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Welcome back Briefly Virus fight in GUIZHOU Former political adviser investigated A former senior political adviser in Guizhou province is being investigated for suspected seri­ ‘late stage of ous violations of Party disciplina­ ry rules and national laws, the top anti­graft bodies said on Sun­ day. Wang Fuyu, former chair­ man of the Guizhou Provincial suppression’ Committee of the Chinese Peo­ ple’s Political Consultative Con­ ference, is being investigated by the Communist Party of China’s China CDC chief warns emergence of Central Commission for Disci­ pline Inspection and the Nation­ variants means uncertainties remain al Supervisory Commission.

By WANG XIAODONG and port cities such as Qingdao, YUNNAN [email protected] Shandong province, and Dalian, 5 dead, 1 injured in Liaoning province, since April, they three­car accident China has entered the “late stage of have all been put under control suppression” of the COVID­19 pan­ effectively by strategies such as Five people were killed and one demic after a year’s efforts, said Gao mass virus testing, extensive contact person injured in a road acci­ Fu, the head of the Chinese Center for tracing and isolation of confirmed dent in Huaning county, Yuxi, Disease Control and Prevention. cases and their close contacts. Yunnan province, on Saturday, But while COVID­19 vaccines The latest large­scale local out­ the local publicity department have raised hopes that life will get breaks of COVID­19, which hit rural said. The accident occurred at back to normal soon, many uncer­ areas of Hebei province and some about 6 pm when three cars Dressed in costumes, the principal and teachers at a primary school welcome students in Nanjing, tainties remain about the evolution parts of Northeast China over the rear­ended in the county. The Jiangsu province, on Sunday as they return for the new semester. Primary and secondary schools in of the pandemic this year, confront­ winter, resulted in more than 2,000 injured person has been sent to the city will begin the new semester on Monday. SHAO DAN / FOR CHINA DAILY ing humanity with new challenges, total cases, Gao said. The outbreaks hospital for treatment for inju­ Gao said. have been successfully controlled ries that are not considered life­ “Through one year’s efforts, dif­ after unremitting efforts, he said. threatening. Investigations are ferent countries around the world Meanwhile, a mass vaccination continuing. achieved varying results in pandem­ campaign this year is expected to ic control. In some countries like help bring the epidemic further GUANGDONG China, the pandemic has been well under control in China, raising Policy: Govt bond quotas likely lower 240 tons of imported controlled, while in other countries hopes of getting life back to normal solid waste returned the situation is still grim,” Gao said soon, Gao said. From page 1 around 5 trillion yuan this year, down to 12.2 percent year­on­year in an editorial published in China By Feb 3, 31 million doses of inac­ compared with a surge to 8.5 tril­ by the end of 2021 from 13 percent Guangzhou customs in Guang­ CDC Weekly on Friday. tivated COVID­19 vaccines had been Thanks to the domestic econom­ lion yuan in 2020, in order to con­ in January. dong province has shipped back No new domestically transmitted administered in China, targeting ic recovery, the government’s fiscal trol the overall government debt The People’s Bank of China, the two batches of imported solid confirmed COVID­19 cases have high­risk groups such as front­line revenue growth rebounded signifi­ level, Ding predicted. central bank, said in its latest waste to its place of origin, the been reported on the Chinese main­ health workers, cold­chain industry cantly to 17.4 percent year­on­year The government debt ratio rose quarterly monetary policy report General Administration of Cus­ land since Feb 15, according to the employees and people working or in December from a decline of 2.7 to 45.6 percent of GDP at the end that there should be more focus toms said on Friday. Intercepted National Health Commission. Only studying overseas, he said. percent in November. But for the of 2020, up from 38.5 percent by on monitoring policy rates, during an inspection, the gar­ seven new imported confirmed cas­ “As vaccination started smoothly whole year of 2020, fiscal revenue 2019, the fastest expansion since which indicate real conditions in bage, weighing 240 metric tons, es were reported on Saturday, it said. and progressed as scheduled, the growth on a yearly basis still the first report of the leverage the financial market. The major was identified as a mixture of China initiated a national cam­ China CDC has been closely moni­ recorded a drop of 3.9 percent ratio, according to research from interest rates have remained zinc oxide and zinc­blended paign against COVID­19 immediate­ toring vaccination coverage and because of the severe effects of the the National Institution for basically unchanged this year, a leftovers. Combined with dirt, ly after identifying the novel adverse events following immuniza­ pandemic. That came after growth Finance and Development, a