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US, Japan Climate talks told to stop meddling set to bolster in China global efforts affairs By WANG XU in Tokyo [email protected] Joint statement on issue released after China urged the United States US envoy’s fourday visit to Shanghai and Japan to stop meddling in its domestic affairs and accused By HOU LIQIANG to pursue efforts to limit the tempera them of sowing division as Wash [email protected] ture increase even further to 1.5 C. ington and Tokyo included a “China and the United States are direct reference to China’s Taiwan Experts have commended a China firmly committed to working togeth province in their joint statement US joint climate statement issued er and with other parties to strength Workers give out brochures for the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference to participants at the event’s for the first time in over 50 years. amid the rift between the world’s two en implementation of the Paris registration center in Boao, Hainan province, on Sunday. FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILY “We urge the US and Japan to largest economies, saying it will inject Agreement,” the joint statement said. take China’s concern seriously, impetus into the world’s multilateral After reviewing the goals of the abide by the oneChina principle, climate process and boost confidence agreement, the two sides pledged to and immediately stop meddling in to address the global climate crisis. make enhanced efforts to bring the China’s domestic affairs and harm The statement was goals into reality while joining hands Integration key to Asia’s sustained ing China’s interests,” a Chinese Inside made after a fourday to identify and address opportuni foreign ministry spokesperson visit to China by US ties and challenges, it said. said in a statement • Editorial, special climate envoy The statement said China and the economic recovery, Boao report says Inside on Saturday. “China page 9 John Kerry that con US both look forward to the Leaders will take all necessa • See more, cluded on Saturday, Summit on Climate hosted by the US By CHEN JIA, said Li Baodong, secretarygeneral expansion and upgrading of the Editorial, ry measures to reso page 3 during which he talked on Thursday and Friday. They share OUYANG SHIJIA and of the Boao Forum for Asia. consumer market as well as tech page 9 lutely defend its with his Chinese coun the summit’s goal of raising global cli MA ZHIPING in Boao, Hainan Zhang Yuyan, director of the Chi nological innovation will mainly sovereignty, security terpart, Xie Zhenhua, according to a mate ambition on mitigation, adap nese Academy of Social Sciences’ drive China’s sustainable growth, and development interests.” news release from the Ministry of tation and support on the road to the The Asian economy is projected Institute of World Economics and which will also help boost the The spokesperson’s remarks Ecology and Environment. 26th UN Climate Change Conference to sustain recovery, and its annual Politics, said on Sunday that the whole regional economy and con came in response to a joint state Aside from beefing up each of the Parties, or COP 26, to be held in growth rate may exceed 6.5 percent entry into force and implementa tribute to global economic develop ment issued after US President Joe nation’s climate action, the two the United Kingdom in November. this year, as integration in regional tion of the Regional Comprehensive ment,” said Yang Ying, vice Biden and Japanese Prime Minis sides will cooperate with each other Zhang Jianyu, founder and chief trade strengthens, according to a Economic Partnership will bring president of Deloitte China. ter Yoshihide Suga’s first inperson under the United Nations Frame representative of the Environmental key report issued on Sunday. positive new factors to Asia’s econo “China’s steady economic recov talks at the White House on Friday. work Convention on Climate Defense Fund’s China program, said The COVID19 pandemic will be my through trade and investment. ery will also boost the economic In the statement, the two lead Change and the Paris Agreement the joint statement shows that China the main factor directly affecting However, potential downside risks development of countries and ers said, “We underscore the on climate, the news release said. and the US have resumed their nation the economic activities in Asia, but in Asia include deterioration of regions involved in the Belt and importance of peace and stabili Reached in 2015, the Paris Agree allevel climate cooperation, which the value chain is converging to banks’ asset quality and the rising Road Initiative,” she said. ty across the Taiwan Strait and ment aims to keep the global temper has been suspended for five years. China, thanks to the advanced debt level, because of previous mas Research has also indicated that encourage the peaceful resolu ature rise this century below a 2 C regional integration of trade in sive fiscal and monetary stimulus the BRI showed strong resilience tion of crossStrait issues.” The increase from preindustrial levels and See Climate, page 3 goods and services, according to moves. In addition, it may be difficult and vitality last year, with projects statement also spoke of other the flagship report of the Boao to fundamentally improve the exter continuing to advance, cooperation internal affairs of China such as Forum for Asia Annual Conference nal environment for Asia’s economy yielding much fruit, and trade and issues relating to the Diaoyu 2021. The forum opened on Sunday in the short term, said Zhang. investment continuing to grow in Islands, Hong Kong, Xinjiang SHANGHAI JUST LOVES TO in Boao, a coastal town in China’s Another report released during spite of headwinds. and the South China Sea. southern Hainan province. the conference on Sunday said that Allan Gabor, president of Merck It was the first time that Wash The research found that the more than 60 percent of surveyed China, which has joined the forum, ington and Tokyo had mentioned SMELL THE COFFEE trade reliance among Asian econo business owners were optimistic took a rosy view of China’s future Taiwan explicitly since 1969, when ◆ mies remains high, and despite the about Asia’s economic recovery, development, saying the German former Japanese prime minister impact of the pandemic, China and and strong antipandemic meas conglomerate has seen rising Eisaku Sato and former US presi Beverage savored in city members of the Association of ures and regional integration are growth opportunities in China’s dent Richard Nixon said in a joint for more than 170 years Southeast Asian Nations have con expected to be the primary drivers move toward a hightech and inno statement, “The maintenance of solidated the central position of of Asia’s economic recovery in the vationdriven nation. peace and security in the Taiwan By HE QI in Shanghai trade in goods in Asia. coming year. With the Chinese government’s area was also important for the [email protected] The report said that 18 of the top In particular, new regional coop intensified efforts to drive digitaliza peace and security of Japan.” 