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CUT PREDICTED Interest rates expected to be lowered again > p13 NEW MOVE Beijing Mayor Guo Jinlong elected as city Party chief > NATION, PAGE 3 DAY TRIP Russian PM visits islands in dispute > WORLD, PAGE 12 chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5WEDNESDAY, July 4, 2012 CHINADAILY COVER STORY Plane terror Exclusive report on the attempted hijack in Xinjiang on June 29. > p6 LIFE Greater awareness Th ere is increasing toler- ance toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. > p18-19 SPORTS Zhang eyes Rio Zhang Lin hopes to make a splash not in London but at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. > p23 BUSINESS Profi table prediction IPO activity in the A-share market this year may raise 220 billion yuan ($34.6 bil- lion), Ernst & Young said on Tuesday. > p13 WORLD Beijing response China responds to Philippine president saying he may ask the US to deploy spy planes over the South China Sea. > p11 NATION Pool incident A foreign teacher in East China’s Shandong province apologizes for throwing a 5-year-old girl into a swim- ming pool. > p3 IN THE NEWS In this issue NATION..........................2-5, 7 COVER STORY.....................6 COMMENT........................ 8, 9 WORLD........................... 10-12 BUSINESS................ 13,14,16 LIFE............................... . 18-21 SPORTS....................... . 22-24 国内统一编号:CN11-0091 邮发代号:1-3 国际 标准 excel标准偏差excel标准偏差函数exl标准差函数国标检验抽样标准表免费下载红头文件格式标准下载 编号:ISSN0253-9543 A member of the Asia News Network 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iPhone app: chinadaily.com.cn/iphone © 2012 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 32 — No.10036 Japan ‘must end outdated policy’ By LI XIAOKUN and DING QINGFEN in Tokyo Japanese politicians and prominent academics from China and Japan urged Tokyo on Tuesday to abandon its outdated foreign policy of leaning on the West and accept China as a key partner as important as the United States. The Tokyo Consensus, a joint statement issued at the end of the Beijing-Tokyo Forum, also called on both countries to expand trade and promote a free-trade agree- ment for China, Japan and South Korea. The consensus, the first document to suggest solu- tions to problems agreed by non-governmental elites from both countries since the forum started in 2005, called on Beijing and Tokyo to join hands to help ease the Euro- pean debt crisis. Koichi Kato, a member of the Japanese House of Rep- resentatives, told the forum in Tokyo that it is time for Japan to distance itself from the theory of being separate from Asia. Th e theory, fi rst enunciated by Japanese author Yukichi Fukuzawa, an influential figure during the Meiji Era (1868-1912), has guided Japan’s foreign policy. Fukuzawa wrote that Japan should not wait for its neigh- bors, including China and Korea, to start their modern- ization but ought to “leave Asia” and follow Western countries. It also suggested that the government should not treat China and Korea — which he called “bad friends in Asia” — with “special sympathy”, but to treat them as the West did. “We used to follow the path of breaking away from Asia and joining Europe,” Kato said. “But look at Japan’s foreign trade now, its trade volume with the US has fallen behind the one with China. Th e cur- rent situation has changed too much from the old one, which originated from the old theory. We should propose a com- pletely diff erent one,” he said. SEE “JAPAN” PAGE 10 Inside Special coverage, page 10 Online See video from the forum at www.chinadaily.com.cn/video Yuan will buck fall in value: experts Currency set to rise while other emerging economies face problems By WANG XIAOTIAN in Beijing, YU RAN in Shanghai, and QIU QUANLIN