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ANNIVERSARYSPECIALEDITIO；THEINSIDESTORYONTHREEDEC；WEDNESDAY,June1,2011；DAILY；ByZHAOYINANANDWANGXING；CHINADAILY；.cn；RMB￥1.5；Birthday‘startingpoint’f；Ambitiousgoalsseta
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONTHE INSIDE STORY ON THREE DECADES OF MAKING AND BREAKING THE NEWSWEDNESDAY, June 1, 2011DAILYBy ZHAO YINAN AND WANG XINGCHINA DAILY<.cnRMB ￥1.5Birthday‘starting point’ for a new journeyAmbitious goals set as newspaper marks anniversaryBy LI XINGCHINA DAILYRecord
response to tax moveProposed 3,000 yuan threshold ‘still low’ as wage earners bear burdena proposal to cut the number of tax brackets from nine to seven.If the draft amendment becomes law it will ben-efit more than 200 million people.It will also reduce the tax net, with only 12 percent of citizens liable compared to 28 percent currently paying taxes on a monthly taxable income of more than 2,000 yuan.If the move goes through it will boost the spending power of middle and low-income earn-ers and achieve a more equitable distribution of wealth.Th e proposal, however, has prompted a nationwide debate on the tax burden faced by wage earners.Analysts and economists predicted that the proposal could take effect within the year.The draft amendment is expected to be sent to the NPC Standing Committee for a second review during its bimonthly session in June.“Once passed, the suggested changes can be adopted very soon,” Chen Sixi, deputy direc-tor of the NPC Internal and Judicial Affairs Committee, told China Daily on Tuesday.BEIJING ― A draft
amend-ment to raise the personal income tax threshold from 2,000 yuan ($306) to 3,000 yuan has drawn a record response after the top legis-lature published it online to solicit public opinion.Th e Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress(NPC) put the draftInsideamendment to the Editorial, Personal Income TaxLaw on its website page 8at www.on April 25, sparking nearly 240,000 responses.Th e number of suggestions received by Tuesday, the dead-line for submissions, broke the record set by the draft Labor Contract Law in 2006.Th e NPC Standing Commit-tee reviewed the draft
amend-ment for the fi rst time during a bimonthly session that con-cluded in late April.Th e amendment carried the tax proposal by the State Coun-cil, or Cabinet. Th e increased threshold is a bid to boost domestic demand and tackle the widening wealth gap.Th e amendment also carried SEE “TAX” PAGE 2people gathered at the GreatHall of the People on Tuesday to celebrate China Daily’s 30-year journey from an eight-page black/white newspaper to a global media group with 12 publications and audiences in Asia, Europe and North America.From retired journalists in their 80s and heads of major news organizations to digni-taries from Party and govern-ment departments, the partici-pants also marked the national English-language newspaper’s new voyage of development into a leading international multimedia group.“China Daily ― as an impor-tant medium of China’s inter-national communication ― has become the window for China to know the world and for the world to understand China,” Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Com-munist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, wrote in his congratulatory letter.“While highlighting China’s determination for peaceful development, China Daily also needs to help promote China’s vision of a harmonious world with long-lasting peace and shared prosperity,” Li added in his letter, which was read at
Tuesday’s event.Other leaders of the PartySEE “BIRTHDAY” PAGE 2BEIJING ― More than 800PREMIER SHOWS OFF BASKETBALL SKILLSPHOTO BY RAO AIMIN / XINHUAPremier Wen Jiabao plays basketball with students at Shibalidian Primary School in Beijing’s Chaoyang district on Tuesday ahead of International Children’s Day on June 1. See stories on page 4.Cover StoryWorldIn this issueContactsNews: (86-10) Subscription: (86) 400-699-0203Advertisement: (86-10) E-mail: .cniPhone app: .cn/iphone? 2011 China Daily All Rights Reserved
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011BEIJINGSoldiers must use care onlineChinese soldiers are forbid-den from attending any online social activities as they may lead to the leaking of military secrets, the People’s Libera-tion Army Daily reported on Monday.Th e PLA’s Headquarters of the General Staff
and General Political Department banned soldiers from making friends or seeking spouses, opening blogs or websites and group-chatting about the military, the report said.Th e document warned that socializing through the Internet had a negative infl u-ence on soldiers’ lives and work, and military secrets may be leaked through these activities.The pulse of Tibetan medicineto a modern hospital, the scan showed he already missed the best time for surgery.CHINA DAILY“I felt guilty and helpless,” he said.LHASA ― As a boy, NyimaSo Nyima started to learn was shocked the fi rst time heWestern medicine. He said saw his father diagnose anLhasa now has seven modern illness by reading someone’shospitals to which he will rec-pulse.ommend patients in critical “He was aware of patients’condition. conditions, even lifestyles, byTh e Western medical exami-putting hisnation technologies, including FACEfingers onblood tests, X-ray examina-their wrists,”tions and electrocardiograms, Nyima said. “It seemed ahave been introduced in the miracle for me.”Tibet Medical Hospital.Nyima, then 13, begged hisThe introduction of West-father to let him feel the pulse,ern medicine has served as but he didn’t know how thea double-edged sword to the pulsations could carry so muchdevelopment of traditional information.Tibetan medicine, Nyima said. “My father laughed