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DRESS CODE Wearing what you want may backfi re > p11 DRIVING STEADILY Car sales recover but challenges loom ahead > BUSINESS, PAGE 9 LONG-LOST FLIGHT After 75 years, the search for missing pilot Earhart continues > WORLD, PAGE 6 chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5SATURDAY, JULY 7, 2012 CHINADAILY NATION New Party chief An offi cial is parachuted into Shifang, becoming the fi rst Party chief of the city where residents took to the streets earlier this week to protest a planned copper plant. > p3 On China Th ink tanks around the world grapple as they come to terms with a rapidly changing China. > p4 WORLD Islands visit Th e Foreign Ministry said the landing of two Japanese citizens on the Diaoyu Islands seriously violated China’s territorial sover- eignty. > p7 BUSINESS Apple’s new battle A Shanghai technology company took Apple to court, accusing the US giant’s Siri application — which off ers the intelligent personal assistant services — of infringing the Shang- hai company’s patent. > p9 IN THE NEWS In this issue NATION ..................................2-4 COMMENT ................................ 5 WORLD .................................. 6-8 BUSINESS .......................... 9, 10 LIFE ...................................... 11-14 SPORTS .............................15, 16 国内统一编号:CN11-0091 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 邮发代号:1-3 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.10039 Jin Jun feeds penguins at the Shanghai Zoo last month. GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY IN SAFE HANDS PHOTO BY OUYANG XIAOFEI / FOR CHINA DAILY Medics check babies, freed from suspected traffi ckers, in a welfare center in Xingtai, Hebei province, on Wednesday. Th e infants were among 181 children who were rescued by police in a recent nationwide crackdown on human traf- fi cking. See story on page 3. s Singapore to give HK a run for its money Trading shares in yuan will help ‘raise currency’s global status’ By GAO CHANGXIN in Shanghai and OSWALD CHEN in Hong Kong Singapore’s stock exchange plans to start listing securities denominated in the yuan as it challenges Hong Kong and Tokyo for a bigger share of equities and currency trad- ing from the world’s second- largest economy. The move is also seen by analysts as a boost to the Chi- nese mainland’s ambition to internationalize the yuan. Singapore Exchange Ltd, or SGX, announced on Friday that it is ready to list, quote, trade, clear and settle securi- ties denominated in the yuan as the city-state strives to be an off shore trading center for yuan assets. “SGX, as the Asian gate- way, is committed to being the exchange of choice for issuers with RMB fundrais- ing needs and for investors who are keen to participate in the China growth story,” SGX CEO Magnus Bocker said in a statement. “The listing and trading of RMB securities on SGX will also extend Singapore’s position as an off shore RMB center.” Issuers listing yuan securi- ties on the exchange have the option of off ering dual curren- cy trading, either in the yuan or Singapore dollar, according to the exchange, which is the world’s fi rst exchange to off er the clearing of over-the-coun- ter foreign exchange forwards for the yuan. The first-ever offshore yuan IPO was conducted in Hong Kong last year, where billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hui Xian Real Estate Investment Trust raised 10.48 billion yuan ($1.65 billion). There are no yuan-denominated stocks in Singapore. Global fi nancial centers are scrambling for opportunities in the surging off shore trad- ing of yuan assets, boosted by growing offshore yuan deposits accumulated in part through yuan-denominated trade