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‘Unique pairing’ BEIJING Two Korean War vets hailed as role models Two veterans, Sun Jingkun and benefits the SAR Xu Zhenming, were recently hon­ ored with the title of “Role Model Be emboldened by partnership with of Our Time” for their contribu­ tions during the War to Resist US Shenzhen: Malaysian business leader Aggression and Aid Korea (1950­ 53). The Party Central Commit­ By ELEANOR HUANG forefront and Shenz­ tee’s Publicity Department in Hong Kong hen’s incredible announced the awards to coincide [email protected] capacity for science with the 70th anniversary of the innovation, Nair Chinese People’s Volunteers army The integration of Hong Kong and said it’s highly likely entering the Democratic People’s Shenzhen’s “unique pairing” promis­ they could invent a Republic of Korea to help in the es great opportunities in public medical product like war against aggression by the health, high­end manufacturing, sci­ a vaccine that would Chandran United States. Sun, 96, joined the ence research and innovation, Hong be recognized as Nair military in 1948 and was demobil­ Kong­based Malaysian business world­class, adding ized in 1955, returning home to leader Chandran Nair said. that the area can become a public Dandong, Liaoning province, Nair’s remarks came after Presi­ healthcare center for the world. with eight military medals and dent Xi Jinping’s speech last Wednes­ Furthermore, as Hong Kong has a more than 20 scars. Xu, 95, joined day marking the 40th anniversary of well­established intellectual proper­ the Eighth Route Army in 1942 Shenzhen as the country’s first spe­ ty protection system, the city also has and fought in the War of Resist­ cial economic zone, which encourag­ great potential to develop into a ance Against Japanese Aggression es Shenzhen to forge closer ties and high­end manufacturing hub if it Children play games using virtual reality technology at an exhibition during the World Conference (1931­45). After the war finished promote cooperation with Hong joins forces with Shenzhen, said Nair. on VR Industry in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, on Monday. Global industry leaders and scholars are in 1945, he participated in the Kong and Macao in investment, Hong Kong teaming up with attending the event, both online and offline, to discuss topics such as artificial intelligence and big War of Liberation (1946­49) and entrepreneurship and opening­up. Shenzhen can only be “good news” data. LIU ZHANKUN / CHINA NEWS SERVICE then the War to Resist US Aggres­ “I think for the president to come for entrepreneurs in the city, Nair sion and Aid Korea. and say this, it has huge weight,” said continued. He said many local start­ Nair, who is also founder of The ups never get past the research and GUANGXI Global Institute for Tomorrow, an development stage because they Acting chairman for independent think tank based in only see Hong Kong as their market. autonomous region Hong Kong. “This essentially gives Due to the lack of resources, such as Tibetan village promotes reading Hong Kong a great sense of being land and investment, they also fail Lan Tianli, 58, part of this new story,” he told China to scale up, he added. By DAQIONG in Lhasa “During the slack season, we gives them a renovation subsidy of was appointed Daily in a one­to­one interview. “So what typically happens in and ZHANG XIAOMIN organize contests and other 10,000 yuan and a furniture pur­ vice­chairman While Hong Kong has achieved a Hong Kong now is these startups interesting activities to encourage chase subsidy of 1,000 yuan, Sod­ and acting chair­ lot in the past three to four decades, either fail or remain small, or they go Tse Drolkar and her seven neigh­ villagers to read,” Sodnam Yeshi nam Yeshi said. man of the with the city’s competitive advanta­ off to another country and sell their bors sat down for lunch after said. Tsomai’s Tibetan opera troupe, Guangxi Zhuang ges in world­class banking system, companies,” Nair said. But a world of threshing highland barley for a Tsomai has a total of 286 house­ which has a history of 350 years, autonomous common law jurisdiction and opportunities awaits them in Shenz­ whole morning on Oct 12 in Tsomai holds with 1,036 people. Its per has also established some new folk region on Mon­ Lan Tianli skilled professionals, Nair said he’s hen and the Bay Area, he said. village, which is about 45 kilome­ capita income exceeded 14,000 art programs to promote a healthy day. The appoint­ stunned by Shenzhen’s “unimagina­ Nair said Hong Kong still retains ters west of Lhasa, capital of the yuan ($2,090) last year, and its five lifestyle, he said. ment was made at the 19th ble” rapid growth. its core strengths in being a great Tibet autonomous region. major industries were a yak farm, a Last year, Tsomai was named session of the Standing Commit­ He first went to Shenzhen 30 years arbitration center, a “safe haven” for “Our elder generation said they furniture factory, a brick factory, a one of the “national model villages tee of the 13th People’s Congress ago and has since observed its trans­ international money, and a world­re­ used to be really busy at harvest breeding base for Tibetan chickens for rural governance” by the Cen­ of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous formation from a small rural town nowned common law jurisdiction. time, and they would have liked and a processing plant for agricul­ tral Leading Group for Rural Region, which is the local legisla­ into a high­tech manufacturing hub By contrast, Shenzhen is a high­tech even their dogs to help them,” Tse tural products. Affairs, the Publicity Department ture. Lan, a member of the Zhu­ bristling