and“Experienced Tibetan doc-taught me how to recognizetors used to tell what disease subtle differences between FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILYering from diff erent pulses,” said Nyima, Nyima, a 56-year-old Tibetan doctor, diagnoses a patient at the Tibet Medical Hospital in Lhasa the patient was suffby visually examining the color, now a 56-year-old Tibetan on May 23.smell, bubbles and sediments doctor at the Tibet MedicalHospital in Lhasa. “He said I Everybody laughs. Nyima is principles ― heat, cold and and complicated cases, which in a urine sample, and placing can only master this skill aft er one of the most popular doc-circulation ― as the founda-have not been explained and the urine in different metalcontainers can also help fi nalize cured by Western medicine.tion of health. decades of experience and hard tors in the hospital.According to Dradul, the diagnosis,” Nyima said.Tibetan doctors employ a He was also one of the training, but Tibetan medicine“But now fewer Tibetan had already become fascinating most hardworking students complex approach to diagnosis, president of the Tibet Medicalin college. Apart from clinical incorporating techniques such Hospital, Tibetan medicine is doctors are able to do that, to me.”Compared with modern training, memorizing the Four as pulse analysis and urinalysis, becoming increasingly popu-relying more on modern urine hospitals, the Tibet Medical Tantras of Tibetan Medicine and utilize behavior and dietary lar not only within China, tests that make the diagnosiscation, medicines com-where specialized hospitals easier and more accurate.”Hospital is old and dim. The ― a classic of ancient Tibetan modifiNyima said it would be a pity smell of herbal medicine per-medical theory ― was the most posed of natural materials like run in many cities, but also inherbs and minerals, and physi-India, Nepal, Bhutan and more that one day local doctors stop vades the building and local important part of his studies.He said that in his father’s cal therapies including Tibetan recently in parts of Europe and practicing traditional Tibetan patients wearing traditionalTibetan wool cloaks wait on generation, the final test to acupuncture and heat to treat North America.medicine ― a magic art thatBut Tibetan medicine also has been etched in his mind wooden benches outside doc-get a doctor certificate at the illness.Nyima said he relies a lot on has its weakness, Nyima said. since early childhood.hospital was fluently reciting tors’ offi
ces.When Nyima arrives at his the Four Tantras in front of all traditional Tibetan medicine “It does little to help in emer-“Ancient Tibetan medicineoffice ― a small consulting the teachers, which could take for treatment, which is cheap gencies and for some severe is not only a medical service,ve hours. Nyima spent and applicable even in the most diseases.” room at the end of a corridor at least fibut also a tradition and cultureNyima remembered in 1990 that Tibetans have believed ― his patients rise to greet three years learning to recite remote areas where medicala patient with a brain tumor and cherished for thousands him. A big smile fl ashes on his three of the four tantras, which equipment is scarce.e doc-of years,” said Nyima. “What Nyima said Tibetan medi-asking him for help. Thtanned face, and he touches his are still considered a basiccine is good at curing chronic tor tried his best and still found I would like to see is that the thick mustache with a thumb resource for Tibetan doctors.ects, the Tibetan medicine couldn’t tradition is carried on, even Unlike traditional Chinese diseases with fewer side effand jokes to his patients.“Wait for me a little longer, medicine that is based on yin and also has been proven keep the tumor from worsen-improved with modern tech-I have to change into a white and yang, Tibetan medicine effective in curing fractures, ing. When the patient finally nology, to help more people in jacket to be a doctor,” he says. considers the balance of three diabetes and various difficult accepted Nyima’s advice to go the future.”By DACHIOGAND PENG YININGTax: Cost of living must be consideredFROM PAGE 1Sites fail to get map licensesTh e State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has blacklisted 46 domestic websites off ering online map-ping services for failing to get licenses before the March 31 deadline.Th e websites must apply for licenses immediately, and any site without a license by July 1 will be closed, according to a statement from the bureau on Monday. Currently, all these websites are still in operation.Th e blacklist didn’t cover foreign websites off ering map-ping services, such as Google and Microsoft .HEILONGJIANGVictory against river pollutionChina has achieved its fi ve-year goal of cleaning up the polluted Songhua River, which fl ows into a Sino-Russian bor-der river, an environmental offi
cial said on Tuesday.Out of 20 monitoring sta-tions built on the river, 19 have recorded acceptable levels of water quality, Hong Yaxiong, president of the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, said on Tuesday while attending a meeting in Harbin, capital of the Hei-longjiang province.Th e 1,900-km Songhua River originates in theneighboring province of Jilin and fl ows into the Heilong River, known in Russia as the Amur River. Th is river runs along the Sino-Russian border.XINJIANGBirthday: Comprehensive network to gather newsmote new media and provide services using the Internet andand government departments mobile devices,” Liu said.In his address, Wang Chen, focused on the challengesChina Daily faces as advances minister of the State Council in information technology Information Office, high-have created multiple news lighted the necessity “to reduce delivery platforms.international misunderstand-“In the face of serious media ing and misconception over competition and increased China’s rise”.audience selectivity, China “China Daily needs to Daily needs to come up with embrace the latest trends at more innovative content and home and abroad, reflect formats to maintain its com-international public opinion, petitive edge and win audienc-and sharpen its coverage of es,” Liu Yunshan, a member of domestic and global events of the Political Bureau of the CPC great importance,” Wang said.Central Committee and head Retracing China Daily’s of the CPC Central Commit-journey since its first official tee’s Publicity Department, issue rolled off
