中国日报ChinaDaily-20100913

I t has been 12 days since trawler captain Zhan Qixiong left home to fish on the East China Sea, where generations of Chinese fi shermen have made a living. But Zhan would never have expected the events of last Tuesday — when he and his boat were seized in waters off China’s Diaoyu Islands by Japan’s coast guard — that triggered the dramatic changes in his life. His 85-year-old grand- mother — who was recovering from an earlier fall — died last Wednesday hours aft er hearing of his arrest. “She was fi ne when I called her in the morning,” relative Zheng Feng told China Daily. “But she got a lot worse aft er she heard the news.” Zhan, 41, and 14 other crew members of the Min- jinyu 5179, were taken into custody in the early hours last Wednesday, sparking strong protests by the Chinese gov- ernment and campaigners calling for their release. SEE “ISLANDS” PAGE 6 CHINADAILY chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5 COVER STORY MONDAY,September 13, 2010 Nation Schwab rules out double dip for economy World Economic Forum founder optimistic about China growth. > PAGE 2 Nation Straits deal will boost trade ties Sweeping agreement targets tariff s and commercial barriers. > PAGE 3 OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER OF EXPO 2010 SHANGHAI In this issue NATION ................................................ 2-5 COVER STORY ....................................... 6 COMMENT ......................................... 8, 9 WORLD ............................................ 10-11 BUSINESS .......................... 13, 14, 16, 17 LIFE ....................................................... 21 SPORTS ............................................... 23 On chinadaily.com.cn Society: Cinema paradiso — when nostalgia meets reality Language tips: Under the radar? Business: Summer Davos 2010 in Tianjin Slides: Soldiers in training Contacts News (86-10) 6491-8366 Subscription (86) 400-699-0203 Advertisement (86-10) 6491-8631 E-mail editor@chinadaily.com.cn iPhone app chinadaily.com.cn/iphone 国内统一编号:CN11-0091 国际标准编号:ISSN0253-9543 邮发代号:1-3 © 2010 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 30 — No. 9475 EXCLUSIVE | ROBERT ZOELLICK PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Zhan Qixiong, captain of the seized Chinese fi shing trawler Minjinyu 5179, was arrested by the Japan Coast Guard last Wednesday and brought to Ishigaki to face prosecutors. Japan ‘must make wise resolution’ Arrest brings calamity to trawler captain’s family Domestic consumption ‘key to solve trade rows’ By BAO DAOZU CHINA DAILY BEIJING — The Japanese ambassador was summoned in the early hours of Sunday by State Councilor Dai Bing- guo who urged Tokyo to make a “wise political resolution” and release the detained Chi- nese fi shermen and their boat immediately. Dai, the highest-ranking Chinese official to protest so far over the arrest of the boat’s captain, the detention of the crew and seizure of the vessel, warned Japan against mis- judgment, and “expressed the Chinese government’s grave concerns (over the incident)”, according to a Foreign Minis- try statement. Japanese Ambassador Uichiro Niwa said he would report the Chinese position to his government, according to the statement. In a sign of the growing ten- sion between the two countries, this was the fourth time Beijing had summoned the Japanese ambassador since the seizure of the trawler by the Japan Coast Guard in waters off China’s Diaoyu Islands last Tuesday. Japan’s Kyodo News Agency called it an “unusual” and “rare” move to exert pressure on Tokyo. Meanwhile, Japan on Sunday morning towed the Chinese fi shing boat — with members of the Japan Coast Guard on board and a Japanese vessel closely following — to an area near Ishigaki island in Oki- nawa prefecture to reenact the circumstances when the trawl- er reportedly collided with two Japanese patrol