BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua)-- Premier Wen Jiabao admitted Sunday that it'd be good if lending by Chinese banks had not been growing on a too large scale as a result of the government's immediate response to the global financial crisis."It would be good if our bank lending was more balanced, better structured and not on such a large scale," he said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency. Wen said the State Council had noticed the problem in the middle of the year and moved to correct it. "It has been improving in the second half of this year," he said. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) smiles during an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency at Ziguangge building inside Zhongnanhai, an office compound of the Chinese central authorities at the heart of Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 27, 2009 Credit expansion was one of the "unexpected difficulties" China had encountered in dealing with the worst crisis in decades, Wen said. The State Council had to learn from past experience, detect problems and make persistent efforts to fight the crisis effectively, he said. Wen said it was too early to grade China's performance in tackling the crisis because it was far from over and much work was yet to be completed. He admitted that the State Council had time in the second half of the year to calmly reflect on the problems arising from the emergency response to the economic crisis. The State Council had thoroughly discussed measures to cultivate new economic growth points, especially relating to emerging strategic industries such as the Internet, the green economy, the low-carbon economy, sensor technology and bio-pharmacy, he said. "I think one of the linchpins for the world to overcome the economic crisis is wisdom, and, most importantly, science and technology," he said. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) shakes hands with Xinhua President Li Congjun before an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency at Ziguangge building inside Zhongnanhai, an office compound of the Chinese central authorities at the heart of Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 27, 2009Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) shakes hands with He Ping, Editor-in-Chief of Xinhua News Agency, before an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency at Ziguangge building inside Zhongnanhai, an office compound of the Chinese central authorities at the heart of Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 27, 2009
BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Heavy snow in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region had left one person dead and forced the evacuation of 5,435 as of 8:00 p.m. Friday, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs Saturday. The heavy snow also flattened 799 houses and caused damages to 4,897 others in the region, the ministry said. A total of 261,800 people in 12 counties or cities were affected by the blizzard hitting Xinjiang's Tacheng and Altay regions this week, which resulted in blackout and transport disruption in some areasA total of 261,800 people in 12 counties or cities were affected by the blizzard hitting Xinjiang's Tacheng and Altay regions this week, which resulted in blackout and transport disruption in some areas, according to the disaster relief department of the Ministry. The Ministry has allocated 5,000 tents, 10,000 cotton-padded coats and 10,000 cotton-padded quilts to, and the regional government appropriated 15 million yuan (2.2 million U.S. dollars) for disaster relief in the affected areas, the ministry said. Representatives of communities stand beside vehicles that provide people with services in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Jan. 9, 2010. Some companies and activists in Urumqi donated money to buy 555 vehicles. These vehicles were put into use Saturday in several communities to provide citizens with services.The regional civil affairs authority has dispatched working group to the snow-hit areas to direct relief work. Xinjiang was gripped by a cold snap from Jan. 1 to 8, which brought heavy snow and drastic temperature plunge especially in Tacheng and Altay regions.
CHENGDU, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese official has urged designated provinces and municipalities to contribute more to the reconstruction work in quake-hit areas in the southwestern Sichuan Province. Zhou Yongkang, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks during an inspection to Sichuan on Jan. 2-4. Zhou Yongkang (L Front), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, visits students at Shuimo High School in Wenchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 4, 2010. Zhou Yongkang made an inspection tour in Sichuan Province on Jan. 2-4. After the Wenchuan earthquake, the central government issued a policy designating each of the 18 provinces and municipalities, including Shandong, Guangdong, Beijing and Shanghai, to help rebuild one hard-hit county in Sichuan. Zhou Yongkang (3rd L), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, talks with residents at Qianjin Village in Anxian County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 3, 2010. Zhou Yongkang made an inspection tour in Sichuan Province on Jan. 2-4. "After the quake, all designated provinces and municipalities moved quickly to send money and personnel for the reconstruction of infrastructure and projects concerning local people's livelihood. They have made significant contribution," Zhou said. Zhou visited officials and workers from the eastern Shandong Province, who were there to help with the reconstruction at the new seat of Beichuan County, and urged them to build a new county with ethnic characteristics and modern elements. While visiting Yingxiu Town in the Wenchuan County, Zhou told local officials to focus on the livelihood of local residents during reconstruction. The quake on May 12 in 2008, measuring 8.0 on the Richter Scale and up to 11 in terms of intensity, left nearly 80,000 people dead or missing and millions homeless.
BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Profits of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) administered by the central government more than doubled in October from a year ago after months of declines, a senior official said here on Friday. The 132 central SOEs reaped a profit of 79.5 billion yuan (11.64 billion U.S. dollars) in October, up 151 percent year on year, said Huang Shuhe, deputy director of the State-owed Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) at the 2009 Annual CEO Forum. In October, revenues surged by 22 percent from a year ago to nearly 1.16 trillion yuan, Huang said. Their profits during Jan-Oct was 633.8 billion yuan, while revenues amounted to 9.83 trillion yuan during the same period. Huang also noted 24 central SOEs had entered the rank of Fortune 500 companies. "China's companies still face difficulties and great challenges due to roaring raw material prices, huge environmental pressure and rampant protectionism triggered by the financial crisis," he said. He said the companies should further enhance independent innovation, improve corporate governance and accelerate the pace of "go global" to compete with foreign brands.