the presses on said in a keynote speech.June 1, 1981, Zhu Ling, China “In keeping up with Daily’s editor-in-chief, not advances in information tech-only summarized the paper’s nology, China Daily needs to past achievements but also transform its traditional mode emphasized that the celebra-of communication with the tion of its 30th birthday marks latest technology, actively pro-“a starting point” to build it intoFROM PAGE 19,200 bilingual teachers comingNorthwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will recruit around 9,200 bilingual primary and middle school teachers this year to promote bilingual education, local education authorities said on Tuesday.Xinjiang will hire 11,502 primary and middle school teachers, 80 percent ofwhom can speak both Man-darin and a language of an ethnic group, the region’s education department said in a press release.Th is is the largest suchrecruitment in six years for the autonomous region, it said.CHINA DAILY ? XINHUAa “top-notch international all-media group”.China Daily “must recognize the increasing integration of the Internet and the traditional media, hasten its own strategic transformation and narrow the gap with leading international news media”, Zhu said.China Daily is building a comprehensive network to gather news and information, and will also boost produc-tion and delivery, enabling it to reach a global audience via a range of media channels that will enhance interaction with readers, Zhu said.China Daily must be able to keep pace with advances in information technology and remain a pioneer in commu-nicating via the new media, Zhu said.Along with the offi
cial key-note speeches were personal refl ections. Bill Gaspard, China Daily’sdesign director and one of the more than 70 expat journalists at the paper, told of the brief panic he experienced on arrival that soon gave way to a feeling of familiarity when he entered the newsroom.“My fi rst day at work I spoke with a top editor about the mis-sion of China Daily ― to bring the story of China to the world and to bring the world’s story to China,” Gaspard recalled. He spoke about how impor-tant it was ― in such a complex, fast-moving world ― to break down stereotypes, dissipate the mistrust between people and to promote mutual understand-ing. “That mission resonates with us as we push to improve the professional standards of China Daily. And those stan-dards have improved substan-tially, along with the reach of the paper,” Gaspard said.“Birthdays are for wishes and mine for China Daily are that it continues to reach for new heights and helps to bridge the divide between our view of the past and our understanding of the future,” he said.Retired editor, Wu Jingshu, 85, recalled the days when he worked on the trial issues of a 4-page broadsheet.A representative of journal-ists from a younger generation, Tan Yingzi, China Daily’s chief Washington correspondent, shared her experiences.Congratulatory messages, meanwhile, poured in from across the world.“It is my pleasure to con-gratulate China Daily on its achievements over the three decades as China’s official English-language newspaper ― a significant milestone,” Julia Gillard, prime minister of Australia, wrote.However, many people still view the amendment as too conservative, saying their income has been eroded by infl ation.According to an online survey conducted , which polled about 2.4 mil-lion netizens, more than 77 percent of respondents said the threshold should be raised to at least 5,000 yuan. Nearly 79 percent doubted that the amendment will succeed in narrowing the wealth gap.Zhang Xianyun, a Duyun res-ident in Guizhou province, said she won’t have to pay income tax if the amendment is passed as her earnings are beneath the proposed threshold.“But lawmakers need to take into account the cost of living in big cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, which is much higher than here,” Zhang, a bank employee, said.Economists echoed her view. Li Daokui, an adviser to the People’s Bank of China and professor at Tsinghua Univer-sity, said the current tax system fails to eff ectively tackle income disparity.In most countries, the major source of tax revenue stems from high-income earners. But in China, 65 percent of tax rev-enue comes from wage earners.Liu Yi, a professor at Peking University’s School of Econom-ics, said the draft
amendment fails to include so-called gray income, such as stock divi-dends.“Gray income is hard to monitor and tax,” said Liu, call-ing for strengthened taxation management.A survey conducted
among 100 Chi-nese economists also shows that 70 percent of the respon-dents believe that the proposed threshold is still “too low”.But Chen, from the NPC, suggested that there was little room to raise the threshold.“A 12 percent income tax base is low. It’s 80-90 percent in most developed countries.’’According to the Ministry of Finance, income tax revenue totaled 483.7 billion yuan in 2010, compared to 41.4 billion yuan in 1999.
