committee. Nanterme said he expects China to Implementing the Internet of He also serves on the steering Pierre Nanterme said China’s slow- play a bigger role in the world thanks Things, or advanced connectivity of board of the European Commission’s ing economic growth gives him no to digitization and globalization of devices, is another way of making the European Cloud Partnership and is a cause for concern, and he sees it as Chinese companies and their move growth of manufacturing in China member of the Wall Street Journal’s being extremely well placed com- from manufacturing to more value- more sustainable, he said. CEO Council. pared with other countries. added services. “China needs to move to the next Despite the demands of his current “Yes, China’s GDP growth has been “There are many new drivers for generation of productivity. The role, he said, he always tries to strike slowing, but I am confident that it China’s future growth. When talking advantage the country has enjoyed a balance between work and other BIO will recover,” said Nanterme, chair- about the drivers, clearly all the lead- with the low cost of its labor cannot parts of his life. man and chief executive of the global ers that I met always refer to Internet last long, and it is not enough for it “The work-life balance is some- management consulting, technology Plus and going more digital. This is to maintain its competitive edge in thing extraordinary. It is a question PIERRE NANTERME Accenture’s Financial Services operat- services and outsourcing company all about achieving more sustainable the long run.” of organization. Once I am back Chairman and CEO of Accenture ing group Accenture. growth through using technology, China is increasingly important home I switch to my private life. I Age: 56 2011: Appointed CEO of Accenture “The country will maintain its moving up the value chain and deliv- in Accenture’s operations, he said. It focus on my wife and daughter. Some Education: 2013: Appointed chairman and CEO of momentum if the technology trans- ering more value-added products employs 10,000 people in the country leaders work 24 hours a day, seven 1981: Master of Science in manage- Accenture formation is successful. The main and services, as well globalizing big and has a presence in Beijing, Cheng- days a week. That’s not for me.” ment, Ecole Superieure des Sciences Favorite flim: thing is that growth is made sustain- Chinese companies. du, Dalian, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Accenture, which employs economiques et Commerciales, Paris Plein Soleil (Purple Noon), directed by able, and this is exactly what is hap- “I think China can do better if it Shanghai, Shenzhen and Taipei. 323,000 people worldwide, and Career: Rene Clement, starring Alain Delon pening in China.” continues deploying digital infra- “In China we have doubled the size which was floated on the New York 1993-2005: Senior roles in Accenture’s Favorite book: Nanterme, 56, was in China recent- structure. I have seen the quality of of our business in the past five years, Stock Exchange in 2001, has a cur- Financial Services operating group Biographies of Churchill and Tal- ly on a three day visit, during which 4G, and it is amazing. If you want to and our success is based largely on rent market capitalization of about 2005-07: Accenture’s country manag- leyrand he met several high-level Chinese become a digital country you need clients’ investments, especially in $60 billion. Accenture serves more ing director for France Favorite music: government officials, and said he to continue to improve digital infra- new technology and sciences,” Nan- than three-quarters of the Fortune 2007-11: Group chief executive of Blues, especially Buddy Guy sensed confidence about the coun- structure. You need that vision.” terme said. Global 500 and 89 of the Fortune try’s prospects, too. Chinese small and medium-sized Nanterme represents Accenture in Global 100. All of its top 100 clients “They have big plans in mind, companies need to do more to adapt a number of external venues. Since have been clients for at least five and I detected no nervousness in to the digital world, he said. 2011 he has served on various task years and 95 have been clients for the short term. If you look at the US the status quo. In China the talk is any of them. When I look at what is “Putting in information technol- forces for the B20 Summit, which at least 10 years, the company said. way of thinking, it’s to do with the about what needs to be done to be important for a country to become ogy infrastructure is well and good, comprises top business leaders from Nanterme said he regards Chinese short term … about now, and what more successful. It is about how to be strong, you need strong government, but by itself that is not enough. You the G20 countries who inform and businesspeople as highly enterpris- to do in the next hour. competitive tomorrow. That is very capital investment, good education, need more companies, and not just advise the G20 on key global issues ing and compares them favorably “In all the talk about smart cities, much the Chinese mentality: innova- advanced science and technology, big ones, to adopt it. There is no from a business perspective. with their Western counterparts. Chinese are asking what is next, what tion, looking to grow, aggression — in leading companies and investment doubt that in China big companies He is a member of the World Eco- “China is about the long term, and needs to be done for sustainable the good sense of the word — and the for the future, especially in the digital are going digital. Yet compared with nomic Forum’s International Busi- the rest of the world is more about growth. Elsewhere it is more about desire to get ahead.” CHINA DAILY CANADA Friday, June 12, 2015 ACROSS CANADA 11

People Benjamin Von Wong: shoots sweet life

Photographer’s photos of ordinary people dressed as superheroes have thrilled audiences

By NIU YUE about this idea, his father, in New York also an engineer, said that it needed serious consideration. There’s more to photog- Making up his mind, Wong rapher Benjamin Von Wong quit his mining job in 2012, than meets the eye. telling his parents he need- “As we get older, we stop ed to prepare for the MBA dreaming, we stop believ- entrance exam. ing that anything is possible Having only a point-and- because we’ve seen too much shoot camera he had picked of what isn’t,” he wrote on up in a Nevada Wal-Mart in his blog. “And that is why I 2007, Wong started by spend- wanted to photograph ordi- ing several hours a day sitting nary people as superhe- at the computer studying the A photo in the collection of Real Life Super Heroes, shot by Benjamin roes — so that they could see work of the masters. Von Wong in 2015. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY themselves as they had once Seizing any opportunity to dreamed.” connect with people, see new His photos of ordinary peo- places and push the envelope ple dressed as superheroes when it came to his work, poised on the edge of sky- Wong made steady progress. scrapers went viral online and “Nobody can shoot a great the Canadian-born Chinese photo starting out, including photographer became famous me,” said Wong. among shutterbugs for mak- After gaining success, Wong Fire angel, shot by Benjamin Von Wong for Huawei in 2015. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY ing the impossible possible. returns to his roots by sharing Born in 1986 in Toronto, techniques and behind-the- Wong grew up in a relaxed scenes videos on his blog and photographer, who has to go out there and make it atmosphere with his Malaysia YouTube. He soon gained a always been a believer in happen,” said Wong. Chinese parents and sister. loyal fan base on the Internet. hard work over talent, has Best known for its epic Before starting his career as “It’s really thanks to other only been home 11 days this photography combining the To be a creative, a professional photographer photographers sharing that year. His shooting schedule elements he loves, from pyro- in 2012, Wong graduated from I’ve learned and grown,” said takes him throughout the US, technics and black lights to means that McGill University majoring Wong. South Asia, Europe and other paraplegic athletes and Game in mine engineering in 2008 Rejecting the common wis- regions. of Thrones fans, most of sometimes, you and was offered a job as an dom that a professional pho- Compared to other profes- Wong’s photos are grandiose need to take risks.” engineer at a gold mining tographer should work with sionals, Wong said, “I have and imaginative. Benjamin Von Wong (left), Canadian-Chinese photographer. company in Nevada, where a professional crew, Wong the advantage of being able to “Being a photographer gives Benjamin Von Wong PHOTO BY GGUN RATNONTANAT he did the “changeless work” works as a one-man show, travel a lot, to meet diff erent me endless opportunities to for four years. using Facebook to invite either people. It’s always different see the beauty of the world, shows how he takes risks, as a spokesman for its new cell Then he came up with volunteers or freelancers to and always exciting.” that is where I get my ideas with, regardless of whether how he is open to the wealth phone commercials. the idea of quitting to re- work as his partners job to job. Wong never imagined the and inspiration,” he said. that’s a client or a talent or a of opportunities in the world, “To be a creative, means focus his career on full-time “I have to say that my entire popularity he would gain “I defi nitely do have a pref- location that I cjust happen and how when he has an idea that sometimes, you need to photography. career has been built on Face- through the Internet when he erence for things that are upon. Because that’s what I or dream, he just goes out take risks,” Wong says in the “I just felt like I truly needed book,” Wong said. “That’s how quit his mining job. fantastical, futuristic, or that do: I travel and I meet people, and makes it happen. He’s commercial. “I’m young, I can to do something I was pas- everything started, just shar- “People asked me what is make a person dream, some- constantly. And then from an inspiration to us,” said a do whatever I want, and that sionate about,” said Wong. ing things online and reaching the best way to become a pho- thing that’s a little bit larger there these shots are born,” statement from Huawei, the is a pretty sweet feeling.” When he fi rst told his par- out, and then connecting with tographer. I’m not sure but I than life. But the inspira- Wong explained. Chinese information and com- ents, who had never stopped real people.” believe that when you have an tion actually comes from the “Through his creative munications technology com- Hong Xiao in New York him from doing anything, The Montreal-based idea or a dream, you just have people that I surround myself hyper-realistic artwork, he pany that just selected Wong contributed to this story.

