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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra

Modi in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Nov. 13, 2014
Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng paid an official call

to Mr. Ajit Doval, Indian National Security Advisor on
November 3rd, 2014. Both sides exchanged views on
how to implement the outcomes of Chinese Presidents
visit to India.
On October 28,2014 Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng

met with Mr. Sarbananda Sonowal, Indian Minister of
State for Youth Affairs and Sports and exchanged views
with him on youth exchanges between the two countries.
On October 28, 2014, Chinese Ambassador to India Mr. Le

Yucheng visited the Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry(FICCI) and discussed with
Sidharth Birla, President of FICCI on economic and trade
cooperation between China and India.
Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng and Mr. MK Razdan,

Editor-in-Chief & CEO of Press Trust of India (PTI) were
watching the pictures of Chinese President Xi Jinpings
India Visit on October 22,2014 in Chinese Embassy.
Chinese Ambassador Mr.Le Yucheng(L) met with Ms. Alka

Acharya , Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies(ICS)
and Mr. Jabin T. Jacob, Assistant Director & Senior Fellow
of ICS in Chinese Embassy on October 24, 2014.
On October 23, 2014 Mrs. Madhulika Sen(2nd L), Principal

of Tagore International School (TIS) visited Chinese
Embassy and met with Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le
Yucheng (2nd R).
Chinese Ambassador
Mr. Le Yucheng
s
Keynote
Speech
at
the Round
Table Discussion on APEC
Chinese Ambassador
to India Mr. Le Yucheng
said on November 4th,
2014 in New Delhi that
he believes Indian people
will benefit a lot from
Chinas development and
the cooperation between
China and India.
At a roundtable
discussion with local
scholars and experts on
the upcoming APEC
China 2014 to be held in
Beijing, Mr. Le Yucheng said that during
Discussion on Asia-Pacific Economic
Chinese President Xi Jinpings state visit to
Cooperation. Id like to express my heart-felt
India in September, China and India reached
appreciation for the Institute of Chinese
broad consensus on bilateral relations; now
Studies for co-organizing this event. APEC is
the two sides are stepping up efforts to
the largest, highest-ranking and most
implement the outcome of the visit.
influential economic cooperation mechanism
The ambassador said, It is my great
in the Asia-Pacific region. It is of great strategic
pleasure to join you in this Round Table
significance in the world with 21 members,
40% of the worlds population,

57% of the total world economy
and 46% of the total global trade.
The choice of this topic for todays
discussion vindicates the wide
range and deep insight of the ICSs
academic focus.
The ambassador said, The
Indian people will soon benefit
from more high-quality and
reasonably priced goods made by
Chinese manufacturers in India ...
and hopefully experience more
Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng

answered the questions of media.
convenient and comfortable highspeed railway service. Chinas investment will
real-life experience understand fully that
create jobs for thousands of Indians.
neighbors may sometimes encounter problems
Mr. Le Yucheng also added that India, along with
and there are always ways to solve them. Of course
20 other Asian countries that are willing to join
the boundary question, which is a leftover from
Asian Infrastructure Invest-ment Bank (AIIB) as
the Western colonialists, needs solution, he said.
founding members, on Oct. 24 signed the
He said that with fond memories of the 2001
Memorandum of Understanding on Establishing
APEC Summit held in Shanghai, China is ready to
AIIB (MOU) which aims to promote
host once again APEC in Beijing this time. Starting
interconnectivity and economic integration in the
from tomorrow, China will host the 2014 APEC
region.
Economic Leaders Week, including the 22nd APEC
Mr. Le Yucheng noted that the border problem
Economic Leaders Meeting, APEC CEO Summit
between the two countries should not hamper the
and APEC Business Advisory Council Dialogue
overall development of bilateral ties. People with
with Leaders. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary, the

theme of 2014 APEC is Shaping
the Future through Asia-Pacific
Partnership. Beijing is ready to
host the APEC leaders to seek
common development of the AsiaPacific region. At this opportune
moment I would like to talk with
all of you about the future path of
development and cooperation of
the Asia-Pacific region.
(Please see the full text of Mr.
Le Yuchengs keynote speech in
APEC CHINA 2014.)
Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng

talked
with
Indian
participant
at
the
function
CONTENTS
APEC
CHINA
2014
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Shaping the Future through Asia-Pacific Partnership

