CHINA DAILY MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014 7 2014 NPC & CPPCC

SINGER AT SESSION Proposed PHOTO BY ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY Song Zuying (cen- ter), Chinese singer railway to and a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative link Lhasa, Conference National Committee, talks to other political advis- ers during a break at Nyingchi the fourth plenary meeting in on Tibet authorities prepare to seek Sunday. State approval of $4.9b project

By WANG HUAZHONG behind. Many border roads wanghuazhong@ and transport facilities of chinadaily.com.cn neighboring India are edging closer to territory under our Construction is set to begin control.” this year on a railway linking Wangdoi, head of Nying- Lhasa and Nyingchi prefec- chi prefecture, said that the ture in the Tibet autonomous railway will help boost Tibet’s region with an estimated 30 goal of becoming a world billion yuan ($4.9 billion) tourism destination. investment, top Tibetan o& - “Two and a half million cials said on Wednesday in people visited Nyingchi pre- Beijing. fecture and spent 2.2 billion Lobsang Jamcan, chair- yuan last year,” he said. man of the Tibet autonomous “Moreover, we have 200,000 Samsung SDI plans 2 plants region, told Tibetan deputies people living in an area rich to the National People’s Con- in resources. Poor transport gress that the government is conditions are creating a bot- By SHAN JUAN operational in 2015, accord- ter of China, Shaanxi plays Asian countries during a visit “preparing to begin building tleneck for economic develop- and LU HONGYAN ing to . an important role in China’s to Kazakhstan in September. the Lhasa-Nyingchi railway ment in the area. : e autono- He said the new pair of opening-up, he added. : e Silk Road was originally when we hold a ceremony to mous region attaches great South Korea’s Samsung SDI projects were planned due to a Last year, Johnson & John- known as the land trade route mark the start of operations hopes to improving people’s Co Ltd plans to build two new smooth and fast construction son, the healthcare company opened more than 2,000 years for the Lhasa-Xigaze railway”. lives,” he added. facilities in Xi’an, capital of of a previous Samsung facility Such investments based in the United States, ago. It began at Xi’an and ran He said construction on the The Lhasa-Nyingchi rail- northwest Shaanxi province, known as NAND C ash plant. from overseas, in moved to locate its regional through northwest prov- 253-km-long Lhasa-Xigaze way can be an extension line to produce an electronic car That plant, involving a fact, have prompted headquarters to Xi’an. ince and the Uygur railway that began in Sep- that links Lhasa with Cheng- battery and semiconductor $7 billion investment, was ‘‘ Moreover, high-tech com- autonomous region, and Cen- tember 2010 is finished and du, province, and package, the provincial gov- launched in April 2012 and the province to keep panies like ZTE and Huawei tral and Western Asia, to B nally that the railway is expected to can complement air and road ernor has revealed. started full operation on Dec enhancing the have expanded the scale of reach the Mediterranean. begin operations this year. corridors as part of a larger Lou Qinjian, governor of 27 last year with a monthly operation their research centers in the “Xi’an needs to seize the Authorities have wrapped transport network, he said. Shaanxi and a national legis- output of 100,000 chips and city, he added. unprecedented opportunity up their feasibility study on Wangdoi estimated the rail- lator, made remarks at a news annual sales of more than 60 environment.” Xi’an Mayor Dong Jun said for future development,” Dong the 435-km-long Lhasa- way would need more than conference on Friday on the billion yuan ($9.8 billion). LOU QINJIAN projects such as Samsung’s noted. Nyingchi railway and are 30 billion yuan in investment sidelines of the ongoing two “That’s dubbed by many GOVERNOR OF SHAANXI would help the city with huge He referred to its unique ready to send it to State and expected construction sessions of NPC and CPPCC. including the media as development of its IT indus- geographic location, rich sci- authorities for their review to stretch over three to four The two parties have ‘Shaanxi speed’, which is not try, which is expected to be entiB c research resources, and and possible approval. years. : e road linking Lha- already signed a preliminary common even around the overseas, in fact, have prompted worth 300 billion yuan by dominant industries supple- Lobsang offered his own sa to downtown Nyingchi is agreement on the battery, world,” Lou noted. the province to keep enhancing 2015, he added. mentary to other cities along travel accounts in describing about 400 km. on which Samsung would “: at could hardly (be real- the operation environment,” In another major develop- the route as major advantages the importance of the Lhasa- Liu Xiaobin, a senior o& - cooperate with two Chinese ized) without a good invest- he said. ment, Dong said that Xi’an has of Xi’an to be a free trade zone. Nyingchi railway. cial of the National Develop- companies, the ARN Group ment environment in the Meanwhile, he conceded applied to become a free trade But some experts pointed “I traveled to the border ment and Reform Commis- and Xi’an High-Technology province,” he stressed. that Shaanxi still lags behind zone in the context of the Silk out that more speciB c policies regions at Nyingchi, Xigaze sion, China’s top economic Group. In addition, Samsung inau- other areas in China, which Road economic belt develop- and methods for trade and and Ali prefectures last planner, said the State will Some $6 million will be gurated two research insti- opened up earlier in terms of ment plan. investment should be intro- year, and I discovered that give “massive support” to invested into the project with- tutes, one on big data analy- luring and facilitating invest- President made duced to facilitate the plan. the construction of roads the railway project in Tibet in B ve years. sis and the other on soG ware ments inbound. the proposal of the Silk Road and infrastructure in these though he also warned that And the construction of the research and development, in But “we are trying to change economic belt to enhance Contact the writers at shan- regions, which are important construction should be car- new