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Chinese companies invest- that Chinese companies spent China’s Ministry of Public deciphered by hackers. Citizens Most elderly people who live University of Finance and ed a record $7.5 billion in the more on overseas commercial Security has issued its fi rst batch can use their e-IDs for online in villages are satisfied with Economics found that 81.3 overseas commercial and resi- real estate than on the domes- of e-IDs backed by an indepen- registrations and transactions, their lives, even though they percent of elderly people were dential real estate market in tic market. dent, Internet-based identity without the need to present are far from their children, satisfied with their current the fi rst quarter of this year. While the domestic sector recognition system for citizens, their personal information. struggle to obtain healthcare state of life and 86.5 percent The global real estate service for commercial and residential as the country moves to fight The same e-ID can be used for and services for the aged and were happy with their rela- company JLLalso reported property slowed last year, over- personal information leaks, the various sites and applications. are still working on family tionships with their children. that transactions in 2015 are seas investment by Chinese Shanghai-based Xinmin Eve- Pilot application of e-IDs is also farms or in other endeavors, a The report was based on a expected to hit $20 billion. companies reached 52 percent ning News reported. being carried out in other fi elds, survey found. survey in 2014 of 10,421 elder- Last year, Chinese investors of all real estate transactions, The new system has passed including e-commerce, social The report released by ly residents of 731 villages spent a record $17 billion on according to JLL. security assessments by state services, online law services, researchers at Shanghai across the country overseas real estate in the com- As for the fi rst quarter, JLL authorities. In theory, the Internet fi nance, logistics and mercial and residential sectors did not provide a breakdown e-ID encryption cannot be transport. Cities seek to clean up their polluted rivers — an increase of 21.4 percent of commercial and residential compared to 2013. That year data or global hot spots. Traditional Chinese medicine hit by lower prices Many Chinese cities have has drawn attention from the begun tackling water pollution, central government. The Action Most Chinese youth OK with premarital sex: survey Tumbling prices have hit the “Medicinal herb growers plant- buoyed by government cleanup Plan for Prevention and Control traditional Chinese medicine ed more after the boom peri- goals and public support for of Water Pollution, a pioneering More than 60 percent of Chi- Shanghai, Xi’an and Wuhan. industry because of oversupply, od when prices went up,” Liu ridding their communities of national road map for cleaner nese young people approve of When asked about their feel- poor planning and increased Zhanglin, deputy director of black, smelly rivers and ponds. waters released on April 16, premarital sex, according to a ings regarding premarital sex, competition. China Chamber of Commerce But significant work remains, has set detailed goals for these survey released by Shanghai 17.7 percent of respondents According to China’s biggest for Import and Export of Medi- environmental experts say. rivers. Normal University. said they fully accepted it, 22.6 traditional medicine trading cine and Health Products, said. Guangzhou, Guangdong prov- By the end of the year, cities Sponsored by China’s Min- percent were not bothered by website, zyctd.com, the cost of “So now there is an oversup- ince, for example, has 135 severe- are expected to complete inspec- istry of Education, the sur- it, and 21.2 percent had an 11 products from a basket of ply, even though the market is ly polluted rivers, accounting for tions of all polluted rivers, and vey collected 9,569 responses ambiguous attitude. Only 15.7 200 dropped during the week growing.” 58.7 percent of the city’s total, by 2017, there should be no from persons aged 14 to 35 in percent were strongly against between May 25 and May 31. Small farmers also stockpiled while 18 cities in Henan province fl oating garbage and no illegal 10 cities, including Beijing, the behavior. The wholesale price of a further valuable herbs when wholesale have 34 black and smelly rivers, sewage discharge. By 2020, all 183 items remained static, while prices were high, hoping to get more than half of their total. pollution problems should be only six increased. even more for their products. Serious urban river pollution resolved. (Photo 3) The major problem facing Eventually, they were forced to Monday June 8 the traditional Chinese medi- fl ood the market or suff er sub- cine industry is oversupply. stantial losses. (Photo 2) Thursday June 11 1 in 3 public places in Beijing violate smoking ban

One in three public venues Entertainment venues and China raises the risk of MERS inspected by the Beijing Health hotels also top the list of Inspection Institute had vio- institutions that have prob- The risk of Middle East Respi- prevention of the disease. lated the city’s tough indoor lems with curtailing indoor ratory Syndrome (MERS) con- Zhong Nanshan, a renowned smoking ban in its fi rst week. smoking. tracted abroad has “signifi cantly respiratory expert, said a mas- Among 2,406 public places Fifteen hospitals in Beijing, risen” in China, a Chinese health sive outbreak of MERS in Chi- that were inspected, nearly including Tiantan Hospital, offi cial said. na was unlikely given a lack of 700 were given warnings and Xuanwu Hospital and other Mao Qun’an, spokesman for evidence on sustained human- were ordered to take prompt major medical institutions, the National Health and Family to-human transmission of the corrective action, according to have also received warnings. Planning Commission (NHF- virus. the Beijing Health Inspection An official with the Beijing PC), said that the estimate is Mao said the fi rst confi rmed Institute. Health Inspection Institute based on China’s close exchang- MERS patient in China, a man Restaurants had the high- said those hospitals failed to es with the Republic of Korea from the ROK, tested positive est rate of violations. Around post standard anti-smoking (ROK) and the Middle East, for the virus in Guangdong on 60 percent of the inspected signs and set up hotlines for and the commission has called May 29 and is in stable condi- diners had not enforced the the public to report any viola- for high alert and scientific tion as he slowly recovers. smoking ban. tions. (Photo 1) Greenhouse emissions may peak early: Report Another economic fugitive returned to China China’s greenhouse gas emis- even earlier, the report stated. Another suspect from Chi- market. sions could peak over fi ve years The researchers also say na’s “100 most wanted eco- He fl ed to Southeast Asia in earlier than expected, which will that if China’s greenhouse gas nomic fugitives” list was repa- October 2008. The municipal contribute to the eff ort of curb- emissions peak by 2025, they triated on Monday, the Peo- police learned that Sun was ing global warming, according to would reach between 12.5 and ple’s Procuratorate of Beijing hiding in Cambodia in May a report by two institutes at the 14 billion tons of carbon dioxide announced. and worked with the Cambo- London School of Economics. equivalent. Sun Xin, 46, and a former dia public security department Analyzing trends in the key China’s transformation has cashier of the Beijing munici- to locate him. emitting sectors, researchers profound implications for the pal bureau of press, is sus- Interpol’s National Central A model made by 3-D printing of the shared hip bone of 12-week- concluded that China’s green- global economy, and “greatly pected of embezzlement while Bureau of China released a list old conjoined twin girls after surgery that separated them at the house gas emissions are unlikely increases the prospects for at the bureau. He allegedly of 100 persons wanted world- Children’s Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai on June 9. The to peak as late as 2030, the upper keeping global greenhouse gas transferred money to his own wide in April, including 77 hospital pioneered the use of 3-D printing technology in the surgery, limit set by the Chinese govern- emissions within relatively safe company and used some of it men and 23 women allegedly sending data to a 3-D printing company to rebuild the anatomical ment last year, and are much limits,” according to the report. to play the futures and stock involved in corruption. structure of the conjoined body parts. PHOTO BY YIN LIQIN/FOR CHINADAILY more likely to peak by 2025, or (Photo 4)

NUMBERS Quotes $38.5 billion The whole world The amount of direct investment by China in should cooperate on the US last year. food security, as it is a global issue.’’ 9.42 Wang Yang, Chinese Vice-Premier million The number of Chinese high school graduates, slightly less than the population of Sweden, The move is part who took the national college entrance exami- of the campaign of nation, known as Gaokao. advancing the rule (Photo 5) of law.’’ Sun JunGong, spokesman for the Supreme People’s Court, on new litigation policy The owner of a private company delivered 660,000 yuan ($107,000) in 1-yuan coins to buy an SUV at a car dealership in Shenyang, Northeast China’s Liaoning province. PHOTO BY YANG DAHAI/FOR CHINADAILY CHINA DAILY CANADA Friday, June 12, 2015 ACROSS CANADA 13 HONG KONG GETS A BOOST

Hong Kong boost — TORONTO

Guests chat at the opening of the “Think Asia, Think Hong Kong” symposium held on Monday in Toronto. From right: Greater China CEO of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited Benjamin Hung; Senator Victor Oh; Canada’s Minister of International Trade Ed Fast; Chairman-designate of Hong Kong Trade Development Council Vincent H.S. Lo; Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR Government C.Y. Leung; Ambassador of the Embassy of China in Canada Luo Zhaohui; Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of Hong Kong Gregory So Kam-leung. NA LI / CHINA DAILY

Home fi eld advantage — TORONTO

Vincent Lo, chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, said Hong Kong’s strategic position gives it a natural advantage as a springboard for companies entering the Asian market. NA LI / CHINA DAILY

Two-way street — TORONTO Bright future —TORONTO Ed Fast, Canada’s minister of international trade, said the Canada-Hong C.Y. Leung, chief executive of the Hong Kong SAR Government, speaking at the “Think Asia, Think Hong Kong” symposium, said that the strong and longstanding connections between Kong partnership is a two-way street relationship, with Hong Kong Hong Kong and Canada, in business and in culture, off er the promise of a far more rewarding future for the two economies and the companies that drive them. NA LI / CHINA DAILY among the most important partners Canada has. NA LI / CHINA DAILY

Mutual cooperation — TORONTO

Ed Fast and Margaret Fong, executive director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, sign an agreement to promote increased bilateral commercial activity between Hong Kong and Canada. NA LI / CHINA DAILY

Panel speaker — TORONTO

James Thompson, chairman and founder of Crown Worldwide Group, Interested party — TORONTO speaks at a panel discussion during “Think Asia, Think Hong Kong” at the opening symposium held on June 8 in Toronto. NA LI / CHINA DAILY A professional service adviser from HKTDC speaks with a visitor interested in expanding business into Asia. NA LI / CHINA DAILY 14 TORONTO Friday, June 12, 2015 CHINA DAILY CANADA

