XI'NING, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday called for more efforts to promote development of the country's western regions during a visit to northwest China's Qinghai Province. More efforts should be made to tap the advantages of local industries and adjust the economic structure, Li said during a visit that started Sunday and included factory workshops, farms and rural households. In Qinghai Arura (Jinhe) Tibetan Medicine Company Limited, Li saw the company's efforts to process local agricultural products. Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) talks with villagers of Hongju Village, Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Aug. 24, 2009. Li Keqiang inspected Qinghai Province from Aug. 23 to Aug. 25 He visted Yiwa Ethnic Clothes Manufacturing Plant and Xining Special Steel Company Limited and urged them to improve technologies and meet market demand. "The western regions have huge market demand and growth potential. It is important to carry on the policy to develop western regions and support ethnic regions to promote regional economic and social development," Li said. Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (C) visits villagers of Xiaozhuang Village, Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Aug. 24, 2009At Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Group Company Limited, Li said technological innovation was needed to tap resources in western regions as well as infrastructure construction and environmental protection. Li urged local governments in Haidong, eastern Qinghai, to fully implement the country's policies to promote agricultural growth in ethnic and rural regions and increase peasants' income. Li talked with villagers of different ethnic groups in a village in Haidong and urged local officials to help improve living standards and care for the disadvantaged.
BRUSSELS, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met here Thursday with Belgian King Albert II on bilateral ties, vowing to enhance cooperation between the two sides. Xi said the development of Sino-Belgium relations is enjoying good momentum, and his visit is aimed to improve political trust and substantial cooperation to make new progress in bilateral ties. China highly appreciates the King and Belgian Royal family's commitment to the development of Sino-Belgium friendship, Xi said. The Europalia Chinese Art Festival, which opened here on Thursday, will promote mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples, he said. Xi also introduced the great achievements of China in the last 60 years, China's policies and concepts on promoting scientific development and building a harmonious society and a harmonious world, as well as the measures China has adopted in tackling the global financial crisis. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (1st R front) meets with Belgian King Albert II (1st L front) in Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 8, 2009 King Albert II expressed his admiration for China's impressive National Day celebrations on Oct. 1, speaking highly of the great achievements of China in the last 60 years. The King said Xi's visit is of great significance and will further promote the development of bilateral ties, adding that Belgium is willing to strengthen cooperation and expand cultural exchanges with China. He also said Belgium will actively take part in the 2010 Shanghai Expo.Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) meets with Belgian King Albert II in Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 8, 2009. Xi arrived here Wednesday for an official visit to Belgium, the first leg of his five-nation European tour. He will also visit Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
CHENGDU, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- China's relatively poor western regions are to receive 296 billion yuan (about 43.3 billion U.S. dollars) of investment through 551 projects signed Friday with investors from both China and abroad. Those deals were sealed at the tenth Western China International Economy and Trade Fair in Chengdu, provincial capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. The region has 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, with a combined population of about 370 million. Chinese investors contributed 539 of the 551 projects, involving 288.9 billion yuan of investment. The rest 12 projects would be invested by foreign contractors, involving in around 1 billion U.S. dollars of investment. Sectors involving local resources, equipment manufacturing, service and new and high technology were investors' favorite target areas. According to agreements signed here, German industrial conglomerate Siemens would spend 30 million yuan in Chengdu to setup a "Global IT Operation Center", intending to provide better IT operation support for its customers. Meanwhile, Taiwan's Foxconn Group, the world's top maker of outsourced electronics, would invest 1 billion dollars to build an industrial base in Chengdu, setting up production lines for products like LED-TV, LCD module, LED backlight module and LCD package. The new base will also develop software and sell 3C digital products as wells.
MOSCOW, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese merchants will be allowed to retrieve their goods in a closed Moscow market, the head of a Chinese coordination group said on Thursday. A Chinese coordination group on Thursday discussed with Moscow's consumer department the clearing up of Chinese merchants' stalls in the Cherkizovsky market as well as the transferring of their goods. The Russian side agreed to take further steps to safeguard the market's order and to work with the Chinese side to crack down on the illegal activities, said Cai Guiru, head of the temporary Chinese coordination group and chairperson of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Russia. It is agreed that Chinese merchants will be allowed to clean up their stalls and ship out their merchandise during a specific period of time every day, Cai said. The Russian side took "sincere and earnest" attitudes towards the handling of the market closure, in the hope that most of the Chinese merchants will be able to retrieve their goods safely, she said. This meeting is helpful and the Russian side heard positive opinions from Chinese vendors, said Georgy Smoleyevcky, first deputy head of the Moscow Consumer Market and Services Department. The Russian side will make conclusions accordingly and give instructions to relevant departments, he said, expressing the hope that complaints from Chinese traders will be less and less in future. The official also dismissed the speculation that a Chinese shopping mall will be built in the place of the closed Cherkizovsky, Russia's biggest wholesale market. The coordination group, formed under the auspices of the Chinese embassy in Russia in July, involves heads of China's provincial chambers of commerce. Russian police abruptly shut down the nearly 300-hectare market in northeastern Moscow on June 29, after the disclosure of various illegal and irregular operations in the market by the Russian Federal Supervision Service for Consumer Rights Protection and People Welfare. A Chinese senior delegation, led by Vice Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, reached broad consensus with the Russian side on the closure issue.
