Courts Urged to Better Serve Ethnic People

4 Friday, February 17, 2017 I teach farmers about the latest cultivation technology, face to face. It is our duty to help farmers out of poverty.” CHINA Li Bingzhi, professor at Northwest Agriculture and Forest University in Shaanxi province CHINA DAILY » CHINADAILY.COM.CN/ Briefly Running in the wind BEIJING Courts urged ROK to return soldiers’ remains The Republic of Korea has agreed to return more to better serve remains of Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War (195053), the Chinese For eign Ministry said on Thursday.Foreign Ministry ethnic people spokesman Geng Shuang said at a news briefing that the ROK will transfer the remains of about 20 sol 77 judges in Gansu are multilingual, diers on March 22. Since 2014, the ROK has handed up from fewer than 10 three years ago over the remains of 541 Chinese volunteer soldiers By CAO YIN launched a project to train killed in the war. [email protected] 1,500 judges to speak ethnic languages by 2020, “and we’ve Website to help China’s top court said on made further efforts since Thursday that it will take a then”,he said. bring relics home series of measures this year to Last year, for example, the China plans to set up a educate more ethnic judicial top court went to the Tibet website to release informa talent in order to solve legal autonomous region to pro tion on missing artifacts to disputes in regions inhabited vide training sessions to more help retrieve them from by ethnic groups more effi than 1,500 local judges and overseas, the State Admin ciently. cooperated with three colleg istration of Cultural Heri The major es, including Minzu Universi tage said on Thursday. The m e a s u r e s ty of China, to educate ethnic administration said it sees include judicial students on law. the plan as its priority for exchanges and “Dealingwithcasesinethnic this year, adding that it the publication languages will ensure ethnic includes measures to of legal materi litigants can better understand improve the security of cul als in ethnic laws and accept verdicts. tural relics and the issuing l a n g u a g e s , Xu Jiaxin, Moreover, it’s a way of protect of harsher punishments Tourists run through lines of windmills at a cultural innovation park in Guiyang, Guizhou province, on Thursday. A total of 120,000 windmills according to a director of the ing their rights,”Xu said. for relicsrelated crimes. are displayed at the park to mark the International Windmill Tourism Festival, a twoday event that starts on Saturday. statement by top court’s politi He Zijun, a judge from QIAO QIMING / FOR CHINA DAILY the Supreme cal department Northwest China’s Gansu Train trips during People’sCourt. province, where the ethnic travel rush rise Under the Constitution, population is about 2.4 mil ethnic litigants have the right lion, said that the number of The Spring Festival travel to use their language to file a people who can hear cases and rush, which runs from Jan lawsuit. translate legal documents in 13 to Feb 21 this year, had TCM product naming regulations “We will send more judges ethnic languages increased to seen 302 million rail trips from the highest justice cham 77 last year, compared with made by Chinese passen ber and courts in developed fewer than 10 three years ago. gers as of Wednesday, Chi cities to western regions, while “Judges in our province na Railway Corp said on could cost manufacturers billions welcoming those from areas have received a total of 74 Thursday. This represents inhabited by ethnic groups to training sessions on how to an increase of 10.1 percent By GUO KAI are familiar with names eastern regions to educate speak Mongolian and Tibetan compared with the same [email protected] such as Yunnan Baiyao and them on case hearings,” said languages, which helps them period last year, according Mayinglong ointment, add Xu Jiaxin, director of the SPC’s to communicate with ethnic to CRC. Thousands of traditional ing that if the names of prod political department. litigants,”He said. Chinese medicine products ucts changed, buyers might The exchange will help nar In the past, some Tibetan lit HUNAN face having their names feel uneasy about purchas row the gap in legal resources igants mistook a suspended Coal mines halt changed due to a draft regula ing them. across the country, Xu said. death sentence to mean the work after blast tion issued last month by the China has been regulating Meanwhile, the top court release of a defendant, China Food and Drug Admin the names of TCM products plans to publish legal materi because the legal jargon has Operations at all small coal istration, with the deadline since the 1990s to address als — such as law dictionaries no equivalent wording in their mines in Hunan province for submissions on