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All 30 purebred mastiff s at the exhibit have gone through strict selection in Tibet, said You Wenfa, honorary president of the association. Th e price of the dogs ranges from 200,000 yuan to 16 mil- lion yuan ($38,000 to $2.5 mil- lion). “The valuations of all the mastiffs are some 80 million yuan,” said You. “However, all the dogs are for exhibition and appreciation only this time, rather than for sale.” According to Huang, there are fewer than 300 purebred Himalayan mastiffs in the world. Th irty purebred Himalayan mastiff s were brought to the city for exhibition aft er a fi ve-day trip from the plateau. Some 40 Tibetan mastiff exhibitions will be held from March to April this year across the country. Th e fi rst Himalayan Mastiff Cultural Exposition will also be held in May in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region. According to Huang, many traders simply consider breed- ing the dog as a tool for build- ing up fortunes and a road to economic prosperity — regard- less of preserving its pure blood and genes — which results in an overfl ow of crossbred mastiff s. “Many merchants, with insufficient knowledge about the dog, mate the purebred Himalayan mastiff s with other kinds of dogs, which simply results in a market of chaos and deception,” said Huang. In addition, some people mate the purebred ones with other breeds in pursuit of one that is better looking, taller or has shinier fur, which is ‘stu- pid and foolish’, according to Huang. “Seriously, this kind of irre- sponsible mating might lead to the extinction of the purebred mastiff s,” he said. Huang is currently work- ing with staff from the Mastiff Association of Tibet to help preserve the breed, which has a history of thousands of years. “It’s also a way of restor- ing Tibetan culture,” Huang added. According to Wang Yong- gang, president of the associa- tion, Himalayan mastiffs are one of the three treasures to the Tibetan people. Th e others are the yak, a major food source for people on the plateau, and the vulture, the predatory bird believed to bring the spirit and soul of Tibetans to heaven aft er death through sky burial. SEE “MASTIFF” PAGE 2 SETTING THE STAGE PHOTO BY LIU XIAO / XINHUA Workers prepare for a cultural heritage expo that kicked off on Friday in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi province. See story on page 3. WANG JING / CHINA DAILY Huang Ding, secretary-general of the Mastiff Association of Tibet, walks his dog on Friday. FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILY John Dramani Mahama, vice-president of Ghana, says Africa has resources but not enough infrastructure. Africa looks to China for fi nancing Developing nations now have more choices for procuring loans By ANDREW MOODY and ZHONG NAN in Accra, Ghana Emerging countries can now look to China and other new economic powers for development cash, said a leading African politician. “Th e rise of BRICS coun- tries like China, Brazil and India gives an alternative to African and other developing countries for much needed investment without having to go through the old rig- marole,” said John Dramani Mahama, vice-president of Ghana. Mahama said the Cold War and US influence in Africa almost compelled countries in the region to seek resourc- es for development from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Ghana’s vice-president was speaking ahead of his visit to Beijing on Thurs- day to sign a $3-billion loan from the China Develop- ment Bank. Considered the largest loan so far to a West African nation, the money is ear- marked for major infrastruc- ture development, including a new gas pipeline, fishing harbors, roads and railway lines. Mahama, speaking from his offi cial residence at Osu Castle in Accra overlooking the Gulf of Guinea, added Ghana was also in discus- sions with Brazil to arrange a similar but smaller facility of around $1 billion. The loan by the China Development Bank, China’s largest foreign currency lender, has been subject to signifi cant delays. It needed third-party approval from the IMF because of Ghana’s poor fi nancial status, which means any additional lending has to be scrutinized to avoid it get- ting into further debt. The IMF eventually gave the go-ahead in December and Ghana’s parliament approved it in February. Gong Jianzhong, China’s ambassador to Ghana, said he could not understand the delays. The memorandum of understanding was signed during the visit of Ghanaian President John Atta Mills to China in September 2010. SEE “AFRICA” PAGE 7 Country upgrades nuclear emergency planning By XIN DINGDING