VOL. XXVI No. 6 June 2014 Rs. 20.00 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Special Envoy of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, in New Delhi on 9th June, 2014. Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi (R) met with Indian Mr.Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister and Special Envoy Ambassador to China Mr. Ashok Kumar Kantha in Beijing, of President Xi Jinping, accepted an exclusive interview China on May 27, 2014. with CNN-IBN at the end of his official visit to India on June 8 and 9, 2014. Chinese Ambassador Wei Wei met with Mr. K. Rosaiah, Chinese Ambassador Wei Wei met with Publisher Mr. N. Governor of Tamil Nadu during his visit to the state from Ram and Editor-in-Chief Mr. N. Ravi of The Hindu during May 24 and 25, 2014. Two sides expressed their his visit to Tamil Nadu on May 24 and 25, 2014. willingness to strengthen bilateral economic and trade relations. Chinese Ambassador Wei Wei attended “My Chinese Indian navy soldiers welcomed Chinese navy soldiers at Dream” - Chinese Language Competition held in VIT Visakhapatnam port in east India on May 17, 2014. University of Tamil Nadu on May 25, 2014. Teachers and Chinese Navy training vessel Zhenghe and missile students from more than ten universities participated in frigate Weifang arrived at Visakhapatnam port and the competition. started a four-day visit there. An Introduction to Qingdao Qingdao, cited as China’s “capital of first open coastal cities in China, Qingdao sailing” and Asia’s best nautical city, has established trade relations with 216 hosted the sailing events of the 29th countries and regions around the world. It Olympic Games and the 13th Paralympic was rated as having the best investment Games in 2008. environment in China by the World Bank, Qingdao is a major coastal city in east and listed as the “Best Business City in China, and an economic center in China. It China” by Fortune magazine. has established sister-city relations or Depending on the fair and well- friendly and cooperative relations with 56 ordered market system, good public cities in foreign countries. More than 2,000 security, comfortable living conditions, oversea trading firms, companies and highly efficient government service, financial institutions have set up complete infrastructure, guaranteed permanent offices in Qingdao. Qingdao is personal and property security and other making efforts to build a “Blue Economic good investment environments, Qingdao Area” and a high-end industrial area along has ranked among China’s most the Jiaozhou Bay coast. Among the first economically dynamic cities, China’s best coastal open cities, it is a specifically commercial cities, and Chinese cities with designated city at the sub-provincial level most investment potential in the eyes of in the state plan. It has one of the ten largest multinational corporations, and has been ports in the world as a port city. Qingdao is an open city. As one of the Qingdao Port Qingdao Polar Ocean World June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 3 happiness. Emphasis will be placed on eight key industries, including£ºhome a p p l i a n c e s a n d e l e c t r o n i c s , petrochemicals, automobiles and railway engines, shipbuilding and marine engineering, textiles and clothing, food and beverages, machinery and iron and steel, and logistics. Qingdao is a tourist resort. It is one of the foremost centers of excellent tourist destinations in China. Qingdao Street view in Qingdao is also reputed as a famous historic city, cited as a “gold-medal city” in China for its a national model of civilization, a investment environment by World Bank. national hygienic city, a national garden city, a It is also reputed as China’s best national model city of environmental commercial city, one of the top ten innovative protection and forestation, a top ten livable cities in China, a top ten IT-based city in city, a ten best tourist destination of China as China, a top ten most attractive city in the eyes well as a top 100 summer resort and tourism of foreign talents. What makes it even more city in the world. As a “China Habitat Award” attractive is that it is one of the China’s safest winner, Qingdao won the right to host the cities, and cities with the greatest sense of World Horticultural Expo in 2014. Qingdao Beer International Festival 1 Qingdao Beer International Festival 2 EVENTS IN QINGDAO Events Dates Place The 10th China (Qingdao) International July 19 - 21 Q i n g d a o I n t e r n a t i o n a l Construction & Decoration Materials Convention Center Exposition The 24th Qingdao International Beer Festival August 11 - 26 Laoshan Century Square The 6th Qingdao International Sailing Week August 16 - 23 Qingdao International Sailing Centre 4 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA CONTENTS INFORMATION An Introduction to Qingdao 3 CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS 1. Chinese Premier Discusses Bilateral Ties with New Indian PM 6 2. Chinese Special Envoy Visits India 7 3. A Coming Together of Dreams 15 4. China: Opportunity for India's Economic Takeoff 17 5. Relevance for India-China Relations 19 EXTERNAL AFFAIRS 1. New Asian Security Concept for New Progress in Security Cooperation 21 2. Chinese President Addresses CASCF Ministerial Meeting 27 3 China, Bangladesh Pledge Joint Efforts to Build Economic Corridor 29 4. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Visits Britain 30 5. China-South Asia Expo Begins in Kunming 32 BUILDING SILK ROAD ECONOMIC BELT 1. Sri Lanka, China to Strengthen Cooperation on Maritime Silk Road 33 2. Silk Road Leads to New Opportunities 35 3. Energy Cooperation to Lead Silk Road Economic Belt 36 4. New Silk Roads to Boost Regional Economic Cooperation 37 ECONOMIC AFFAIRS 1. Unlocking the Stock Market 38 2. Down to Brass Tacks 40 3. A Treasure Map 43 CULTURE & LIFE 1. Duanwu Festival Celebration 45 2. Chinese Legend--The Ten Suns in the Sky 47 3. Chinese Chengyu & Its Story 48 4. Award-winning Chinese Crosswords 50 5. Chinese Chef Recipe-Kung Pao Chicken 51 TIBET TODAY 1. Fighting Against Religious Extremism Needs Comprehensive Measures 52 2. Inland Tibetan Students Back to Hometown after Matriculation 57 3. Manager of Dropenling Store on Dongtsesur Road 58 4. Getting Close to Legpo and Drenthang 62 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHINESE VISA APPLICATION 66 FLIGHTS BETWEEN CHINA AND INDIA 75 CCTV NEWS YOUR LINK TO CHINA AND THE WORLD 77 CRI A BRIDGE OF FRIENDSHIP 78 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA 5 China-India Relations CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS Chinese Premier Discusses Bilateral Ties with New Indian PM Beijing, May 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, in a telephone hook-up Thursday, told new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that China was willing to enhance mutual trust and regarded each other’s development as opportunities. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which was jointly initiated by China, India and Myanmar in 1954, Li said China was willing to further strengthen cooperation with India and jointly push ahead the construction of the Bangladesh- China-India-Myanmar economic corridor. China was also willing to enhance exchanges in the humanistic field and other areas and look for more converging points of interest to jointly make contributions to the peace, stability and prosperity in the region and the world, Li said. Li congratulated Modi’s swearing-in as world, the Chinese premier said, adding the India’s new prime minister, saying that, with two countries were natural cooperation concerted efforts by both sides, relations partners. between China and India had developed The cooperation between and common significantly in recent years, and the two development of China and India would not countries had jointly explored a way to relate only benefit their peoples, but also make a to each other, in which cooperation was major contribution to settling the issue of actively explored and differences were development of the entire mankind, Li said. properly managed and controlled. Modi said India and China were friendly China and India were both countries with neighbors and friendly exchanges between a long history of civilization, and they were their peoples had a long history. also the two largest developing countries and I n d i a w a s d e l i g h t e d w i t h t h e most vigorous emerging economies in the a c h i e v e m e n t s C h i n a h a d m a d e i n 6 June 2014 NEWS FROM CHINA China-India Relations development, Modi said, adding developing and also the two largest emerging market relations with China was one of the important countries in the world today. China-India tasks of India’s diplomacy. relations have gone beyond the bilateral scope India’s new government attached great and are of global and strategic significance. importance to India-China relations from a China has always regarded China-India strategic high perspective, and was willing to relations as one of priorities in its foreign work with China to advance bilateral policy. Since entering in the new century, the cooperation in various fields, solve existing two countries have established a strategic issues through dialogue, and achieve friendly cooperative partnership of peace and and harmonious co-existence and common prosperity and explored a way getting along development, Modi said. with each other of active expansion of In 1954, China, India and Myanmar cooperation and proper management of initiated the Five Principles of Peaceful differences.