ships. Foreign Ministry spokes- woman Jiang Yu said on Sunday that “China is fi rmly opposed to any kind of investigation by the Japanese side on the illegally detained Chinese trawler”. Jiang reiterated that such behavior is “illegal, invalid and futile” and stressed that the “unconditional and immedi- ate release of the detained Chinese citizens was the only way to settle the dispute”. The dispute has escalated since the Chinese trawler was intercepted, followed by the arrest of the Chinese captain on suspicion, according to the Japanese, of obstructing offi cers on duty. A Japanese court in Ishigaki on Friday allowed prosecutors to keep the captain in custody until Sept 19 before decid- ing whether to press charges against him despite China’s strong opposition. In response, China announced on Friday that it would postpone talks sched- uled earlier with Japan on the East China Sea issue. Th e talks, scheduled for mid-September, would have been the second governmental meeting over territorial disputes in that area. “Japan will reap as it has sown, if it continues to act recklessly,” Jiang said on Friday, without further elaboration. An official in the Japanese prime minister’s offi ce said it was “regrettable that a post- ponement (of the talks) was announced unilaterally,” the Kyodo News Agency reported. And the Japanese government SEE “JAPAN” PAGE 2 By DING QINGFEN CHINA DAILY XINGYI, Guizhou — Eco- nomic “rebalancing”, shift ing from export-driven growth to one led by domestic consump- tion, off ers one of the best ways for China to ease trade friction with the US, the World Bank president told China Daily on Sunday. Regarding possible trade disputes between China and the US, World Bank President Robert Zoellick urged both sides to tread carefully because protectionist measures were “quite dangerous”. US Treasury Secretary Tim- othy Geithner is due to face a US Congressional hearing this week on possible steps that could be taken against China over its exchange rate policy. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin said “the large and persistent US trade imbalance with China is a major contributor to global imbalances, costing the US jobs and economic growth”. A number of US lawmakers in both the House and Senate are pushing for legislation that would allow the Commerce Department to impose duties on Chinese goods to offset what they consider as China’s currency “undervaluation”. Th e important thing for both China and the US is to “keep the market open, not to close it”, Zoellick said. He predicted that the US economy will register “slow growth” and be troubled by “relatively high unemploy- ment rates”. Yet it faced no risk of “double-dip recession” this year, he said. But slow growth will “add to sensitivities” in Sino-US trade and China should resort to economic rebalance to reduce friction. “Rebalancing can be signifi - cant in dealing with trade and other anxieties globally. That means China could shift from its heavy reliance on export growth to greater domestic consumption,” he said. But he admitted “it’s not easy”. China posted a third straight trade surplus of more than $20 billion in August, according to statistics released last Friday by the General Administration of Customs. Th is sparked specu- lation that the US would be pressing China to increase the value of its currency. Declining to comment on moves by the US, Zoellick nonetheless said “it’s important to see the currency issue in the context of many other issues, including domestic consump- tion and the internationaliza- tion of the renminbi”. “It is also important to let this (rebalancing) become a point of strong vision that will lead to action that helps the global economy get out of the fi nancial crisis.” According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s industrial output in August surged 13.9 percent from a year earlier, higher than