Rising Enmity Haunts Relations ‘Friendship Poll’ Shows Changing Attitudes Among Chinese, Japanese
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Nation Nation Business Steering Watchdog calls Nationwide wheel for apology nuclear safety of life over oil leak inspection A driver-turned abbot puts US company asked to give comprehensive the promotion of Buddhism assessment on cleanup process. completed into top gear. > PAGE 2 CHINA> PAGE 3 DAILY > PAGE 13 FRIDAY, August 12, 2011 chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5 Rising enmity haunts relations ‘Friendship poll’ shows changing attitudes among Chinese, Japanese By LI XIAOKUN China dropped 10.8 percent- CHINA DAILY age points to 40.6 percent this year, while the number BEIJING — Th ere has been of ordinary people with favor- a sharp drop in the number able opinions dropped 6.5 per- of people in China and Japan centage points to 20.8 percent. harboring feelings of friend- Th e poll, carried out at the ship toward the other coun- same time in the two coun- try following a year of often tries, was conducted from late turbulent relations, according June until early July. It has a LET THE GAMES BEGIN to a poll conducted simultane- margin of error of 1.45 per- ously in both countries. cent. PHOTO BY CUI MENG / CHINA DAILY Th e fi ndings of the survey, Among the Chinese people Shenzhen residents pose for pictures as they watch the torch relay for the 2011 Universiade on Th ursday in the city’s sponsored by China Daily and polled were 1,540 citizens in the Japanese Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Longgang area. Th e Shenzhen Universiade will offi cially open on Friday, attracting about 7,800 athletes and offi cials Inside non-profi t Shenyang and Xi’an, as well from all over the world. See story on page 2. Full coverage, think tank as 1,000 university students, pages 10, 11 Genron NPO, studying for either a mas- were released ter’s or a doctor’s degree, and on Th ursday and suggest that young teachers at fi ve top Bei- EXCLUSIVE | CHEN SHIQU the number of Chinese people jing universities. who like Japan dropped from In Japan 1,000 adults and 38.3 percent in 2010 to 28.6 500 “intellectuals” with experi- percent this year. ence of China or Chinese peo- Cross-border human Th e drop has reversed a six- ple were interviewed. Seventy year trend characterized by percent of the “intellectuals” increasingly favorable opin- had a bachelor’s degree while ions among Chinese people 22 percent held a master’s. traffi cking cases rising toward Japan. In 2006, when The reason cited most the survey was launched, just among Chinese people for 11.6 percent of respondents their enmity toward Japan By ZHANG YAN uncovered In recent years, Asian had a favorable opinion of was its aggression in China CHINA DAILY since 2009. nations have agreed on sev- Japan but this fi gure had risen before and during World Most vic- eral joint projects to tackle uninterrupted up to 2010. War II (74.2 percent). Japan’s BEIJING — The traffick- tims were the cross-border smuggling Th e poll, however, revealed failure to fully atone for its ing of women and children smuggled of women and children. a far less severe decline in aggression was cited most into China continues to rise to the Chi- In 2004, China, Cambodia, favorable attitudes toward among students and teachers despite eff orts to combat it, a nese main- Laos, Myanmar, Th ailand and Japan among Chinese college (86.1 percent). senior police offi cer has said. land from Vietnam signed the Mekong students and young teachers It was not just turbulent NEWS MAKER Chen Shiqu, who heads Chen Shiqu, Vietnam, River Sub-regional Coopera- director in universities, with the rate relations that helped form PHOTO BY PHIL MCCARTEN / REUTERS the government agency tack- Myanmar tion Anti-trafficking Memo dropping slightly from 45.2 opinions, events in Japan also ling traffi cking, warned that of MPS’s and Laos, he and set up an annual meeting percent to 43.1 percent. played a part. Rupert Murdoch has said deputy chairman traffi ckers still pose a serious anti-human said. of senior offi cials. traffi cking offi ce Wu Yin, vice-president of A sizeable proportion of Chase Carey (above) is most likely to succeed threat and called for greater “Great Beijing has also established Horizon Research Consultan- Chinese people, 40.9 percent, international cooperation to demand from buyers, as well eight border offices with cy Group, which implement- and 27.2 percent of “intellec- him at News Corp, rather than son