HANGZHOU, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States said Thursday they would not stage any new trade protection measures against each other, a significant step which lays the groundwork for the presidential summit next month. "Both sides agreed on not introducing any new trade protection measures against each other as both vowed to oppose trade and investment protectionism and observe the related consensus of the G20 summit," Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming said later Thursday. Delegates attending the 20th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) pose for a group photo in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 29, 2009. China and the United States on Thursday started their annual trade talks in Hangzhou. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan co-chaired the meeting with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Trade Representative Ron Kirk of the United States. The JCCT began in 1983 as a platform for both countries to promote trade and address issues of mutual concernChen made the remarks at the end of the 20th China-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) talks in China's eastern city of Hangzhou. The comments also came at a time of increasing China-U.S. trade disputes in the past months, involving Chinese tires, cement products, U.S. poultry and others. "The pledge is significant as it shows both countries' determination to dump punitive measures against each other and instead seek common prosperity," Niu Xinchun, a research fellow with China Contemporary International Studies Institute, told Xinhua. "As influential powers, China and the United States should stand firmly against all types of trade protectionism, promote both countries' economies and help lift the world out of recession," Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan told the opening session of the JCCT Thursday noon. Wang co-chaired the 20th JCCT talks with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk in a lakeside garden compound in the capital of east China's Zhejiang province. Locke highlighted the significance of this year's talks, saying it is the first JCCT meeting of President Obama's administration and comes a few weeks ahead of President Obama's first visit to China. Wang said President Obama's visit in mid November will "provide new opportunities for China-U.S. cooperation." "In a spirit of candor and understanding, hopefully both sides will discuss issues of mutual concern and achieve fruitful results at today's JCCT meeting," Wang said. "It is critical that we make definite, concrete, demonstrable progress today to demonstrate that U.S. and China can work together to achieve results from the JCCT," Locke said. Later Thursday, the U.S. commerce chief lauded the one-day JCCT talks as "successful," as both sides "made very significant progress on a number of issues." Locke said China will drop a requirement that most of the components of wind power-related equipment be made in China. "The United States agreed to delete some articles in its bill which limited China's poultry exports for six years," Chinese Minister of Agriculture Sun Zhengcai said in response to a Xinhua's question. In return, China will resume imports of pork products from the A/H1N1 flu-hit areas in the United States, Sun said. As for trade imbalance, China's commerce chief said both sides agreed at the JCCT talks that the solution was not to limit China's exports to the United States, but strike a balance by aggressively boosting bilateral trade.
NANCHANG, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese leader Zhou Yongkang has called for better understanding of new changes in the society, the nation and the world at large and urged more research and efforts in promoting social stability and harmony. Zhou, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the call during his visit to east China's Jiangxi Province on Wednesday. Zhou Yongkang (C), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visits a company operated exclusively with Hong Kong capital, in Ji'an City of east China's Jiangxi Province, Nov. 4, 2009. During his visit, Zhou also urged strengthening of the self-construction of the law enforcement organs so as to provide a better legal protection for the economic and social development. When visiting Red Army veterans, Zhou said the people will forever remember the great sacrifice revolutionists of the older generation have made for the country. He pledged to them the determination to well build the nation. Zhou Yongkang (C), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with red army soldiers during his visit in Ji'an city of east China's Jiangxi Province, Nov. 4, 2009Zhou also visited a fire department in Jinggangshan city, where the official encouraged the firefighters to work hard to protect the people's lives and properties. At a local police station in Ji'an city, Zhou praised the policemen's innovation of improving service through information technologies. The official also paid visit to rural households. At a village in Ji'an city, Zhou was pleased to know that no single crime has ever occurred in the village since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.Zhou Yongkang (R, front), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visits a fire station in Jinggangshan city of east China's Jiangxi Province, Nov. 4, 2009
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TAIPEI/BEIJING, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- A delegation from the Chinese mainland is expected to sign contracts with Taiwan's companies valued at more than three billion U.S. dollars during its 6-day trip on the island, the delegation head said Tuesday. The delegation, which arrived in Taipei Monday, was headed by Liang Baohua, chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC) provincial committee in east China's Jiangsu Province. The delegation would also sign Memorandum of Understandings to enhance cooperation in areas including economy, trade, agriculture, science and technology, tourism, culture and education, said Liang at the opening ceremony of "Jiangsu-Taiwan Week" in Taipei Tuesday. Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Lien Chan delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of "Jiangsu-Taiwan Week" held in Taipei, south China's Taiwan Province, Nov. 10, 2009. The "Jiangsu-Taiwan Week" kicked off in Taipei on Tuesday. The provincial-level delegation from the Chinese mainland is expected to sign contracts with Taiwan's companies valued at more than three billion U.S. dollars during its 6-day trip on the island. "Our visit itself reflects the peaceful development in cross-Strait ties in the past year," said Liang when he met the Kuomintang (KMT) honorary chairman Wu Poh-hsiung Monday. Invited by the KMT central committee, Liang was the first CPC provincial committee chief to visit Taiwan. It indicated the expanding and deepening exchanges across the Taiwan Strait, said KMT Deputy Secretary-General Chang Jung-Kong. Taiwan had received and would witness a series of mainland delegations headed by senior officials at the provincial-level. A delegation headed by Li Chongxi, deputy chief of the CPC's Sichuan provincial committee arrived in Taipei on Nov. 1 to discuss cooperation in trade and tourism. Beijing Vice Mayor Ji Lin, who led a group of more than 250 members, arrived the island the next day and took part in a symposium on science and technology. Xu Bodong, an expert on Taiwan affairs and also professor of the Beijing Union University, said the visit by the Jiangsu delegation was a continuity of trips made by Sichuan and Beijing. "The trips reflect higher level development of cross-Strait ties as the exchanges at the local level involved more specific issues," he said. Enterprise representatives sign the cooperation memorandum at the opening ceremony of "Jiangsu-Taiwan Week" held in Taipei, south China's Taiwan Province, Nov. 10, 2009The CPC and KMT reached an agreement on the common prospects for peaceful cross-Strait development in 2005, which had now become a basic policy of the Taiwan authority, said the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) chairman Chiang Pin-kung when he met Liang Baohua Tuesday. Local CPC chiefs on the mainland, however, had for a long time mainly played the role as hosts to receive KMT guests from Taiwan after the positive changes took place in the island in May 2008. For example, Liang acted as a host to receive Lien Chan, Wu Poh-hsiung and Chiang Pin-kung for several times, according to Xu Bodong. "Now they finally came to the front of exchanges and dialogue," Xu said. As Liang Baohua put it, "Our visit is to implement the common prospects for peaceful cross-Straits development with pragmatic measures on behalf of a province." Following Liang's visit, Xu Guangchun, chief of CPC's Henan provincial committee, will also visit Taiwan next month at the invitation of the KMT central committee, according to the Henan provincial committee Tuesday. Wang Jianmin, a Taiwan affairs researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said "local CPC committees and government could make bigger stride in promoting economic, trade and cultural exchanges with a view to the new situation in cross-Strait relations." Exchanges and cooperation at the local level across the Strait would be institutionalized in the future and would bring greater benefits to people on both sides, Wang said. Liang Baohua (1st L), secretary of Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Lien Chan (2nd L), Chen Wu-hsiung (3rd L), director-general of Taiwan Federation of Industries (TFI), and Zhang Jindong (1st R), board chairman of Suning Corporation, attend the opening ceremony of "Jiangsu-Taiwan Week" held in Taipei, south China's Taiwan Province, Nov. 10, 2009
BEIJING, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- A report on the building of rural social security system was submitted Thursday to the ongoing session of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, for deliberation. Sun Wensheng, vice chairman of the NPC Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, said steady progress had been made in the development of rural social security system when delivering the report at the session of the NPC Standing Committee. A total of 833 million rural residents, or 94 percent of the rural population, have joined the rural cooperative medical care system, up 2.5 percentage points from the beginning of this year, according to the report. The rural cooperative medical care system, a government initiative implemented in 2005 that intended to make health services more affordable for the rural poor, had alleviated illness-caused poverty among farmers, it said. The report said 320 counties, or 11.6 percent of the country's total, had been or would be approved to try a new rural social pension insurance system, which would benefit more than 15 million rural residents. Under the pension system, senior rural residents will receive a monthly ole-age pension of varying amounts, which will be set by government according to the local income standards. However, some local governments were financially challenged to implement the rural social security programs and only a relatively small percentage of migrant farmer workers were covered, Sun said. The report was the result of a nearly four-month investigation conducted by the NPC Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee. Initiated in September, the investigation covered 17 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.
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. 8 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland's 20 million yuan of donations to ethnic minorities in the typhoon-hit Taiwan have been "all given out", Kao Chin Su-mei, a representative of the ethnic minorities, said here Sunday. Earlier in August, the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee announced it has raised 20 million yuan (about 95.4 million new Taiwan dollars) for the ethnic minorities in Taiwan after Typhoon Morakot hit the island. The donation plan was announced when a delegation headed by Kao Chin Su-mei visited Beijing on August 19. The donation has been distributed to more than 2,153 homeless ethnic minority families (30,000 new Taiwan dollars for each), more than 3,300 primary and junior high school ethnic minority students in hardest-hit areas (5,000 new Taiwan dollars for each), and nearly 14,00 senior high school and junior college ethnic minority students (10,000 new Taiwan dollars for each), according to Gao Chin Su-mei. All the donation had been distributed to ethnic minority victims of the typhoon, she said. Currently, about 500,000 people of ethnic minorities live in Taiwan, 80 percent of whom make a living by growing and processing agricultural products.