Rising Enmity Haunts Relations ‘Friendship Poll’ Shows Changing Attitudes Among Chinese, Japanese

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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 country 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

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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. Founded in AD of the 26th Summer Universiade. cattle. All of the patients have 328, it literally means Temple of the According to Killian, FISU has been quarantined and are receiving treatment in hospital. Soul’s Retreat. maintained smooth cooperation The master said he was not with China, and the past major sports CHINAYUNNANFACE impressed by Buddhism at an early events held in China have been suc- Crackdown on age. From 1979 to 1989, he worked as cessful as China attaches great impor- a bus driver in Hangzhou, and even tance to youth sports. fake Apple shops tried to join the army when he gradu- “FISU is ready to continue to The market watchdog ated from high school. strengthen cooperation with China,” in the southwestern city of PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Kunming said on Thursday “But I was refused due to my poor Killian said. it has identifi ed an additional eyesight,” said the bespectacled abbot, Shi Guangquan, the 50-year-old abbot of Lingyin Temple in Zhejiang’s capital Hangzhou, presides over a Buddhist Beijing hosted the 21st Summer 22 unauthorized Apple stores smiling. ritual in this ﬁ le photo. Universiade in 2001. In the same year aft er three self-named “Apple However, his father’s death in 1984, His decision didn’t sit well with his nary in the city, off ered courses in Bud- newspapers. Sometimes people even it won the bid to host the 2008 Sum- Stores” were exposed via the which made him feel the imperma- family. His mother cried for three dhism, held meetings about religious upload pictures of monks buying food mer Olympic Games. Internet in July. The administration for nence of human life, changed his whole days before giving her consent. communication and organized the or making phone calls. Killian also said earlier that Beijing industry and commerce in the future. “My mother cried because she mis- world’s fi rst Buddhist forum. “It’s discrimination against monks was a good example of using the Uni- provincial capital of Yunnan “At t h a t t i m e I o ft en went to a local understood Buddhism, just like lots of Now as an abbot running a temple and an interference with other’s private versiade to improve itself and then said in a statement that the 22 temple to hear the monks chant for Chinese people do,” said Shi. of more than 110 monks and the chair- lives,” said the master. “Some people stage a memorable Olympics in 2008. stores have been ordered to my deceased father, and I felt peace of His mother and many Chinese peo- man of the Hangzhou Buddhist Asso- still hold the outdated idea that monks Hu said Shenzhen has been well stop using Apple’s logo after mind in that situation, with the sound ple think that once a person converts ciation, Shi said that his busy daily life should be pale and live in remote prepared for the coming Universiade Apple China accused them of violation of the exclusive use of of chanting and the aroma of incense.” to Buddhism, he or she will have no is “diff erent from the previous one”. mountains,” he said. and “we look forward to the full suc- a registered trademark as well He then started to learn Bud- connection with family anymore. Besides work from his own temple, “As the abbot of Lingyin Temple, cess of the 26th Summer Universi- as unfair competition. dhist mantras at home and became “It is regulated in the Buddhist doc- he also has to deal with aff airs of local I think my most important task is to ade”. The agency said it would an ardent volunteer serving a nearby trine that you should take care of your and national Buddhist associations, help people understand Buddhism Foreign leaders who will also be open a complaint hotline and temple. parents,” said the abbot. attend meetings in China and abroad, and the peace they can obtain through present at Friday’s opening ceremony step up monitoring over market competition to prevent “I enjoyed the years of being a lay He now visits his mother once a and from time to time welcome for- its teachings.” include President of Mozambique similar cases from occurring. Buddhist, in which I learned many year, usually on the eve of Spring Fes- eign heads of state. The monastery now often invites Armando Guebuza, President of Buddhist doctrines, including doing tival, the Chinese lunar New Year’s eve. However, the abbot said Buddhism lay Buddhists and religious people to Bolivia Juan Evo Morales Ayma, XINJIANG good things to elevate the soul and Ordained into the Buddhist order in faces problems in China, including enjoy tea and music in the temple and President of Fiji Ratu Epeli Nailati- Earthquake accepting whatever happens to you.” 1990, Shi studied Buddhist doctrines a lack of religious people, a decline holds a Buddhist cultural festival every cau, Prime Minister of Ethiopia Meles topples houses As fate would have it, a dream he in Shanghai and returned to Hang- in the number of monks and poor year. Zenawi, and Prime Minster of Roma- An earthquake in North- had in 1989, in which he became a zhou seven years later. promotion. “Instead of waiting in temples for nia Emil Boc. west China’s Xinjiang Uygur monk of Lingyin Temple, made him “There were almost no Buddhist “Misunderstandings about monks religious people to visit, Chinese mon- The Universiade is staged every autonomous region on Th urs- determined to convert. activities in Hangzhou,” recalled the are still prevalent in China,” said Shi. asteries should be more active in pro- two years in a different city. More day aft ernoon caused injuries “Th ings happen for a reason, and I abbot. “I felt it was my responsibility Many people still feel strange when moting Buddhism,” said Shi. “When than 7,800 athletes and offi cials from and toppled houses, but no heeded the call of the spirit,” the master to promote Buddhism.” they see monks use cell phones, take you stop moving forward, you’re more than 150 countries and regions deaths have been reported, a local spokesman said. said. He founded the fi rst Buddhist semi- public transportation or even read already on your way backward.” will attend the Shenzhen Universiade. Th e specifi c casualties and Th e record fi gures for the Summer property losses are being Universiade are 9,006 participants counted, according to the in Bangkok, Th ailand, in 2007 and spokesman with the Jiashi 174 countries and regions in Daegu, county committee of the Women forced into prostitution South Korea in 2003. Communist Party of China. Traffi cking: The 5.8-magnitude earth- Founded in 1949, FISU’s main quake hit Xinjiang at 6:06 pm responsibility is the supervision of on Thursday, said the China FROM PAGE 1 In some areas of Guangdong and trafficking ring. Eight Vietnamese yuan, and girls for 20,000 to 30,000 the Summer and Winter Universi- Earthquake Network Center. Guangxi, couples with no sons bought infants kidnapped for sale were res- yuan. ade as well as the World University HENAN “Countries should rise above legal and illegally adopted abducted chil- cued and 39 suspects were arrested. All the rescued infants from Viet- Championships. diff erences, and enhance intelligence dren as “boys carry on the family line” Most of the eight abducted infants, nam underwent medical treatment Hu on Thursday also met Irina More jailed over and information communication,” and “raising sons can guarantee one’s aged from 10 days to seven months, in China. Th ey have been placed in Gueorguieva Bokova, director gen- illegal additive he said, adding that his office will old age”. had been sedated with sleeping pills to welfare institutions by the civil aff airs eral of United Nations Educational, A court in Henan province strengthen cooperation in extraditing Most trafficking suspects from stop them crying, and some were suf- departments and their birth parents Scientifi c and Cultural Organization sentenced seven more people suspects and transferring case materi- Vietnam and Myanmar are immi- fering serious health problems, includ- will be located and verifi ed through (UNESCO). to terms ranging from one als with counterparts in neighboring grants living illegally in China. ing coughs, fever and hydrocephalus, DNA tests, according to Chen. According to Hu, China attaches to 10 years in prison for selling illegal pig feed additives countries. Many of them are women who live swelling of the brain, when rescued. “We have officially informed the great importance to cooperation with to farmers, sources with the In describing the plight of victims, in Guangdong and Guangxi and Traffi ckers had abducted the chil- Vietnamese police and asked for UNESCO, and has actively supported court said on Th ursday. Chen explained that some rescued are consequently much more famil- dren from Vietnam and transported judicial assistance to fi nd their birth and taken part in activities organized Th e People’s Court of Huo- women had been sold as brides in iar with local custom and market them on bamboo rafts across the parents as soon as possible,” he said. by UNESCO, including preserving jia county said in its Tuesday Yunnan and Guangdong provinces, demand. Beilun River and then over the border Li Guifang, deputy director of the world cultural and natural heritage verdict that the seven had been selling clenbuterol, an whiles others were forced into prosti- “The female suspects tend to be on a long journey to Guangdong. criminal defense committee at the sites and promoting education. illegal carcinogenic food addi- tution in border areas of Yunnan and more discreet,” Chen said. “Th ey col- Th ey rode bicycles through the fi elds All China Lawyers Association, called Bokova said she hopes China and tive used to keep pigs lean, to the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous luded with local ‘black agencies’ and to bypass border checkpoints, and for harsher penalties for convicted UNESCO could further enhance farmers since 2009. region. had a relatively stable market there.’’ arrived at Dongxing and Fangcheng- traffi ckers. their cooperation. The seven were also pun- Most kidnapped infants were traf- Abducted infants are susceptible to gang in Guangxi. Th ey then boarded “Chinese judicial authorities “China has been an important ished with fi nes between 1,000 yuan ($156) and 28,000 yuan, ficked to Guangdong and Guangxi infections and oft en fall ill with colds long-distance buses to Nanning, the should increase the punishment for member of UNESCO, and has coop- according to the verdict. for illegal adoption, he said, adding and fevers and sometimes suff er more capital of Guangxi. the buyers, and completely cut off the erated well with UNESCO in sup- that boys sold for as much as 40,000 serious ailments. From Nanning, they took the chil- trafficking chain to make the buy- porting the development of develop- CHINA DAILY —XINHUA yuan ($6,000), while girls went for Last month Chinese police uncov- dren to Shanwei and Jieyang in Guang- ers lose both the children and the ing countries. UNESCO pays tribute 30,000 yuan. ered one major cross-border child dong to sell them, boys for 40,000 money,” he said. to this,” said Bokova.

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TIMELINE OF THE OIL LEAK June 4: Sheen is spotted Apology northeast of the Penglai 19-3 oilfi eld. ConocoPhil- lips China, the operator, reports the situation to the North China Sea Branch of the State Oceanic Adminis- tration (SOA). urged for June 12: Leak confi rmed in the oilfi eld’s Platform B. June 17: A surge occurs during drilling in Platform C. ConocoPhillips China stops drilling and reports oil leak the situation to the SOA. June 19: Oil leak in Cleanup may take longer than Platform B brought under control. expected, says ConocoPhillips June 21: Oil leak in Plat- form C is under control. By WANG QIAN ly critical of the company’s The oil leak is revealed to CHINA DAILY “inefficient and temporary the public for the fi rst time cleanup”. through a micro blog. BEIJING — China’s ocean An anonymous official June 30: A Southern watchdog urged ConocoPhil- from the branch said the bad Weekly report reveals lips China, the company attitude from ConocoPhil- details of the spill. responsible for a pair of oil lips China showed that the July 1: ConocoPhillips leaks off China’s northeast punishment for leaks is not China and China National Bohai Bay, to apologize to the serious enough — the maxi- Off shore Oil Corp issue a public for its slow cleanup. mum punishment is only statement to the media, Th e American energy giant 200,000 yuan ($30,800) — WU ZHIYI / CHINA DAILY admitting the leak for the should explain its delay in and the company is showing fi rst time. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa (left) off ers a present to Hao Ping, president of the Beijing Foreign Studies University, fi nding additional oil-based a lack of social responsibility during a visit to the university on Thursday. July 4: Eleven environ- drilling mud in the seabed for China’s marine environmental organizations and apologize to the public ment. release a public letter, requiring an apology from and the government, the “China is weak in supervi- ConocoPhillips for hiding North China Sea Branch of sion over marine develop- Sri Lankan president keen on the leak for nearly one the State Oceanic Adminis- ment, especially the off shore month. tration said on Wednesday. oil exploration operated by July 5: The SOA holds a It required the company to multinational corporations,” news conference explain- give a comprehensive assess- he said, adding that supervi- cultural exchange with China ing the latest development report on the cleanup sors only go to off shore plat- ments. process of the oily mud forms once or twice a year. By CHEN JIA Th e Sinhala Language Studies for me. Sinhala language was “I will talk about a more real July 14: ConocoPhillips with details on the mud’s Improving the marine CHINA DAILY Unit is part of the Asia-Africa my first choice on my appli- Sri Lanka when I go there in estimated the total volume area, thickness and amount, environment law is urgent in School at the university. Sev- cation form for the national September,” he said. of oil spilled from the Peng- including the cleaned and to- protecting the fragile ocean BEIJING — Sri Lankan presi- enteen languages including college entrance exam,” Wen “We enroll freshmen for lai 19-3 oilfi eld to be about be-cleaned parts, the mea- biosystem, he added. dent vowed to promote youth Sinhala are taught at the Asia- Jiangong, a student of Beijing Sinhala language studies every 1,500 barrels. sures for cleanup and the After the leak, all three cultural exchanges with China, Africa school. Foreign Studies University, told four years,” Jiang Xiaoxiao, a July 19: Scattered oil prevention of leaks. provinces and one munici- and five Chinese college stu- At present, 14 Chinese stu- China Daily on Th ursday. teacher of Sinhala language drops detected along the ConocoPhillips respond- pality around the bay — dents will leave for Sri Lanka in dents are studying for the fi rst He dressed up in a sarong, of the Beijing Foreign Studies coast of Liaoning and ed on Wednesday by saying Hebei, Shandong, Liaoning September to study the Sinhala degree in Sinhala language the traditional clothing of Sri University, told China Daily Hebei provinces are proven about 269 cubic meters (1,695 and Tianjin — have reported language for half a year. while three others are studying Lanka, and sang a song in the on Th ursday. to be from Penglai 19-3 barrels) of oil-based mud has fresh oil belts in seawater or “It is a little surprising that for a master’s degree in Sinhala, Sinhala language for the presi- Rajapaksa, who is on a four- oilfi eld. been recovered so far with dried oil drops ashore. Chinese students speak Sinhala said a press release by the president on Th ursday. day visit to China, met with Pre- July 27: The North China about 900 personnel and About 3,240 square kilo- language so well, and I hope to dent’s media division. “It is so exciting to perform mier Wen Jiabao on Th ursday Sea Branch ordered Cono- more than 30 vessels involved meters of seawater were pol- see your Chinese kungfu per- Students will have facilities for the president, and I hope to aft ernoon. coPhillips to take all eff orts to stop the leak before in the response eff orts. luted at the peak of the leak, formance in Sri Lanka soon,” to study Sinhala language and be a diplomat in the future,” he Rajapaksa will attend the Aug 31. The new finding will according to statistics from Sri Lankan President Mahinda culture and engage in related said. opening ceremony of the 26th push the total amount of oil the State Oceanic Adminis- Rajapaksa told He Yan, a fresh- research activities at the Sri In his imagination, Sri Lanka Summer Universiade on Friday July 31: The North China Sea Branch asked the com- and oil-based drilling mud tration. man of the Beijing Foreign Lanka Academic Centre. should be a “beautiful tropical in the southern city of Shen- pany to fi nish the seabed released past the previous People in affected areas Studies University, on Th ursday “It is not a diffi cult language country with many fruit trees”. zhen. cleanup before Aug 7 and estimate of 1,500 barrels. blamed the leak for losses in Beijing. give a cleanup assess- Earlier, the State Oceanic in the tourism and fishing “Th e language study and cul- ment report before Aug Administration had asked industries, with Laoting, a tural exchange would promote 10, preventing secondary ConocoPhillips to fi nish the county in Hebei province, the friendship between two pollution. seabed cleanup by Monday expected to face estimated ancient civilizations,” he said. Aug 3: ConocoPhillips this week, give an assessment economic losses of more He comforted the 19-year- discovered additional report on Wednesday and than 200,000 yuan, the local old whose kungfu performance oil-based drilling mud on complete the whole cleanup fi sheries association said. was temporarily canceled due to the sea fl oor in the vicinity before Aug 31. Many environmentalists the president’s tight tour sched- of Platform C, pushing the Apparently, the deadline are calling for transparency ule in the campus of the Beijing total amount over the for the seabed cleanup cannot and are blaming ConocoPhil- Foreign Studies University on previous estimate of 1,500 barrels. be met with the additional lips for hiding the truth. Th ursday morning. discovery of the oily mud on Zhong Yu, senior action Beijing Foreign Studies Uni- Aug 5: The SOA criticized Aug 3, one day aft er the dead- coordinator from Green- versity, the only university with ConocoPhillips for its “ineffi cient and temporary” line was set. peace, an international envi- long-term Sinhala language measures in the cleanup John McLemore, Cono- ronmental organization, told studies in China, gave Rajapak- and asked the company to coPhillips’s spokesman, told China Daily that without sa an honorary doctoral degree meet the deadline. China Daily via email ear- details about the cause of the and invited him to be the direc- Aug 10: The North China lier that the cleanup may take leak, the affected area and tor of the newly built Sri Lanka Sea Branch urged an apol- longer than planned, which the current situation near Academic Center on Th ursday. ogy from ConocoPhillips to is likely with the discovery of the leak, it is hard to esti- Rajapaksa was invited as the the public as well as asking the additional mud. mate possible environmental chief guest at a special ceremony the company to give a re- Although the company damage. held at the university to mark port assessing the seabed said full efforts have been “The marine pollution its 70th anniversary and the cleanup. taken, the North China Sea caused by leak will last for university’s Sinhala Language Branch has been increasing- decades,” she added. Studies Unit’s 50th anniversary. Experts warn of fragile sea environment By WANG QIAN reached 100,000 hectares. the North China Sea Branch CHINA DAILY Most coastlines in China are of the State Oceanic Admin- not natural, but man-made, istration, said at the Interna- BEIJING — Following the Sun sighed, citing as reasons tional Ocean Forum in Xia- continuing oil leak in Bohai the shrinking land resources men last year that human Bay, experts warned that fast and the cheap cost of land rec- Off shore development development has caused a off shore development is pol- lamation from the sea, about is going too fast, and large-scale decrease of coastal luting China’s fragile sea. 450,000 yuan ($6,900) to 4.5 it ignores the marine wetland. With marine economy million yuan per hectare. ‘‘ Li Ganjie, deputy minister becoming another engine for Statistics from the State capacity for human of environmental protection, the country’s economy in the Oceanic Administration activities ...” said in a news conference in 12th Five-Year Plan (2011- showed in 2010 about 13,454 SUN BAOCUN June that coastal waters are 2015), coastal provinces and hectares of water was filled MARINE PROFESSOR FROM TIANJIN slightly polluted, while water municipalities are going full by sand to form land across UNIVERSITY quality in the Bohai Sea is speed in their off shore devel- China, China Economy Net bad. opment plans. reported. But the worsening marine “Offshore development is As industry shift s from land and broader waters offshore environment doesn’t stop the going too fast, and it ignores to coastal areas and the sea, to meet the increasing ener- pace in exploring resources the marine capacity for human industrial pollution is threat- gy demand,” Sun said, add- in the ocean, while the China activities, especially land recla- ening the seawater. ing that off shore supervision National Off shore Oil Corpo- mation from the sea and off - The recent oil leak in the capability cannot keep pace ration, the biggest off shore oil shore oil and gas exploration,” Bohai Bay aff ected about 3,240 with the rapid off shore devel- and gas producer in China, Sun Baocun, marine professor sq km at its peak, according opment. has launched an advanced from Tianjin University, told to the statistics from the State If “blind” development and oil and gas drilling platform China Daily on Th ursday. Oceanic Administration. exploration continue off shore, in June, enabling the drilling According to the general Last year, a pipeline explo- areas like the Bohai Sea will of oil and gas in waters up to plan for land reclamation sion in the northeastern port become dead seas with no liv- 3,000 meters deep. from the sea of the State Oce- of Dalian caused oil to pour ing creatures, said Xu Hao, During the 11th Five- anic Administration in 2011, into the sea, spreading over director of the Resources Year Plan (2006-2010), the the permitted area in Liaon- at least 165 square miles (430 and Environment Science country’s marine economy ing is about 3,000 hectares square kilometers). Department of the Agricul- increased by 13.5 percent, while the planned area of the “Th e oil and gas exploration tural University of Hebei. contributing to less than 10 province’s six coastal cities industry is moving to deeper Fang Jianmeng, director of percent of the national GDP. 4 nation FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINA DAILY Authority steps in to prevent blackouts

By AN BAIJIE AND HUANG ZHAOHUA CHINA DAILY

NANNING — A South Chi- na county has placed limits on the amount of electricity that can go to companies that con- sume large amounts of energy in response to local residents’ complaints about frequent blackouts. An offi cial from the public- ity department of Tengxian county, in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, said many local villages have been subject to power shortages for months. “It’s a fact that we don’t have enough electricity,” said the official, who didn’t want to give his full name. “But the only thing we government offi cials can do is to use our air condi- tioners less oft en.” To maintain an electricity supply for local residents, the government has decided to restrict the power use of a pot- tery company, several titanium TEST OF SKILL powder factories and other PHOTO BY CHEN HAO / FOR CHINA DAILY enterprises, all of which contrib- ute greatly to the local economy. Riders in the Tibet autonomous region on Th ursday participate in a competition during a horse-racing gala in which they were to show their Mo Yunxia, a farmer in Tengxian, said she has seen bravery by performing a series of stunts, such as picking up khata, or ceremonial scarves, while on horseback. Th e gala was opened in Naqu frequent blackouts in recent in Tibet that day and will last six days. times. Whenever they happened, it usually took from two to three hours for the power to be restored. “A ft er we would come back in from the farm at noon, we would feel unbearably hot because the electric fan would Crash probe blames faulty design not work during the blackouts,” she said. Team simulates design defects that are likely to ing inside the carriages and of the railway system. parties both inside and outside the accident and ensures that Wang Yuanmei, a local have both caused equipment what the weather conditions The initial composition of the government, including the those with the greatest interest woman, said blackouts always what happened failures and the accident itself. were at that time.” the investigation team was Ministry of Supervision, the in it will have a say in how the “come out of the blue” without He also said the crash has The experts in the group announced on July 28, five State Electricity Regulatory investigation is conducted. any warning from authorities. in train accident revealed fl aws in the railway’s said they found the test to be days aft er the accident. Commission, the Ministry Wang Baoming, an expert “I remember one day when emergency plans. “very useful”. Th e reshuffl e, along with oth- of Industry and Information at the Chinese Academy of the power wasn’t restored until By ZHAO YINAN Th e team’s initial conclusion Hoping to make the inves- er measures taken to make the Technology and the China Governance, echoed Zhao’s 2 am, and it was cut off again at CHINA DAILY was reached in part through tigation more credible, the investigation go more smoothly International Engineering opinion, adding that it might 6 am,” Wang said. “Th e weather a series of experiments. One State Council, China’s Cabi- and railways safer, was meant Consulting Corp. be better to invite more tech- forecast said that it’s going to BEIJING — The deadly of them attempted to simulate net, reshuffled the members to “restructure the probe pan- Ji Jialun, a transportation nology specialists into the rain soon, which may bring high-speed train crash that what exactly happened when of the investigation team on el, improve the investigation professor at Beijing Jiaotong team, which is now mostly down the high temperatures.” killed at least 40 passengers in one high-speed train crashed Wednesday, taking two rail- system and make the work University and member of composed of officials from During the recent blackouts, July was “a completely avoid- into the back of another near way offi cials off of it and add- more authoritative and cred- the investigation team’s expert government departments. local villagers have often lit able accident” and “should not Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, ing seven representatives of ible”, according to a statement panel, declined to comment One survivor of the Wen- candles at night and slept on have happened”. on July 23, killing 40 passengers various other departments. released by the State Council. on the rearrangement, saying zhou crash, who goes by the their roofs because their houses Th at’s what the leader of a and injuring nearly 200 others. Peng Kaizhou, vice-minis- Following the rearrange- that those on the probe team name Yuan Xiaoyan on his were too hot inside and their team looking into the crash “In the experiment, we ter of railways, and Chen Lan- ment, nearly half of the 22 aren’t allowed to take part in micro blog, said the rearrange- electric fans did not work. said on Th ursday. used a high-speed train that hua, director of the railway seats in the team’s investigation media interviews. ment shows that the govern- Yang Xueji, a resident in Speaking at the team’s third is similar to the one that ministry’s safety supervision group will be taken by offi cials Zhao Jian, another trans- ment is serious about conduct- Dali township, said she has not full meeting, Luo Lin, the crashed,” a group of experts department, were removed from the State Administration portation professor at Beijing ing a transparent investigation. cooked for days because her team leader and minister of on the team wrote in a state- from the team in response to of Work Safety and the local Jiaotong University, said the He said he hopes there will electric pan will not work with- the State Administration of ment. “We tried to simulate the public’s calls for the inves- government in Zhejiang prov- new arrangement refl ects the soon be a way for the public to out power. Work Safety, said that the ini- what the signaling equipment tigation to be conducted with- ince. Th e rest will be fi lled by interests of various groups access information from the “Th e vegetables in the refrig- tial investigation has exposed was doing, what was happen- out help from representatives offi cials from other interested connected in some way to investigation more quickly. erator rotted because the electricity was cut off ,” Yan g s ai d . “It made me sad.” The autonomous region is seeing its most serious elec- Decision to slow trains met with mixed response tricity shortage in the past two decades, leaving nearly 30 percent of the region’s demand BEIJING — Th e State Coun- eliminate hazards so a disaster TIMELINE their operation. train producers, submitted for electricity unmet, said He cil’s decision to slow the oper- like this won’t happen again.” While some are raising a proposal to the Ministry Jiyuan, deputy director of the ating speeds of China’s high- Sun Zhang, a professor at TIMETABLE OF SPEED ACCELERATION doubts about the reduced train of Railways on Thursday, power supply bureau of Nan- speed trains on Wednesday is the Railway and Urban Mass • April 1, 1997 speeds, others want the trains requesting permission to ning, capital of Guangxi. receiving a tepid welcome from Transit Research Institute of The three main lines linking Beijing and Guangzhou, Beijing and to be allowed to run faster in recall every 54 CRH380BL Guangxi’s capacity to pro- many Chinese. Tongji University, also said he Shanghai, and Beijing and Harbin were sped up. Their maxi- the future. train that has been put into duce electricity falls about 3.5 Th e safety of the railways was supports the new policy. mum speed increased to 140 kilometers per hour. A netizen going by the name operation, according to a million kW to 4 million kW brought into question when a “We should take time to test • October 1, 1998 yuanlianqishi wrote in a micro report on caing.com. short of being able to give the high-speed train crashed into the high-speed rail system and After a new round of acceleration, some sections on the three blog post: “I hope slowing Th e company on Wednes- region what it needs. Every day another on a line near Wen- gain more experience, because lines linking Beijing and Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai, and the trains will be a temporary day announced that it has in recent weeks, the amount zhou in Zhejiang on July 23. that will provide an important Beijing and Harbin could run from 140 to 160 km/h. thing. I think aft er better safety ceased delivering CRH380BL of Guangxi’s power shortage • October 21, 2000 Th e accident has been blamed reference for the future opera- measures and personnel train- high-speed trains and has has come to between 80 mil- on faulty signaling equipment. tion of these trains at high Trains running on lines linking Lianyungang and Lanzhou, ing are put into eff ect, the train begun a technical overhaul. lion kWh to 90 million kWh, At a meeting presided over speeds,” Sun said. Lanzhou and Xinjiang, Beijing and Kowloon, and Zhejiang and speeds will increase again.” In late July, two CRH380BL which means 30 percent of the Jiangxi began to operate at a higher speed. by Premier Wen Jiabao shortly “It took Japan 47 years • October 21, 2001 An editorial appearing on trains abnormally stopped region’s demand for electricity aft er the crash, the State Coun- to increase the speed of its Th ursday in the Beijing News three times when they were is not being met. cil ordered safety checks to be Shinkansen railway network, Lines linking Beijing and Kowloon, Wuchang and Chengdu (in- stated, “Developing high-speed going from Beijing to Shang- The Ministry of Industry cluding its Chongqing section), Zhengjiang and Jiangxi, Harbin conducted on both high-speed going from 210 km an hour and Dalian and the southern part of the Beijing-Guangzhou railways is in keeping with cur- hai. and Information Technology railways and those that convey in 1964 to 300 km an hour in railway were sped up. rent trends and the aspirations The breakdowns were released an emergency notice trains at slower speeds. 2011. So it’s impressive, and • April 18, 2004 of the people, but what people mainly caused by failures of on May 10, saying measures That decision made head- at the same time a bit worri- Trains running on some sections of the country’s major lines need are safe trains, aff ordable the trains’ sensors, said Zhao should be taken to ensure the lines across the country and some, that China managed to started to move at an accelerated speed of up to 200 km/h. fares and quality service.” Minghua, a senior executive of electricity supply remains sta- soon gave rise to fi xed feelings achieve speeds of 350 km an • April 18, 2007 Sheng said the crash the CNR Changchun Railway ble for residents and for public among many in the public. hour in just seven years.” Trains on some lines sped up to 250 km/h. Bullet trains began exposed fl aws in the safety and Vehicles Co, which produces purposes and that power grids Zhou Yiwen, an employee of Others, though, doubt that to be put into large scale operation. management of railway traffi c, the CRH380BL trains. should not be turned off to the Hunan Tangel Publishing slower speeds will produce the as well as a lack of experience China began operating bul- control the use of power. Co, wrote on his micro blog: “I desired results. in responding to train acci- let trains in 2007. By the end The National Development feel a little relieved, and I have “I don’t think it will work, dents. of 2010, it had put 8,358 km and Reform Commission said faith in the government’s mea- since the actual cause of the of railways, said that railways Ticket fares will be reduced An investigation into the of high-speed railways into in June that local governments sures. I hope it is not too late to crash is unknown,” a netizen with a maximum speed of 350 accordingly, he said. cause of the crash is still under operation, giving it the lon- will face punishments if they are fi x this problem.” using the screenname day- km an hour will run at 300 km Meanwhile, in response to way. Th e results are expected gest rail network of any coun- found to be rationing electricity. A Beijing taxi driver sur- ushuomanhua said in a micro an hour and those with a maxi- the State Council’s decision, the to come out in mid-Septem- try in the world. It said companies that use named Li expressed similar blog post. “We don’t know if the mum speed of 250 km an hour transport bureau of the Min- ber, according to the team According to the coun- large amounts of energy should sentiments. “It’s good news, train speed had anything to do will run at 200 km an hour. He istry of Railways has started responsible for investigating try’s railway plan, which was not be able to draw heav- since I’ll feel safe with the trains with the crash, so slowing the said railways whose speeds making a new train schedule. the crash. revised in 2008, China is ily on the power grid and that running at slower speeds,” he speed of the trains is like bark- have been lift ed to 200 km an The schedule will slow the In a recent development, expected to have 16,000 km of schools, hospitals and residents said. “But I do hope that they ing up the wrong tree.” hour will be slowed to 160 km speed of the new high-speed China CNR Corporation Ltd, railways by 2020. should have a guaranteed sup- (the Railway Ministry) can Sheng Guangzu, the minister an hour. railways in the initial stages of one of the country’s biggest XINHUA ply of electricity. CHINA DAILY FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 nation 5 Discrimination toward garbage man riles public

