BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's auto sales and output both exceeded 12 million units in the first 11 months, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) announced Monday. The CAAM forecast sales and output for the whole year would both exceed 13 million units. In November alone, sales reached more than 1.35 million units, according to preliminary statistics. Detailed figures are expected to be released on Tuesday. The country's largest auto maker, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, sold about 2.44 million auto units in the first 11 months, up 54 percent year on year, while Sino-U.S. joint venture company Shanghai GM sold 627,495 units, up 50.5 percent.
TAIPEI, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Kuomintang (KMT) honorary chairman Wu Poh-hsiung Monday said the peaceful cross-Straits development was the "right path", while meeting here with Liang Baohua, secretary of Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). "Practice is sole criterion for testing truth. The development of cross-Straits ties over the past year has made me strongly feel that it is the right path to seek peaceful development," Wu said. Wu Poh-hsiung (Center Right), honorary chairman of the Kuomintang, meets with Liang Baohua (Center Left), secretary of Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Taipei, east China's Taiwan Province, Nov. 9, 2009.Wu made the remarks in a meeting with Liang, who heads a delegation arriving in Taiwan on Monday afternoon for a six-day tour of exchange and cooperation. Invited by the Kuomintang (KMT) Central Committee, Liang was the first chief of a CPC provincial committee to visit Taiwan. Wu mentioned the mutual care between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland after the Sichuan earthquake last year and the typhoon Morakot in Taiwan this year. Liang said the visit itself was a reflection of peaceful cross-Straits development. "Jiangsu is among the regions on the mainland that have closest exchanges and cooperation with Taiwan. Our visit is to implement the common prospects for peaceful cross-Straits development with pragmatic measures," Liang said. The CPC and KMT reached an agreement on the common prospects for peaceful cross-Straits development in 2005.
HARBIN, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao conveyed new year greetings to workers, farmers, local residents and officials during his visit to northeastern Heilongjiang Province on the first two days of the year. Braving the freezing weather, Wen visited the cities of Daqing and Qiqihar in Heilongjiang. It was Wen's third visit to Daqing since 2003. At Daqing oilfield, he said Daqing people had not only produced two billion tonnes of oil for the country, but also the invincible Daqing spirit which was kept well over the past five decades. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) tries a machine with local oil workers at Daqing Oil Field in Daqing, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 1, 2010 "Nowadays, we still need such spirit to cope with the international financial crisis," Wen said. The premier then had lunch with workers and visited their dormitory. He also inspected an industry park of service outsourcing in the city, which is looking for new points of growth in addition to exploitation of resources. Wen encouraged the city to develop high-tech industry, agricultural products processing, service outsourcing and cultural industries. While visiting a residential community, Wen said he paid great attention to people's livelihood, including housing, social securities and workers' income rise. "While handling the international financial crisis, people's livelihood should be stressed," Wen said. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) talks with local elders at a residential community in Daqing, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 1, 2010At a villager's home, Wen told locals that the government would increase the minimum purchase price of rice again this year. He said that to narrow the urban and rural income gap, efforts should be made to improve rural migrant workers' conditions and lift farmers' living standard. In a residential area converted from a shanty town, which now houses 1,470 families, Wen told a retired worker named Wang Decai that if the country's financial strength was strong enough, retirees' pension would continue to be increased. He told workers of a machine tool factory in Qiqihar, which makes homegrown plane parts, that efforts should be made to improve innovation capability so as to make breakthrough on key technologies. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao plays table tennis with local residents at a community in Daqing, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 1, 2010
ROME, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu on Monday proposed a four-point action plan aimed at eradicating world hunger in his address to a world summit on food security. Stressing the fact that the financial crisis has worsened the plight of the poor and the hungry, the Chinese vice premier said the summit, hosted at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters here, was "of special significance to world food security, global economic recovery and sustainable development." In order to overcome the "dual pressure of an international financial crisis and a global food crisis," the first suggestion of the Chinese government was to increase input and raise food production by investing more in agriculture, build up the capability to resist natural disasters and strive for greater self-sufficiency. Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu makes a speech during the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Summit in Rome, capital of Italy, Nov. 16, 2009. On behalf of the Chinese Government, Hui Liangyu attended the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Summit which opened Monday Both industrialized and developing countries should in the long run forge their own "blood-generating" capacity, Hui said. He called on developed countries and international organizations to provide developing countries with financial, technological, market and capacity-building assistance. The second Chinese suggestion presented to world leaders at the FAO summit was to "create a sound market environment for mutual benefit and win-win progress," obtainable through the elimination of all sorts of protectionism, the re-launch of the Doha Round negotiations and the reform of global financial governance. "All countries should jointly oppose trade protectionism in all its forms and manifestations and push for a positive outcome of the Doha Round negotiations," he said, urging developed countries to slash agricultural subsidies, remove trade barriers and give greater market access to developing countries. Thirdly, Hui proposed to push forward with the reform of the UN food and agriculture agencies and improve the global governance mechanism in order to rapidly react to crises. "China supports the creation of a food security safeguard system encompassing early warning, emergency relief and regulation functions," he said. Lastly, the Chinese government called for a coordinated and global approach in order to ensure a balanced growth. "Food security is closely related to economic growth, social progress, climate change and energy security," Hui said, adding that global cooperation must be intensified in all sectors because challenges are multiple and interconnected. This is why all countries "should strive for a positive outcome of the upcoming Copenhagen summit on global warming," the Chinese vice premier said. The world summit on food security opened in Rome on Monday. During the three-day event more than 60 heads of state and government will gather to discuss measures to eradicate hunger and ensure food security.
