Monday, November 2, 2015 CHINA DAILY
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Looking ahead Hot topic Events and stories coming up in the next few days Many Beijing hospitals are preparing more beds Major South KoreaJapan bilateral summit for a baby boom next South Korean President Park Geunhye and Japanese Prime Minister year, the Year of the Shinzo Abe are scheduled to hold their first bilateral summit today in Monkey under the Seoul, on the sidelines of a trilateral summit with Chinese Premier Li traditional Chinese calendar. Keqiang. Relations between Japan and South Korea have been cloud ed by sensitive historical issues, such as the one over “comfort women”. The women were forced into sexual slavery for militarist Japan’s war time brothels during its colonization of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.
US Pacific Command chief to visit China I really want a Harry Harris, the commander of the US Pacific Command, is set to vis ‘monkey’ baby, it China from today till Thursday and take part in dialogues with Chi in line with our nese military officials, according to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, family zodiac which quoted an unnamed official from the US Department of Defense last week. The visit comes amid fresh tensions in the South signs. I’m afraid China Sea following the highprofile entry of the US guidedmissile I won’t get preg destroyer USS Lassen into the waters near Chinese isles. nant on time, so Retail gasoline price drop forecast I’m going to visit Retail gasoline prices are expected to fall the temple and tomorrow, in line with national fuelprice mechanisms and amid international oil pray for a baby.” price fluctuations. Industry insiders fore Liang Bin, civil servant in Bei jing cast a fall of about 140 yuan ($22.15) per metric ton. Candid camera: Outdoor act “I don’t mind Villagers in Dejiang, Guizhou province, perform Nuo Opera, an ancient folk art popular in many parts of South China, on Oct 31. Getting to the root of the problem QIAO QIMING / FOR CHINA DAILY Demand for maca, a root plant eaten for medicinal purposes, has been what zodiac sign rising amid a growing number of healthconscious Chinese consum my baby is born ers. Prices for fresh maca roots reached 800,000 yuan per metric ton last year, from about 200,000 yuan in 2013, according to latest indus under, as long try reports. However, many people complain about a lack of regulation as he or she is In one sense The Martian is impossible and quality control in the maca market. China Daily will track the lat not born in the est developments related to the root with indepth stories in the days was like filming in outer to a US congressman by the Nothing to gain indeed. ahead. Year of the Rat. Chris space for so long. name of Frank Wolf, who NASA’s reallife administra No religious or Davis Not to spoil The Martian had been overseeing NASA’s tor Charles Bolden raised for anyone (it apparently budget from a subcommittee hopes recently when he said complex rea SECOND On chinadaily.com.cn THOUGHTS opens in the Chinese main chair, NASA has been he believed the ban was “tem sons, I’m just land later this month), but banned from collaborating porary” because the US was there is one bit of fantasy in with China on anything to starting to “find ourselves on Visit for breaking news and exclusive content not a big fan of Blockbuster scifi flick The the story that is completely do with human spaceflight. the outside looking in”. the rodents.” Martian — and the book it’s implausible, and woefully so. “We don’t want to give Xu Dazhe, director of the Roundup: ‘Hometown diplomacy’ based on — is the product of It comes at a doordie crisis [China] the opportunity to China National Space German Chancellor Angela Merkel just con exhaustive “whatif” where NASA has played its take advantage of our tech Administration, echoed cluded her eighth official visit to China, which research. last card and, alas, once nology, and we have noth Bolden’s sentiments. included a trip to Premier Li Keqiang’s home Suppose there really was a again, all hope is lost! But ing to gain from dealing “We certainly hope that town of Hefei, capital of Anhui province, on mission on Mars, what wait … with them,” Wolf said of the this ‘temporary’ time frame Friday. Invited and accompanied by Li, would the base camp look Cut to the inner sanctum ban. can be shortened,”Xu said. Merkel’s visit included trips to farmhouses like? What would the space of the China National Space Ridiculous scenarios have Not likely. Rep John Cul and a local school. These examples of “home Wu Di, journalist in Beijing suits, the helmets, gloves, Administration where two played out as a result. Maybe bertson, who succeeded Wolf town diplomacy” are often seen as efforts by rover craft, meals, space officials discuss what China the worst was the Chinese as chairman of the subcom various countries’ leaders to boost ties with their foreign counterparts. Our