Company shake-up Soothing sport Yao honored Surfing helps asylum-seekers Towering contribution earnsns Telecom equipment maker ZTE beat their fear of the sea place in Basketball Hall ofFam Famee >p13 reshuffles top executives > WORLD, PAGE 10 > PAGES 3, 24 WEDNESDAY, April 6, 2016 chinadaily.com.cn ¥2 AUCTION WILDLIFE Collector Netizens hoping pays $34.8m for painter’s to catch glimpse late artwork of mating pandas By LIN QI [email protected] By HUANG ZHILING between a 16-year-old panda, in Chengdu Wu Gang, and 9-year-old Cui A huge ink-and-color work [email protected] Cui, who were introduced by of master painter Zhang Daqi- keepers of the center’s Bifeng- an (1899-1983) fetched Some netizens checking the xia base in Ya’an on Sunday. HK$270 million ($34.8 mil- 24/7 live video feed at a Mating in captivity had long lion) at a Hong Kong auction research center for giant pan- been a challenge for the pan- on Tuesday, setting an auction das in Sichuan province are das, followed by equally diffi- record for the artist. hoping to catch a glimpse of cult pregnancies and Peach Blossom Spring,a the bears in action. challenges in the care of new- hanging-scroll landscape that Since spring is mating sea- born cubs, researchers said. Zhang made a year before his son at the China Conservation That has changed over the death, aroused a heated bid- and Research Center for the past 20 years, as researchers ding war in the salesroom of Giant Panda in Ya’an, Sichuan have learned more about the Sotheby’s major spring auction. province, 20 video cameras bears. It finally went to Liu Yiqian, a have been installed at the cen- In the early years, “only 20 billionaire collector from ter by iPanda.com to offer a percent of the pandas could Shanghai who made headlines Foreign Minister Wang Yi greets Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s new foreign minister and leader of the National League for Democracy party, continuous view of the pan- have sex naturally. To motivate last year for spending $170 mil- in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Tuesday. AUNG SHINE OO / AP das’ lives. male pandas’ sex drive, lion on Amedeo Modigliani’s Those disappointed by the researchers let them watch Nu Couche (“Reclining Nude”) live feed can turn to panda- videos of other pandas mat- in a New York auction. DIPLOMACY mating video clips on the site. ing” and fed them an aphro- Peach Blossom Spring, One clip shows an encounter disiac, said Zhang Heming, which is 2 meters long, exem- the panda center’s chief. plifies Zhang’s mastery and cre- Now, between 70 and 80 ativity in the po cai (splashed Global panda percent of the pandas can have ink and color) technique — an China-Myanmar relations sex naturally, he said. artistic approach he invented in population A 2015 panda census by the his later years. Because of his Captivity Wild State Forestry Administration deteriorated eyesight at the 422 1,864 tallied 422 captive pandas time, Zhang skipped portraying 2,286 worldwide. Most are in the details and instead boldly reach ‘new starting point’ Ya’an research center and the total splashed colors on paper to Chengdu Research Base of achieve a feeling of poetry and Giant Panda Breeding. grandeur. Foreign ministers meet in Naypyitaw just days after government takes office Launched by China Net- PANDAS BORN IN 2015 work Television in 2013, iPan- By ZHANG YUNBI ed the friendship between opposition party. improve the relationship Twins: da.com aired a live broadcast and WANG XU the two neighbors. At a news conference after between the two countries,” 16 pairs of two pairs of mating pandas “China-Myanmar rela- the meeting with Wang, she he said. for the first time in April last Chinese Foreign Minister tions are now at a new histor- described relations as “very China is Myanmar’s larg- 47 year. Wang Yi said in Naypyitaw, ical starting point,” he said. important politically as well est trade partner and invest- total During a live broadcast ear- Myanmar, on Tuesday that Wang, who arrived in as socially and economical- ment source. lier this month, Luo Bo, depu- the two nations should “rein- Myanmar on Tuesday for a ly”, Agence France-Presse Observers said Myanmar’s Did not ty chief of the animal force high-level exchanges as two-day visit, is the first top reported. new administration will pur- survive: 4 Others: 11 management department of Source: State Forestry Administration, soon as possible” and “prop- foreign diplomat to call Wang said China was sue greater economic Chengdu Research Base of Giant the Ya’an base, said Cui Cui erly tackle issues facing their upon Suu Kyi since the new eager to “build more confi- growth and address the dire Panda Breeding cooperation”. government took office on dence” between the nations need for industries. CHINA DAILY SEE “PANDAS” PAGE 4 While meeting with his March 30. and