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Contributors to peace Rare albino Xi envisions panda seen in Wolong cooperation snapshot
By HUANG ZHILING in Chengdu on big data [email protected] An albino panda has been spotted in the Wolong National Nature President’s message calls for tackling Reserve in Wenchuan county, Sich uan province. legal, security, governance challenges The reserve’s administrative bureau issued a photo of the all By MA SI, LU HAOTING China attaches great impor white panda on Saturday, showing it and YANG JUN in Guiyang tance to the development of the passing through a lush forest. big data industry and is willing to The photo, believed to be the President Xi Jinping called on share opportunities of the digital world’s first image of an albino pan Sunday for strengthened coopera economy’s development with oth da, taken in the wild, and clearly tion among countries to explore er countries and jointly explore shows the allwhite body and paws opportunities of digital, internet new growth drivers and develop of the panda captured by an infra based intelligent development ment paths by exploring new tech red camera around 2,000 meters and to properly address legal, nologies, new business forms and above sea level in the reserve. security and governance challen new models, Xi added. The only part of the panda’s body ges arising from big data industry With increasingly wider appli Chinese military officers Zhang Qiman (second from right) and Duanmu Donglin are awarded United that is not white are its eyes, which development. cations of digital technologies in Nations Peacekeeping Medals during a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York on Friday marking are red, the bureau said. He made the remarks in a con China, the country is expected to the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, which falls on Wednesday. LI MUZI / XINHUA Analyzing the photo of the panda gratulatory letter to the China generate and store 27.8 percent of See story, page 11 taken in midApril, experts from the International Big Data Industry global online data by 2025, up China Conservation and Research Expo 2019, which kicked off in from 23.4 percent last year, accord Center for the Giant Panda agreed Guiyang, Guizhou province. ing to a report by market research that the panda is an albino. The gen The new generation of informa er International Data Corp and der of the animal has yet to be deter tion technology, represented by the data storage firm Seagate. mined. internet, big data and artificial intel In comparison, the US share will Trump’s Japan visit to honor alliance Judging from its size, they esti ligence, is booming at present and stand at 17.5 percent by 2025, a mate, it is a juvenile between 1 to 2 has significant and profound influ drop from its 21 percent share in By CAI HONG Trump to Japan reveals just how years of age. ence on various countries’ economic 2018, the report added. [email protected] important the leadertoleader “A panda becomes an adult at the development, social progress and approach has been to Abe. age of 4. One year for a panda is the people’s lives, Xi said in the letter. See Data, page 3 The state visit of United States The first and most The ceremonial and symbolic equivalent of about 3.5 years for a President Donald Trump to Japan nature of his visit aside, Trump will human,” said Wang Lun, an official began on Sunday morning with a important purpose be taken to Japan’s Maritime Self at the center. round of golf with Japanese Prime is to showcase the Defense Force base in Yokosuka, Minister Shinzo Abe, followed by personal relationship Kanagawa prefecture, on Monday the Summer Grand Sumo Tourna to board the Japanese helicopter ment where the US leader present between the two carrier Kaga. ed the President’s Cup to the men.” Trump will be the first US presi winner. dent in modern history to set foot The centerpiece of the trip will Daniel Sneider, lecturer on on a Japanese warship. be Trump’s time on Monday with international policy at Stanford The Japanese government, and newly installed Japanese Emperor University Abe personally, want this visit to Naruhito, who has heralded the showcase the close security ties start of the new reign. The royal Japanese government to an extent between the two allies. couple will host, as is traditional that dwarfs similar efforts by other Though analysts believed that A rare allwhite albino panda is for state visits, a formal dinner ban governments around the globe,” he trade will not be the focus of the photographed in the Wolong quet for Trump on Monday. said. visit, Trump brought up trade with National Nature Reserve in Trump is the first foreign leader Abe has met and spoken by leaders from some of Japan’s lead Wenchuan county, Sichuan Mini robots attract visitors at the China International Big Data to make a state visit to Japan since phone with Trump more than 40 ing companies, including Toyota, province, on April 20. Industry Expo 2019, which began in Guiyang, Guizhou province, the May 1 enthronement of Naruhi times and has been twice invited to Honda and Nissan, on Saturday XINHUA on Sunday. QIU LINGFENG / FOR CHINA DAILY to. the president’s MaraLago estate evening. This is widely believed to under in Florida. And this is Trump’s sec “Japan has had a substantial score the importance of the Japan ond visit to Japan since occupying edge for many, many years, but Albinism exists in various verte US relationship, experts said. the White House. that’s OK, maybe that’s why you brates, but it is rare. It is usually In