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US, CHINA STRESS POSITIVE RELATIONS

THE United States and China sought to stress the positives in their relationship yesterday after three days of high-level talks, but they failed to narrow differences on the most contentious issues of cyber and maritime security.

At the end of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington, US Trea-sury Secretary Jack Lew said both sides had committed to work more toward a Bilateral Investment Treaty already seven years in the making.

China had pledged to limit intervention in currency markets to manage the yuan’s value except in situations of “disorderly market conditions.”

It also pledged to further liberalize ex-change rates, open capital markets and expand access to foreign financial service firms.

China agreed “to actively consider” addi-tional steps to move the yuan, which the US has long criticized is forcefully kept under-valued, to a market-based exchange rate.

Washington appeared more ready to sup-port a major step in the internationalization

of the yuan, its inclusion in the basket underpinning the International Monetary Fund’s SDR currency. But there was little sign that Washington was ready to embrace the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

Lew welcomed China’s commitment to begin publishing economic data to meet a key IMF standard by the end of 2015.

“It is in China’s own interest to adopt the transparency standards of major reserve currencies,” Lew said.

Earlier this year, Beijing asked the IMF to consider including the yuan in the bas-ket on which the SDR is based. That would constitute a major recognition of the yuan as one of the 10 most important currencies in the world.

Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang con-firmed that Washington had shown support for the yuan’s consideration by the IMF, a decision likely to take place next year.

Wang also said the two sides had placed a high priority on the Bilateral Investment Treatty, as they weighed each other’s pro-posed “negative list,” a register of business

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sectors that both sides would want to keep protected from foreign investment.

The two sides had committed to “im-prove the negative list offer with a view to reaching a mutually beneficial and high-standard treaty,” he told reporters after the meeting.

The talks, which deal with a broad range of often technical issues, appeared to avoid flashpoint economic issues, such as the AIIB and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the US-driven free trade area that notably ex-cludes China, the second-largest US trade partner.

A key new complaint at the top of the US list in economic and trade issues, cy-ber-spying and cyber-theft of secrets and intellectual property from US companies was discussed, according to Lew.

The two sides “had candid conversa-tions about standards of behavior in cyberspace. We agree that there is value in bilateral and international cooperation on these issues.”

Chinese Foreign Minister

Wang Yi talks with a

woman at a resettlement

center in Kathmandu

yesterday that was

set up after the Nepal

earthquake on April 25

which claimed more than

8,800 lives. China has

promised 3 billion yuan

(US$483 million) in grant

assistance to rebuild the

quake-devastated country

while India’s Foreign

Minister Sushma Swaraj

pledged US$1 billion to

finance reconstruction.

Foreign donor nations

and agencies led by China

and India pledged US$4.4

billion to rebuild areas

hit by the earthquake,

as the country’s premier

vowed “zero tolerance” of

corruption and said all aid

money would go to victims.

Nepal says it needs around

US$6.7 billion to recover

from the disaster. — CNS

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Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai Daily

Ma Yue

CHINA’S former Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang yesterday divorced his ac-tress wife Ge Tian, just nine months after he had surprised fans with the announcement of his marriage.

“Ge Tian and I fell in love in May 2014 and tied the knot in Septem-ber,” the 32-year-old Shanghai athlete wrote on his Sina Weibo mi-croblog. “We have not been getting along well due to incompatible per-sonalities and ended our marriage today. We wish each other a better life ahead.”

The couple had rarely been seen in public since their marriage. Liu was on his own when he attended the Laureus World Sports Awards in Shanghai in April and his wife was not to be seen at his retirement ceremony in the city last month.

When Liu announced his retire-ment at Shanghai Stadium during the IAAF Diamond League on May 17, he thanked the China Athletics Association, his fans and sponsors, but made no mention of his wife.

Possibly the only time they were seen together in public was at a charity activity for visually chal-lenged children on September 11 last year — four days after they registered their marriage.

Since then, Liu had been living in Shanghai while Ge stayed in Bei-jing. When Liu traveled to Beijing in February, it was reported that he stayed in a hotel rather than at Ge’s residence. However, both insisted that they met in private.

Sina.com said it had phoned Ge to confirm the news. Ge, who sounded like she was crying, said: “What Liu says is the fact.”

It was on Weibo that the couple’s marriage was announced. Two days after their registration, Liu posted a picture of the couple leaning on a hurdle at Liu’s training base in Shanghai’s Xinzhuang.

Liu’s parents told reporters that the couple got to know each other in 2009 though Ge had been a fan since 2004, the year Liu won Olym-pic gold in Athens.

They met when Ge asked for a

photograph together with Liu, and they kept in touch after that. Ge was said to have given Liu a lot of sup-port after his dramatic exit from the 2012 London Olympics.

Ge, who is thought to be six years younger than Liu, was born in Jinan in east China’s Shandong Province. She is a graduate of the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing and has appeared in a number of TV series.

One series was taken off air last month over a “lewd” scene in which her screen boyfriend pulled a stick grenade from inside her trousers. “Fight the Devils Together” told the story of China’s resistance to invad-ing Japanese forces in the 1930s.

Liu’s divorce announcement was reposted over 60,000 times in an hour. Most followers sent him their best wishes.

Liu was forced to pull out of the 2008 Beijing Olympics with an Achilles injury and his hopes of regaining his Olympic title four years later in London ended when he stumbled at the first hurdle.

Liu Xiang divorces his actress wifeTop sports offi cial under investigation

Xiao Tian, deputy

head of China’s Gen-

eral Administration of

Sport, is under inves-

tigation for alleged

violations of discipline

and law, the Party’s

Central Commission

for Discipline Inspec-

tion said yesterday.

Xiao had presented

Liu Xiang, Shanghai’s

star hurdler, with a

trophy honoring the

athlete’s achieve-

ments at his retire-

ment ceremony in the

city on May 17.

He is also a vice

president of FIBA,

basketball’s interna-

tional governing body

based in Switzerland.

(Shanghai Daily)

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Widespread misuse of China’s lottery funds found

Countries helping in anti-graft campaign

Shanghai Daily Friday 26 June 2015

Hu Min

CHINA’S top auditor said yes-terday it had found widespread misappropriation of 16.9 billion yuan (US$2.72 billion) of funds from its state lottery program in 18 provincial areas between 2012 to 2014.

Funds were appropriated through the buying and build-ing of offices and hotels or embezzled, the National Audit Office said in a report.

The state auditor said irregu-larities accounted for a quarter of the total of lottery funds re-ceived. It said that 17 provinces

had flouted the law in engaging in lottery sales through the In-ternet without approval from the Ministry of Finance.

In another case, 32 lottery shops had used 3.1 billion yuan to construct office buildings, training centers and hotels, its report said.

About 71.9 million yuan was used to buy cars and organize overseas trips in the guise of training and meetings, accord-ing to the office.

It said it had suggested a spe-cific rectification campaign for the lottery ticket market and

improvements to the regula-tions governing lottery fund management.

China’s two state-run lotter-ies — a welfare lottery and its sports equivalent — have been running since the 1980s.

Proceeds from lottery ticket sales cover administrative fees and public welfare projects as well as jackpots.

Between 2012 and 2014, the total welfare and sports lottery sales proceeds in the provincial areas involved in the audit to-taled 668.8 billion yuan.

Spurred by rising disposable

income, a strong appetite for gambling and more sophisti-cated games, China’s lottery market has boomed with cus-tomers splurging billions of dollars.

China is expected to over-take the United States as the world’s biggest lottery market this year.

The government has so far contained casino gambling to Macau, Reuters reported, in part because of social concerns.

Experts say that officials con-sider the lottery system more sanitized, with fewer negative

effects on the nation’s citizens.Lottery products are typically

sold through authorized sta-tions throughout the country in the form of physical tickets.

These range from dedicated lottery stores to counters in supermarkets, post offices and gas stations.

Unlike the US and Europe, where prizes can climb into the hundreds of millions of dollars, China caps jackpots at 10 mil-lion yuan.

Tickets sell for 2 yuan to 200 yuan, with proceeds supporting sports and welfare charities.

CHINA has been getting good international cooperation in its campaign to return sus-pected corrupt officials who had fled abroad, including tip-offs from overseas and help from the media, the Party’s graft watchdog said yesterday.

Earlier this year, the government unveiled an initiative called “Sky Net” to better coordinate its fight to return corrupt officials and published a list of 100 sus-pects believed to be abroad and subject to an Interpol “red notice.”

“Since the release of the 100-person ‘red notice’ list, our country has had positive cooperation with many other countries’ legal authorities, and signs have appeared of some suspects abroad who have been hidden for a long time and thought they’d got away with it,” the watchdog said.

“Media at home and abroad have dug deep, the people have proactively paid at-tention, people here and overseas have enthusiastical-ly offered tips,” the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection added.

As of the end of May, 214 suspects had been returned to the country, according to the government.

China’s graft fight has been hampered to an extent by the difficulty in getting corrupt officials and assets back from overseas.

China does not have ex-tradition treaties with the United States or Canada — the two most popular destinations for suspected economic criminals.

The graft watchdog said that no country wished to be viewed as a “safe haven” for the corrupt.

(Reuters)

Divergence over South China SeaThe two countries also

stressed cooperation in combat-ing climate change, concerns about Iran and North Korea’s nu-clear programs, the fight against Islamist militancy, and support for global development.

However, in what both termed “candid” and “frank” exchanges at the annual talks, they re-stated divergent positions on issues of the South China Sea and cybersecurity, the princi-pal causes of deteriorating trust between the world’s two largest economies.

US Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters the US remained “deeply concerned” about cyber incursions.

He said it also had “a strong national interest” in freedom of navigation and overflight — a reference to concerns that China might one day declare an exclusion zone around reefs it has been building up in the South China Sea.

China’s top diplomat, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, said the two countries should work together on cybersecurity and called on Washington to be “im-partial and objective” when it came to the South China Sea.

He said China had stressed

Anger at bill’s US invitation to Taiwan

Praise for armed forces’ relationshipCHINA is willing to enhance interaction with the United States in the Asia-Pacific region and together improve capacity to cope with challenges, a de-fense ministry spokesman said yesterday.

Yang Yujun made the remarks at a press conference when

asked if China would participate in the US-led Rim of the Pacific multilateral naval drills.

Yang said taking part was conducive to strengthening exchanges and cooperation among naval forces around the world.

China’s navy joined the

exercises in Hawaii last year.The leaders of both armed

forces agreed that exchanges and cooperation should con-tinue to develop, Yang said.

He praised the sound devel-opment of the armed forces’ relationship.

(Xinhua)

CHINA yesterday expressed its opposition to the annual defense policy bill passed by the US Senate, which contains a section inviting Taiwan to join military drills.

“We are firmly opposed to any country’s military contact with Taiwan,” said defense ministry

spokesman Yang Yujun. “Our position is consistent

and clear,” he told reporters.The bill passed by the US

Senate last week authorizes some US$600 billion in defense spending for the 2016 fiscal year, and initiates measures that could help cut costs.

“We urge the US side to abide by the three China-US joint communiques, properly settle the Taiwan issue, and maintain the healthy growth of military ties and overall relations be-tween both countries,” Yang said.

(Xinhua)

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US President Barack Obama (second right) and members of his Cabinet welcome Strategic and Economic Dialogue principals,

including Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong (left) and State Councilor Yang Jiechi (second left), at the White House. — Reuters

its “firm determination” to safe-guard its sovereignty and urged the US to respect this.

However, Yang added: “Navi-gation freedom in the South China Sea is guaranteed. We do believe that there will not be any issue or problem with navigational freedom in future. We hope the US can be impartial and objective to serve peace and

stability in this region.”President Barack Obama

met Yang and other Chinese officials earlier and raised con-cerns about China’s “cyber and maritime behavior” as well as its currency, technology and investment policies.

Obama’s policy of pivoting US resources to Asia in response to China’s rapid rise got a welcome

boost on Wednesday, when the Senate passed legislation vital to speed passage of a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal under negotiation after a six-week congressional battle.

Kerry sought to play down any notion of what many analysts see as a rapidly deteriorating US relationship with China.

(Agencies)

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Feeling hot, hot, hot ... and sticky


Yang Meiping

THIRTY-ONE aging apartment blocks in Jing’an District will be rewired and fitted with sprinkler systems this year as part of an ongoing refurbishment program, fire-control authorities told Shang-hai Daily yesterday.

The properties to be upgraded are all between 70 and 80 years old and occupied by more than 5,700 families, they said.

An eight-year program was launched in 2013 to renovate all 1.6 million square meters of govern-ment-owned residential buildings in the district. Because of their age, many of the properties have pro-tected status and work carried out on them must comply with strict regulations.

As well as the safety upgrades, the homes will be replumbed and fitted with new kitchens and sani-taryware, the fire bureau said.

Since the start of the program, nearly 300,000 square meters of old buildings have been refur-bished in Jing’an, which due to its rich history and links to Western settlers is home to many interest-ing properties.

Because of their age, many of the buildings have timber features, which mean they are highly com-bustible, the bureau said.

The installation of sprinkler systems and new wiring are key to the local government’s plan to improve the safety of local residents, it said.

Chen Huizhi

SIX people have been detained on suspicion of producing and selling crystal methamphet-amine in Shanghai, police said yesterday.

The case is the first of its kind this year, they said, add-ing the city is not known as a center for drug production.

Four members of an alleged gang were caught on June 19 following raids on two

apartments in the Pudong New Area and Jiading District.

At the properties, police dis-covered more than 500 grams of crystal meth, 1 kilogram of part-processed drugs, 4.3kg of ephedrine — the key ingre-dient in making meth — and drug-related paraphernalia.

The alleged ringleaders were named as a 33-year-old man surnamed Xu and a 35-year-old woman surnamed Zhang.

Also held were a 29-year-old man and his 32-year-old wife, both surnamed Wang.

Over the following days, a 29-year-old man surnamed Shi and a 36-year-old man surnamed Huang were appre-hended in connection with the case, police said.

Police were alerted to the activities of the alleged drug-makers by a 29-year-old woman surnamed Zhu and

a 41-year-old man surnamed Wang, who were taken into custody at the end of last year on suspicion of selling crystal meth.

According to the police, the gang’s leaders said they bought the ephedrine online.

The sale of the drug in China is strictly controlled and all purchases of it should be re-ported to the authorities. An investigation is ongoing.

Organ donor gives life to 5 recipients

6 suspects detained in dual drug busts

Cai Wenjun

SURGEONS at Zhongshan Hospital in Xuhui District recently harvested five organs for donation from a man who died after suffering a serious brain injury in a traffic accident.

The wife of the donor, a 41-year-old mi-grant worker surnamed Zhang, approved the procedure after it became clear her husband would not regain consciousness, the hospital said yesterday.

He was pronounced dead on June 8 and the organs — his liver, two kidneys and

two corneas — were harvested later the same day.

The posthumous donation was the 12th handled by the hospital since it launched a donor program last year.

Previous donors, who include 10 mi-grant workers and their children, were aged between 8 and 64, it said.

As well as being given permission by Zhang’s widow, hospital officials traveled to the man’s hometown in east China’s Anhui Province to seek approval from his mother, a procedure required by law.

The five recipients of Zhang’s organs are all recovering well after their surger-ies, the hospital said.

Since the central government banned the harvesting of organs from executed criminals, the waiting time for people in need of a transplant has grown consider-ably, said Dr Zhu Tongyu, the hospital’s vice president and a qualified surgeon who specializes in kidney transplants.

“The waiting time for most patients is now about 10 years, from five or six years previously,” he said.

31 apartment blocks slated for upgrades

Woman gets 3 days in jail for theft scamGloria Chen

A FOREIGN woman was recently detained for three days for falsely claiming to have had 800,000 yuan (US$129,000) worth of valuables stolen from her bag, Shanghai po-lice said yesterday.

The woman surnamed Wu, whose nationality was not disclosed, contacted the police on June 18 to report the theft of a purse contain-ing a luxury watch, two diamond rings and a platinum ring.

Wu said that she had been pay-ing bills at the First Food Mall on Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall when she noticed the purse miss-ing from her shoulder bag, police said.

When officers investigated, how-ever, they were unable to find any evidence of the alleged crime on footage from the shopping center’s surveillance cameras.

When pressed on the matter, Wu confessed to fabricating the story and said she was planning to make an insurance claim for the miss-ing items once back in her home country, police said.

Ke Jiayun

THE Shanghai Meteorological Bureau is-sued its first heat wave warning of the year yesterday as the mercury rose to a high of 35.8 degrees Celsius in Songjiang District.

The “yellow” alert was posted at 10:20am in response to the soaring temperatures across the city, forecasters said.

Five districts — Qingpu, Songjiang, Baoshan, Jiading and Minhang — report-ed highs of 35-plus degrees, while in all but one of the others, the mercury topped out at between 34 and 35 degrees.

Only in Chongming County did it fall below 34, achieving a comparatively mod-est 33.9 degrees, the bureau said.

“It’s not very sunny, but it’s really hot

and sticky,” a woman walking through the city’s downtown told Shanghai Daily.

Another woman, who was pushing her grandson in a stroller, said: “It’s a lot hot-ter today than it was yesterday. Even the baby is sweating.”

Zhu Jiehua, a chief service officer at the bureau, said the steep rise in temperature was due to a bank of a high pressure over Shanghai.

Wide-brimmed hats, sunglasses and light clothing were ubiquitous yesterday as people did their best to cope with the sweltering heat.

Along with yesterday’s heat wave came a light smog. While the main pollutant early in the day was PM2.5 particles, this shifted in the afternoon to ozone, accord-ing to the meteorologists.

At its peak, the concentration of ozone was 168 micrograms per cubic meter, or 68 percent higher than the World Health Organization’s recommended safe level of 100.

The bureau lifted the heat wave alert at 5:25pm, only to replace it an hour later with yellow alerts for rainstorms, gales and lightning.

Despite the warnings, which were based on expectations of the arrival of a south-moving rain belt, as of press time the city remained dry and warm.

Heavy rains remain on the cards for today and the weekend, however, while temperatures are set to range between 23 and 27 degrees.

The wet conditions are set to continue into next week, the bureau said.

People do their best to stay cool yesterday in central Shanghai, where the mercury rose beyond 34 degrees Celsius. The steep

rise in temperature led to the meteorological bureau issuing its first heat wave warning of the year. — Zhang Suoqing/CFP

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Left, Josef Rossbach as a small boy with a favorite toy, and, right, with his mother

and the rickshaw puller who regularly took them around Shanghai.

— Images courtesy of Josef Rossbach


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Memories of kindness and rickshaw ridesYang Jian

JOSEF Rossbach, a retired doctor who now lives in Hamburg, Germany, spent the first three years of his life in Shang-hai’s Hongkou District.

Now 70, he said his Jewish parents found refuge in Shanghai after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939.

In 2010, on a visit to the Shanghai Jew-ish Refugees Museum with his wife and son, Rossbach donated a toy rickshaw he remembered playing with as a small boy in his adoptive home.

“Whenever I held it in my hand, my heart beat faster,” he said.

Rossbach’s neighbor in Shanghai was a rickshaw puller who sometimes gave him and his mother rides. His mother bought him the toy as a reminder of the journeys they took together.

“The Chinese people were great to us. Without them, we would have probably died,” he said.

More than 20,000 German and Aus-trian Jews fled to Shanghai to escape Nazi persecution.

Among them were Rossbach’s parents and grandparents, who traveled to the city by ship via the Suez Canal.

“Except for two suitcases, they had to leave everything behind,” he said.

Shanghai had about 6.5 million in-habitants at the time. Though it was a commercial center of the Far East, the swelling population of refugees and the

Japanese occupation plunged parts of the city into poverty.

Rossbach said his father operated a small business outside the ghetto set up by the Japanese for Jewish refugees near the current Zhoujiazui and Huim-ing roads.

“There was very little space. Each fam-ily had only one room,” he said.

The family had to use a bucket as a toi-let, he said, and the summer heat created a breeding ground for pathogens.