Hu Shoujun, a sociology Driver suspended for trying to force professor from Fudan Uni- versity, said as long as he was rag picker with smelly bags off bus abiding by the transport regulations then the rag picker had By HE WEI ing their social security cards. the right to use the bus. CHINA DAILY When it arrives at the next According to the pub- stop, the angry passenger lic transport regulations in SHANGHAI — An online grabs the bags and throws Shanghai, a bus passenger’s video showing a bus driver them off the bus and then gets luggage should not exceed and a passenger forcing an off and walks away. 50 kilograms in weight or elderly rag picker to get off a Th e old man hurries to go 0.2 cubic meters in size, and bus in Shanghai has sparked pick up his belongings, but should not contain any fl am- heated online debate. the driver closes the door to mable, explosive, corrosive, SAFE BUCKETS OF WATER Controversy has raged aft er prevent him. poisonous or radioactive PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY a passenger on the bus upload- A netizen named “problem- materials. The bus company ed a video of the incident he atic boy” responded to the vid- is investigating the man’s bags. Residents wait to get clean drinking water from a water truck in Ruichang, Jiangxi province, took with his mobile phone to eo by asking: “What is wrong Th e Shanghai-based news- youku.com, a popular video with a poor old man who is paper Oriental Morning Post on Wednesday. More than 100 residents living near an industrial park in the city were sent portal in China. just making a living by collect- cited a staff member of the to hospital on Tuesday aft er drinking polluted water. The four-minute video ing garbage? Does China have company that runs the No 82 shows the rag picker, an elder- a long tradition of respecting buses in Shanghai as saying ly man in his 70s with lank and loving the old?” that there is no specific rule gray hair, carrying five bags Another netizen named stipulating that garbage can- full of empty bottles, paper “1978ken” noted that nobody not be taken aboard a bus, “as Group sex offi cial is dismissed and other garbage onto a No on the bus said anything to long as the surface is clean”. 82 bus in the city. A middle- support the old man, which Wang Ying, a recently aged male passenger and the “makes me feel so sad”. retired woman, said even if KUNMING — An official the Kunming commission four people lured Cheng into ing sex were posted online female driver confront him Following the criticism and the man’s bags were oversized in Southwest China’s Yunnan of development and reform, participating in the act and by an anonymous woman, and accuse him of “pollut- anger from the public, the or a bit smelly, neither the province has been dismissed was also expelled from the recorded him using a hidden who accused Tian of “taking ing the carriage environment female driver of the bus was driver nor the passenger had from his post after images Communist Party of China. camera. advantage” of her. with his smelly garbage” and suspended from her post on any justifi cation for being that showing him taking part in Photos showing Cheng Th e four people have since The woman said in her demand he gets off . Wednesday, according to an rude or any law-enforcement group sex were posted online, taking part in group sex were been arrested, according to post that Tian made several “Th ey are not rubbish, they offi cial from Shanghai Shang power to force him off the bus . local disciplinary authorities posted online on the morning the statement. unwanted sexual advances are my money,” the old man Nan Public Transportation Seven percent of city dwell- confi rmed on Th ursday. of July 31. Cheng’s case was revealed toward her aft er meeting her shouts to the passenger who Co which operates the No 82 ers living in poverty are largely Th e Kunming disciplinary Cheng went to local police shortly aft er another offi cial in 2006, promising to help her keeps trying to grab the bags. bus service. ignored by society, according inspection committee released later that day, claiming that in Central China’s Henan fi nd a job. He says he is entitled to ride Th e debate has focused on to a study by the Chinese a statement saying that the he had been blackmailed for province was suspended for Tian never fulfilled his the bus as he has paid the fare two points: Whether the rag Academy of Social Sciences. offi cial, identifi ed only by his 63,000 yuan ($10,000). similar reasons. promise, the woman said, using his social security card. picker has a right to ride the Currently more than 10 surname Cheng, has “severely Aft er an investigation, the Tian Hanwen, a law- adding that she has not been In Shanghai, permanent bus and the whether the pas- million people make a living damaged social morality” Kunming Public Security maker in Ruyang county, his only victim. residents older than 70 are senger had the right to dispose by searching through trash through his behavior. Bureau said in a statement became notorious overnight granted free bus rides by swip- of his belongings. heaps, Xinhua reported. Cheng, an official with on Tuesday that a group of after photos of him hav- XINHUA

RAIN MAKES IT A PUSH BIKE PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY A man pushes an electrical bike on a fl ooded street in Weifang, East China’s Shandong province, on Th ursday, aft er torrential rain hit the city. First transplant for donor-match system

By ZHOU WENTING “Th e liver weighed more than are being distributed in a fair help to ensure that organs are CHINA DAILY 400 grams, and, according to manner. They also wanted matched quickly and accu- the requirements, the recipient to avoid wasting donated rately to their intended recipi- BEIJING — A national com- had to weigh less than 55 kilo- organs, to know more about ents, reduce the mortality rates puter system, designed to match grams,” Sun said. where those in need of organs of patients who are waiting for donors with patients who need Th e donor, a native of Zhan- are and to promote organ transplants and improve the specifi c organs, resulted in fi rst jiang, Guangdong province, donations. chances that patients will sur- organ transplant across provin- drowned on Aug 7 and was “If a donated organ is wasted vive and be healthy after their cial lines at a hospital in Tianjin pronounced brain dead. Her because of ineffi ciency, that will transplants. on Th ursday. parents decided to donate her be a heavy blow to the donor’s The system includes more “The recipient of a liver organs as a means of extending family as well as the public’s than 85 percent of the licensed regained consciousness this the lives of others, and trans- confi dence in organ donations,” transplant hospitals in China morning and is in a stable con- ferred her to the First Hospital said Wang Haibo, director of that meet the technical and dition,” said Zhu Zhijun, vice- affi liated to Sun Yat-sen Uni- the China Organ Transplant managerial criteria set by the president of the Tianjin First versity, which is qualified to Response System. system, statistics from the sys- Center Hospital, where the undertake organ transplants, Wang said the system will tem showed. operation took place. according to He Xiaoshun, The patient, Hua Panshou, vice-president of the hospital. who received a liver from a “No match was found in our BBeijingeijing HHuiyuanuiyuan 6-year-old girl, is a 64-year- hospital, but one was found old Taiwan resident suffering aft er we put the girl’s informa- MMediaedia VVillageillage ApartmentApartment from liver cancer. She went to tion in the national system,” the Tianjin hospital, the biggest He said, adding that the liver organ-transplant center in the had been taken to Tianjin on country, a week ago and was put Wednesday evening and the on a waiting list. surgery was performed imme- “The woman is the first diately aft erward. patient to be matched with a Before the system was put donated liver using the system,” into use, the three medical said Sun Liying, head of the hos- experts had to rely on their con- pital’s transplant department. tacts in other hospitals and in Th e China Organ Transplant the provincial Red Cross society Response System as it is known, to fi nd organ recipients. was put into use in December “But only a national platform Beijing Huiyuan Media Village (Huiyuan Service Apartment) is located in the central area of the business district of the Olympic and Asian Games villages, about 500 2010. can ensure fairness and fre- meters away from the National Stadium (the Bird’s Nest). As the media village of the Zhu and Sun said the database quent information exchanges Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, it was home to more than 1,000 Chinese and foreign helped to prevent the liver from about the supply and demand,” journalists. It offers a number of different varieties of apartments. Spacious and well-lit, they have ample facilities and furnishings and are suitable for residential going to waste. Before it existed, Zhu said. or business use. Businesses may be registered here and it is ideal for individual organ donors and recipients In establishing the national business or tourist customers. oft en had few ways to exchange transplant system, the design- Preferential rents are available. Contact us for details. information, especially if they ers wanted to make sure it Apartment Hotlines: (8610) 6499 3636/3528 E-mail: [email protected] Hotel Hotlines: (8610) 6499 2828/2929 E-mail: [email protected] did not live near each other. would ensure donated organs Website: www.huiyuangongyu.com.cn 6 coverstory FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINA DAILY

ZHANG TAO / CHINA DAILY The soccer ﬁ eld at Xinjiang Soong Ching Ling Football School is the principal training ground for 120 teenage boys in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. In October, the school moves to a new campus with three ﬁ elds. Urumqi: A school for boys with a goal

FROM PAGE 1 At ﬁ rst, nothing still shuts the door to many In an old two-story build- soccer talents,” said Tewangu, Like a roaring jet, Hirali ing near the fi eld, Yilamu has 57, a coach in the school who suddenly sped up and broke worked painstakingly over the played on the Xinjiang soccer loose from the defense of three past decade in a 15-square- team in 1977. guards. He stopped the ball meter room with a display of I never saw a football The school also received from a long pass, dribbled in the the trophies his players won before that day. I was some business sponsorships, penalty area and smartly kicked in various tournaments, plus a so excited and held it but Yilamu said the expenses a lob over the goalkeeper’s head. bed and a hot plate. ‘‘ of traveling to play across the Goal! In 1999, Yilamu was appoint- when I was sleeping. country takes up almost his “Some Chinese people, per- ed deputy chairman of the Before then, my ‘foot- entire budget. haps businessmen in Astana, Xinjiang Football Association. ball’ was a shoebox For Hirali and other stu- were waving the national flag Moving into his offi ce, which is dents at the school, the only and celebrating my goal,” Hirali rented from a primary school, stuff ed with grass, but key to success is to exert all said. “I felt so great at that and sitting in front of his desk, I played with it happily their strength to play well in moment.” a dining table he bought from anyway.” all the matches, to attract the Hirali has been selected for a barbecue restaurant, Yilamu HIRALI attention of professional clubs China’s under-17 national team felt the future of Xinjiang soccer 16-YEAR-OLD BOY FROM KASHGAR and sign contracts, as Bali and to compete, starting in Novem- was fairly dim. Metjon did. ber, for a qualifi er out of Asia for “I had nothing then. No “We are taught other subjects the 2013 FIFA Under-17 World money, no players and no idea.” like mathematics, but we know Cup Final in the United Arab In 1994, soccer had become next three years, more than clearly the only reason we are Emirates. the fi rst sport in China to turn 20,000 spectators on average here,” Hirali said. “I have to feed professional, and its profound went to Urumqi Stadium to our family in the future.” ‘How to explain . . .’ reform lit a fi re under the devel- support their home team. Hamit, 17, another talented As Hirali reminisced about opment of the soccer market. A In contrast to the blooming player in the school, suffers his goal, Yilamu, 60, president Xinjiang soccer team joined to of Xinjiang soccer, the general from knee pain but sticks to the of Xinjiang Soong Ching Ling play in a second-division league, Chinese soccer environment, four-hour daily training. He Football School, let out a long but failed to advance into the aft er 17 years of professional- wants to play for the Hangzhou sigh. The local government, professional league and was dis- ism, is suff ering from bribery Green Town Football Club, a citing security concerns, had missed in 1996. scandals, is struggling in inter- Super League club in eastern just called off the international “Few people in Xinjiang national play, and faces a mea- China’s Zhejiang province. It tournament in Urumqi that he knew they had a soccer team ger supply of future players. recently sent him an unoffi cial had been preparing for since then,” Yilamu said, “but I gradu- Th e Chinese Olympic team did training invitation. last year. ally found the rich soccer soil not qualify for the 2012 Lon- “The mission of Xinjiang Yilamu, who also is deputy waiting to be tilled, the pure don Games, and hopes for the soccer now is to develop more chairman of Xinjiang’s soccer and passionate love for soccer 2014 Brazil World Cup look young talented players and association, said the cause is at the grassroots level, especially dim. Only about 7,000 play- send them to national teams,” believed to be bloody attacks among the children and teenagers under 18 registered with Yilamu said. last month in Hotan, a city in ers.” the Chinese Football Associa- “It is true that professional the southern part of Xinjiang, Soccer in many rural areas tion last year, compared with soccer clubs are showing and Kashgar. across Xinjiang was the only 500,000 in Japan. increasing interest in signing As it was scheduled, entertainment for preschool up the boys in our school. But Urumqi was to have hosted children and students. “You ‘Reason we are here’ the money they are willing to the Central-Asia Internation- can see enthusiastic children Behind the huge local prog- off er is quite low.” al Football Tournament over and teenagers play soccer Top: The school’s president, Yilamu, talks about some of the school’s diffi cult early years and its ress, however, Xinjiang soccer Yilamu said a rich profes- nine days starting Saturday. everywhere in places like Kash- mission, “to develop more young talented players and send them to national teams”. is caught between the absence sional soccer club recently Five teams from central Asia gar, Urumqi and Yili, and there Above: Players practice headers on the school ﬁ eld. of a local professional club — off ered him 50,000 yuan annu- and Russia, along with two are also regular matches among the Sport Lottery club lost its ally in return for two players teams from Xinjiang and four schools,” he said. municipal bureau of sports contributing talented young clubs in the Super League, the funding and stopped playing from the school every year. professional clubs from other In 2002, as part of a program provided 1 million yuan for players to national teams and top soccer league in China. this year — and the increasing Yilamu declined. provinces, were planning to to support Chinese youth soc- the startup. professional clubs. More than 20 other players number of talented youths. In 2008, the autonomous participate. cer, the Chinese Football Asso- Yilamu signed a 10-year In 2005, the Xinjiang soc- from the school have played The students benefit from region invested 40 million “Everything is ready. The ciation induced Soong Ching lease with a local technical cer team, consisting mainly of professionally in the second the subsidy from the Soong yuan to build a new training Russian team had bought Ling Foundation to fund a soc- school to use facilities includ- students from the school, went division. Two were chosen Ching Ling Foundation, yet base in Urumqi. In October, fl ight tickets. I don’t know how cer school in Urumqi. Yilamu ing a fi eld, stands and a two- to the final game of the 10th for China’s national under-19 they have to pay 5,800 yuan Xinjiang Soong Ching Ling to explain it to them now,” Yil- became the president. Th e next story building as the students’ National Games of China, a and under-15 teams, and two ($907) every year to cover Football School will move to amu said. year, the association helped dormitory. Th e region’s sports fi rst in the history of Xinjiang more for the national beach tuition and board, a huge eco- the base, which contains three “We also planned to invite Yilamu select the fi rst batch of bureau paid 2.5 million yuan to soccer. In the decisive qualify- soccer team. nomic burden for the majority. fi elds, a gymnasium, a medical children from diff erent rural 80 young soccer players, most renovate the old facilities. ing match, a 16-year-old named In 2006, the region got its Th e annual income of Hirali’s treatment room and an indoor areas of Xinjiang to watch the of them under 15, out of 695 Bali shot the winning goal. first professional team, with family is 12,000 yuan, which training area. tournament for free. Th ey are candidates from all over the Star alumni Bali and another player a roster fi lled mostly by play- comes mainly from selling the According to an offi cial plan passionate soccer lovers from autonomous region. In the following years, the from the school, Metjon, were ers from the school. Xinjiang cotton they grow. released in December, Xinji- poor families,” Yilamu said. The foundation grants school has solidifi ed the reputa- recruited to the national Olym- Football Club of Sport Lottery “It is only one-third the ang will invest 50 million yuan “I can feel how disappointed 500,000 yuan ($78,000) to the tion of Xinjiang soccer by win- pic men’s soccer team and were was founded to play in Chinese expense of schools in other, every year to establish 100 soc- they are.” school every year. Th e Urumqi ning various tournaments and signed up by two professional soccer’s second division. In the developed provinces, but it cer schools in the next decade. CHINA DAILY FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 metrobeijing 7 Fare demands for mobility Disappearing

Disabled people snacks bid to call for better access to city’s get on hit list public transport By XU WEI authentic inheritors of their craft CHINA DAILY are mostly over 70 years old. By CANG WEI That traditional Beijing CHINA DAILY BEIJING — Traditional Bei- snacks are disappearing is con- jing snacks are expected to be firmed by many traditional BEIJING — Th e departure included on the city’s intangible snack store owners, including station on the ticket reads cultural heritage list as part of Zhang Zi’an, the fourth genera- “full price” and the destina- its bid to better protect and pro- tion owner of Baodu Zhang, a tion “half price”. mote the disappearing ancient quickly boiled tripe store that The 1-meter-long hand- delicacies. dates back over 120 years. made ticket was displayed Snacks like ludagun (Rolling According to Zhang, all the in front of the Ministry of Donkey), a sticky sweet dough snacks in his store are made by Railways by a disabled man stuffed with bean paste or his 74-year-old mother. He said on Wednesday to highlight brown sugar, and wandouhuang the craft is likely to die out as its the fact that Beijing lags well (Pea Flour Cake), made from a fi nancial prospects are dimin- behind many other Chinese mixture of white peas and sug- ishing. cities that have introduced ar, date back to Ming Dynasty “Young people are unwill- favorable measures to make (1368-1644) and are already ing to learn the craft smanship, public transport accessible for listed as intangible cultural as they cannot make enough disabled people. heritage in several districts in money,” Zhang told China Daily Compared with cities such Beijing, including Xicheng and in his store in Beijing’s Shichahai as Shenzhen, in which people Xuanwu. area, northeast of the Forbidden with all kinds of disabilities The Beijing Traditional City. can use public transport for Brands Association and the Zhang said it took time to free, Beijing has a long way to Beijing Snack Food Develop- make a ludagun, which are then go to catch up, said Ruan Lum- ment Association nominated sold for just 2 yuan (31 cents) ing, a middle-aged woman the traditional snacks for the a piece. with a leg disability, who sued LIU ZHE / CHINA DAILY city list and the municipal com- However, the most severe the Beijing metro company Four disabled people (from left to right), Chen Jinduo from Guangzhou, Wang Xiaomei from Wuhan, Wo Weimin from Shenzhen, mission of commerce is backing challenge to Beijing’s culinary on July 26 for charging her full and Ruan Luming from Beijing hold up signs at a seminar in Beijing on Thursday, indicating the discount travel policies the four their inclusion. classics, according to Zhang, is price. cities’ metro companies have provided their disabled passengers. Disabled passengers travel for free in Wuhan and Shenzhen, “We hope the application for the increasing number of non- “It is regulated by the coun- and enjoy a 50 percent discount in Guangzhou, while Beijing off ers no preferential fares. the city’s intangible cultural her- traditional stores, which pose a try’s law on the protection of itage list will promote the overall threat to the reputation of tradi- disabled persons, which was 380,000 have registered and often belong to low-income that it is the “protection of the disabled people on street when brand value of traditional Bei- tional Beijing snacks. amended in April 2008, that obtained the disability certifi - groups, and we generally suf- rights of disabled people” not the Olympic Games were held jing snacks and help pass on the “Some of the vendors or I can enjoy a disability dis- cates,” he said. fer a greater fi nancial burden the discounts themselves that in Beijing, but now there are craft smanship,” Li Weiwei, dep- stores who claim they are time- count,” said Ruan. “But I fi nd People with disabilities in than other people,” Ruan said. are at the heart of the issue. not so many people,” Xu said. uty director of the municipal honored Beijing snack maker that many local departments China are required to show According to a survey con- “To encourage more people China has 83 million dis- commission of commerce, said just copy the ingredients and don’t take the law seriously.” their certifi cates to staff mem- ducted by the National Bureau with disabilities to integrate abled people, among whom at a conference on Wednesday. don’t know the right way to Wu Runling, founder of bers if they want to receive of Statistics in 2007, the per into society, the fi rst thing to be 24.12 million have physical Research will be carried out, as make the snacks,” Zhang said. the Huitianyu Center, a Bei- any disability discounts or capita income of families with done is to enable them to step disabilities, according to offi - part of the bidding campaign, Meanwhile, traditional Bei- jing-based NGO for disabled benefi ts. disabled members in urban out of their families,” said Xu. cial statistics. to assess the current situation of jing snack chain stores are pro- people, said the city can easily Ruan said that the disabil- areas was 4,864 yuan ($760), He also said that disabled To raise public awareness the traditional Beijing snacks. liferating citywide. aff ord to waive the transporta- ity discounts have a negligible and for rural families it was people in China do not have of people with physical dis- According to statistics by the Th e Judehuatian Holding Co tion fees completely for people impact on the revenues of the 2,260 yuan. Both are less than enough access to barrier-free abilities, the China Disabled Beijing Snack Food Develop- Ltd, has 16 Huguosi stores city- with physical disabilities. transport companies but are a half of the national average. facilities, and that society is Persons’ Federation in 2010 ment Association released last wide that sell over 100 variet- “In 2009 the per capita GDP big benefi t to disabled people However, Xu Jiacheng, not very welcoming of them. approved the observance of year, traditional Beijing snacks ies of traditional Beijing snacks, of Beijing exceeded $10,000. “Due to their disabilities, director of the school of spe- “There used to be lots of Persons with Physical Dis- have declined sharply from 600 according to Liu Jian, the direc- And among the 1 million dis- and access to education and cial education under the Bei- warm-hearted individuals that abilities Day, which falls on varieties at their peak to about tor of the company’s executive abled citizens in Beijing, only jobs, people with disabilities jing Union University, said would off er a helping hand to Aug 11 every year. 100 today, and the average age of offi ce.