James. end the scourge. as the traditional preference neighboring countries, Chen ed the poll, attributed these tuals” said Tokyo’s mishan- Murdoch, 80, was speaking during a confer- He declined to give a spe- (among Chinese families) for said. However, he acknowl- fi ndings to the fact that well- dling of the Fukushima nucle- cifi c number of victims who boys, are the main culprits edged that diff erences in legal educated Chinese people are ar plant crisis aft er the March ence call on Wednesday. It is the clearest indi- fall prey to traffi ckers annu- fueling trafficking,” Chen, systems, language and collect- more likely to consider the full 11 earthquake and ensuing cation yet that the scale of the phone-hacking ally, only saying that 1,500 director of the Ministry of ing evidence are obstacles in spectrum of China-Japan rela- tsunami contributed to unfa- scandal in Britain has damaged the succession cross-border cases involv- Public Security’s (MPS) anti- the fi ght against traffi cking. tions rather than be swayed by vorable feelings toward Japan. ing about 2,000 kidnapped human traffi cking offi ce, told individual incidents. The result is in line with ambitions of James. See story on page 12. women and infants had been China Daily. SEE “TRAFFICKING” PAGE 2 “So the evaluation of Chi- views among Japanese people nese students and teachers of of their government’s perfor- Japan did not change much.” mance in the nuclear crisis But in Japan the number of so-called elites who like SEE “POLL” PAGE 10 Chasing goal of soccer stardom On chinadaily.com.cn Contacts Teenagers relish opportunity to play the game they love Bilingual News: Marco Polo “never reached News China” and picked up tales of the Orient (86-10) 6491-8366 in Xinjiang, Wang Ru and Cui Jia report from Urumqi. from others, Italians claim Subscription (86) 400-699-0203 Web Comment: London riot — What goes eeing an approaching his family. 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It was COVER STORY ................................................6 Hirali was Hirali said with a shy smile. in July 2010 in Astana, capital COMMENT ..................................................8, 9 COVER born to a rural “Before then, my ‘football’ was of Kazakhstan, when Hirali WORLD ......................................................10-12 BUSINESS ................................................13-18 STORY family in Kash- a shoebox stuffed with grass, played on the under-15 China LIFE ........................................................... 19-22 gar, in western but I played with it happily team against the hosts in the SPORTS ...................................................23,24 Xinjiang Uygur autonomous anyway.” fi rst match of the Kazakhstan region. His enthusiasm for In downtown Urumqi, the President’s Cup. © 2011 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 31 — No. 9759 soccer began in preschool region’s capital, 120 boys from 国内统一编号:CN11-0091 国际标准编号:ISSN0253-9543 邮发代号:1-3 days when he herded sheep for 13 to 19 are chasing their soc- SEE “URUMQI” PAGE 6 nationPAGE 2 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINADAILY.COM.CN/NATION CHINA DAILY briefl y Steering the wheel of life Youth LIAONING sports stay 21 hospitalized By CANG WEI over anthrax CHINA DAILY Th ree people have been con- strong in fi rmed infected with cutaneous HANGZHOU — Shi Guangquan anthrax in Northeast China’s Liaoning province, local health once worked behind the wheel of a authorities said on Th ursday. bus. Now he is a driving force behind China As of 6 pm Wednesday, 21 the promotion of Buddhism in China. cases had been reported in “Buddhism let me know how to By WU JIAO the city of Haicheng and in understand this world, and it also tells CHINA DAILY Xiuyan county, the Liaon- ing provincial health depart- me how to make my life meaningful,” ment said. Th ree of the cases said Shi, 50, one of SHENZHEN, Guangdong — The have been confi rmed, while CHINAFACE the most revered International University Sports Fed- another 18 are still being Buddhist masters in eration (FISU) is ready to work with investigated. China. China to promote university sports, An initial investigation by local health authorities indicat- Shi is the abbot of Lingyin Temple, its president George E. Killian told ed that the patients contracted which lies in the cultural West Lake Chinese President Hu Jintao on the disease aft er coming into landscape of Hangzhou in East China’s Th ursday, a day prior to the opening direct contact with diseased Zhejiang province.