Goings On

New partnership — MARKHAM, ON Cheque donation — RICHMOND HILL, ON

Guests gather at an event celebrating the partnership between MoneyGram, a leading global money transfer and payment Jack Tsui (fourth from right), president of Peak Garden Developments Inc, presents a cheque of $ 8,000 to Judy San services company, and Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) to provide money transfer services in China, on June 4 in (to Tsui’s left), president of Fu Hui Education Foundation (FHEF), at a press conference hosted by FHEF on June 10 in Markham. With the addition of PSBC to MoneyGram’s agent network and money transfer services to mainland locations, Richmond Hill. Founded in 2004, FHEF has assisted more than 4,000 Liangshan orphans especially girls enter into services are now available at over 20,000 locations in China. LI NA / CHINA DAILY senior high school and University. LI NA / CHINA DAILY

SAIL launch — MARKHAM, ON Cheongsam chic — MARKHAM, ON

Mao Haiyuan (third from right), president of Opearl Developments, joins guests from the Canadian and Chinese Liu Bing (back in white shirt), creator of the Global Chinese Cheongsam Image Giant Scroll, is joined by guests and governments at a launch of the SAIL project, one of the outcomes of the Sino-Canada bilateral trade relationship on organizers to kick off the scroll’s photo shoot in Canada on June 9 in Markham. The event, presented by the Tianjin June 6 in Markham. LI NA / CHINA DAILY Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, Nankai Alumni Association of Toronto and CNTV, will recruit 560 Chinese women to show the beauty of cheongsam from June 10 to 29. LI NA / CHINA DAILY

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CHINESE MARKET NEW RELEASE Director makes martial arts debut

By XU FAN the multiple-award winning filmmaker was admitted to A well-known name in hospital last year after work- Western film circles, Chinese ing too hard. director Chen Kaige has now In the trailers of the film, shot a martial arts movie for the major rules of Taoist dis- the first time in his 30-year cipline, such as vegetarian- filmmaking career. ism and abstinence, appear Chen shot to fame with to be broken by the protago- the 1985 drama Yellow nist, played by Chinese actor Earth. As one of the coun- Wang Baoqiang. try’s most influential direct- Wang is familiar to Chi- ors, Chen earned an nese viewers for his trade- international reputation in mark “silly” smile in a series the early 1990s, when his of comedy blockbusters, but movie Farewell My Concu- he is in fact a real kung fu bine won the Golden Palm practitioner. Wang started Award at the Cannes Film learning martial arts skills at Festival in 1993. It won a 6 years old and became a dis- Golden Globe for best for- ciple at Shaolin Temple at eign film a year later. age 8. He shot to fame in the The veteran director has entertainment industry for now turned his attention to playing the role of an immi- wuxia, a genre of martial grant worker in Feng Xiao- arts films. Wuxia films were gang’s A World Without some of the earliest Chinese Thieves in 2004. films to attract the attention Chen was criticized for of Western moviegoers but coarse special effects in his in recent years the genre has 2005 fantasy epic The Prom- been in decline. ise. That film is now regard- Hollywood’s second chance Only five of the 618 films ed as a turning point for released last year were mar- Chen to transform from an tial arts tales, according to art-house director to a com- the 2014 China Film Indus- mercial comedy filmmaker. try Report. Chen Hong, producer and wallets just to admire the visu- Chen’s upcoming wuxia the director’s wife, says they After struggling in al effects and spectacular sce- comedy drama, Monk Comes have hired Animal Logic, an the US box office, narios,” says Zuo Heng, deputy Down the Mountain, will hit Australian animation and director of cinema studies at mainland theaters on July 3, visual effects studio (The many films become China Film Archives. with more than 200 cinemas Great Gatsby, The Matrix), surprise hits in He adds that the skepticism releasing the title in the to design the picturesque over the popularity of foreign IMAX 3-D version. scenarios. China, but can the box office bombs will “wake Set in the turbulent period The big-budget film also up” some moviegoers and raise in the Republic of China delights fans with an all-star trend continue? their appetite for good stories. (1912-49), the story, based on cast, including Hong Kong Xu Fan reports. “After a round of fierce the namesake best-selling superstar Aaron Kwok, Tai- debate, people start to realize wuxia novel, features an wan veteran actor Chang they can have better choices,” adventure journey of a Cheng, Taiwan supermodel- as China become he says. young Taoist monk, who is turned actress Lin Chi-ling the knight in shin- China Daily film critic Ray- forced to leave his secluded and the Asian Film Awards’ H ing armor to save mond Zhou likens the current temple to avoid a famine. best actor winner Wang Hollywood flops? phenomenon to the boom of the Chen believes a movie Xueqi. That question, posed by a 1980s, when most Chinese only should be an “interesting” The story already has a sol- recent article in business mag- trusted foreign household appli- product and not only focus id fan base. The book behind azine Forbes, is raising eye- ance brands. Zhou also predicts on money. Chen says his lat- the movie was first pub- brows from blockbuster the number of “undiscrimina- est film, which took 213 days lished in 2007 and has a enthusiasts and industry Top: Mark Wahlberg plays Cade Yeager in Transformers: Age of Extinction. The winner of the worst ting” audiences will shrink in to shoot with more than score of 7.5 out of 10 from insiders in the world’s second- picture at the 35th Golden Raspberry Awards achieved great success in China. Above: Hollywood’s the years to come, when they 1,000 crew members, is the more than 2,300 readers on largest cinema market. sci-fi movie Tomorrowland premiered in China on May 26. It was hoped that the Chinese market would grow tired of commercial titles most “arduous” work he has Douban.com, one of China’s In a story headlined “Can save the struggling film. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY with mediocre plots. ever made. largest online review plat- China save Disney’s Tomor- Cultural differences can also “Every day (on sets) was forms. rowland?” Forbes suggests the go some way in explaining the like a practice for me. It has Most reviews sing praises Middle Kingdom has become taken by Japanese animation save other big-budget Holly- 35th Golden Raspberry Awards, phenomenon. been tough, but very excit- of the first half for the “inno- a second-chance “haven” for Stand by Me Doraemon, the wood movies that had poor the negative feedback did not “Science fiction movies are a ing,” the 63-year-old director vative narrative” but criti- big-budget Hollywood pro- $190 million Tomorrowland is receptions in the North Amer- stop it from becoming the sec- hit genre in North America. says. cize the second half as “a ductions that have struggled regarded as receiving a “so-so” ican and European markets. ond highest-grossing film in the Take Transformers 4 as an Rumors reported by Chi- failure” for the unravelling in their own markets. reception by Chinese industry The first Hollywood movie history of Chinese cinema, mak- example, many American fans nese media suggested that storyline. The article even predicts the insiders. to be “saved” by the Chinese ing nearly 2 billion yuan. are familiar with the original sci-fi movie Tomorrowland With an average score of market is widely recognized as Many Chinese movie fans version and are familiar with may be saved by the Chinese only 6 out of 10 on several the sci-fi film Pacific Rim. complain that the “upside- the robots through comic market, although this is begin- major movie-review websites, The movie suffered a 52-per- down” success of these films is books, the TV show and mov- ning to seem unlikely. the movie, having the same cent box office slump in North because they only get a limited ies. They find it difficult to tol- Despite the film’s major name with a theme land in the America in its second week in choice of good foreign movies. erate their beloved characters stars, George Clooney and Disneyland resort, has been July 2013. Surprisingly, it had This is because China only and classic plots in a new mov- Brittany Robertson and criticized by many moviegoers something of a “miracle” allows 34 foreign titles to have ie,” says Er Ku, a Beijing-based director Brad Bird flying to for looking like “an extended comeback in China, dominat- a cinematic release each year. film critic. Shanghai to build up hype version of an advertisement” to ing the box office for three Critics predict the trend of “But for the developing Chi- ahead of the Chinese main- promote the amusement park. weeks and grossing 600 mil- Hollywood flops finding a sec- nese market, which is lacking land premiere, the movie only Although China may fail to lion yuan, making China the ond life in China may be short- a mature franchise, people are grossed a soft 15.7 million yuan rescue Tomorrowland, the film’s largest overseas market. lived. happy just to see their animat- ($2.5 million) on the first day massive Chinese market, The 2014 sci-fi blockbuster “China’s movie market is ed childhood favorites on the of release on May 26. which sold 830 million tickets Transformers: Age of Extinc- expanding too fast. The major big screen, regardless if it’s a Compared to the 220 million in more than 5,100 cinemas tion,orTransformers 4 also moviegoers in third-and good adaptation or not.” yuan taken by Marvel’s super- nationwide to gross a record enjoyed success in the Chinese fourth-tier cities don’t really Chen Kaige and Taiwan actress Lin Chi-ling speak at a hero flick Avengers: Age of box office of 29.6 billion yuan market. Although it was given care if the movie tells a good Contact the writer at promotional event for the upcoming martial arts comedy Monk Ultron, and 88 million yuan last year, has been known to the worst picture award at the story. They will take out their [email protected] Comes Down the Mountain. JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY

AWARD Hong Kong actor Tony Leung receives French arts honor

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Consul General Arnaud Bar- sidered one of Hong Kong’s in Hong Kong thelemy praised Leung for his finest actors, especially in his achievements in acting and collaborations with Wong To his long list of accolades, thanked him for bringing such as Ashes of Time, Chung- Hong Kong actor Tony Leung together the cultures of France king Express and In the Mood is adding one with French fla- and Hong Kong. for Love. That role won him a vor. Leung said he wanted to best actor award at the Cannes France’s consul general share the honor because he Film Festival. made the 52-year-old actor an didn’t make his films alone. “I Their last film, the kung fu Officer of the Order of Arts think this honor should be epic The Grandmaster, was a and Letters at a ceremony on shared with all those who critical and commercial suc- Monday attended by Leung’s have worked with me in films cess. Hong Kong actor Tony Leung poses with his wife Carina Lau after wife, Carina Lau, and his for the last 30 years,” Leung France made Wong a Com- receiving the distinction of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters friends including director said. mander of the Order of Arts at the French Residence in Hong Kong on Monday. AFP Wong Kar-wai. Tony Leung Chiu-wai is con- and Letters in 2013. 16 Friday, June 12, 2015 EDITORIAL • OPINION

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WANG YIWEI ZHU QIWEN Slowdown price US has forced itself into strategic dilemma worth paying for

as the relationship between China and cies seriously, properly manage their differences and con- To some extent, Washington’s increasing unfriendly ges- sustainable future the United States reached “a tipping trol crises, otherwise they could end up being towed by tures, like flying its military planes over the South China point”? This question has become impor- small countries toward military confrontations, similar to Sea and the arrest of some Chinese scholars on allegations t is true that the Chinese economy tant at a time when the US seems to the ones that led to World War I. of espionage last month, reflect its rising concern over Bei- is slowing in a way that might be Hencourage some of China’s neighbors to Such being the case, the “new type of major power jing, which has become more confident of participating in I making its economic transforma- challenge Beijing’s legitimate interests in relationship” between China and the US, an idea pro- world affairs. The launching of the “Belt and Road Initia- tion towards steady but sustaina- the South China Sea. pounded by President Xi Jinping in 2013 on the principle tive” and the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure ble growth more painful than expected. Addressing Japan’s upper house of parliament on June of non-confrontation, mutual respect and win-win coop- Investment Bank, for instance, have made the US’ efforts However, the difficulty in advancing 3, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III audaciously, eration, could also be undermined by Washington’s to restrain China rather futile. reforms does not negate the necessity and wrongly, likened China to Nazi Germany citing the Asian allies like Manila. In this sense, the so-called tipping point does not indi- of them. South China Sea disputes in an obvious attempt to invite The US-led alliances played a vital role in maintaining cate any substantial change in either country’s strategic Looming deflation pressures and declin- Japan and the US to meddle in the region. Washington’s global hegemony as well as regional stability. strength. Instead, it shows the US’ attempts to maintain its ing trade have definitely troubled the On June 1, US President Barack Obama did concede that The US-Japan alliance, which put an end to Japan’s milita- hegemony is greatly hampering bilateral exchanges. world’s second-largest economy as it strug- “it may be that some of their (China’s) claims are legiti- rism and ensured the country’s peaceful development in Therefore, the tipping-point theory, even if not true, is a gles to pursue quality and innovation-led mate”,but he still urged China to stop construction work the postwar years, is a case in point. wake-up call to China and the US both to properly handle growth. China’s consumer price index, a on its own islands and islets. Of course, Obama turned a To avoid the Thucydides’ trap, or the inevitable clash their ties amid diplomatic tensions; it is a confusing over- main gauge of inflation, grew 1.2 percent blind eye to the fact that the Philippines and Vietnam have between a rising power and an existing one, China is not sup- statement as well. year-on-year in May, adding to concerns already built outposts on the reefs they illegally occupy in posed to challenge the US’ postwar leadership without giving Washington must realize that Beijing will not recklessly that downward pricing pressures may dis- the South China Sea. it a second thought. But the US should not seek to contain the challenge its leadership. It must also realize that it cannot courage consumption and investment to US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said at the Shangri- rise of China either by ignoring Japan’s right-wing tendency contain Beijing either because of the massive potential of further hurt growth. After registering a La Dialogue in Singapore that his country was “deeply in a bid to maintain its global dominance. their bilateral relations. China-US relations will not reach a 7.4-percent increase in 2014, the weakest concerned” over China’s land reclamation and the fear of What essentially is going wrong in the fading US hegem- tipping point should the two sides heed lessons from history annual expansion in 24 years, China’s gross further militarization of the islands. Even Japan, which ony is its exclusiveness. By seeing China as a latent threat and shelve their disputes in the light of long-term interests. domestic product growth in the first quar- has nothing to do with disputes in the South China Sea, is and a mighty challenger, the US has forced itself into a ter of the year further eased to 7 percent. trying to meddle in the waters by raising the issue at the strategic dilemma — Washington thinks it will either dam- The author is director of the Center for European Union Meanwhile, the latest statistics show, in just concluded G7 summit in Bavaria, Germany. age its credibility by not helping its allies or have to direct- Studies at Renmin University of China and a senior fellow the first five months of this year, the coun- History tells us that major powers should take emergen- ly confront Beijing to defend them. of Charhar Institute. try’s exports increased by only 0.8 percent while imports dropped by 17.2 percent year-on-year, with the volume of foreign trade down 7.8 percent. MICHAEL CLAUSS Compared to previous years when the Chinese economy was soaring by double- digit growth on the back of breakneck investment and rapid growth in exports, Work together for cooperative world order the country’s contribution to the global trade growth this year will be understanda- bly much more limited. he fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold But oversimplifying the correlation War in 1990 ushered in a huge new wave of glo- between the current decline in emerging T balization. Looking back after 25 years, we can markets’ exports and China’s ongoing eco- now see that this development produced a num- nomic slowdown as a sort of causation ber of clear winners. China is definitely among them: It underestimates the complexity of the glob- started off with a GDP the size of Belgium. Now its econo- al recovery. my is three times the size of Germany’s. Germany also First of all, a careful reading of the gained enormously. It gained freedom, peace and security growth prospect of the world economy is a and it seized new economic opportunities, not least in prerequisite for serious assessment of the China. Our trade with China is twice the size of China’s global trade situation. trade with Russia and several times the size of China’s Recognizing that “the economic recovery trade with any other European country. from the global financial and economic cri- When the world looks at China and Germany, there sis that broke out in 2008 has been unusu- are parallels that are striking. The world sees two behe- moths of manufacturing, of huge exports, two countries with a hard-working population, a strong emphasis on ... if China’s economic growth educational merit, and two cultures that value saving for becomes more sustainable in the future and long-term planning over a “buy now, pay later” mentality. coming years, there is really no There is no doubt that the global order is changing dra- need to exaggerate the current matically and that particularly China plays a crucial part in this process. Both Germany and China have enormous price we have to pay. gains to defend in this changing world order. In the com- ing years, we should seize opportunities to create a new WANG XIAOYING / CHINA DAILY quality in our relations. ally weak,” the Organization for Economic One of the main challenges is to make sure that all Stronger services sectors and stronger internal con- in our countries. Growing numbers of Chinese travelling Cooperation and Development recently responsible nations are embedded in one world order and sumption will be important to create a better balance in to Germany are a hopeful sign. However, there are signs slashed its forecast for global growth to 3.1 do not drift away into their separate universes. With this in our economies. However, both Germany and China must of a beginning stagnation when we look at traffic from percent this year, down from the 4.0 per- mind, Germany supports fixing institutions lagging behind maintain a leading edge in manufacturing to maintain Western countries to China. cent increase it projected in March. political and economic realities (IMF, UN Security Council) prosperity, not least to generate sufficient resources for We urgently need to increase the flow of people in both If the growth of global trade, including and takes an open and constructive approach towards new social justice. Germany has been working on the next directions. One important bottleneck are visa procedures emerging market countries’ exports, has institutions and initiatives. Our decision to join the AIIB as industrial revolution, named “Industry 4.0”,“marrying” on both sides. Concrete improvements in the process are anything to do with the performance of the the most important non-Asian member was driven by this manufacturing to the digital world. It will bring systemic important - and real: Most Europeans have shortened global economy, then one should not turn a motivation. Other initiatives worth exploring for deeper change to our economy and society. “Industry 4.0” is also a application procedures, also Germany. What we need blind eye to this OECD report that slashed cooperation are, the SCO, the BRICS Bank or the Belt and key component in China’s “Made in China 2025” plan. No even more is a different mindset - on both sides: We must its outlook for the United States, the Road Initiative. Germany is willing to work with China to other countries than Germany and China are better recognize that Europe and China are no security threat to world’s largest economy, from 3.1 to 2 per- advance an inclusive architecture that spans Europe and matched economically, technologically, mentally and even each other and have no issues with illegal immigration. cent this year while lowering its forecast Asia. It will be important to build this architecture with politically to cooperate in this field. This is a rare opportunity for enhanced exchange and for China by two-tenths of a percentage Russia, not around or without it. The Organization for However, there are still important areas where China cooperation in our increasingly volatile world. It should point from 7.0 to 6.8 percent. It is not diffi- Security and Cooperation in Europe should also play an and the West do not see eye to eye. The best way to over- not be squandered. cult to calculate which one will put a bigger important part. It is the only relevant organization that come distrust and misconceptions is giving as many peo- short-term drag on the world economy and includes North America, Europe and Asia. ple as possible the opportunity to go and see the reality The author is German Ambassador to China. global trade growth. Second, when examining the cause and consequences of the decline of emerging markets’ exports, one must not ignore the STEPHEN P. GROFF sharp decline in commodity prices in the second half of last year. The combination of lower prices of commodities and oil and the strong US New economic corridors catalyst for connectivity dollar have played a key role in depressing the value of exports from emerging mar- ket countries that have suffered deprecia- wenty-five years ago, Yunnan province was one stretching from Kunming through Laos and on to Bang- have been reaping enormous benefits. The old road was tion against the greenback, so there is of China’s most isolated and impoverished kok, and the other from Kunming to Hanoi – have been narrow and virtually impassible during the rainy season. little reason to list China as the major T regions, due to its inland location and mountain- developed, forming the backbone of the GMS north-south The new all-weather road provides a crucial lifeline, giv- source of concern. ous terrain. Its roads were poor, its communica- economic corridor, a key building block in an Asia-wide ing families in the 76 villages along the route better access Third, when evaluating China’s role to tion infrastructure was underdeveloped, and trade with tapestry of trade routes that are propelling the region’s to life-saving health services and better jobs. It is making the global recovery, one should look at not southern neighbors was negligible. economic growth. it easier for children to get to school, improving enrol- only the short-term pain but also the long- Today Yunnan’s capital, Kunming—the grand city of The challenge now facing GMS countries is cutting the ment and retention rates. term gain that the country’s economic “merchants and artisans” described by Marco Polo—is red tape. One-stop customs and harmonized quarantine Tourist visits are also skyrocketing, providing a new restructuring will bring about for itself and reclaiming its position as a major regional trade hub. administration need to be introduced at all borders to source of income and a much better of standard of living the world. Commerce is once again thriving, and people are prosper- ensure goods, people and vehicles can move freely. Logis- for people in countless villages. All along the road, fami- Actually, China bought more bulk com- ing like never before. tics need to be improved, and GMS nations must create a lies once bound to a life of poverty due to their isolation modities of crude oil and grain in the first Improved connectivity has been a cornerstone of Yun- better business environment that encourages the private can now tap new opportunities. Earnings for families five months, but imports of iron ore and nan’s transformation. The narrow trails traveled by 13th sector to more actively invest in trade and industry. along the corridor are now 50 percent higher than other coal shrank, with prices of major goods century traders have given way to modern expressways Progress is already being made on these fronts. Today households’ earnings, enabling many families to finally down. Imports of oil increased 4 percent that are driving trade. As recently as 1990 it was virtually Mekong nations are planning the next quantum leap for- escape the poverty trap. year on year to 134 million tones, but iron impossible to ship goods overland from Yunnan to nearby ward–anewerawhere goods and people will easily criss- Just as the ancient Silk Road promoted interchange and ore lost 1.1 percent to 378 million tones, Thailand, necessitating a six-week journey, via Hong cross borders, and where a new communication better understanding between Chinese, Southeast Asian, data showed. Kong, to reach Bangkok. Today it takes just two days, and superhighway network will give rise to thriving e-com- central Asian and Western civilizations, so too can new Such changes might be early signs that overland trade between Yunnan and its neighbors is merce between GMS nations. If GMS countries continue economic corridors serve as a catalyst for greater connec- the Chinese economy is shifting away from booming. to make meaningful strides on these fronts, their progress tivity between nations, and stronger bonds between their its dependence on investment toward con- Yunnan has played a pivotal role in the Greater Mekong over the next quarter century should be every bit as peoples. Through better cooperation, connectivity and sumption-led growth. And if China’s eco- Subregion (GMS). Since 1992 the six GMS nations sharing impressive as the last. mutual understanding, the GMS program—in tandem nomic growth becomes more sustainable in the Mekong River – Cambodia, China (specifically Yunnan Perhaps the most important legacy of the GMS eco- with other initiatives in central and south Asia— can help coming years, there is really no need to province and Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region), Laos, nomic corridors is the role they have played in transform- pave the way for a new age of prosperity, innovation and exaggerate the current price we have to pay. Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam – have pursued a pro- ing the lives of people living along them. Since the progress. gram of economic cooperation and improved connectivity completion of the Kunming-to-Bangkok route, for exam- The author is a senior writer with China to foster greater prosperity to the subregion. ple—a modern highway cutting through a previously iso- The author is the Asian Development Bank’s vice-presi- Daily. Under this program, two modern expressways – one lated corner of Laos—communities all along the corridor dent for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. [email protected] 18BUSINESS Friday, June 12, 2015