with technology­driven hub which is also becoming strong in Drolkar said. Sodnam Yeshi said all the villag­ of the CPC Central Committee and ang ethnic group born in Yizhou, startups. Nair says the public health bioscience. “Team Hong Kong and “But now, since the plowing, har­ ers have now been lifted out of pov­ the Ministry of Agriculture and Guangxi, has spent most of his sector will be among the first to bene­ Shenzhen together, and you’ve essen­ vesting and threshing are basically erty, and with the support of the Rural Affairs. political career in the region. The fit from Shenzhen pairing up with tially got an incredibly powerful nex­ mechanized, farm work is much city and township governments, What concerns the villagers standing committee also Asia’s financial hub. us for the whole Bay Area,” Nair said. easier.” Tsomai is making efforts to prevent most now is the cultural and tour­ approved the resignation of Hong Kong has many distin­ He called on Hong Kong young Her husband works in Lhasa all them from falling back into it. ism development plan for their Chen Wu as chairman of the guished universities and institutions people to be “emboldened and year round. She and her sister farm Over the past few years, villagers village. region. focusing on conducting public encouraged” to take advantage of and raise cattle. Her parents help have been encouraged to give up Relying on its easy access to Lhasa, health research for many years, he this great opportunity of the Bay her take care of two children. smoking and drinking and carry rich natural resources for leisure JILIN said. But the city’s strength in public Area and see themselves as part of a While eating and chatting, she out waste sorting. The local gov­ tourism and its unique Tibetan Court sends gang health research remains untapped as much larger economic pie, as well as shared two new skills she ernment is also urging residents to opera performances, Tsomai is members to prison the science findings seldom get off contributing to that. acquired recently — how to make renovate their toilets, kitchens and conducting preliminary research the ground and gain traction com­ “Test yourself. There is no need to apple jam and how to clean living rooms and tidy up their to develop its cultural tourism The Changchun Intermediate mercially. “The pillars of Hong feel marginalized, you should feel grapes. She learned the skills yards. industry. People’s Court in Jilin province Kong’s economy are too narrow and inclusive,” Nair said, adding that if from a book on healthy eating The villagers do this voluntarily. sentenced 23 members of a it has hollowed out many things.” Hong Kong and the Bay Area is now that she read in the village’s read­ For those who meet renovation Contact the writers at mafia­style gang to terms of But if the neighboring cities team their playing field, their opportuni­ ing room. standards, the district government [email protected] imprisonment ranging from two­ up, with the Hong Kong brand at the ties essentially expand ten­fold. The reading room is an exam­ and­a­half years to 25 years on ple of the efforts the village has Monday for committing 12 made to promote a healthier lifes­ crimes. The court also confiscat­ tyle. ed their personal property or Sodnam Yeshi, the village’s Party imposed fines. Property worth Crawfish: Reliability woes chief, said that since the 19th Com­ over 300 million yuan ($44.9 mil­ munist Party of China National lion) has been recovered or con­ Congress in 2017, the rural revitali­ fiscated. Liu Lijun, the gang’s hamper land­based systems zation strategy has created a favor­ ringleader, was found guilty of able opportunity to improve the nine crimes, including organiz­ From page 1 and farm owners to receive reports lives of villagers. ing and leading mafia­style orga­ on the farming environment and Tsomai, in Mar township in Lha­ nizations, intentional homicide, “The data collected will then be take necessary measures in a timely sa’s Doilungdeqen district, has pro­ extortion, forcing transactions, uploaded to our Xingyun satellites manner, Du said. vided books and shelves to each offering bribes and forging or and transmitted to aquaculture Xingyun is China’s first and only family and has prepared 18 boxes buying and selling military certif­ authorities or farm owners to be ana­ space­based internet­of­things net­ filled with books to rotate from icates. He was sentenced to 25 lyzed and considered when making work and now has two satellites. The house to house. years in prison. Liu’s gang was decisions,” Du said. internet of things is a network of The books cover a range of top­ busted in April 2018. Forty­six “The majority of crawfish farms devices, vehicles, buildings and oth­ ics, from Party history, practical sci­ civil servants who aided or shel­ in Hubei use paddy fields to raise er objects that contain software or ence and agricultural and animal tered the gang have been pun­ their crawfish because it is better sensors that allow them to connect husbandry technology to healthy Tse Drolkar and her neighbor harvest highland barley on Oct 12 ished. than other methods in terms of effi­ and exchange data. eating, legal rights protection, nov­ in Tsomai village, which is about 45 kilometers west of Lhasa, Tibet ciency, environmental protection The Xingyun 2­01 and Xingyun els and comic books. autonomous region. DAQIONG / CHINA DAILY XINHUA — CHINA DAILY and economy. The water and 2­02 were launched at the Jiuquan underwater soil are the most Satellite Launch Center in north­ important determinants of the western China in May and are oper­ quality and taste of the crawfish, so ating in a sun­synchronous orbit they should be monitored on a reg­ about 560 