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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. Guo is charged with taking with Guo as vice-chairman of the United States, and later was export volume, according to the harshest sanction the Institute of International was “huge”, although it didn’t the Central Military Commis- transferred to the collection of Lyu Chao, a researcher at the international community has Strategy of the Chinese Contact the writer at release the amount, and it said sion, was probed in March Sandy Mactaggart, a Canadian Liaoning Academy of Social adopted against the DPRK, Academy of Social Sciences, wangqingyun@ the 74-year-old had confessed 2014 for allegedly taking “mas- philanthropist and collector of Sciences. shows that Beijing is strictly said it is not the first time chinadaily.com.cn during the investigation. sive” bribes. Xu died of bladder Asian art. It was documented in A commentary on the Chi- cancer in March last year. important scholarly works and nese Ministry of Defense web- President Xi Jinping has exhibited many times in the site said on Tuesday that the made it a key goal to weed out United States. In the news A member of the military must take the necessa- corruption in the military. A C.K. Cheung, head of Sothe- Asia News Network ry steps to build discipline and number of high-level corrup- by’s Chinese paintings depart- 国内统一编号:CN11-0091 remove internal malaise. The tion cases have since been ment, said in a presale release CHINA LIFE 国际标准编号 :ISSN0253-9543 practice of military law and dis- exposed. that the painting is considered New traffic rule Writing award 邮发代号:1-3 cipline should be “merciless”, it In August, after Guo was put to be “a pivotal work from © 2016 China said. under investigation, Defense Zhang’s late years, alongside Beijing will ban electric bicycles on Children’s fiction writer Cao Daily All Rights Guo was expelled from the Minister Chang Wanquan Mount Lu,” another landscape 10 streets, with the intention of Wenxuan becomes first Chinese to Reserved Communist Party of China in pledged intensified efforts to ensuring safety and smooth traffic win a Hans Christian Andersen Vol.36 — by Zhang that is currently at No. 11207 July. run the army with “strict disci- the Taipei Palace Museum. flow. >p4 Award. > p18 Under the Chinese Criminal pline and in line with the law”. Wednesday, April 6, 2016 CHINA DAILY

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Looking ahead Hot topic Events and stories coming up in the next few days Understanding cuisine and culture MoreyoungChinese Sri Lankan leader to visit China travelersarepicking the flesh is gone. part of Cantonese cuisine, accommodationvia Pauline As all real gourmets know, and the “sauna prawns” At the invitation of Premier Li Keqiang, Sri Lankan Prime Minister home-rentingplatforms insteadofhotels. D. Loh there are few if any authentic described by Feng where live Ranil Wickremesinghe is set to pay an official visit to China from Cantonese restaurants in the crustaceans are thrown onto today till Saturday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Sri SECOND THOUGHTS Chinese capital, given that hot stones to sizzle is certain- Lanka is seeking to further cement its relations with China in the year the chefs have to cater to the ly not a Cantonese dish. ahead, Xinhua News Agency reported. Last month, the Sri Lankan heavy palates of native It just so happens that the government informed Chinese investors about the resumption of the Cantonese cuisine is much Northerners, a preference opportunistic restaurant construction of a multi-billion-dollar Port City project in the Sri Lank- These platforms maligned, often by those that is in direct contradic- owner patronized by Feng’s an capital Colombo, one year after its suspension. who are unfamiliar or who tion to the light, fresh flavors hosts saw a chance to make are my first had been exposed only to a of Cantonese cooking. Sizzling prawns that heat up easy money out of them. Aft- British politician set for Olympic walk choice when I section of the broader study. As Feng himself admits, debate on Cantonese er all, they are out to impress Michael Bates, former British min- It is especially unfortunate if his favorite supper is cold cuisine. CHEN XIAOTIE / FOR a famous movie maker with travel with fam- CHINA DAILY ister of state at the Home Office, is the person concerned is a rice soaked in hot water, a taste for drama, no? set to begin a 138-day walking trip ily or friends to well-known name, like a accompanied by the scal- Feng should do some famous director. lions and garlic from the last homework and do a film on from Argentine capital Buenos experience local Aires today with his China-born Filmmaker Feng Xiaogang meal’s leftovers. his hosts would lose no face. real Cantonese cooking, a wife Li Xuelin. The 3,000-kilome- life. But there recently wrote an article It is a well-known fact that And yes, it’s true. The branch of cuisine that swears posted online that claimed he eats no meat, he says, and South has been fortunate in by the “spirit of the wok” and ter trip in South America, which are safety con- aims to raise awareness of the 2016 Cantonese cuisine reflected just a little seafood — which that it has ready access to the the freshness of ingredients, Rio Olympics and its ideals, is cerns if I travel the cruelty of Han culture. is probably why his syco- best marine treasures and including vegetables and expected to end in Rio de Janeiro in August when this year’s Summer alone.” He went on to describe one phantic fans are so eager to mountain pleasures. But this aromatic garnishes like his Games conclude. particularly costly Cantonese impress him at this seafood does not necessarily mean favorite scallions and garlic. Jiang Nan, property compa- restaurant in Beijing that restaurant. monkey’s brains and live lob- Perhaps then he would ny employee in Dalian, Lia- catered to the rich, famous, The solution to Feng’s sters are on every menu. begin to understand that he Smartphone giant to release new devices oning province and dare we say it, corrupt. dilemma is simple. Instead You would, in fact, find it shouldn’t have been cringing Tech giant Huawei is expected to hold a media briefing today in Lon- This is where he says he is of making Cantonese cuisine hard to find monkey’s brains at the cost and cruelty of it don to release its latest products, including the widely anticipated P9 most often feted. a scapegoat, just be honest even in Guangdong’s provin- all, but more at the fact that smartphone. The press invitation has a tagline — “Change the way you “Renting homes He goes on to detail the with prospective hosts and cial capital Guangzhou, that he had been keeping the see the world” — which hints at the phone’s camera, said to come with is good for fre- rituals of eating live sea- they can happily go eat at den of iniquity where wild wrong company. high-quality Leica lenses after its recent partnership with the leading food, including lobster any of Beijing’s excellent veg- meats are supposedly con- optics company, according to industry insiders. quent travelers. sashimi where the feelers etarian restaurants. It won’t sumed so readily. Contact the writer at pau- But hotels are are still twitching even after be any cheaper either, and Seafood is only a small [email protected] much safer for On chinadaily.com.cn girls who like to travel alone.” Visit for breaking news and exclusive content Zeng Jie, online media reporter in Jinan, Shandong Video: Turning ‘junk into beauty’ province Lise Laura van den Bos, who is from the Netherlands, has been in China for seven years. She walks “I often book around recycling areas, collecting discarded items and turning them homes via these into handicrafts, such as bags, platforms. Dur- carpets and decorations. Many ing overseas people have lauded her efforts to turn “junk into beauty” to help trips, living in deal with environmental problems. Visit our website to read more about her. local homes List: World’s most expensive housing markets helps me better Three Chinese cities — Hong understand the Kong, Shanghai and Beijing — rank among the world’s 10 most local culture expensive places to buy a prime and make more home, according to the 2016 Wealth Report released by global friends.” property consultancy Knight Frank. Monaco (left) tops the list for the ninth consecutive year, with 17 square meters there costing $1 million, according to the report. Hong Kong comes in second, with $1 million buying 20 square meters. In Shanghai and Beijing, 46 square meters and 58 square meters are all you can get for Yang Hongbin, manufactur- that same amount. Our website presents a list of the most expensive hous- ing company technician in ing markets in the world. Xinhui, Guangdong province Candid camera: Stretch of romance Technology: Microsoft embraces artificial intelligence Tech giant Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said his compa- “The lodging Lu Kepeng crosses the street with his girlfriend, who wears a dress of balloons made by him, in Qingdao, Shandong province, on Mon- ny is committed to playing a key role in the emerging market for artificial day. HE HAIER / FOR CHINA DAILY intelligence-based chat software. During the Microsoft Developers Build Con- websites pro- ference in San Francisco last month, the company released a set of tools vide more which allow developers to build their own robots. options. But it Mobile: Xiaomi speeds up expansion in India can be uncom- This Day, That Year On Monday, leading Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi said that it has invested $25 million in India’s Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, along fortable to live with Intel Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Indian billionaire Rakesh in a stranger’s Item from April 6, 1988, in tion of tobacco. Its taxation Jhunjhunwala. The move indicated Xiaomi’s aim to duplicate its home mar- home.” China Daily: One of China’s brings in more than any oth- ket success in India by selling smartphones as platforms for internet servi- millions of smokers remains er source to the country’s ces. The company entered the Indian market in July 2014 and started local oblivious of an anti-smoking financial budget, totaling 17 manufacturing a year later. More than 75 percent of its smartphones sold in billboard in Beijing. The billion yuan last year. India are made in India. characters read, “If my father doesn’t quit smoking, it will The Chinese smoking pop- Society: Loess courtyard pit homes be difficult for me to be born.” ulation reached 316 million Authorities in Sanmenxia, Henan province, have been rolling out conserva- China launches a nation- last year, up 15 million from tion measures for the area’s traditional courtyard homes dug out of loess Wu Mengzhao, exhibition wide publicity campaign on the figure in 2010, according pits. The oldest yard among the earthen company employee in the world’s first No Smoking to a report from the Chinese finance last year, up 20.2 per- sified efforts to control dwellings goes back more than two centu- Chongqing Day tomorrow, to persuade Center for Disease Control cent from the previous year, smoking in public places. ries with six generations living under one Scan it! its millions of smokers to and Prevention. according to the State Tobac- At least 16 cities, including roof. More of the pit courtyards are being Read quit the habit. ... The country The tobacco industry con- co Monopoly Administration. Beijing and Shenzhen, have transformed into tourist attractions with more on COMPILED BY CHINA DAILY ranks first in the world in tributed 1.1 trillion yuan Faced with the rising num- passed their own tobacco many expected to open to the public later chinadaily. consumption and produc- ($170 billion) to public bers, authorities have inten- control rules. this year. com.cn

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FINANCE SINO-UK TIES Payouts eat into Xi extends land sale revenue greetings for 2015 to Queen By ZHENG YANGPENG zhegnyangpeng@chinadai- ly.com.cn

Most of China’s land sale revenue last year went to com- Elizabeth pensation and related spend- ing, leaving only a marginal sum to be used for other President sends birthday message to British expenditures, according to the monarch as Prince Andrew visits China Finance Ministry. A total of 2.68 trillion yuan By LI XIAOKUN ($414 billion), or 79.6 percent [email protected] of last year’s land sale fund spending, went to compensa- President Xi Jinping sent tion and preliminary land a congratulatory message development. Poetic pupils on Tuesday to Britain’s This left 688 billion yuan, Queen Elizabeth, the coun- or 20.4 percent of total Primary school students wearing costumes popular in ancient times perform at a poetry recital in Gongyi, Henan province, to com- try’s longest-reigning mon- Prince Andrew expenditure, as disposable memorate Du Fu (AD 712-770), a prominent poet from the Tang Dynasty (618-907). LI BO / XINHUA arch, who is due to revenue for local govern- celebrate her 90th birthday ments to build urban infra- this month. part of British diplomacy.” structure, social housing and SPORTS The president gave his Prince Andrew, who rural development, according message to Prince Andrew, passed on good wishes from to an annual statement on the queen’s second son, who the queen to Xi, is the first China’s land sales released on is visiting China. British royal family mem- Tuesday. “I understand that ... the ber to visit China since Xi This is in contrast to the Yao Ming elected to Hall of Fame United Kingdom will soon be visited Britain in October. It widespread perception that celebrating the 90th birth- was the first visit to Britain governments raked in a gigan- By SUN XIAOCHEN day of Her Majesty Queen by a Chinese head of state tic amount in land sale reve- sunxiaochen@ Elizabeth II and also the for a decade. nue last year to finance chinadaily.com.cn 95th ... of his Royal Highness Xi and first lady Peng Liyuan unspecified projects, with lit- the Duke of Edinburgh,” Xi were received by the royal fam- tle transparency. Despite a relatively short said when he met the prince ily with an impressive show of A recent Chinese media playing career, retired star at the Great Hall of the Peo- hospitality. report said that in the past 17 Yao Ming has been elected a ple. Prince Andrew accompa- years, land worth 27.3 trillion basketball hall of famer for “So ... I’d like to send my nied Xi to six events during yuan had been sold, but there his role in helping to spread birthday greetings. I’d like to his visit. In describing the had been little information the NBA’s popularity to Chi- wish them good health and high-level reception that Xi available on how the money na. longevity,” Xi said. received, UK media used was spent. Although ending his inju- Prince Andrew said that terms such as “most grand” ry-plagued NBA career with- Britain expects to push for- and “private and sincere”. out a championship ring, ward people-to-people Signings of deals worth 79.6 percent Yao’s towering contribution exchanges and tangible nearly 40 billion pounds to promoting basketball glo- cooperation with China to ($62 billion) were witnessed of last year’s land sale fund bally has helped him to land fully realize a golden era. during the trip, including an spending went to compensation the biggest individual honor The prince has close links agreement to \build a nucle- and preliminary land develop- in the game. with China. The Chinese ar power plant in south- ment. He has been enshrined in embassy in the UK said on western England. The two the Naismith Memorial Bas- its website that he had din- nations also issued a joint ketball Hall of Fame together ner at the embassy on Feb 8, declaration on building a In order to retrieve a piece of with other NBA legends the first day of Spring Festi- “global comprehensive stra- land, local governments must including Shaquille O’Neal val. tegic partnership for the negotiate with residents who and Allen Iverson. Tian Dewen, a researcher 21st century”. have properties built on the “I feel very honored to be Yao Ming and NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal take part in a video conference after both basketball of European Studies at the The visit was seen by land and pay an agreed amount part of this list, which also stars were elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Tuesday. SONG QIONG / XINHUA Chinese Academy of Social observers as having opened a of money — generally known as includes Shaq, Al and other Sciences, said, “The visit of golden era in the key relation- compensation for land requisi- great guys in basketball histo- the prince reflects the close- ship. Britain hopes to establish tion. ry,” said Yao, 35, who retired China Normal University, Instagram account on Tues- ness between Beijing and China as its second-biggest Compensation-related fees in 2011 after a series of foot said that rather than his day along with a photo with London, as royal family trading partner within 10 have surged in recent years and injuries. on-court performances, it Yao. diplomacy is an important years. have eaten away a chunk of the “I didn’t have a long career was Yao’s celebrity influence Thanks partially to Yao’s money local governments in the NBA, but I appreciate I feel very honored in helping to spread the influence, basketball is earned through land sales. people giving me the chance US-based sport in China and played by 300 million people Surging compensation costs to be inducted.” to be part of this elsewhere that helped him to in China, while the NBA is the and dwindling land sales Yao will be honored in Sep- stand out. country’s most-watched Diplomacy: Myanmar income, due to the property tember at a ceremony in list, which also “He’s had a phenomenal North American sports market downturn, have Springfield, Massachusetts, impact on increasing aware- league. squeezed local governments’ home of the Naismith Memo- includes Shaq, ness of the NBA in places out- However, Yao remains ability to build public utilities, rial Basketball Hall of Fame. side the US in a way that no modest about his role as an ties ‘tested over time’ social housing and repay debt. After joining the NBA in Al and other great other player could have. Yao’s ambassador. Rating agency Moody’s cited 2002 as the overall No 1 draft guys in basketball global reach stands as tall as “Basketball is a global this reason in concluding that pick by the Houston Rockets, his 2.16-meter frame,” he game — the character of bas- FROM PAGE 1 tion and improving people’s local governments’ ability to Yao played with the team for history.” said. ketball already made it glob- livelihoods, while China has serve debt and support govern- nine years, averaging 19 Jeremy Lin, Charlotte Hor- al. I’m just a lucky guy China Daily that the two-way played a constructive role in ment-owned entities could be points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.9 Yao Ming nets’ Chinese-American showing up at the right time,” relations “have been tested these regards, Xu said. tested. blocks per game. He was guard, also praised Yao’s the Shanghai native said. over time”, and the new “Myanmar wants to So-called wiggle room for voted a league All Star eight inspirational role. administration “will pursue update its water projects and local governments has been times. Western Conference playoffs “Congrats Yao Ming on the traditional, friendly rela- infrastructure and develop eroded further by the central However, he could not pro- in 2009. Hall of Fame! A trailblazer for Inside tions” with China. its industrial parks, while government requirement that pel the Rockets any further Tan Jianxiang, a sports Asians in basketball and China is “an important China happens to have vast at least 10 percent of net income than the semifinals of the sociology professor at South more!” Lin posted on his See more >p24 neighbor of Myanmar”,and “it experience” in these matters, must be used for social housing is quite natural” that Myan- he said. construction. mar has accepted Wang as the Wang will also meet with Another 10 percent must first visiting foreign minister Myanmar’s leadership, For- fund arable land and water con- MYANMAR after Suu Kyi became foreign eign Ministry spokesman servation efforts, and 10 percent minister, he said. Hong Lei told a news con- must be used for education. As a Chinese investment that ference on Tuesday in Bei- result, only 353 billion yuan, or will benefit Myanmar’s devel- jing. 51 percent of net income last Expert confident over Suu Kyi’s approach opment, create job opportu- Two-way pragmatic coop- year, was used for urban con- nities for its people and eration in recent years “has struction. By ZHANG YUNBI Southeast Asian studies at the ing ties with China, Japan and Her mother took her to the promote corporate social promoted Myanmar’s eco- National land sale revenue [email protected] Chinese Academy of Social Sci- the United States. Chinese embassy on social responsibility and preserva- nomic and social develop- last year was 3.37 trillion yuan, a ences, said Beijing has been in Suu Kyi was invited to Bei- occasions, where she received tion of the environment “will ment and benefited the local year-on-year decline of 21.6 per- Optimism over the prag- contact with Suu Kyi and her jing last year for the first time, a Chinese qipao as a gift. She always be welcome in Myan- people”,Hong said. cent, according to the ministry. matic approach taken by ruling party, the National in her capacity as Myanmar’s said she cherishes the memory mar”,he added. On March 15, President Xi Half of China’s listed property Myanmar political heavy- League for Democracy. main opposition leader ahead to this day. The talks on Tuesday were Jinping sent a message to U developers saw their net profits weight Aung San Suu Kyi has The basis of the relationship of last year’s elections. Suu Kyi has welcomed for- expected to cover a number of Htin Kyaw to congratulate decline last year. So far, 59 real been voiced by a Chinese between the two countries is During her trip, she met eign investment from all coun- pragmatic cooperation pro- him on his election as Myan- estate firms have disclosed their expert. well founded, particularly with President Xi Jinping. She tries and has stressed that it is grams of common concern. mar’s new president. annual results. Thirty reported Suu Kyi has promised to regarding trade and infra- also visited the Great Wall, vital to gain the trust of Myan- Xu Liping, a senior Xi said China is “willing declines in net profits and eight rejuvenate her nation’s econo- structure, Jia said. tried her hand at calligraphy mar people to invest in the research fellow of Southeast to work with Myanmar to of those posted losses, Centaline my and transportation, with Cooperation with China will and also toured Beijing, country. Asia studies at the Chinese promote the durable and Property Agency said on Tues- China playing an important be further advanced as Suu Shanghai and Yunnan prov- She has also praised Chi- Academy of Social Sciences, stable development of the day. role. Kyi’s party prioritizes the econ- ince, which shares a border na’s Belt and Road Initiative said Myanmar has sent a China-Myanmar compre- Governments in Dalian in The Southeast Asian nation omy and enjoys considerable with Myanmar. — proposed by Xi in 2013 — clear signal to China that “it hensive strategic partner- Liaoning province, Ningbo in has prioritized good relations public support, Jia added. Nine days after Suu Kyi’s for reviving the ancient trade is in Myanmar’s best inter- ship of cooperation and Zhejiang province and the with China, with the new Jia predicted that Suu Kyi party won a landslide elec- routes that span Asia, Africa ests to reinforce cooperation bring more benefits to both Inner Mongolia autonomous administration that was sworn will adopt a balanced tion victory, she told Xinhua and Europe. and ties with China”. peoples”. region were particularly hard in on March 30 facing a num- approach to the foreign poli- News Agency that her memo- The Myanmar govern- hit — seeing plunges of more ber of challenges. cies of the new administration, ries of China date to her Wang Xu contributed to this ment is now engaged in Contact the reporter at zhang- than 50 percent. Jia Duqiang, a researcher of with the government reinforc- childhood. story. boosting national reconcilia- [email protected] 4 Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Regulating the design and quality of nonmotorized vehicles, as well as making rules for riding these vehicles — including CHINA electric bicycles and tricycles — should be rolled out as soon as possible.” Wei Jie, a lawyer in Beijing

CHINA DAILY » CHINADAILY.COM.CN/NATION EDUCATION TRANSPORTATION Pandas: Researchers’ Unified expertise in demand entrance FROM PAGE 1 Taipei. Next they will go to Singapore, Thailand, Britain was most likely pregnant. and Australia,” said Tang exam on Nearly all pandas mate Chunxiang, a senior only in spring, so zoos researcher. way for around the world are eagerly Even before iPanda.com looking for assistance and was launched, the center was preparing for the birth of posting video clips. It started EMBAs cubs. on June 24, 2013, as a test and “Many zoos outside the attracted nearly 15,000 view- By CHENG YINGQI Chinese mainland lack expe- ers in one month. chengyinqi@ rience in the field and ask “Now each year, tens of chinadaily.com.cn Chinese researchers to help millions of people visit the them. This year, researchers website, where they can Universities will no from the (Ya’an research cen- have a 24-hour view of pan- longer be able to select their ter) have visited Belgium and das’ lives,” Zhang said. own students for Executive Master of Business Admin- istration programs under a new regulation issued by Interesting tidbits about the Ministry of Education. giant panda breeding The China National MBA Education Supervisory Committee announced Giant pandas may fake a reliable indicator of panda over the weekend that, from pregnancy for nicer food pregnancy, so sometimes it next year, a nationwide People ride electric bikes on Chang’an Avenue in Beijing on Tuesday. The avenue is one of 10 roads where the bicycles will be banned Experts say clever pan- boils down to having to wait exam will be the only way to starting on Monday. KUANG LINHUA / CHINA DAILY das display behavior simi- and see. Some pandas have apply for an EMBA course. lar to pregnancy to apparently learned to take EMBA programs in Chi- improve their quality of life advantage of a good oppor- na have been described as after they notice the differ- tunity and enjoy the finer rich men’s clubs, and some ence in treatment. things while they can. institutions offering them The signs of pregnancy have been criticized for 10 Beijing streets designated include loss of appetite, Panda porn puts them in alleged corrupt practices. thickening of the uterus the mood to mate In 2014, senior officials and increased fecal pro- Under zoo conditions, were banned from taking gesterone concentration. giant pandas have general- part in expensive training off-limits to electric bicycles Generally speaking, giant ly proved unenthusiastic courses such as EMBA pro- pandas thought to be about mating. Panda grams. pregnant are moved into researchers in China found City rule designed for safety and smooth traffic; single rooms with air con- out that panda porn would Restricted roads ditioning and round-the- help get giant pandas in violators will pay penalties starting on Monday clock care and also receive the mood for love after an Except for Puhuangyu Road (near the Puhuangyu subway station more fruit and bamboo. experiment in 2013. By ZHANG YI Electric bicycles with a on Line 5), all the prohibited roads are along Chang’an Avenue, Their trickery is found out According to the The executives [email protected] design speed of less than 20 which runs east and west past Tian’anmen Square: when their behavior and spokesman of the Cheng- kilometers per hour and a max- physiological indexes du Research Base of Giant attending the Riders of two-wheeled elec- imum load capacity of 40 kilo- • Chang’an Avenue (Jian- (Guomao Bridge to Jianguom- return to normal. Panda Breeding, giant tric bicycles in Beijing risk hav- grams, are a major type of guomen to Fuxingmen) en Bridge) Female pandas have a pandas bred in captivity EMBA courses ing to fork out 20 yuan ($3) if nonmotorized vehicle in China • Square East Road • Fuxing Road (Muxidi Bridge gestation period of just never had the opportuni- they ride on one of the 10 that has gained increasing • Square West Road to Xinxing Bridge) 90-160 days, and their cubs ties to see other pandas no longer need a streets prohibited by a new popularity among commuters • Fuyou Road • Shijingshan Road (Yuquan are too tiny to be readily mating, unlike wild ones. degree to prove traffic rule, which takes effect and couriers in recent years. • Zhengyi Road Road to north of Lugu East seen via ultrasound. It’s also on Monday. However, many electric • Fuxingmen Outer Avenue Street) difficult to use hormones as — SU ZHOU their ability.” Beijing’s Traffic Manage- bikes can match the speed of (Fuxingmen Bridge to Muxidi • Puhuangyu Road ment Bureau, the capital’s traf- motorcycles or even buses in Bridge) (Yuting Bridge to Liujiayao Zang Jiajie, who is studying fic authority, issued a the city and can pose dangers • Jianguomen Outer Avenue Bridge) Around the world, zoos try to in an MBA program regulation recently banning to passengers or pedestrians. certain classes of “nonmotor- On March 24, three people make baby pandas a reality The committee did not ized” vehicles from 10 specific died and one was injured in fatalities and 21,423 injuries. cles — should be rolled out as give details about the new streets, including the city’s two separate crashes involving The number of injured soon as possible,”said Wei Jie, a With 33 pandas on loan male counterpart, Yang exam. However, a report main thoroughfare, Chang’an electric bicycles in Shenzhen, accounted for 36.7 percent of lawyer specializing in traffic from China as of 2014, Guang, she was artificially on ThePaper.cn said it was Avenue, and others around Guangdong province. One of all road accident injuries. compensation cases at Jieqi- zookeepers around the inseminated. It was likely to include languages, Tian’anmen Square in the the electric bicycles was sub- So far this year, police have ang Law Firm in Beijing. world have focused on attempted for the third math and logic, in line with heart of Beijing. standard. received more than 6,000 com- “Currently, riders of these breeding babies—anoto- time last year, and she was the national exam for Chi- The rule is intended to Traffic accidents caused by plaints about electric two- vehicles often exceed the riously difficult task — as thought to have conceived. na’s MBA programs. ensure safety and smooth traf- electric bicycles have become a wheelers, the bureau said. speed limit and there is a high members of the public Despite her showing China Daily contacted fic flow, according to an official major concern of traffic regula- “Regulating the design and risk of a severe traffic accident. hold their breath. apparent signs of pregnan- the EMBA programs at at the bureau who asked not to tors. quality of nonmotorized vehi- Due to a lack of compulsory In Britain, panda lovers cy, she has failed to pro- Tsinghua University, Peking be named. The 10-street ban Last year, electric two-wheel- cles, as well as making rules for insurance on these vehicles, have kept their fingers duce a cub so far. University and Renmin does not apply to human-pow- ers were involved in 31,404 riding these vehicles — includ- victims can get hardly any crossed that a baby cub It is common for giant University of China for com- ered two-wheeled bicycles. accidents in Beijing, with 113 ing electric bicycles and tricy- compensation.” could be conceived ever panda females to re-ab- ment on Tuesday but did since two adults — Tian sorb a fetus into the womb not receive a response. Tian and Yang Guang — in the late stages of preg- Zang Jiajie, 34, who settled in to Edinburgh Zoo nancy, and experts sus- works at an automobile Police relax rules impeding delivery drivers in December 2011. pect that may have been company in Shanghai and Visitor numbers at the the case with Tian Tian. is taking an MBA program, zoo rocketed after the Australia also hoped its said: “For an employee like By CHAI HUA in Shenzhen Tuesday provides 5,000 new 2014, according to the Shenz- in transportation incidents. arrival of the pair, and pandas would get preg- myself, a business degree [email protected] licenses for delivery drivers, hen Municipal Postal Admin- He said the next step will be many people have contin- nant. In 2013, the Adelaide will be helpful in securing a an increase from the 13,000 istration. to target manufacturers, retail- ued to follow their story. Zoo’s giant pandas Wang promotion to a managerial Shenzhen police have licenses that were previously Liu Xiaoding, head of the ers and repair shops involved Besides generating a Wang and Fu Ni failed for position. But the executives relaxed some measures they available for them. transport police command in supplying substandard elec- buzz, the zoo also hopes to the third straight year to attending the EMBA cours- brought in recently to regulate The delivery industry will department, said the crack- tric bikes and tricycles. make important discover- achieve pregnancy — both es no longer need a degree the number of electric bikes also benefit from a 15-day down on electric bikes and tri- The Shenzhen police ies about panda pregnancy. naturally and through arti- to prove their ability.” and tricycles in the city. transition period, during cycles was necessary because department said its crack- Every year, a special ficial insemination. The In March, the Ministry It is an attempt to ease the which companies can buy of a growing safety problem. down on electric bikes and tri- team at Edinburgh Zoo zoo had to resort to of Education disqualified impact on the express delivery replacements — such as new- Liu said city authorities cycles is not aimed at the devotes itself to ensuring a importing panda sperm 50 degree programs at 42 sector of a crackdown energy freight cars that do not received more than 1,500 com- delivery industry but mainly successful breeding sea- from overseas in time for colleges in China, includ- launched on March 21. require a license. plaints relating to electric at substandard vehicles being son. The team includes next year’s breeding sea- ing five MBA programs. Under the crackdown, any- The delivery industry has vehicles last year — 65 percent used as illegal taxis. panda experts from China. son. Wang Yong, president of one operating an electric bike been booming in Shenzhen. In of transportation complaints. Between March 21 and April After attempts failed to Beijing-based consultancy or tricycle in the city — a pri- 2015, the average person sent Accidents involving electric 5, police impounded 18,000 set Tian Tian up with her — ZHANG CHUNYAN AND SU ZHOU Top Brand Union, said: “It vate individual or delivery and received a total of 129 bikes and tricycles led to the electric bikes and tricycles in is reasonable for the minis- company — needs a license. packages — an increase of deaths of 114 people — 26.4 Shenzhen because they were try to strengthen regula- The change announced on more than 40 percent over percent of the total death toll unlicensed or not roadworthy. tions on EMBA programs, but I don’t think a national exam is a good solution.” The new regulation will Briefly only cover programs that grant graduate-level busi- ness degrees recognized by XINJIANG escaped and one was injured. Immigration Service Medal for the capital’s new subsidiary the ministry. Mine death toll Distinguished Service. The administrative center, will be “Like me, many students rises to five HONG KONG State Council said in a state- moved underground to hide attend different programs Top immigration ment that the appointment, its smell and noise, local for different reasons. You Two more bodies were based on the nomination of authorities announced. The can receive systemic aca- retrieved on Monday night official named Hong Kong Chief Executive plant, which handles 84 per- demic training at Peking from a coal mine that col- The State Council, China’s Leung Chun-ying, was in cent of the sewage in the dis- University, learn practical lapsed on Sunday in Shache Cabinet, appointed Tsang accordance with the SAR’s trict, has been operating since management tips at the county, bringing the total Kwok-wai, 52, on Tuesday as Basic Law. 2002 and has become a head- China Europe International number of fatalities to five, the director of the Immigration ache for residents. The new Business School and devel- regional mine safety inspec- Department of the Hong Kong BEIJING plant, which will have higher op your social network at tion authority said. Five others Special Administrative Region, Smelly plant to treatment standards and The art of recycling the Cheung Kong Graduate remain trapped. In total, 19 replacing Chan Kwok-ki. greater capacity, is expected to School of Business. It does people were working under- Tsang joined the department move underground be completed by September, A work of art made of several thousand aluminum cans takes not make any sense to pass a ground at Tianli Coal Mine as an assistant immigration A wastewater treatment plant the local government said. shape in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday. The installation was part of unified exam at these differ- when the accident happened officer in 1987. Last year, he in Beijing’s suburban a drive to get the public to recycle items and protect the ent institutes,” Wang said. at 2:50 pm on Sunday. Eight was awarded the Hong Kong Tongzhou district, the site of XINHUA environment. ZHANG GUOJUN / XINHUA CHINA DAILY Wednesday, April 6, 2016 CHINA 5

