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BEIJING Your Beijing Bible • Insightful and interactive – real voices from the capital’s expat community • Issues, life and style • Culture, eating, nightlife and more Metro Beijing appears in the English edition of the Global Times here in Beijing, Monday to Friday. Nation InDepth Life Business Profiting Beyond Progressive China will resist from a joke backlash if US starts trade charity 6 12-13 18 war: experts B1 www.globaltimes.com.cn VOLUME 9 • NO. 2357 • FRIDAY AUGUST 4, 2017 PRICE 2 YUAN Eye of the storm Military-based tourism gets boost from PLA birthday By Shan Jie Celebrations for the 90th an- niversary of the People’s Libera- tion Army (PLA) have boosted military-themed tourism in China, including cruises to the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea. The number of tourists who joined military-themed tour groups this summer is 1.3 times the number from the same pe- riod in 2016, while the red tour- ism market is three times larg- er than last year’s, according to data provided to the Global Times by online travel platform lvmama.com on Thursday. Some sites of famous battles and modern military facilities have become popular destina- tions, especially for families and young tourists. Lvmama.com said the Tian- jin Binhai Aircraft Carrier Theme Park, Qingdao Naval Museum in East China’s Shan- This NASA handout image obtained on Thursday shows Super Typhoon Noru in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday as the dong Province and International Space Station passed overhead. Photo: AFP 2 Xichang Satellite Popularity Launch Center in Beijing expected to take lead in fight against trafficking Inside Top News: China wins race at AIG 3 China hailed for organ drive Nation: PLA eyes more college grad recruits 4 World: Abe’s China policy may change 8 By Li Ruohan “It is the great hope that China’s Belt and Road initia- man organ trade expert from China could be a model for all tive, such as sharing China’s Griffith University in Australia. Asian Review: US may The international community the countries, especially those techniques and model to other Fraser is among eight for- have to accept a nuclear is looking forward to China tak- in Asia and the Pacific region,” countries in need. eign experts who hailed China’s N.Korea 15 ing a leading role in the global Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, “The model developed by model, which features strong governance of organ transplan- chancellor of the Vatican’s Pon- China is an example for other government engagement, as a Forum: Russian sanctions tations and the fight against or- tifical Academy of Sciences countries and provides ground- significant contributor to the push EU from US 16 gan trafficking, representatives (PAS), told the Global Times. work for ethical practice against country’s reform and progress Business: US firms’ M&A from international societies Sorondo also expressed organ trafficking for other at the Thursday con- deals increasing, not falling said at a conference held in Bei- his expectations on connect- countries to follow,” said Camp- 2 ference on organ B2 jing on Thursday. ing organ transplantation with bell Fraser, an international hu- Vatican transplantation. 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Nanchang, the capital of East China’s Jiangxi Province, was the site of an armed upris- ing during the Chinese Civil War on August 1, 1927, which marked the founding of the PLA. China on Sunday held a military parade at the Zhurihe military training base in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to celebrate the PLA’s 90th anniversary, which falls on August 1. More than 12,000 servicemen from the army, navy, air force, armed police and newly formed rocket force and strategic support troops took part in the parade. “Military tourism in China only accounts for a small part of the whole industry,” Lucas Zhou, general manager of Scenic & Activities Group of Policemen jam the back of a truck near the venue of the 50th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign lvmama.com, told the Global Times on Thursday. Ministers’ Meeting in Manila, Philippines on Thursday. Photo: AP “But China has rich resources for military tour- ism, which has been rapidly developing,” Zhou said, noting that mysterious, fresh and high-tech content are the greatest attractions. He added that military tourism helps visitors Vatican among groups to learn about national defense, strengthen patrio- tism and develop physical fitness. He also sug- gested that travel agencies arrange more military see value in China’s model tourism tours with local governments. Xisha tourism “We have been receiving more inquiries about China, from Page 1 the Xisha cruise,” a sales agent for Xisha tour- Pope expresses goodwill toward China ism surnamed Xiong told the Global Times on After banning the use of organs Wednesday. donated from executed prisoners in China started to promote Xisha Islands tours 2015, China’s reform to establish an Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancel- attending an organ donation and trans- with cruises in 2013. ethical and transparent system for or- lor of Vatican’s Pontifical Academy plantation conference in China. The Changle Princess and the Dream of the gan donations and transplantations is of Sciences, expressed Pope Francis’ “China could be a model we need South China Sea, together with the since-retired hailed by international societies that goodwill toward China on Thursday. today to respond to globalization, a Coconut Princess, have taken more than 20,000 once shut their doors to the country. “Pope Francis loves China and loves model for the dignity and freedom of tourists on over 120 trips to Sansha since 2013, By the end of July, 2,866 people the people of China, its history and human being, a model for the eradica- according to the Sansha government’s website, had donated organs in China this population. We hope China can have tion of the new kind of slavery-organ which administers the Xisha Islands. year, a 33 percent increase over the a great future,” said Sorondo, who is trafficking,” Sorondo noted. Luo, another Xisha sales agent, said the four- same period in 2016, surpassing the day tour takes tourists to three islets: Quanfu, total number of donations made in Yagong and Yinyu. 2015, according to data provided by This progress has been made with plantation sector, there is still a huge The Xisha tours are also about the military and China’s top health body. strong government determination gap between the supply and demand patriotism, calling them “a journey to support the against using organs from executed of organs and the effective use of the PLA.” Activities include raising the national flag, Taking the lead prisoners, as well as legal and admin- donated organs. singing patriotic songs and trying military cui- In 2016, China harvested organs istrative support to implement the There are around 300,000 pa- sine, according to Kangtai Travel of Hainan. from 4,080 donors and performed voluntary donation system, Huang tients in need of transplant surgeries “But the tour does not include interactions 13,263 transplant surgeries, the sec- added. every year and only 10,000 of them with army officers, and tourists will not land on ond highest in the world. China criminalized the trading of receive surgery, the Xinhua News the military-controlled islands,” Xiong said, add- The number of transplantation organs in 2011, and in severe cases Agency reported in March. Mean- ing that the tour is not available to foreign citizens surgeries is expected to surpass of violation, the death penalty could while, the per million population or residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. 16,000 in 2017, according to Huang apply. Meanwhile, a computer-based donation rate in China is only 2.98, “The cruises are suspended when military Jiefu, a former Chinese vice-minister system for organ distribution was much lower than the EU rate of 19 drills are held,” Xiong added. of health and current head of the Na- launched in 2013 to make sure that and the US rate of 26. “Tourists to Xisha are mostly made up of se- tional Human Organ Donation and the distribution is fair, ethical and “The shortage of donated organs, nior citizens, who have a special emotional at- Transplant Committee. traceable. lack of qualified doctors, as well as tachment toward Xisha,” Luo said. By 2020, China is expected to sur- “China has shown us that it is economic and social reasons are be- Since the 1970s, countries have illegally occu- pass the US in performing the largest equipped to be a global leader, and hind the gap,” Huang said. pied some islands and reefs in the South China number of organ transplant surgeries the world should not fear that,” said Currently, 173 Chinese hospitals Sea, China’s foreign ministry said.