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By ZHAO HUANXIN zhaohuanxin@chinadaily.com.cn Th e company that produced fi ghters for China’s fi rst aircraft carrier, which conducted suc- cessful fl ight tests, said it was aiming to test fly passenger- aircraft engines by 2015. Deck landings were carried out on the carrier with the new J-15 fi ghter jet, naval sources said on Sunday. But the focus is also on passenger aircraft . “We are going all out to resolve the bottleneck in the country’s rapidly growing avia- tion industry — reliable and high-performance engines for passenger aircraft ,” Lin Zuom- ing, chairman of Aviation Industry Corp of China, told China Daily. The group, with at least 500,000 employees, has just produced the fi rst prototype of a high-bypass turbofan engine for large commercial aircraft . But it may take “years”, and numerous tests, before it soars into the sky, he said. Lin, 55, made the remarks on the sidelines of the 18th Nation- al Congress of the Communist Party of China this month. He was elected to the 205-member Central Com- mittee of the CPC. Lin’s company, listed in the Fortune Global 500, manufac- tures aircraft for the Liaoning, the country’s fi rst aircraft car- rier, refitted from the Soviet Union’s Varyag warship. The Liaoning was commissioned in September. TESTING EXPERIENCE Record number fl ock to civil service exam > p4 BANGLADESH INFERNO Blaze sweeps through garment factory on outskirts of the country’s capital > WORLD, PAGE 12 chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5MONDAY, November 26, 2012 CHINADAILY IN THE NEWS 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 © 2012 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 32 — No. 10160 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 In this issue NATION .........................................2,4,5,7 COVER STORY .......................................6 COMMENT.......................................8-9 WORLD.........................................10-12 BUSINESS......................................13-17 LIFE..................................................21,22 SPORTS..........................................23,24 Healthy debate over premarital checks Growing calls for potential couples to take tests, report Yang Wanli and Li Yingqing from Yunnan. ‘I f you found any health problems that might aff ect whether or not you can have a child, would you still get mar- ried?” asked Xue Peng. The 32-year-old engineer from Beijing, who married in 2006 after dating his wife for three years, was com- menting on the rise in the number of calls for compulsory premarital health checks. For Xue, the checks impose unnecessary external factors on prospective brides and grooms, factors that may aff ect the relationship: “Marriage is all about love, which means you are willing to spend your whole life with the other per- son, in sickness and in health.” Only 7 percent of couples that married in Beijing in 2011 underwent a premarital medi- cal check, but the figure was closer to 100 percent a decade ago. Compared with rates in other cities or provincial areas, Beijing is at the bottom. In days gone by, people in China were not allowed to marry without permission from their work units, which insisted on premarital health checks, but the requirement was scrapped when new mar- riage registration rules came into force on Oct 1, 2003 and the decision was left to the individual. A few days aft er those reg- ulations came into force, the Ministry of Health issued a statement emphasizing that premarital physical checks were still helpful because they could identify hereditary and communicable diseases and mental health issues. The ministry said it would continue to encourage couples to undertake the examination before tying the knot. SEE “PREMARITAL CHECKS” PAGE 6 XU JINGXING / CHINA DAILY Lin Zuoming, chairman of Aviation Industry Corp of China, says reliable and high-performance engines for passenger aircraft are the company’s goal. A J-15 fi ghter jet takes off from the Liaoning as China’s fi rst aircraft carrier conducts successful deck-landing exercises. LI TANG / FOR CHINA DAILY COVER STORY EXCLUSIVE | LIN ZUOMING Inside Additional coverage, page 5 SEE “ENGINE” PAGE 2 BEIJING MARATHON Runners battle cold and windy conditions > SPORTS, PAGE 24 NATION Mine toll rises Twenty-two miners con- fi rmed dead and one remains trapped aft er mine blast in Guizhou. > p4 Domestic law Women’s rights campaigners seek legislation to help tackle domestic violence. > p7 WORLD Video star Rapper PSY’s Gangnam Style becomes YouTube’s most viewed video of all time. > p10 BUSINESS Smell the coff ee Yunnan province, a place renowned for beautiful scen- ery, tea and tobacco, is now turning to coff ee. > p13 LIFE Pious paintings Exhibition of Tibetan Th angka art reveals a work of passion. > p20 Sky-high target for engines Carrier fi ghter fi rm focuses on passenger aircraft Chile’s trade increasingly a matter of good taste Food challenging copper as FTA serves up menu for success By DING QINGFEN in Santiago, Chile dingqingfen@ chinadaily.com.cn Closer trade ties between China and Chile, following