settlement. Singapore is competing against Hong Kong, Tokyo, London and many others to capture the yuan’s grow- ing off shore activities, as the Chinese mainland encour- ages the yuan’s cross-border fl ow. In April, London issued its first yuan-denominated bond, totaling 1 billion yuan. SEE “YUAN” PAGE 2 Penguin caretaker one cool customer By SHI YINGYING in Shanghai shiyingying@chinadaily.com.cn So what’s black and white and red all over? A penguin with mosquito bites. “You’d be proven wrong if you thought heat is our pen- guins’ biggest enemy during summer,” said Jin Jun, a pen- guin keeper at the Shanghai Zoo. “Mosquitoes are.” She said that unlike the Emperor Penguin, which can only be found in cold climates - and only a few species live that far south — African penguins adapt better to the hot summer temperatures. “But the strange thing is I kept finding these tiny red spots that looked like sties on each penguin’s upper eyelids almost every summer and I couldn’t fi gure out what they were,” Jin said. “Th at kept puzzling me until one day I was driven crazy by the annoying mosquitoes in the zoo — and I suddenly real- ized my little fl ightless fellows were covered with feathers from head to toe except their eyelids!” The 43-year-old has since used a liquid mosquito killer to keep the insects at bay. Aft er 10 years working with the penguins at the zoo, Jin knows the personalities of the 33 birds in the penguin build- ing and can recall where the ancestors of each came from — zoos in Japan and the Nether- lands — despite the fact they’re African penguins. Yet even in the partially enclosed environment that is equipped with a cool pool, air conditioning is still necessary for the penguins in the 34 C summer. “We hide three air condi- tioners under the rocks so that zoo-goers won’t see them,” Jin said, pointing to one and add- ing that they’re the penguins’ favorite spots during summer. Adult African penguins usu- ally grow to 70 centimeters tall and weigh between 2 and 5 kilograms, Jin said. Th ey have a black stripe and black spots on their chests, and the pattern is unique for every penguin, like human fi ngerprints. “It’s the cutesy-cutesy,” said Jin, who has the wholesome, patient, competent-in-the-wild style every mother would want for her child’s camp counselor. “People say, ‘Ohhh, they look like they’re wearing little tux- edos.’ As an animal person, I don’t care for it. I would rather see respect for the animal. They look the way they do for a particular reason. When they swim in the ocean, for the predators, looking up, white is hard to see. Looking down from above, the black is cam- oufl age.” According to Jin, penguins are social animals, and when she opens the door to the enclosure a young penguin rubs its head against her leg. “Th ey’re like a dog or cat that needs patting from its owner. Once I pat them, they’ll make a funny bray,” she said. African penguins are also known as “jackass” penguins for their donkey-like bray. SEE “BIRDS” PAGE 3 Patients may share cost of AIDS therapy By SHAN JUAN shanjuan@chinadaily.com.cn China is considering having patients pay part of the cost for AIDS treatment, a service the government has offered free since 2003, an offi cial said. Under the planned co-pay- ment model, the government will continue to off er free, basic treatment, especially for those with financial problems, but patients can choose to pay for better medicines and therapies. Th e move is designed to solve a shortage of government fund- ing amid a rise of HIV/AIDS patients in China, Sun Xinhua, an offi cial of the disease preven- tion and control bureau of the Ministry of Health, told China Daily on Th ursday. Th e co-payment model can also give patients access to better treatment, Sun said. “With