Xi Jinping Attends Dialogue Between APEC Leaders and ABAC Representatives
China, Neighbors Vow to Strengthen Connectivity, Deepen Cooperation
Chinese President Proposes Asia-Pacific Dream
China Marks Six Priorities for New Type of Major-Country Relations with U.S.
APEC Beijing Summit "Historic": Chinese FM
Making the Cake of Cooperation Bigger, Promoting Prosperity in Asia-Pacific
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EXTERNAL
AFFAIRS
1. China to Maintain Growth, Contribute to Global Economy: Chinese President
2. BRICS Countries Should Raise Their Voice in Global Economic Governance: Chinese President
3. Chinese Premier Urges Further Cooperation within East Asia
4. China, ASEAN to Upgrade Partnership in "Diamond Decade"
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Speech by Premier Li Keqiang at Fourth Ministerial Conference of Istanbul Process on Afghanistan
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CHINA
INDIA
RELATIONS
1. Chinese Premier Pledges to Strengthen Cooperation with India
2 China and India to Strengthen Dialogue and Cooperation on Afghan Issue
3 China: Advancing the Rule of Law Domestically, Contributing to Peace and Development Internationally
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CHINESE ENTERPRISES IN INDIA

1. SANY, Partnering with India
s Future Growth Potential
2. Shandong Electric Power Construction No.2 Company
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REVIVING THE SILK ROAD

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China Pledges 40 Billion USD for Silk Road Fund

Maritime Silk Road Expo Inaugurated, Brings Businesses
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CULTURE & LIFE

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Xi's Wife Calls for Just, Tolerant Society for Disabled People
Beijing Bid Promotes Life on the Ice
Yunnan Hosts International Mandarin Competition
Chinese-style Outfits Designed for APEC
History of Cheongsams
Explore China's Famous Old Town
Pingyao
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TIBET TODAY
1. 2014 Canada China Tibetan Culture Week Goes to Toronto
2 Tibet Honors Outstanding Doctors
3 Tsongo, a Small
Lake
in
North
Tibet
BOOK REVIEW
CCTV NEWS
YOUR
LINK
TO
CHINA
AND
THE
WORLD
CRI A BRIDGE OF FRIENDSHIP
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APEC CHINA 2014
Shaping the Future through Asia-Pacific Partnership

Opening Remarks by Chinese
President
Xi
Jinping
At the 22nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
Beijing, 11 November 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping hosts and addresses the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders'
Meeting at the Yanqi Lake International Convention Center in northern suburb of Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 11, 2014.
Xinhua
Pang
Xinglei
Dear Colleagues,
I am very glad to meet you at Yanqi Lake in
Beijing. Let me first extend a warm welcome to all
of you.
Each year, flocks of swan geese fly here and
stay at the lake in spring and autumn, hence Yanqi
Lake means the lake of swan geese. We 21
member economies of APEC are just like 21 swan
geese. A line from an ancient Chinese poem reads:
The wind breaks waves into thousands of flowers
on the sea; flocks of swan geese fly across the blue
sky with their wings spread. We are meeting here
at Yanqi Lake to enhance cooperation and embark
on a new flight to shape a new vision for the

development of the Asia-Pacific region.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of APEC.
The past 25 years of APECs growth have also
witnessed the development and prosperity of the
Asia-Pacific region. APEC has witnessed the
historic achievements of the Asia-Pacifics
development, which, in turn, has given APEC a new
mission.
The world economic recovery still faces many
unpredictable and destabilizing factors. The AsiaPacific region has entered a new stage of
development, facing both opportunities and
challenges. How to tackle the risks of

fragmentation of regional economic cooperation?
How to create new growth momentum in the postfinancial crisis period? How to remove the
financing bottlenecks hindering connectivity?
These are issues we need to consider and actively
address.
In the face of new conditions, we need to
intensify regional economic integration and foster
an open environment that is conducive to longterm development. APEC should play a leading
and coordinating role in breaking various
shackles and unleash a new round of greater
openness, exchange and integration at a higher
level, in more areas and involving deeper
structural adjustment. We need to open the closed
doors within the Asia-Pacific region and open our
region fully to the rest of the world. While
continuing to advance the Bogor Goals, we should
vigorously promote the development of the
FTAAP by identifying targets and laying out
directions and roadmaps. This will help realize, at
an early date, the vision of completing a highly
open integration arrangement that spans across
the two sides of the Pacific Ocean.
vigorously promote reform and innovation, create
new growth areas and driving forces, and ensure
strong and sustainable growth. Where does
growth momentum come from in the post-crisis
period? Undoubtedly, it can only come from
reform, innovation and readjustment. We need to
be innovative in development approaches, pursue
APEC China 2014 7
development through innovation and reform

