中国日报20120721

A WESTERN TASTE More couples tie the knot in churches > p4 FLAT DEBUT New iPad makes a smaller splash > BUSINESS, PAGE 9 ‘SADDEST DAY’ Defending champion Nadal pulls out of Games with injury > SPORTS, PAGE 15 chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5SATURDAY, JULY 21, 2012 NATION Open accounting A small town in Sichuan leads the country’s govern- ments in promoting trans- parency by releasing details of where every penny goes. > p3 LIFE Luxury label Louis Vuitton opens a four- story maison store in Shang- hai amid pomp and glitter. > p11 Tea time Chefs are increasingly using tea infusions to fl avor their food. > p12 WORLD Cash wanted Tourists be warned: Th e Olympic crush has begun in London — and so has the scramble for cold, hard cash in the pricey British capital. > p6 Hope remains Th e possibility of a political resolution to the Syrian crisis remains, despite the divide in the United Nations aft er Russia and China vetoed a Western-proposed draft reso- lution on Th ursday, analysts said. > p8 BUSINESS Red carpet Wooing Chinese invest- ment to the US capital is on the agenda of Vincent Gray, mayor of Washington DC. > p9 Market stabilizer Stock trading charges will be cut and more capital will be channeled to the share market as the regulator aims to revive investor confi dence. > 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.10051 Thirsting for original taste of French wines By LI XIANG in Bordeaux, France lixiang@chinadaily.com.cn A grape-picking trip to a vineyard in Champagne, France, two years ago sparked Wang Qiuyun’s interest in French wines but she never thought she would pursue a career in the subject. The 29-year-old student from Henan province gave up an off er of a master’s degree program at an American uni- versity and decided to study wine in Bordeaux — France’s world-famous wine region — where she trained as a som- melier, the French word for a professional who specializes in all aspects of wine selection and service, usually in fi ne res- taurants. “Initially, I struggled with the language and did not have much fun studying wine. But as I gradually honed my skills and started to be able to taste and tell the differences between the wines, I became fascinated by the richness and diversity of a good wine,” Wang said. “It felt as though I had dis- covered a new world,” she said. Oenology, a word that was almost unheard of a decade ago to most Chinese, has become an increasingly pop- ular major among many stu- dents, thanks to the explosive growth of wine consumption driven by an expanding mid- dle class and growing inter- est in Western lifestyles and tastes. Like Wang, many young Chinese students are coming to France with a passion for wine and a strong business sense of the booming wine market in China. Industry experts have pre- dicted that China is very likely to out-drink the United States to become the world’s thirsti- est nation for wine within two decades. It already overtook the United Kingdom and Ger- many in 2010 to become Bor- deaux’s largest export client. Wang now works as an intern at Chateau Leoville Poyferre in the Medoc area, where she helps maintain the chateau’s official weibo, or Chinese micro blog, and translates the chateau’s media kit into Chinese. She also helps with the reception of many tourists and business owners from China, who have become regular visitors to Bordeaux’s vineyards. SEE “WINE” PAGE 2 Small airports to ride construction boom By XIN DINGDING xindingding@chinadaily.com.cn China plans to build more feeder airports, although many small airports continue to lose money, according to the avia- tion authorities. Li Jiaxiang, head of Civil Aviation Administration of China, told a news conference on Friday that a guideline on the industry, issued by the State Council this month, has highlighted civil aviation as “a national strategic industry”. According to the guideline, China will build 82 new airports during the 2011-15 period, and construct a national air trans- port network that will cover 89 percent of the total population by 2020. Recent reports suggested that about 130 airports in China reg- istered a total loss of more than 2 billion yuan ($314 million) last year, and some have sug- gested that no more should be built as losses continue. But Li disagrees, saying the role of small airports is indis- pensable to local economic development. Feeder airports mainly serve cargo planes and smaller fl ights. According to statistics provided by the Ministry of Finance, investment in an air- port can produce an output eight times of that amount