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CHINADAILY CHINA FORUM | LI LUOSHA EDITORIALS Who’s the real meddler? Learning our lessons US should stop politicizing trade issues with China SAFETY WORRIES HAVE REPLACED CONCERNS about the aff ordability of the nation’s high-speed railways since and loosen its export control on high-tech products the fatal collision on the Ningbo-Wenzhou line on July 23. The outcome of the Ministry of Railways’ initial botched response to the tragedy is that people now have doubts about he fi nancial crisis makes political, economic and mili- ing less and less. concerns, and in the same year Hua- traveling on the once enthusiastically anticipated high-speed has profoundly tary interventions around the world Under the guise of national secu- wei Technologies’ attempt to buy trains. aff ected Sino-US to further its own interests. rity, the US has also blocked Chinese assets and technology of 3Leaf was Th e lack of transparency in the days aft er the tragedy brewed economic rela- In fact, one of the main factors enterprises from investing in the US withdrawn when the Committee of suspicions not only about the possibility of a cover-up by the tions, which is behind the imbalance in Sino-US high-tech industry. Foreign Investment in the United ministry, but also about the desirability of the “great leap for- the foundation of trade is the severe controls imposed In 2005, China National Off shore States (CFIUS) said the deal should their relationship. by the United States on exports of Oil Corporation (CNOOC) attempt- not proceed. ward” the nation’s high-speed trains were supposed to be. Th e trade imbalance, the renminbi high-tech products to China. ed to purchase Unocal, which was Also in 2010, fi ft y members of To what extent are the ministry’s safety-related assurances and exchange rate, intellectual property In June 2007, the US Department then the ninth biggest oil company in the House of Representatives wrote reassurances credible? Have we been too hasty and too optimis- T rights and export bans now embody of Commerce issued new control the US, for $18.5 billion, but ultimate- to US Treasury Secretary Geithner tic in developing our high-speed railways? What is the sensible the frictions between the two. rules on high-tech exports to Chi- ly the deal failed when it was strongly and requested that CFIUS “thor- approach to the lines now planned and those being built? Th e economic relationship na, including Th e Export and Re- opposed by US politicians. In 2007, oughly investigate” the plan by Th e shadow of July 23 lies too heavy across the tracks not to between China and the US is oft en export Control Policy Changes and China’s telecom-equipment company Anshan Iron & Steel Group, China’s invoke second thoughts. heavily infl uenced by US political Interpretation, Th e New Authoriza- Huawei Technologies off ered $2.2 fourth largest steelmaker, to invest Th e latest investigators into the causes of the accident unveiled interference, which seeks to politicize tion Qualifi ed End User System, billion to purchase 3Com, but sev- in steel plants owned by the Steel by the State Council look promising, because, on one hand, they economic issues and internationalize and Th e Revised Licensing Policy eral members of Congress claimed Development Company, on the have a reasonable distance from the ministry, and, on the other, domestic issues. for Items that Required a License the deal was a threat to US national grounds that it would endanger they are all competent professionals who will be able to fulfi ll However, some Americans like to for Export Prior to the New Rule, security and took a series of actions national security as Anshan would the task assigned them. And the absence of any offi cials from claim the Sino-US trade imbalance which made it even more diffi cult to scupper the deal. Eventually, in give China access to “information the ministry may be a signifi cant factor in reassuring the public is caused by the diff erence between for US companies to export high- February 2008, Huawei withdrew. regarding American national secu- about the legitimacy of their fi ndings. the Chinese and US political systems. tech products to China. In 2009, China Northwest Nonfer- rity infrastructure projects”. Although the top priority remains fi nding out the true cause Th e Chinese government plays a Th ere are 31 categories of con- rous International Investment Com- Th e US frequently uses its advan- large role in the economic develop- trolled items, including aircraft and pany tried to invest $26.5 million tages to pass its domestic contradic- of the accident, properly executing the decisions to conduct a ment process so they say the trade aircraft engines, navigation system, to buy 51 percent of Firstgold Corp, tions onto other countries. Moreover, safety check of the country’s current high-speed railways and to imbalance is the result of interven- lasers, optical fi bers, depleted ura- which would result in the acquisition having the US dollar as the global conduct safety reviews of the lines yet to be built are essential for tion by the Chinese government, nium and soft ware. Th e US also of the rights to exploit four Nevada reserve currency makes it convenient the present and future of railway development in the country. suggesting, for example, that the implements tighter export controls to gold mines, but under pressure from for the US to internationalize its Because of their high speeds, express railways need to be rigor- Chinese government manipulates China than other trading partner in the US government and media, domestic issues. ously checked to ensure they are safe. Th at is why it is extremely the exchange rate of the renminbi to biotechnology, photoelectric technol- which claimed the mines were close As Stephen Roach, a professor of important to identify all the factors that contributed to the Wen- favor its exports, which is tantamount ogy, new advanced materials, weap- to US military installations, the bid Yale University, said at a seminar last zhou disaster. It is imperative that no question is left unanswered. to off ering subsidies to Chinese ons and nuclear technology. was withdrawn on Dec 21, 2009. year: Th e US made wrong policies, Thorough and comprehensive safety checks are essential exporters. Th is strict export control regime In 2010, Tangshan Caofeidian Washington senators created the larg- because that is the only way to detect and plug potential safety Some in the US even try to argue has forced China shift its import Investment Corporation’s proposed est budget defi cit in the US history, loopholes. So the State Council’s proposal that the safety reviews the US’ economic problems are the focus in these areas from the US to acquisition of 60 percent of the equity then, we blame China for them. go beyond the immediate causes and include design, manufac- result of intervention by the Chinese Europe, Japan and other countries. in Emcore’s fi ber optic business was turing and management, must be faithfully carried out. government. Th e result is that the proportion of withdrawn when the Committee on Th e author is deputy secretary-gen- Th e Ministry of Railways has promised to give “honest and But the truth of the matter is, it is US imports in the rapid growth of Foreign Investment in the United eral, China Society for World Trade Organization Studies. responsible answers” to our questions. But this is not a matter as the US that is the superpower that China’s high-tech imports is becom- States (CFIUS) expressed security simple as the credibility of an institution. It has more to do with the future of a promising sector of the national economy. Lowering the operating speed is the best option until we are LUO JIE clear about the causes of the accident. However, a single accident, bloody as it was, should not deter us from developing express railways, which hold strategic signifi - cance for our future, but that is on one condition, that we learn from past wrongs.

No water for our greens THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOLF COURSES IS A CLEAR example of how some local governments are willing to pursue immediate interest at the cost of sustainability. Golf courses use fi ne grass, which will die if watered with recycled or polluted water. So, an increasing number of golf courses are draining our most precious resource underground water. Given the fact that 400 of the more than 600 cities in China are suffering from water shortages, the rapid depleting of underground water to keep the hundreds of golf courses green will likely prove to have severe consequences for many cities in the near future. Beijing is a case in point. To ensure they stay green all year round, the 60 golf courses use nearly 40 million tons of underground water a year. This is equal to the amount of water consumed by more than 1 million residents a year. Beijing’s per capita water resources are 100 cubic meters, only a tenth of the international standard of 1,000 cubic meters per capita. A shortage of water has long been a bottleneck for the economic and social development of the city. Yet, even with the known defi ciency of this precious resource and the State Council’s ban on the construction of such sports OP RANA facilities, the number of golf courses in the capital has increased from 20 in 2004 to 60 today. And Beijing is not alone in this predicament. In North A lady and her love for the planet China’s Hebei province, hundreds of golf courses are grabbing underground water that the local villagers rely on for their crops. In some places, it is necessary to drill down more than his is a column wrought Arctic and Antarctic Research Insti- weather around the world will only Aren’t we all mortals? Won’t we all 100 meters to fi nd underground water. with grief. My colleague, tute said the current ice cover in the get worse … if we don’t begin drastic return to dust? Li Xing, who had been Arctic Ocean is 6,850 million square coordinated global actions to reduce Li Xing is no longer with us, her In one of the most extreme cases, some villagers in the city T pouring her heart out in km, which is way below normal. Th e greenhouse gas emissions and cut spirit and message nevertheless of Dalian do not have drinking water on tap because is used to her contributions on Fridays, was melting of Arctic ice will make navi- our reliance on fossil fuels. We must will continue to resonate among water a nearby golf course. snatched from us by death, suddenly gation without ice-breakers possible stop dragging our feet.” those who knew her and help them In addition, golf courses are also polluters as pesticide is used and prematurely. Hers was a life and at least until September. Th is could We are still dragging our feet, become better citizens and fellow to keep grass healthy. journalism of conviction and integ- be a boon for the navigation industry obsessed as we are with the fi nancial human beings. In her own way, It could take thousands of years to replenish our under- rity not many in today’s world of and oil-hungry companies, but it will crisis now gripping the US and much through her contributions to society, ground water, according to experts. self-centeredness can claim. also push us further toward the abyss of Europe and forgetting, in the the profession of journalism and the So to be blunt, constructing so many golf courses and keep- Li Xing was an optimist, her faith of doom caused by climate change. process, the impact of global warm- betterment of the environment she ing them green, by depleting our most precious resource water, in humanity was immense and her In one of her dispatches from the ing will be thousands of times, if not has made many realize the impor- is eviscerating the country’s future development potential and belief in the goodness of human Cancun Climate Change Confer- more, devastating. tance of a healthy and green world. robbing succeeding generations of any possibility of making a beings exemplary. Our friendship, ence in Mexico in December last Money, or rather greed, has It is in this context that hers has living from the land. despite the arguments we had, was year, Li Xing wrote: “We must take become the driving force throughout been a life well and meaningfully Over-exploitation of groundwater has long been a scourge that based among other things on our seriously the new data scientists have the world. Th e value of life, too, is lived. And hopefully, it will inspire threatens both the development of industry and people’s lives. love for the environment. It is because shared with us here in Cancun. Th e measured in terms of money, not in others, especially the young, to follow Maybe, there are other ways for us to obtain the water we of her passion for the environment World Meteorology Organization terms of relations and righteousness. in her footsteps and make this world that she lamented the sorry state we reported that 2010 has been among To keep the few rich and powerful a better, healthier and happier place need. Some suggest the desalination of seawater. But the recent humans have pushed the planet into. the three warmest years since 1850 happy, we are sacrifi cing the lives of for all to live. oil spills in Bohai Bay and fl ow of sewage and pollutants into Th e day we received the heart- … glaciers from the Himalayas to millions of poor and helpless people Here’s to you, Li Xing, and here’s to the oceans mean this would be a costly process. breaking news of Li Xing’s death Alaska to the southernmost por- who are the real cogs in the wheels of your passion: the environment. It is high time that the central government took resolute from across the Atlantic in Washing- tion of South America are receding, the planet we call home. action to reduce the number of golf courses and punish those ton DC, came the news the polar ice and the amount of ice available to No wonder, Li Xing used to Th e author is a senior editor with who give the green light to their construction and their use of cap in the Russian sector of the Arctic refl ect sunshine and keep our earth bemoan: Why are we humans so China Daily. Email: oprana@hot- groundwater. has shrunk to a historical low. Th e cool is shrinking … Th e extreme obsessed with only personal benefi ts? mail.com

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HAN HUA LETTERS A welcome soccer match

Th e Italian Super Cup soccer match, played Fight terrorism with Pakistan between AC Milan and Inter Milan at the National Stadium (Bird’s Nest) on Aug 6, was a visual feast for he terrorist attacks in Kashgar on July 30 Th ough it was unusual for China to say that the to deal with urgently. Terrorist attacks in Xinjiang Chinese soccer fans. and 31 that left at least 20 people dead have Kashgar rioters had received training in Pakistan- have increased in recent years as refl ected by the But it carries a lot more meaning than that for Tprompted the media to conjecture that not all based ETIM camps and terrorists’ activities in Xin- several explosions in Kuqa county of Xinjiang in China and Chinese soccer. Domestic enterprises might be good with Sino-Pakistani relations. jiang are a cause for concern, only the shortsighted 2008, the death of 197 people and injury to more that sponsored the match got a chance to expand Perhaps a statement issued by Kashgar authorities would prophesy a rift between Beijing and Islamabad than 1,700 in the early July 2009 riots in Urumqi, their global reach, because not only Chinese people, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region made the and overlook the solidity of Sino-Pakistani partner- the death of four people in a terrorist raid on a but also soccer fans across the world watched the media give a “spin” to the news. Th e statement said ship. police station in Hotan in July this year, and the lat- event. It was a great opportunity for Chinese enter- the leader of the rioters had received arms and explo- Sino-Pakistani relations have weathered many est attacks in Kashgar. prises to advertise their products and promote their sives training in Pakistan-based camps of the East a storm and are still going strong because they are Xinjiang is a strategically important region in brands beyond the country’s boundaries. Turkistan Islamic Movement (or ETIM). based on mutual trust and common interests. To say northwest China. As China’s neighbor adjoin- Moreover, such matches create win-win situa- Th e media saw the statement as unusual, for China that China earlier didn’t know about ETIM activists ing Xinjiang and a country sharing a border with tions for soccer in Italy and China both. On one has rarely pointed a fi nger at Pakistan, its time-tested receiving training in Pakistan-based camps or the Afghanistan where Al-Qaida and Taliban have hand, China is a promising market for Italian clubs neighbor and friend. Th e accusation was all the more ETIM-Al-Qaida connection would be amateurish. wreaked havoc, Pakistan is an important partner in because the country has a huge number of Italian striking because Pakistan, whose ties with the United China has known these facts and Pakistan has been China’s war against terrorism. So cooperation in the soccer fans. On the other, Chinese soccer can learn States have suff ered a setback since the death of Al- cooperating with it in the fi ght against terrorism. In fi ght against terrorism should be high on the Sino- a lot from the professionalism of and high-quality Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, has been trying to fact, Pakistan has handed over some Uygur separat- Pakistani agenda. soccer played in Italy. consolidate relations with China. ists to China. Th e decade-long cooperation between Aft er the Kashgar attacks, some media reports Let’s hope the AC-Milan-Inter Milan match will One media report even said that the statement China and Pakistan against terrorism cannot be easily interpreted the local authorities’ statement as a sign help improve international communications in “could hint at growing Chinese impatience with Pak- broken, either by the latest Kashgar attacks or by some of China fi nally joining the “chorus of two of Paki- sports, and create the chance of staging more such istan’s inability to control radical groups operating media outlets’ designs. Keen observers could not have stan’s other neighbors, India and Afghanistan”, that events in China. within its borders” and that the “Xinjiang violence missed China’s instant response to the attacks in Kash- Islamabad has failed to demolish militants’ camps on may strain China-Pakistan relations”. A section of the gar, in which the Foreign Ministry reaffi rmed Pakistan its soil. JIA MAOHUI, via e-mail Western media went further, saying Pakistan would as China’s “fi rm partner against terror and religious But such accusations are not conducive to rooting Readers’ comments are welcome. Please send your e-mail be making a mistake by relying too much on China extremism”. out terrorism from the region. Aft er all, like the US, to [email protected] or [email protected]. to “get even” with the US. Besides, within hours of the Kashgar authorities’ India and China, Pakistan is also a victim of terror- cn or to the individual columnists. China Daily reserves the It’s not unusual for some media outlets to try to statement, Pakistan Foreign Offi ce spokesperson ism and the Pakistani government has shown its right to edit all letters. Th ank you. drive a wedge between China and Pakistan. On promised “full cooperation” to China to weed out determination to fi ght terrorism. Osama bin Laden the other hand, others try to prove that Beijing and terrorists from Pakistan. And the chief of Pakistan’s may be dead and NATO forces may have begun Islamabad are forming an alliance against Wash- Inter-Services Intelligence visited Beijing recently, withdrawing from Afghanistan, but terrorism is far ington to take advantage of the fi nancial and other during which he must have discussed anti-terrorism from being eliminated. Th at’s why it is all the impor- FROM THE CHINESE PRESS crises that the US is facing. But such speculations and anti-separatism issues with Chinese offi cials. tant to work with Pakistan to root out terrorism. are unfounded, even ridiculous, because China has But the Xinjiang attacks do refl ect the spread of The good and bad of micro blogs reiterated that it will never join an alliance against terrorism to China’s frontier region, especially Xin- Th e author is an associate professor of international another country or group . jiang, since 2008, which China and Pakistan have studies at Peking University. An online alliance, formed less than three months ago, for refuting rumors has touched people’s nerves. Th e alliance of self-motivated netizens is committed to “serving the truth” and has already exposed several AMITENDU PALIT fake news and information. But it has been subjected to many tough questions and taunts, says an article in People’s Daily. Excerpts:

Robots may be employer-friendly but ... Although some people think that micro blogs make up an ordinary network of people, it has dis- obots are not new to industrial manu- robots, while South Korea has 17.3 percent. And where application of thoughts and ideas are critical tinct media characteristics with 195 million Web facturing. Th ey have been in use since Th ailand and India have 1.6 percent and 1.0 percent and the importance of innovation and creativity is users and has already become an important source Rthe 1960s. Industrial economies such as of Asia’s industrial robots. high. As of now, robots do not threaten humans in for other media. Th erefore, it is necessary to discuss the United States, the United Kingdom, Why are robots being encouraged in production? these spheres. But this may not be good enough to the moral baseline of micro blogs. Not only print Germany and Japan are the earliest and major users Th ere is no denying that they are more “obedient” assuage workers in China and India, where cheap and TV media reporters should be careful while of robots. In more recent years, the use of industrial than humans and can perform in a more coordi- labor has been a source of global competitiveness in using information from micro blogs, but also ordi- robots has increased in the Asia-Pacifi c region, par- nated and programmed way. And robots are less several industries. nary information providers should be honest with ticularly in South Korea, China, Australia, Th ailand demanding than humans. Employers do not have A huge percentage of the workforce in China, what they say or publish. and India. Industrial robots are most widely used in to worry about increasing their wages or social India and other developing economies and emerging Since individual sources are not totally reliable, it automobile assembling and the electronics indus- security. Th ey can also be replaced more easily from markets is semi-skilled and capable of performing is good to keep away from rumors while highlight- tries. the workforce if found performing at sub-optimal only basic manual functions. Industrial robots are ing opinions expressed on the Internet. We should Th ough installation of robots in technologically effi ciency levels. In other words, they are simpler to distinct threats for these workers, particularly because respect citizens’ opinions and protect the order of advanced, high-income, and most importantly labor- manage as factors of production than human beings. substitution of humans by robots is not on a one-to- the Internet. Th at’s why the alliance against rumors scarce economies, may not raise eyebrows, it would From a producer’s perspective, though industrial one principle. An industrial multi-purpose robot can is a move in the direction. do so in labor-surplus economies. It is therefore not robots perform several functions that workers do, perform several tasks in greater volumes and would Some people have targeted the alliance just surprising that Foxconn’s decision to introduce 1 they are not “labor” and are recognized as capital or therefore replace more than one human worker. because in some special cases denial could be used million robots in its production value chain by 2013 technology-intensive inputs in production. In this Robot density — number of robots in an indus- to reject diff erence in opinions and at times refu- has created a fl utter. respect, introduction of robots for replacing workers try per 10,000 workers — is still low in most Asian tations could be erroneous. A refutation should Foxconn — one of the largest private enterprises by Foxconn and other employers results in industrial countries, except Japan. Given the increasing instal- always be backed by proof. in China — known for designing electronic items production becoming more capital-intensive. Robots lation of robots in more labor-intensive consumer Micro blogs are the most recent addition to new for Apple and other leading global brands, is intro- would be considered labor-displacing instruments industries like rubber, plastics and food, the robot media. Th ough some micro blogs may disseminate ducing robots to shift workers to more innovative with eff ects similar to those seen during the Indus- density in countries is expected to increase signifi - false information, they promote the right to know, and higher ends of the value chain. Th e robots that trial Revolution when machines displaced men. cantly in the future. to express, to participate, and to monitor. And they will be introduced over the next couple of years will A change in factor-mix involving greater capital China may see a considerable increase in num- can promote social development if used wisely. replace humans in more mechanical functions. and technology at the expense of workers is useful ber of robots because of its expanding consumer Robots have quietly begun occupying space in for producers as long as it reduces costs, increases markets. Enterprises in India, Brazil and Russia will Campaign for more toilets production systems of developing and emerging effi ciency and enlarges surplus. From another focus more on robots, too, as workers’ wages rise in market economies such as China, India and Th ai- perspective though, replacement of workers by these countries forcing industries to search for radi- Public toilets have become an important part of land. According to statistics compiled by the Interna- robots is disturbing because it means fewer jobs and cal solutions to maintain competitiveness. Modern Guangzhou’s urban construction plan. Th e public tional Federation of Robotics (IFR), Asia (including opportunities for human beings. For labor-surplus industrial development clearly accepts robots as a toilet drive has gained momentum because many Australia) had 49 percent of the operational stock of economies of Asia Pacifi c and Africa, this may mean means of effi ciency, notwithstanding the disturbanc- people are demanding that there should be more multipurpose robots in the world in 2010. Europe confronting the historical dilemma between man es they might create elsewhere. public toilets for women than men, says an article in and America had 33 percent and 17 percent, and and machine, with the latter again threatening to the Oriental Morning Post. Excerpts: Africa 1 percent. Japan has 62.6 percent of the indus- forcefully dislodge the former. Th e author is a visiting senior research fellow at the trial robots in Asia and 30.7 percent of such robots Some human functions are diffi cult to be replaced Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Long queues in front of women’s toilets are a in the world. China has 9 percent of Asia’s industrial by robots. Th ese are high-value skill-intensive jobs Singapore. common sight at railway and bus stations, airports, cinemas and parks. Th ough the problem seems to have escaped most city and public facility plan- ners, Guangzhou city authorities are determined to solve it. According to a study conducted by Cornell Uni- versity, the average time men and women spend in a toilet per visit is 45 and 80 seconds. Th e Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has increased the average number of toilets for men and women from 4:5 to 2:3. Th e Tai- wan architecture law, too, says the number of toilets in facilities such as schools, railway and bus stations, airports and cinemas should be in the ratio of 1:5 for men and women, because they are used all the time. In facilities such as shopping malls, offi ces and factories, it recommends a ratio of 1:3, because they are not necessarily used all the time. And the Shanghai 2010 World Expo experience shows the ratio should be around 5:11 or 4:10. Th e fi gures show that Guangzhou should have more public toilets for women than men. But the legislation process to increase the number of women’s toilets could be long drawn and involve reconstruction. Th erefore, women should make this part of the campaign they have been leading on many fronts, including equal pay and more positions in the government. Aft er all, the central government has put the plan to increase the number of women’s toilets and recruit more women in the same document, that is, the Outline for the Development of Chinese Women (2011-2020).

Th e opinions expressed on this page do not necessarily PANG LI / CHINA DAILY refl ect those of China Daily. 10 world EXCHANGES CRUCIAL By MA LIYAO Japan or China, yet everyone has an Th e poll, however, shows that peo- CHINA DAILY image in his mind about the other ple in both countries are also aware of country and its people,” Li said. this tendency toward bias on a certain BEIJING — Chinese and Japanese Th e most prominent characteris- level. people lack direct knowledge of each tics of the Japanese, according to the Around half of the Chinese respon- other, according to a poll, and analysts Chinese general public, are diligence dents said that Japanese media reports say this indicates much can be gained and creativity. “Love of peace” ranks about China are not objective, and by encouraging people-to-people the lowest. only 16.6 percent of the Japanese exchanges. Nearly half of the Japanese respon- think the Chinese media reports “Exchanges between China and dents think of the Chinese as dili- are objective, down by 3 percentage Japan should become wider and gent — a statistic that has not changed points from last year. deeper, and this will require the joint much from last year’s survey. But Th e media gives intensive cov- efforts of the two countries’ media about half also think of the Chinese erage to the words and actions of and publics,” said Li Wei, director of as stubborn, having poor teamwork political leaders, so these leaders the Institute of Japanese Studies at the skills and self-interested. should be careful of what they do Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. People’s views seem slightly more and say in both countries, where Th e poll found that more than 97 objective when they consider the people rely so heavily on the percent of the Chinese general public other country as a whole. media, Li said. and 92.9 percent of college students For the Chinese general public and The best-known Japanese politi- have never been to Japan. Only 1.5 college students alike, the overriding cian among the Chinese is Junichiro percent of the general public has close view of Japan is as a capitalist country. Koizumi, a former prime minister Japanese friends, and 6.8 percent of But 36.5 percent of the general public who was famous for his hard line in college students have an acquaintance also considers it a militarist country, China aff airs and multiple visits to the from Japan. and 62.5 percent of college students Yasukuni war shrine, which angered More than 80 percent of Chinese view it as nationalist. the Chinese. Less familiar is Kakuei respondents get much of their infor- Japan shows a similar blend of Tanaka, who pushed for the normal- mation about Japan through Chinese objective and subjective viewpoints. ization of the Sino-Japanese relations, media reports, according to the poll Sixty-nine percent of its general public the poll shows. jointly released by China Daily, Japan regards China as a socialist country, Young people, according to the poll, NPO Research Association and Hori- but only around 3 percent describe it are attracted more to cultural goods, zon Research Consultancy Group this as pacifi stic. which convey a more everyday and month. “These impressions came mainly less politically charged sort of infor- Th e lack of fi rst-hand knowledge from media reports, some of which, to mation, according to the poll. is even more pronounced among my knowledge, are actually sponsored Japanese comics and cartoons rank the Japanese. More than 90 percent by certain pro-US forces that try to feed high on the list of “words used in ref- of those interviewed said they learn the public information — not good for erence to Japan”, especially among about China from Japanese news the healthy development of the Sino- college students. media. Japanese relationship,” Li said. In June, China and Japan jointly Because people in both countries “Overreacting reports about the held a comics and cartoons festival rely on the media, they are likely to Chinese aircraft carrier provide an in Beijing. At the opening ceremony, develop incomplete — though not obvious example. Why did they make Premier Wen Jiabao said the event necessarily bad — views of each other, it sound as though China was about would bring young Chinese and and they can be more easily influ- to attack Japan with its carrier, even Japanese together to enhance their enced by biased reports, Li said. though it was not yet completely understanding and friendship with “People may have never been to built?” each other. Trade prospects look good for interdependent economies

By BAO CHANG gwei, chief economist at Industrial Statistics from the data analysis CHIN DAILY Bank. fi rm Dealogic demonstrate that the Currently, Japan is China’s third- value of inbound Chinese investment BEIJING — Th e bilateral economic largest trade partner worldwide. to Japan reached $575.5 million for relationship between China and Japan Chen Jian, vice-minister of com- the fi rst seven months this year, more is poised to pick up, as the latter’s merce, said China is willing to work than four times the total for 2010. economy is headed toward a recovery, with Japan to turn post-disaster con- Haier, China’s home appliance according to a poll. struction into a new growth sector for giant, acquired the white goods divi- Bitter memory of collision Th e poll shows that 63.5 percent of Sino-Japanese trade cooperation. sion of Panasonic’s Sanyo subsidiary Chinese think the Japanese economy Chen made the remark on Aug 4 in July, giving the Chinese refrigerator By QIN JIZE collided in waters off China’s Diaoyu of Asia’s two biggest economies view is profi table, has positive momentum when the ministry signed the post- and washing machine company two CHINA DAILY Islands last September. each other as a military threat. and is critical to the sustainable devel- quake reconstruction collaboration research centers and four manufactur- The Chinese captain was held in Th e poll showed that most of the opment of China. agreement with Hideichi Okada, vice- ing bases in Japan and Southeast Asia. BEIJING — A fishing boat colli- custody in Japan for half a month, Chinese general public and students In addition, 52.9 percent of Chinese minister for International Aff airs of Chinese computer maker Lenovo sion in waters off the Diaoyu Islands and the incident disrupted offi cial and think the No 1 threat to China is the believe that Asian countries could Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade Group announced in January that it remains a major obstacle in cement- non-offi cial exchanges between the United States and Japan is second. form an integrated economic com- and Industry in Shanghai. will invest $175 million to form a ven- ing Sino-Japanese ties, according to a two countries. Fift y-one percent of Chinese peo- munity, as Japan’s economy recovers During the consultation, the two ture with Japan’s NEC Corp as part of public opinion poll. Forty-eight percent of the general ple believe that Japan’s strategic pol- from the March 11 earthquake and sides exchanged views on multilat- its eff ort to expand outside of China. Th e poll found that 51 percent of public says the collision remains an icy always follows the United States, tsunami. eral issues such as cooperation among The world’s fourth-largest PC the Chinese general public believes obstacle because of the diff erent views which makes it a military threat to “Th e bilateral trade between China China, Japan and the Republic of maker said that it will give NEC 281.1 the Japanese government’s tough the two nations have toward sensi- China. and Japan will go back to the pre- Korea, East Asia regional coopera- million new Lenovo shares, valued at stance escalated the incident. And tive issues, and 41.2 percent says it And 49.7 percent are worried about earthquake level six months aft er the tion and WTO Doha Round negotia- HK$4.85 (62 US cents) apiece, to buy 62.1 percent of Chinese students hold is because of the lack of negotiations the Japanese attitudes toward the war. disaster,” said Li Guanghui, a research- tions. Consensus was also achieved on a 51 percent stake in the venture. the view that the sensitive nature of and consultation between the two Unlike the general public, Chinese er at China’s Ministry of Commerce. establishing the China-Japan SMEs Both companies will transfer their the territorial disputes has made the governments. students pay more attention to con- Statistics from the General Admin- Communication and Cooperation Japan PC assets to the venture, named situation worse. The Japanese elite respondents fl icts between the two countries, with istration of Customs released on Center in Shanghai and strengthen- Lenovo NEC Holdings BV, and NEC Sino-Japanese relations have been think the two reasons above are equal- 70.8 percent of students believing the Wednesday showed China’s exports ing China-Japan trade on technology, will own a 49 percent stake, according at a low point since a Chinese fi shing ly important. disputes over territory and maritime to Japan reached $12.78 billion in July, cooperation on intellectual property to the statement. boat and two Japanese patrol boats According to the poll, the people resources have made Japan a military up 56 percent from $8.19 billion in rights and mutual investment. “Th e partnership with Japan’s big- February, before Japan’s economy was Th e Financial Times reported that gest computer maker off ers the way impacted by the disaster. Japanese companies are starting to see for Lenovo to expand in Japan, the “Export growth is better than Chinese investment as an opportunity world’s third-largest PC market fol- Poll: Intellectuals in Japan, China expected, thanks to Japan’s output to unload unwanted legacy businesses lowed by the United States and Chi- capacity resuming,” said Lu Zhen- and accelerate restructuring. na,” Lenovo said. Th e company will take a 26 percent FROM PAGE 1 handling of the vessel collision and the vessel collision incident in 2010 share in the Japanese market aft er the nuclear crisis. received the most votes, with 64.6 deal. and quake aft ermath, with 81.7 per- “Japanese people’s performance in percent. According to the poll, electrical cent of ordinary people and 92.8 per- the earthquake aft ermath won scores The most popular answer from products rank at the top in terms of cent of the so-called elites critical of for their country, but did not stop the Japanese elites, in contrast, was that Chinese people’s association with their government’s response. tendency,” he said. “China is self-centered” on resources Japan. When thinking about Japan, But Chinese people were impressed The positive attitude that many and energy issues (71.9 percent). 49.9 percent of respondents said the by the courageous and stoic attitude Chinese adopted toward Japan aft er Yasushi Kudo, head of Genron first thing they thought about was of Japanese people in maintaining the country was liberated when for- NPO, a Japanese think tank similar electrical equipment, followed by his- social order following the March mer prime minister Junichiro Koi- to the Council on Foreign Relations torical events, Japanese cherries and quake. zumi stepped down in 2006 no lon- in the US, said Japanese people used cuisine. Th is factor contributed to 49.1 per- ger exists. “Now the turning point to dislike China for historical reasons, For the poll, conducted in both cent of Chinese citizens and 29.5 per- appears,” Sun said. then for food safety and now for terri- China and Japan, China Daily and cent of “intellectuals” having favor- Koizumi ruined Japan’s ties with torial issues. “Th ough there are more NPO surveyed 1,540 residents and able feelings toward Japan. China by repeatedly visiting the Yasu- people holding a negative attitude, 1,000 college students in fi ve cities, Sun Shangwu, assistant editor-in- kuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s the reasons have changed.”