signal that the PBOC is maintain­ coal cinder and unoxidized met­ coronavirus in January last year. In tion,” he said. “The data shows that of 3.8 percent in 2019, according to national financial think tank ing a neutral stance for monetary al, it would have posed a threat the following three months it won a the reported rate of serious adverse the Ministry of Finance. under the Chinese Academy of policy, neither loose nor tight, to the environment when proc­ decisive victory in epidemic control events is no higher than that of the In an earlier interview, Finance Social Sciences. said analysts. essed. in Hubei province, including its cap­ influenza vaccine, reflecting the fact Minister Liu Kun discussed the In addition, experts from the On Saturday, the PBOC reported ital Wuhan, the Chinese city hit that the currently used inactivated idea of setting the fiscal deficit International Monetary Fund sug­ the benchmark lending rate, the BEIJING hardest by COVID­19, Gao said. COVID­19 vaccines are safe.” ratio and the scale of local govern­ gested that China pay more atten­ one­year loan prime rate, at 3.85 Surge in applications Since then, China has been carry­ Despite the promise of mass vacci­ ment special bonds “at reasonable tion to the already large and percent, which was unchanged for online mediation ing out an effective suppression nation, many uncertainties remain levels”, which would guarantee a growing funding gaps between since May 2020. strategy by establishing a strong this year due to the unpredictable certain level of spending but at the local governments’ revenues and Although monetary policy is Nearly 5.2 million disputes were and flexible response mechanism, nature of the novel coronavirus and same time keep the macro lever­ expenditures, which can be becoming normalized, the LPR is resolved on China’s online medi­ implementing or lifting control the emergence of new variants of the age level basically stable. bridged through transfers from likely to stay at the current level, ation platform last year, with a measures based on the results of virus that may lead to increased trans­ Ding Shuang, chief economist the central government and other and the PBOC will prefer to use success rate of 65 percent, saving surveillance and risk assessment in missibility and toxicity, Gao said. for China and North Asia at Stan­ financing sources. policy tools such as open market more people the bother of going different regions, he said. “When facing a new virus, dard Chartered financial services “Continued policy support is operations, medium­term lending to court, the Supreme People’s Although scattered outbreaks humanity still needs to keep doing company in Hong Kong, said he needed to secure the recovery, facility, relending and rediscount Court said. Mediation applica­ have occurred in some places, research and develop a deeper calculated that China’s fiscal stim­ with the policy mix calibrated to to maintain market liquidity at a tions have surged since the ser­ including Beijing and Shanghai, understanding of it,” he said. ulus package in 2020 helped lift strengthen private demand and balanced level, said Ming Ming, a vice was launched in early 2018, GDP growth by 2.5 percentage address financial vulnerabilities,” senior analyst at CITIC Securities. the top court said. The country’s points, and local governments still IMF experts wrote in a report in Nomura’s Lu predicted neither 3,502 courts have all opened had unused fiscal budgetary funds January. hikes nor cuts to policy rates and mediation services on the plat­ Two sessions checkup of up to 2.5 trillion yuan at the They expected China’s fiscal pol­ the reserve requirement ratio, the form, and 32,937 mediation beginning of this year. That, Ding icy to remain “broadly neutral” amount of cash that financial organizations have moved in, said, made the central government while monetary policy remains institutions must hold in reserve bringing the number of online reluctant to designate a new bond “supportive” in 2021, though less in the central bank, in the near mediators to 165,333, senior quota before the two sessions. so than in 2020. They also expect­ term. He also said he expected a court official Qian Xiaochen The quotas of government ed the growth of total social relatively stable renminbi said. bonds, both at central and local financing — all financing sources exchange rate against a basket of levels, are likely to be lowered to for the real economy — to slow major currencies. XINHUA Negotiations early proof of CPC’s diplomatic skills