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OVERVIEW INVESTMENT SURVEY Impact of economic slowdown on European companies in China

Unit: % Optimistic Neutral Pessimistic More anti-graft steps PBOC pares Growth prospects Note: Percentage of respondents selecting the “not applicable’ option is not available.

100 3365 8needed to regain trust

17 By WU YIYAO in Shanghai more than two-thirds of the economic 80 18 22 [email protected] respondents from the Chinese 27 mainland said their willing- 60 34 Though Chinese companies ness to work may be reduced if have strengthened their anti- the employers are involved in fraud and anti-corruption pol- bribery and corruption. growth goal 40 icies after the nationwide anti- Sisley Wong, a 36-year-old graft campaign started in marketing officer with a food 2013, they still need to do a lot company in Shanghai, said: “It Policy boost expected effects of already-announced 20 more to regain their employ- is clear that the anti-graft cam- policies will become evident ees’ trust, a new report said on paign will be a long one, and to become evident starting in the third quarter. 79 76 71 68 58 Wednesday. the checks, both internal and Recoveries in the United 0 The study, conducted by external, may expand to every during third quarter States and European econo- 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 global consultancy firm Ernst sector. We have seen cases in mies are likely to support & Young, highlighted the which employees were sacked By CHEN JIA China’s export rebound. In 22 22 10 11 16 need for companies to plug after businesses saw their per- [email protected] addition, the rise of housing the loopholes in policy enact- formance and reputation nos- prices since April will accel- ment and enforcement. EY ediving due to corruption. So The People’s Bank of China erate property investment, said its findings are based on working for a company that is has lowered its full-year GDP according to the report. 78 78 90 89 84 responses from 1,508 compa- not clean enough is actually growth forecast to 7 percent Major economic figures nies across Asia, including quite risky.” from the previous estimate for May are scheduled to be Source: European Union Chamber of Commerce in China 250 from the Chinese main- Enforcement of policies, Ye s N o Investment shift of 7.1 percent issued in released by the National LIU LUNAN / CHINA DAILY land. however, needs to be much December as first-half eco- Bureau of Statistics on It found that companies stronger as many respondents nomic momentum turned Thursday, and analysts’ con- now have a much higher per- felt that due to the slow eco- out to be weaker than sensus is for some slight ception about compliance nomic growth, decision-mak- expected. improvement. EU firms take dimmer view than before, with the need for ers at some companies may “But we have reason to Credit ratings agency stricter rules to curb unethical resort to bribery and other expect some modest recov- Moody’s Investors Service behavior like fraud and cor- unethical measures to boost ery in sequential growth in Inc released a report on By LI XIANG The proportion of EU compa- medium-sized companies ruption. In China, about 66 business. the second half,” said the Wednesday, saying that the [email protected] nies that ranked China as the with fewer than 250 employ- percent of respondents said About 48 percent of respon- updated mid-year report by number of companies in Chi- top investment target, or ees. The rest were large multi- their companies had been dents in the Chinese mainland the central bank. na in financial distress will Optimism about growth even put it among the top national corporations. influenced by the ongoing said some of their colleagues The PBOC also slashed its rise as slower domestic eco- and profitability in China three, shrank to 59 percent in Weak sentiment among anti-graft campaign. who carried out unethical forecast for con- nomic growth and among companies from the all, a 9-percentage-point drop European investors sparked The anti-graft actions have practices had been promoted, sumer price infla- the government’s European Union has from last year. worries that their plans to prompted enterprises, be they instead of being punished. tion to 1.4 percent reform agenda, dropped to a record low, with Rising labor costs, which scale back may put even more multinationals, public compa- Nearly half of the respondents from 2.2 percent intended to allow an increasing number plan- did not even make the list of downward pressure on the nies or private sector ones, to said that their companies’ previously. And it markets to play a ning to cut jobs in the nation, top 10 business challenges in Chinese economy, which is rethink their anti-bribery and existing anti-bribery and anti- cut a number of oth- “decisive” role, a survey by the European China last year, was ranked growing at the slowest rate in anti-corruption strategies, corruption policies are not up er key forecasts: expose over- Union Chamber of Com- second this year. The eco- the past two decades. including extending training to the mark. • Exports: To 2.5 stretched balance merce in China showed on nomic slowdown in China Watson Liu, a senior part- and using more proactive Whistleblowers also had percent growth sheets in the corpo- Wednesday. was ranked the top business ner at Roland Berger, said tools to prevent unethical concerns over insufficient from 6.9 percent Ma Jun, chief rate sector. The survey found that 39 challenge in the survey. that the negative impact of behavior, said Emmanuel Vig- legal protection and lack of previously. economist at “But policy easing percent of EU-based compa- European companies’ job nal, leader of China operations confidentiality when consid- • Imports: To a the People's and government nies — a record high — plan cuts might not be as serious with fraud investigation & dis- ering reporting unethical 4.2 percent contrac- Bank of China support will prevent to cut costs in China this year, as assumed, because the sur- pute services at EY. behavior to regulators, and tion from growth of rising corporate dis- mostly by layoffs, compared 59 percent vey did not reflect some new Fraud and corruption pre- some enterprises even do not 5.1 percent. tress from escalat- with just 24 percent last year. of EU companies rank China as investment trends taking vention is no longer just a legal have an internal whistleblow- • Fixed-asset investment: ing to a level that would Nearly one-quarter of the a top investment destination place in the country. and compliance issue, but er hotline to handle the To a rise of 12.6 percent from cause systemic risk to the companies are pessimistic “European companies may something that affects recruit- issues. 12.8 percent previously. onshore and offshore mar- about their profitability be scaling back investment ment, talent retention and EY’s research found that the • Retail sales: To growth kets,” it said. prospects in China, accord- “Companies are laying peo- on some traditional labor-in- business continuity, said Vig- number of respondents who of 10.7 percent from 12.2 per- It added: “Room is also ing to the survey. A majority ple off and engaging in cost tensive sectors, but they are nal. were prepared to use such a cent. available for a further loos- (58 percent) of the respon- reduction plans to make boosting investment in new Employees have attached hotline had decreased signifi- Overall economic condi- ening of monetary policy dents remained optimistic them slimmer and better able emerging sectors such as the more importance to their cantly from 81 percent in 2013 tions are worsening because should macroeconomic con- about growth outlook, but to tackle the difficult business advanced and intelligent employers’ righteousness, as to 52 percent in 2015. of a faster-than-expected ditions continue to deterio- that figure still represented a environment,” said Jorg manufacturing segment, slowdown of exports and rate, given that real lending 10-percentage-point drop Wuttke, president of the especially after China Fraud prevention initiatives by companies real estate investment, with rates and the reserve from last year, and it was the chamber. announced the strategy of Unit: % the lowest indicators since requirement ratio remain lowest since 2011. Wuttke said that while EU ‘Made in China 2025’ to 2015 2013 the global financial crisis in high.” EU companies in industri- companies are diversifying upgrade the domestic manu- 83 60 2008, Ma Jun, the central Compared with other al goods and services are the their investment to other facturing sector,” Liu said. Code of conduct bank’s chief economist, emerging markets, China least optimistic and hardest- markets, they remain com- The survey showed wrote in the report. has a more stable economic hit by the economic slow- mitted to China as there is increasing demand by EU 76 60 “Recently, the nonper- foundation, so the expected down. Companies in the “no second China” in sight firms for greater market Anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy forming loan ratio has been move by the US Federal professional services and that could compare in terms access, effective implementa- rising and commercial banks Reserve to raise interest consumer goods/services seg- of market scale and potential. tion of reforms and the rule of 68 52 have become more cautious rates will have merely a lim- ments have a brighter out- The survey was jointly con- law and better protection of Clear penalties for breaking ABAC policy about lending, especially to ited impact on the country’s look. ducted by the chamber and intellectual property rights. producers of coal, steel, con- financial system, the PBOC One-third of EU-based German consulting firm Internet issues such as 60 40 struction materials and report said. businesses said they will put Roland Berger Strategy Con- slow speeds and access Training on ABAC policy companies involved in However, capital outflows investment and expansion in sultants GmbH in February restrictions were cited in the 55 53 export-oriented manufactur- and currency depreciation in China on hold. and March. They surveyed survey as impediments to ing and real estate,” Ma said. other emerging economies China’s position in the 541 EU companies. productivity, data exchange, Whistleblower hotline The PBOC did, however, may cut China’s exports, it rankings as a target for About 60 percent of the research and innovation of Note: 1,508 companies surveyed in 2015, and 681 surveyed in 2013 forecast that the positive said. investment has also declined. respondents were small and EU companies. Source: Ernst & Young LIU LUNAN / CHINA DAILY