Education Uygur student aces skills competition

By ZHU LIXIN dance than academics, so wor- and MA CHENGUANG ried about whether he could in Hefei pass the exams. “My performance at school Arfanjan Osmanjan eyed was really bad,” he said. “At the car’s air conditioning sys- that time, I learned from my tem. As part of his training at school in Changji that I could Anhui Automobile Industry participate in the program to School, Arfanjan’s instructor attend a technical secondary had introduced an error that school in an inland province.” would trigger a technical Arfanjan’s uncle recom- breakdown. mended Anhui as a good place How quickly could the to live and his father persuad- 18-year-old identify the prob- ed him to study vehicle air lem and fix it? Pretty fast, as it conditioning maintenance. turns out. He quickly became interested. A Uygur student from “Solving problems and fix- Changji Hui autonomous pre- ing cars is amazing,” Arfanjan fecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur said. “My father was only able autonomous region, Arfanjan to repair the Volkswagen San- recently won first prize in an tanas, while I want to be good Anhui provincial vocational with as many car brands as students skills competition. possible.” He is busy preparing for the Authorities at the school of April tryouts for the national 4,000 students said Arfanjan contest. is one of the best, and not just His natural aptitude and among the 300 Xinjiang stu- training in diagnostics at the dents studying there. The vocational school in Hefei, school started to recruit Xinji- capital of East China’s Anhui ang students in 2011, and the province, means Arfanjan sel- educational authorities cover dom fails to detect and resolve the cost. Students from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region look at photographs in their dormitory at Rizhao Experimental High School in Shandong province. A total of 49 Xin- the problems presented to Mawjut Ablat, a 19-year-old jiang students, including 19 from different ethnic groups, have studied at the school since October 2014. LIU MINGZHAO / FOR CHINA DAILY him, even when he must student from Xinjiang’s Artux repeat the entire process three city, is majoring in welding at times in an hour. the school. He said he plans to “I cherish the opportunity to go back to his hometown for study very much and dream of work after his graduation. being the best automotive air “With the skills learned conditioning maintenance here, to find a job in my home- Studying outside Xinjiang technician through three town will not be hard,” he said. years of study here,” he said. But Arfanjan is determined Arfanjan enrolled in the to stay in Hefei for some years. Poverty alleviation, development and cultural participation possible for stu- poverty,” said Yu Zhaoquan, school in 2014 through an edu- In the first three years, the dents who otherwise would an administrative official at cational program that offers Xinjiang students studied exchanges are byproducts of efforts to better find an education beyond Mardan’s school. students in Xinjiang opportu- together, but the school found educate tens of thousands at inland schools their homes too costly. Sun said the programs have nities to study in inland prov- that method was not condu- The program offers other As most of the stu- had a profound influence on inces. cive to improving their man- benefits as well, which are the students and those who His father had also been a darin abilities. By MAO WEIHUA the Xinjiang government cre- more intangible, but no less dents are from the get to know them and their vehicle maintenance techni- By 2014, when Arfanjan and ZHU LIXIN in Urumqi ated a junior middle school important, such as cultural culture in and out of the class- cian in Urumqi for some years, arrived, all the Xinjiang stu- education program in 2004 to exchanges between class- poverty-stricken room. but went on to run a beef and dents attended regular classes, Mardan Mamat, a basket- send selected primary school mates that bring a greater “The students bring the mutton shop in Changji which has proved effective, as ball player dubbed “the little graduates to junior middle understanding of how other areas of Xinjiang, real Xinjiang to the people of before Arfanjan’s birth. local students quickly helped Jordan” by his classmates, has schools in other Xinjiang cit- people live. education could be the inland provinces and get The son had dreamed of them adapt, said Shou Pei- been studying at No 66 Mid- ies for further study. Students are also expected better knowledge of the other becoming a dancer, but his cong, the school’s vice-presi- dle School in Urumqi since By the end of last year, to bring the skills and talents one of the most provinces of the country,” Sun father urged him to study dent. last year as part of a massive 71,800 such graduates had they’ve nurtured at schools said. vehicle maintenance, which “One of the best advantages project to offer more educa- studied in 16 cities in the outside the region back effective ways to Yue Ke, a teacher at the he saw as a more practical is my improved language abili- tional opportunities to rural autonomous region, educa- home, where they can con- Anhui Automobile Industry career choice. ty,” said Arfanjan, who began students in the Xinjiang tion department records tribute to Xinjiang’s develop- pull them out of School, said he has witnessed “Though the Uygur people studying mandarin in primary Uygur autonomous region. showed. ment. More than 16,400 many stories of friendly are good at dancing, to a cer- school. The tall 14-year-old, who is Successful older students Xinjiang students have poverty.” exchanges. There also are tain extent, my father just “Anhui province is much studying 1,000 kilometers have been sent even farther already graduated from opportunities for these stu- wouldn’t allow me to take up more developed than my from his home in Xahap away through a separate pro- inland universities. Yu Zhaoquan, official of the No dents to study at technical dancing as a future career,” hometown, and I want to township of Yecheng county gram started in 2000 to enroll Marjan Belik, a sophomore 66 Middle School in Urumqi secondary schools in inland Arfanjan said. learn more here so that I can in Xinjiang’s Kashi city, has junior middle school gradu- at Nanjing University, has provinces. He continued school and get a better career in Xinjiang more than hoop dreams. He ates in high schools in 12 benefited from both pro- The technical secondary pursued dance courses until in the future.” may never rival NBA great more-developed inland cities grams. school based in Hefei, Anhui 2013, when the high school Michael Jordan, from whom such as Beijing, Shanghai and An ethnic Kazakh from 39,000 province, has been recruiting entrance exam loomed. He Contact the writers at he draws his nickname, but Tianjin. Tacheng prefecture in Xinji- students from Xinjiang since had devoted more time to [email protected] he can have Jordan’s work The program expanded ang, Marjan is majoring in Xinjiang students 2011, two years before Yue ethic in the classroom. over the years and students bioscience and international have graduated from inland started to work there. “Born in a poverty-stricken now attend 93 inland high trade at the university based high schools, and about 95 “Every time they come to rural family, my parents, who schools in 45 cities, authori- in the capital of East China’s percent of them have furthered the school from their home- are farmers, hoped I would ties said. Jiangsu province. their studies at inland universi- towns, the Xinjiang students have a better life by studying Nearly 39,000 students She finished her junior ties. of different ethnic groups hard,” Mardan said. have graduated from the middle school in Xinjiang, bring the local specialties to Mardan dreams of going to inland high schools, and just as Mardan is doing, and their classmates here, who Shanghai to attend high about 95 percent of them attended a high school in Fuji- Sun said most students also give their own in return,” school and Beijing-based have furthered their studies an province. choose to return to their Yue said. Tsinghua University for col- at inland universities, said “When I was a sophomore hometowns after graduation, “I often see classmates of lege. He understands he will Sun Qi, vice-head of Xinjiang in a Fujian-based high school, “giving the region’s social and different ethnic groups hug need to diligently apply him- government’s education I had a dream of becoming a economic development a each other with tears in their self to his studies if he is to ful- department. More than diplomat after I saw a Chinese strong push with their talent”. eyes when the Xinjiang stu- fill his dreams, but he knows 34,000 more Xinjiang stu- female diplomat on television “As most of the students are dents depart as graduation the opportunity is there. dents are still in the program. who impressed me very from the poverty-stricken are- finally comes,” Yue said. To give students in rural, All of the Xinjiang students’ much,” Marjan said. She now as of Xinjiang, education poverty-stricken areas equal school expenses are covered also spends much of her time could be one of the most effec- Contact the writers at Arfanjan Osmanjan troubleshoots a car’s air conditioning unit at access to a good education, by the government, making studying English and Russia. tive ways to pull them out of [email protected] Anhui Automobile Industry School. ZHU LIXIN / CHINA DAILY

The school provides one Cui Xi said daily life became towns,” Li proudly said. year of training to help the more fun after the Xinjiang As significant as the results Teenagers travel far Xinjiang students improve students joined the class. are, schoolmaster Xu Hua their language skills and offers “We celebrate Eid al-Adha, recalled the unexpected diffi- psychological advice before the traditional festival, usually culties the school encountered for better schooling they start their high school celebrated by the Uygur in in the beginning. curriculum. September, a fancy day filled “We only had four months Early on, Dilara turned to with the aroma of roast lamb to solve the accommodation By LIN SHUJUAN “Although the school is Ayturan, a teacher from Ili and the ecstasy of carnival,” problems,” Xu said. “But we and ZHANG LI 3,000 kilometers away from who joined the students at the Cui said. managed to set up a halal can- home, it’s still worth studying Beijing school, but she soon Now an 18-year-old senior, teen and enlarged the dormi- Thousands of kilometers here,” said Dilara, a senior adapted and made friends Dilara plans to further her tory in time.” from home, in a strange city from Hami, who is now study- with local students. education at Beijing Interna- In recent years, Abuduman- with a sometimes loose grasp ing at Luhe High School in Sometimes she and other tional Studies University. “I ap, a teacher in Ili, has seen the of the language, teenagers eastern Beijing’s Tongzhou students from Xinjiang are always hoped to study tourism program gain in popularity from the Xinjiang Uygur district. invited home by local stu- and promote my hometown to among the Xinjiang students. autonomous region find Students apply for the pro- dents, especially during win- the world one day,” she said. “The entrance exam has themselves homesick, lonely gram and those who pass Uygur student Dilara, from Hami, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous ter vacations, when most of Li Tongshu, director of stu- grown competitive, arousing and struggling to communi- entrance exams organized by region, studies at Luhe High School in Beijing’s Tongzhou them would rather stay at dents at Luhe, said the success the students’ zeal to learn cate. local governments are admit- district. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY school than take the 30-hour of the graduates over the past Mandarin,” Abudumanap But their dreams of a better ted to 93 inland city schools in train ride back home. 16 years gives her confidence said. education help them to perse- Beijing, Shanghai and 43 oth- Dilara recalled a recent visit that Dilara’s dream — and the “Herders are willing to send vere through the tough begin- er cities. So far, 80,200 stu- Beijing and Shanghai,” said Arriving in Beijing at the age to the home of her classmate dreams of the other students their children away for an edu- nings at one of the pilot dents have participated. They Dilara, a Uygur student who of 14, Dilara initially was both- Cui Xi. — will come true. cation, because they realize schools in Beijing that have study for free and receive a had lived with her grandmoth- ered by homesickness and the “His mother cooked mutton “Nearly 1,400 Xinjiang grad- that would change the kids’ been recruiting Xinjiang stu- 650 yuan ($100) monthly liv- er since she was a child. challenge of communicating. chops for us, which is exactly uates have been admitted by future or even the family’s.” dents since 2000, when the ing allowance. “We don’t have to pay any “I felt ashamed to commu- what I missed so much, and universities at home and central government started a “It’s really attractive to me tuition and even get monthly nicate with teachers here his father encouraged me, just abroad, and among those, 800 Contact the writers at program to help improve their that the included schools are subsidy. That’s quite a relief for because of my poor Manda- like my own father does,” she have devoted themselves to linshujuan@ education. located in developed cities like me and my grandma.” rin,” she said. recalled. further building their home- chinadaily.com.cn 6 CHINA Wednesday, April 6, 2016 CHINA DAILY

HEALTHCARE

CAI MENG / CHINA DAILY

Genetic predictionsfail to pass the test

Although genomic testing is making mmon, but, in addition to improving people’s health. breast and ovarian cancers, Allied to other disease risk ground in China, many experts are colorectal and medullary thy- assessments, DNA tests may roid cancer can also be detect- help physicians indentify the warning that the procedures are flawed, ed this way. “However, the risk individuals at greatest risk, for those two is not as high as which allows targeted inter- and that patients are failing to act on the for breast and ovarian can- ventions, such as surgery, drug cers,” he added. treatment and screening tests, results. Shan Juan reports. He suggested that women said Wei Yingjie, a senior car- who have been diagnosed with diologist in Heilongjiang hen Lily (not results can help to determine breast cancer should be province. her real name) and deliver targeted prevention screened for inherited BRCA According to the World received the that, coupled with lifestyle genes because a positive result Health Organization, one- results of a changes, can save lives. could warn other family mem- third of cancers are preventa- genomicW test she had taken, Predictive services test an bers that they may also be at ble, so changes to lifestyle she was relieved and delighted individual’s DNA for genetic risk. and behavior are the keys to to discover that it had ruled variations that may raise the avoiding illness. Further- out the possibility of a higher- risk of developing certain dis- Abnormal genes more, raising a person’s than-average risk of breast eases. They are intended to The majority of inherited awareness of their genetic cancer. influence patients and prompt breast cancers are associated predisposition could prompt The 30-year-old real estate them to adjust their lifestyles with two abnormal genes, changes to their lifestyles, agent in Guangzhou, Guang- to reduce the risks, according BRCA1 and BRCA2. Women such as eating more healthily dong province, had feared she to the test companies. Technicians screen samples of genes that may cause deafness at a medical testing lab in Zhengzhou, who inherit a mutated version or stopping smoking. would develop the disease as a However, those claims rare- Henan province, on Feb 20. SHA LANG / FOR CHINA DAILY of either, irrespective of wheth- Wei cautioned the public result of her fast-paced work- ly stand up to scrutiny, accord- er they came from their mother about using the genomic tests ing life and hyperplasia, a pre- ing to a study conducted by or father, have a much higher currently on the market for cancerous condition that was researchers at the University risk of developing breast and cardiovascular diseases. He discovered in her breast last of Cambridge in the UK, the Precision medicine initiative targets nation’s health ovarian cancers. said most heart conditions are year. results of which were pub- Most people who develop caused by multi-gene-muta- In early March, after her lished in the British Medical China has launched a strate- structure, function, evolution, will be the key to success. breast cancer have no family tions and environmental fac- aunt was diagnosed with the Journal last month. gic initiative to boost the use of and mapping of genomes), into “We’d like to cooperate with history of the disease, but if tors, which can’t be predicted. disease, Lily signed up for a The researchers concluded precision medicine — treat- consideration. Modern tools, China in precision medicine. To there is a family history of “Certain variant genes could genomic test that was adver- that although the tests can ments specifically designed for such as genomics and bioinfor- bring these data sets together is breast or ovarian cancer, or be just a tiny part of all the risk tised as “predicting” breast suggest a higher level of risk, individual patients — that will matics — the collection and the only way to make the colla- both, genetics may have played factors,” he said. cancer. She ordered a testing they fail to prompt changes receive government funding of analysis of complex biological boration work, and make the a role in the development of the That means the vast majori- kit online, and when it arrived that could reduce those risks. 60 billion yuan ($9.2 billion) by data, such as genetic codes — whole greater than the sum of illness, experts said. ty of illnesses cannot be pre- she carefully followed the 2030. will help to achieve that. its parts,”he said. According to the United dicted with genomics, he said. instructions. She wiped the Immature technology With a huge human gene “It will matter greatly to both “We are all one part of the States National Cancer Insti- There are only a few excep- inside of her mouth with the Zhong Nanshan, a respira- bank as the foundation and the individual patient and the family of human beings and we tute, women with an abnormal tions, including neural tube oral swab sticks provided tory expert and academic at gene-sequencing as the tool, the government because it can help have to do it (develop the tests) BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene have an defects, which affect the brain, before mailing the samples to the Chinese Academy of Engi- initiative aims to develop more- provide the most effective treat- together if we want to know approximately 60 percent risk spine and spinal cord, and a consumer genetics lab in neering, said predictive targeted diagnostics and treat- ments for individual patients and important things about human of being diagnosed with breast Marfan’s syndrome, a condi- Guangzhou. genomic testing is an imma- ments for specific diseases also reduce medical costs over- health,”he said. cancer, and the chances of tion that can affect cardiovas- The Chinese literature ture technology and not yet through advanced medical sci- all,”he said. In the long run, it will teach developing ovarian cancer also cular and optical functions. major, who has a 2-year-old ready for wide promotion and ence and technology. To kick-start the initiative, people more-effective ways to rise. Generally for women, the Wei said the results of genet- son, had never heard of application. Major focuses will include car- the Chinese Academy of Scien- stay healthy and also save the risk is 12 to 13 percent. Abnor- ic tests can be difficult to inter- genomic, or DNA, testing until “For individuals, it’s not diovascular disease, diabetes ces has solicited the first 4,000 government considerable mal BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are pret, so specialists such as 2013. She only became aware worth doing, and it shouldn’t and selected cancers, which are volunteers for genetic studies, expenditure on medical bills, he found in 5 to 10 percent of geneticists and genetics coun- of it when news broke that the be used so often to ‘predict’ currently the main killers in Chi- but that’s just the beginning, said. breast cancer cases in the US, selors must be brought in actress Angelina Jolie had diseases,” he said. na, said Cao Xuetao, president of according to Cao. “We are plan- “So there is also an economic the institute said. explain what the results could undergone a double mastecto- However, he admitted that the Chinese Academy of Medical ning a gene data pool covering driver here, to come up with Ying said most public hospi- mean to an individual and my and later had both ovaries genomic testing is a good tool Sciences and Peking Union Med- at least several million Chinese. ways of reducing healthcare tals in China don’t provide test- their family members, but removed because doctors had for early forecasting of certain ical College. The more data we have, the costs,”he added. ing for BRCA genes because of a “China currently lacks genom- detected the presence of a inherited conditions such as Cao said the essence of pre- more precise the prevention However, industry insiders lack of effective and feasible ics specialists of this type”. “mutated” BRCA (breast can- Thalassemia — a disorder that cision medicine centers on and treatment will become,” he said more preparation in relative interventions later on. Rather than genomic tests, cer) gene. The faulty gene, can affect the amount of oxy- methods of prevention, diagno- said. research and rule setting con- Zhao Ping, director-general many doctors are urging the which gave her an 80 percent gen carried in the blood — and sis and treatment that take indi- Francis S. Collins, director of cerning genetic data sharing will of the Cancer Foundation of greater implementation of chance of developing breast congenital deafness. vidual variability, particularly the United States National Insti- need to be undertaken before China, said genomic tests are precision medicine—anew cancer and a 40 percent Chen Wanqing, director of genomics (the study of the tute of Health, said collaboration that can happen. useful because they can demon- approach to treatment and chance of ovarian cancer, had the Chinese National Central strate a person’s risk of develop- prevention that takes individ- been detected via a genomic Cancer Registry at the Nation- ing certain types of cancer, but ual variations of genes, envi- test, which identifies changes al Health and Family Planning at present the knowledge is of ronment and lifestyle into to chromosomes, proteins and Commission, said given that little medical use. consideration — to improve genes. most illnesses involve the Institute and Hospital at the removal of potentially affected “In the majority of cases, no the nation’s health interaction of dozens, or even Chinese Academy of Medical organs or limbs can reduce the further medical procedures can Yu Jun, a leading researcher Public interest hundreds, of genes, coupled Sciences, said doctors can gain risk by 80 percent. be undertaken, based merely in genomics and bioinforma- The news prompted wide- with an individual’s environ- better insight into potential ill- “So, she made her own med- on predictive genetic testing,” tics at the Beijing Genomics spread public interest in pre- ment and lifestyle, “this type of nesses by looking into the For individuals, ical choice (to have surgery), he said. Zhao added that can- Institute at the Chinese Acade- dictive genomic testing in predictive genetic testing is makeup of inherited genes but it’s one that can’t be used cer is known to be caused by my of Sciences, said a nation- China, and also provided mainly about business hype in that are faulty and therefore it’s not worth widely because of the high genetic mutation, but detec- wide precision-medicine opportunities for businesses most cases”. susceptible to mutation. cost,” Ying said. He added that tion of “faulty” genes related to initiative is being planned to that provide test kits to hype According to Chen, genomic He cited Jolie as an exam- doing, and it the risk of legal action further certain types of cancer doesn’t provide training in the rele- their products. testing, which is recognized by ple; her mother died from down the line means few doc- necessarily mean that the vant procedures. A click on any large e-com- China’s health authorities, is ovarian cancer, and the actress shouldn’t be tors in China would be willing patient will develop the dis- Qin Huaijin, of the National merce platform results in lists mainly used for the diagnosis later discovered that she had used so often to to perform surgeries such as ease. Health and Family Planning of home genetic-testing servi- and treatment of cancers, but inherited a faulty BRCA1 gene those Jolie underwent without He urged the health author- Commission, said precision ces that operate through the accurately predicting the risk from her mother. ‘predict’ diseases.” the presence of reliable symp- ities to strengthen the regula- medicine is a huge and com- mail, with the cost ranging of cancer is difficult. The pro- The presence of the gene — toms or other evidence of dis- tions covering genomic plex system that combines big from several hundred to tens cedure also requires more which regulates cell growth, Zhong Nanshan, ease: “A tense doctor-patient testing, which is almost entire- data and personalized medi- of thousands of yuan. research because little is but can increase the chances respiratory expert and relationship undermines such ly unregulated by law or gov- cine: “It is definitely the future The companies claim that known about the pathogenic of cancer developing if it academic at the Chinese preemptive, and therefore ernment guidelines. trend of medicine.” the tests can predict heart dis- genes of most cancers. mutates — raised Jolie’s risk of Academy of Engineering risky, medical procedures.” Despite the doubts about ease, most forms of cancer, dia- Ying Jianming, deputy breast and ovarian cancer to The well-defined genetic the effectiveness of DNA test- Contact the writer at betes, Alzheimer’s disease and director of the pathology 10 times higher than the aver- link to inherited disease dem- ing, some researchers believe shanjuan@ even obesity. They say the department of the Cancer age for women. Excision or onstrated by Jolie is unco- that it can still play a role in chinadaily.com.cn CHINA DAILY Wednesday, April 6, 2016 CHINA 7

Policy review

Editor’s Note:China is pushing supply-side reform to boost growth to cope with the economic downturn and further release the country’s growth potential. In this Policy Review page, Paul Sheard, chief global economist of rating agency Standard & Poor’s, talked to China Daily about how China can build up its financial institutions to help revitalize the economy and handle the challenges facing the world's second-largest economy. Banking crucial for improving system

By SU ZHOU [email protected]

Ted Tokuchi has been in China for a long time, so long that he is highly regarded by It requires the the government as one of the leaders to show few “foreign experts” who has been with China through tremendous effec- its past 40 years of reforms. Likewise his views among his tiveness, to not Institution building core friends in Beijing’s financial business circle. only balance the In a recent conversation with China Daily, Tokuchi, different inter- managing director and chairman of investment ests, but also task for economic health banking committee of CIT- push for the IC Securities Co, talked about China’s efforts to expected progress China in past five years Capital market build-up INVESTMENT RETAIL SALES rate control” is still nascent. transition to a slower but GDP PER CAPITA GDP GDP GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH “The ownership and man- more resilient type of in a top-down requires myriad players (Unit: US dollars) (Unit: trillion US dollars) (Unit: percent) (Unit: percent) (Unit: percent) agement of productive assets growth, after three decades $12 10% 25% 20% $8,000 $7,808 24% is a key influence on how an of fast but fragile growth manner.” 9.5% 17.6% By ZHENG YANGPENG $10.7 9% 20% 15% economy performs. China driven by exports and gov- 7,000 10 Ted Tokuchi, zhengyangpeng@chinadai- 8% 15% still has large State owner- ernment investment. ly.com.cn 10% ship. How fast and how far Some people seem to chairman of 7% 10% 10.6% investment 6,000 8 China goes in reforming the think the transition should 10% 5% banking com- The argument that demand- 6% 6.9% 5% State-owned enterprises, not be simple, a one-off deal, like $7.5 mittee of CIT- side management, like mone- $5,575 necessarily privatizing them, hopping from point A to tary easing and fiscal stimulus, 5,000 6 5% 0% 0% but changing the governance point B. But Tokuchi said it is IC Securities cannot pull economies out of ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 system and making the sector not as easy as that, as it is Co their woes has been common- SOURCE: National Bureau of Statistics CHINA DAILY more subject to market for- something “very large”, “cov- ly heard in the United States ces, really matters,” Sheard ering nearly all aspects of and Europe, and also here in among the highest in the said. Chinese society”. change process largely sta- China, where it has given rise How fast and how world, into diversified finan- Commenting on the possi- This is because even when ble, he noted. to the government’s push for cial portfolios and offshore ble bankruptcies of China’s 70 to 80 percent of the people So, even though China is supply-side reform. far China goes in investment. A “multi-layer” loss-making SOEs and local have built a clear consensus likely to be confronted by But what exactly are supply- reforming the State-owned capital market requires myri- governments’ tendency to about the general direction, more difficulties in 2016 side reforms? While the cen- ad players in the market- offer them life support, Sheard they may still have disagree- than 2015, it still has time to tral government has listed enterprises ... really matters.” place, such as asset managers said worries over short-term ments over details on the wait for its new economic tasks such as destocking and and mutual funds, which are pains is not a legitimate argu- operational level, he said. drivers, such as Internet- reducing overcapacity, these Paul Sheard, chief global economist of Standard & Poor’s active in the primary and sec- ment. A case in point is reform of based services and creative seem more like prescriptions ondary markets. “From a more dynamic per- State-owned enterprises, industries, to grow. to deal with the acute symp- What’s the difference spective, it doesn’t make sense where what economists rec- In the meantime, its local toms of the economy, rather the US, as demand manage- limited liability corporation between institution building to have inefficient enterprises ommend, what managers government debts, though a than a long-term strategy for ment policies have helped the and accounting standards; and supply-side reform? leading to latent losses and prioritize, and what workers rampant problem, will not its sustainable health. economy recover, a more and the rules governing corpo- Sheard said supply-side efficiency in the system. The wish for will likely all be dif- cause a nationwide finan- The policy taxonomy pressing issue now is to deploy rate governance and a corpo- reform is about making the cost of not reforming SOEs ferent, even though they all cial crisis so long as the offered by Paul Sheard, chief supply-side policies to rate control market, are, existing institutions more outweighs those accounting agree there should be some nation’s banking system global economist of Standard increase potential growth and among other things, the “insti- flexible to generate more out- losses (of bankruptcies),” he reform. stays by and large healthy, & Poor’s, could help under- improve the resiliency of the tutions” that are needed. put with a given capacity. said. Secondly, upgrading may Tokuchi said. stand what the Chinese econ- economy. These are important for Institution building, on the be a “very, very long process”, After all, he argued, the omy needs. According to When it comes to China, China, because, unlike the other hand, is about creating not just a few factories, not threat from local govern- Sheard, demand manage- Sheard argues that all five US and Europe, China is still new organizations and mar- just one or two specific ment debts still cannot over- ment, supply side, regulatory, types of policy are important, at a relatively early stage of kets; refining, strengthening industries, but the entire whelm the power of a strong crisis management and insti- but building the right “institu- its economic development and enforcing the economic manufacturing economy of central government and a tution building are the five tions” is the core challenge, and remains a transitional rules rather than establishing the country. relatively healthy banking types of policies that govern- and the one that policymakers economy, with its economic, them. Take a long-range view is system. ments around the world use should focus on. social, political fabrics still For example, he said that in Tokuchi’s advice. And the Chinese govern- to promote economic Financial and monetary sys- evolving. For example, the US the merger and acquisi- “It’s just like what China ment is paying increasing growth. tem architectures; public despite its rapid growth, tion market is very active, with went through in the 1980s attention to the role of its They may look abstract at administration, including the Sheard said, the country has different groups such as asset and 1990s, at the beginning monetary and banking sys- the first glance, but when ownership of productive yet to develop a “sophisticat- managers, private equities of reform. You saw it come lit- tem in stabilizing the whole applied to specific economies, assets, and the fiscal and wel- ed” financial system to effec- and hedge funds bidding for tle by little, eventually the economy and the process of they explain a lot. For exam- fare systems; the legal system tively convert Chinese control of corporate assets. In productivity the whole of its economic transition. ple, Sheard has argued that in and a property rights system; household savings, which are China, the “market for corpo- society was released,” he said. For example, the People’s “That’s why the reform Bank of China has been rel- was called China’s second atively quick in learning to revolution.” work with international Only this time it is likely to bankers and financial orga- be harder, Tokuchi added. nizations, he said, as the “It requires the leaders to Chinese central bank is show tremendous effective- more effective in communi- ness, to not only balance cating with the outside the different interests, but world. also push for the expected It is an important sign, progress in a top-down because banking is at the manner.” core of China’s safety and Fortunately, the Chinese stability, Tokuchi pointed government has accumulat- out. ed both rich financial resour- “Banking holds the key to ces and some political avoiding a system break- SONG CHEN / CHINA DAILY experience to keep the down,” Tokuchi said.

