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Tactical transfers NATION Overriding task PUTTING ITS BEST in Hong Kong is SPORTING FOOT FORWARD ‘to stop violence’ ◆ Olympic medals no longer Challenging ‘one country, two systems’ principle sole gauge of achievement will not be tolerated, official says at symposium By SUN XIAOCHEN in Beijing and WU YONG in Shenyang The central government will not Inside sit by if the situation in Hong Kong he sweltering summer heat deteriorates to a point that the Hong • See more, page 4 didn’t stop runners from Kong Special Administrative • Editorial, page 9 T taking to the track at Olym­ Region government cannot handle, pic Forest Park in north Beijing on a Zhang Xiaoming, director of the Radical protesters vandalized recent Saturday afternoon. Hong Kong and Macao Affairs public buildings, besieged police Built for the 2008 Summer Olym­ Office of the State Council, said at a stations and desecrated the national pics, the park features a 10­kilometer symposium in Shenzhen, Guang­ emblem and the national flag. Any track that wends part of its way along­ dong province, on Wednesday. act challenging the “one country, side a lake. It has become highly pop­ The central government has suffi­ two systems” bottom line will not be Members of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force interact with soldiers from the National Guard ular with runners since China began cient capabilities to quickly quell tolerated, Zhang said. of Kyrgyzstan during a joint counterterrorism exercise in Urumqi, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous promoting physical fitness among possible unrest as empowered by the Bringing peace and order back to region, on Wednesday. The exercise, which started on Tuesday, is the first joint drill conducted by the population in the post­Games era. Basic Law of Hong Kong, Zhang said. Hong Kong is a shared aspiration of security forces of the two countries and will last about 10 days. WANG JING / CHINA DAILY See story, page 5 Kang Xu, a running enthusiast who “The most press­ the majority of the people, Zhang said. has completed more than 20 mara­ ing and overriding The key to navigating out of tur­ thons, said spending time at the park task at present is to moil is to support Chief Executive has become his weekend routine. stop violence, end Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet­ngor and the chaos and restore the police in enforcing the law rigor­ Mainland movie industry skips Taiwan order, so as to safe­ ously and decisively, he said. guard our homeland Patriotic forces can also play a piv­ Zhang and prevent Hong otal role in steering the city out of film festival as cross­Straits ties worsen Xiaoming Kong from sinking the storm as they are a main force in into an abyss,” Zhang safeguarding stability and prosperi­ said, adding it is fac­ ty, Zhang added. By ZHANG YI last year’s 228, according to the Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for “If I miss a running session on ing “the most serious Key representatives attending the [email protected] organizing committee. the State Council Taiwan Affairs Saturday I feel uncomfortable and situation” since its symposium included Hong Kong law­ The Golden Horse Awards are Office, said in November after the even guilty the next day,” said Kang, return to the mother­ makers, deputies to the National Peo­ China’s film regulator has sus­ one of three major film honors in event that film industry profes­ editor of Front Runner, a popular land in 1997. ple’s Congress and members of the pended participation of mainland the Chinese­speaking region — the sionals on both sides of the Straits long­distance running magazine. Speaking to about National Committee of the Chinese movies and personnel in the 56th two others are the Golden Rooster should oppose such pro­indepen­ The enthusiasm for running Wang 550 dignitaries from People’s Political Consultative Confer­ Golden Horse Film Festival in Tai­ Awards on the mainland and the dence acts and remarks. among people in urban areas under­ Zhimin a wide cross­section ence and members of central govern­ pei in November amid rising ten­ Hong Kong Film Awards. Mainland He said the festival is a platform lines the country’s ever­increasing of Hong Kong socie­ ment institutions in Hong Kong. sions across the Taiwan Straits. participants have been big winners for film professionals across the passion for fitness. This has been ty, Zhang said the central govern­ Director of the Liaison Office of the China Film News, a magazine since they began attending the Straits to communicate with each inspired by the central govern­ ment is highly concerned about the Central People’s Government in the published by the China Film event in 1996. Last year, they won other, but some political forces ment’s call to promote mass partici­ situation in the city and is closely Hong Kong SAR Wang Zhimin and Administration, reported the about 60 percent of the awards. made use of the occasion to create pation in exercise while boosting following developments there. Yang Jianping, deputy director of the news on Wednesday However, last year’s Golden political trouble. the sports industry to build a health­ Zhang’s remarks followed two ear­ office, also attended the symposium. Inside without giving any Horse Awards ceremony was The suspension follows a recent ier nation by 2030. lier news conferences by the office to Zhang’s comments were exactly reason for the sus­ overshadowed by “Taiwan inde­ travel policy change. The Ministry President Xi Jinping, while meet­ voice concerns about the turmoil in what was needed to boost the con­ Editorial, pension. pendence” remarks, triggering of Culture and Tourism ing with International Olympic Hong Kong. Since June 9, anti­extra­ fidence and morale of patriots, page 9 Chen Xing, a Tai­ discontent from mainland partici­ announced last week that the Committee President Thomas Bach dition bill protests have not only Wang said. wan studies profes­ pants and anger from the main­ issuance of permits for mainland in Beijing in January, said the over­ grown bigger and more widespread, sor at Beijing Union University, land public. individuals to travel to Taiwan all fitness level of the Chinese people but have also become more violent. See SAR, page 3 said the move was due not only to Documentary director Fu Yue, will be suspended starting in has improved significantly over the “Taiwan independence” remarks the best documentary award win­ August due to the current cross­ past 70 years. He also stressed that during last year’s award ceremo­ ner last year, said in her acceptance Straits relations. the scale of public sports participa­ ny at the festival, but also to the speech that her biggest dream is Ma said last week the Democrat­ tion represents a country’s move recent worsening of cross­Straits that “our country”— referring to ic Progressive Party’s “Taiwan toward modernization. relations. Taiwan — can be regarded as an independence” secessionist activi­ In his report at the opening session The organizing committee of the “independent entity”. ties led to the suspension of indi­ of the Communist Party of China’s festival in Taipei responded by let­ Mainland actress and jury chair vidual travel permits to Taiwan. 