in Guangzhou Th e eurozone crisis is taking a toll on emerging economies as their currencies record their biggest falls against the dollar since 1998, but the yuan is well placed to appreciate, analysts said. “Th e recent weakness of the yuan and other currencies of emerging economies was not due to depreciation,” said Cao Yuanzheng, chief economist at the Bank of China. “Instead, the real reason is the rapid appreciation of the dollar as it became a ‘safe haven’ for investors,’’ seeking shelter from the eurozone storm. The yuan weakened 0.88 percent in the second quar- ter to 6.3541 to the dollar in Shanghai, the biggest quarterly decline since it de-pegged from the dollar in 2005. It dropped 0.77 percent to 6.3610 in Hong Kong’s off shore market during the same period. The central bank lowered the currency’s daily reference rate, its rate against the dollar, by 0.48 percent in the second quarter, while the dollar index, which rates the dollar against a basket of currencies, strength- ened 4 percent as investors favored safer assets, according to data collected by Bloomberg. Th e yuan has been allowed, since April, to trade as much as 1 percent on either side of the daily reference rate. Safe-haven demand has driv- en the dollar up and dragged down currencies of emerging economies, the Bank of China said last week. By mid-June, the dollar index had climbed to 75.4 percent, an increase of 3.6 percent from the beginning of the year. Currencies of the major emerging economies, such as Brazil, Russia, South Africa and India, depreciated in the second quarter between 10 to 13 per- cent, the biggest fall since 1998. Th e Brazilian real witnessed the most dramatic fall of 13 percent, while the Indian rupee hit record lows against the dol- lar. Th e rupee has depreciated 10 percent since the start of April against the greenback. “Capital outfl ow triggered by concern at the economic slow- down in these countries has led to falling currencies,” said Wan Jun, an analyst at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. SEE “YUAN” PAGE 2 QUALITY TIME PHOTO BY WANG JING / CHINA DAILY Kelly Grace enjoys playing with her American foster mother Annie Laurie Ritchie at the China Center for Children’s Welfare and Adoption in Beijing on Tuesday. Nearly 200 children, adopted from China, and their families are visit- ing Beijing on a heritage tour. See story on page 3. Personal data crimes set to be defi ned By ZHANG YAN zhangyan1@chinadaily.com.cn Crimes involving the theft of personal data will be regu- lated and clearly defined, a senior offi cer from the Min- istry of Public Security said. “We’re negotiating with the Supreme People’s Procurator- ate and the Supreme People’s Court to push forward the legislation to protect personal data,” Liao Jinrong, deputy director of the criminal inves- tigation department under the Ministry of Public Secu- rity, told China Daily in an exclusive interview. Although the existing Criminal Law includes crimes of illegally obtaining, off ering or selling personal data, Chi- na lacks a specifi c regulation with a clear defi nition of such crimes, making it diffi cult to obtain convictions, Liao said. Police launched a national campaign in April to combat crimes related to the theft of personal data. Offi cers from 20 provincial- level regions arrested nearly 2,000 suspects for allegedly stealing or disclosing personal information. This was the first crack- down of its kind and the police discovered the identity of 44 people providing illegal information, destroyed 161 unauthorized databases, and closed 611 companies that illicitly conducted surveys. The leaking of personal information poses a number of threats, not least to mem- bers of the public who may face blackmail or fraud, he said. Th ere is growing demand, according to Liao, for per- sonal data. “Usually details primar- ily fall into two categories,’’ he said. “Commercial activ- ity, including real estate and insurance or criminal activ- ity, including telecom or Internet scams, extortion, blackmail and kidnapping ” he said. “We may get spam mes- sages that annoy us but the crimes triggered by leaked personal data cause real harm to society.’’ Sources that provide per- sonal data are usually involved in institutions that collect it, including financial institu- tions, he said. SEE “DATA” PAGE 4 Move follows police campaign targeting information leaks ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY Invited speakers enjoy a light moment during a news conference at the Beijing-Tokyo Forum on Tuesday. In attendance are, from left, Chen Jian, former Chinese ambassador to Japan, Wei Jianguo, former vice-minister of commerce, Zhao Qizheng, head of the foreign aff airs committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Yasushi Akashi, former United Nations under-secretary-general. “Why is (the Guangzhou government) launch- ing this sudden attack without soliciting and considering the public’s opinion? Aft er all, this is a public policy that matters to numerous families!” HAN ZHIPENG, a member of the Guangzhou committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said on his micro blog that Guang- zhou government should seek opinions from residents, and take them into account, before creating a policy to address traffi c jams instead of abruptly releasing a cap on car purchas- es. Authorities in the capital city of Guangdong province said on Saturday that only 10,000 new vehicles a month will be granted license plates starting in July. THE NUMBER 44 THE AGE OF A VICE-GOVERNOR Tan Zuojun, former general manager of China State Ship- building Corporation, was re- cently appointed vice-governor of Northeast China’s Liaoning province by the provincial people’s congress. Born in 1968 in Hunan province’s Chaling county, Tan is now the youngest offi cial at the vice-provincial level in China. 2 nation | digest C H I N A D A I L Y W E D N E S D A Y, J U L Y 4 , 2 0 1 2 24 / 32 24 / 31 26 / 30 25 / 29 25 / 34 24 / 33 26 / 34 26 / 34 24 / 29 24 / 30 32 / 44 32 / 40 21 / 30 21 / 29 27 / 35 27 / 35 23 / 31 24 / 32 26 / 33 25 / 34 25 / 29 25 / 29 24 / 32 24 / 32 28 / 37 29 / 38 24 / 34 24 / 33 19 / 27 17 / 30 21 / 26 20 / 30 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 24 / 30 22 / 30 16 / 27 17 / 27 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 JULY 4-5WED - THU 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 8 / 12 O 8 / 12 C Chicago 24 / 34 C 24 / 32 C Caracas 25 / 32 C 25 / 32 C Houston 25 / 34 C 24 / 34 C Las Vegas 25 / 40 S 25 / 36 S Los Angeles 16 / 22 O 17 / 22 C Mexico City 14 / 22 O 14 / 22 Sh New York 23 / 31 Sh 22 / 33 C Ottawa 14 / 29 O 17 / 28 C Rio De Janeiro 20 / 26 S 19 / 26 S San Francisco 12 / 20 C 12 / 20 C Sao Paulo 16 / 25 S 15 / 24 S Vancouver 11 / 17 C 12 / 17 C Washington 22 / 35 O 24 / 33 O Athens 24 / 34 S 23 / 35 S Berlin 16 / 25 C 13 / 27 C Brussels 13 / 25 O 13 / 22 Sh Geneva 15 / 23 C 14 / 23 C Istanbul 21 / 29 S 22 / 29 S London 14 / 22 O 15 / 22 C Madrid 15 / 32 C 14 / 31 C Moscow 18 / 27 S 13 / 28 S Paris 13 / 25 O 16 / 22 O Rome 20 / 30 S 18 / 29 S Vienna 22 / 29 C 22 / 31 T CHINA AFRICA 22 / 31 22 / 28 Cairo 24 / 34 S 24 / 34 S CapeTown 10 / 14 D 8 / 17 S Johannesburg 9 / 19 S 9 / 18 S Lagos 22 / 27 Sh 22 / 27 O Nairobi 13 / 24 C 13 / 22 C Abu Dhabi 31 / 47 R 30 / 47 D Bangkok 26 / 34 O 26 / 34 O Colombo 26 / 31 C 25 / 30 O Dubai 31 / 42 C 32 / 42 S Hanoi 26 / 33 O 26 / 33 O Islamabad 29 / 42 C 29 / 41 C Jakarta 24 / 32 C 24 / 31 C Karachi 28 / 33 O 28 / 32 O Kuala Lumpur 25 / 34 O 24 / 33 O Manila 25 / 29 O 25 / 29 O Mumbai 25 / 29 Sh 26 / 30 Sh New Delhi 32 / 44 C 32 / 40 C Pyongyang 21 / 31 O 22 / 29 O Riyadh 29 / 44 S 29 / 44 S Seoul 22 / 31 O 22 / 28 C Singapore 26 / 30 O 25 / 29 O Sydney 5 / 14 C 7 / 15 O Teheran 26 / 38 S 26 / 38 S Tokyo 21 / 30 O 21 / 29 O Wellington 3 / 11 D 8 / 12 D Yangon 24 / 29 D 24 / 30 Sh Beijing 24 / 30 T 22 / 30 T Changchun 16 / 25 R 17 / 28 C Changsha 27 / 36 C 27 / 36 C Chongqing 25 / 28 R 24 / 29 R Dalian 20 / 27 C 21 / 26 C Fuzhou 27 / 38 C 27 / 37 S Guangzhou 24 / 34 C 24 / 33 Sh Guilin 26 / 33 C 25 / 34 C Guiyang 20 / 25 O 19 / 25 Sh Haikou 26 / 32 T 26 / 32 C Hangzhou 27 / 37 C 27 / 36 C Harbin 18 / 27 T 19 / 30 T Hefei 26 / 35 T 27 / 35 C Hohhot 19 / 29 T 18 / 30 T Hongkong 26 / 33 S 25 / 34 Sh Jinan 24 / 33 T 22 / 29 R Kunming 18 / 26 Sh 18 / 26 Sh Lanzhou 18 / 32 C 18 / 34 S Lhasa 9 / 22 C 11 / 20 Sh Lijiang 16 / 22 R 15 / 21 R Macao 26 / 33 S 25 / 34 Sh Nanchang 28 / 36 S 27 / 35 S Nanjing 25 / 34 T 26 / 33 T Nanning 25 / 33 Sh 26 / 34 C Qingdao 23 / 28 Sh 22 / 25 R Sanya 26 / 32 Sh 26 / 32 Sh Shanghai 28 / 37 C 29 / 38 C Shenyang 19 / 28 C 19 / 30 C Shenzhen 27 / 32 C 27 / 31 C Shijiazhuang 26 / 32 T 23 / 33 T Suzhou 28 / 37 C 29 / 37 C Taipei 27 / 35 C 27 / 35 C Taiyuan 20 / 29 Sh 19 / 30 C Tianjin 25 / 32 T 22 / 31 T Urumqi 16 / 27 Sh 17 / 27 Sh Wuhan 27 / 35 C 28 / 35 C Xiamen 26 / 34 C 26 / 32 C Xi’an 23 / 34 O 24 / 35 O Xining 11 / 24 Sh 10 / 26 C Yantai 23 / 29 O 22 / 25 R Yinchuan 20 / 34 S 20 / 35 S Zhengzhou 23 / 28 R 22 / 27 R Zhuhai 27 / 33 S 27 / 32 C FROM PAGE 1 Zhong Hong, an analyst at Bank of China, said that the outlook would be different from the third quarter on. “For emerging economies, depreciation benefi ts exports, therefore it cannot be ruled out that some countries will tolerate the situation. But in the third quarter, the outlook for these currencies will be mixed.’’ Zhang Monan, an econo- mist at the State Information Center, said that although the yuan declined against the dollar recently, the scale is far less than other emerging economies. “And China’s economic strength means that long- term stable growth is ahead and there is no basis for any large depreciation of the yuan.” Th e yuan may actually start appreciating in the near future, Liu Ligang, head of China eco- nomics at the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, said as China’s offi cial Purchas- ing Managers’ Index, an indi- cator of manufacturing activ- ity, had beaten expectations in June. “And as the situation in Europe turns more positive, we believe the yuan will grad- ually start to appreciate,” Liu said. He forecast that the yuan will appreciate by 1.5 percent throughout the year. The official PMI dipped slightly to 50.2 in June from 50.4 in May due to cyclical rea- sons, said Zhang Zhiwei, chief China economist at Nomura Holdings. “Th e PMI has a seasonal bias, falling on average by 1.1 points between May and June. Th ere- fore the slight drop in June this year is a positive sign.” Zhang Wenhua, the owner of a company in Nanjing that exports products to Europe, said the recent deprecia- tion of the yuan has bene- fi ted his business as exports increased. “I think the currency will keep depreciating gradually in the next few months so I will defi nitely continue to use dollars to settle deals with clients,” he said. Exporters in Guangdong province said that the recent yuan depreciation has not damaged their businesses. “We don’t feel too much pressure because we have fi xed the price of orders with clients,” said Zhang Peizhen, general manager of Cheng- hai Henglong Plastic Toys, which exported goods valued at about 8 million yuan ($1.3 million) last year. “Traders may be under some pressure if the value of the yuan is going up. But we often fix the price of short- term orders,” she