VOL. XXVI No. 9 September 2014 Rs. 20.00 Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi (L) holds talks with On September 12, 2014, H. E. Mr. Le Yucheng, the new Ajit Doval, special envoy and national security adviser to Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Beijing, capital of to India, presented his credentials to H. E. Mr. Pranab China, Sept. 9, 2014. Mukherjee, President of the Republic of India.
Chinese Ambassador to India Mr. Le Yucheng met with Chinese Ambassador to India Le Yucheng (L) met with Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar, Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel at Gandhinagar in the capital of Gujarat, India on Sept. 17, 2014. Gujarat, India, on Sept. 15, 2014.
Mr. Le Yucheng (R), Chinese Ambassador to India met A Delegation of Chinese Ministry of Commerce met with with Mr. Rajiv Bhatia, Director General of the Indian the officials of Maharashtra State in Mumbai on Aug. 21, Council of World Affairs (ICWA) in New Delhi on Sept.10, 2014. The Delegation discussed the economic 2014. cooperation and other issues with the host. CONTENTS
CHINESE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO INDIA
1. Xi Visits Modi's Home State, Extends Birthday Wishes 3 2. Xi Jinping Holds Talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India Building Closer Partnership for 6 Development and Achieving Peaceful Development and Cooperative Development Together 3. China, India Should Be Partners for Peace, Development: Xi 10 4. Xi Jinping Meets with President Pranab Mukherjee of India 11 5. Xi Meets Indian Vice President 12 6. Xi Meets Indian Parliament Speaker 13 7. Xi Calls for Building Asian Century of Prosperity, Renewal 14 8. Joint Statement Between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of India 16 on Building a Closer Developmental Partnership 9. The Interview with Chinese Ambassador Le Yucheng by PTI 20
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
1. Xi Makes Four-Point Proposal for SCO Development 23 2. Xi's Trip to Central, South Asia Opens New Chapter for China's Neighborhood Diplomacy : Wang Yi 25 3. Chinese Premier Reassures World CEOs of Growth 30
CHINESE ENTERPRISES IN INDIA
1. Chinese Companies in India 33 2. A Glance of Chinese Enterprises in India 35
YATRA TO KAILASH MANSAROVAR
1. Friends Coming Afar 38 2. The Holy Mountain, the Center of the World 40
BUILDING NEW MARITIME SILK ROAD
1. China, Maldives Share Dream of 21st Century Maritime Silk Road 41 2. ASEAN Welcomes China's New Maritime Silk Road Initiatives 43 3. China's Silk Road Initiatives Could Revive Vital Link Between East and West 44
CULTURE & LIFE
1. Xi Wants Teaching to be Most Respected Profession 46 2. A Young African Journalist's First Experience in China 47 3. Welcome to the Robot Restaurant in Kunshan, China 49 4. Chinese Chef Recipe---- Dongpo Ink Fish 50 5. Chinese Chengyu & Its Story 51 6. Features 53
TIBET TODAY
1. China Invests 30 Billion Yuan on Tibet Water Infrastructure 57 2. Tibet's Second Railway Line Opens 57 3. The Young Apprentice Monk on the Mountains 59
CCTV NEWS YOUR LINK TO CHINA AND THE WORLD 61 CRI A BRIDGE OF FRIENDSHIP 62 4 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
CHINESE PRESIDENT’S VISIT TO INDIA
Xi Visits Modi's Home State, Extends Birthday Wishes
Ahmedabad, India, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — Wearing traditional Indian vest presented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Modi’s home state of Gujarat Wednesday, and extended wishes to his 64th birthday. Both leaders called for advancing bilateral ties “step by step” and “inch by inch” in their second meeting in about two months. The two met in July in Brazil at a summit of the emerging-market bloc of BRICS. “I am very delighted to Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Ahmedabad of Gujarat, India, Sept. 17, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) come to your home state as soon as I land on the Indian soil,” Xi told Modi in a brief meeting shortly after he arrived in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad i n G u j a r a t W e d n e s d a y afternoon. “This is where eminent Chinese monk Xuan Zang went by during his trip to India to seek Buddhist scriptures in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and thus enjoys a special position in the long Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they visit the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project in Gujarat, India, Sept. 17, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) history of friendly News From China September 2014 Chinese President’s Visit to India 5 exchanges between our two countries,” he said. journey of a thousand miles begins with a single China and India are important neighbors to step,” Xi called for a down-to-earth and persistent each other, Xi said, noting that both are ancient manner to press ahead with the China-India civilizations and large developing countries, and relations. a r e c o m m i t t e d t o development and national rejuvenation. The two countries should respect each other, learn from each other, build g o o d - n e i gh b o rly a n d friendly relations, and go forward hand in hand, the Chinese president said. “My visit is a trip of f r i e n d s h i p a n d c o - operation. Thank you for specially coming here to accompany me in visiting your hometown,” Xi told Modi, who had served as chief minister of Gujarat for over a decade before Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (1st L) visit the becoming India’s prime Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project in Gujarat, India, Sept. 17, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) minister in May. It is Xi’s first trip to India since he took office in “I would like to make concerted efforts with March 2013, and also the first state visit in eight you to accomplish this mission,” Xi said. years by a Chinese president to the country. For his part, Modi said the people in Gujarat Citing an ancient Chinese famous line “A felt very honored as President Xi started the India visit from his home state. Recalling their first meeting in Brazil, Modi said he and Xi had very good talks and he shared Xi’s feeling that the meeting was like between “old friends.” The prime minister said his remarks that China and India are one mind with two bodies are widely circulated in India, as the two countries share the same aspiration for development and have every reason to strengthen cooperation. To welcome President Xi’s visit to India, Modi said, he wrote an article for Indian newspapers, describing the potential of India-
Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) rotates a spinning wheel that was once used by China ties as “INCH (India and China) Mahatma Gandhi as he visits Gandhi's former residence along with Indian Prime towards MILES (Millennium of Minister Narendra Modi (R) in Gujarat, India, Sept. 17, 2014 (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng) Exceptional Synergy).” 6 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
In the presence of the two leaders, China and stressing that “we must carry forward the India clinched the deals of setting up an industrial friendship.” park in India focused on building power As they walked along the Sabarmati River in transmission equipment, and establishing sister the city, Modi briefed Xi on the Sabarmati province-state relations between China’s riverfront development project, saying it is the Guangdong and Gujarat and sister city relations largest shantytown renovation project in India. between China’s Guangzhou and Ahmedabad. Modi and Xi celebrated the prime minister’s A l s o We d n e s d ay a f t e r n o o n , M o d i 64th birthday together, which Modi said was very accompanied Xi’s visit to the former residence of meaningful and unforgettable. Mahatma Gandhi, leader of India’s national India is the last stop of Xi’s four-nation tour in independence movement. Central and South Asia, which has already taken Xi pointed out that the Chinese and Indian him to Tajikistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. In peoples sympathized with and supported each Tajikistan, he also attended a summit of the other and forged profound friendship in the fight Shanghai Cooperation Organization. against colonialism for national independence,
Xi Jinping Holds Talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India Building Closer Partnership for Development and Achieving Peaceful Development and Cooperative Development Together
September 18, local time, President Xi Jinping agreed to work together to build a closer held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of partnership for development, seize the India in New Delhi. The leaders of both countries development opportunities to achieve their
Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) holds talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, India, Sept. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) News From China September 2014 Chinese President’s Visit to India 7 respective development goals, promote peace, influence on the region and the world. China stability and prosperity in Asia and drive the regards India as a long-term strategic cooperative international order towards a more just and partner, and we look forward to working with the reasonable direction. Indian side to establish a closer partnership for Modi again welcomed Xi Jinping to visit India development and deepen bilateral cooperation at and thanked Xi Jinping for his visit to his bilateral, regional and global levels. As leaders of hometown Gujarat yesterday. the two countries, we should shoulder this kind of Xi Jinping stressed that my visit to Gujarat historical obligation and responsibility. impressed me deeply. Prime Minister Modi has First, both sides should play the strategic likened China and India to “two bodies with one leading role of the leaders of both countries, spirit”. Gujarat is a case in point. Chinese eminent maintain high-level mutual visits and contacts monk Xuan Zang of Tang Dynasty went on a and strengthen exchanges at all levels. Sincerity is pilgrimage for Buddhist scriptures in Gujarat, and the basis of mutual trust and mutual trust is the then he brought the Buddhist scriptures back to prerequisite for cooperation. We should continue China and passed the scriptures on in my to respect and care for each other’s concerns and hometown Xi’an of Shaanxi Province. Buddhism deepen political mutual trust and firmly grasp the was spread from India to China, exerting a far- correct strategic direction of the bilateral reaching influence on Chinese culture. I invite relations, so that cooperation will always be the Prime Minister Modi to go and see Xi’an next time main theme of the bilateral relations. In terms of he visits China and to have a look at the place the border issues, the two sides should continue where Xuan Zang collected and translated the to seek a fair and reasonable solution acceptable Buddhism scriptures. We should inherit and carry to both sides through friendly consultations. forward well the bonds of friendship and Before the final settlement of the border issues, cooperation between the two countries and well the two sides should jointly well manage and advance the China-India relations. control disputes, well safeguard peace and Xi Jinping stressed that China and India are tranquility in border areas and prevent the border important neighbors to each other and both are issues from affecting the development of the major developing countries and emerging market bilateral relations. economies. Also, they are two important forces in Second, China and India have the same the process of world multi-polarization and are development goals, similar development ideas b o t h i n t h e g re a t and consistent development strategies. Both sides historical course of national rejuvenation. T h e i n t e r n a t i o n a l community comments that the 21st century is a century of Asia and the development of China and India is the key. The harmonious coexistence, peaceful d e v e l o p m e n t a n d c o o p e r a t i v e development of the Chinese dragon and the Indian elephant will benefit the 2.5 billion p e o p l e o f b o t h countries as well as the developing countries and will have profound Chinese President Xi Jinping (6th R) holds talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, India, Sept. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) 8 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
should further connect t h e i r d e v e l o p m e n t s t r a t e g i e s , comprehensively improve the level of practical cooperation and promote c o o p e r a t i o n i n information, railway infrastructure, industrial parks, clean energy, science and technology, aerospace, finance and other areas. The Chinese side is willing to expand i m p o r t s o f I n d i a n p h a r m a c e u t i c a l s , agricultural products and o t h e r m a r k e t a b l e products. The Chinese side Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi jointly meet media is also ready to jointly plan reporters after their talks in New Delhi, India, Sept. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) China-India Cultural Exchange Project with the Indian side, expand strengthen cooperation in global governance and exchanges and cooperation in culture, education, administration, sustainable development, climate tourism, religion, film and television, media, change, counter-terrorism, energy and food human resources and other fields, train Chinese security and other global agendas. The Chinese teachers for India and mutually establish cultural side welcomes and supports India to become a full centers. In the next five years, we would organize member of the Shanghai Cooperation 200 young people for mutual visits each year and Organization. China will participate in the 2016 Delhi Book Fair Modi said that India and China are both as the guest of honor. ancient civilizations, with the population of the Third, both sides should accelerate the two countries accounting for one third of the construction of the Bangladesh-China-India- world’s population. Cooperation and common Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor, conduct development between India and China not only cooperation within the frameworks such as the benefit both countries and both peoples, but also Silk Road Economic Belt, the Maritime Silk Road of make a greater contribution to peace and the 21st Century and the Asian Infrastructure prosperity of Asia and the world as well as to Investment Bank to promote the process of human progress. Both he and President Xi Jinping regional economic integration and connectivity. are committed to the development and Both sides should work together to establish an revitalization of the country and the nation and open, transparent, equitable and inclusive have attached great importance to the India- security and cooperation framework in the Asia- China relations. He is willing to make joint efforts Pacific region. with President Xi Jinping to promote the Fourth, both sides should strengthen strategic development of the bilateral relations. He is communication and coordination in international pleased to accept the invitation from President Xi a f f a i r s , w o r k t o g e t h e r t o p r o m o t e Jinping to visit China next year. The Indian side democratization of international relations and hopes to strengthen communication and safeguard the common interests of developing dialogues at high levels and in various fields with countries. The Chinese side is willing to continue the Chinese side so as to turn the common to maintain communication with the Indian side interests and consensuses of both sides into more in the United Nations, the G20, the BRICS cooperation results. He reiterated that the Tibet countries and other multilateral mechanisms and Autonomous Region is part of the territory of the News From China September 2014 Chinese President’s Visit to India 9
People’s Republic of China. The Indian side does transportation, customs, culture and other fields. not allow Tibetans to engage in anti-China The two leaders also jointly met with political activities in India. The Indian side stands journalists. Xi Jinping stressed that Prime Minister ready to make joint efforts with the Chinese side Modi and I had held fruitful talks and witnessed to well manage and control and accelerate together the signing of a series of cooperation agreements between the t w o c o u n t r i e s . W e exchanged in-depth views a n d r e a c h e d b r o a d consensuses on various aspects of the China-India relations, especially on h o w t o e n r i c h t h e connotation and raise the level of cooperation, as well as international and regional topics of common interest. Xi Jinping pointed out, both China and India are c o u n t r i e s o f g r e a t influence on the world. Suppose China and India Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd R) shakes hands with his Indian counterpart Pranab speak with one voice, the Mukherjee before a welcome ceremony held by Mukherjee in New Delhi, India, Sept. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) whole world will listen. I firmly believe as long as we negotiations on the border issue so as to find a c o n t i n u o u s l y d r a w solution as early as possible. The Indian side wisdom out of the two great ancient civilizations, hopes to expand exports of pharmaceutical and show sufficient foresight, courage and insight and manufactured goods from India to China and breadth of mind, the China-India strategic promote the balanced growth of bilateral trade. cooperative partnership will see constant new The Indian side welcomes the Chinese side to progress. And this will bring more benefit to the participate in the construction of electric power two peoples and make new and greater as well as the upgrading and rebuilding of railway contribution to promoting the prosperity and and other infrastructure in India. The Indian side revitalization of Asia and the stability and will research on participating in the Chinese side’s development of the world. initiatives of building the BCIM Economic Modi expressed that China is the largest Corridor and Asian Infrastructure Investment neighbor of India and they stand as the two largest Bank. The Indian side is willing to strengthen developing countries. Under the current situation, cooperation with the Chinese side in people-to- the bilateral relations are of great significance and people and cultural areas. India and China should face broad opportunities for development. strengthen coordination and cooperation in President Xi Jinping’s visit to India has opened a international affairs and jointly cope with new historical chapter for the India-China terrorism, energy security, climate change and relations. The Indian side is willing to work with other challenges. the Chinese side to further mutual trust and After the talks, Xi Jinping and Modi jointly continuously strengthen the bilateral strategic attended the signing ceremony for bilateral cooperative partnership. cooperation documents in terms of economy and Wang Huning, Li Zhanshu and Yang Jiechi t r a d e , f i n a n c e , c o m m u n i c a t i o n a n d attended the above events. 10 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