YIN ENBIAO / FOR CHINA DAILY including Beijing, Shanghai and chief of China Daily, presided over war dead including Class-A war He also said it was a pity that — Japanese children leave their palm prints on the wall at Haikou, Hainan Chengdu. Th e poll was conducted in the news conference issuing the criminals. although the Chinese government sent province, on Aug 2. Invited by Premier Wen Jiabao, 100 Japanese children June and July, and respondents were survey results and said the drop in Among the factors that make massive disaster relief materials and from areas hit by the March 11 earthquake visited Hainan in southern surveyed about politics, the economy favorable opinions by Chinese people ordinary Japanese dislike China, the donations to Japan soon aft er the quake China for a week of therapeutic treatment. and culture. toward Japan is due to Tokyo’s undue Chinese government’s handling of hit — many Japanese did not learn FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINA DAILY11

CHINESE JAPANESE CHINESE JAPANESE GENERAL GENERAL STUDENT STUDENT PUBLIC PUBLIC & TEACHER & TEACHER

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27.8 18.2 36.7 33.4

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41.9 61.2 24.4 49.6

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24 17.1 8.4 8.8

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THE MAIN REASON THE TWO NATIONS HAVE A BAD IMPRESSION OF EACH OTHER

Different political systems

14.5 29.8 0.9 31.8

The two nations were once at war

74.2 4.9 71.2 2.1

Different attitudes toward historical issues

46.3 37.8 86.1 33.2

Different attitudes toward food safety issues

9.5 61.8 7. 1 45.9

Both China and Japan are becoming stronger militarily

18 23.9 31 49.7

Disputes over the Diaoyu Islands

39.4 64.6 53.9 58.6

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Japanese attitude 19.7 toward its past 33.3 off Diaoyu Islands remains divisive Economic 16.8 friction 20.1 Growing Chinese 15.8 threat to China. Less than 40 percent tion was placed on the survey in 2006 “assertiveness” in dealing with inter- do with Japan’s current defense guide- military power 7. 2 of the general public shares that opin- that more members of the Japanese national confl icts. lines, which were adopted at the end Japanese military 14.9 ion. elite consider China more of a threat China’s Ministry of Foreign Aff airs of last year. threats to China 6.8 Also, 36.7 percent of the students than the DPRK. and Ministry of National Defense In these, it was claimed that China’s Chinese people’s say Japan has begun to dispatch self- Also, 58.3 percent of the Japanese jointly criticized the report’s “irre- military development and lack of anti-Japanese 13.5 sentiments 23.8 defense forces abroad, a move that is general public says the reason for see- sponsible comments” and reaffi rmed transparency were matters of con- HOW IMPORTANT War legacy 12.7 WILL SINO-JAPANESE likely to help the country to develop ing China as a threat is the territorial that “China has not and will never be cern to the region and international RELATIONS BE IN 10 issues 8.4 into a military power. and maritime disputes between the a threat to any other country”. community. YEARS? Japanese people’s 12.7 In Japan, 57.5 percent of the general two countries, and 64.5 percent says Analysts said that Japan’s political Japan labors under a long-standing anti-Chinese Unimportant public views China as a threat, a 10 the Chinese should reconsider their strategy toward China has been twist- Cold War mentality and is trapped sentiments 19.1 2% Relatively No answer Taiwan question 12.3 unimportant 7. 8 percent increase from the previous protest against Japan aft er the fi shing ed — on one hand it wants to make in the US-Japanese alliance, Liu said. 7.6 % year. Among the Japanese elite, the boat collision. good use of China’s economic devel- He said Japanese Prime Min- 14.5 % Concerns over fi gure is even higher. Only 0.7 percent of the Japanese opment and on the other it always ister Naoto Kan has attached great Japanese defense 11.4 Eighty percent of the Japanese elite general public says Japan shares tries to constrain China in the defense importance to the US military pres- policy 6.9 The Chinese under- 34.2 48 respondents express concern about responsibility for the incident. and security sector. ence in Japan and this alliance and standing of the war 10.5 % % 6.4 Relatively Very China’s growing power, while 69 per- In its 2011 annual defense report Liu Jiangyong, a professor of Japa- Japan’s current implementation of US important important cent believe the Democratic People’s released last week, Japan officially nese studies at Bejing’s Tsinghua Uni- policy toward China will hinder the The Japanese-US 7.6 alliance 11.4 Republic of Korea (DPRK) is a threat. challenged Beijing’s military bud- versity, said the responses and mental- improvement of Sino-Japanese stra- 0.6% Th is is the fi rst time since the ques- get and voiced concern over China’s ity of the Japanese have something to tegic relations. Japanese 3.7 Unimportant committing crimes 2.0 in China 0.7 % No answer 0.2 Different political 3.4 % systems Relatively 4 unimportant consider bilateral relationship very important Chinese product 2.4 safety issues 0.4 None of 0.1 much about the aid efforts because Th e territory issue is the most pop- On the prospect of China-Japan revealed information hampering its the above 0 9.2% 88% most ordinary Japanese have no direct ular reason for damaged relations in relations, a larger amount of ordinary relations with China.” Relatively Very Declined to answer / 1.7 important important contact with China and instead learn every group on both sides. Chinese people are optimistic (44.7 The survey is affiliated with the Hard to say 2 about it through the media. However, the downturn did not percent), while one-third of the intel- Beijing-Tokyo Forum, which will be According to the poll, 54.5 percent stop people in every group from lectuals are positive and another one- held from August 20 to 22 in China’s WHY HAS THE BOAT COLLISION OFF THE of ordinary Chinese hold a positive attaching high importance to each third say they have to wait to observe. capital. DIAOYU ISLANDS BECOME A BIG ISSUE attitude of current relations between other, as they did in polls in the past Th e mostly popular answer among Th e forum, co-sponsored by China BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN? (MULTIPLE CHOICE)

Beijing and Tokyo, while the corre- several years. ordinary Japanese people on the Daily and Genron NPO, has been The Japanese % government’s 51 sponding figure for intellectuals is Intellectuals put more importance question is that the relationship will held alternately in Beijing and Tokyo strong attitude 57.3 22.6 percent. on each other, with 88.6 percent of remain the same as it did in the past since 2005. Th e annual gathering is China suspended 24 Forty-two percent of students and Chinese students and teachers and 98 year (33.2 percent), while the elites one of the most signifi cant platforms rare-earth exports to Japan 8.9 teachers declined to comment or said percent of Japanese elites supporting are more positive with 36.4 percent for public diplomacy between the two No agreement 44.9 there were unsure, showing that a the statement. saying it will improve. countries. over the Diaoyu Islands 31.9 large group of well-educated people More than half of both the two Jap- Li Wei, chief of the Institute for It will see nearly 300 leaders from Territorial 36.8 have taken a wait-and-see attitude anese groups and ordinary Chinese Japanese Studies under the Chinese the political, business, academic disputes are too toward the key relations. people say the relations are as impor- Academy of Social Sciences, said the and media fi elds, including a slew sensitive 62.1 Th e Japanese are much more nega- tant as those of their own country’s Naoto Kan administration should of former ministers from both sides, The different 15 tive when evaluating the relationship, relations with the United States, while shoulder most of the responsibility take part in discussions focusing media coverage 16 with only 8.8 percent of civilians and 45.5 percent of Chinese intellectuals for frayed China-Japan relations. on “the Future of Asia and China- Lack of mutual 15.2 understanding 18.8 percent of the elites saying that it believe China’s ties with the US are “Th e Japanese government has bet Japan Cooperation in Economic 30.3 is good or relatively good. more important. too much on the US and deliberately Reshaping”. Sources: China Daily; The Japan NPO Association; The Horizon Research Consultancy Group TIAN CHI / CHINA DAILY worldPAGE 12 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINADAILY.COM.CN/WORLD CHINA DAILY brieﬂ y Murdoch

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Until recently, his youngest what Seoul heard was an explosion at a construction succeed him as News Corp son James, 38, had been viewed site, but the ROK’s defense CEO, at least in the near-term. as the likely successor aft er he ministry said on Th ursday In the clearest indication yet was promoted to deputy chief that such an ungrounded that the phone hacking scandal operating offi cer in March. claim is “not worthy of a enveloping News Corp’s UK The younger Murdoch has response”. operations has damaged the been under pressure since the PAKISTAN succession ambitions of James phone hacking scandal, which Female suicide Murdoch, his father endorsed came to a head last month at top lieutenant Chase Carey for News Corp’s UK operations, bomber kills 7 the job. forced the closure of its News A female suicide attacker “Chase is my partner and if of the World tabloid and the and a handcart bomb targeted Pakistani police on Th urs- anything happened to me I’m arrest of 12 ex-staffers. News day, killing seven people in sure he’ll get it immediately — Corp’s UK business ultimately the fi rst deadly attacks to hit CLIMBING INTO DANGER if I went under a bus,” the elder reported to the younger Mur- the northwest during Rama- Murdoch said in response to a doch. dan, offi cials said. PHOTO BY MAJA SUSLIN / REUTERS question from a Reuters report- James Murdoch has to sub- Th e city of Peshawar, where the bombs struck, is er about succession on the commit a written statement to a on the front line of a Taliban Swedish police climb into the Libyan embassy through a window as protesters occupy the pany’s quarterly earnings call. British parliamentary commit- insurgency and borders Paki- building in Stockholm on Th ursday. Swedish police stormed the embassy aft er a small Although News Corp has tee by Thursday responding stan’s lawless tribal belt that oft en said that it has a succes- to accusations that he misrep- Washington calls the global group of anti-Gadhafi protesters had occupied the building earlier in the day. Th e sign sion plan in place, the company resented statements in prior headquarters of al-Qaida. It was only the third time under the window reads: “We will kill ourselves if you try to come in.” has never explicitly stated who testimony. police have confi rmed a woman suicide attacker in the nuclear-armed country of 167 million where Taliban and al-Qaida-linked bomb- ers have killed 4,500 people Cameron: UK rioters ‘will pay’ Locke to rebuild since 2007, destabilizing the government. LONDON — Prime Minis- in north London aft er police AFGHANISTAN ter David Cameron, grappling shot dead an Afro-Caribbean US reputation Taliban claim with what could prove a defi n- man. Britain’s fi nance minis- ﬁ ghters alive ing crisis of his premiership, ter, George Osborne, will also By MENG JING and possibly take some mea- AND LI AOXUE Th e Taliban insisted on told parliament on Th ursday address parliament amid con- sures to handle the intellectual- Th ursday that the fi ghters that rioters behind Britain’s cerns that the rioting could CHINA DAILY property-rights problem, which who shot down a US heli- worst violence in decades damage confidence in the has been a long-existing pain for copter, killing 38 troops in would be tracked down and economy and in London, one BEIJING — Rebuilding the those doing business in China,” Afghanistan, were still alive, despite a US announcement punished. of the world’s biggest fi nancial fi nancial reputation of the Unit- he said. that they had been killed. “Th e fi ghtback has well and centers and venue for next ed States will be Gary Locke’s top Zhang said Locke will also US General John truly begun,” he said in a state- year’s Olympics. priority when he arrives in Bei- look into the issues regarding Allen, commander of the ment to an emergency session With the public seething jing on Friday as the US ambas- regional security, such as the NATO-led international of parliament, telling rioters: over the looting of anything sador to China, experts said. nuclear issue in the Democratic force in Afghanistan, said on Wednesday that those “You will pay for what you have from sweets to televisions, “Amid the concerns over the People’s Republic of Korea. responsible for the biggest done.” STEFAN WERMUTH / REUTERS Cameron has dismissed gloomy economic future of And he will certainly engage single loss of American life Cameron is under pres- Police offi cers detain a man in Eltham, south London on the rioters as no more than the US, it is Locke’s responsi- in public diplomacy, promot- in the 10-year war had been sure to soft en austerity plans, Wednesday. opportunistic criminals and bility to relieve the anxiety in ing human rights and Western killed in an air strike. toughen policing and do more denied the unrest was linked to China toward US debt aft er the values, Zhang added. But Taliban spokesman for inner-city communities, weekend and would consider criminal “street gangs” to “help planned spending cuts, mostly downgrade of US government The 61-year-old Locke was Zabiullah Mujahid told AFP: “Th is is not true. Aft er seeing even as economic malaise calling in troops for secondary mend our broken society”. not yet implemented. credit rating,” said Zhou Qi, a nominated by US President the enemy statement, we con- grips a nation whose social roles in future unrest to free up He also promised compen- But community leaders researcher at the Chinese Acad- Barack Obama in March aft er tacted the mujahed (fi ghter) and perhaps racial tensions frontline police. Among other sation for people whose homes say inequality, cuts to public emy of Social Sciences. Jon Huntsman stepped down to who shot down the helicopter have exploded in four nights measures, he said he would or businesses were damaged by services and youth unemploy- US stocks continued to be prepare to run in the 2012 presi- and he’s not dead. He’s busy of bewildering mayhem. give police powers to demand rioters, even if they were unin- ment also fed into the violence volatile on Wednesday, closing dential election as a Republican conducting jihad elsewhere in the country.” The British leader said he the removal of face masks or sured. Cameron had ordered a in London, Birmingham, down more than 500 points. Th e candidate. would keep a higher police other coverings if their wear- rare recall of parliament from Manchester and other multi- market’s rollercoaster ride started Locke was sworn in earlier YEMEN presence of 16,000 offi cers on ers were suspected of crime, its summer recess to debate ethnic cities. Monday aft er Standard & Poor’s this month as the fi rst Chinese- Yemen general London streets through the and pledged to crack down on the unrest which flared first REUTERS downgraded the US rating from American to serve as ambas- wants talks AAA to AA+ on Friday. sador to China. His nomination China is by far the largest to the post was warmly received A nephew of President Ali Abdullah Saleh who com- foreign holder of US debt, with by China. mands a key paramilitary Leaders urge Chinese to be vigilant holdings of $1.16 trillion in May, The central government unit has called for talks to end US Treasury Department data believes his Chinese roots and Yemen’s political stand-off show. close ties with the White House but threatened to “break the By ZHANG CHUNYAN, Offi cials also recommended mer camp from Beijing to the Li, who has already booked The US government has will bring Beijing and Washing- necks” of any faction that ZHANG HAIZHOU seeks again to remove Saleh that business owners hold less UK, said all the teenagers in his fl ights to London and decided recently lifted its debt ceiling ton closer. But tough challenges by force. AND FU JING cash and check their security group are not worried about to arrive earlier to help her in order to avoid a default, but remain, such as issues over trade, Brigadier General Yehia CHINA DAILY alarm systems to make sure the riots. “Th ey are not scared, daughter get familiar with the Chinese officials and econo- security and human rights. Mohamed Abdullah Saleh, they are working properly. even though they witnessed surroundings. mists still expressed concern “President Obama clearly an important power broker LONDON / BRUSSELS — Andrew Methven, chief the looting outside their win- The riots are also affect- about the uncertainty in the US regards the Sino-US relation- as head of the Central Secu- rity Forces, also said Yemen Th e London Chinatown Chi- executive of Newland PR — dows in Lewisham, a district ing parents who are debating economy. ship as one of the most criti- would not slide anew into nese Association held a special a China-focused public rela- in south London,” Wang said. whether to send their children Locke has plenty of work to cal relationships for the US by the open warfare seen in May meeting to discuss the riots in tions agency based in London However, Yu Haihong, who to the UK to study. “What is do as the new US ambassador nominating Gary Locke as the aft er months of street protests the UK and issued suggestions — said the riots would harm also leads a summer camp in shown on TV has started to to China, but boosting the cred- US ambassador to China,” said aimed at toppling the presi- on safety. Britain’s national image in the London, cancelled a tour of change my mind,” said Wang ibility and stability of US debt Jin Canrong, of Renmin Uni- dent. Saleh is recuperating in “Th e Chinatown Chamber eyes of Chinese investors. BBC because of safety con- Jiaqi, a Taiwan resident who and minimizing the side eff ects versity of China, adding that Saudi Arabia from wounds of Commerce will strengthen Some prospective business cerns. lives in Brussels with her hus- brought by the US’ recent credit Locke will be easily accepted by suff ered in an assassination the cooperation with police to visits from China have been “Some students’ parents band, daughter and son. rating downgrade is certainly China because of his Chinese- attempt during battles with confirm Chinatown’s safety, cancelled because of the riots, called me from China. They Wang said her children are among the most important American heritage. tribal factions that leveled and protect visitors, shops, Methven said. But he predicted are very concerned about the in secondary school in Brus- tasks, Zhou said. Obama praised Locke as “one parts of the capital Sanaa. merchants and staff s from any that the riots would only have situation. Th is is the fi rst time sels, and she had planned to Locke is expected to arrive of our nation’s most respected LEBANON threat,” newly-elected presi- a “short-term” impact on Chi- that the students have been to send them to the UK for col- in Beijing on Friday with his and admired public servants” Blast leaves dent Stanley Tse of Chinese nese businesses’ confi dence in the UK. Th eir parents said they lege, mainly because the Brit- wife, Mona, and their children, and said no one is more quali- Association told China Daily the UK. prefer to cancel the schedule to ish have a reputation of being Emily, Dylan, and Madeline. fi ed than him to replace Hunts- two men dead on Wednesday. Chinese opinions on the make sure their children are gentle and well behaved. His arrival, fi ve days before man. Two men were killed in a The recent unrest didn’t eff ect of the UK riots are var- safe,” Yu said. “But the riots showed that US Vice-President Joe Biden’s Before Obama appointed Beirut parking lot on Th ursday when explosives they directly affect London Chi- ied. Chen Xiaodan, general Li Ning, 45, a Beijing resi- the youth in the UK have visit to China on Aug 17, will him as commerce secretary in were handling detonated, natown, but Tse noted that all manager of UK-based China dent, has kept her eyes glued to changed and they are diff er- “excitedly open a new chapter 2009, Locke served as governor causing a huge blast, a police Chinese merchants should Holidays Ltd, told China Daily the TV in recent days, hoping ent from their older genera- for Sino-US relationship”, the of Washington from 1997 to offi cial said. take precautions. that the riots had little impact the situation in London will tion,” said Wang. US embassy’s offi cial micro blog 2005. As governor, he doubled A passer-by was wounded Chairman Chu Ting Tang on his business. improve. Her daughter will “I need to think more before said. the state’s exports to China. in the explosion, the offi cial added, as a witness said he said the Chamber of Com- “We have told all the groups start college in September at making a decision … because Zhang Zhixin, a US expert Locke’s grandfather came to saw rescuers carrying away merce will send e-mail remind- about the unrest, but 10 groups the London campus of New I don’t think my kids can ben- from the China Institutes of the US over a century ago to from the site a man whose ing members to be vigilant. who will travel to the UK in the York University (NYU). efi t if they study and live with Contemporary International work as a house servant for a arm and leg had been torn “Chinese people should keep coming weeks have not can- “I am not sure whether it is such a young generation,” said Relations, said Locke will family in the state of Washing- off . calm in case of an emergency celled or postponed their trips,” all right for us to arrive there on Wang. emphasize three topics in his ton in exchange for English les- and take measures to ensure Chen said. Aug 20 … I am also wondering But she added that she role as ambassador. sons. His father was also born in XINHUA-AFP-REUTERS their personal safety,” Tang Wang Lichao, a Chinese whether NYU will postpone believes the riots will have “He will help US companies China and moved to the coun- added. guide who leads a student sum- the start of the semester,” said little impact in the long run. better their business in China try as a teenager. Chery second China Construction Renewed bid into Kenya Bank seeks control by Guangdong Attempt to tap African demand, strengthen Lender said to be pursuing stake in closely held “The Chinese will be back” for Chinese links with the continent. Maspion Indonesia. Kalahari Minerals, analyst says. > Page 14 > Page 15 > Page 17