Th e revenue accounts for 6.3 percent of the tax haul.China introduced its indi-vidual income tax law in 1980 and raised the threshold to 1,600 yuan a month from 800 yuan in 2006, before increasing it to 2,000 yuan in 2008.Xinhua contributed to
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A Y, JUNE 1, 2011nation 3‘Tainted drinks not distributed’By LI YAOCHINA DAILYSecond case in one week heightens and distribution lines.“Nobody yet has a complete picture of what products have concern over contaminated productsBEIJING ― A tainted drinkscandal is continuing to spill across the mainland with the discovery of a second contaminated product from Taiwan.More than 200 cases of tainted asparagus juice, pro-duced by Uni-President of Taiwan, were imported by merchants in Fujian province but were not distributed, said Yang Shou-cheng, mainland spokesman for Uni-President, a major beverage producer from Taiwan.The juice was found to have been contaminated with DEHP, a plasticizer that makes plastic soft
and pliable, and can aff ect hormone bal-ances in young people.Yang said the tainted beverage was not purchased through official importing procedures, and the vendors were informed of the con-tamination on May 28 and told to retain the product.Yang added that the tainted product was made in Taiwan, and the products made by Uni-President on the main-land exclusively use local ingredients.Last week, China’s top qual-ity watchdog announced that DEHP-contaminated cases of Yes Sports Drink from Taiwan had entered Shanghai in March. Th e products have since been taken off
the shelf.Dong Jinshi, executive vice-president of the Internationalused the harmful plasticizer and thus been tainted,” he said,Food Packaging Association, “because one single ingredient suspected more discoveries can be used in multiple prod-of DEHP-tainted products ucts and the society becomesmore susceptible to wide-would follow.Dong called for more spread health hazards.”forceful responses from He said the Chinese gov-government authorities and ernment has followed stan-preemptive investigations of dard procedures in responseto the crisis, and conducted investigations on a broader range of possibly contami-nated items.“Th e investigation should be done quickly and openly,The investigation and the findings should be should be done shared with authorities inother countries,” he said.quickly and openly,Taiwan’s health authorities and the ? ndingson Tuesday required compa-should be shared nies to verify their products with authorities in were free of six chemicalplasticizers, including DEHP. other countries.”Companies that failed to pro-PETER BEN EMBAREKduce the required certifica-FOOD SAFETY OFFICER OF THEtion will have their products WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION’Sremoved from the market.CHINA OFFICETh e certifi cates are demand-ed for fi ve categories of prod-DEHP use in other products, ucts: sports drinks, juices, teasuch as milk tea, yogurt and drinks, fruit jams or syrups, other sports drink products, and tablets or powders.saying the damage would be Hong Kong on Tuesday immeasurable given the addi-banned two Taiwan-made tive’s harmfulness and the size drinks, Speed sport drink and of the Chinese market.Speed lemon fl avor, aft er tests Peter Ben Embarek, food showed they were tainted with safety officer of the World excessive amounts of DEHP.Health Organization’s China Taiwan earlier this month Office, said more products issued a major recall of circulating in the mainland products, including more might appear on the DEHP-than 460,000 bottles of sports tainted list, but added that drinks and fruit juice, over efforts to remove contami-fears they were contaminated nated products was made with DEHP.more manageable becausethe products can be traced Wang Ying and AFP back along their production contributed to this story.‘‘HOU YU / CHINA NEWS SERVICEA staff
member of the State Archives Administration gives an introduction to reporters from home and abroad on Tuesday.More archives opened to the publicBEIJING ― About 40 per-cent of the documents held by the State Archive Administra-tion have now been opened up to public scrutiny, the head of the administration said on Tuesday.Yang Dongquan said the archives in downtown Beijing contain more than 100 million pages and many of them are available to the public.People wanting to look at documents need to show their identity cards and research achievements in a related fi eld along with letters of introduc-tion from their employers if they want to see the declassi-fi ed materials.“Files of importance to national security and defense, foreign affairs, religion and personal privacy are not suit-able to be opened up,” Yangtold reporters during a gov-in October 1951.The 14th Dalai Lama said ernment-organized visit, add-ing that whether materials are in the letter that “the localmade public depends more on government of Tibet as well the contents of the documents as the Tibetan monks andlaymen unanimously sup-than their age.According to Chinese port this agreement, and … law, the majority of secret will actively assist the People’s documents can be seen by the Liberation Army in Tibet to public 30 years aft er they are consolidate national defense,drive imperialist influences classifi ed.Documents displayed dur-out of Tibet and safeguard thecation of the territory and ing the tour included a copy unifiof the Party’s fi rst resolution, the sovereignty of the mother-which was passed in July land”.Yang said the primary func-1921, when the first Com- er ref-munist Party of China (CPC) tion of archiving is to offNational Congress was con-erence and experience to the vened to declare the Party’s current State leaders.