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Li: Tokyo, UN chief ‘impressed’ by peacekeeper training Beijing can Lam urges put ties on promotion of right track
By ZHANG YUE Bay Area plan [email protected] China and Japan should CE says HK contributions to the project work with commitment and a longterm vision to create a to include creativity, global connections favorable atmosphere for high level exchanges between the By YANG HAN and two countries and put the bilat WEN ZONGDUO eral relationship back on the in Boao, Hainan track of steady development, Premier Li Keqiang said. Imminent release of a gener Li made the remark as he al plan for the Guangdong Inside met with the visiting delega Hong KongMacao Greater Bay tion of the Japanese Associa Area project requires govern Related stories tion for the Promotion of ments from the three regions > p3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 International Trade at the to improve public understand Great Hall of the People in Bei ing of the Bay Area, Chief Exec mainland enterprises go over jing on Monday afternoon. utive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet seas. The delegation was led by ngor said on Monday. “We will provide the best con Yohei Kono, president of the Lam, attending the Boao ditions to facilitate the flow of association and former speak Forum for Asia Annual Confer people, goods, capital and infor er of the Japanese House of ence 2018 in Hainan province, mation and to attract talented Representatives. said governments of the three professionals,” she added. “Signs of improvement have regions were working on coor Ma Xingrui, governor of been seen in ChinaJapan rela United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres talks with peacekeeping police officers during a visit to a training center in Langfang, ganizing Bay Area promotion Guangdong province who tions lately and interactions Heibei province, on Monday. Guterres later tweeted that he was “deeply impressed” by the training center. PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY events at home and abroad. attended the same forum with between the two countries She said Hong Kong could Lam, said the forthcoming Bay have also increased, which is a make important contributions Area plan would accelerate a good thing. Yet we should also to the Bay Area through its cre rollout of concrete measures note that relations between ativity and connections. to encourage a free flow of tal our two countries still face “The principle of ‘one coun ents, goods, capital and infor challenges,” Li said. Nation is willing to share the fruits of try, two systems’ is itself an mation in the region. Saying that this year marks innovation to become a unique The guideline will set goals the 40th anniversary of the advantage of the Bay Area,” she and create strong impetus for signing of the Treaty of Peace development, head of publicity affirms said. regional development, Ma and Friendship between Japan Hong Kong can introduce added. and China, Li said the two international companies into countries should cherish the By PAN MENGQI province. The theme of the Inside innovative spirit and dialogue the Bay Area and help Chinese See Forum, page 3 current momentum of develop in Sanya, Hainan meeting is “A New Era of among civilizations and ment in bilateral ties, and he [email protected] Media Cooperation in Asia — Related story > p3 spread the voices of Asian urged Japan to work with Chi Interconnectivity and Inno people’s innovation, diligence na to meet each other halfway. China is willing to continue vative Development.” and cooperation between It is important for both to collaborate on innovation Huang pointed out that security, development and glo countries, Huang said. countries to honor the spirit and share the fruits of devel this year is the 40th anniver balization, providing China’s At the opening ceremony, and the agreements reached opment with Asia and the sary of China’s reform and wisdom and solutions to glob media representatives from in the four key ChinaJapan world, said Huang Kunming, openingup push. In that al issues and promoting peace, China and other Asian coun political documents while head of the Publicity Depart time, China’s reform and development and prosperity tries signed cooperation looking at the interests of both ment of the Communist Party development has benefited to the world, Huang said. agreements. A panel discus countries so as to move Sino of China Central Committee. from Asia, and also contrib He emphasized that an sion about dialogues between Japanese ties in the right Huang, who also is a mem uted to Asia and the world. innovative Asia and a pros Asian civilizations was held direction, he said. ber of the Political Bureau of President Xi Jinping has perous world will provide afterward. China will support and safe the CPC Central Committee, proposed a series of important media from all over the globe More than 140 mainstream guard multilateral trade and made the remark in his ideas concerning the future of with greater opportunities media leaders from 40 Asian advocate facilitated invest opening speech at the 2018 humankind in today’s chang and a broader arena. countries, as well as more Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuetngor addresses a panel dis ment and liberal trade against Media Leaders Summit for ing world. His thought sys Media should serve as the than 300 Asian cultural schol cussion at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018 in Hainan the backdrop of the complicat Asia, which was held on tematically clarified China’s voices for the people. Media ars and related parties attend province on Monday. The panel focused on developing the Guangdong ed and changing international Monday in Sanya, Hainan global outlook on governance, from Asia should promote an ed the opening ceremony. Hong KongMacao Greater Bay Area. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY context, Li said. He added that China will press ahead with reform and open its door even China. Many of the technolo Chinese experts argued wider, and lend more efforts to Technology transfers not forced, experts assert gies were no longer core, that the initiative is aimed at maintaining steady and advanced ones and had upgrading China’s industrial improving economic growth. almost no application and highend manufacturing China welcomes investors By LI XIANG force US firms to transfer Inside gain access to the Chinese prospects in their home mar capability and it offers win from overseas, including Japan, [email protected] their technology to Chinese market and abundant labor. kets,” Zhang said. win results for Chinese and to invest in China and jointly partners. The issue has been • Related stories > p13 “Technology transfers have Zhang said accusations of foreign companies. create new opportunities for Technology transfers have used as a justification by the • Editorial > p9 been based on mutual agree forced technology transfers “Many multinational com development, the premier said. been voluntary commercial Trump administration for its • Comment > p10 ments between Chinese and by China have distorted the panies have set up their global Kono told Li as this year also transactions between Chinese trade fight with China under foreign companies,” Zhang fact that seeking ties with Chi R&D centers in China to take marks the 40th anniversary of and US companies and the US Section 301 of the US Trade said, adding that in many cas nese companies and setting full advantage of local high China’s reform and openingup accusation of transfers being Act of 1974, which permits a on an equal and voluntary es they have been carried out up joint ventures in China are quality labor and innovative policy, industrial and commer forced by China is groundless response to trade practices basis. in the form of a paid license rational, profitdriven deci resources. It has helped boost cial circles in Japan look forward and violates international deemed unfair, unreasonable Zhang Yalin, a member of for usage and have not sions by foreign companies. their own business develop to seeing continued improve trade principles, Chinese or discriminatory. the National Manufacturing involved transfers of technol The Trump administra ment,” Zhang said. ment in SinoJapanese ties, and experts said. Chinese experts said tech Strategy Advisory Committee, ogy ownership. tion’s trade frictions with Chi Xiong Meng, executive Japan is willing to contribute to The United States has nology transfers between Chi said foreign companies’ ties “Technology offerings have na have been seen by many vicechairman of the China friendly bilateral relations. He accused China of using share nese and foreign companies with Chinese firms have been been a means for foreign com experts as a move to target Federation of Industrial added that they expect Li to holding restrictions and are done through commercial driven by business interests, panies to obtain market share Beijing’s Made in China 2025 make an official visit to Japan. administrative permissions to contracts and are conducted and they have helped them and investment returns in initiative. See Transfers, page 3 CHINESE NGO HELPS ELDERLY FIND A WAY TO A WILL ◆ With people becoming wealthier, efforts are being made to avoid inheritance disputes
By LI LEI to retrieve it only after his making a will,” said Li, who called for increased nongov Welfare Foundation launched [email protected] death, and they will have to asked not to be fully identi ernment involvement in social a program in 2015 to provide abide by its instructions fied. “But after reading about governance, including the free willmaking consultations Li looked reassured as he regarding their inheritance. the free service at the center, I welfare of the elderly. for seniors in Beijing. INSIDE held his certificate from the Until then, Li is the only per changed my mind and decid Raindrop, an NGO in Jinan, But the China Will Regis China Will Registration Cen son with access to the will, and ed to finish the task while my Shandong province, initiated tration Center, founded in Pyongyang marathon draws ter, a charity organization that he can make changes to it any mind is still clear. Otherwise, a program in 2016 to help tack 2013, went a step beyond that. offers free advice to people time. my children would have to go le “emptynest elderly” issues Chen Kai, who started the foreigners as talks readied over 60 looking to avoid family Though silverhaired, he through a lot of trouble after — which arise with parents project, said that besides con World, p11 inheritance disputes by mak looks hale and hearty, as do my wife and I become less whose children have left their sultations, it also handles the ing a will. most of the elderly at the cen aware.” hometowns — by organizing drafting and safekeeping of © 2018 China Daily , All Rights Reserved , Vol. 22 — No. 6534 The document proved the ter. Since the 18th National activities such as sports meets wills — essential to avoiding A member of the 83yearold had deposited his “I have no cardiovascular Congress of the Communist for the elderly. legal disputes. Asia News will at the center’s Beijing diseases or Alzheimer’s, and Party of China in 2012, the cen Others noticed the seniors’ Network branch. His heirs will be able therefore thought little about tral leadership has repeatedly legal needs. The China Social See Wills, page 6