NANNING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region announced Wednesday the addition of 20 million yuan (2.94 million U.S. dollars) to a fund financing efforts to fight drought as hot, dry weather maintains its grip on the region. The Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters in Guangxi simultaneously launched a drought control response mechanism which requires local departments such as weather, water resources and power supply to cooperate closely to guarantee success of the efforts to fight drought. According to the local weather department, Guangxi suffered its hottest weather in 58 years from Aug.1-30, with the temperature averaging 28.9 degrees Celsius. The south Chinese region has had 1,152 mm of rainfall in the past eight months, a drop of 12.7 percent from the average level for the same period in normal years. It had rainfall of only 91 mm last month, down 57 percent from the average level for the same month in normal years. The Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters in Guangxi said 638,500 people, plus 299,200 livestock had been suffering from water shortages. And 280,850 hectares of cropland affected because of hot weather and less rain, included 598 hectares of crops that died in the arid conditions. The regional weather service's forecast Monday said Guangxi's drought would continue during the coming week. Guangxi has already made great efforts in drought control. More than 53.41 million yuan (about 7.86 million U.S. dollars) has been set aside so far. The region's department of water resources has dispatched five working groups to areas such as Laibin, Chongzuo, Wuzhou, Hezhou, Hechi, all in Guangxi, to supervise or guide drought control efforts. Zhong Xiangting, the department's chief, said the region had since late August mobilized more than 1.71 million people to fight drought, which has helped irrigate 148,470 hectares of crops and temporarily solve water shortages faced by 390,280 people and 193,110 livestock.
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BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) held a reception in Beijing Monday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties. Addressing the event, Chen Haosu, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), a major non-governmental organization, said, "The friendship between the two countries had endured the test of time and changes in the world." A reception is held to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 28, 2009 The traditional friendship built and nurtured by leaders of former generations of both countries had been consolidated and pushed forward over the 60 years, he said. This year also marks the Year of China-DPRK Friendship, a year-long exchange program, which injected new vitality to the friendship, he said. Li Jinhua, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Chen Haosu (C), president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, toast with guests at the reception to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 28, 2009DPRK ambassador to China Choe Jin Su said it was a consistent policy of the government of the DPRK to consolidate and develop friendship with China. "We will take the 60th anniversary and the Year of DPRK-China Friendship as a new starting point, and are ready to make concerted efforts with China to expand friendly cooperative ties," he said. About a hundred delegates from various circles of the two countries, including Li Jinhua, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the reception.
BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese official said Monday the government's policies on ethnic affairs are "on the right track" and have helped create conditions for equality, unity and common prosperity among the country's different ethnic groups. Jia Qinglin (R), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, meets with Luis Alberto Vargas, the president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), in Beijing, China, July 26, 2009. Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, made the remark in his meeting with Luis Alberto Vargas, the President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), who is in China to attend The 16th IUAES World Congress held in China southwest province Yunnan. Jia said the living standards of the ethnic groups were rising steadily and their political, economic and cultural rights were well safeguarded. Jia Qinglin (C), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, poses for a group photo prior to his meeting with Luis Alberto Vargas (5th R), the president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), in Beijing, China, July 26, 2009. Jia said the Chinese government had attached great importance to the development of anthropological and ethnological sciences, and would actively promote theoretical studies, innovation and application. He praised the IUAES for its role in improving worldwide academic research, promoting the peaceful coexistence of different cultures and harmonious development between man and nature. The IUAES congress, held every five years, has drawn more than 2,000 scholars and experts from all over the world. It will feature 156 panel discussions to explore a broad range of issues, including cultural diversity, AIDS, child trafficking, global aging, ethnicity, urban development, religions and linguistic evolution. China is hosting the congress, which first met in London in 1934, for the first time. Yunnan is home to 26 Chinese nationalities.
BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said Friday that the role of the United Nations should be bolstered in handling the global economic downturn, achieving sustainable development, and safeguarding world peace and security. As a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the largest developing nation, China has always observed the principles of the UN Charter, supported the UN's efforts to improve security, development and human rights and its reform to increase efficiency, Hu said to visiting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Hu. "China will continue to join in the UN undertakings and carry out its duties with responsive and constructive attitude, and will work with the international community to build a harmonious world," Hu said. Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in Beijing, China, July 24, 2009. Ban Ki-Moon praised China's achievement in economic and social progress, as well as its contribution to overcoming world economic recession, food crisis and climate change. Also on Friday afternoon, Ban presented at a seminar of senior Chinese officials who have taken part in UN workshops on advanced leadership, a capacity building program established in 2005. Ban asked the officials, who came from various ministries, banks and state-owned companies, to put their knowledge learned in the workshops into practice. He stressed the importance of tackling the international financial crisis and climate change with joint efforts from the international community, and suggested China establish a low-carbon economy. Li Yuanchao, head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, lauded the UN workshops, and asked the world community to support the Chinese government's strive for harmony, pledging to enhance cooperation with the United Nations Development Program. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also met with Ban on Friday. Ban arrived in Beijing Thursday evening to have a four-day China trip with climate change atop his agenda. Ban will travel on Saturday to northwestern city of Xi'an, an ancient Chinese capital, to continue his China tour.
BEIJING, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Hu Jintao on Thursday morning reviewed Chinese troops in central Beijing as the country celebrated the 60th National Day. Standing in a black open-roof limousine on Chang'an Avenue, Hu was greeted by Fang Fenghui, commander-in-chief of the full-dress military parade. Fang reported: "Comrade chairman, assembly of the reviewing troops is completed, please review!" Amid army songs played by a 1,300-member brass band, the home-made Red Flag limo drove eastward along Chang'an avenue, where Hu inspected 44 ground square formations composed of the three services of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), armed police, army reserves, and militia. His car was followed by the limo of Fang Fenghui and an alternate one. Wearing a high-collared Mao suit, Hu repeated salutes through a microphone: "Greetings, comrades!" and "Comrades, you are working hard!" The soldiers loudly replied: "Greetings, leader!" and "We serve the people!" Twelve echelons of more than 150 warplanes are expected to fly over Tian'anmen Square during a military parade.