CASS report sees signs of new growth momentum Capital market reform

By WANG YIQING industry will first of all benefit Qunhui, the CASS institute telecommunications and other Reform of China’s stock As much as China needs to [email protected] from China’s continuous director and leader of the electronic equipment; and market policies must be car- adopt the registration-based reform efforts, but it will also research project. waste recycling. ried out cautiously and in IPO system, it will be a China’s industrial growth be helped by a number of gov- In general, the report says The industries that are like- line with actual market con- lengthy process and will be has most probably broken free The economy is ernment programs to boost industries supplying materials ly to suffer the largest setbacks ditions, an editorial in China launched only when market from the danger of a sharp the country’s high-end manu- face the greatest challenges are mainly mining and all Business News said. Follow- conditions and the legal downturn in 2016, according still in the middle facturing and trade, such as because of falling prices and related manufacturing, the ing is an excerpt from the environment are appropri- to a group of economists with the “Made-in-China 2025” shrinking demand. tobacco and cigarette indus- editorial: ate, Liu said. the Chinese Academy of Social of changing gear.” strategy, and it will also be Equipment manufacturing try, automobile manufactur- Institutional investors Sciences. spurred by the increasing will see only moderate growth, ing and transportation n the wake of last year’s have yet to give their best A newly published research Research paper by the CASS international competition in especially since the automo- equipment for railways, ship- Iturbulence in the performance in leading the paper by the CASS Institute of Institute of Industrial Economics the development of artificial bile industry has suffered a ping and aviation, and some A-share market, Liu Shi- reform, and many individ- Industrial Economics states intelligence, robots and 3-D marked decline in value-add- culture- and sports-related yu, chairman of the China ual investors tend to be that although the growth of printing. ed revenue due to high inven- manufacturing activities. Securities Regulatory Com- speculative. From time to Chinese industry is at its low- The report states that green tories and low profit margins. Regionally, the nation’s old mission, told the media that time, supervisory authori- est point since 1992, new 2016 than last year, and will and environmentally-friendly Consumer industries, from industrial base in the north- China’s capital market must ties would either play the growth momentum is gaining achieve overall stability, the industries, most noticeably textiles and garments, to eastern provinces is under the be regulated in a manner game of peek-a-boo with power. “The economy is still in CASS economists said. the manufacturing of electric foods, pharmaceutics and con- heaviest downward pressure that is market-oriented and the markets, or overstep the middle of changing gear,” Zhang Yaxiong, director of cars, are likely to have a much sumer electronics will be able because of their concentration governed by law. the mark, leading to excess the paper says, forecasting forecasting with the State higher profile in China this to maintain relatively more of big-smokestack industries, The regulatory chief, who regulation. that for the whole year, large Information Center, agreed year, as quality manufacturing sustainable growth. loss of human resources to pledged to press ahead with All these have to change industrial enterprises will with the conclusion of the and environmental protection In a breakdown, the indus- other regions, and under-de- the introduction of a regis- to keep the reform on the maintain an average growth CASS paper, saying that even are two important aspects of tries the CASS researchers velopment of privately-owned tration-based initial public right track. Policymakers rate of between 5 and 6 per- though it’s still too early to say China’s 13th Five-Year Plan believed will maintain the small and medium-sized offering system, said under have to take into account cent in year-on-year terms. China’s industrial growth has (2016-20). highest growth include alcohol enterprises. no condition will China rein- the actual market environ- That won’t be significantly bottomed out, the nation has China’s current industrial and beverages and “refined” Consisting of Liaoning, Jilin troduce a circuit-breaker ment and solicit public lower than 2015, when the already made a few significant slowdown is something that tea drinks; machinery and and Heilongjiang provinces, mechanism in the coming opinions on certain poli- overall industrial growth was breakthroughs, which is “the so-called four Asian tigers equipment repair and mainte- the northeastern region has few years. The mechanism cies. This is necessary, giv- 6.1 percent. expected to be conducive to all went through when they nance; chemical products and seriously affected the nation’s was dismantled in January en the introduction and That also means Chinese this year’s industrial growth. approached the later stage of synthetic fibers; pharmaceu- average industrial growth, the after it triggered sharp falls quick scrapping of the cir- industry will suffer less pain in The CASS researchers said industrialization”, said Huang tics; computer manufacturing, report says. in stock indexes. cuit-breaker mechanism. 8 Wednesday, April 6, 2016 EDITORIAL • OPINION

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EDITORIAL Neighbors share the will TIAN CHENG to be brotherly friends

ith China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, in Myanmar on an official visit at the invi- tation of Aung San Suu Kyi in her new role as Myanmar’s foreign minister, the guesswork over who would top her W to-be-invited list has been put to rest. Given the new, emerging political landscapes inside Myanmar and on China’s periphery, this may be nutritious fodder for geopolitical interpretations and imagin- ings. But the diplomatic rationalism at work is a reassuring sign that Beijing and post-election Naypyitaw will not get lost in redefining their ties as some had anticipated. Sharing a border of 2,200 kilometers, China and Myanmar are close neighbors not merely in a geographical sense. Since the 1960s, a special rapport known as the “Pauk-Phaw” friendship, or brotherly feelings, has by and large defined bilateral ties. However, there have been less-than-pleasant episodes in recent years, prompting speculation that the “Pauk-Phaw” rhetoric was starting to ring hollow. There have even been claims that Naypy- itaw is drifting away from, if not turning against, Beijing in a new round of geopolitical wrangling. But Beijing did not buy that. In congratulatory messages to their newly elected counterparts in Myanmar, both Chinese Presi- dent Xi Jinping and Wang Yi reiterated a commitment to the “Pauk-Phaw” closeness. Responding to media inquiries regarding bilateral ties in March, Wang said the troubles were just “growing pains” in the ties between neighbors. Nor did Naypyitaw. Suu Kyi said in a recent interview that it is more important to deal with a neighbor than getting along with countries far away. Hosting China’s top diplomat as her first offi- cial guest testifies to that. That is logical considering there is a new, closer economic bond at stake. China is Myanmar’s No 1 source of overseas investments OPINION LINE as well as its largest trading partner, with Chinese capital accounting for one-third of all foreign investments, and trade Deducting with China one-third of Myanmar’s overall foreign trade. Thorough investigation needed to get So the Chinese and Myanmar foreign ministers have a lot of real business to attend to. wage for trees But Suu Kyi was correct in stating earlier that as long as there is to bottom of Guilin official’s suicide the willingness to befriend, there is no reason the two countries voluntarily cannot be friends. The ongoing visit shows Beijing and Naypyitaw TANG TIANSHENG, director of the food and drug administration of Guilin in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang share that willingness. autonomous region, committed suicide by jumping from the eighth floor of a local hospital building on Monday, one The cool-headedness they have displayed so far justifies confi- day after he went there to receive neurology treatment. The Beijing News commented on Tuesday: TEN PERCENT of the dence that bilateral ties will not get stuck in calculations of imme- monthly wage of civil servants Depression is usually the official explanation when an money. There was a lot of public support for Tang as it in poverty-stricken Lintao diate gains or losses. official commits suicide. But the local government has not was the result of a local muckraking reporter taking pho- county in Gansu province, With that, and mutual respect, as Suu Kyi suggested, there is no yet offered an explanation for Tang’s suicide, even though tos of Tang treating a local official, who was being trans- Northwest China, is being problem that cannot be overcome. the usual explanation would have been very convenient ferred elsewhere, to a not very expensive meal. deducted to subsidize tree for it this time as Tang ended his life while receiving neu- It turned out the reporter found out Tang was at the planting in the county. Xinhua rology treatment in hospital. restaurant from one of Tang’s colleagues, and waited out- Daily Telegraph commented However, Tang’s bumpy career suggests the local politi- side the restaurant until he knew Tang would have had a on Tuesday: TO THE POINT cal ecology is problematic. few drinks, then recorded Tang’s comment — “Just report Back in 2011, four people were detained after they hung it. I know you come to blackmail me again” — when asked As a county in severe pover- posters in the county in memory of the Party chief, as if he who was paying for the meal. The reporter uploaded the ty, the local government is Japan overtly meddling had passed away overnight. When questioned, the detain- recording online with a short report when the Party’s faced with the dilemma of hav- ees said it was Tang who paid them to put up the posters. anti-corruption campaign focused its attention on offi- ing the obligation to plant n this year’s “shoulder-to-shoulder” military exercises between However, further investigation showed Tang was inno- cials entertaining with public money. trees while lacking the funds to the United States and the Philippines, Australia is sending 80 cent, although the case ended with no definite conclusion Tang was removed from his post and was transferred to do so. I soldiers to participate, and Japan has sent two frigates and one as to who was responsible. the Guilin food and drug administration in March 2014. In order to fulfill this obli- submarine, showing its eager desire for larger involvement. Then in July 2013, when Tang was Party chief of Long- While Tang’s suicide was probably due to depression, gation, it has been deducting The increasingly open intervention of external forces in the South sheng county, he received disciplinary punishment from there should be a thorough examination and improve- money from its employees’ China Sea and the emergence of signs that an alliance is being the Party because he organized a feast with government ment of the local political environment. wages for the last three years, formed add even more uncertainties to the situation. and reportedly it has collected Due to China’s self-restraint, up to now territorial disputes and 13.8 million yuan ($2 million) frictions over maritime rights in the South China Sea have been gen- in total. That is not a small erally under control. The Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in sum of money, and if there are the South China Sea signed between China and relevant Southeast Public must keep eye on use of taxpayers’ money any procedural loopholes, it is Asian nations and talks on the making of a code of conduct had likely that corruption will made the easing of tensions a general trend. PENG YINGLONG, an official from Hengyang, Central China’s Hunan province, was recently expelled from office happen. Yet the forcible intervention of the US and the involvement of for suspected corruption. He reportedly bought almost everything in daily life, from paper diapers of his granddaugh- And the practice puts the Japan and Australia are transforming the South China Sea into an ter to the wood for his future coffin, using public money. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Tuesday: obligation for funding the arena for the power games and accumulating military risks for the county’s reforestation pro- broader Asia-Pacific. This is because the US seems to be taking the Peng is not the only one of his kind. Shao Minghua, a bureau has to go through set procedures in order to pay gram upon local government South China Sea as a key area where it can contain China’s rise and corrupt official from East China’s Jiangsu province, pur- with taxpayers’ money, but in practice financial staff sel- employees. This is not only build a China-targeted Asia-Pacific alliance or quasi-alliance. chased all his clothes, shoes and cellphones at the public’s dom dare reject the expenses claims of leading officials, unfair, it also nurtures ani- Compared with Australia, whose participation in the US-led mili- expense; another official surnamed Jiang in neighboring who are after all their superiors. So the financial regula- mosity toward the tree plant- tary activities in this region is to a certain extent due to its military Anhui province even asked for a certificate after enjoying tions are simply not executed. ing and green projects, alliance with Washington, Japan has shown much more interest in illegal sex services in order to pay with public money. He The ongoing anti-graft campaign has shocked cor- which is not conducive to the the South China Sea. In Tokyo’s eyes, its involvement can not only had a dispute with the prostitute and lost his life for that. rupt officials so that they dare not grab money like promotion of raising envi- contain China but also offer a good starting point for its Self-Defense These stories about corrupt officials are rather funny before. However, the regulations are still full of loopho- ronmental protection aware- Forces to conduct a larger range of military operations overseas. It is and eye-catching. But more importantly, we should learn les and a leading official can use them as long as he ness among local residents. foreseeable that Japan will have more overt and semi-overt military a lesson from them: How could these officials pay for holds power in hand. The top-down power structure Even though it is being done intervention in the South China Sea. everything using taxpayers’ money? Where is our finan- must be changed and the public’s right to supervise for a good intention, such The deeper involvement of external forces such as the US and cial regulation? officials and even remove them from office must be money shouldn’t be deducted Japan is turning the South China Sea into a wrestling ring for power The key reason lies in lack of regulations to curb such upheld, so that the regulations won’t be treated as a from civil servants’ wages and reducing the possibility of peaceful settlement. misuses of power. Theoretically, every member of a scrap of paper anymore. unless they give their consent. — GLOBAL TIMES

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WANG HUI Taking a page from Europe’s book China, Myanmar to broaden engagement to prosperity

hinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is paying an offi- These show Myanmar will continue to occupy an impor- one-third of the total foreign investment in Myanmar. cial visit to Myanmar on Tuesday and Wednesday tant place in China’s peripheral diplomacy. Obviously, China and Myanmar have everything to gain C at the invitation of Myanmar’s new Foreign Minis- Since Myanmar embarked on the road to democratiza- from engaging with each other. ter Aung San Suu Kyi. tion in 2011, some in the West have drummed up the rhe- As Shein of the Myanmar Institute of Strategic and Myanmar’s new government was sworn in on March 30, toric that “China’s clout in Myanmar is waning”.In recent International Studies rightfully pointed out, there are turning a new page in the country’s political landscape and years the suspension of several large Chinese-financed pro- broad prospects for bilateral cooperation in the future. sparking speculation about issues ranging from domestic jects in Myanmar, especially the Myitsone hydropower Apart from enhancing ties in energy and infrastruc- FU JING reform to foreign diplomacy, in particular, how the new dam in northern Myanmar, has fueled such speculations. ture, the two countries can also work more closely in non- The author is deputy editor of China Daily government will handle its relations with major interna- Admittedly, problems have cropped up between the two traditional security fields, such as drug trafficking, European Edition. tional players, including China. countries in the past few years. human trafficking, arms smuggling and cross-border [email protected] Wang’s visit, which comes less than one week after the China has endured economic losses when Myanmar crimes. inauguration of Myanmar’s new government, shows the stalled these projects, and last year, fighting in Kokang, An agreement signed in 1997 between the two sides on two neighbors continue to attach great importance to northern Myanmar, twice spilled over the border into Chi- management and cooperation in the border areas should fter holding intensive political bilateral ties, and both countries are seizing the opportuni- na. The airstrikes launched by Myanmar’s government for- be fully and strictly observed. Issues that threaten peace meetings, engaging in lively ty to engage and connect with each other after Myanmar’s ces targeting rebels killed five and injured more than a and stability along the borders area should be addressed A exchanges with young football political transition. dozen Chinese citizens. through joint efforts. and ice hockey players, and Nyunt Maung Shein, chairman of the Myanmar Institute On the other hand, there is anti-China sentiment in Since 2013, Chinese enterprises operating in Myanmar signing cooperation documents during of Strategic and International Studies, believes Myanmar’s Myanmar too, and bias against Chinese investments is not have deemed corporate social responsibility a priority, his March 28-30 visit to the Czech Repub- new government will pursue friendly ties with China, as rare due to misunderstandings and for historical reasons. and they have tried to reach out to a wider cross-section lic, President Xi Jinping and his Czech good relations with its neighbor are important in the eco- However, both countries need to look beyond these inci- of Myanmar society for better understanding. counterpart Milos Zeman visited the 850- nomic, diplomatic and security fields. dents and jointly usher in a win-win situation so bilateral We have reasons to believe that with the efforts of both year-old Strahov Library in Prague. After Hong Liang, Chinese ambassador to Myanmar, said he is ties can grow. sides, China and Myanmar will carry forward their old being introduced by the museum curator confident in the future of China-Myanmar ties and believes Sharing a border of more than 2,000 kilometers with tradition of friendship and deepen their reciprocal coop- to the collections on Chinese-Czech a stable and economically developed Myanmar contributes Myanmar, it is in China’s economic and security interests eration. exchanges dating back to 300-500 years, to China’s economic and security interests. that Myanmar realizes domestic political reconciliation and the two presidents stepped onto the On March 15, Chinese President Xi Jinping was among boosts its economic and social development. The author is deputy editor-in-chief of China Daily Asia veranda to get a bird’s eye view of Prague the first group of world leaders to congratulate U Htin Statistics show about one-third of Myanmar’s foreign Pacific. while sipping their farewell beer. Kyaw upon his election as Myanmar’s new president. trade goes to China, and Chinese investments account for [email protected] Shortly after Xi left for Washington to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, I too had the chance to visit the stunningly mag- nificent library, which consists of the Phil- XIN LAIZHE osophical Hall, which houses the Czech- language collection on Confucius and the early comprehensive introduction to Chi- na, and the Theological Hall with stuccoes Reduce packaging, make deliveries greener and paintings. The books on China, some of which are original manuscripts, were mostly written by missionaries during he rapid growth of online shopping and express therefore, is easier said than done. The landfills in China stop shopping online. The convenience of viewing and pur- their stay in or after their return from Chi- delivery services has given rise to huge amounts are already overflowing with waste. Because a dispropor- chasing almost everything a normal shopper needs is too na hundreds of years ago. T of rubbish in China, says a recent cankaoxi- tionate percentage of this waste is generated by cities, attractive and alluring to ignore. The joy of exercising vir- aoxi.com report. Last year alone, 16.95 billion landfills are required to be near urban settlements where tual power in selection of goods and having them delivered meters of adhesive tape and 9.9 billion boxes were used to land comes at a premium. Incinerators have their own at your doorsteps is too appealing to give up. And the com- Going by European standards, deliver the purchases of online shoppers. problems. For one, there are not enough incinerators to fort of getting whatever one wants at the click of a mouse is The contradiction in economic development, which dispose of the current flow of garbage. For another, instal- too intoxicating to trade for the rigors of visiting a real building more cultural venues such online shopping helps boost, and waste creation and thus lation of new incinerators is being opposed by residential market. as libraries ... should also be given environmental degradation could not be more self-evident. communities in many places in China. The touch and feel of real products are no longer a And as China Post data show, the problem will only grow To tackle the gargantuan waste problem, one can wish source of delight or solace for people who are used to shar- priority, in order to help propel as the 48 percent year-on-year of delivery services in 2015 that people stop shopping online. But if wishes were hors- ing their feelings on the Internet and conversing on their China’s economic development ... suggests. es, beggars would fly. phones or laptops. Real shopping like face-to-face conver- Experts say excessive packaging for products dispatched One cannot, and should not, expect people to suddenly sations is becoming a thing of the past for the Internet gen- through courier agencies to meet online shoppers’ demand eration. is generating increasing amounts of trash and the existing Perhaps this is where old practices, prac- Jan Parez, curator of the library’s manu- recycling system cannot cope with them. Many tices that were part of the daily lives of script section who was responsible for would argue that, if the waste cannot be recy- people who grew up between the preparing the items for Xi, said the presi- cled, why not dump them in landfills or 1960s and 1990s, could be worth a dent has a deep understanding of and consign them to incinerators? revisit. Old-timers might remember respect for Czech society and culture. But before reaching a conclusion, how they went to the market and Thanks to Parez, I had the privilege to visit let us check out some facts. Zhu bought only the things they need- the two halls, which are now open to tour- Lei, a Qingdao-based scholar affil- ed, nothing more, nothing less, just ists, and enjoy the panoramic view of iated to Beijing Institute of enough. Prague and soak in the glory of the place Graphic Communication, says Perhaps online shoppers could where the two presidents drank their fare- that apart from the 9.9 billion use the same tactics, and place well beer. packing boxes and 16.95 bil- orders for only the products they Xi said it was a rare experience to see lion meters of adhesive tape, really need. Better still, they could such a rich arts and cultural treasure. 2.96 billion woven bags, 8.26 wait to place orders for different Some other journalists who reported Xi’s billion plastic bags and 2.97 products in bulk so that fewer visit to the library on March 30 also called billion buffers or bubble materials would be used to pack it the most beautiful library in the world. wraps were also used by them. Compulsive purchase has to Indeed, the library is symbol of knowledge express delivery business- take a back seat. and beauty, and carries a strong message. es in 2015. Since these Perhaps only then can the waste Both presidents are extremely keen waste products were in generated by online shoppers be readers with a preference for books on his- addition to the millions reduced. Other measures, such as tory and civilization. And by saying that a of tons of garbage that recycling programs and a standard long history and bountiful cultural heri- people generated in delivery packaging system by courier tage are the precious wealth of the Czech their usual daily routine, and e-business companies, may seem people and that China is an ancient civili- the magnitude of the good but could prove illusory in the ulti- zation with a history of more than 5,000 problem should not be mate analysis. years, Xi has highlighted the great poten- lost on anyone. tial for the two countries to learn from Disposing of this astro- The author is a senior editor with China each other and expand their cultural nomical amount of waste, MA XUEJING/ CHINA DAILY Daily. exchanges following the establishment of a strategic partnership during his visit. And the two presidents know that increasing people-to-people and cultural exchanges is BI YANTAO the key to laying a firm foundation for the development of bilateral relations. During his visit to the Czech Republic, Xi promoted mutual cultural respect. But When will Chinese TV dramas play their part? there was more to his visit than economic and cultural exchanges. Xi visited the Czech Republic shortly after China hile Chinese people have started recognizing ful because they benefit from the positive image of the dated concepts of decision-makers in China’s TV play sec- announced the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016- the value of soft power in expanding national country and its eagerness to integrate itself with the out- tion, relatively conservative management style and the 20). By the time the plan is completed in W interests, our neighbor to east, South Korea, side world. After all, a country’s film and TV productions generation gap between them and the audience at large, 2020, China’s per capita income is expect- has been using its TV plays to further its should be analyzed in the context of its broader national especially youths, prevent the vitality and energy of Chi- ed to reach $12,000 making it a relatively image for quite some time now. image. nese TV plays from being fully released. And TV dramas high-income country. Also, Xi has vowed With the Descendants of the Sun, a new South Korean According to Simon Anholt, a national brand expert, a made under obsolete concepts cannot gain market favor. to end extreme poverty in China by 2020. series on KBS2, being a big hit with TV viewers on the Chi- country’s reputation can be neither forged nor changed Scientific orientation and guidance have also contribut- Given these facts, one can say Xi’s visit nese mainland, people cannot but ask: Why cannot China, through communication. He says the national image can ed to the success of South Korean dramas. For example, to the Strahov Library also signifies his a country with a much larger audience, make such popular be lifted 80 percent by creative work, 15 percent with sys- South Korean cultural research institutions, subsidized by vow to offer enough public goods to those TV dramas? What’s wrong with China’s film and television tematic coordination, and only 5 percent through commu- the government and businesses, are focused on studying in need. And this is an area where Europe plays and directors? nication. the market for cultural competitions and offer data sup- has a lot of experiences to offer to China — Some people attribute the popularity of South Korean In this sense, South Korean TV dramas also owe their port for devising policies for the cultural industry, as well for example, it has already used the index TV series to their love-oriented stories, overflowing aes- success to the effective implementation of Seoul’s “cultur- as for the changes it requires. These measures are like an of the number of books a child has access theticism, and romantic, sympathetic and suspenseful sce- ally-oriented” national strategy. On the one hand, the effective guarantee for South Korean TV plays to realize to at home to measure people’s living con- narios that seem to fit in with young women’s fantasies. South Korean government has implemented policies and their expected goal both at home and abroad. ditions in a region. The pleasing personalities of the male and female protago- pumped in funds for the development of the cultural sec- TV dramas have become a special cultural commodity in China needs to identify the poor and nists, their vivaciousness, as well as the zigzagging plots tor. On the other, it has taken measures to introduce non- these times of ever-deepening market segmentation. To needy in the country, as well as build more and marvelous music, which meet young viewers’ psycho- governmental capital to the sector. engage with and influence the specific groups in different libraries to allow children from poor fami- logical demands, are also believed to be strong points of South Korea has also reframed its cultural industrial countries or regions, TV plays must base their contents lies to have access to more books because South Korean TV dramas. model and value chain, forging a “cultural industrial com- and marketing tactics specifically on subjects the targeted they can help them emerge out of poverty. But all these seem superficial factors if we believe some munity” made up of the government, businesspeople and audiences like. This gives hope to Chinese people who love Going by European standards, building scholars who say the success of South Korean plays essen- academic circles, which has helped establish a cultural pat- South Korean TV dramas that Chinese TV plays can also more cultural venues such as libraries, tially stems from the success of the country’s cultural poli- tern in which scriptwriters form the core of the series- play a similar role in improving our national image among museums, theaters, sports centers and cy and its cultural business model which consider the making teams and TV dramas drive the development of the international community. swimming pools should also be given pri- success of the performing arts sector only as a subordinate related industries. ority, in order to help propel China’s eco- factor. The Chinese government, too, attaches great importance The author is a professor in communication studies at nomic development and lift people’s In my view, South Korean TV dramas have been success- to the development of the cultural industry, but some out- Hainan Tropical Ocean University. incomes as well as living standards. 10 WORLD Wednesday, April 6, 2016 CHINA DAILY

AUSTRALIA FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION Survivor calls procedure Asylum-seekers’ fear of sea ‘barbaric’ in new memoir