By TAN YINGZI in Chongqing 13, 1919, shortly after the Samil [email protected] PATH Movement declared Korean inde­ PathTO GLORY to glory pendent from Japanese rule. It set­ In the heat of August 1945, the tled in Chongqing in 1939. Gui Garden on Zhongshansi Road On Sept 8, Mao hosted a tea party A traffic police officer and a mechanic examine a car in Beijing on in downtown Chongqing attracted at the Gui Garden to thank foreign Sunday that will be used during the two sessions, the annual meet­ wide attention at home and from nary diplomatic job during their friends for their support during the ings of the National People’s Congress and the National Committee abroad, with international report­ stay in Chongqing and won under­ war and said he hoped they would of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. The ses­ ers waiting day and night outside standing and support from both continue to assist Chinese people in sions are scheduled for early next month. DENG WEI / FOR CHINA DAILY the quaint, private villa as a signifi­ Chinese and foreign people for the the future. The participants includ­ cant meeting about the country’s CPC,” Zhou said. ed representatives from the China future was held in the wartime cap­ On Aug 28, 1945, at the invitation Defense League, United China ital. of Chiang Kai­shek, then chairman Relief and the British Red Cross. The Chongqing Negotiations, 43 of the National Commission of Mil­ “Mao’s meetings gave many peo­ days of top level negotiations itary Affairs of China, Mao, chair­ ple an opportunity to learn about Fast underground train between the Kuomintang and the man of the CPC Central Committee, the CPC,” said Ma Qike, curator of Communist Party of China, was an went to Chongqing by a special the Chongqing Hongyan Revolu­ important political event at a cru­ plane from Yan’an, Shaanxi prov­ tionary Memorial Museum. rolls into Guangzhou cial moment when China faced a ince, for peaceful negotiations in The Gui Garden in Chongqing, “Mao’s work during the Chong­ choice between war and peace after order to realize people’s desire for which hosted the Chongqing qing Negotiations teaches us that By ZHENG CAIXIONG ground train traveling at 160 km/h to the victory in the War of Resistance nationwide peace and democracy. Negotiations between the the CPC must adhere to the united in Guangzhou be put into use in the Guangdong­ against Japanese Aggression (1931­ Weeks later, on Oct 10, the Min­ Kuomintang and the Commu­ front and adopt the ‘mass line’, pro­ [email protected] Hong Kong­Macao Greater Bay Area. 45). utes of Talks between the Govern­ nist Party of China in 1945. mote the building of a community The Bay Area includes nine cities “It was the first time the CPC offi­ ment and Representatives of the TAN YINGZI / CHINA DAILY with a shared future for mankind An underground train that will in Guangdong’s Pearl River Delta, cially entered the international Communist Party of China, also and protect the peace and develop­ reach speeds of more than 160 kilo­ plus Hong Kong and Macao. political stage and gained world­ known as the Double Tenth Agree­ ment of the world.” meters an hour was transported to a The fast underground train will wide recognition,” said Zhou Yong, ment, were signed and released to He introduced them to the CPC’s The museum, in Hongyan village depot in Nansha district of help shorten travel times between the the director of the Chongqing the public. political platform and the develop­ in Chongqing’s Yuzhong district, Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Nansha Pilot Free Trade Zone at the Research Office of CPC history. In order to unite all possible ment of negotiations with the used to be the base of the Southern province, on Sunday. mouth of the Pearl River and With more than 90 million mem­ social forces and establish a wider Kuomintang, and he exchanged Bureau of the CPC Central Commit­ The train, manufactured by Guangzhou’s central business district. bers, the CPC, the world’s largest united front for China’s peaceful ideas about pressing issues such as tee and the Chongqing office of the CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive based It will also play a role in further political party, will celebrate its development, Mao met over 100 political democracy, domestic soli­ Eighth Route Army during the war in Zhuzhou, Hunan province, was promoting the economic construc­ centenary on July 1. people from all walks of life in darity, economic development and against Japan. During the negotia­ delivered as the depot became ready tion of Nansha district, the site of Zhou said that in today’s chal­ Chongqing on the sidelines of the how to avoid a civil war. tions, it was one of the main places to host trains. one of Guangdong’s three pilot free lenging global environment, Party negotiations, including senior gov­ He met the leaders of the Provi­ Mao worked and lived. The train will initially operate trade zones. The others are Qianhai members can learn from the diplo­ ernment officials, military officers, sional Government of the Republic Ma said a new museum dedicat­ between Nansha and downtown in the Shenzhen special economic matic ideas and skills exhibited 76 business tycoons, scholars, artists of Korea and expressed support for ed to the Chongqing Negotiations Guangzhou after a few months of zone that borders Hong Kong, and years ago. and representatives from other their national independence move­ is being prepared, with related safety tests are completed. Hengqin in the Zhuhai special eco­ “Mao Zedong and other mem­ political parties and foreign mis­ ment. The provisional government items being collected from all over It will become the first under­ nomic zone, which is next to Macao. bers of the Party did an extraordi­ sions. was launched in Shanghai on April the world.