“With the help of old mate-formal establishment, said LiMinghua, the administration’s rials, officials can comparethe past with current events deputy head.Li also showed a copy of to enhance their governance a letter written by the 14th skills,” he said.He also said the materials Dalai Lama to Chairman Maoare useful in recording a faith-ful history, safeguarding theunification of territory and informing younger genera-tions.He said the documents kept in the archives will be made available to a wider section of the public.Th e State Achieves Admin-istration, which was founded in 1954, is responsible for col-lecting, arranging, preserving and providing access to docu-ments with long-term value.All documents held by the administration are the archives of the CPC and the People’s Republic of China, while materials from gov-ernments from earlier than 1949 are in the country’s two historical archives.CHINA DAILY4 nationWEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011
CHINA DAILY Drought shrivels lakes, riversBy WANG QIANCHINA DAILYdrought that has blighted the Yangtze River region has now dried up thousands of rivers and lakes, damaged farmland and posed navigational prob-lems for shipping.A satellite image of the area taken on Saturday shows that the water of Poyang Lake ― China’s largest body of fresh water ― had shrunk by 34 percent compared to the same period last year. Dongting Lake ― the nation’s second-largest freshwater lake ― is about 31 percent smaller than it was this time last year, according to the China Meteorological Admin-istration.However, there does seem to be some relief in sight. Chen Zhenlin, director of the admin-istration’s emergency response, disaster mitigation and public services department, said the worst drought for fi ve decades could be eased by medium-to-heavy rain that is predicted to ZHOU HAIJUN / FOR CHINA DAILYfall on the middle and lower A bride and groom stand on the dried-up bed of Huaihe River in Xuyi, Jiangsu province, on Monday for their wedding photos. The reaches of the Yangtze River water level in the middle of Huaihe River that day had fallen to 12 meters, the lowest level on record.between Friday and Monday.cent less than the usual level people’s livelihoods.by both arable and livestock “Local meteorological“We have been caught of 410 mm, according to the bureaus will take any oppor-farmers as well as the aqua-China Meteorological Admin-unprepared,” water officials tunities available to enhance culture industry now stands atfrom drought-ravaged areas istration’s statistics.the precipitation through more than 8 billion yuan ($1.2small rivers Th e Th ree Gorges Dam has admitted to Xinhua News cloud seeding,” he said at a billion).ow of water Agency, adding that they Th e Anhui provincial fl ood in Anhui province have dried upincreased its outflnews conference in Beijing onin a bid to raise the level of ordinarily have to deal with control and drought relief Tuesday.too much water at this time downstream rivers.But the drought is likely to bureau said that, as of Monday,The dam’s water level was of year.continue in Anhui, Hubei, 269 small rivers and 266 smallWith most parts of China 149.65 meters on Tuesday Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, reservoirs in its jurisdictionnow entering the traditional afternoon, just 4.65 meters Jiangsu and Shanghai for a had dried up. The bureau million peopleabove the 145-meter level that fl ooding season, Chen warned while being because the amount issued a third-level drought are short of drinking water inis said to be the lower limit local authorities to pay atten-of precipitation expected there alarm in response.Hunan provinceneeded to maintain safe ship-tion to the potential for Hunan is facing its driest will be about half of the usual“In many ways, the drought ping lanes upstream, accord-geological disasters, such as quantity seen at this time of spell since 1910 and more thanree Gorges mudslides.year. Some regions have now 709,000 hectares of farmland can be called an extreme ing to the China ThCorporation.Land has become too dry to been without rain for more have now been damaged, weather event,” Chen said.Some hydrologists and easily absorb water because of Between March 1 and Mon-than 60 days, statistics from while more than 1.1 millionpeople were short of drinking day, less than 194 millimeters water officials said China’s the drought, Chen explained, the administration show.According to Hubei’s pro-water as of Monday, according of rain fell on the middle and weak management of water and heavy rain could washood control lower reaches of the Yangtze resources had amplified the earth away easily, triggering vincial agriculture bureau, the to the provincial flRiver, which is about 53 per-impact of the drought on mudslides.direct economic losses suff ered and drought relief bureau.BEIJING ― The severeRationing ofwater triggersrush for pailsBy WU YIYAOCHINA DAILY269 1.1ZHOUSHAN, Zhejiang ― Residents have been lining up and even jostling one another to buy pails ahead of the intro-duction of water rationing on June 1 in this drought-hit island city.Th e price of a plastic 5-gal-lon (19-liter) receptacle has soared from 30 yuan ($4.63) to 100 yuan during the past three days and many shop-keepers said they have sold out of such buckets, despite the high prices.During the rationing, water will be supplied for fi ve hours each day, according to a circu-lar from the authorities.Li Hongyu, a shopkeeper on the Donghai Road, said she has sold more than 1,000 buckets since May 29, when residents learned water rationing would be introduced.“The best-selling buckets are the stainless 30-gallon ones that cost 1,000 yuan each, because restaurants will need them to reserve enough water to sustain normal operations,” she said.In the past, people rarely spent more than 300 yuan on such containers, she said.Some residents who failed to fi nd suitable buckets snapped up trashcans.“Th e larger, the better,” said Hong Wenzhu, who lives with his wife, Sun Mei, and their four parents.“The circular did not say when water rationing will end, so I must make sure that every family member has enough water to use,” said‘‘SUN MEII must make sure that every family member has enough water to use. We will not turn off