China, India Should Be Partners for Peace, Development: Xi
New Delhi, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping said here on Thursday that China and India should be “express trains” driving regional development, as well as “twin anchors” of regional peace. “When China and India join hands for cooperation, it will benefit not only the two countries but also the entire Asia and the world at large,” said Xi when delivering a speech at the Indian Council of World Affairs. He said China-India relations have gone well beyond the bilateral scope and have assumed broad regional and global significance as they have become two major forces in the world’s multi-polarization Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the Indian Council of World process and two vibrant forces Affairs in New Delhi, India, Sept. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) driving Asian and global economic growth. security and cooperation architecture that is China and India should become closer open, transparent, equal-footed and inclusive. partners for development while jointly pursuing In addition, the Chinese leader proposed their respective national renewal, Xi said. China and India become global partners for “Nothing is more imperative than to deliver a strategic coordination and strive for a just and more comfortable, more secure and happier life to equal international order. the peoples,” he said, adding that both China and “China and India have a combined population India should focus on development, share of over 2.5 billion,” he said. “If we speak with one experience and deepen mutually beneficial voice, the whole world will listen, and if we join cooperation. hands, the whole world will pay attention.” On the regional scale, the two countries Xi arrived in India on Wednesday for a three- should become cooperative partners that lead day visit to the South Asian country. India is the Asian economic growth and jointly promote last stop of Xi’s four-nation tour in Central and prosperity and revitalization of the region, said South Asia, which has already taken him to the president. Tajikistan, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. To that end, said Xi, China and India should In his speech, Xi said China and South Asian aim to become the “express trains” that drive countries are important cooperative partners, regional development and work with other adding that a peaceful, stable and prosperous countries to push forward regional economic South Asia is in line with the interests of nations integration and connectivity. and peoples in the region as well as the interests of The two Asian neighbors, he added, should China. also serve as the “twin anchors” of regional peace The China-proposed initiatives of the Silk and commit themselves to building an Asia-Pacific Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century News From China September 2014 Chinese President’s Visit to India 11
Maritime Silk Road, he said, are aimed at strengthening inter-connectivity and a c h i e v i n g c o m m o n p r o s p e r i t y a m o n g c o u n t r i e s a l o n g t h e historical trade routes. “Our cooperation, like a massive treasure long- awaited to be unearthed, promises great prospects for us,” Xi said. He pledged that China will work with South Asian countries to increase bilateral trade to 150 billion U.S. dollars, raise its investment in South Asia to 30 billion dollars, and provide 20 billion dollars in concessional loans to the Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with youths from China and India after delivering a speech at the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi, India, Sept. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei) region in the next five years. Besides, China plans to offer 10,000 scholarships, training opportunities development of the region, “so that the three for 5,000 youths and exchange and training billion people living on both sides of the programs for 5,000 youths, and train 5,000 Himalayas will enjoy peace, friendship, stability Chinese language teachers for South Asia in the and prosperity.” next five years. Xi’s speech drew a 400-strong audience, Noting that China is the biggest neighbor of which included representatives from various South Asia and India is the largest country there, sectors of the Indian society and a group of foreign Xi said Beijing is ready to work together with New diplomats based in New Delhi. Delhi and make even greater contribution to the
Xi Jinping Meets with President Pranab Mukherjee of India
On September 18 local time, President Xi national rejuvenation and are important forces in Jinping met in New Delhi with President Pranab world multi-polarization, hence developing Mukherjee of India. China-India relations is of important strategic Xi Jinping expressed that I am grateful for significance to both countries, Asia and the world. President Pranab Mukherjee inviting me to visit China and India should deepen strategic mutual India as well as the gracious hospitality and trust, enhance practical cooperation, strengthen considerate arrangement offered to us by the people-to-people friendship and properly Indian government and people. Through this manage and control differences, always visit, I have deeply felt the time-honored history advancing bilateral relations along the right track of bilateral exchanges and the profound friendly of healthy development. feelings between the two peoples. Both the Indian Pranab Mukherjee said that today, President leaders and I agree that China and India both are Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had emerging markets in the historical process of fruitful talks and both sides reached multiple 12 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
important consensuses and signed many cooperation agreements. He is happy for this. The total population of India and China accounts for one third of that in the world, therefore, the two countries co-existing in peace and joining hands for development are of great significance. India is willing to, together with China, enhance exchanges and cooperation, take care of each other’s interests and concerns, and properly handle the pendent issues, so as to jointly build India- C h i n a s t r a t e g i c c o o p e r a t i v e partnership for peace and prosperity. India is devoted to maintaining the rapid economic growth and welcomes China to intensify investment in India i n i n f o r m a t i o n i n d u s t r y , manufacturing and transportation infrastructure construction such as Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi, India, Sept. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Zhang rail, road and port. India will provide a Duo) favorable investment environment for Chinese enterprises. thus to make positive contributions to a brighter After the meeting, Pranab Mukherjee held a future of the two countries as well as to progress grand state bouquet for Xi Jinping. Prime Minister and prosperity of the region and the world at large. Narendra Modi, Vice President Mohammad Pranab Mukherjee expressed that the Indian Hamid Ansari and other Indian political people admire China’s great civilization and huge heavyweights as well as personages of various achievement, and sincerely hope China continue circles attended the event. The national anthems moving forward and make greater contribution to of both countries were played on the scene. The peace and prosperity in the region and the world. two heads of state delivered enthusiastic It is crucial for India to develop mutually beneficial speeches respectively. cooperative relations with China if it is to benefit Xi Jinping stressed, there is a Chinese proverb from the development in Asia. India stands ready “a good neighbor is better than gold”. We would to join efforts with China to constantly promote like to always live in harmony with the Indian bilateral relations to new highs and realize people and seek common development. This is common development and prosperity. He wishes common aspiration of the Chinese government that the friendship between India and China, the and people. I firmly believe that under the joint two ancient civilizations, could last forever. efforts of both sides, China-India strategic Peng Liyuan, Wang Huning, Li Zhanshu and cooperative partnership will surely and Yang Jiechi attended the above events. constantly achieve new and greater development,
Xi Meets Indian Vice President
New Delhi, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) — Visiting consensus that the bilateral relations are of highly Chinese President Xi Jinping met here Thursday strategic significance, and the bilateral with Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari, also cooperation will exert a far-reaching impact on chairman of the Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of the two countries, the region and the world at Parliament). large. Xi said that leaders of the two countries have a The two sides should adhere to the Five News From China September 2014 Chinese President’s Visit to India 13
Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, expand cooperation, properly handle differences and accumulate positive energies for the bilateral relations, he said. The president said that the two sides should fully implement the agreements reached during his state visit by developing railway infrastructure and building industrial parks in India, encouraging more Chinese businesses to invest in India, promoting cultural exchanges and deepening the friendly feelings between the two peoples. Ansari said that President Xi’s visit achieved positive and important results and opened up a new chapter for the bilateral ties. China and India should enhance mutual trust, develop good-neighborly and friendly relationship, strengthen cooperation and forging ahead hand in hand, he said. Also Thursday, Xi met with Indian Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj. India is the last stop of Xi’s four-nation tour in Central and South Asia, which has already taken him to Tajikistan, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. In Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari, who is also chairman of the Rajya Tajikistan, he also attended a summit of the Sabha, in New Delhi, India, Sept. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Pang Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Xinglei)
Xi Meets Indian Parliament Speaker
New Delhi, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) — Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping met here Friday with Sumitra Mahajan, speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament. Calling Mahajan a veteran leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), or the Indian People’s Party, Xi recalled that China-India relations developed comprehensively and rapidly when the BJP was India’s ruling party in the early period of this century. China and India, as the two largest developing countries and emerging- market economies, share identical development goals, similar development Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) meets with Sumitra Mahajan, speaker of the Lok philosophies and compatible Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament, in New Delhi, India, Sept. 19, 2014. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) 14 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
development strategies, Xi said. For her part, Mahajan said that Indian people The two countries can complement each and Chinese people enjoy a long history of close other’s advantages and boost cooperation to build friendly exchanges, and that the Indian people a closer development partnership, said the appreciate China’s development achievements. president, who also called for more people-to- The BJP and Indian parliamentarians are people and cultural exchanges to deepen the willing to increase exchanges with the Chinese traditional friendship between the two peoples. side to share governance experience and Applauding the friendly cooperative relations contribute to the development of bilateral ties, she between the National People’s Congress of China added. and the Lok Sabha, or the House of the People, and India is the last stop of Xi’s four-nation tour in between the Communist Party of China and the Central and South Asia, which has already taken BJP, Xi urged the two sides to continue to him to Tajikistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka. In strengthen exchanges to cement mutual trust, Tajikistan, he also attended a summit of the cooperation and friendship. Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Xi Calls for Building Asian Century of Prosperity, Renewal
Chinese President Xi Jinping (4th L) meets with Indian groups and individuals who received friendship awards during the Ceremony for the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence Friendship Award in New Delhi, India, Sept. 19, 2014. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)
New Delhi, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — Chinese “I am confident that as long as China and India President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged China work together, the Asian century of prosperity and and India to join hands to build an Asian century renewal will surely arrive at an early date,” Xi said of prosperity and renewal. in a signed article published Wednesday ahead of News From China September 2014 Chinese President’s Visit to India 15 his state visit to India. competitive production base and the most Noting that the relations between China and attractive consumer market, he added. India have made significant progress in the new Secondly, Xi said China and India need to century, Xi said the strategic and cooperative become cooperation partners spearheading partnership for peace and prosperity has been growth as two engines of the Asian economy. established between the two countries. “I believe that the combination of China’s China has become India’s largest trading energy plus India’s wisdom will release massive partner, with their bilateral trade volume potential,” said the Chinese president, calling on increasing from less than 3 billion U.S. dollars both sides to jointly develop the Bangladesh- early this century to nearly 70 billion dollars, he China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor, said, adding that mutual visits reached 820,000 discuss the initiatives of the Silk Road Economic last year. Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and “We have had close coordination and lead the sustainable growth of the Asian economy. cooperation on climate change, food security, Thirdly, China and India need to become energy security and other global issues and global partners with strategic coordination, as upheld the common interests of our two countries two important forces in a world that moves as well as the developing world as a whole,” Xi said, towards multi-polarity, Xi said. hailing that China-India relations have become Noting that both China and India cherish one of the most dynamic and promising bilateral peace, equity and justice, the president stressed relations in the 21st century. that the two countries should carry forward the Xi pointed out that both China and India are Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, make the now in a crucial stage of reform and development. international order more fair and reasonable, and The Chinese people are committed to realizing improve the mechanism and rules of international the Chinese dream of great national renewal, governance, so as to make them better respond to while the Indian people are endeavoring to the trend of the times and meet the common needs achieve their development targets for the new of the international community. era, he said. Quoting the late Chinese leader Deng “China and India are both faced with historic Xiaoping’s saying that no genuine Asian century opportunities, and our respective dreams of would come without the development of China, national renewal are very much aligned with each India and other developing countries, Xi said other. We need to connect our development China and India are ready to shoulder this mission strategies more closely and jointly pursue our and work actively to enhance friendship between common dream of national strength and the two countries. prosperity,” said the Chinese president, making a “I look forward to an in-depth exchange of three-point proposal to further boost bilateral views with Indian leaders on our bilateral relations. relations during the visit, and to injecting new Firstly, China and India need to become closer vitality into our strategic and cooperative development partners who draw upon each partnership for peace and prosperity,” he said. other’s strengths and work together for common Xi is due to arrive in India late Wednesday for a development, Xi said. state visit, the final leg of his ongoing four-country The combination of the “world’s factory” and Asia trip, which has already taken him to the “world’s back-office” will produce the most Tajikistan, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. 16 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
Joint Statement Between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India on Building a Closer Developmental Partnership
(New Delhi, 19 September, 2014)
1. At the invitation of H.E. Pranab Mukherjee, Heads of State/Government. The leaders of the President of the Republic of India, H.E. Xi Jinping, two countries will continue to meet on the side- President of the People’s Republic of China, is on a lines of multilateral fora as frequently as possible. state visit to India from 17 to 19 September 2014. President Xi Jinping welcomed Prime Minister During the visit, President Xi Jinping met with Narendra Modi’s early visit to China. Prime President Pranab Mukherjee and held talks with Minister Modi thanked President Xi Jinping for H.E. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. that and said he accepted the invitation from the 2. The leaders evaluated positively the Chinese side with pleasure and looked forward to progress of China-India relations over the recent visiting China at an early date. years, and noted that both sides always consider 4. The leaders assigned the Strategic their relations from a strategic and overall Economic Dialogue (SED) to explore new areas for perspective. The two sides reaffirmed their economic cooperation in crosscutting fields commitment to abide by the principles and including industrial investment, infrastructure consensus both had agreed to, and further development, energy conservation and consolidate the Strategic and Cooperative environment protection, high-tech industry, clean Partnership for Peace and Prosperity on the basis energy and sustainable urbanization. The SED will of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and explore designing joint demonstration projects mutual respect and sensitivities for each other’s and initiatives in smart cities. In this regard, it was concerns and aspirations. They agreed that as two agreed that a city in each country would be large developing and emerging economies, their identified for a smart city demonstration project. developmental goals are interlinked and should 5. At its 10th meeting held recently, the be pursued in a mutually supportive manner. China-India Joint Economic Group reaffirmed its Recognizing that their respective growth determination to expand and diversify bilateral processes are mutually reinforcing, they agreed to trade and economic cooperation. The two sides leverage mutual complementarities and build a agreed to take positive steps towards rebalancing closer developmental partnership. The leaders bilateral trade and addressing the existing agreed to make this developmental partnership a structural imbalance in trade that has a bearing on core component of the Strategic and Cooperative its sustainability. Such measures will include Partnership for Peace and Prosperity. This cooperation on pharmaceutical supervision developmental partnership is conducive not only including registration, speedier phytosanitary to the common interests of both sides, but also to negotiations on agro-products for two-way trade, stability and prosperity of the region and the stronger links between Indian IT companies and world. Chinese enterprises, and increasing services trade 3. The two sides decided to strengthen in tourism, films, healthcare, IT and logistics. India political communication, deepen strategic trust appreciated China’s willingness to import greater as well as intensify political dialogue and number of Indian films for commercial release in consultations at all levels. With this objective, its market. The two sides signed the Five-Year they also agreed upon regular visits at the level of Development Program for Economic and Trade News From China September 2014 Chinese President’s Visit to India 17