previously estimated. Many economists said the latest figure sent a signal that the Chinese economy is gaining momentum despite eff orts to curb the real estate bubble. Zoellick praised China for the “stabilizing factor” of its stimulus program and its impressive growth during the SEE “LOANS” PAGE 2 Inside Constructive role with China, page 9 Stern warning for Tokyo against misjudgment over Diaoyu Islands WU ZHIYI /CHINA DAILY World Bank President Robert Zoellick attends a welcome ceremony at Xianahui village in southwestern Guizhou province on Sunday. The ethnic Bouyei village has benefi ted from a program fi nanced by World Bank loans to preserve its unique culture. Friends of detained fi shermen wait anxiously for news. Wei Tian reports from Jinjiang in Fujian. Nation Governor eyes Expo in Silicon Valley Schwarzenegger wants to learn from Shanghai experience. > PAGE 4 PAGE 2 | nation 24 / 32 24 / 32 26 / 32 26 / 32 24 / 33 26 / 33 25 / 33 24 / 32 24 / 31 26 / 30 25 / 33 24 / 32 23 / 31 26 / 35 26 / 35 23 / 27 23 / 26 25 / 30 27 / 32 26 / 32 26 / 32 24 / 32 24 / 32 24 / 27 24 / 28 25 / 31 26 / 33 11 / 29 8 / 20 20 / 29 21 / 29 MONDAY TUESDAY 20 / 32 19 / 29 10 / 19 7 / 21 TRAVELER’S FORECAST Chengdu Urumqi Beijing Xining New Delhi Kathmandu Thimphu Yangon Singapore Jakarta Kuala Lumpur Bangkok Vientiane Ulaanbaatar Shanghai Bandar Seri Begawan Macao Hong Kong Guangzhou Manila Hanoi Taipei Seoul Pyongyang Tokyo Lhasa CHINA AMERICAS SEPT 13-14MON - TUE LOW/HIGH TEMPERATURES, IN DEGREES CELSIUS, AND EXPECTED CONDITIONS C Cloudy D Drizzle Du Dust F Fog O Overcast R Rain Sh Shower S Sunny Sn Snow St Storm T Thunderstorms weather ASIA-PACIFIC-MIDDLE EAST EUROPE BuenosAires 12 / 16 C 10 / 15 O Chicago 14 / 20 S 11 / 19 S Caracas 26 / 33 T 26 / 33 T Houston 24 / 34 Sh 23 / 33 C Las Vegas 22 / 30 S 23 / 32 S Los Angeles 15 / 21 C 15 / 21 S Mexico City 13 / 25 T 12 / 24 T New York 18 / 25 Sh 18 / 26 C Ottawa 10 / 20 Sh 9 / 18 Sh Rio De Janeiro 20 / 28 C 20 / 29 S San Francisco 13 / 22 C 13 / 23 C Sao Paulo 16 / 30 S 15 / 29 S Vancouver 12 / 18 Sh 14 / 20 C Washington 17 / 28 Sh 17 / 29 S Athens 19 / 28 O 19 / 30 C Berlin 12 / 19 C 10 / 17 O Brussels 10 / 19 C 9 / 17 C Geneva 8 / 19 Sh 6 / 17 C Istanbul 18 / 24 Sh 17 / 25 C London 13 / 20 C 15 / 22 O Madrid 14 / 33 S 15 / 33 S Moscow 10 / 22 C 11 / 23 C Paris 10 / 21 C 9 / 20 C Rome 17 / 30 C 16 / 27 C Vienna 14 / 23 O 12 / 21 O CHINA AFRICA 20 / 27 20 / 28 Cairo 24 / 33 C 22 / 31 S CapeTown 11 / 23 C 12 / 22 S Johannesburg 11 / 28 S 11 / 29 S Lagos 23 / 30 T 23 / 29 C Nairobi 11 / 27 C 12 / 26 C Abu Dhabi 23 / 42 D 23 / 42 R Bangkok 26 / 33 T 25 / 33 C Colombo 25 / 30 T 26 / 31 T Dubai 30 / 44 C 30 / 43 S Hanoi 26 / 32 T 25 / 29 R Islamabad 20 / 33 Sh 20 / 34 C Jakarta 24 / 32 Sh 24 / 32 C Karachi 27 / 32 C 27 / 32 C Kuala Lumpur 24 / 33 T 24 / 33 T Manila 26 / 32 T 26 / 32 T Mumbai 25 / 31 T 25 / 31 C New Delhi 26 / 30 Sh 25 / 33 O Pyongyang 18 / 28 C 19 / 29 C Riyadh 26 / 42 S 27 / 42 S Seoul 20 / 27 C 20 / 28 C Singapore 26 / 32 T 26 / 32 C Sydney 5 / 19 Sh 6 / 17 Sh Teheran 19 / 30 C 20 / 32 C Tokyo 24 / 32 O 23 / 31 C Wellington 10 / 14 Sh 11 / 15 O Yangon 24 / 32 T 24 / 31 T Beijing 20 / 32 S 19 / 29 S Changchun 16 / 28 S 17 / 29 S Changsha 22 / 29 D 23 / 31 D Chongqing 23 / 32 C 24 / 33 C Dalian 20 / 27 S 20 / 26 S Fuzhou 26 / 35 S 27 / 35 C Guangzhou 25 / 31 Sh 26 / 33 C Guilin 25 / 32 Sh 25 / 33 Sh Guiyang 18 / 23 Sh 18 / 25 Sh Haikou 23 / 32 T 24 / 33 C Hangzhou 24 / 29 Sh 24 / 29 Sh Harbin 15 / 30 S 16 / 31 S Hefei 22 / 28 T 22 / 27 T Hohhot 14 / 28 S 15 / 28 C Hongkong 25 / 30 Sh 27 / 32 Sh Jinan 20 / 31 S 20 / 30 S Kunming 16 / 24 Sh 16 / 22 Sh Lanzhou 16 / 30 S 16 / 27 S Lhasa 10 / 22 C 12 / 23 O Lijiang 14 / 20 R 14 / 22 Sh Macao 24 / 30 Sh 26 / 31 C Nanchang 24 / 30 Sh 24 / 30 Sh Nanjing 22 / 29 C 23 / 28 Sh Nanning 25 / 31 R 24 / 32 Sh Qingdao 22 / 29 S 22 / 28 S Sanya 25 / 31 