By REUTERS in London soothed by surfing program Hibo Wardere’s childhood end- ed abruptly at six years old when she was led to a hut outside her From head to toe Mogadishu home, pinned to the By ASSOCIATED PRESS floor and subjected to the most the pain burned ... in Sydney, Australia brutal form of female genital muti- lation. exploding in my They gather under the blazing As a wizened old woman hacked sun and blue skies of an Australian between her legs with a rusty brain ... every nerve beach, looking out at the water that blade, the little girl screamed out once symbolized so much misery: repeatedly for her “mummy” — ending screaming Terrifying boat trips marked by sick- the person she loved and trusted in agony.” ness and death and the constant most in the world. dread that their own lives might be But her mother turned away. Hibo Wardere, author of memoir nearing the end. But today, the sea From that day on she never called Cut, the first book about female will become their unlikely savior. her “mummy” again. genital mutilation from a victim now For these five asylum-seekers, a Like all girls in Somalia who living in the United Kingdom novel program introducing them to undergo FGM, Wardere was told the iconic Aussie sport of surfing is never to speak about what had helping to transform both their feel- happened. But 40 years on, she is duty to end it. ings toward the ocean and their lives determined to break the secrecy FGM nearly cost Wardere her life and allowing them, at least for a brief that she said perpetuates this “bar- and she remembers many girls who time, to forget the pains of the past. baric and medieval abuse”. never reappeared from their huts. “We know that getting into the This week sees the publication Yet the practice remains almost ocean and surfing makes everybody of her memoir Cut, the first book universal in Somalia where par- feel good,” says Brenda Miley, surf about FGM in Britain where ents see it as an important purifi- school director at Let’s Go Surfing, Wardere has lived since fleeing civ- cation rite designed to protect a which is providing the lessons. “ ... I il war in Somalia as a teenager. girl’s virginity. just think it’s a win-win because it Many also believe the ritual, helps build confidence, they learn Sense of betrayal called gudnin in Somalia, is a reli- some skills, they learn about being a “I felt as if someone had gious duty even though it predates local Aussie.” Asylum-seeker Amin (center), and classmate Kumar catch a wave during a surfing class on Bondi Beach in Sydney, dropped me into bright orange Islam and is not mentioned in the There is a rush of nervous laugh- Australia. A novel program aims to rid them of a fear of the ocean some migrants develop. ROB GRIFFITH / ASSOCIATED PRESS molten lava,” she wrote, recalling Quran. ter and chitchat as the men file into the day she was cut. “From head to In most cases the cutter removes the Let’s Go shop at Sydney’s famed toe the pain burned ... exploding in the girls’ external genitalia and surf haven, Bondi Beach. Inside, the journey are often scarred by it. lose their balance and “do a helicop- first shaky attempts as Pattinson my brain ... every nerve ending then sews up the opening, some- instructors Conrad Pattinson and Amin’s memories of that trip and ter.” At this, he circles his arms wild- and Bigelow whistle and cheer. screaming in agony.” times with a thorn. Will Bigelow demonstrate how to the relentless seasickness that came ly. The men crack up. Flanked by other student surfers, But worse was the complete “What remains ... can only be put on wet suits. with it are dark. Today, though, he Finally, it is time to hit the water. they are largely indistinguishable sense of betrayal by her mother. described as looking like what’s Amin, an asylum-seeker from hopes to forget all that. The men slide onto their boards and from the rest of the rookies: Their “My life changed forever,” said between the legs of a Barbie doll. It Iran, flexes his muscles under the Down on the beach, Pattinson and paddle toward a sandbar where the hips wobble, their arms “do the heli- Wardere. “It severed the closeness, is ... a complete denial of woman- neoprene and chuckles. He has been Bigelow give the men a pep talk. They waves are breaking. There, the copter”, they occasionally collide, the bond, the trust — everything hood,” she wrote. urging his fellow Surfing Without explain how the current works and instructors help maneuver the stu- and they belly flop more than they was gone.” FGM often causes a lifetime of Borders buddies along all morning, the different parts of the surfboard. dents’ boards into the proper posi- stand. But more than anyone else in Wardere, a mother of seven from physical, psychological and sexual eager to get on a surfboard for the “We’re going to make a plan to tion. And when Amin is ready, the water, they laugh. London, is part of a growing anti- problems. Urination can take 15 first time. But he admits his excite- keep it safe and get heaps and heaps Pattinson pushes him forward onto This kind of joy is exactly what the FGM campaign in Britain, where an minutes, menstruation is agonizing, ment is tinged with anxiety. of waves,” Bigelow says. his first wave. staff at Settlement Services Interna- estimated 137,000 women and girls chronic infections are common. Lat- Like the tens of thousands of asy- Amin eyes the turquoise water, Amin presses himself up with his tional hoped to achieve when they are believed to have been cut and er in life, it can lead to serious and lum-seekers who have fled to Aus- where the swells are gaining strength. hands, pops into a brief, unsteady launched the surf program last year. 60,000 girls are thought to be at risk. even fatal childbirth injuries. tralia in recent years, Amin’s trip He asks how far out they will go. crouch and ... They knew their clients were grap- She works for a new govern- The book relates how Wardere’s involved a harrowing ocean cross- “Not deep,” Bigelow assures him. Splash! pling not only with the trauma asso- ment-led FGM prevention pro- cousin was cut open on her wed- ing that began in Indonesia, where The students practice standing on “Fell down, no good!” he says. ciated with their boat journeys and gram, talking to teachers, school ding night to consummate the smugglers pack migrants into rick- the boards from the safety of the Undeterred, he wipes his face, grabs the wars and persecution they had children, medical staff and the marriage. Many young women ety boats that frequently break sand. Pattinson warns them that if his board and paddles back out. fled, but also with the anxiety of set- police. Her message is simple: FGM begin married life in hospital, she down or capsize. Those who survive they don’t use proper form, they’ll One by one, the men make their tling into a new country. is child abuse and everyone has a said. CHINA DAILY Wednesday, April 6, 2016 WORLD 11

INDIA VIETNAM Hanoi State prepares to combat deadly heat reports Summer heat has previously claimed thousands first cases of lives in Odisha and other surrounding towns of Zika in By REUTERS in Bhubaneswar, India The plan, due out country From stopping work at soon, looks at “scal- brick kilns on very hot days to By REUTERS issuing five-day advance ing-up and institu- in Hanoi, Vietnam warning of heat waves, the Indian state of Odisha is tionalizing Mosquitoes have infect- readying a pioneering action protection” during ed two women with the plan to prepare for increasing- Zika virus in Vietnam, ly deadly summer heat, offi- extreme heat for health authorities said on cials said. members of the “eco- Tuesday, in the country’s Last summer, several Indian first cases of a disease states saw weeklong June tem- nomically weaker linked in Brazil to thou- peratures that topped 47C, cre- population that work sands of suspected cases of ating the country’s deadliest microcephaly, a rare birth heat wave since 1998. outdoors. defect. That year, 2,541 people died, A 64-year-old woman in more than 2,000 of them in the beach city of Nha Trang Odisha, according to the strategies that connect and and a pregnant 33-year-old Emergency Events Database, empower vulnerable commu- in Ho Chi Minh City fell maintained by the Brussels- nities and ultimately save sick in late March, and based Center for Research on lives,” said Kamal Lochan three rounds of tests have the Epidemiology of Disasters. Mishra, an officer of the Odi- confirmed they are Zika- Although Odisha’s 2015 heat sha State Disaster Manage- positive, health officials death toll was much lower, at ment Authority. said. 67, the state government is One focus of the plan is The sufferers are in sta- now preparing a comprehen- poorer workers whose jobs Children play in mud to cool off on a hot day in New Delhi, India, on Monday. The temperature in New Delhi was expected to reach to 38C ble condition and no fur- sive action plan to deal with require them to be outside on Monday, according to India's metrological department website. ANINDITO MUKHERJEE / REUTERS ther infections have been heat stress, aiming for zero during very hot periods, such found among their rela- casualties from heat waves. as employees at construction tives and neighbors, the The plan has Bhubaneswar, sites, brick kilns and stone- enforcement at construction broader and more refined heat for the first time. above 40 degrees Celsius for health ministry said in a the state’s major city, as its crushing units. sites, factories and worksites early warning system to help Factoring in humidity as two consecutive days are con- statement. focus, and is based on the Indi- The plan, due out soon, under the government rural build resilience to heat waves. well as temperature, the index sidered a heat wave, a 37C an city of Ahmedabad’s heat looks at “scaling-up and insti- wage-employment guarantee India’s meteorological will more accurately indicate reading accompanied by high resilience initiative, begun in tutionalizing protection” dur- program, Mishra said. department now provides a the genuine level of discom- humidity can also result in 2013. ing extreme heat for members Mapping is under way to five-day heat forecast to more fort felt during summer heat. heat-stress disorders, officials “These regional heat pre- of the “economically weaker identify vulnerable working than 100 Indian cities, Temperature and humidity said. paredness and disaster population that work out- populations and outdoor work increasing their capacity to levels, considered together, Bhubaneswar experiences After investiga- response activities together doors,” said Mishra. locations, he said. warn residents and prepare. will determine the threshold up to 85 percent humidity in represent a growing move- New guidelines and warn- Supported by the national Starting in May, the meteoro- for heat wave alerts, Mishra the summer, with Odisha’s tions, we consid- ment to respond to climate ings will be issued and fol- meteorological department, logical department will also said. coastal regions facing even threats with strong adaptation lowed up with strict labor law Odisha also plans to create a issue a “heat index” reading Although temperatures higher humidity. er the source of infection could

INDONESIA IRAQ be mosquito.” Nguyen Thang Long, deputy Minister: health minister Food business “After epidemic investi- gations, we consider the DiCaprio source of infection could be mosquito,” Deputy Health thrives despite Minister Nguyen Thanh lacked Long said of the patient in Ho Chi Minh City. economic slump She is eight weeks preg- full facts nant, Long said in a Viet- nam Television broadcast, By ASSOCIATED PRESS bombings, large swathes of but gave no details of the on forest in Baghdad, Iraq the country are under control first woman. of the extremist Islamic State Health officials have By ASSOCIATED PRESS Iraqi businessman Zaid group and Prime Minister quarantined the living are- in Jakarta, Indonesia Nazo has always been sure of Haider al-Abadi is embroiled as of the patient’s families his nation’s deep passion for in a political crisis over stalled and taken samples from Indonesia’s environment food and wasn’t afraid to reforms and allegations of others living nearby for and forestry minister said dream big when he trans- rampant corruption. further tests, said Nguyen Oscar-winning actor Leon- formed his small Baghdad cof- It’s also a testament to Iraq- Chi Dung, head of Ho Chi ardo DiCaprio lacked com- fee shop in 1999 into a casual is’ determination to triumph Minh City’s department of plete information when he dining and take-away restau- over violence. preventive medicine. criticized the destruction of rant. Today, the 41-year-old Nazo and his business part- The World Health Orga- rain forests during a visit to father of two has opened four ner, his close friend Marwan Diners serve themselves from a buffet at a busy restaurant in Baghdad, Iraq, last month. Many Iraqi nization is working closely a protected national park branches and his chain is one Rassam, established their first entrepreneurs are finding restaurants a safe business bet, despite the country’s slumping economy, with Vietnam, a WHO offi- last month. of the most popular in Iraq. eatery — Saj al-Reef or “Coun- prevailing violence and an ongoing war with the Islamic State group. KARIM KADIM / ASSOCIATED PRESS cial told a health ministry His comments prompted Many Iraqi entrepreneurs try Bread” in Arabic — in the meeting to announce the immigration officials to are finding restaurants and upscale Baghdad neighbor- infections. warn that DiCaprio could eateries a safe business bet, hood of Karrada 18 years ago. The food boom has seen “Baghdadis live under huge Iraq in the summer of 2014, Zika is carried by mos- be barred from re-entering despite the country’s slump- Then in 2007, they opened a new establishments open all pressure,” said al-Zamili, the investors’ appetite for restau- quitoes, which transmit Indonesia, but the minis- ing economy, prevailing vio- second branch in Irbil, the around Baghdad, from city chairman of the Baghdad rants, entertainment and hos- the virus to humans. ter, Siti Nurbaya, said on lence and an ongoing war with capital of the semiautono- rooftops to the banks of the Investment Commission. pitality projects slowed down The WHO says there is a Monday that she appreci- the Islamic State group. mous Kurdistan region, and a Tigris River. Local business- “Restaurants are the best considerably, said al-Zamili. strong scientific consensus ates his good intentions The food business is boom- third in 2009, in the nearby men are pouring millions of place to vent daily frustrations Then it picked up and start- that Zika can cause micro- and hopes to cooperate ing. There are 40 percent more town of Sulaimaniyah. dollars into buying or renting and that’s the main catalyst ed to skyrocket, he says. cephaly as well as Guillain- with him in the future. restaurants in Baghdad today This February, he opened a property, bringing in foreign behind the spike in these pro- Four out of 10 proposals that Barre syndrome, a rare The Hollywood star than there were in 2013 — when new place in Baghdad’s upmar- chefs and staff, competing jects.’’ land before al-Zamili’s com- neurological disorder that made a one-day visit to security and economic condi- ket Mansour neighborhood. with one another for the fanci- The government offers sig- mission are for restaurants or can result in paralysis, Mount Leuser National tions in the country were much “I bet on the mentality of est design, best decoration and nificant tax breaks for up to 10 coffee shops. Baghdad has though conclusive proof Park in northern Sumatra better — according to Shakir Iraqis,” he said. “The Iraqi peo- most attractive cuisine. And years for new ventures, and now more than 100 restau- may take months or years. and uploaded photos to his al-Zamili, the chairman of Bagh- ple love to live ... andtheymake though suicide and car bomb- expedites entry visas for for- rants, coffee shops and eateries Microcephaly is charac- Instagram account, dad Investment Commission. the most of every day because ings regularly target large gath- eign staff at such businesses. that are licensed by his com- terized by unusually small expressing concerns over It’s unexpected when the they don’t know what tomor- erings — including restaurants After the Islamic State took mission — and twice as many heads that can result in species whose habitats are city still faces almost daily row will bring,” he added. — the boom has not slowed. much of northern and western are in the planning stages. developmental problems. threatened by palm oil plantations. But the apparent effort to raise awareness about BANGLADESH endangered animals and burnish the star’s environ- mental credentials quickly went awry. The Indonesian Former prime minister surrenders to court government, meanwhile, has appeared inept, with officials making conflicting in connection with bus attack; granted bail statements. Nurbaya said it was By REUTERS the government. 30 injured in the bus attack minister for most of the past “rather unfortunate” that in Dhaka, Bangladesh Khaleda, 70, surrendered that Khaleda is wanted for. two decades. DiCaprio had not obtained before the court under tight Khaleda did not speak to While the women feud, comprehensive informa- A former Bangladeshi security in the capital, Dhaka. reporters at the court. their Muslim-majority coun- tion about issues such as prime minister surrendered to “The court granted her bail She has not commented try of 160 million, has seen a deforestation in Indonesia. a court on Tuesday in connec- considering her age and physi- publicly on the warrant surge in Islamist violence in The current government tion with an arrest warrant cal condition,” public prosecu- against her and 27 leaders and which liberal activists, mem- is “working hard” to pro- over a deadly fire bombing tor Abdullah Abu told activists of her Bangladesh bers of minority Muslim sects tect the environment, attack on a bus. She was grant- reporters. Nationalist Party. The party and other religious groups including prosecution of ed bail, a prosecutor said. More than 120 people were has dismissed the accusation have been targeted. companies that violate A court issued a warrant for killed and hundreds injured as politically motivated. Hasina has blamed the vio- environmental laws and opposition leader Khaleda Zia last year during opposition Bangladeshi politics has lence on the BNP and a main creating an inventory of Bangladesh’s former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist on March 30 in connection transport blockades and been mired for years in rivalry ally, the Jamaat-e-Islami, areas at risk of deforesta- Party leader Khaleda Zia, waves to supporters at a protest rally to with the attack on the bus last strikes aimed at toppling the between Hasina and Khaleda. many of whose leaders have tion, Nurbaya said. “We are mark the second anniversary of a general election boycotted by a year as her supporters tried to government of Prime Minister Both women are related to been prosecuted for war fixing the problems” of the major opposition alliance in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in early January. enforce a transport strike as Sheikh Hasina. former national leaders, and crimes during a 1971 war of past decade, she said. A.M. AHAD / ASSOCIATED PRESS part of efforts to bring down Two people were killed and they have alternated as prime independence. 12WORLDWednesday, April 6, 2016

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Briefly UNITED NATIONS

GLOBAL New Zealand’s Military spending $1.7 trillion in 2015 Global military spending rose in 2015 to nearly $1.7 former leader trillion, the first increase in several years, driven by con- flicts including the battle against the Islamic State announces bid group, the Saudi-led war in Yemen, said a report released by the Stockholm International Peace for top UN post Research Institute on Tues- day. The United States, with $596 billion in military spending, led all countries Clark is the eighth candidate and the first in 2015. from outside Europe to enter the race INDIA Govt sacks foreign By AGENCIES its five veto-wielding members: consultants in Wellington, New Zealand China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom and the Unit- India is firing dozens of for- Helen Clark, a former New ed States, known as the P5. eign-funded health experts Safe wash Zealand prime minister who is Clark was prime minister working inside the govern- now a senior UN official, for nine years until 2008 and ment, as part of a broader French firemen wearing protective suits take part in a mock chemical attack exercise at the Geoffroy Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne, announced she is running for has headed the UN Develop- clampdown to reduce the France, on Monday, as part of the security preparations for the UEFA 2016 European Championship. ROBERT PRATTA / REUTERS the top position at the United ment Program for the past sev- influence of nongovernment Nations on Tuesday. en years. “I think on the basis organizations on policy. The Clark is the eighth candidate, of what I’ve done in my life I’ve loss of these professionals, and the first from outside got the skills to do this,” she most of whom are Indian CAUCASUS REGION Europe, to enter the race to suc- said. “I have led a small coun- nationals, has raised con- ceed Ban Ki-moon, whose sec- try in the South Pacific for nine cerns that signature pro- ond term expires at the end of years. I’ve been in leadership grams to combat HIV/AIDS Warring sides reach cease-fire agreement this year. Some in the United positions really going back and tuberculosis may suffer Nations are pushing for a wom- close to three decades.” just as they face funding an to take the top role for the shortages due to slow By AGENCIES since the collapse of the Sovi- and on Monday Armenia said first time and some, including Top priority bureaucracy. in Baku, Azerbaijan et Union in 1991. Separatists a cease-fire would only be Russia, are arguing that Eastern She said that if she were to 30,000 declared an independent possible if both sides return Europe has never had a secre- win the post, a top priority INDONESIA Azerbaijan and Armenian lives lost republic, a move that has not to their previous positions. tary-general and it’s their turn. would be dealing with conflict separatist authorities in the been recognized elsewhere, But the talks in Vienna was New Zealand Prime Minis- caused by civil wars and vio- Planes collide in previous conflicts between while taxiing Nagorny Karabakh region including by Armenia. scheduled to be brief and ter John Key said he had per- lent extremists, something reached an agreement on the Armenian minority In the subsequent fighting, with no announcement to the sonally raised the possibility of which would call for taking Two passenger aircraft col- Tuesday to end four days of and Azerbaijan majority 30,000 lives were lost and media. her candidacy with President another look at the UN’s toolk- lided on the runway of an fierce fighting over the dis- in the region of Nagorny thousands of people from both Russia and the United States Barack Obama when he was in it. She said she thought she airport in the Indonesian puted territory, Baku and Karabakh. ethnic groups fled their homes. have called for the fighting to Washington last week and could bring a modernizing capital, forcing its tempo- Karabakh rebels said. A cease-fire brokered by end but Turkey is standing by didn’t get any pushback. Key touch to the organization. rary closure. No injuries “Military actions were halt- the worst violence in decades Russia was signed in 1994, Azerbaijan, and predicts the said he will make the case to “I think it’s probably fair to were reported. The accident ed as of 12:00 pm local time on over the disputed territory. but the two foes have never territory its ally has lost will President Xi Jinping when he say that as an administration on Monday evening Tuesday,” Azerbaijan’s defense Meanwhile, a meeting was agreed on a lasting peace. “one day” be recovered. visits China later this month. it can be a little clunky and a occurred at a military air- ministry said in a statement. scheduled to gather Russia, But Turkish President The New Zealand govern- little old fashioned,” she said. port that also handles civil- “An agreement to cease fire the United States and France, First change Recep Tayyip Erdogan — ment has formally nominated She said she came from a ian flights to ease congestion has been reached with Azer- the co-chairs of Organization Energy-rich Azerbaijan, another regional power bro- Clark, 66. diverse region of the world at Jakarta’s main commer- baijan,” a Karabakh defense for Security and Cooperation whose military spending ker who has been at logger- “I think the position is open,” and wasn’t campaigning as a cial airport. The airline said ministry spokesman said. in Europe Minsk Group, to exceeds Armenia’s entire heads with Russian President Clark said in an interview in woman but rather as the best passengers and crew were “An order was given to stop spearhead attempts to end state budget, has repeatedly Vladimir Putin since Ankara New York. “The New Zealand person for the job. safely evacuated. shooting.” the conflict that revived threatened to take back the downed a Russian warplane government is responding to “I know a lot about working An AFP photographer in bloodily and dangerously on breakaway region by force. near the Syrian border in that saying they think Helen is with diversity and embracing UNITED STATES the frontline Azeri town of Friday. It claims to have captured November — has stood along- the best person for the job. So I diversity, and seeing whether 5 killed in tourist Terter said both sides Analysts said the crisis several strategic positions side Azerbaijan. go into it believing that at this it’s possible to find some unity helicopter crash stopped shelling on Tuesday could set a spark to the Cau- inside Karabakh since fight- “We are today standing time the critical thing for mem- and consensus,” she said. afternoon after a night of casus, a tinderbox region of ing erupted on Friday, in side-by-side with our broth- ber states to look at is: What are The UN General Assembly Officials said a sightseeing sporadic artillery fire across rival groups. what would be the first ers in Azerbaijan,” Erdogan the challenges?” will begin preliminary meet- helicopter crashed near the the front. A landlocked mountainous change in the frontline since said. “Karabakh will one day The UN secretary-general is ings with candidates in New Great Smoky Mountains Fighting between Azerbai- region with an ethnic Arme- the end of the war. return to its original owner. It chosen by the 193-member Gen- York from April 12 to 14 but National Park in eastern jani and Armenian forces has nian majority lying within Baku announced a unilat- will be Azerbaijan’s”. eral Assembly on the recom- there is no closing date for nom- Tennessee, killing all five claimed at least 64 lives since Azerbaijan, Nagorny Kara- eral truce on Sunday, but it mendation of the 15-member inations and more are expected. people aboard. Federal Avi- it erupted on Friday night in bakh has been in dispute failed to stop the fighting, REUTERS—AFP Security Council, which means ation Administration it’s crucial to get support from AP—AFP spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said in an e-mail that the Bell 206 helicopter SOUTH AFRICA Past and present secretaries-general crashed on Monday around 1946-52 1953-61 1962-71 1972-81 3:30 pm near Sevierville. Officials said the tourist Zuma faces impeachment move in Parliament helicopter was destroyed by fire after the crash. The By AGENCIES lawmakers, particu- Protector, Thuli gized and that’s the humility crash site is less than a mile in Cape Town, South Africa larly as it will not be Madonsela, found that is necessary for any lead- Trygve Lie Dag U Thant Kurt from a large outlet mall. a secret ballot. that Zuma and his er,” ANC General Secretary Norway Hammarskjold Myanmar Waldheim South African President The Supreme family had “unduly Gwede Mantashe said on Sweden Austria TURKEY Jacob Zuma faced an impeach- Court of Appeal benefited” from the Monday, after senior members 1982-91 1992-96 1997-2006 2007-present Data of nearly 50 ment attempt in Parliament ruled on Thursday upgrades and of the party met to discuss million leaked on Tuesday after the top court that Zuma had flout- Jacob Zuma, ordered him to pay Zuma the previous evening. ruled that his spending on his ed the Constitution South African back some of the The impeachment motion Hackers have posted a private residence violated the by failing to repay president. money. was lodged by the main oppo- database online that seems Constitution. some of the money Zuma apologized sition party, the Democratic to contain the personal Javier Perez Boutros Kofi Annan Ban Ki-moon Zuma will almost certainly spent on “security upgrades” in a national television Alliance, which drew unflat- de Cuellar Boutros-Ghali Ghana Republic information of nearly 50 survive the impeachment vote, at his rural home at Nkandla address on Friday for the tering comparisons between Peru Egypt of Korea million Turkish citizens in which requires a two-thirds in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal “frustration and confusion” Zuma and iconic former ANC what is one of the largest majority, as his ruling African province. caused by the affair, but leader and president, Nelson Helen Clark public leaks of its kind. The National Congress holds an The project, which cost tax- made it clear that he had no Mandela. Aims to become the first woman to head the United Nations leaked database contains overwhelming number of seats. payers $24 million, included intention of responding to Zuma, 73, will complete his Former prime minister of Running for UN secretary- 49,611,709 entries and New Zealand 1999-2008 general along with 7 other Despite rumblings of dis- a swimming pool, chicken calls to resign. second term in office in 2019, candidates from Bulgaria, divulged considerable pri- Currently the UN’s highest- content within the party over run, cattle enclosure and an He however said he would and is barred by the Constitu- ranking woman as head of Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, vate information, putting a series of scandals involving amphitheater. pay back some of the money tion from running again. the UN Development Montenegro, Portugal and people at risk of identity the president, there is unlike- A 2014 report by the gov- as ordered. Programme Slovenia theft and fraud. 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SYRIA IS group fires mustard gas shells British journalist to appeal after Seoul blocks his site on DPRK Islamic State militants fired By ASSOCIATED PRESS Martyn Williams, whose issues ranging from cell firmed on Tuesday that it DPRK. Since it was launched “illegal or harmful informa- several shells containing in Seoul website has been blocked in phone usage in the DPRK and decided on March 24 to block in 2010, the website has been tion”. mustard gas against Syrian the ROK for almost two its satellite technology, to a the site because it violated frequently cited by ROK and Sohn Ji-won, a lawyer with military positions on Tues- A British journalist who weeks, said the site does not little-known computer oper- the security law. The censor- international media, includ- the Seoul-based Korea Inter- day in the eastern province runs a website that documents violate the security law, ating system developed by ship body blocks websites ing ROK’s Yonhap News net Transparency Report, said of Deir al-Zour, state news technology development and which bans praising, sympa- the country. deemed illegal or harmful to Agency and Dong-A Ilbo daily the blocking of the website agency SANA reported. The issues in the Democratic Peo- thizing or cooperating with He said much of the content society, such as pornography, newspaper. The website gets highlights how ROK authori- poisonous gas shells hit ple’s Republic of Korea said on Pyongyang. The website on his website is based on gambling and the DPRK’s about 20,000 monthly visits. ties sometimes censor content military positions in the Tuesday that he will appeal a “doesn’t seek to glorify or sup- announcements made by official outlets. Since late March, users that does not threaten the vicinity of the Deir al-Zour decision by the Republic of port” the DPRK, Williams, Pyongyang and Seoul and Many of the readers of the accessing the website from country. “As a result, journal- air base, SANA said. Korea to block his site for who is based in San Francis- reports in the media. website are researchers, jour- the ROK have been redirect- ists’ right to know about allegedly violating the coun- co, said in an e-mail. The ROK Communications nalists, diplomats, academics ed to a warning page saying it Pyongyang-related issues is AP—AFP—XINHUA try’s National Security Law. Williams has written about Standards Commission con- and others interested in the is “legally” blocked due to being violated,” she said. New approach Building influence Home appliance makers try Energy agreement HNA offers $340m for to win back consumers BP and CNPC sign shale gas controlling stake in Tysan >PAGE15 agreement>PAGE14 >PAGE16 BUSINESS 13

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MANUFACTURING ELECTRONICS BEVERAGES Wahaha ZTE strategy expands unchanged use of robotics