Cooperation that lays out a roadmap for to promoting the use of clean energy, China and comprehensively deepening and balancing India believe that expansion of civil nuclear bilateral economic engagement. energy program is an essential component of their 6. The Chinese side announced the national energy plans to ensure energy security. establishment of two industrial parks in India, one The two sides will carry out bilateral cooperation in Gujarat and one in Maharashtra. The Chinese in civil nuclear energy in line with their respective side would also endeavor to realize an investment international commitments, including working of US$ 20 billion in India in the next 5 years in level consultations between China Atomic Energy various industrial and infrastructure Authority and Department of Atomic Energy of development projects. India welcomes Chinese Inida. enterprises to participate in its manufacturing 11. Recognizing deep civilizational linkages and infrastructure projects. Each side will also between China and India, the two sides agreed to facilitate companies of the other to invest and launch the China-India Cultural Exchange operate in their own country. The two sides will Initiative with a view to further promoting the work together to forge production and supply bonds of cultural and people-to-people contacts. chain linkages, which will help develop a more Key elements of this will include: broad-based and sustainable economic i. The leaders decided to designate 2015 as partnership. the “Visit India Year” in China and 2016 as the 7. The leaders also noted with appreciation “Visit China Year” in India. Under this, the two the progress achieved in railways cooperation and sides will carry out a series of promotional conclusion of the Memorandum of Understanding activities to boost two-way tourism flows and and Implementation Plan on Cooperation in strengthen people-to-people bonds. The Chinese Railway. It was agreed that: (i) the two sides will side agreed to assist India to promote its tourism cooperate to identify the technical inputs products and routes in China, which are related to required to increase speed on the existing railway the historical travels of the Chinese monk-scholar line from Chennai to Mysore via Bangalore; (ii) the Xuan Zang to India in the 7th century AD. Chinese side will provide training in heavy haul ii. Recognizing the significance of youth for 100 Indian Railway officials; (iii) the two sides exchanges in increasing mutual understanding, will cooperate in areas such as redevelopment of the leaders agreed to continue with the annual existing railway stations and establishment of a exchange of 200 youth from 2015 to 2019. railway university in India; and (iv) the Indian side iii. An MoU was signed to provide the will actively consider cooperating with the framework for exchanges between the museums Chinese side on a High Speed Rail project. and other cultural institutions of the two 8. The two sides agreed to hold the 7th countries. An exhibition of Indian Buddhist Art China-India Financial Dialogue in New Delhi this and another exhibition of Contemporary Indian year to enhance cooperation between Chinese Art will be organized in China in 2014-15. Similar and Indian financial regulators. The Indian side exhibitions will travel from China to India. China approved, in principle, the request of the Bank of will be the partner country at the Delhi China to open a branch in Mumbai, for which the International Book Fair 2016. Chinese side expressed its appreciation. iv. The two sides agreed to establish 9. The two sides agreed to initiate a dialogue ministerial level consultations to intensify mechanism between the Development Research cooperation in the field of culture. Centre of the State Council of China and the v. The project on mutual translation of Department of Economic Affairs of the classics and contemporary works will be speeded Government of India. up. 10. As large developing countries committed vi. The two sides will collaborate to 18 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
strengthen exchanges in movies, broadcasting views on the China-India boundary question and and television shows. An Audio-Visual Co- reiterated their commitment to seek a fair, production MoU was signed to facilitate joint reasonable and mutually acceptable solution, production of movies. China will be the guest proceeding from the overall interests of bilateral country at the Indian International Film Festival relations. Recalling the Agreement on the Political 2014. Parameters and Guiding Principles for the vii. The two sides will mutually support the Settlement of the Boundary Question signed in teaching of Indian languages in China and of April 2005, both sides reiterated their Chinese language in India. commitment to an early settlement of the 12. The agreements on establishing a boundary question and expressed their provincial partnership between Guangdong and conviction that this will advance basic interests of Gujarat, and Sister-City relationships between the two countries and shall, therefore, be pursued Shanghai-Mumbai and Guangzhou-Ahmedabad as a strategic objective. They reaffirmed the utility were signed. and significance of the mechanism of Special 13. The Indian side appreciated the support Representatives for seeking a political settlement and cooperation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the boundary question and of the Working and the local government of Tibet Autonomous Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on Region of the People’s Republic of China to Indian China-India Border Affairs for handling border pilgrims for the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra (Gang related matters. Renpoche and Mapam Yun Tso Pilgrimage). For 17. Peace and tranquility on the China-India further promotion of the two countries’ religious border was recognized as an important guarantor exchange and facilitating the Indian pilgrims, and for the development and continued growth of upon the request of the Indian side, the Chinese bilateral relations. Pending a final resolution of side decided to open a new route for the Yatra the boundary question, the two sides would through Nathu La Pass, for which the Indian side continue to make joint efforts to maintain peace express its welcome and appreciation. and tranquility in the border areas. 14. The Indian side expressed appreciation to 18. The two sides noted that improved China for providing flood-season hydrological bilateral military ties are conducive to building data athe assistance in emergency management. mutual trust and confidence. Both sides agreed to The two sides will further strengthen cooperation a regular exchange of visits between the defence through the Expert-Level Mechanism on the ministries and military leaders, so as to expand provision of flood-season hydrological data and pragmatic cooperation in the relevant fields. They emergency management, and exchange views on also agreed to hold the fourth joint army training other issues of mutual interest. at a mutually convenient time, hold navy/airforce 15. Both sides reiterated their willingness to joint exercise at a proper time, and strengthen proactively resolve all outstanding differences cooperation in such areas as peace-keeping, based on the Five Principles of Peaceful counter-terrorism, naval escort, maritime Coexistence through friendly negotiation without security, humanitarian rescue, disaster letting them affect the overall development of mitigation, personnel training, and think tank bilateral relations. The two sides reaffirmed their communication. commitment to consolidate the Strategic and 19. The two sides decided to hold the first Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Prosperity round of maritime cooperation dialogue within on the basis of the principle of mutual and equal this year to exchange views on maritime affairs security and mutual sensitivity for each other’s and security, including anti-piracy, freedom of concerns and aspirations. navigation and cooperation between maritime 16. During the visit, the two sides exchanged agencies of both countries. They also agreed to News From China September 2014 Chinese President’s Visit to India 19 hold the consultations on disarmament, non- particular UNSC resolutions 1267, 1373, 1540 proliferation and arms control at an early date. and 1624. 20. The two sides noted the progress made in 25. The two sides recognized that climate promoting cooperation under the framework of change is a common concern of mankind and one the BCIM (Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar) of the greatest global challenges in the 21st Economic Corridor. Both sides recalled the first century, which needs to be addressed through meeting of the Joint Study Group of BCIM international cooperation and in the context of Economic Corridor and agreed to continue their sustainable development. The two sides will work respective efforts to implement understandings together with other countries to advance the reached at the meeting. multilateral negotiation to achieve a balanced, 21. The two sides believe that the 21st comprehensive and equitable agreement under century should be marked by peace, security, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change development and cooperation. As developing in 2015, with a view to enhancing the full, effective countries, China and India have common interests and sustained implementation of the Convention on several issues of global importance like climate in the post-2020 period. The two sides reaffirmed change, Doha Development Round of WTO, that the 2015 agreement shall be in full energy and food security, reform of the accordance with the principles, provisions and international financial institutions and global structure of the Convention, in particular the governance. This is reflected in close cooperation principle of equity, common but differentiated and coordination between the two sides within responsibilities and respective capabilities. the BRICS, G-20 and other fora. 26. The two sides expressed satisfaction at 22. The promotion of a multi-polar world, the enhanced bilateral engagement at the economic globalization, cultural diversity and working level on wide-ranging issues of regional information revolution are high on the global and global significance. Bilateral consultations on agenda. The two sides will make joint efforts to Afghanistan, West Asia, Africa, Central Asia and democratize international relations and Counter-terrorism have already been held and strengthen the central role of the United Nations found to be meaningful. in promoting global peace, security and 27. The Asia-Pacific region plays an development. increasingly important role in global affairs. The 23. The two sides support a comprehensive two sides are of the view that the current priority reform to the United Nations, including of this region is to maintain peace and stability of recognizing the imperative of increased the region, promote regional common participation of developing countries in UN’s development, and establish an open, transparent, affairs and governance structures, so as to bring equal and inclusive framework of security and UN more effectiveness. China attaches great cooperation based on the observance of the basic importance to India’s status in international principles of international law. The two sides affairs as a large developing country, understands support multilateral cooperation mechanisms in and supports India’s aspiration to play a greater Asia and agree to broaden cooperation in the role in the United Nations including in the Security relevant regional organizations. Council. 28. President Xi Jinping expressed his 24. Both sides reiterated their resolute appreciation to the government and people of opposition to terrorism in all its forms and India for their warm hospitality. President Xi manifestations with ‘zero tolerance’, and Jinping invited President Pranab Mukherjee to committed themselves to cooperate on counter- visit China at a mutually convenient time. terrorism. They also emphasized the need to President Pranab Mukherjee accepted the implement all relevant UN resolutions, in invitation with pleasure. 20 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
The Interview with Chinese Ambassador Le Yucheng by PTI
Q 1: How important is the upcoming visit of honorable President Xi Jinping to India for the future of bilateral relations as also for regional peace and stability? Kindly state the objectives of his visit. The forthcoming visit of President Xi Jinping is another state visit by Chinese President to India in eight years. President Xi will also be the first head of state who pays a state visit to India after the new Indian government took office. It fully demonstrates the importance attached by the Chinese government to India and to the Sino- Indian relations. Currently, both China and India are shouldering the historical mission of economic development, improving people’s livelihood and thus rejuvenating their respective nation. With identical ideas and strategies of national development, both the countries should enhance policy coordination and increase complementarity of each other’s advantages so as to achieve a win-win cooperation. It is for this purpose that President Xi Jinping during his visit will work together with the Indian side to draw the future plan of our bilateral relationship, Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng accepted a interview of PTI on including integrating each other’s strategy of the eve of Chinese President’s India visit. development and tapping potentials of bilateral collaboration so as to consolidate and enrich the cooperation between Chinese Dragon with Indian Sino-Indian partnership of strategic cooperation Elephant will not only improve the welfare of both in the new era. The both sides will sign about 20 the peoples, but also benefit Asia and the world at documents of cooperation regarding setting up large. industrial parks in India, infrastructure Q 2: During his meeting with Xi in Brazil, construction, expansion of mutual investment Prime Minister Modi underlined the and strengthening local-to-local cooperation and importance of an amicable resolution of the cultural exchanges, which will further integrate boundary question, emphasising that such a our respective interests. Meanwhile, China and step would “set an example for the entire India are both countries with big population, big world on peaceful conflict resolution.” Do you countries in Asia; major developing and emerging agree with him and does China have any countries, the connotation of our bilateral radical suggestions to expedite a resolution of relationship is far beyond bilateral scope and the boundary question because we seem to be becomes more of global significance. making little headway in bilateral discussions As President Xi Jinping pointed out, as long as in the present format? China and India speak with one voice, the world As countries with a long history of civilization, will listen; As long as China and India cooperate China and India have inherited some problems hand in hand, the whole world will pay attention. I from history, but more importantly we have am confident that the combination of “China inherited oriental wisdom on how to solve Energy” and “India Wisdom” will certainly release enormous potentials. A close and strong News From China September 2014 Chinese President’s Visit to India 21 problems. China is a country which has the positive tones about the importance of world’s longest land boundaries, largest number bilateral relations with India and the need for of neighbors and the most complex boundary the two Asian giants to co-exist peacefully. Yet conditions. Since the founding of the People’s Chinese incursions into the Indian territory, Republic of China, and by half-century’s efforts, its claims on Arunachal Pradesh and visa China has completed its boundary delimitation problems for certain categories of Indians and demarcation with 12 out of 14 neighboring continue to inject a sour note into the ties. counties through friendly consultation. This has As I said, the China-India boundary issues are highlighted China’s adherence to peaceful very complicated and sensitive, the solution needs settlement of boundary issues with neighboring time and patience for negotiation. A basic fact at countries. It is also demonstration of China’s present is that there does exist border disputes insistence on the policy of peaceful development. between China and India. Our two sides have As initiators of the Five Principles of Peaceful different understanding on the “Line of Actual Coexistence, both China and India Control” which results in different have every reason to believe that It is fully possible to understanding of so-called “cross they have enough wisdom to solve the Line”. The key, however, is that a the boundary issues. handle the boundary- series of confidence-building Over the years, China and India related issues properly, measures have been worked out to h a v e m a d e c o n s i s t e n t a n d and create favorable solve the boundary related events unremitting efforts to resolve the conditions and in a timely and proper manner in boundary issues. A “three-step order not to affect the peace and roadmap” has been formulated by atmosphere for the final tranquility in the border areas. On the two sides. At present, the two settlement of the your second question, I would like sides are making endeavors to move boundary as well as for to point out that China’s practice is forward the negotiation process and the development of our an alternative measure to facilitate seek a fair, reasonable and mutually bilateral relations. personnel exchanges before the acceptable solution based on the final settlement of the boundary agreed political guidelines. In 2003, issues between the two countries. I the two countries established a special hope and also believe that both the sides will take representative mechanism. In order to conduct care of each other’s concerns with the principle of further the cooperation on boundary issues, a mutual understanding and properly handle the working mechanism on consultation and differences so that a mutually-acceptable, coordination of boundary issues between China practical and effective solution will be achieved at and India was set up in 2012. In 2013, the two an earlier date. sides signed the “Border Defence Cooperation Q4: Does China see India as a close and Agreement” to promote direct communication good neighbour or as a rival power in Asia that between border personnel and to properly handle needs to be contained? People in India see the differences so that peace and tranquility will your generous military and other help to be maintained in the border areas. Pakistan as part of China’s attempt to contain I believe that, with enough willingness and India and to keep it bogged down in problems determination, we’ll find a proper solution to the with Pakistan. What would you like to tell boundary issues eventually. Practical experience those Indians who feel like that? has proved that as long as we respect and care for India is China’s friendly neighbour and each other’s concerns and insist on managing strategic partner, how can we imagine a policy of differences through dialogue and consultation, it containment from either side? China is committed is fully possible to handle the boundary-related to a friendly and cooperative relationship with its issues properly, and create favorable conditions all neighbours. China’s relationship with any and atmosphere for the final settlement of the country is by no means directed against any, or at boundary as well as for the development of our the cost of another country’s interest. India and bilateral relations. Pakistan are both friendly neighbours to China. I Q 3: Chinese leadership always speaks in think that the China-India relations and China- 22 Chinese President’s Visit to India News From China September 2014