MARKETS MSCI defers decision on inclusion of A shares in global benchmark

By XIE YU in Hong Kong kets Index as soon as the issues The decisions following the ket, the inclusion may happen said: “Although A shares have including finance, informa- [email protected] are resolved, which may hap- two reviews more or less fol- as early as the fourth quarter, yet to meet MSCI’s and FTSE’s tion technology, and energy pen “outside the regular lowed similar patterns. Con- market sources said. emerging markets classifica- are the direct beneficiaries, Global index compiler MSCI schedule” of its annual market cerns still exist over market “Our expectation is that the tion standards, an increasing based on the experiences of Inc said on Wednesday that it classification review, it said in tradability, referring to specif- An increasing Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock number of overseas funds other markets like South had delayed including the Chi- a statement on Wednesday. ic issues including quota allo- Connect scheme could be have considered including A Korea. But the impact on nese A shares in its bench- The yuan-denominated A- cation process, capital number of over- unveiled in the near future shares in their portfolios.” liquidity will be limited in the mark index as there were still share market, the second-larg- mobility restrictions and ben- and could be up and running MSCI’s rival FTSE short term, whether or not the some issues over market est equity market by capitali- eficial ownership of invest- seas funds have in the fourth quarter. If our announced the creation of two A shares are included in the access, but said that it was zation (following the United ments, according to the press considered includ- expectations prevail, a key pre- transitional emerging market MSCI benchmark,” said Zhu working with the nation’s cap- States market) and the most release. requisite for A-share inclusion indexes that included A shares Zhenxin, an analyst with Min- ital market regulator to actively traded cash equity However, analysts said the ing A shares in to global indexes will be ful- in late May, which aims to sheng Securities Co Ltd. address the issue. market globally, had missed wording of the MSCI state- filled, and could open a special facilitate the potential inclu- The initial inclusion will see MSCI and the China Securi- its first opportunity in 2014 to ment indicated global inves- their portfolios.” review by the MSCI,” Goldman sion of A shares to FTSE’s stan- A shares taking up less than 1 ties Regulatory Commission join the MSCI Emerging Mar- tors have recognized the Sachs Group Inc strategist dard global indexes. percent of the Emerging Mar- will form a working group to ket Index, after it was picked substantial progress regard- Steve Yang, A-share strategist at Kinger Lau and his team The benchmark Shanghai ket Index, and may introduce tackle the remaining accessi- for an annual review. The ing China’s equity market UBS Securities LLC wrote in a note on Wednesday. Composite Index slid 0.15 per- about $2 billion funds, below 1 bility issues and the index pro- index is tracked by roughly opening-up. Given that some Steve Yang, an A-share strat- cent to 5,106.04 points on percent of the daily turnover vider will include the A shares $1.7 trillion of funds globally, of them even have made egist with Swiss financial ser- Wednesday after the news. on China’s equity market in the MSCI Emerging Mar- according to Bloomberg data. attempts to embrace the mar- vices firm UBS Securities LLC, “Blue chips in sectors nowadays. CHINA DAILY CANADA Friday, June 12, 2015 BUSINESS 19