Rossbach said he also remembers the noisy clamor of the ghetto, which went on day and night.

Although living conditions were poor, cultural life flourished. The members of the Jewish community built their own theaters, schools and sports facilities, Rossbach said.

“Just outside the gates of the ghetto, there was a park and we often made trips in the rickshaw there,” he said.

But it wasn’t all fun, he said.

When American planes bombed the area, 40 Jewish people were killed and 500 were wounded. During the raids, Rossbach said his mother made him wear an iron pot on his head as protection.

At just three-and-a-half years old, the boy was diagnosed with polio. He spent a year in a Swedish-run hospital outside the ghetto and has been confined to a wheelchair ever since.

In 1949 after the war, the family left by boat to Italy and traveled to Israel.

“I remember my parents waking me up in the dead of night and telling me we were leaving Shanghai,” he said.

“For a boy that age, it was exciting.”Years later, Rossbach earned a bach-

elor’s degree in Israel, before returning to Hamburg with his parents.

He studied medicine, became a gyne-cologist and worked at the Elim Hospital in the city. He met his wife, a psycholo-gist, at university, and the couple had a son, who is now 35.

Rossbach said his extraordinary child-hood made him the man he is today.

“Material things mean nothing to me. I learned the importance of family and human relationships,” he said.

To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II,

Shanghai Daily speaks to Jewish people from around the

world who sought refuge from persecution in the city.

Pair held over armed robberies

Snake man detained

THE owner of a pet shop has been sen-tenced to serve six months in detention for having a python in his store, the Pudong New Area People’s Court said yesterday.

The 43-year-old man, surnamed Yang, said he got the snake from a customer who wanted to swap it for a lizard. The python regius, however, is classed as endangered and cannot be traded in China. It was spotted by law enforcement officers during an inspec-tion of the store in February.

Slasher gets 21 months

A MAN was sentenced to 21 months in prison yesterday for slashing his former lover in the face with a knife.

The 46-year-old surnamed Ye, said he attacked the woman — who was al-ready married when they met via the Internet — after she threatened to end the relationship.

Cabby loses licenseA SHANGHAI taxi driver has been stripped of his operator’s license after being found guilty of overcharging a customer by taking a circuitous route, eastday.com reported yesterday. The unnamed cabby charged the victim 464 yuan (US$75) for the journey from Pu-dong International Airport to Oriental Land in Qingpu District. The driver’s chosen route stretched almost 124 ki-lometers, compared with an average of 90km, and took more than two hours to complete, the report said.

Zhang Ningning

TWO men have been detained in con-nection with an investigation into two violent robberies last month in Qingpu District, local police said yesterday.

The first incident happened on May 23, when four assailants armed with knives and under the influence of al-cohol broke into a workers’ hut on a construction site at 3:30am and threat-ened two men who were sleeping there, police said.

The attackers ordered the victims to hand over their money and mobile phones, which had a combined value of about 1,500 yuan (US$240), before binding the men’s wrists and fleeing the scene, police said.

The second case happened about 11pm on May 26, when a woman surnamed Hu was knocked off her mo-torbike by two men armed with sticks as she was riding along the road.

The assailants stole Hu’s cellphone and a gold bracelet before riding away on her bike, police said.

After studying footage from surveil-lance cameras close to the scenes of the two crimes, police determined that the men responsible for the second attack were also involved in the first.

Following an investigation, two suspects, surnamed Bu and He, were identified and apprehended, police said. The two other men are believed to have fled Shanghai and are being sought, they said.

Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai DailyA6 NEWS FEATURE

Illustration by CFP

China’s online feeding frenzy scours the globe China’s online retailers are

working hard to satisfy the

demand of the country’s

consumers, who are

increasingly looking abroad

for quality products,

especially when it comes

to food. But be wary,

counterfeits exist.

Ding Yining

ALIBABA’S online group buying site

Juhuasuan said it has teamed up with 20

foreign embassies including the Cana-

dian, Greek, Thai and Turkish embassies

to facilitate cross-border e-commerce

transactions as it taps booming demand

for imported products.

A total of 11 specialty marketplaces

for imported products were officially un-

veiled on Tmall on Wednesday after the

company launched the first official South

Korean Pavilion last month.

Country pavilions for imported goods

from the United States, France, Spain,

Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand

were launched on Wednesday.

“Internationalization is a key step for

the company as it’s dedicated to bring-

ing more products and services from

overseas markets to online shoppers

and we’re aiming at serving as many

as 2 billion consumers worldwide,” said

Zhang Jianfeng, president of Alibaba’s

retail business unit.

Juhuasuan is expected to serve more

as a promotional platform for small and

medium brands to get their products

known to Chinese online shoppers,

Zhang said.

Alibaba will also step up collaboration

with trade representatives from foreign

countries in various areas such as deliv-

ery and quality assurance measures.

Bruce Zanin, director of the US De-

partment of Agriculture’s China Agricul-

tural Trade Office, said the US is looking

to find the best distributors for products

while also seeking opportunities with

partners like Alibaba.

“Alibaba’s retail platform is a broad-

ening distribution channel for Canadian

food and beverage products in China,

and it has also proved to be a strong

e-commerce platform that helps SMEs

from Canada to grow their presence,”

Guy Saint-Jacques, ambassador of

Canada to China, told a media briefing

on Wednesday.

China’s cross-border e-commerce

retail transactions are set to jump more

than 10 times to US$245 billion by 2020,

according to a recent report released by

Alibaba and consultancy firm Accenture.

Alibaba teams up with foreign embassies

The tentacles of China’s online retailers grow longer and more pervasive every day, reaching around the world to grab every-

thing from Boston lobster to Norwegian salmon and dragging it home to grace din-ner tables of China.

Online retailers JD.com and Alibaba’s Tmall.com are locked in a battle to sign up overseas merchants and department stores for their newest marketplaces sell-ing nothing but imported products. The competition between Alibaba and JD.com to ship goods directly from overseas to customer’s in China has expanded from luxury clothing to baby formula and cos-metics. The latest catches are fresh meat and seafood.

These new offerings require sophisticat-ed logistics. Meat and seafood have to be shipped and delivered at low temperature. Any delay can compromise freshness or even cause these delicacies to spoil.

In April, JD.com set up a site exclusive-ly selling products from countries like France, South Korea, New Zealand and the United States. On Thursday, the company signed a deal to sell Canadian fresh food and beverages.

JD’s arch-rival Alibaba embarked on a global campaign more than a year ago to lure international brands into opening stores on Tmall to sell directly to Chinese consumers, with meat and seafood rid-ing the crest of a wave of fresh, imported produce.

Wal-Mart-backed online grocery store yihaodian.com sells everything from Thai durian and Mexican avocados to red shrimp from Argentina. Overseas re-tailers also want a piece of China’s vast e-commerce pie. Amazon has warehouses in the Shanghai free trade zone and a store on Tmall in addition to a Chinese site of its own.

American wholesaler Costco has a shop on Tmall, while eBay has teamed up with JD.com to sell imported products. Japan’s Rakuten online store has a Chinese-lan-guage version and offers payment options with Chinese bank cards and Alibaba’s Alipay, China’s most widely used online payment service.

“Foreign companies now understand the habits of Chinese consumers are differ-ent. Working with a local online retailer lets them sell their products more rapidly, cheaper and, without having to establish a large presence in China, they save a lot of costs,” said Canadian Ambassador to China Guy Saint-Jacques, who was there to see the deal with JD.com signed on Thursday.

“We see the future in China’s e-com-merce,” said Arden Schneckenburger of Canada Beef. Canadian beef exported to China is currently sold to restaurants, food services, and stores. “But,” said Schneck-enburger, “I would say e-commerce will, in the future, take more sales in China.”

China’s cross-border consumption grew tenfold in the past four years to US$20 billion in 2014, according to research by eMarketer. Chinese con-sumers spent US$440 billion online last year, and online sales are expected to hit US$1 trillion in 2019, according to research firm Forrester.

China’s middle class, on track to soon outnumber the entire popula-tion of the United States, have a great appetite for what they perceive as qual-ity products from the United States, Europe and Japan.

China has also sought to expand sales of imported food, including fresh meat and seafood in new FTZs in Shanghai, Tianjin, Fujian and Guangdong.

Stores selling imported products

have been set up in Shanghai and Tian-jin FTZs, and it turns out seafood is the most popular item, usually snapped up soon after stores open. The Shanghai FTZ promised last week to expedite customs clearance for products to be sold in the zone.

“China’s FTZs are a good vehicle for more trade,” said Saint-Jacques. “But the challenge when you put in place a new system is to get companies to learn about it and become convinced of its advantages.”

Many foreign firms are not aware of these advantages, so there should be a sustained educational effort to help companies understand how they might benefit, said Saint-Jacques.

China knows the potential for cross-

border e-commerce to resuscitate foreign trade and has not hesitated to serve up a banquet of juicy policies promising tax rebates, faster customs clearance and cuts in tariffs on a number of imported products.

In 2014, China’s e-commerce raked in 4.2 trillion yuan (US$690 billion), a third more than in 2013. This compares with a 2.3 percent growth in all trade that same year, way below the 7.5 percent target. The first five months this year have seen foreign trade decline 7.8 percent.

The Ministry of Commerce reckons goods flowing in and out of China via online sales will hit 6.5 trillion yuan next year, and will eventually account for 20 percent of the country’s total foreign trade.

Fresh foods bring a new range of problems for China’s army of regula-tors. Watchdogs are concerned that imported fresh food, if not properly checked, could bring with it food safety problems.

In 2013, Tmall tried to sell crabs from Germany, but the planned sale was pulled by regulators after shoppers had placed orders, with health and environ-mental risks cited as the reason for the withdrawal.

Carol Fung, a JD.com vice president, said a new deal with the government will reduce such risks. Stronger controls of imported food sold on JD.com and greater transparency in provenance and regulation are guaranteed.

Just as with other products, Alibaba, JD et al have to deal with counterfeit food. An importer of Canadian farm produce said recently that as the com-pany prepared to open online about a year ago, they were surprised to find other merchants already selling “identi-cal but questionable products.”

“Many ‘imported’ products sold on-line in China are actually not imported at all and their quality standards do not necessarily tally with those of the ‘exporting’ countries,” the importer said. “It hurts the consumer and it hurts us.”

(Xinhua)

Shanghai Daily Friday 26 June 2015 OPINION A7

In the rich world, the focus is on food wasted by the consumer. This makes sense: more than half of the rich world’s losses take place in its kitchens (basically because we can afford it).“Bjørn LomborgAn adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School

Curbing waste key to feeding hungry worldBjørn Lomborg

FOREIGN VIEWS

ONE-QUARTER of the food in the world is lost each year, owing to inefficient har-vesting, inadequate storage, and wastage in the kitchen. Halve that waste, and the world could feed an extra billion people.

The extent of food loss is particularly galling in view of a new global study on food security from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization. According to the FAO, 57 developing countries have failed to achieve the Millennium Develop-ment Goal of halving the proportion of hungry people by this year. One in every nine people on the planet — 795 million in all — still goes to sleep hungry.

Of course, there has been remarkable progress: over the last 25 years, the world has fed an extra two billion people, and the developing world as a whole has almost halved its hunger rate.

But the challenge is to sustain the progress: by 2050, demand for food will have nearly doubled. One reason is that by then the world will have added another two billion mouths to feed; a second reason will be the growing appetite of a surging new middle class.

Now, the UN is considering 169 new development targets to succeed the Millen-nium Development Goals (hunger is one target area, among many). These targets are important, because they will determine how more than US$2.5 trillion in develop-ment money is spent on everything from

climate change to malaria.My think tank, the Copenhagen

Consensus Center, therefore asked 60 teams of top economists to assess which proposed targets will do the most good. Our research on food security shows that there are smart ways to feed many more on the planet, but they have little to do with the campaigns against waste seen in most of the rich world.

Losses in the kitchensIn the rich world, the focus is on food

wasted by the consumer. This makes sense: more than half of the rich world’s losses take place in its kitchens (basically because we can afford it).

In Britain, for example, the greatest waste is in salads, vegetables, and fruits — luxuries when compared with the cheap calories contained in the grains and tubers consumed throughout the developing world. Smaller households in rich countries waste more per person, because it is harder to put everything to use, while richer households add waste when they can afford to buy extra “just to be on the safe side.”

By contrast, the world’s hungry poor waste very little, simply because they cannot afford to. In Africa, daily food waste averages 500 calories per person — but consumers account for only 5 percent of this loss. More than three-quarters of the waste occurs well before the kitchen, in inefficient agriculture, because birds and rats eat crops during harvest, for

example, or pests spoil grain stores.There are many remedies for this kind

of waste — from the “curing” of roots and tubers to minimize damage, to more ex-pensive refrigeration. So why aren’t these technologies, widely used in richer coun-tries, adopted in the developing world?

The answer is a lack of infrastructure. If there are no proper roads linking fields to markets, farmers cannot easily sell their surplus produce, which may then spoil before it can be eaten.

Improving road and rail capacity enables farmers to reach buyers — and fertilizer and other agricultural inputs to reach farmers. Supplying reliable electricity permits grains to be dried and vegetables to be kept cool.

Affordable for the poorEconomists from the International Food

Policy Research Institute estimate that the overall cost of about halving post-harvest losses in the developing world would be US$239 billion over the next 15 years — and would generate benefits worth more than US$3 trillion, or US$13 of social benefits for every dollar spent.

This would make food more affordable for the poor. By 2050, better infrastruc-ture could mean that 57 million people — more than the current population of South Africa — would no longer be at risk of hunger, and that about four million children would no longer suffer from malnutrition. Most of these gains would be in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia,

the world’s most deprived regions.But there is a better investment. We can

achieve three times the economic benefits, and even larger reductions in the number of people at risk of hunger, if we focus on improving food production rather than just on preventing food losses.

Today, only US$5 billion is spent annually on research to improve the seven major global food crops, and just one-tenth of that is targeted to help small farmers in Africa and Asia.

Investing an extra US$88 billion in agricultural research and development over the next 15 years would increase yields by an additional 0.4 percent each year. That might not sound like very much, but the reduction in prices and improvements in food security would help almost everyone. It would be worth nearly US$3 trillion in social good — yielding an enormous $34 of benefits for every dollar spent.

Hunger is a complex problem, exac-erbated by financial pressures, volatile commodity prices, natural disasters and civil wars. But we could take an enormous step toward winning the global campaign against malnutrition, simply by investing in improved infrastructure and in agri-cultural research and development.

Bjørn Lomborg is an adjunct professor

at the Copenhagen Business School. He

also founded and directs the Copenhagen

Consensus Center. Copyright: Project

Syndicate, 2015.www.project-syndicate.org

Crumbling infrastructure is a threat to businessScott Klinger

FOREIGN VIEWS

OUR once-robust infrastructure has played a vital role in the success of our economy. Infrastructure has never been a partisan issue in this country; everyone knows it is essential.

Unfortunately, paying for these investments seems to have become a partisan fault line. The need is pressing: funding for highway construction is set to run out. US Congress is scrambling to find US$10 billion to keep road repair crews on the job through the fall.

It shouldn’t be hard to find US$10 billion. Congress could look to the loopholes that allow corporations to shift profits offshore to tax haven countries. This costs the US Treasury up to US$90 billion a year.

Our Congress just repeats the tired rhetoric of corporate CEOs that the formal US tax rate of 35 percent is too high and is making our firms uncompetitive. They fail to mention that the average Fortune

500 company pays less than 20 percent, after deductions, and many prosperous firms pay little or nothing in federal income taxes — such as General Electric, Boeing and Verizon.

There’s a lot at stake here. Every year, there are more than 240,000

water main leaks in America — more than 650 a day — meaning one-sixth of the water that leaves a pumping station never reaches a consumer. These ruptures force traffic to detour and businesses to close.

One in nine American bridges is deemed deficient and in need of immediate repair or replacement. Most have weight restric-tions that force trucks to take detours, costing companies money and delays.

Nearly half of the nation’s schools were built 40 to 60 years ago. Many of these schools have leaky roofs, inefficient heating, and poor ventilation that make for a poor learning environment.

All of these infrastructure failures cost businesses and families time and money. Surely that affects competitiveness, too.

The CEOs who led American industry

after World War II — when we were building the interstate highway system, advanced telecommunications systems, and investing in basic research and development — recognized that public infrastructure was good for businesses. That generation understood that public investments were good for commerce and helped build a strong middle class to buy their products and services.

Dodging taxSo that generation paid its taxes, and

corporate taxes contributed a third of all federal revenue. Today, corporate taxes provide only about a tenth of the federal government’s revenue. Today’s CEOs regard taxes as a cost to be dodged through whatever loophole is available.

Overall infrastructure spending in the US is at its lowest levels since World War II, even though our population is twice as large today as it was then.

Civil engineers tell us it will cost US$3.6 trillion by 2020 to just maintain the safety of our current infrastructure.

There are more than 5,700,000 busi-nesses with employees in America.

Just 26 of them hold more than half of all the US corporate profits held offshore that have not yet been taxed here.

If they paid up, we would have enough to repair the nation’s deficient wastewater systems, with enough left over to replace all dams in danger of failing, according to Burning Our Bridges, a report I co-authored with Sarah Anderson, published by the Center for Effective Government and the Institute for Policy Studies.

It’s time for Congress to require cor-porations to pay the taxes they owe on the massive profits they are accumulat-ing offshore. America’s corporations can pay for the public services and invest-ments on which we all depend, and we’ll be a safer, stronger nation for it.

The author is the director of revenue

and spending policies at the Center for

Effective Government in Washington. This

op-ed previously appeared in The Hill.

Copyright: American Forum

Clearer rules sought to fight soil pollution

Fire in residential building in Zhengzhou claims 13 lives

2 pundits told to pay each other

A8 NATION Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai Daily

THE vast swathes of polluted land and contaminated ground water caused by decades of reckless development has left its mark on China. It is a threat that can no longer be ignored.

Officially, 16 percent of Chi-na’s soil and nearly 20 percent of farmland is polluted, how-ever, ecologists warn, this may just be the tip of the iceberg.

In 2014, the Qingyuan City government, in the south-ern province of Guangdong, launched a pilot project to treat soil contaminated by heavy metals in Longtang Township, which was a hub for processing scrap metal for over 20 years.

After experimenting with farming and construction land “remarkable results” were ob-served, said Fang Xiaohang, a

senior engineer with the South China Institute of Environmental Science, which provided techni-cal support for the project.

Government-backed initia-tives, like the one in Longtang, have cropped up across the country, as soil pollution, con-taminated crops, water and air become just too big to ignore.

During yesterday’s National Land Day, ecologists are calling for clearer rules and supportive measures to ensure the success of land treatment projects: Its time to sow the seeds of change.

Although many developed countries started to address soil pollution decades ago, China’s own drive to clean up its own act is in its infancy.

“The government has spent heavily on research, and

technology is developing rap-idly,” said Song Yun, chief engineer of the Environmental Protection Research Institute of Light Industry.

At the experiment sites in Longtang, chemicals have been used to stabilize heavy metals and reduce their activity on polluted land. Before the proj-ect, samples of soil showed it contained worrying amounts of copper and 10 times more lead than the national standard.

After remediation, Fang said, soil samples from one patch of land showed active heavy metal content was down by more than 50 percent, and rice grown on another plot was safe for consumption.

“Restoring farmland with a focus on ensuring the soil

is suitable for growing crops, is much more difficult than treating land intended for con-struction,” Song said.

In addition, the high cost of treating polluted farmland, which can soar into the tens of thousands of dollars per hect-are, is a huge burden on the government, Song said.

“A safe and inexpensive method to treat heavy metals on construction sites is to use microorganisms. It’s popular abroad, but not in China. Why? Real estate developers don’t want to wait for three months to a year needed to see results,” he said.

China’s ability to treat pol-luted groundwater lags far behind that of its more devel-oped peers, he said. “Meaning,

once treated, soil is very likely to be contaminated by polluted groundwater again.”

Compared with the techno-logical challenges, the land treatment industry is strug-gling to grow due to a lack of rules to regulate the sector.