Tokyo Business Today, Daniel Sneider said the symbolic signifi like us so much,” Reuters quoted caused by genetic mutations in Greater market access Sneider, a lecturer on international cance of Trump’s encounter with him as saying. which melanin cannot be synthe policy at Stanford University, Japan’s new emperor cannot be The US and Japan are negotiat sized normally, with skin and body called Trump’s visit “almost com underestimated, adding that the ing a trade deal. hair expressed as white, yellowish to offset trade impact pletely free of serious policy discus Japanese government’s central “With this deal we hope to white or lightyellow. sion, but laden with policy goal in organizing this trip was to address the trade imbalance, Simple “albinism” mutations By WANG YU, CHEN JIA Inside purpose”. make sure that the US president remove the barriers to US exports do not affect the normal body and ZHOU LANXU The schedule for the visit is a was the first foreign leader to see and ensure fairness and reciprocity structure and physiological func Comment, pages 8, 9 carefully orchestrated series of the new emperor. in our relationship,” Trump said. tions of animals, and have no sig Greater access to China’s finan message moments, Sneider said. In a blog, Sheila A. Smith, senior Trump decided to delay new nificant impact on their activities cial sector will encourage global any problem. This causes volatility “And the first and most important fellow for Japan studies at the auto tariffs as his administration and reproduction except that investors and dispel the gloom and sluggishness in global finan purpose is to showcase the person Council on Foreign Relations, negotiates bilateral trade agree they are more easily spotted in clouding the global economy amid cial markets and hurts the global al relationship between the two wrote that the pomp and circum ments with Japan and Europe — the wild and their body is more Beijing’s trade tensions with economy,” said Guo Shuqing, the men, one cultivated by Abe and the stance planned for this visit by but only for six months. sensitive to direct sunlight, said Washington, according to senior People’s Bank of China’s Party sec Li Sheng, a researcher with the officials and economists. retary and also head of the China School of Life Sciences at Peking Chinese financial regulators are Banking and Insurance Regulato University. preparing a comprehensive open ry Commission. His keynote SHANGHAI PROVES Li, a bear specialist at the Interna ingup, with more new measures speech was delivered by a com tional Union for Conservation of in the pipeline. Foreign institu mission spokesman at a forum on Nature, has studied the image of the tions with advanced performance Saturday. ITSELF A CONSUMMATE HOST allwhite panda. in risk management, credit rating, Impact on the Chinese economy The panda is the first allwhite consumer finance, endowments will be very limited, said Guo. “Chi individual photographed, suggest and health insurance are especial nese financial markets, although ing that there is an albinism muta ly welcome, senior officials they were excessively affected by The city has come a long way since 1949 tion gene in the regional panda stressed over the weekend. trade tensions last year, are unlikely population in the reserve, accord The opening measures will off to be hit more dramatically going ing to the specialist. set part of the negative impacts of forward, as financial resilience is By XING YI in Shanghai “It was a challenge in view of the The panda looks strong, and its trade friction on economic recov strengthening.” [email protected] number of events being held with steps are steady, a sign that the ery, and enable China to reach its The huge domestic consumer in a very short period of time,” she genetic mutation does not affect its GDP growth target of above 6 per market in China will digest most of in Xiaoying first fell in love said. daily life, he said. cent this year, they said. the unsalable exports, and many of with Kenya in the 1980s But the city made the expo a suc Albino mutations can be inherit Under the trade pressure, the China’s exports will also shift to L when the movie Out of Afri cess by calling on its decades of ed. Each animal has two sets of world’s secondlargest economy is other foreign markets. The US will ca left her with a deep impression world’s first importthemed nation experience in hosting major inter genes from its parents. accelerating restructuring reform continue to purchase Chinamade of the East African nation. allevel expo. During the event, national events and receiving Only when the genes from both and shifting from an exportdomi goods if there are no substitutes, However, the first personal con which attracted more than 3,600 important foreign guests, Lin add parents contain the same mutation nated growth model to a more ser but US consumers will need to pay nection between Lin and the coun exhibitors from 172 countries and ed. do offspring show characteristics of vicesdriven model, they added. more, Guo said. try came decades later when she regions, the city received 168 groups With a variety of events being albinism. “The United States escalated accompanied the then deputy at the deputy ministerial level in a held to commemorate the city’s Duan Zhaogang, Party secretary trade tensions, but it cannot solve See Trade, page 3 prime minister of Kenya, Uhuru week. liberation, when the People’s Lib of Wolong’s administrative bureau, Kenyatta, to the opening of the To cater to thousands of foreign eration Army entered the city on said that the