Pakistan relations are not an either-or choice or a objective reasons such as differences of economic zero-sum game. Prime Minister Narandra Modi’s structure, there also exists the problem of trade successful invitation to Pakistani Prime Minister imbalance between the two countries. Nawaz Sharif to attend his inauguration has It is China’s trade policy to achieve basic showed the improving momentum of India- balance of international payments, and not Pakistan relations. China wishes and believes that deliberately pursue trade surplus. We understand India and Pakistan will properly handle their India’s concern about the trade imbalance. We differences and promote bilateral cooperation for welcome Indian goods to the Chinese market and the benefit of the two peoples. China has been have made practical efforts for it. We have sent committed to developing its relations with India trade and investment promotion missions to in parallel with that with Pakistan. I believe that a India, facilitated Indian companies to attend balanced development of China-India relations China’s exhibition and actively expanded import and China-Pakistan relations will also help to from India. improve the India-Pakistan relations, and help to At the same time, we are also working on achieve a positive trilateral interaction, which expanding two-way investment. During the conforms with the common interests of our three Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India, we countries and people of the region. will reach an agreement on setting up industrial Q5: There is a growing proximity between parks in India. China will construct two India and Japan which now share a global and demonstrational industrial parks in Gujarat and strategic partnership. China’s Maharashtra, which I believe will own relations with Japan are not attract a large number of Chinese happy. Do you believe that the Both China and India enterprises to invest in India. It will strategic relationship between are major countries be a new highlight of China-India India and Japan is partly aimed at that have initiated and economic and trade cooperation, checkmating China? practiced the Five and will help to balance the bilateral Both China and India are major Principles of Peaceful trade. countries that have initiated and I would like to emphasize that practiced the Five Principles of Co-Existence. We both trade balance cannot be achieved by Peaceful Co-Existence. We both follow an independent cutting down the total trade volume, follow an independent foreign foreign policy for instead it will be done by making the policy for peace. China, India and peace. cake bigger. During the course, we Japan are countries that have ought to seek an overall balanced significant influence on the cause of and sustainable development for peace and development in Asia. We are glad to see our bilateral trade and economic relations. China India and Japan to develop friendly and will continue to work with India to achieve the cooperative relations, and hope that their goal of bilateral trade of $100 billion. Yet $100 cooperation will be conducive to peace, stability billion is by no means the end of the Sino-Indian and prosperity in Asia. trade. I am confident that as long as we continue to Q6: Trade: India and China have set an dock our development strategies, expand ambitious goal of achieving a bilateral trade of economic and trade cooperation and further open USD 100 billion by the year 2015. With markets, the goal of $200 billion or even $300 bilateral trade in 2013 declining by 1.5 per billion is achievable. cent to USD 65.47 billion, do you think we can Q7: China has experienced a number of achieve the target next year? What will China brazen terror attacks in Xinjiang and other do to make it possible, especially since India is provinces allegedly by Uygur separatists, already complaining of an adverse trade some of whom are trained in neighbouring balance of USD 31.42 billion last year? Pakistan. How do you propose to combat the The pragmatic cooperation between China “three evil forces” of terrorism, separatism and India has witnessed a significant and extremism emanating from Pakistan? improvement with substantial growth in bilateral Terrorism is an enemy of all mankind. China trade in recent years. Meanwhile, due to some and India are both victims of terrorism. China is News From China September 2014 External Affairs 23 facing an actual and direct threat from the “East Second, deepen pragmatic cooperation Turkistan” terrorists represented by the “East against terrorism. We ought to enrich the counter- Turkistan Islamic Movement”. Recently, China was terrorism cooperation by exploring new ways of hit by a number of violent terrorist attacks, cooperation in such areas as intelligence underscoring the increasing threats and exchanges, joint exercises, combat against cyber- challenges faced by China. Along with the complex terrorism and terrorist financing, maritime and profound changes of the international and cooperation, security for major events and regional situation of counter-terrorism, both protection for overseas institutions and China and India are increasingly challenged and personnel. We expect to work with India in threatened. The common interests and strengthening anti-terrorism cooperation and cooperation in counter-terrorism, therefore, are jointly safeguarding regional security and expanded as well. stability. I think China and India may focus exchanges Pakistan is also a victim of terrorism. China and cooperation against terrorism on the and Pakistan have had very fruitful collaboration following£ºFirst£¬increase dialogue on anti- on fighting against the “East Turkistan Islamic terrorism policy. We may enhance communication Movement” and other terrorist forces. It is and policy coordination on counter-terrorism so important to understand that the root cause of as to further our mutual understanding and trust terrorism is complicated, and it will take a rather on the occasion of high level exchanges, bilateral long and arduous process to address this menace. and multilateral anti-terrorism consultations and China, India and Pakistan ought to work together on the international arenas such as the UN, the to deal with the problem of terrorism and root out Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the the cause of terrorism. BRICS.
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Xi Makes Four-Point Proposal for SCO Development
D u s h a n b e , S e p t . 1 2 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday made a four-point proposal for the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). When delivering a speech at the 14th meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of State in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, Xi said the six-nation bloc has entered a crucial stage of development as the world is undergoing complex and profound changes. Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the 14th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of “ I t i s o u r c o m m o n the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, Sept. 12, responsibility and mission to 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) 24 External Affairs News From China September 2014
bring more security and benefit to the SCO Secondly, the SCO member states should member states and their people,” he said. adhere to the goal of common development and The Chinese president made a four-point prosperity, Xi said. proposal on the SCO development. The member states should discuss the Firstly, safeguarding regional security and possibility of conducting more extensive and stability is the SCO member states’ responsibility, higher level cooperation in trade and investment, he said. in a bid to push forward regional economic “Currently, (we) should focus on combating integration, said Xi. religion-involved extremism and internet He urged member states to reach an terrorism,” said Xi. agreement on establishing the SCO financial He suggested the SCO members launch institution at an early date and beef up policy consultation on an anti-extremism convention coordination on energy and food. and initiate studies on a mechanism for actions The president called on member states to against internet terrorism. enact an SCO partnership plan in science and “(We) should take it as our own responsibility technology, and to speed up the building of an to safeguard regional security and stability, information sharing platform on environment enhance our ability to maintain stability, continue protection. to boost cooperation on law enforcement and Thirdly, the SCO member states should security, and improve the existing cooperation comprehensively promote people-to-people mechanisms,” said Xi. exchanges, said the Chinese president. The president also called on the SCO members Xi suggested the SCO member states — China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, strengthen capacity building on international Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — to grant the group’s communication, enhance media cooperation, and Regional Counter-Terrorism Structure (RCTS) support personnel training in the fields of public new function to combat drug trafficking at an policy, administration and judiciary. early date. China is willing to provide training “(We) should make concerted efforts to crack opportunities for 2000 people of the SCO member down on the ‘three evil forces’ of terrorism, states from 2015 to 2017, including officials, as extremism and separatism,” he said. well as management and technological staff, he
Chinese President Xi Jinping (7th L) poses for a group photo with other participants and observers of the 14th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, Sept. 12, 2014. (Xinhua/Li Tao) News From China September 2014 External Affairs 25 said. and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence China will also invite 50 youth leaders from Building Measures in Asia. SCO member states to study in China every year Xi said the SCO member countries, observers over the next five years, said Xi. and dialogue partners are welcome to vigorously Fourthly, the SCO should expand external participate in the joint building of the Silk Road exchanges and cooperation, he said. Economic Belt and promote regional connectivity. Any country that is willing to join the SCO and Noting that the SCO is facing significant meets the criteria is welcome to apply for the opportunities and bright prospect, Xi stressed membership of the organization, said Xi. that the member states “should stick to the Xi also urged to strengthen the cooperation ‘Shanghai Spirit’ of mutual trust, mutual benefit, between the SCO member countries and its equality, consultation, respect for cultural observers, as well as communication between diversity and pursuit of common development.” SCO member countries and the organization’s “We should join hands to deal with threats and dialogue partners, adding that the SCO should challenges with the strength of unity and cement cooperation with international and cooperation and jointly push forward SCO’s regional organizations, such as the United Nations development,” he said.
Xi's Trip to Central, South Asia Opens New Chapter for China's Neighborhood Diplomacy : Wang Yi
Beijing, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) — Chinese said. President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing on Friday All the four nations are pivot points of the “One night after a trip to central and south Asia. Belt and One Road” with which China has historic Xi’s state visits to Tajikistan, the Maldives, Sri ties and interwoven contemporary interests, and Lanka and India, and his attendance at a Shanghai C o o p e r a t i o n O rga n i z a t i o n ( S CO ) summit in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, opened a new chapter for China’s neighborhood diplomacy that features amity and cooperation, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters upon the end of the trip. The Sept. 11-19 tour also charted a fresh course for the “One Belt and One Road” initiatives (the Silk Road Economic Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon attend the completion Belt and the 21st Century ceremony of first-phase project of the Dushanbe No. 2 power plant and the groundbreaking ceremony of second-phase project of the Dushanbe No. 2 power plant in Dushanbe, capital of Maritime Silk Road), he Tajikistan, Sept. 13, 2014.(Xinhua/Huang Jingwen) 26 External Affairs News From China September 2014
all of them hope to ride on the fast train of China’s the gathering. development to fulfill their own dreams, Wang The SCO members, he suggested, should focus said. on combating religion-involved extremism and Xi’s trip to central and south Asia was aimed at cyber-terrorism, continue to boost cooperation on bringing together the aspirations of countries in law enforcement and security, and jointly crack the region with the “One Belt and One Road” down on the “three evil forces” of terrorism, initiatives to pursue common prosperity and extremism and separatism. security, he added. Xi also suggested that the SCO member states During the tour which spanned 9 days and adhere to the goal of common development and included more than 70 events, Xi has conducted prosperity, while calling for more extensive and in-depth exchanges of opinions with national higher-level cooperation in trade and investment. leaders and reached out to the general public of Moreover, he said SCO members need to those countries. comprehensively promote people-to-people The Chinese president also expounded exchanges, while urging the SCO to expand China’s policy, proposed new initiatives and external exchanges and cooperation. witnessed the signing of cooperation agreements In addition, Xi said all member countries, on a number of major projects. observers and dialogue partners are welcome to The trip also made headlines in the world’s vigorously participate in the building of the Silk leading news outlets, which agreed that it was an Road Economic Belt and promote regional important visit with far-reaching influence for connectivity. guiding the SCO’s development and improving Xi’s proposals are based on a careful study of China’s relations with the four nations and South global and regional situation, and are both future- Asia, according to Wang. oriented and pragmatic, Wang said. BOOSTING SCO COOPERATION WITH Summit participants warmed up to those ideas and incorporated them into the final TWIN ENGINES OF SECURITY, ECONOMY documents of the meeting, he said. Facing the spillover effect of the Afghan issue In a joint declaration, the six SCO members and the rising threats of religious extremism and terrorism, it was a common wish for SCO member states and regional countries to jointly tackle the challenges and boost cooperation, Wang said. Founded in Shanghai in 2001, the SCO groups China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. At the SCO’s Dushanbe summit, President Xi put forward new proposals to further develop the bloc under the new situation, Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) meets with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in which is the central theme of Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, Sept. 11, 2014. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen) News From China September 2014 External Affairs 27 pledged further concerted efforts to fight the forward their friendship from both historic depths “three evil forces”, with the current focus on and comprehensive perspectives, and keep religious extremism and internet terrorism. reciprocal cooperation as the constant theme of They also pledged to actively join the China-India relations. construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt, During talks with Indian Prime Minister conduct study on the feasibility of an SCO development fund and an SCO development bank, and coordinate closer on regional hotspot issues like Afghanistan. One of the major outcomes of the summit is the ratification of two documents that define the basic principles of m e m b e r s h i p e n l a rg e m e n t , wh i c h demonstrated the bloc’s openness, inclusiveness and appeal as well as its growing global clouts, Wang said. Ahead of the summit, President Xi also held talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, and both sides decided to complement each other’s advantages and boost cooperation on financial sector and major projects. They also vowed to speed up the construction of the China-Russia west route natural gas pipeline and enhance coordination on major global issues. Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) meets with Indian Prime Minister On the sidelines of the summit, Xi also Narendra Modi (R) as he visits the state of Gujarat, India, Sept. 17, 2014. attended the first trilateral summit between (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei) China, Mongolia and Russia, during which he proposed to construct an economic corridor Narendra Modi, Xi noted that the harmonious linking the three nations. coexistence, and peaceful, cooperative and The Chinese president also held separate inclusive development of the Chinese Dragon and talks with counterparts from Kazakhstan, Turk- the Indian Elephant will benefit the two nations, menistan and Kyrgyzstan, with broad consensus neighboring countries and the globe. reached on expanding pragmatic cooperation Modi said the two sides should constantly between China and these nations. push forward their relationship in the spirit of “From Inch to Mile”. Sharing such a view, both LIFTING CHINA’S TIES WITH NATIONS heads of states agreed to build a closer IN THE TRIP developmental partnership, deepen the China and India, as the world’s two largest cooperation within bilateral, regional and global developing countries and emerging economies, frameworks. enjoy a longtime friendship and are in a historic They also agreed to defend their common process of national rejuvenation, Wang said, interests and other developing countries, and adding that both have become important powers enhance the just and sound development of during the world’s multi-polarization process. international politics and economic order. Chinese and Indian leaders decided to carry They reaffirmed that both sides will properly 28 External Affairs News From China September 2014