In China, it is hard to hold someone responsible for soil pollution, due to frequent trans-fer of company ownership.

In sharp contrast to the “pol-luters pay” principal widely adopted around the world, it is the state and developers that must foot the bill here.

However, many are hopeful that a law on soil pollution, which is expected to be rolled out by 2017, could clear up some of these sticking points.

(Xinhua)

Li Qian

THIRTEEN people died and four others were injured when a building caught fire in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province, early yesterday.

Most of the deaths were caused by carbon monoxide poi-soning. The injured are being treated for severe burns at the Zhengzhou No.1 People’s Hospi-tal, China Central TV reported.

The fire broke out at around 3am in an electricity meter box on the ground floor of the sev-en-storey apartment building in downtown Zhengzhou, local media reported. It was put out several hours later.

The walls and the bikes were

completely blackened after the inferno, reports said.

A survivor said the corridor smelt of burned materials and other junk items.

Xinhua News Agency said the building had about 30 to 40 households.

An investigator at the scene said most of the victims lived on the seventh floor, most of which was rented by a local hotel for its staff, the website hnr.cn reported.

A resident, who lived on the fourth floor, told the website he did not even dare to venture out after noticing the fire.

“When I opened the door, I found the smoke had engulfed much of the corridor. I just shut the door and stayed inside.”

He only ventured out after the fire was put out. He said there were marks on the wall in the corridor that looked like those of the victims who tried to es-cape the fire.

Another person who gave his name as Chen Chen said the building housed relocated vil-lagers whose old homes were pulled down to make way for a shopping mall. Many flats had been rented out as well, thepa-per.cn reported.

Chen claimed there were no property management officials, and the electricity boxes were randomly installed. “The wires were left hanging ... It looked like one big net,” Chen said.

Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire.

Burnt out bikes and blackened walls can be seen on the ground floor of an apartment building in

Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan Province yesterday. A fire broke out early yesterday morning,

reportedly at the electricity meter box, that claimed 13 lives and injured four others. — Xinhua

TWO high-profile pundits who traded insults online after taking opposing stances on GM corn were ordered by a Beijing court yesterday to compensate each other, de-lete the remarks and publicly apologize.

Beijing Haidian District People’s Court found Fang Shimin, an online celebrity and biochemist who writes under the pen name Fang Zhouzi, and Cui Yongyuan, a former TV host with state broadcaster CCTV, were guilty of defamation on mi-croblogging platform Sina Weibo in September 2013.

They now must pay each other 45,000 yuan (US$7,250)and make public apologies on Sina Weibo and in Xinhua Daily Telegraph.

Neither were in court dur-ing the ruling. Fang’s attorney said he would appeal.

The spat began when Cui questioned Fang’s promotion of GM corn. It escalated, with accusations flying from both sides, including over each other’s personal finances.

The court heard that Cui called Fang “pig’s elbow,” after a famous dish that has a similar pronunciation as Fang’s pen name “Zhouzi” in Chinese. He also called Fang a “rogue.” Fang denounced Cui as a “mad dog” and a “zombie host.”

Fang filed a lawsuit against Cui in January last year, ask-ing him to stop “infringing upon his reputation,” apolo-gize and pay 300,000 yuan in compensation for his mental suffering.

Cui counter-sued, asking for an apology and compen-sation of 670,000 yuan.

(Xinhua)

Film set on Silk Road planned“TWILIGHT” director Cath-erine Hardwicke said she is making a sweeping roman-tic epic set in an ancient Silk Road city located in present-day western China.

“Loulan” will be based on a city and kingdom of the same name that mysteriously dis-appeared hundreds of years ago. Its ruins are surrounded by desert in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which stretches to Central Asia. One mummy unearthed from the area in recent decades is known as the “Loulan Beau-ty,” and she was Caucasian with European features.

Hardwicke said the US$50 million China-US co-pro-duction will revolve around a princess who may be the Loulan Beauty’s “great-great- granddaughter,” and who will be played by an American or English actress.

It will be set in 200 BC, at a time when Loulan was a thriving city on the Silk Road trading route that linked China to the West. The script is still being written, but the story, in what is planned to be the first part of a trilogy, will see Loulan fought over by Han Chinese and warlike nomads, the Huns.

“We have the princess who is in a kind of neutral king-dom at the nexus to the Silk Road, Loulan, and she’s try-ing to keep peace and stay neutral, between the Huns to the north and the Han Dy-nasty (206 BC-220 AD) to the east,” Hardwicke said. She said the two warring sides both send “young charis-matic hot men diplomats to try to win her heart and her loyalty.”

(AP)

NINGBO SPECIAL A9Shanghai Daily Friday 26 June 2015

A port area is seen in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province. Ningbo, a major Chinese trading center for 2,000 years, is

adding momentum to the country’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative. — Ti Gong

Ningbo sees success in building ties with CEECVera Ye

Ningbo, a seaport on the north-east coast of Zhejiang Province, has made substantive progress in boosting economic ties be-

tween China and 16 countries in central and eastern Europe, adding momen-tum to China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative.

The first China-CEEC Investment and Trade Expo took place in Ningbo in early June, bringing together government of-ficials and representatives of business enterprises from 16 countries in central and eastern Europe. An array of agree-ments in investment, trade and cultural exchanges were signed.

The central and eastern European countries comprise Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lat-via, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Re-public and Slovenia.

Representatives from more than 70 government agencies and companies in the CEEC held talks with their Chinese counterparts. The expo itself featured 132 projects in sectors such as infrastruc-ture, tourism, machine manufacturing, food and pharmaceuticals.

The five-day event, which ended on June 12, also included a consumer products fair, which attracted over 360 exhibitors from the 16 countries. They displayed commodities ranging from well-known wines and crystal glass-ware to foodstuffs and cosmetics. More than 1,200 domestic buyers attended the fair.

The aim of the exhibition was to ex-pand burgeoning trade and cooperation, and help built the overland and maritime Silk Road project, which is called “One Belt, One Road.” Zhejiang Province wants to lift its profile in those processes.

“‘One Belt, One Road’ is not only in China’s interests, but also should benefit all countries and regions along the Silk Road,” said Zhang Yan, vice secretary-general of the Ningbo Municipal People’s Government.

Flourishing business tiesThe “One Belt, One Road” initiative was

proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013 to boost economic ties, deepen coop-eration and expand development in the Eurasian and Southeast Asian regions.

Ningbo, a major Chinese trading cen-ter for 2,000 years, has been building commercial ties with CEEC countries, which are significant players in the mod-ern Silk Road.

In 2014, trade between Ningbo and the CEEC amounted to US$2.44 billion, or 5 percent of the national volume.

By the end of 2014, Ningbo had ap-proved 72 foreign investment projects from the CEEC, with contractual value of US$156.21 million. Over the same period, 34 Ningbo enterprises have in-vested a combined US$20.37 million in the 16 CEEC countries.

Organized by the Ministry of Com-merce and the Zhejiang provincial government, the opening of the first China-CEEC Investment and Trade Expo turned a new page for trade ties.

“Unlike previous expos, which mainly focused on exploring business opportu-nities for domestic enterprises, efforts this time were aimed at helping CEEC countries attract Chinese investment, trade, tourism and cultural exchanges,” Zhang told Shanghai Daily during an interview on the sidelines of the event.

Expo organizers said they have received positive feedback from par-ticipants about the event, and a similar expo is planned next year.

During the event, agreements were signed between the Ningbo Economic and Technical Development Zone and a development zone in Bydgoszcz, Poland; and between Cixi Coastal Development District and the Euro-Chinese Economic Development Zone in Bulgaria. The agreements will allow exchange of business interests and en-courage cross-border investment.

To facilitate the import of products from CEEC countries through the port at Ningbo, the Ningbo Bonded Zone will set up a logistics park with bonded warehouses and cross-border e-com-merce platforms.

The logistics park aims to attract 500 enterprises engaged in bilateral trade between China and the CEEC in the next three to five years, with annual trade volume expected to reach US$1 billion.

Meanwhile, an industrial park will be established on a 1-square-kilometer site in the Cixi Coastal Development District. The park is designed to attract high value-added industries such as advanced machinery manufacturing, electronic information businesses, en-vironmental equipment manufacturers and auto parts makers from the CEEC.

Ningbo also leveraged its strength in e-commerce to expand cooperation with the CEEC. Since Ningbo was se-lected as a pilot city for cross-border e-commerce services in late 2013, trad-ing volume has reached 1 billion yuan

(US$161 million), ranking it at the top of other pilot cities.

During the expo, a conference be-tween CEEC commodities producers and local e-commerce companies at-tracted more than 200 attendees. Both sides explored potential links to ex-pand distribution of CEEC products and diversify purchasing channels for local companies.

Ningbo also sought to strengthen cooperation in the spheres of culture, heritage conservation and tourism.

“The CEEC countries are rich in his-toric and heritage culture, but most of them remain untapped by Chinese tourists due to a lack of convenient flights,” said Zhang.

Ningbo travel agencies have started to explore and design tourist packages to CEEC countries. The government is also encouraging airlines to open more direct flights between Ningbo and CEEC countries.

“Investment, trade, tourism and cul-tural exchange are the focus of bilateral cooperation between Ningbo and the CEEC,” said Zhang, “Targeted policies have been introduced to facilitate flows of goods, capital and people.”

Zhang said the Ningbo city govern-ment will spend 85 million yuan a year promoting closer ties between the city and the CEEC.

Ningbo also hosted the 17th China Zhejiang Investment and Trade Sympo-sium and the 14th China International Consumer Goods Fair during the same period. The events witnessed the sign-ing of 33 project contracts, with total investment of US$8.14 billion.

US$2.44 billionIn 2014, trade between Ningbo and

the central and eastern European

countries amounted to US$2.44 bil-

lion, representing 5 percent of the

national volume.

72 By the end of 2014, Ningbo had ap-

proved 72 foreign investment projects

from the CEEC, bringing in total con-

tractual value of US$156.21 million.

Over the same period, 34 Ningbo en-

terprises have invested an aggregate

US$20.37 million in the 16 central and

eastern European countries.

A10 BUSINESS Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai Daily

Vera Ye

IPO

CHINA is set to be the world’s largest market for initial pub-lic offerings in the first half of this year due to a bullish capital market and favorable regula-tions, an industry report said.

So far this year, 241 compa-nies have listed in China, raising an aggregated US$40 billion, ac-cording to the quarterly Ernst & Young Global IPO Trends re-leased yesterday. China ranked first in both the number of deals and capital raised, fol-lowed by the US, which saw 101 IPOs raising US$19.7 billion, the report said.

The Chinese mainland’s A-share market drew 190 new listings in the first half, up 265 percent year on year, and they raised a total of 147 billion yuan (US$23.7 billion), a 316 percent increase year on year.

“The Chinese mainland’s

Feng Jianmin

CHINA’S monetary environ-ment eased slightly in May from a month ago as growth in money supply accelerated, but easing measures are still needed to bolster economic growth, the latest HSBC China Monetary Conditions Indicator showed.

The MCI, measuring the relaxation of monetary condi-tions, rose to -5.9 in May from -6.2 in April.

This is the first monthly rise since February, and HSBC

viewed it as the first sign that monetary conditions may be bottoming out.

The increase of M2, the broad measure of money sup-ply, accelerated to 10.8 percent in May from 10.1 percent in April, which was cited as one of the major factors for the easier environment, the MCI showed.

HSBC predicted a combined 2.5-percentage-point cut in bank reserve requirement ratio and a 0.5-percentage-point trim in interest rates for the remainder of this year.

Shares fall over 3% as IPOs set to lure US$241b

Shanghai stocks tumbled more than 3 percent yesterday as new

share offers eroded optimism over a possible easing in regula-

tions on bank lending.

The Shanghai Composite Index fell 3.46 percent to 4,527.78

points.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission said late on

Wednesday that it approved the initial public offerings of 28

companies, with the market expecting investors to channel

around 1.5 trillion yuan (US$241 billion) to the subscriptions.

Investors yesterday sold manufacturing and transport shares.

Lifan Industry (Group) Co lost 8.76 percent to 18.23 yuan, and

Jilin Expressway Co tumbled 9.96 percent to 8.77 yuan.

(Ji Xiang)

Jane Feng

SALARIES for experienced and skilled employees are ex-pected to rise between 5 and 10 percent this year from a year ago as China experiences a shortage of senior level tal-ent, human resource agency ZW HR Consulting said in a report released yesterday.

Information technology pro-fessionals, human resource managers, and mechanical and technical engineers are

leading the salary increase this year, the report said.

“The year 2015 is likely to turn out to be a reasonably good period for skilled pro-fessionals,” said Joyce Jing, general manager of ZW HR Consulting. “The average sal-ary bands for professionals are up by 10 percent from a year ago.”

Salaries may rise as high as 35 percent for top talent as firms grow, the report said.

strong IPO activity can be at-tributed to the robust capital market, faster approvals for IPOs, a swath of reforms to lib-eralize the market and favorable monetary policies supporting the economy,” said Tang Zhen-hui, EY Assurance Partner. The Shenzhen and Shanghai bourses ranked first and second in the

world by number of deals, while the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges were the top two by proceeds, the report said.

In China, financial compa-nies raised the most funds at US$15.9 billion, followed by US$5.1 billion by industrial firms and US$3.7 billion by technology enterprises.

China set to be world’s biggest IPO market in H1

HK rejects airline Jetstar’s bid to operateAVIATION

HONG Kong yesterday rejected budget airline Jetstar Hong Kong’s application for a licence to operate, saying its primary place of business was not in the city.

The carrier is a three-way joint venture between China Eastern Airlines, Australia’s Qantas and Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho’s Hong Kong-based conglomerate

Shun Tak Holdings.Under Hong Kong law, an

airline will only be given an oper-ating licence if its principal place of business and center of its deci-sion-making is in the city.

“The authority decided that Jetstar Hong Kong did not com-ply with the basic law ... in having its principal place of business in Hong Kong and that Jetstar Hong Kong’s application be refused,”

an Air Transport Licensing Au-thority statement said.

“Jetstar Hong Kong cannot make its decisions indepen-dently from that of the two foreign shareholders,” it said.

Shun Tak paid US$66 million for a third of the airline in 2013 to help it set up locally, after it applied for regulatory approval in 2012.

(AFP)

SNAPSHOTS

Easier monetary setting

Salaries to climb 5-10%

Supercharging networksUS electric car manufacturer Tesla yesterday said it will es-tablish seven supercharging networks in major cities and popular travel destinations in China in the second half of this year.

Tesla has its second-largest charging network in China after the United States. Hun-dreds of public charging posts

and more than 1,300 commer-cial ones are already operating across China.

The new charging stations will be in the Yangtze River Delta region, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and at Mount Huangshan in east China. Tesla superchargers can charge Tesla Model S in minutes.

(Xinhua)

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Code Company Price (yuan) Change

600963 Yueyang Forest & Paper Co 11.61 +10.05%

600281 Taiyuan Chemical Industry Co 13.26 +10.04%

600726 Huadian Energy Co 14.69 +10.04%

002587 Shenzhen Aoto Electronics Co 18.76 +10.03%

600747 Dalian Daxian Enterprises Holdings Co 8.23 +10.03%


000838 Guoxing Rongda Real Estate Co 23.99 -10.02%

600992 Guizhou Wire Rope Co 19.04 -10.02%

002326 Zhejiang Yongtai Technology Co 31.82 -10.01%

002582 Haoxiangni Jujube Co 34.80 -10.01%

002699 Meisheng Cultural & Creative Corp 44.06 -10.01%


000725 BOE Technology Group Co 5.46 -4.88% 28,658,110.92

600795 GD Power Development Co 7.27 -3.45% 18,502,423.50

601988 Bank Of China 4.74 -1.25% 14,958,095.49

601288 Agricultural Bank Of China 3.69 -1.60% 11,082,280.70

601989 China Shipbuilding Industry Co 17.63 -1.07% 10,294,273.77

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4,710

4,525

4,340

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CSI 300

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5,105

4,905

4,705

15,010

15,690

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4,505

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1W 2.8840 +7.60

1M 3.5710 +12.50

6M 3.1990 +0.20

1Y 3.4000 0.00

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Australian dollar 472.74

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4,527.78 4,527.78

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4,706.524,706.52

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BUSINESS A11Shanghai Daily Friday 26 June 2015

Ji Xiang

MEDIA

SHANGHAI United Media Group and Shanghai Industrial Investment Co yesterday launched a joint fund of 1.809 billion yuan (US$291 million) that will boost the media group’s investment in cultural activities, industrial parks and innovative industries.

China’s largest media group will contribute 1 billion yuan, and SIIC, the city’s major state-owned business company involved in real estate, in-frastructure and equity investment, will provide 800 million yuan in the first phase.

The remaining 9 million yuan will be injected by private investors.

The move to launch the joint fund arose from SUMG’s ambition to be-come a conglomerate in the cultural and media industries in the digital age.

The fund, which will be managed by Shanghai Real Power Capital Co, aims to have not less than 10 billion yuan in the future. Real Power Capital, set up in 2011, operates assets worth more than 5 billion yuan.

Cheng Feng, chairman of Real Power, said the fund is part of China’s reform of state-owned enterprises to allow for more private investors to take part in their operations.

Feng Jianmin

INSURANCE

SHANGHAI will pilot a new program to allow marine insurers to register new products instead of applying for administrative approval.

Starting July 1, insurance com-panies and brokerages which are members of the Shanghai Institute of Marine Insurance will be allowed to register products on a platform overseen by the SIMI and operated by a third party, the Shanghai branch of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission said in a statement yesterday.

The change allows companies to only submit two electronic docu-ments, instead of seven paper-based documents previously, to launch a new product.

The registration will take effect immediately, a vast improvement from the 20 days under the former approval procedures.

Under the new rules, SIMI is au-thorized to manage the registration system while the CIRC will monitor how the new system is working.

Members of SIMI are allowed to register new products and offer products that are already registered to clients.

Marine insurers and brokers regis-tered outside Shanghai can join SIMI to tap the new rules, the CIRC said.

Ding Yining

FINANCE

ALIBABA-BACKED Internet bank MYbank said it will leverage its data and technology capabilities to offer services to up to 10 million small and medium enterprises within five years.

Peng Lei, chief executive officer of Zhejiang Ant Small and Micro Financial Services Group, the biggest shareholder of Mybank with 30 percent, said the bank aims to build an ecosystem that will allow external partners to tap its experience and data-analyzing ability.

“We pay more attention to the num-ber of our small enterprise customers rather than the size of our assets and profit margin,” Peng said at the open-ing ceremony of MYbank in Hangzhou yesterday.

Yu Shengfa, chairman of MYbank, said the bank will focus on rural banking services and seek partners in the rural areas to extend financial services to rural residents.

“Our profit will come from individual-ized services for small business owners and self-employed entrepreneurs instead of relying on interest rate margins,” Yu

Zhu Shenshen

TECHNOLOGY

CHINESE consumers should be more alert to information security risks in new gadgets and online services such as taxi-hailing applications, industry of-ficials said at an Internet security forum yesterday.

Consumers have now become targets of hackers, Shanghai-based Internet se-curity firm Keen said.

“Various O2O (online to offline) ser-vices have brought potential risks in

people’s daily life,” said Wang Qi, chief executive of Keen, who used to work in Microsoft Corp.

Wang added that this situation creates a huge market potential for the informa-tion security industry.

Hackers, for example, are able to call more than 1,000 taxis at the same time or get information and other private data of thousands of users through loopholes present in Internet Plus apps like taxi-hailing and online housekeep-ing tools.

Besides smart devices like phones and

computers, hackers can also target po-tential risks in new gadgets like drones and robots, according to experts who took part in a GeekPwn forum held by Keen and the Shanghai Youth League Committee.

A government-backed GeekPwn con-test with total prize money of 5 million yuan (US$805,000) will be held in Shang-hai in October.

Computer security experts, known as White Hats in the industry, will be asked to discover security weaknesses in new devices and apps as part of the contest.