the tap until rationing is over.”A RESIDENT OF ZHOUSHAN,
ZHEJIANG PROVINCESun. “We will not turn off
the tap until rationing is over.”Th e water level in Yaojiang River in the neighboring city of Ningbo has fallen sharply in recent months because of the drought.Daily water consumption in Zhoushan is about 140,000 cubic meters, about 80,000 of which are sourced from out-side the island.Th ere has not been signifi -cant rain in the area to boost freshwater reserves since July last year, according to statis-tics from the Zhoushan water authority.Chen Jun, a spokesman for the authority, said the price of water for domestic use may increase slightly and the cost for industrial users may also go up at some point.All of the island’s desalina-tion plants are being used and are pumping out 40,000 cubic meters of treated seawater each day.Th e cost of removing salt from the seawater runs at about 6 yuan per cubic meter, according to Chen.Govt vows to help more of nation’s discriminated-against AIDS kidsWith more than 20,000 orphans, support promisedBy HE DANCHINA DAILYment has announced plans to increase its support of children affected by HIV/AIDS at the same time as studies suggest the disease had orphanedBEIJING ― The govern-between 20,000 and 27,000 children by the end of 2010.The number of children aff ected by HIV/AIDS on the mainland has been estimated at between 496,000 and 894,000.Th e numbers were included in the report Child Welfare in China ― Stocktaking Report 2011 released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNI-CEF) and Beijing Normal Uni-versity on Tuesday.Th e Ministry of Civil Aff airs will gradually extend its sup-port of children affected byHIV/AIDS, those who have orphans living in orphanages been impacted by serious or will be able to receive 1,000 rare diseases or who are living yuan ($154) each month fromairs departments. with physical disabilities, said local civil affLi Liguo, the minister of civil Meanwhile, those living with aff airs.relatives or who are not being Li made the remarks dur-cared for at children’s welfare ing a visit to an orphanage in centers will receive a monthly Jinan, the capital of Shandong subsidy of 600 yuan.province, on Sunday.Wang Zhenyao, director of Civil affairs departments the One Foundation Philan-are currently required to off er thropy Research Institute at monthly subsidies to the coun-Beijing Normal University, try’s 71,200 orphans under the said the move takes China a age of 18.step closer to a more inclusive Starting from January, welfare system.Children affected by HIV/AIDS, no matter whether they are infected with the virus or their parents are patients, are usually vulnerable to poverty, said Wang.However, children aff ected by HIV/AIDS face additional chal-lenges on top of poverty, said Xia Jing, project offi
cer at Marie Stopes International China, a non-government organization that provides sexual and repro-ductive healthcare.“Due to people’s limited understanding of the disease in China, children aff ected by HIV/AIDS receive a great deal of discrimination in their lives,” Xia told China Daily.“As far as I know, many schools still refuse to take in these children because of their fears about the disease.”Because of the associated stigma and discrimination, many children and families are reluctant to reveal their HIV sta-tus and access the government’s social assistance, said Zhang Lei, an HIV/AIDS specialist at UNICEF’s Beijing offi
ce.“We need to continue to work to reduce HIV-related stigma and, at the same time, take an HIV-sensitive, not HIV-exclusive, approach to social assistance for children,” Zhang said in an e-mail inter-view.WU CHANGQING / FOR CHINA DAILYA baby’s bottle marked “does not contain Bisphenol A” is on sale at a supermarket in Beijing. The potentially harmful chemical is now being outlawed from all babies’ bottles.Ministries ban chemical from babies’ bottles over health riskBy CHENG YINGQICHINA DAILYBEIJING ― Six ministries announced on Monday that they have banned the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in the pro-duction of babies’ bottles in an attempt to protect the health of infants.Th e Ministry of Health and fi ve other ministries issued a joint notice on their websites calling for an end to the pro-duction of such bottles starting on June 1. Th e ministries have also forbidden the import and sale of such bottles starting Sept 1.BPA is widely used in the production of plastics, includ-ing tableware and beverage containers. However, BPA is now understood to be an endocrine disruptor and experts say it could lead to the early sexual development of children and may cause cancer. Its use was banned in Canada in September 2010 and in the European Union in March.On April 20, China’s health ministry solicited opinions from related government agencies on a draft proposal to prohibit the manufacture and import of infant foodcontainers incorporating the chemical.When the final regulation was released, the ministry changed the phrase “infant food containers” into “infant nursing bottles” for clarifi ca-tion.Beijing News quoted an offi