limited government funding, patients with the fi nancial ability should help pay for parts of their antiretroviral therapy,” he said, adding how much the patient should pay has not been decided. Since 2003, the government promised to provide free medi- cation only for underprivileged AIDS patients, but in reality has been off ering antiretroviral therapy — a treatment needed for full-blown AIDS patients — free of charge for everybody. A rise in the number of full- blown AIDS patients will make the practice “unsustainable”, Sun said. By the end of 2011, more than 150,000 AIDS patients were receiving antiretroviral therapy, statistics from the ministry showed. By 2015, the number of HIV/AIDS patients in China is expected to reach 1.2 mil- lion, from 780,000 by the end of 2011, according to official estimates. That means more HIV carriers will become full- blown AIDS patients and need antiretroviral therapy in the coming years. “Without shared responsi- bilities among government, society and patients, the treat- ment can hardly sustain itself until then,” said Zhang Linqi, director of the Comprehensive AIDS Research Center at Tsin- ghua University. Some patients said they are willing to pay some of their medical bills in exchange for better treatment. Th e AIDS Care Center at the Dermatology and Venereol- ogy Institute in Wuhan, Hubei province, began charging AIDS patients 200 yuan ($30) a month in a pilot program since June last year. In return, those patients receive better follow-up services and drug regimens, which have fewer side eff ects and improve adherence, according to Zhao Min, the chief physician at the center. The center now has 79 patients on antiretroviral ther- apy, she told China Daily on Friday. A 33-year-old patient, who preferred to be called Xiao Zhou, told China Daily: “Of course, I highly welcome better drugs that are free of charge, but given the reality and lim- ited government funding, I accept paying part of the costs.” SEE “AIDS” PAGE 2 24 / 32 24 / 31 25 / 29 26 / 30 24 / 33 24 / 33 26 / 32 27 / 32 25 / 29 25 / 29 31 / 35 29 / 37 23 / 27 22 / 26 27 / 35 27 / 36 23 / 31 23 / 30 26 / 31 27 / 32 25 / 32 26 / 32 24 / 32 24 / 32 27 / 34 27 / 34 25 / 33 25 / 34 16 / 26 18 / 28 23 / 29 23 / 28 SATURDAY SUNDAY 22 / 29 22 / 30 18 / 27 18 / 29 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 7-8SAT - SUN 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 5 / 12 C 5 / 13 C Chicago 25 / 35 C 23 / 33 O Caracas 25 / 32 C 25 / 32 C Houston 24 / 33 T 24 / 32 C Las Vegas 24 / 35 S 25 / 37 S Los Angeles 17 / 21 O 17 / 23 C Mexico City 14 / 23 C 14 / 25 O New York 23 / 36 C 26 / 30 C Ottawa 16 / 27 C 15 / 24 C Rio De Janeiro 20 / 26 S 20 / 24 C San Francisco 12 / 20 O 12 / 20 C Sao Paulo 15 / 20 O 15 / 18 R Vancouver 12 / 22 C 12 / 21 C Washington 24 / 37 C 25 / 37 C Athens 21 / 36 S 23 / 37 S Berlin 20 / 25 Sh 18 / 28 C Brussels 16 / 22 C 14 / 20 Sh Geneva 16 / 28 S 14 / 28 T Istanbul 22 / 29 C 22 / 30 S London 14 / 20 C 13 / 20 O Madrid 15 / 33 S 16 / 34 S Moscow 16 / 26 C 15 / 26 C Paris 13 / 22 C 13 / 22 Sh Rome 18 / 29 S 18 / 30 S Vienna 22 / 28 C 22 / 29 C CHINA AFRICA 21 / 27 20 / 31 Cairo 24 / 35 S 23 / 35 S CapeTown 9 / 16 Sh 7 / 15 C Johannesburg 7 / 17 S 7 / 15 Sh Lagos 23 / 27 O 22 / 26 O Nairobi 12 / 24 C 13 / 24 C Abu Dhabi 24 / 44 D 24 / 44 R Bangkok 26 / 32 O 27 / 32 O Colombo 27 / 31 C 26 / 31 O Dubai 33 / 38 S 31 / 38 S Hanoi 27 / 33 Sh 26 / 34 O Islamabad 28 / 38 C 28 / 38 O Jakarta 24 / 32 C 24 / 31 C Karachi 29 / 33 O 27 / 32 O Kuala Lumpur 24 / 33 O 24 / 33 O Manila 25 / 32 O 26 / 32 O Mumbai 27 / 31 Sh 26 / 30 Sh New Delhi 31 / 35 O 29 / 37 C Pyongyang 21 / 31 O 20 / 31 O Riyadh 28 / 43 S 28 / 44 S Seoul 21 / 27 C 20 / 31 C Singapore 25 / 29 Sh 26 / 30 O Sydney 10 / 15 C 8 / 15 C Teheran 27 / 38 S 27 / 38 S Tokyo 23 / 27 O 22 / 26 D Wellington 8 / 12 C 7 / 11 C Yangon 25 / 29 Sh 25 / 29 Sh Beijing 22 / 29 T 22 / 30 O Changchun 20 / 31 S 21 / 31 S Changsha 29 / 37 S 29 / 37 S Chongqing 26 / 36 C 27 / 36 C Dalian 20 / 28 S 21 / 26 S Fuzhou 27 / 37 C 27 / 37 S Guangzhou 25 / 33 Sh 25 / 34 C Guilin 26 / 34 Sh 26 / 34 C Guiyang 22 / 29 C 22 / 29 C Haikou 25 / 32 T 25 / 32 C Hangzhou 28 / 36 T 28 / 37 C Harbin 19 / 32 S 21 / 34 S Hefei 27 / 35 T 27 / 36 C Hohhot 20 / 29 Sh 18 / 28 D Hongkong 26 / 31 T 27 / 32 C Jinan 25 / 34 C 22 / 29 R Kunming 17 / 25 Sh 18 / 26 Sh Lanzhou 15 / 29 Sh 18 / 27 D Lhasa 11 / 23 O 12 / 23 Sh Lijiang 17 / 24 Sh 16 / 26 D Macao 26 / 31 T 27 / 32 C Nanchang 28 / 36 S 28 / 36 S Nanjing 26 / 34 T 26 / 34 C Nanning 25 / 33 Sh 25 / 33 Sh Qingdao 22 / 28 C 22 / 25 C Sanya 26 / 32 Sh 26 / 32 Sh Shanghai 27 / 34 T 27 / 34 C Shenyang 20 / 32 C 21 / 31 C Shenzhen 27 / 33 Sh 27 / 33 C Shijiazhuang 25 / 32 T 22 / 26 R Suzhou 28 / 35 T 28 / 35 T Taipei 27 / 35 T 27 / 36 C Taiyuan 22 / 28 D 20 / 24 R Tianjin 25 / 32 C 25 / 30 T Urumqi 18 / 27 C 18 / 29 S Wuhan 27 / 35 C 28 / 35 C Xiamen 26 / 33 C 26 / 34 C Xi’an 23 / 30 R 24 / 30 R Xining 12 / 24 Sh 13 / 21 Sh Yantai 21 / 29 S 22 / 28 S Yinchuan 19 / 28 O 19 / 29 O Zhengzhou 24 / 30 T 25 / 29 R Zhuhai 26 / 32 Sh 27 / 32 S 2 nation | digest C H I N A D A I L Y S A T U R D A Y, J U L Y 7 , 2 0 1 2 FROM PAGE 1 Hong Kong also took a step forward this week, as lenders in the city are allowed to extend yuan loans to companies in the Qianhai Bay development zone in Shenzhen, created in part to test a freer yuan. Th ere are more than 4,000 Chinese companies operat- ing in Singapore and 142 of them are listed on SGX with a total market capitalization of $606 million as of June 30, according to stock exchange data. Ong Chong Tee, deputy managing director of the Mon- etary Authority of Singapore, the country’s central bank, said last month that yuan depos- its in Singapore had grown to about 60 billion yuan. Singa- pore-based companies such as Global Logistics Properties and Singamas issued renminbi debts in 2011. Singapore’s central bank is one of 17 central banks that have bilateral swap agreements with the People’s Bank of Chi- na, the central bank. It also inked an agreement with the PBOC on the establishment of a representative offi ce in Beijing last month, the third overseas representative offi ce following London and New York. Nathan Chow, a Hong Kong- based economist with DBS Group Holdings, a Singapor- ean bank, said that Singapore faces two challenges on its road to becoming an off shore yuan center. First, the Singapore dollar has appreciated by more than 10 percent against the yuan over the past decade, and the constant appreciation makes investors reluctant to hold the Chinese currency, he said. Second, the amount of yuan is limited in the city-state, which means the market will lack liquidity. Th ere is currently around 60 billion yuan in deposits in Sin- gapore, around one-tenth of that in Hong Kong. “But I am bullish on Singa- pore as it could facilitate yuan trading in the ASEAN coun- tries should it become an off - shore center,” Chow said. SGX’s move to begin yuan- denominated securities trad- ing will not pose a threat to the yuan-denominated busi- ness of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd, analysts said. “SGX was always flexible enough to introduce innovative fi nancial products to compete with the HKEx,” said Dickie Wong, a Hong Kong-based analyst and director at Kings- ton Securities Research. “Th ere is no doubt that SGX also wants to get a slice of the yuan-denominated share trad- ing business.” However, Wong said that Hong Kong will still be the pri- mary destination for mainland enterprises to list. “Hong Kong’s stock market is more active in trading and mainland companies can get higher valuation when they list in Hong Kong,” Wong told China Daily. “Singapore does not possess as huge of a yuan liquidity pool as Hong Kong does to support yuan-denominated share trad- ing. Th erefore, I do not think SGX’s move will pose a threat to the HKEx,” said Linus Yip, chief strategist at Hong Kong’s First Shanghai Securities. According to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, yuan deposits in the city totaled 554.3 billion yuan in March. SGX’s announcement was made on the same day as the mainland and Singapore signed documents to promote cooperation in the banking sector. Banking authorities in Singa- pore will quicken the approval of two mainland banks fi ling for full banking licenses in Sin- gapore, according to a state- ment by the China Banking Regulatory Commission. It did not reveal the names of the banks. In return, the commission will accelerate its examination of requests by three Singapor- ean banks — United Overseas Bank Ltd, DBS Group Hold- ings and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd — to set up subsidiaries on the mainland. Contact the writers at gaochangxin@chinadaily.com. cn and oswald@chinadailyhk. com Xinhua and Bloomberg contributed to this story. Yuan: HK will ‘remain popular listing destination’ THE NUMBER 256 MILLION YUAN A young man surnamed Zhu in East China’s Jiangsu province received a 256 million yuan ($40 million) sports lottery jackpot on June 27 in Nanjing, the larg- est ever in China for the sports lottery, news portal Sina.com reported on Thursday. The man and his wife, both wearing sunglasses, took home nearly 206 million yuan after taxes and donated 5 million yuan to Project Hope. Zhu’s age, occupation and hometown were not revealed. ON THE WEB Highlights from China- daily.com.cn Special coverage: Paris Haute Couture 2012-13 Fall/ Winter Photos: In Di- men, a village of the Dong ethnic group in South- west China’s Guizhou province, some of the buildings and culture have been preserved for more than 700 years. Video: Extreme weather hit the United States this week. Fires are burning and heavy rain is fl ooding cities. It sounds hor- rible, but could the weather get any worse? Let’s check in with a weatherman from Virginia. Bilingual: From the quirks and quacks to pole huggers and door blockers, let’s talk about the most annoying subway train pet peeves you’ve encountered. Hot words: Herd instinct, also called herd behavior, refers to the tendency for people to make the same decisions others make. In other words, people like to do what every- one else is doing. Somehow, they believe acting alone is riskier. On China Forum http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/ Pictures: Waiting has become a typical life state in China, refl ecting a real and unique Chinese community. FROM PAGE 1 A college teacher in Wuhan started to receive treatment at the center in October. He did not visit the local center for disease control and preven- tion, where treatment is free, and said the enhanced drug regimens and services at the AIDS Care Center are the big- gest attractions to him. But some AIDS patients said the government should con- tinue offering free antiretro- viral therapy with improved regimens for all in need. Sun, however, said that might be beyond the govern- ment’s ability as medicines are costly. For example, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate, a kind of antiretroviral drug that is recommended by the World Health Organization, costs 1,400 yuan for treating a patient every month. Wu Zunyou, director of the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, said co-payment will help