instead of driving it the usual way by relying on
factors of production and export, and generate
internal growth momentum through structural
adjustment. We need to change the model of
market regulations, allow the market to play a
decisive role in resources allocation, and better
play the role of the government. We need to
advance scientific and technological innovation to
facilitate energy and consumption revolution, and
make the Asia-Pacific region a global leader in
achieving new technological revolution. This year,
we have promoted cooperation in Internet
economy, urbanization and blue economy and
discussed ways of leaping over the middle income
trap, and a good beginning has been made in
addressing all these major and urgent issues in
the global economy.
speed up efforts to upgrade infrastructure and
build comprehensive connectivity. Connectivity is
about connecting physical structures. Our
cooperation should extend to wherever roads,
railways, air routes and the Internet take us.
Connectivity is about connecting rules and
regulations. When coordination and cooperation
are enhanced and regulatory obstacles are
reduced, logistics will become smoother and
exchanges more convenient. Connectivity is also
about connecting the hearts of people. With
enhanced mutual understanding, we can achieve
better communication and be more successful in
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our endeavors. In short, to achieve

comprehensive connectivity in the Asia-Pacific,
we should bring together all member economies
on both sides of the Pacific by connecting physical
structures, rules and regulations, and hearts of
people. We should eliminate bottlenecks in
accessing affordable financing, strengthen publicprivate partnerships, and achieve interconnected
development.
Dear Colleagues,
We are all members of the APEC community. It
meets the common interests of us all to foster an
open economy in the Asia-Pacific featuring
innovative development, interconnected growth
and converging interests. To achieve this goal, all
the economies in the region need to work together
to build an Asia-Pacific partnership of mutual
trust, inclusive-ness, cooperation and win-win
progress, and this will inject new energy into the
economic development of both the Asia-Pacific
and the world.
First, we should jointly chart the course for
future development. The future development of
the Asia-Pacific is vital to the interests of every
APEC member. Having reached important
consensus on launching the process of FTAAP,
promoting connectivity and pursuing innovative
growth, what we should do now is to translate the
consensus into action. We should draw the
blueprint for development in the next five, ten or
even 25 years and implement it step by step.
Second, we should jointly meet global
challenges. In the post-financial crisis period, we
need to focus on the core task of sustaining growth
and enhance macro policy coordination. We
should also effectively address global issues such
as epidemics, food security and energy security.
We should share information to understand each
other better, exchange experience to share best
practices, facilitate collective actions through
consultation and coordination, and boost regional
cooperation through mutual assistance.
Third, we should jointly build cooperation
platforms. Partnership means pitching in for
common goals and big initiatives. We should build
APEC into an institutional platform for promoting
integration, a policy platform based on experience

sharing, an open platform against trade
protectionism, a development platform to
intensify economic and technical cooperation and
a platform for boosting connectivity. A stronger
and more dynamic APEC is possible only with
support from all its members.
I wish to announce here that China will donate
10 million US dollars to support APEC
institutional and capacity building and its
practical cooperation in various fields.
Fo u r t h , w e s h o u l d j o i n t l y p u r s u e
interconnected development. Partnership also
means win-win cooperation and mutual learning.
Some developing economies in the Asia-Pacific
region now face difficulties. If they cannot achieve
development, development of the whole AsiaPacific region will not be sustainable. We need to
increase financial and technical support to
developing members, give full rein to the strength
of diversity among the Asia-Pacific economies,
draw on each others strength, better leverage the
amplifying effects and achieve common
development.
In the coming three years, the Chinese
government will provide 1,500 training
opportunities to APEC developing members in
support of capacity-building projects in trade,
investment and other fields.
Dear Colleagues,
Under the theme of Shaping the Future
through Asia-Pacific Partnership, we will discuss
three important topics, namely, advancing
regional economic integration, promoting
innovative development, economic reform and
growth, and strengthening comprehensive
development in infrastructure and connectivity. I
am confident that our meeting today will inject
new vitality into the long-term development of
the Asia-Pacific region.
A single flower does not herald spring; a lone
goose cannot make a formation. Let us take Yanqi
Lake as the new starting point, and lead the flying
swan geese of the global economy in soaring
higher in the vast and blue sky.
Thank you!
APEC China 2014
Closing Remarks by Chinese President Xi Jinping