reserve will install Shanghai Expo in 2010. guests, Shanghai recruited special May 27, 1949, many people have more infrared cameras in the region Lin, a researcher at the Shanghai ists and more than 5,000 volunteers been recalling Shanghai’s contri where the allwhite panda was spot 国内统一编号: CN110091 国际标准编号: ISSN02539543 邮发代号:13 Institutes for International Studies, from higher education institutes. bution to China’s internationali ted. had another Kenyan encounter at Lin worked as a communications zation. If its offspring can be photo © 2019 China Daily All Rights Reserved A member of the the China International Import officer responsible for coordination graphed, it will be valuable for fur Vol.39 — No. 12186 Asia News Network Expo in Shanghai last year, the with the Kenyan delegation. See Shanghai, page 2 ther research, he said. CHINA DAILY Monday, May 27, 2019 | 3 TOP NEWS NPC chief’s Li: Tax, fee cuts help stimulate vitality Hungarian Premier calls for full implementation visit boosts of measures to consolidate growth mutual ties By XU WEI corporate burdens by 100 million [email protected] yuan. The premier voiced appreciation BUDAPEST — With this year Premier Li Keqiang called for full for Goertek’s efforts to prioritize marking the 70th anniversary of implementation of tax cuts and fee research and innovation and to SinoHungarian diplomatic ties, the reductions to better stimulate mar explore the domestic and interna recent visit to Hungary by China’s top ket vitality and consolidate eco tional markets. legislator Li Zhanshu has injected nomic growth during an inspection There is huge potential in the impetus into the traditional friend trip in Shandong province on Fri Chinese market, he said, and it is ship between the two countries. day and Saturday. important to win over consumers Meeting with Hungarian Presi The tax and fee cuts are crucial and the market with innovations in dent Janos Ader on Wednesday, measures to coping with complicat science and technology and Li, chairman of the Standing ing circumstances and to with through extensive cooperation. Committee of the National Peo standing new downward pressure Li pledged better policies to ple’s Congress, conveyed Presi on the economy, the premier said encourage businesses to increase dent Xi Jinping’s greetings. while visiting Weichai Group, a research and development and to Li said that after China and Hun manufacturer in Weifang, on Friday. improve the level of innovation gary lifted bilateral ties to a compre Over a longer period, such meas across the board in China. hensive strategic partnership in ures can also bolster growth poten Li also presided over a symposi 2017, their relationship entered a tial and broaden the tax base, so it is um on the tax and fee reductions in new stage featuring a “speedingup” important to ensure the lasting Jinan on Friday, the second meet of development. impact of the tax and fee reduc ing of its kind within two weeks. During the meeting, Li and Ader tions, he said. The Chinese economy, despite its spoke indepth about environmental In March, China rolled out a good start in the first quarter, has and resource protection. Li said that series of measures to reduce busi not yet consolidated its stable protecting the environment and cop nesses’ tax burdens and social momentum as it faces increasing ing with climate change requires insurance contributions by nearly 2 unstable factors and challenges Premier Li Keqiang asks locals about fruit prices at a grocery store during an inspection tour in countries to work together. trillion yuan ($290 billion), with from abroad, Li said at the symposi Weifang and Jinan, Shandong province, on Saturday. LIU WEIBING / XINHUA Ader said that both Hungary and manufacturing sector companies um. China attach great importance to being the largest beneficiaries. Although the tax and fee reduc environmental and resource pro Li encouraged businesses like tions will temporarily decrease fis ered and that the prices of materials He cautioned that they should macroregulation policies, he added. tection, and they can deepen coop Weichai to step up international cal revenues, they will bolster used in agriculture remain stable, not bend rules in ways that increase China will introduce further eration in such areas as water cooperation in innovation to businesses’ confidence to increase he said. burdens on businesses to alleviate relaxed terms and refined proce pollution prevention and manage ensure unrelenting growth in Chi investment for further growth, thus Li also called for local authorities the pressure on government dures for deductions of the VAT in ment, water resources development na’s manufacturing sector. creating jobs and shoring up eco to fully implement the tax and fee finance. the manufacturing sector and come and utilization. At Goertek Inc, an acoustic com nomic growth, he said. reductions and to maintain balance The Chinese economy is highly up with support policies for R&D When meeting with Hungarian ponents maker, Li learned that the It is important to ensure that all between fiscal revenues and resilient, and the government has and innovation in businesses, he Prime Minister Viktor Orban on tax cuts had already reduced its sectors see their tax burdens low expenditures. adequate room to maneuver in its said. Thursday, Li said relations between the two countries have maintained a smooth and healthy development. Hungary was the first European country to sign an intergovernmen Tariffs pose threat to global industrial chains, official says tal cooperation agreement with Chi na