cial from the ministry who explained that people some-times put milk in nursing bottles and then heat them, which makes it more likely that the BPA in the bottles will leech into the milk.Th e notice from the minis-tries also asks local food secu-rity inspectors to be vigilant in looking out for violations of the ban.“Before the EU banned BPA in March, I had no idea about this chemical at all, although I had seen some people discuss-ing the issue on the Internet before who said plastic con-tained something that was bad for children,” said Yang Yang, a 30-year-old Beijing mother who is typical of people who were unaware of the risks until recently.“I ended up buying glass bottles for my son, even though they were way heavier than plastic bottles and are harder for a baby to hold.”She said she was still worried about the safety of the plastic or rubber teats.“And I believe the govern-ment is responsible for warn-ing us of possible health risks in baby products in advance, instead of following developed countries in banning danger-ous chemicals,” she said.BPA is not the only endo-crine disruptor babies are exposed to. Around 70 such chemicals have been identi-fied. Although some are already forbidden under the law, others remain in use in the production of plastic contain-ers, toys and pesticides.Twelve distinct chemicals were listed in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which is an international environmen-tal treaty that was signed by many countries in 2001 with the aim of eliminating persis-tent organic pollutants.“After entering the human body, endocrine disruptors act like the female hormone estro-gen and thus probably cause hormone disorders in people,” said Pan Xiaochuan, a profes-sor with the School of Public Health at Peking University.CHINA DAILY
A Y, JUNE 1, 2011coverstory 5A school that shapes China’s futureBy LI JINGAND PENG YININGCHINA DAILYhis might be the most mys-terious school in China. The gates are closely guarded by the People’sArmed Police, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Headmasters of this place, a train-ing ground for future leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC), are always one of the country’s vice-presidents, if not the president. Former headmasters include Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and Hu Jintao. It is also a haven where pos-sible cures for China’s economic and social ills are discussed and debated, and where policy trends are set.Situated next to the Summer Pal-ace, an 18th century imperial retreat in suburban Beijing’s northwest, the Party School of the Central Commit-tee of the Communist Party of China ― the Central Party School ― is like no other university or college in the country.Without the usual hustle and bustle, the 100-hectare leafy campus is extremely quiet, and almost empty. There is no bicycle congestion. Instead, the roads outside school buildings are lined with black Audis, the German brand selected as the government’s offi
cial sedans.Th e serenity and security are pre-pared for those who study there ― provincial governors and ministers, young and middle-aged officials, their guest speakers and sometimes the country’s top leaders. Th e speeches that top leaders deliv-er at the Central Party School, and their articles printed in the school’s publications, oft en signal new strate-gies and policies that will be adopted by the central government.Seeking new solutionsThe most recent example is the notion of innovative social gov-ernance ― keeping a handle on social issues while fulfi lling people’s fundamental interests ― brought about amid growing public concerns over unbalanced and unsustainable development.In February, at the opening cer-emony of a seminar for provincial and ministerial offi
cials at the school, President Hu Jintao called for new methods of social management in a bid to “ensure a harmonious and stable society full of vitality”, Xinhua News Agency reported. Hu acknowl-edged that the country is “still in a stage where many confl icts are likely to arise”, despite remarkable social and economic development.In his speech, Hu highlighted the necessities to “improve the struc-ture of social management”, which must be achieved through the Party committee’s leadership, government’s responsibilities, support from non-governmental organizations and public participation.In March, at the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Con-sultative Conference National Com-The Central Party School is a place where offi
cials and researchers debate about the future of the country and the Party. They have to face the problems and ? nd ways Pto solve them. Speaking empty words or simply ? attering makes no sensehere.”A PROFESSOR AT THE SCHOOL WHO FO-CUSES ON SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH‘‘WU ZHONGMIN“China has so many problems now. As the country’s governors, offi
cials have no reason to ignore those problems. They must bear in mind that only reform and changes to the Party can help it stay in power.”DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL’S PARTY BUILD-ING TEACHING AND RESEARCH DEPARTMENTWANG CHANGJIANG“Teachers told us there were no taboos in their teaching, and offi
cials can debate on almost any sensitive issues in the country. This is actually a place of mind emancipa-tion and free speech.”POSTGRADUATE STUDENT AT THE SCHOOLLI TAOmittee, a proposal high on the agenda called for establishing a sound social management system with Chinese characteristics during the 12th Five-Year Plan () period.More detailed plans have since been drafted, including one for a comprehensive and dynamic national population database. Zhou Yongkang, secretary of the Central Political and Legislative Aff airs Committee of the Communist Party of China, made that proposal in an article published in Qiushi, the CPC central committee’s biweekly journal.Steering the policymaking in China is a tradition for the Central Party School, according to Wang Haiguang, a professor in the school’s history department.Broad range of programsTh e Central Party School, founded in 1933 in Jiangxi province, has trained 61,024 offi