New scheme for marine insurers

SUMG unveils joint fund for investments

Hackers target users’ info security

Alibaba Group’s Executive Chairman Jack Ma speaks during the opening

ceremony of MYbank in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, yesterday. — Reuters

said. “Internet technology is essential to our future success.”

MYbank, which has no physical outlet, will first launch a personal loan product, Yu said, adding that small loans related to online shopping will have huge growth in the future. Rival Tencent-backed In-ternet bank WeBank launched its first personal loan product in May.

MYbank, mainly funded by Zhejiang Ant Small and Micro Financial Services owned by Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma and his colleagues, has a registered capital of 4 billion yuan (US$644 million).

Other shareholders include Shang-hai-based conglomerate Fosun Group, and the country’s largest auto parts supplier Wanxiang Group.

MYbank set to tap 10m SMEs within 5 years

Eurozone talks break up with no agreement on Greek debt dealFINANCE

EUROZONE finance ministers’ talks broke up without agreeing to a Greek debt deal yesterday, Finland’s Alexan-der Stubb said, with sources saying they were likely to meet again tomorrow.

“That’s it for today. Institutions and Greece to continue work. Eurogroup back later, but not today,” Stubb tweeted after the talks in Brussels, which had been expected to thrash out a deal for European Union leaders to approve at a summit opening later yesterday.

The finance ministers were likely to meet again tomorrow, three EU sources said.

The 19-country currency union’s finance ministers met on both Wednes-day and yesterday in parallel with talks between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the leaders of the European

Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The Tsipras-EU-IMF talks ended earlier yesterday, not only having failed to reach a breakthrough but also producing two rival reform plans which Greece and its international creditors presented sepa-rately to the Eurogroup.

Greece’s outspoken Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis confirmed the talks would continue, saying his counterparts had closely compared the two versions.

“Interestingly several colleagues dis-agreed and criticized not only our text but also the text of the institutions,” he said.

“We decided that as a Eurogroup that we shall continue our deliberations ... and we’ll continue until we get a solution.”

(AFP)

IMF expects payment

The International Monetary Fund said

yesterday that it believes Greece will

make a 1.5-billion-euro (US$1.7 bil-

lion) debt payment set for next Tues-

day, as Athens continues to negotiate

with creditors.

Talk of a default is “all specula-

tion, because we’re expecting the

payment to be made on June 30 and

that’s what the Greek authorities

have said publicly,” said IMF spokes-

man Gerry Rice.

He denied the IMF had taken a

“take it or leave it” stance on the new

terms for releasing funds to Greece

under its bailout deal, which include

difficult tax hikes and spending cuts.

(AFP)

Mother, baby rescued 4 days after Cessna crash

Winter fears for solar-powered plane

Kim inspects airport’s new terminal•

A12 WORLD Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai Daily

A WOMAN who survived a jungle plane crash with her 1-year-old son drank coconut water to stay alive for four days until being rescued, Colombia’s air force says.

Rescuers reached Maria Nelly Murillo, 18, and her few months old child in a remote area of western Colombia and flew them to the nearby town of Quibdo for medical treatment

on Wednesday. Murillo suffered some injuries and burns but the baby was unhurt.

They were aboard a twin-engine Cessna that crashed on Saturday into the thick jungle shortly after taking flight from Quibdo near the Pacific Ocean.

The pilot was killed, but rescu-ers said a load of fish on board absorbed much of the impact in the plane’s cabin, allowing

Murillo and her son to survive against the odds.

Murillo told rescuers she climbed a hill with her child to get away from the plane, which she feared might explode. She said she survived on coconut water until a local person came across her on Tuesday and sum-moned help.

Rescuers said they reached the plane two days after the

crash, but found the two passen-gers missing. They immediately called in reinforcements to launch a wider search. They were aided by several clues left by Murillo, including a flip flop sandal, her son’s birth certifi-cate and the remains of eaten coconuts.

It’s not clear why the plane, which was covering a local route between isolated communities

in Colombia’s western jungles, crashed.

“It’s a miracle. It is a very wild area and it was a cata-strophic accident,” Colonel Hector Carrascal, commander of the Colombian Air Force in Antioquia department, said. “His mother’s spirit must have given him strength to survive,” he said of the baby.

(AP)

Pakistan heat wave toll crosses 1,000

A SOLAR-POWERED plane at-tempting to fly around the world must cross the Pacific within a few weeks or it could remain stuck in Japan for a year, its pilot said yesterday.

Solar Impulse 2, which has been stranded in Japan for three weeks and had to post-pone a planned take off this week due to bad weather over the Pacific, only has a short

window for making the next leg of its journey, one of its two pilots, Bertrand Piccard, told the Tribune de Geneve daily.

By early August, the days will become too short for the solar-driven plane to cross the Pacific, and subsequently the Atlantic Ocean safely, he said.

“Before August 5, we must have crossed the Pacific or the

Atlantic,” Piccard said, adding that if the team is unable to do so they will have to find a permanent hangar where the fragile aircraft can pass the winter. If the plane makes it to the United States, it can easily pass the winter there before crossing the Atlantic to complete its around-the-world trip.

(AFP)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles next to his wife Ri Sol Ju as he takes a tour of the new

terminal at Pyongyang International Airport in this undated photo released by North Korea’s

Korean Central News Agency yesterday. Inset: Designer shirts, duty free watches and cosmetics,

and chocolate fondue will be now available for visitors to North Korea. The North Korean leader

and his wife inspected shops, restaurants and waiting areas in a large, glass-fronted terminal

building, which the state media said would open on July 1. — Reuters

THE worst heat wave to hit Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi for nearly 35 years has killed more than 1,000 people as morgues ran out of space and residents rushed to supply over-stretched public hospitals.

Tents offering iced water and rehydration salts have mush-roomed on street corners, run by rival political parties and

the military. Residents in one neighbourhood hacked into a main water pipe and then danced delightedly in the spray.

The heat wave in the city of 20 million people coincided with severe electricity cuts, leaving many without fans, water or light, and the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, when many Muslims do not eat or

drink during daylight hours.Some shops have refused to

sell ice or water during the day, citing religious laws that mean they can be fined. It is also il-legal to eat or drink in public from dawn to dusk. Tempera-tures shot up to 44 degrees Celsius at the weekend, the hottest since 1981, although they dipped to 38C yesterday.

(Reuters)

THE United States Supreme Court yesterday upheld the nationwide availability of tax subsidies that are crucial to the implementation of President Ba-rack Obama’s signature health care law, handing a major vic-tory to the president.

The court ruled on a 6-3 vote that the 2010 Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamac-are, did not restrict the subsidies to states that establish their own online health care exchanges. It marked the second time in three years that the high court ruled against a major challenge to the law brought by conserva-tives seeking to gut it.

Chief Justice John Roberts was joined by fellow conserva-tive Justice Anthony Kennedy and the court’s liberal members in the majority.

“Congress passed the Afford-able Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to de-stroy them,” Roberts wrote, adding that nationwide avail-ability of the credits is required to “avoid the type of calamitous result that Congress plainly meant to avoid.”

The decision means the sub-sidies will remain not just in the 13 states that have set up their own exchanges and the three states that have state-federal hybrid exchanges, but also in the 34 states that use the exchange run by the federal government.

The case centered on the tax subsidies offered under the law, passed by Obama’s fellow Dem-ocrats in Congress in 2010 over unified Republican opposition, that help low- and moderate-in-come people buy private health insurance. The exchanges are online marketplaces that allow consumers to shop among com-peting insurance plans.

The question before the jus-tices was whether a four-word phrase in the expansive law saying subsidies are available to those buying insurance on exchanges “established by the state” has been correctly inter-preted by the administration to

allow subsidies to be available nationwide

Roberts wrote that although the conservative challengers’ arguments about the plain meaning of the statute were “strong,” the “context and structure of the act compel us to depart from what would otherwise be the most natural reading of the pertinent statu-tory phrase.”

Justice Antonin Scalia took the relatively rare step of read-ing a summary of his dissenting opinion from the bench.

In his reading of the statute, “it is hard to come up with a reason to use these words other than the purpose of limiting credits to state exchanges.”

“We really should start calling the law SCOTUScare,” he added, referencing the court’s earlier decision upholding the consti-tutionality of the law. SCOTUS is the acronym for the Supreme Court of the United States.

Major reliefThe ruling will come as a

major relief to Obama as he seeks to ensure that his lega-cy legislative achievement is implemented effectively and survives political and legal at-tacks before he leaves office in early 2017.

The current system will re-main in place, with subsidies available in all 50 states. If the challengers had won, at least 6.4 million people in at least 34 states would have lost subsidies that help low- and moderate-income people afford private health insurance. The average subsidy is US$272 per month.

A loss for the Obama admin-istration also could have had a broader impact on insurance markets by deterring younger, healthier people from buying health insurance, which would lead to premiums rising for older, less healthy people who need health care most, accord-ing to analysts.

(Reuters)

Health care law subsidies upheld by US top court

8am Docu View

9am Real Fun

10am High Drama

11:45am A Fistful of Kung Fu

12pm Pop Big Shot

12:45pm You Are the Chef

1pm The Funniest Home Video

1:30pm Real Fun

2:45pm High Drama

4:30pm Fun Club

5pm City Beat

5:30pm Docu View

6pm The Funniest Home Video

6:30pm You Are the Chef

6:45pm Pop Big Shot

7pm Real Fun

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8:30pm City Beat

9pm Shanghai Live

10pm High Drama

8:30am Her

10:30am American Gangster

1pm Ballers

1:30pm The Brink

2pm Atonement

4pm The Bucket List

5:40pm The Spongebob

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7:05pm The Recruit

Starring: Al Pacino, Colin Farrell

and Bridget Moynahan

A brilliant young CIA trainee is

asked by his mentor to help fi nd a

mole in the Agency.

9pm Escape Plan

10:55pm Draft Day

7:50am Zodiac

10:30am Avengers Confi dential:

Black Widow & Punisher

12pm Eraser

1:55pm Oblivion

4pm Funny Face

5:45pm Silverado

Starring: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn

and Kevin Costner

A misfi t bunch of friends come to-

gether to right the injustices which

exist in a small town.

7:55pm Hollywood on Set 602

8:25pm Road Trip

10pm Executive Decision

Starring: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry

and Steven Seagal

When terrorists seize control of an

airliner, an intelligence analyst ac-

companies a commando unit for a

midair boarding operation.

Our Sepcials

‘Dora’s Pirate Adventure’This musical incorporates the in-

teractive and educational elements

that make “Dora the Explorer” one

of the most popular shows on tele-

vision. Like its TV shows, the live

show brings enjoyment to kids and

their families. Join Dora and the

rest of her friends in “Dora’s Pirate

Adventure” as they embark on an

exciting trip to Treasure Island in

search of the ultimate pirate party.

Help them navigate over Dancing

Mountain and through Silly Sing-

ing Bridge in pursuit of the Pirate

Piggies. Along the way, “Dora the

Explorer” fans will use their map-

reading, counting, musical and

language skills to successfully help

Dora reach Treasure Island and

avoid that pesky fox Swiper!

Date: July 3-5, 10:30am, 2:30pm,

7:30pm

Tickets: 80-480 yuan

Venue: Shanghai Children’s Drama

Theater

Address: 800 Miaojiang Rd

The Bubblelandia JourneyThe story is based on the clas-

sic fairy tale book “Alice in

Wonderland,” but it is set in the

modern society about Mr B, an

ordinary person just like you and

me. After another long day, Mr

B fi nds himself transported as if

by magic in a special, colorful,

happy place called Bubblelandia.

The “inhabitants” of Bubblelan-

dia — seahorses, dragon fi sh,

starfi sh, mermaids, clown fi sh and

others — will carry Mr B along

his adventurous journey in this

underwater mystery world where

fantasy becomes reality. This mu-

sical production combines drama,

mime, dance, puppetry, juggling,

sand art and magic, with various

stage effects adopting the latest

laser technologies, snow cannons,

soap bubble tornadoes, theatrical

fog, gigantic smoke rings, smoke-

fi lled soap bubble machines and

optical illusions.

Date: August 7-9, 7:15pm

Tickets: 180-1,000 yuan

Venue: Shanghai Culture Square

Address: 597 Fuxing Rd M.

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‘Mini Music Festival’This is a concert the British Cham-

ber Orchestra will present to the

local music lovers. The orchestra

will play the works of Haydn (July

17), Beethoven( July 18) and

Mozart (July 19) under the baton of

Stephanie Gonley, who joined the

orchestra in 1990 as its youngest

conductor.

Date: July 17-19, 7:30pm


Tel: 5292-0164

Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall

Address: 523 Yan’an Rd E.

‘Murmurs’The timeless charms of Charlie

Chaplin are brought to life in the

fantasy stage-show “Murmurs” —

also known as “What the Walls are

Saying” — a work created by the

famed silent actor’s granddaughter

Aurelia Thierree. The humorous

and sentimental show has been

described as a modern-day “Alice

in Wonderland” by critics. Thierree

plays a curious woman who wan-

ders through a world of illusion,

where rooms fi lled with various

ordinary objects magically come

alive or transform into fantastical

creatures.

Date: August 14-16, 7:15pm


Tel: 400-650-5050, 5108-5050

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art

Center

Address: 425 Dingxiang Rd

Flamenco DanceThe celebrated Spanish Bal-

let of Murcia will present local

audience two classic flamenco

dance dramas. “Carmen” is a

tragic tale of love, jealousy and

death. “Salome,” also known as

“the dance of the seven veils,”

is about a young woman whose

love is turned down by John the

Baptist. She dances for Herod

and demands the head of the

Baptist in exchange for her most

beautiful and sensuous dancing.

The show features stunning vi-

sual effects, complicated dance

moves and emotional melodies.

Date: September 18-20, 22-24,

28-29, 7:30pm


Tel: 400-650-5050, 5108-5050

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art

Center

Address: 425 Dingxiang Rd

Exhibition

‘Barbie Stories’Photographs of the legendary

Barbie doll are on display at the

luxury boutique Le Lutin in Shang-

hai. This is French photographer

Michel Trehet’s “Barbie Story”

exhibition which is based on el-

egance, haute couture, as well as

fashion icons such as Grace Kelly

and Audrey Hepburn. The pictures

display a sophisticated Barbie

proudly wearing designs from the

greatest fi gures of high fashion in

the French seaside resort Deau-

ville’s mythical places. The visitor

is brought back in time to the

glorious years of French fashion.

Date: Through June 27

Admission: Free

Tel: 6075-1331

Venue: Le Lutin

Address: Rooms 104-204,

88 Tongren Rd

Exploring The ‘Light!’As a recommended program for

Croisements Festival 2015, this

exhibition “Light!” is taking place at

Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng

Art Museum (M21). Organized by

French curator Michel Nuridsany,

this exhibition includes 24 art-

ists from both China and France

including Qiu Anxiong, Xiang

Liqing, Martine Aballéa, Véronique

Boudier and Daniel Buren. Light is

at the core of the exhibition, invit-

ing visitors to immerse themselves

into “blurry darkness.” M21 was

originally the France Pavilion dur-

ing World Expo Shanghai 2010.

Date: Through July 1, 10am-4pm

Venue: Shanghai 21st Century

Minsheng Art Museum

Address: 399 Bocheng Rd

Zhang Daqian’s PaintingsA special exhibition is underway

featuring about 100 paintings

created by Zhang Daqian, his stu-

dents and his peers. Zhang (1899-

1983) is one of the best-known

Chinese artists of the 20th century.

The spotlight of the exhibition goes

to a special qipao. The white silk

from which the qipao was made

was painted black lotus pattern

by Zhang in 1949 for his daughter

Zhang Ruixin.


Venue: Long Museum West Bund

Address: 3398 Longteng Avenue

A still from the reality TV show “Cool Ranch”

Slew of new TV shows for children

Xu Wei

AN array of original children’s shows and reality series will hit TV screens during the summer holiday. Toonmax TV, a local children’s channel will air several new light-hearted shows.

“Cool Ranch” is presenting a fun competition for dogs. Children and their pets will

face challenges such as climb-ing over high stacks, as well as walking through mud and tunnels. Mutual trust and aid between dogs and kids will be highlighted in the show.“Super Graduates” is a youth reality series for 12 col-lege students to display their talent. They challenge bosses with difficult and awkward questions. In “The Coming of

Senior Fellow Student, ” se-nior students will share with high school students what college life is like.

• “Cool Ranch”Every Saturday, 7pm

• “Super Graduates”Every Thursday, 7pm

• “The Coming of Senior Fel-low Student”Every Friday, 7pm

Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai DailyA14 COMICS/GAMES

SUDOKUFill the grid with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, column and 3x3 block contains the numbers 1-9.

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1 They get hailed5 Arithmetic sign9 Took the challenge 14 Vicinity 15 Pete who’s not in the Baseball Hall of Fame 16 Barcelona

buddy 17 Neeson of films 18 S-curve molding 19 Mantel 20 “The Wedding Singer” star? 23 Stimpy’s cartoon pal 24 Rhine tributary (Var)

25 Theorized 29 Rock hardness scale 31 Insane 34 Heredity units 35 “You leave — choice” 36 Foot part 37 What unintelligent people

39 Customary 44 Make a difference 45 Bread container 46 Whooping bird 47 “Blue Sky” Oscar winner Jessica 48 Check for blips 49 “Would — to You?”

(Eurythmics hit) 50 Newspaper opinion page, briefly 51 Skirt type 52 Bond’s alma mater 53 Room in a casa 54 Con man’s job 55 Common pair? 58 “— more time!”

fathom? 40 Nights, in classifieds 41 Waters, in France 42 Italian tourist center 43 Soak hemp 44 Type of appeal 45 Oleo alternative 46 Ocelot, e.g. 47 Half a Teletubby’s name 48 “Utopia” essayist? 55 Conspicuous success 56 Lighter than red 57 Burrito’s cousin 59 Bangor’s home 60 Add a fringe to 61 “The Good Earth” heroine 62 Look of scorn 63 Daily fare of nourishment 64 Moniker

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1 Ripken of baseball2 Bone-dry3 Wall Street

pessimist4 Word before “time” and “place”5 Delved into6 Boston’s airport7 —-friendly8 Nostradamus, supposedly9 Texas city 10 One spelling for a Bahrain bigwig 11 Unburdens 12 Souffle ingredients 13 Anonymous John 21 Seize forcibly 22 Country bumpkin 25 People watcher 26 Rub the wrong way 27 Mini-map 28 Top Untouchable 29 Diner cards 30 Banded chalcedony 31 “Haystacks” painter 32 In solitary 33 Flask type 35 Goat bleats 36 Comic sketch 38 Scottish moor

Happy Birthday: Energy, enthusiasm and original ideas will carry you to the top. Expressing your ideas with pizzazz and passion will drum up interest from someone willing and able to help you reach your goals. Youngsters or elders will play a significant role in your life and the choices you make this year. Keep an open mind. Your numbers are 4, 12, 18, 26, 31, 39, 44.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)Do something different. Don’t let the demands others put on you stand in your way. The efforts you put in will not be wasted. Live your dreams. Try to move forward instead of looking back.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22)Don’t limit what you can accomplish. Be creative and initiate alternative ways to get what you want. Subtle physical improvements can be made, and favors can be called in. Plan a romantic evening in order to impress someone special.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22)Someone will intentionally mislead you. Ask questions if you feel confused or have trust issues with someone you are in a partnership with. Once you assess your situation, do whatever it takes to protect your interests.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 22)You’ll discover interesting information if you take part in a community event or group effort. A chance to try your hand at something new will give you the opportunity to expand your professional interests. A proposal will be worth considering.

SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21)Jealousy is on the rise. Whether you are on the receiving or the projecting end of things, take a step back before someone’s feelings get hurt. Size up your situation and consider the ramifications. An unusual solution will satisfy everyone involved.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21)Make a positive move and you could experience a personal transformation. Traveling to a place you enjoy or visiting someone you care about will lead to a change

in lifestyle or living arrangements. Discuss your future plans.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)With a little creative flare, you will impress your colleagues and peers. Doing things differently will catch everyone off guard. Your enthusiasm and physical involvement will bring results. Good fortune is heading in your direction. Enjoy the moment and the glory.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18)Don’t sign contracts or agreements until you know what you want. Take a day to enjoy spending time with the people you love most. Host a party or add something stylish or entertaining to your home. Try to keep your costs within your budget.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20)Learn from your elders or those with more experience. Pull up your sleeves and do the physical work required to make your surroundings more conducive to your needs. Don’t give in to emotional pressure or manipulation.

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19)Uncertainty regarding a contract, money, a legal or health matter will prevail. Don’t let your concerns stop your productivity. Use your charm, intelligence and skills to propel you toward success. Socializing will improve your love life.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20)A day trip or physical activity will ease stress. Don’t let anyone put pressure on you to make a change you aren’t ready to make. Satisfy your need to learn by spending time with people who have mastered what you want to pursue.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)Don’t get angry — get moving. Make the alterations to the way you live that will make you happy. Update your resume and apply for a position that excites you. Change will do you good and will help you get ahead personally and professionally.

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FORMER Tour de France cham-pion Chris Froome has revealed he missed a drugs test earlier this year but blamed over-zeal-ous hotel staff for the mishap.

“I had a couple of recovery days and I took my wife down to quite an exclusive hotel in Italy,” the 2013 Tour champion was quoted as saying in British media.

“On the first morning the au-thorities pitched up at seven and the hotel staff actually wouldn’t give them access to our room and also refused to let them call up.”

Riders must provide their whereabouts at all times to the authorities so they can be tested out of competition.

Three missed tests over a rolling 12-month period result in a ban.

“So when we came down for breakfast at 8.30, they basi-cally just said to us: ‘OK, the anti-doping guys were here to test you this morning but it’s our hotel policy not to let them disturb our clients or let anyone disturb our clients’,” Froome ex-plained. “So that was a hugely frustrating situation for me.”

Froome said he should have anticipated a potential test.

“I should have been more pro-active in letting the hotel know this was a possibility that I could be tested. I’ve certainly learned my lesson there,” he said.

Briton Froome is one of the favorites for this year’s Tour, which starts in Utrecht,

Netherlands, on July 4.Tour organizers, meanwhile,

have changed the route of the 20th stage of this year’s race following a landslide in the French Alps.

At 110.5-kilometers, the length of the Alpine stage between Mo-dane and l’Alpe d’Huez remains unchanged, but the famed Col du Galibier is no longer part of the race program.

Organizers said in a state-ment that following “the closure of the Chambon tun-nel because of a landslide in April,” traffic in the area won’t be restored before the passage of the peloton on July 25.

Missed doping tests are a hot topic in the Britain at the moment after distance runner Mo Farah admitted to missing

two in the build up to the 2012 Olympics, where he won two gold medals.

His American coach Alberto Salazar is being investigated by the US Anti-Doping Agency to determine if anti-doping rules may have been violated.

The probe has been ongoing and began before the BBC tele-vision program Panorama in association with American web-site ProPublica made a series of allegations, a source said.

The allegations included that Salazar had given Olympic 10,000 meters silver medalist Galen Rupp the banned ana-bolic steroid testosterone.

Rupp is the training partner of Farah, who has not been ac-cused of any wrongdoing.

(Agencies)

Ma Yue

GOLF

IN a role-reversal of sorts, Chi-nese golfer Liang Wenchong, who has often been filmed playing at tournaments across the globe, is using his celeb-rity in front of the camera to illustrate the rules of golf for beginners so they can under-stand the sport better.

A brain child of the R&A, the international governing body of the rules of golf, the four recently released clips cover four scenarios during a game of golf — lost ball and out of bounds; playing the ball as it lies, unplayable ball and water hazards.

“For amateur golfers there are no referees on the course to see if the rules are being obeyed. Players should ob-serve the rules themselves and, if necessary, penalize themselves. Self-discipline depends on good knowledge of the rules and etiquette of the sport,” the 36-year-old Liang said.

Each clip lasts for two to three minutes. Liang said the whole video making proce-dure was not easy, but very meaningful. As R&A ambas-sador, Liang took a break from his preparation for this year’s third major, the 144th British Open, at St Andrews next month to unveil the clips in

Shanghai yesterday.The clips have been re-

corded in Mandarin and have English subtitles.

They are made available through media outlets, includ-ing golf channels. Golfers can also scan a QR code to access the contents via smartphone for free.

“I believe that this initiative will encourage more players to take up golf by making the rules and etiquette of the sport easier to understand,” said Dominic Wall, R&A’s Asia-Pacific director.

The organization has been helping the China Golf As-sociation in cultivating golf referees in the country.

SAILING

LEADING Swiss yachtsman Laurent Bourgnon was reported missing by authorities in French Polynesia yesterday after a div-ing accident.

The Papeete rescue center in Tahiti said the 49-year-old Bourgnon, who twice won the prestigious Route du Rhum trans-Atlantic sailing race, was diving on his own. Crew mem-bers and passengers of the boat alerted emergency services on Wednesday afternoon when he did not get back on board.

Marie Baville, the cabinet di-rector for the head of Polynesia’s governing council, said that Bourgnon had organized the trip with tourists on his boat, which was anchored in the Toau atoll, about 400 kilometers from Tahiti in the Tuamotu Archipela-go when the incident happened. “This is not a particularly dan-gerous area,” Baville said.

She added that the search for Bourgnon, which involved a helicopter, was called off at night. It was due to resume at first light yesterday.

Bourgnon, whose brother Yvan this week completed a sail around the world on a 20-foot boat without on-board accom-modation, is one of the most accomplished sailors of his generation.

(AP)

Winger Deulofeu leaves Barca to join Everton SOCCER

EVERTON has signed Gerard Deulofeu from Barcelona for 6 million euros (US$6.7 million), with the exciting winger return-ing to the English club after a successful season-long loan spell in 2013-14.

Everton announced the trans-fer yesterday after the 21-year-old signed a three-year contract. The deal includes a buy-back clause should Barcelona make an offer to Everton meeting certain re-quirements within the first two years of the contract. Barcelona also has the right of first re-fusal should Everton decide to sell Deulofeu. Everton has also signed midfielder Tom Clever-ley from Manchester United this offseason.

Zaheer is ICC president CRICKET

FORMER Pakistan captain Za-heer Abbas has taken over the ceremonial role of International Cricket Council president for a one-year term.

The ICC Annual Conference in Barbados on Wednesday ap-proved Abbas’ nomination and encouraged member countries to appoint former leading play-ers to the role. The 67-year-old Abbas played 78 tests, scoring 5,062 runs and another 2,572 runs in 62 ODIs in between 1969-85. He also played in three World Cups and is the only Asian batsman to score more than a hundred first-class centuries.

Batum to HornetsBASKETBALL

FRENCH forward Nicolas Batum was traded from the Portland Trail Blazers to the Charlotte Hornets on Wednesday for NBA veteran guard Gerald Hender-son and forward Noah Vonleh.

The deal was announced on the eve of the NBA Draft. Batum, in 481 appearances for the Trail Blazers, averaged 11.2 points. Liang pins down some rules

Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic returns to Britain’s Johanna Konta during their quarterfinal at

the Aegon International in Eastbourne, southern England, yesterday. Bencic won 2-6, 6-0, 6-3.

Elsewhere, ninth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland beat Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova

6-2, 6-2 to set up a semifinal clash with American Sloane Stephens, who advanced without

playing a shot as her opponent Daria Gavrilova of Russia retired with abdominal strain. — AFP

Laurent Bourgnon

Furious Uruguay exits Copa after Chile lossSPORTS A16


AKSIL teams enjoy huge success in Shanghai’s SIYSL

The AKSIL U12 Puxi team poses with

the Division 1 championship trophy.

TEAMS from AKSIL (Active Kidz Shanghai International League) were hugely successful in the 2014/15 Shanghai International Youth Soccer League (SIYSL), picking up champion-ship prizes in Division 1 competition in the U10, U12 and U14 categories. AKSIL teams were also runners-up for U10, U12 and U17, while they also won U10 and U12 Division 2 competition.

Competing against over 70 teams made up of local players and foreign-ers from 11 different Shanghai-based clubs, AKSIL Head Coach Radfan Mahyoub was delighted with the over-all performance of all his teams who competed in the year-long SIYSL.

“AKSIL has played in the SIYSL league since the beginning in 2006. It’s the most important youth soccer tournament in Shanghai and for us to have won five championships plus numerous second and third places, is a huge victory for the entire ASKSIL family,” said Radfan, who also coached the successful U12 Puxi team.

A proud AKSIL U10 PX champion-ship winning coach Amine Hammadi stressed that while winning the SIYSL league with a 13-win, 1-loss record, and scoring 120 goals in the process, was very satisfying, it was the way his team played that made him most happy.

A strong focus on specialized training involving special drills for coordination, passing, shooting, drib-bling as well as conditioning and team building were key reasons for the success of U12 Pudong, which came second in D1 competition, according to coach Pawan Awan Singh.

AKSIL also entered younger age-group teams in the SIYSL to prepare

them for the next year. Coach Isaac Asare of AKSIL U9 PX, which finished U10 D2 champion, was naturally very pleased with his team’s 12-win, 1-draw and 1-loss record.

For Kate Zak, manager of the AKSIL U14 PD team, there was an extra dose of joy as her two kids are in AKSIL, having joined two years ago when the family moved to Shanghai during the 2013-2014 season.

Meanwhile, after four years being part of the AKSIL family, manager of the U14 PX team, Christian Kuhne, will return to Germany this summer. He said that over his four years he was most pleased with the improvements in skill and teamwork among AKSIL players. “I am very thankful for having had the opportunity to be the manager of my son’s team,” he added.

AKSIL was started by AKS (Active Kidz Shanghai) 12 years ago as a competitive soccer team and seeks to further nurture the development of children who have a passion and talent for soccer. Now, it has 16 teams spread over five different age groups.

SOCCER

CHILE bundled reigning cham-pion Uruguay out of the Copa America with a 1-0 victory in a fast-paced quarterfinal that ended in controversy and kept alive the host nation’s dream of a maiden title on Wednesday.

Uruguay was reduced to nine men by the end of the game at the National Stadium in Santia-go with Edinson Cavani sent off for a second yellow card after 62 minutes and Jorge Fucile also shown red for a second booking with two minutes remaining.

After Fucile’s exit, the match was halted for several minutes as Uruguay players surrounded the referee and officials and players from both sides scuffled on the field.

The holder looked hard done by after video evidence showed it was Gonzalo Jara who first gave Cavani a friendly slap and then poked him behind the ref-eree’s back.

When Cavani touched Jara’s face with the slightest of taps, he fell to the ground to provoke a second yellow for the big Paris

Saint-Germain striker.“There’s a bitter taste in our

mouths,” Uruguay manager Oscar Tabarez told reporters. “I’ve seen the television and photographs, that’s where the truth is.”

It is not the first time Jara has been involved in controversy in-volving a Uruguayan opponent. In 2013, Luis Suarez punched the defender after the Chilean reportedly grabbed the Uruguay striker’s genitals during a World Cup qualifier.

Tabarez said the dismissal of Cavani, when the match was at 0-0, turned the tide against his team. “We had the game under control but when we were left with 10 men it became a little more difficult because it limited our opportunities to attack,” he explained.

It was a miserable end to the tournament for Cavani, who had been booked in the first half for aggressively confronting a linesman after a tackle involving Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal.

On Monday, Cavani’s father was arrested in Uruguay after his involvement in a fatal traffic

accident which left a 19-year-old motorcyclist dead.

Uruguay reacted to Cavani’s dismissal doggedly, and had ap-peared to be on its way to taking the game to a penalty shoot-out with a superb defensive perfor-mance led by center-half Diego Godin.

But Mauricio Isla scored the only goal in the 82nd when he fired home from 15 yards after Uruguayan goalkeeper Fernan-do Muslera had weakly punched away a cross.

Host Chile, which dominated the match with 80 percent of possession, has never won the Copa America since its incep-tion in 1916 and now faces the winner of today’s Peru-Bolivia encounter.

“We now have another game I don’t know if it will be Peru or Bolivia but we still have the dream,” said striker Alexis San-chez. “We fought hard and we have to thank the fans who were behind us all the way.”

In the other quarterfinals, Argentina faces Colombia and Brazil plays Paraguay.

(Agencies)

SOCCER giants Germany and the United States continue their quest for a record third title today when they meet France and China, respectively, in the Women’s World Cup quarterfinals.

Top-ranked Germany, winner in 2003 and 2007, faces an ambitious France in the largely French-speaking city of Mon-treal. The French seek their first major title after finishing fourth in Germany 2011 and the 2012 Olympics.

Over in Ottawa, the US will be up against a resilient Chinese side which is rekindling memories of its glory days, when it reached the 1999 final but lost to the Americans in a penalty shoot-out. The US also won the inaugural edition of the tournament in 1991.

The Chinese failed to qualify for the 2011 tournament and the London Olympics, with their 1-0 last-16 win over Cameroon earning them a bonus of around 1 million yuan (US$160,000) from the national football association.

Champion Japan, the only team to have won all its matches in the tourna-ment, moves to Edmonton where it next plays 10th-ranked Australia tomorrow, the same day that England tackles hosts Canada in Vancouver.

Germany coach Silvia Neid dismissed talks of her side being the favorite after demolishing Sweden 4-1 in the last 16.

“I’m not convinced of it yet,” she said. “France are ranked third and it won’t be easy. We know where we stand but we’re not yet a world champion.”

Germany has won two titles, finished runner-up in 1995, and has won every Women’s Euro title since 1995.

But it was shocked in the 2011 World

Cup at home, when it tied its worst-ever showing — losing 0-1 in the quarterfi-nals to eventual winner Japan.

French midfielder Jessica Houara D’Hommeaux said ‘Les Bleus’ were out to stop the “steamroller”.

“Germany are a sports machine, a steamroller,” she said. “There’s the US and Germany and then everyone else.

“But we’re closing the gap and I really want people to talk more about France and the other teams. It’s good for wom-en’s football.

“We’re third in FIFA’s rankings. It’s good, but we’ve won no trophies so far,” added the 27-year-old.

Costly gameThe US plays China after beating

Colombia 2-0 in the last 16 — a costly game for the Olympic champion with key midfielders Megan Rapinoe and Lauren Holiday suspended after collecting yel-low cards.

“We’ve dealt with injuries so I feel very confident in the players we have to be able to step up and help us advance,” said US coach Jill Ellis.

China’s ‘Steel Roses’ have been gain-ing momentum since their opening 0-1 defeat to Canada.

“We are improving match by match,” defender Wang Shanshan said, adding that the 1999 final had inspired her to play football. “I was in primary school, but I remember watching it very well. That was when my dream started, when China played so well to reach the World Cup final. Sun Wen was my favorite player and my hero at that time.”

(AFP)

Germany, US continue quest for third world title

Edinson Cavani gestures as Chile’s

Gonzalo Jara reacts after a slight slap

which led to a second yellow card

for the Uruguayan, during their Copa

America quarterfinal in Santiago,

Chile, on Wednesday. — Reuters

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Contemplating the world of art in miniature PEOPLE/B7

A volunteer brigade in

Shanghai is active in

teaching the public how

to avoid disasters and

in springing to action

when emergencies

do occur. Its military

precision is no surprise,

given the origins of the

organization.

Tan Weiyun

The best way to handle emergen-cies is to try to prevent them from happening at all. That wasn’t exactly what Yan Hong, 38,

initially had in mind six years ago when he founded a club of military fans called Sonic Volunteers.

But today, it is Shanghai’s largest non-governmental organization, dedicated to disaster-prevention awareness.

“What we are doing, in simplest terms, is limiting damage as much as possible before the responders from the 110 emer-gency number, the 119 fire call line or the 120 ambulance hotline are called to the scene,” Yan says.

The organization now has more than 400 active volunteers in Shanghai and 300,000 online members from all walks of life — teachers, office clerks, college students, civil servants, highway toll col-lectors and self-employed tailors.

The group has sponsored hundreds of public lectures on first aid and safety procedures in almost every district of Shanghai, reaching more than 100,000 residents.

It has also held regular fire drills in old neighborhoods, narrow streets, building materials markets, office buildings and schools. Each drill involves between 200 and 1,500 people.

Yan and his team often take residents on patrol with them around local com-munities to point out potential hazards like illegal wiring, blocked fire exits and missing fire extinguishers.

“It’s like this,” Yan says. “If you keep your wallet safe, you won’t have your money stolen. Our task is to teach citizens how to keep their neighborhoods safe. That means spotting risks and acting on them before they become emergencies. It’s a community self-help program.”

CONTINUES ON B2

Keeping the city safe and sound

Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai DailyB2 COVER STORY

A new symbol for making life easier for expatsINTERNATIONS (www.internations.org), a network for people who live and work abroad, has just unveiled its new corporate logo. Germany-based InterNations has 1.7 million members in 390 cities around the world. Every month, nearly 100,000 at-tendees take part in roughly 4,000 events and activities or-ganized via the InterNations platform.

InterNations was founded by Malte Zeeck, Philipp von Plato and Christian Leifeld in September 2007. Zeeck and von Plato remain co-CEOs of InterNations and to-gether they have fostered the growth of the market-leading

company, which today has over 90 employees. In the last three years alone, the network has quadrupled its number of registered mem-bers and tripled its staff size.

This year, InterNations is focusing its attention on further enhancing the user experience on the platform — not only in terms of usability, but also regarding its design.

Its new logo, which features

an albatross circumnavigat-ing the globe, embodies everything InterNations stands for in a sleek and attractive design: a global community of open-minded individuals with a dynamic and international lifestyle.

The albatross travels around the world, conquer-ing longer distances than any other species. Yet often it maintains a special connec-tion to its place of birth and every once in a while returns to its place of origin. Still, albatrosses spend most of their life in constant move-ment and can travel millions of kilometers in the course of their lives.

“What makes albatrosses

special among birds is not only their great wingspan, but especially their natural behavior,” Zeeck explains. “Albatrosses are explorers and their whole life is a journey, which is why our new logo with an albatross circumnavigating the globe is a perfect symbol for the life of an expatriate.”

A handpicked communityFrom the moment an

individual decides to move abroad until he or she has settled in, InterNations makes sure that the expatriate feels part of a safe and trusted community.

“When it comes to

challenges such as find-ing a doctor, opening up a bank account or joining an association without know-ing the local language and culture, a trustworthy source of information is absolutely crucial. To ensure the quality of the network, InterNations membership is by approval only,” describes Zeeck.

The InterNations Commu-nity of Trust seal represents the distinctive approval process that new applica-tions for membership have to pass: Everyone is required to register with their personal contact information and state why they want to join. The data is then individually veri-fied by a team of experts.

FROM B1

The practice fire drills teach people how to extricate themselves from big fires in high-rises or on public transport.

“How many of you have ever oper-ated a fire extinguisher?” Yan asked his audience of more than 200 neigh-borhood security guards at one public lecture.

He repeated the question three times before two hands shyly went up.

“The Chinese are often criticized for being indifferent to the plight of others,” Yan says. “We are trying to teach students standard cardiopulmo-nary resuscitation procedures so that they are more likely to help someone on the street who is in an emergency situation.”

The founding members of Sonic Volunteers all had army backgrounds, so it’s not surprising that the organi-zation is run with military precision. Volunteers have their own uniforms for winter and summer, clothing that is fireproof and waterproof, with safety reflectors.

Everyone has an ID number and a badge stitched on the uniform. The group’s instructors hold ranks com-mensurate with first aid licenses, experience and service years. Other volunteers are designated as either emergency or ordinary groups.

“It’s cool to have a uniform with a badge, isn’t it?” Yan says. “It makes us feel united and gives everyone a heartfelt sense of mission and responsibility.”

Sonic Volunteer’s first civic duty came in 2008 when its members were called on to help maintain public order at an event of more than 1,000 people in downtown People’s Park. They were praised by city officials who at-tended the event for their professional manner.