businessCHINA DAILY CHINADAILY.COM.CN/BUSINESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 | PAGE 13 ONEU$DEQUALS RMB HKD JPY EUR GBP AUD INR CAD KRW THB BRL SOURCE: REUTERS, 9PM THURSDAY 6.3930 7.7997 76.80 0.7061 0.6188 0.9777 45.35 0.9935 1083.70 29.89 1.6282 briefl y Policies may be Fiscal revenue up 26.7% in July eased to ride out China’s national fi scal revenue in July increased 26.7 percent year-on-year to 986.4 billion yuan ($154.2 billion), global turmoil with expenditures up 19.6 percent to 695 billion yuan, By WEI TIAN the Ministry of Finance said dard and Poor’s downgrade on Th ursday. CHINA DAILY of US credit rating may see Fiscal revenue for the fi rst policy becoming looser. seven months totaled 6.67 BEIJING — As China’s top On Monday, a report by trillion yuan, up 30.5 percent. Expenditures were up 29.7 offi cials called for “fl exibility” Goldman Sachs Group esti- percent to 5.14 trillion yuan. in macroeconomic regula- mated that China’s new-yuan Revenue growth will decel- tion, the country could resort lending in July was approxi- erate in the coming months to “targeted easing” to help it mately 530 billion yuan, because of slower economic through the fallout of the cur- much lower than June’s 633.9 expansion and a new personal tax system, the ministry said. rent global fi nancial turmoil, billion yuan. MONEY analysts said. “Th ere will probably be a New China Life On Tuesday, “structural adjustment” of Premier Wen monetary policy in the sec- seeks dual IPO Jiabao told a meeting of the ond half amid the uncertain New China Life Co Ltd, State Council that China will global economic situation,” the country’s third-largest life insurer, has fi led applications improve the fl exibility of its said Li Jianjun, assistant dean to list on the Hong Kong and economic policies and make of the School of Finance at the Shanghai stock exchanges, them more targeted and “far- Central University of Finance braving volatile markets to sighted”. and Economics. raise up to $4 billion. Zhou Xia- China New China Life, in which NELSON CHING / BLOOMBERG Swiss insurer Zurich Finan- ochuan, the has raised A worker at a gas station refuels a vehicle in Wujiang, Guizhou province. China’s apparent oil consumption growth is expected to governor of its interest cial Services Ltd has a 15 ease to 5 percent annually from 2011 to 2015. percent stake, fi led its A1 list- the People’s rates three ing document with the Hong 530 Bank of billion yuan times and Kong Stock Exchange on China, the the reserve- Th ursday, going ahead with China’s new-yuan lending in July, plans for an IPO in the com- central bank, Goldman Sachs Group estimated requirement ing weeks, according to four Growth in oil use to slow earlier also ratio for sources with direct knowl- called for fl exible monetary banks six times this year to edge of the plans. policies and urged “further limit the role of excessive optimization of the credit liquidity in stoking infl ation. Taobao pact structure” aiming at introduc- “However, the tightening pol- with Microsoft in tandem with economy ing more financial support icies have also affected real Microsoft Corp and for small and medium-sized economic growth,” Li said. Taobao.com, China’s largest enterprises (SMEs) as well as Recent indicators, such as online retail site, signed a aff ordable and low-rent hous- industrial output and fi xed- letter of intent on Th ursday of 6 percent in 2011, broadly mirror of a country’s econom- ing projects, according the asset investment, have indi- pledging to cooperate to Eff orts to reduce emissions will also improve Internet security and easing from the fi rst half of this ic situation. In this regard, a bank’s website. cated that growth momen- protect users’ security and have an impact during 2011 to 2015 year,” Fan said. cooling Chinese economy will Zhou’s statement was tum in the world’s second- privacy online. From January to May, Chi- curb the country’s need for oil,” echoed by Liu Mingkang, the largest economy’s is slowing. Th e two companies will By ZHOU YAN higher world crude prices, but na, the world’s second-biggest said Wang Jintao, an analyst at nation’s top banking regu- Th e ongoing global fi nancial mainly work together in tech- CHINA DAILY upward pressure will largely oil consumer, reported a 10.3 chem365.net, an online infor- lator, who has said that the uncertainty makes it more nology development and to ease for the rest of the year as percent year-on-year increase mation provider for the petro- nation should implement likely that the country will improve users’ awareness of BEIJING security. — Growth in Chi- economic growth slows, said in apparent oil consumption, chemical industry. “differential supervision” take some countermeasures na’s apparent oil consumption Fan Debiao, head of the federa- according to the Ministry of China’s economic expan- over lending quotas and that to ensure stable growth, ana- Steel fi rm to add is expected to ease to 5 percent tion’s information and market- Industry and Information sion has decelerated in recent the overall volume of loans lysts said. ore resources a year on average from 2011 ing department. Technology. months aft er the government to SMEs should increase at a Zhou Dewen, chairman of to 2015, refl ecting slower eco- The CPCIF estimate came The ministry forecast last acted to reduce excess liquidity rate “no less than the average the Wenzhou SME Develop- A major Chinese steelmaker aims to get half its iron nomic expansion and eff orts to just a day after the Interna- week that this year’s apparent to curb soaring prices. First- level” without giving details, ment Association, wrote in ore from its own mines in cut emissions, an offi cial of the tional Energy Agency (IEA) domestic oil demand would half GDP rose by 9.6 percent according to a report in the a recent article that “40 per- fi ve years, compared with less China Petroleum cut its forecast for China’s oil rise 6.5 percent. year-on-year, a notable slow- China Securities Journal. cent of SMEs in China will than 9 percent at present, said ENERGY and Chemical demand this year and the next Figures from a research arm down from 11.1 percent in the Th e government has set a have to shut down if their a senior executive of the com- Industry Federa- on anticipation of an economic of China National Petroleum fi rst half of 2010. target of between 7 trillion fi nancing environment does pany on Wednesday. Hebei Iron and Steel tion (CPCIF) said on Th ursday. slowdown. Corp showed apparent oil Meanwhile, the official yuan ($1.09 trillion) and 7.5 not improve”, referring to the Group Co Ltd (HBIS) plans Th e world’s second-biggest The IEA said that China’s demand surpassed 400 million manufacturing purchasing trillion for full-year new- fact that many of those small to extract 35 million tons of economy recorded average oil demand will average 9.62 tons for the fi rst time last year, managers index (PMI) for July yuan lending. With nearly 60 companies do not have easy iron ore concentrate in 2015, annual growth of 7.7 percent million barrels a day this year, reaching 439 million tons, up dropped to 50.7, the lowest in percent of the target already access to bank loans. which will account for 50 per- in apparent oil consumption 80,000 barrels less than its pre- 13.1 percent from a year earlier. 29 months. reached during the fi rst half, Meanwhile, at least 1.3 tril- cent of its raw materials, said Wang Hongren, chairman of from 2006 to 2010. vious projection. It projected earlier this year “The pace of the slowdown and July inflation hitting a lion yuan is needed for the HBIS Mining Co, a subsidiary Apparent consumption “We project domestic appar- a 7.2 percent year-on-year into the third quarter remains three-year high, liquidity was country to meet its goal of of HBIS. equals production plus net ent oil demand, which includes growth rate in 2011. broadly in line with our expec- expected to be further limited building 10 million units of imports. domestic production and “A sharp slowdown in diesel tations and around 9 percent in coming months, but the affordable housing in 2011, Demand for ship China’s robust oil demand imports but excludes exports, and gasoline demand is widely growth in 2011,” Barclays Capi- outbreak of global fi nancial creating more need for “tar- fuel to rise 8% in early 2011 contributed to will have a year-on-year rise expected, as oil demand is a tal said in a recent research note. turmoil triggered by Stan- geted loosening”, analysts said. China’s demand for bunker fuel, used in ships, might increase as much as 8 percent this year, said Brightoil Petro- leum Ltd, a Hong Kong-based supplier. Northeast Asian countries New nuclear plants may get green light soon including South Korea will provide “enough demand By LIU YIYU according to the notice. 2020, the expert said. the near term, experts said. growth” for the company’s CHINA DAILY The safety inspection was China is likely to issue a The Chinese government China division to expand expected to last for six months. safety plan at the end of this should aim to maintain its sales, said Quek Chin Th ean, BEIJING chief executive offi cer of unit — China conclud- China suspended approv- month, aft er which, the coun- 2020 target of achieving 40 Brightoil Petroleum (Singa- ed a nationwide safety inspec- als of new nuclear plants on try will resume nuclear plant gW, according to Kevin Tu, pore) Pte Ltd. tion of nuclear plants on Aug March 16 following Japan’s approvals, Lin Chengge, for- a senior energy expert at the 5 in the wake of Japan’s nucle- Fukushima nuclear incident mer deputy director of the Carnegie Endowment for Tudou pursuing ar crisis, indicating that the caused by a devastating tsu- NNSA, told China Daily ear- International Peace, a Wash- US off ering country is advancing closer nami. lier. ington-based think tank. Tudou Holdings Ltd, the to the resumption of approv- “Th e inspection, which was Results of the inspection On Aug 7, a new unit of the operator of China’s second- als for new nuclear completed at least one month will be provided to the gov- Ling’ao Nuclear Power Plant at largest online-video website, POWER plants, according earlier than expected, could ernment for a review on safety Dayawan in Shenzhen began is pressing ahead with a to a website notice be an indication that China improvements, Lin said. commercial operation. Day- planned US IPO, two people by the China Nuclear Energy has no major safety issue in Th ese results will also serve awan is China’s largest nuclear with knowledge of the matter said, aft er a report the com- Association on Th ursday. its current plants,” said Xiao as the basis for China to adjust power base. pany had been approached by On April 15, the inspec- Xinjian, industry expert at the its nuclear development pro- China will not waver in Baidu Inc about a takeover. tion group, which consisted Energy Research Institute of gram, though experts expect- its determination to develop QILAI SHEN / BLOOMBERG Shanghai-based Tudou of the National Nuclear Safety the National Development ed no dramatic change of the nuclear power, Vice-Premier A worker walks by a nuclear power plant in Taishan, Guangdong plans to complete its sale next Administration (NNSA), the and Reform Commission. plan. Zhang Dejiang said during a province. China completed a nationwide safety inspection of its week if equity markets are nuclear power plants on Aug 5. strong enough for demand to National Energy Administra- A possible concern may be Th e country had a total of visit to the China Institute of be adequate, said the people, tion and China Earthquake over the first reactor China 10.82 gigawatts (gW) of nucle- Atomic Energy on April 14. who declined to be identifi ed. Administration, started a has ever built at the Qinshan ar capacity at the end of last As China attaches more technology developed by US- the first reactor vessel had national safety check on Nuclear Power Station. It went year. focus on the safety of nuclear based Westinghouse Electric arrived at the Sanmen Nuclear CHINA DAILY — AGENCIES nuclear plants that are under into operation in 1991 and is China is capable of adding technology, it is likely to adopt Co in its future plants. Power Plant in China’s Zheji- construction and in operation, scheduled to shut down in 12 gW of nuclear capacity in the third-generation AP 1000 According to Westinghouse, ang province at the end of July. 14 businesscompanies FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINA DAILY Investors develop new appreciation for art, fi ne wine

By KAREN YIP CHINA DAILY

BEIJING — In April, Nov- el Asset Management Ltd launched a $100 million fund More money from that invests in rare diamonds. Twelve art funds are said to be Asia is going into in the process of formation in ‘such‘ funds. We have London. heard of a rare fancy INVESTMENT Th e diamond fund Artist Rare Instrument Fund LLC, targeting China.” launched late last year, invests ENRIQUE E. LIBERMAN in top-quality, rare Italian vio- PRESIDENT OF THE ART FUND AS- lins, cellos and violas built by SOCIATION BASED IN NEW YORK Antonio Stradivari, Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu and other renowned craft smen from the Th at gain beat the return on 17th and 18th centuries. the FTSE 100, which rose by 9 Past attempts to launch percent. passion funds — investment Fine wine investment spe- vehicles that offer significant cialists have forecast that the long-term returns from luxury Live-ex will rise a further 21 collectibles such as art, fine percent this year. wine, diamonds, rare musical Most Chinese millionaires, instruments and mint condi- whose average age is 39, tend to tion comic books — aroused keep a low profi le. Th eir luxury little enthusiasm. possessions include watches, Chinese classical art and an A QING / FOR CHINA DAILY Strong interest average of three cars. Many are Chery Automobile Co Ltd’s booth at an auto show in Beijing. The company aims to sell 120,000 vehicles overseas this year, which would be an increase of more Market volatility and severe also drawn to art. than 30 percent. declines have reduced the With China surpassing the attractiveness of many other UK as the second-largest auc- investment options, such as tion house and gallery market equities, bonds and hedge and becoming a very impor- Chery to open Kenyan plant funds, so it’s not surprising tant purchasing power, and that investors are increasingly with Chinese auction houses attracted to passion funds, said making record sales, “we see Enrique E. Liberman, presi- that there is an opportunity for Automaker tries to secure $50m to at its plant which will serve nated by established play- China’s truck maker, Shang- dent of Th e Art Fund Associa- art funds in China”, said Dan- Kenya, East Africa’s biggest ers CMC Holdings Ltd and hai-listed Beiqi Foton Motors, tion based in New York. iela Sanchez, art advisory and fund its new East African facility economy, and other countries the Kenyan unit of General a unit of Beijing Automotive “More money from Asia is investor relations associate at in the region. Motors Co. Industry Holdings Co (BAIC), going into such funds. We’ve Fine Art Fund Group Ltd. By BEATRICE GACHENGE through an assembly plant,” Chery Automobile, China’s General Motors East Afri- plans to begin construction of heard of a rare fancy colored Although art as an invest- REUTERS said Justus Nguu, the director largest indigenous automaker, ca Ltd, Associated Vehicle an assembly plant in Kenya diamond fund targeting China. ment class is still new in China, of Stantech Motors Ltd, Chery aims to increase exports by Assemblers Ltd and Kenya this year, to help it nudge up Th e fi ne wine funds are going some early participants recog- NAIROBI, Kenya — Chery Automobile’s franchise holder more than 30 percent this Vehicle Manufacturers Ltd sales on the continent. there too,” he added. nized the immense potential Automobile Co Ltd is to in Kenya. year to 120,000 vehicles. Th e are the established players in Th e company plans to dou- High net worth investors no of the market: Noah Holdings become the second Chinese China has made big inroads firm is targeting developing Kenya’s motor vehicle assemble sales in Africa to 20,000 longer see such investments Ltd, Beautiful Asset (Beijing) vehicle maker to build an in Africa, where it is seeking to nations in Southeast Asia, the bly sector. units by 2013 from last year by as an indulgence in expensive Management Ltd Co and assembly plant in Kenya. Th e secure energy, minerals and Middle East, South America Analysts said proximity to ramping up sales to economies hobbies. Rather, the funds Shanghai-based Terry Art move will see Chery Auto- food. and Africa. growing markets was the key that require heavy commer- allow them to diversify invest- Fund Management. mobile join the truck manu- Chery Automobile, which Chery operates 16 assembly driver for the companies plan- cial vehicles for use in the con- ment portfolios based on more facturer Beiqi Foton started selling cars overseas in plants overseas. ning to set up in Kenya. struction of their infrastruc- traditional assets and hedge Chinese buyers AUTO Motors Co Ltd as the 2002, and is now China’s big- The Chinese will have to “(The delay in) lead time ture projects, including roads, against infl ation. “Nearly all buyers in the Chi- companies attempt to gest auto exporter, aims to set battle Japanese vehicles, which for orders ... has made it stra- rails and ports. According to the 2010 Hur- nese art market are of Chinese tap East African demand and up its plant next year. In 2010, have saturated the Kenyan car tegically important for auto “When you look at the un Wealth Report, there are descent, with Chinese buyers will further strengthen Chi- the company tested the mar- market. manufacturers targeting Afri- international markets, we are 875,000 millionaires in China, worldwide numbering some- nese links with the continent. ket by venturing into Kenya Toyota Motor Corp con- ca to want a serious presence still young. Africa is a good a rise of 6.1 percent from 2009. where between 5 percent and “Th ey (Chery) are discuss- through a franchise. trols about 65 percent of the in Africa,” said Hanningtone market for us,” Calvin Guo Th e growth in the number 15 percent and growing. ing with the (Chinese) govern- Th e automaker sold a mod- market, mainly through the Gaya, an independent regional managing director of the of Chinese millionaires has “Th e entry of mainland Chi- ment so that they can get some est 120 cars last year, but aims second-hand segment. vehicle analyst based in Nai- Kenyan subsidiary of Beiqi been driven by a rise in prop- nese collectors has renewed the $50 million to invest in Kenya to produce 1,000 units in 2013 Th e truck business is domi- robi. Foton Motors. erty prices, the recovery of the interest of Western, Taiwan and stock market and a generally Hong Kong collectors,” said strong Chinese economy, said Sergey Skaterschikov, chief Hurun Report founder Rupert executive offi cer and founder Hoogewerf in a statement. of Skate’s Art Market Research, Vehicle parts fi rms on acquisition road “For those who have the an art investment research wealth, how many homes, cars, house. By MARK CLOTHIER said PRTM, a global consultan interview. “Significantly 565 automotive suppliers as mechanisms and fabrics, said jets and yachts can they have? As the value of Chinese art BLOOMBERG NEWS ing firm based in Waltham, more vehicle manufacturers buyers, sellers or financially Matt Simoncini, who takes For the Chinese, they are more continues to rise exponen- Massachusetts. are changing the look of cars to distressed companies. over as chief executive offi- inclined to acquire tangible tially, funds investing in this SOUTHFIELD, Michigan Vehicle interiors are key appeal to local markets.” Of the 165 companies stud- cer Sept 1, in an interview on assets. asset class will need to raise — Makers of car seats and differentiators among com- Auto-parts companies may ied that make parts for vehicle Wednesday. “Passion funds, which are increasingly large amounts of dashboards, including Magna peting vehicles, like kitchens make as many as 250 acquisi- interiors, 32 are “strong” buyers Magna is eyeing a range a subset class of asset invest- money to have an impact in International Inc and Lear and bathrooms are for house tions worldwide this year, com- and 26 are “strong” sellers or of acquisitions, from smaller ments, provide an opportunity the market. Corp, are among those most shoppers. Suppliers that spe- pared with 268 last year, which distressed, PRTM said. Magna, technology companies to joint for portfolio diversification What would be considered a likely to make acquisitions this cialize in seats, dashboards was the second-highest total, North America’s largest auto ventures to larger buys, CEO into an area that has historically large fund by US and European year, as automakers seek sup- and related components are PRTM forecast. Th at number supplier, and Lear, both makers Don Walker, said last week in had high returns and shown a standards, perhaps exceeding pliers with the scale looking at distressed compa- may be reduced by 12 percent if of seats, are among the most- an interview. He declined to low correlation with other asset $250 million, could become DEALS to handle global nies in Europe to help boost Standard & Poor’s downgrade improved potential buyers, the comment on specifi c acquisi- classes,” said Liberman. more commonplace, said projects. their ability to serve automak- of US debt increases interest study said. tion targets. Strong demand from China Michael Plummer, a principal With more than $5 billion ers such as General Motors Co rates and caution among inves- Lear may consider seat- Based in Aurora, Ontario, has driven up fi ne wine prices at ArtVest Partners LLC, an in cash, suppliers are adding and Volkswagen AG in local tors, he said. frame makers Kongsberg Magna had $1.74 billion in as well. investment advisory fi rm. assets that help automakers markets around the world. Deal value may increase Automotive Holdings ASA, cash and $1.9 billion of an Last year, wine investors had According to Artprice.com, develop interior features tai- “The average customer all this year, to about $60 billion Austem Co or Mitsuba Corp, unused credit line as of June stellar returns, with prices for an art market information cen- lored to fast-growing markets over the world is buying by from about $45 billion last which makes electric motors 30. top vintages rising 40 percent, ter, art global auction revenues such as Brazil and China. exterior looks and interior year, PRTM forecasts in its for seats, PRTM said. Lear is Th e company, which makes based on the performance nearly doubled in 2010 to $9.36 Magna, Lear and Johnson experience,” Dietmar Oster- study, which examined data considering $100 million to everything from rear-view of the Liv-ex Fine Wine 100 billion. China accounted for 33 Controls Inc will be among mann, director of PRTM’s and executive comments to $200 million acquisitions of mirrors to entire cars, probably Index. percent of the total. the more aggressive acquirers, automotive practice, said in assess the potential roles of companies that make seat won’t diversify further, he said. Huayi H1 profi t surges on box offi ce revenue and tie-ins By HUANG YING the movie business generated for about 30 percent of the rev- into online games, the music “At present, we do have some CHINA DAILY 141 million yuan, up 133 per- enue. industry, movie theaters, TV communications with Tencent cent year-on-year, accounting In addition to the movie dramas, talent agencies and cul- in fi ve areas including movies, BEIJING — Huayi Brothers for almost 43 percent of total business, the company has tural parks, while maintaining TV dramas and talent agen- Media Corp (HBMC), the fi rst revenue. expanded into different cul- its core focus on the big screen. cies,” said Hu Ming, deputy- publicly traded movie com- “Our prudent and strict tural activities in recent years. Its expansion has attracted president of HBMC. pany on the Chinese main- selection mechanism for movie Huayi signed an agreement other investors. Some projects are under dis- land, reported on Wednesday projects helped to ensure our in February with the Shanghai Tencent Holdings Ltd invest- cussion, she added, though she night that its fi rst-half revenue growth,” said Wang Zhongjun, Jiading Industrial Zone to build ed 450 million yuan for a 4.6 wouldn’t disclose any details. surged from a chairman of HBMC. a cultural complex in the area, percent stake in the Shenzhen- HBMC is also the partner of EARNINGS year earlier. Director Feng Xiaogang’s If primarily for use as a fi lm pro- listed media company in May, US fi lm studio Legend Pictures Revenue You Are Th e One 2 contributed duction base. becoming the movie giant’s Llc, having invested in Legend’s reached 330.66 million yuan the most to total fi rst-half rev- It also invested with other biggest institutional investor. joint venture in China — Leg- ($51.67 million), up 63.2 per- enue. partners to construct its first Tencent hopes to establish a endary East — which will be cent year-on-year, while net Th e fi lm grossed 75.83 mil- Huayi Brothers movie theme close strategic relationship with based in Hong Kong. profi t increased 125.1 percent lion yuan from box office park in the Suzhou Industrial HBMC to explore areas such Huayi will co-produce mov- NAN SHAN / FOR CHINA DAILY to 63.65 million yuan, the com- receipts and copyright sales, Park in May. Total investment as movies, TV and new media, ies with Legendary East and The Huayi Brothers headquarters in Beijing. The Shenzhen- pany said in a statement. plus 22.29 million yuan in tie- is estimated at 3 billion yuan. Tencent President Martin Lau take charge of their distribution listed movie company reported a 125 percent rise in its net According to the statement, ins, which together accounted HBMC has so far expanded said in May. in China. profi ts for the fi rst half of this year. CHINA DAILY FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 businesscompanies 15 CCB bids for Indonesian bank China Railway cancels $976m Shareholders reported to be private placement selling 50% of By TANG ZHIHAO The Wenzhou accident company to a CHINA DAILY ignited public concerns about the safety of high- strategic buyer SHANGHAI — China speed trains in China. Railway Group Ltd (CRGL), The State Council pre- HONG KONG / SINGA- the railway construction sided over by Premier Wen PORE — China Construction giant, announced on Th urs- Jiabao on Wednesday has Bank Corp (CCB), the world’s day the cancelation of a plan decided to lower the oper- second-largest lender by mar- to off er a private placement ating speed of bullet trains ket value, has made a prelimi- that would raise 6.24 billion and re-evaluate the safety nary bid for control of PT Bank yuan ($976 million) for the system of rail projects that Maspion Indonesia, three peo- company. have been approved but yet ple with knowledge FINANCE Th e plan for to be constructed. DEALS of the matter said. a non-public Meanwhile, approvals for Shareholders of off ering, approved by share- new rail projects have been closely held Bank Maspion holders in August 2010, postponed. plan to sell more than 50 per- intended to issue some 1.5 Analysts said the plan cent of the lender, which is billion A shares to up to 10 would not have a long-term valued at about $200 million, investors at a price of not less negative eff ect on listed com- said the people, who spoke on than 4.05 yuan a share. panies that have exposure to the condition of anonymity The proceeds would railway projects. because the negotiations are have been used to support “Railway construction is private. A stake sale to a stra- the construction of a sub- not for investment purposes. tegic buyer may help Suraba- way project in Shenzhen, It is used to support econom- ya-based Maspion expand its Guangdong province and ic development in China,” business catering to small and SHEN JINGWEI / FOR CHINA DAILY three bridges and a road said Zhou Xueyi, an analyst medium-sized companies, the A China Construction Bank booth at an exhibition in Shanghai. Sources say the Chinese lender has made a preliminary bid for construction project in Liu- with Huaxin Securities. people said. control of PT Bank Maspion Indonesia. zhou in the Guangxi Zhuang “As China is undergo- CCB has yet to decide if it autonomous region. ing tremendous economic will make a binding off er, one 77.8 percent of Maspion, its mortgage-scarred balance Bank of America, whose “We continue to be a signifi - CRGL’s share price has development, it is essential person said. It held off making according to the bank’s website. sheet, will be contractually free shares have fallen 20 percent in cant shareholder in CCB and we gradually dropped aft er two to develop railway projects a decision aft er Indonesia’s gov- A Beijing-based media offi cial to sell the bank shares after the past week, did not mention intend to continue the impor- bullet trains collided in Wen- that can transport large vol- ernment said last month that at CCB didn’t respond to a tele- August 29. Th ey are valued at the Chinese investment during tant long-term strategic alliance zhou, Zhejiang province on umes of people and goods in it will enact new bank owner- phone call and a text message about $17 billion. a widely followed conference with CCB originally entered July 23, leaving 40 people the most effi cient and eff ec- ship rules this year that may bar seeking comment. Neni Tania, Th e bank, the largest in the call that top executives held on into in 2005,” Dubrowski said. dead and nearly 200 injured. tive way.” CCB from holding a majority a secretary to Bank Maspion United States by assets, is likely Wednesday with thousands Th e sources sought anonym- Shares of CRGL listed in Experts said although stake, according to the people. President Director Herman to sell half its stake in order to of investors. During the call, ity because they are not autho- Shanghai Stock Exchange changes to macro policy Bank Indonesia, the coun- Halim, had no immediate shore up its Tier 1 capital. Ana- Chief Financial Offi cer Bruce rized to speak to the media. (SSE) closed at 3.19 yuan would not have a long-term try’s central bank, said it plans comment. lysts believe Bank of America Th ompson said that asset sales Bank of America has not on Thursday, falling by 0.6 negative effect on railway- to limit a single investor’s maxi- In a separate development, needs about $50 billion to meet are being considered to boost been getting much support this percent compared with its related companies, a short- mum ownership of commer- Bank of America Corp (BofA) new capital requirements. capital. year from its CCB investment. closing price on Wednesday. term eff ect is inevitable. cial banks to improve gover- has held exploratory talks with Talks about the Chinese “These stakes will be sold Shares of the Chinese bank Before the accident, CRGL’s CSR Corp Ltd, a passenger nance in the industry. On July the principal investment funds bank have been held with oth- eventually,” one source said of have fallen some 24 percent, share price was hovering at carriage maker, announced 1, Governor Darmin Nasution of Kuwait and Qatar about seller investors in addition to the the Chinese bank shares. “Th ey partly in anticipation of a BofA around 4 yuan. on Aug 3 that it is postponing told parliament that while ing part of its stake in China Kuwait Investment Authority have been shown previously to sale, traders said. “Uncertainties may exist a non-public share off ering the limit will be less than 50 Construction Bank, Reuters (KIA) and the Qatar Invest- funds who matter.” Last November, Bank of within the government’s plan. percent, the exact percentage reported citing sources with ment Authority (QIA), the Bank of America spokesman America sold its option to pur- approval process because of Meanwhile, a subsidiary hadn’t been decided. Malay- direct knowledge of the talks. sources said. Jerry Dubrowski declined to chase additional shares of CCB the change of macroeconom- of China CNR Corp Ltd has sia and Singapore also impose Bank of America, which It is unclear if any agree- discuss whether negotiations that were available in a rights ic policies. As a result, share- frozen production of one restrictions on ownership of owns about 10 percent of CCB’s ment with the sovereign wealth have been held, and offi cials at off ering. holders’ approval ceased to high-speed train model aft er commercial banks. Hong Kong-listed shares and is funds or other investors have QIA and KIA were not imme- be effective,” said CRGL in the discovery of a high fault PT Alim Investindo owns scurrying to raise capital for been cemented. diately available for comment. BLOOMBERG NEWS / REUTERS a statement fi led to the SSE. rate. 16 businesscompanies FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINA DAILY Eaton Corp plans to double China revenue by the end of 2015