said. Chen Feng, deputy gen- eral manager of Guangdong Xinghui Auto Model, said the company had already intro- duced measures to avoid risks brought by yuan fl uctuation. “Besides exporting, we also import raw materials to balance any fl uctuation,” Chen said. Contact the writer at wangx- iaotian@chinadaily.com.cn Yuan: Currency decline less than other emerging nations around chinaQUOTABLE‘‘ Scan it! Read more on chinadaily. com.cn BEIJING Poor storage causes grain losses An agriculture offi cial said on Tuesday that China loses about 25 million metric tons of grain every year due to improper storage. Th at is equivalent to about the annual wheat production of Australia, one of the world’s major cereal exporters, according to Zhang Tianzuo, director of the farm produce processing bureau with the Ministry of Agriculture. He cited a loss ratio between 8 and 12 percent at an agricultural forum held in Beijing. Also, the country loses more than 20 percent of the vegetables it produces every year, Zhang said. He attributed the heavy losses in grain to substandard process- ing facilities and old technologies farmers and agricultural associa- tions use in preliminary process- ing. China’s grain output hit a record high of 571.21 million tons in 2011, marking eight consecutive years of growth. Rains a welcome relief for drought China’s drought relief authority said on Tuesday that recent rain has helped relieve a drought plagu- ing areas along the Huaihe River for several weeks. Heavy rain has been falling on Henan, Anhui, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces since Friday, with accumulated precipitation reaching 37 mm. It has done much to relieve the lingering drought, according to a statement from the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters. As of Tuesday, 240,000 people in the four provinces were short of drinking water, down from 600,000 people at the end of last month. Th e country’s meteorological authority forecast that another round of rain will hit areas along the Huaihe River from Monday to Wednesday, but the water level on its trunk stream will remain low, the statement said. Publishing houses get fi nancial boost Chinese publishing houses are to receive at least 20 billion yuan ($3.17 billion) in loans over the next fi ve years to support their overseas projects. Th e Export-Import Bank of China signed an agreement with the General Administration of Press and Publication on Tuesday to provide fi nancial support for publishers’ attempts to explore international markets, according to a GAPP statement. Th e GAPP will recommend a list of eligible companies for the loans and they will be shortlisted by an expert panel before being submitted to the bank for exami- nation, the statement said, without elaborating on the number of fi rms that might get the loans. In January, the GAPP promised to work out favorable policies for domestic publishers to enter over- seas markets. All turbines turning at Three Gorges All 32 generators of China’s Th ree Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydropower project, went into operation on Monday evening as fl ood season arrived. It is the fi rst time all 32 genera- tors — including the last turbine, which passed a trial operation in May — have started up at the same time, said Zhang Chengping, head of the machinery and electronic engineering bureau of the China Th ree Gorges Corporation. Th e outbound fl ow rose to 34,000 cubic meters per second on Monday evening due to fl oodwa- ters from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and was suffi cient for the operation of the 32 gen- erators, which have a full load of 700,000 kW each, he said. Th e 32 generators of the Th ree Gorges project, which was launched in 1993, have a com- bined ge