The volunteers were also on hand at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai. Mem-bers were dispatched to various Metro stations to maintain order during rush hours.

“Being part of Expo gave us a great sense of achievement,” Yan says.

It’s not easy to be a Sonic volunteer.

Super Sonics promote emergency preparedness

After applying online, a prospective

member must appear for an interview.

“The most important principle is

that you need to have a helping heart,”

Yan says.

The group isn’t interested in people

who think it might be a great place for finding a mate, people who want some reimbursement for their participation or those who simply want a free CPR course to get a first-aid license.

A Sonic volunteer is required to attend meetings, participate in group activities and take training lessons. They are required to learn how to plummet down a 5-story building. Most volunteers have attended Red Cross primary first-aid courses and the emergency volunteers all have EMT licenses.

Wu Xinping, 26, chose to work for Sonic Volunteers full-time after he fin-ished his studies in Japan. He was part of order maintenance in the Jing’an Temple area of downtown on the eve of the Chinese New Year.

“I couldn’t join our family reunion dinner because I had to be on time for my duty,” he recalls. “What Sonic Volunteers is doing dovetails with my

life goal. I always wanted to work in a charity organization.”

Though the work the organization does may often be on a small scale, every effort helps contribute to a safer and healthier city.

One night, two Sonic volunteers on patrol found a man lying face down in the street. A quick check ascertained that he was drunk but not hurt. Police were called and the man was sent to hospital.

“If we hadn’t seen him, he might have been hit by a car or robbed,” vol-unteer Zhu Jian says. “We essentially thwarted a situation that might have gotten out of control.”

On another occasion, several vol-unteers were set upon by a gang of thieves in front of the Shanghai Art Gallery. The attackers were quickly and efficiently repelled, no doubt amazed that their quarry were so professionally trained.

“If you keep your wallet

safe, you won’t have

your money stolen. Our

task is to teach citizens

how to keep their

neighborhoods safe.

Yan HongFounder of Sonic Volunteers

Yan Hong (left), founder of

Sonic Volunteers, and other

members carry a man, who

passes out at a large event

in Shanghai, to a clinic.

Shanghai Daily Friday 26 June 2015 PEOPLE B3

Yao Minji

When Valeriy Matsel vis-ited Shanghai in 1988 as a member of a former Soviet Union delegation of

scientists, his trip included a visit to the Bund. One of the city’s top officials pointed across the Huangpu River toward the opposite shore — which, at the time, contained little more than rice paddies — and proclaimed that one day it would be the most presti-gious place in the city, if not in all of China.

“Look at it now,” Matsel, now the Belarusian consul general in Shanghai, tells Shanghai Daily. “This year, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Pudong. And it truly has been the most splendid miracle in China’s economic development!”

Having worked at the Belarus embassy in Beijing between 1996 and 2000 and then from 2007 to 2011, Matsel returned to Shanghai in 2013 to take up his current post.

“I like Shanghai for its dynamic life, modern architecture and green parks. But what is most important are its citizens — good-natured, responsive, cultured and ready to help in difficult situations,” he adds.

Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Belarus in May. Accord-ing to reports, the trip’s focus was to deepen China-Belarus relations as well as address international and regional topics of interest to both countries.

During the visit, Belarusian Presi-dent Alexander Lukashenko said that his country is ready to take part in implementing China’s “One Belt One Road” strategy — shorthand for the

Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, two wide-reaching trade development and infrastructure financing plans inspired by the historic Silk Road. Lukashenko added that he hoped Belarus would become a launching pad for large-scale projects in Eurasia and encouraged China to consider using Belarus as a key hub in related plans.

“The basis of Belarusian-Chinese relations is bilateral trade and invest-ment cooperation,” the consul general explains.

Trade in goods and services between the two countries reached US$4.2 billion in 2014, up 3.8 percent year-on-year, statistics show. Meanwhile, China has also issued about US$5.5 billion in credit support for investment projects in Belarus.

The China-Belarus Industrial Park, covering 91.5 square kilometers, will focus on developing electronics, biomedicine, fine chemistry, high-end manufacturing, logistics storage and other industries. Belarus and China have agreed to build the park into a model project in the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt, which connects Asia with Europe.

“Now the two countries are moving toward a transition from credit coop-eration to investment partnership,” Matsel says. “Development of mutually beneficial trade, the creation of joint ventures and the realization of joint investment projects with China are important prerequisites for the growth of Belarus’s export-oriented economy.”

During President Xi’s visit, about 50 bilateral documents, including a friendship agreement and a joint dec-laration, were signed. The declaration

was a comprehensive document meant to guide bilateral cooperations over future years.

“It will boost bilateral cooperation in various fields,” says the consul gen-eral, explaining that most of his duties are focused on bilateral trade and investment projects.

According to Matsel, the first ben-efits of closer bilateral relations with China are expected to be in construc-tion and the economic modernization of Belarus. Other areas to benefit include interbank interactions and technology. Projects facilitating export of Belarusian products into China are also expected to boost the country’s job market.

Currently, major exports from Belarus to China include potash and nitrogen fertilizers, chemical products, combines, flax fiber, wood, integrated

microchips and lasers, as well as dry milk products. The main imports from China are modern equipment includ-ing computers, power equipment, petro chemistry products and manu-facturing components.

“China is our main political, trade and economic partner in Asia,” Matsel says. “We will continue to improve, strengthen and extend Belarusian-Chinese relations in trade, investment and humanitarian spheres.”

With previous work experience in China, Matsel has helped push forward several projects since his arrival in Shanghai in 2013, in addition to sup-porting Belarusians in the city.

In April 2014, Matsel helped estab-lish an association for Belarusian and Soviet scholars returning from Shanghai. In 2014 and into 2015, the consulate general office in Shanghai also intensified efforts to promote regional relations between Shanghai and Belarus.

“Shanghai, as the main economic center of China, plays an important role in developing Belarusian-Chinese cooperation. That is why in April 2009 Shanghai was chosen as the location for the consulate general’s office,” he concludes.

The office has also contributed to building cooperations between Belarus and Shanghai in scientific and techni-cal fields, establishing ties between the State Committee on Science and Technology in Belarus and the Shang-hai Municipal Science and Technology Commission. Later in the year, a delegation from the Shanghai commis-sion is slated to visit Belarus in order to sign a bilateral memorandum of mu-tual understanding and collaboration.

Consul general hails deepened Sino-Belarusian ties

“I like Shanghai for its

dynamic life, modern

architecture and green

parks. But what is most

important are its citizens

— good-natured,

responsive, cultured and

ready to help in difficult

situations.

Valeriy Matsel, consul general

of Belarus in Shanghai.

— Wang Rongjiang

Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai DailyB4-5 CHONGMING SPECIAL

Chongming Island gets into festive spiritJiang Xinhua

The Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 20 this year, is one of the most

important traditional holidays in China. In honor of this ancient observance, the

16-day Chongming Dragon Boat Festival kicked off on June 13.

Many visitors to this festival have taken part in an array of traditional activities, such as making zongzi (glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves), crafting scented sachets, drinking xionghuang jiu (a type of realgar wine), fly-ing dragon-shaped kites and fishing with hand nets. Of course, watching dragon dances and dragon boat races have also been central to the festivities.

The event — which emphasizes the virtues of history, culture, happiness and health — is held at six venues across Chongming, including Mingzhu Lake, Qianwei Village, Sanmin Culture Village, Gaojia Manor, Xilai Manor and Zaohua Hall.

Tips for day trips

• One-day tripA: Mingzhu Lake, Xisha Wetland and

Xilai ManorMingzhu Lake in the southwest portion

of Chongming Island covers four square kilometers. Visitors can fish in designated areas. Baskets, fishing poles, nets and waders are available. You can also appreci-ate the rose garden at Xilai Manor.

B: Sanmin Culture Village and Qianwei Ecological Village

Sanmin Village focuses on themes re-lated to folk and ethnic culture, including hand-woven clothing, food, housing, art and enterprises. Covering a total area of

2.5 square kilometers, Qianwei Village is located in the northern part of the island.

C: Sanmin Culture Village and Gaojia Manor

Visitors can go fishing, pick fruit and barbecue at this attraction. A Crayfish Festival is underway at the Gaojia Manor.

• Two-day tripA: Mingzhu Lake, Xisha Wetland, Xilai

Manor, Sanmin Culture Village and Gaojia Manor

Visitors with two days to spare can start their journey at the Xisha Wetland and Mingzhu Lake. Renowned as a haven for water fowl and plant life, Xisha Wetland Park covers an area of three square kilo-meters. A path running through the park allows visitors to enjoy the beauty of its reed beds, water birds and other wildlife.

The wetland is also one of the best places to witness sunset on Chongming Is-land. As the sun sinks toward the horizon, the watery reed beds are illuminated by the orange and red rays of dusk.

B: Mingzhu Lake, Xisha Wetland, Min-gzhu Lake Swan Garden and Dongping National Forest Park

Dongping National Forest Park offers visitors the chance to stroll through pleas-ant woods and grasslands as well as camp out under the star-filled skies.

A barbecue area is also available, covering 10,000 square meters and can accommodate 200 people.

Overnight visitors can stay in luxury trailers with between 18 and 22 square meters of interior space. The largest of these trailers can accommodate up to five people. Equipped with water, electric-ity, air conditioner, a shower, kitchen, bedroom, Wi-Fi link and television, each trailer offers the conveniences and

Dragon boat race on Mingzhu Lake

Chongming Handwoven Cloth Museum at

Sanmin Culture Village

Two local women participate in a zongzi-making contest.

People enjoy

camping at

the Dongping

National

Forest Park.

1. The Xisha Wetland

2. The Lavender and Egret Love Park

3. A luxury trailer at the Mingzhu Lake

Swan Garden

4. The nongjiale (happy farmer’s

house) at Qianwei Village

1

2

3

4comforts of home. There are two campsites at Dongping Forest Park and Mingzhu Lake Swan Garden respectively.

C: Sanmin Culture Village, Qianwei Ecolog-ical Village, Dongping National Forest Park, Lavender and Egret Love Park

Couples won’t want to miss the chance to spend a romantic day surrounded by a sea of lavender — and more than 30 kinds of herb and flowers — at the Lavender and Egret Love Park. Covering an area of 800 hectares, the park is both a love-themed park and ecological farm.

Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai DailyB6 PEOPLE

Wang Jie

For many people in China, Zhang Daqian (1899-1983), one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese

artists of the 20th century, is a household name. But for Zhang’s 88-year-old daughter, Zhang Xin-rui, this towering figure in Chinese art was a loving father.

Now, Zhang Xinrui has offered up nearly 100 works created by her father, his students and peers, for a special exhibition at the Long Museum West Bund. The show, which runs through July 12, fea-tures some works that have never before been seen by the public.

“Witnessing the vicissitudes of the century, I think it is time to share them with the public,” says the younger Zhang, who now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

One highlight of the exhibition is an ink-wash painting titled “Lotus,” created by Zhang at the age of 83. This work is also one of his daughter’s personal favorites.

Born in a family of artists in Nei-jiang, Sichuan Province, a young Zhang Daqian studied textile-dye-ing techniques in Kyoto, Japan. He later returned to China, establish-ing a successful career selling his paintings in Shanghai.

In 1940 he led a group of artists to Dunhuang, in northwest China’s

Gansu Province, to study the Bud-dhist wall painting in the Mogao and Yulin grottoes.

Zhang left China in 1949. This precipitated a period of extensive travel for the artist, who resided in various places such as Mendoza, Argentina; São Paulo, Mogi das Cruzes; Brazil, Carmel and Cali-fornia, US, before finally returning and settling in Taiwan in 1978.

The painter’s departure also separated him from his family. Zhang had four wives and more than 10 children, five of whom he left on the Chinese mainland.

Zhang Xinrui was one of them. It was not until 1963 that she was able to meet Zhang again in Hong Kong.

“I still clearly remember every detail for that meeting,” says Zhang Xinrui with wet eyes. She was later able to travel with her father to Brazil, where they lived for a year. According to her, the master wanted her to stay in Brazil, but with a husband and children waiting for her in China, she returned in 1964.

She never saw her father again. “I and my family arrived in Hong

Kong in 1983 after hearing of the death of my father. We waited for a week in Hong Kong but we still couldn’t go to Taiwan at that time.”

It was another two years before she was able to visit her father’s tomb in Taiwan.

Originally known as a guohua (traditional) painter, deteriorating eyesight led Zhang to take up a bolder, more expressive style. By the 1960s he was renowned as a modern impressionist. In addi-tion, he is regarded as one of the most gifted art forgers of the 20th century.

“I admired my father so much in the area of art,” says Zhang Xinrui, who is also a painter. “He was never satisfied in art, and was continuously absorbing new things into his work. The mural caves in Dunhuang had great influence on his art.”

In her eyes, Zhang could be strict but generous, especially with the young artists who sought his tutelage.

“Our family prohibited smoking, drinking and gambling, and my father was quite keen on etiquette. At the same time, he taught all he knew to his students. He would often purchase ancient paintings to show to his students.”

Another highlight of the exhibi-tion is a special qipao made for Zhang Ruixin which features a black lotus pattern painted by her father.

“I feel that my father is still living in these paintings and these items,” she says.


Address: 3398 Longteng Ave

Master’s daughter shares collection, art vision and personal story

Yuan Quan

“FEWER and fewer owls can be seen at the Temple of Heaven,” says Lei Hong, a Beijing native who’s been observing the city’s avians for 20 years.

Last year, he saw only three owls in the royal garden. Ten years ago it was common to see 30.

Owls are the 59-year-old bird-watch-ing expert’s favorite bird.

While not backed by official records, Lei’s observations are seen as “objec-tive and accurate” by ornithologists, who say people like him are crucial to collecting data for research.

“Scientific studies need bird-watchers and civil environment organizations to contribute,” says Zhao Xinru, assistant professor of zoology at Beijing Normal University and a member of the China Ornitho-logical Society.

Lei is an avid birdwatcher, photo-graphing and observing them year around. He can identify the chirps of the capital’s birds in a matter of seconds, something he attributes to years of keeping caged birds.

Lei’s obsession with birds can be traced back to 1989. “There used to be 70 birds on my balcony,” Lei recalls.

At that time, he was a fixture at Bei-jing’s bird market. “I would buy birds that I am unfamiliar with, no matter where they came from,” he says.

He recalled a couple of birds from Indonesia that cost him 60 yuan

Birdman of Beijing keeps his eyes on the skies(US$10), “a very big expense in the 1990s.”

He would often go to great lengths to raise these creatures. He even learned some veterinary skills, collect-ing sick or injured birds that he could nurse back to health.

Even at home, he watched his birds through binoculars, noting “interest-ing details” in their behavior.

“The most depressing moment is their death,” says Lei, who would bury birds’ bodies into his flowerpots. “I viewed birds as my second life.”

Birding takes flightLei eventually gave up raising caged

birds after reading an article in 1996 about Friends of Nature, China’s first environmental NGO. He wrote a letter to the founder and applied for mem-bership the following year.

“They called for people to observe birds in the wild instead of caging them, which is actually a selfish hobby,” says Lei, who later said good-bye to his caged birds by setting them free.

“For northern birds, I released them at parks, and for southern ones, I re-leased them during migration season,” he explains.

This act of kindness opened a new chapter in Lei’s life. He began hiking around Beijing and neighboring prov-inces to watch and photograph birds. Before long, Lei began receiving praise

for his sensitive images of birds.According to Lei, it’s easy to connect

with the birds once one realizes that their lives “are quite similar to ours, with joys, pains, poverty and wealth.”

In 2013, Lei quit his job at a travel agency to devote more time to bird watching.

He volunteered to help with re-search projects, give lectures at schools and joined a growing bird-watching group that includes many foreign birders.

In China, few took an interest in bird-watching until the 1990s.

Shortly after Lei was born, China’s central government introduced a nationwide campaign in 1958 to ter-minated “four pests,” which were rats, sparrows, flies and mosquitoes.

Authorities at the time considered sparrows as pests since they “stole” grain. Such views were supported at the time by testimonies from biologists.

About 450,000 sparrows were killed by people in Beijing in three days that year, according to a report carried by People’s Daily.

Coinciding with the establishment of environmental NGOs in 1990s, bird watching expanded in Beijing and other cities, says Zhao Xinru, adding that there are now about 40 special-ized bird watching organizations on the mainland.

Terry Townshend, a British man working for an environmental

organization, has been a birder in Beijing for four years.

He has recorded 460 species in the city, which he calls an ideal “service station” for migration.

Though bird-watchers are still relatively few in number in China, Townshend believes that the number of local enthusiasts will be grow when Chinese people have more leisure time and wealth.

Admirer of freedomFor enthusiasts like Lei, the plea-

sures derived from bird-watching transcend material considerations.

After the hardships of the Cultural Revolution, Lei devoted himself to making money. Years of bird watching though have made him an admirer of freedom.

“It helps me get rid of distractions”, says Lei. “That’s the change the hobby brings to me.”

However, not all birders find inner peace or an appreciation for wildlife.

Lei once caught a photographer throwing stones to wake up owls. He has seen other shooters luring birds with food.

“They don’t really love birds, the only love pictures,” he says, raising his voice in clear agitation. “How could you impose your thoughts on another species and disturb their way of liv-ing? Such behaviors violate the laws of nature and will eventually backfire.”

“Beautiful Image of a Woman” by Zhang Daqian

Shanghai Daily Friday 26 June 2015 PEOPLE B7

When I am working, an earthquake could strike and I wouldn’t feel it. You hold your breath, see what’s in your mind’s eye and then proceed.

Through the looking glass: Small is beautifulNie Xin

Cui Liangen has a pair of magic hands. With a magni-fying glass, he has carved in ivory a miniature of the clas-

sic Chinese painting “Along the River During the Qingming Festival.”

Daily life during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1279) and the landscape of Bianjing, today’s Kaifeng in Henan Province, have been minutely replicated in pieces as tiny as 1.41 millimeters by 32.38 millimeters.

The original painting, created by Song Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145), is 5.25 meters long and 25.5 centimeters wide.

Completed in 2002, Cui’s mini-sculpture is so far the tiniest replica of the painting, according to the Shanghai World Guinness Book of Records.

Cui has devoted himself to minia-ture sculpting for nearly 70 years. In his deft hands, materials like tooth-picks, rice, pearls, jade and stones are transformed into art.

“My eyes are like a magnifying glass,” says Cui, now 82. “I like to complete a work in one go, with my breath held.”

Cui started working on “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” in 1997.

“Before that, I tried to reproduce parts of the painting for six months so that all the details were etched in my mind,” he said.

The completed version was done in 2002.

Doing mini-sculpture requires great presence of mind. Cui says he never works when he’s not in the right mood.

“Concentration is the key,” he says. “When I am working, an earthquake could strike and I wouldn’t feel it. It’s a bit like kung fu. You hold your breath, see what’s in your mind’s eye and then proceed.”

When he was 11 years old, Cui survived by selling his Chinese paintings in Zhenjiang of Jiangsu provinces. They were mostly Bud-dhist figures and characters from Chinese fairytales.

Hu Peiheng, a master of miniature sculpture at the time, met the young Cui and immediately recognized the boy’s talent.

“He predicted I would become a master sculptor in my own right someday,” Cui says.

He studied under Hu for three years before “graduating” to his own works at age 15.

Cui’s artistic talents are many. He does painting, calligraphy and sculpting. He reckons he has done up to 500 works of art in his long ca-reer. They are mainly dominated by landscapes, birds, flowers, animals, figures and Chinese tales.

“Camel Bell on the Silk Road” is one of his more outstanding works. On ivory measuring 4.976 millime-ters long and 0.696 of a millimeter wide, a camel with 12 humps, figures and mountains are vividly sculpted.

Many of his works have won awards: a piece with eight pandas sculpted on a sesame-sized pearl, a piece with mountains and rivers on a needle thinner than 0.1 of a millime-ter, and the Chinese fairy tale “Eight Immortals Cross the Sea,” created on rice-sized ivory.