By WANG YING Founded a century ago, the CHINA DAILY company is expanding its presence in various sectors across SHANGHAI — Th e US diver- China. Its vehicle group has sified industrial manufacturer invested in a new engine-valve Eaton Corp has set a goal of production facility in Jining, achieving $2 billion revenue in Shandong province, which will China by the end of 2015, dou- begin production next month. bling its 2010 revenue in the Meanwhile, medium voltage country, according to Alexan- assembly equipment for Beijing’s der Cutler, chair- subway line 6 — currently the AVIATION man and CEO on longest line in the Chinese capi- Th ursday. tal — will be supplied by Eaton, Eaton registered sales of $4.09 according to Cutler. billion in the second quarter, a In June, the US company rise of 21 percent from the same became the fi rst foreign concern period in 2010. “Among the 55 to enter into a joint venture with percent of sales (generated) out- the Commercial Aircraft Corp of side the United States, 26 percent China (COMAC). Th e link-up comes from emerging nations between Eaton and COMAC’s including China,” said Cutler, subsidiary Shanghai Aircraft during a group interview in Manufacturing Co Ltd will focus Shanghai on Th ursday. on the design, development Eaton had global revenue of and manufacture of fuel and STEVEN SHI / REUTERS $13.7 billion in 2010, with the hydraulic-conveyance systems Employees hold a meeting at the headquarters of Alibaba.com in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The largest e-commerce site in China reported a 29 percent Chinese market contributing 7.3 for COMAC’s C919 aircraft . rise in second-quarter profi t. percent. Future plans include supply- “China has become a key ing conveyance systems to other driver of Eaton’s global growth,” aircraft and engine manufac- said Cutler. He added that the turers in China and around the Alibaba.com sees profi ts rise company is seeking further world. growth in the Chinese market In June, Jin Zhuanglong, by undertaking major infra- COMAC’s general manager, said structure projects related to the that the design phase of the C919 Q2 earnings climbed to more than 464.5m tributing 56 percent to total revenues, to 464.55 million yuan from 362.96 electrical, hydraulics, vehicle and — the fi rst Chinese-made trunk- according to its statement to the Hong million yuan a year earlier. Th at beat aerospace sectors. line passenger aircraft — will be yuan, higher than analysts’ expectations Kong Stock exchange. the average forecast of 420.4 million During the period of the 12th concluded by the end of 2012 However, the number of paying yuan from fi ve analysts surveyed by Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), and the plane’s maiden fl ight will By MELANIE LEE e-commerce website that links Chi- members fell 2.1 percent from the Th omson Reuters I/B/E/S. China will develop six strategic take place in late 2014 before it is AND LEE CHYEN YEE nese small businesses looking to sell previous quarter to 832,469. The Revenue grew 19 percent to 1.62 pillar industries such as energy delivered to buyers in 2016. REUTERS their goods to overseas buyers. Th at company’s China Gold Supplier saw billion yuan. Revenue from its inter- conservation, environmen- According to Jin, COMAC has makes the company’s turnover sensi- subscriber numbers fall 3.7 percent, national marketplace rose 20 percent tal protection, and industrial so far received more than 100 SHANGHAI / HONG KONG — tive to the performance of the world’s while its Global Gold Supplier pack- to 948.97 million yuan. upgrading, in which Eaton will orders for the C919. Once in ser- Alibaba.com, China’s largest e-com- major economies such as the United age registered a subscriber decline Late last month, Alibaba Group play a supporting role. vice, the aircraft , China’s equiva- merce company, beat forecasts with a States and Europe, which are strug- of 3.2 percent, as Alibaba.com tried struck a deal with Yahoo Inc and “We are well-positioned to lent of Boeing Co’s 737 and the 29 percent rise in second quarter net gling with crippling debt crises. to control the quality of subscribers. Soft bank Corp over a transfer of the support China’s strategic plan 320 of Airbus SAS, is expected profi t, its smallest rise “We think the global economy, “If you look at their growth rate Chinese e-payments unit Alipay to by providing innovative and to lower the country’s reliance on INTERNET in about 18 months, especially in Europe and America, next year, it will probably slow down group founder and chief executive sustainable energy-manage- foreign aircraft makers. and warned that the will turn weak,” said Jonathan Lu, chief as well,” said Dick Wei, an analyst at Jack Ma. ment solutions for our cus- Craig Arnold, Eaton’s deputy adverse global economic outlook executive of Alibaba.com. JPMorgan in Hong Kong. “I think Share price of Alibaba.com was up tomers. We see opportunities chairman and chief operat- could hit its second half results. The company said revenue from the negative outlook of the macro 2.69 percent before the results. Th ey to expand our investment in ing officer of the corporation’s Alibaba.com, the listed unit of its China Gold Supplier package was economy will also affect them as have lost about 35 percent this year, the region, which will help fos- industrial sector, said COMAC Alibaba Group, which is 40 percent up 20 percent at 921.19 million yuan well.” underperforming the Hang Seng ter the development of China’s expects global sales of the C919 owned by Yahoo Inc, operates an ($144 million) in the quarter, con- Net profi t in April to June jumped Index, which is down 15 percent. economy,” said Cutler. to total 2,500. CHINA DAILY FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 businessmarkets 17 Mainland equity CGNPG may rebid for Kalahari markets UK rules mean Chinese company rebound can make new approach next week By JAMES PATON a fresh bid from Wednesday — By IRENE SHEN BLOOMBERG NEWS three months aft er the previous BLOOMBERG NEWS acquisition off er was denied — SYDNEY — China Guang- under UK rules, Tonkin said. SHANGHAI — Stocks dong Nuclear Power Group A new off er for Kalahari may on the Chinese mainland (CGNPC) Co may bid again be about 250 pence a share, he rose on Th ursday, with the for Kalahari Minerals Plc, trig- said. benchmark index rebound- gering an acquisition of urani- Shares of Kalahari climbed ing from close to the lowest um explorer Extract Resources 4.8 percent on Wednesday to level in a year. Th e advance Ltd, aft er withdrawing an off er close at 218 pence in London came on speculation that in May, according to trading, valuing the company losses were excessive rela- DEALS Patersons Securities at about 535 million pounds. tive to earnings prospects. Ltd. A telephone message left China Eastern Airlines “Th e Chinese will be back,” at the London offi ce of Kala- Corp paced gains by car- Simon Tonkin, senior resourc- hari aft er hours wasn’t imme- riers after the govern- es analyst at Patersons, said on diately returned. Meanwhile, ment said it will suspend Th ursday from Perth, Austra- John Gardner, a Sydney- approval for new railway lia. “It’s likely.” based spokesman for Extract, projects. China Vanke Co The United Kingdom’s declined to comment on led developers higher aft er Takeover Panel barred State- Thursday. Six telephone calls the 21st Century Business owned China Guangdong to China Guangdong’s public Herald said some local from lowering a March pro- relations department seeking governments have resisted posal of 290 pence ($4.63) a comment weren’t returned. expanding restrictions on share that valued Kalahari at home purchases. PetroChi- 756 million pounds, the Lon- Off er for extract na Co rose aft er oil erased don-based resource company With Kalahari owning 43 SHAO XIAN / FOR CHINA DAILY declines. said on May 10. Both com- percent of Extract, Australian China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group Co’s display area at a nuclear energy equipment exhibition in Shanghai. The company may “Th e rebound came only panies had approached the rules would normally require bid again for the parent company of uranium explorer Extract Resources Ltd. because earlier losses were panel with a price cut to 270 China Guangdong, the coun- excessive and won’t change pence a share, a move that try’s second-biggest atomic gain in reserves at its Husab percent this year, compared access to Extract’s Husab proj- the March 11 earthquake and the overall downward after Japan’s nuclear crisis plant builder, to make an off er project in Namibia, rose 0.4 with a 13 percent decline in ect as China seeks uranium to tsunami in Japan crippled the trend for the near future,” slashed the value of Kalahari’s for Extract, Patersons said in percent to A$7.23 ($7.79) at the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 increase nuclear power gen- Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant said Yang Delong, a fund 43 percent holding in Sydney- March. 2:40 pm Sydney time, valu- Index. eration. Extract expects China north of Tokyo, Chief Execu- manager at China South- listed Extract. Extract, which on Wednes- ing the company at A$1.8 bil- Th e acquisition of Kalahari will remain keen to expand its tive Offi cer Jonathan Leslie said ern Fund Management Co, China Guangdong can make day announced a 37 percent lion. Th e shares have fallen 23 would give China Guangdong atomic power program after on March 23. which oversees $21 billion. Th e Shanghai Composite Index added 1.27 percent to 2581.51 at the 3 pm close, the most since July 13, aft er falling as much as 1.7 percent. Metals lead commodity gains as yuan strengthens Th e CSI 300 Index increased 1.52 percent to 2866.92. By CHANYAPORN end of 1993. Th e central bank’s 2010, driven by demand cerns the growth outlook will a four-day rally. The yuan strengthened CHANJAROEN reference rate was boosted 0.27 in China, where urbaniza- worsen. “We did see a little bit beyond 6.4 a dollar for the BLOOMBERG NEWS percent to 6.3991. tion and population growth Standard & Poor’s cut the of a sell-off just after the fi rst time in 17 years, sup- “It’s now back a little bit to spurred use of coal, grains and US long-term credit rating announcement,” Darren ported by the US Federal LONDON — Commodity risk-on trade,” said David Th ur- metals. by one notch to AA+ aft er a Heathcote, head of trading at Reserve’s pledge to keep prices rose for a second day as tell, head of metals research at Above-target consumer (The yuan’s advance) political impasse over the debt Investec Bank (Australia) Ltd, interest rates at a record low the Chinese currency strength- Citigroup Inc in Singapore. Th e prices have forced policymak- is defi nitely good for crisis. said from Sydney. “At the end and signs that China will ened beyond 6.4 a dollar for yuan’s advance “is definitely ers to increase interest rates commodities as that Many investors are holding of the day there’s overwhelm- use currency gains to help the fi rst time in 17 years, rais- good for commodities as that and banks’ required reserve ‘‘ a lot of cash and looking for ing upward pressure on gold rein in infl ation. ing the purchasing power of allows China to import more, ratio (RRR) to rein in the allows China to import the right time to get back into because of the uncertainties in The Shanghai Compos- the world’s top consumer of and it’s a sign that the govern- growth, adding to investors’ more, and it’s a sign the financial markets, Thur- other markets.” ite has slumped 8.1 percent energy and ment is confident enough concerns about a global slow- that the government tell said. “It’s not a repeat of the Crude for September deliv- this year, extending 2010’s RESOURCES industrial about the strength of domestic down as governments in the second half in 2008. It’s going ery increased 0.6 percent to 14 percent plunge, as the metals. demand and cares less about US and Europe battle with is confi dent enough to be tough but we’ll muddle $83.40 a barrel in electronic central bank raised interest Metals led the advance on exports”, he said. increasing debt. about the strength through.” trading on the New York Mer- rates fi ve times and ordered the Standard & Poor’s GSCI Th e Chinese currency was China may adopt “targeted of domestic demand Immediate-delivery gold cantile Exchange. It earlier lenders to set aside more Spot Index, which gained supported by the US Federal easing” in the second half to and cares less about dropped as much as 0.8 per- dropped as much as 2.1 percent cash as deposit reserves 0.4 percent to 632.27. Th ree- Reserve Board’s pledge to keep support fi nancing for agricul- cent to $1,779.20 and traded to $81.14. 12 times since the start of month delivery zinc jumped as interest rates at a record low ture, small business and public exports.” at $1,785.65. Th e metal ear- Corn and soybeans gained in 2010 to contain price rises, much as 4.3 percent, the most and signals that China will use housing, the China Securities DAVID THURTELL lier rallied as much as 1.2 per- Chicago ahead of a US Depart- which quickened to the since May 18, while copper currency gains to help rein in Journal reported on Th ursday. HEAD OF METALS RESEARCH AT cent to a record $1,814.95 on ment of Agriculture report was fastest pace in three years climbed as much as 3.4 per- infl ation. Th e People’s Bank of China CITIGROUP INC IN SINGAPORE concern economic growth is likely to show the agency cut- in July. Stocks on the index cent. Crude oil increased while Th e International Monetary has increased interest rates fi ve stalling. ting its estimates of the nation’s trade at 11.8 times estimat- gold declined. Fund said last month that a times since September and harvests as hot weather curbs ed earnings, a record low, Th e yuan strengthened 0.36 stronger yuan would help boosted major lenders’ RRR Copper, gold Higher margins yields. according to data compiled percent to 6.3948 a dollar as of stabilize the global economy, to a record 21.5 percent. Copper for delivery in three Gold’s loss on Thursday Corn for December deliv- by Bloomberg. 1:47 pm in Shanghai, its biggest as well as aid government Chinese copper imports months gained 3.2 percent came after CME Group Inc, ery advanced 0.6 percent to A gauge tracking devel- jump in nine months, according efforts to tame inflation and expanded 9.5 percent to the to $8,870 a ton on the Lon- the world’s largest futures $6.925 a bushel on the Chi- opers in the Shanghai Com- to the China Foreign Exchange rebalance the nation’s growth highest level since January last don Metal Exchange, paring market, raised margins on cago Board of Trade and soy- posite advanced 1.2 per- Trade System. It touched toward domestic demand and month, according to customs the month’s loss to 9.8 per- gold contracts 22 percent with beans increased 1.3 percent to cent. China Vanke added 6.3938, the strongest level since away from exports. data. Still, they were 11 percent. Th e contract closed on eff ect from the close of busi- $13.1875 a bushel. Wheat for 1.30 percent to 8.55 yuan the country unifi ed offi cial and Commodities rallied in cent lower than 342,901 tons Wednesday at the lowest since ness on Th ursday, prompting December delivery gained 0.5 ($1.33). Poly Real Estate market exchange rates at the eight out of 10 years through a year earlier. December because of con- investors to sell the metal aft er percent to $7.23 a bushel. Group Co increased 1.82 percent to 11.20 yuan. Some local governments marketroundup have resisted the expansion of restrictions on home COMMODITIES ASIA INDEXES purchases to their jurisdic- tions, with only about 10 Shanghai Futures Exchange Nikkei 225 KOSPI Straits Times BSE Sensex cities agreeing to limits, the Commodity Contracts Price Change% Japan 8981.94 South Korea 1817.44 Singapore 2796.22 India 17059.4 21st Century Business Her- -0.63% +0.62% -0.88% - 0.42% Aluminum OCT1 17635 0.69 17180 ald reported on Th ursday, Copper OCT1 66710 -0.33 8950 1810 2800 citing unidentified people Rubber JAN2 34170 3.34 8910 2770 17120 close to the Ministry of Fuel Oil DEC1 4931 0.37 1790 Housing and Urban-Rural Zinc OCT1 16780 0.81 8870 1770 2740 17060 Development. Gold DEC1 367.43 1.42 There had been earlier Wire Rod DEC1 4737 0 9:00 13:00 15:00 9:00 13:00 15:00 9:00 13:00 17:00 9:00 13:00 15:30 expectations that about Rebar JAN2 4799 0.23 60 cities would join the CHINA INDEXES group of locations that have Dalian Commodity Exchange Shanghai Composite Shanghai B Shares Shenzhen Component Shenzhen B Shares already introduced limits Commodity Contracts Price Change% on home purchases, the Soybean#1 MAY2 4555 0.84 2581.51 +1.27% 262.73 +0.44% 11627.49 +1.55% 670.53 +0.78% Soybean#2 MAY2 4805 0.27 newspaper reported. 2570 668 China cut its 2012 aff ord- Soybean Meal MAY2 3277 0.55 261.5 11550 Corn MAY2 2413 1 2550 662 able housing development 260 11460 target by 20 percent to 8 mil- Soybean Oil MAY2 9970 0.65 2530 258.5 LLDPE JAN2 10955 1.11 11370 656 lion units, Reuters reported Palm Oil MAY2 8764 0.48 9:30 13:00 15:00 9:30 13:00 15:00 9:30 13:00 15:00 9:30 13:00 15:00 on Wednesday, citing two PVC JAN2 7930 0.76 unidentifi ed people close to the government. CSI 300 MARKET DIGEST TOP 10 BY VOLUME IN SHANGHAI Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange 2866.92 +1.52% China Eastern surged by Commodity Contracts Price Change% Shanghai Shenzhen Hong Kong Name Last Change% Vol(m) the 10 percent daily limit to 2850 Wheat JAN2 2156 0.33 Gainers 837 969 292 Founder Securities 6.16 10 410 5.57 yuan. China Southern SG Wheat JAN2 2727 0.04 2820 Airlines Co climbed 6.99 Cotton#1 JAN2 20605 -0.12 Losers 80 83 704 Zijin Mining 5.72 0 230 percent to 8.11 yuan. Air White Sugar JAN2 7475 1.76 2790 Unchanged 9 23 159 China Eastern Airlines 5.57 10.08 158 China Ltd rose 4.90 percent PTA JAN2 9526 4.89 9:30 13:00 15:00 to 9.42 yuan. Rape Seed Oil JAN2 10280 0.1 Agriculture Bank of China 2.62 1.16 130 China will suspend Early Rice JAN2 2588 -0.08 Hang Seng SUBINDEX Minsheng Bank 5.34 2.1 126 19595.14 -0.95% approvals on new railway Name Last Change% Changhong Electronics 3.4 2.1 110 projects and conduct safety Bohai Commodity Exchange 19650 Hang Seng A+H 1845.67 0.3 Hainan Zhenghe 7.93 9.99 102 checks on all current proj- Commodity Price Change% SME Composite 6528.13 1.71 China Unicom 4.68 0.21 89 ects aft er a fatal train crash Coke 1972 0 19500 Oil 5350 0.57 last month, the government SSE Fund 4239.219 1.04 CSR Corp 5.28 -1.68 80 said in a statement on its Deformed Steel Bar 5241 0.38 19350 SZSE Fund 5418.09 0.75 China State Construction 3.54 0.28 78 website on Wednesday. Hot Rolled Coil 4687 0.06 10:00 13:00 16:00 18 businessinternational FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINA DAILY Firms brace for weak demand Portugal may sell state assets to brave crisis By ARI LEVY BLOOMBERG NEWS By ANABELA REIS a sign we are working and not BLOOMBERG NEWS postponing our problems,” SAN FRANCISCO — From he said. soft -drink producers to theme- LISBON, Portugal — Por- Portugal’s austerity plan park companies and automak- Until we stimulate tugal may have to brave the aims to reduce the budget ers, corporations worldwide primary consumption, most turbulent stock markets deficit to the EU ceiling of are seeing weak consumer in three years as it seeks buy- 3 percent of GDP by 2013 demand. ‘the‘ cash will continue ers for state-owned assets to from 5.9 percent in 2011 and PepsiCo Inc’s chief executive to sit on the sidelines.” meet the terms of its bailout last year’s 9.1 percent. Still, officer said com- package. the package risks deepening INDRA NOOYI RETAIL panies need more CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Prime Minister Portugal’s recession. demand for their PEPSICO INC DEBT Pedro Passos Coel- Th e bailout plan included products before they will start ho is seeking to sell forecasts for a contraction of using cash to expand. Walt Dis- holdings in power company 2.2 percent in 2011 and 1.8 ney Co shares fell on Th ursday Johnson, GM’s vice-president EDP-Energias de Portugal SA percent in 2012. on concern that lower consum- of US sales, said in a presenta- and grid operator REN-Redes Under the rescue, the gover confi dence may hurt its busi- tion. “With the recent volatility Energeticas Nacionais SA, ernment must still identify nesses, and Honda Motor Co in the stock market, we know which have a combined value two additional “large enter- said the possibility of delayed that’s a concern we really have of 2.17 billion euros ($3.09 bil- prises” to sell by the end of car purchases might lead to a to watch closely.” lion), in the third quarter. 2012 and submit an updated revised forecast. Disney plunged 9.1 percent, Under its 78 billion-euro asset-sale plan by March next “You’ve got to stimulate the most since December 2008, European year. demand growth,” said Indra in Th ursday’s New York Stock Union-led res- The News- Nooyi, chief executive offi cer Exchange trading. Wunderlich cue, Portugal paper Expres- of PepsiCo, in an interview. Securities cut Disney’s rating to agreed to speed 2.17 so reported on “Until we stimulate primary “hold” from “buy” following the asset sales July 9 that State consumption, the cash will theme-park and media com- through 2013. billion euros Grid Corp continue to sit on the sidelines.” pany’s earnings report. TV sta- “It’s clearly the combined value of of China and The companies’ warnings tion advertising sales are down the worst of the holdings Portugal is another Chi- follow a cut to the US credit rat- by a mid-single digit percent- times to carry seeking to sell nese company ing on Aug 5 and a two-week age this quarter, Disney said on out privatiza- were interested rout in global equity markets Wednesday on a conference call tion,” Andre Pinheiro, who in buying a stake in EDP- as investors dumped stocks aft er the market closed. helps oversee 100 million Energias. REN-Redes also in favor of gold and US Trea- US consumer spending from euros of assets at Orey Finan- attracted interest from State suries. With three European April through June showed the PAUL TAGGART / BLOOMBERG cial SA in Lisbon, said. “Mar- Grid of China, as well as countries having required bail- smallest gain since the second A PepsiCo Inc employee delivers beverages to a store in Stratford, Connecticut. US consumer ket instability won’t help.” funds including Norway’s outs, concern over weakening quarter of 2009, when the econ- spending in the second quarter showed the smallest gain since the same period in 2009. With the country’s debt sovereign wealth fund, demand and rising unemploy- omy was in recession, according and borrowing costs soaring, Expresso said. ment is spreading. A report on to a Commerce Department distributor of paper products. The CEO of Constellation in addition to personal com- Portugal followed Greece and On Wednesday, China Wednesday said confidence report on July 29. Th at contrib- “We were all worried about Brands Inc, the world’s second- puters, is benefi ting as custom- Ireland in April in seeking a Power International Devel- among small businesses fell uted to second-quarter eco- the so-called double-dip reces- largest wine seller after E&J ers upgrade their infrastruc- bailout. Portugal’s debt swelled opment Ltd said its parent in July for the fifth consecu- nomic growth that trailed ana- sion but thought Europe and Gallo Winery, said his custom- ture, Chief Financial Officer to 93 percent of GDP in 2010 company has been in talks tive month as the sales outlook lysts’ estimates, as gross domes- the US would be able to avoid ers tend to keep buying wine Stacy Smith said. from 68 percent in 2007. with EDP but at the moment dimmed. tic product rose at a 1.3 percent it,” Alvarez-Miranda said in an in a slump. Executives said they are seek- The European Commis- has no plan to acquire shares. For Honda, Japan’s third- annual rate in the period. interview. “Right now, no one “We’re very well-positioned ing a resolution that will restore sion forecasts debt will rise “The environment has largest automaker, and General Th e scarcity of jobs is con- knows what’s going to happen for any kind of short-term eco- consumer demand and inspire to 101.7 percent this year and become increasingly more Motors Co (GM), the biggest tributing to the crisis. While next.” nomic blip,” CEO Rob Sands businesses to spend, even as the 107.4 percent in 2012 before difficult and the state may in the US, the turmoil may be unemployment in the US has Not all corporate executives said in an interview. Victor, US government adjusts to the starting to decline aft er 2013. have to offer assets at quite hurting their results. Honda been above 9 percent for the are so concerned. Some say the New York-based Constella- loss of its top-level rating. Th e asset sales represent 3 a significant discount on said on Wednesday that a pro- past four months, Spain’s rate market drop presents a buy- tion’s brands include Raven- As a result of the downgrade, to 4 percent of the country’s the price,” said Tullia Bucco, longed drop in US stocks will is more than double that at ing opportunity and are taking swood and Robert Mondavi. “we could see interest rates debt, not a signifi cant chunk, an economist at UniCredit lead to a decline in consump- 20.9 percent. That presented the opportunity to repurchase Companies that sell to busi- going up, we could see higher said Manuel Caldeira Cabral, Global Research in Milan. tion, and GM said its forecast a big enough challenge before shares. Fluor Corp, the largest nesses are also more optimistic cost of borrowing for busi- an economics professor at “For Portugal overall, I see for 2011 US vehicle sales may the US downgrade, said Mil- publicly traded US construc- than those that rely on con- nesses, which are all bad for Minho University in Braga. more risk regarding the price be in jeopardy. lan Alvarez-Miranda, chief tion company, and Japan’s sumers. Santa Clara, Califor- economic growth and employ- “The moment Portugal the country can get for the “Consumer confidence is executive officer of Unipapel Soft bank Corp told investors nia-based Intel Corp, which ment,” Nooyi said. “So, we have and Europe are facing isn’t the assets than the capacity to pretty fragile right now,” Don SA, Spain’s largest maker and they’re buying back stock. sells chips used in data centers to address it.” best, but privatization can be actually fulfi ll the program.” life

CHINA DAILY CHINADAILY.COM.CN/LIFE FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 | PAGE 19 Beijing boutique strikes optimistic note for designers By LIN JING CHINA DAILY

Wang Yaoyu’s black T-shirt and skinny jeans are appropriate work attire for this 29-year-old. He is part owner of Dong Liang Studio, one of the fi rst boutique stores in Beijing devoted to showcasing independent Chinese designers’ products. In November 2009, Wang and his business partner, Nan Lang, opened the retail store in Wudaoying hutong, Dongcheng district. Wang says the quiet hutong, a narrow alley, is the perfect location for a boutique store. “Right now there are only a small number of people into designer clothing, so it’s not necessary to put Dong Liang in a noisy shopping mall,” he says. With its clean and simple design, the store’s decor refl ects an old Chinese home. Th e wooden desk and exposed beams give it an antique look. But no typical Chinese elements can be found in the clothing. Most of the items have a Western feel, and come mainly in two colors: black and white. Wang says they only choose clothing lines that have a consistent style and fi ne fabric. “Th e clothing should fi rst be practical for daily wear, and have a simple but classical style, which is easy to carry,” the designer says. Looking back on his business venture, he says he shares something in common with budding fashion designers: the diffi culties of starting a new business. “Most young Chinese designers are only just starting out and experiencing really hard times,” he says. Works by graduating students at Wuhan University’s fashion department are shown off in Wuhan, Hubei province. SHEPHERD C. ZHOU / FOR CHINA DAILY “Barely any of them can make ends meet. Th e fact is, most of them are still losing money in designing.” Wang says that the most challenging part of starting his business was convincing designers to join Dong Liang. “At fi rst, many designers doubted our abilities. So we had to present them with a feasible proposal and demonstrate our sincerity about long-term coopera- A fashion force by design tion.” It took three months for Wang and his partner to fi nd independent designers with a mature design style and a complete line. But the dedication paid off . As nation strives to make its mark on the world’s catwalks, it In one year, the number of designers featured in the store has grown from fi ve to 21. And now he is the one is doubling eff orts to nurture more designers. Lin Jing reports. getting calls and e-mails from designers asking for help. “Some designers would like to join Dong Liang, because it is a recognition of their design style and he country is in desperate need of fashion designers as it seeks to transform itself “Th e starting monthly salary for a designer is about product quality.” 3,000 yuan ($469) to 5,000 yuan. But a one-hour fashion Some designers they select to showcase in their store from being manufacturer to becoming a creator. “Th ere is a great demand for show costs around 1 million yuan ($156,345), not includ- have already gained a reputation in China, such as Veg- designers in the market,” says Su Baoyan, secretary-general of the China Fash- ing the cost of staging, lights, music and models, which is aZaishiWang, the owner of the brand SFORZANDO, beyond the fi nancial abilities of most young designers.” and Ye Qian, the designer of Ye’s. ion Association. “Currently there are about 50,000 apparel companies in China German fashion designer Katrin Reinfurt says that Wang says he fully understands the predicament and new brands keep popping up every year. Besides, some existing brands are young Chinese fashion designers have great potential to Chinese designers fi nd themselves in. also developing new lines. All of these companies need fashion designers.” become globally well known, and what China needs is “As the market improves, more designers are open- a fashion district. ing their own design studios and building up their T “International fashion designers are well-known for brands,” he says. She says demand outstrips supply, even though 10,000 fi ne marketing and big shows in fashion centers such as “But the process is not that easy. Th e fi rst obstacle is designers graduate each year. Paris, but it is diffi cult for Chinese fashion designers to fi nancing. But investors seldom give large amounts of Su says that aft er the 2008 global fi nancial crisis, man- hold fashion shows in Europe, because of the distance money to designers and wait for the brand to mature ufacturers in the coastal areas of South China have seen and huge costs,” she says. and become well known. It takes persistence.” fewer manufacturing orders from developed countries. “Th e problem in China is that it does not have a gath- He adds that young designers cannot aff ord to spend To stay afl oat, these companies have to adjust their ering place where fashion media, journalists, designers the time and energy on marketing and promotion business models and transform from being just manu- and models can come together and join the marketing when there are so many other details to worry about. facturers. process.” “Fabric and production is also an issue. It is hard to “Designers play a key role in the transformation from In recent years, many foreign designers and stu- fi nd good fabric at reasonable prices, especially at a ‘made-in-China’ to ‘designed-in-China’. Without them, dios have started up in China, especially in big cities. time when commodity prices are increasing,” he says. it’s mission impossible,” Su says. Although the number of foreign designers is quite small, But he is still confi dent about the future of Chinese Consumer needs are evolving rapidly in China and they are popular. designers. “I would quit if I did not have any confi - apparel brands are growing increasingly aware that they “Big apparel companies prefer foreign designers to dence,” he laughs. have to change accordingly. local ones, because foreign designers can raise their Business is booming for Dong Liang, which sells “Th e demand for fashion designers, especially experi- products’ reputation. Th ey are also better able to grasp clothing for more than the market average, rang- enced ones, keeps increasing,” Su says. fashion trends and are more adept at color coordination,” ing from $46 to $916, depending on the fabric and Lan Lan, a lecturer with the Beijing Institute of Fash- Lan says. designer. ion Technology, says that China is relatively new to the Because of this, Western designers are very popular in And their products have drawn the attention of fashion world, which can be a hindrance to up-and- emerging markets including China. Chinese celebrities. Zhou Xun, a mainland actress and coming designers. “However, when it comes to the local market, Chi- Valen Hsu, a pop singer from Taiwan, are among Dong “In China, the fashion industry does not have a long nese designers still have some advantages because they Liang’s frequent customers. history like in the West. Foreign designers have known understand local cultures and customers’ preferences But Wang is looking at the bigger picture. He says about, seen and used many fashion products during their much better,” she says. Dong Liang wants to collaborate with designer stores early years, while most Chinese fashion designers may Reinfurt says that Chinese designers look too much in Western countries to introduce Chinese brands to have not even heard of these fashion brands till their to fashion cultures from the West and are short of origi- the world, and infl uence mainstream fashion trends. college years. As a result, they have to make up the gap nality in their own designs. In the long term, he says, “Designers’ products should not always appeal to within a short period of time.” Chinese designers should form their own style. a niche customer. Aft er all, they are still commercial Th ere are more than 200 design schools in China, but An elaborate headpiece worn at a fashion show at “Instead of drowning in the other trends, they (Chi- products,” he says. “Every well-known brand, such as classes tend to emphasize creativity over business. Beijing’s 798 Art Zone. WANG JING / CHINA DAILY nese designers) should try to concentrate on their own Louis Vuitton and Gucci, has experienced the same “Fashion designers are diff erent from artists. Artists culture, and fi nd out their own design signatures,” Rein- path, from a small consumer base to the (larger) work for themselves and can let their imagination fl y, furt says. public. while designers have to be more organized and business- “Fashion design is like a mirror of society. Designers “It is an inevitable road for Chinese designers as orientated,” Lan says. should combine their designs with Chinese culture, well.” Lan adds a fashion designer is in charge of the process 10,000 learn to express their own identities and dress codes, and from product design to fi nal delivery, including fabric designers refl ect what is going on in society.” choices, cost control and targeting customers. will graduate from more than Jacky Jin, vice-president of Trends Media Group, a “Designers have to bear business and customers’ needs fashion magazine publisher in China, says that there is and requirements in mind. Th eir designs and products still a lot of room for improvement for Chinese designers. are supposed to be understandable to their bosses and “In the West, fashion designers are not only designers, target clients and help increase sales,” she says. 200 but also fashion icons who provide ideas and promote Federick Wong, program director of the fashion design schools fashion styles, such as John Galliano and Karl Lager- design department at Raffl es Design Institute in Beijing, every year in China. feld,” Jin says. “But in China, designers are confi ned to says the most urgent issue is fi nding a way to nurture a certain role.” new designers. Since the 1990s, some Chinese designers have chosen “To become professional fashion designers, school young designers to experiment with their ideas, business to study in countries known for producing great fashion, training is far from enough. And young designers need plans and designs,” he says. “More cooperation between such as the United Kingdom, Italy and France. a good platform to grow and mature aft er graduation.” schools and apparel companies in real-time projects Jin says that it is really helpful for them to see diff erent Wong, a Chinese-Malaysian, says that it takes at least is also helpful. Th ese projects could familiarize young things and open their eyes and minds. fi ve years of working experience to become a profes- designers with the industry much earlier and help enter- “Th ese Chinese designers have a thorough under- sional designer. prises select the designers they need.” standing of local markets by working or interning in Wong suggests the government should, besides setting Wong says that most Chinese fashion designers fi nd it international apparel companies,” he says. up design schools, give young designers more opportu- hard to promote themselves. “Armed with advanced management skills and expe- ZHANG TAO / CHINA DAILY nities to get hands-on experience. Fashion shows can help advertise new designers, but rience, they have great potential to become world-class Wang Yaoyu wants to turn his studio, Dong Liang, “Fashion schools could set up incubation centers for it can be a struggle fi nancially to start a new business. designers.” into an incubator for Chinese fashion designers. 20 lifeentertainment FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINA DAILY One of the nation’s most original rock bands is packing in the crowds by Sober Gao reinventing a dying folk tradition of narrative singing. Chen Nan reports. waxes lyrical, as Cheung and Tse spit ﬁ re

