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China's Links with Europe Strengthened Demand grows Business downturn Transformative art for individual Australia sees worst economic Remote village workshop provides cultural food servings slump on record in 2nd quarter CHINA, PAGE 6 opportunities to left-behind kids BUSINESS, PAGE 15 WORLD, PAGE 12 CHINADAILY THURSDAY, September 3, 2020 www.chinadailyhk.com HK $10 China’s links Learning about courage with Europe strengthened Wang says 5 nations he visited agreed to reinforce unity, oppose ‘decoupling’ By WANG QINGYUN in Beijing by the pandemic, rising unilateral- and CHEN WEIHUA in Brussels ism, attempts to “decouple” and heightened international rivalry, China and five European coun- he said. tries have agreed to strengthen Wang called for China and joint efforts to bolster unity and Europe to carefully plan high-level oppose “decoupling” to prevent the exchanges and urged they finish world from slipping back into the negotiations over a bilateral invest- grip of “the law of the jungle”. ment treaty this year and sign a The countries voiced a strong strategic plan for bilateral coopera- appeal to safeguard multilateral- tion for the next five years as soon ism, State Councilor and Foreign as possible. Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday Both sides should also work at a joint news conference with together firmly to promote interna- German Foreign Minister Heiko tional cooperation to tackle climate Maas in Berlin. change and enhance digital cooper- A retired teacher tells students about the role of China’s New Fourth Army in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931- Calling for China and Europe to ation, Wang said. 45) at a memorial hall in Deqing county, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. Thursday is the 75th anniversary of victory in the war. enhance their support for multilat- China and Europe have their WANG ZHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY See story, page 3 eral institutions, Wang said both own advantages in developing digi- sides also agreed to maintain the tal economies and share common overall status of China-EU relations concerns, Wang said, adding that and properly manage differences. they should insist on opening their He said the countries agreed to markets to each other and promote strengthen cooperation between the formulation of global digital WUHAN’S FIGHTING SPIRIT Beijing to China and Europe in the response standards and rules. to the COVID-19 pandemic and In his talks with Maas in Berlin EMERGED ON TWO FRONTS restart personnel exchanges and on Tuesday, Wang said China and start direct practical cooperation to contribute Europe are partners, not rivals. He ◆ to global economic recovery. said they should tolerate and learn Germany was the final leg of from each other and inject more Determined efforts made in battle against Japanese, COVID-19 flights with Wang’s eight-day trip — after Italy, stability into the world, which is the Netherlands, Norway and suffering from turmoil. By CUI JIA part in the battle, which inflicted France — which Wang said China and Germany also need to [email protected] heavy losses on Japan and is credit- 8 nations involved strategic communication work together to oppose a “new ed with blunting its advance. between China and European Cold War”, take concrete actions to he determination shown With Thursday marking the By DU JUAN countries amid rising uncertain- maintain smooth operation of the by medical workers fight- 75th anniversary of the Chinese [email protected] ties. global supply chain and reject ing the novel coronavirus people’s victory against Japanese The five European countries, “decoupling” and deglobalization, outbreak in Wuhan, capi- aggressive enemy,” Chen, 71, said at aggression, memorial services China will start direct interna- which value ties with China, are Wang said. Ttal of Hubei province, evoked his home in the city. were due to be held nationwide to tional flights from low-risk coun- concerned about the deep reces- poignant memories for Chen De, The Defense of Wuhan, from remember the war veterans and tries to Beijing starting on Thursday sion in the global economy caused See Europe, page 3 whose uncle died defending the city June 11 to Oct 27, 1938, was the big- heroes who lost their lives. as a result of sound preparations to from Japanese invaders in 1938. gest and longest battle in the War Many people in Wuhan said the curb the potential risk of imported “There is no doubt that the fight of Resistance Against Japanese fighting spirit shown against the COVID-19 cases, a senior municipal against COVID-19 earlier this year Aggression (1931-45). It is also Japanese also helped the city win official said on Wednesday. was another war for local people known as the Battle of Wuhan. the battle against COVID-19. Beijing will resume direct flights following the Defense