“Miniature sculpture takes me to another world,” he says. “It’s a world of beauty and fantasy. It has encour-aged me to devote my life to my art.”

Cui is particularly proud of works inspired by Zhouzhuang water town in Jiangsu Province.

“The first time I visited it, I fell in love with it, so I decided to recreate it in my tiny world,” Cui says.

He visited the town repeatedly to do sketches for the work.

Some of his miniature sculptures have been valued in the millions of yuan. The panda work is now worth 3 million yuan (US$483,512), and the camel piece is valued at 5 million

yuan. Many art collectors in China and abroad are eager to buy his works, but Cui refuses to sell his treasures.

After living in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China for many years, Cui and his fam-ily recently returned to Shanghai.

He has agreed to have 100 of his miniature sculptures displayed at the Juqi Antique Market on Lingshi Road in the city’s northern Zhabei District. It’s a gesture to share artwork with the public and to show younger generations the beauty and depth of traditional

Chinese culture.About a fifth of Cui’s creations, along

with other pieces from his personal art collection, are exhibited there, accord-ing to Ni Weizhu, deputy manager of the market.

“Our culture should be introduced to a wider and younger audience,” Ni says.

Passing on traditional skills is difficult in China’s modern urban envi-ronment, where young people are often more interested in smartphones than in art. Cui says he has been looking for a talented apprentice for many years.

“I have been searching for a young-ster who is around 10 years old, someone who can learn the skills and spread this magnificent art to the next generation,” says Cui.

The best time to start to learn minia-ture sculpture is before the age of 12, he says.

“An apprentice needs to have some basic skills in calligraphy or painting and must be in good physical condi-tions,” the master adds.

Cui has had students in the past, but they eventually jumped ship because they found miniature sculpting too demanding.

“It is very tiring to complete a miniature work,” Cui says. “To do it right, you can’t take a break, eat, drink or even breathe normally. You have to fully concentrate.”

“

A tiny but exquisite reproduction of the classic Chinese painting “Along

the River During the Qingming Festival.”

The face of concentration as Cui

Liangen works on a miniature sculpture.

Friday 26 June 2015 Shanghai DailyB8 HANGZHOU SPECIAL

WEST LAKE EXPO / CULTURE / TOURISM / ECONOMICS

www.hicenter.cn

“Sacrifice” by Wu Zongqi

“Babysitter” by Wu Zongqi

Unique culture captured on film

Hangzhou offers splendid views any time of day

“Friends” by Duo Ba

Photographers love to take photos of people sitting on benches

along West Lake. Duo Ba said he noticed this group because of

their similar clothing and shoes.

Wu Huixin

Many artists draw in-spiration from their hometowns. Writers often set their stories

in places similar to those where they grew up. Longing for one’s native place is also a reoccur-ring theme throughout folk music.

For Zhejiang Province-based photographer Wu Zongqi, a deep connection with his home-town and its surroundings also pervades his work. Over the past 30 years, Wu has spent much of his time taking photos around Qiandao (Thousand Islands) Lake in Hangzhou’s Chun’an County. His efforts have both raised the profile of this beautiful area of Zhejiang and also left a record of its unique culture.

Now, over 100 images by Wu are on display at an exhibition at the Zhejiang Art Museum which runs through Sunday. These images offer breathtak-ing views of the lake as well as a glimpse into the social and cultural changes that have taken place around the area.

The first part of the exhibi-tion centers around hometown memory, featuring black-and-white images taken in the early 1980s. These pictures feature images of families, schools, daily entertainment and agriculture.

In addition to scenes of daily life, Wu’s pictures also capture the architecture and culture of Chun’an. Thirty years ago, most people in Chun’an lived in folk houses characterized by painted windows, carved beams and upturned eaves. Most local villages also had large grounds where shows and performances would be organized, including

dances and operas. Popular local dance forms

include Land Boat Dancing and Hobbyhorse Dancing, which were recognized by authori-ties as important pieces of Zhejiang’s intangible cultural heritage in 2005.

The second major theme of the exhibition is folklore, which comes to the fore in local ceremonies and rituals.

Today, the people of Chun’an practice wedding customs which are different from those seen elsewhere in Zhejiang. Accord-ing to local lore, these practices date to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) when the dynasty’s founder banished his political opponents to the area and for-bad them from having contact with other local residents.

Additionally, the people of Chun’an are known as stick-lers when it comes to ancestor worship. On the first and fifteenth day of each lunar month, many local seniors will take their grandchildren to ancestral halls to pay their respects — and hopefully be blessed in return.

Vanessa Xu

HANGZHOU, My City and My Home — this was the theme of Hangzhou Citizen Photography Week, an event that inspired over 20,000 shutterbugs to train their lenses on subjects which represent civic pride.

Although the event has wrapped up, it isn’t too late to give credit to some of the week’s outstanding images. Today we showcase “24 Beautiful Hours in Hangzhou.”

“Morning, Hangzhou” by Lu Cha Zhai

The best place to appreciate the sunrise in Hangzhou is

on the peak of Baoshi Hill. This spot offers a bird’s view

of West Lake and the Baochu Pagoda.

“Elegance”

by Xiao Pao

Jin Cheng

During the morn-

ing, middle-aged

and elderly line

dancers gather

to exercise. In

this picture, the

photographer

captures a nice

contrast be-

tween grassroots

and commercial

culture.

In the past, large-scale ritu-als would be held at ancestral halls during the first of each lunar month. Every family would steam a pig’s head and decorated it with red paper cuttings and evergreen leaves and put it in front of the tablet of the ancestral hall, another practice said to date to the Ming Dynasty.

Folk practices vary by village. On the third day of the third

lunar month, villagers in Xinye, for example, would transport a statue of Buddha from their local temple to their ancestral hall. Meanwhile, an opera show would last for several days.

For Jianglingshang villag-ers, the fifth day of the first lunar month is their big day. A dragon made of torches and a statue of a man would be paraded through the village to commemorate Xiao Yuangang, a leader of Chun’an County dur-ing the Ming Dynasty.

Once when Xiao Yuangang was dispatched to Chun’an by the royal court, he was inter-cepted by villagers. They told Xiao of a case of injustice and begged him to uphold the law, which Xiao promptly did.

Overwhelmed with gratitude, the villages created the custom in his honor. With time, it be-came a fixed tradition in local culture.

Though they may have their own practices and customs, every village operates like a big family. Funerals and weddings are held in ancestral halls with every villager attending.

The final portion of Wu’s works depict the landscape of Qiandao Lake. One of the most eye-catching photos was taken at Huangshanjian and which provides a bird’s-eye view of more than 90 islands.

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¥103Price:110 yuan

Cono Sur Varietal

Sauvignon

Grape Variety: Sauvignon

Blanc

Country: Chile

Region: Central Valley,

Maipo Valley

“Twins” NAKA wine bag

iDEAL price: ¥59

Size: 28.5*25cm

Weight: 188g

Color: Red

This two-handle wine bag could contain two bottles of wine. It is made of eco-friendly felt with-out the use of adhesive. It is a fashion statement of quality living and environment protection. This NAKA wine bag is suitable for Champagne, Burgundy, Bordeaux and Ice wine bottles.

“Dimensions” NAKA wine bag

iDEAL price: ¥135

Size: 39*22cm

Weight: 164g

Color: Blue

This two-handle wine bag doubles as an iPad case. You could put two bottles of wine or an iPad into the bag. It’s a fashion statement of quality living and environmental protection. This NAKA wine bag is suitable for Champagne, Burgundy, Bordeaux and ice wine.

Scan the QR code

or visit www.

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to buy it.

“The Key” NAKA wine bag

iDEAL price: ¥40

Size: 39cm*15cm

Weight: 60g

Color: Grey, red, blue, orange, green, yellow, brown

This key-shaped wine bag features a minimal-ist Nordic design and is made of eco-friendly felt without the use of adhesive. Its side slit makes it easy to pull out a bottle. It is suitable for Cham-pagne, Burgundy, Bordeaux and ice wine.

Scan the QR code

or visit www.

idealshanghai.

com/goods/1947/

to buy it.

“Fruit” NAKA wine bag

iDEAL price: ¥35

Size: 39*15cm

Weight: 92g

Color: Grey, red

This grape-shaped wine bag with a hollowed-out design is made of eco-friendly felt without the use of adhesive. The hollowed-out part makes it easy to see the label. It is suitable for Cham-pagne, Burgundy, Bordeaux and ice wine.

Scan the QR code

or visit www.

idealshanghai.

com/goods/1966/

to buy it.

“Round” NAKA wine bag

iDEAL price: ¥36

Size: 39*15 cm

Weight: 60g

Color: Grey, red

This circle-shaped wine bag is also made of eco-friendly felt without the use of adhesive. It is suitable for Champagne, Burgundy, Bordeaux and ice wine.

Scan the QR code

or visit www.

idealshanghai.

com/goods/1967/

to buy it.

Scan the QR code

or visit www.

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com/goods/1968/

to buy it.

A bottle of wine often makes a nice gift for friends. Here’s a simple guide to buying a good wine.

What wines are good for summer?Light and medium-bodied red wines

or sparkling wines are good when the weather is hot. Remember to chill them in the fridge before drinking. New World’s Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc are good choices.

How to wrap the wine?Choose a professional wine bag,

especially one with a great design and eco-friendly materials. Personal-izing it is also a great way to make an impression.

iDEALShanghai has selected some bottles of wine that go down well in the summer and five different wine bags.

(Wang Xiaojun and Yoyo He)

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GET READY FOR A SUMMER OF FUN AT JADE ON 36

SUMMER REFRESH AT LE MERIDIEN

XIAMEN

Elevate your stay at Le Meridien Xiamen with

inspired delicacies and verdant hills. Only at 758

yuan plus 15 percent per stay at Superior Room

including daily two breakfasts and 200 yuan

spa credit.

Book Club

Room or Junior

Suite enjoy club

benefi ts, and

airport, Xiamen

Railway Station

or Xiamen

Northern Railway

Station one way pick-up or drop-off service

(maximum three people pick-up per room, one

day advance booking is required); 50 percent

off for buffet lunch and dinner at Latest Recipe

Restaurant. Children above six years old enjoy

one- hour complimentary weekend swimming

lesson. Promotion runs through June 30.

Le Meridien Xiamen awaits for your discovery.

For reservation, please call (0592) 7709-999

THE LANGHAM, SHANGHAI, XINTIANDI

Located on 5th fl oor of The

Langham, Shanghai, Xintiandi,

XTD elevated is a chic outdoor

lounge and terrace with exotic

vibe that makes it Shanghai’s

hotspot.

XTD elevated is the ideal

venue for after-work drinks,

casual dining, or catching up

with friends. The restaurant’s

snack menu has been re-

engineered by Albert Servalls,

director of culinary, with focus

on creative combinations

of the freshest ingredients.

The talented mixologist has

also created cool drinks and

cocktails for your enjoyment.

When the dusk sets in,

the terrace lounge takes on a

charming atmosphere. Guests

can choose to lounge on day

beds or book private cabanas

with personalized service from

attentive waiters.

Between 8pm and 11pm

every Wednesday (Ladies

Night), all ladies are welcome

to XTD elevated to enjoy a free

mojito. This special offer is valid

until July 31.

For details and reservations,

please contact tlxtd.f&binfo@

langhamhotels.com or call

(021) 2330-2430.

Hospitality Monday

Employees of the hospitality

industry can enjoy 25 percent

discount when dining at Jade

on 36 Restaurant. Name card is

required up to six persons per

booking.

Tuesday Mussels & Fries

Eat all you can with Jade on

36 Restaurant's mussel and

fries, choose from fi ve different

styles. It costs 198 yuan plus

15 percent service charge per

person.

Wednesday Ladies Special

at Jade on 36 Restaurant

Ladies! Make a reservation

with us after 8pm and receive a

complimentary dessert. Dining

is required.

Thursday Ladies Night at

Jade on 36 Bar

Ladies receive

complimentary cocktails

between 7:30pm to 10pm.

• Live music every evening

from 8:45pm onwards (except

for Sunday and Monday)

• Happy Hour all weeklong

every evening from 5 to 8pm.

THE SANYA MARRIOTT HOTEL

DADONGHAI BAY

As the summer school holiday approaches, the

Sanya Marriott Hotel Dadonghai Bay is launching

varieties of family-friendly activities to meet needs

of traveling-plan families. Family travelers can book

tailor-made family package for a hassle-free trip,

from the transportation, accommodation to dining

and kids activities; all are included from starting

rate of 1,688 yuan for a two-night holiday. Plus this

hotel has an exciting calendar of summer camping

which fi lled with funny games and educational

activities in anticipation.

For reservations, please contact: (0898) 8821-1688

Address: 88 Haiyun Rd, Dadonghai Bay, Sanya

YI CAFÉ AT PUDONG SHANGRI-LA

Yi Café at Pudong Shangri-La, East Shanghai

presents old Shanghai memories from the 1970s

to 1980s, bringing guests back to that period of

time when childhood and old cherished memories

of Shanghai can be found.

Yi Café’s Chinese station has been transformed

into ‘70s-‘80s Shanghai starting 29 June till

the end of August 2015. The new theme allows

guests not only to indulge in a wide variety of top-

quality old Shanghainese delights and specialities,

but also to engage in a charming and nostalgic

old Shanghai atmosphere. Yi Café presents for

this purpose a 3D painting showcasing how the

old Shanghai lane looked like. Guests can get

souvenir photos on site by scanning the hotel’s

QR code.

A carved wooden table decorated tin tea

containers, wooden abacus, enamel thermos

bottle and leather suitcases — staff dressed in

old Shanghai style distributing ice-lollies -all these

retro items will take guests on a time travel back

to old Shanghai as it was in the ‘70s-‘80s. Locals

will be delighted to see those old little things

come back to life again to remind them of the old

days. Others will enjoy the opportunity to visit old

Shanghai through nostalgic items and memories.

The Old Shanghai themed buffet lunch is

served from Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m.

to 2:30 p.m for RMB188; buffet dinner is served

daily from 5:30 to 10 p.m. for RMB318. All prices

are subject to 15 per cent service charge. For

enquiries and reservations, please contact the

food and beverage reservation centre on (86 21)

2828 6888.

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ChangningDistrict

American

Bubba’s Texas-style Bar-B-Que and Saloon Bubba's BBQ: Smoking the

Good Stuff Since 2006

www.bubbasasia.com

•Bubba’s Hongqiao

2262 Hongqiao Road, near

Jianhe Road

6242 2612

•Bubba's Riverside at the

Cool Docks

Cool Docks Section 4

653 Waima Rd (near Wangjia

Matou Road)

5302 7588

FAT COWOpened in April 2014 and

specializing in gourmet

burgers, cool whole grain

salads, steaks, creamy

sundaes and milkshakes, Fat

Cow is a modern, industrial

chic restaurant in Hongqiao.

Brought to you by a multi-

award winning group.

7 Hongmei Pedestrian Street

(Laowaijie), 3338 Hongmei

Rd by Yan'an Rd. W.

Weekdays: 11am - 11pm

Weekends: 10am - 11pm

TEL: 3422-1700

Cafe

Everyday a great experience@ O’Café• Dinner BuffetRMB 288 net per personIncluding Wine, Draught Beer,

Soft Drink, Juice, Coffee and

Tea

Grand Millennium

Shanghai HongQiao

2588 Yan An Xi Rd

Tel: 6208 5888* 71229

www.millenniumhotels.com

Delivery

MELROSE (Pizza)24/7 Pizza Delivery, Anytime!

Anywhere! Shanghai &

Suzhou

1) No.388, Furongjiang Rd,

Yanlord Riverside store.

2) No.777, Yunle Rd., La

Rancho club

Tel: 400-88-PIZZA

Element Fresh1) 1st Floor, 1376 West

Nanjing Rd.

Tel: 6279 8682

2) 4th & 5th Floor, Kwah

House, 1028 Middle Huaihai Rd.

Tel: 5403 8865

3) Ground Floor, Walking

Street, Grand Gateway Mall,

1 Hongqiao Rd.

Tel: 6407 5992

4) 6th Floor No. 98 Shouning

Rd (6th Floor Fraser

Residence)

Tel: 6334 3598

5) 1st Floor, No.2088 West

Yan An Rd.

Tel: 6083 7436

6) 2nd Floor No.100 Century

Avenue, Pudong

Tel: 6877 4001

7) Ground Floor, Northwest

Corner, West Lujiazui Rd &

Fucheng Rd.

Tel: 5047 2060

Fusion

Hotel Nikko Shanghai • Jin Ge (Chinese)

• Benky (Japanese)

• Seiena Cafe (Western)

488 Yan'an Rd W.

Tel: 3211-9999

www.nikkoshanghai.com

Marriott Shanghai Hotel Hongqiao• Shark’s Fin & Rice (Chinese)

• Marriott Café (Western)

• Manhattan Steak House

(Western)

2270 Hongqiao Rd

Tel: 6237-6000

www.marriotthotels.com

Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel• Celadon (Southeast Asia)

• Azur (Western)

1018 Changning Rd

Tel: 6115-8888

rhi.shabz.reservation@

renaissancehotels.com

Shanghai Brewery (Global Cuisine)21C Hongmei Pedestrian St, 3338 Hongmei RdTel: 6406-5919

Italian

DAMARCO1) Metropark Service

Apartment

Add:No.103 East Zhu An

Bang Rd.

Tel:62104495/62110088

2) Pudong Branch

Add: No.350-354 Yushan

Rd., near Taolin Rd.

Tel: 58608170

3) Xujiahui Branch

Add: 165A Grand Gateway

Square, No.1 Hongqiao Rd.

Tel: 64477577

Hongkou District

Fusion

Sunrise On The Bund Old Captain Bar (136Gao Yang Road)Tremendous Tuesdays

Another day at the offi ce?

Blow off Tuesdays in the best

way with us! A Tremendous

30% off

your fi nal check every

Tuesday 16:00-21:00

*Promotions cannot be used

together and excludes bottle

prices

Buy 1 Get 1 Free Happy

Hour!

Old Captain Bar Happy Hour!

Buy 1 get 1 free Homemade

Draft Beer! [Everyday,

Excluding

Tuesdays] 16:00-20:00

Live Band: Thursday-Saturday

Crystal Café 1F (Western)Tainan Tan-Tsu-Mien 2F (Chinese/Taiwanese)Presenting our New and

Improved Menu

From Taiwan’s famous

HuahSi Street to HongKou’s

North Bund

Experience 60 years of

heritage at Tainan Tan-Tsu-

Mien Seafood Restaurant

Sho-u To Japanese Restaurant 2FBanquet Hall 3F7 available venues with

exquisite catering selection

Zan Teppanyaki 5F (French/Japanese Fusion)L Spa 6FSpa, Gym, Pool, Hair Salon168 Gao Yang RoadTel: 5558 9999www.sunrisesha.com

• VUE BarOyster & Fransola Feast –27 JuneWeekend Sunset Party

• VUE RestaurantJune – Seafood CocktailFresh seafood from around the globe is blended with creative Eastern fl avours in dishes such as scampi tar tar served with cucumber, walnut dressing, hami melon and shiso leaf. Ahi tuna with lime, corn, red onion, chilli and coriander bring a South American infl uence, while Fine de Claire oysters with tomato, vodka and celery is a hearty Bloody Mary on a plate.Lunch with VUEFind yourself one more place with fabulous views of the Bund for sitting into a light lunch. VUE Restaurant is now open for lunch set menus every weekday from 11:30am to 2:30pm.Sunday Champagne BrunchWake up to a sophisticated Sunday Brunch; savour gourmet delicacies with Perrier Jouët Champagne. Tableside cooking offers an array of fresh seafood and sizzling meats to arouse your palate.

