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August 2019 August Vol. 854 Fengdu: Moving Past Poverty 10 国内零售价: 元 USA $5.10 UK ₤3.20 40-43 52-55 56-63 Australia $9.10 Europe €5.20 Canada $7.80 Turkey TL.10.00 Joseph Graves: The Era of 2000 to 2009: Staging the World FacePay Millennial Dawn 2-903 CN11-1429/Z 邮发代号 可绕地球赤道栽种树木按已达塞罕坝机械林场的森林覆盖率寒来暑往,沙地变林海,荒原成绿洲。半个多世纪,三代人耕耘。牢记使命 80% , 1 米株距排开, 艰苦创业 12 圈。 绿色发展 Saihanba is a cold alpine area in northern Hebei Province bordering the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It was once a barren land but is now home to 75,000 hectares of forest, thanks to the labor of generations of forestry workers in the past 55 years. Every year the forest purifies 137 million cubic meters of water and absorbs 747,000 tons of carbon dioxide. The forest produces 12 billion yuan (around US$1.8 bil- lion) of ecological value annually, according to the Chinese Academy of Forestry. 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Telephone: 1-416-497-8096 Features Fengdu: Moving Past Poverty 出版日期 每月1日 08 国内刊号: CN11-1429/Z 10 Wins in the West 国际刊号: ISSN0009-4420 京海工商广字第0121号 Poverty Alleviation Efforts in Chongqing’s Fengdu County In China, subscriptions are available at any post office. 16 Rise of “Ghost City” Subscription and distribution agency in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan: 20 Green Poverty Reduction Hong Kong Peace Book Company, Ltd. 17/F., Paramount Building, 12 Ka Yip Street, Chai Wan, Hong Kong 24 Filling the Void Value Untapped Visit China Pictorial on the Internet: 28 www.china-pictorial.com.cn 32 The Power of Sichuan Peppers 36 E-commerce in the Mountains Follow us on: 38 Poverty Reduction Miracles 30 32 43 64 73 Express 70 Years in Pictures 06 The Shorter the List, the Greater the Opportunity 56 2000 to 2009: Millennial Dawn People Culture 40 Joseph Graves: Staging the World 64 Discovering a Real China 72 Art Speaks Across Cultures Ecology 76 An Indian’s Take on Beijing 44 Wangyedian Experimental Forest Farm: Exploring Sustainable Forestry Cover caption An aerial view of the terraced fields in Yeliping Village, Society Sanjian Township, Fengdu County. The village has Water Tech at the Expo vigorously developed specialty industries such as rice 48 plantation in recent years, lifting many households out of 52 The Era of FacePay poverty. by Xu Xun EXPRESS | NEWS by Pang Xinglei/Xinhua Strategic Partner UAE July 22, Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), before their talks. During his talks with the crown prince, Xi called for joint efforts with the UA to accelerate the high-qual- ity construction of the Belt and Road as the two countries signed a number of landmark programs for bilateral cooperation. Recalling his visit to the UA last July, Xi urged deeper strategic mutual trust and strategic cooperation, stress- ing that China sees the UA as an important strategic cooperative partner in the Middle East. Stellar Debut July 22, Shanghai: Guests attend the debut ceremony of China’s sci-tech innovation board (STAR market) at the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE). The STAR market, China’s latest NASDAQ-style high-tech trading board, began operation that day, kicking off a trail-blazing stage of the country’s innovation drive and capital market reform. The debut of the first group of 25 listed firms was impressive. At closing, they saw an average increase of about 140 percent, with one surging more than 400 percent. The new board is China’s latest reform attempt to make the A-share market more market-oriented and law-based. First proposed in November 2018, it took only about 260 days to transform the new board from idea into reality. by Fang Zhe/Xinhua 04 VOLUME 854 AUG · 2O19 Liangzhu Artifacts Bridging the Gap July 16, Beijing: Visitors to the Palace Museum July 7: Closure o the main arch o a bridge gaze at artifacts displayed at an exhibition featuring linking southwestern Chinas provinces o Chinas newest UNSC World Heritage site—the Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou is finished. The rchaeological Ruins o Liangzhu City. entire bridge will be completed by the end o The exhibition, which opened that day titled 2019. Its completion is expected to solve the Liangzhu and ncient China: The 5,000-Year Ciilization trafic difficulties for hundreds o thousands Demonstrated by Jades,” showcases a total o 260 items. o people living in the border area o the three variety o jade objects such as cong (jade tubes with provinces and make great contributions to quadrilateral exteriors), bi (jade disks) and yue (axe-shaped poverty alleviation in the Wumeng Mountains jade) are on display. Jade radiates the essence o Liangzhu area. civilization. China has vowed to eradicate absolute Divided into four sections, the exhibition aims to poverty by 2020. s the deadline approaches, showcase the ancient regional state o Liangzhu, its civili- the country is focusing on the nation’s poorest zation and its inluence on later culture while highlighting people, who are mainly found deep in the the significance o Liangzhu on the Chinese civilization. mountains where they battle an adverse natural The exhibition runs through ctober 20. environment and backward inrastructure. by Guo Shasha by Li Xin/VCG Setting Records in the Water July 21, Gwangju, South Korea: Sun Yang of China reacts after the men’s 400-meter freestyle final at the Gwangju 2019 FIN World Aquatics Championships. The 27-year-old Olympic champion finished first in the 400-meter freestyle final on the first day of swimming events of the 18th FIN World Aquatics Championships, clocking 3:42.44. It was his fourth consecutive gold medal in the men’s 400-meter freestyle at the FIN worlds since 2013. Two days later, he grabbed his second gold medal by winning the men’s 200-meter freestyle final in Gwangju. With the two more golds, Sun became the second-high- est world title holder with 11 individual gold medals in world competitions. Michael Phelps of the United States still leads with 15 golds rom individual events. VCG CHINA PICTORIAL 05 EXPRESS | COMMENT 5G technology and proved that China’s 5G is not closed but open and integrated. China has established The Shorter the List, the technical cooperation mechanisms with major countries globally, and Greater the Opportunity major international communica- tion equipment manufacturers have Text by Bian Yongzu and Zeng Qingming participated in China’s 5G trials and construction work. The current situa- Shortening the negative list marks China’s latest move towards further tion foreshadows openness in the opening up. internet era, which is necessary for more mutually beneicial cooperation. hree administratie technology and agricultural manage- From this negative list, we see documents released by the ment models can also be introduced to China’s determination and sincer- Chinese government, Special promote comprehensive cooperation ity to reform itself, expand opening Administratie Measures on in fields like skill training, crop disease up and promote mutual beneficial AccessT to Foreign Investment (2019 prevention and personnel exchange. cooperation and economic globaliza- edition), Free Trade Zone Special Second, the service industry will tion. With foreign investment entering Administrative Measures on Access to be less restricted to foreign capital. more fields, ree trade zones will play Foreign Inestment (2019 edition) and Contrasted with the manufactur- an even more important role as the Catalogue of Industries for Guiding ing industry, the pace of opening engine attracting oreign investment. Foreign Inestment, came into effect up of the service industry has been And dividends of reform will further on July 30, 2019. The latest revision relatively slow, and its develop- expand, injecting new energy and includes new opening-up measures ment lags far behind public demand impetus into the world economy. in services (including transportation, in the middle-income era. On this New technologies such as artifi- value-added telecommunications, latest negative list, many areas such cial intelligence, big data, and cloud infrastructure and culture), manufac- as domestic shipping agents, gas computing are rapidly changing living turing, mining and agriculture, supply in cities, heat pipe networks, and working environments but pose allowing full foreign ownership in performance brokers, multi-party new challenges to governments of all more sectors, with no additional limits communications, store-and-forward countries.