Musician and novice director Gao Xiaosong has done the crime and is making the most of his time aft er New beats for old art being locked up for six months on a DUI (drunk driving) charge. hile traditionalists “My case is not one of injustice, the frequently lament the crime I committed was stupid but threat to ancient Chi- harmed no one,” he admitted earlier W nese art forms, local this week, in an interview that reveals rock heroes are spearheading their the details of his prison life. own reinvention of these arts. Gao says he accepts the punish- Nan Cheng Er Ge, considered one ment he so of the nation’s most original rock richly deserved bands, is sparking a surge in popu- and will not larity of the age-old art of quyi. make the same Quyi is a general term for per- mistake again. forming arts that involves speaking, He regrets just chanting and singing. It includes two things, dagu and pingshu (story-telling), not seeing his and xiangsheng (crosstalk). CELEBRITY daughter and Th e Lao She Teahouse in the capi- SAUCE the premiere tal’s Qianmen area is where much of of his film in this revival is happening. September, My At a recent show, two young men Kingdom, the fi rst commercial movie dressed in traditional long robes he has directed. engage in a dialogue. One of them Since being incarcerated, he says he asks: “Welcome to our newly- has been reading Encyclopedia Britan- opened restaurant. Are you ready nica, something he had only planned to order?” to do aft er retiring. He has also started The other answers: “Serve me translating Memories of My Melan- all of your best dishes, I want to try choly Whores by Gabriel Garcia Mar- them fi rst.” quez and working on a collection of Just as the audience expects this poems and a new fi lm script. conversation to develop into a cross- As journalists we are oft en told to talk show, Er Ge, founder and lead “follow the story” and here at Celeb- vocalist of the band, also in a long rity Sauce it is hard to ignore the robe, comes on stage followed by ongoing shenanigans in the house of two young women. Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse, Placing a drum in front and hold- who, loyal readers will be aware, are ing a pair of bamboo clappers in divorcing. his hands, he starts singing jingyun Th e acrimonious split reached new dagu, a musical narrative delivered heights aft er the birthday party last in the Beijing dialect that dates back week of one of their two sons, Lucas, to the late Qing Dynasty (1644- now 4. 1911). According to a number of Hong Even as the audience tries to get WANG JING / CHINA DAILY Kong media reports, Cheung is said to grips with what’s going on, the Er Ge’s performances, which combine traditional Chinese art forms and rock beats, are accompanied by his band Nan Cheng Er Ge. to be performing voodoo-like rituals fi rst two young men pick up an elec- aimed at her soon-to-be-ex-husband, tric bass and a guitar, and the two knew what the audience feedback time-honored brands and tradi- IF YOU GO interested in quyi. In my mind, it in the hope of gaining full custody young women reach for an erhu and was going to be,” Er Ge says. tional art masters. Places like Tian- 7:30 pm, Aug 24-Sept 4 belongs to my grandmother’s gener- of the children and recovering her sanxian (traditional two- and three- Th eir fi rst performance at Haoyun qiao and Qianmen, dubbed “old Beijing Nine Theater, Chaoyang ation. But the more I learned about reputation. string instruments). Bar in Beijing in the winter of 2007 Beijing”, is where many folk artists, District Culture Center, 17 Jintai it, the deeper I understood it and She is supposed to worship at the Bass riff s and guitar sounds mix drew a crowd of nearly 500. In 2009, from acrobats to quyi performers, Xili, Xiaozhuang, Chaoyang the more I began to love it,” Shi says. altar of 12 evil statues at her home with the clean sounds from the Chi- when they performed at the Straw- lived and performed. district, Beijing “The younger performers are and the buzz is that her prayers were nese instruments, as they sing, joke berry Music Festival’s main stage, Er Ge, who is from Tianjin, per- 7:30 pm, Sept 9-11 very creative and imaginative. Th ey answered when Tse came to Beijing and spoof current events. more than 10,000 people attended. formed in Beijing’s Nan Cheng for Dizhi Theater, 30 Yangrou focus more on modern stories,” Er this week to shoot a TV drama but Th eir song, Face, one of the band’s “Although our musical style is more than 20 years and is deeply Hutong, Xisi, Xicheng district, Ge says. He is confi dent they will had a high fever and acute asthma most popular, is followed by others new, the topics we choose reflect infl uenced by the spirit of the arts Beijing keep quyi alive. attack, necessitating the use of an oxy- that combine traditional Chinese what the common people are think- there. He says he has produced 400-610-3721 Nan Cheng Er Ge is now ready to gen machine to breathe. instruments and art forms, to rock ing,” Er Ge says. “Th e combination music for TV series, national galas move into theaters. Cheung’s company has vehemently beats. of modern rock rhythms and Chi- and rock bands, but it is quyi, which them on every aspect of quyi — the Th ey will present their new show, denied the voodoo rumors, adding “China may not be the birthplace nese quyi is a fresh experience for he studied in his spare time, that he singing, talking, acting, instrument Kua Zhu Zhai, or Praising Houses, it has issued lawyers’ letters to two of rock ’n’ roll but we are revitalizing audiences. Rock ’n’ roll, we feel, is is most attracted to. playing and stand-up comedy. which is adapted from traditional magazines for fabricating news, and rock by linking this Western music not about roaring angrily. We have “I was born in Tianjin, where quyi Shi Liang, the bassist from Shanxi Chinese crosstalk. This piece has TV hostess Eileen Cha for spreading genre with our own culture,” says reinvented the genre by combining is an important part of the culture. I province, joined the band in 2008. been performed by many xiangsh- lies about Cheung. Er Ge, 38. it with quyi.” have listened to xiangsheng and dagu Th e 29-year-old was a diehard fan eng artists, such as Ma Sanli and Guo We were enjoying the AC Milan The band has been drawing Th e former music producer pre- since I was a kid. But quyi has been of rock and heavy metal. When he Degang. Er Ge says that it will be celebrations on Saturday aft er it had enthusiastic crowds at live music fers to be called Er Ge, or second forgotten by audiences. I wanted to went to the audition, he knew noth- now get the rock treatment. beaten Inter Milan 2-1 in the Italian venues across the capital and various elder brother, as it makes him feel do something for this ancient art ing about Nan Cheng Er Ge but had It will be held at the capital’s Super Cup at the Bird’s Nest stadium music festivals since 2007. closer to his audiences and the form, so I started Nan Cheng Er Ge,” once watched its founder perform. Nine Theater and Dizhi Theater in Beijing, when we were bemused at “I was so worried when we per- grassroots spirit of his music. Nan he says. “I liked his style, it was very for a month and Er Ge promises the antics of AC Milan player Pato. formed in our early days. Th e band Cheng refers to the south part of He found the other four members fast and also strange,” Shi recalls. each show will be different, with Th e Brazilian clearly made a “slant- was experimenting and no one the capital, which is home to many through open auditions and trained “Like most young people, I am not impromptu performances. eyed” gesture at the cameras by pull- ing at the corners of his eyes. While Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, to give Pato his full name, no doubt did what’son not intend to cause off ense and was caught up in the moment, it was obvi- tings for the play are said to be a clones Aft er Beijing, the show will visit Kong, Jolin Tsai and David Zee Tao from ously a racist and stupid thing to do. of the original version, strong in Italian another 12 cities including Shanghai and Taiwan, and Zhang Liangying from the Apparently, it is quite a common style and tradition. Shenzhen. Chinese mainland, will do a joint concert 7:30 pm, Aug 25-28. Opera House, 7:30 pm, Aug 12-14. Beijing Exhibition tour in Shanghai, Wenzhou of Zhejiang thing for South Americans in general National Center for the Performing Arts, Hall Th eater, 135 Xizhimenwai Dajie, province and Shenzhen in Guangdong to do and the Argentinean Carlos 2 West Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district. Haidian district. 400-610-3721 province. Tevez has been photographed doing 400-610-3721 7:30 pm, Aug 28. Shanghai Stadium, it too, while in Manchester United Vintage prints 666 Tianyaoqiao Lu. 021-6217-2426 colors. Ode to friendship Doing it in front of a packed Bird’s Th e Cafa Art Museum is to hold Vin- Shanghai Art Fair Th e Philippine Philharmonic Orches- tage Prints — China Exhibition Tour of Nest full of Chinese, on national, nay BEIJING tra, the Philippines’ premier orchestra, the Collection of Charles Jin: 20th Century Th e 15th Shanghai Art Fair, claimed international TV, however, does rather comes to Beijing for a goodwill concert Works of Western Photographers. to be the largest of its kind in Asia, will take the biscuit. Music festival include a series of drawings by 90-year- Ultimate Image, will open on Saturday at to mark the conclusion of the year-long Th e exhibition featuring more than On the other hand, Kevin Prince Th e second Mercedes-Benz Interna- celebrations of the 35th anniversary of 100 masterpieces of photographic art old He Youzhi, who is known for his Van Gallery in Shanghai. tional Music Festival will kick off this the Sino-Philippines diplomatic rela- “not only off ers local audiences a visual sharp satire. Th e fair will present works Organized by Double Win Capital, Boateng’s impressive kungfu kick to weekend in Beijing. tions. Widely regarded as one of the top feast but also an insight into photograph- by acclaimed master artists from galleries the exhibition will display more than celebrate his winning goal was appre- Percussionist Li Biao, who continues musical ensembles in the Asia-Pacifi c ic education, creation and collecting in and art institutes all over the world. 100 works by 16 leading Chinese mod- ciated by the home crowd. to serve as artistic director of Mercedes- region, the orchestra performs to the developed countries”, says curator Cai 9 am-5 pm, Sept 14-18 ern artists. Th ey will include paintings, Benz International Music Festival, will theme, Ode to Friendship. Th e concert Meng. Aft er its Beijing debut, the exhibi- Shanghai Mart, 99 Xingyi Road sculptures and installments. Th e late CHINA DAILY collaborate with the symphony orchestra will be conducted by maestro Olivier tion will move to Shenyang, Hangzhou, 021-6225-4977 Chinese painter Chen Yifei’s oil paintings of the National Center for Performing Ochanine. Th e orchestra was established Shanghai, Xi’an, Guangzhou, Wuhan and and rising young artist Wang Qianwen’s Arts (NCPA) and world-renowned in 1973, and has premiered many Fili- Hong Kong. Stage opera abstract paintings (pictured) are some conductor Christoph Eschenbach (pic- pino composers’ works, besides present- 10 am-5 pm, until Sept 11. 8 Huajiadi highlights of the show. tured above) on Chinese composer Guo ing the works of foreign composers. It Nanjie, Chaoyang district. 010-6477-1575 9:30 am-6 pm, Aug 13-Sep 13. 257 Jin- Wenjing’s enchanting Th e Rite of the has also performed with world renowned yan Lu, Pudong district. 021-6100-2198 Mountain, which was written in the wake conductors including Mendi Rodan, Interactive event of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. Piero Gamba, Enrique Batis, Sebastian Charity exhibition Eschenbach, who is also a great pia- Bereau, and Nicholas Koch. Ullens Center for Contemporary Maitian Education Foundation is nist, will also join violinist Zhu Dan for a 10:30 am, Aug 13. National Center for Art’s (UCCA) unique exhibition series, a charity NGO that helps children in concert that is sure to be one of the high- the Performing Arts, west of Tian’anmen entitled Curated By …,has launched the under-developed areas with access to lights of the festival. Th ey will perform Square. 010-6655-0000 careers of numerous young artists since Mozart and Beethoven sonatas. its inception in 2008. To celebrate its better educational resources. In the past 7:30 pm, Aug 12-14. National Cen- third anniversary, 10 artists who have six years, volunteers with the group have ter for the Performing Arts, west of Popular musical participated in the program over the visited many remote villages, teaching children to paint and enjoy art. Tian’anmen Square. 010-6655-0000 In 1998 the classic United States years, will return to the gallery to share Women Generals of the Yang Family Th e foundation will present some of children’s television program Sesame their stories with visitors. Th e activity is a theatrical production that combines the paintings in Shanghai under the title, Instant classic Street was fi rst introduced to Shanghai will be conducted in Chinese but there traditional Peking opera with symphonic audiences as a 130-episode series titled will be English translators on hand. music. Th e lead role will be played by Shi Rainbow Bridge. Th e modern opera Rigoletto, jointly Zhima Jie. 3 pm-4:30 pm, Aug 13. UCCA, 4 Yihong. Th e play is accompanied by the Th e organization plans to host 30 created by Teatro Regio di Parma of Italy Th is summer the longest-running Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang district. 010- Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, under exhibitions, and raise 1 million yuan and China National Center for the Per- children’s show in US history and an 5780-0293 the baton of its artistic director Yu Long. ($155,800) to help poor children realize forming Arts (NCPA), is to be staged. Emmy Awards winner, will be revived 7:30 pm, Aug 31. Shanghai Grand Th e- their art dreams. Th is version of Verdi’s classic opera once more with Sesame Street Live: SHANGHAI ater, 300 Renmin Avenue. 021-6386-8686 10 am-10 pm, Aug 14-17. Goban debuted in 2009, in which the 67-year- Elmo’s Green Th umb, which will tour the Machi, B1 Metro City, 1111 Zhaojiabang old baritone master Leo Nucci played the country for six weeks. 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By YANG GUANG CHINA DAILY

Xia Yu’s autobiographical essay collection Th e Sound of Darkness is an immense dark cave, resound- ing with detonations, shrill sirens and harrowing wails. The 47-year-old recounts in the collection his coming of age, from being a miner to a journalist. He tells of the experiences, of his fellow miners, migrant workers and other grassroots groups he encountered along the way. “I am kidnapped by real life, and at the same time redeemed by it,” he says. By real life, he means darkness. “Darkness enables me to see the world both within and without.” A LEGEND IN HIS Xia grew up in a miner’s family in Datong, Shanxi province. He says the scenes of his childhood — miners in their dirty uniforms carrying injured fellow workers, panting and bleeding, scuttling OWN LIFETIME toward the hospital in the light of the unclouded sun — haunt him even today. he Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an are obvi- At senior high school, Xia was ously a must-see, but so is “old farmer” given a key to the school library Chen Zhongshi. because his teacher appreciated T Wrinkle-faced and gravel-voiced, the his compositions. He devoured 69-year-old looks more like a farmer than an all the books he was interested author who has created a literary storm. in within three months, mostly White Deer Plain, his magnum opus, has sold European and Russian novels. more than 2 million copies since it won China’s top He says literature award in 1998. he was not Th e book of half a million characters tells of the a “good” struggles of two rural families, fi ghts between arch student — foes, love aff airs and spiritual life on the plain to the though he east of Xi’an, half a century before the founding of did score New China in 1949. good Th e novel has been hailed by critics as a mod- marks in ern classic and is still selling strongly. exams. “It is encouraging to see that nearly two With little decades aft er its debut (in 1993), readers are not chance tired of it,” Chen says. of being Neither are they tired of the author himself. admitted Today, Chen is one of the most sought-after to a uni- Xia Yu, author of The Sound of Darkness. personalities in the ancient capital of the Qin versity, he Dynasty (221-206 BC). dropped These book fans, travelers and researchers out of school in the second year, believe the best way to understand a man of let- to take his retired father’s position ters is not just to read his book but to meet the as a miner. author in person. He was assigned to watch over Here is a man with a tough appearance but a the underground power supply tender heart, sensitive to his surroundings and system, because he was short and everything happening on White Deer Plain. thin. When his mother learned he He says that when he writes, however, he must The key to writing, whether So, he came up with a protagonist in his novel, had to go underground, her hair not be disturbed. the sensual Tian Xiao’e, who defi es all the feudal turned gray and her teeth loos- “However wretched the room, I don’t care, the writer has a spring codes, lives according to her instincts and has ened overnight. but it must be a place where I can be alone,” he mattress or just an adobe relationships with several men. “Th ere were times that I walked says. “Th e presence of anyone else would scare bed to sleep on, whether As a child, Chen saw men in his village punish in the long tunnel alone with a away my characters — they would not dare come he has a painting or just a a newlywed woman who fl ed from the family she miner’s lamp, and could see no forth, and I couldn’t write a solitary word.” had married into. farther than 5 meters,” he recalls. This explains why Chen in 1988, when he hoe to hang on his wall — She was tied to a tree and the men used thorn But his dream of becoming a was 46, spent four years in his ancestral house ‘‘ the key is how sensitive his sticks to beat her, one aft er another. Her cries writer never died in the darkness. drafting his novel, preferring its seclusion to nerves are to words.” have haunted him for years, he says. He read during work breaks in the busy Xi’an. White Deer Plain also contains many smutty day, and wrote in the dim light on CHEN ZHONGSHI The house of his ancestors proved to be a AUTHOR OF WHITE DEER PLAIN jokes that Chen had picked up over the years, the kang (heated bed) back home source of inspiration. used to illustrate the streak of wildness in Tian, at night. Th ere, Chen interviewed locals to learn more who was beaten in the same way aft er she was But the pieces he submitted for about White Deer Plain and unravel the myster- found to be an adulteress. publication were constantly sent ies of his family. Li enjoyed writing so much he oft en forgot to Chen says he spent several days accompanying back. One villager told Chen that he had met Chen’s eat when he worked, but was so poor that at the his father when he was dying from cancer. He “Most at work didn’t understand great-grandfather. age of 62 he had to mill his own wheat. was tight-lipped throughout the ordeal, but just why I kept reading and writing,” “He was a tall man, always standing straight, Li died tragically aft er fl eeing his house when two days before he died, the old man fi nally said: he says, “and I was ridiculed when with a commanding authority in the village,” the emperor alleged his plays spread “obsceni- “I’m sorry to you for one thing. I shouldn’t have they saw those rejection letters.” the villager says. “When he walked through the ties”. asked you to drop out of school for that one year.” He sometimes skipped work to village, women breast-feeding with their blouses Chen’s Li Shishan Works on a Mill is a popular Unable to support two sons through junior wander in the mountains, dream- open would return home and dare not come out work that has appeared in many literary collec- high school, he had removed Chen from school ing of escaping to somewhere until he was far away.” tions. so his older brother could go to teachers’ college with air and sunshine. When he Th is description became part of the portrait While preparing to write White Deer Plain, and support the family. It cost Chen the chance was dispatched to work in a more of Chen’s patriarch of the imaginary village on Chen went to Lantian county, about 20 km from of going to college. remote coalmine, he was deter- White Deer Plain — Bai Jiaxuan, the protagonist Xi’an, and browsed the county annals. Nearly a “I had forgotten this aft er so many years, but mined to leave. of Chen’s book. quarter of the county’s historical records were my father still had it on his mind up to his death,” Xia published his first short “Th e key to writing, whether the writer has a devoted to chaste women who remained “loyal” Chen says. “What a burden he had carried.” story in 1992, and got the chance spring mattress or just an adobe bed to sleep on, to their deceased husbands by never remarrying. Chen taught himself history and literature. to study at Lu Xun Literature whether he has a painting or just a hoe to hang “My heart trembled. So many young and viva- He honed his writing skills and completed nine Academy in Beijing in 1996, at on his wall — the key is how sensitive his nerves cious lives were ruined by the lifeless statutes highly acclaimed novellas before turning out his the recommendation of Liu Qing- are to words,” Chen says. imposed on them, and aft er all the cruel years, masterpiece, White Deer Plain. bang, writer of the Lao She Litera- He says one of the people who lived in his vil- they died, only to be awarded a plaque and a few Production of a movie of the same title has just ture Prize-winning Sacred Wood, lage 200 years ago was a man called Li Shisan, an centimeters of words in the annals, to commend fi nished, Chen says, adding that he is not sure whose fi lm adaptation Blind Shaft outstanding and successful playwright. their chastity.” when it will be released as it is in postproduction. won the Silver Bear at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. He had to bribe his coalmine boss with expensive liquor and cigarettes to get his consent to bookbriefs make the trip. And he didn’t return but stayed Little Reading Pirate is who saves the land of Avantia by fi ghting The Netherlands, host Th e Netherlands will be the host coun- against the evil wizard. Th e stories are try at the fair. Its representative Machtelt in Beijing when the one-year stint launched in China designed to arouse courage and resolution country of book fair Schelling, press and cultural aff airs offi - ended. Two international best-selling children’s in young boys. Th e annual Beijing International Book cial at Embassy of the Kingdom of Th e After working on and off as books have been introduced to young With the launch of the two books, a Fair, one of the world’s biggest book fairs, Netherlands, said at the press conference book editor at a few culture com- Chinese readers by Hachette-Phoenix, a reading campaign, Little Reading Pirate, will spread its wings at a new venue from on July 19 in Beijing that the country will panies, he fi nally became a features French-Chinese joint publisher based in which was well received in Germany, has Aug 31 to Sept 4. present a feast of Dutch culture. journalist at Southern Weekly, one Beijing. started its journey in major Chinese cities. Featuring more space and better ser- Highlights of the events include exhi- Th e Princesses series by Italian writer Th e name of the event derives from vice, the new China International Exhibi- bitions of authentic Vincent van Gogh of the country’s best-known and Beatrice Masini contains six illustrated the idea of comparing youngsters’ read- tion Center in Shunyi district intends to paintings and letters, famed Dutch book widely circulated weekly newspa- books, each featuring one princess with a ing activities to that of pirates conquering bring a fresh experience to publishers and designs, and Miff y, the cartoon rabbit cre- pers, in 2002. special talent or a trait like a pair of big feet. the seas. book lovers. ated by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. All are Th e Sound of Darkness is a ret- Th e books employ beautiful language Th e publisher is promoting the Little Th e organizer will provide catering and widely adored in China. rospective of Xia’s works over the to invite readers, particularly girls, to have Reading Pirate in schools and to individual shuttle buses to ensure the smooth run- Schelling said lectures and writers’ adventures with the princesses and learn readers across the country. ning of the fair. workshops will strengthen the interaction years. things about growing up. Young readers who are interested in Th e 2011 fair has received an increase between writers and readers from the two “I have been trying to purge the Beast Quest is another fi ctional series joining the event and competing for an in applications from participants com- countries. darkness life has imposed on me fresh on board, in Chinese. Th e book by award can log on to http://www.dushux- pared to previous versions, with 2,155 and recover the light inherent in Adam Blade centers on a young hero Tom iaohaidao.com. booths so far. CHINA DAILY my nature,” he says. CHINA DAILY FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 sports23 Love wants FOR THE LOVE OF SPORT to play on Chinese athletes not just chasing gold at the Shenzhen Universiade, writes Sun Xiaochen his Ryder