of Wuhan. Over 1.1 million Chinese troops to the capital from eight countries — This time, we defeated an invisible, and 300,000 Japanese forces took See Wuhan, page 2 Thailand, Cambodia, Greece, Den- mark, Pakistan, Sweden, Austria and Canada, Xu Hejian, spokesman for the Beijing municipal govern- ment, said at a news conference on Sci-fi trilogy will become Netflix series Wednesday. The total number of passengers By LIU YINMENG in Los Angeles The Dark Forest, and Death’s End. arriving on those direct flights will [email protected] First serialized in China in 2006, it be capped at around 500 per day at is credited by The New York Times the beginning and gradually raised An acclaimed Chinese science with having helped popularize Chi- to 1,000 after a test run, he said. fiction trilogy will be brought to nese science fiction internationally. The total number of arriving life in the form of an English-lan- The English version of The flights should be no more than five guage series by Netflix, the stream- Three-Body Problem was pub- daily. ing service giant from the United lished in 2014. The book and its two “The passengers should be citi- States announced on Tuesday. sequels have sold at least 8 million zens of those foreign countries or The screen adaptation of Liu copies worldwide and have been Chinese people who are traveling Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem translated into over 20 languages. back from those countries,” he add- trilogy, a story of humanity’s first In 2015, Liu became the first Asian ed. “People from third countries Workers retrieve space experiments from the re-entry module of contact with an alien civilization, writer to win the Hugo Awards prize should not take those flights as a China’s new­generation manned spacecraft prototype during a cer­ will be written and executive pro- for best novel. The book attracted transfer to Beijing.” emony in Beijing on May 29. SU DONG / FOR CHINA DAILY duced by David Benioff and D.B. such high-profile readers as Ameri- To ensure the safety of passengers Weiss, creators of the hit fantasy can novelist George R.R. Martin, and residents in Beijing, full prepa- drama Game of Thrones, along Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg rations have been made to handle Space program breeds top with Alexander Woo, the showrun- Cover of the first volume of Liu and former US president Barack the flights. Passengers without a ner for The Terror: Infamy, Netflix Cixin’s trilogy Obama. negative nucleic acid test result or revealed in a company blog “The scope of it was immense. So who fail to pass a temperature scan forage grasses for livestock announcing the new show. that was fun to read, partly because won’t be able to board. “Liu Cixin’s trilogy is the most Brad Pitt, film producers Jeremy my day-to-day problems with Con- After arrival in Beijing, passen- ambitious science-fiction series Kleiner and Dede Gardner, who gress seem fairly petty — not some- gers will be taken to designated By ZHAO LEI have been created through space- we’ve read, taking readers on a will executive produce for their thing to worry about. Aliens are hotels for a 14-day centralized quar- [email protected] based breeding programs to develop journey from the 1960s until the company, Plan B Entertainment. about to invade,” the Times quoted antine, said Gao Xiaojun, spokes- beneficial mutations. The results of end of time, from life on our pale British actress Rosamund Pike Obama as saying. man for the Beijing Municipal China’s spacecraft are best known the programs, created by Chinese blue dot to the distant fringes of and her partner Robie Uniacke The Netflix announcement gen- Health Commission. for such things as deploying astro- researchers, have been approved by the universe. We look forward to will executive produce for their erated huge buzz on social media, “The ones who have symptoms nauts, studying Earth and transmit- the government for use in nation- spending the next years of our lives company, Primitive Streak. with many netizens expressing such as a cough or fever will be tak- ting signals, but some also carry out wide or provincial-level planting, bringing this to life for audiences Liu and the book’s English trans- support for the novels’ adaptation. en to a hospital for further medical missions neither well-known nor according to an academic workshop around the world,” Benioff and lator, Ken Liu, have been tapped as “Stoked! I read all three books in checks and treatment,” he said. usually attributed to space explora- on space breeding for forage grass Weiss said in a joint statement. the project’s consulting producers. June of this year. Tried to imagine a Gao said Beijing Ditan Hospital, tion. One such mission is helping to that was held in Lanzhou, Gansu Netflix said it has assembled a “It is a great honor as an author screen adaptation.
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