over the Belt and Road Initiative. By OUYANG SHIJIA, The nearly $200 billion of Chi processing for integrated circuits. kets, and Hikvision is not heavily Huawei’s purchases of US technolo Li called on the two sides to WANG JIANFEN nese goods hit by additional US tar The tariff hikes will bring troub reliant on US components for pro gy, some major domestic chipmak strengthen synergy of development and WANG SHUQING iffs on May 10 accounted for 41.8 les in China’s overseas manufactur duction, Mei said. ers will step in to offer the supply. strategies, deepen the cooperation percent of China’s US exports in ing market, but they will not lead to “Huawei’s chip arm HiSilicon has As their market share grows in the in economy, trade, investment, sci The tariff increases that the Unit 2018, or 8 percent of its total exports. a decline in China’s manufacturing produced 70 percent of global surveil future, they will gradually be able to ence and technology, agriculture ed States has placed on Chinese Fifty percent of the enterprises sector, Mei Xinyu, a researcher at lance chips. In past years, Japanese gain core capabilities and increase and interconnection. goods affect not only the interests of affected by those additional tariffs the Chinese Academy of Interna companies were Hikvision’s main their presence globally amid the In the meeting with Orban, Li Chinese companies and consumers, are foreign funded. Many of them are tional Trade and Economic Cooper chip suppliers, and now the major fierce competition.” pointed out that maintaining multi but also their US counterparts and US companies whose primary mar ation, said on Sunday. supplier is HiSilicon.” Mei added. Dongxing Securities analysts lateralism and free trade is the con threaten the security of global indus ket is in the US, Wang said. “The US no longer accounts for Mei said that although the ban noted in the report that the ban will sensus of most countries in the world. trial and supply chains, according to The recent US moves “abruptly such a significant market share as it will have certain impacts on Hua set off alarm bells in China, and the “China does not deliberately pur a senior Chinese industrial official. interfere with” the normal order of did in the old days,” Mei said. “And wei, the Chinese telecom company Chinese government and domestic sue a trade surplus and is willing to “We once again urge the US to the global integrated circuit indus the major market share is taken by has already prepared options to companies will accelerate the push resolve trade differences between stop unreasonably suppressing try and undermine its stable devel the domestic market, Europe, deal with the problem. for developing core industries, countries through negotiation on Chinese companies. Chinese com opment, he said. Japan and other emerging overseas A recent report by Dongxing including in chips manufacturing. the basis of mutual respect, equality panies deserve to invest and oper China’s chip industry has grown markets. The US move will gradual Securities said the US ban on Hua “As the division of the telecom and mutual benefit,” Li said. ate in a fair and just environment in on average 20 percent annually ly later affect its own market.” wei will foster demand for manu industrial chain has become global “Despite the impact of some the US and the world,” ViceMinis since 2012, with sales revenue Mei said the US ban on Chinese facturing independent and ized, the US ban will also affect US external factors, the Chinese econo ter of Industry and Information reaching 653.2 billion yuan ($94.7 tech titan Huawei and rumored controllable semiconductor com chipmakers’ income,” the report said. my has still maintained a healthy Technology Wang Zhijun said. billion) in 2018, Wang said. imposition of restrictions on Chinese ponents in China. “Huawei lists 33 US companies and stable development, and we are Concerning the US decision to He conceded that there is a sig surveillance giant Hikvision will not “We see remarkable room for among core suppliers, accounting for full of confidence in the Chinese further increase tariffs on Chinese nificant gap between China and hamper the growth of China’s tech growth in the nextgeneration 5G 36 percent of its total key suppliers.” economy,” Li said. imports, Wang said during a recent global leaders in the overall design, sector. and consumer electronics products Orban said Hungary firmly sup interview with news media that the manufacturing, testing of the rele The US accounts for only a small in the future,” the report said. “As Contact the writers at ports and actively participates in the total impact is “controllable”. vant equipment and raw material part of Hikvision’s overseas mar the US has imposed restrictions on [email protected] Belt and Road Initiative and is will ing to work with China to jointly safeguard the free trade system and Snowed under promote economic development in Data: IT to better bolster real economy Eurasia. During the talks with Hungarian Parliament Speaker Laszlo Kover on From page 1 “We will make a fresh push to ty which he understands as: Each Wednesday, Li said that the NPC will integrate cuttingedge information nation must be able to write and maintain friendly relations with the United Nations SecretaryGener technologies into the real economy, enforce its own laws that regulate Hungarian Parliament and draw on al Antonio Guterres said that from including establishing a national cyberspace, and ensure that cyber experience in legislation and super medicine to transportation to industrial data center, to