By CAI XIAO in Hangzhou by reshuffle [email protected] Smartphone maker est-level international China’s largest beverage business principles,” said the producer Hangzhou moves swiftly to shore statement. Wahaha Group Co Ltd is up vital market Shares in ZTE, traded in the planning to set up a new Shenzhen Stock Exchange, factory to expand the pro- have been suspended since duction of industrial By GAO YUAN early March. The company is robots as part of a business [email protected] due to announce full-year transformation. results on Wednesday. The value of the invest- ZTE Corp, a Chinese tele- Analysts suggested the US ment was not revealed, but com equipment and smart- sanctions triggered Shi’s Chairman Zong Qinghou phone maker, has reshuffled departure, although the com- told China Daily the figure its top executive team, just pany insisted the matters are could be significant. weeks after the United States not related. “Besides sticking to our sanctioned the com- James Yan, main business of bevera- pany for alleged research director at Hugo Barra, vice-president of global operations at Xiaomi Corp, gestures while speaking during the launch of the company's Mi 5 ges, we will largely develop export violations. Counterpoint Tech- smartphone in New Delhi, India. BLOOMBERG intelligent manufacturing Shi Lirong, who has nology Market to promote our company’s led ZTE’s overseas Research, said business transformation expansion as presi- replacing Shi was a and upgrading,” said Zong, dent and chairman right call for ZTE who ranked fourth in the since 2010, is stepping because the compa- Xiaomi leads $25m investment mainland on the 2015 Hur- down, to be replaced Shi Lirong ny cannot afford to un Rich List, with a per- by Zhao Xianming, its miss out on the US sonal wealth of 120 billion chief technology offi- as a key growth yuan ($18.57 billion). cer, the Shenzhen- opportunity. in Indian digital content supplier Zong said the company based company said “The core man- is seeking robot technolo- in a statement. agement team in the gies from Israel for its new The company has US is intact, which is By FAN FEIFEI through Xiaomi devices.” services into its platform, factory to be built in Lin’an also appointed seven a good thing for ZTE [email protected] He said the company is adding it also plans to earn in East China’s Zhejiang new executive vice- because they still investing in Hungama not from its online paid content province. presidents, including Zhao Xianming have the know-how Smartphone giant Xiaomi only to start integrating con- in the future. Zeng Xuezhong, head to handle everyday Corp is making its first invest- tent onto its smartphones, Xiaomi has been He said the Chinese firm of handset businesses. operations,” Yan said. ment in an Indian company, but also to deepen its under- has kept one step ahead of its The changing of the guard Milly Xiang, a telecom ana- leading a $25 million cash standing of the Indian con- an Internet com- competitors, such as Sam- comes after the US Commerce lyst with research firm Inter- injection into Hungama Digi- tent sector. sung Electronics Co and Department announced it was national Data Corp, also said tal Media Entertainment, an Hungama is considered the pany from the Apple Inc in its content blocking US companies from the management changes will online provider of music and largest digital provider for offered in India. selling components to ZTE, have limited impact on ZTE’s video content. Bollywood and claims to have very start...” The tech giant started sell- claiming the Chinese company strategies, most of which Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s vice- more than 8,000 movies on ing in India in 2014, and sold prohibited items to Iran. were drawn up as early as in president, said the move is its platform and 65 million Hugo Barra, Xiaomi’s began local manufacturing a The US government has 2014. part of the company’s strategy monthly active buyers of its vice-president year later. Zong Qinghou, chairman of since said it would ease the “I don’t think (the reshuf- to introduce local entertain- music, video and movie servi- It claims 75 percent of its Hangzhou Wahaha Group restrictions until the end of fle) will slow down ZTE’s ment content and services ces. smartphones sold there are Co Ltd June and could further ease global expansion, especially onto its smartphones in the Neerja Roy, Hungama’s locally made. them if ZTE cooperated in when the company is seek- country. founder and CEO, said: “We 64.9 million After launching its latest “resolving the matter”. ing to outshine its competi- Hungama’s existing inves- are excited to be partnering flagship smartphone the Mi 5 “We are also talking with “The new management tors by migrating to post-4G tors Intel Capital, Bessemer with Xiaomi, as we are well handsets of smartphones that in India recently, Lei Jun, its Israel’s Tel Aviv University team will continue work on telecom technology and the Venture Partners and Indian aligned in the way we see dig- Xiaomi sold in China in 2015 founder and chairman, said and Peking University to set innovation and global expan- Internet of Things market,” billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhun- ital media becoming main- that the Indian market would up a technology transfer sion, and will follow the high- said Xiang. wala, are also part of the stream on mobile devices.” be a focus for its overseas center in Hangzhou, which investment round. The company will use the year, but said with only 220 strategic development this will help Israel’s intelligent ZTE's share of total handset shipments “Xiaomi has been an Inter- money to add more content million smartphone owners year. technologies find a Chinese net company from the very on its platform, he said, as it within a population of 1.2 bil- Last year Xiaomi sold 64.9 market,” said Zong. Unit: % start and think of smart- hopes to strengthen its movie lion, India expects 29 percent million smartphones in Chi- Wahaha has been 25 phones as a platform for us to and TV services with another growth. na, giving it a 15 percent mar- involved in robotic deliver Internet services, 1,500 hours of Indian lan- Zhu Dalin, an analyst at ket share, just ahead of research and development 47 38 2014Q4China 49 2015Q4 including content,” said Barra. guage and English TV con- Beijing-based consultancy domestic rival Huawei Tech- since 2011. It has devel- “As our user base grows and tent. Analysys International, said nologies Co Ltd (14.5 percent) oped industrial robots, USA 4G penetration continues Consulting firm Gartner Xiaomi is aiming to expand and global giant Apple (13.4 which are used for packag- 26 15 Others picking up in India, we will Inc predicted global smart- quickly in India through inte- percent), according to ing, palletizing and pro- start to see more and more phone sales were unlikely to grating Hungama’s enter- research firm International duction material delivery. Source: Counterpoint LIU LUNAN / CHINA DAILY consumption of digital media grow in double digits this tainment content and Data Corp. At the end of 2015, Wahaha had 30 industrial robots in its own factories. In 2016, another 100 will TEXTILES be put into operation. Zong added that the competition in the Chinese Yong Sheng buys up leading French lace producer Desseilles robot market is fierce and the company is also devel- oping key parts of robots, By ZHU WENQIAN in Beijing, enable Desseilles to survive on court withdrew the fine. les to significantly cut its costs, such as servo motors and and TUO YANNAN in Paris and the verge of bankruptcy. Under the agreement, the and help it turn around within servo drives. SHI XIAOFENG in Hangzhou Currently, 70 percent of French company plans to a year. “We look favorably on Desseilles’ products are reduce its workforce from 74 “In the long term, we hope the prospects for the Chinese leading textile com- exported to Asia. After the to 60. Among the bids for the to promote the whole industry industry,” said Zong. pany Yong Sheng, a deal, the French lace producer company, the Chinese plan by transferring the lace indus- The world’s second-larg- Hangzhou-based privately is expected to rapidly expand provided the best solution for try layout, and establishing a est economy is already the owned enterprise, has its market share in China, and its local employment issues. new R&D center, design cen- leading market for indus- acquired French lace producer encounter more growth Yong Sheng promised to keep ter and lace production train- trial robots, accounting for Desseilles Laces SAS, one of opportunities worldwide. the 60 positions, and keep the ing school in France.” a quarter of global sales, the oldest lace producers in Michel Berrier, general manufacturing in Calais, the Lu Jinyong, a professor at according to the Interna- the country, for 300,000 euros director of Desseilles, said: original production area for the University of Internation- tional Federation of ($341,300). “After the purchase, we plan to Desseilles in northern France, al Business and Economics in Robotics. Between 2010 Founded in 1993, Hong become the No 1 lace producer for at least five years. Beijing, said: “China’s textile and 2014, the total supply Kong-listed Yong Sheng sells in France. Now we provide Zhang Qi, assistant to the industry is seeing declining of industrial robots in Chi- its products to more than 60 products to many well-known chairman at Yong Sheng, international competitive- na increased by about 40 An employee adjusts a thread on his mechanical lace-making countries and regions, and last lingerie brands, such as Victo- said: “For a long time, chemi- ness, due to increasing labor percent per year on aver- machine called Leavers loom at the Desseilles Laces factory in year, it posted revenue growth ria’s Secret. cal fiber brand has been a costs. A critical way for China age. Calais, northern France. REUTERS of more than 20 percent over “Cooperating with Yong rather weak sector in Yong to raise its competence and But still, for every 10,000 2014. Sheng will bring us financial Sheng’s industry chain. We upgrade its industrial struc- employees, there were only With the acquisition, it is benefits, as well as access to production methods, Desseil- ing the French labor law, and hope to raise the brand value ture is through acquiring pre- 36 robots in China, com- the first time that the compa- new markets. Meanwhile, we les has become a famous the court fined Desseilles 1 through the acquisition. miere overseas brands.” pared with 478 in South ny will have a production base will bring Yong Sheng creative brand in France thanks to its million euros. “Yong Sheng plans to Korea, 292 in Germany in Europe. designs and products that sophisticated craftsmanship. Unable to pay the fine, research and develop new Contact the writers at zhuw- and 164 in the United Last year, Desseilles saw its were unavailable in China.” Desseilles encountered legal Desseilles started the liqui- products by using lace and [email protected], States in 2014. sales revenue reach 5.4 million As one of a few lace produc- problems before the acquisi- dation process. After it chemical fibers together. The tuoyannan@chinadai- euros, declining 35 percent ers to master world-leading tion. Some former employees signed the acquisition agree- production and dyeing by ly.com.cn and shixiao- Ma Si contributed to this from 2014. The acquisition will techniques and traditional sued the company for violat- ment with Yong Sheng, the Yong Sheng will help Desseil- [email protected] story. 14 BUSINESS Wednesday, April 6, 2016 CHINA DAILY

Talking business Sour grapes + spirited e-commerce = sweet profit

By SIVA SANKAR ing to Tracxn.com. Of them, world’s largest imported wine Liquor Easy claims its express tional Wine & Spirit Research, five are from China that retail platform, with 1 million service reaches consumers in by 2020, about 60 percent of he Anbang Insur- accounted for $533.3 million registered consumers and 20 minutes. the world’s post-1990 genera- ance-led consortium or 78 percent of the funding. more than 5,000 wine prod- Competition could not only tion will live in Asia with an T has blamed “various Beijing-based, NEEQ-listed ucts from 18 countries. improve quality of both prod- expected $200 billion in dis- market considera- Jiuxian.com, an AAA-rated It sold 7 million bottles of ucts and services but entail posable income. A significant tions” for its failed attempt to B2C liquor e-tailer, alone wines in 2014 despite China’s more ventures. China could part of it will likely be spent on buy Starwood Hotels & received $310 million. Yijiupi, austerity drive that hurt see more startups focused on alcoholic beverages. Resorts Worldwide Inc for $14 Jiubianli or Liquor Easy, import and sales of alcoholic wine culture promotion, wine- Estimates suggest by the billion. Sour grapes? Wine9.com (formerly Pin- beverages. Its Singles Day (Nov related education, media and end of 2017, 4 billion bottles of But grapes could turn sweet wine.cn) and YesMyWine.com 11) sales via Tmall.com, a small events, wine tourism, even wine, including 1.19 billion bot- for Anbang if it emulates oth- are the other four. part of its overall online and innovative technology (like tles of imported wine, will have er investors and invests in Yijiupi’s valuation zoomed to A customer chooses wine at a cross-border duty-free shop at the offline platforms, doubled to Kuwee’s battery-operated, been consumed in Asia, much China’s wines and spirits about 3 billion yuan ($463 mil- Zhengzhou airport, Henan province. 40.5 million yuan from the Wi-Fi smart-bottle that keeps of it in China, India and South- businesses. Alcohol appears lion) in March after a fresh ZHANG TAO / FOR CHINA DAILY 2014 festival. wine fresh for 100 days). east Asia. In volume terms, capable of generating long- round of funding. Online marketplace JD.com Fruit wines may become China tops country-wise con- term returns on investment, a Online and online-to-offline expects to sell imported alco- popular. China Guangzhou sumption lists for both wines potential alternative to real B2B and B2C alcohol startups ing to government data, online only arrived in China but is set holic beverages worth 10.5 bil- Shunchangyuan Wine & Spirit and spirits. estate that cash-flush, like these retail both imported sales of tobacco and liquor to rival other popular online lion yuan this year on its own, Co Ltd will publicize its plum Chinese, it seems, will drink, M&A-minded Chinese com- and Chinese wines and spirits. products generated 196 billion shopping categories like cos- up from 400 million yuan last wine and litchi wine next week no matter what — either to panies are snapping up Their colorful websites and yuan in 2015, up 13 percent. metics and fashion. This can year. Sales of other alcohol in Singapore at the inaugural drown austerity- and slow- worldwide. apps offer cheap deals for An Analysys International be attributed to the growing merchants using its platform ProWine Asia expo. down-related sorrows, or to Not just overseas vineyards shapely, bright porcelain or report projects overall liquor number of young, knowledge- are expected to triple this year China has more vineyards celebrate recovery and life and wineries, even alcohol glass bottles, packed in leather sales in China at more than 1 able, app-happy and lifestyle- to 1.5 billion yuan. than wine leader France, but itself. So, if a failed realty startups launched in the past cases, fancy wooden boxes or trillion yuan this year. Alcohol conscious consumers in China, Flush with funds, alcohol grapes are mostly used as acquisition bid produces sour 10 years, are attracting big- premium shopping bags. e-commerce alone is expected where focus has shifted to startups are expanding, setting fruit. So, wine production in grapes, try to make wine and ticket investments. In terms of In 2015, wine sales in China to pull in nearly 60 billion domestic consumption from up warehouses, offline stores China may increase, poten- sweet profits. funding globally, the top 10 were worth 78 billion yuan, yuan, or 5.6 percent of sales, exports. and O2O tie-ups, and upgrad- tially reducing the reliance on alcohol startups received with imported wines account- next year. Already, Shanghai-based ing their IT systems, logistics imports. Contact the writer at siva $686.4 million so far, accord- ing for 26 billion yuan. Accord- Alcohol e-commerce has not YesMyWine.com claims it’s the and packaging. For example, According to the Interna- [email protected]

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Alphabet Inc’s Google, Internation- al Business Machines Corp, and Amazon.com Inc in the race for supremacy in operating other com- panies’ blockchains. Microsoft and R3, a consortium of 43 financial GOVTS & POLICIES COMPANIES & MARKETS institutions, have formed a strate- Mainland-Macao trade Consumer electronics gic partnership to accelerate the use of the blockchain technologies. down 32% in Jan, Feb make way to China Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Trade between the Chinese main- Be it robots or cutting-edge weara- Satya Nadella announced the deal land and Macao totaled $460 mil- ble devices, products that are at the company’s Envision confer- lion in the first two months of this unveiled at CES, one of the world’s ence on Monday. Blockchains — year, down 32 percent year-on- largest consumer electronics shows basically online ledgers for record- year, according to data from the in the United States, are going to ing transactions — first gained pop- Ministry of Commerce. Mainland make their way to China with the ularity with the digital currency exports to Macao stood at $440 help of e-commerce giant Alibaba bitcoin. million, decreasing by 31.2 percent Holding Group Ltd. Gary Shapiro, year-on-year. Imports from the president and chief executive officer Orders for lower-price region declined by 43.8 percent to of the Consumer Technology Associ- $20 million. The number of pro- ation, the organizer of CES, said on Tesla reach 276,000 jects the mainland had approved Tuesday that Alibaba’s Tmall plat- Worldwide orders for the new low- for investment from Macao and form is authorized to be the exclu- er-priced Tesla electric car hit the actual use of Macao invest- sive online shopping site to sell tech 276,000 over the weekend, surpris- ment also dropped by half and products launched on CES. ing even the company’s CEO Elon 16.3 percent, respectively, in the Musk, who said it may force Tesla two months. In terms of actual use Increased power drives to open another factory. Musk of investment, Macao accounted Robots hit the runway posted the number Sunday on his for 0.8 percent of the total over- up CNNP 2015 profit Twitter feed and said if the trend seas investment in the mainland China National Nuclear Power Co Visitors take photos of dancing robots at an international fashion show at the Happy Valley theme park in Beijing. continues, Model 3 orders could as of the end of February. Ltd said it expects 2015 net profit to CHENG GONG / FOR CHINA DAILY hit 500,000 and would require be between 3.71 billion yuan ($57.4 another factory in Europe to meet Land sales plunge million) and 3.83 billion yuan, to demand. increase by 50 to 55 percent com- almost 22% last year pared with 2014. Net income in 2014 Alaska Air buys Virgin Land sales slowed sharply in Chi- was 2.47 billion yuan. Increased slumped 39 percent, the second- Sinosteel is expected to submit a sistent sales growth as the French na last year, as the property mar- power generated is the main reason worst performance in the Bloom- feasibility study and the final design carmaker seeks to build on its America for $2.6 billion ket cooled and the country faced for the forecast. berg China-US Equity Index, which of the facility to Bolivia’s Ministry of recovery from near-bankruptcy to Alaska Airlines’ parent company economic headwinds, the Ministry slid 9 percent. Planning so it can begin talks with healthy profit. Peugeot aims to announced on Monday that it will of Finance said on Tuesday. Land Tuniu hurt by economic Eximbank on the financing need. step up model launches to intro- pay $2.6 billion to buy the Richard sales by local governments Sinosteel to begin work duce a new vehicle each year for Branson-inspired, California-based amounted to 3.37 trillion yuan woes, stronger rivals each of its three brands — Peugeot, carrier. Alaska hopes to become ($517.8 billion), plunging 21.6 per- Investors are packing it in on Tuniu on plant in Bolivia Citroen and DS — including 11 travelers’ preferred airline on the cent year-on-year, according to a Corp, the once-high-flying Chinese Sinosteel is expected to break hybrids and all-electric cars. Peuge- West Coast and a tougher competi- statement posted on the MOF online tour company that doubled ground in August on a sheet metal ot also plans production in South- tor to giants American, Delta and website. Sales fell year-on-year by in value within a month of its 2014 plant in Bolivia’s east Santa Cruz, east Asia and is seeking a United on transcontinental routes. 23.6 percent in East China, by 17.3 US debut. Tuniu’s American deposi- Bolivian Mining and Metallurgy manufacturing partner in India, The deal would vault Alaska over percent in Central China, and by tary receipts have given back almost Minister Cesar Navarro said on AROUND THE WORLD the company said. JetBlue — the losing bidder for Vir- 21.2 percent in the western region. all of those gains, and now its two Monday. Construction will begin Peugeot pledges sales gin America — to become the Only a handful of cities and prov- biggest rivals are joining forces pending the completion of legal Microsoft strikes nation’s fifth-biggest airline by pas- inces saw sales growth, with amid the country’s deepest econom- paperwork and the approval of a drive in mid-term plan senger traffic. Shenzhen rising the most — by ic slowdown in 26 years. Since the line of credit by the Import and PSA Peugeot Citroen outlined blockchains partnership 36.9 percent year-on-year. stock hit a peak on Dec 18, it has Export Bank of China, Navarro said. plans on Tuesday to return to con- Microsoft Corp has pulled ahead of CHINA DAILY-AGENCIES

ENERGY BP joins hands with CNPC to tap into shale gas potential

By LYU CHANG The London-based energy exploitation. Calling it a win- natural gas, and has infrastruc- to the country’s challenging globally and carbon emissions and YANG ZIMAN giant signed its first shale-gas win situation, Bob Dudley, BP ture pipelines in place. These geology and mixed drilling trading as well as sharing of production deal with CNPC, Group’s chief executive, said are key ingredients for success.” results, according to Bloom- knowledge around low-car- BP Plc is joining hands with the country’s biggest oil compa- that the contract provides “fair Dudley said geologists have berg. bon energy and management China National Petroleum ny, to jointly develop the Neiji- and reasonable returns” for identified places with good The timing is good, But Li said despite China practices. Corp to unlock the potential of ang-Dazu shale-gas block both companies. prospects in Sichuan, where still being in the early stage of a BP’s 2016 Energy Outlook China’s vast reserves of shale covering an area of about 1,500 “The timing is good, and it the country’s two biggest shale- and it fits China’s shale fracking revolution, shale forecasts that shale gas will gas in the hope that it can gen- square kilometers in the Sich- fits China’s national agenda,” gas developments are located, gas is a strategic industry for make up a quarter of the total erate a lucrative profit amid uan Basin. he said. “There are a lot of including CNPC’s Changning- national agenda.” the country to combat air pollu- gas produced in the world by expectations of a rising oil price CNPC will be the operator of known shale-gas resources in Weiyuan national shale-gas tion and reduce the reliance on 2035 and China will contribute in the long term, an expert said the project, while BP will use Sichuan. It has had some devel- demonstration area and the Bob Dudley, chief executive of imported oil. most to the sector’s growth in on Tuesday. its technology in shale-gas opment and a good market for Fuling shale-gas project of Chi- BP Group “Shale-gas exploration posts that time. na Petrochemical Corp, known challenges but is of strategic Sinopec plans to boost shale- as Sinopec. “The decision on shale-gas importance. It will generate gas output capacity at its Fuling The deal comes at a time development came unexpect- huge business potential in the project to 10 billion cu m by when the production of shale edly, especially when crude oil long term,” she said. 2017. The company said earlier gas has declined amid plum- prices show no sign of bounc- The deal is part of a frame- the first phase of the Fuling meting crude prices, which ing back at least for the next work agreement signed in shale-gas project in the Sich- have led to falling sales of two years,” said Li Li, research October during President Xi uan Basin has commenced shale gas. director of energy consultancy Jinping’s visit to the United production with an annual Earlier reports said CNPC ICIS China. Kingdom. In addition to capacity of 5 billion cu m. and Sinopec produced about The contract also follows a unconventional resources, the 5.1 billion cubic meters of shale pullback of international oil framework agreement covers Contact the writers at gas in 2015, lower than the tar- companies such as Royal possible fuel retailing ventures [email protected] get of 6.5 billion cu m set in Dutch Shell Plc and the in China, exploration of oil and and yangziman@china 2012. US-based ConocoPhillips due LNG trading opportunities daily.com.cn. CHINA DAILY Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Focus | BUSINESS 15

MANUFACTURING INNOVATION Upgrades ‘SMALL RICE’ XIAOMI that will cook the GOES BIG WITH Japanese SMART COOKER goose By FAN FEIFEI Hurt for long by superior Japanese small appliances, [email protected]

domestic manufacturers are unleashing improved products Intelligent rice cookers made in China are expect- ed to kick-start upgrada- tion of the local manufacturing industry and end the dominance of, and Chinese consum- ers’ fascination for, Japa- nese brands, experts said. Xiaomi Corp launched a smartphone-controlled, 999-yuan ($155) induc- tion heating or IH pres- sure cooker for rice under a new brand called Mijia in late March. Last month, Guang- dong-based Gree Electric Appliances Inc launched a new model of 1,199-yuan IH cooker. IH rice cookers of well- known foreign brands retail for upwards of 2,000 yuan. Chen Hengqing, an analyst at AVC, a consult- ing company that spe- cializes in home appliances data, said: “I hope this round of rice cooker battle among Chi- nese manufacturers will weed out obsolete tech- Liu De, co-founder and vice-president of Xiaomi Corp, speaks at the launch of its small home appliances brand Mijia in Beijing. Xiaomi in Chinese means small rice or millet. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY nology and backward companies in China, underline top quality, By XU JINGXI in Guangzhou “At first, I thought Chinese feature-rich smartphones, of Gree Electric Appliances appliances reached 95 billion and deepen supply-side [email protected] people had blind faith in the has been exploring the smart Inc, a leading air conditioner yuan last year, up 6 percent structural reforms that quality of foreign products. home-appliances sector for manufacturer based in Zhu- year-on-year, the market the government has been Makers of home appliances But later I discovered, after the past two years. hai, Guangdong province, is research agency estimated. emphasizing.” in China are improving their research, that Japanese mak- Chinese manufac- It launched a new brand, also confident her company’s The shipment volume of rice products to win back quality- ers did have a technological Mijia, for the sector on March newly released IH rice cooker cookers was about 50 million conscious Chinese consumers edge,” Lei said in a speech turers need to 29. The first product to enter can rival or even excel Japa- units. who go overseas on shopping during the annual sessions of the market under this brand nese high-end products. This year, the rice cooker sprees. the National People’s Con- refine the design is a smartphone-controlled Gree conducted a blind segment will see its output The campaign to make new, gress and the Chinese People’s IH pressure cooker for rice. taste test at its rice cooker’s value rise by more than 15 The new models improved made-in-China Political Consultative Confer- and quality of their Sales of the Mijia rice cooker launch on March 8, inviting percent. IH rice cookers are show Chinese products started with the ence held in Beijing in early products to perfec- begin today. about 100 guests to compare expected to contribute more electric rice cooker. Big play- March. Priced 999 yuan, it aims to rice made in its cooker with than half of the sales, accord- consumers want ers such as Midea Group, “While Chinese models tion with the spirit beat most Japanese IH rice that cooked using foreign ing to Midea. Gree Electric Appliances Inc could cook rice thoroughly, cookers that are sold for appliances. Gree’s cooker won The home appliances giant quality goods.” and consumer electronics Japanese models could cook of craftsmanship.” 3,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan the most votes. exported more than 2 million major Xiaomi Corp launched rice beautifully, making the each. Lei said rice cooked in a “With so many manufactur- rice cookers to Japan in 2015. It Liang Zhenpeng, an high-end induction heating rice dance.” Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Mijia cooker tastes as good as ers in China, there’s no excuse launched a high-end IH rice independent consumer or IH rice cookers recently. According to the Ministry Xiaomi Corp that cooked in Japanese cook- for not making a good rice cooker in Japan in April last electronics analyst They claimed their prod- of Commerce, Chinese tour- ers. cooker,” Dong said. “We want year, challenging Japanese ucts are on a par with those of ists spent about 1.2 trillion The Mijia R&D team spent to rebuild Chinese consumers’ competitors on their home their Japanese counterparts. yuan ($185 billion) overseas two years in developing the confidence in made-in-China turf. Agreed Liang Zhen- This made headlines dur- last year. product. They drafted Naito products with the rice cooker “Chinese manufacturers peng, an independent ing the Spring Festival holi- Chinese consumer 95 billion yuan Takeshi, the Japanese invent- as the catalyst.” have accumulated strong man- consumer electronics day in February. Yet, Chinese demands have increased or of IH pressure cooker tech- While sales growth of televi- ufacturing capacity and tech- analyst. Chinese manu- tourists flew several thousand from functional products to the market size for small nology, into their team. sions, refrigerators, washing nological ability by facturers, he said, need to kilometers to buy made-in-Ja- products with great user appliances last year The design of the pressure machines and air conditioners cooperating with multination- improve the quality and pan electric toilet seats and experience, Lei said. valve and cooker coating are are sluggish, small appliances, al giants in the past several performance of their rice cookers. “To keep consumers home better, according to Lei. It is especially those used for clean- decades,” said Yuan Liqun, products and make them Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, is (in China), Chinese manufac- nologies to offer great buys,” also a “smart” device that can ing and cooking, are booming vice-president of Midea. intelligent. That could not surprised. The quality of turers need to refine the he told China Daily. “And cook rice according to the in China, thanks to domestic “While we realize the gap with help solve the problem of many products made in Chi- design and quality of their such products are what I call grain’s brand, type and origin. consumers’ growing demand developed countries, we overcapacity and promote na fails to meet the elevated products to perfection with ‘new made-in-China prod- All users need to do is scan the for quality life, as shown by should have faith in our poten- upgrading of the tradi- expectations of Chinese con- the spirit of craftsmanship ucts’.” barcode on their rice bags surveys by China Market Mon- tial and actively transform and tional manufacturing sumers who now have greater and at the same time increase The Beijing-based Xiaomi, with an app. itor Co Ltd. upgrade China’s manufactur- industry as soon as possi- spending power, he said. efficiency with Internet tech- best known for its affordable, Dong Mingzhu, president The market size for small ing industry.” ble. Chen said Chinese con- sumers now aspire for high-quality life. Finer TECH things like tasty rice hold importance. “If I can buy a smart rice cooker made in Great home appliance revolution China for 999 yuan whose quality is the same as that of foreign brands that cost By QIU QUANLIN tric cookers targeted at both task of producing best cooking several thousand yuan, in Foshan, Guangdong domestic and overseas mar- solutions for Chinese consum- why wouldn’t I buy the [email protected] kets. ers,” said Li. local one?” “China-made rice cookers The company has a R&D AVC data show IH rice By now, Huang Bing is an are now time-tested, their team comprising more than cookers account for only expert in cooking rice to per- high quality is specially 100 researchers to build the 26 percent of total sales fection. He spent years work- designed for Chinese consum- world’s finest electric cooker, value of all types of rice ing in the Midea Group’s ers,” said Huang. “The latter Li said. “It normally takes cookers in China. The research and development have developed different more than two years for the average price of cookers laboratory that designs, needs in cooking rice. For research and development of a made in China is 853 among other things, new elec- example, they want the cooker new variety of rice cookers.” yuan while that of leading tric rice cookers. to also make soups. So, we Midea’s laboratory at its foreign brands is 2,678 The Chinese home applian- have to develop products that consumer electric appliances yuan. ces maker had Huang as its can meet their various needs.” factory employs dozens of “The new models show chief product manager for the Sales of the Dingfu induc- workers to test new types of Chinese consumers want past two-and-a-half years. He tion heating or IH rice cooker, rice cookers. quality goods. Compared oversaw the electric heating priced 2,999 yuan ($460), According to Li, the compa- with low-end rice cookers appliances product develop- surpassed 100 million yuan in ny’s rice cookers are sold most- priced between 100 yuan ment division. There, he may the second half of last year, ly in China where consumers and 200 yuan, IH models have cooked almost 2 metric according to Li Guolin, gener- have developed a taste for cer- are believed to cook rice to tons of rice, enough to feed a al manager of Midea’s con- tain flavors of cooked rice. a nicety, preserving the four-member family for eight sumer electric appliances They prefer it soft and full of grain’s intrinsic taste and years. division. natural goodness. nutrition value,” said “I also ate rice, normally fin- Dingfu cooker uses what is On China’s major e-com- Liang. Li Guolin (right), general manager of Midea’s electrical appliances division, shows consumers the ishing 10 bowls of rice each considered the best water-to- merce platforms including He sees a big market latest version of the company’s induction heating pressure cooker for rice. QIU QUANLIN / CHINA DAILY day at the laboratory,” he said, rice proportion and various Tmall.com and JD.com, Ding- developing for IH rice smiling. heat settings during cooking. fu rice cooker sales have been cookers in first- and sec- MIdea unveiled the result of Midea, based in the manu- among the top 10 brands since rice. “The map gives us a good have been shipped to overseas “It will take some time for ond-tier cities in China. all that effort, a top-end elec- facturing base in Foshan, it was launched last year. understanding of Chinese rice, markets, including Japan that Chinese consumers to know This could mean prices of tric rice cooker, in April last Guangdong province, is keen Researchers with Midea allowing users to cook the an increasing number of Chi- more about China-made made-in-China high-end year in Japan. to design and produce small spent eight years to develop a grain in a way that retains its nese consumers have been cookers. Our products are cookers could eventually That launch created a wave smart appliances. map, which identifies the ori- natural flavor,” Li said. visiting to buy small home good both quality- and design- drop to 500 yuan to 600 of R&D of made-in-China elec- “We always prioritize the gin and varieties of Chinese The Dingfu smart cookers appliances. wise.” yuan. 16 BUSINESS | Markets Wednesday, April 6, 2016 CHINA DAILY