R 25 / 32 Sh MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 Shanghai 24 / 27 R 24 / 28 R Shenyang 16 / 29 S 16 / 29 S Shenzhen 25 / 32 Sh 26 / 32 C Shijiazhuang 19 / 31 S 19 / 31 S Suzhou 23 / 27 T 23 / 27 T Taipei 26 / 35 Sh 26 / 35 Sh Taiyuan 15 / 28 S 16 / 27 S Tianjin 21 / 32 S 20 / 32 S Urumqi 10 / 19 D 7 / 21 C Wuhan 22 / 30 Sh 23 / 30 C Xiamen 26 / 33 C 25 / 33 S Xi’an 20 / 30 C 21 / 30 C Xining 7 / 27 S 11 / 24 C Yantai 20 / 28 C 19 / 27 C Yinchuan 14 / 28 S 16 / 27 S Zhengzhou 19 / 30 S 19 / 29 S Zhuhai 24 / 31 Sh 25 / 32 C briefl y Source: National Bureau of Statistics ZHANG YE / CHINA DAILY 8.7% CPI TREND SINCE JAN 2008 0 4 8 % Jan 08 Jan 09 Jan 10 Aug CPI growth XINJIANG Cold sweeps into Northwest A cold front sweeping across Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Sunday will bring gusty winds and lower tem- peratures across northern China. Over the coming three days, temperatures will drop 8 to 12 degrees in northern Xinjiang and in the western parts of both Gansu province and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the National Meteorological Cen- ter forecast on Sunday. Light to medium rain will fall on northwestern Xinjiang on Sunday and bring frost to northern areas of Xinjiang over the next two days, the forecast said. HENAN Man stabs eight on a train A knife-wielding man attacked eight people aboard a train in Central China’s Henan province on Sunday, killing one and injuring seven others before being captured. Th e attack occurred at 12:20 am on train No K862 traveling from Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, to Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, according to Henan’s Zhengzhou railway bureau. Th e injured were taken to three hospitals in Henan’s Luoyang city, but their injuries are not life- threatening. A preliminary investiga- tion revealed the suspect has psychological problems that may have caused the tragedy, police said. Police are inves- tigating how the knife passed through the security check at the railway station. TIBET Repairs start on monastery China is spending 46 mil- lion yuan ($6.8 million) on the preservation of the Sera Monastery in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region. Built in 1419 in northern Lhasa, the monastery needs repairs, said Losang Jigme, Tibet’s top offi cial in charge of religious aff airs. Th e preservation work will keep the monastery’s original style, he said at a ceremony marking the start of the repairs on Saturday. Th e project is expected to be completed next year. SHIJIAZHUANG Six killed by fi reworks Six people were killed and four wounded when fi re- works exploded at a village recycling station in North China’s Hebei province on Saturday, local authorities said Sunday. Th e accident occurred in Qianying village of Dingzhou city at 3:30 pm Saturday. A preliminary investigation showed the explosion was caused by the illegal storage of fi reworks at the station. Local police said they will continue to investigate the accident. XINHUA By XIN ZHIMING CHINA DAILY BEIJING — The world economy has good chances of avoiding a double dip recession and the Chinese economy could expand by about 10 percent this year, said Klaus Schwab, found- er and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. “I’m not one of those who feel the world will have a double dip,” he said ahead of the Summer Davos Forum meeting, which opens on Monday in Tianjin municipality. “I’m fairly opti- mistic. I think we have learned from the crisis.” Also, yuan appreciation would not help narrow the trade deficit of China’s major trading partners, such as the United States, he told China Daily on Friday. While the developed econo- mies remain weak, there is hope for the emerging market economies, he said. “Europe and Japan certainly, with a high level of debt, will have quite a number of years of slow growth. But I’m quite