manage and control the border disputes between the two nations, maintain peace and security in the border regions, and find a solution at an early date. President Xi’s visit has propelled the development of China-India ties into a new historic phase. Indian leaders, including President Pranab Mukherjee, said the mutually-beneficial cooperation with China is vital to India if the latter wants to take advantages from Asia’s development. They said India is ready to make joint efforts Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd R) and his wife Peng Liyuan (1st R) are welcomed with China to achieve common by Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen (3rd R) upon their arrival in Male, Maldives, Sept. 14, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) development and prosperity. During the meetings with leaders of and profits, according to Wang, the Chinese Tajikistan, Maldives and Sri Lanka, President Xi foreign minister. made, together with them, top-level design and In India, Xi also delivered a speech on China’s strategic planning for further developing ties policy toward India and South Asia in the new era, between China and these nations. expounding China’s major measures to strengthen At the meetings, Xi also reiterated China’s firm the cooperation with South Asian nations, while support for the three countries’ choices of own expressing the hope to realize common political systems and development paths. development and prosperity via the implementation All the bilateral talks emphasized, among of the “One Belt, One Road” initiatives. others issues, a pledge to back core interests and PROMOTING “ONE BELT, ONE ROAD” major concerns of each other’s country, and a INITIATIVES willingness to share the development experience Xi’s four-country Asia trip highlighted the “One Belt and One Road” initiatives brought up by the Chinese president last year, according to Wang. Xi proposed to closely knit China’s competitive industries with the geographical features and the development needs of Tajikistan, Maldives, Sri Lanka and India, by building the “Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21 Century Maritime Silk Road,” Wang said. China signed more than 60 cooperative documents with the four
Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd L) and his Maldivian counterpart Abdulla countries during Xi’s visit, Wang Yameen Abdul Gayoom jointly inaugurate a housing unit project in Male, listed, adding that the countries have Maldives, Sept. 15, 2014. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng) News From China September 2014 External Affairs 29 pledged active participation in constructing the “belt” and the “road,” he said. Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom hailed that the initiative more closely linked Asian nations with each other. Noting that enhancing understanding between different peoples is an important part of the Chinese initiative, Wang said Xi reached consensus of high- degree with leaders of the destination countries in terms of enhancing cultural and people- to-people exchanges. Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, visited hold talks in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 16, 2014. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng) schools and was ardent in environment, and that China’s development has promoting public welfare and conducting cultural brought significant cooperation opportunities for exchanges during the trip, showcasing the charm neighboring countries. of China in an unique way, the foreign minister Xi has visited 13 countries in Central, said. Southeast, Northeast and South Asia since he took Talking about China’s active neighborhood office more than a year ago, where he expounded diplomacy, Wang said China cannot develop China’s development targets, path and prospect, a without a peaceful, stable and cooperative reflection of the guidelines of amity, sincerity, m u t u a l b e n e f i t a n d inclusiveness in China’s neighborhood diplomacy, Wang said. Xi’s endeavors combined the Chinese dream with the aspiration of the peoples of neighboring countries to live a good life and enhanced mutual understanding and mutually b e n e f i c i a l c o o p e ra t i o n between China and these countries, Wang said. Wang pledged that his country would implement the fruitful results of Xi’s Asia trip, as well as the “One Belt and Chinese President Xi Jinping (L, front) and his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa (R, front) attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the inauguration of the Colombo Port One Road” initiative, which City Project, a large construction project undertaken by the China Harbour Engineering benefit not only China but also Company, in Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka, Sept. 17, 2014. (Xinhua/Li Tao) its neighbors. 30 External Affairs News From China September 2014 Chinese Premier Reassures World CEOs of Growth
Tianjin, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reassured global CEOs Tuesday that China would achieve its GDP growth target of about 7.5 p e rc e n t d e s p i te re c e n t fluctuations. C h i n e s e e c o n o my i s operating within a reasonable range, Li said. The premier told his audience at the 2014 Summer Davos in Tianjin that ongoing anti-trust probes in China did not target specific industries or firms, and that foreign companies only accounted for 10 percent of companies involved. “Premier Li’s answer is
very reassuring,” said Alcoa Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivers a keynote speech at the opening of the Annual CEO Klaus Kleinfeld. Meeting of the New Champions 2014, also known as the Summer Davos forum,in Tianjin Municipality, north China, Sept. 10, 2014. (Xinhua/Li Xueren) “ T h e r u l e s a p p ly to everyone,” Kleinfeld told development has problems as well. Xinhua. “The premier has emphasized very strong The job market is the top concern of desire to create a level playing field.” government policy, Li said, citing that in the first Reasonable Range eight months, new urban jobs reached nearly 10 million, slightly below the target for the whole The premier believes Chinese economy is on year. track despite fluctuations in some economic The annual growth target is around 7.5 indicators in July and August, since GDP continues percent. “Around” here means slightly higher or to stabilize, the job market keeps improving and lower rates are acceptable, as long as employment, inflation is on the low side. incomes and environmental protection improve, GDP grew 7.4 percent in the first half of this he said. year with deepening reforms and targeted China had resorted to “strong reform” instead loosening, but in the last two months, declining of “strong stimulus” to spur the economy, Li said. PMI, sluggish industrial production and a cooling While keeping the total money supply stable, property market alerted investors to the stability decision makers will be focused on restructuring of growth. the supply, which means the government will put It is inevitable that the economy experiences more money into agriculture, small and micro short-term fluctuations, Li said. The global businesses, emerging industries and hi-tech economy is in a difficult recovery with some key businesses, Li said. economies performing poorly. China’s economic “As we are restructuring instead of expanding News From China September 2014 External Affairs 31 the monetary supply, current monetary policy is ahead of the Summer Davos in north China’s sustainable,” the premier said as he stressed the Tianjin Municipality. importance of easing access to financial markets, This can be illustrated by the 13.6-percent and developing small, medium and private banks. growth of the broad money supply (M2) last year, Reforms of interest and exchange rates, a multi- the premier said. layer capital market and lowering leverage rates While keeping the total amount of money at a are important to controlling money supply. stable level, decision makers will be focused on “The course of reform will not run smooth, restructuring money supply, which means the because it will stir the interest rates, just like government will put more money into agriculture, short-term fluctuations in the economy,” Li said. small and micro businesses, emerging industries Reform in the past years has been carried out and the high-tech sector, Li said. unremittingly, in a step-by-step manner, but the “As we are restructuring instead of expanding government has increased reform measures since the monetary supply, current monetary policy is last year. sustainable,” the premier added. “The economy is moving in the right Li also stressed the importance of easing direction,” said Sashikiran Shetty, executive access to financial markets, and developing small, chairman of Avvashaya Group, an Indian logistics medium and private banks. enterprise. Reforms of interest and exchange rates, a China to Continue Prudent multi-layer capital market and lowering leverage rates are important to controlling money supply, Monetary Policy according to the premier. China will continue prudent monetary policy China to Balance Reform, and “targeted control measures”, Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday. Development, Stability China resorted to “strong reform”, instead of China will look to balance reform, “strong stimulus,” last year to stimulate the development and stability in the latter half of the economy, he said, speaking to entrepreneurs year, according to a meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Tuesday. The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee studied the first half of the year’s economic situation and worked out what needs to be done in the second half. “In the first half, economic growth was kept within a reasonable range, with major indicators within targets,” said a statement released after the meeting, presided by CPC leader Xi Jinping. G r o w t h s t i l l f a c e s Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) walks into the conference hall of a meeting ahead of the challenges internally and Summer Davos forum in Tianjing Municipality, north China, Sept. 9, 2014. (Xinhua/Li Xueren) externally. “More effort is 32 External Affairs News From China September 2014
needed to maintain steady economic growth,” it difficult to solve, but such growth must be said. scientific, sustainable, and inclusive in compliance In the second half of the year, the country must with laws of the economy, nature, and society. strike a balance between reform, development Specifically, reforms will focus on investment and stability. At the same time it must find the management, greater simplification of balance between short-term targets and long- administrative approval procedures and further term growth. delegation of power, as well as opening up The government should also coordinate monopolized sectors to competition. economic and social development while Fiscal and financial resources will be used improving people’s livelihood, the statement said. more effectively to support the real economy and The government will maintain tits macro more financing channels will be explored. policies while focusing on targeted controls of Authorities will expand effective investment problems in the economy. and attract more private investment; efforts will Policies and measures will take both short- be made to expand domestic consumption. term and long-term development into account, Exports should be stabilized and new growth while efforts will be made to speed up reforms engines or regional powerhouses sought to boost and opening-up, restructuring and risk the economy. prevention. Efforts will also be made to promote A certain growth rate is important because urbanization, improve the social safety net, boost without fast growth, many problems will be employment, and enhance the health sector.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (5th L), Klaus Schwab (4th R), founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), and other guests pose for a group photo during the opening of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014, also known as the Summer Davos forum, in Tianjin Municipality, north China, Sept. 10, 2014. (Xinhua/Li Xueren) News From China September 2014 Chinese Enterprises in India 33
CHINESE ENTERPRISES IN INDIA
Chinese Companies in India
Chinese companies entered India market in late 1990’s and the majorities are in infra- structure business inclu- ding Power, Telecom, Road and bridges construction etc. As the bilateral trade grows rapidly after 2005, many new companies stepped in India to explore the giant market by selling heavy machinery, medical equipment and power equipment this kind of hardware which India traders are not capable to do. As for now, there are A photo taken on June 2014 shows the factory of Chinese TBEA in the Industrial Park of Baroda in Gujarat, India. a b o u t f ive h u n d r e d Chinese companies in India with business in sectors like Automobiles & Infrastructure, IT, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, components, Biotechnology, Cement, Consumer Pharmaceuticals, Power, Roads, Steel and Markets, Consultancy, Food Industry, Healthcare, Telecommunications. Some of the companies are given below: lA u t o m o b i l e s : F u t o n , Shanghai GM lBiotechnology: Sinochem lCement: Sinoma, AVIC lConsumer Markets: Haier, Midea, Lenovo lConsultancy: Draphant lFood industry: Chenguang lHea lt hca re: Mindray, Shenzhen Comen, Sinocare lInfrastructure: CRECG- 1/3/8/14/18 lIT: SohuCyou, UC Web, Tencent lManufacturing: BYD, Romai lOil & Gas: CNPC, Jereh, Shandong Kerui, Dafeng The Inauguration and Flagging off Ceremony of TBEA Energy (India) Pvt. Ltd was held on IETS June 28, 2014 in Baroda, Gujarat, India. lP h a r m a c e u t i c a l s : 34 Chinese Enterprises in India News From China September 2014
Sinopharm both Chinese as well as Indian Companies to lPower: Shanghai Electric, Dongfang Electric, increase bilateral trade between both the countries Harbin Electric, Sepco-1/2/3, Feida and promote education, culture and development of Environment, CHD the society between both the countries; To improve lRoads: Longjian Roads & Bridges Indo-China Relations by facilitating economic co- lSteel: Xindia Steel, Minmetals, Sinosteel, Shoudu operation; To connect with relevant industry bodies Steel, Anshan Steel to promote and maintain an investment friendly lTelecommunications: Huawei, ZTE, VIVO, OPPO, business environment for Chinese Companies in Gionee, Xiaomi, Coolpad India; and finally To promote the development and With the development of economic cooperation mutual interests among its members for efficient between the two countries, more and more Chinese enterprises come to India. The Inauguration and Flagging off Ceremony of TBEA Energy (India) Pvt. Ltd was held on June 28, 2014 in Vadodara, Gujarat. The project was the first economic cooperation project between China and India since the establishment of the new government. The Chinese ambassador to India , Mr. Wei Wei addressed the ceremony and praised the construction of infrastructure in Gujarat. He said that the rapid economic development could be a c h i e v e d o n l y a f t e r t h e establishment of a convenient, efficient and stable infrastructure. Under the common will of both A seminar for Chinese enterprises in Delhi to learn about the knowledge on the countries, more industrial parks will environment of India such as tax, Legal, human resources and public relations be built and the economic and trade activities . cooperation between China and India will have further development. business activities in India. CCEI regularly conduct seminars to update and Chamber of Chinese Enterprises in India provide knowledge to its members about the Chamber of Chinese Enterprises in India also regulatory environment of India such as tax, Legal, referred to, as CCEI is a non-profit organization set HR and PR Activities. It also conducts Regular board up under the societies registration Act, 1860. The meetings among the governing body and the organization set up in the year 2012 through officials from the Embassy of China to discuss future contributions from the Chinese Companies doing prospects activities for the Chamber. At the same business in India and the Embassy of P.R. China in time it coordinates with Industry bodies such as New Delhi, India. As of Aug 2014, more than 140 FICCI, CII and ASSOCHAM to participate in seminars Chinese Companies are members of the CCEI. The and help in connecting potential clients to the members are ranging from large-scale MNC’s to companies. To help to remove trade barriers small and medium scale enterprises and traders between China and India CCEI alsotakes up regular belonging to various sectors such as Power, Mining, issues with Government Organizations, and finally Healthcare, and Consumer Goods etc. Our members the Chamber regularly conducts workshops on PR, are mainly located in Delhi, NCR Region, Mumbai, Human Resource providing information to Chinese Gujarat, Pune and other parts of the country. The Companies on India’s economy, and its political objectives of CCEI is: To provide a business hub for system. News From China September 2014 Chinese Enterprises in India 35 A Glance of Chinese Enterprises in India
A night view of MUNDRA power plant in India. MUNDRA 5X660MW power plant in Gujarat boasts five units as the first 660MW super critical power plant in India. Turbines and generators supplied by Chinese Dongfang Electric Corporation are giving superior good performances.