DEALS FINANCE HNA offers $340m for controlling share in Tysan Anbang takes By BLOOMBERG

HNA Group Co has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Hong Kong- based construction and real estate big stakes in company Tysan Holdings Ltd for HK$2.62 billion ($340 million). The owner of Hainan Airlines and travel, logistics and aviation maintenance businesses, has pro- leading banks posed HK$4.53 per share to Tides Holdings II for a 66 percent hold- ing, according to a filing to the Insurance group buys into nation’s major lenders Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday. tempted by cheap valuations and safe returns

By LI XIANG in Beijing $2.7 billion and SHI JING in Shanghai

HNA paid to acquire airport Chinese insurance conglomer- luggage handler Swissport ate Anbang Insurance Group has Bank stocks with International last year boosted its holdings of banking stocks, making it among the top 10 cheap valuations and The purchase price is an 11 per- shareholders of the country’s “big cent premium on the stock’s last- four” lenders. stable and safe traded price. The cash-rich insurance group, HNA is already the biggest known for a slew of high-profile returns have always shareholder in Spanish hotelier Candidates wait for interviews conducted by HNA Group for flight attendants in Beijing. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY acquisitions including its pur- been preferred by NH Hotel Group SA, and last year chase of New York’s famed Waldorf agreed to buy a stake in Brazilian Astoria hotel in 2014, increased its insurance funds.” airline Azul Linhas Aereas Brasilei- HNA was also said to be one of The Tysan transaction is subject will proceed, the Tysan said. stake in Industrial and Commer- ras SA and acquired airport lug- the bidders for London City Air- to a “definitive sale and purchase Tides Holdings II announced on cial Bank of China, Bank of China, Zhao Shasha, an insurance analyst gage handler Swissport port this year, before losing out to a agreement and other terms and March 9 it was in talks with an inde- Agricultural Bank of China and at Huarong Securities Co International Ltd from PAI Part- consortium led by the Ontario conditions” described in the filing pendent third-party regarding a China Construction Bank in the ners SAS for about $2.7 billion. Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. and there is no certainty the deal sale. fourth quarter of last year, Chinese business magazine Caixin report- Analysts said that banking ed on Tuesday, citing the annual stocks are likely to get a boost after reports of the four banks. the top leadership in Beijing has EQUITIES Anbang has become the fifth- been considering using debt-for- largest shareholder of Bank of the equity swaps to reduce banks’ ris- China, holding 0.23 percent of the ing bad loans amid the slowing bank’s shares. The insurer has also economy, making them attractive Stocks hit three-month high amid signs of recovery become the sixth-largest share- investment targets of insurance holder of ICBC while taking eighth funds and State-owned funds. By BLOOMBERG The Shanghai measure capped its 1.9 percent after the measure place in ABC and ninth in CCB. While Anbang has increased its longest streak of weekly gains since 1.5 percent entered a bull market last week. Pet- While Anbang’s move has shareholdings of domestic banks Mainland stocks advanced to a October amid signs China’s econo- roChina sank 4.1 percent in Hong prompted questions over its through the public market, it has three-month high on Tuesday, led by my and currency are stabilizing. An the gain in the benchmark Shanghai Kong as oil futures slid as much as expanding presence in the bank- attracted attention for its recent technology and consumer-discre- official factory gauge last week Composite Index on Tuesday 1.2 percent in New York before US ing sector, a main sales channel of $14 billion bid for Starwood tionary companies, as investors showed improving conditions for government data forecast to show insurance products, analysts said Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. took heart from signs the world’s the first time in eight months, sug- that increasing crude stockpiles the recent increased sharehold- Although the insurer withdrew second-largest economy is stabiliz- gesting the government’s fiscal and percent earlier. Trading volumes kept supplies at the highest level in ings in major banks could just be a after raising its offering price ing. monetary stimulus is kicking in. were 16 percent above the 30-day more than eight decades. financial investment. three times, analysts said that The Shanghai Composite Index The stocks rebound will continue average. The Hang Seng China AH Airlines extended gains on lower “Bank stocks with cheap valua- Anbang will continue to look for gained 1.5 percent, climbing for a for another month or two, according Premium Index climbed to 139.72, oil prices, with Air China Ltd jump- tions and stable and safe returns other targets in international fourth day, as trading resumed after to Credit Suisse Group AG. the highest level since Feb 24. ing 3.5 percent in Shanghai to take have always been preferred by markets. Monday’s holiday. Hundsun Technol- “The A-share market follows a The CSI 300 Index added 1.3 per- its four-day surge to 11 percent. Chi- insurance funds,” said Zhao Sha- According to Simon Yarmak, an ogies Inc surged by the day’s limit as a global equity rebound,” said Li cent, with all 10 industry groups na Southern Airlines Co gained 2.5 sha, an insurance analyst at Huar- analyst from financial service gauge of technology shares increased Chen, a strategist at Credit Suisse in advancing. A measure of technology percent, while China Eastern Air- ong Securities Co. company Stifel, the sudden the most among industry groups. Pet- Hong Kong. “And we have seen early companies increased 2.7 percent, as lines Corp advanced 1.5 percent. “Unlike strategic investments retreat from the Starwood deal roChina Co paced losses for main- signs of economic stabilization in Hundsun Technologies and Neusoft China’s manufacturing Purchas- aiming for a controlling stake, will not make a big difference to land shares in Hong Kong as crude China” judging from increases in Corp surged 10 percent. Appliance ing Managers Index rose to 50.2 in Anbang’s stakes in the ‘big four’ the insurer’s active outbound retreated for a third day. The premi- steel prices, infrastructure invest- maker TCL Corp advanced 2.4 per- March, signaling an expansion as banks are all below 1 percent, mapping, but rather indicates um that A shares have over their ments and property sales in March. cent in Shenzhen to pace gains for compared with expectations for a meaning that it is unlikely to have that Anbang will look for some counterparts in Hong Kong rose to The Shanghai index rose to consumer-discretionary shares. contraction in a Bloomberg survey a major influence on the boards of other targets in the hospitality the highest level in six weeks. 3,053.07 at the close, after falling 0.5 The Hang Seng China Index slid of economists. directors of the banks,” Zhao said. sector.

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In the era of the Internet, By WANG HONGYI intellectual property service We are in an era in in Shanghai providers need to adjust their [email protected] services, industry insiders said which IP value is at an IP forum in Beijing in late March. on a rapid rise.” As the development of Chi- “New IP service models na’s home appliance industry based on the Internet are exert- Huang Jing, IP director for enters the new normal econo- ing signifi cant infl uence on the Qihoo 360 Technology my of slower growth, indepen- industry,” said Dong Zheng, an dent innovation has become a offi cial with the State Intellec- new engine for the industry’s tual Property Offi ce. “They will patents in issue and claimed further growth. become a new engine to drive damages. “After more than three the growth of the sector.” While companies increase decades of development, Huang Jing, IP director their eff orts in creating more the production of China’s for Qihoo 360 Technology, IP assets, service agencies need household electrical appli- an Internet security compa- to build up their core competi- ance industry has reached a ny, said, “It is an irreversible tiveness by keeping high-qual- leading place in the world, trend that the IP service sector ity fi ling documentation and and become one of the most will feel the full impact of the performing better in legal pro- competitive industries in the Internet.” cedures, which will refl ect the country,” said Jiang Feng, Diff ering from conventional patents’ real value, Huang said. director-general of the China businesses that generally start Ren Zhong, deputy general Household Electrical Appli- spending money on advertis- manager of Yogo Patent and ances Association. ing after a period of capital Trademark Agency, said: “The Jiang said the industry accumulation, dotcoms will Internet is an effective tool. has achieved remarkable market from their founding by Without making full use of it, results in restructuring and providing their services at low we may be knocked out.” upgrading, and technological prices or even free, which will Yet it is the professionals and innovations have developed upset the traditional industrial their solutions that matter in signifi cantly with a series of pattern, Huang said. satisfying clients’ needs, she breakthroughs. He cited the rise of car- said. “Despite those outstand- hailing app Didi as a typical Off ering innovative services ing achievements, there are A shopper plays a video game on a smart TV produced by TCL. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY example to illustrate how an to promote innovation, her still some issues that need online platform has funda- company has long empha- to be addressed,” Jiang said. mentally changed the pattern sized proximity to its clients, “There is a certain gap in core design and manufacturing plete the task of transforma- of Chinese household appli- vice-president of TCL. He said and operations in a traditional she said. technology and independent techniques, but also adding to tion and upgrading.” ance enterprises, including the market is entering a peri- industry. Its teams are sent out for innovation compared with consumer satisfaction. Mean- The association formulated Haier, the world’s fourth-larg- od of adjustment, and even a Dotcoms’ common practice long-term stays with clients the international first-class while, domestic high-end a guideline for the develop- est white goods manufacturer, cruel knockout stage, which is to run a user-friendly plat- to work out solutions, helping household electrical appliance brands should be cultivated, ment of the industry for the demonstrated products with can be both a challenge and form, and through it, to off er turn creative ideas into pat- enterprises.” Jiang said. next fi ve years that explicitly their own innovative tech- an opportunity for businesses. services, he noted. ent fi lings and off ering advice Other problems include China’s economy is in tran- sets forth the goal of develop- nologies. Industry sources said an Thus, for traditional IP ser- on where to go for further weak international brand sition. Household electrical ing into a power country in TCL Group showed its new- Internet-based, personalized vice providers, tapping into research. influence, lack of business appliance enterprises need to the home appliance industry ly launched washing machine, and diversifi ed consumption the Internet means examining In one of its cases, Yogo globalization and low price change their original mode by the end of 2020. It calls for the first of its kind in the era for the home electrical all their business procedures found its client had no IP competition, said industry focusing on large scale and eff ort from the entire indus- industry, which ensures cloth- appliance industry is com- to see where to combine with filings overseas despite its insiders. high speed, said Xu Dongsh- try chain to boost innovation, ing and linens can be cleaned ing. Younger generations are the Internet in a bid to seek exports to 16 countries, so the In the future, it is planned eng, deputy director-general including the innovation of without secondary pollution. paying more attention to con- direct contact with clients, agency analyzed its domestic to put more Chinese innova- of the association. organization, technology, Enterprises need vari- sumer experiences and per- rather than just creating a link patent portfolio and suggested tive products with indepen- “The next fi ve years will be products, business models, ous aspects of investment to sonalized service will become to their offi ce for promotion, it apply for international pat- dent intellectual property a crucial period for the coun- management and services. achieve the strategic goal of the main force. In this regard, he said. ents, a move that later saved onto the market. That not only try’s home electrical appliance During the 2016 Appliance innovation, such as for pro- innovation will drive the “We are in an era in which the company in a Section 337 requires the improvement of industry to adapt to changes & Electronics World Expo in fessionals, product R&D and whole industry’s transforma- IP value is on a rapid rise,” he investigation, which is a probe product function, industrial in the new normal, and com- March in Shanghai, a number design, said Chen Weidong, tion and upgrading. said. by the US authorities into a One example quoted at the possible violation of IP rights forum was of rights to TV held by a US company. series. While the copyright It was the fi rst time for the for popular TV series My agency to represent a client in Own Swordsman for each a Section 337 investigation, yet Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei establish alliance for IP development episode sold for about 1,500 it managed to help reach a set- yuan ($232) in 2005, that of tlement of $200,000 from the Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Pal- Chinese company in less than By ZHANG ZHAO patents and 46 percent of val- The alliance plans to orga- In February, the intellec- ace, another TV series sched- fi ve months, far less than the [email protected] id invention patents. 46 percent nize regular training pro- tual property offi ce of Tianjin uled for release in 2017, sold expected $1.6 million, a cost “The region has seven pat- grams on IP risks for compa- unveiled plans to seek coor- in advance for 15 million yuan the private company couldn’t Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei ents for every 100 million of valid invention patents in nies in the region, focusing dinated IP service and pro- per episode. aff ord. province, which together hold yuan ($15.4 million) of GDP it China are from Beijing, Tianjin on the legal systems, policies tection in the Beijing-Tianjin- In contrast with weak IP Dong said as the central nearly half of all invention generates, much higher than and Hebei and business environments Hebei region for the coming awareness 10 years ago, it is government attaches increas- patents in China, make one the national average, which is in countries and regions that fi ve years. diffi cult to fi nd pirated fi lms ing importance to IP develop- of the strongest engines for only 1.5,” Wang said, adding have had close trade ties with According to the plans, the or TV shows online as major ment and has proposed that the nation’s economy and will that the industries, companies fierce competition, too, he China in recent years. offi ce would share resources video portals in China have the construction of a strong IP create a competitive industry and service providers in the said. “They need to import Experts will also give one- and information with its Bei- poured heavy investment in powerhouse should make sub- chain using their respective three areas need a matchmak- intellectual achievements on-one assistance to compa- jing and Hebei counterparts. buying copyrights and fight- stantial progress during the advantages, said Wang Hong, ing mechanism to allow their from Beijing to upgrade their nies that experience challeng- They would together build ing piracy and their move has 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), chief of the Beijing intellectual innovation resources to flow industrial structure, and es in overseas expansion. patent information analysis resulted in a sharp rise in copy- the sector is facing “unprec- property offi ce. and complement each other. export their own achieve- During an inspection tour and pre-warning mecha- right value, Huang said. edented opportunities”. He made the remarks at In Beijing alone, companies ments to Beijing to further in Hebei in late March, Shen nisms and an IP trading plat- It is the same case with “It is predictable that the a ceremony on March 29 in and individuals fi led 588,000 expand their market.” Changyu, commissioner of form with unifi ed standards. trademarks and patents, inelastic demand for patent Beijing to mark the establish- patent applications during Thanks to the new alliance, the State Intellectual Prop- The plan also proposed Huang said. services will remain high in ment of an alliance for Bei- the past fi ve years, of which IP service projects in Beijing, erty Offi ce, called for a stricter coordinated law enforcement A pending legal wrangle the next fi ve years,” Dong said. jing-Tianjin-Hebei regional IP 323,000 were granted. How- Tianjin and Hebei province regional IP protection envi- that includes cooperative case between leading Chinese dot- More than 1.200 patent development. ever, Beijing is too small a will be integrated in a resource ronment by enhancing the registration, trusted evidence coms Baidu and Sogou involv- agencies with some 12,000 Contributing 10.9 percent market to “digest all the intel- pool to allow innovative com- cooperation between SIPO collection, joint law enforce- ing 17 patents and 180 million professional agents are now of GDP in China, the region lectual achievements”, and panies in the region to share and the governments of Bei- ment operations and case yuan in claimed damages has practicing nationwide, and is more patent-intensive than needs to industrialize them in and cooperate. jing, Tianjin and Hebei to use transfers. hit the headlines, which is “play a key role in promoting the national average, Wang Tianjin and Hebei, said Wang. The founding members of innovation resources more Forming the alliance was reportedly the largest patent innovations”, said Cao Dong- said. It is home to nearly 30 Tianjin and Hebei have the alliance include 120 com- effi ciently and optimize indus- part of those plans. case in the Chinese Internet gen, head of the China Intel- percent of all the nation’s valid advanced industry bases, but panies and 30 IP agencies. trial structure. industry for the number of lectual Property News.

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BEIJING a strong IP powerhouse. The fi ve other bases are in Some participants proposed an association for railway equipment manufacturing company Beijing (with two), Wuhan, Shanghai and Tianjin. local inventors that would allow them to have CRRC Tangshan Co Ltd won its fi rst patent from EU chamber honors protection access to services such as training and investment the European Patent Offi ce. The patent, for a eff orts of 6 Chinese regional govts CHINA NEWS SERVICE introductions. “troubleshooting and energy-absorbing device and GUANGDONG NANFANG METROPOLIS DAILY leading car of motor train unit”, contains a fl exible The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China device against potential impact to guarantee the have handed out IP Friendly Awards to six Chinese Compensation system aims to GUANGXI stability and safety of the vehicle. The company also provinces and municipalities: Beijing, Shanghai, better protect rights of owners owns three patents in the United States. Guangdong, Tianjin, Shandong and Zhejiang. Offi cials Region proposes goal of reaching IP rights violators will pay compensation equal to two from the chamber said at the award ceremony last 150K inventions by end of 2020 NEWS.SCIENCENET.CN week in Beijing that China’s legal environment and or three times the actual loss suff ered by the owner of law enforcement have improved remarkably in recent the IP rights, according to the latest local regulation in The Guangxi intellectual property offi ce recently years. The awards were established to honor the Shenzhen that is currently in a public review period. unveiled plans to reach the lofty goal of at least eff orts of the Chinese government in IP protection. Industry insiders said many owners of IP rights have 150,000 invention patent applications during the 13th won their lawsuits but have had to pay high costs Five-Year Plan period (2016-20). The invention patent to defend them. The punitive compensation means CHINA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NEWS ownership per 10,000 residents in Guangxi is targeted strengthened protection, they said. to reach six by 2020, doubling the number at the end LIAONING SHENZHEN SPECIAL ZONE DAILY of 2015. The plan will grant an award of 500,000 yuan ($77,300) to each company with more than 1,000 Sixth base for research in nation patents, and 30,000 yuan for each overseas patent established at Dalian institute City holds exhibition to connect application. local inventors with investors NANNING DAILY The sixth national-level intellectual property strategy implementation research base in China, and the A patent exhibition for local inventors was held in HEBEI fi rst in Northeast China, was established at the Shenzhen on March 30. About 100 inventors, some of Dalian University of Technology. Approved by the them from outside Shenzhen, showcased their projects Railway equipment maker receives State Intellectual Property Offi ce, the institution will to seek investors and partners. Organizers said the fi rst patent from European agency conduct research on regional, national and global IP event provided a platform to integrate resources A model of a train developed by CRRC Tangshan Co Ltd is strategies to support the nation’s eff orts in building and talent to encourage patent commercialization. After nearly four years of examinations, Chinese on display at an urban rail transportation exhibition. 18LIFEWednesday, April 6, 2016

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LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT Better than a fairytale ending

The Hans Christian Andersen Award, regarded paring a dish of leeks for me,” Cao writes. as the ‘Nobel Prize for children’s literature’, He enrolled in Peking University in 1974 and stayed on as a profes- has been bestowed upon to Cao Wenxuan, sor of Chinese language and litera- ture. the first Chinese to win. Mei Jia reports. Besides The Straw House, first published in 1997, Cao is also hildren’s literature writer Out of a short list of five in each known for Bronze and Sunflower Cao Wenxuan, 62, has category, Cao has won with German (2005), which tells the story of a vil- won the Hans Christian illustrator Rotraut Susanne Berner lage boy and a city girl, who are Andersen Award for his this year. struggling to find their place in the Cwork, the International Board on “What I tell are genuine Chinese world. Books for Young People stories, which can be read as stories His Dingding Dangdang series, announced at the Bologna Interna- for all human beings. I suppose which he began in 2012, is about two tional Children’s Book Fair in Italy that’s why I’m winning,” Cao tells brothers with Down syndrome liv- on Tuesday. the Chinese media. ing in a small village. With this award, Cao becomes the “I don’t write for a certain audi- Separately, Cao is also working first Chinese to claim the world-re- ence. When I write, I consider only with world-acclaimed illustra- nowned “Nobel Prize for children’s the language, style and artistic tors to create picture books for literature”. nature of my words,” he adds. young readers. He partnered The win has sparked a wave of Over the years, many Chinese What I tell are genuine Chinese with Andersen-winning Brazil- excitement among the country’s writers and illustrators have been ian illustrator Roger Mello on publishing professionals. nominated, but none of them has stories, which can be read as stories Feather. “The unanimous choice of the got this far. “Cao’s books don’t lie about the jury, Cao writes beautifully about In 2013, the China Children’s for all human beings. I suppose that’s why human condition; they acknowl- the complex lives of children facing Press & Publication Group, one of edge that life can often be tragic and great challenges,” the IBBY jury says Cao’s main publishers, held a con- I’m winning.” that children can suffer. At the same in a news release. ference with writers and interna- Cao Wenxuan, children’s literature writer time, they can love and be redeemed “Cao is a great example of how tional publishers to discuss the by their human qualities and the writing wonderful prose and tell- chances of a Chinese winning the kindness they sometimes find when ing stories about brave children Andersen award. Putting the achievement into per- ter Bing Xin and former professor at they are most in need,” the IBBY facing tremendous difficulties and Jin Bo, a renowned children’s spective, Zhang Mingzhou from the Beijing Foreign Studies University, statement says. challenges can attract a very wide book writer born in 1935, says at the publishing group tells the Chinese was on the jury this year, as the first Commenting on his achieve- and committed child readership as conference that he was nominated media: “Cao’s win is a historic break- Chinese critic to make it to the judg- ment, children’s writer and critic well as helping to shape a literary as early as in 1992, but missed out through for a country with such a ing panel. Li Donghua tells China Daily: “Cao tradition in China that honors the due to “limited translations of my large youth readership.” Cao was born into a poor family is a respected writer, who has pub- realities of children’s worlds,” it works then”,he says. The group alone sold a total of 140 in Jiangsu province, and his child- lished super best-sellers, but he adds. But Jin predicted that a Chinese million copies of children’s books in hood memories were mainly con- remains untouched by market The Straw House (above) and The award is the highest interna- author would soon win, and he 2015, worth 550 million yuan ($85 nected with his family’s struggles trends. Bronze and Sunflower (top) are tional recognition given to living mentioned Cao, saying that Cao’s million). for food. “He’s indeed a marathoner in among the children’s books by Cao authors and illustrators of children’s The Straw House had sold 8 million And in 2014, the country released “I remember that I used to col- writing for children,” says Li. Wenxuan, who becomes the first books for their whole body of work copies then, and that many of Cao’s 40,000 new titles for children. lect grass from the riverside, and Chinese to claim the Hans Christian since 1956. Every year it honors one titles had been translated into many In another breakthrough, Wu my mother would stir-fry it with- Contact the writer at Andersen Award on Tuesday. author and one illustrator. languages. Qing, the daughter of literary mas- out oil pretending that she was pre- [email protected] PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY CHINA DAILY Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Travel | LIFE 19