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BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao is to meet his U.S. counterpart President Barack Obama Tuesday morning at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The summit meeting is scheduled to be held at 10:40 a.m. after a grand welcoming ceremony. The two leaders will meet the press after the talks. Wu Bangguo, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, will meet President Obama Tuesday afternoon. President Obama will also visit the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, and attend a state banquet in his honor hosted by President Hu.
HUA HIN, Thailand, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd called here on Saturday for an early signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two Asia-Pacific major economies. "The mutual-respect, mutual-trust and cooperation between China and Australia, both as big countries in the Asia-Pacific region, will not only yield tangible benefits for the two nations, but also have a positive impact on a larger scale," Wen said in talks with Rudd on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summits. The key to maintaining a sound and steady development of bilateral ties lies in their respect for and care about each other's core interests and major concerns, Wen said, pledging to work together with Australia to boost their ties. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao meet with his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd in Hua Hin, Thailand, on Oct. 24, 2009 The Chinese premier also highlighted the importance of an FTA between the two countries, asking the two sides to reach a quality, comprehensive and acceptable FTA deal in a spirit of positive cooperation, pragmatism, balance and mutual-benefit. While hailing the cooperation between Australia and China in various fields, Rudd said his country is willing to maintain high-level exchanges and deepen mutual understanding with China under the principle of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit. He pledged adherence to the one China policy and respect for China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Australia hopes to reach consensus as early as possible on the FTA and will bolster cooperation with China in such fields as trade, economy, investment, energy, agriculture and service, Rudd said during their meeting at a hotel in the central Thailand beach resort. The two leaders also exchanged their views on East Asian cooperation and climate change.
BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming state visits to Malaysia and Singapore would comprehensively push forward China's ties with the two nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said an official with the Foreign Ministry here Friday. Hu will pay state visits to Malaysia and Singapore from Nov. 10to 13, at the invitations of Malaysian Supreme Head of State Mizan Zainal Abidin and Singaporean President S. R. Nathan. It is the first time for President Hu Jintao to pay state visits to Malaysia and Singapore as president of China, and it is also the first time in 15 years for a Chinese President to visit the two countries, said Assistant Foreign Minister Hu Zhengyue at a news briefing. During his stay in Malaysia, Hu will hold talks with Supreme Head of State Mizan and meet with Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. "President Hu's visit to Malaysia will surely further deepen strategic cooperation between the two nations and advance bilateral ties," said the assistant foreign minister. While in Singapore, he will hold talks with President Nathan and meet with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. President Hu will exchange views with Singaporean leaders on deepening mutually beneficial and cooperative ties, and discuss international and regional issues of common concern," said the assistant foreign minister. Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce Yi Xiaozhun said China and the two countries had good economic and trade relations and were each other's important trade partners. In Malaysia, the two sides will sign economic and trade cooperative documents to push forward joint projects in the infrastructure area. While in Singapore, leaders of both nations will discuss on how to promote bilateral trade and investment, advance major cooperative projects and enhance cooperation within the framework of regional and international trade. "We believe that President Hu's visit will surely expand the scale of economic and trade cooperation between China and the two countries, and promote the sustained and stable development of bilateral relations, " Yi said.
DATONG, Shanxi, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Monday called for renovating the hovels in urban areas and at state-owned factories and mines across the country to better the livelihood of needy people. Renovation of all squatter homes in cities and at state-owned factories and mines should be completed in the next fives years. Those hovels at state-owned forest zones, reclamation areas and coal mines will be renovated within three years, Li told a national meeting. Different kinds of government funds will be used in the renovation work, and private investment will be encouraged, Li said, adding that favorable tax and land policies will be implemented. He said the renovation efforts should be open and transparent and respect the wishes of the broad masses. Efforts should be made to avoid corruption. Li said China will promote the building of low-rent houses to meet people's basic needs for housing. By the end of 2008, China has 11.48 million families living in hovels, 7.44 million of which live in cities, 2.38 million nearby state-owned plants and mines, 1.66 million in forest zones and reclamation areas.