the guide issues such as different prod and judicial interpretations — language, he said. were suspended and two line falling on Wednesday. ucts having the same name. in ethnic languages later this “The language barrier made officials were dismissed aft ByMaylastyear,about1,000 An industry insider said year, the statement said. it difficult to communicate er a coal mine blast on people had left comments on some companies use words in “We want to increase the and state facts clearly during Tuesday killed nine and the eshopping site Amazon product names which over number of people who can case hearings,”he added. injured three. Coal mines praising Mayinglong Musk state the effects of the product provide legal services for eth However, after learning with annual capacity of less Hemorrhoids Ointment or mislead buyers, especially nic litigants and ensure some Tibetan languages in the than 300,000 metric tons Cream,describingitas“fantas A worker handles traditional Chinese medicine at a pharmaceutical senior citizens. access to justice in regions training sessions, “it’s easier were ordered to suspend tic”and“likeapplyingrosecol company’s workshop in Bozhou, Anhui province. Fu said it is necessary to inhabited by ethnic groups,” for us to explain verdicts to operations for two weeks ored ice cream to your bum”. LIU QINLI / FOR CHINA DAILY have regulations addressing Xu said. Tibetans and to solve their dis for safety inspections, However, it is one of thou the naming of TCM products. In 2015, the top court putes”,he added. according to Yang Guang sands of products that falls “In the past, names of TCM rong, deputy governor of foul of the draft naming rules, to both old and new TCM established over the past 115 products were approved by Hunan, during a video con which state that TCM prod products, meaning the new years would be damaged, and local governments, with no ference on safety produc ucts should not be named aft policy would affect thousands financial losses might exceed universal standard.” tion on Wednesday.Both er people, places or of products. More than 2,000 10billionyuan($1.46billion),” Chen Qiguang, a research Zoo denies viral video the Party chief and head of companies, or use supersti products alone use the word Li said. fellow at the Chinese Acade Doulishan township, where tious or vulgar words. ling, according to the admin Beijing Pharmaceutical my of Social Sciences, said the accident occurred, have Product names should also istration’s database. Profession Association Vice that using names of people reveals abused tiger been dismissed. not include words that refer Li Jin, quality director of President Fu Lijia said that and places for TCM products to pharmacology, anatomy, Yunnan Baiyao Group — a name changes would also is a common practice, which By YANG JUN in Guiyang and Yao Shiming, the keeper HAINAN physiology,pathology or ther TCM manufacturer based in require changes to packag shows respect to their contri HOU LIQIANG in Beijing seen in the video, has been Police seize over apeutics, such as “antiin Southwest China’s Yunnan ing, introduction booklets butions. with the 2yearold tiger since 1 ton of meth flammatory” and “cancer”, province — said that the com and other related products, Zheng Jin, head of Yun A private zoo on Thursday it was a cub and “it’s common the draft guideline states. pany has seven TCM product which would be extremely nan’s TCM management dismissed allegations that a that they play in that way”, Authorities have seized Overstating, boastful and series that use the company costly. Companies would bureau, said that the names tiger shown in a video that Wang said, adding that they 1,060 kilograms of meth unrealistic words should also name, as well as tens of other then have to invest more in of TCM products should be went viral was abused. “didn’t interfere with the live amphetamine, sometimes not be used in the names, products that use other soon promoting their newly regulated, but that traditional Videos showing a keeper streaming”donebyemployees. referred to as ice, the larg such as ling (very effective), tobebanned words. named products. brands should also be pulling a tiger’s tail and sitting “I spent at least one hour estever haul of the drug in suxiao (quick acting) or yuzhi “If Yunnan Baiyao had to Liu Yue, an elementary respected, adding that the on him at an animal park in and, at most, four hours a day the province, police said on (made by emperor order). change the name of its prod school teacher in Yunnan’s new regulations should only Xiuwen county, about 30 kilo with the tiger for more than Thursday.Nine suspects, The regulation would apply ucts, its brand and reputation Kunming, said that people apply to new TCM products.

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