• VUE DiningWeekend All-You-Can-EatNothing impresses like a private dining room with a magnifi cent view. It offers nearly forty Eastern and Western courses for your weekend feast.www.hyattonthebund.cnHYATT ON THE BUND199 Huangpu RoadTel: 21 6393 1234 ext 6328

HuangpuDistrict

Fusion

Fairmont Peace Hotel• Cathay Room & 9 Level

Terrace (Sunday Brunch

on the Bund - Enjoy a

sumptuous appetizer,

seafood, dessert Buffet

and Champagne with

family and friends in front

of the inspiring views of

the legendary Huangpu

River and Pudong Skyline.

RMB598+15% per person;

RMB 798+15% per person

with free fl ow of Champagne)

• Dragon Phoenix (Quintessential Shanghainese specialties with Bund view)

• The Jazz Bar (Enjoy the

tastes and sounds of Old

Shanghai from the Oldest

Jazz Band)

• Victor’s (Gourmet delights

and sweet moments with

Chic Parisian Patisserie)

• Jasmine Lounge (Famous

for its stylish high tea

indulgence and glamorous

weekend tea dance every

Saturday)

20 Nanjing Road East

Tel: 6138 6888

www.fairmont.com/

peacehotel

JW MARRIOTT HOTEL SHANGHAI TOMORROW SQUARE• Marriott Café (38F)Features the best in

international casual dining,

serving elaborate buffet

lunch & dinner, an extensive

à la carte menu as well as

sumptuous Sunday brunch.

• Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant (39F)Contemporary, elegant and

comfortable, showcasing fi ne

traditional Cantonese cuisine

with Dim Sum lunch & brunch

as well as Shanghainese.

• JW’s California Grill (40F)Ingeniously inspired food art,

this steakhouse captivates an

inventive culinary experience

that travels beyond taste,

featuring fresh seafood and

steaks.

• JW Lounge (40F)The perfect venue to enjoy

cigars and spectacular views

of the Shanghai skyline

in this cozy surrounding,

featuring different choices

of Champagnes, single malt

whiskies, cocktails and

refi ned bar snacks.

• Lobby Lounge (38F)Commands a stunning

panoramic view of the city.

This is the ideal venue to

enjoy classic drinks, exquisite

snacks, and afternoon tea or

simply watch the world go by.

• 360 Gourmet Shop (Ground Floor)The perfect place to meet for

a quick lunch or to fi nd what

you need at the right price,

offering a large selection

of fresh appetizing salads,

sandwiches, sushi, and

other chef crafted cuisine to

take away.

No.399 West Nanjing Road,

Huangpu District, Shanghai,

200003

Tel: 5359 4969

www.jwmarriottshanghai.com

M1NT Restaurant & Grill Multi award winning

restaurant, featuring an

international grill with Asian-

inspired entrees and sides

from chef Michael Jakovljev.

Perched on the 24th fl oor

with stunning 360 degree

views over Pudong, People’s

Square and the Bund, the

experience is completed by

a theatre kitchen and upbeat

atmosphere.

Sunday BBQ

Every Sunday from 5pm-

8pm, enjoy a sizzling BBQ

buffet dinner with family and

friends in a relaxed setting

for 298RMB/person only,

and add 100RMB for beer

free fl ow or 200RMB for wine

free fl ow.

24/F, 318 Fuzhou Rd

Tel: 6391-2811

[email protected]

www.m1ntglobal.com

Pullman Shanghai Skyway• Lake Side Café (Western)

• Zaffraan (Western)

• Le Ciel (Western)

• Hua Fu Xuan (Chinese)

15 Dapu Rd

Tel: 3318-9988

www.pullmanhotel.com.cn

www.accorhotels.com.cn

Radisson Blu Hotel Shanghai New World

• Window On The Park (All-

day-dinning)

• Min Xuan (Chinese)

• Epicure on 45 Revolving

Restaurant

(Western, Indian, Japanese,

Chinese)

• Sky Dome Bar

88 Nanjing Rd W.

Tel: 6359-9999

www.radissonblu.com/

newworldhotel-shanghai

Sofi tel Shanghai Hyland • Mosaic (Western)

• Mao Restaurant (Chinese)

505 Nanjing Rd E.

Tel: 6351-5888

www.sofi tel.com

The Peninsula• Yi Long Court (Chinese)

• The Alice (Western)

32 Zhongshan Rd E1

Tel: 2327-2888

www.peninsula.com

Fine Dining

The House of Roosevelt Multi-Award Winning Food &

Beverage Establishment on

the Bund

Wine Spectator’s 2014 Best

of Award of Excellence

Winner

Roosevelt Sky Bar 9/F*Rooftop Bar with the

Best View of the Bund and

Pudong Skyline, Live DJ &

Heat air-conditioned Glass

Atrium.

*Afternoon Tea 2pm – 5pm.

Roosevelt Sky Restaurant 8/F*Ultimate Panoramic Views

of Pudong and the Bund;

International Cuisine.

*Executive Lunch RMB158/

Two-Course-Set.

Roosevelt Grand Ballroom 6/F*Can accommodate more

than 500 people, suitable for

all kinds of occasions

Roosevelt Wine Cellar 2/F*The Largest Wine Cellar in

Town with over 4,500 labels.

*Every Wednesday is

Winesday.

*Romantic Dining Experience

in the Largest Wine Cellar

with Excellent View.

Roosevelt Ichiban 1/F*Modern Izakaya offers

Contemporary Japanese

Cuisine & A Variety of

Japanese Drinks.

*Whiskey Lounge with Unique

Art & Jazz Music; Ginza Style

Indoor & Outdoor Dining

Experience.

(Open: 6PM – 2AM)

Free Wi-Fi.

Valet Parking.

27 Zhongshan No.1 Rd. E.

(27 Bund)

Hotline: 2322 0800.

http://27bund.com

[email protected]

Indian

Kebabs on the Grille The Cool Docks, 505 Zhongshan Rd S.Tel: 6152-6567 [email protected]

Malaysian

Food Fusion Malaysian CuisineOver 200 dishes of Malaysia’s

popular local delicacies at

Food Fusion accommodate

your tastebuds with once-

and-for-all experiences of

authentic Malaysian cuisine.

Hainanese Chicken Rice,

Roti Canai and Bak Kut Teh,

and some world-renowned

original specialties of

Malaysia like Musang King

Durian, Teh Tarik and White

Coffee, are all ready within

your easy reach to pick up.

Hong Qiao Nan Feng Add: 5F, 100 Zunyi RdTel: 6237 0628Daning International Add: 301A, Building 9, 1978 Gonghexin Rd Tel: 6607 6581Jing’an JIngpinAdd: 23A, 5F, 68 Yuyuan RdTel: 6255 0737Henderson MetropolitanAdd: 4F, 300 East Nanjing RdTel: 021-33767967Huaihai ParksonAdd: 8F, 918 midde Huaihai RdTel: 021-63853906Pudong Kerry ParksideAdd: 2F, 1378 Huamu RdTel: 021-50177367Tianshan ParksonAdd: 5F, 789 Tianshan RdTel: 021-32559587

Pizza

PizzaExpress (Shanghai)PizzaExpress serves hand tossed, traditional Italian pizzas, including a selection of fresh pastas, salads and Italian inspired appetisers. Using dough naturally proved over 12 hours, imported cheeses and our famous San Marzano tomato sauce, PizzaExpress is the perfect place to spend an evening between friends, a romantic date for two or enjoy a

business lunch.

• Xintiandi Tel: 021- 5383 3999

Addr: Unit 02/03, No. 10-

12, Lane 181, TaiCang Road,

Shanghai

• Shanghai Centre Tel: 021- 6289 8733

Addr: Suit 107, 1376 West

Nanjing Xi Road, Shanghai

• K11 Art Mall Tel: 021- 6333 6155

Addr: Unit 403, Level 4, K11

Art Mall, 300 Middle Huai

Hai Road, Shanghai

• Hongyi Plaza Tel: 021- 6339 1327

Addr: S-211, Level 2, Hongyi

International Plaza, 299 East

Nanjing Road, Shanghai

• Raffl es City Tel: 021- 6351 0870

Addr: Unit 03-12, Level 3,

Raffl es City, 268 Middle

Xizang Road, Shanghai

Find more locations:

www.sh.pizzaexpress.cn

Thai

Simply Thai1) 5C Dongping Road2) 159 Madang Road3) 28 Lane 3338 Hongmei Road, Hongmei Pedestrian Street4) A6 Green Sports & Leisure Center, 600 Lantian Road5) Level 4, IFC Mall, 8 Century Avenue6) Level 3, Unit 312A, L’Avenue Shanghai, 99 Xianxia Road7) Level 8, S801-1A, Jiu Guang Department Store, 1618 Nanjing Road West8) Level 4, N4-11, Shanghai Kerry Centre, 1515 Nanjing Road West9) Level 3, 312-314, 388 Nanjing Road WestTel: 400 880 7729, 6209 6209 (delivery)[email protected], www.simplythai.com.cn

Jing’anDistrict

Canadian

Big Bamboo1) Downtown Jing'an: 132 Nanyang Rd Tel: 6256-2265;2) Jin Qiao Green City: 381 Hongfeng Rd Tel: 5033-6717;3) Hong Mei Laowai Street: No. 20, Lane 3338, Hongmei Rd Tel: 6405-8720; www.bigbamboo.asia

Cafe

W+S Cafe by NapoleonThe most elegant alfresco dining experience for lunch and dinner, organic and fresh ingredients, weekend brunch and afternoon tea are also available. 10% discount when you mention Shanghai Daily. Find us hidden under the pink sakura blossom. 1298 Middle Huaihai Rd, by Huating Rd.


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Metro: Line1/7 Changshu Rd.

TeL: 64227716

Gourmet Café 1/F, Shanghai Centre,

1376 Nanjing Rd W.

Tel: 6289-5733

www.gourmet-cafe.com

Wagas (Cafés)LG 11A, Citic Square,

1168 Nanjing Rd W.

Tel: 5292-5228

www.wagas.com.cn

Taste and SeeAdd: No.99 Taixing

Rd.(Zhang's Garden). Close

to Wujiang Rd.

Tel: 52831977

Fusion

Four Seasons Hotel• Café Studio (Western)

• Steak House (Western)

• Sijixuan (Chinese)

• Shintaro (Japanese)

500 Weihai Rd

Tel: 6256-8888

www.fourseasons.com

Jing An Shangri-La, West Shanghai 1218 Middle Yan'an Road

Tel: 2203-8889

[email protected]

www.jinganshangdining.com

Hilton Shanghai• Leonardo's (Italian)

• Sichuan Court (Chinese)

• Penthouse Bar on 39 (Bar)

• Atrium Café (Western)

• People On The Water

(Chinese)

• Lobby Pavilion (Bar)

• Gourmet Corner (Western)

250 Huashan Rd

Tel: 6248-0000

www.hilton.com

The Portman Ritz-Carlton, Shanghai• Tables Restaurant• The Lobby Lounge• The Ritz Bar• Ubuka Japanese Restaurant • Angelina French Restaurant and Tea House1376 Nanjing Rd W.Tel: 6279-8888www.ritzcarlton.com

MinhangDistrict

Indian

Bukhara3729 Hongmei Road,

Tel: 64468800

Enjoy your favorite

northwestern specialty

dishes prepared with most

authentic exquisite recipes

and served in Pure Indian

atmosphere

Monday to Friday your

selection of Veg or Non-

Veg 5 Courses set

lunch, includes Soft

drinks+Soup+Starter+main

course and dessert

Saturday and Sunday (11AM

-3PM) an extensive Feast

of widespread Indian veg

and non-veg delicacies with

unlimited beer, juices and

soft drinks

Every day Happy Hour at

Lounge from 11AM to 8PM

PudongNew Area

Brazilian

Welcome to Brazil, Welcome to Latina!* Lujiazui (Pudong)

2F, No.165 Lujiazui Ring Rd

TEL: 021 33830577

* Grand Gateway Plaza (Xuhui)

No.166 Inner Street, No.1

Hongqiao Rd

TEL: 021 64472260

* Biyun Green Leisure &

Sports Center (Pudong)

1F, House R5, No.633 Biyun

Rd, Jinqiao

TEL: 021 50306672

* Science & Technology

Museum (Pudong)

B1-B2, Yatai Shenghui

Shopping Square, No.2002

Century Avenue

TEL: 021 68545484

* Tongren Lane (Jing'an)

2F, No.88 Tongren Rd,

Jing'an District

TEL: 021 63203566 / 021

63260905

* Shenzhen Seaworld (Shenzhen City)Zone C, Seaworld Shekou, Wanghai Rd Nanshan District

Chinese

Jadin de Jade1) 3/F, South Block, Hong Kong Plaza, 283 Huaihai Rd M.

Tel: 6390-8989

2) 3/F, Podium of Laya Plaza,

300 Fangdian Rd, Pudong

Tel: 6854-0707

3) 3/F, Bldg 447, 10 Shajing Rd

Tel: 3377-9090

4) 6/F, Youyi Shopping Mall,

7250 Humin Rd

Tel: 3453-2388

Fusion

Casalingo Italian RestaurantThis signature restaurant

stays true to its name

("homemade" in Italian),

featuring an open

kitchen with pizza oven,

a sumptuous antipasto

counter, a gelato and coffee

bar. Weekday set lunch at

RMB 138 net per person.

1F, Shanghai Marriott Hotel

Pudong East, 15 Xinjinqiao

Road, Pudong

T: 6036 8838

Crowne Plaza Shanghai Pudong• Windows (Western)

• Mei Hua Xuan (Chinese Restaurant)1000 Yanggao Rd N., PudongTel: 5862-1000www.crowneplaza.com

Grand Kempinski Hotel Shanghai

• Elements(All-day-dining restaurant

offering an extensive European

& Asian buffet selection)

• Acqua(Mediterranean restaurant

with aquarium and stunning

river views over the Bund)

• Suntime Century(Cantonese cuisine with

signature dishes and view

overlooking the fi nancial centre)

• The Lobby Bar(Offering High Tea with

European Flair)

• Red Passion(Chill out lounge bar on 30th fl oor with stunning views on the Bund)Grand Kempinski Hotel ShanghaiNo. 1288, Lujiazui Ring RoadTel: 3867 8888www.kempinski.com/shanghaipudong

Grand Hyatt Shanghai• The Grill (Freshest imported

seafood and steaks)

• Cucina (Italian home-style

dishes)

• Kobachi (Sushi, sashimi

and yakitori)

• Patio (Lounge)

• Club Jin Mao (The highest

Shanghainese restaurant in

town)

• Cloud 9 (A sky lounge

located 360 metres above

the city with panoramic 360-

degree views)

Jinmao Tower, 88 Century

Avenue, Pudong

Tel: 5047 1234

[email protected]

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Intercontinental Shanghai ExpoSundays are Made for

Champagne and Brunch

Tuck into an inspired buffet

with a variety of international

delicacies at Café 1188.

Don’t miss the Champaign

to elevate your taste bud

for a fantastic Sunday

afternoon. Kids will have

fun with creative arts and

craft projects provided

by Awesome Kid’s Club,

and even attend a private

swimming class in the

swimming pool. The Brunch

starts from RMB 388+15%

per person, including free-

fl owing soft drinks and beer,

available from 12:00 a.m. to

15:00 p.m. on Sundays. For

reservations or additional

information, please call

021-3858 1208.

Sheraton Shanghai Waigaoqiao HotelGather at Sheraton Shanghai

Waigaoqiao Hotel YUE

Chinese restaurant for Chef’s

choice on mouth-watering

Sea food Hot Pot. Various

of set menus with Baby

Lobster, Red Crab, Abalone

ect tempting seafood for your

friends and family to taste the

fresh-from-the-sea.

28 Jilong Road, Waigaoqiao

Bonded Area, Shanghai

Tel: 021-3121 9999 ext. 6348

shanghai.grand.hyatt.com

The Eton Hotel Shanghai• Yu Ting (Chinese)

• Super Bowl (Asian)

• Chicago Steak House

(Western)

• Eton Cafe ( international

buffet and a la carte)

No.535 Pudong Ave

Tel: 3878-9888

www.etonhotelshanghai.cn

The Hongta Hotel, Shanghai• Saints (Western)

• Danieli’s (Italian)

39/F, 889 Dongfang Rd

Tel: 5050-4567 ext 6370

New website: www.

luxurycollection.com/

hongtashanghai

New hotel email address:

thehongtahotel@

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THE QUBE, PUDONG5500 Chuansha Road,

Shanghai 201200 P.R. China

Tel: 021- 6187 1888

http://www.thequbehotels.

com/

• Pin Zhen Xuan Chinese RestaurantDim Sum Buffet Lunch In

Pin Zhen Xuan: CNY68 net/

person. Hand-made dim sum

with a traditional Huaiyang

taste and a refreshing

environment makes your life

colorful and elegant.

• Poya All Day DinningInternational Food Festival

Buffet: CNY238 net/person.

In house guests can enjoy

20% discount.

• Q BarGroup Purchase Promotion:

CNY 108 (suggest 2-4

persons). A bottle of imported

wine /two beers & two

snacks.

Italian

Alla Torre 1. Alla Torre Italian Restaurant

& Bar Lujiazui

1F, No.165 Lujiazui Ring Rd,

Shanghai

TEL:+86 21 33830577

2. Pizzeria Alla Torre Tongren

Lane

1F, Tongren Lane 88, No.88

Tongren Rd, Shanghai

TEL:+86 21 6280 0177

3. Pizzeria Alla Torre Grand

Gateway

No.166 Grand Gateway Plaza

Inner Street, Hongqiao Rd,

Shanghai

TEL:+86 21 64472267

4. Pizzeria Alla Torre Global

Harbor

4F, Global Harbor Shopping

Mall, No.3300 Zhongshan

North Rd, Shanghai

TEL:+86 21 62416608

Mexican

Pistolera - Mexican Grill & Cantina 1) Pistolera @ The New Hengshan Cinema No.838-2 Hengshan Rd.2) Biyun Location: No. 855 Biyun Rd.Tel: 5030-4228Enjoy our Happy Hour from 5pm-7pm everyday2) Hongmei Location: No. 3307-2 Hongmei Rd.

Tel: 62216392 www.pistolera.cn

Greek

Greek Taverna The Best Mediterranean Food In Shanghai1) Yueyanglu No.1 Yueyang

Rd. by Dongping Rd, Xuhui

District Tel: 021-64317751

2) Hongmeilu Villa 1, No.3911

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Rd, Changning District Tel:

021-62625011

3) Laowaijie Unit 16,

Lane3338 Hongmei Road by

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District Tel: 021-54408530

PutuoDistrict

Fusion

Raddisson BluHotel Shanghai Hongquan• Ü Chinese Restaurant • Terrace Café (Western)• Shiki (Japanese)210 Taopu RdTel: 5355-9999www.radissonblu.com hongquanhotel-shanghai

SongjiangDistrict

Fusion

Le Meridien Sheshan Shanghai• Lake View (Chinese)

• Le Café (Western)

No.1288 Linyinxin Rd

Tel: 5779-9999

www.lemeridien.com/

Eaton Luxe HotelYat Tung Heen (Chinese)

Metro Buffet & Grill (A La

Carte and Buffet)

No. 628 Mingxing Road

Tel: 2309 8888

www.xinqiao.eatonhotels.com

Credit card, WIFI, PARKING

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XuhuiDistrict

International

ICONAdd: Shanghai Stadium, Gate

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Tel: 6406-5919

Opening Hours: Sun - Thurs:

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cy.shasx.momocafe.acting.

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Fragrance Chinese

Restaurant (Cantonese &

Shanghainese)

No.516 Hengshan Road

Tel: 021-6415 5588

www.regalhotel.com

Organic Food

GREEN&SAFE1) Tel: 5465-1288

Add: 6 Dongping Rd

2) Tel: 6295-5117

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Tokushikai Dental

This is a trusted place to get your

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• TOKUSHINKAI JinQiao Dental

Clinic

Tel: 021-5030-7858, 5030-7868

160 Lan'an Rd., Biyun International

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• TOKUSHINKAI LianYang Dental

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• TOKUSHINKAI HongQiao Dental

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Tel: 021-5208-0208 (Japanese)

5208-0218 (Chinese and English)

3F, Maxdo Center, 8 Xingyi Rd.

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