kilometers above Earth. Site of martyr’s death boosts ‘red tourism’ in Jilin ular basis,” Du told China Daily in CASIC has announced that it an exclusive interview on Monday intends to deploy 12 Xingyun 2­se­ By LIU MINGTAI and the spirit of Yang and the Northeast 1931, when the Japanese Kwantung said Wang Dejin, an expert on the on the sidelines of the 6th China ries satellites in 2021 to join the first ZHANG XIAOMIN in Jingyu, Jilin Anti­Japanese United Army. Army launched a full­scale inva­ study of Yang and the united army. International Commercial Aero­ two such spacecraft already in orbit. County residents are proud to tell sion), Wang said, adding that it also “I hope more people can gain space Forum, which opened in It will then establish a small system “Red tourism”, a popular form of the stories of the heroes to outsiders, featured the toughest fighting envi­ inspiration from his story and inher­ Wuhan that day. that will be used in a trial run of the tourism featuring the Communist Sui said. ronment. it his spiritual power,” he said. Currently, there are a small internet­of­things system. Party of China’s revolutionary histo­ Memorial guide Wang Mengyao In February 1934, Yang, head of an In recent years, the local govern­ number of crawfish farms in Hubei In CASIC’s plan, the Xingyun net­ ry, continues to heat up in Jingyu said Yang, the commander and independent division of the revolu­ ment has integrated the resources of that have other types of sensors to work will have about 80 low­orbit­ county, Baishan, Jilin province, political commissar of the First tionary army in Northeast China red tourism and the natural and monitor the farms’ environment. ing, narrowband communications where a war hero gave his life for the Route Army of the Northeast Anti­ under the leadership of the CPC, col­ ecological resources of Changbai Most of their devices depend on satellites upon its completion country 80 years ago. Japanese United Army, was sur­ laborated with 16 local anti­Japa­ Mountain. It has also carried out traditional ground­based commu­ around 2023 and will provide global During the National Day holiday rounded by a group of Japanese nese groups to hold a meeting to various kinds of red training and nication networks for data trans­ coverage to users by that time. from Oct 1 to 8, about 50,000 people invaders and a puppet army in the found the Northeast Anti­Japanese tourism activities and has led more mission, which are sometimes Once the network becomes fully visited the memorial of General county, which was then known as United Army. tourists to learn about revolutionary unreliable, Du said. operational, it will offer users Yang Jingyu (1905­1940) in the Mengjiang, on Feb 23, 1940. Soon after that, the enemy cap­ history. “Many remote rural regions have round­the­clock access to the inter­ county. Yang opened fire on the invaders, tured hunters and farmers scattered “He kept fighting in such a harsh poor ground­based communica­ net of things, which is expected to The spirit of the great national battling alone until he was killed. in the mountains to cut off the supply environment. I want my son to think tion facilities, causing problems in bring advantages including better hero has inspired generation after “The enemy cut open his stomach of food and weapons to the fighters. of it whenever he has difficulties in the deployment of traditional sen­ control of devices, higher opera­ generation to forge ahead, said Sui and found it contained only undi­ In winter, facing freezing temper­ the future,” said a woman surnamed sors,” he explained. “So this is an tional efficiency and optimized Xinbo, deputy director of Jingyu’s gested grass roots, bark and cotton atures of ­20 to ­40 C, the soldiers, Li, who took the 8­year­old to visit opportunity for Xingyun.” utilization of resources, according publicity department. wool (from the cotton­padded over­ who lacked food and clothing, could Jingyu county during the holiday. to the company. “It is more meaningful to explore coat he was wearing),” Wang said. not even light a fire for warmth Every year, more than 400,000 Internet-of-things network Crawfish — cooked with heavy the connotation of the ‘Jingyu spirit’, “Even the brutal invaders were because doing so could have visits are made from around the A trial program was approved by seasoning and enjoyed with beer on as this year marks the 75th anniver­ shocked and awed.” exposed their location. country to the county, county data the provincial agricultural depart­ a hot summer evening — became sary of the victory in the World Anti­ In the Chinese people’s War of In memory of the national hero, showed. ment in August and will soon start popular on the Chinese mainland Fascist War and the 80th Resistance Against Japanese Mengjiang county changed its in three farming areas in Jingzhou. starting in the late 1990s. anniversary of the general’s sacrifice Aggression (1931­45) — and even the name to Jingyu county in 1946. Han Junhong in Changchun Sensors deployed at farms In 2019, the crawfish business was for the motherland,” Sui said. wider World Anti­Fascist War, “I was born and raised in Jingyu. I contributed to this story. involved in the program will send worth more than 410 billion yuan Jingyu county, which was named known in the West as World War II have known his story since I was data to satellites four times per day, ($61.3 billion), according to the China after the hero, has been putting — the earliest, lengthiest battle was very young. The more I learned Contact the writers at enabling aquaculture authorities Society of Fisheries. great emphasis on the inheritance of in Northeast China (starting from about him, the more I admired him,” [email protected]