UDUPI 2X600MW in Karnataka are the first units of this capacity in India. Excellent operations are generating significant investment returns and social benefits. 36 Chinese Enterprises in India News From China September 2014
A scene of 2x600MW Kalisindh Thermal Power Plant— ESP in Rajasthan constructed by Chinese FEIDA GROUP are now under commissioning.
Steel structures installed by BAOSTEEL INDIA COMPANY PRIVATE LIMITED in Sanand, Gujarat. News From China September 2014 Chinese Enterprises in India 37
Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation（ SEPCO） keeps good relation and cooperation with local community and people by actively participating in charity events and social welfare activities. Picture shows SEPCO distributing quilts to Local workers.
The villagers near the Industrial Park of Baroda in Gujarat are using the well built by Chinese TBEA on June 2014. 38 Yatra to Kailash Mansarovar News From China September 2014
YATRA TO KAILASH MANSAROVAR
Friends Coming Afar -- A Yatra to Kailash Mansarovar by Indian Pilgrims
Two thousand years ago, Chinese Saint Confucius said “Isn’t it a great delight to have friends coming afar?”. For thousands of years thereafter, the Chinese people follow the maxim by expressing their heartfelt welcome to far-away friends. While attending the BRICS Summit this July in Brazil, President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Modi talked about Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. President Xi pointed out that China would render more facilitation for Indian pilgrims. In September this year, a new building at the Pulan Hotel in Tibet, C h i n a , w i l l b e a v a i l a b l e Arriving Indian Pilgrims welcomed by Staff of the China Tibetan Reception Center for tofaccommodate more Indian Indian Pilgrims. pilgrims to Kailash Manasarovar. All is but a vivid reflection of the Chinese people’s expressed his deep feelings by writing that without hospitality to Indian pilgrims visiting China. Kailash Manasarovar Yatra, his life will be far from It has been a long history for Indian pilgrims to meaningful. perform Kailash Manasarovar Yatra in China. In Receiving friends from afar is such a great 1954, China and India signed an agreement delight to China. The Chinese people fully stipulating the route and mountain pass for Indian understand the religious meaning Kailash pilgrims. With the deepening of friendly Manasarovar holds for Hinduists and try best to relationship between China and India in recent facilitate the trip by Indian pilgrims. years, the batches and numbers of Indian pilgrims The Chinese government respects the have increased rapidly. From 2003 to 2013, China traditional route for Indian pilgrims. Based on a full received more than 6000 officially- organized Indian exchange of views with India, China has opened pilgrims. At the same time, the number of non- Qiangla Pass and Zhangmu Port respectively for officially-organized Indian pilgrims also increases officially-organized Indian pilgrims and the non- dramatically.In 2003, only about 400 of non- officially organized. China also arranges for the most officially-organized Indian pilgrims were received safe, economical and shortcut route, giving enough by China. Yet in 2013, the figure reached to 14084, a consideration to the local terrain and the ages of multiple of almost 35 times. For the past ten years, a Indian pilgrims. total of almost 70,000 Indian citizens fulfill their For officially-organized Indian pilgrims, it is up dreams of pilgrimage to Tibet, China. The increased to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the robust number year by year, reflects the strong Ministry of External Affairs of India to jointly reach feelings by Indian pilgrims to pay homage to Kailash an agreement on the batches and numbers each year, Manasarovar, which are holy spots of the Hinduists whereas the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi is in and Jains. In his book, “An Odyssey in Tibet: A charge of the liaison, coordination and Pilgrimage to Kailas Manasarovar”, Mr. Tarun Vijay implementation of the detailed arrangement. tells the story of the Yatra of Indian pilgrims. He News From China September 2014 Yatra to Kailash Mansarovar 39
Meanwhile, the Chinese Embassy renders all On reception arrangements, China designates conveniences like facilitation of visa applications to special officials to be in charge of Indian pilgrims Indian pilgrims. It’s common practice now that the respectively. In 2005, the China Tibetan Reception Visa Section of the Chinese Embassy provides Center for Indian pilgrims was established, aimed at urgent visa services for Indian pilgrims, so as to serving Indian pilgrims with professional travel make sure they get their visas in time or even on the services. The local government of Ali, the district same day. Visa officers of the Chinese Embassy work where Kailash Manasarovar locates, manages to on weekends to expedite the visa processing. In case raise funds to build new hotels and wash rooms to there is on the spot inclusion or cancellation of improve the infrastructure for the benefit of pilgrims in the group, or change of the travel date, pilgrims. The path from Qiangla Pass to Pulan county the Chinese Embassy tries hard to handle the case is a winding road of gravel through mountains. Each effectively. For officially-organized Indian pilgrims, year when the road easily gets destroyed by heavy the Chinese Embassy offers to accept their visa rain during the monsoon season, the local applications directly so as to free them from the government invests more than 10 lakhs to repair the financial burden of the visa agency charge, and road, guaranteeing a safe and easy entrance by exempt them from urgent visa service fee, thus Indian pilgrims. greatly reducing the related costs for the trip. On reception services, China attaches great In the high season for Indian pilgrims, the importance to the personnel’s qualifications. Each Chinese Embassy keeps timely contact with the year, China trains interpreters, tour guides and Chinese local reception agencies and helps to meet drivers who work for Indian pilgrims, and give a full the demands of pilgrims as much as possible. In case consideration to traditions and habits of Indian a pilgrim feels ill during the trip, the Embassy pilgrims regarding accommodation and food. An quickly coordinates Chinese local governments and example may explain itself the heartfelt caring by reception agencies to offer timely medical China. As the road from Qiangla Pass leading to the treatment, and notify the Indian Embassy or parking area at the foot of the mountain is rugged Consulates-General in China without delay. I would and hard to pass, the local village of Chide in Pulan like to tell a story here. On the night of August 15th, the arranges carriers and horses to carry Indian pilgrims Independence Day of India, the Chinese Embassy and their luggage to the parking lot. Meanwhile, was informed that an Indian pilgrims group had another local village of Gangsa is helping Indian difficulties in entering into China due to sudden road pilgrims to make rounds of the sacred mountain. collapse caused by mudslide. The Embassy wasted Positive efforts made by China in reception no time in contacting the Foreign Affairs Office of Tibet Autonomous Region that same night. Thanks for the c o o p e r a t i o n a n d coordination of the latter, helicopters were dispatched to carry the stuck pilgrims from Zhangmu Port to Pulan Port to guarantee the pilgrims’ safe and quick entry into China. As the Embassy serves as a window of first contact with China for Indian pilgrims, I hope that they may feel the heartfelt welcome and warm hospitality of the Chinese host. China welcome more Indian pilgrims. Indian Pilgrims attending a meeting with officials of local people's government of Tibet Autonomous Region of the P.R.China. 40 Yatra to Kailash Mansarovar News From China September 2014
arrangements, not only earn an approval by Indian Culture exchange is a direct reflection of the pilgrims, but obtain a high recognition of the Indian friendly relationship between China and India, and Government as well. On August 7£¬a local Indian also an important way for the two peoples to get to newspaper published an article on the Kailash know each other well. I do believe, with more Indian Mansarovar Yatra by a group of Indian Pilgrims. pilgrims coming to China, that they will not only get Through their journey in Tibet, they saw many new blessings of Kailash Mansarovar, but also know buildings and hotels. The car could run at a speed of more about China. As you all know, H. E. Mr. Xi 100-120 kilometers per hour on the expressway, Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China which fully shows advanced technology as well as will pay a State visit to India next week. President Xi vision of China. In 2012, the former Indian and Prime Minister Modi will talk about opening one Ambassador to China, H. E. S. Jaishankar visited more Naiduila Pass for Indian pilgrims, so as further Tibet. When he saw the reception infrastructure in facilitate the travel by Indian pilgrims. Ali, he said it was beyond imagination that I sincerely hope that, China and India, as two conditions of roads and vehicles be so good and good neighbors and partners, with the blessings of reception work at such a high level. After his tour in Kailash Manasarovar, will further develop and Tibet, S. Jaishankar expressed his gratitude for the prosper hand in hand, contributing to peace and work done by China and expected more Indian prosperity of the world in the future. pilgrims following suit.
The Holy Mountain, the Center of the World
Photo taken on Aug. 17, 2014 shows an aerial view of the "holy mountain", the Kangrinboqe, in Ngari Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Chogo)
Kangrinboqe Mountain (In India it is called as mountain is covered by snow all the year round. The Mount Kailash) is located on the southwest China’s shape of the mountain is like a pyramid. There is a Tibet Autonomous Region. The peak of the mysterious feature of the holy mountain. The snow News From China September 2014 Building New Maritime Silk Road 41 on the sunny slope never melts over the year. On the contrast, the snow on the opposite side melts as the sunshine covers it. Kangrinboqe Mountain is the most famous holy mountain in Tibet. It is reputed as the center of the world by Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Bon. With the elevation of 6, 638 meters above sea level, the holy Mountain is the main peak of Mt. Gangdise. On the elevation of over 4,700 meters, it’s a great risk and ordeal for hikers. Thus, visitors had better prepare suitable warm clothes The pilgrims at the foot of the holy mountain and enough high-calorie food. . Hiking on the holy Mountain takes about 3 days, starting from Dajin, passing by Qugu beautiful peaks, magnificent holy Mountain Temple and Zherepu Temple and coming back to the immediately ahead and religious pilgrims, enjoying starting point. On the way, there are surpassingly breathtaking scenery and experiencing local customs and sacred culture. Circling the holy mountain is the most common way to worship the god. It is said that the founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni’s zodiac birth year is horse year. The worshipers circle the mountain in horse year for one time will be twelve times merits and virtues than the normal year. When sunrise and sunset, the sunshine covers the slope on the snow, the holy mountain will influence the golden light. The vision is shocking when the whole mountain turns into golden. It appears the mountain is more sacred. Taking pictures beside the beautiful lake.
BUILDING NEW MARITIME SILK ROAD
China, Maldives Share Dream of 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
Male, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — The well-known historical records. Chinese ancient porcelain ancient Chinese navigator Zheng He’s fleet visited wares and coins, displayed in Maldives’national Maldives twice in early 15th century, according to museum in Male, witnessed the trade via the 42 Building New Maritme Silk Road News From China September 2014
ancient Maritime Silk Road between China and Maldives. Nearly 600 years later, with the introduction of the new vision of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, China and Maldives are presented with a g r e a t o p p o r t u n i t y t o comprehensively deepen relations, expand cooperation and cement the connections between the two countries. China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative, which Chinese President Xi Jinping brought up during a visit to Southeast Asia in 2013, has Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd L) and his wife Peng Liyuan (1st L) are welcomed by Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen (2nd R front) upon their arrival in Male, Maldives, gained positive response and Sept. 14, 2014. Xi Jinping arrived here Sunday for a state visit to Maldives. great attention from Maldives, China’s ambassador to Maldives Wang Fukang Maldives, small in land area, but with more told Xinhua in a recent interview. than 1,190 coral isles, and located in the central In 2013, two-way trade between China and Indian Ocean, boasts rich maritime tourism Maldives reached 98 million U.S. dollars, marking resources. a 70-fold growth over the level of 2010. While More and more Chinese travelers are coming more Chinese products are coming to the market to the country, with the number of Chinese tourist in Maldives, aquatic products from Maldives such arriving in Maldives hit a record high of 30,000 in as tuna fish are appearing on more and more 2013, accounting for 30 percent of Maldives’ total dinner tables in China. foreign tourist arrivals in the year. The construction of infrastructure is a Qaisar Naseem, a resort manager in Paradise highlight of the economic and trade cooperation Island, the second largest island in the country, between the two countries. Maldives ‘ foreign told Xinhua that Chinese travelers are the biggest ministry building and its national museum, which guest source of the resort, accounting for 70 were built with the help from China, have become percent of the guests the resort receives. the new landmarks in the capital. While joking the island has a new name now The Maldivian government has put forward a — Chinese Island, Naseem hopes that more and series of major measures recently, including the more Chines tourists will come here to enjoy the construction of a cross-sea bridge linking capital bright white beaches. Male with the nearby Hulhule island and the During a recent exclusive interview with establishment of a special economic zone in the Xinhua, Maldives President Abdulla Yameen said north, which are all closely related to the his country would benefit from participating in construction of the 21st Century Maritime Silk the building of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Road and he is upbeat about expanding already The country’s longest high quality road will positive engagement with China not only in also be constructed by Chinese firms and Chinese tourism, but also in other areas such as port firms will also participate in the expansion of the construction. Male international airport. News From China September 2014 Building New Maritime Silk Road 43 ASEAN Welcomes China's New Maritime Silk Road Initiatives
J a k a r t a , A u g . 1 5 ( X i n h u a ) — A S E A N member states welcome China’ s initiative of building the new Maritime Silk Road and wish to enhance corporation in various fields with China within the vision, ASEAN C o m m u n i t y A f f a i r s Development Director Danny Lee said. In a recent interview with Xinhua, Lee said the creation of the new Maritime Silk Road is a very good concept and will bring new opportunities for China and ASEAN to cooperate in many sectors, such as trade, infrastructure and cultural exchange. The initiative of building a Maritime silk road was proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Indonesia last October to deepen economic and maritime links and integrate all the existing cooperation mechanisms among the countries along the route of the maritime silk road. According to one version of the blueprint, the Maritime Silk Road begins in Fuzhou in Southeast China’s Fujian province, and heads south into territories of ASEAN nations. From Malacca Strait, the Maritime Silk Road turns west to countries along the Indian Ocean before meeting the land-based Silk Road in Venice via the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Lee said there is historical and practical basis for ASEAN and China to cooperate under the framework of Maritime Silk Road vision. “ASEAN and China built good and frequent trade cooperation 600 years ago, evidenced by the great voyage to Southeast Asia by admiral Zheng He,” he said. Photo taken on Aug. 28, 2014 shows a displayed chinaware of Practically, the director said nine countries out Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) during an antique exhibition of the Maritime Silk Road in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong of the ten- member ASEAN are Maritime nations and Province. Some 300 antiques related to the Maritime Silk ocean trade with China is vital for the development Road are displaying in the exhibiton. (Xinhua/Xu Suhui) of ASEAN members. 44 Building New Maritime Silk Road News From China September 2014
ASEAN is currently China’s third biggest trading partner with annual bilateral trade at more than 400 billion U.S. dollars and most of t r a d i n g g o o d s a r e transported via shipping lanes. Lee, a former editor at the Singapore’s Channel N e w s A s i a T V, s a i d infrastructure in ASEAN especially the ports which are essential for the international trade are very poor and urgently
needed to be upgraded. Visitors are watching historical relics in the Maritime Silk Road Exhibition organized by Chinese “China has strong Cultural Relics Bureau, Beijing and Fujian Province. The exhibition will be also held in United experience and tech- Nations and ten ASEAN countries in five years from 2014. nology in infrastructure construction as well as the capital, and ASEAN hails Maritime Silk Road as it will spur the economic China’s initiatives in establishing the Asian development of ASEAN. Infrastructure Investment Bank,” Lee noted. “Besides, the Maritime Silk Road can also He said that ASEAN is set to build a single market promote the people-to- people contact and enhance Economic Community spanning the 10-nation bloc understanding between China and ASEAN as well as by 2015 and ASEAN can benefit from building the countries among ASEAN itself,” Lee said.