Green getaways VACATION Tomb Sweeping holiday brings travelers to life

By YANG FEIYUE [email protected] Destinations Warm weather and boun- tiful blossoms coaxed Hot spots outside the droves of tourists to use the mainland Tomb Sweeping Day holiday • Thailand as a chance to grab spring- • South Korea time’s tail as the country • Japan dashes away from frigid • Hong Kong winter and toward swelter- • Taiwan ing summer. • United States China’s biggest online • Vietnam travel agency, Ctrip, saw • Philippines more than double year-on- • Indonesia year growth in the number • Maldives of weekend tourists during the holiday over April 2-4. Domestic Paid vacations, increasing attractions disposable incomes and eas- • Sanya, Hainan province ier availability of visas • Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan encouraged more Chinese to province travel, says Ctrip’s publicity • Kunming, Yunnan prov- manager, Yan Xin. ince A mother and her girl walk in a field of flowering peach trees in Yuncheng, Shanxi province. JIA GENSHENG / FOR CHINA DAILY Residents of Beijing and • Xiamen, Fujian province Shanghai remained the most • Lijiang, Yunnan province enthusiastic travelers during • Guilin, the Guangxi Zhu- the holiday. But the expan- ang autonomous region sion of direct flights also • Beijing lured more tourists from sec- • Xi’an, Shaanxi province ond- and third-tier cities. • Mount Emei, Sichuan At least twice as many resi- province Springing into blossom dents compared with last • Wuyuan, Jiangxi province year traveled from Sichuan’s provincial capital, Chengdu; Jiangsu’s provincial capital, Flowers aren’t the only sign of life after Nanjing; and Zhejiang’s pro- Scenic spots vincial capital, Hangzhou, winter’s thaw. Warmer weather also half-off or free Ctrip says. Roughly 53 percent of lets tourism bloom. Su Zhou and tourists from the Chinese • Haizhou Guandi Temple mainland took trips span- International Sun Ruisheng explore Shanxi province’s • Lijia Courtyard ning four to six days, and 10 • Yuncheng Saline Lake percent went on trips lasting five-star hotels peach, pear and cherry flowers. • Shundi Mausoleum seven to 10 days. • Pujiu Temple “Many took a day or two were the top pring paints the world of our agricultural resources • Guanque Tower off before or after the holiday after a white winter. to boost village tourism,” says • Wulaofeng Mountain to make a five-day journey,” choice of The tradition of Yuncheng’s foreign affairs and • Dayu Ferry Yan says. individual travel outings with cultural tourism bureau head, • Lishan Scenic Spot Tackingtime on either end Srelatives and friends to enjoy Li Sujie. • Pujin Ferry Ruins of the festival enables trips travelers.” blooms blasting among wil- Nearly 2,700 square kilome- • Shen Tan Grand Canyon across, or outside, the coun- lows and waterways — espe- ters of apricot, peach, pear, (free during the special peri- try. Yan Xin, Ctrip’s publicity cially around the Tomb apple and cherry orchards od) Thailand, South Korea manager Sweeping Day — is thou- burn with bright hues from and Japan were the top out- sands of years older than the late March to mid-April. bound destinations. concept of tourism as an The high-speed railway has If you go Blossom and island trips Park in Fujian’s Quanzhou industry. cut travel times from Shanxi’s abroad were also popular. city to view rapeseed flowers. It was called taqing. capital, Taiyuan, from at least Shanxi province’s Yuncheng Sakura blossoms in Peony blossoms in Henan Today’s Chinese have simply five hours to two. More than has dozens of scenic spots Japan’s Kyoto and Nara, and province’s Luoyang brought replaced hiking and horse- 20 trains travel between the and is perfect for trips that cherry blooms in South 502,000 visitors to the city’s back with high-speed trains. cities daily. last two or three days. Korea’s Jeju Island lured major tourism attractions on And taqing has become a Preferential policies have Here are some popular itin- many domestic travelers, April 3, generating 10.7 mil- component of tourism. been introduced to lure tour- eraries: Ctrip reports. (Chinese don’t lion yuan in ticket sales. Many remote Chinese ists to Yuncheng’s flowers, Tai- need visas to visit Jeju.) University campuses with towns have gained interna- yuan South Railway Station One-day trip Roughly 60 percent of flowering landscapes were tional acclaim for picturesque ticket office director Guo Xiao- Guanque Tower, Shen Tan tourists took domestic trips. also popular with Chinese spring landscapes. Visitors are qing says. Grand Canyon, Yongle Pal- Blossoms in Yunnan’s born in the 1980s and ’90s. lured by yellow rapeseed blos- Visitors with high-speed ace, Dayu Ferry provincial capital, Kun- Many signed up for indi- soms to Jiangxi province’s train tickets from Taiyuan to ming; Jiangxi province’s vidual trips to Wuhan Uni- Wuyuan; to pink cherry Yuncheng, Wenxi and Yongji Three-day trip Wuyuan; Fujian province’s versity in Hubei province to blooms outside Hubei prov- can enjoy 50 percent off Top: Visitors eat local specialties in the ancient village of Shuiyukou Day 1: Haizhou Guandi Xiamen; Shaanxi province’s see oriental cherry blossoms ince’s Wuhan; and to Henan entrance fees at 11 must-see in Yongji, Yuncheng city. Above: Elderly residents practice tai chi in Temple, Yuncheng Saline Xi’an; and Guilin in the and to Xiamen University in province’s Luoyang for pop- scenic spots within three a park in Yuncheng. PHOTOS BY SUN RUISHENG / CHINA DAILY Lake Guangxi Zhuang autono- Fujian to see ceiba blossoms, ping peonies. days around the end of Day 2: Pujiu Tempe, Pujin mous region drew large Yan says. That’s why northern China’s April. Ferry Ruins, Guanque Tower numbers of tourists. Domestic travelers’ aver- Yuncheng in Shanxi province Shuttle buses head directly returned from Yuncheng. He also enjoyed the folk Day 3: Wangu Temple, About 500,000 visits were age per-capita spending has invested seed money to from the railway station to all “Yuncheng’s first impres- dances. Wulaofeng Mountain made on the holiday’s first stood at 3,000 yuan during make it a blossoming destina- the scenic spots, Guo says. sion on me is as the birth- “We’re all getting used to liv- day to 11 of Beijing’s munici- the holiday, Ctrip says. Out- tion for flora fanatics in three Visitors can also enjoy origi- place of many historical ing in modern cities with West- pal parks and the city’s bound tourists generally to five years. nal folk performances and figures like Guan Yu, a gener- ern styles of working and living. About Museum of Chinese Gar- spent twice as much. The city abounds in heritage local cuisine. al under the warlord Liu Bei It’s fun to occasionally return to this series dens. “Tourists are now increas- as a cradle of Chinese civiliza- They may float on the Yel- in the late Eastern Han traditional Chinese ways.” The capital city’s major ingly willing to spend more tion. And it’s celebrated for its low River on a sheepskin raft, Dynasty. And people today just like scenic spots received 4.9 mil- for better experiences,” Yan agriculture. a tradition dating to the Han “As a Chinese, you kind of the ancients appreciate the China Daily explores lion visitors during the explains. (Shanxi is among the first Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). grow up with all those stories. way spring paints the world springtime ecotourism three-day holiday, up 6 per- The company’s high-end batch of three provinces that “The historical feel makes There’s a certain feeling when with leaves and blooms. destinations and activities cent year-on-year, the Bei- products generally saw a 10 won approval to export apples the blossoms more interest- you step into those towers you every week. jing Municipal Commission percent rise in bookings to the United States.) ing,” says Beijing resident Yu read about so many times in Contact the writers through of Tourism Development compared with the same “We should take advantage Weimin, who has just your textbooks.” [email protected] reports. period last year. Guizhou province’s poly- Bookings of packages for chromatic tulip and rape- small groups tripled. Inter- seed blossoms helped to national five-star hotels were PEDAL PARTY attract 9.58 million visits, up the top choice of individual 30.8 percent. Tourism travelers, Yan says. Tour de l’lle de Montreal income rose 32.25 percent to Indeed, while the flowers A French-flavored began in 1985 with 3,500 4.9 billion yuan ($757 mil- will be largely gone by people and mushroomed as lion). spring’s final holiday, May the cycling ethic took hold. Roughly 30,000 travelers a Day, China’s travelers have Cycling is a year-round day descended upon Binhai come out of hibernation. festival on bicycles form of commuting and rec- reation despite the bitter By ASSOCIATED PRESS Velo Quebec, the province’s winters in a province that is in Montreal, Canada bicycle association and festi- home to Route Verte, the val organizer, calls “little vast bike network that Montreal puts the sizzle on Copenhagen in North Ameri- made Quebec the world’s its status as a cycling and cul- ca”. top cycling destination, tural beehive with a bike festi- The festival is far from little. according to National Geo- val over May 29-June 5. The Sunday tour on closed-off graphic. It’s anchored by a bicycle streets, June 5, typically draws The Go Bike Montreal Fes- tour of the city-island that 25,000 people, and follows a tival opens May 29 with rivals New York’s Five Boro Friday night ride that brings “metropolitan challenge” cycling extravaganza in size, together 15,000 in good Bicyclists tour Montreal, Canada, as part of a bike festival. This year’s rides in the countryside. The adds a distinctive French twist weather. The classic Sunday Tour la Nuit is on June 3 and the Tour de l’lle rolls on June 5. AP main Sunday ride costs and shows Americans how ride is 50 kilometers, with an C$30.50-C$41 ($23-$31) for very far their dollar can go in “express” option for fast an adult, depending on Canada these days. cyclists to leave before the ventures beyond streets closed plenty of bikers and spectators when it is booked. The Tour de l’lle de Montreal is mob. to traffic. Tour la nuit, on the in goofy costumes with some exchange rate has tilted the iconic event for a bicycle- Shorter hops are part of the Friday night, takes cyclists 23 wild homemade illumination heavily in favor of the US A newlywed couple has their picture taken in a rapeseed field in mad city that Joelle Sevigny of mix, as is a 100-km ride that km, and invariably brings out on the bikes. dollar. Zhaotong city, Yunnan province. ZHANG GUANGYU / FOR CHINA DAILY 20 LIFE | Books Wednesday, April 6, 2016 CHINA DAILY

FOCUS ON INNOVATION REVIEW Journey in search of roots of winemaking

By ASSOCIATED PRESS in New York

As children we learn to read starting with ABCs, yet most wine lovers inadvertently skip over the beginning history of the drink they love. France and Italy are often spoken of as the grand old centers of great winemaking, but that’s four or five thousand years off the mark. For the Love of Wine: My Odys- sey Through the World’s Most Ancient Wine Culture has been written by Alice Feiring and pub- lished by Potomac Books. New York City writer and natu- ral wine advocate Feiring takes readers on her passionate journey to explore the republic of Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains, the region where many experts believe winemaking originated roughly 8,000 years ago, long before Western Europe. For the Love of Wine is a love let- ter to a still rustic culture, and to unique grapes and styles of wine- making. Forget cabernet and mer- Max von Zedtwitz was in Beijing recently to promote the book, Created in China: How China Is Becoming a Global Innovator. WANG ZHUANGFEI / CHINA DAILY lot: Feiring samples kisi, mtsvane, Wine author Alice Feiring takes rkatsiteli and other grapes that readers on a journey to Georgia in few Westerners know, all aged in her new book. AP huge clay qvevri, containers simi- lar to Greek amphora. Wedged between Russia, Turkey makes For the Love of Wine a and Armenia, and at the western memorable, beautiful book. end of the old Silk Road, Georgi- Like Kermit Lynch’s Adventures ans have persevered through on the Wine Route, Feiring shows TARGETING MARS waves of invaders, from the readers that making great wine Greeks and Romans to Mongols, isn’t really about chateaus, the Persians and, most recently, the rich and other typical marketing A new book says a pharmacist who was jointly award- Soviets. The one constant they props. ed the Nobel Prize in physiology and held tight: winemaking. Winemaking comes down to growing army of medicine last year for developing Feiring captures the raw, fresh men and women who pay obses- the anti-malarial drug artemisinin. beauty of the Georgian country- sive, loving attention to their soil engineers is helping She began to work in this area in the side and the passions of winemak- and grapes, and to the magic of late 1960s, but the drug only became ers who fight to keep local fermentation. China advance in available in the middle of the last traditions alive in the face of per- It sometimes seems as if every decade, eventually saving millions nicious pressure from a global wine writer goes to Burgundy, Bor- cutting-edge of lives. beverage industry that too often deaux, the Loire or Tuscany. “A breakthrough discovery gener- measures worth in gallons and Thankfully, Feiring takes us some- technologies. ally takes about 30 years, certainly price point, not taste. where new, yet back to the ABCs of in terms of bringing it to the market. When a Frenchman asks a Geor- winemaking that we should have Andrew Moody So what we are doing now in terms gian winemaker what fertilizer he learned in the first place. of research and development might uses, the man is briefly puzzled The book also includes many reports. not have any impact until 2046,” he because he farms naturally, with- tempting Georgian recipes, such says. out chemicals or additives. The as rose petal jam and beets with ax von Zedtwitz Von Zedtwitz, whose parents Georgian then replies, “Every inch cherry sauce. believes the Chinese were originally from Germany, was of my soil is soaked with the blood Just like Georgia itself, For the may not only be the born in Switzerland. He studied of my ancestors. What do you Love of Wine is full of wonderful, first to land a person computer science at ETH Zurich, a use?” plentiful food and drink. The onM Mars but also the first to cure leading technological institution, Feiring has a reporter’s eye and result is a classic, captivating book cancer. before an early spell in Asia, work- an ear for people, their dreams that casual drinkers, serious wine The managing director of the ing at a research institute in Kyoto, and their quirks, along with a geeks and cooks can all enjoy and Center for GlobalR&DManage- Japan in the mid-1990s. He poetic gift for language, and that learn from. ment and Innovation (in short, Glo- returned to Switzerland for his doc- rad), a research and development torate from University of St. Gallen think tank, says the sheer number of and then moved to Harvard as a science and engineering graduates postdoctoral fellow. MEMORABILIA being churned out by Chinese uni- At 29, he became one of the versities could dramatically speed youngest professors at IMD, one of up innovation. Europe’s top business schools. While it took 200 years to move In 2002, teaching opportunities Rowling’s writing from the steam engine to the Inter- came up both in California and Bei- net, there could be major break- jing, and he chose the latter. throughs in what are now “There were not many people chair to be auctioned considered frontiers of science in then who could say they had gone just a matter of decades, he says. and worked in China,” he says of his “Innovation is to some extent a decision. By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE numbers game. If you just have one After Tsinghua, he helped build a in New York idea per 1,000 people, then a coun- global innovation practice at a man- try that has a 1.4 billion population agement consultancy before run- A chair J.K. Rowling used to is going to have an advantage over A new book, co-written by Max von Zedtwitz and Georges Haour, says China is ning Glorad, which has a base at write the first two volumes of her anyone else.” on its way to become a major power in innovation. Shanghai’s Tongji University. best-selling Harry Potter series is Von Zedtwitz was recently in Bei- One area where China arguably set to sell at an auction in New jing to promote his new book, Creat- has not been as fast as the US is in York on Wednesday. ed in China: How China Is Becoming space exploration. American Alan Pre-auction bidding via the a Global Innovator, which he has Innovation is to some extent a Shepard went into space in 1961 and Internet had reached $65,000 on co-written with Georges Haour, a it took just eight years for Neil Arm- Monday for the modest 1930s-era professor of technology and innova- numbers game. If you just have one strong to be the first man to walk on oak chair on which Rowling, 50, tion management at the IMD Busi- the moon. China had its first man in sat while writing Harry Potter and ness School in Switzerland. idea per 1,000 people, then a country that has space in 2003, but is not expected to the Philosopher’s Stone, published The book was released in January. land an astronaut on the moon until in Britain in 1997, and Harry Pot- Although now based in San a 1.4 billion population is going to have an 2023. ter and the Chamber of Secrets Francisco, the 46-year-old Swiss is advantage over anyone else.” “I suppose it is like Christopher (1998), the first two of seven vol- no stranger to China. His think Columbus sailing to America. After umes. tank is partly based in Shanghai, Max von Zedtwitz, co-author of Created in China: How China Is Becoming a Global he had done that, it was hard to rep- Rowling received the chair — and he has spent a large part of the Innovator licate. one of a mismatched set of four — past decade as associate professor “The purpose of going to the free when she was a young single of innovation management at moon now is not the achievement mother living in subsidized hous- Tsinghua University in the Chinese 3 percent in 2007. This has resulted cutting-edge areas could be in find- itself but the commercial aspects of ing in the Scottish city of Edin- capital. in a 17 percent annual increase in ing a cure for cancer. space exploration. It is not about burgh. A chair used by author J.K. Rowling “What we wanted to get across in patents in China since 2005 with “Cancer is a big issue in China planting a flag but about having per- “This was the comfiest one, while she wrote the first two Harry the book was the impact of all the applications reaching 2 million in because of fears of the impact of the manently manned stations on the which is why it ended up stationed Potter books will go under the ham- agents and actors involved in inno- 2014 — three times as many as that environment on people’s health. moon.” permanently in front of my type- mer on Wednesday. REUTERS vation in China, including the gov- of the United States, although Because of the size of the country’s Many believe that China is likely writer, supporting me while I ernment, the education system and importantly, a smaller proportion is population, many more people are to be the first to land a person on typed,” Rowling wrote in a letter the companies,” he says. of higher-quality invention patents. going to be dying of cancer in China Mars by, according to some esti- accompanying the chair that Heri- and her signature, the auction “Outside of China, all the focus is Currently, 31 percent of under- than anywhere else. mates, 2060. The return journey tage Auctions, the auction house house says. on the big companies like Huawei graduate degrees in China are in “There are also going to be a lot may take at least 21 months. conducting the sale, put up on its The chair sold in 2009 for and Alibaba that are global leaders, engineering compared with 5 per- of resources devoted in China to “I wouldn’t be surprised if China website. $29,117, Heritage Auctions says. but what is not always seen is the cent in the US, and by 2030 the diseases that affect older people, gets there first,” he says. “My nostalgic side is quite sad to “A small piece of history con- role smaller companies are now country aims to have 200 million such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Despite the massive investment see it go, but my back isn’t,” she nected to the mythology of the playing in innovation.” college graduates. disease and cardiovascular illness- in research and development in Chi- says in the letter. Wizarding World and one of the The book points out that China is “There is definitely a race going es, because China’s population is na, some argue that creativity here is Rowling donated the chair in most beloved characters in chil- to increase fivefold the proportion on, and I don’t think the West has aging fast. I think medical technol- stifled by hierarchical structures. 2002 to an auction benefitting the dren’s literature,” the auction of GDP it devotes to innovation actually caught up with the severity ogy will be a cutting-edge area for Yet, he says, there’s emphasis on National Society for the Preven- house’s description says. from 0.5 percent in 1995 to 2.5 per- of that race. China is opening up a China.” education, which in turn can drive tion of Cruelty to Children after The Harry Potter series has been cent by 2020. This will involve the new international front in the area Von Zedtwitz says it would be innovation. adorning it with words in pink, translated into 67 languages and need for 3.7 million scientists work- of innovation. Because people mat- wrong to expect instant break- “And, that is where China’s advan- gold and green paint. sold more than 450 million copies. ing in research and development. ter so much in the race, the more throughs since the lead time for sci- tage currently lies.” “You may not find me pretty but Also adapted into a series of box Currently, the figure is the same people you have, the better you are entific development can often take don’t judge on what you see,” she office record-breaking films, Har- as Europe, 2 percent — despite the at it.” decades. Contact the writer at writes, along with “I wrote Harry ry Potter made Rowling the first European Union setting a target of Von Zedtwitz believes one of the He cites Tu Youyou, the Chinese [email protected] Potter while sitting on this chair” female novelist billionaire. CHINA DAILY Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Fun | LIFE 21 horoscope language tips

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NCAA Final Four MVP graduates from fan to fantastic

By ASSOCIATED PRESS in Houston

Ryan Arcidiacono grew up outside of Philadelphia as a It’s not about me Villanova fan, and then played more games than taking the right anyone else ever has for the Wildcats. shot, it’s about me In his 144th and last game for Villanova, with his last making the right pass, he became a national champion and the Final read. I think I Four MVP. The unselfish point guard just did that.” was dribbling toward the Ryan Arcidiacono, basket with the clock wind- Final Four MVP and ing down and defenders Villanova point guard closing in when he heard Kris Jenkins calling for the ball from behind. as he walked down the steps. Arcidiacono passed to his The senior guard hugged Villanova Wildcats forward Kris Jenkins celebrates with fans after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels in Monday’s championship game of the NCAA tournament at NRG open teammate, whose numerous people and took Stadium in Houston, Texas. ROBERT DEUTSCH / USA TODAY SPORTS 3-pointer beat the buzzer for pictures with Villanova fam- a 77-74 victory over North ily and friends. He eventual- Carolina on Monday night. ly cut off the last piece of the “I wanted to be aggressive. championship net, and was If I could get a shot, I was the one carrying the trophy going to shoot it. But I heard when the team left the someone screaming in the court. back of my head. It was Kris,” Villanova erased a five- Wildcats create a buzz Arcidiacono said. “I just gave point halftime deficit and led it to him and he let it go with by 10 with 5:29 left. The Tar confidence.” Heels, the only No 1 seed to Villanova snatches miracle out of his eighth-seed- The Pennsylvania kid born make it to the Final Four, got Jenkins caps unlikely journey ed underdogs for a victory nine years after Villanova’s even when Marcus Paige NCAA crown with over star-studded George- only other title in 1985 made a double-clutch town. scored 16 points against 3-pointer with 4.7 seconds last-second miracle It took two families and lots of a feeling he would be open as Hard to top this one, North Carolina after scoring left. sacrifice to get Kris Jenkins to the trailer. Sure enough he was. though. 15 in its record semifinal vic- “Unbelievable shot. ... just By ASSOCIATED PRESS Villanova. “I believe every shot’s going Jenkins, who was adopted tory over Oklahoma. unbelievable,” said Arcidia- in Houston That was the difficult part. in,”said Jenkins, who was by the family of North Caroli- “Ryan Arcidiacono, he’s cono. Making one of the biggest slowed by foul trouble in the first na guard Nate Britt when his one of the best players I’ve The Wildcats called time- Kris Jenkins is one of those shots in college basketball histo- half but scored 14 points in 21 mother moved to take a coach- ever played with,” Jenkins out, but little had to be said players who believes every ry was easy by comparison. minutes. ing job, now has a spot along- said. “For a senior to get the before they went back on the shot is going to drop. With both of his families in “Kris Jenkins’ explanation side — and probably above — ball and make the right play court. Everybody in the hud- Sometimes, it feels so right the house — the one that took was brilliant,”coach Jay Wright Keith Smart, Lorenzo Charles, and not try to shoot the ball dle knew what play they to be right. him in and provided the stability said of the junior’s break down Christian Laettner and every- in double coverage just would run. The Villanova junior he needed, and the one that of the last play. “That’s what I one else who ever made a late shows a lot about him and “We work on that play answered a double-clutch, realized that what they could said to him when he was walking game-winner to win a big one what he’s about and how he’s every single day in practice. game-tying 3-pointer by North give him might not be what he Kris Jenkins unleashes the out. Because he’s the last option in March Madness. just all about winning.” I’m always the one with the Carolina’s Marcus Paige with a needed most — Jenkins drained game-winning three pointer. because he’s the inbounder. If Paige finished with 21 and Arcidiacono savored every ball. I think coach has confi- buzzer-beating 3 of his own on a 3-pointer at the buzzer on STREETER LECKA / he can catch up with Arch and Joel Berry II had 20 for the moment during the champi- dence in me and my team- Monday night to lift the Wild- Monday night to give the Wild- GETTY IMAGES/AFP get ahead of him and get in his Heels (33-7), the only No 1 seed onship celebration on the mates have confidence in cats to a 77-74 victory and the cats their first national champi- vision, that’s your last look.” to make the Final Four. They court, hoisting the trophy me. I was trying to be aggres- US collegiate championship. onship since 1985. Wright said he wanted Britt came one agonizing shot short above his head. Before walk- sive,” Arcidiacono said. One good shot deserved The 77-74 victory over North national championship trophy more than he wanted Jenkins of giving Williams his third ing off the podium, the guard “It’s not about me taking another — and Jenkins was Carolina also gave Jenkins brag- lying on his chest like a resting when he started recruiting the national title. scooped up two big handfuls the right shot, it’s about me not about to be outdone. ging rights for life over his broth- baby. “It was great to share this brothers from the Baltimore Not surprisingly, tears of confetti, tossed it into the making the right read. I “I think every shot’s going er, Tar Heels guard Nate Britt. moment with them.” area. Jenkins was out of shape flowed from the 65-year-old air and enjoyed another think I just did that.” in, and this one was no differ- “Nobody, really understood On the last play, which began and Wright was not sure he coach who, some speculate, shower of the colorful strips Right into Wildcats’ lore . ent,” he said. the hard work and dedication it with 4.7 seconds left, Jenkins could put in the work needed to could have worked his last The shot came on a play Vil- took from my family ... both of was the player to inbound the play Villanova basketball. game on the sideline; the lanova works on every day in my families,”Jenkins said as he ball from under his own basket entire sports program at practice: Jenkins inbounds sat in the locker room, the to Ryan Arcidiacono. Jenkins had AFP Chapel Hill is under NCAA the ball to Ryan Arcidiacono, scrutiny and awaiting possible he works it up court and for- penalties for a long-running ward Daniel Ochefu sets a pick academic fraud case. near halfcourt to clutter things “I’m not very good because I up. Then Arcidiacono creates. and pumped it in to tie the He knew the shot was going the Final Four. can’t take away the hurt,” Will- This time, the senior point game at 74 with 4.7 seconds in, too. After being thrown to the iams said. guard made an underhanded left. “Bang!” Wright said as he floor by his teammates, Jen- “I told them I loved them. I flip to Jenkins, who spotted up It completed a Carolina watched it fall, then calmly kins got up, leaped over press told them I wish I could have a pace or two behind the arc comeback from six points walked to shake Carolina row, hugged his birth mom — helped them more.” and swished it with Carolina’s down with 1:52 left. coach Roy Williams’ hand. a college basketball coach who His thought when he saw Isaiah Hicks running at him. Coach Jay Wright called a Confetti flew. The refs helped him hone his shot — the last shot fly: “It was help- Or, as Jenkins put it: “One, two timeout and sent in the play looked at the replay to make and shouted: “They said we less. It was not a good feeling.” step, shoot ’em up — sleep in the Wildcats (33-5) have sure the shot got off in time. It couldn’t, they said we couldn’t, Even MJ felt the pain. In the the streets.” worked on all season. did. The points went up on the they said we couldn’t.” stands with the thousands of Jenkins had to come up big “I didn’t have to say any- scoreboard. Celebration on. Oh yes, they could. Carolina Blue-wearing fans, after Paige collected a pass on thing in the huddle,” he said. Jenkins finished with 14 This adds to the title Villa- Michael Jordan simply nod- the top right side of the arc “We have a name for it, that’s points — the last three as nova won in 1985, when Rollie ded, smiled, looked at his bud- and, with Arcidiacono run- what we’re going to do. Just memorable as any that have Massimino, who was on hand dy Ahmad Rashad and said, Villanova Wildcats guard Ryan Arcidiacono celebrates after ning at him, double clutched put everybody in their spots.” been scored in the history of on Monday night, coaxed a “Good shot, good shot.” cutting down the net. ROBERT DEUTSCH / USA TODAY SPORTS

MLB Kershaw slams door as Dodgers run rampant on Padres

By ASSOCIATED PRESS things that happened. Obvi- of Florida and Manny Acta of in San Diego ously it starts with Kersh and Washington in 2007. Rockies rookie writes his Story the tone that he sets, him going Roberts was on San Diego’s Dave Roberts took a moment out there and getting after coaching staff the past five sea- to soak up the atmosphere guys. When you’ve got No 1s sons, including the previous Monday night marked a before his first game as manag- going against each other, you two as bench coach, but could storybook beginning for Trev- er of the Los Angeles Dodgers. don’t expect to get that many not get an interview for the or Story’s major league Then it was time to play ball. hits and score that many runs.” team’s managerial vacancy. career. The Dodgers did that quite Kershaw (1-0) allowed Jon “I’m excited,” Kershaw said. The 23-year-old Colorado well on Monday, getting a bril- Jay’s single to left field with “I knew one guy’s going to get Rockies shortstop became liant seven innings from Clay- two outs in the third and then their first one today. I’m just the first player in major ton Kershaw in a record- retired his last 13 batters. The glad it was our guy. It’s got to league history to hit multiple setting 15-0 victory against the lefty struck out nine and walk- be special for him to get his home runs in his big league Trevor Story San Diego Padres. ed one as he improved to 4-0 first one out of the way, and debut on opening day. When it was over, reliever in six opening day starts. now it’s just kind of baseball.” Both came off Zack Yimi Garcia handed Roberts the Adrian Gonzalez had three Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw gets ready to It was the worst opening Greinke — a three-run shot in (45th overall) of the 2011 game ball and Yasiel Puig and of the Dodgers’ 17 hits and deliver against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park in San Diego on day loss in the Padres’ 48-year the third inning and a solo MLB draft. Before the 2013 Adrian Gonzalez led a celebra- three RBIs, and A.J. Ellis also Monday. JAKE ROTH / USA TODAY SPORTS history. San Diego had only home run in the fourth. season, he was ranked as the tory water and Gatorade bath. drove in three runs. Chase four hits. Story is the first National 99th-best prospect in base- It was the most lopsided Utley had three hits and two “Opening day is special. No League player to hit at least ball by MLB.com. opening day shutout in major RBIs. an RBI double and Ellis a two- Dodgers and Padres, and San one wants to come out and lay two homers in his first major The Rockies added him to league history. The previous Five straight Dodgers run single. Diego first-year manager an egg on opening day and get league game. Four American their 40-man roster after the mark was a 14-0 win by the reached against Tyson Ross “We just kept adding on and Andy Green exchanged lineup beat 15-0,” Green said. “But it’s League players have done it. 2015 season. Pittsburgh Pirates over the (0-1) with one out in the five- adding on. For me, it was just cards at the plate before the one of 162. Everybody gets Story was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in 1911. run sixth, with Kershaw’s sin- trying to have quick innings,” game. It was the first opening smoked like this during the Rockies in the first round ASSOCIATED PRESS “It was a good day,” Roberts gle to center chasing the tall Kershaw said. day meeting of two rookie season. It’s not a big deal in the said. “There were a lot of good right-hander. Joc Pederson hit Roberts, who played for the skippers since Fredi Gonzalez long run.” CHINA DAILY Wednesday, April 6, 2016 SPORTS 23