xindingding@ chinadaily.com.cn China is updating its nuclear emergency plan and building its capability to handle nuclear emergencies amid new chal- lenges brought by the indus- try’s quick development. A two-day meeting of the national nuclear emergency coordination committee that started on Friday in Beijing dis- cussed the revision of China’s nuclear emergency plan, as well as the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) for nuclear emergen- cies. An expert panel set up on Friday was expected to provide professional advice to the com- mittee. Meanwhile, the committee will expand to involve more government departments and provinces, said Wang Yiren, deputy head of the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The number of provinces that have nuclear emergency plans will increase from 12 to 16, he said. Efforts will also be made to draft more laws governing nuclear emergencies, build capa- bility to handle a nuclear acci- dent, and carry out more nuclear emergency drills, he said. The meeting came after President Hu Jintao told the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit last week that nucle- ar security and energy could work in tandem by using a “sci- entifi c and sensible” approach. As China prefers nuclear energy to meet its surging demand as the economy under- goes rapid expansion, efforts should be made to “face up to associated risks and make sure that nuclear energy is safer and more reliable”, Hu cautioned. 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2 / 14 S - 1 / 16 C Yantai 4 / 19 S 9 / 16 S Yinchuan 4 / 20 S 4 / 22 S Zhengzhou 10 / 25 S 11 / 24 S Zhuhai 18 / 22 Sh 19 / 23 D SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012 By ZHENG CAIXIONG in Guangzhou zhengcaixiong@chinadaily.com.cn Guangzhou authorities are building a “non-governmental fi nancial street” to off er fi nanc- ing and fundraising services to the city’s small, medium- and micro-sized enterprises, a senior financial official of the city has said. “Th e fi nancial street, which will be completed before the end of May, is expected to play an important role in helping to bail out the city’s many of small, medium- and micro-sized enterprises that are running in the red because of inadequate funds for expan- sion and development,” Cai Jian from the city’s finance offi ce told reporters aft er the city government’s routine work conference on Friday. “In the fi rst stage, the fi nan- cial street will attract 35 com- panies and organizations to provide financing and wealth management services,” Cai said. “Th ese companies and orga- nizations will include 20 non- governmental and micro loan fi rms, fi nancing guarantee cor- porations, pawnshops and 15 privately run banks, stock and futures companies, insurance fi rms, vehicle fi nancing enter- prises and trading companies of precious metals, gold and jewelry,” Cai said. Th e city government attaches great importance to the fi nan- cial street, Cai said. Guangzhou Mayor Chen Jianhua and Executive Deputy Mayor Chen Rugui have visited the site numerous times in the past weeks to coordinate con- struction, he said. Th e city and district govern- ments are now investing more than 150 million yuan ($23.8 million) to reconstruct and dec- orate the old Qilou or arcade- houses of the financial street as well as build electricity and water supplies, fi re protection and related transportation and communication facilities. Th e Guangzhou city govern- ment has also established the Guangzhou Financial Street Management Company to operate the fi nancial street, Cai said. Located in the Changdidam- alu Road in Guangzhou’s busy Yuexiu district, the financial street, situated in the northern bank of the Pearl River, used to be a bustling commercial area and a foreign concession in the city proper. The financial street will be the fi rst that focuses on off ering fi nancing and money manage- ment services to the small enter- prises on the Chinese mainland, Cai said. Cai said his office is also drafting new regulations and rules to further standardize and guide the development of the city’s non-governmental fi nan- cial and related companies. Jiang Guoqing, a Guangzhou businessperson, said the opera- tion of the city’s fi nancial street will be good news for the city’s small companies. “Affected by the European debt crisis, many local compa- nies are experiencing their most diffi cult period because of a lack of funds for development and expansion,” he told China Daily on Friday. “The financial street would certainly help the small, medi- um- and micro-companies expand their fundraising chan- nels and overcome their fi nanc- ing