plant is expected to start Xi’an last year. and catch up”, he said. cooperation and economic [email protected] and for national security, lags far ried out e& ciently. within the year and become “Such investments from As the geographical cen- ties among European and [email protected] Tongren seeks to reduce aims to poverty with Suzhou’s help maintain By LUO WANGSHU of 927,000 people, and 21.6 luowangshu@ 5,000 percent of them are listed as chinadaily.com.cn destitute. its rapid students Guizhou liG ed nearly 1.7 Suzhou is offering aid to will be enrolled in the Wanshan million people out of pov- improve education and pro- Vocational School per year erty in 2013, as GDP growth mote tourism in Tongren, and be trained in automobile reached 12.7 percent, growth Guizhou province, to help mechanics according to the provincial the city B ght poverty. government. By WANG QIAN Suzhou, a coastal city in from the city were trained in Liu Shuwen, deputy direc- and YANG JUN east province, allo- Suzhou in 2013, and another tor of international coopera- cated 8 million yuan ($1.3 400 will participate in the tion for the State Council’s Authorities in the poverty- TAO LIANG / million) to build a vocational training program in 2014, Poverty Alleviation Leading stricken province of Guizhou Students start their new semester at Qianfeng Primary School in mountainous Weining county in school in Tongren last year. Zhang said. Group O& ce, said countries vow that the region’s gross Bijie, Guizhou province, on March 3. Guizhou is among the least-developed regions in China, and The local financial depart- Besides improving educa- such as Vietnam have fol- domestic product will maintain the government had vowed to maintain its high economic growth in the next several years. ment raised the remaining 20 tion, Tongren is also promot- lowed similar programs, but its double-digit growth rate over million yuan needed to build ing its tourism industry in no country has done it as well the next three to B ve years. Guiyang, with accumulated President Xi Jinping empha- preferential policies to help it the school. Suzhou. as China. As China’s GDP growth investment of more than 15 bil- sized when he attended the alleviate poverty. “If one member of a poor “It is easy to spot Ton- Suzhou is also benefiting slowed to 7.7 percent last year lion yuan ($ 2.45 billion). panel discussion of the national In 2013, the State Council family is able to B nd a job, the gren tourism promotional from its cooperation with and is expected to slow even : e output of the province’s legislators from Guizhou on requested that eight coastal cit- family has a greater possibil- material on every corner in Tongren. further this year, Guizhou’s electronic information industry Saturday that Guizhou must ies oN er aid to a city or prefec- ity to be liG ed from poverty,” Suzhou,” Zhang said. “We see it as more than economy grew 12.7 percent in is expected to reach 300 billion bear in mind two bottom lines: ture in Guizhou. Each coastal said Xia Qingfeng, mayor of From 2013 to 2015, just offering aid,” Zhang 2013. Zhao Kezhi, Party chief of yuan by 2015, according to the development and biology. city was asked to allocate at Tongren and a deputy to the Suzhou is oN ering 30 million from Suzhou said, adding Guizhou who is also a deputy to government’s plan. In order to realize that goal, least 30 million yuan every year National People’s Congress. yuan per year to Tongren in that Suzhou companies can the National People’s Congress, “We hope the hub will make the mountainous southwestern before 2020. The Wanshan Vocational infrastructure and personnel expand their enterprises in said during the annual NPC Guizhou a pioneer in this province released a series of envi- Guizhou is one of the least School will enroll 5,000 stu- training aid. the southwest, using Tongren session on Thursday that the cutting-edge technology,” said ronmental protection measures developed provincial regions dents per year and train them : e partnership is part of as a platform. growth rate will be sustained. Governor Chen Min’er. in January to B ght pollution. in China, with GDP per capita in automobile mechanics, a State poverty alleviation In 2013, 12 Suzhou com- Zhao said sectors that are Green industries that incorpo- While issuing stricter envi- at about $3,700 last year, about Xia said. project. In February 2013, panies invested a total of 5 developing rapidly in the prov- rate high-tech innovations and ronmental protection measures, $3,000 lower than the national Suzhou will also send the State Council asked eight billion yuan in Tongren, ince are manufacturing, infor- tourism will be introduced to Chen, also an NPC deputy, said level, Zhao said. professionals to manage the coastal cities to aid a city in according to Zhang. mation, tourism and modern guarantee that Guizhou is envi- the province is focusing on “Guizhou is welcoming school. Zhang Qi, deputy Guizhou. The poverty alleviation agriculture. ronmentally friendly, Zhao said. transforming economic struc- reforms, in which we will bear secretary-general of Suzhou, Guizhou is one of China’s issue has attracted the State’s By 2020, the province is Guizhou authorities have ture and improving people’s improving people’s livelihood said an experienced educa- least-developed provinces. attention. expected to B nish building the insisted that environment pro- livelihood. and the alleviation of poverty in tor from Suzhou will run the Under the national standard During the National Peo- country’s B rst “top-tier” cloud tection is at the top of their “We’re calling for quality, not mind,” Chen said. school. for poverty alleviation, peo- ple’s Congress, President computing hub. China’s three agenda. just speed,” Chen said. Suzhou has also provided ple with an annual income of Xi Jinping visited Guizhou leading telecommunication “We will reject any project that To support the development Contact the writers at wangq- personnel training to profes- 2,300 yuan or less are classi- delegates and discussed anti- carriers will build cloud-com- may cause pollution to the envi- of Guizhou, the central govern- [email protected] and sionals and o& cials in Ton- B ed as “destitute”. poverty issues with deputies puting facilities in the capital, ronment,” Zhao said. ment gave the province several [email protected] gren. Four hundred o& cials Tongren has a population on Friday.