22 products of Asian trade in parts eration initiatives, as well as effec tion during the country’s 14th Five It was also Tokyo’s strongest hanghai has recently been and components are manufactured tive pandemic control and Year Plan (202125) period, it is the political challenge to Beijing since named the city with the in China. economic revival in some Asian right time to further invest in China’s diplomatic ties were normalized in most coffee shops in the In addition, increasing service economies, will also play a key role vast domestic market, Gabor said. 1972, when Japan recognized the world, which may surprise Sun said the cafe, which started trade links, tourism interdepend in boosting regional growth, said “We see great opportunities in “oneChina principle” and conse Smany people, given that China is out as a store that sold snacks at ence and growing digital trade will the report compiled by the Boao many sectors including cloud quently relegated its relationship renowned for teadrinking. night, run by a Cantonese business foster regional economic integra Forum for Asia Academy, the Cen computing, big data, the internet with Taiwan to a nongovernmen However, coffee has long been man, became known as the Sheng tion, said researchers at the event, tral Asia Regional Economic Coop of things, industrial internet, tal, workinglevel basis. sold in the city, with the first ship chang Cafe in 1876. It was later which is ongoing this week after eration Institute and Deloitte China. block chain and artificial intelli Stressing that Biden and Suga’s ment of coffee beans arriving more transformed into a Western restau 2020’s absence due to the virus. In Asia, China is seen as one of gence,” he said. “China’s economy joint statement had grossly inter than 170 years ago. rant before moving to Fuzhou Asian economies will remain an the fastgrowing regions, as 98 per shows great resilience … and will fered in China’s domestic affairs According to Sun Ying, a literature Road in 1883, when it was renamed “anchor” for multilateralism and cent of entrepreneurs said they are inject strong impetus into the and severely violated basic norms researcher based in Shanghai who Xinghualou, which is now a time play a key role in bolstering pandem optimistic about China’s economic global economic recovery.” governing international relations, published the Coffee Map of Modern honored food brand. ic control, keeping industry and sup recovery in terms of GDP growth, the spokesperson in Beijing said Shanghai and Coffee Literature, the “The Shengchang Cafe was very ply chains efficient and stable, and according to the report. Contact the writers at Taiwan and the Diaoyu Islands words “Five packages of Jiafei beans, significant, as it was the first inde promoting trade and investment, “Specifically, businesses believe [email protected] are both Chinese territory, adding 70 jin (35,000 grams) per package” pendent cafe in Shanghai and was that issues relating to Hong Kong were found on a list of imported owned by a Chinese. Xinghualou and Xinjiang are purely China’s goods dated May 18, 1844. still exists today and has witnessed internal affairs and that China has Seven years later, Shengchang the city’s entire modern history,” indisputable sovereignty over Cafe opened — the first such inde Sun added. Shenzhen village moves from making islands in the South China Sea pendent outlet in Shanghai to offer and waters around them. food with coffee. See Cafes, page 2 replica paintings to creating originals “China deplores and rejects it (the statement). We have stated our solemn position to the US and On alert By PEI PEI in Shenzhen, Guangdong but then income from ebusiness stopped innovating when faced Japan through the diplomatic [email protected] platforms began to rise steadily. with economic difficulties. Yu channel,” the spokesperson said. In 2019, Xiao sold dozens of his became an apprentice of a famous The US and Japan are ganging The village of Dafen in Shen oil paintings, earning about 30,000 painter in Dafen in 2000 when he up to form cliques and fanning zhen, Guangdong province, known yuan per month. Now his monthly was 17 years old. Now he heads the bloc confrontation while talking for largescale production of paint income is already on par with 2019. industry’s association in Dafen. about “free and open”, the spokes ings, has figured out a way to sur “I attach great importance to my In 1989, Huang Jiang, a Hong person said. “This anachronistic vive storms in the world economy online stores,” he said. Kong art dealer, moved 26 painters move runs counter to the aspira since the 2008 global financial cri Dafen, once known as the world’s to Dafen, which helped start the tion for peace, development and sis. Despite difficulties, it has largest oil painting reproduction movement that eventually made it cooperation shared by the over found a way to thrive. center, has been exploring the online into a significant international mar whelming majority of countries Last year, as the novel coronavi market since 2012. Now there are ketplace for oil paintings. Thousands in the region and beyond.” rus pandemic began to buffet econ more than 2,500 digital shops for of people without professional train omies around the world, people in Dafen businesses operating on ing flocked to Dafen. They supported See Ties, page 4 Dafen steered into the wind. They Tmall, Taobao, JD.com and Alibaba. their families by learning the oil survived what could have been a Annual sales of the shops range from painting skills needed to imitate disastrous shipwreck by moving to 3 million to 30 million yuan. worldfamous paintings. online sales. The village’s total annual output The secret that ultimately posi © 2021 China Daily “Most of my income last year was was valued at 4.1 billion yuan last tioned Dafen at the center of proc All Rights Reserved Police officers detain a protester during a march against police violence from selling pictures online,” said year. Although gallery sales dropped essing, production, marketing and Vol.25 — No. 7471 A member of the Asia News Network in Washington, D.C., the United States. Cities across the US are preparing Xiao Shuihui, an oil painter in Da sharply, the online shops generated distribution was the assembly line for possible protests and civil unrest as the verdict in the trial of the fen. In 2020, his monthly income the considerable sum of 2.34 billion concept, Yu said. former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin could come early this shrank to 10,000 yuan ($1,534) yuan, up 30 percent yearonyear. week. ERIN SCOTT / REUTERS See story, page 11 because of the COVID19 pandemic, Yu Jinrui said Dafen has never See Village, page 3