China's Silk Road Initiatives Could Revive Vital Link Between East and West
Dhaka, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — China’s initiatives of done, this could result in a new form of global reviving the ancient Silk Road through a network of cooperation in economic, financial and roads and maritime linkages will boost cooperation technological aspects and could usher in an between China and the various regional blocs and interdependence of humankind and its rich could alter the economic landscape of a vast area diversity setting aside fears of clashes among stretching from Asia to Europe, according to experts ideologies, cultural beliefs and traditions. “History here. tells us that the erstwhile Silk Roads opened and “The architects of the Silk Road Economic Belt fostered exchanges among the diverse civilizations and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road aside from of China, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, Europe, revisiting a historical fact will also have the unique and Arabia, connecting the West and the East, opportunity in challenging the traditional notion of through political, economic and cultural connectivity using today’s advances in technology interactions primarily done by traders, merchants, and engineering,” Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban chairman of Unnayan Onneshan, a leading local dwellers who passed through the ancient route,” think tank here, told Xinhua recently. Titumir said He said that if the ambitious undertaking is China’s initiatives to build a Silk Road Economic News From China September 2014 Building New Maritime Silk Road 45
The century old bridge has witnessed the prosperity the Maritime Silk Road brought to Luoyang and will continue to see the promising future of the maritime Silk Road in the 21st century.(Xinhua photo)
Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road were put thousand years. “The revival of the Economic Belt forward by Chinese President Xi Jinping during two and the Maritime Road will further deepen political separate visits to Central Asia and Southeast Asia in and cultural ties between China and Bangladesh,” 2013. Titumir said. President Xi’s proposed “Silk Road Economic China is the largest trading partner of Belt” revival project could involve over 40 Asian and Bangladesh but is highly tilted in favor of China, said European countries and regions with a combined Titumir who also teaches Development Studies in population of 3 billion. Dhaka University. Improved connectivity is essential to deepen He said while China has substantial surplus with any type of relations among countries, including all of its South Asian trading partners, Beijing can political and cultural, said Fahmida Khatun, head of offset this imbalance by investing more in these research of the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD), countries, particularly in infrastructure another local think tank. development in order to promote long-term Khatun said that China’s proposal will help to strategic and stable environment in the region. further deepen its political and cultural ties with “Expanding the financing channels for both countries in the region, including Bangladesh. country-specific and sub-regional cooperation “It will also pave the way for bolstering projects through vehicles such as the envisaged economic ties between China and the countries in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank would the region,” she said. provide a financial platform for connectivity Bangladesh and China have a rich heritage of between China and Bangladesh, inter-connectivity cultural and trade interaction developed through among SAARC members and with countries in the the South-West Silk Route, the ancient tea route and ASEAN region,” Titumir said. the maritime Silk Road, dating back to over two He said that China can demonstrate its much- 46 Culture & Life News From China September 2014
vaunted notion of “ peaceful rise” through situated in-between the two largest markets of the confidence building measures through its good world, India and China, and in the close maritime neighbor principle which is based on mutual trust proximity with the two land-locked South Asian and respect of each country’s social, economic and nations, Nepal and Bhutan, and the Northeastern political structures. “Historically, a strong China has states of India, according to Titumir. not been associated with aggression or Titumir said that at present Bangladesh has a expansionism and has never voted in favor of number of projects in mind that include the highway cessation or annexation by any country at the United project to connect Chittagong and Kunming through Nations,” Titumir said. Myanmar. If fully operational, the project could give Bangladesh an entry into the Mekong sub- region, besides China, accelerating trade and facilitating people-to- people contacts, he said. Khatun said that t h e B a n g l a d e s h i government should n o w c o n d u c t a feasibility study for its role in the proposed Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. A scene of the Yangshan Port of Shanghai, one of the new starting places of maritime silk road. “Initial feasibility studies should be The idea of an Economic Belt and the Maritime conducted now and the proper government agency Road could put Bangladesh, with the Bay of Bengal in should come up with a final decision,” Khatun said. the South, as a trade hub since it is geographically
CULTURE & LIFE
Xi Wants Teaching to be Most Respected Profession
Beijing, (Xinhua) — President Xi Jinping on 9 He called on teachers to set the bar high and September, the eve of Teachers’ Day in China, urged dedicate themselves to the cause of modernization. Party organs and governments to make teaching the He urged governments at all levels to put education most respected job in China. at their top of their agenda and continue education Xi was speaking at Beijing Normal University, reform. where he visited labs and teaching sessions, talking At a session for teachers from rural areas, Xi said with students and the faculty. more efforts should be put into the poor western, The improvement of education and the rural, remote and island areas. He told the teachers prosperity of the nation need teachers with sound that “China will be strong if the youth are strong; ethics, great teaching skills and high energy levels, China will be strong if the central and western said Xi. regions are strong.” News From China September 2014 Culture & Life 47
In a speech at the end of his tour, Xi said that good teachers, generation after generation, are the hope of a nation. “The importance of teachers lies in shaping souls, forging lives and crafting humans... To become a good teacher, one must have lofty ideals, solid knowledge and a kind heart.” Xi urged Communist Party committees and governments at various levels to focus on the professionalism of teachers, to care about them, pay them better, Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with teachers and students at Beijing Normal and protect their rights and University in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 9, 2014. Xi made an inspection tour to Beijing interests, making teaching the Normal University Tuesday,the eve of Teachers'Day in China.( Xinhua/Pang Xinglei) most respected job in China.
Before the tour, Xi met and congratulated award winning teachers. (September 10, 2014, is the 30th National Teachers’ Day in China. Celebrations were held in many cities).
Students hug their teacher at a school in Langfang, north China's Hebei Province, Sept. 10, 2014. Wednesday marks China's Teachers' Day, which is celebrated each year on the day of Sept. 10. (Xinhua/Li Xiaoguo)
“Today’s students are the major driving force that will realize our great Chinese dream: the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Teachers are dream builders, undertaking their mission to forge a Students from a primary school attend a traditional homage- paying to teachers to mark the National Teachers' Day at the ‘dream team’,” he said, urging all teachers to make a Confucius Temple in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 10, 2014. greater contribution to the educational cause. (Xinhua/Zhou Liang)
A Young African Journalist's First Experience in China by Paul Ntambara
Beijing, Sept. 5 (Xinhuanet) — In Africa, we have loosely translated it means: even though the eyes of a a saying that goes: Ohoho aniwa soso nanso enhu stranger are big, they cannot see anything. hwee Ohoho aniwa soso de nanso enhu hwee, I came to realize the wisdom of this saying 48 Culture & Life News From China September 2014
during my first few days in Beijing. able to visit the National Museum, the Chairman Mao Beijing can be an intimidating place. With a mausoleum and the Forbidden City. history of over 3,000 years as a city and over 850 The scarcity of black people in Beijing and in years as the capital, its history and culture is mind- China as a whole is glaring. At the Forbidden City I blowing. The streets are paved with history and was literally dragged into people’s photos, they “Beijingers” are always eager to share their city’s couldn’t let an opportunity of taking a photo with a illustrious story. black man just pass. It was exciting, it was tiring. I had As a non Chinese speaker, the first challenge I gone to see the attractions in the Forbidden City but faced during my first few days was finding my way in here I was an attraction! I thought of charging a fee, Beijing. I could not ask for directions. I had two eyes, well it was a thought, a wild thought and it remained actually four if you factor in my spectacles but just that. getting lost was the easiest thing that I have ever A visit to the Badaling section of the Great Wall done! showed me one of mankind’s astonishing Laden with the experience of having lived in accomplishments; a some 7,000 km stone and brick other European capitals like London, I knew well wall built in 221 BC, as my guide explained. that it would just be a matter of time before I Built by Emperor Qin Shihuang as a defense conquer this touristic city. It has been a revelation. against the Huns and other warrior tribes from the From the Hutongs in Nongluxia and Wangfujing, North, today, it is China’s emblem to the rest of the the Old Beijing in Qiamen serving the famous Peking world. Duck to the major tourists, spots of the Forbidden Climbing the great wall was coming face–to- face City, Tiananmen Square, the Great Wall and the with history. In China, it is said that climbing the Lama Temple, every day comes with a new Great Wall is one of the biggest accomplishments any experience in this great city. Chinese can make during their life time. Despite the wave of globalization that has I was curious to know from my Chinese friend negatively affected indigenous cultures of many why this was considered an important milestone. countries, “the center still holds” in China. At the The answer was in the famous words of the founder nearby Ritan Park, the elderly still gather at dawn of modern China, Chairman Mao Zedong. and later in the evening for Tai Chi, a traditional He is quoted to have said: “If you have never been shadow boxing for fitness. to the Great Wall, you are not a true man. “It was then MacDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, are some of clear to me that this was inspiration behind the zeal the top Western fast food outlets that have for numerous Chinese to climb the wall so as to be established shop here but they come nowhere near regarded as “true man”. I saw senior citizens in their local Chinese restaurants. In the past, the 70s or 80s climbing a step at a time just to fulfill one restaurants are still draped with lanterns and last requirement to be a true Chinese. crimson, serving Zhongguo Cai (Chinese food). And This is an experience that you can never get it is strictly chop sticks, no forks, no spoons. through reading, you have to be there and live it! I still remember the blank look on the face of a Travelling outside Beijing to some poorer waiter when a colleague asked for a fork. regions of China has further broadened my Beijing is teeming with tourists. The large mass understanding of China. The ethnic diversity has of people is overwhelming. Beijing is the city that conspired to bring out a rich cocktail of cultural seems to be on holiday everyday of the year. I was experience for any visitor to China. The difference in surprised to know that the biggest percentage of dress and food is further testament to China’s rich tourists in China is domestic tourists. No matter cultural heritage. what day of the week, major tourist spots are The rapid expansion of infrastructure is epic. jammed with endless stream of people wanting to The poor are being evacuated from high risk areas witness history. and settled in modern houses. The insistence on The Forbidden City is a bee-hive of activity. Line environmental protection to ensure a safe future for 1 on the Beijing subway is usually the busiest. There posterity is admirable. The sun wind power plant in is no reward for guessing why; it leads to the busy the northwest Hui Autonomous Region with 231 Tiananmen Square area from where you are also wind turbines is an example of efforts to produce News From China September 2014 Culture & Life 49 clean energy in an environmentally friendly provided with a hot lunch to keep them in school. It manner. is my conversation with these pupils that said a lot My interaction with urban and rural folks led to about China. one conclusion that no matter where people live, I asked one pupil what he wanted to be when he Ningxia, Guizhou or Yunnan, they are not any grows up. He took his time before answering despite different from those in Beijing or Rwanda. Like being urged on by his colleagues to give a quick anyone else, they have hopes, fears and dreams and answer. of course want to lead a decent life. “Jin Cha (Policeman),” he said and sped off. Urban folks are largely aloof and engrossed in And as I walked around the school, I came across the battle to meet demands of modern living but the a notice on a classroom wall, it was bold and clear rural folks can afford a minute to share their “DON’T SPIT ANYWHERE”. I hope this is a lesson experiences about life. these pupils will learn and keep with them as they On a visit to Ningxia, I visited Yaoshan Primary grow and in future carry it along as they move into School located in Tongxin County, Yaoshan cities like Beijing! And that boy, who will probably be Township. The school has about 130 pupils from a “Jin Cha”, I hope he will be there to enforce this. grade 1-6. It is a typical village school; many pupils (The writer is a resident foreign correspondent in walk about three kms to get to school. They are China)
Welcome to the Robot Restaurant in Kunshan, China
A new robot rest- aurant opened recently in Kunshan, China. The restaurant, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, follows in the tracks of another robotic eatery that opened in the north- eastern city of Harbin in 2012. T h e re s t a u ra n t ’ s founder Song Yugang told that there are 15 robots in total, in charging of greeting customers, delivering dishes, amuse- ment, security and even cooking. Each robot costs black robot track which is built on the basis of optical about 40,000 yuan ($A7030) — roughly equal to the magnetic induction technology to serve food, and annual salary of a human employee. politely ask customers to move out of their way “The robots can understand 40 daily sentences. whenever their routes are blocked. When arriving at They can’t get sick or ask for vacation. After charging a table, the 1.2 meters-high robot will say “Hello, up for two hours they can work for five hours,” he please take your order”. After dishes are removed, it added. will say “If nothing else, please touch my head to let The round-headed waiter robots move along a me leave for working.” 50 Culture & Life News From China September 2014
The cooking robot in kitchen
Children like the robot very much The Bumblebee can dance and sing to amuse customers
Chinese Chef Recipe – Dongpo Ink Fish
Dongpo ink fish is a well-know traditional Sichuan dish. Legend goes like this: Su Dongpo(1037-1101), a famous poet in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), used to wash his ink-slab in the river at the foot of the Lingyun Cliff when he studied at the Lingyun Temple. The fish in the river drank the ink so that they became as black as ink. Hence people call the fish “Dongpo ink fish.” With the Giant Buddha at Leshan gaining recognition in the world, the fish also won its fame, placed among the three famous river fishes of Sichuan (the other two: Jiangtuan, a yellow river can fish; Feituo, a dark river catfish). Tourists to Leshan often take pleasure in tasting the delicacy. Ingredients: One fresh ink fish or the other kind of lake fish Bean sauce (750g) Steeped and cooked lard 50g each Sesame oil Grated scallion 15g News From China September 2014 Culture & Life 51