SOCCER Digest

Conte braced for Chelsea acid test GOLF Major exemptions for gold medalists Golf’s major championships FACTFILE threw their support behind New Blues boss the sport’s return to the Olym- Playing career pics on Monday, offering facing some * Made Serie A debut for his exemptions for men’s and hometown team US Lecce women’s gold medal winners tough challenges against Pisa aged 16 years, this year to all Grand Slam eight months in 1985 as a events. By AGENCE FRANCE- central midfielder Augusta National chairman PRESSE in Milan * Played 89 matches for Lec- Billy Payne, who ran the 1996 ce over six years, scoring one Atlanta Games, told a media goal New Chelsea coach Anto- conference the men’s gold nio Conte is a no-nonsense * Moved to Juventus in 1991, medal winner in Rio de Janei- operator who does not suffer where he played 418 games ro, where golf will make its over 13 seasons, winning five fools easily. Now his tough return to the Summer Games Serie A titles, the Champions for the first time in more than reputation — built on three League, the UEFA Cup and success-laden years at Juven- the Italian Cup a century, would get an invita- tion to the 2017 Masters. tus — is about to face the Pre- * Represented Italy at the The Royal and Ancient and mier League acid test. 1994 FIFA World Cup in the After months of specula- US and the 2000 European Ladies Golf Union will offer tion, Conte on Monday con- Championships in Belgium similar one-year exemptions to firmed he will become the and Netherlands the men’s and women’s British long-term replacement for Managerial career: Opens while the PGA of Amer- ica and United States Golf fired Jose Mourinho on a * First managerial appoint- three-year deal that will see ment was with Arezzo in the Association followed suit with him take over from Chelsea Italian Serie B in July 2006 their two flagship events. caretaker manager Guus Hid- * Appointed to manage Serie dink in July. B side Bari in December SOCCER Currently coach of Italy, 2007, leading it to promotion Report says Higuain Conte takes the Stamford to the top-flight following the will sit out four Bridge reins after this sum- 2008-09 season mer’s Euro 2016, where the * Was in charge of Atalanta Gonzalo Higuain will pay Azzurri will be out to make Italy head coach Antonio Conte is is taking the helm at Chelsea, on a three-year contract. ALESSANDRO GAROFALO / REUTERS between September 2009 for a moment of madness dur- amends for a first-round exit and January 2010 before join- ing Napoli’s title-crushing 3-1 at the 2014 World Cup. ing Siena, which had recently defeat to Udinese by serving a At Chelsea, Conte returns huge bonus and sets Conte up ing room means it’s impossi- ing after he told the coach to Recently, former West Ham been relegated four-game Serie A ban, a to his first love of day-to-day for his first foreign assignment. ble for any of us to go out on cheekily “wait” while, before forward Paolo di Canio * Led Siena straight back into report in Italy claimed on soccer, which he missed dear- If life has been sweet under the pitch without being the last match of the season, warned him: “Try to learn the the top flight after it finished Monday. ly during a largely successful Hiddink, Chelsea’s players focused on the task at hand,” he discussed the question of English mentality quickly. runners up in Serie B If confirmed, Higuain, the but ultimately unhappy spell could be in for a shock. As a Juventus goalkeeper Gianlui- bonuses for the title the team Sometimes, when you say cer- Juventus: driving force behind Napoli’s in charge of the Azzurri fol- former midfielder and cap- gi Buffon said after a first sea- had won weeks earlier. tain words in a sentence they * Signed a two-year contact bid for a first title in 26 years, lowing their bungle in Brazil. tain with Juventus, Conte’s son under Conte. The Juve goalkeeper was are interpreted in a different to manage Juventus in May would miss its two most diffi- “Chelsea and English foot- commitment was legendary If the same drive and com- hauled over the coals, the way. 2011, winning the Serie A title cult games, away to Inter ball are watched wherever and the trait has followed him mitment is missing from his team got the message and “You have to learn the lan- for three seasons in a row and Milan and Roma, amid an you go; the fans are passion- throughout a successful players, Conte is known to went out to beat Cagliari 3-0. guage quickly and have a two Italian Super Cups already challenging run-in for ate and my ambition is to coaching career that saw him erupt. Comparisons to former capable English guy at your * Resigned as Juventus man- the Azzurri. have more success to follow lay the foundations for a In his autobiography, Manchester United legend Sir side to help you.” ager in July 2014 Reports earlier on Monday the victories I enjoyed in Ita- Juventus team that has since former Juventus midfield Alex Ferguson are inevitable, Conte said he is “looking Italy national team: suggested Higuain’s violent ly,” he said. become a serious player in the great Andrea Pirlo com- but after years under Mouri- forward to the day-to-day * Named manager of the Ital- reaction near the end of a bad- It was regarded as a sur- Champions League. plained that Conte’s words nho, Chelsea’s players — those challenge of competing in the ian national team from tempered clash at the Stadio prising move at the time for “assault you”. He also lament- who decide not to desert after Premier League”,but the pres- August 2014 until Euro 2016, Friuli on Sunday would earn Conte after steering an Taskmaster ed having chosen the locker in failure to reach the Champi- sure will be on the 46-year-old replacing Cesare Prandelli him a “minimum” three-game unstoppable Juventus to Although an emerging Juve front of the Juventus dressing ons League — will be expect- — who as a player steered * Won his first game as Italy ban. three consecutive league side never got past the last room door, the usual target ed to adapt. Juve to the 1996 Champions manager against the Nether- titles, and no one was sur- eight in the Champions for the bottles of water Conte Dialog might initially have League title and five Serie A lands 2-0 Threats target * Sealed Euro 2016 qualifica- prised when he answered the League under Conte, his influ- threw. to be kept to a minimum as crowns — in what will be a Vardy’s daughter distant calling of club soccer. ence — and ire — was felt. Buffon was reportedly the Conte has been learning rebuilding season for the tion for Italy in October 2015 The fact it was Chelsea is a “Having Conte in the dress- target of a Conte tongue-lash- English for only the past year. Blues. with a 3-1 win over Azerbaijan Police are looking into sexual threats made on Twitter against the one-year-old daughter of Managing the Stamford Bridge to-do list Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy. The threats came after the 1. Resolve Terry’s future smoother transition to the new era, while 3. Deal with serial offender Costa and his old club Atletico Madrid said to Musonda, Lewis Baker and Dom Solanke. fiancee of the Foxes forward Hailed as “cap- also pondering whether his fading form Although Diego be ready to offer him an escape route, posted pictures of the couple’s tain, leader, leg- and declining influence in a dressing Costa’s goals Conte must decide whether to cut his 5. Rebuild the Eden project child wearing a Leicester shirt end” on the room now populated by younger and less fired Chelsea to losses or try to rehabilitate the serial Rewind 12 months ahead of the Premier League banner hung by deferential teammates mean it would be the Premier offender. and Eden Hazard leaders’ 1-0 win over Southamp- adoring fans at wiser to sever ties with the polarizing League title in his appeared to have ton on Sunday. Stamford Bridge, captain. debut season, he 4. Make up for a misspent youth the world at his feet Police in Leicestershire John Terry’s cre- was already earn- With owner Roman Abramovich report- as he prepared to launched an investigation into dentials as a 2. Change the mood music ing a reputation edly unhappy with Chelsea’s failure to accept two Footbal- the threats after a formal com- Chelsea icon and Regardless of who stays or goes, Conte as the unapolo- produce more homegrown talents ler of the Year plaint was made on Monday. a major inspira- should already know he must rebuild the getically snarling face of Jose Mourinho’s despite his huge investment in the youth awards and a Pre- Rebekah Nicholson tweeted tion behind its success are well estab- squad’s shattered morale after what even combative team and if anything he has academy, Conte could earn some early mier League win- shots of her daughter wearing a lished, yet Conte will be faced with the the club was forced to admit was “palpa- become more moody this year. While his praise from his employer by unearthing a ners’ medal while being feted by Jose T-shirt with ‘Daddy’ embla- thorny problem of potentially ending that ble discord” between Mourinho and the predatory instincts are unquestionable, gem or two among the youngsters learn- Mourinho as the equal of superstars zoned on the back, and this two-decade love affair. The 35-year-old players in the final months of his reign. the Spain striker has lost his focus time ing their trade at the club’s leafy Cobham Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Yet prompted rape threats on the defender dropped a bombshell in Janu- Mourinho’s abrasive approach irritated and again as he finds himself embroiled headquarters. Incredibly, John Terry less than a year later, Hazard’s form has social networking site. ary when he announced he will leave at too many players and their response was in needless flashpoints and, with Mouri- remains the last product of Chelsea’s mysteriously collapsed to such an extent the end of the season because the club to quit on him, leading to his firing in nho content to encourage those tenden- youth system to successfully establish that many Chelsea fans would gladly DOPING had told him he wouldn’t be given a con- December. cies, there is a growing belief Costa was himself as a first-team regular with the wave farewell to the 25-year-old Belgian Russian judokas tract extension. Chelsea has since insist- But even the mild mannered Guus Hid- allowed to run wild to the detriment of Blues. if he is sold during the offseason. But it is test positive ed Terry’s fate will be decided solely by dink, installed as interim boss, has only himself and his team. Costa’s attitude Conte would be wise to try to make the the lethargic nature of his performances the new manager, leaving Conte to weigh been able to coax a small improvement in has fuelled speculation he is unhappy in most of promising midfielder Ruben Lof- that will be most alarming for Conte as Four Russian judokas are up the benefits of keeping a figure of Ter- the quality of the team’s performances England and would relish a move in the tus-Cheek, 20, and other more untested he contemplates how to revitalize the tal- the latest athletes to test posi- ry’s experience and tenacity to create a so far this season. offseason so, with Paris Saint Germain but highly-rated youngsters like Charly ented playmaker. tive for meldonium as the scandal over the banned sub- stance continues to rock the country, local media reported SOCCER on Monday. An unnamed source told TASS news agency the four judokas are 2012 world cham- Agent says Neymar open to ‘dream’ move to PSG pion Mikhail Pulyaev, Denis Yartsev, Natalia Kondratieva By AGENCE FRANCE- Ribeiro told French sports Laurent Blanc’s men has reportedly identified Ney- Ribeiro’s comments caused Tuesday’s Champions League and Yekaterina Valkova. PRESSE in Paris daily L’Equipe. wrapped up their fourth suc- mar as its No 1 target before a stir in Spain, with Barcelona quarterfinal first leg with The country’s judo federa- “But the prospect of living cessive league title in record the new season starts in defender Gerard Pique sug- Atletico Madrid. tion, however, refused to com- Brazilian superstar Neymar in a city like Paris, and to play time in March, and face Man- August. gesting he could never envis- “We’re at Barca, nobody ment on the case or name any could leave Barcelona to join for a club like PSG is also a chester City in the Champions “A contract can also be dis- age Neymar leaving the wants to leave here! People athletes who had tested posi- Paris Saint Germain if the dream for every player. League quarterfinal first leg solved on condition of paying European champion. are thrilled to be at the club, tive for the banned medicine. French giant pays his huge “That’s to say if PSG showed at the Parc des Princes on the release clause. It’s huge — “Neymar’s not going to it’s total good fortune to play 193 million euros ($220 mil- interest in Neymar we could Wednesday. 193 million euros,” said Rib- leave Barca, I’m certain of in this city, with these fans. CRICKET lion) buyout clause, his agent talk about it.” With superstar Zlatan Ibra- eiro. that, I know him and I know “We have everything, what Pakistan coach said on Monday. PSG has dominated Ligue 1 himovic, courted by some of “But I don’t think that he won’t be leaving,”the Span- more could you want? I’m quits over early exit “Neymar has a contract since the Qatari takeover of Europe’s top clubs, in possibly would be an insurmountable ish international said at a convinced that all the players with Barca until 2018,” Wayne the French capital club in 2011. his last season in France, PSG problem for PSG.” media conference ahead of will stay.” Waqar Younis has quit as Pakistan coach only a day after Shahid Afridi stepped down as Twenty20 captain. Scoreboard Pakistan lost three group matches at the World Twen- BASEBALL 6. Henrik Stenson SWE 7.72 Heather Watson (GBR) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; Kirsten Flipkens WTA Tour singles standings ATP Tour singles standings ty20 and made an early exit 7. Adam Scott AUS 7.17 (BEL x9) bt Donna Vekic (CRO) 6-1, 6-4 Points Points from the tournament in India. Results from the MLB games on Monday (home 8. Dustin Johnson USA 6.38 1 (1) Serena Williams (US) 8625 1 (1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 16540 team in CAPS) 9. Justin Rose ENG 5.95 WTA Charleston 2 (3) Angelique Kerber (Germany) 6025 2 (2) Andy Murray (Britain) 7815 Younis, who was national San Francisco 12 MILWAUKEE 3 10. Patrick Reed USA 5.07 Results on Monday: 3 (2) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 5775 3 (3) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 7695 BALTIMORE 3 Minnesota 2 coach for 19 months, said: 1st rd 4 (4) Garbine Muguruza Blanco (Spain) 4831 4 (4) Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) 6370 TEXAS 3 Seattle 2 ICE HOCKEY Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) bt Misaki Doi (JPN x16) 5 (8) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 4530 5 (5) Rafa Nadal (Spain) 4955 “Unfortunately I couldn’t give CINCINNATI 6 Philadelphia 2 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Daria Gavrilova (AUS x12) bt Zarina Washington 4 ATLANTA 3 (10 innings) Results of NHL games on Monday: 6 (5) Simona Halep (Romania) 3785 6 (6) Kei Nishikori (Japan) 4490 the result which the nation Diyas (KAZ) 6-1, 1-6, 6-3; Jana Cepelova (SVK) bt 7 (7) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) 3763 7 (7) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 3630 LA Dodgers 15 SAN DIEGO 0 NY Islanders 5 Tampa Bay 2 Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1; Mirjana 8 (9) Roberta Vinci (Italy) 3595 8 (8) David Ferrer (Spain) 3370 was expecting.’’ He had three Toronto 5 TAMPA BAY 3 NY Rangers 4 Columbus 2 Lucic-Baroni (CRO) bt Peng Shuai (CHN) 6-2, 6-1; 9 (11) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 3432 9 (9) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) 3130 Colorado 10 ARIZONA 5 Florida 4 Toronto 3 Kristina Mladenovic (FRA x11) bt Tatjana Maria months before his contract 10 (10) Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) 3340 10 (10) Richard Gasquet (France) 2840 Chicago Cubs 9 LA ANGELS 0 St. Louis 5 Arizona 2 (GER) 6-4, 6-3; Lourdes Dominguez (ESP) bt Christi- with the PCB was due to Chicago White Sox 4 OAKLAND 3 Vancouver 3 LA Kings 2 na McHale (USA) 2-6, 6-4, 6-1; Elena Vesnina (RUS) 11 (6) Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) 3160 11 (11) Marin Cilic (Croatia) 2770 bt Cindy Burger (NED) 7-5, 6-2 12 (12) Flavia Pennetta (Italy) 3033 12 (12) Milos Raonic (Canada) 2740 expire, but he quit after meet- GOLF TENNIS 13 (19) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 3010 13 (15) David Goffin (Belgium) 2560 14 (13) Venus Williams (US) 2887 14 (14) Dominic Thiem (Austria) 2420 ing with Pakistan Cricket World Golf Ranking WTA Katowice Open Casablanca Open 15 (15) Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic) 2768 15 (13) John Isner (US) 2235 Through April 3 Results on Monday (x denotes seeding): Results on Monday: Board officials in Lahore on 16 (16) Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 2750 16 (16) Gael Monfils (France) 2220 1. Jason Day AUS 12.37 1st rd 1st rd Monday. 2. Jordan Spieth USA 11.00 Andreea Mitu (ROM) bt Romina Oprandi (SUI) 4-6, Mimo Gonzez (ARG) bt Daniel Muz (ESP) 6-1, 6-4; 17 (20) Timea Bacsinszky (Switzerland) 2735 17 (18) Roberto Bautista( Spain) 2015 3. Rory McIlroy NIR 9.36 6-2, 7-5; Elizaveta Kulichkova (RUS) bt Vera Lapko Albert Montas (ESP) bt Franko Skugor (CRO) 6-4, 18 (14) Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 2590 18 (17) Kevin Anderson (South Africa) 1930 AGENCIES 4. Bubba Watson USA 8.54 (BLR) 7-6 (4), 6-0; Stefanie Voegele (SUI) bt Lesya 6-4; Facundo Bagnis (ARG) bt Lamine Ouahab 19 (17) Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 2531 19 (19) Gilles Simon( France) 1900 5. Rickie Fowler USA 7.87 Tsurenko (UKR x6) 6-4, 6-0; Krista Plkov(CZE) bt (MAR) 7-6 (2), 6-2 20 (18) Sara Errani (Italy) 2420 20 (26) Nick Kyrgios (Australia) 1765 24SPORTSWednesday, April 6, 2016

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BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME

Naismith Memorial Basketball Triple serving of greatness Hall of Fame Class of 2016 NORTH AMERICAN 2003) and WNBA MVP three COMMITTEE times (2000, 2002, 2005). As Yao, Iverson, Shaq Darell Garretson (referee): a member of the Houston Served as an NBA official for 27 Comets, Swoopes won four top list of inductees years, officiating 1,798 regular WNBA Championships (1997- season games, 269 playoff 2000). Set an NCCA champi- into Hall of Fame I’m in the Hall of games, 41 Finals games and onship record for points scored five All-Star Games. He was with 47 in winning an NCAA By ASSOCIATED PRESS Fame and I can go instrumental in organizing and championship with Texas Tech in Houston heading the first union for ref- (1993). Swoopes is a three- outside today ... erees, the National Association time Olympic gold medalist The Basketball Hall of of Basketball Referees. He (1996, 2000, 2004) and a Fame’s class of 2016 is very and somebody will served as NBA Chief of Officiat- member of the WNBA All-Dec- impressive: Yao Ming, Allen ing Staff and Director of Offi- ade Team. Iverson, Shaquille O’Neal, say to me: ‘Prac- cials (1981-98) and is the only HALL OF FAME DIRECT Sheryl Swoopes, Tom Izzo and tice? We talking persontohaveservedasastaff ELECT COMMITTEE Jerry Reinsdorf. referee and Chief of Staff And if there’s a class clown, about practice?’” simultaneously. Jerry Reinsdorf (contributor) it would be the affable Iverson, — Purchased the Chicago Bulls who knows he still won’t be Allen Iverson, 11-time All-Star Allen Iverson (player) —An in 1985. Under his leadership, able to shake his infamous 11-time NBA All-Star (2000-06, the Bulls won six world champi- rant about practice. 2008, 2009), Iverson played 14 onships and became one of the “I’m in the Hall of Fame and O’Neal had a simple mind- NBA seasons averaging 26.7 most iconic teams in the histo- I can go outside today and go set when he entered the NBA, points and 6.2 assists per ry of sports. Reinsdorf has to a restaurant or whatever one that he got from his love of game. A three-time All-NBA done extensive charitable work and somebody will say to me: karate movies. First Team selection (1999, to benefit the Chicago Public ‘Practice? We talking about “In all your karate movies, 2001, 2005), he led the league Schools and the Chicago Park practice?” Iverson said with a you’ve got the young karate in scoring average four times District and was awarded the laugh on Monday. warrior and he goes all these (1999, 2001, 2002, 2005). Iver- Jefferson Award for Public Ser- He admitted even his chil- places and he sees all these mas- son was named NBA Rookie of vice for leading the philan- dren mock him for the 2002 ters and he has to take them the Year in 1997 and NBA MVP thropic outreach of the White news conference that saw him out,” O’Neal said. in 2001. Attended Georgetown Sox and CharitaBulls Charities. repeat the phrase about 20 “So I was gunning for every- University (1994-1996) where times. body. I was gunning for all the he set the school record for EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN PIONEERS “Man, I’m a Hall of Famer superstars, I was gunning for all career scoring average. COMMITTEE and that’s all you can think the big guys, because I wanted about — me saying ‘practice’.” their spot.” Tom Izzo (coach) — Has led Cumberland Posey (player) — Posthumous honorees this Michigan State to seven NCAA Posey was an exceptional mul- year include 27-year NBA ref- Rocket fuel Final Four appearances (1999- tisport athlete recognized as eree Darell Garretson; John Yao, the top overall pick in 01, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2015). the greatest African American McLendon, the first African- 2002 by the Houston Rockets, With 18 consecutive trips to the basketball player of his time, American coach in a profes- was an eight-time All-Star. He NCAA tournament, his team playing from the early 1900s to sional league; Cumberland did not attend the event won the NCAA National Cham- mid-1920s. After leading Posey, who also is in the Base- because he was in Shanghai. pionship in 2000. Izzo has Duquesne University in scoring ball Hall of Fame; and Zelmo Swoopes helped Texas Tech coached Michigan State to sev- for three seasons, he created, Beaty, who led Prairie View to to a national title, won four en Big Ten regular season managed and played for the an NAIA title in 1962. WNBA titles with the Houston championships (1998-2001, legendary “Loendi Big Five”.His Comets, was a three-time 2009, 2010, 2012), five Big Ten team was the most dominant First overall WNBA MVP and won three tournament championships of the black fives era winning Iverson, selected by the Phil- Olympic gold medals. (1999, 2000, 2012, 2014, four straight Colored Basket- adelphia 76ers with the first She grew up in rural Texas 2016). ball World Championships. overall pick in the 1996 NBA Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers drives past Houston Rockets’ Yao Ming during a 2005 game. and hopes her election can be Upon retirement from basket- draft, was named rookie of the Iverson, Yao, Shaquille O’Neal, Tom Izzo, Sheryl Swoopes and Jerry Reinsdorf were announced on an inspiration to children John McLendon (coach) — ball, Posey switched his focus year and went on to become Monday as 2016 inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame. RUSTY KENNEDY / ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO from small towns everywhere. The first coach to win three to baseball where he excelled an 11-time All-Star. “For me to be sitting here consecutive national champi- for35yearsasaplayerand John Thompson, his coach today as a Hall of Famer, I onships, leading Tennessee businessman. Posey was at Georgetown, was there to hope that all those kids out State to NAIA National Cham- inducted into the Baseball Hall celebrate the latest honor with Yao factfile there that have ever doubted pionships in 1957, 1958 and of Fame in 2006. his former player. things like this can happen to 1959. He compiled a collegiate INTERNATIONAL “I’m proud of knowing him Shanghai’s Yao Ming became the first foreign-born player without US college experience to be you, I’m a living example and coaching record of 522-165 COMMITTEE as a person and knowing the drafted as the No 1 overall pick in NBA history. During his nine seasons with the Rockets, he living proof that if you trust in (.760) and was named NAIA challenges he’s had to over- achieved career averages of 19 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game in 486 NBA games. God and you work hard and Coach of the Year in 1958. He Yao Ming (player) —Yao come,” Thompson said. Yao was selected to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star Game eight times, and believe in yourself and you was the first African-American Ming changed the face of “Allen is legitimate. There’s was named to the All-NBA Team five times.He helped the Rockets reach the playoffs four times, surround yourself with the coach to accomplish many global basketball as a a lot of impersonators of what and Houston won a first-round series in the 2009 postseason — its first since 1997. right people, anything can feats including winning a respected player and ambas- he is. But he is a kid who came happen,” she said. national tournament (1954), sador of the game. He led his from basically nothing and Born: Sept 12, 1980 Appearance: 486 NBA games CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Izzo, Michigan’s State coach, winning a national champion- hometown Shanghai Sharks had to be thrust into a whole in Shanghai, China Career averages: 19 points, 9.2 All-Star Games (8) — 2003- won a national title in 2000 ship (1957) and winning an to a CBA Championship in different way of life and been Height: 2.29 meters rebounds and 1.9 blocks per 2009, 2011. and has taken the Spartans to AAU national championship 2002 and was the No 1 pick in successful as he has been in his Weight: 104.6 kilograms game All-NBA Team (5): 2003-04 the Final Four seven times. (1961). He was the first African- the NBA Draft the same year. profession.” Nickname: The (Ming) Dynasty, NBA titles: None (3rd), 2005-06 (3rd), 2006-07 “This is the biggest thrill of American coach to coach in a As a member for the Houston Iverson was asked to remi- The Great Wall (of Yao), Big Yao Draft: No 1 overall pick by Hous- (2nd), 2007-08 (3rd); 2008-09 my life,” Izzo said. “I needed a professional league, the ABL. Rockets, he earned All-Rookie nisce on the impressive dunk- Team: Houston Rockets tonRocketsin2002 (2nd). lot of other guys to help me get Already enshrined in the Hall of honors (2003) and was ing he did in his career despite Position: Center here.” Fame as a “Contributor”,he will named to the All-NBA Team being only 6-feet tall. Jersey No: 11 Reinsdorf has been the own- now also be enshrined as a five times (2004, 2006- “I can’t even touch the back- er of the Chicago Bulls and coach. 2009). As an eight-time NBA board now,” the 40-year-old White Sox for more than two All-Star (2003-2009, 2011), said. “I ain’t lying. I can’t even decades. Shaquille O’Neal (player) —A he broke the record for most touch the backboard. It’s over.” “An award like this has to be four-time NBA champion All-Star votes, previously held 2000, a three-time NBA Finals for not mentioning his work in hopes to get a new one when the most important accom- (2000, 2001, 2002, 2006), by Michael Jordan in 2005. Magic man MVP and 15-time All-Star. the 1996 movie Kazaam,in he is inducted into the hall in plishment you can have,” he O’Neal played 19 years in the As the anchor of the Chinese O’Neal, the top overall pick When he was introduced on which he played a genie. September. said. “The fact is, I’m here NBA averaging 23.7 points, 10.9 national team, Yao was in the 1992 draft by the Orlan- Monday at the media event, the The man who has a plethora “No, just Hall of Famer,” he because of what a lot of other rebounds and 2.3 blocks per named a three-time FIBA do Magic, was the NBA MVP in jokester scolded the announcer of nicknames was asked if he said. people did.” game. A 15-time NBA All-Star Asian Championship MVP. (1993-98, 2000-07, 2009) who VETERANS COMMITTEE ranks seventh on the NBA All- time scoring list. He was Zelmo Beaty (player) — Zel- What they’re saying about Yao’s induction named NBA MVP (2000), NBA mo ‘Big Z’ Beaty was a pow- Finals MVP three times (2000- erful force for Prairie View 02) and NBA Rookie of the Year A&M averaging 25 points and game. We look forward to great ambassador to the recognized his greatness. fulfilling many obligations (1993). At LSU (1989-92), 20 rebounds per game (1958- continuing to work with game and a great friend.” It’s a great thing for Yao to promote the game, but O’Neal led the country in 62). He led them to the 1962 him to grow the game of Shaquille O’Neal, and for the Houston Rock- for me he is a great player rebounding (1991) and blocked NAIA Championship while basketball in China.” 15-time NBA All-Star center ets.” in the first place.” shots (1992) while earning earning the Chuck Taylor David Shoemaker, Jeff van Gundy, Wang Meng, unanimous First-Team All MVP Award. As a pro, he was NBA China CEO Houston Rockets head basketball reporter for America honors (1991-92). a standout for the St. Louis “On behalf of NBA China, I coach, 2003-07 Titan Sports O’Neal is an Olympic gold med- Hawks and the ABA Utah would like to congratulate alist (1996) and a member of Stars. As a two-time NBA All- Yao Ming on his induction the NBA 50th Anniversary All- Star (1966, 1968) and three- into the Naismith Memori- time team. time ABA All-Star, he al Basketball Hall of Fame. averaged a double-double in WOMEN’S COMMITTEE Known to his legions of “I am so happy that Yao scoring and rebounding for fans as the ‘Walking Great Ming is getting a just honor Sheryl Swoopes (player) —A his career. Beaty won an ABA Wall’, Yao competed with “The first time we met (Jan and being inducted into the six-time WNBA All-Star (1999, Championship in 1971 with passion, integrity and 18, 2003), he blocked my Hall of Fame. He was a “Yao has been a symbol, “I am very happy for Yao, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, the Stars and was awarded extraordinary work ethic shots like seven times while first-class player who had reminding people of China, he deserves it. He’s done a 2006), Swoopes played 12 the ABA Playoffs Most Valua- every time he stepped onto I didn’t know who he was. his career cut short by inju- Chinese basketball and the lot for the league. He is so WNBA seasons averaging 15 ble Player award. Beaty was the court. With eight All- He is actually the first guy ry but he was the most out- whole generation born in talented. It’s sad that his points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.2 named to the ABA All-Time Star selections, he was who turned around and standing player you could the 1980s. For me, Yao has career was cut short by assists per game. A five-time Team and inducted into the among the most dominant looked me in the eye and ever hope to coach. He’s a been the most important injuries. But I am happy for All-WNBA First Team selection National Collegiate Basketball centers ever to play the shot a jumper right in my great leader and a great figure in my sports journal- him, he deserves to have (1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, Hall of Fame in 2014. game and one of the best face. Yao, I want to say con- teammate. He has every ism career, inspiring me to that type of recognition.” 2005), she was also named SOURCE: NAISMITH international players in gratulations to you and single intangible you need- be a basketball reporter Paul Gasol, Defensive Player of the Year MEMORIAL BASKETBALL NBA history. His induction congratulations to China. ed on the team, so for Yao covering the Rockets and Chicago Bulls All-Star three times (2000, 2002, HALL OF FAME. is a testament to his impact You definitely deserve it. to get inducted like this the NBA for 12 years. Yao center on the globalization of our You are a great player, a means that people have has always been great in