the signing of a landmark trade agreement, are seeing a surge of exports to China, a leading Chilean offi cial said. Th e growing exports, espe- cially non-copper goods, are allowing the South Ameri- can nation to diversify its expanding economy, said Alvaro Jana Linetzky, direc- tor general of international economic relations with the Chilean Foreign Ministry. “China is Chile’s major trade partner, and accounts for 20 percent of total exports,” Linetzky said. “This is mainly due to the Free Trade Agreement signed between the two countries.” Th e agreement was signed in November 2005 and it came into force in October 2006. Under the FTA, the two countries are expected to make 97 percent of products duty free within 10 years. According to the Chinese General Administration of Customs, trade with Chile surged by 21.1 percent from a year earlier to $31.46 bil- lion in 2011, with China’s imports reaching $20.64 billion, and exports hitting $10.82 billion. “China-Chile economic and trade relations are stable with solid foundations,” said Linetzky. Chile is China’s third-larg- est trade partner in South America. Linetzky pointed out that the FTA has stimulated the exports of non-copper goods. “We have witnessed more and more exports of non- copper goods, and the trend will continue. They are becoming an increasingly important export category,” he said. Although China is the largest destination for Chil- ean exports of copper and copper-related goods, the South American nation’s other exports, such as fruit, wine and fish meal, have experienced rapid growth recently. China is the major desti- nation for Chilean fi sh meal (oft en used as fertilizer) the sixth-largest for wine and the ninth-largest for fruit. Apples and fi sh, in particu- lar, seemed to have whetted the trade appetite. In 2004, about 34 percent of Chinese apple imports came from Chile, but the fi gure rose to 54 percent in 2011. In 2004, 28 percent of Chilean exports of trout went to China, and this fi g- ure jumped to 82 percent in 2011. Chilean exports of fresh fruit in 2011 were 33 times that of 2004, and about 60 percent of grape exports went to China in 2011 from negli- gible beginnings. “We believe non-copper goods will make up for an increasing proportion of future exports,” said Linetzky. Chile is the world’s larg- est copper producer and is responsible for about one third of global output. In 2011, Chile’s economy grew by 6 percent. Chilean growth was tradi- tionally highly reliant on sales of copper, but a more favor- able environment for foreign business is being created. Amid the European debt crisis and the fragile global economic outlook, Chilean offi cials repeatedly empha- sized the importance of closer ties with the Asia- Pacific region, especially with China. 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Read more on chinadaily. com.cn Jet fi ghters previously prac- ticed “touch and go” exercises, according to earlier media reports. Th e J-15 fi ghter that was used in the deck landing “is able to carry multitype antiship, air- to-air and air-to-ground mis- siles, as well as precision-guid- ed bombs”, the Xinhua News Agency reported. “We have produced reliable engines for military aircraft and we must also design and devel- op reliable, high-performance engines for passenger planes,” Lin, one of the country’s leading engine scientists, said. China’s second stealth fi ghter prototype, which mili- tary enthusiasts and bloggers dubbed J-31, conducted its maiden flight in October and made headlines in the media and on the Web. “In many ways, it is not inferior to the US F-35,” said Lin. “If fi tted with either of the two types of our newly-devel- oped engines, it will be more advanced than the US model.” There has been speculation on the Web that the J-31 appears to be designed for an aircraft carrier that uses catapult stroke technology on its fl ight deck. Military enthusiasts noted that J-31 has landing gear that is tailored for such takeoff s even though the Liaoning uses ski- jump takeoff s. Lin declined to comment on the speculation. But he said the aircraft carrier project augured well for the aviation sector since it means the industry will pro- duce various types of aircraft , including fi ghters, helicopters and trainers, for carriers. Lin said China’s rapidly expanding aviation sector is waiting for state-of-the-art engine technology. Only a handful of countries have mas- tered this technology. The country will need an additional 5,260 large passenger aircraft and demand for busi- ness jets will reach 2,400 aircraft by 2031, according to forecasts by aircraft manufacturers Boe- ing and Bombardier. With each aircraft requir- ing at least two engines plus spares, total demand could reach 16,000 engines, Reuters reported on Oct 30. Lin, whose conglomerate is the major manufacturer of military and commercial planes in China, envisaged Chinese aircraft will one day be able to choose diff erent engines from a range of options. Zhang Jian, vice-president of AVIC Aviation Engine Hold- ing Co Ltd, said the company had launched a special engine R&D program to catch up with advanced international