better space works to the benefit of every vision to forge ahead with mutual farming, big data presents the power the country’s sprawling man one in the nation. understanding and trust. world with a remarkable tool to ufacturing sector,” Miao said at the “China’s articulation and imple Kover said he expected the NPC advance global progress, but with opening ceremony of the big data mentation of cyber sovereignty and Hungarian Parliament to con that opportunity also comes risk. expo. means it is a chance for the world to duct close exchanges, continuously “We must work together to According to the ministry, Chi see a different kind of organization enrich the contents of their coopera ensure that big data, and the tech na’s digital economy reached a for cyberspace, and a chance to see tion and better facilitate the coun nologies that it enables, are har total volume of over 31 trillion yuan that with the right structure, we can tries’ development. nessed for the benefit of mankind ($4.5 trillion), or 34.8 percent of its get tons of benefits,” Romer added. During Li’s threeday visit to Hun while minimizing the risks to devel GDP, in 2018. Lu Yong, vicepresident of Hua gary, he also visited a Hungarian opment, peace and security and Yang Xiaowei, deputy head of the wei Technologies Co, said China’s Chinese bilingual school, the human rights,” Guterres said in a Cyberspace Administration of Chi digital economy has thrived on the European logistics center of infor congratulatory letter to the expo. na, also called for more efforts to basis that China has built the mation and communications tech Miao Wei, minister of industry develop the homegrown big data world’s largest 4G network. nology giant Huawei, and a China and information technology, said sector and highlighted that stepping “5G is not just a faster 4G. It will Europe logistics cooperation park China has already made significant up research and development is key fundamentally reshape how enter for trade and business. progress in bolstering the big data to mastering core technologies. prises run businesses and overhaul Hungary was the last stop of Li’s industry with a string of big data Paul Romer, corecipient of the a wide range of industries by using 10day European tour, which includ Students preparing for gaokao, or national college entrance platforms established in sectors 2018 Nobel Prize in economics and data to create more value,” Lu said. ed visits to Norway and Austria. He exam, in June let off some steam in an activity organized by their such as manufacturing, commerce, professor of economics at New York returned to Beijing on Friday. school in Handan, Hebei province. HAO QUNYING / FOR CHINA DAILY finance, transportation and medi University, said he is impressed by Contact the writers at cal care. 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welcome to conduct all forms of are now capable of engaging in fierc control as the country’s debt level Trade: Services sector helps cushion blow financial business in China, except er competition with global peers as has shown signs of stabilizing, ing those being named on a nega their service abilities in many Zhang said. tive list, and authorities are aspects, such as banking and insur China’s overall debttoGDP ratio From page 1 the low inflation in the US. Mean 7 percent by 2035, said Zhu Min, a researching a new regulatory sys ance, have improved a lot over the had dropped to 249.4 percent by the while, any speculative trading on former deputy managing director tem, Chen said at the forum on Sat past years, Li said. end of 2018, 1.5 percentage points Research released by the Interna the Chinese currency amid its at the IMF. urday. Despite headwinds from the lower than a year earlier, according tional Monetary Fund on Friday depreciation pressure will “inevita “Marketoriented reform and Li Daokui, director of the Aca trade tensions, global investors are to the PBOC. showed that some of these tariffs bly suffer from a huge loss”, Guo said openingup will improve productiv demic Center for Chinese Economic still optimistic about China’s eco If trade tensions escalate further, have been passed on to US consum in his speech. ity in the service sector, which is an Practice and Thinking at Tsinghua nomic prospects, said Zhang Zhi more openingup policies in the sec ers, while others have been To eliminate bad outcomes from important thing that China is focus University, said China “should be wei, Deutsche Bank’s chief China tors of medical care and education absorbed by importers leading to trade tensions, further openingup ing on to stabilize economic more confident” in accelerating economist and head of China equity will help boost global investors’ con lower profit margins. in China’s services sector, together growth,” Zhu said. openingup of its financial sector, strategy. fidence in the Chinese economy, US restrictions on hightech with hightech development sup Chen Yulu, a vicegovernor of the which will help global investors Foreign investors believe that Zhang added. exports to China will push up Wash ported by artificial intelligence, PBOC, also supported a “fullscale” seize numerous opportunities in the China has enough policy tools to off ington’s trade deficit with China, will help lift Chinese economic opening of the financial sector. In Chinese market. set shortterm downside pressure, Contact the writers at and rising prices could also reverse growth from 6.3 percent to around the future, foreign investors are Domestic financial institutions while the financial risks are under [email protected]