19th National Congress on Oct 18, ter on Wednesday that it was dis­ Gong Li later refused to join Tai­ “They have been constantly 2017, Xi urged the country’s sports appointed by the news but the wan­born director Ang Lee, head fomenting hostility toward the sector to extensively promote mass event would go on as scheduled. of last year’s executive committee, mainland and creating confronta­ fitness activities to accelerate devel­ A total of 148 feature films onstage to present the award for tion across the Straits, which opment of a strong sporting nation. have been registered with the best feature film, a move many destroyed the foundation and con­ festival this year, compared with interpreted as a protest. ditions for such travel,” he said. See Exercise. page 2 Report: More travelers prefer wildlife­friendly tours A design to restore the fire­ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris by Chinese architects Cai Zeyu and Li Sibei won The People’s Notre­Dame By YANG WANLI countries, including the United of Tourism and Sports, Chinese “China has made significant Cathedral Design Competition. PROVIDED BY GOARCHITECT [email protected] States, China, Germany, Australia, tourists accounted for 28 percent of efforts on wildlife protection,” Zhao the United Kingdom and Sweden. all foreign visitors to Thailand last said. “For example, it has banned the Elephant rides and shows in They found that 36 percent of Chi­ year, making 10.35 million visits. ivory trade since 2017. Under joint Thailand have become less popular nese travelers had ridden elephants Zhao said Chinese tourists’ efforts from the government and US­based Chinese architects win with Chinese tourists in recent in 2016 but only 23 percent had changing attitudes toward animal­ travel agencies, we can see a rise of years, according to a report released done so this year. The percentage of based entertainment will play a cru­ public awareness about animal pro­ Notre Dame redesign contest ahead of World Elephant Day — travelers who had watched elephant cial role in wildlife protection work. tection, which is very encouraging.” which falls on Monday — with most shows declined from 44 percent to According to the report, 84 per­ He said wildlife­friendly tours travelers now preferring animal­ 18 percent in the same period. cent of Chinese tourists said wild were becoming more popular By LIN QI submissions by designers from friendly tours. Last year, 37 percent of Chinese animals should live in the wild and among Chinese. [email protected] around the world. Experts said the trend showed travelers said riding elephants was 77 percent said they would prefer The organization released survey The voting process, The People’s public awareness of wildlife protec­ an acceptable form of entertain­ to watch wild animals in the wild if results in May that showed more Although the French Parliament Notre­Dame Cathedral Design tion was becoming stronger, which ment, a decline of 8 percentage possible. than 90 percent of Chinese travelers has voted to restore the fire­ravaged Competition, was organized by will benefit animal protection points compared with the previ­ Eighty­one percent of Chinese that participated in wildlife tours Notre Dame Cathedral to the way it California­based independent efforts around the world. ous year and below the global aver­ respondents agreed that tour oper­ overseas would say no to activities looked before it was engulfed by a publishing company GoArchitect. The report, released on Wednes­ age of 41 percent. ators should avoid activities that that might be bad for wildlife. blaze in April, designers from around The pair will receive a grand prize day by World Animal Protection — “Attitudes are changing among cause suffering to animals. “Wildlife protection needs the world have been sharing their cre­ of $1,000, according to its website. an international nonprofit organi­ Chinese tourists when it comes to By July, about 240 tourism com­ efforts from all of us, and we will ativity to give the 12th­century monu­ Cai and Li both work in Chicago zation — was based on several sur­ the use of wildlife in entertainment,” panies around the world, including keep updating such information, ment a modern redesign. for the US firm Skidmore, Owings & veys regarding wildlife­related said Zhao Zhonghua, head of the 15 in China, had removed wildlife encouraging more travelers to join Among them, two United States­ Merrill LLP. tours in Thailand. organization’s China office. “This entertainment services — including our efforts,” said Lin Yi, a manager based Chinese architects have attract­ Cai told GoArchitect that they The surveys, conducted from 2014 trend shows that Chinese tourists elephant riding — from the itiner­ at Qyer, a Chinese website that ena­ ed attention with an idea called “Paris conceived the future of the cathe­ to 2019, collected responses from prefer elephant­friendly travel.” aries they offered, according to bles travel enthusiasts to write Heartbeat”, featuring a multi­mir­ dral as having a glass roof to reflect more than 40,000 tourists from 16 According to Thailand’s Ministry World Animal Protection. notes and exchange experiences. rored spire and a crystal roof. the surrounding historical urban Cai Zeyu who hails from environment of Paris and a new Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, and spire to be made of several mirrors. INSIDE © 2019 China Daily All Rights Reserved Beijing­born Li Sibei, jointly submit­ He said the spire’s tip would be Vol. 23 — No. 6946 ted their winning proposal which designed as “a time capsule to would transform the Gothic struc­ reflect history”. Saudi Arabia prepares for A member of the ture in dramatic fashion. Cai said the rest of the spire would pilgrimage as tensions rise Asia News Network Their design was announced ear­ be constructed as a kaleidoscope World, page 11 lier this week as the top vote earner amid online polling involving 226 See Contest, page 3