One scallion stalk sauce. Grated ginger 10g 2. Heat rapeseed oil to 80% hot. Rub fish with Grated garlic 10g cornstarch flour. Lift up the fish by tail. Sprinkle Vinegar 40g hot oil on the cuts. When the cuts turn up the fish Shaoxing rice wine 15g sets shape, deep-fry the fish until golden-brown. Cornstarch 7g Take out and put it on a plate. Salt 1.5g 3. Retain 50g oil in the work. Add lard 50g, scallion, Soy sauce 25g ginger, garlic and bean sauce and stir-fry until Cooked rapeseed oil 1.5kg (150g to be consumed) aromatic. Add broth, sugar, soy sauce and Broth and sugar to taste thicken with steeped cornstarch solution. Put in Preparation & Cooking steps: some grated scallion, add vinegar and sesame 1. Clean the ink fish. Slice and remove spine. Make oil. Sprinkle on the fish immediately. Finally 6 or 7 cuts in each side. Rub salt and rice wine on sprinkle on some scallion shreds and serve. the fish. Shred the scallion stalk. Mash the bean
Chinese Chengyu & Its Story – What is Said Carries Weight
In ancient times, there was a prime minister After seeing their lack of response, Shang Yang named Shang Yang in the State of Qin. He was held in raised his voice and said, “Anyone who carries the high regard by the King. In the year 359 BC, he pole to the north gate will get 50 ounces of silver.” A wanted to reform the system politically in order to brave man did it and was immediately given 50 promote economic development. But he was afraid ounces of silver. Others in the crowd then regretted that the people would not believe local authorities. not trying. So he came up with an idea. In this way, Shang Yang achieved his goal. Soon One day, he had a 10-meter-long pole erected at after, the State of Qin became the strongest country the south gate outside the capital. Then he told the around. crowd that whoever successfully carried the pole to Today, people use the phrase to reconfirm that the north gate would be awarded 10 ounces of silver. one can keep his promise. Everyone was astonished, but nobody dared to try. 52 Culture & Life News From China September 2014 News From China September 2014 Culture & Life 53 Features
Young athletes enjoy performance of Chinese Opera in Nanjing
An athlete (front R2) poses for a photo with acters during a visit to Jinling Theater at Laomendong, Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, August 24, 2014. Young athletes are invited by the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games organizing committee to an traditional opera tour to Jinling Theater where they enjoy performance of traditional Chinese opera, including Beijing opera, Kun opera and so on. (Xinhua/Shen Peng)
Athletes learn a hand pose with an actress during a visit to Jinling Theater at Laomendong, Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, August 24, 2014. Young athletes are invited by the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games organizing committee to an traditional opera tour to Jinling Theater where they enjoy performance of traditional Chinese opera, including Beijing opera, Kun opera and so on. (Xinhua/Shen Peng) 54 Culture & Life News From China September 2014
Members of Canadian delegation (C) learns a pose from an actor during a visit to Jinling Theater at Laomendong, Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, August 24, 2014. Young athletes are invited by the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games organizing committee to an traditional opera tour to Jinling Theater where they enjoy performance of traditional Chinese opera, including Beijing opera, Kun opera and so on. (Xinhua/Shen Peng)
Athletes watch an actress doing her makeup during a visit to Jinling Theater at Laomendong, Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, August 24, 2014. Young athletes are invited by the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games organizing committee to an traditional opera tour to Jinling Theater where they enjoy performance of traditional Chinese opera, including Beijing opera, Kun opera and so on. (Xinhua/Shen Peng) News From China September 2014 Culture & Life 55
3rd Shaolin Cultural Festival to be held in London
Founder of Shaolin Temple UK, master Shi Yanzi (3rd L, 2nd Row) and Dr. Ding Ding (2nd L, 2nd Row), general secretary of Shaolin Europe Association, pose for a group photo during the press conference for the third Shaolin Cultural Festival held in Shaolin Temple UK in London, Britain on Aug. 20, 2014. The third Shaolin Cultural Festival will be held in London from Oct. 8 to Oct. 14, 2014. (Xinhua/Han Yan)
A disciple performs Shaolin Kung Fu during the press conference for the third Shaolin Cultural Festival held in Shaolin Temple UK in London, Britain on Aug. 20, 2014. The third Shaolin Cultural Festival will be held in London from Oct. 8 to Oct. 14, 2014. (Xinhua/Han Yan) 56 Culture & Life News From China September 2014
Feature: ASEAN speaks high of Chinese cultural performing arts
with ASEAN the flourishing Chinese arts and promote good-neighborliness and friendship between China and ASEAN. The 2014 ASEAN-China Cultural Exchange Year themed “Our Culture, Our Future” was proposed at the 16th ASEAN-China Summit last October, covering the cooperation and exchange in recreation and sports, media, tourism, youth and 15 other fields. To complement the celebration in Indonesia, the Chinese government specially presents two shows, the “Taiji Grand Stage Show”and “Colorful China” with distinct artistic features, while the latter is a brilliant performance of ethnic song, dance and musical instruments which will be shown on Friday in Jakarta. ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh speaks at the Yose Rizal Damuri, head of the Department of opening ceremony of the special celebration of 2014 China- ASEAN cultural exchange year in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 18, Economics at the Jakarta-based Center for Strategic 2014. The special celebration of the 2014 China-ASEAN and International Studies, shared with Xinhua that cultural exchange year in Indonesia is organized by Chinese Ministry of Culture and expected to conclude its performance ASEAN and China need to do this kind of cultural on Friday. (Xinhua/He Changshan) exchanges a little bit more and often. “Cultural exchange among countries is very important as it Jakarta, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) — “The show was very will promote our understanding and deepen successful and could fully describe the Chinese international friendship,” Damuri said. culture, as an audience, what I want to say is ‘I am Meanwhile, Australian Ambassador to ASEAN longing for more’”, an official from ASEAN Simon Merrifield said that the cultural performance secretariat has said. on Monday night was a very sophisticated one The one-hour Taiji Grand Stage Show which brought by China to ASEAN and set a real example for featured a Kung Fu drama integrating seven kinds of other conventional cultures to perform in a dynamic time-honored Chinese feats with flexible lighting, and modern way. backgrounds and multimedia display is part of the The special celebration of the 2014 China- special celebration of the 2014 China-ASEAN ASEAN cultural exchange year in Indonesia is cultural exchange year. “Taiji conveys a harmonious organized by Chinese Ministry of Culture and balance of ideas and is the essence of Chinese expected to conclude its performance on Friday. culture,” ASEAN Community Affairs Development Director Danny Lee told Xinhua after the show. “I wish more and more Chinese culture like Taiji can come to ASEAN,” he noted. More than 500 people, including ambassadors and diplomats to ASEAN, Indonesian officials, business people and representatives of local Chinese communities packed the theater Monday evening. Chinese Minister of Culture Cai Wu said in a congratulatory messages on the opening ceremony that the shows Artists perform at a show, part of the special celebration of 2014 China-ASEAN cultural prepared for this China-ASEAN exchange year in Jakarta, Indonesia. The special celebration of the 2014 China-ASEAN cultural exchange is set to share cultural exchange year in Indonesia is organized by Chinese Ministry of Culture and expected to conclude its performance on Friday. (Xinhua/He Changshan) News From China September 2014 Tibet Today 57
TIBET TODAY
China Invests 30 Billion Yuan on Tibet Water Infrastructure
Beijing, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) — China invested a total of 30 billion yuan (4.87 billion U.S. dollars) on water infrastructure projects in the Tibet Autonomous Region in the last two decades, data from the Ministry of Water Resources showed on Aug. 23,2014. More than 1,000 projects have been organized by the ministry since China initiated a program to aid the region about 20 years ago. The facilities provided safe drinking water for 2.39 million people, and the works also brought electricity to about 360,000 herdsmen, said the ministry. Photo taken on July 10, 2014 shows the water that melts from glaciers on the The area of farmland under Sapukonglagabo Mountain in Biru County of Nagqu Prefecture, southwest irrigation in Tibet is over 3 million mu, China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Tang Zhaoming) or 200,000 hectares.
Tibet's Second Railway Line Opens
A passenger train from Lhasa to Xigaze is on standby at Lhasa railway station in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 15, 2014. (Xinhua/Liu Changlong) 58 Tibet Today News From China September 2014
Lhasa, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — A second railway line in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, an extension of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, the world’s highest, was officially put into use on Aug. 15,2014. The 251-km railway line links the regional capital Lhasa and Xigaze, the second-largest city in the region. It reduces the travel time from the current four hours by highway to around two hours. The new railway brings the total length of operating railways in Tibet to 802 km. Construction of the railway started in 2010 with an investment of 13.28 billion yuan (2.16 billion U.S. dollars). A passenger (R) asks for ticket information at Lhasa railway station in Lhasa, Tickets for the new line went on capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 15, 2014. The second sale Friday. The first passenger train is railway line in Tibet, an extension of the Qinghai-Tibet railway, the world's highest, was officially put into use on Aug. 15. (Xinhua/Liu Changlong) scheduled to leave Lhasa for Xigaze at 9 a.m. Saturday. technologies for high plateau railway construction, “The railway will make transportation of our he said. goods more convenient and reduce the transport Its route also extends through the 60-km-long costs a lot, compared with highways,” said Jampa Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon region, which Daintar, general manager of a Tibetan foodstuff has multiple hot or thermal springs ranging from 40 company in Xigaze, which produces traditional to 90 degrees Celsius. barley liquor and other food products. “Drilling into the hot rocks, rail workers had Due to complicated geological conditions, difficulty breathing due to oxygen deficiency,” said numerous bridges and tunnels and hefty investment Xu. in environmental protection, the cost of the railway The Lhasa-Xigaze railway, which lies in alpine exceeded 50,000 yuan per meter on average, making valleys along the Yarlung Zangbo River, showcases it the most expensive in China’s history. China’s modern railway bridge and tunnel-building Zhang Lizhong, deputy head of the Lhasa-Xigaze technology. railway construction headquarters, said the rail Its 116 bridges and 29 tunnels account for 46 route design has attempted to bypass a state-level percent of the total length of the railway. black-necked crane nature reserve in the middle In 2006, the Qinghai-Tibet railway began reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River and a water operation, introducing railway transportation into source protection area in Qushui County. Tibet for the first time in history. The railway links To lessen the impact on the migration of wild Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, with Lhasa. animals, viaducts were built on major sections of the Railway service has greatly boosted Tibet’s route, said Zhang. tourism and other sectors. The Lhasa-Xigaze railway represents a new Tourist arrivals in Tibet reached 12.9 million last stage in Chinese rail construction, said Xu year from 1.8 million in 2005. Tourism revenue Hongchun, the railway’s chief designer. increased from 1.94 billion yuan to 16.5 billion yuan It demonstrates that China has mastered mature during the period. News From China September 2014 Tibet Today 59
Tonzhub, a hotel owner in Lnaze County, Xigaze, Wenxi, head of Lhasa Customs. Driven by the says he plans to renovate and expand the hotel. extended line, Tibet’s foreign trade should enter a “More tourists will come here with the new golden period of growth. railway in operation,” says Tonzhub. With more than 4000 km of borders on Bhutan, Tourists form home and abroad will soon realize India, Myanmar and Nepal, Tibet’s foreign trade their dreams of stepping onto the pure, holy land, relies on border ports and increased to 3.3 billion said Wang Songping, deputy head of the region’s U.S. dollars in 2013 from 1.36 billion U.S. dollars in tourism bureau. 2011. By the end of 2013, the number of tourism Construction of another railway linking Lhasa to personnel in Tibet stood at more than 300,000. Nyingchi in the southeast of Tibet is expected to start Farmers and herdsmen living along the railway later this year. benefit from running family inns and restaurants. Railways connecting Xigaze with Yadong, The extension of the Qinghai-Tibet railway will Jilung and Nyalam border ports are planned in the accelerate the construction of land trade channels long run, according to Yang Yulin, a Tibet railway between Tibet and South Asian countries, said Wang official.
The Young Apprentice Monk on the Mountains Text by Sonam Gyatso & Photo by Jogod
The 19-year-old Sonam Gyatso was born into a farming family in Lhoka Prefecture. He came to the Gongkar Chode Monastery after graduating from high school. He is now the youngest monk there.His dream is to get a degree of Geshi, and become a teacher of scriptures, laws, classics, and cultural knowledge, so that he can guide more young monks onto the road of Buddhism, and pray for the people. The Gongkar Chode Monastery, sitting at an altitude of 3598 meters, is an important monastery of the Sakya sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Over 60 monks live and study in this monastery. As a young Sakya sect apprentice monk, Adding butter for the light. Sonam Gyatso is studying Tibetan grammar,poetry, rhetoric, astronomy,and can study Buddhist theory in a comprehensive orthography. manner, i.e. the Five Principal Subjects of Sutra: Of course he also has to recite scriptures.After Perfection of Wisdom, Avoidance of Extremes, Logic, finishing the foundation courses, apprentice monks Monastic Discipline, Metaphysics and 18 classics of 60 Tibet Today News From China September 2014
Sakya sect. They have to take part in many exams of apprentice monks study for more than ten hours, debating scriptures. To qualify for the exam for without much relaxation or entertainment. There is elementary Geshi degree, an apprentice monk needs no TV set there. They can only go back home once at least 10 years of hard work. As he is new here, every month or every two months. The good news is Sonam Gyatso spends more time on cultural that a basketball stand will be installed in the knowledge and scriptures than others. He wishes monastery next year, so young men like Sonam that he could catch up with his classmates who came Gyatso will be able to stretch their legs and relax a here earlier than him as soon as possible. little during their breaks. Life in the monastery is austere. Each day, the
Sonam Gyatso and another monk in the Gongkar Chode Sonam Gyatso. Monastery.
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A night view of the Nanpu Bridge in Shanghai, China.
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