for a local economy. Li cited Mohe, the northern- most county in China, as an example. Th e county — popular with tourists who travel there par- ticularly to see the famous natural light display in the sky, the aurora borealis, or northern lights — was diffi cult to reach for many tourists until an air- port was opened to traffic in 2008, he said. Th e airport, with fewer than 60 employees and annual oper- ating costs of 20 million yuan, has also become an important link for local business traffi c as well as tourists. Li cited local government offi - cials as saying that the airport was the reason the county gained more than 300 million yuan of annual income. SEE “AIRPORT” PAGE 2 82 more to be built in fi ve years covering most parts of China CHINADAILY 89 percent of the Chinese population will be covered by the air transport network by 2020 US solar imports probed Trade frictions between two major economies may increase: Analysts By LI JIABAO lijiabao@chinadaily.com.cn China is launching an investigation into imported US polysilicon used in solar panels, the Ministry of Com- merce announced on Friday. Th e probe relates to anti- subsidy and anti-dumping regulations, experts said, and will be seen as the latest sign of intensifi ed trade frictions between the world’s top two economies. According to its website, the ministry is also launch- ing an anti-dumping probe on South Korean imports of polysilicon. Th e ministry launched the investigations following com- plaints on July 2 from some domestic manufacturers, who claim they are being driven out of business because of the unfair US practices. Th e investigation is sched- uled to conclude on July 20, 2013 but is subject to an extension to Jan 20, 2014, the statement said. “The ministry’s move is in response to the US anti- dumping and countervail- ing investigations into Chi- nese solar panels,” said Yao Weiqun, associate president of Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center. In a preliminary ruling in May, the US Department of Commerce imposed anti- dumping tariffs ranging from 31.14 percent to 249.96 percent on imported solar panels from China after it had imposed countervail- ing duties — also known as anti-subsidy duties — of 2.9 percent to 4.73 percent on Chinese panels in March. Th e United States claimed that China carried out unfair trade practices by flooding the US market with govern- ment-subsidized products. “China’s counterattack will infl uence the fi nal ruling of the US investigations into Chinese solar products, but it’s hard to tell whether the infl uence is positive or nega- tive,” Yao added. The US Department of Commerce is scheduled to make a final ruling on its investigation into Chinese solar products in early Octo- ber and the US International Trade Commission is expect- ed to make a final decision in the case in late November. Tu Xinquan, associate director of the China Nation- al Institute of WTO at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, agreed that China’s probe is in response to the US investigation into Chinese solar products. SEE “TRADE” PAGE 3 NARROW ESCAPE PHOTO BY BARRY GUTIERREZ / ASSOCIATED PRESS Shamecca Davis hugs her son Isaiah Bow, who survived a mass shooting in Denver, Colorado, on Friday, during which a masked gunman shot at least 12 people in a crowded movie theater. See story on page 8. FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILY Friendship across the ocean: Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (center), his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Kamel Amr (left ) and South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana- Mashabane meet journalists aft er the Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing on Friday. > p7 23 / 31 24 / 31 25 / 30 25 / 31 24 / 34 24 / 33 25 / 32 25 / 33 24 / 30 24 / 30 29 / 36 27 / 36 20 / 24 20 / 26 28 / 36 28 / 36 23 / 32 24 / 34 28 / 32 28 / 32 25 / 29 25 / 29 23 / 32 24 / 32 27 / 35 27 / 35 26 / 35 26 / 34 10 / 20 9 / 20 23 / 28 22 / 26 SATURDAY SUNDAY 26 / 31 21 / 29 22 / 29 23 / 32 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 21-22SAT - 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 8 / 18 C 9 / 15 C Chicago 22 / 30 C 19 / 32 C Caracas 25 / 32 C 25 / 32 C Houston 24 / 32 C 24 / 32 C Las Vegas 28 / 41 S 29 / 41 S Los Angeles 18 / 23 C 17 / 24 C Mexico City 14 / 23 C 12 / 24 Sh New York 22 / 26 C 19 / 28 C Ottawa 13 / 28 S 13 / 29 C Rio De Janeiro 17 / 24 S 18 / 26 S San Francisco 12 / 24 O 13 / 23 C Sao Paulo 12 / 24 S 12 / 26 S Vancouver 16 / 20 O 13 / 20 C Washington 22 / 25 O 20 / 29 O Athens 