cials under diff er-ent types of programs.rovincial and ministerial-level officials usually undergo twoDiscussions are closely linked to the most sizzling social problems, such as illegal land grabs, inequality between rural and urban areas, and corruption. To give trainees a better understanding of these problems, the Central Party School sometimes invites outspoken scholars to give lectures.One speaker, in 2009, was Yu Jian-rong, head of the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a prominent advocate for farmers’ rights. He addressed the rapid urbanization that has resulted in farmland being taken up for construction projects and the use of the petition system for redress.Some farmers, believing they had not been adequately compensated for their land, appealed to the peti-tion system. But going over local offi
-cials’ heads by petitioning can lead to ill treatment by offi
cials whose job performance is downgraded when they do not handle problems well locally.Wang Changjiang, director of the school’s Party Building Teaching and Research Department, said offi
cials are aware that mishandling such social problems could create greater chaos.“China has so many problems now,” Wang said. “As the country’s governors, offi
cials have no reason to ignore those problems. Th ey must bear in mind that only reform and changes to the Party can help it stay in power.”Social and economic changes also have led to changes in offi
cials’ mindset, he said. In the early 1990s, higher ranked offi
cials were unaware of some of the problems at the grass-roots.Wang said he met strong opposi-tion from trainees when he tried to talk about democratic reform in 1996. But in recent years, more PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILYGroup interviews were on the agenda last June when about 70 journalists from home and abroad visited the Party high-ranking Party leaders began torealize the need to carry out govern-School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. By in? uencing decision-makers, experts say, the Central Party School is partly navigating the country’s development.ment reform following economicprogress.“Th e Central Party School might months of training on political sci-regarded as the truth or principle to Central Party School to be conserva-ence, public management, economy follow. Th e discussion led by Hu was tive, the school tolerates free internal be the most ideal place for such dis-and history. Young and middle-aged whether this rule should continue.discussions, even without limits. Li cussions,” he said, “because you can’t
nd anywhere else where hundreds offi
cials spend six months to a year The discussion was held in a Tao, a 27-year-old postgraduate stu-ficials gather for at the school, usually followed by a stubborn social environment still dent at the school, was surprised by of high-ranking offimonths.”promotion. dominated by the notion of “two the freedom of speech in class.Since 1981, the school also has whatevers” ― “we will resolutely “Teachers told us there were no offered postgraduate and doctoral uphold whatever policy and deci-taboos in their teaching, and offi
cials International exchangesSince the mid-1990s, the Central programs for about 500 non-offi
cial sions Chairman Mao made, and can debate on almost any sensitiveis Party School has welcomed another students. Th ey focus on philosophy, unswervingly follow whatever issues in the country,” Li said. “This actually a place of mind emancipa-group of guest speakers ― top lead-economics, laws, politics and the instructions Chairman Mao gave.”ers from foreign countries ― in ahistory of the Communist Party of It led to the publication in May tion and free speech.”cials a wider “Officials might be discreet in bid to give Chinese offiChina.1978 of a commentary piece, titled“The Central Party School has “Practice Is the Sole Criterion for talking to strangers or in public, but horizon and better understanding oferent cultures, values and political played an important role in sev-Testing Truth,” in Guangming Daily. their internal discussion in class is differal critical stages in China’s history,” The concept put forward in the unbounded,” said Wu Zhongmin, systems.Most recently, Herman Van Wang said. “In some way, it is partly article won approval by the major-a professor at the Central Partynavigating the country’s develop-ity of Party members, but it also School who focuses on social justice Rompuy, president of the Europeana fi erce national debate. research. “Sometimes their opinions Council, gave a speech titled “Europe ment through infl uencing decision-touched offTh e debate was believed to be a great can be really audacious and revolu-and China in an Interdependent makers.”World” on May 17 during his visit Following the end of the “cul-movement to free the minds of Chi-tionary.“Th e Central Party School is a place to Beijing. Besides talking about the tural revolution” (), Hu nese people from personality cults,cials and researchers debate economic crisis, he also addressed Yaobang, then headmaster of the and also a solid ideological founda-where offiCentral Party School, led a fervent tion for the economic reforms and about the future of the country and the human rights, climate change andParty,” Wu said. “Th ey have to face the other concerns common to both discussion about the criterion for opening-up that would follow.problems and fi nd ways to solve them. Europe and China.“testing truth” among the offi
cialsSpeaking empty words or simply fl at-Freedom of speech receiving training at the school.Xu Wei contributed to this report.Although outsiders expect the tering makes no sense here.”At the time, whatever Mao said was包含各类专业文献、高等教育、外语学习资料、文学作品欣赏、各类资格考试、幼儿教育、小学教育、行业资料、中学教育、专业论文、chinadaily_pdf_等内容。　}