BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese leader Zhou Yongkang has encouraged students from Xinjiang who are attending school in southern Guangdong Province to study hard and become qualified builders of the country.Zhou, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China(CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks when replying to a letter written by the 12th graders of Guangdong Guangya High School on Sunday, or the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year.Zhou visited the time-honored school in Guangzhou, capital of the southern province, last September and talked with the students from northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. They wrote a letter to Zhou before the Spring Festival, which fell on Sunday.Zhou said in the letter that launching classes for high school students from Xinjiang in inland provinces is a major decision made by the Party and the government. It aims to let Xinjiang's children to enjoy better education so they can grow up healthily and make greater contributions to their hometown and the country.Zhou said the 56 ethnic groups in the country are a family and they have gone through thick and thin together to forge the flesh-and-blood ties.Zhou said the Party and government are exerting great efforts to address major issues including development gap between southern Xinjiang and other western regions, and the eastern coastal regions of the country.He told students that the CPC Central Committee is to hold a meeting on Xinjiang work, at which major decision will be made to boost Xinjiang's development. He also encouraged students to contribute to ethnic solidarity and safeguard the national unity.
BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- China and Zambia on Friday reaffirmed their commitments to increase the vitality of their decades-old relationship.Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao met respectively with Zambian President Rupiah Banda, who was on his first state visit to Beijing since becoming president in 2008. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with visiting Zambian President Rupiah Banda in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 26, 2010Zambia was the first southern African nation to forge diplomatic relations with China, Wen said. The two countries' diplomatic ties were established in October 1964.
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo on Friday met respectively with Chilean Senate President Jovino Novoa and Russia's Presidential Representative to the Far Eastern Federal District Viktor Ishayev.In a meeting with Novoa, Wu reviewed the four-decade bilateral ties since China and Chile established diplomatic ties in December 1970.As the first South American nation to forge diplomatic relations with China, Chile was also the first Latin American country to recognize China's market status and sign free trade agreement."China would like to work with Chile to maintain high-level contacts, expand trade cooperation and enrich people exchanges so as to advance our all-round partnership," Wu said. Wu Bangguo (R), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), meets with visiting president of the Senate of Chile Jovino Novoa Vazquez in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 5, 2010.Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress(NPC), China's top legislature, pinned high hopes on bilateral legislative ties, calling for enhanced exchanges and cooperation by making use of the effective political dialogue mechanism.Novoa, who was leading a parliamentary delegation for a week-long visit in China, said Chile would never change its course of developing good relations with China no matter what happened in Chile's political landscape.Novoa said the National Congress of Chile would like to work with NPC to boost bilateral relations. Wu Bangguo (R), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), meets with visiting Russia's presidential representative to the Far Eastern Federal District Victor Ivanovich Ishaev in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 5, 2010.In another meeting with Ishayev, Wu underlined the importance of China-Russia relation and called for deeper political trust and stronger strategic coordination.Wu said cooperation between different areas of the two countries accounted for an important position in China-Russia relationship and enjoyed a solid foundation for cooperation.Wu called on both countries to take effective measures to implement the cooperation programs the two sides had agreed and promote cross-border infrastructure and transportation cooperation.Ishayev, who became Russia's Presidential Representative to the Far Eastern Federal District last year, said the Russian government paid much attention to the Far East area, which offered new opportunities for collaboration with China.He proposed enhancing cooperation in the fields of infrastructure, energy exploration and forestry processing, among others, to push for comprehensive exchanges and cooperation between neighboring regions of the two countries and realization of win-win situation.Ishayev, who arrived in Beijing Friday, will meet with heads of departments of energy, transportation and commerce during his stay till next Wednesday.
LONDON, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi made four proposals Thursday on the Afghan reconstruction at the London Conference on Afghanistan."Afghanistan's reconstruction process had gone through twists and turns," Yang said in a speech. "The successful elections held by the Afghan people opened a new chapter in the history of the country."Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi speaks to the media after the one-day London Conference on Afghanistan in London, capital of Britain, Jan. 28, 2010. Yang Jiechi spoke highly of the London Conference on Afghanistan concluded on Thursday with security, economic development and governance topping the agendaOn the next stage of Afghan reconstruction, Yang made the following proposals: The international community should help create enabling conditions for safeguarding the security of the country and its people and help the country achieve economic development.His other two proposals were that the international community should help Afghanistan improve governance and enhance coordination and cooperation in helping Afghanistan."The international community should continue paying attention to Afghanistan and offer greater support and assistance to that country," he said. "It should help Afghanistan strengthen its sovereignty, ownership and development capacity." Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L) speaks to the media after the one-day London Conference on Afghanistan in London, capital of Britain, Jan. 28, 2010Yang emphasized that China will help the Afghan people embark on the path of peace, stability and development as early as possible.
BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua)-- China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Wednesday it would issue a batch of ten-year book-entry treasury bonds with a total par value of 26 billion yuan (3.8 billion U.S. dollars) starting on Thursday.The batch is the 7th of its kind the MOF has issued this year. The issue of this batch of T-bonds ends on March 29, according to a statement on the MOF's official website.The bonds would be traded on the interbank bond market and securities bond market from March 31.The bonds have a fixed annual interest rate of 3.36 percent, with the interests to be paid every half year, on March 25 and Sept. 25, respectively, according to the statement.The last interest payments and principals would be paid back together on March 25, 2020, statement said. Book-entry bonds are the bonds recorded in the investors' securities accounts called book entries. They can be traded on the open market, and their market prices can deviate from par value.
BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu told Chinese rescuers in Haiti via phone Friday night to make all-out efforts to save the eight buried Chinese policemen after they were located. Rescuers have decided on the location where the eight Chinese police officers were buried after a 7.3-magnitude quake in Haiti. Liu Zhiqiang, director of China's Ministry of Public Security international cooperation department, told Xinhua that "various means are being used simultaneously" to search for the missing men. Rescuers have decided on the location where the eight Chinese police officers are buried after a 7.3-magnitude quake in Haiti Four of the eight officers just arrived in Haiti Tuesday. They all serve in China's peacekeeping forces in Haiti. A Chinese rescue team of more than 60 people left Beijing for the Caribbean island Wednesday evening along with 10 tonnes of food, equipment and medicines. Meng, also State Councilor, said via satellite phone to Chines erescue team in Haiti, "We must spare no efforts in rescuing the buried police officers." He also passed on concern of China's top leadership on the safety of every member of the rescue team.
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BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao and other top Chinese leaders joined an evening party Sunday with representatives of intellectuals in Beijing to celebrate the annual Lantern Festival.Hu and eight other members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, including top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao, attended the event featuring song-and-dance shows and rice dumplings, a traditional food for the festival. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Hu Jintao (C) talks with delegates from the intelligentsia during a get-together marking the traditional Lantern Festival at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 28, 2010. The CPC Central Committee hosted a get-together here on Sunday to mark the Lantern Festival
BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.-China relationship was the most complex and important relationship in the world, U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman said on Tuesday."It is the most complex and important relationship in the world today with many facets of relationship and many points of connection between the United States and China," Huntsman told a press briefing on Tuesday.Reviewing the bilateral ties in the first year of Obama's presidency, Huntsman said, "We spent the last year in a relationship building bridges, getting to know each other, ensuring the new administration was able to frame our relationship going forward with China in ways meaningful to both countries."Looking to the new year, Huntsman said, "I would argue that we are putting the relationship to the test in a positive sense because I do believe the last many years have built a lot of solid trust, a lot of collaboration, a lot of people exchanges, enormous trade and investment.""Despite our differences, we will stay focused on the big picture between the United States and China," he said.For a trade relationship with an annual volume of 400 billion U.S.dollars, "the issue isn't that we don't have trade challenges; it is how we resolve them," Huntsman said.Huntsman said this year will see trade increases and a few more challenges between both countries."One-China policy and three joint communiques have always been part of our relationship going all the way," Huntsman said.Huntsman also defended U.S. latest plan to sell a nearly 6.4 billion-U.S.-dollar package of arms to Taiwan, which included Patriot missiles, Black Hawk helicopters and minesweepers.China expressed strong indignation and resolute opposition to the sale, announcing the suspension of bilateral military programs and security talks.
BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Some foreign diplomats and journalists based in Beijing Sunday were invited to watch Road of Rejuvenation, a music-and-dance epic highlighting China's twists and turns in the past 170 years.The gala at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) was presented by more than 1,000 performers, featuring China's modern and contemporary history with chorus, dances, and stage screens.Iwona Rogacka-Hu, an officer with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, said every step of the country's progress was presented clearly in the epic gala and she was moved by the themes of the mother and motherland.Peter A. Fischer, a Swiss correspondent with Zurich Times (NZZ) Beijing Office, said he saw many battles and difficult times in China's modern history through the show."I hope these will never come again, and China will grow more prosperous and open further up," Fischer said.The gala was produced to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in October 2009. It debuted in Beijing on Sept. 20 last year.Zhang Jigang, director of the show, said so far 40 performances had been staged at the NCPA, and there are 40 more to go."The tickets for the upcoming shows have been sold out," said Wang Zhengming, vice president of the NCPA.Zhang said the gala had been filmed and would be available in cinemas soon.
BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's auto sales would not rise as steeply as that in 2009, but would continue to see double-digit growth boosted by government stimulus measures, an official with the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.Chang Xiaocun, who headed the market construction department of the ministry said at a news conference that research had shown that after a nation's per capital GDP surpasses 3,000 U.S. dollars, it would see brisk auto sales as more families could afford to buy cars.China met that criteria in 2008, he said.