vowed that Beijing Nyunt Maung Shein, Myanmar counterpart Suu Kyi led a landslide would support Myanmar’s chairman of the Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi, Wang victory for the National process of national reconcili- Institute of Strategic and said his visit to Myanmar League for Democracy, ation. International Studies, told ANTI-GRAFT days after the new govern- which before the election “China is a good neighbor ment took office highlight- victory was an influential to Myanmar. We want to SEE “DIPLOMACY” PAGE 3 Ex-military leader KOREAN PENINSULA to be prosecuted on Beijing restricts trade with Pyongyang corruption charge Peach Blossom Spring PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY By WANG QINGYUN However, China exempted honoring the resolution of the China has issued such a By CAO YIN Procedure Law, military pros- and MENG JING imports of coal intended for UN Security Council, said Shi statement in implementing [email protected] ecutors will hand over the case “the people’s well-being” and Yongming, a researcher of the UN sanctions against Pyong- to the country’s military court. For Peach Blossom Spring, Beijing has banned not connected to nuclear or China Institute of Interna- yang. Guo Boxiong, a former senior Authorities will deal with Zhang employed layers of mal- imports of iron ore from missile programs. tional Studies. In 2013, several govern- military leader, will be charged Guo’s family members and achite green to depict a moun- Pyongyang as well as exports Export bans on jet and However, the internation- mental departments, with corruption, China others implicated in the case tain densely planted with of jet fuel and other oil prod- rocket fuel included excep- al community must seek a including the Ministry of announced on Tuesday while without tolerance, said a state- trees, and at the bottom he ucts used to make rocket tions for “basic humanitar- way for peaceful resolution Commerce and the Ministry pressing ahead with its anti- ment from the military procu- used pink shades to show the fuel, outlining China’s ian needs”,including civilian of the Korean Peninsula of Transport, issued notices graft campaign. ratorate. blossoming of peach trees, restriction on trade with the passenger planes flying out- nuclear issue, Shi said. to implement a UN Security Investigations by military Guo’s son, Guo Zhenggang, thereby presenting a blissful, country on Tuesday. side the DPRK. The way to truly resolve Council resolution in prosecutors found that Guo, who was a major general, was tranquil scene. The Ministry of Com- Other restricted minerals the issue is through political response to a DPRK nuclear who was vice-chairman of the put under investigation for Zhang created the painting merce published a list on its include vanadium and tita- dialogue, he said. test in February that year. powerful Central Military corruption in February last at his well-known residence website, saying it also would nium, both used in steel “The sanctions are intend- Wang said this year’s Commission before retiring in year. and studio, the Abode of Maya, ban imports of gold and alloys. ed to urge the DPRK to come embargo list, in which the 2012, collected bribes for Since March last year, doz- located in the Wai-shuang-hsi rare-earth elements from The UN Security Council back to the negotiating table. exceptions are listed, shows arranging promotions for oth- ens of military officials have area on the outskirts of Taipei. the Democratic People’s unanimously passed a reso- The sanctions themselves that China is fully imple- ers, Xinhua News Agency said. been exposed for allegedly He settled in Taiwan in 1976 Republic of Korea in line lution in early March cannot be deemed as a pur- menting UN Security Coun- Guo’s case is being handed violating discipline and laws, after decades of living in Brazil with new UN sanctions. expanding UN sanctions pose,” he said, adding that cil Resolution 2270 while over for prosecution now that as part of the country’s drive and the United States. The majority of the following the DPRK’s nucle- without political dialogue, considering the DPRK’s the investigation is completed, in recent years to root out The painting had been kept DPRK’s exports to China are ar test on Jan 6 and subse- the sanctions “will surely humanitarian concerns. Xinhua said. corruption in the military. by the late Robert H. Ellsworth, minerals, and its exports to quent rocket launch. fail”. The military procuratorate Xu Caihou, another senior a renowned collector of Asian China account for about 90 China’s embargo state- Wang Junsheng, a Liu Ce in Shenyang and Reu- said that the amount of bribes military official who served art and furniture who was from percent of the country’s total ment, an implementation of researcher of the National ters contributed to this story.