stan- dards, Xinhua reported on Oct 14. “We estimate the accumula- tive investment nationwide in the short run will pass 100 bil- lion yuan ($15.8 billion),” the report quoted Zhang as saying at the China International Avia- tion & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong province this month. Lin said earlier that the AVIC had set aside 10 billion yuan of its own funds for a fi ve-year engine development project. He said the country’s avia- tion industry is endowed with high-caliber young talent and professionals with passion to aim high. “For us, being dedicated to the aviation industry is a way to dedicate ourselves to the renais- sance of our nation,” Lin said. A native of Zhangzhou, Fujian province that faces the island of Taiwan, Lin developed a keen interest in aircraft in childhood. He was riveted by fi ghter jets taking off and land- ing at a base in his hometown. And 2012 marks his 30th year in the industry. AVIC, with 200 subsidiaries including 26 listed companies, has taken “great strides” in terms of technical upgrading and innovation over the past decade, increasingly closing the gap with established global air- craft manufacturers, he said. For example, it took 18 years for AVIC to develop the J-10, an advanced third-generation fi ghter jet, which was delivered in 2004. But when demand for high- altitude helicopters arose fol- lowing the devastating Wench- uan earthquake in Southwest China’s Sichuan province in 2008, the company developed the AC313, a 13-ton helicopter, in just four years. Next year, AVIC will begin to develop high-altitude helicop- ters able to carry twice the pay- load of the AC313, he added. And they said China’s com- paratively high growth, and commitment to transform economic growth, will pro- vide opportunities for Chilean exporters. China is a major copper consumer and also the largest export destination for Chilean copper, and in 2011 copper and copper-related goods con- tributed 80 percent of Chilean exports to China by value. But “Chile is committed to diversifying its products of exports to China, from cop- per to categories including processed and agricultural goods, as well as food,” said Linetzky. China and Chile set a target of doubling trade to $60 billion by 2015, and Linetzky believes this is an “achievable target” as the two countries further imple- ment the FTA. Engine: Industry will provide various options FROM PAGE 1 FROM PAGE 1 Chile: Trade volume set to double by 2015 “What matters is not the reading itself, but that its publication can, at the very least, put pressure on offi cials to do some- thing to alleviate the pollution.” PAN JIANG, a resident of Lanzhou, Gansu province, said of the city’s latest move to publish air quality readings. The readings of Lanzhou, one of China’s most polluted cities, will include PM2.5 index and be available for public scrutiny in December. 146.4 TRILLION YUAN The total value of goods carried by China’s logistics industry, which is equal to $23.3 trillion, in the fi rst 10 months this year. The fi gure grew by 9.6 percent year-on- year, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said on Sunday. Pictures: German actress Martina Hill, who stars in the hit comedy show Knallerfrauen, was among the winners at the Bambi 2012 media awards in Duesseldorf, Germany. Video: The latest edition of The Week features the most pointless world record, a breakthrough treatment that has allowed a paralyzed dog to walk again and a US singer who asked fans to donate teeth to make a bra. Buzzword: Water cooler moment, which refers to a controversial or exciting segment of a television or radio show designed to get people talking — so called because offi ce workers traditionally gather to chat around a water cooler. Culture: China’s world-famous Old Summer Palace, known as Yuanmingyuan, will head to Berlin in December in the form of a month-long exhibition at the China Culture Center in Berlin. On China Forum http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/ Discussion: How do you defi ne the meaning of “a friend”? BEIJING Two cold fronts to chill China Two strong cold fronts will sweep through China over the next two days, bringing temperature drops through- out the country and rains in southern China, the Nation- al Meteorological Center forecast on Sunday. A cold front moving eastward will hit most regions of China from Sunday to Monday, bringing temperatures down by 4 to 6 C. On Monday, another cold front will hit the northern regions of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and usher in further strong winds and dropping temperatures in northern China. System to provide data on bus arrival Beijing residents may be able to use their cell phones next year to learn when a bus will arrive at a particu- lar stop, according to a Bei- jing News report that cited local traffi c authorities. Offi cials at the Transport Operation Control Center of Beijing said on Saturday that more than 65 percent of local buses are equipped with global-position sys- tems, or GPS, which can provide data that can be used to accurately state when buses will arrive at particular places. Hi