24 / 35 S 24 / 35 S Berlin 12 / 18 C 11 / 19 C Brussels 12 / 19 C 10 / 22 C Geneva 15 / 22 C 14 / 22 C Istanbul 23 / 31 C 24 / 31 C London 12 / 19 C 13 / 23 C Madrid 19 / 35 S 20 / 36 C Moscow 12 / 20 O 15 / 23 C Paris 14 / 21 C 11 / 24 C Rome 18 / 30 S 18 / 28 S Vienna 16 / 20 D 15 / 21 C CHINA AFRICA 22 / 30 22 / 29 Cairo 25 / 35 C 24 / 34 S CapeTown 11 / 15 Sh 10 / 15 C Johannesburg 7 / 18 S 6 / 18 S Lagos 22 / 27 O 22 / 26 O Nairobi 13 / 26 C 12 / 26 C Abu Dhabi 30 / 47 D 27 / 46 D Bangkok 25 / 32 O 25 / 33 O Colombo 27 / 31 Sh 27 / 30 C Dubai 31 / 46 S 34 / 45 C Hanoi 27 / 35 Sh 27 / 36 C Islamabad 27 / 39 C 27 / 38 C Jakarta 23 / 31 C 24 / 31 C Karachi 28 / 33 O 28 / 33 O Kuala Lumpur 24 / 34 O 24 / 33 C Manila 25 / 29 Sh 25 / 29 Sh Mumbai 26 / 31 O 27 / 30 O New Delhi 29 / 36 C 27 / 36 C Pyongyang 22 / 30 O 23 / 29 O Riyadh 30 / 46 S 31 / 47 S Seoul 22 / 30 C 22 / 29 C Singapore 25 / 30 C 25 / 31 C Sydney 7 / 15 O 11 / 15 O Teheran 23 / 35 C 24 / 36 C Tokyo 20 / 24 D 20 / 26 D Wellington 9 / 12 S 8 / 12 C Yangon 24 / 30 Sh 24 / 30 Sh Beijing 26 / 31 T 21 / 29 R/St Changchun 22 / 29 Sh 22 / 28 Sh Changsha 28 / 36 S 28 / 36 S Chongqing 26 / 36 C 26 / 31 T Dalian 21 / 27 C 21 / 26 O Fuzhou 26 / 35 C 26 / 35 C Guangzhou 26 / 35 S 26 / 34 C Guilin 26 / 35 C 26 / 35 C Guiyang 21 / 29 S 22 / 29 C Haikou 26 / 35 T 26 / 34 C Hangzhou 26 / 36 S 27 / 37 S Harbin 17 / 27 C 19 / 30 S Hefei 26 / 35 S 27 / 36 S Hohhot 19 / 24 R/St 16 / 27 D Hongkong 28 / 32 C 28 / 32 C Jinan 26 / 33 O 24 / 30 O Kunming 18 / 26 Sh 18 / 26 Sh Lanzhou 19 / 28 D 17 / 28 Sh Lhasa 12 / 24 C 13 / 23 R Lijiang 16 / 24 Sh 17 / 22 Sh Macao 28 / 32 C 28 / 32 C Nanchang 28 / 36 S 28 / 36 S Nanjing 25 / 35 C 26 / 36 C Nanning 26 / 36 S 26 / 35 S Qingdao 23 / 28 C 24 / 27 C Sanya 27 / 33 C 27 / 33 C Shanghai 27 / 35 C 27 / 35 C Shenyang 22 / 31 C 22 / 26 C Shenzhen 28 / 35 C 28 / 34 C Shijiazhuang 25 / 31 R 22 / 29 R Suzhou 28 / 36 C 28 / 36 C Taipei 28 / 36 C 28 / 36 C Taiyuan 20 / 24 R/St 19 / 27 R Tianjin 26 / 32 T 22 / 28 R/St Urumqi 22 / 29 C 23 / 32 S Wuhan 27 / 35 C 27 / 35 C Xiamen 26 / 33 O 26 / 32 Sh Xi’an 25 / 31 R 20 / 27 R Xining 14 / 22 D 12 / 23 C Yantai 23 / 30 S 23 / 29 C Yinchuan 21 / 26 R 18 / 28 C Zhengzhou 24 / 32 T 24 / 30 T Zhuhai 28 / 35 S 28 / 35 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 2 1 , 2 0 1 2 THE NUMBER 16.4 PERCENT China’s State-owned enter- prises posted a net profi t drop of 16.4 percent year-on-year in the fi rst half of 2012. The drop was 2.8 percentage points more than that of the fi rst quarter of this year, ac- cording to fi gures posted on the website of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Admin- istration Commission on Friday. Combined net profi ts of the 117 central SOEs totaled 387 billion yuan ($61.31 billion) during the period. Video: Oryem Henry Okello, Uganda’s minister of foreign aff airs, said in an interview with China Daily that Uganda needs more tourists. Bilingual: Germany’s leading news magazine has launched an attack on Britain’s prepara- tions for the Olympics, poking fun at the facilities and warning that the Games are destined to go down in history as a gigantic “soggy mess”. On China Forum http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn Pictures: Sanhe Town is the best-preserved riverside town in Anhui province, boasting some of the nation’s fi nest examples of ancient Hui-style architecture. ‘‘ Scan it! Read more on chinadaily. com.cn “Although I’m a nobody, I still want to make a contribution to society in the fi nal part of my life.” CHEN MINGLIANG, a prisoner in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province, decided to donate all his organs after be- ing told that he would die soon from cancer. Chen died on 7:55 am on July 12 at the age of 48. He was sentenced to 13 years in jail for robbery and began to serve the sentence in 2008. Chen’s corneas were trans- planted to two patients who suf- fered from severe eye diseases, according to the Red Cross Society of Wuhan. ON THE WEB Highlights from Chinadaily.com.cn QUOTABLE FEEL THE LIGHT PHOTO BY LIU KUN / XINHUA A doctor from Shandong Provincial Hospital examines a patient before a cataract opera- tion in Bainang county, Xigaze prefecture, the Tibet autonomous region, on Th ursday. Eye experts from the hospital will perform free operations on 120 cataract patients in the region. china scene FROM PAGE 1 “The number of Chinese students going to France to study wine has grown at a rapid rate of 30 percent annu- ally over the past few years,” said Ren Lianfang, a manager at Chinese education agen- cy Strong