ships really be like? Down to could do to help. A lot, it press being barred from the mittee and who has also website showcases a few other instances of this style of diplomacy. “Frankly, I don’t the nittygritty detail. Nerds turns out. They just happen launch of the Space Shuttle called Wolf “a hero of mine”, gone wild. Even NASA bless to have a rocket all ready to Endeavor’s STS134 mission has already pledged to con Q&A: What was the first major War of Resistance victory? care about the ed the take on technology. go. It could save the day. in 2011, the mission that put tinue the ban. This is the 11th of 30 questions related to the Chinese People’s War of Resist animal zodiac. It’s persuasive, even the They pick up the phone to the Alpha Magnetic Spec Good thing there’s not ance Against Japanese Aggression (193745), based on a book recently pub landscape looks unearthly. It call NASA and here the tale trometer aboard the Interna really a guy stranded up lished by the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau. The book provides But the monkey reminded me of the press tumbles ever deeper into the tional Space Station — a there, yet. a concise history of the war to help mark the 70th anniversary of the tri does symbolize conference for another space realm of impossibility. particle physics experiment umph. Our website will post one question from the list every day. Visit us for epic, Gravity, when a report Reason being that for module designed and built Contact the writer at chris the answers. fun and versatil er asked the director what it nearly five years now, thanks in part by Chinese scientists. [email protected] Business: Top Chinese outbound M&A deals for three quarters ity.” The number of Chinese mainland outbound mergers and acquisitions soared to a new high of 257 in the first three quarters, exceeding the total for the This Day, That Year whole of last year, latest business figures showed. There were 11 M&A deals with values greater than $1 billion, down from 14 in the same period last year, but the total value reached $45.2 billion, slightly higher compared with the same period last year. The deal value of Stateowned enterprises’ outbound Item from Nov 2, 1990, in they do not have 200 to 300 abundant – activities in the first three quarters surpassed the whole of last year, with He Sirong, photographer in China Daily: Workers at the kilograms of the vegetable the products four major deals valued at more than $2 billion. Beijing Nantaipingzhuang vegetable stored in their courtyards or are promptly shop in Beijing’s Haidian dis balconies. delivered Culture: Modern elements added to traditional ‘Atlas’ silk trict unload cabbages yester from green “Atlas”,a type of traditional silk from the “Probably only day, signaling one of the first Many people in the coun houses or the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, means few days for the vegetable to try’s north have memories warmer farm “graceful” in the Uygur language. Known older people enter the capital’s market in of storing cabbages to help ing areas for its softness and bright patterns, the silk care about the large quantities — and the get them through the win down south. is extremely popular among women of the start of winter. ter. The rising Uygur ethnic group. Visit our website to animal sign, but Wheelbarrows, tricycles However, with rapid number of see how a recent fashion show presented anyone can take and even baby carriages development and a growing healthcon the traditional art with heavily laden with cabbages logistics network, vegetable scious con modern elements. control of his or could be seen everywhere on supplies are hardly a prob sumers also the city’s lanes and boule lem now for many consum means suppli Blog: Studying ancient Chinese culture her own destiny. vards ... ers across the country. ers of agricul About a year ago, one of our bloggers started to place the My family really Young people may have Even during the coldest ture produce study of ancient Chinese culture in a “very important lost their taste for cabbages, period of the year in the are scrambling to meet nies from countries includ position”.He has read major Confucian works such as Scan it! doesn’t care.” but the old Beijingers still country’s northeast, where demand, with highpriced ing Australia, Denmark and the Analects and The Great Learning. He read these Read Zhang Siwei, nurse in Tianjin have a special liking for this winter temperatures can organic foods becoming Germany continue to look two books “to have a deeper understanding of ancient more on winter vegetable, and feel drop below 40 C, fruit and more popular. for opportunities to tap the Chinese culture”.Visit our website to learn more about chinadaily. COMPILED BY CHINA DAILY unprepared for the season if vegetable supplies are Organic product compa Chinese market. his experiences with Confucianism. com.cn
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