BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States issued a joint statement Tuesday after President Hu Jintao and President Barack Obama held in-depth, productive and candid discussions on China-US relations and other issues of mutual interest. President Hu to visit U.S. next yearU.S. supports one-China policy, welcomes peaceful development of cross-Straits tiesChina, U.S. to raise cooperation level in science, innovation: joint statementChina, U.S. to further collaborate in health, disease control: joint statementChina, U.S. hope Six Party Talks to resume at early dateChina, U.S. sign joint statement, to enhance security in outer space China, U.S. agree to hold new round of human rights dialogueChina, U.S. vow deeper co-op on counter-terrorismChina, U.S. agree transition to green, low-carbon economy essentialChina, U.S. agree on economic rebalance, pursuit of forward-looking monetary policesChina, U.S. to advance military relations: joint statementChina, U.S. to exchange more studentsChina, U.S. call on Iran to "engage constructively" with P5+1China, U.S. underline commitment to realization of nuke-free world China, U.S. welcome efforts for peace in South AsiaChina, U.S. to work for successful outcome at Copenhagen summit
BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong Wednesday said China will broaden international exchanges and learn from other countries in heritage protection. "China will strengthen cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and other international organizations," Liu said at a ceremony held here Wednesday marking the 30th founding anniversary of China's National Commission for UNESCO. "The Chinese government will keep carrying out international conventions and actively explore scientific laws and effective methods in heritage protection," Liu said. China will stick to the principle of "preservation first" and avoid over-exploitation and destructive construction, Liu said. China is a country with rich cultural and natural heritage. So far, a total of 38 heritage sites in the country have been included in the World Heritage List, and 29 kinds of non-material cultural heritage have been included in the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Tuesday urged efforts to reinforce Party building at grassroots organizations so as to give full play to the Party's leading role in building civilized and harmonious neighborhood. In a meeting on the study and implementation of the Scientific Outlook on Development, Xi urged members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in city's neighborhood committees to promote local development and safeguard social stability. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (2nd L), also member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, speaks at a symposium on the study and implement of the Scientific Outlook on Development in Beijing, capital of China, on Oct. 27, 2009Xi, also member of the Standing Committee of CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, said neighborhood committees played a significant role in dissolving social conflicts and promoting social and economic development in urban areas. Party members at grassroots organizations should find out people's complaints and help solve their problems, and do practical things for them, he said.
TAIPEI, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou on Sunday called for both sides across the Taiwan Strait to resolve hatred through communication and negotiation and make peace an eternity. Ma made the remarks in a ceremony to unveil a memorial square, which was constructed on the site of the Kuningtou battle in Kinmen of Taiwan, according to local media reports. Troops of the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang had fierce fightings and suffered heavy losses at the site on Oct. 25,1949, the year when the People's Republic of China was founded. Battlefield should be turned into a square of peace, opposition should be replaced by reconciliation, and war by peace, Ma said. Ma called for efforts to find a way that is acceptable for both sides to settle cross-Strait issues.
BEIJING, Oct. 26 -- Shanghai has applied to regulators to launch a free exchange between the yuan and the New Taiwan dollar to enhance financial cooperation, the head of the Shanghai Financial Service Office said Sunday. "With growing trade between Shanghai and Taiwan in recent years, we hope that a free exchange between the yuan and the New Taiwan dollar can be conducted in Shanghai as a trial," said Fang Xinghai at the 6th China International Finance Forum. "We have applied to the regulators and expect it will be approved soon," Fang said at the two-day forum which ended Sunday. Shanghai has recently launched a cross-border currency clearing system and Fang expects that it will be extended to Taiwan soon. By the end of April, Taiwan had invested 5 billion U.S. dollars in more than 6,000 projects in Shanghai, and trade between the two sides totaled 13.68 billion dollars in the first eight months of this year. Although the two sides must overcome some barriers in financial cooperation, Fang said they can explore possibilities in innovative products, such as exchange-traded funds that enable investors to buy or sell shares in an entire benchmark portfolio. "The Shanghai Stock Exchange is making efforts to introduce ETFs based on overseas equity indices (and) we can also expect Taiwan and the mainland to introduce ETFs based on each other's index," Fang said. The two sides can also cooperate in sectors that are not directly supervised by the central government, such as venture capital. "Taiwan is very successful in the venture capital sector, while the Chinese mainland is still in the first stage. Policies have now been eased so that Taiwan VC firms can set up branches on the mainland," Fang noted. The Chinese mainland and Taiwan in April sealed a cooperative financial regulatory mechanism.
BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States have agreed to continue dialogue and cooperation in macroeconomic and financial policies as the recovery of the global economy remains unsteady, Chinese President Hu Jintao told the press here on Tuesday after his talks with visiting U.S. President Barack Obama. Hu said he and President Obama exchanged views on the current global financial situation and held that given the positive signs of the recovering global economy, the foundation of it was far from solid. "We both agreed to properly handle trade frictions between the two countries through negotiations on an equal basis, and to make concerted efforts to boost bilateral trade and economic ties in a healthy and steady way," said Hu. "I stressed to President Obama that under the current situation, both China and the United States should oppose and resist protectionism in all forms in an even stronger stand," he said.
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BEIJING, Dec. 26 -- Competition between airlines and rail operators will further hot up on Saturday thanks to the launch of China's longest high-speed train link between Wuhan and Guangzhou. The line stretches more than 1,000 km and will slash the travel time from Wuhan, Hubei province, to Guangzhou in Guangdong from 10 hours to just three. Tickets for the service - which also stops at Changsha, capital of Hunan - went on sale at new stations in the three cities last weekend, with prices ranging from 780 yuan (0) for first class to 490 yuan for second class, said a joint document released by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Railways. A bullet train runs on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed railway on Thursday The link, on which trains will reach a top speed of 350 km/h, is expected to pose a real threat to airlines running flights linking the cities. "High-speed rail has three advantages over air travel: it is more convenient, more punctual and has a better safety record. This could help erode the airlines' market shares," said Si Xianmin, chairman of China Southern Airlines, the largest domestic airline by fleet size. From today's launch, 38 out of China Southern Airlines' 160-plus domestic flights will compete with high-speed train links, he said. A similar service opened on April 1 between Wuhan and Hefei, Anhui province, had already grabbed half of the passengers traveling from Wuhan to Shanghai, said Si. The Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan link, also opened on April 1, caused sales for China Eastern Airlines' Beijing to Taiyuan flight to slump 36 percent the following day, while private Spring Airlines reduced its Shanghai to Zhengzhou flights due to competition from the Shanghai bullet trains, Beijing News reported. To deal with this threat, China Southern Airlines last week unveiled several counter measures, including cutting ticket prices from Wuhan to Guangzhou by almost half for advanced purchases. The company also signed a deal with airports in Wuhan and Changsha to give priority to flights to Guangzhou to ensure punctuality. If railway chiefs over-cut the number of low-cost tickets on slower trains, as they did when the country's first high-speed link opened between Beijing and Tianjin last year, the airlines could win more passengers with cheap offers, said Zhao Jian, professor with Beijing Jiaotong University. "But whichever side wins, passengers will be the ultimate winner," he said. Wu Wenhua, a researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission's comprehensive transport institute, said developing high-speed rail networks is in line with the demand for high-efficiency, low-emissions transport. China plans to have high-speed rail services running between 70 percent of key cities by 2020, which would cover more than 80 percent of the airline network. About 16,000 km of railway for 350-km/h trains will be built on the mainland in the next 10 years, according to a blueprint by the Ministry of Railways. By 2012, work will be completed on 42 high-speed links covering 13,000 km, the blueprint showed.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Baosteel Group, China's leading steelmaker, announced on Monday its acquisition of 15 percent stake in Aquila Resources, an Australian iron ore and coal company. The 286 million Australian dollar purchase (265 million U.S. dollars) has made Baosteel the second largest shareholder of Aquila, said the Chinese company based in Shanghai. The transaction is an important strategy for Baosteel's overseas expansion by securing long-term supply of critical raw materials for its steel making business, said the company. The deal will help the Australian company source low-cost financing from Chinese institutions to support its projects. Tony Poli, executive chairman of Aquila said on the company website, "The company now looks forward to developing its relations with Baosteel to the mutual benefit of both companies." The deal was approved on November 13 by China's top economic regulator, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and it was Baosteel's first large strategic investment in a foreign public company. The two companies signed an agreement on the acquisition in August this year and got nod in October by Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB), which limited Baosteel's stake in the Australian company to the utmost 19.9 percent. Under the terms of the deal, Dai Zhihao, a vice president of Baosteel, will step in as a board member of the Australian coalminer.
BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Lu Zhengcao, the last one of New China's first 57 generals, was cremated here Tuesday. Lu died of illness on Oct. 13 at the age of 106. Chinese President Hu Jintao, former president Jiang Zemin, and other senior leaders including Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, He Guoqiang and Zhou Yongkang attended the cremation ceremony, which was held Tuesday morning at the hall of the Beijing Babaoshan Cemetery. In 1955, the People's Republic of China (PRC) first adopted the military ranks and 55 senior officers were granted generals. Two more joined them in 1956 and 1958 respectively. Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) consoles a relative of Lu Zhengcao, the last one of New China's first 57 generals, during Lu's funeral service in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 20, 2009. They were considered the first group of generals in the history of New China. Among the generals, the youngest was 39 years old in 1955. They witnessed the development of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the founding of the PRC in 1949. Born in Haicheng of northeastern Liaoning Province, Lu joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1937 and fought in China's war of resistance against Japanese invasion from 1937 to 1945 and the civil war against the Kuomintang (KMT) army from 1945 to 1949. Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin (R) shakes hands with a relative of Lu Zhengcao, the last one of New China's first 57 generals, during Lu's funeral service in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 20, 2009Before joining the CPC, Lu worked as an assistant to KMT General Zhang Xueliang and witnessed the famous "Xi'an Incident." The incident was masterminded by Zhang and another general Yang Hucheng in 1936 to press KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek, who ruled China then, to stop the civil war with the CPC and jointly fight against Japanese invasion. After the anti-Japanese war fully broke out in 1937, Lu quitted the KMT army and led a CPC military force to fight Japanese army in north China. After 1949, Lu served as a senior military leader of the PRC
HUA HIN, Thailand, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- With a delighted and relieved smile, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao waved to the crowd on Sunday at the airport in Thai resort Hua Hin before he left for home. The premier has successfully finished his visit to Thailand after attending a series of summit meetings related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during the past three days. China's Premier Wen Jiabao (L Front) arrives in Hua Hin, Thailand, Oct. 23, 2009 for a series of meetings related to the Association of Southeast Asian NationsThis is Wen's second visit to this country in 2009. Half a year ago, despite extreme political turbulence in Thailand, Wen decided to attend the ASEAN summits in Pattaya in a bid to show China's sincerity to the world. During the 22 hours in Pattaya, Wen used all possible chances to hold talks with the leaders at the summits and meet journalists, transmitting China's determination and confidence in overcoming the global financial crisis and pushing forward East Asia cooperation. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) meets the press in Hua Hin, Thailand, Oct. 23, 2009. Wen had been deeply convinced that enhancing cooperation and working together to overcome the difficulties of the time were in accord with the fundamental interests of East Asian peoples. Once we had sincerity, determination and confidence, the hope would not be dashed, the premier said. During the following six months, the Chinese government decided to set up a 10-billion-U.S. dollar China-ASEAN investment cooperation fund, establish the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, and provide financial support to ASEAN countries. Trade between China and ASEAN has entered into the period of recovery since September. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has a working lunch with leaders attending the fourth East Asia Summit in the southern Thai resort town of Hua Hin, Oct. 25, 2009At the Oct. 23-25 Hua Hin summits, Wen brought not only good news of China's economic rebound, but also a six-point proposal for strengthening cooperation between China and ASEAN, which included building an economic cooperation zone and boosting cooperation in such sectors as investment, agriculture, intellectual property rights, infrastructure construction and culture. Wen emphasized that challenge could turn into opportunity, cooperation could bring strength, while innovation could contribute to success. The blueprint of East Asia cooperation would be better, he said, adding that the hope is just like "an imperishable lighthouse," which leads the East Asian people amid ups and downs. Mutual respect and trust constitute the foundation for cooperation. Wen held a series of meetings with leaders of other countries during the ASEAN summits, with his meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd having been widely followed. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Hua Hin, Thailand, on Oct. 24, 2009. Wen arrived here on Friday evening to attend the summit meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with its partnersWen and Singh have confirmed their strong willingness for common and harmonious development between the two sides during their talks. Maintaining good-neighborly and friendly relations as well as mutual beneficial cooperation between the two big developing countries would not only benefit both peoples, but also bring hope for Asia and the world, the two leaders said. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Hua Hin, Thailand, October 24, 2009. Wen Jiabao and Kevin Rudd are here to attend a series of leaders' meeting related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEANAlthough China and Australia have different political systems, levels of economic development, historical and cultural background, common interests had led to an increasingly close relationship between the two Asia-Pacific powers. The talks between Wen and Rudd had shown that there would be no unconquerable difficulties as long as the two sides treated each other with mutual respect and pursued win-win cooperation. Establishing an East Asian Community is the common desire of the people in the region, though the path toward realizing the goal will be long and bumpy. China will sincerely, firmly, actively and effectively engage in pushing forward the integration of East Asia. Half a century ago, together with India and Myanmar, China proposed the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, advocating for mutual respect, equal treatment and friendly cooperation among all nations. In the early 1990s, China initiated the cooperation between ASEAN and itself. In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, the regional cooperation in East Asia began to pick up in pace. Wen firmly expressed at the Hua Hin summits that China would work with East Asian nations toward realizing the long-term goal of establishing the East Asian Community. The clouds of the international financial crisis remain overhead. However, consensus and hopes are in the making among the members of East Asia, shining as an ever-bright lighthouse and leading the way to a more promising future.