Study in Zhejiang province. Th e interest in wine educa- tion on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong has grown substantially with enrollment soaring nearly 200 percent year-on-year, according to the Wine and Spirits Education Trust, a UK-based wine edu- cation organization. The thriving wine market in China has not just wooed Chinese students to France, it has also helped boost the wine education market. Top French universities and private wine schools are looking to the East amid a decline in domestic enrollment. “In France, the situa- tion is not so good, in real- ity. We don’t have too many French students coming to learn about wine. But in for- eign countries, the situation is exactly the opposite,” said Franck Chausse, director of Cafa Formation, a private wine school in Bordeaux. “You have a lot of countries interested in wine education because the wine business is going up, and people want to know more and learn more about wines,” he said. More than half of Cafa Formation’s students are Chinese, Chausse said. Five years ago, Chinese students accounted for only 2 percent of the total. “Most Chinese students want to work in the wine trad- ing business, and fewer than 10 percent would choose the sommelier career in restau- rants or hotels,” he said. Cafa Formation offers a two-year course for a diplo- ma in wine. Th e course costs about 9,500 euros ($11,600). Students can also select a third-year program that pre- pares them to teach oenology at wine schools, according to Chausse. French oenology schools are also seeking partnerships with Chinese organizations to attract Chinese students. Cafa Formation has devel- oped a partnership with the College of Oenology, North- west Agricultural and Forestry University, in Shaanxi prov- ince. In 2008, Cafa Formation opened its own school in Bei- jing and plans to open another in Shanghai, said Chausse. Wine distributors in France are also paying attention to wine education in China. Diva Bordeaux, a wine trading company in Bordeaux, is plan- ning to create a wine school with Cafa Formation in China to train local sales staff . “Most of the time people are very shy about wines. Th ey don’t even dare to push open the door of the shop because they don’t know much about wines,” said Jean-Pierre Rous- seau, managing director of Diva Bordeaux. “Th e purpose of wine edu- cation is to let them define their own taste and eventually know that wine is not some- thing very complicated,” he said. Although China has not had its own wine expert such as Robert Parker, oft en referred to as the pope of vine- yards in the Western world, Chausse said he was optimis- tic about the younger genera- tion in China. “They have the potential to reach the very top class of wine advice. Th ey could learn very fast, and what matters after that is experience,” he said. This summer Wang is graduating from the Univer- sity of Wine in Bordeaux with a bachelor’s degree in wine commerce and marketing. She applied to the master’s pro- gram in wine at the University of Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, one of the leading universities in France on oenology, but she was turned down. She said intense competi- tion may be part of the reason for her rejection. Eight of the 20 interviewees for the pro- gram were from China. But that did not prevent her from pursuing a profession in wine. She is looking for jobs in wine trading companies that have business in China. “I could picture myself travel- ing to diff erent vineyards and chateaux and getting to taste different wines for my cus- tomers,” she said. “What’s most rewarding is that I’ve found something that I want to do for the rest of my life.” Wine: Businesses sip Chinese opportunities Airport: Demand for fl ights soars in China The country’s flight punctuality will improve in the next few years, an offi cial said on Friday. Li Jiaxiang, head of the Civil Aviation Administra- tion of China, said that air- lines were responsible for 40 percent of the flight delays last year, when only 77 percent of fl ights were on time. Air traffic congestion caused 27 percent of the fl ight delays, he said, add- ing that extreme weather and airport remodeling and expansions also con- tributed to the drop in fl ight punctuality, he said. The administration will continue to add routes parallel to busy routes and open temporary routes to ease air traffi c congestion, he said. Flight punctuality is tar- geted to reach 80 percent by 2020, according to a recent guideline adopted by the State Council. — XIN DINGDING FROM PAGE 1 Huang Min, director of the