Talking business Quotes of the day Mobilizing idle hands during a downturn Some of the nations By LI XIANG He made some money during the car-hailing service. And I found States — are examples of the fact existing public transportation regu- along the years when the property market Zheng was not alone. that innovation and information lations but also the traditional taxi ar-hailing apps are popular boomed. Drivers I have talked to, ranging technology deserve appreciation as business which is mostly controlled routes of in China these days for one Now his business has come to a from a furniture store owner, dealer they mobilize the existing resources by State-owned enterprises. the ‘Belt C obvious reason: they offer complete standstill because of the of construction equipment and — both cars and manpower — in Nonetheless, people’s enthusiasm and Road daily commuters private tough government regulations on even waste recycler, are mostly self- the most effective and low-cost way. remains strong. Drivers like Zheng car service as an alternative to the new construction projects and the employed small business owners. But then I began to wonder how are still willing to take the job Initiative’ lack stable power crowded public transport system declining property market value, They are in the private driving busi- long such popularity could last. despite the regulation risks. supplies, while at the same and the taxi service that is often in which have led to a significant drop ness for the same reason: their own Car-hailing service companies are Some of my friends have even shortage in steel demand. business is not doing well and they burning cash to attract clients and given up the idea of buying a car time, they have abundant But there is another appealing Although the driving job did not drive to make some extra money to to stay ahead of their rivals. It is because the private car service hydropower resources. The aspect of it: mobilizing the idle pay as much as he expected, Zheng cover daily expenses. doubtful whether such practices are saves them from parking troubles hands in society during the eco- appeared to be satisfied. He said he Didi Kuaidi, China’s largest taxi- sustainable in the long run, as the and the high expenses of car main- Silk Road Fund strongly nomic downturn. could make about 8,000 yuan hailing app provider by market market incentives would vanish if tenance and insurance. supports the development of Zheng is a driver I recently met ($1,300) per month and if he is will- share, claimed that it has 400,000 the companies stop subsidizing The bright part is that Shanghai while I took a ride home using the ing to work longer hours on both drivers for its private car services both drivers and users. is likely to become the first Chinese clean-energy projects.” car-hailing service. When I asked weekdays and weekends, he can and the number will exceed 1 mil- The rosy prospect has also been city to legalize the car-hailing apps Ding Guorong, deputy manager of him how the driving business had make up to about 12,000 yuan. lion by the end of the year. shadowed by the issue of legality of as it is already working with the the Silk Road Fund, which is been and why he was doing it, he “You know, this is much better In mega cities like Beijing with 21 car-hailing apps, especially private companies to include their services designed to finance China’s sighed a bit and said: “I am doing than sitting at home and doing million residents and some 5 mil- cars. Transport authorities in Bei- in a government-sponsored taxi- proposed “Belt and Road Initiative” this as a part-time job. My own nothing. My son is going to college lion cars, the number paints a jing have reiterated that private booking platform. Hopes are that it business has gone bad.” this year, so the extra money really promising future for the car-hailing cars offering unlicensed taxi ride could lead to a breakthrough Zheng, 39, is a steel wholesaler. helps make life easier,” he said. business. violate regulations. nationwide. He migrated to Beijing 20 years ago After talking with Zheng, I began The popularity and success of The governments appear to be from a small village in Sichuan to conduct similar surveys on other companies such as Didi Kuaidi and hesitant on embracing the new ser- Contact the writer at province to start his own business. drivers whenever I used the private Uber - its rival from the United vice as it challenges not only the [email protected] As the bull run continues in Shanghai and Shenzhen, it is important to consider What’s news whether the proceeds are being invested in business development. This will be a Ten Bosch, a replica Dutch village that had bled money for more than a key factor in deciding decade, Sawada said he had whether the economy main- improved attendance enough that it now accounts for almost half of the tains stable growth in the GOVERNMENTS AND POLICIES profit at H.I.S. second half of the year.” NDRC approves $2.7b in aviation projects Zuo Xiaolei, chief economist of Foundem claims Google China Galaxy Securities The National Development and is ‘feigning ignorance’ Reform Commission has approved A price-comparison website that four new airports, and an experi- helped trigger a European Union mental aviation project, worth a antitrust complaint against Google total investment of 16.84 billion Inc has accused the search-engine of yuan ($2.71 billion), according to an deliberately feigning ignorance The Shang- announcement posted on its web- about what’s at stake in the case. site. The airport projects are in Foundem, one of the first companies hai govern- Shache and Ruojiang, in Xinjiang to complain to the EU about Google, ment has Uygur autonomous region, Wudali- said the search engine’s blog formed an anchi in Heilongjiang province, and response to an April 15 statement of Haikou in Hainan province. The objections misleadingly referred to initial plan experimental project is at the China “a ton of competition” from services foranew Academy of Civil Aviation Science such as Amazon.com Inc and EBay and Technology in Beijing. Inc. round of financial reforms, which will create better link- Development fund for Italy’s Banca Popolare agebetweenthefreetrade New Area in Guizhou prepares for mergers area and the city’s financial A development fund focusing on the Banca Popolare di Milano Scarl, urbanization of Gui’an New Area, in Flexible laptops Italy’s oldest cooperative bank led community. The reforms Guizhou province, has been approved by Chief Executive Officer will focus, particularly, on by the National Development and Models pose with the flexible YOGA range of Lenovo laptops during their launch in Bengaluru, India, on Tuesday. Leno- Giuseppe Castagna, has confirmed Reform Commission. The area is an vo launched two models, the YOGA 300 and YOGA 500 in India that day. MANJUNATH KIRAN / AFP the hiring of Citigroup Inc and Laz- development of the city’s emerging economic zone located ard Ltd to advise on potential capital markets.” between the cities of Guiyang and mergers as it converts to a joint Anshun. The fund will be able to raise stock company. “The move is a sign Tu Shaoguang, vice-mayor of capital through private placement that the process of consolidation is Shanghai from institutional investors including Merchants Holdings International Shanshui Cement said in a state- months of this year, making Beijing getting underway,” said Giovanni enterprises, banks, social security Co are believed to be competing to ment in Hong Kong. the largest consumer of Brazilian Razzoli, an analyst at Equita Sim funds and insurance companies. buy a stake in Turkey’s container crude, said daily newspaper Folha SpA who has a buy recommenda- terminal Kumport, according to 49 firms facing bond de Sao Paulo on Tuesday. It said Bra- tion on the stock. industry sources. Oman’s finance zil exported 5.4 million metric tons ministry, which owns the stake, is in repayment problems of oil to China from January to May, China’s talks with bidders over a sale of China Datang Corp and Baoding accounting for 35 percent of Brazil’s Panasonic to buy Bayer about 36 percent of the entire port Tianwei Yingli New Energy Resour- total oil exports in the same period, diabetes devices arm future econ- facility which could value the sale at ces Co are among 49 Chinese com- twice as much as its exports to the Bayer AG has agreed to sell its dia- omy will be United States. COMPANIES AND MARKETS about $1.1 billion, said the sources, panies facing potential difficulties betes devices business to Panasonic a successful FDG completes initial who added an agreement could be with $12 billion in bond payments Healthcare Co, a joint venture signed by the end of the month. this year. The number of publicly backed by buyout firm KKR & Co, combina- phase of battery plant None of the parties involved offered traded firms based in China with for 1 billion euros ($1.15 billion). The tion of tra- FDG Electric Vehicles Ltd, the Hong comment. net losses, falling revenue, and net business makes blood-glucose moni- Kong-based electric car maker, has debt more than 150 percent of equi- toring systems and lancing devices ditional business values and completed the first phase of a 4.6 bil- Shanshui Cement says ty, jumped to 49 by Dec 31 from 38 a for people with diabetes, the Ger- digital capabilities. All busi- lion yuan ($750,000) lithium ion bat- year earlier, according to fresh finances under scrutiny AROUND THE WORLD man firm said in a statement on tery production base in Tianjin, Bloomberg data. Tianwei Yingli, Sawada reverses Japan Tuesday. Chief Executive Officer nesses will have to embrace believed to be the largest of its type in China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd with notes due in October, is among Marijn Dekkers is selling peripheral the electronic age, which will the Chinese mainland. The company said some banks have halted offer- the riskiest borrowers, according to park’s performance units as he focuses on more lucra- will also invest 4.7 billion yuan in a ing it new loans, and suppliers are China International Capital Corp. Light shows and pirate rides have tive life-sciences businesses. In addi- be dominated by big data new energy-vehicle project, it said. demanding immediate repayment, helped pull a bankrupt theme park tion to the diabetes sale, the and cloud computing.” after a court put one of its main Brazilian exports morp on Japan’s western island of Kyushu company plans to list its plastics CVC, China Merchants shareholders into receivership. back to profitability, said Hideo unit on the stock market. Zhang Yong, CEO of Alibaba Some joint venture partners have crude oil to China Sawada, also the founder of H.I.S. Group Holding Ltd to bid for Kumport stake also said they wanted to review their Brazil’s oil exports to China Co, Japan’s largest listed travel CHINA DAILY - XINHUA - CVC Capital Partners and China relationship with the company, increased threefold in the first five agent. Five years after buying Huis REUTERS - BLOOMBERG SOURCE: 163.COM

OVERVIEW Goldman’s Blankfein expects US economy to grow 3%

By CHEN JIA “I am optimistic about the future and it should be more open to the based on the economic power “Companies should take advan- [email protected] economy,” he said, adding that there idea,” said Blankfein. “Also we changes. tage of the investment treaty and would be some complaints about should welcome the changes in the Qian Yingyi, director of the use it to make tangible contribu- Economic growth in the United the government’s policies during voting rights in global organizations School of Economics and Manage- tions for closer cooperation between States will see a slight recovery to 3 the upcoming presidential elec- such as the IMF.” Companies should ment at Tsinghua University, said the two nations,” said Blankfein. percent this year, compared with tions. China’s movement into the that both China and the US need However in the short term, it may 2.4 percent last year, the top official Responding to queries on the Bei- upper reaches may be the top line take advantage of more communication at various lev- not be that easy to reach a consen- of a leading US brokerage said on jing-led Asian Infrastructure Invest- of economic power in the world. els, especially driven by dialogue sus, he said. Wednesday. ment Bank, Blankfein said it was Though it is the reality, it does not the investment trea- between top leaders, to further For the US, some industries that Though the deleveraging in the important for China to expand its mean that it is all about benefiting ty and use it to make enhance cooperation in economic are not so successful may lose in the US consumption and financial sec- role in the global governance sys- China. Instead it means responsi- and political aspects. competition with Chinese compa- tor after the economic crisis took tem. bilities and capabilities in a man- tangible contribu- The Bilateral Investment Treaty, nies, and it will result in unemploy- longer than expected, the lower The new lender, which is focused ner that China can jointly an agreement between the two ment. unemployment rate suggests that on financing infrastructure con- underwrite the global economic tions...” countries that seeks to open indus- At the same time, the opening-up the worst might have passed, said struction in Asia, has 57 prospective order, according to Blankfein. tries for bilateral direct investment, can also help enrich the US markets Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO founding members, with the US He stressed that the global gov- Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and will be a crucial step in bolstering with more supplies of manufac- of Goldman Sachs, at an event in being the notable absentee. ernance structure of the post -World CEO of Goldman Sachs Sino-US relationship, according to tured products, and thereby help Tsinghua University. “I think the US made a mistake, War II order needs to be readjusted Qian. reduce US inflation, he said. Friday, June 12, 2015 CHINA DAILY CANADA

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HISTORY THE GREAT ESCAPE The dramatic story of how Chinese guerillas rescued Donald Kerr, a young US pilot shot down over wartime Hong Kong, will soon be released as a movie. Zhao Xu met with Kerr’s son to hear about his father’s dangerous journey home.

