France will help fi ght corruptionBy ZHANG YAN in Beijingzhangyan1@chinadaily.com.cn

The French government will assist the Chinese judi-ciary by confiscating the illegal assets many corrupt officials have transferred to France, a senior o� cial from the French Ministry of Justice has said.

France and China will share the seized funds.

Robert Gelli, director of the Criminal A% airs Depart-ment of the French Ministry of Justice, said that in the fol-lowing weeks the ministry will strengthen cooperation with its Chinese counterparts to track down corrupt Chinese officials and uncover their transferred funds

“We will try to locate the ill-gotten funds that Chi-nese corrupt o� cials sent to France and take immediate actions to freeze them, such as houses, cars and bank sav-ings and other investments,” Gelli said

“In addition, for each indi-vidual case, we will negotiate with our Chinese counter-parts to share the seized funds in a proper proportion,” he said

In recent years, a number of economic fugitives, including many corrupt officials, have , ed to the United Sates, Can-ada, Australia and European countries such as the Neth-erlands and France, to avoid Chinese judicial authorities.

“Most are government o� cials, executives or senior managers in State-owned companies who are accused of corruption, accepting bribes or embezzlement,” said Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Judicial Assistance and Foreign Affairs Department

of the Ministry of JusticeCeline Guillet, a senior o� -

cial from the Criminal A% airs Department of the French Ministry of Justice, said that although a Sino-French bilat-eral extradition treaty is still waiting for approval by the French Parliament, the two sides will enhance judicial cooperation to nab fugitives and uncover their illegal assets in accordance with mutual legal assistance in criminal matters and other reciprocity regulations

Huang Feng, a law professor at Beijing Normal University who specializes in extradition issues, said the confiscation and sharing of seized assets between China and other countries is consistent with international practice.

For example, the judi-ciary in the US, Japan and Singapore have agreements with other countries to share seized ill-gotten funds and China will sign a for-mal agreement with Canada to return and share seized assets, he said.

Last month, China and Australia agreed to enhance judicial cooperation on extradition of corrupt o� -cials, according to the Min-istry of Public Security.

Au s t r a l i a n j u d i c i a l authorities have a priority list of 100 suspected Chi-nese economic fugitives and they will conduct joint oper-ations within weeks, accord-ing to the Sydney Morning Herald.

By the end of August, China had signed 51 mutual legal assistance agreements for criminal matters and 39 bilateral extradition treaties, according to the Ministry of Justice.

Is Xiaomi ready for Western markets? By PAUL WELITZKINin New Yorkpaulwelitzkin@chinadailyusa.com

Chinese smartphone mak-er Xiaomi, which went from releasing its = rst unit in 2011 to one of the world’s biggest sell-ers, would have di� culty com-peting in Western and mature markets like the United States, according to analysts.

@ e company, which is pur-suing expansion into markets from Singapore to India, report-edly is in talks to secure = nanc-ing — as much as $1 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal — for greater overseas expansion or acquisitions.

Xiaomi sells Android-based phones directly to consumers rather than through an agent or carrier, usually charging about half what competitors charge.

Asked by China Daily if

Xiaomi could make it in the US and Western markets, responses from the analysts ranged from not “a chance’’ to it would be a challenge.

“@ e company is more like an Amazon rather than an Apple or Samsung. It invests very little in marketing, and with this strat-egy it would not stand a chance in operator-driven markets (like the US and Western Europe),” said analyst Ryan Reith of Inter-

national Data Corp (IDC).Xiaomi isn’t in US or West-

ern markets because of strate-gic reasons, he wrote. “@ ese are markets that are driven by highly subsidized phone sales, as well as a requirement for phone vendors to heav-ily invest in brand marketing. @ is isn’t Xiaomi’s game plan. @ ey are more focused on low overhead and low-cost mar-kets where they can sell a lot of

devices – at low margin – that will ultimately lead to services revenue.”

Reith said that Xiaomi sells an enormous amount of con-tent via its devices, which has led the company to become the third-largest e-commerce company in China.

Mobile phone analyst Alan Chen of TrendForce noted that Xiaomi depends on China for more than 90 percent of its shipments and has become one of the world’s top-= ve handset vendors.

“Xiaomi remains focused on its home market of China because its e-commerce-driven business model is successful. The company is not mature enough at this point to com-pete in the US and Europe,’’ he wrote in an email. “Xiaomi could develop an online sales model for Europe and the US,

but should expect that results would be limited. We believe its overseas expansion in 2015 will be focused on Asia and other emerging markets.”

Dan Panzica, senior analyst with global information and analytics provider HIS, said the company’s phones can com-pete with the best Android phones in the world.

“@ e di% erence is that they sell directly to customers from their website. When the Mi 4 went on sale in Singapore, it sold out in minutes. They also make signi= cant revenues from accessories. Xiaomi definitely has the products to compete in the USA and Europe. However, they do not have the relationships with the carriers, which could hold them back,” he said.

By AMY HE in New Yorkamyhe@chinadailyusa.com

As the two largest emitters of carbon in the world, China and the United States need to coop-erate on climate change, said an expert on the issue @ ursday.

“@ e economic interdepen-dence of the two countries is fundamental, so they’re deeply related to each other,” said Jen-nifer Morgan, global director of the climate program at the World Resources Institute, which hosted a media call ahead of President Barack Obama and President Xi Jin-ping’s meeting next week at the

Asia-Paci= c Economic Coop-eration in Beijing.

“@ e politics in both coun-tries are easier on climate change if both countries move forward together,” she said. “It’s an important meeting for them to signal how they’re going to work together, and also how they can drive ambition of each other and other countries as well.”

Barbara Finamore, Asia director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that high-level meetings on climate issues “will give the US and China an opportunity to really hone in on what they might be willing to announce

early next year for their level of commitment post 2020. It also gives them a chance to = nd levels of cooperation.”

Joanna Lewis, professor at Georgetown University and an expert on energy and environ-ment innovation in China, said that US-China cooperation has become more meaningful in the last = ve years, in technolog-ical cooperation and political engagement. She hopes that the APEC meeting builds momen-tum on climate change ahead of the United Nations’ climate summit in Paris next year.

“We see China and the United States now working together not just to have broad policy dialogues, but to do joint research and development, pilot and demonstration proj-ects in the context of the US-

China Clean Energy Research Center, which is being done in … a shared intellectual prop-erty rights framework, which is really quite novel,” said Lewis.

Lewis was referring to the $150 million center established by Obama and former Chinese president Hu Jintao in 2009 to cooperate on research in phys-ics, chemistry, and earth and atmospheric sciences.

Lewis said climate dialogue is a “really bright spot” in the broader relationship between the two nations, which has had seen some di� culty on cyber-security and maritime issues.

“I think we can look for two categories of outcomes from this meeting; one being more of the same, which would be extremely useful but not game-changing; two would be really

high-impact announcements that could reverberate into the international negotiations due to the power these two coun-tries have among the world’s developed and developing countries,” she said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that the US and China must respond to the global threat of climate change together.

“If the two countries that together are nearing 50 per-cent of all the emissions in the world, which happen to be also the two largest economies in the world, if they can come together and show seriousness of purpose, imagine what the impact could be on the rest of the world,” Kerry said. “We need to solve this problem together.”

China, US must lead on climateExpert says both nations’ politics would go easier if moving together

CHINATest driveA trial run of China’s new high-speed bullet train, which uses a cutting-edge traction system, will start soon, according to the head of the program. > p4

Lowering the boomA crackdown on online videos containing illegal information was launched by China’s Internet watch-dog to further clean-up cyberspace of terrorism reports and pornography. > p4

On high campusFounded in 1985, Tibet University is the largest of its kind in the autonomous region and is building up ots strengths in the region’s history and culture. > p5

BUSINESSSagging marketSlowing smartphone

demand in China is weigh-ing on Lenovo sales, as the company sprints to catch up Apple and Sam-sung in the handset seg-ment. > p18

It’s a go for nukes@ e government is likely to give the green light to some nuclear projects this year, with the Hongyan River plant likely to be the = rst. > p18

Bright futureChina’s market for build-ing integrated photo-voltaic energy o% ers huge potential for solar power companies, governments and builders to cut carbon emissions. > p19

Paris o� ers to confi scate ill-gotten assets moved to French banks

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EXIT POLLS TELL ALLAsian-American voters are huge Democratic bloc > p2

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Xiaomi remains focused on its home market of China because its e-com-merce-driven business model is suc-cessful. The company is not mature enough at this point to compete in the US and Europe.”ALAN CHEN MOBILE PHONE ANALYST AT TRENDFORCE ‘‘

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Cai Xiulan (middle), 78, from the Beijing Volunteer Service Federation, shares cakes on @ ursday with young volun-teers who have birthdays during the week of APEC at the China National Convention Center where the meeting will be held. See APEC 2014 on pages 15-17.

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By NIU YUEin New York

Asian American voters in 11 states and Washington largely supported Democratic candi-dates in the 2014 mid-term elec-tions, according to preliminary results of an exit poll, and a poll on election eve showed that Asian Americans in three states — Cal-ifornia, Texas and Virginia — favored Democratic candidates over Republicans by 2 to 1.

The exit poll released on Wednesday by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) was a multilingual survey of over 4,200 Asian-American conducted by AALDEF in New York, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania,

Nevada, Georgia, Louisiana and Washington. 3 e poll showed 59 percent of the Asian Ameri-can were registered Democrats and 26 percent registered as Republicans. Final results of the poll will be released on Friday, including the margin of error, according to AALDEF, which provides support for Asian Americans on civil liberties and voting problems.

The second poll, done by Asian American Decisions, a joint multi-language effort by research company Paci8 c Mar-ket Research and three univer-sity professors, surveyed 1,150 Asian Americans between Oct 30 and Nov 4 in the three key states. It showed that in races for the US House of Representatives, 66 percent of Asian Americans voted for Democrats and 34 per-

cent for Republicans. 3 e poll’s margin of error was 4 percent. 3 at poll also showed respon-dents strongly support Obam-acare, immigration reform and the use of a@ rmative action in college admissions.

According to the 2010 Census, there are about 17.3 million Asian Americans in the United States, or 5.6 percent of the total popula-tion. They are the fastest-growing electorate group, the AAD report said. In the 1996 presidential elec-tion, Asian Americans accounted for 1.6 percent of all votes cast. In 2012 race for the White House, the percentage more than dou-bled to 3.4 percent.

In contested states, “Asian American numbers are not as large, but every vote will mat-ter,” Margaret Fung, executive director of AALDEF, said in an

interview on Tuesday. In Virginia, the AALDEF poll

showed Asian-American voters in Virginia favored US Senate Democratic candidate Mark Warner 66 percent to 33 percent for his Republican opponent, Ed Gillespie. 3 e AAD poll in

Virginia gave a similar result: 68 percent to 29 percent.

Warner defeated Gillespie by a margin of 0.77 percent. According to the 2010 Census, 5.5 percent Virginia’s popula-tion is Asian American.

3 e AAD exit poll also sur-veyed Asian-American voters’ opinions on social issues and the respondents showed a lib-eral preference.

President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan received 52 percent support, compared with 37 percent opposing it. Comprehensive immigration reform, which would include an eventual path to citizenship, was supported by 60 percent versus 26 percent who said no. Asian Americans overwhelmingly supported raising the hourly minimum wage to $10.10 from

$7.2 5 by 74 percent to 18 per-cent, and a@ rmative action on college admissions, 63 percent to 26 percent.

For the 2016 US presidential election, the AAD poll showed Asian Americans favoring for-mer Secretary of State Hilary Clinton by 62 percent. As for Republican hopefuls included in the survey -- Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Kentucky US Senator Rand Paul, New Jersey Governor Chris Chris-tie, Texas US Senator Ted Cruz and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal — none received a favor-ability rating of more than 25 percent, the survey showed.

“Asian Americans know who she (Clinton) is and most like them, but she cannot take them for granted,” said Taeku Lee, a political science professor at the

University of California, Berke-ley, and a researcher with Asian American Decisions.

Lee said the turnout rate for Asian Americans has been his-torically low compared with other ethnic groups. In the 2010 mid-term election, the Asian-American turnout rate was 30 percent, while the percent-age for whites was 48 percent, according to the Washington Post. In 2012, the turn out for whites was 64 percent to 47 percent for Asian Americans, according to the newspaper.

Fung said voter registration rate among Asian Americans needs to be increased and then political parties need to moti-vate them to vote.

Lu Huiquan in New York con-tributed to the story.

Asian Americans supported Democrats in elections: Polls

By JACK FREIFELDERin New Yorkjackfreifelder@chinadailyusa.com

China’s need for energy e@ ciency is on the rise, and one US multinational sees its new heat-recycling technol-ogy as a way to help reduce the reliance on coal in the world’s second-largest economy.

On Thursday, Johnson Controls Inc (JCI) introduced its York Dual Steam Turbine (YDST), its first centrifugal heat pump driven by a steam turbine instead of electricity.

3 e YDST can supply more than 100 megawatts of heat per heat pump system, dou-ble the current capacity, and reduce coal consumption by up to 30 percent.

By tapping surplus hot waste water from industrial facilities or power plants and superheating it up to 200 degrees F, the steam produced can drive large turbines that provide the same amount of energy as coal-powered gen-erators.

“Johnson Controls is help-ing China reduce emissions by developing and manufac-turing new building products that keep the air clean and reduce energy use,” Bill Jack-son, president of JCI’s Build-ing E@ ciency unit, wrote in an email to China Daily. “3 ese innovative building technolo-gies help expand our presence in a growing market.”

Johnson Controls has suc-cessfully implemented a heat recovery solution at a large heating facility on northeast China that has already saved $1.2 million while alleviating the need to burn 9,200 tons of coal over the last heating season, according to a press release.

3 e company says that’s the equivalent of removing 4,000 cars from the roads for a year.

Soren Bjerg, vice-president and managing director of JCI’s Building Efficiency division in the Greater Asia Region, said that the launch of YDST is an opportunity to expand the company’s presence in China and use its expertise to address a “growing need to reduce emissions”.

“Urbanization and the gov-ernment’s efforts to promote sustainable development are driving demand in China for more energy e@ cient technol-ogies and solutions,” Bjerg said.

The technology is an important innovation for the Chinese market where the government has made a

major commitment to reduc-ing pollution from the burn-ing of fossil fuels. In essence, it is converting excess industrial heat into urban heating.

Earlier this year JCI opened a $35 million expansion of its manufacturing and research and development center in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, a revamp that tripled the com-pany’s manufacturing capac-ity in China.

3 e facility also spearheads innovation on heat recovery solutions and serves as JCI’s largest center for HVAC (heat-ing, ventilating and air condi-tioning) building solutions.

3 ough the government in Beijing has made a commit-ment in the current Five-Year Plan to reduce emissions and other environmental pollut-ants, coal is still one of the primary energy sources in China.

China is the world’s top coal producer and consumer, according to data from the World Coal Association.

Alex Molinaroli, chairman and CEO of JCI, said last week that JCI has seen “really strong momentum” for its Chinese operations.

“Even though there is a bit of a slowdown in China, we’re outperforming the mar-ket,” Molinaroli said during an Oct 30 earnings confer-ence call. “We’ve talked about focusing on winning custom-ers, higher growth markets in China, etc. If you look at China for the year, we really hit a milestone.”

Bruce McDonald, JCI’s vice-chairman and executive vice-president, said during the conference call that busi-ness in China continues to be an area of solid investment for the company.

“We’re there in China, but it takes a long time,” McDonald said.

China’s coal solution could be in steam FROM PAGE 1

In addition to the Chinese mainland, Xiaomi’s phones are on sale in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan. It hopes to launch in Brazil, Mexico, 3 ailand, Turkey and Vietnam soon, according to Chris Jones, vice-president and princi-pal analyst at data tracker Canalys in Palo Alto, Cali-fornia.

“Xiaomi is using social media and online channels to drive demand for sales when the devices are made available,” Jones said. “But international expansion, as Xiaomi is experienc-ing, takes time and serious investment. The markets it picked to go to 8 rst are markets with high growth potential. More mature markets that are carrier-led (most phones are dis-tributed by carriers) and have strong incumbent players (like Apple) such as the US and parts of West-ern Europe will be more of a challenge.”

Bloomberg News report-ed recently that Xiaomi was looking to raise money with a valuation of $40 billion to $50 billion. Such a valuation would make the company more valuable than more established and well known competitors like Sony Corp and Lenovo Group Ltd, which just acquired Google’s Motorola unit.

“It is difficult to say based on Xiaomi’s current achievements if it is worth ($40 billion to $50 billion), but what is for certain is that all this talk of the com-pany’s valuation has suc-ceeded in further raising Xiaomi’s brand awareness,” said Chen.

“Time will tell whether or not a $40 billion-$50billion valuation for Xiaomi is rea-sonable. Who would have valued Alibaba at $168 bil-lion three years ago?” said Panzica of IHtS.

Xiaomi: Using media

New technology touted as way to reduce fossil fuel use by some 30%

Airline exec sees bright side for China and USBy CINDY LIUin Los Angeles cindyliu@chinadailyusa.com

China and the United States can work together on issues such as environmental protec-tion, terrorism, nuclear coop-eration and humanitarian aid, but for that to be successful, the US media have to change how they portray China to Ameri-cans, said an executive of Air China North America.

“American media have to make sure that they are not exaggerating what they see in China,” said Chi Zhihang, vice-president and general manager of Air China North America.

Chi’s speech, US China Rela-tions in the New World Order, was hosted by Town Hall Los Angeles, a non-pro8 t organiza-tion, at the City Club in down-town Los Angeles on 3 ursday.

Chi said that personal trust between leaders of the two counties is important. US Presi-dent Barack Obama, Los Ange-les Mayor Eric Garcetti and a Los Angeles trade delegation will attend the Asia Paci8 c Eco-nomic Cooperation summit in Beijing from Nov 10-12.

“I would say to accept our diN erences and to focus on our agreement,” he said.

Kim McCleary , president of Town Hall, said Chi was invit-ed to speak because he has got Air China deeply involved in economic, cultural and aca-demic collaborations with the US.

Lillibeth Bishop, director of marketing and public relations at Air China, told China Daily that Chi, who has a master’s and a doctoral degree from the Masschusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, “is a good example of how to succeed in

both cultures”.Chi manages more than 175

US-based Air China employ-ees and oversees marketing and operations for O ights between North America and China. Chi is a recipient of the China Busi-ness Leadership Award from the US China Policy Founda-tion. 3 e honor was for his con-tributions to a greater under-standing between American and Chinese policymakers and government o@ cials.

Tourism has quadrupled over the past four years, from

158,000 Chinese tourists in 2009 to 570,000 in 2013, mak-ing China the top overseas market for Los Angeles tourism, according to a June Los Ange-les County Economic Develop-ment Corporation report.

“Air China seized the busi-ness opportunity,” Chi said. “When I first came to Los Angeles, there were only three Beijing-Los Angeles flights in a week. And now there are 14 O ights in a week. ”

Air China launched a direct O ight from Houston to Beijing in July 2013, expanding it to four times a week in March 2014. Also that month, Air China added a second New York-Beijing O ight.

Chi emphasized that China has no intention to compete with the US.

Chi said that three days aP er China announced the establish-ment of diplomatic relations with the US on Dec 15 in 1978, Deng Xiaoping, then chair-man of the CPPCC (Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference) National Com-mittee, announced reforms in China. “It is not a coincidence,” Chi said.

“I do see frustrations among people on both sides when they do business together,” he said.

CINDY LIU / CHINA DAILY

Chi Zhihang, vice-president and general manager of Air China North America, delivers a speech on Thursday at Town Hall Los Angeles in downtown Los Angeles.

BROTHERS IN ARMSPHOTO BY JACK FREIFELDER / CHINA DAILY

A group of Chinese American veterans convened at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) in downtown Manhattan on 3 ursday to take part in a panel discussion about their individual experiences in the armed forces. In recognition of upcoming Veterans Day (Nov 11), MOCA invited Victoria Moy (leP ), author of Fighting For 3 e Dream: Voices of Chinese American Veterans from World War II to Afghanistan, and a trio of servicemen to share take-aways from their time abroad and thoughts on the changes in New York’s Chinatown commu-nity. From leP : Pakee Fang, 32; Lester Fong, 97; and Wilem Wong, 44, who served in the US Marine Corps, US Navy and US Army Reserve, respectively. ‘‘Johnson Controls is

helping China reduce emissions by devel-oping and manufac-turing new building products that keep the air clean and reduce energy use.”BILL JACKSONPRESIDENT OF JCI’S BUILDING EFFICIENCY UNIT

62percentof Asian Americans surveyed favored former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential election

66 percentin races for the US House of Representatives, 66 percent of Asian Americans voted for Democrats

‘‘Time will tell wheth-er or not a $40 billion-$50 billion valuation for Xiaomi is reasonable. Who would have valued Alibaba at $168 billion three years ago?”DAN PANZICASENIOR ANALYST WITH GLOBAL INFORMATION AND ANALYTICS PROVIDER HIS

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800 BILLION KILOWATT-HOURS The Three Gorges Power Plant, the world’s largest hydropower project, had generated more than 800 bil-lion kilowatt-hours of electricity as of Tuesday since its fi rst turbine generator was put into operation in 2003. According to the China Three Gorges Corp, that amount was equivalent to about 15 percent of the country’s total power consumption last year.

China’s wealthy look to make ‘social impact’ on educationBy PAUL WELITZKINin New Yorkpaulwelitzkin@chinadailyusa.com

It’s called social impact investing, and in China a group of entrepre-neurs intends to use the unique type of financing and problem solving approach to help improve education.

Social impact investments are invest-ments in companies, organizations, and funds with the goal of generat-ing social and environmental impact alongside a nancial return, according to the nonpro t Global Impact Invest-ing Network.

“A group of wealthy Chinese entre-preneurs have decided to make a con-tribution to education in the country. Rather than just donate money or establish a grant, they want to issue nancing in the form of a bond that will provide a return so it can become self sustaining and eventually be used on other social problems,” Raymond Horton, faculty director of programs in social enterprise at Columbia Univer-sity’s Business School, told China Daily.

- e 13th Social Enterprise Confer-ence at the business school on Oct 31 hosted a special “China Moment” to

release the results of a study on Chi-na’s social impact investing. It was co-sponsored by the main organization in the country engaged in social impact investing, the Shenzhen Innovation Corporate Social Responsibility Devel-opment Center (CSRDC).

Beginning in the fall of 2015, a train-ing program for Chinese entrepreneurs

who want to engage in social impact investing will be hosted jointly by the CSRDC and the business school.

Horton said next year’s training pro-gram is the result of a memorandum of understanding between the business school and CSRDC.

“We will host the group and intro-duce them to faculty members who are engaged in educational reform. We will also introduce them to philanthropists in the US who are investing in educa-tional reform,” he said.

One of the main features of social impact investing is “that it’s a way of turning investments into socially use-ful initiatives in way that requires solid information (metrics) to measure the success of the initiatives,” said Horton.

An example of social impact invest-ing in the US involved Goldman Sachs Group Inc, which launched a social-impact bond in 2012 that funded a program aimed at reducing recidivism among teenagers at New York’s Rik-ers Island jail. It included a provision that said Goldman would pro t if the four-year program succeeded in sig-ni cantly reducing recidivism.

The release of the report -- 2014 Social Impact Investment in China

--detailed the results of the study of social impact investing involving 100 large firms in China. Funds for the study were provided by CSRDC and the Shenzhen Charity Federation and Social Enterprise Center of Shanghai University of Finance along with major Chinese corporations.

According to CSRDC president Liang Yudong, the conference provided an important venue for the rst “China Moment”.

Since 2012, the CSRDC has been operating a program called Social Enterprise Growth Plan for Chinese Entrepreneurs. - e program has been training executives of 100 rms already involved in social impact investing.

One of the participants, Sina, one of China’s largest network companies, has teamed up with China Merchants Bank, the nation’s fourth-largest bank, to found China’s biggest network-finance-interactive public crowd-funding platform. That platform is expected to attract charitable dona-tions of around 1 billion yuan ($163.5 million) annually and plans to engage in impact investment practice cases such as targeted charity fundraising drives.

Outbound trips, mainly to Southeast Asia, have risen by almost 40 percent.” Sun Liqun, manager of China International Travel Service, said Beijing residents are traveling outside of the city during the six-day holiday designated by the government for the Asia-Pacifi c Economic Cooperation meetings, mainly to warmer places with cleaner air. Tour sales have seen tremendous growth, compared with the same period of last year, since the government announced the Nov 7-12 public holiday early last month.

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China exports math lessons

By Wang Mingjie and Zhang Chunyan

China’s top math teachers will share their skills in British prima-ry schools to help raise standards in the subject.

It is the rst time that Chinese teachers have been embedded in schools across Britain to intro-duce Chinese-style math lessons and approaches.

“- e teaching program is part of an exchange between the Brit-ish Department for Education and the Shanghai Municipal Edu-cation Commission,” said Shen Yang, minister counselor for edu-cation at the Chinese embassy in the UK.

- e 29 teachers from Shanghai will spend three weeks in selected primary schools chosen for their high-quality teaching and spe-cialization.

Shanghai teachers will share methods including “teaching to the top” — reinforcing the expectation that all students are capable and expected to achieve high standards.

British School Reform Minis-ter Nick Gibb said the exchange would set an example for the way education systems around the world can learn from each other.

“Our plan for education is ensuring children in this country receive a world-class education, which will equip them with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in a competitive global environment,” Gibb said.

Shanghai’s pupils have been the top performers in the Program for International Student Assess-ment, which is organized by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

“This innovative exchange program enables our teachers to develop their professional skills alongside those from the most successful education system in the world,” the minister said.

“I have seen at firsthand in Shanghai classrooms how eE ec-tive this approach can be and I believe the Shanghai teacher exchange will be a powerful cata-lyst to change the way we teach maths and raise pupils’ achieve-ment in maths,” said Charlie Stripp, director of the National Center for Excellence in the teaching of mathematics.

Wu Yun, a math teacher from Shanghai Experimental School, who is teaching in the UK, said: “The whole Chinese education environment plays a key role in making students good at math. Chinese people attach great importance to the study of math, and Chinese students spend plen-ty of time practicing math.”

In September, 71 British math teachers went to Shanghai to spend time with their exchange partners at high-performing schools and colleges.

- ey spent two weeks observ-ing excellent teaching and dis-cussing teaching methods and approaches with their peers in lectures and workshops.

In early 2015, another 34 pri-mary math teachers from Shang-hai will travel to Britain on a fur-ther phase of the exchange focus-ing on secondary math teaching.

Shen said Chinese teachers have a lot of experience teach-ing math, but “it is not a one-way sharing of experience.” Britain also has its speci c strengths, so both China and UK will bene t, he said.

Contact the writer at zhangchu-

nyan@chinadaily.com.cn

British schools to host top teachers from Shanghai in bid to lift standards

CHONGQING

Police bust fraudsters posing as HK students Police arrested a group of people who swindled money and cellphones from young women while posing as students from Hong Kong. - e police caught nine suspects, all from Anhui province, in a fast-food restau-rant. - ey are accused of committing more than 20 acts of fraud involving hundreds of thousands of yuan in the city. - e police say the suspects prac-ticed their fake accents by watching Hong Kong dramas.

SICHUAN

Warm reaction to seized heater display A public display of con scated electrical appliances at the South-west University for Nationalities in Chengdu has created a stir on the Internet. Many universities ban the use of high-voltage appliances, such as electric cookers and heaters, because of re safety concerns. Inspections are oH en carried out during winter when students are more likely to use the products to ght oE the chill.

GUANGDONG

Research vessel back in home port after voyage - e research vessel Haiyang Liuhao returned to its home port in Dong-

guan on Wednesday aH er complet-ing a 162-day, 30,000 km voyage in the Paci c Ocean. Researchers col-lected 10.6 metric tons of polyme-tallic nodules as samples for further research on ore dressing and smelt-ing, said spokesman Liu Fanglan. Polymetallic nodules contain cop-per, nickel, cobalt and manganese, as well as rare earth minerals.

BEIJING

Capital and Shanghai pay top salaries Average monthly salaries are higher in Shanghai and Beijing than in the country’s other cities, according to job website zhaopin.com. - e aver-age salary in Shanghai is 5,479 yuan ($900), while in Beijing the gure is 5,343 yuan. - e website says there is a shortage of skilled nancial and Internet workers, while the demand for recruits from real estate compa-nies has fallen sharply.

Bomb blast hero now in grave danger Yu Shangqing, a policeman receiving treatment in the capital for serious injuries he suE ered in an explosion, is in grave danger, Beijing News reported on - ursday. A doctor said the oI cer, from Harbin, Heilongjiang province, is being kept alive by a ventilator, blood pump and other equipment. More than

100 pieces of shrapnel remain in Yu’s body following the explosion in 2003. He was defusing bombs that had been leH at a hotel in Harbin when one exploded, leaving him blind in one eye, deaf in his right ear and with a badly injured leg. He was transferred to Beijing in August aH er falling into a coma.

China to send 1,000 more Ebola workers China is to send a further 1,000 medical workers and experts to West Africa in the coming months as it supports African countries in their ght against the Ebola virus. Twelve public health trainers will leave for Sierra Leone on Sunday, according to a statement issued on Wednesday at a conference on the aid program held by the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

Disasters leave 29 dead, 1 missing in October Natural disasters across the country claimed 29 lives and left one person miss-ing in October, causing direct economic loss of 8.11 billion yuan ($1.33 billion). Disasters affected nearly 3.25 million people and forced the relocation of about 128,000 in 201 county-level areas, accord-ing to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Commission for Disaster Reduction. More than 8,000 houses were destroyed and about 179,000 damaged.

Disasters affected 353,700 hectares of farmland, with at least 42,100 hectares yielding no crops at all.

INNER MONGOLIA

Uranium mine richer than originally thought Geologists have found more ura-nium deposits in China’s largest uranium mine, Xinhua reported on - ursday. Cheng Liwei, director of the China Central Geological Sur-vey Fund Management Center, said the belt of uranium at the Daying mine is now thought to be 20 kilo-meters longer than originally esti-mated, making the mine the 14th largest in the world, Cheng said.

HEILONGJIANG

Traces of wild Siberian tiger found near city Authorities said on - ursday that they had found traces of a wild Sibe-rian tiger in a tree farm some 160 kilometers from Harbin. It was the rst time evidence of the endangered species has been found so close to the provincial capital, an oI cial with the Heilongjiang Forest Industry Admin-istration said. Xu Baogui, a worker at Chonghe tree farm, told authorities on Monday one of his cows had been seriously injured and a calf had gone missing, leading to the discovery.

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A chef from Quzhou, Zhejiang province, adds sesame seeds as he tosses pancakes at a food festival in Shanghai on Wednesday.

‘‘Rather than just donate money or establish a grant, they want to issue fi nancing in the form of a bond that will provide a re-turn so it can become self sustaining and eventually be used on other social problems.”RAYMOND HORTONFACULTY DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS IN SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AT COLUMBIA UNIVER-SITY’S BUSINESS SCHOOL

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New high-speed train set for trial runBy ZHAOLEIzhaolei@chinadaily.com.cn

A trial run of China’s newhigh-speed bullet train, whichuses a cutting-edge tractionsystem, will start soon, accord-ing to the head of the high-speed railway innovationprogram.

Thepermanentmagnet syn-chronous traction system wasdeveloped by CSR Corp Ltd,one of the country’s two majorlocomotive makers, at itsZhuzhou Institute in Hunanprovince. It has passed prelim-inary examination by nationalrailway test authorities andhas been installed on a newbullet train produced by CSRQingdao Sifang Co Ltd inShandong province, said JiaLimin, a professor at BeijingJiaotong University whoheads China’s high-speed rail-way innovation program.

“If everything goes well, we

will begin a trial run in a shorttime and then improve theequipment based on the tests,”he said. “I think the new trainwill become fully operationalby 2018.”

Compared with the alter-nating current asynchronousmotors that are commonlyused for a bullet train’s trac-tion system, the permanentmagnet synchronous tractionboasts high power, a simpleconfiguration and low fuelconsumption, Jia said.

He added: “The new systemhas fewer parts than the cur-rent traction apparatus, so it ismore reliable and efficient.Other advantages includeoccupying a smaller space onthe train and producing lessnoise during operation.”

Xu Junfeng, who oversawthe traction system’s develop-ment, said: “Currently, six outof eight cars of a bullet trainneed to have engines. Using

the new traction system willallow only four cars to be fittedwith engines, which will sub-stantially reduce costs andmaintenance procedures.”

The CSR Zhuzhou Institutelaunched the project in 2011and has been in charge of allcore technologies for perma-nent magnet traction, whichwill be the mainstream of trac-tion devices for next-genera-tion bullet trains, Xu said.

Nations with strong techno-logical capability in high-speed railways, such asGermany and Japan, beganresearching permanent mag-net synchronous tractionabout eight years ago. China isstill at the initial stage but hasmade big strides, Jia said.

Earlier reports said a sub-way train in Shenyang, capitalof Liaoning province, was fit-ted with the permanent mag-net synchronous tractionsystem to test its reliability.

China has been striving todevelop and manufacture allmajor components used on itshigh-speed bullet trains.

Sheng Guangzu, the generalmanager of China RailwayCorp, has pledged to speed upthedevelopmentofkeytechnol-ogies used in high-speed trainsand to design a new bullet trainwith “Chinese standards”.

“In the high-speed trainfield, we must accelerate theresearch of crucial technolo-gies. We will strive to completethe design of the Chinese-stan-dard bullet train and its majorcomponents by the end of theyear,” Sheng said in January.

Most of the advanced com-ponents used on China’s bullettrains, such as traction, brakeand control software, are pro-vided by foreign companiesincluding Alstom, Siemensand Kawasaki Heavy Indus-tries, according to sourcesclose to China Railway Corp.

Online video crackdown targets illegal contentBy CAOYINcaoyin@chinadaily.com.cn

A crackdown on online vid-eos containing illegal informa-tion was launched by China’sInternet watchdog on Thurs-day to further clean up cyber-space.

The crackdown, which willlast until the end of the year,will focus mainly on illegalvideos on smartphone appstores, cloud services, onlineforums, micro blogs andinstant messaging toolWeChat, the Cyberspace

Administration of Chinasaid.

“We are paying great atten-tion to videos with contentthat includes terrorism,rumors and pornography,”said Liang Lihua, deputydirector of the administra-tion’s Internet InformationDepartment.

The crackdown is beinglaunched in cooperation withthe State Administration ofPress, Publication, Radio, Filmand Television, Liang said.

“We guide website opera-tors in checking the content of

uploaded videos, while ourpartner is responsible forsupervising the content andpunishing wrongdoers,” shesaid.

“If we find website compa-nies, app inventors and onlineforum operators are upload-ing or spreading illegal videos,we will not ask them to deleteor remove the content, as wedid previously,” Liang said.

“Instead, we’ll deal withthese videos ourselves so thatthe websites will be bettersupervised.”

WeiDangjun,deputydirector

of the Network Video Depart-ment at the publication admin-istration, said there have beenincreased reports of uploadedvideos with obscene content onsmartphone apps.

“We will mainly check suchillegal videos on the mobilenetwork and software in thecrackdown,” Wei said.

The crackdown will also tar-get some large websites withvideo platforms and someonline forums, Wei said.

On April 24, Internet giantSina Internet Information Ser-vice had two of its Internet

business licenses revoked afterpornographic content wasfound.

A month later, the businesslicense held by ShenzhenQVOD Technology Co inGuangdong province wasrevoked after pornographiccontent was spread.

An Internet businesslicense enables a company toprovide telecommunicationand information services viathe Net.

“In previous campaigns, wemainly focused on pictures,words and audio on main-stream websites, but this timewe’ll also crack down on web-sites that are not qualified tobroadcast videos,” Wei said.

Xi Wei, deputy director ofthe China Internet IllegalInformation Reporting Center,said there have been increasedreports of illegal videos oncloud services and instantmessaging tools recently.

In October, the centerreceived 30,199 reports,including 18,096 of porno-graphic content and 515 aboutrumors, according to its lateststatistics.

The center has orderedsome Internet giants, includ-ing Sina, Baidu and Tencent,to delete 3,698 pieces of illegalinformation and close 418instant messaging toolaccounts suspected of spread-ing pornographic content.

HELPING HANDSPHOTO BY LIU JUNXI / XINHUA

A youngster handles a bolt cutter with the help of a firefighter as part of an event held onThursday at a fire station in Hefei, Anhui province, to improve safety awareness amongchildren. The demonstration marked National Firefighting Day, which falls on Sunday.

Xi orders change in oversight of armyCentralMilitary Commission takesdirect control of PLA auditing officeBy HENAhena@chinadaily.com.cn

China’s top military bodytook over the People’s Libera-tion Army auditing office onThursday, Xinhua News Agen-cy reported.

The auditing office of thearmy will be under the directmanagement of the CentralMilitary Commission, thecountry’s top military deci-sion-making and commandorgan, a move that experts saywill greatly enhance supervi-sion of the army. The office wasformerly managed by the PLAGeneral Logistics Department.

The move, ordered by Presi-dent Xi Jinping in his dual roleas CMC chairman, wasannounced on Thursday at ameeting in Beijing.

Gu Junshan, former deputy

head of the logistics depart-ment, was prosecuted onMarch 31 for embezzlement,bribery, misuse of State fundsand abuse of power.

The CMC has adoptedunprecedented, strict meas-ures to fight corruption,including the investigation ofsome senior military officers,including Xu Caihou, formervice-chairman of the CMC. Xuwas accused of taking advan-tage of his position to assist inthe promotion of others andof using his influence to helpothers make monetary prof-its, taking a large number ofbribes in return.

Previously a subsidiary ofthe logistics department, theauditing office now enjoys amore-independent status asan authority directly man-aged by the CMC, Xinhua said.

“This is a major decisionmade by Chairman Xi and theCMC in an effort to strengthenthe army and tighten auditingand supervision over the mili-tary’s economic activities. It’salso a key measure to deepennational defense and militaryreform as well as to push for-ward the innovation of thearmy’s auditing system,” thestatement said.

According to the statement,the restructuring, which ispart of the army’s wider-effi-ciency drive, will prevent andpunish corruption as wellensure high-quality auditingwork.

CMC Vice-Chairman FanChanglong said at the meet-ing: “The modernization ofthe army and its combat prep-aration processes are arduousmissions. And we haveentered another crucialstage.”

Fan urged auditing offi-cials to ensure professional-ism, efficiency and policyknowledge to contribute tothe army’s fight againstgraft.

Thursday’s decision fol-lowed a CMC-approved circu-lar released late last monththat called for a results-based management system to

ensure the maximum benefitfrom spending.

According to the document,assessments will be intro-duced throughout the mili-tary, and individuals or unitswill be held accountable forinefficiency.

Modern warfare is expen-sive, which means cost controlshould be an important con-sideration for the military, itsaid.

“In the short term, the deci-sion will become a directeffective measure to root outcorruption in the army, andone that strengthens andenhances the anti-corruptionwork at present,” said LiuQinglong, a professor ofadministrative law at Tsing-hua University.

In the long run, the move isa good attempt to stimulateinnovation in army manage-ment, he said. When theauditing department wasunder the management of the

logistics department, limitedby the interest relationshipand hierarchy, it was difficultfor auditors to use their super-visory authority to the fullest,Liu said.

An improved anti-corrup-tion mechanism is the key toeradicating corruption, hesaid.

Xie Chuntao, director of theTeaching and ResearchDepartment of Party Historyat the Party School of the Cen-tral Committee of CPC,agreed, saying the decisionwill greatly enhance oversightof the entire army.

The cases of Gu and Xumust be one of the major rea-sons that promoted change,he added. If audits are accu-rate and fair, problems will bediscovered earlier and won’thave the devastating effectthat they do today, Xie said.

Xinhua contributed tothis story.

The modernization of the army and itscombat preparation processes arearduous missions. And we have enteredanother crucial stage.”FAN CHANGLONGVICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSION

Li to pushfor closerlinks withASEANcountriesBy ZHANGYUNBIzhangyunbi@chinadaily.com.cn

China is set to proposedetailed initiatives aimedat improving relations andboosting trade during aseries of multilateral meet-ings with Southeast Asiannations next week, seniorofficials have said.

Trade and investmentbetween China and theASEAN countries havesurged to record highs inthe run-up to the annualEast Asia leaders’ meetings.

Beijing is sparing noeffort to encourage consoli-dation among regionalstakeholders and preventfragmentation, a key wordobserversuse inreferencetomistrust arising from mari-time issues and the involve-ment of outsiders.

Premier Li Keqiang willattend a series of leaders’meetings on East Asiacooperation from Nov 12 to14 in Myanmar’s capital,Nay Pyi Taw.

The events will includethe 17th China-ASEANleaders’ meeting, the 17thASEAN-China, Japan andRepublic of Korea (10+3)leaders’ meeting and theninth East Asia Summit.

“Chinawillproposesomenew detailed initiatives toboost connectivity, tradeand investment, povertyalleviation cooperation andsocial culture in East Asia,”Vice-Minister of ForeignAffairs Liu Zhenmin said ofBeijing’s planned agendafor the meeting at a pressbriefing on Thursday.

During the China-ASEAN leaders’ meeting,China will call for morejoint efforts to press aheadwith the establishment ofthe 21st Century MaritimeSilk Road, Liu said.

In the past year, a rangeof strategic initiatives pro-posed and led by China —including the Silk Road —have gained ground. Theyare intended to enhanceinfrastructure and seekgreater profits for Chinaand its neighbors.

The meetings areexpected to send messagesto the outside world thatthe regional stakeholderswill “strengthen their uni-ty and teamwork andproperly handle disputes”,Liu said.

Ruan Zongze, vice-pres-ident of the China Insti-tute of InternationalStudies, said all sides havenurtured a consensus thatthe peace and stability ofthe East Asia regionshould be maintained.Measures should be takento “deal with the attemptsby countries such as thePhilippines to alienate theties between China andASEAN”, he added.

China “has offered flex-ibility” in discussionsover the South China Seaissue, and the dialoguesshould be continued,Ruan said.

After next week’s meet-ings, Li will pay an officialvisit to Myanmar at theinvitation of President UThein Sein.

,

China will proposesome new detailedinitiatives to boostconnectivity, tradeand investment,poverty alleviationcooperation andsocial culture inEast Asia.”LIU ZHENMINVICE-MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Donations oforgans save3,000 patientsBy SHANJUANshanjuan@chinadaily.com.cn

Nearly 1,300 Chinese citi-zens have donated organsposthumously for lifesavingtransplants this year as ofThursday, saving more than3,000 lives, an official said.

The number of publicorgan donations in 2014 isexpected to exceed the totalin the four previous calendaryears combined, said HuangJiefu, director of the ChinaOrgan Donation Committeeand a former deputy healthminister. China introducedits national organ donationsystem in early 2010.

Under the system, Chinesecan donate organs afterdeath to save patients inneed of transplants, andmore than 2,730 donationshave been made so far.

However, “a rising num-ber of donations still fallsshort of the demand,”Huang said at an organ-transplant conference inHangzhou, Zhejiang prov-ince. The conference con-cluded on Friday.

Huang said that about300,000 Chinese patientsneed organ transplantseach year, but only 9,000could get one largely due tothe low number of organdonations.

Hao Linna, vice-presidentof the Red Cross Society ofChina, said organ donationis a great benevolence thatreflects a civilized society.

The Red Cross and theNational Health and FamilyPlanning Society operate thedonation system nation-wide, and “more than 31,100people have signed with thesociety to become a volun-teer for organ donations,”she said.

Huang, a leading livertransplant surgeon, said: “Italso has long been a dreamfor generations of Chinesetransplant surgeons to

establish an ethical and sus-tainable organ donation sys-tem that meets theinternational standard aswell as the demand fromChinese people.”

Before the introduction ofthe donation system, volun-tary organ donations madeby death-row inmates hadlong been a major source,Huang said. “That sparkedcriticism, particularly fromthe outside world, despitethe fact that written consentwas required for the prison-ers’ donations.”

Zheng Shusen, China’sleading organ transplantexpert and member of theChinese Academy of Engi-neering, said that the num-ber of death sentences havebeen decreasing, and so“it’s crucial to future devel-opment of the course oforgan transplantations toset up a more reliable andethical source of organtransplants”.

He urged more people toembrace the idea of organdonations after death to helpsave lives.

To uphold public benevo-lence, “a fair and transparentallocation of donated organshas to be ensured,” Huangsaid.

For that, the healthauthority has set up a com-puterized, urgency-baseddistribution system, he said.

Also, organ trading isstrictly prohibited, as theEighth Amendment ofCriminal Law in May 2011added organ trafficking as acrime.

1300organ donors

Gave organs posthumouslythis year saving more than

3000 lives. Chinese citizen’sorgan donations in 2014

exceeded donations of theprevious four years com-

bined.

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O N C A M P U S : T I B E T U N I V E R S I T YFounded in 1985, Tibet University is the largest of its kind in the Tibet autonomous region. The institution is building on its strengths in theregion’s history, culture and other fields to lead the way in Tibetan studies amid ongoing development, as LuoWangshu,Daqiong and Palden Nyima report.

Helping to bridge professional gapDeveloping students who can satisfydiverse needs is school’s ultimate goal

Q+A | HUBU TSERING

As a child, Phuntsog Norbuwould spend much of his timedrawing. Most of his illustra-tions were cartoons.

He never thought that, asan adult, he would spend hisdays and nights drawingimages of the Buddha.

“I had thought it (drawingthe Buddha) was so simple,and nothing stood out,” the20-year-old said.

The native of Shannan pla-teau in the Tibet autonomousregion has since decided todevote himself to traditionalTibetan Thangka painting forthe rest of his life.

Phuntsog Norbu is one of 14students who major in Thang-kapaintingatTibetUniversity.

At about 9am every day,Phuntsog Norbu and hisclassmates gather to practicetheir craft.

TU is considered the firstChinese university to offerThangka painting as a majorand the first to train paintersin a classroom. It startedrecruiting three-year collegestudents in 1985 to learn

Thangka, and began to acceptmaster’s students for the sub-ject in 2000. The school start-ed to train undergraduatesmajoring in Thangka paintingin 2004 and continues to rollout a class every four years.

Thangka usually involvespainting on cotton or silk. Itdepicts stories and scenesfrom Buddhist scriptures.The art has become popularbecause of its delicate nature,and it is highly prized by artcollectors.

In the past, Thangka paint-ers usually started learningthecraftataveryyoungage,asearly as 3, in line with theirfamily traditions. Painterswould also take up the art asapprentices to masters.

Thangka painting was pre-viously limited to men. Butamong the Thangka majorsin TU, three women stood out.

The major has three spe-cialized instructors. Palcho isone of them. He graduatedfrom a TU Thangka paintingprogram in 1991 and has beenteaching Thangka painting at

the university for 23 years.“Most of the undergradu-

ates never had Thangka train-ing before enrolling incollege,” Palcho said.

Students take 16 classes aweek. Traditionally, Thangkastudents only took coursesrelated to Thangka painting.

But now, they also learn oth-er skills, such as oil paintingand art theory and practice.

“Thangka painting needsmassive practice. The knowl-edge of other art forms alsohelps painters create Thang-ka,” the instructor Palchosaid. Under the traditionalmethod, apprentices usuallyhad a more solid foundationin the art. But under the cur-rent system, students can bemore creative and are able touse diverse skills to paint,Palcho he said.

But building a foundationis still the key to fine Thang-ka painting, Palcho said. Stu-dents spend the whole oftheir entire first year sketch-ing with a pencil. They startlearning coloring in their sec-ond year.

Tsering Ngodrub, a Thang-ka-painting major, was influ-enced by his father, aninterior decorator.

“I’ve been interested inpainting since I was youngbut never tried Thangkapainting before college,” said

the 20-year-old, who foundthat the most difficult processwas to match the colors.

Phuntsog Norbu no longerfinds the process tedious.

“It was boring at first torepeatedly sketch Taras andBuddhas. It was extremelydifficult to draw eyes in a sym-metric way. Sometimes I drewtriangular Tara and Buddhafaces,” he said. He realized thebeauty of drawing Thangkagradually, he said.

“When I started to colorBuddhas, their imagesbecame clearer. When Irepeatedly drew the stones,snow-capped mountains,plains, rivers and many othersubjects, I felt like drawingscenes from my hometown,”said Phuntsog Norbu, whowas born and raised in aherdsman’s family that “livednear water”.

As a devout Buddhist, hefinds inner peace in Thangkaart.

“I usually pray before prac-tice, which makes me morecomfortable,” he said.

Spreading word aboutregion and its culture

Born and raised in Lhasa,capital of the Tibet autono-mous region, Tsenten Tashihas been obsessed with Tibet-an culture, language and his-tory since he was young.

The 51-year-old said he islucky to be able to make a liv-ing from enjoying what heloves.

But Tsenten Tashi has goneone step further than manyTibetology fans, conductingcourses in Tibetan studiesand helping spread aware-ness of the subject widely.

“I always feel like I am obli-gated to tell more peopleabout Tibet,” said the directorof the China TibetologyResearch Center at Tibet Uni-versity.

Tsenten Tashi said he aimsto record and documentTibetan culture and history.

After earning a bachelor’sdegree in Tibetan languageand literature from TU in1985, Tesenten Tashi joinedthe school’s Tibetan historyresearch center. He laterearned a doctorate at MinzuUniversity of China.

“We (at the center) are cur-rently working on translatingThe Epic of King Gesar intoChinese,” he said, adding thatthe next move is to translatethe epic into English to tellmore people about theancient Tibetan king andhero.

Tsenten Tashi’s work withGesar dates back to the 1990s,when he participated inrecording and documentingworks linked to the story of thekingwithDrakpa,arhapsodist.The Epic of King Gesar was

spread via rhapsodists’ recitalsand oral performances. Buttheywereilliterateandnotableto write down the epic.

The university’s Gesarresearch center, now underthe China TibetologyResearch Center, was found-

ed in 1978. It is responsible forwriting down the epic.

The center was able torecord 25 episodes fromDrakpa before he died andtranslated one episode intoChinese. Fifteen books havebeen published based on therhapsodist’s narrative, andthree more are about to bepublished.

Besides leading the center’sefforts to spread Tibetan cul-ture, Tsenten Tashi alsodevotes himself to researchon Tibet history and religion.

Over the past three dec-ades, he has published 12 aca-demic books on Tibetology.Some have become requiredreading for college Tibetologymajors.

Tsenten Tashi has also con-ducted research on monas-tery administration, with theaim of providing theoreticalsupport to monastery man-agement in Tibet.

He also believes that mas-tering English is essential forTibetology scholars.

“I ask my students toimprove their English andnever stop learning the lan-guage. I am so impressed bythe collections in many inter-national libraries, such as theTibetan Buddhist documen-tation center in New York.Many collections are missingin China,” he said, adding thatthese works are valuableassets for Tibetologists.

Namgyal, Tsenten Tashi’scolleague, an assistantresearcher of the China Tibe-tology Research Center at TU,considers himself very fortu-nate to be working with Tsent-en Tashi.

“He led me through thedoor of Tibetan history. I washis student and work withhim now,” the 41-year-oldsaid.

“He is my model workerand good friend.”

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Tsering Ngodrub practices Tangka painting. He says matching colors is the most difficult part.

TIMELINE• 1951Informal classes establishedby Tibetan cadres.• 1985Tibet University officiallylaunched in Lhasa based onan existing teachers college.• 1999The art school of the Tibetautonomous region, TibetMedical College, themedicaldepartment of the Tibet Insti-tute for Nationalities and thefinance school are incorpo-rated into Tibet University.• 2008TU included in nationalProject 211 for key universi-ties.

The Tibetan language hasalways been an essential sub-ject at TU. In 2004, nearly 20percent of its studentsmajored in the language.

With the university incorpo-rating other specialized colleg-es, such as the medical school,in the past decade, the Tibetanlanguage program is not justabout popularity with stu-dents. The subject now alsoboasts in-depth development,Phubu said.

“Tibetan language studiesare a national key subject andinvolve more than 80 facultymembers. It attracts Tibetanstudents as well as Han stu-dents,” he said.

The language course hasabout 80 Han undergraduatestudents each year, and theyare trained to take translationwork in the region.

“Mastering Tibetan is a plusfor employment,” he said.

Phubu was selected as thepresident of the university inDecember 2012. Previously, hehadbeenaresearcherofMarx-ist philosophy at the TibetAcademy of Governance.Many people see him more asa humble scholar than a high-profile administrator.

“Under current circum-stances, I hope to build a solidfoundation for Tibet Univer-sity,” he said, adding that hehas been learning from othertop universities at home andabroad during the past twoyears, including Peking Uni-versity, Wuhan Universityand the University of Virgin-ia.

Tibet University, officiallyfounded in 1985, has morethan 15,500 full-time studentsand 20 academic departmentscovering 11 disciplines, includ-ing the classics, engineeringandstudiesofethnicgroups. Itoffers 85 majors at the under-graduate level and has fivecampuses in the Lhasa andNyingchi prefectures.

“Due to its location, the uni-versity focuses on studentswho are able to devote them-

selves to the region’s develop-ment,” the president said.“Tibet is still short of talent inmany professional fields. Theprimary goal for the universityis to fulfill the needs in theregion.”

Among some 2,700 gradu-ates last year, fewer than 50were employed outside Tibet.

The university takes inabout 900 undergraduatesfrom outside region each yearand 1,800 Tibetans.

“More than 90 percent ofgovernment employees at thetownship level, and nearly 70percent of county-level civilservants in Tibet are alumni ofTibet University,” he saidproudly.

But he is looking to go fur-ther.

“By the time our studentssatisfy the needs in Tibet, Ihope they can step out of theregion and work in other partsof China and even on the inter-national stage,” he said. “Devel-oping students who can satisfydiverse needs is the ultimategoal for higher education.”

Contact the writers throughluowangshu@chinadaily.com.cn

Q: How did you feel aboutbeing chosen to head auniversity?

A: It is tiring but gratify-ing. My working weekincludes many weekends. Iam learning every day frommy colleagues, aiming togain as much experience aspossible from working in auniversity. Before headingTibet University, I carriedout research and adminis-trative work at the TibetAcademy of Governance.Universityadministration isstill new to me.

What is the biggestchange you want to makeat Tibet University?

A: I want to work on thevalues of the school. I wantto raise the prominence ofits scholarship and thedevelopment of the school,including facility and soft-ware upgrades. Thechanges also come from thecountry’s determination to

invest in higher education.

What do you want to say tograduates of Tibet Univer-sity this year?

A: I hope they find jobsthat they are willing todevote themselves to.

What is the legacy youhope to give to the univer-sity?

A: I hope to establish theuniversity as a comprehen-sive and influential institu-tion with prominent,specialized features thathelp it gain global recogni-tion.

What kind of president doyou want your students toremember you as?

It is still too early to say. Iwant to do something prac-tical and down-to-earth.When students think of me,I want to be remembered assomeone who did concretework.

Painting skill brings inner calm

Students read course materials outdoors.

As president of the only uni-versity in the Tibet autono-mous region that offers abroad spectrum of degrees,Phubu Tsering believes it is hisinstitution’s responsibility todevelop its strengths in spe-cialized subjects.

Phubu, who leads Tibet Uni-versity, said his school focuseson the study of ethnic groupsand on science and technologyon the Tibetan plateau.

The university also educatesstudents based on State devel-opment plans and the develop-ment strategies of the borderareas. Ethnic studies includelanguage, literature, music, art,history and economics.

All students enrolled at TUhave to take Tibetan languagecourses. It is the only univer-sity in China that requiresthis.

“Vice-Premier Liu Yandongencouraged the school toscale the heights of Qomo-langma in Tibetan studieswhen she visited,” Phubu said,adding that the Tibetan lan-

15,500full-timestudents

study at Tibet University

20academic

departmentsat Tibet University

guage attracts a great amountof attention from internation-al scholars, as well as studentsinterested in cultural studies.Qomolangma is known asMount Everest in the West.

“A great number of well-known Tibetologists havestudied at Tibet Universityduring the past 20 years,” Phu-bu said, adding that the uni-versity offers short-termprograms of one to two yearsto international students. Hislong-term target is to providedegree courses to internation-al students.

“The university values notonly quantity in developmentbut also cares about quality.Tibetan courses previouslyfocused on language but haveexpanded to include Tibetanliterature, linguistics andancient studies,” he said.

The school had focused ontraining graduates from three-year college programs andundergraduates but is nowable to accommodate a varietyof students up to doctoral level.

PHUBU TSERINGSCHOOL OFTHOUGHT

6 shanghai Friday-Sunday, November 7-9, 2014 | readers@chinadailyusa.com C H I N A D A I L Y U S A

Shanghai faces unprecedent-ed pressure from its fast-grow-ing population as people move in from other parts of China.

The population of perma-nent residents in Shanghai rose from 13 million in 1990 to 17 million in 2001 to nearly 25 million today.

More than 10 million of the population hails from outside Shanghai. A pressing challenge for good governance in Shang-hai is to coordinate population growth with the city’s develop-ment.

The tension between the population and the city, which is heightened by lim-ited resources and space, is not necessarily caused by the fast growth in population but by weakness in population man-agement and public services.

A well-designed and man-aged traffic system can hold many more automobiles than a poorly managed one. Despite Shanghai’s overpopulation, there are many showcase huge town squares that are not prac-tical for residents to use.

On one hand, many expen-sive houses built for the rich are le, empty for years.

On the other hand, many Shanghai families of three gen-erations live under the same roof in slum areas downtown, without access to - ush toilets.

According to Ren Yuan, a professor of population studies at Fudan University, migrant populations do not necessarily cause more crime. In Shanghai, factors such as the lack of education, unem-ployment, unhappy marriages and insufficient police and

security forces are the main causes of rising crime.

Hence, it is unreasonable to cut crime through controlling the migrant population and blaming them for crime.

Shanghai’s government should pay more attention to equalizing educational and employment opportunities, improving the community environment and strengthen-ing public security administra-tion. Providing better services for the people can, to some extent, e6 ectively ease popula-tion pressure. Education and medical care are critical for people to find jobs and live a stable life.

If the government resorts to tight controls on the migrant population, as the Beijing gov-ernment does with a number of discriminative policies in trans-portation, housing, education and medical care, the city will face even more serious prob-lems and frictions among dif-ferent social groups.

Fairness and justice attract people to cities. Cities cannot development without the two principles and a set of good governance measures to trans-late them into benefits for all members.

The government must abide the law while dealing with issues related to migrant population, who mostly take on undesirable jobs in cities. A city cannot survive without their labor.

They deserve fair treat-ment from the administrative authorities and overdue chan-nels through which to sue over malpractice of the government

and officials. The migrant population’s property rights and legal interests must be pro-tected. : e government has no legal base to take social stability as an excuse to infringe upon the migrant population’s legal rights.

In 2011, Shenzhen — China’s < rst economic special zone — drove away tens of thousands of migrants before hosting the World University Games. It is ironic that a city that rose from the labors and wisdom of migrant populations in the 1980s and 1990s — turning quickly from a fishing village to the second-largest economy in Guangdong — would take such action.

Shanghai’s local culture has a deep, historical discrimina-tion against people from other parts of China and a blind worship for foreigners. Last month, a famous Shanghai sports anchor, in a live broad-cast, openly cursed the visiting football team from northern part of Jiangsu province in Chi-na’s Super League match. : e northern part is much poorer than Shanghai and the south Jiangsu.

Although the Shanghai gov-ernment is already a model in many aspects of governance in China, it still needs to raise the legal consciousness in govern-ing and serving the migrant population.

The government needs to do more to protect the migrant population’s legal interests. : is is a modern government’s legal-ly binding duty rather than a favor for disadvantaged groups of people.

Giving migrants a break

VIEW | LI YANG

By LI YANGin Shanghailiyang@chinadaily.com.cn

Shanghai has a lot of work

to do before it can become a global city.

Land use, planning for nat-ural disasters and economic competitiveness are some of the issues facing the city.

“The city is a container of the uncertainties of economy, and natural, social and political environments,” Zhang Tingwei, a professor of city planning with the University of Illinois, said in a forum on Shanghai’s city planning last week.

“City planners must address these uncertainties in their work.”

Land needs to be preserved to give cities such as Shanghai the ability to cope with natural disasters and security concerns,

Zhang proposed a list of prin-ciples to make a city resilient:

: e economy, society, infra-structure, land use and bio-system of a city must be mul-tifaceted. Infrastructure con-structions should serve mul-tiple purposes. : e vitality of innovation and social capitals must be maintained. : e city’s economy should be modular-ized to reduce the influence

of crises. : e city should have eF cient information-feedback systems. And the city should have special systems serving the ecological system.

A heavy rain can easily kill dozens of residents in large cit-

ies in China through drowning or electrical shocks. Explosions or pollution caused by natural gas and oil pipelines that were improperly maintained or bur-ied decades ago have caused havoc in several cities in China.

Shanghai can draw lessons from those disasters.

“We need to use new theo-ries and methods in city plan-ning today to make better use of the limited space and pro-mote sustainable development

of the city,” agreed Zhuang Shaoqin, director of Shanghai’s City Planning Bureau. “The space gives the city potential to cope with the uncertainties in its development. We will pay more attention to reserve more

land for future emergency use.”The experts also discussed

Shanghai’s development and how it a6 ects city planning. : e municipal government wants to build Shanghai into a global city.

Wang Zhan, a sociologist with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said: “Shanghai will < rst become a world-class city before a global city.”

Shanghai is the intersection city of the three national eco-nomic and trade development strategies: the Yangtze River economic zone, the Maritime Silk Road connecting Southeast

Asia, and the Silk Road eco-nomic belt across the Eurasian continent.

“These strategies and Chi-na’s fast economic growth lay a foundation for Shanghai, a national economic hub, to become a global city,” Wang said. “But China is an oriental country. : e language, culture and civilization are all differ-ent from the West, who is still the dominant power in the globe. Shanghai should acquire enough cultural so, power to win recognition of the world.”

Shanghai is an expensive city in terms of business costs, apartment rents, salaries, taxes and governance, which can make it less attractive to man-ufacturing, and research and development departments of global enterprises.

Shanghai also is generally isolated from the other dozens of cities and towns in south Jiangsu and north Zhejiang provinces in the Yangtze River delta region.

“: e development of inter-city rail transit and high-speed railway should promote the balanced allocation of produc-tive factors in the delta region,” Wang said. “: e government is in fact a key for the regional coordination.”

Planning has a major impact on Shanghai

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A 6-square-kilometer man-made lake was completed in 2003 in Shanghai’s suburbs to meet emergent needs for fresh water.

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With a growing migrant population, Shanghai government needs to do more to protect their legal interests.

By WANG HONGYI in Shanghaiwanghongyi@chinadaily.com.cn

Shanghai is accelerating its pace in revising current mental health regulation, highlighted by the construction of a com-prehensive mental health ser-vice system for the city of more than 20 million population.

Current mental health regu-lations were oF cially released by the municipality in 2001 and have played an important role in the development of the mental health sector nation-wide.

Since China’s Mental Health Law took e6 ect in May 2013, Shanghai has been revising its local regulation to meet the growing demand for mental health services driven by the rapid development of the soci-ety and the economy.

“The revised version has clear statements on the require-ments of the mental health ser-vice system, covering all the issues involved, from mental health education and preven-tion to diagnosis and treat-ment,” said Chen Hongzhuan, vice-president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical School, who helped with the revision.

The revised version spells out the roles of di6 erent com-ponents of the system, such as medical institutions, special-

ized hospitals, psychological counseling and care centers. : ere are also special require-ments for the quali< cations of people working in the sector, Chen said at the Harvard-China Fogarty Conference on Mental Health Services in Chi-na held in Shanghai this week.

: e conference was part of the Harvard-China Fogarty Program, which was launched in 2012 to improve the coun-try’s mental health services.

: e < ve-year training pro-gram focuses on building research capacity and improv-ing mental health among all age groups in China. It is

sponsored by the Fogarty International Center of the US National Institutes of Health, and jointly initiated by the department of global health and social medicine of Harvard Medical School, the Shanghai Mental Health Center and the Peking University Institute of Mental Health.

Under the program, profes-sionals from these three insti-tutions will provide training for researchers, doctoral-level stu-dents and post-doctoral fellows from Shanghai and Beijing. It will also provide training for clinical psychiatrists from oth-er areas of the country.

“The country has seen a huge demand for mental health services and there are very limited resources to meet it. The level of mental health service in big cities like Beijing and Shanghai is relatively high. But in many other areas, the level is still very low,” Chen said, adding that the program helps improve the medical staff ’s expertise level, especially those in remote areas.

China’s oF cial < gures show that about 16 million people in China su6 er from severe men-tal illnesses.

In Shanghai, there are 113,000 people su6 ering from severe mental illnesses regis-tered with local health depart-ments. : e city has 24 mental health specialized medical

institutions with more than 13,000 beds, according to the city’s health department.

A pilot program integrat-ing mental health services into primary care is underway in Shanghai’s Changning district.

“Currently, chronic disease management, such as diabetes and hypertension, is handled by community-based medical services. But when a patient goes for treatment, their mood and mental health condition are o, en overlooked,” said He Yanling, professor of psychia-try at Shanghai Mental Health Center, who runs the pilot pro-gram.

She said that the mental problems of these patients, such as anxiety and depression, should be given more atten-tion.

He and her team have been working to establish an online management platform to pro-vide long-term, on-going ser-vice for these groups through regular mental health moni-toring, follow-up and manage-ment.

In addition to strengthening the training of medical staff, He also emphasized the impor-tance of public education.

“Many patients are reluc-tant to admit they have men-tal problems and refuse any service. So it’s important to improve their awareness of mental health,” she said.

By WANG HONGYI

Shanghai Jiao Tong Univer-sity signed an agreement this week with the University of Southern California to jointly establish a cultural and cre-ative industry institute.

Positioned as a world-class teaching and research base, the USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Indus-try aims to cultivate high-lev-el management and technical talent for the industry.

: e University of Southern California (USC) is a world leading private research uni-versity founded in 1880 with its main campus in Los Ange-les, California, a global center for culture and arts.

Shanghai Jiao Tong Univer-sity has actively developed its culture and arts disciplines in recent years. It has established more than 20 related research institutes, such as the Global

Communication Research Institute and the Media Cul-ture and Social Development Advanced Research Center.

“By leveraging the resourc-es of the two universities, the new institute hopes to cul-tivate more high-level tal-ent and help improve the core competition of the cul-tural and creative industry in Shanghai, and even all of China,” said Zhang Jie, presi-dent of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

: e new institute will o6 er only master’s programs ini-tially, such as a culture and creative industry manage-ment double degree, master’s in arts and master’s in cul-tural industry economics and < nancial investment.

It plans eventually to launch MBA, EMBA and DBA programs in the cultural and creative industry when the time is right, according to

Zhao Feng of the Internation-al Cooperation and Exchange Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The institute will use the education mode and cultiva-tion plan from USC, and intro-duce quality core curricula and education resources. : e fac-ulty will mainly come from the two universities, she said.

According to current plan, the institute’s scienti< c research base and advanced training center will be locat-ed at Qiantan International Business Zone in the Pudong New Area, while its teaching center will be at the Zizhu International Education Park in the city’s Minhang district.

The establishment of the new institute is still await-ing official approval from the Ministry of Education. : e < rst batch of students is expected to be enrolled in 2016.

USC, Jiao Tong launch joint institute

‘‘By leveraging the resources of the two universities, the new institute hopes to cultivate more high-level talent and help improve the core competition of the cultural and creative industry in Shanghai, and even all of China.” ZHANG JIEPRESIDENT OF SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY

‘‘The revised version has clear statements on the requirements of the mental health service system, cov-ering all the issues involved, from mental health education and prevention to diagno-sis and treatment.” CHEN HONGZHUANVICE-PRESIDENT OF SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL

Mental health services improved

‘‘We need to use new theories and methods in city planning today to make better use of the limited space and promote sustainable development of the city.” ZHUANG SHAOQINDIRECTOR OF SHANGHAI’S CITY PLANNING BUREAU

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HK eyes treasury crownAgainst a backdrop of the yuan’s internationalization Against a backdrop of the yuan’s internationalization and more mainland enterprises eyeing overseas forays, and more mainland enterprises eyeing overseas forays, Hong Kong has been urged to fortify its strengths Hong Kong has been urged to fortify its strengths to cement its status as Asia’s corporate treasury to cement its status as Asia’s corporate treasury activities center. activities center. Oswald ChanOswald Chan examines the examines the opportunities and challenges ahead.opportunities and challenges ahead.

Hong Kong is short of treasury market

professionals. If we want to beef up in promoting the

treasury profession, we should cultivate the right talent pool

to foster industry development.”

FRANCIS HOTREASURY DIRECTOR,

CLP HOLDINGS GROUP

‘‘‘‘I n July, the Corporate Trea-surer reported that Asia-based budget airline AirA-sia has decided to establish

its regional treasury center in Malaysia this year, and hopes it can kick-start within the year to keep up with its regional expan-sion by improving cash visibility and handling foreign exchange risks.

AirAsia’s decision is not an isolated case — more multina-tional companies are bee# ng up efforts to locate their central-ized treasury centers in Asia. London-based retailer Unilever set up its global treasury center in Mumbai in 2009 while Japa-nese carmaker Nissan picked Singapore as its treasury center in 2005.

A centralized treasury man-agement (see diagram) center will ensure greater viability and transparency of cash manage-ment, better corporate gover-nance and cash forecasting, risk exposure control, liquidity access, and more tax-efficient cash repatriation. It can also allow companies to implement orderly and satisfactorily poli-cies to gain better yield returns for excess cash and enable cor-porations to obtain lower fund-ing costs. All these value-added attributes can transform cor-porate treasury activities from being transaction-based to val-ue-added decision-making.

At the Treasury Market Sum-mit 2014 held in September, treasury market professionals reckoned that with interna-tionalization of the yuan pick-ing up and mainland compa-nies expanding overseas, Hong Kong can leverage on its premier o5 shore yuan # nancing center status to enhance its position as a treasury management base.

“With yuan internationaliza-tion and Hong Kong as a leading o5 shore yuan # nancial center, the city can emerge as an Asian treasury hub. 8 e Hong Kong government and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority should look for strategic agendas that can help Hong Kong stay competitive,” said Helen Hui, Standard Chartered Banking (Hong Kong) transaction bank-ing managing director. “Main-land companies can set up their treasury centers and use these centers as bases to tap cheaper funding outside the mainland,” she added.

Mainland platformGE Capital and Global

Growth & Operations manag-ing director Vincent Liu told the summit: “Hong Kong is the plat-form for overseas # rms to enter the mainland market, while it is also the platform for mainland enterprises to embark on over-seas expansion. 8 e city has the unique advantage to help com-panies to expand their business.”

He also noted: “As the central government strives to promote Hong Kong as the offshore yuan # nancing center, the city needs to attract more multina-tional companies to issue yuan-denominated bonds to enable corporations to tap more liquid-ity access. Adequate liquidity is very important in treasury activities management.”

“As the mainland still exer-cises capital control, Hong Kong is the place for mainland corpo-rations to set up their treasury functions,” International Asso-ciation of CFOs and Corporate Treasurers (China) founding chairman Peter Wong reckoned.

“As the leading o5 shore RMB center, Hong Kong has a win-

dow to re‐establish ourselves as the Asian corporate trea-sury hub. Hong Kong should reach out and attract companies looking to conduct business on the mainland or gain expo-sure to mainland‐related yuan (financing business) growth, which include companies from the mainland and around the world,” the government’s top financial advisory body, the Financial Services Development Council, said.

Besides the mainland factor, Hong Kong has other strong attributes it can lever on to develop the city as a corporate treasury center.

“Hong Kong has the right location that is close to the world’s second-largest economy. 8 e city also has the right time-zone that aligns with all Asian countries in the same trad-ing hours, and with European countries in some trading hours that can facilitate more treasury transactions.” CLP Holdings Group treasury director Francis Ho said.

Wong agreed with Ho, say-ing: “Hong Kong’s strengths as a treasury management hub lie in three aspects — its geo-political reliability that can provide safe-haven protection for financial assets; its high technical back-service standards in conducting # nancial transaction activities; and its lower cost involved in treasury functions compared to other # nancial centers in major developed economies.”

“Hong Kong also has a higher density of mainland and inter-national banks than other major # nancial centers,” Wong added. “Global economic activities are shifting from Europe to Asia and more corporate merger and acquisition restructuring activities in the Asian region also boost demand for # nancial trea-sury activities.”

However, Hong Kong cannot be complacent as many mar-ket hurdles are still blocking the path towards cementing Hong Kong as a major treasury market center.

“Hong Kong has a shortage of treasury market profession-als. In Hong Kong, most of the treasury market practitioners do not possess professional quali# -cations. Instead, they usually get promoted to the top treasury job based on their accounting or business experience. If we want to beef up in promoting the treasury profession, we should cultivate the right talent pool to foster industry development,” Ho cautioned.

Hui warned that air pollution and the scarcity of international schools are causing a shortage of expert treasury profession-als. Moreover, Hong Kong’s high living and oH ce rental costs are crimping the city’s development as a treasury management cen-ter.

Regular reviews“Hong Kong should not be

complacent as London, New York, Singapore and Shanghai have all reviewed their policies for promoting a treasury cen-ter in order to stay ahead of the curve. Hong Kong should do regular reviews to stay ahead to maintain its status as a premier hub for treasury management,” she added.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Financial Services and Trea-sury Bureau (FSTB) will make concrete proposals next year to review the requirements under the Inland Revenue Ordinance for interest deduction in corpo-

rate treasury activities taxation, and clarify the criteria for such deductions.

8 e bid is envisaged to attract more global or regional trea-sury functions being relocated to Hong Kong through opti-mizing the interest deductibility requirements for inter-company loans.

According to Pricewater-houseCoopers’ (PwC) Asia Cor-porate Treasury Survey 2014, treasury activities face many challenges that are unique to Asia.

“Asia does not have a single currency, there is no single regu-lator and the banking landscape is very diverse. Besides, there are too many restrictions and regulations governing the (capi-tal J ow of) multiple emerging currencies,” explained PwC China and Hong Kong’s cor-porate treasury solutions leader Ian Farrar.

8 e survey had interviewed 117 treasury professionals from various industries, includ-ing commodities, trading, manufacturing, electron-ics and technology, on the mainland and in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and 8 ailand. It iden-ti# ed cash and liquidity manage-ment as the two major treasury activities for larger organizations because these enterprises are likely to be more geographically dispersed, and managing # nan-cial and liquidity risk would be the key focus areas.

Working capital management, as well as cash and liquidity man-agement, were ranked the two most important activities for medium-sized organizations. Smaller organizations placed more emphasis on the impor-tance of supporting their man-agement and business units and their business relationship with banks.

On future development, the respondents reckoned that there’s a need to hire treasury market-skilled professionals and to improve companies’ cash forecast skills to enhance cash visibility and centralization.

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VAT pilot program cut taxes by $53.3 billion Growth concerns rise as PMI declinesSoccer governing body is being investigated

China’s pilot program to replace a turnover tax with a value-added tax since 2012 has reduced taxes by 328 billion yuan ($53.3 billion), the coun-try’s tax authority said.

In the & rst three quarters of this year, the change has reduced the burden on taxpayers by 145

billion yuan, the State Admin-istration of Taxation said on its website.

VAT — value added tax — is levied on the di/ erence between the cost of production and the price of a commodity on the mar-ket. It is favored partly because it can reduce double taxation.

A gauge of China’s services industry fell to a nine-month low in October, joining manufactur-ing in signaling a broadening economic slowdown.

3 e government’s non-manu-facturing Purchasing Managers Index for the sector fell to 53.8 last month from 54 in September. 3 e o6 cial manufacturing PMI released on Saturday was at 50.8 in October compared with Sep-tember’s 51.1. Readings above

50 for both measures indicate expansion.

Both PMI gauges are released by the National Bureau of Sta-tistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing in Beijing.

Analysts suggested the latest pullbacks in services and man-ufacturing will further test the government’s determination to refrain from increased stimulus.(Photo 4)

China’s anti-graft campaign has set its sights on the sports field, which used to occupy a minor spot on the top of anti-gra< radar.

3 e Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of Chi-na, the country’s top anti-graft agency, published a commen-tary on its website on Tuesday

criticizing the soccer governing body for malpractice for a series of o6 cial corruption and game-manipulating scandals. 3 e scan-dals have tarnished the game’s improvement and international image, the CCDI said.

It was published on the & nal day of the 2014 Chinese Super League, the country’s top soccer league, which was founded in 1994.

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Major Internet conference set for this month Chinese group gets Mexico rail contract Almost half of arable land degraded: Report

China will host an Internet conference this month, bringing together more than 1,000 repre-sentatives from tech firms and regulators.

3 e Nov 19-21 conference will cover global Internet governance, mobile Internet, cross-border e-commerce, cyber security and terrorism. It will be held in Wuzhen, a historic water town in Zhejiang province.

Lu Wei, China’s top Inter-

net regulator, said the event came about a< er experts sug-gested that China should take responsibility for Internet governance and development. “China now has 630 million Internet users and four of the top 10 Internet companies,” said Lu.

Attendees at the conference will include Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma and Tencent founder and Chairman Pony Ma.

A Chinese-led consortium has been awarded an uncontest-ed contract for a $3.74 billion high-speed passenger rail link between Mexico City and the central city of Queretaro..

3 e group led by China Rail-way Construction Corp Ltd was the only bidder for the 210-km (130-mile) line. Mexico wants the rail line to move 27,000 passengers daily from Queretaro at speeds of up to 300 km/h (186 mph).

Under President Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico has sought to forge closer business ties with China, while the world’s No 2 economy has been looking to export more of its high-speed rail technology.

3 e Export-Import Bank of China (EximBank) will & nance 85 percent of the project’s cost, according to a Mexican trans-port ministry spokesman. (Photo 3)

More than 40 percent of Chi-na’s arable land is su/ ering from degradation, reducing its capac-ity to produce food for the world’s biggest population, the official news agency Xinhua said.

3 e rich black soil in northern Heilongjiang province, which forms part of China’s bread bas-ket, is thinning, while farmland in China’s south is su/ ering from acidi& cation, the report said, cit-

ing agriculture ministry statistics.Degraded land typically is

caused by reduced fertility, ero-sion, changes in acidity, and the e/ ects of climate change and pol-lutants.

3 e country, which must feed nearly 1.4 billion people, has outlined plans to tackle soil pol-lution, said to a/ ect around 3.3 million hectares (8.15 million acres). (Photo 5)

A hospital in Guangdong province has launched the coun-try’s first online hospital for patients with common ailments.

Patients go to a nearby phar-macy, log in, have a video chat with a doctor, receive a prescrip-tion and buy the medicine at the store. 3 e process can take min-utes, and is seen as way to relieve pressure on big hospitals.

In the past month of trials, the

virtual hospital received 60 to 100 patients a day, most with coughs, fevers or headaches. When doc-tors found a complex situation, they recommended a checkup at a hospital.

The new service by No 2 Provincial People’s Hospital in Guangzhou is free, but the hospital is seeking approval to charge 10 yuan ($1.64) per patient visit.

China plans to send more than 1,000 medical workers and public health experts in the coming months to West Africa to help African coun-tries & ght the Ebola virus.

To date, China has sent 252 people to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three hard-est-hit countries, and there are 134 people working there.

With experience in preven-tion and control during the

SARS (severe acute respira-tory syndrome) epidemic 10 years ago, Chinese trainers will help provide training for local medical workers, grass-roots administrators, commu-nity leaders, government sta/ , students and volunteers in the three countries and neighbor-ing countries at risk for the epidemic. It is expected that 10,000 people will receive the training.

First online hospital is launched

China to send 1,000 to help fi ght Ebola in Africa

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China is requiring that all foreign TV shows and movies have permits and be reviewed by TV watchdogs before being made available for viewing online.

The regulations, released by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, mean that Chinese audiences will have to wait to watch the shows and will not be able to follow them simultaneously with overseas audiences.

Although all mainstream online video sites declined to comment publicly, confu-

sion and concerns were raised among experts who spoke anonymously.

In April, four popular Amer-ican TV shows, including 3 e Big Bang 3 eory, were banned on mainstream streaming sites in China.

Zhang Zhian, dean of the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, said that the administration might be following guidance from authorities to reduce and crack down on inappropriate con-tent on the Internet, including violence and sex.

New home sales accelerated considerably in October following the government’s stimulus poli-cies, but doubts remain whether the upswing can be maintained until the end of the year.

October new residential prop-erty sales in 30 cities rose 24.3 percent over September to 18.37 million square meters in total, according to E-House (China) Holdings Ltd, a leading real estate services company.

Its & gures also showed the larg-est number of monthly housing

sales so far this year, with 27 of the cities monitored reporting transactions increased for the fourth consecutive month.

Government measures aimed at expanding the pool of potential homebuyers were introduced on Sept 30 to avert a sharp slowdown in the country’s property market, including an easing in mortgage rules and the amount buyers can borrow. Mortgages on sec-ond homes, for instance, are now treated as a & rst mortgage if the buyer has paid o/ the & rst loan.

Foreign TV shows, movies need permits for online

New home sales increased in October

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Though winter in China o� cially begins on Friday, Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, had its fi rst snowfall on Thursday.

We won’t let anyone come and enter our market, earn money from consumers, but damage our country.’’LU WEIDIRECTOR OF CHINA’S CYBER-SPACE ADMINISTRATION

I believe China-US relations should not become a US domestic election topic.”

CUI TIANKAICHINA’S AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES

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9.8 billion dollarsThe amount Chinese tour-ists spent in the US last year, an average of $5,414 apiece, according to the China National Tourism Administration.

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ADDING IT UPCalvin Chan, chief operating o� cer of digital data fi rm AdMaster, speaks at a workshop on how to use data collection for the Chinese market. The workshop was held Wednesday at the Javits Center in New York as part of the ad:tech digital conference.

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THINK AGAINInside-Outside, a group exhibition with paintings by Chen Yujun, Lu Zhengyuan, Huang Yishan and Tang Yongxiang, is on display at Klein Sun Gallery in New York now through January 2015. Through cutting-edge paintings, the show encourages viewers to re-evaluate their fi rst assessments and examine the ways in which objects linger in one’s mind.

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SURVIVOR STORIESKevin Wang, an 18-year-old senior at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, New York, gives opening remarks on Monday for the launch of the 5 Colours Foundation’s art exhibit at the United Nations. The event, which runs from Nov 3-7, showcases artwork from a number of survivors of the Sichuan Earthquake of 2008.

ARTISTIC DISPLAY Li Dan, a 24-year-old former student of the 5 Colours Foundation, speaks to guests Monday during the opening event of the group’s exhibit at the United Nations. Li, who lost her right arm in the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, is one of several young artists whose work is being displayed through the end of the week at the UN.

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By CHEN WEIHUA in Washingtonchenweihua@chinadailyusa.com

When Henry Levine went home in New York suburbs during the Christmas vacation in 1971, the Bucknell Univer-sity senior had a chat with his high school pal Je% Shultz, then a senior at Cornell University. They talked about what they were going to do a* er graduat-ing from college.

, e two had both developed an interest in China. For Levine, the “cultural revolution” (1966-76) under way in China, the social turmoil and change hap-pening in the US and the Viet-nam War had aroused his inter-est in other parts of the world, in particular China.

He still remembers how he opened John King Fairbank’s book on East Asia history and was startled to see the long time-line for China going back to Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BCE). US history literally started in the middle of China’s Qing Dynasty (1664-1911). “, at really made an impression on me,” Levine recalled.

“We decided that we would go to China,” Levine said of his con-versation with Shultz. “Frankly, when you think about it, it’s a little bit crazy.”

Both knew that as Americans, they couldn’t go to the Chinese mainland at the time due to the lack of diplomatic ties, so they decided to go to Hong Kong, then under British rule.

Across the Pacifi cAfter graduation, the two

drove cross country to San Francisco and tried to > nd a job working on a freighter going to Hong Kong. “We couldn’t get

jobs because we didn’t have any experience,” Levine said.

In the end, they bought their own tickets on a freighter that had some passenger compart-ments and sailed to Hong Kong.

It was his > rst trip to Asia and the farthest he had gone before that was to Mexico.

“It was a wonderful, wonder-ful experience,” Levine said of the two-week voyage across the ocean, looking at the stars and horizon in the middle of the

Paci> c and chatting with other passengers who are much older.

However, the hope to > nd job in Hong Kong was shattered due to the strict employment laws there. , e two then learned that Taiwan was a place where they could study Chinese and > nd job teaching English.

Levine and Schultz arrived in Taiwan in December 1972. Levine ended up spending three-and-a-half years there, mostly at the Tunghai University in Taic-

hung, Taiwan. “It was not just my > rst exposure to the Chinese and society, but a very deep exposure, because we really interacted a lot,” he said. He ate noodles and meals at local shacks and chatted with the vendors.

When Levine returned to the US in 1976 he was not sure what to do. He worked at a bookstore and then as a tour guide at the United Nations headquarters in New York, doing both English and Chinese language tours.

He described himself as one the > rst four men hired for the jobs which had been sta% ed entirely by women.

Levine went to the Fletcher School at Tufts University in 1978 to study international relations. He kept his interest in China and started a Chinese lan-guage lunch group with fellow students.

A signifi cant tripIn the fall of 1980, a high-level

Chinese governors’ delegation was scheduled to visit the US. Jan Berris of the National Commit-tee on US-China Relations called Levine and invited him to help with his Chinese language skills.

Levine was not sure how good an interpreter he would be, despite his years in Taiwan. He agreed a* er Berris insisted and told him the State Depart-ment would send a professional interpreter.

The trip took the Chinese delegation all over the US and ended up in Hawaii. Levine and the State Department interpreter, Vivian Chang, fell in love and got married eight months later.

Besides finding his love, Levine got a chance to meet some Chinese provincial lead-ers, including Xi Zhongxun, the head of the Chinese delegation and Party secretary of Guang-dong province. More important-ly today, he was also the father of current Chinese President Xi Jinping.

So when Xi Jinping visited the US in February 2012 as China’s vice-president, Berris, vice-pres-ident of the National Committee, put up a photo album from his father’s trip to the US, includ-ing one of Xi Zhongxun trying to do the hula at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii.

Levine said Xi recognized his wife Chang from the pho-to, probably because she had interpreted for many meetings between top Chinese and US leaders.

A depressing jobBefore that trip, Levine had

already taken some of the For-eign Service exams. He finally joined the State Department in 1981.

But soon Levine was faced with a major challenge. His new-lywed wife was being assigned to Beijing to work at the US embassy but Levine was told by the State Department that there was no position for him there.

Thanks to the intervention of Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who knew his wife from a major trip to China, Levine got a position in Beijing as a visa oI cer.

While the young couple was excited to be together in Beijing, Levine described the visa offi-cer job as a “very unhappy job,

a depressing job” because of the high rate of refusal, about 70 per-cent at that time, totally unlike today.

Levine worked in the State Department’s China oI ce start-ing in 1986, mostly on export control policy. He said he would laugh in later years when Chi-nese oI cials raised the issue.

“I laugh because at that time, I was very much involved in a deep > ght within the US govern-ment on export control policy,” he said. “My feeling was then and still is today that we were over-controlling, and controlling too much.”

Levine said much of the debate he was involved in was to con-vince the Pentagon and others to approve items that didn’t seem that sensitive, referring to items for duel use. He revealed that the views in other departments were quite extreme at the time.

In Levine’s view, the problem was not so prominent because China was not expecting much at that time.

Strategic visionLevine and his wife went back

to work in the US embassy in Beijing in August 1989. He was the No 2 person in the economic section. But due to the drastically deteriorating relationship at the time, Levine had little work to do for a while.

In 1990 he and his colleagues were authorized to go back to China’s Ministry of Commerce to conduct informal consultation about China’s accession to the World Trade Organization.

It happened after two secret trips to China in the second half of 1989 by then National Secu-rity Advisor Brent Scowcro* and Deputy Secretary of State Law-rence Eagleburger. Levine’s wife, Chang, served as interpreter for the meetings.

Levine returned to the State Department China office in 1996 to head the economic side of the China desk. It was an inter-esting three years for him on the job because of the several high-level visits. Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited the US in late 1997 when a bilateral nuclear pact was reached. US President Bill Clinton also paid a state visit to China in 1998. Chinese Pre-mier Zhu Rongji came to the US in 1999.

Levine said while many expected China and the US to reach a deal on WTO during Zhu’s trip, it did not materialize in the end, and former senior US oI cials later realized it was a mistake not to > nalize the deal.

Levine, however, believes that unlike today, it was a period when both sides really had a strategic vision for the relation-ship. “We are willing internally to push and try to make progress,” he said.

Consul GeneralIn 1999, Levine was assigned

to be the US consul general in Shanghai, an assignment he said should be credited to Susan Shirk, then deputy assistant sec-retary of state for East Asian and Paci> c a% airs.

Levine spent a big chunck of his time working with the American business community, including doing a monthly brief-ing for them. AmCham Shang-hai was then the second or third largest chapter of American Chamber of Commerce in Asia.

A* er China joined the WTO in 2001, Levine was busy work-ing with the Shanghai local government helping to imple-ment the WTO. He was deeply impressed by the local govern-ment headed by Mayor Xu Kuangdi.

“, e local government want-ed to implement as quickly and as thoroughly as they could. He was fabulous and amazing,” Levine said.

Besides the business commu-nity, Levine also found time to travel to Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui and visited universities to talk to students about US policies and US-China relations.

Great satisfactionAfter leaving Shanghai in

2002, Levine joined the Com-merce Department as deputy assistant secretary for Asia. Along with his counterpart at the US Trade Representative, Levine was the lead negotiator for the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), a mechanism set up in 1983 to address bilateral trade and investment issues. , e Strategic & Economic Dialogue, known as S&ED, did not exist at that time.

Levine said both sides knew that there was no magic bullet that would help JCCT get rid of all the problems. “, eir eco-nomic systems were different, there were political issues in both countries,” he said.

“Chinese leaders cannot say that we will get rid of SOEs (State-owned enterprises) tomorrow. It wasn’t realistic,” he said.

He said one has to go into it, understand that you could make progress on some small- or medium-sized issues, and that was the best you can do. He saw that progress on those small- and medium-sized issues could be very important for particular US companies or industries.

“So my feeling is that we made progress on some issues that were helpful and signi> cant. (It) didn’t change the world,” Levine said.

Now a senior advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a consulting > rm in Washington, Levine feels lucky for his decades of working with the Chinese.

He recalled that it was a gen-uine interest that got him into the China > eld in the > rst place, and not because he could go into business and make a lot of money. “As it turned out, China has become such an important country,” he said.

“My overall feeling was satis-faction,” he said of his career in the China-related > eld.

To Levine, there are certain things the two sides disagree on, and there is no point spending all the time arguing about them.

“Because we know we are not going to solve them, we are not going to make progress on them. So the challenge is how do you sit down and > nd the areas where you can reach an agreement and you can get something done,” he said.

Having engaged in bilateral economic and trade relations with China for decades, Levine believes the ongoing negotiation for a Bilateral Investment Treaty is now the most important initia-tive between the two countries.

“It’s tremendously important. If we can achieve a BIT which is of high quality, it will have both a very big economic impact in stimulating a lot of two-way investment,” he said. “It will also lead to a positive inM uence on the overall economic relation-ship.”

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BIOHENRY LEVINESenior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge GroupAge: 63Career• Senior Advisor, Albright

Stonebridge Group (since 2006)

• US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Asia (2002-2006)

• US Consul General in Shanghai (1999-2002)

• Deputy Director for Economic A0 airs, State Department’s O3 ce of Chinese A0 airs (1996-1999)

• Director for APEC A0 airs at the O3 ce of the US Trade Representative (1993-1994)

Education• Graduated with

distinction from the US National Wall College (1993)

• Graduate work in international a0 airs, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1978-1980)

• Political Science, Bucknell University, BA (1968-1972)

C H I N A H A N D

Levine finds joy working on US-China ties

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Henry Levine, senior advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington, talks to China Daily in the newspaper’s Washington bureau.

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C H I N E S E C O M M U N I T Y L E A D E R

By MAY ZHOU in Houstonmayzhou@chinadailyusa.com

Even though he is no longer an elected o� cial, Gordon Quan, co-chairman of Foster Quan, LLP and vice-chairman of Asia Society Texas Center, stays actively involved in politics and his community.

During the course of an inter-view with a reporter recently, Quan was interrupted twice by calls he had to take — they were about that evening’s fundraising event he and other community leaders were host-ing for Congressman Mike Honda of California.

In 1999, Quan was elected Hous-ton City Council Member At-Large, making him the second Chinese-American city council member after Martha Wong and the first one elected to an at-large, citywide position.

Quan was appointed as Mayor Pro Tem by Houston Mayor Bill White in 2002 and served in that position until his term ended in 2006.

A top immigration lawyer by trade, Quan got involved in commu-nity service at an early age, thanks to the example set by his parents.

“My family moved to Houston in 1951 and my father had a gro-cery store. As one of its founding members, my father was very active in the Chinese American Citizen Alliance (CACA). My parents were also members of the Chinese Bap-tist Church. 9 ey taught me that it is important to get involved in the community. I saw that when I was still a boy,” Quan said.

In 1961, Quan, an honor roll stu-dent in junior high, was selected to go to Rice Stadium to hear a speech by former president John F. Ken-nedy. “He was talking about going to the moon,” Quan recalls. “And I was very inspired. I was thinking: ‘It’s a new age, a new president who has new ideas about government’.”

When Quan went to the Uni-versity of Texas, the Vietnam War was underway, but there was also a hippie anti-war movement. “People believed that we could change the world, that we could make a better world. 9 at also made an impres-sion on me,” he said.

After graduating from college, Quan became a teacher in a poor black neighborhood school for three years while working on his master’s degree at the University of Houston, wanting to make the world a better place.

“My master’s degree was in guid-ance counseling. Eventually I said to myself, I will only changing one child at a time, but I want to change the system to give them all better

opportunities. I thought I could make a bigger diC erence with a law degree,” he said.

While in law school, Quan was asked to be a secretary in CACA and did it for six years. “When a shop-keeper got shot and we needed to talk to the government, when peo-ple had a problem, they would come to me and say, ‘You are a lawyer now, maybe you can help us’. So, there has always a need for representation in the community,” he said.

A practice in immigration law turned out to be a big help in Quan’s pursuit of public o� ce later. “I got to meet a lot of people from India, Paki-stan and other countries who were fresh to the US but later became lead-ers in their respective communities,

and they helped me to get elected because I had known them since they were young students,” he said.

Quan’s E rst try for public o� ce was in 1988. Hannah Chow, the E rst elected Chinese-American judge in Harris County, encouraged Quan to run for State Representative and he did.

“However, later I withdrew from the race because I wasn’t prepared,” he said. “I did not understand the issues involved, I did not know how to be a good candidate.”

A few years later, the Asian Amer-ican Coalition (AAC) was formed and helped Martha Wong become the E rst Chinese American elected to the Houston City Council. “I sup-ported Martha in her race and when

her term was ending, she recruited me to run. Martha wanted to con-tinue the Asian representation and not lose the gains we had made.”

With a successful law career under his belt, Quan thought it was all right even if he were to lose the race. “At least we would show that Martha was not just an anomaly, that Asian Americans want to par-ticipate in the government,” he said.

A lot of people Quan helped to immigrate over the years wanted to be involved. “9 ey would say, I know that guy, he was my lawyer, not just another white guy or black guy. I really felt good about it,” he said.

Quan’s candidacy brought people who usually did not vote into Hous-ton’s political scene. A lot of citizens started to donate to his campaign and voted for the E rst time.

“I remember one City Hall insid-er came up to me and said, ‘Who are those people? 9 ey have never been involved in politics before.’ I felt good that I did not need the downtown establishment to win

the race,” he said.Quan recalled one conversation

that occurred later on the steps of the City Hall. “It was Ramadan fes-tival and I was there to participate in the celebration. One Asian Ameri-can came up to me and said: ‘Mr. Quan, before you were elected, we did not know where the City Hall was, now we feel like we own it.’ I replied: ‘You are right, you do own City Hall, you own the government, and you can tell the government what to do.’”

During his six-year term, Quan continued Martha Wong’s efforts to ensure that Asian Americans get fair representation in city contracts, promotions in city departments and positions on civic committees and boards. He also served the general population by ensuring city services to all residents regardless of their immigration status, helped to build more apartments for senior citizens and assisted the unprivileged by promoting aC ordable housing for the poor.

Quan was doing a balancing act between his public duty and law practice by working two days at his E rm and the rest of the week at the City Hall and going into the com-munities. “I was happy to be a tool, a conduit to help people. It’s a service to the community and I enjoyed it,” he said.

Since Quan left office in 2006, Asian representation continued at Houston City Council with Rich-ard Nguyen from the Vietnamese community as a current member. “We have had an Asian on the City Council continuously for 20 years now,” he said. “I think we in Hous-ton are setting a model for the rest of country.”

In 2010, Quan lost the race for Harris County judge but he has not ruled out running again in the future. “Public service is a very noble profession, I would like to see more young people get involved,” said Quan.

Gordan Quan: Expanding everyone’s political horizons

MAY ZHOU / CHINA DAILY

“Public service is a very noble profession, I would like to see more young people get involved,” says Gordan Quan, former mayor pro tem of Houston.

GORDON QUAN Co-chairman of Foster Quan, LLP; Vice-chairman of Asia Society Texas Center; Board chair of Houston Greeters.Age: 66Education• JD, South Texas College of

Law (1977)• MA, University of Houston

(1973)• BA, University of Texas (1970)Professional Experience• Co-chairman, Foster Quan,

LLP (2007-present)• Mayor pro tem, City of

Houston (2002-2006)• Council member, Houston

City Council, At Large II (2002-2006)

• Managing partner, Quan, Burdette & Pereze (1980-2007)

BIO

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Pasadena, CA

RED CARPETCongresswoman Judy Chu walks the red carpet at the 10th Chinese American Film Festival Opening Ceremony and the Golden Angel Awards Ceremony on Tuesday in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California.

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WOMAN OF THE YEARTop left: French fi lm director, Luc Besson, accepts an award on behalf of Chinese-American actress Michelle Yeoh for the Cultural Exchange Ambassador of the Year at the Golden Angel Awards Ceremony on Tuesday in Pasadena.

Pasadena, CA

GOOD AS GOLDLeft: Chinese young director Ning Hao (center), receives the Golden Angel Film Award from Mike Antonovich, the Los Angeles County Supervisor (second from left), at the 10th Chinese American Film Festival Opening Ceremony and the Golden Angel Awards Ceremony on Tuesday in Pasadena, California.

Washington

BRAVA!Christoph Eschenbach (left), music director of both the National Symphony Orchestra and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, congratulates Chinese pianist Wang Yujia after her performance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Monday.

Washington

ARCTIC DREAMSShirley Ne� (center), senior adviser at the US Energy Information Administration, talks about US energy infrastructure, integration challenges and cooperation with China in the Arctic at the Wilson Center’s Regional and Global Energy Series in Washington on Oct 30.

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Washington

TAKE A BOWLeft: Lu Jia (center), chief conductor and director of the China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra thanks the audience after the orchestra’s fi rst-ever performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Monday.

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New York

BRICS POINTSDave Tamburelli, head of Bloomberg’s Emerging Markets Products & Services, speaks about their services in emerging markets including the BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — at an event at Bloomberg Headquarters in New York on Wednesday. The event brought together several hundred clients, including those from Chinese fi rms, to discuss the economic outlook of the emerging markets.

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Chicago

TRANSFORMER TRIPLiang Jianzhang (right), co-founder and CEO of Ctrip.com International Ltd, gives a speech on his second venture “Transform Ctrip towards Mobile Internet” at the University of Chicago on Nov 1. The event was co-organized by Ctrip.com and Lotus Culture, a Chicago-based cross-cultural arts promotion and event management company.

Cupertino, CA

VICTORY PARTYKristen Pan Lyn (front row, center) is joined by her Chinese-American supporters after winning election to the Cupertino Union School Board at Hong Fu restaurant in Cupertino on Nov 5.

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Houston

CLASSIC RECITALXinyang Yu Opera Troupe from Henan province performs Golden Age Jubilation on Oct 31 in Houston. The visiting troupe, sponsored by the Houston Hall of Chinese Descendants, also performed classic plays for local audience.

Portland, OR

FINE TUNINGPresident of the Cordell Hull Foundation for International Education Marianne Mason talks to 36 Chinese-language teachers in Oregon at a training class organized by the foundation at Portland State University on Nov 2. The class was intended to help the visiting teachers better understand visa policies and adapt to life in the US.

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Vancouver

MA JESTIC DANCETibet is replete with majestic scenes; the grasslands in summer, the bright sunshine, the natural beauty of its lakes and mountains. A traditional dance merged with modern art is full of graceful movements and haunting melodies.

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Vancouver

LEGEND OF ABU DANIThe Lhoba are an ethnic minority group with their own language, costumes and culture. The story of Abu Dani, a hero of the Lhoba, has been passed across generations.

Vancouver

ZHUO DANCEThe Glamorous Tibet folk song and dance show showcased the costumes and heritage of the region’s people. Performances took place in Vancouver at the Centre for Performing Arts on Monday and in Richmond at the River Rock Show Theatre on Tuesday.Zhuo dance is a Tibetan original. Dancers demonstrate boldness, vigor and simplicity.

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APEC 2014Four key proposalstop APEC agenda

By ZHONGNANzhongnan@chinadaily.com.cn

Four key proposals, includ-ing the creation of a Free TradeArea of the Asia-Pacific and aglobal value chain, will be con-sidered at the 2014 ministerialmeetings of the Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation on Fri-day and Saturday to furtherfuel the region’s robustgrowth.

Zhang Shaogang, director-general of the department ofinternational trade and eco-nomic affairs under the Minis-try of Commerce, said thetopics — FTAAP, a multilateraltrading system, the global val-ue chain and economic andtechnology cooperation —were determined after a year ofhigh-level talks involvingAPECmembers in different locationsand will be discussed at theupcoming leaders’ meeting inBeijing on Monday and Tues-day. They may become part ofthe action guideline under theAPEC framework if leadersfrom the 21 member econo-mies agree.

“To further broaden region-al trade liberalization, Chinawill step up efforts to promotethe implementation of a mul-tilateral and bilateral FreeTrade Area strategy, as well asincreasing the exchange ofopinions of the developmentof the Trans-Pacific Partner-ship and the Regional Com-

prehensive EconomicPartnership,” Zhang said.

Fifty-six bilateral, trilateraland multilateral agreementscovering free trade zones havebeen implemented by econo-mies in the APEC region.

China believes a regionalfree trade agreement wouldhelp to integrate these existingagreementsandreducetheriskof overlap and fragmentation.

The FTAAP concept wasproposed in 2004 and writteninto the declaration of theAPEC economic leaders’ meet-ing in 2006. China proposedthe preparation of a feasibilitystudy earlier this year.

Zhang reiterated China’sstance of opposing trade pro-tectionism in all its forms. Chi-na will work to encourage allparties to agree on the exten-sion — from 2016 to 2018 — ofthe commitment reached byAPEC leaders previously thatno party should raise newtrade and investment barriers.

“The APEC developingeconomies are on fast tracks ofindustrialization. Their gov-ernments have acquired great-er room for policy adjustmentand bigger regional marketspace to tackle global econom-ic fluctuations,” said ZhangJianping, director of the inter-national economic coopera-tion institute of the NationalDevelopment and ReformCommission.

Since economic improve-ment of the developing econo-mies over previous years hasresulted in the accumulationof significant financial resour-ces, trained labor forces andan industrial foundation,Zhang Jianping said, it is the

time for countries such as Chi-na, ASEAN members andSouth Pacific economies topush a series of structuralreforms and further partici-pate in a binding multilateralcooperation arrangement.

China currently is hoping tocomplete negotiations for theChina-South Korea and Chi-na-Australia free trade areasas soon as possible, push forthe upgrading of the China-ASEAN FTA and achieve sub-stantial progress in the China-Japan-South Korea FTAnegotiations.

Trade between China andother APEC members last yearamounted to $2.5 trillion, or60 percent of the country’stotal trade volume, while 69percent of China’s outbounddirect investment went toAPEC economies. APEC mem-bers provided 83 percent offoreign investment.

Liu Chenyang, a researcherat the APEC study center atTianjin-based Nankai Univer-sity, said the reality in theAPEC region is that developedeconomies are still the centerof technological innovation,while most developing econo-mies are not strong enough inmany fields.

“Heightening vigilanceagainst financial risk, workingout plans for more cutting-edge technologies, accelerat-ing the pace of the global valuechain and improving econom-ic and technological coopera-tion between developed anddeveloping economies couldeffectively solve issues of ener-gy, social development, educa-tion and the environmentwithin the region,” Liu said.

Meetings overthe weekend topromote growthBy ZHENGJINRAN

zhengjinran@chinadai-ly.com.cn

Companies in Beijing andsurrounding regions havestepped up their efforts toreduce the emission of air pol-lutants to maintain blue skiesduring the APEC meetings.

“To reduce emissions, wehave shut down our spraypainters instead of merelyreducing their use by 30 per-cent,” said Wu Haishan, depu-ty Party chief of Beijing FotonAuv Co in the city’s Fengtaidistrict, on Thursday.

Like the vehicle company,other companies listed in thecapital’s limited productiongroup have suspended pro-duction, said Zhang Huizhaoof the Bureau of Environmen-tal Supervision, part of theMinistry of EnvironmentalProtection.

The city had alreadyannounced pollution-re-stricting moves, includingalternating automobile driv-ing days based on odd-evenlicenseplatenumbersandthesuspension of heavy industri-al production.

The authorities have con-ducted inspections regularlyto ensure compliance.

To ensure good air qualityduring the Asia-Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation meetings,a series of emergency restric-tions have been implementedsince Saturday to controlvehicle exhaust and industri-al emissions. Dust from con-

struction sites in Beijing andTianjin, as well as in Hebei,Shandong,Shanxi andHenanprovinces and the Inner Mon-golia autonomous region,have also been targeted.

All the joint efforts, whichwill last until Wednesday, areexpected to cut emissions byat least 30 percent, based onthe reports from the govern-ments in the affected areas.

Cities in northern China,including Beijing, have seenclear skies for several days,with the PM2.5 index often inthe “good” zone, below 50.

During the upcomingweekend, windless weatherand stable atmospheric con-ditions may prevent the dis-persal of pollutants, addingpressure for tight controlsduring APEC, the nationalweather authority said.

Accordingly, many citieshave strengthened theirefforts to cut emissions,

imposing their most strin-gent emergency responsemeasures recently.

Tianjin and five cities ofHebei province, including thecapital city, Shijiazhuang,have halved the number ofprivate vehicles on the roadbased on license plate num-bers since Monday. An addi-

tional nine cities fromShandong and Hebei provin-ces joined the group onThursday.

To maintain effectiveness,the ministry has sent 16teams to the six municipali-ties and provinces since Mon-day. The teams have exposedsome problems in recentdays.

Of the 317 companiesinspected, 33 that shouldhave reduced or suspendedproduction as required werefound working as usual. And31 more continued to dis-charge pollutants into the air.

In addition, 55 construc-tion sites of the 103 inspectedwere found working or leav-ing dirt mounds uncovered, areport from the ministry said.

To ensure the reduction ofair pollutants, inspections bythe ministry and local teamswill continue, the ministrysaid.

LIN HUI / FOR CHINA DAILY

Tourists take a picture against the backdrop of Sunrise East Kempinski Hotel, landmark ofthe ongoing 2014 APEC Economic Leaders’ Week, and a clear blue sky in Yanqi Lake, Beijing,on Thursday. Authorities beefed up measures to reduce the emission of air pollutants inBeijing and surrounding areas while maintaining blue skies during the APEC meetings.

Companies do part to clean airPollution mightcome back toBeijing over theweekend amidstable weather

To reduce emissions,we have shut down ourspray painters insteadof merely reducingtheir use by 30 per-cent.”WU HAISHANDEPUTY PARTY CHIEF OF BEIJINGFOTON AUV CO

Proposed study of FTZgets top officials’ approvalBy ZHENGYANGPENGzhengyangpeng@chinadai-ly.com.cn

Senior officials from theAsia-Pacific Economic Coop-eration economies haveagreed to launch a strategicstudy of proposals for aregional free trade zone, it wasrevealed on Thursday.

The study of the Free TradeArea of the Asia-Pacific con-ceptwill last aroundtwoyears,the forum’s top official said.

“The whole processthrough the year has beenabout understanding whatFTAAP might mean, how itmight get there, how long itmight take, and how it mightfit in with these other under-negotiation trade agree-ments,” Alan Bollard,executive director of theAPEC Secretariat, said in Bei-jing.

He was referring to two oth-er proposed free trade pactsthat are under discussion. TheTrans-Pacific Partnership planis championed by Washingtonand does not include China,while the Regional Compre-hensive Economic Partner-ship is being promoted by the10-member Association ofSoutheast Asian Nations.

APEC wanted to see wheth-er TPP and RCEP are “likely toconverge toward somethingwhich would be in the direc-tion of an FTAAP”, Bollardsaid.

“Or could they send econo-mies off in different direc-tions? APEC would like to seethem converging. And thisstudy will help give us direc-tions about whether that’shappening or not,” he added.

A free trade zone dealremains at the “top of the agen-da”, the former head of NewZealand’s central bank said.But he stressed that “this is notan opening of negotiations”.

Plans for the study willhave to be approved by min-isters and heads of govern-ment at the APEC economicleaders’ meeting. APEC doesnot produce legally bindingrules.

The idea of a far-reachingtrade pact such as FTAAP, firstraised in 2006 by APEC lead-ers, has increasingly beenfavored and pushed by China.

But the United States’ preoc-cupation with the TPP negoti-ations has cast doubts on howmuch effort the region’s majoreconomies would put into theFTAAP proposal.

Wang Shouwen, the assist-ant minister at China’s Com-merce Ministry, said onTuesday that a road map forthe establishment of the zoneis expected to be rolled outduring next week’s APEC eco-nomic leaders’ meeting in Bei-jing.

He stressed that the FTAAPconcept was not proposed byChina, but was the result of aconsensus reached by all 21APEC member economies.

Wang said China believesFTAAP would help to inte-grate existing agreements.More than 50 bilateral, trilat-eral and multilateral agree-ments covering free tradezones have been implementedby economies in the APECregion.

A statement on fighting corruption will be included indocuments on the outcome of the ongoing APEC meet-ings, an official said on Thursday.

Alan Bollard, executive director of the APEC Secretari-at, said the Beijing Statement on Anti-corruption hasbeen proposed by both China and the United States.

Bollard said at a news briefing that the statement willresult in a group being set up that could bring enforce-ment agencies across the APEC region together andallow them to pass information about particular casesto each other.

“This is necessary for us to track cases across bor-ders within the APEC region and even to follow up andrecover assets if they are removed illegally,” Bollard said.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Oct 2 that China isready to enhance cooperation with the US on huntingcriminals and recovering money obtained illegally.

XINHUA

ANTI-GRAFT STATEMENT ONTHE WAY, OFFICIAL SAYS

Alan Bollard, executive directorof the APEC Secretariat

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Connectivity key to bolster linksBlueprint willcover hardware,software andpeople-to-peopleexchanges amongits membersBy ZHONGNANzhongnan@chinadaily.com.cn

Asia-Pacific economies willcount on enhanced regionalconnectivity to stimulatetrade and attract investmentas they pursue decisive meas-ures to improve regional eco-nomic integration.

Assistant Minister of Com-merce Wang Shouwen saidthat regional connectivity isamong the 21 member econo-mies’ top priorities when itcomes to promoting compre-hensive development in infra-structure, investment,regional trade and tourism.

Wang said that Chinawants to speed up the formu-lation of the APEC Blueprinton Connectivity, whichinvolves hardware, softwareand people-to-peopleexchanges to provide a strongfoundation for the Asia-Pacif-ic region’s long-term develop-ment.

“The blueprint will be help-ful in addressing the achieve-ments and challenges toconnectivity in this region, aswell as key initiatives forenhanced APEC connectivityand strategies for implemen-tation,” said Wang.

Hardware (or physical con-nectivity) includes maritime,land and air transport, energyinfrastructure, telecommuni-cations and information andcommunication technology.

Software (or institutionalconnectivity) comprises cus-toms, supply chains, finance,regulatory coherence andstructural reform.

People-to-people connec-tivity includes businessmobility, student andresearcher mobility, tourismfacilitation, labor and profes-sional mobility and cross-bor-der education.

Yu Ping, vice-chairman ofthe China Council for the Pro-motion of InternationalTrade, said that the top priori-ty is to establish a flexiblephysical transportation net-work throughout the Asia-Pa-cific region to further

stimulate economic growth.“The APEC economies, par-

ticularly those in SoutheastAsia and South America, suchas Vietnam, Indonesia, Peruand Chile, are building newplatforms for broader cooper-ation with major APEC econ-omies,” said Yu.

These platforms includeupgraded logistics services,giant international shippingcompanies, new air routes,pipelines, port facilities andland and sea telecommunica-tions.

“From a long-term view, thenew mechanism will fullysupport trade, private invest-ment, industrial productivityand the service sector in theAPEC region,” said PhaichitViboontanasarn, commercialminister at the ThailandEmbassy in Beijing.

Chen Yingming, executivevice-president of the Shang-hai-based China Port andHarbors Association, saidthat rail, road and sea connec-tivity projects between Singa-pore and Malaysia this yearset an example for the devel-opment of similar routesamong the APEC economies.

APEC leaders agreed inSingapore in 2009 to committo enhancing transportation

routes to promote regionalconnectivity.

And in addition to APECmembers, 21 Asian countries— including Bangladesh, Bru-nei, Cambodia, China, India,Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laosand Malaysia — signed amemorandum of under-standing last month in Bei-jing to establish the AsianInfrastructure InvestmentBank. The bank will developregional business activitythrough better-developedtransportation facilities.

The bank will be an inter-governmental regional devel-opment institution in Asia. Asagreed, Beijing will be thehost city for the AIIB's head-quarters. It is expected thatthe prospective foundingmembers will complete the

signing and ratification of thearticles of agreement in 2015and the AIIB will be formallyestablished by the end of2015.

APEC economies, especial-ly China, South Korea, Thai-land and the United States,are keen to encourage people-to-people connectivity todrive advances in the educa-tional sector and assist mem-ber nations or regions tobetter respond to natural dis-asters such as extreme weath-er, earthquakes andtsunamis.

APEC developed a businesstravel card in 1996. Holders ofthe card can travel visa-freeamong APEC member econo-mies.

According to the Ministryof Foreign Affairs, plans have

been made to set up an emer-gency response travel card to allow for fast response byAPEC member economies todisaster zones to facilitatelocal economic and infra-structure recovery.

Zhang Shaogang, director-general of the Department ofInternational Trade and Eco-nomic Affairs at the Ministryof Commerce, said thatimproving connectivityamong governments, multi-national corporations andinfluential academic institu-tions can be a way to optimizethe industrial structure.

“To help small economiesin the region, APEC econo-mies such as China, the US,Australia and Japan shouldshare their best practices inthe areas of transportationinfrastructure, investmentand operations,” Zhang said.

However, regional connec-tivity means huge private andgovernment investment ininfrastructure and ancillaryprojects, and raising fundstakes time.

In the current global econo-my, Zhang said the risks maystay high, as there are heavyconcerns about the feasibilityand profitability of large-scalebuilding and bridge projects.

30million

estimated Chinese 4G users bythe end of this year

CHEC to step up efforts across the regionBy ZHONGNAN

China Harbor EngineeringCo is planning to deploy moremanpower and other resour-ces in the Asia-Pacific region,as part of the engineering con-tractor’s global efforts to winmore orders in what it sees asa “lucrative growth market.”

Even though the shift is stillin the early stages, it couldhave meaningful economicimplication for the tradingbloc as it coincides with therenewed push from otherinternational companies andcommodity producers.

Mo Wenhe, chairman ofCHEC, said China has acceler-ated the efforts to boostregional connectivity withinthe APEC region to furtherimprove regional economicintegration, as well as in pro-moting the 21st Century Mari-time Silk Road and the AsianInfrastructure InvestmentBank.

“Since all the APEC mem-bers have long coastlines andmany ports, the 21st CenturyMaritime Silk Road will helplink growth centers such asHong Kong, Singapore andLos Angeles, as well as devel-op new regional hubs includ-

ing Jakarta, Perth in Australiaand Busan in South Korea,”said Mo.

A subsidiary of China Com-munications Construction CoLtd, CHEC started to expandto Southeast Asia in the early1990s. With more than 10,000employees, the company nowhas more than 60 overseasbranch offices or subsidiariesserving clients in over 80countries.

“Most of the countries inthe Association of SoutheastAsian Nations rely on com-modity, energy and agricul-tural products trade.However, the shortage of goodinfrastructure facilities suchas roads, bulk terminals, con-tainer ship ports and crude oildocks, has affected govern-ment revenues and people’sliving standards within theregion,” Mo said.

China has maintained itsposition as ASEAN’s largesttrading partner, with tradevolume of about $443.6 bil-lion in 2013, up 11 percentyear-on-year.

Mo said improving infra-structure facilities such asports, roads and regional andinternational airports wouldhelp the APEC nations boost

exports, people’s incomes,social welfare and employ-ment rate.

Unlike other Chinese con-struction companies, whichonly focus on engineering,procurement and construc-tion projects, CHEC has grad-ually transferred its pillarbusiness from EPC into newbusiness models such asbuild-operate-transfer, andpublic-private-partnership forboth public and private sec-tors.

The Chinese company wona $2.39 billion deal in theAsia-Pacific region in 2013,accounting for 34 percent ofits international business.

Backed by flexible businessservice packages and localiza-tion strategies, the companycompleted the main section ofthe second Penang Bridge inMalaysia, the principal part of300,000-ton crude oil termi-nal and channel dredgingproject of Sino-MyanmarCrude Oil Pipeline Project, aswell as the pile-sinking con-struction work of the Lae PortProject in Papua New Guinea.

CHEC also won contractsworth $2.3 billion in the Asia-Pacific region during the firstthree quarters of the year,accounting for 34 percent ofits global business, includingbig-ticket projects — the

(Phase I) Hong Kong Portinfrastructure constructionproject of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge and theEPC projects of DBK-MRCCoal Mining and Transporta-tion Corridor Infrastructureproject in Indonesia.

Diao Chunhe, president ofChina International Contrac-tors Association, which helpsChinese companies facilitatenew business in overseasmarkets, said Chinese com-panies are attractive to gov-ernments and businesspartners in the APEC region,because unlike their compet-itors in Australia, SouthKorea and Qatar, they comewith their own funding mod-el.

“Chinese companies arecapable of coordinatingfinance for projects throughChinese institutions such asthe Export-Import Bank ofChina or China DevelopmentBank. They have built severalinfrastructure projects inemerging markets like Indo-nesia, Malaysia and Thai-land,” said Diao.

“They also do not generallyseek sovereign guaranteeswhen working with localpartners.”

Telecom industry liftsinternational profileBy GAOYUANgaoyuan@chinadaily.com.cn

China’s ever-expanding tele-communications industry isbringing the world closertogether, industry insiderssaid ahead of the Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation meet-ing in Beijing.

And the surging adoption offourth-generation telecomnetworks is set to boost tele-com-related consumption inthe country, such as the sale ofsmartphones.

“As the three major telecomoperators of China obtainTD-LTE licenses, their strengthwill be greatly enhanced andthe industry will become moremature,” said Jason Shen, asenior market analyst at globalmarket intelligence firm IDCChina’s TelecommunicationsResearch Group.

China’s Big Three telecomcarriers — China TelecomCorp Ltd, China United Net-work Communications GroupCo Ltd, or China Unicom, andChina Mobile Communica-tions Corp Ltd — have all beenworking to promote their 4Gservices to Chinese customerssince the spring, althoughmany small cities — especiallyin Western China — still haveno or poor 4G signal coverage.

A report from IDC has esti-mated that with more smart-phones sold in Chinaequipped with 4G capabilities,the penetration rate of this lat-est telecomtechnology is set tosurge in coming years.

Chinese telecom equipmentmakersarealsomakingstrongmoves overseas. The latestexample was revealed in Sep-tember when Cambodian tele-communications companyEMAXX announced a part-nership with Chinese giantHuawei Technologies Co Ltdon 4G network construction.

In mid-August, two subsidi-aries of China Mobile and Chi-na Telecom, the country’s top

telecom carriers, joined a Goo-gle Inc-led project to build atrans-Pacific submarine fiberoptic cable system connectingAsia and North America. The$300 million project, namedFaster, will significantly liftInternet connection speed inChina and other Asian nationsafter it goes live in mid-2016,according to a six-companyconsortium funding the con-struction work.

“With Faster, we will be ableto cater to our customers’increasing demand for band-width,” said a statement fromChina Mobile’s Hong Kong-arm.

“The project is set to consol-idate China Mobile’s advanta-ges in the data servicesegment.”

China’s mobile Internet userbase has now grown to 500million and is accelerating athigh double-digit pace becauseof 4G expansion, according tothe China Internet NetworkInformation Center. The Min-istry of Industry and Informa-tion Technology has estimatedthat China will have 30 million4Gusersby theendofyear, justa year after it was officiallylaunched.

The government’s Broad-band China Project is aimedsquarely at extending broad-band coverage in the entirecountry. Kitty Fok, managingdirector of IDC China, saidInternet connectivity is a pri-ority within the government’snext five-year plan.

“There will be a significantincrease in wireless data usagewith more than 1 billion smart-phone users by the end of 2017.At the same time a number ofsmart city projects are going tobe the focus,” said Fok.

Business travelcard programto be expandedBy ZHONGNAN

China and other APECmember economies are plan-ning to extend the period ofvalidity of the APEC BusinessTravel Card from three to fiveyears and widen availability ofthe card to other professions.

Zhang Shaogang, director-general of the department ofinternational trade and eco-nomic affairs at the MinistryofCommerce, said theChinesegovernment is working closelywith the foreign affairs andborder control authorities ofother APEC members toexpand the card’s ability toincrease connectivity withinthe region.

“The governments of APECeconomies are consideringallowing scholars, studentsand media professionals toapply for the ABTC in a bid tofurther improve business,technology and mediaexchanges among multina-tional corporations, pressagencies, influential academicinstitutions and universitieswithin the region,” said Zhang.

A total of 150,000 ABTCshave been issued to entrepre-neurs and company employ-ees since the program waslaunched in 1997, including30,000 from China.

Very much in line with theorganization’s goals of freeand open regional trade andinvestment, the card programallows business travelers pre-cleared, facilitated short-termentry to participating membereconomies, removing the need

for individuals to apply for vis-as or entry permits. Multipleentries are allowed with thecard’s three-year valid period.

Zhang said card holdersbenefit from faster immigra-tion processing on arrival atmajor airports in participat-ing economies, via specialAPEC, fast-track entry and exitlanes.

There are 19 APEC membereconomies fully participatingin the program, including Aus-tralia, Brunei Darussalam,Chile, China, Indonesia,Japan, South Korea, Malaysia,Mexico and New Zealand.

Canada and the UnitedStates are also transitionalmembers. The former is work-ing toward issuing cards to itsown citizens while in the lat-ter, legislationhasbeenpassedauthorizing the issuance ofABTCs to eligible persons,with the US Customs and Bor-der Protection already in theprocess of starting card issu-ance.

Zhao Zhongxiu, a trade pro-fessor at the University ofInternational Business andEconomics in Beijing, said theABTC program has not onlyreduced transaction costs forcardholders, but also for busi-ness people and governments.

“The card helps enhanceborder integrity and securityin participating country’s bor-der agencies as it increases thenumber of low-risk travelerscoming through. Each appli-cant is checked against ‘watchlists’ of other participatingeconomies,” said Zhao.

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443.6billion dollars

trade volume betweenChina and ASEAN members

in 2013

11percent

year-on-year growth in tradevolume between China and

ASEAN in 2013

XINHUA

Finance Minister Lou Jiwei addresses members during the signing ceremony of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank atthe Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct 24. The bank will develop regional business activity through better-developedtransportation facilities.

To help small economies in the region,APEC economies such as China, theUS, Australia and Japan should sharetheir best practices in the areas oftransportation infrastructure,investment and operations.”ZHANG SHAOGANGDIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OFINTERNATIONAL TRADE AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRSAT THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE

Since all the APEC members have longcoastlines and many ports, the 21stCentury Maritime Silk Road will helplink growth centers ...”MO WENHE CHAIRMAN OF CHEC

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APEC 2014Putin sees meetings aschance to strengthen tiesEditor’s note: Russian Presi-dent Vladimir Putin gave aninterview to the leading Chinesemediaoutlets in the runup tohisvisit to the People’s Republic ofChina, where he will take partin the 2014 Asia-Pacific Eco-nomic Cooperation leaders’meeting.

The APEC event will be heldin Beijing soon. How doesRussia estimate the role ofthis association? What doesthe Russian side expect fromthis meeting? In your opin-ion, how can Russia and Chi-na consolidate theircooperation within theframework of this forum,contributing to peace, sta-bility and prosperity of theAsia-Pacific region?

PRESIDENT VLADIMIRPUTIN: APEC’s progressivedevelopment during a quar-ter of a century has persua-sively demonstrated therelevance of this authorita-tive association format, aplatform to agree upon com-mon “rules of the game” inthe trade and economicsphere in the Asia-Pacificregion.

It is worth noting that allthe decisions reached withinthe framework of the forumare adopted on the basis ofthe principles of mutualrespect and accommodationof the interests of each other,which reflects the spirit ofAPEC.

Under the current condi-tions, when some countriesprefer to act in the interna-tional arena using the meth-ods of political, economicand often even coercive pres-sure, the role of APEC as aneffective coordinating mech-anism for building a newregional architecture isindispensable.

Russia actively participatesin APEC activities.

The next meeting of theAPEC leaders, on Nov 10 and11 in Beijing, will definitely beone of the key Asia-Pacificregion events of this year. Ashost of APEC in 2014, Chinahas prepared a huge packageof initiatives.

For example, a road maptoward an Asia-Pacific freetrade zone is to be adopted. Aplan providing specific meas-ures aimed at promotingcomprehensive coherence ofthe region, innovative devel-opment and structuralreforms has been elaboratedupon.

We intend to pursue ourtraditionally close, construct-ive cooperation with Presi-dent of the People’s Republicof China Xi Jinping duringfuture discussions, includingin the implementation of thesummit decisions.

I am convinced that theAPEC Economic Leaders’Meeting in Beijing will makea great contribution to thefurther consolidation of anequal and mutually benefi-cial partnership in theregion.

What is your assessment ofthe progress of the Russian-Chinese ties at this stage?What steps are Russia readyto take in order to deepen itscomprehensive strategiccooperation and partnershipwith China?

Strengthening ties with thePRC is a foreign policy priori-ty of Russia. Today, our rela-tions have reached thehighest level of comprehen-sive, equitable, trust-basedpartnership and strategicinteraction in their entire his-tory.

Russian-Chinese relationshave become a crucial factorin accommodating the for-eign policy interests of thetwo countries in the 21st cen-tury, playing a significant rolein establishing a just, harmo-nious and safe world order. Atthe same time, our bilateralties hold great potential forfurther progressive develop-ment.

I would like to emphasizethat today our countries facesimilar tasks. First of all, weneed to upgrade infrastruc-ture and promote high tech-nology sectors.

We also share many sector-al priorities, such as energyconservation and energy effi-ciency, development of newinformation technologies,transport, nuclear energy,outer space, environmentalprotection, and production ofmodern drugs and medicalequipment.

We have considerablyenhanced our cooperation inthe energy sector. We havebuilt and put into operationan oil pipeline from Russia toChina and concluded agree-ments providing for theincrease in crude oil supplies.In accordance with our previ-ous agreements, our export ofenergy resources to China hasgrown and joint activitiesaimed at exploring andextracting crude oil and coalin Russia have been under-taken.

Construction of a largejoint oil refinery plant hasbeen launched in China. Pro-jects relating to the peacefuluse of nuclear energy arebeing successfully imple-mented.

An obvious breakthroughwas made this year by con-cluding an ambitious naturalgas agreement.

This is the largest long-term agreement in the historyof bilateral relations andglobal trade in general. Fur-thermore, we have reachedunderstanding in principleconcerning the opening of thewestern route.

We have already agreed onmany technical and commer-cial aspects of this project,laying a good basis for reach-ing final arrangements.

As Russia and China arecountries with rich traditionsand distinct cultures, human-itarian ties are of special sig-nificance for them.

Both 2014 and 2015 are see-

ing a new ambitious inter-state project, the Years ofFriendly Youth Exchanges,between Russia and China.Its program includes about600 events in total.

The 70th anniversary of thevictory over Nazism will becelebrated next year. Russiaand China will carry out aseries of ceremonies com-memorating this event. Inyour opinion, what does thejoint celebration of this dateby the two countries meanfor preserving the historicalmemory, suppressing theattempts to deny the resultsof World War II, and contrib-uting to global peace?

A remarkable date will becelebrated in Russia on May9, 2015 — the 70th anniversa-ry of the Victory in the GreatPatriotic War.

On September 3, 2015, cer-emonial events commemo-rating the end of World WarII and the victory of the Chi-nese people, who forced outthe invaders, will take placein Beijing.

In the course of negotia-tions in Shanghai, which tookplace this May, we agreedwith PRC President Xi Jin-ping that we would celebratethese memorable datestogether, as noted in our jointstatement.

During the war, the SovietUnion and China were allieswho struggled against a com-mon enemy, shoulder toshoulder.

Our countries have with-stood the severe test withhonor and borne the brunt ofresistance against the aggres-sors.

At the concluding stage ofthe war, tens of thousands ofour compatriots sacrificedtheir lives for the liberation ofNortheast China.

I would like to thank ourChinese friends for their care-ful attitude toward the mem-ory of heroes, the bed ofhonors, and the war memori-als.

Our brotherhood in armsand mutual aid of the peoplesof our countries have provid-ed a solid foundation for thepresent-day Russian-Chineserelations.

Today, Russia and Chinaare interested in enhancingglobal stability and develop-

ing broad cooperation on thebasis of international law andthe key role of the UN.

We oppose the return to theideological confrontation inworld affairs and stronglycondemn any attempts to fal-sify the history of World WarII.

I am sure that the upcom-ing celebration of the victory’sanniversary in Russia andChina will enhance bilateralunderstanding and coopera-tion even more.

Which factors do you thinkhave led to the fall in globaloil prices? Will this processhave a significant impact onthe Russian economy? Howis Russia tackling its nega-tive effects?

Of course, the obvious rea-son of the decline in global oilprices is the slowdown in therate of economic growth,which means energy con-sumption is being reduced ina whole range of countries.

Moreover, both strategicand commercial oil reservesin developed countries are attheir highest levels in history.

There is also the impact ofinnovations in the technologyof oil production, which led tothe new volumes of hydrocar-bon entering the regionalmarkets.

In addition, a political com-ponent is always present in oilprices. Furthermore, at somemoments of crisis, it starts to feel like it is politics that pre-vails in the pricing of energyresources.

Another negative factor isthe lack of a distinct, directlink between the physical oilmarkets and the financialplatforms where the trade isconducted.

At the same time, the deriv-atives greatly increasing thevolatility of oil prices arebeing actively used.

Unfortunately, such a situa-tion creates the conditions forspeculative activity and, as aconsequence, for manipulat-ing the prices in someone’sinterests.

The steps taken by us are ofa comprehensive and long-term nature.

They envisage furtherdiversification of the struc-ture and growth sources ofthe Russian economy, as wellas the decrease of overde-pendence on the Europeanhydrocarbon market, amongother things due to thegrowth in oil and gas exportsto the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.

Alongside that, we intendto optimize budget spendingand monetary and fiscal poli-cy.

It is obvious that the risksconnected with the new situa-tion of the global oil marketaffect quite a wide range ofstates and companies.

That is why we support aconstant dialogue on thisissue with the leading pro-ducers and consumers ofenergy resources.

Moscow keen to build seamless Asia-Pacific communityBy PUZHENDONGpuzhendong@chiandaily.com.cn

Moscow is playing a more“active and constructive” rolein the Asia-Pacific to facilitatethe establishment of “one sin-gle economic entity” in theregion, a senior Russian dip-lomat told China Daily onThursday.

“It is our ultimate goal towork with regional partnersto build a seamless Asia-Pacif-ic community in terms oftrade and economic coopera-tion, based on the principlesof openness, inclusiveness,transparency and equality,”said Valery Sorokin, Russia’s

senior official for the Asia-Pa-cific Economic Cooperation.

Sorokin is attending thisyear’s fourth and final APECSenior Officials’ Meeting inBeijing, which marks the cli-max of the economic leaders’meeting on Monday andTuesday.

“This is the concluding Sen-ior Officials’ Meeting. We aresumming up what we havediscussed and done withinthe year into ‘outcome docu-ments’ for our ministers toapprove,” he said.

“At this stage, the bulk ofthis year’s ministerial state-ments and leaders’ declara-tion is ready, but we are still

fine-tuning some details,” headded.

Sorokin said one of APEC’smost significant achieve-ments this year is the agree-ment to lay out a road map tothe establishment of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific.

“As part of the Asia-Pacific,Russia supports the integra-tion and does not want theAsia-Pacific economic spacefragmented,” he added.

In recent years, negotia-tions over several subregionaltrading groupings such as theTrans Pacific Partnership andthe Regional ComprehensiveEconomic Partnership haveaccelerated.

Sorokin said the existingand emerging integrationmechanisms should not seekto split the region economi-

cally or interrupt the simulta-neous negotiations over theFTAAP.

“Russia has successfulregional integration experi-ence of the Eurasian Econom-ic Union, which we think isuseful to APEC’s undertakingof FTAAP,” he added.

The EEU is a political andeconomic union betweenBelarus, Kazakhstan, Russiaand Armenia that will official-ly take effect next year, creat-ing a single market of morethan 170 million people and agross domestic product of $3trillion.

Describing Russia as “abridge between the East and

the West”, Sorokin said closerlinkages between the twointegration mechanismsshould be built to producemore benefits for regionaleconomies.

He also dismissed specula-tions over Moscow’s shift ofeconomic focus to the morelucrative Asia-Pacific regiondue to escalating sanctionsimposed by the United Statesand the European Union, whoaccused Russia of incitingunrest in Eastern Ukraine

Sorokin said Russia’semphasis on the Asia-Pacifichas never been out of thedemand or requirement ofthe present situation with

Russian economy, but a policydirection that has been fol-lowed for years.

“Asia-Pacific is a robust andwell-established engine forglobal development, even intimes of financial crisis. Ibelieve APEC economies arecontributing to a speedy glob-al recovery,” Sorokin said.

“We are not starting to payattention to the Asia-Pacificbecause of the sanctions,” headded.

On Tuesday, Russia alsocontributed $3 million to theAPEC Support Fund in an aimto endorse the organization’scapacity-building initiativesfor member economies.

Valery Sorokin, Russia’s seniorofficial for the Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation

Vladimir Putin,Russian president

Australian trademinister visits forFTA, APEC talksByXINHUA

Australian trade ministerAndrew Robb departs forChina to attend the Asia-Pa-cific Economic Cooperationmeetings in Beijing and tohold high-level talks on afree trade agreement withChina, the Department ofForeign Affairs and Tradesaid on Thursday.

During his visit, Robb isexpected to meet with keyChinese counterparts fortalks to advance negotiationsfor the FTA with Australia’sbiggest trading partner.

“After almost a decade, theFTA negotiations have nowreached an advanced stage,but there are critical issuesstill to be worked through ifwe are to fulfill our objectiveof a satisfactory conclusionthis year, and making furtherpositiveprogresswillbeapri-mary focus of my visit,” Robbwas quoted as saying.

Robb will participate in anAPEC ministerial meeting onNov 7- 8.

APEC is an important eco-nomic forum in the AsiaPacific with 21 economiesaccounting for 58 percent ofglobal GDP and more thantwo-thirdsofAustralia’s tradein goods and services. Theministerial meeting followedby the APEC Economic Lead-

ers’MeetingonNov10-11pro-vides an opportunity toreview the forum’s trade andeconomic work and to con-sider challenges facing mem-ber economies.

Robb said APEC offers aplatform to highlight theimportance of getting theWorld Trade Organization’sTrade Facilitation Agreementback on track.

“APEC has a good recordon trade facilitation and iswell-placed to demonstratethe benefits for business oftheWTOagreement,”hesaid.

This year, Australia has ledwork on a number of APECinitiatives in line with theAustralian government’s eco-nomic priorities.

“We have promoted theopening of services marketsto make global value chainsmore efficient and support-ed reforms to enable the fast-er and cheaper movement ofAustralian goods withinregional supply chains,”Robb said.

As host of the G20 summitlater this month, Australiahas also worked closely with2014 APEC host China toensure that the like-mindedapproach Australia and Chi-na take to the work pro-grams of the two forumstranslates into practical out-comes for business.

Philippines givespraise to ChinaByXINHUA

Chinahasdonemore thanexpected in the Asia Pacificregional economic integra-tion and should be congratu-lated for its role instrengthening the Asia-Pa-cific Economic Cooperationas a regional forum, accord-ing to a senior Philippineofficial in an interview withXinhua on Wednesday.

Laura Q. Del Rosario,undersecretary of the Philip-pine Department of ForeignAffairs, said China has intro-duced many initiatives con-cerning the economy,innovation and regionalintegration and has done avery good job.

The interview was con-ducted shortly before the22nd APEC Economic Lead-ers’ Meeting slated for Nov10-11 in Beijing.

A strong Philippine dele-gation led by PresidentBenigno Aquino III willattend the meeting.

“It will be a bit more excit-ing for us because the Philip-pines will host the 2015APEC summit in Manila,”said Del Rosario.

In the interview, Del Rosa-rio emphasized the impor-tance of infrastructuredevelopment in the Philippi-nes and infrastructure con-nectivity for the Asia Pacific

region in order to furtherenhance economic growthand attract investments.

“We will solve the conges-tion problem in the Port ofManila and continue push-ing forward public-privatepartnerships on infrastruc-ture development projects,”Del Rosario said, adding thatthe Philippines is workingextra hard to make it easierfor foreign investors to dobusiness in the country.

On Oct 24, the Philippinessigned the Memorandum ofUnderstandingonEstablish-ing Asian InfrastructureInvestment Bank.

“If we have shown ourconfidence in China’s leader-ship, that means we knowChina will provide a goodway for everybody to beincluded in infrastructureconnectivity,” said Del Rosa-rio.

She said that as an archi-pelago, the Philippines is notconnected to any country in the region through railwaysor roads. “So the country canonly engage in trade with itsneighbors in the regionthrough shipping,” she said.

Apart from the regionaleconomic cooperation, DelRosario also stressed theimportance of cultural andeducational exchangesamong the countries in theregion.

Conceptfor pactgoes backto 2004By XINHUA

There’s no need to worrythat the expected launch ofwork on a free trade zonewould complicate the tradeterrain in the Asia-Pacific.Instead, itwouldraisehopesfor a solution of the current“spaghetti bowl” dilemma.

Attention has beenfocused on the prospect ofestablishing the Free TradeArea of the Asia-Pacific as aseries of high-profile Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera-tion meetings opened herethis week. One of the meet-ing’s outcomes, Chinaexpects, will be the start ofthe FTAAP process.

Those who see the moveas China’s challenge to theTrans-Pacific Partnershipand anticipate diplomaticwrestling over it will findtheir speculations unfound-ed and unnecessary, observ-ers say.

A free trade area has longbeen a common vision forAPEC economies, not aproduct of China’s ownwishful thinking.

The FTAAP is not a newidea, nor was it first broughtto the table by China. Chinasuggested a feasibility studyon the FTAAP in Februarythis year, but it was first pro-posed in 2004 and writteninto the declaration of theAPEC leaders’ meeting in2006.

An annual meeting ofAPEC trade ministers inMay reiterated the resolu-tion to draft a road map forthe FTAAP to be finalizedthis year.

The idea gained trac-tion as the region’s mush-rooming free trade pactsresulted in growing com-plexity and costs forexporters and importers.Hosting the 2014 APECmeetings, China is deter-mined to push for con-crete steps on the FTAAP,showcasing its efforts toshoulder more interna-tional responsibility, asthe country has beenrepeatedly urged to do.

The impasse in theDoha round of global mul-tilateral trade talks gaveimpetus to a proliferationof smaller free trade agree-ments in the region. Theybrought some benefits butalso unwanted troubles:different tariff schemes,complicated rules of ori-gin and trade discrimina-tion against countriesexcluded from the FTAs,to list a few.

Against that backdrop,APEC economies’ enthusi-asm to integrate the vary-ing and overlapping FTAsis understandable.

The TPP and the Region-al Comprehensive Eco-nomic Partnership are alsopart of the efforts to disen-tangle the “spaghetti bowl”,but each of them involvesonly some of the region’seconomies.

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The government is likely togive the green light to somenuclear projects this year,with the Hongyan Rivernuclear plant likely being thefirst to get approval, accord-ing to officials.

Several othernew nuclear pro-jects are also in

the works, the official said,adding that the moves wouldhelp ensure China’s energysecurity and economicgrowth.

Guo Chengzhan, deputydirector of the NationalNuclear Safety Administra-tion, China’s nuclear regula-tor, told China Daily that“some new nuclear projectswill start construction thisyear”, defying expectationsthat the onset of winter andother technical issues wouldhold up construction thisyear.

Tang Bo, another official atthe administration, said thatthe regulatory body hasalready drawn up a draft listof new projects for finalapproval and is also workingon the resumption of thenuclear energy developmentplan.

“Our job is to completethe technical preparation

of the nuclear sites beforethe government’s finalapproval,” he said.

The nuclear safety admin-istration is working on theenvironmental impactassessment and safetyinspection of three nuclearprojects, including units 5and 6 of the Hongyan Rivernuclear project in Liao-ningprovince, the Shidao Baynuclear demonstrationproject in Shandong prov-ince and units 5 and 6 of theFuqing nuclear power plantin Fujian province.

However, which of theseprojects will be the first toget the nod remains uncer-tain.

Pan Ziqiang, an academi-cian and chairman of theCommittee of Science andTechnology of China Nation-al Nuclear Corp, said theHongyan River nuclear plantis the most likely candidatefor first approval.

He said that all the threeprojects are waiting for thegreen light from the StateCouncil, the final step to startconstruction. The HongyanRiver nuclear plant has beenfaster than the other two incompleting the assessmentand safety checks from thenuclear safety administra-tion.

“No matter which project

gets approval first, it will be abig step forward for China torevive the industry afterJapan’s nuclear catastrophe,”he told China Daily.

After the Fukushimanuclear disaster in Japan inthe wake of a massive earth-quake and tsunami in 2011,China suspended approval ofnuclear plants constructionto revise its safety standards.

But the country is nowpushing ahead to restartand embark on a program ofnew nuclear plants tochange its energy mix amidmounting pressure from airpollution.

Foreign nuclear powercompanies are teaming upwith Chinese nuclear giantsand deploying their corenuclear technologies in thecountry’s nuclear plants totap into what will be theworld’s fastest-growingnuclear market, sources said

Candu Energy Inc, a sub-sidiary of Canadian SNC-Lav-alin Group, said on Thursdaythat its advanced fuel Candureactor based on pressurizedheavy water technology haspassed the review by the Chi-nese nuclear expert panel,signaling it has gained accessto commercialize its nucleartechnology.

China currently operatestwo Candu reactors at theQinshan nuclear plant inZhejiang province, and bothare expected to be modifiedto use recycled uranium fuelin 2015.

Green light fornuke plants soonSome new projects may win approvalas soon as this year, says top official

ENERGY

By GAOYUANand LIUKUN in Wuhan

Slowing smartphone demandin China is weighing on LenovoGroupLtd’ssalesasthecompanysprints to catch up with AppleInc and Samsung Electronics CoLtdinthehandsetsegment.

On Thursday, Lenovo report-ed third-quarterrevenue growththat fell below

market expectations, sendingdownits sharepricesandcloud-ing expectations for the futureprofitability of the world’s larg-estpersonal computermaker.

Globalrevenuewasup7.2per-centto$10.5billion,thesmallestincrease inat least sixquarters.

Quarterly setbacks did nothurt Lenovo Chairman andChief Executive Yang Yuan-qing’s attempt to build themobile device segment into anew cash cow to replace the PCbusiness,whichprovidedadec-ade of profits.

“Wewill replicateoursuccessin PCs by outgrowing the mar-ket to challenge the top two.Mobile and enterprise busi-nesses are now our new growthengines,andovertime, likePCs,theywillbecomeourprofitpoolas well,” Yang said.

Lenovo hopes that MotorolaMobility will help it unlockdeveloped markets in WesternEurope and North America.The company said last monththat it completed a $2.91 billionbuyout of Motorola Mobilityfrom Google Inc. According toresearch firm IDC, the acquisi-tion helped Lenovo to becomethe world’s third-largest smart-phone vendor with an 8.7 per-cent market share, after Appleand South Korea’s Samsung.

Challenges still loomforLen-ovo in the coming quarters.

Chris Jones, vice-president

of international research com-panyCanalys, said: “Theglobalmarket isbecomingmorecom-petitive, with vendors beyondSamsung and Apple enjoyinggrowing success.”

It comes down to the strongvalue proposition and increasingqualityofproductsofferedacrossallpricepointsbycompetingven-dorssuchasLenovo,Jonessaid.

The rise of Xiaomi Corp,among other China-basedsmartphone producers, is alsoan issue forLenovo.

Lenovo must continuouslyroll out products that appealstrongly to Chinese buyers infunction and price to maintainitsmarket share in thecountry.

AsofSeptember, sixof the top10 global vendors were Chinesebrands, according toCanalys.

Xiaomi is running neck-and-neck with Lenovo for secondplace in China’s smartphonemarket. But both companiesare eyeing the top slot nowoccupied by Samsung, whichhas been losing ground to localchallengers in recent months.

Xiaomi, based in Beijing,may hold an initial publicoffering as soon as next year,the South China Morning Postreported. Industry insidersspeculate Xiaomi’s valuationcould be as high as $50 billion.

China, which can accommo-date both high- and low-endproducts, will remain the topsmartphone market for globalhandsetmakers fora long time.

Data from Canalys show theChinese mainland accountedfor more than one-third of the

total smartphone shipmentsin the third quarter, with theUS far behind at 13 percent.India, the third-largest mar-ket, took 6 percent of globalsmartphone shipments.

The global market is the nextchallenge forChineseproducerstoconquer.

“Lenovo has gained brandawareness, carrier relationshipsand crucial patent cover to ena-ble global expansion,” saidJones. “Assuming it can consoli-date and grow from its currentposition, Lenovo, with Motoro-la, is well-placed to mount a realchallenge to Apple as the world-wideNo2vendor in2015.”

Contact the writers at gaoyu-an@chinadaily.com.cn andliukun@chinadaily.com.cn

Weakdemand is hurtingLenovo

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Customers try out Lenovo computers at a company outlet in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.Lenovo’s global revenue was up 7.2 percent to $10.5 billion in the quarter ending September,the smallest increase in at least six quarters.

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China’smarket for building-integrated photovoltaic ener-gy offers huge potential forsolar power companies, build-

ers and govern-ments to cutcarbon emissions,

experts said.The country aims to have

1.79 billion square meters for

BIPV buildings in the next fiveyears, which means a carbonreduction of 52 million metrictons if those areas areequippedwith solar panels forpower generation, said LiuMin, executive president ofHanergy Holding Group, theworld’s largest thin-film pho-tovoltaic solar panelmanufac-turer.“The market has a growing

need for BIPV projects and

China is still at the initialstage,” he said.According to the European

Photovoltaic Industry Associ-ation, BIPV buildings accountfor more than 80 percent ofsolar power generation inEurope.Although China is the

world’s largest solarpanel pro-ducer,more than95percent ofthe sector’s output is exported.Strictly speaking, the actual

production of solar panels isnot “clean energy”, eventhough the electricity generat-ed by solar facilities is, said LiJunfeng, director of the

National Center for ClimateChange Strategy and Interna-tional Cooperation.“China should make more

efforts to use clean energysuch as solar and wind,” Lisaid.In China, more than 95 per-

cent of existing buildings areenergy-intensive structures,according to the Ministry ofHousing and Urban-RuralDevelopment.Energy use in the building

construction sector accountsfor 27 percent of China’s totalenergy consumption. In thepast year, theconstructionsec-

tor consumed energy equal to1 billion metric tons of stan-dard coal, said theministry.In late October, Hanergy

announced that the firstphaseof theBIPVproject at itsheadquarters in Beijing wascomplete. The companyinstalled 600 kilowatts ofsolar power generation capac-ity in the roofs and curtainwalls, and those facilities cansupply 20percent of thebuild-ing’s electricity, according toHanergy.The company will be able to

derive 100percent of its powersupply via BIPV projects after

the completion of the secondphase.The project will generate 3

million kilowatt-hours of elec-tricity annually and reducecarbon emissions by 25 mil-lion tons, said the company.Roofs have been the tradi-

tional area for solar panelinstallations because of theirwide area and good sunshineconditions. Roofs are perfectfor polysilicon solarmodules,which are shaped like hardplastic plates. But thin-filmsolar panels, which are flexi-ble, have made more build-ing areas suitable for solar

power panel installations.InBeijing’sHuairoudistrict,

the site of the 2014Asia-PacificEconomic Cooperation meet-ing, Hanergy completed a 12.2kWBIPV project inMarch.However, BIPV projects

have a downside— high costs.The unit cost of such installa-tions is 800 yuan ($131) to1,200 yuan per square meter.Liu said the payback periodfor such projects is eight to 12years.Industry sources said the

high costs and long paybackperiods make it difficult toattract users.

Hanergy aims to build a solar future in ChinaBuilding-integrated systems slashenergy consumption, but cost a lot

POWER

By CHINADAILY

Leading construction andbuilding-materials companiesfrom around the world arepledging tohelpmakeChineseresidential and commercialproperties more sustainableand with longer life spans,

helpedby thecontin-

ued development of variousadvanced prefabricated andeco-friendlymaterials.Speaking at 2014 Shanghai

International Building Indus-trialization Exhibition lastmonth, some suggested thatcompared with overseasbuildings those in China stillsuffer from a reputation forrapid depreciation.But experts said they now

believe the increased use ofsteel structures, the integra-tionofmore industrialparts inhome construction, and moreattention given to fireproofingtechnology, will enable Chi-nese new builds to achieve

much longer lives, in somecases almost four times thecurrent average of 30 years.As living standards and pri-

ceshaverisen inChina, theuseof prefabricated building sys-tems has become more popu-lar and important.Ye Chao,marketing director

of Baosteel Construction Sys-tem Integration Co, explainedthat the company has beeninvolved in creating a newtype of prefabricated buildingcalled Baohouse, inspired byGermany’s Bauhaus, whichcan last approximately 100years.Ye said his company will

continue to develop new pre-

fabricated building systemsandexplorenewways of creat-ing more sustainable houses,which it hopes will establish afuture platform of innovationfor thewhole industry.Another Chinese company

creating sustainable home-building materials is Shang-hai Johnson Architectural &Engineering Designing Con-sultants Ltd, which makesflexible and sustainable prod-ucts designed to solve someof the problems associatedwith buildings’ renovations,said Fan Haisheng, its brandandmarketing deputy direct-or.Fan said its core technolo-

gies have now been used on 16major real estate projectsincluding some completed byChina Vanke Co Ltd, the coun-try’s largest property develop-er.In Europe, particularly,

building companies arefocussing on using moredurable construction materi-als instead of materials onlysuitable for prefabricatedhousing.One of the main themes of

the building exhibition hasbeen tohighlight howsomeofthe experiences of Europe’sindustrialization can be com-bined with Chinese practices.Seppo Kauppinen, general

manager of Finnish precastconcrete machinery supplierElematic (Shanghai) Ltd,claimed its products areworld leading in quality, andideally suited for long-termuse on modern sustainabledesigns.Elematic, which supplies a

range of precast concretemachinery and equipment,

claims a 40 percent share ofthe global market, he said,and has been foreseeing Chi-nese market’s massive poten-tial.“We are very confident in

our products and we wouldlike to use them to help Chi-nese people get better life outof their buildings by using ourtechnology,” said Kauppinen.

“On the other hand, we arealso happy to see more com-ponents being used in thisfield, in competition to ours,which will create a positiveatmosphere toboost the coun-try’s development.”Another major European

company promoting its waresat the eventwas AkzoNobel, aDutchmultinational that sup-

plies decorative paints, per-formance coatings andspecialty chemicals.David Gu, who works in

engineering sales for thecompany, said its new water-proof and rustproof oil paintis ideal for China’s precastbuilding industry, and cangreatly enhance buildingdurability.

Firms promote more sustainable,longer-lasting buildingmethods

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Visitors examine models of the new style of buildings designed by Shanghai JohnsonArchitecture & Engineering Design Consultants Ltd on display at the 2014 ShanghaiInternational Building Industrialization Exhibition on Oct 14.

CONSTRUCTION

We are very confident in our productsand we would like to use them to helpChinese people get better life outof their buildings by using ourtechnology.”SEPPO KAUPPINENGENERAL MANAGER, ELEMATIC (SHANGHAI) LTD

Four years ago, the US National Archives and Records Adminis-tration in suburban Maryland just outside of Washington received unexpected visitors. About 10 peo-

ple, mainly Chinese, came to look for photo-graphs taken during World War II.

During the next two months, the team was in the building whenever it was open. * ey brought with them advanced photo scanners and worked quietly with an occasional burst of surprise and joy.

In the end, 23,000 photos had been scanned one by one, both the front image and the back caption. The photos comprise the archive’s entire image database of United States’ par-ticipation in the China-Burma-India * eater (CBI), a crucial battle3 eld during WWII.

Zhang Dongpan, a grassroots historian in China and the team’s leader, still vividly recalls what one of the archivists told him on the 3 rst day: “Photos of the European * eater have been searched and used numerous times, some even have to be repaired, while some of these photos have rarely been touched since they arrived here in 1946.’’

Last month, some of the most striking images Zhang found in the archives were put in an outdoor exhibit in Washington entitled National Memories: US-China Collaboration during WWII. More than 80 white boards, each 15-feet tall, with a total of 280 enlarged photos, stood for one week in Woodrow Wil-son plaza.

* e exhibit site is less than half a mile from the White House where US President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the decision in 1942 to create the CBI * eater and to dispatch about 250,000 Americans there. His main purpose was to keep China supplied and in the war so that Japanese forces would be largely pinned in Asia instead of being moved to where they could directly threaten the US mainland.

“We came here to pay tribute,” Zhang told China Daily. “Although the United States entered the CBI for strategic reasons, it helped to train our troops, supplied us with food and equipment, and on many occasions even sac-ri3 ced lives for us.”

The US operation consisted mainly of military advisers training Chinese troops, which was the main fighting force against the Japanese in the CBI, its air force bombing Japanese forces and C ying supplies over the Himalayas, army engineers building roads to keep land supply routes open and supplying medical staD , all under the name of Y-Force Operations StaD and the leadership of General Joseph Stilwell, commander of the CBI.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force of 100,000 or so also was under Stilwell. By 1945, more than half of the Chinese troops and 4,000 Americans had been killed in action.

Many of the scenes in the CBI * eater were recorded by the US Army Signal Corps, a military information and photography squad, and their photos were sent to the US National Archive in 1946. But not much attention was paid to them for the next 60 years until the day Zhang’s team arrived.

What led Zhang to the archives started in 1999 in China when a photo caught his curiosity.

He was doing 3 eldwork about the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Tengchong County, Yunan province, which borders Burma and where the famous Salween Campaign (nuji-ang zhanyi) was fought. Zhang met a man who developed a roll of 3 lm for a US military photographer in 1944. His desire to keep war images for history made him develop an extra set of the photos.

While reviewing those old photos, Zhang and his team noticed something unusual. One photo showed a battle3 eld funeral service conducted by American military staD . Even aH er several years of doing research on the Chinese Expeditionary Force, Zhang did not know that Americans had lost their lives in combat in that area.

Moved by the sacri3 ce of the soldier in that photo and believing that it might shed light

on his research project, Zhang and his team became determined to identify the soldier.

* ey were told that in the nearby Memorial Garden of Tengchong, which was built aH er the war to commemorate the thousands of Chinese soldiers killed in battle, a special tomb stone had been erected for 19 American sol-diers killed during the campaign. * e monu-ment, however, listed only one of the soldier’s names and it was in Chinese.

Unable to 3 nd anything about the soldier’s identity in China, Zhang’s search extended to the US. A historian friend of Zhang’s in Con-necticut managed to 3 nd someone who could help, Colonel John Easterbrook, the grandson of Stilwell, the CBI’s commander.

Easterbrook had been researching his grandfather’s life in the CBI for many years. His father was also involved in the campaign as executive oI cer for Stilwell and served as liaison between the general and his Chinese units. Easterbrook was excited by the discov-

ery of that photo. At the Hoover Institution at Stanford Uni-

versity and with the help of the US Defense department’s POW/Missing Personnel OI ce, a casualty list of 19 soldiers of the US Army during the Salween Campaign was discovered. * e 3 rst name on the list matched the only name on the tomb stone.

Easterbrook obtained from the Defense department information about relatives of the 19 soldiers. AH er much eD orts to contact them, one family responded. It was the two daughters of Major William McMurrey, the highest-ranking American oI cer who was killed in that campaign.

Barbara Hyde, the older daughter, wrote to the search team and shared the letter written by her father’s immediate commander, Colo-nel John Stodter, on May 21, 1944, the day aH er McMurrey died. Stodter was near him when he was killed in action.

* e letter was addressed to Barbara’s moth-

er, who died in 1996: “Major McMurrey was on duty as Liaison

OI cer with a Chinese Regiment of the C.E.F (Chinese Expeditionary Force) with the mis-sion of training our Chinese allies for oD ensive combat and assisting them therein against our common enemy the Japanese.”

It pays tribute to McMurrey’s sacri3 ce: “Indeed his death served to bind more 3 rm-

ly in this division the mutual support between Chinese and Americans which must obtain to con3 rm in the post war world a lasting peace.”

The funeralStodter wrote that he conducted the funeral

service “with the fullest military honors pos-sible while the battle was still in progress” and “all available American oI cers and enlisted men attended.”

At the Hoover Institute, the search team found the image of Stodter, which matched the military officer performing the funeral service in that photo. McMurrey indeed was the American soldier being buried.

In the meantime, Zhang’s team in China found McMurrey’s original burial site, on top of the Gaoligong Mountain in Tengchong, the highest battle3 eld in the whole CBI * eater. In 1947, the US Army repatriated his remains, and he was reburied with full military honors in his hometown in Texas.

In July 2005, Barbara and her sister Bev-erly, as well as Shan Stodter, the daughter of Colonel Stodter, were invited to China by Zhang and his team to see the original burial site.

“It was so beautiful,” recalled Barbara of that day to China Daily. “It was all so very moving.”

* e three women’s journey to China and the burial site were recorded for a documentary initiated by a friend of Zhang’s. While 3 lm-ing scenes in the US, the crew learned from Easterbrook of the collection of CBI images at the National Archives. * e crew went to the

archives, obtained 200 or so photos and some video footage for the documentary. * ey also learned that the entire collection consisted of the 23,000 or so photos.

AH er rallying volunteers and getting 3 nan-cial support from private citizens, Zhang and his team showed up at the archives in early 2010.

Zhang recalled his emotions upon seeing the photos for the 3 rst time:

“We truly were left trembling....For how many years before that I had not even dared to dream that so many images from our parent’s generation could exist so clearly and vividly before our eyes.”

Not long aH er the team returned to China, enlarged photos from the archives were put on exhibit in several Chinese cities, and people got to see a history so dear to their past yet so largely forgotten.

* e close collaboration between Americans and Chinese in the CBI is vividly shown in those photos. US Army oI cers use sand tun-nels to teach their Chinese counterparts battle strategies; Chinese soldiers learn to use new American weapons; American nurses treat Chinese soldiers’ wounds; Chinese children give thumbs up to passing American tanks.

“It is absolutely wonderful. * ere appears to me to be a great thirst for information on that part of the history of the Chinese people,” said Easterbrook, who was invited to a couple of exhibitions in China.

Taiwan exhibitWang Miao, vice-president and chief editor

of the Hong Kong China Tourism Press, a longtime friend of Zhang, helped to take the exhibition to Taiwan in March 2013.

Many of the Chinese generals in the CBI later retreated to Taiwan along with Chiang Kai-shek aH er he lost the battle with the Com-munist Party following WWII. Some of them are still alive.

“* e enthusiasm toward the exhibit went well beyond our expectation,” said Wang, who is a renowned photographer in China. “* rough these powerful photos, people now know that we have so many heroic generals and soldiers and we had such glorious victory during WWII.”

While in Taiwan, someone suggested that Wang take the exhibit to the US so American people could also see that the US and China were deeply connected during that period.

Formerly a scholar at the Institute of Ameri-can Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and now vice-chairman of UBS Investment Bank, Wang’s husband, He Di, actively looked for a US partner to sponsor the exhibit.

Finally, the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States of the Wilson Center, a lead-ing think tank in Washington, became the US sponsor, and the China Overseas Exchange Association, the outreach arm of the Overseas Chinese AD airs OI ce of the State Council of China, sponsors the exhibit as a Chinese partner.

* e project soon gained support from other leading organizations active in promoting US-China relations, including the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the Committee of 100, the General Joseph W. Stilwell Scholarship and the ScowcroH Group. * e Asia Culture and Media Group provided logistical support.

“When Americans tell stories of WWII, the war in Europe comes 3 rst and the war in the Paci3 c came second. So, the result is that they do not know very much about the war on the Asian mainland,” said Robert Daly, director of the Kissing Institute, who hosted the exhibit’s opening ceremony. Attending the event were descendants of CBI veterans, including East-erbrook, McMurrey’s daughters, Shan Stodter, US military oI cers and China experts.

“* e most important thing to know is that the United States and China have a joint his-tory. We have worked for common interest. * at is worth celebrating and remembering,” Daly told China Daily.

Zhang said the exhibit will be taken to New York, San Francisco and Hawaii next year, the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

While the exhibit was up in Washington, Jill Elkins, a Maryland resident, happened to be passing by with her two children, and they stopped to look at the photos. Elkins’ father was with US Army Air Corps in the CBI.

“* e old pictures are amazing. * ere are a couple of photos showing American soldiers doing some radio work. I believe my father did some of that, too. I will keep looking to see whether I can 3 nd him. I wish I knew more of his time there,” she said.

Contact the writer at charlenecai@chinadai-lyusa.com.

A history largely forgottenIt started in 1999 in China when a photograph caught Zhang Dongpan’s attention, and it eventually led to 23,000 photos that tell the

story of US-China collaboration to fi ght the Japanese in World War II, Cai Chunying reports from Washington.

This photo is one of the 23,000 photos stored by the US National Archives about the US’ participation in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. To the left is the original caption slip pasted on the back of the photo. It reads: Liaison O* cers of the Y-Force sta- and Chinese Army O* cers check the progress of Allied artillery fi re from an observation post overlooking Tengchong in Southwestern China. Gateway to Burma, the ancient walled city was liberated on September 14, 1944 by Chinese forces aided by Y-Force men and US airmen.

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Zhang Dongpan, leading historian of the National Memories project.

John Easterbrook, grandson of US General Joseph Stilwell, commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, was the exhibit’s US curator.

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A one-week photo exhibit showcasing US-China collaboration during WWII was on display in Washington last month. The images came from the US National Archives. The Wilson Center and the Chinese Overseas Exchange Association sponsored the exhibit.

This photo, taken by a US Army photographer in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) during World War II, shows American soldiers performing a funeral service in Tengchong, China. The photo led to the resurfacing of 23,000 CBI photos at the US National Archives and the National Memories exhibit.

‘‘Although the United States entered the CBI (China-Burma-India Theater) for strategic reasons, it helped to train our troops, supplied us with food and equipment, and on many occa-sions even sacrifi ced lives for us.”ZHANG DONGPAN