optimistic for emerging countries, particu- larly for China and India.” With economists already concerned about a widespread weakening of the global economy, the US could be a detri- ment to the global effort to revive the economy, he said. The US Federal Reserve observed “widespread signs” that economic growth had eased in the six weeks to the end of August, according to its Beige Book report, suggest- ing the recovery was faltering in some parts of the country. But the US is a very “entrepre- neurial” economy, Schwab said. “We can be fairly optimistic that the US could come back to close to 3-4 percent growth in the near future. I think it’s a resilient economy.” China would be a major engine driving the global growth with an annual growth rate of about 10 percent. “Chi- na’s growth may decelerate to a certain extent, maybe going below 10 percent, 9.8 percent or even 9.7 percent this year.” But he said: “Going down from 11 percent to 10 percent is not a catastrophe,” he said. “Th e economy is well managed by the Chinese government and we see that the latest indicators show that exports picked up again (in August).” China’s trade surplus nar- rowed to $20 billion in August, compared with $28.7 billion, thanks to expanding imports, which amounted to $119.2 bil- lion, up 35 percent year-on-year. Its exports, however, continued to grow by 34 percent, which could provide the US congress with ammunition to demand a fast yuan appreciation. Schwab said the US could have miscalculated the effect faster yuan appreciation would have on trade, citing the 2005- 2008 period, during which the yuan rose by about 21 percent against the dollar but the US trade deficit with China increased. “It’s a very complex issue… Th e eff ect of yuan revaluation on the US trade defi cit was not recognizable,” he said. Guo Jingwei contributed to this story. PHOTO BY SHENG LI / REUTERS Customers shop for vegetables on Saturday at a supermarket in Shenyang, Liaoning province. China’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.5 percent in August from a year earlier to a 22-month high. By WANG XIAOTIAN AND HU YUANYUAN CHINA DAILY BEIJING — Despite a recent increases in the consumer price index (CPI), China’s economy maintained stable growth in August while showing concert- ed growth in industrial output, investment and consumption, analysts said. CPI, the major gauge of infl a- tion, rose by a 22-month high of 3.5 percent in August year- on-year, 0.2 percentage points higher than the rate in July, said the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday. It grew by 0.6 percent in August on a month-on-month basis, 0.2 percentage points higher than July, said the bureau. Justin Yifu Lin, chief econo- mist of the World Bank, said at a forum in Beijing on Sunday that the Chinese economy is moving in the right direction. He estimated China’s eco- nomic growth could reach 9.5 percent this year, but it may slow to 8 percent next year. Sheng Laiyun, spokesman of the NBS, said the CPI increase was mainly attributable to a surge in food prices, which climbed 7.5 percent year-on- year in August and which account for about one-third of the index’s weighting. “Price increases of agricul- tural products contributed 70 percent of the acceleration if we rule out the infl uence of the lower basis in 2009,” he said. Sheng said factors leading to the decrease of the CPI in the coming months may still overwhelm further increases, because grain storage will be abundant and the supply of industrial products always exceeds public demand. “If the government can manage infl a- tion expectations in a proper manner, the formerly-set target of maintaining infl ation below 3 percent through the whole year is very likely achievable.” Th e producer price index, a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, rose by 4.3 percent in August from a year earlier, declining from