or Dave Kerr, the dis- River Column Memorial Hall covery of two nails in in Pingshan, Guangdong the wall of a small kiln, province, face to face with his For “charcoal cave”, in father’s cartoons and thank the mountains of Hong Kong you letter. He recognized the was a revelation. drawings immediately because “A charcoal cave is where the family owns several others wood is burned to make char- that depict the escape. coal. Only one being used to Dave Kerr was also given hide someone would need a contact numbers for the East blanket as a door,” the North River Column Family Associa- Carolina native said. “My tion, of which both Jiang Shan father wrote about the blanket and Deng Liping are members. in his memoir and although he He and his family visited did not mention the nails spe- Deng Bin, Deng Liping’s father. cifi cally, I can think of no other “In the summer of 2009, my way to hold the blanket over then 87-year-old father pointed the door except to use nails. out the rock cave on the moun- “Finally, there’s the proof taintop to Dave,” Deng Liping — proof that my father once said. spent some of the most memo- “Before Dave came, I knew rable days of his entire life in nothing about the rescue, this place, inside this small, which, frankly, is a shame. round room with fire-glazed That’s why I decided to go walls.” ahead with the documentary On Feb 11, 1944, Kerr’s father – to pay tribute to our forefa- Lieutenant Donald W. Kerr, thers, to their cooperation and took off from an airbase in Gui- heroism,” Deng Liping said. lin in South China in his single- “What impressed me most engine P-40 fi ghter plane. during the entire shooting It was 10 months before the process was how meticulous end of World War II, and Japan Dave was with all the details. still controlled a large part of Every time we were in the China and the Pacifi c region. mountains of Sai Kung, he Kerr, who had been sent pinpointed everything by use to China after the bombing of a compass, and refused to of Pearl Harbor in December believe anything – for example, 1941, was a member of the US the specifi c location of a hiding Army’s 14th Air Force, partly cave – unless there was con- formed from the remnants of crete evidence. the legendary “Flying Tigers” “Everything about him, squadron. US pilot Lieutenant Donald Kerr with his rescuers at the East River Column headquarters in Tuyang, Guangdong province. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY including his decisiveness and His mission was to bomb his strong sense of direction, Hong Kong’s Kai-Tak Airport, makes me think of the US lieu- which had become a Japanese tenant I never had the oppor- airbase after the city fell on Dec tunity to meet,” he said. 25, 1941. “The Allies sent 32 planes, ‘The small boy’ including 20 fighters and 12 In early 2009, Dave Kerr and bombers,” said Liu Shen, a his elder brother Andy visited documentary director-cum- a retirement home in Mong- amateur historian who has kok, Hong Kong. There, the spent more than two decades brothers placed a Flying Tigers’ unearthing the lesser-known insignia in the hands of Li Shi, wartime history of Hong Kong “the small boy” of their father’s and the surrounding area. memoir. “It was the fighter pilot’s “Li had had a stroke and job to protect the bombers. couldn’t speak. But when he Lt. Kerr had just shot down a saw my brother Andy, who Japanese fi ghter plane when closely resembles my father, he his plane was hit by incendiary started to cry,” Dave Kerr said. bullets and caught fi re.” Li died later the same year. The journey also took His memoir Dave Kerr to the cemetery in With no other choice, Kerr Guangdong where Li Zhaohua parachuted. As he later wrote is buried. in his memoir, “pictures “He has visited twice, the last fl ashed through my mind like time was in February,” Jiang that of a drowning man”. said. “I gave him a photo of my The memoir, which has nev- A fi le photo of US pilots and a P40 fi ghter plane bearing the shark-face logo of the Flying Tigers. The mother, which he now carries er been published, is believed aircraft was the same type that Donald Kerr fl ew to bomb a Japanese air base in Hong Kong in 1944. in his pocket. It’s a talisman to have been written in the for his family – that’s what he days immediately follow- Andy Kerr, a son of US pilot Donald Kerr, is interviewed by the said.” ing Kerr’s rescue. It was fi rst Kerr drew, depicting how the was determined to join her crew of the documentary Take Me Home in September 2014 in Referring to black-and- brought to his son’s attention boy “pattered along on his rub- native country’s fi ght against Pittsburgh at the birthplace of his father. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY white photos taken during his in 1982, fi ve years after Kerr’s ber-soled shoes with no appar- the invaders,” Jiang, a retired father’s stay at Tuyang, Dave death at age 62. ent eff ort” under the hot sun, policeman, said. Kerr said: “Before my father’s “Rather than falling to the followed by Kerr who “stum- As usual,my gun “She became a member of where he spent nearly two until both are together, then military stint, he was a com- ground in Kai-Tak to ‘a circle bled and staggered”, “puffi ng the East River Column, a guer- weeks protected around the explode the bomb. Everyone mercial photographer, having of angry J-boys’, my father like a freight train”. was ready—and rilla force, led by the Commu- clock by five guerrillas, and dies’. My father was very hum- mastered the tricks of aerial landed in the mountains to the That event forms a crucial nist Party of China, and was was told that the Japanese had bled that they would take such photography. While his fl ying north of the airport because he part of Liu Shen’s documen- just as usual, I was sent to Hong Kong soon after put his parachute on display risks to help him escape.” skills brought him to China steered his ‘chute away from tary, Take Me Home, the fi rst the island’s fall in 1941. Her in a shop window in central Shortly after arriving in in time of war, his experience Kai-Tak, aided by a southern to tell the story, which took main job was to gather intel- Hong Kong. Nan’ao, Kerr was sent to Tuy- with a camera made sure the wind,” Dave Kerr said, quoting eight months to make and will desperately hoping ligence and raise donations for In his memoir, Kerr duti- ang about 10 kilometers away, story was recorded in images.” the memoir. have its premier in Beijing in the army. fully recorded the “variety of where the East River Column “However, as he jumped, he August. that I wouldn’t emotions” he felt when he saw was headquartered. He stayed Discovery was struck by the tail of his Liu is familiar with every The silent heroine some of his pursuers from the there for a few days, before In December 2009, Dave own plane, which broke his verifiable detail of Kerr’s have to use it.” “My mother never talked hideout. “… fear, hunger, and a embarking on a 10-day journey Kerr visited the “charcoal kiln” shoulder. In addition to this escape. about her meeting with Donald crick in my back,” he wrote. “As to Guilin, escorted by a member for the fourth time, accompa- were the severe burns he suf- “After hiding the pilot in Donald Kerr, US pilot Kerr or the rescue until very usual, my gun was ready – and of the British Army Aid Group, nied by his daughter Jeannette, fered on one leg and on his face a foxhole left by the British, late in her life,” the 63-year-old just as usual, I was desperately a paramilitary organization who was on her fi rst trip. in the very short time that he the boy, a member of the local said. “She took him to another hoping that I wouldn’t have for British and Allied Forces in “Up until that moment, I was in the burning plane. guerrilla organization East ... Neither dad nor hiding place and eventually to use it.” southern China during WWII had been 99 percent certain “People who visit Hong Kong River Column, went to a local’s asked two of her colleagues to founded by an Australian, that we had located the correct today might think it would be home, where he chanced upon I knew how to reach go there and fi nd him.” Beginning of the end Lieutenant Colonel Lindsay cave. That’s when Jeannette very easy to hide in the dense a fellow guerrilla member, a One of the men was Deng The anxiety ended on a star- Ride, after being rescued from spotted the nails,” he said. forests in the mountains, but lady called Li Zhaohua,” Liu our destinations... Bin, the father of Deng Liping. less night in early March, more a Hong Kong POW camp by Deng Liping witnessed the at that time all the trees and said. “Li went to Kerr’s hiding The younger Deng, a success- than 20 days after Kerr jumped Chinese guerrillas. moment. “They went into the bushes had been cleared for place that same night.” the people of China ful exporter, provided much- from his burning plane. Kerr arrived at the base in cave and didn’t come out until firewood. The land was very Kerr’s memoir describes Li needed financial support for “He was given a boat ride Guilin on March 29, 1944, after about 30 minutes later,” he said. barren and there were very few as “a smart girl” who was “no came forward to the documentary. across a rather secluded bay, extensive travel by train, ship, It was a profound moment places to hide,” he said. “When country lass”. “Neither of them understood from Sai Kung in Hong Kong truck and even bicycle. for Dave Kerr. “I was in the my father landed, he realized “I saw a Chinese girl dressed help.” English, so they took a hand- to Nan’ao on the Chinese main- “My father only told me the same place that had given my that he didn’t know which way in a tattered lot of rags and car- drawn map of the area, with a land,” Liu said. “There were full story once, when I was father such security,” he said. to run. He also knew a lot of rying a pole over her shoulder, Dave Kerr, son of Donald Kerr line of English words written two boats, one carrying the about 10,” Dave Kerr said. “After “Looking back, there’s a Japanese soldiers were look- with faggots of twigs standing at the bottom: ‘Come here, sir, pilot, the other loaded with his death, my mother typed remarkable parallel between ing for him because he could from each end,” he wrote. “She I bring you go home now!’ ” dynamite.” his handwritten memoir and my father’s escape and my see them.” whispered ‘friend, friend’ in rescuers led Dave Kerr to Li’s he said, quoting the scribbled This unusual arrangement before I got married, at the age search to fi nd the people who That’s when the US pilot met English, put down her burden son, Jiang Shan. message. “For the pilot, that didn’t go unnoticed, accord- of 28, I made my wife promise rescued him: Neither dad or I his fi rst savior, a small boy who and moved my careful cam- “Born in Malaysia as a sec- must have been the real turn- ing to Dave Kerr: “My father that we would to go to China knew how to reach our desti- looked up “from under a man- oufl age aside. She crawled in, ond-generation Chinese immi- ing point. That’s why we called asked, and was told that they someday.” nations, but in both cases, the sized, store-fresh hat” and ges- replaced the branches and grant, my mother returned our fi lm Take Me Home.” were no match for the Japa- He first visited China in people of China came forward tured for Kerr to follow him. began to talk.” to her ancestral home in However, before going nese in terms of either speed or 2005 after his company was to help.” That desperate dash for life Li Zhaohua died in 1999, at Guangdong province in early home, Kerr was forced to hide gun power. One guerrilla told purchased by a Chinese busi- is powerfully evoked by one of age 75, nearly 10 years before 1939, just across a narrow strip in a variety of places, including my father, ‘If the Japanese try ness, but in 2008, he found Contact the writer at the true-adventure cartoons the search for his father’s of water from Hong Kong. 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