t’s not versiade in 2001, while “Diving Cup team whether they Queen” Guo Jingjing started to dominate the pool aft er wrap- win or lose. ping up three golds at the same ATLANTA, Georgia — Davis Really. Th e games. Love knows he will be on the “Th e event provides a bridge 2012 US Ryder Cup squad aft er Chinese del- from excellence to greatness. being selected as the US cap- egation at Leaving the results behind, tain last January, but he wants the Universiade is shrug- young athletes should com- to play his way into the 12-man I pete hard and improve,” said lineup as well. ging off the medal count, Yang. GOLF The 47-year-old saying it’s more inter- Ma Xindong, team leader of veteran of six Ryder the athletics squad, said China Cup and six Presi- ested in making friends can use the event as a catalyst dents Cup squads also says and learning from the to improve the relationship Americans need to relax against between university-level ath- Europe in the Ryder Cup the experience. letics and professional athlet- way they do against the Inter- ics. nationals in the Presidents Cup “It’s more important for us to China’s college athletes, who to be more successful. attend and to compete rather are trained outside the state- than win. We came here with- run system, are short on elite out any goals for the medals, guidance, while professional (hoping instead to) enjoy the athletes usually struggle to earn gala event,” said Yang Liguo, a living aft er retirement due to executive head of the Chinese their lack of education. delegation, after the opening “It’s been divided since the of the Qiaodan Team China beginning because of our reception center on Wednes- special systems. But now, it’s day. time to make a difference,” Davis Love Yang said the competition said Ma, who is the vice- at the University Games was director of Tsinghua Univer- But Love hopes to help make just as good as that at the sity’s department of physical that happen from the inside. Olympics, but stressed the education. One year ahead of the qualify- young athletes should focus “At this event, we can wit- ing cutoff for eight automatic more on their off-field per- ness how good the US stu- berths, Love stands in the fi nal formance. dent athletes are aft er training playing spot based on points. “Th e Universiade is a transi- and competing in the NCAA “I made 12 (Ryder and Presi- tional platform for the young- system. The merging of col- dents Cup) teams in a row and sters to test their abilities on lege education and profes- I’ve been frustrated ever since,” an international stage ... Th ey sional training in our country Love said. “I want to make can gain experience for bigger should be accelerated aft er the another Ryder Cup team. I’m events,” he said. games.” hitting the ball well enough to “More important, it’s a According to Ma, 71 fresh- play on the team. I just need to great chance to share differ- men and sophomores from 35 make a couple more putts. ent cultures, show China’s new universities form the athletics “It would rank pretty high. generation a lively image and team for the Shenzhen Games. PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY I’m not going to make it when broaden their horizons for About half train on campus, A Chinese athlete runs during a training session on Wednesday in Shenzhen to prepare for the coming Universiade Games. I’m 55 probably, so I need to go their future lives.” while the others practice with ahead and get it done.” Still, Yang said the Chinese local teams. Love, whose only major title team would compete in all 24 “No matter where they train, NO PRESSURE, ONLY HAPPINESS FOR ATHLETES came at the 1997 PGA Cham- events, and should perform they have to reach all the aca- pionship, knows the tension of at world-class levels in what demic requirements and pass the Ryder Cup quest and the have traditionally been strong the exams as normal students Even the athletes say they’re not es instead on) cheering and having to “quit the game and pick up the fam- more casual feeling US players events like diving, gymnastics do before taking part in com- feeling much pressure as the Uni- fun together. Feeling no pressure ily business one day”. have regarding the Presidents and table tennis. petitions,” Ma said. versiade approaches. might help me do better than usual,” Joining Sun and Jin on Wednesday, Cup and its non-European “If the delegation can per- Ma encourages his student Making his international debut, said Sun, who majors in athletics dozens of students visited the new lineup. form at the caliber it’s been athletes to choose non-sports decathlete Sun Gang said he feels training. Qiaodan Sports Team China recep- “We putt better at the Presi- training at ... China should majors, or at least select some more relaxed than he would in Sun’s teammate, Jin Qichao, who tion center beside the Universiade’s dents Cup than we do at the fi nish in the top three on the optional courses in other a domestic competition, saying just ﬁ nished his freshman year at main stadium. Ryder Cup,” Love said. “We are medal table,” Yang said. fields to keep them “rich in there’s “no pressure for results”. Zhejiang University, echoed that The center will provide facilities the European team when we China has attended all 17 mind”. Sun, a sophomore from Beijing sentiment. and services for mini press confer- play the Presidents Cup. We University Games since 1979, “When they fi nd they don’t Sport University, admitted his per- “We are in the summer holiday ences or interviews with athletes are a little bit more relaxed and formance might be hampered com- — coming here to race is just like every day. claiming a total of 276 gold want to be a professional play more of our game. peting in the National Games with traveling. We will just enjoy the sports Qiaodan Sports will also donate medals and seeing numerous sportsman aft er graduation, I targets on his back. fans, make some foreign friends and 30,000 yuan ($4,638) to the China “At the Ryder Cup, the Olympic and world medalists hope they have other options “But coming here, I don’t need nothing else,” said Jin. Youth Development Foundation for American team, they try too emerge. to begin their careers,” said to set any goals. Nobody talks too Jin studies business management in each gold medalist during the meet. hard. China’s iconic hurdler, Liu Ma, who used to be a volley- “They want to win too bad. much about the results, but (focus- case he changes his mind and decides SUN XIAOCHEN Xiang, grabbed his fi rst inter- ball player before earning a Presidents Cup we relax and play national title at the Beijing Uni- PhD in exercise physiology. like the Europeans. They do it like one or two points better than us. It’s not like a huge diff erence, and we need to fi gure out how to have a little bit more fun and relaxation on the course.” Caddie Williams apologizes for Scott snub Leading America’s bid to reclaim the trophy from Europe next year at Medinah has got ATLANTA, Georgia — Steve Wil- 18th hole in the World Golf Cham- On his website, Williams posted a gratulatory text message aft er the fi nal this season with left leg injuries, was Love picking out clothing and liams, the caddie fi red by Tiger Woods pionships event at Firestone, called it statement apologizing to Scott, who round last Sunday. 15 strokes back at the WGC event bag colors and working behind last month aft er serving as his bagman “the best week of my life” and “most said on Tuesday he had spoken to “I was happy to see Stevie and on a course where he had won seven the scenes even as he tries to for 13 of his 14 major triumphs, apolo- satisfying win”. Williams and had no problem with Adam win. Adam has been a friend of times before with Williams as caddie. play his best and keep a watchful gized on Wednesday for snubbing his “I have been caddying for 33 years, the comments. mine, and same with Stevie,” Woods Woods dodged the question when eye on young US talent. new employer aft er a victory. 145 wins, and that’s the best win I’ve “My emotions following Adam’s said. asked if Williams had been disloyal, “It’s going to be pretty volatile Th e move came on the eve of the ever had,” Williams said. “I sort of victory were running very high and “I sent Stevie a nice text aft er com- having defi ned loyalty as trust earned because we have so many good 93rd PGA Championship, believe in destiny sometimes.” at the time I felt like my emotions pletion of play, congratulating him on over time, and again when asked if he young guys that will be bounc- GOLF where Woods said he was Woods chose his words carefully poured out and got the better of me,” his win. It was good to see them go regretted the way he split with Wil- ing around in the points list,” surprised at comments by on Wednesday and said little about Williams said in his statement. out there and play as well as they did.” liams, which he said came face-to- Love said. Williams last Sunday that seemed the fl ap, although he said his agent, “I apologize to my fellow cad- Asked if he and Williams had face at last month’s PGA National. “It might be the Scott Stall- to diminish their 12 years together Mark Steinberg, met Williams on dies and professionals for failing to spoken or exchanged messages “Sometimes we all need changes ings and Gary Woodlands and and ignore Adam Scott’s Bridgestone Tuesday. mention Adam’s outstanding per- since Williams made his comments, and this was a change,” Woods said. all those guys might knock my Invitational victory. “I’m not going to speculate on Ste- formance. I would like to thank all Woods said, “I think that’s between “I was at peace with it. It was a deci- (Jim) Furyks and Stewart Cinks Williams, a 47-year-old New Zea- vie,” Woods said. “Th ose are obviously those fans at Firestone who made this Stevie and myself.” sion and a direction I wanted to go out. You don’t know where we lander who was cheered by name his feelings and his emotions and his victory the most special of my career.” Former World No 1 Woods, now and that’s it.” are going to be.” while walking alongside Scott up the decision to say what he wants to say.” Woods said he sent Williams a con- ranked 30th aft er missing much of AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE scoreboard

BADMINTON Women’s singles 2nd rd W L PCT GB 2. San Francisco 64 54 .542 1/2 Azerbaijan 0 Macedonia 1 ATP Montreal Masters Inthanon Ratchanok (THA x11) bt Judith 1. Boston 72 44 .621 - 3. Colorado 55 63 .466 9 1/2 Kazakhstan 1 Syria 1 Results here on Wednesday from the ATP World championships Meulendijks (NED) 21-8, 11-21, 21-14; Wang 2. NY Yankees 70 45 .609 1 1/2 4. LA Dodgers 52 64 .448 11 1/2 Ivory Coast 4 Israel 3 Montreal Master: Yihan (CHN x2) bt Gu Juan (SIN) 21-13, 21-18; Pi 3. Tampa Bay 62 54 .534 10 5. San Diego 52 66 .441 12 1/2 Liechtenstein 1 Switzerland 2 LONDON — Results from the third day of the 1st rd: Hongyan (FRA) bt Bae Youn Joo (KOR x8) 21-9, 4. Toronto 59 57 .509 13 Italy 2 Spain 1 world badminton championships at Wembley John Isner (USA) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) 6-3, 15-21, 21-13 ; Petya Nedeltcheva (BUL x12) bt 5. Baltimore 45 69 .395 26 SOCCER Ukraine 0 Sweden 1 on Tuesday (x denotes seeding): 6-4; Feliciano Lopez (ESP) bt Radek Stepanek Agnese Allegrini (ITA) 21-11, 21-12 ; Sayaka Sato CENTRAL DIVISION Portugal 5 Luxembourg 0 (CZE) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; Fernando Verdasco (ESP x15) Men’s singles 1st rd (JPN x11) bt Olga Konon (GER) 22-20, 21-11; Yip 1. Detroit 61 55 .526 - International friendlies bt Tobias Kamke (GER) 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 Eetu Heino (FIN) bt David Snider (CAN) 21-16, Pui Yin (HKG x14) bt Michelle Li (CAN) 23-21, 2. Cleveland 58 56 .509 2 Wednesday’s results: TENNIS 21-19 17-21, 21-17; Wang Xin (CHN x3) bt Anastasia 3. Chi White Sox 57 59 .491 4 Norway 3 Czech Republic 0 Prokopenko (RUS) 21-15, 21-13 . 4. Minnesota 52 65 .444 9 1/2 Germany 3 Brazil 2 WTA Toronto 2nd rd: Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) bt Oleksandr Dolgopo- 2nd rd 5. Kansas City 49 68 .419 12 1/2 Austria 1 Slovakia 2 Results on Wednesday from the WTA hardcourt BASEBALL lov Jr. (UKR) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Ivo Karlovic (CRO) bt Du Pengyu (CHN x8) bt Kazushi Yamada (JPN) WESTERN DIVISION Poland 1 Georgia 0 tournament (x denotes seeding): Philipp Petzschner (GER) 6-7 (0/7), 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 21-12, 21-14; Boonsak Ponsana (THA x10) bt 1. Texas 66 52 .559 - Latvia 0 Finland 2 2nd rd: Major League Baseball results on Wednesday 2. LA Angels 64 53 .547 1 1/2 France 1 Chile 1 Roberta Vinci (ITA) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN Wong Choon Hann (MAS) 21-13, 21-18; Wong Zi (8/6); Roger Federer (SUI x3) bt Vasek Pospisil (home team in CAPS): 3. Oakland 52 64 .448 13 Albania 3 Montenegro 2 x1) 6-4, 7-5; Samantha Stosur (AUS x10) bt Lian (SIN) bt Taufi k Hidayat (INA x4) 21-17, 21-14; (CAN) 7-5, 6-3; Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x13) bt Philadelphia 9 LA DODGERS 8 4. Seattle 50 66 .431 15 Scotland 2 Denmark 1 Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) 6-3, 6-4; Li Na (CHN Simon Santoso (INA x13) bt Dmytro Zavadsky Bernard Tomic (AUS) 6-3, 7-6 (7/1); Stanislas Pittsburgh 9 SAN FRANCISCO 2 Slovenia 0 Belgium 0 x6) bt Peng Shuai (CHN) walkover; Agnieszka (UKR) 21-19, 21-8 ; Lee Hyun-Il (KOR x12) bt Eetu Wawrinka (SUI x14) bt Michael Russell (USA) BALTIMORE 6 Chicago White Sox 4 (10 innings) NATIONAL LEAGUE Senegal 0 Morocco 2 Radwanska (POL x13) bt Petra Martic (CRO) Heino (FIN) 21-10, 21-7; Lin Dan (CHN x2) bt 6-3, 6-2; Nicolas Almagro (ESP x8) bt Sergiy Stak- NY YANKEES 9 LA Angels 3 Bosnia 0 Greece 0 6-3, 6-3; Lucie Safarova (CZE) bt Simona Halep Scott Evans (IRL) 21-15, 21-16; Tien Minh Nguyen EASTERN DIVISION hovsky (UKR) 6-2, 7-6 (7/5); Ivo Karlovic (CRO) CLEVELAND 10 Detroit 3 1. Philadelphia 77 40 .658 - Lithuania 3 Armenia 0 (ROM) 6-2, 6-4; Maria Jose Martinez (ESP) bt (VIE x7) bt Kashyap Parupalli (IND) 22-20, 17-21, bt Philipp Petzschner (GER) 6-7 (0/7), 7-6 (7/2), TORONTO 8 Oakland 4 2. Atlanta 69 49 .585 8 1/2 Ireland 0 Croatia 0 Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 7-5, 6-2; Andrea 22-20; Chen Jin (CHN x6) bt Dicky Palyama (NED) 7-6 (8/6); Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Nikolay TAMPA BAY 8 Kansas City 7 3. NY Mets 58 58 .500 18 1/2 Japan 3 South Korea 0 Petkovic (GER x11) bt Greta Arn (HUN) 6-4, 7-5; 21-13, 21-17; Ajay Jayaram (IND) bt Vladimir Davydenko (RUS) 7-5, 6-1; Gael Monfi ls (FRA x5) Atlanta 6 FLORIDA 2 4. Washington 56 60 .483 20 1/2 Turkey 3 Estonia 0 Petra Kvitova (CZE x7) bt Anabel Medina Gar- Ivanov (RUS) 21-19, 21-17; Sho Sasaki (JPNx11) bt Alex Bogomolov (USA) 6-2, 7-6 (7/5); Richard San Diego 9 NY METS 5 5. Florida 55 62 .470 22 China 1 Jamaica 0 rigues (ESP) 7-6 (7/3), 6-3; Francesca Schiavone bt Toby Penty (ENG) 21-13,21-13; Kevin Cordon Gasquet (FRA x10) bt Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) 6-1, CINCINNATI 3 Colorado 2 CENTRAL DIVISION South Africa 3 Burkina Faso 0 (ITA x8) bt Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 6-1, 6-3; 6-4; Marin Cilic (CRO) bt Juan Martin del Potro (GUA) bt Henri Hurskainen (SWE) 21-19, 21-17; Seattle 4 TEXAS 3 1. Milwaukee 67 50 .573 - Oman 1 Bahrain 1 Serena Williams (USA) bt Julia Goerges (GER) (ARG x16) 6-3, 6-4; Viktor Troicki (SRB) bt John Park Sung Hwan (KOR x9) bt Shon Wan Ho (KOR) CHICAGO CUBS 4 Washington 2 2. St. Louis 62 55 .530 5 San Marino 0 Romania 1 6-1, 7-6 (9/7); Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) bt Flavia 21-14, 21-10; Peter Gade (DEN x3) bt Stanislav MINNESOTA 5 Boston 2 3. Pittsburgh 56 60 .483 10 1/2 Malta 2 Central African Republic 1 Pennetta (ITA) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Ana Ivanovic (SRB) Isner (USA) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Ernests Gulbis (LAT) bt Pukhov (RUS) 21-5, 21-9; Lee Chong Wei (MAS Milwaukee 5 ST LOUIS 1 4. Cincinnati 56 61 .479 11 Russia 1 Serbia 0 bt Iveta Benesova (CZE) 6-3, 6-2; Vera Zvonareva Michael Llodra (FRA) 6-4, 1-0, retired; Janko Tip- x1) bt Ville Lang (FIN) 21-10, 21-11; Pablo Abian ARIZONA 6 Houston 30 5. Chicago Cubs 50 67 .427 17 Hungary 4 Iceland 0 (RUS x3) bt Nadia Petrova (RUS) 7-5, 6-4; Maria sarevic (SRB) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP x15) (ESP) bt Marc Zwiebler (GER x14) 23-21, 7-21, 24- 6. Houston 38 79 .325 29 Wales 1 Australia 2 Sharapova (RUS x5) bt Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3; Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Rafael 22; Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (DEN) bt Mathieu AMERICAN LEAGUE WESTERN DIVISION Cyprus 3 Moldova 2 6-1, 7-5; Victoria Azarenka (BLR x4) bt Stephanie Nadal (ESP x2) 1-6, 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/5); Mardy Lo Ying Ping (FRA) 21-8, 21-14. EASTERN DIVISION 1. Arizona 64 53 .547 - Belarus 1 Bulgaria 0 Dubois (CAN) 6-0, 6-0. Fish (USA x6) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 6-2, 6-3. sportsPAGE 24 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011 CHINADAILY.COM.CN/SPORTS CHINA DAILY briefl y TENNIS German stars fear nobody Croatian Dodig knocks out Nadal Croatian Ivan Dodig stunned sec- Europeans brimming with confi dence ond seed Rafael Nadal on Wednesday, beating the Spaniard in his opening match at the Montreal Masters 1-6, 7-6 after 3-2 victory over Brazil in Stuttgart (5), 7-6 (5). Aft er dropping the fi rst set, the 41st- STUTTGART — ranked player worked to turn things Goal-scorer gious talent, but the national coach around and completed his comeback Bastian Schweinsteiger said Ger- admits he has an embarrassment of aft er just over three hours with the aid of many need fear nobody on the riches with Bayern’s Th omas Muel- 19 aces and three breaks of Nadal’s serve. international stage aft er its impres- ler and Toni Kroos also impressing Nadal took to the court battling a sinus infection but ran away with the sive 3-2 win over Brazil as rising against Brazil. opening set. star Mario Goetze shone against “Mario Goetze has extraordi- That’s exactly when Dodig began the South Americans. nary vision on the pitch and reads to dig in, his serve getting him out of Even with chief the game so well,” said the 51-year- trouble on repeated occasions. SOCCER playmaker Mesut old. “Th is is the biggest win of my career, of my life,” said an excited Dodig. “I Ozil left in Spain to “It is the little things he does enjoyed it so much. I was fi ghting hard recover from Real Madrid’s recent which makes him so strong. for every point. In the end I managed, tour, Germany’s young guns rose “The players showed plenty of I’m really happy.” to the challenge and downed the desire: we started well and at a good

BASEBALL Brazilians as the teams shared fi ve pace. second-half goals. “We just have to keep working, A-Rod eager to “It was (a) good international we went close in tournaments in meet with MLB match between two top teams and 2008 and 2010 and we need to Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, mak- it has shown that we don’t need build on that. ing progress in his recovery from a to hide from anyone at this level,” “I am just very happy that I have right knee injury, says he’s eager to talk said Bayern Munich’s Schwein- so many options available to me.” to baseball offi cials about claims he was steiger. Having crashed out of last month’s involved in high-stakes poker games. Major League Baseball launched “We wanted to put the Brazilians Copa America aft er losing the quar- an investigation after Star Magazine under pressure and we did just that. terfi nals to Paraguay on penalties, reported last month that several people “Mario Goetze did his job really Brazil coach Mano Menezes is saw Rodriguez playing in games hosted well and with his abilities we are under increasing pressure. at Hollywood hotels and residences. just pleased to have someone like He has won just one of his past “I’m looking forward to it,” the third baseman said on Wednesday. “I’m con- him in the team.” five games and has now suffered centrating on baseball.” Th is was the fi rst time Germany back-to-back defeats, having taken Rodriguez’s publicist, Richard had beaten Brazil in 18 years and over from Dunga following last Rubenstein, said in a statement last only the fourth time the host had year’s World Cup. week that the magazine’s story contains beaten the South American giant “Th e Germans were clear win- “numerous factual inaccuracies”. in 21 meetings. ners, but games like these against Aft er a goalless fi rst 45 minutes, the top teams are what we need,” Atlanta’s Uggla sets a second-half penalty by Schwein- he said. new mark steiger and a superb individual “We were slow to get into the Atlanta’s Dan Uggla set a new mark effort from Goetze put the host game and we weren’t as sharp as for Major League Baseball’s longest hit- ahead before Brazil’s Robinho the Germans. ting streak of the season by extending his run to 31 on Wednesday. converted a penalty on 71 min- “I had imagined things would Uggla picked up a two-run single in utes. be a bit diff erent over the last year, the fi rst inning of the Braves’ 6-2 win The Germans made sure of but that is life with football and you over the Florida Marlins. He fi nished victory when Bayer Leverkusen’s can’t just wait for miracles.” the game 3-for-5 at the plate. Andre Shuerrle came off the bench AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Uggla moved past the 30-game streak produced by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ to score the German’s third on 80 Andre Ethier earlier this season and the minutes, while Brazil’s Neymar 31-game mark equals Atlanta’s record scored his side’s second in the 92nd KLINSMANN OFF set by Rico Carty in 1970. “It’s a cool minute. thing,” Uggla said. “It’s an awesome orga- TO SOLID START It was the fi rst time the teams had KAI PFAFFENBACH /REUTERS nization, and to be part of a record like that is pretty special.” met since 2003 and with the game Bastian Schweinsteiger (right) of Germany controls the ball during the team’s friendly against Brazil in Stuttgart from Stuttgart’s Mercedes-Benz- Jurgen Klinsmann’s ﬁ rst on Wednesday. EQUESTRIAN Arena televised in 190 countries, it match as coach of the Major FEI meet lived up to it’s billing as the clash of United States ended in a on way to Beijing two of soccer’s biggest names. 1-1 draw against Mexico on Casillas bemoans undeserved Italy win Th is was the battle of the outra- Wednesday. The Federation Equestre Interna- BARI, Italy — tionale (FEI) World Cup will make its geously talented 19-year-old stars: The German all-time great Spain cap- all in the fi rst half hour. We debut in Beijing with three sessions Goetze against the spiky-haired was saved from defeat after tain and goalkeeper Iker didn’t give much away but from August to October. Neymar and the German over- Robbie Rogers scored a Casillas complained Italy as for keeping hold of the Started in 1979, the FEI World Cup shadowed the silky-skilled South second-half equalizer, hitting had been lucky to beat the ball it was diffi cult to com- is the most prestigious event on that American. home in the 73rd minute. world champion 2-1 in an pete with them. sport’s calendar aft er the Olympics and Having run Hamburg ragged The fans at Lincoln Finan- entertaining friendly. “We’ll never be like Barce- is expected to attract many world-class cial Field in Philadelphia riders. Th e top 30 Chinese riders will last Friday as German champion Alberto Aquilani’s win- lona, but we can show qual- also compete for qualifi cation to next Dortmund won 3-1 on the opening had seen Oribe Peralta put ner took a decisive defl ec- ity on the counter-attack.” year’s fi nals. day of the new season, the German Mexico ahead in the 17th tion to wrong-foot substi- ALESSANDRO GAROFALO / REUTERS Much-maligned AC Sponsored by Rolex, Audi and Visa, teenager proved he can step up to minute. tute goalkeeper Victor Val- Italy’s Alberto Aquilani (right) celebrates with Milan forward Antonio the tournament will be held on Aug The result was an teammate Daniele De Rossi. 27, Sept 24 and Oct 15 at the Beijing the international stage by giving des in a second half Spain Cassano, who has been Brazil the same treatment. improvement on the US’s had dominated. roundly criticized for his Equestrian Club. China will be the 15th previous match against country to host the event. “I enjoyed every moment, the Italy was the better side Cup and you always want “Tactically it’s a new expanded waistline, was Mexico in June, when the team played well and helped me before the break, but Spain to win. team, they’ve got nothing to made captain for the day MISCELLANEOUS team blew a two-goal lead a lot,” said Goetze, who made his to lose the Gold Cup ﬁ nal at midfielder Xabi Alonso “It was a friendly up to a do with the one from South in his home city, a move Wulong to host first start for Germany in seven the Rose Bowl in California. equalized from the spot certain point. Th e problem Africa,” he said. suggested by regular cap- top adventurers appearances. The match on Wednesday following Riccardo Mon- for us was that it was the “But we know that every- tain Gianluigi Buff on. Th e Red Bull Cup China Mountain “It was a fantastic game for me came less than two weeks tolivo’s opener. first time we’d seen each one wants to give their all “First of all want to thank Quest will celebrate its ninth anniversa- personally. after Klinsmann was hired “I don’t think they other as national teams in against us and we have to Gigi (Buffon), my team- ry in September with 18 international “A ft er Friday, I have read a few and the new coach had only deserved to win, we did a some time and we’re at the be prepared for this.” mates, (coach Cesare) and seven national teams in scenic things about me in the papers, but lot more than them in the beginning of the season.” Montolivo said Italy had Prandelli and all the offi- Wulong of Chongqing. held three training sessions The event, to be held from Sept I just made sure I focused on the before his debut. second half but they scored Casillas did have some shown the right attitude. cials who gave this emo- 1-6 and organized by the State Gen- game. Fans are hoping Klins- a lucky goal. A draw would kind words to say about Ita- “It was a great match, tional gesture,” he said. eral Administration of Sport, the State “I am simply thrilled that we won mann can shake up the have been fairer,” said Casil- ly, claiming it was nothing we’re happy to have “If the coach says I Administration of Radio, Film and the game and that I managed to team after a string of lack- las. like the team whose World matched a very good and played well then I agree, Television and the Chongqing Munic- play a role in the win.” luster results. “When you play this type Cup defense in South Africa experienced team,” he even though I was still two ipal People’s Government, will host teams from New Zealand, Australia, German coach Joachim Loew AFP of game such as Italy-Spain, last year ended in abject fail- said.“Our approach was or three kilos overweight.” AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE England, Singapore and Kazakhstan heaped praise on Goetze’s prodi- it’s as important as a World ure. particularly good, most of who will fi ght for a $150,000 purse. The 204km route will feature 12 events including trail running, mountain biking, rope skills, kayaking, raft - ing, shooting, speed descent, orienteer- Birmingham owner Yeung refused bail change ing, running, biking and a running relay. Launched in 2003, the Wulong HONG KONG — Birming- Prosecutors have said Britain, Kwan said, and is quest stands with the Abu Dhabi ham City owner Carson investigations revealed “highly unlikely” to abscond. adventure race and the world champi- Yeung, who has been charged about HK$720 million ($92 “He is a high-profi le per- onships among the sport’s top events. with money-laundering in million) passed through son, a well-known person- Hong Kong, was on Th urs- accounts connected with the ality in Hong Kong and the National Fitness Day day refused permission to tycoon. UK. It would be diffi cult for marked attend the club’s first home Kwan told the court his cli- him to run off ,” h e s ai d . To celebrate China’s third National game of the season. ent is “extremely hands-on The court heard one of Fitness Day, the 2011 National Out- Yeung, a one-time hair- with the football club in the Yeung’s guarantors was will- door Sports Games and inaugural river tracing competition were held in Bei- dresser turned soccer tycoon, the High Court. The Blues UK”, and the trip would allow ing to put up another HK$1 dahu in Jilin province. appeared in court to seek a were relegated from the Pre- him to go to the match and million surety to add to his Th e event, organized by the China change to his bail conditions miership last season and face discuss club business with existing HK$7 million bail. Mountaineering Association, Jilin so he could go on a four-day Coventry City in the opening new manager Chris Hugh- But prosecutor Anthony Sports Bureau and Jilin Municipal trip to Britain. match of their Champion- ton. Chau, opposing the applica- People’s Government, attracted about 100 people representing 16 teams. He was barred from leav- ship campaign on Saturday. Th e lawyer said the soccer tion, said the alleged crime A mountain sports competition was ing the southern Chinese Yeung, 51, faces fi ve counts transfer window would close was a “serious off ence” that also held, drawing 12 teams of farm- region aft er his arrest in June. of “dealing with property at the end of August and “Mr could see Yeung imprisoned. ers from Heilongjiang and Liaoning Magistrate David Duft on known or believed to repre- Yeung’s duty as a director and He told the magistrate the provinces. refused the application and sent proceeds of an indictable chairman includes these vari- club owner could appoint AFP - REUTERS - CHINA DAILY Yeung’s lawyer, Jonathan off ence”, but the exact nature ous matters”. “others to handle those mat- Kwan, said they would con- of the allegations remain Before his arrest, Yeung ters on his behalf”. sider making an appeal at unclear. traveled twice a month to AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE