SOFIA, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping held talks with his Bulgarian counterpart Angel Marin on Wednesday, and both leaders pledged to further cement the traditional friendly relations between the two countries. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese-Bulgarian diplomatic relations, and his current visit was mainly aimed at celebrating the anniversary together with the Bulgarian side and further advancing the pragmatic friendly cooperation between the two nations, said Xi. Bulgarian Vice President Angel Marin (L) welcomes visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, Oct. 14, 2009While reviewing the Chinese-Bulgarian relationship over the past six decades, Xi called it a good example for the friendly co-existence between countries with different social systems. Xi said that the two sides should maintain mutual respect, seek win-win cooperation and work together to safeguard common interest, to ensure the long-term healthy development of bilateral relations and to bring benefit to the two peoples. Bulgarian Vice President Angel Marin (3rd L) meets with visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (3rd R) in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, Oct. 14, 2009Xi put forward a five-point proposal on further advancing the relationship between the two countries: -- To further strengthen their traditional friendly relations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties. Xi expressed hope that governments, parliaments, and parties of both sides at all levels would enhance exchanges and cooperation and boost mutual understanding and trust; -- To expand trade cooperation to achieve mutual benefit and create a win-win situation; -- To deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, specially among the youth; -- To continue strengthening coordination and collaboration within multilateral frameworks to jointly promote world peace and development; -- To work for a sustainable, stable and healthy relationship between China and Europe. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping presents a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, Oct. 14, 2009Marin said Xi's visit demonstrated the importance the Chinese government has attached to the relations between the two countries. Bulgaria attaches importance to its relations with China, and has taken China as a strategic and cooperative partner. Bulgaria is ready to work with China to cement mutual political trust and intensify cooperation on trade, investment, tourism, culture and education, he said. Bulgarian Vice President Angel Marin (R) introduces the general situation of Bulgaria to visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping before their meeting in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, Oct. 14, 2009. Marin reaffirmed that Bulgaria firmly adheres to the one-China policy and supports China on issues concerning Tibet and Xinjiang. After the talks, the two leaders attended the signing ceremony for several cooperation agreements. Xi arrived here on Wednesday afternoon for the third leg of his five-nation Europe tour. He has visited Belgium and Germany, and will also visit Hungary and Romania.
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. Said Sunday that it signed a deal with Telefonica, the Spanish telecom operator, to enhance their alliance by spending 1 billion U.S. dollars each on share purchase. China Unicom would acquire shares equal to about between 0.885 percent to 0.892 percent of stake in Telefonica, according to the company's statement to the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Telefonica would increase its stake in China Unicom from 5.38 percent to 8.06 percent, the statement said. Their cooperation would focus on infrastructure and equipment purchase, mobile service platforms, research and development, and service provision to multinational clients, according to the deal.
PYONGYANG, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), held talks here on Monday and reached important consensus on China-DPRK relations and the promotion of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. Premier Wen extended sincere greetings and best wishes to Kim on behalf of Chinese President Hu Jintao. The hard-earned friendship and friendly cooperative relations achieved by the joint efforts of several generations of the two countries conform to the aspiration of the two peoples, Wen said, adding that the two nations should pass on the friendship from generation to generation. China is willing to work with the DPRK to maintain high-level exchanges, deepen pragmatic cooperation, strengthen coordination on major issues, and push forward the good-neighborly and friendly cooperative relations, he added. Kim asked Wen to relay his greetings to Chinese President Hu. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), during a meeting in Pyongyang, capital of the DPRK, Oct. 5, 2009. Kim said Wen's official goodwill visit, which coincided with the 60th anniversary of the DPRK-China ties and the China-DPRK Friendship Year, demonstrates the importance that China has attached to developing ties with the DPRK. The celebrations from both sides have been successful and enhanced the DPRK-China traditional friendship, Kim said. The DPRK is ready to make joint efforts with China to further consolidate and strengthen the DPRK-China friendly, cooperative relations, Kim said. Realizing a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula was the instruction of the late DPRK leader Kim Il Sung and the DPRK's commitment to realizing the denuclearization of the peninsula remains unchanged, Kim said. Through the DPRK-U.S. bilateral meeting, the hostile relations between the two countries must turn into peaceful ones, he said. The DPRK is willing to attend multilateral talks, including the six-party talks, based on the progress in the DPRK-U.S. talks, he said. Wen said China appreciated the DPRK's commitment to the nuke-free peninsula and the multilateral dialogues, including the six-party talks, to realizing this goal. Wen said China is willing to make concerted efforts with the DPRK and other parties concerned to contribute to realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and maintaining peace, stability and development in the Northeast Asian region.
LANZHOU, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao has written a congratulatory letter to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of Lanzhou University in northwest China's Gansu Province. The university has been sticking to its motto of making constant efforts to become stronger and fostering its own features, and has developed glorious patriotic and academic traditions, Hu said in the letter. After the founding of New China and particularly the country's reform and opening up, Lanzhou University has shared the fate of the nation and kept pace with the times, and made important contribution to the economic and social development in the western regions, the president said. He expected the university to contribute more to supporting the national program of developing the western regions, building an innovation-oriented country and a moderately prosperous society in all aspects, and stepping up the socialist modernization drive. A grand gathering was held Saturday to commemorate the centenary of the university. State Councilor Liu Yandong read President Hu's congratulatory letter at the conference, noting that talented people and education are the foundation of building a strong and modern country. She hoped that the university plays a better role in cultivating innovation-oriented talents, and bolstering advanced thinking and science and technological achievements.
CHENGDU, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese top political advisor Jia Qinglin has urged local governments in southwest China's Sichuan Province to boost post-quake reconstruction in the areas jolted by a massive earthquake last year. Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), made the remarks during his inspection tour to Sichuan Province from Aug. 14 to 18. Jia Qinglin (3rd L), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), talks with local residents as he visits Maiwa Township of Hongyuan County in the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 15, 2009. Jia Qinglin visited Sichuan for an investigating and researching tour on Aug. 14-18.A major earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter Scale hit the northwest part of Sichuan on May 12 last year. When visiting several counties near the earthquake's epicenter, Jia asked local governmental officials to try all out to ensure that all the quake homeless could have their new houses and jobs as soon as possible. During his visit to the provincial capital Chengdu, Jia urged officials to promote reforms in rural areas to gain experience for other regions. Jia Qinglin (L FRONT), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), talks with villagers in Anbei Village, Shuijing Township of Songpan County in the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 14, 2009.Jia also went to the plateau region in the province, with an average altitude of 3,400 meters above sea level, where the official visited local Tibetan herdsmen. Jia asked religious leaders and followers of Tibetan Buddhism to continue their patriotic tradition and maintain the country's unity and solidarity. Jia Qinglin (2nd L), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), visits Dongfang Steam Turbine Plant in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 16, 2009
BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin has called for deep recognition of the historic necessity and enormous advantages of China's political system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The natural difference between the political systems of China and the West must be deeply recognized, said Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau at Thursday's meeting of the presidium of the CPPCC National Committee. Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), who is also a member of the standing committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, presides over the 17th chairpersons meeting of the 11th National Committee of CPPCC in Beijing, China, on Aug. 27, 2009 Jia remarked these while making arrangements for the celebration of the 60th founding anniversaries of both the People's Republic of China and the CPPCC. The CPPCC National Committee and local CPPCC committees plan to organize many events to mark the anniversaries. The CPPCC will continue to carry out the educational campaign about the persistence in the socialist road of political development among its members, Jia said. He highlighted the importance of the upcoming Fourth Plenary Session of the current CPC Central Committee. CPPCC should continue contributing its proposals and suggestions to helping the government reach the goal for economic growth as well as maintain social harmony and stability, Jia said.
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BEIJING, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- China will implement a nation-wide investigation to find more research and development (R&D) resources to promote the country's agriculture, manufacturing, information technologies and other major industries. The investigation will provide basic scientific data for policy-making of the nation's social and economic development during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), the Ministry of Science and Technology said in a circular on its official website Saturday. It will also help the government monitor and evaluate the ability to make independent innovation as an effort to make China an innovation-oriented country, it said. Six ministries and commissions of the State Council, China's Cabinet, will jointly conduct and finish the investigation by the end of the year. The first such investigation was conducted in 2000. Statisticians around the nation will survey R&D-intensive enterprises and institutions in all the major industries. The survey will focus on the personnel, spending, equipment, projects and institutions for research and development. Moreover, many experts believe the investigation will help China stop wasteful spending in scientific research and promote the national sharing of resources, such as to stop squandering money in redundant purchases of laboratory equipment. China's 2008 research and development spending of the GDP was 457 billion yuan (66.9 billion U.S. dollars), an increase of 23.2 percent from 2007, accounting for 1.52 percent of the annual GDP.
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- China stressed on Monday the importance of following "capacity to pay" principle while the United Nations considers the scale for determining member states' dues to the organization's budget. Liu Zhenmin, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, made the statement to the meeting of the Fifth Committee of the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly on the scale for determining member states' dues to the organization's budget in 2010-2012. "China stands ready to make an even greater contribution to the UN on the basis of capacity to pay, as our economy continues to grow," he said. But, despite its rapid economic development and impressive gross domestic product figures, China was the country with the largest population, which still faced enormous challenges at home, Liu said. In 2008, China's per capita gross domestic product stood at 3,000 U.S. dollars, ranked around the 100th place in the world and still a far cry from the average per capita Gross National Income (GNI) of 7,119 U.S. dollars (the threshold), he said. "By the standard of the World Bank which considers those living on less than .25 a day as poor, China's poverty population will total 250 million, the second largest in the world," he said. "Economic development, poverty eradication and the realization of modernization remain daunting challenges for China," Liu said. "The evaluation of China's capacity to pay should not be conducted without taking into account China's specificities."
URUMQI, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Diplomatic envoys from 26 countries and regions in China began a five-day visit to northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Monday, about a month after the deadly riot in the regional capital of Urumqi. At the invitation of the autonomous regional government, they are expected to -- through the visit -- acquire a better understanding of Xinjiang's development over the past several decades in various respects, including its politics, economy, ethnic and religious policies, preservation of cultural relics and the livelihood of local residents. Nur Bekri (L), chairman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region government, shakes hands with Bangladeshi Ambassador to China Munshi Faiz Ahmad in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Aug. 10, 2009The diplomatic envoys came from Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, Afghanistan, Sweden, Australia, the United States and other countries and regions. "This visit gives us an opportunity to express our support and goodwill to Xinjiang people after the incident and also our expression over Xinjiang's handling of the incident," said Nolama Ta Ama, ambassador of Togo, during a meeting with Nur Berkri, chairman of the Xinjiang autonomous regional government. Nur Bekri, chairman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region government, holds a meeting with diplomatic envoys in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Aug. 10, 2009.The Chinese central government and the local government of Xinjiang exercised great restraint during the incident and took effective measures to stop the violence, said Ama, also head of the diplomatic delegation. He said that violence can only escalate conflicts but cannot solve any problem. "No government in the world will tolerate the 'three evil forces' and the adherence to 'one China' policy is in the interests of all nations," he said. "We hope we can learn more about the truth of the incident through the visit," he added. Nur Berkri briefed the guests about the development of Xinjiang over the past several decades and stressed that the region's rapid development came from the great support of the central government. He said that the July 5 riot, which left 197 people dead and more than 1,600 others injured, involved very few violent rioters and they cannot represent the Xinjiang people and the Muslims. "Not a single person in the religious circle participated in the violence," he said. "Violence is not allowed in any sovereignty and law-ruled nation."
JINAN, East China, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao met International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge who was invited to attend the 11th Chinese National Games on Friday. Hu Jintao extended welcome to Rogge and offered his congratulation on Rogge's re-election as IOC President. Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge, who is here for the 11th Chinese National Games, in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province, on Oct. 16, 2009Hu said that the support from IOC and the efforts from all members of international Olympic family made the Beijing Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games complete success, which promoted the Olympic spirit and further development of international Olympic movement. Hu added that the success of the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games deepened the exchange and cooperation between China and the international Olympic family. He expressed gratitude to Rogge for making important contributions to the success of the Games and said that China would like to share its experience with London and Rio de Janeiro so as to make new contribution to the international Olympic movement. Rogge, who is on his third visit to attend Chinese National Games, said the National Games manifested the great energy of Chinese sports. He added that Beijing Olympic Games last summer has left unique legacy in sports, environment and development to the world and the IOC chief also expressed his thanks to China for the support to London and Rio de Janeiro, host cities of 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.