and development diffi cul- ties,” he said. Guangdong has the largest number of small enterprises on the Chinese mainland. Th ese enterprises have played an important role in local eco- nomic growth in recent years. By the end of last year, Guangdong registered about 450,000 privately-run small, medium- and micro-sized enterprises, with an investment of more than 500 billion yuan. Th ey employ about 3.8 million people. Boost for fund-strapped businesses FROM PAGE 1 “The Himalayan mas- tiff s are very loyal and brave guardians of the Tibetan people,” he said. “It has been of great significance in the culture of the Tibetan people.” Wang said to better pre- serve the purebred Himala- yan mastiff s and regulate the market, it was necessary for the country to come up with a specialized institution, like the American Kennel Club in the United States, draft ing a unifi ed breeding and indus- trial standard. “Most of the mastiff asso- ciations and farms around the country that mushroomed in the past few years are simply for the sake of making profi t, with varying standards for dog evaluation,” said Wang. “We are lagging so far behind Western countries in preserv- ing purebred dogs, and prop- er regulation of the market would be of great help.” Wang also said the mastiff industry could become a new economic growth opportuni- ty to local people if well devel- oped. According to You, who also owns a mastiff farm in Beijing, the buyers of mastiff s are still the country’s afflu- ent middle and upper classes, who purchase the dogs as sta- tus symbols. “Only those wealthy busi- nessmen can aff ord a dog this expensive,” said You. “To have a huge dog like this is abso- lutely a sign of identity and special taste.” Businessman Guo Jingshu owns a mastiff . He said raising a mastiff at home is diff erent from keep- ing a Chihuahua, just like those who drive a Mercedes are definitely of a different status from those in a Mini Cooper. Liu Xulei, 32, a visitor to the exhibition from East China’s Shandong province, as well as a mastiff lover who owns three mastiff s, said he was the poorest of all the mastiff fans he knows. “Most of the mastiff owners I know are wealthy business- men, either for a symbol of social status or as a means of investment,” he said. Mastiff : Regulations could protect breed Nuclear: Fukushima sent others a warning GALES HIT GUANGDONG PHOTO BY CAO JING / FOR CHINA DAILY A tree was uprooted aft er being hit by a major gale in Qingyuan, Guang- dong province on Th ursday. Strong winds, along with downpours and hailstorms, have hit many areas in the province. Wenzhou set to unveil detailed fi nancial plan By GAO CHANGXIN in Shanghai gaochangxin@chinadaily.com.cn Wenzhou, a city in Zhejiang province, will release details to the public about a test project to reform its fi nancial industry and is rolling out plans to make fi nancial services the city’s chief industry by 2015. Th e National Business Daily obtained the news at a meet- ing that Wenzhou Mayor Chen Jinbiao led on Th ursday. The report said the plan will list 12 main points, an arrangement reminiscent of the 12-point decision Premier Wen Jiabao announced last week, saying that Wenzhou will be made into a test zone for fi nancial reforms. Th e plan will call for Wen- zhou to contain at least 30 rural fi nancial institutions by the end of 2013. Th ose should include village banks, rural financial co-operatives and 100 micro- credit companies with 40 bil- lion yuan ($6.35 billion) in net assets. Th is year alone, the city is to add 30 micro-credit companies, which extend very small loans. Meanwhile, six private asset management companies are to be set up by the end of this year and a private equity fund, led by the city government, is to raise 3 billion yuan by 2015. Th e plan will also call for a depository and clearing com- pany to offer aid in private fundraising, which is fairly common in Wenzhou, a city with a long tradition of entre- preneurship. The company will have 6 million yuan in registered capital and 22 investors, both individual and institutional. Wenzhou won Beijing’s approval on Wednesday for a landmark project that will allow residents of the coastal city to make investments over- seas and establish loan compa- nies, among other things. In bringing private money into the offi cial banking sys- tem, Beijing is hoping that cash-starved small businesses, which play a large role in sup- porting employment in China, will be able to obtain fi nanc- ing more easily and cheaply. Premier Wen said earlier this week that the reforms are also aimed at breaking the monopoly enjoyed by State- owned banks. Beijing asked