At the 22nd APEC
Economic Leaders' Meeting
Beijing, 11 November 2014
Dear Colleagues,
Today, we have had
t h o ro u g h a n d f r u i t f u l
discussions on the meetings
theme and three major
topics and exchanged views
on the vision of Asia-Pacific
development and the future
direction of APEC
cooperation. As a result, we
have reached extensive and
important consensus. Now I
w i s h to m a ke a b r i e f
summary of our discussions.
We have reviewed the
achievements and valuable
experience of the APEC in its
history of 25 years and
Chinese President Xi Jinping (4th R, front), his wife Peng Liyuan (3rd R, front), U.S. President
discussed the vision and Barack
Obama (2nd R, front), Russian President Vladimir Putin (2nd L, front), Indonesian
direction for the long-term President Joko Widodo (R, front), Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (L, front) and other
participants and their spouses head for awelcome banquet of the 22nd Asia-Pacific
development of the Asia- Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Beijing, capital of China, Nov.
Pacific. We resolve to build 10, 2014. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
on past success to move
Anniversary of APEC. The two documents lay out
ahead. We agree to, in the spirit of mutual trust,
the direction, targets and measures for Asiainclusiveness, cooperation and mutual benefit,
Pacific
economic cooperation.
shape the future through Asia-Pacific partnership
We emphasize the importance of regional
and build an open economy in the Asia-Pacific
economic
integration as the driving force for
featuring innovative development,
ensuring sustained and dynamic growth in the
interconnected growth and shared interest in a
Asia-Pacific
region. The APEC should continue to
dedicated effort to fulfill the dream of an Asiaplay a leading and coordinating role, help create a
Pacific that delivers growth, prosperity and
new vision for the Asia-Pacific economic
progress to all.
integration
and work for a regional economic
We are determined to strengthen Asiacooperation environment that is open, inclusive,
Pacific partnership and jointly shape future
balanced
and beneficial for all. We have decided to
development, tackle global challenges, build
start and advance the process of the Free Trade
cooperation platforms and pursue
Area
of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) and approved the
interconnected growth. We have adopted two
Roadmap for APECs Contribution to the
outcome documents: the Beijing Agenda for an
Realization
of an FTAAP. This is a substantive
Integrated, Innovative and Interconnected Asiamove we have made towards the FTAAP. It marks
Pacific the 22nd APEC Economic Leaders
the
official launch of the FTAAP process and
Declaration and Shaping the Future through Asiademonstrates the confidence of APEC members in
Pacific Partnership Statement on the 25th
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promoting regional economic integration and

their commitment. It will take regional economic
integration to a new level, deliver gains to all
economies on both sides of the Pacific and inject
new impetus to the economic growth of the AsiaPacific and common development of APEC
members.
We have also approved important
cooperation initiatives on global value chains,
supply chains and capacity building, thus sending
a strong message of support for multilateral
trading system and the early conclusion of the
innovation, reform and growth to reinforce one

another so as to further consolidate the AsiaPacifics position as the engine of the global
economy.
We are resolved to jointly explore
development paths and models suited to each
members conditions, step up exchanges and
mutual learning, and identify new ways for the
development of the Asia-Pacific so that members
of this region will grow together by pursuing
diversified development paths. We have opened
new horizon in cooperation areas. Major new
topics such as leaping over
the middle income trap, the
Internet economy and
urbanization have been
added to our agenda; indepth discussions on them
have produced important
deliverables. We have
carried out vigorous
cooperation on anticorruption in the AsiaPacific, established APECs
Network of AntiCorruption Authorities and
Law Enforcement Agencies
(ACT-NET) and reached
important consensus on
Fireworks explode over the Olympic Park in Beijing, China, Nov. 10, 2014. The 22nd Asia-Pacific p u r s u i n g f u g i t i v e s ,
Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting takes place in Beijing from Nov. 10
recovering criminal
to 11. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
proceeds and engaging in
l
aw enforcement
Doha Round negotiations.
cooperation. We applaud the good progress in
We realize that with the global economy
cooperation
in the blue economy, green economy,
entering a period of profound, post-global
sustainable energy, SMEs, health, forestry, mining,
financial crisis readjustment, the Asia-Pacific
food security, tourism, womens issues and
region must seize the opportunity, meet
economic issues.
challenges head on and speed up innovation and
We fully share the view that enhanced
reform to create new driving force for the growth
comprehensive infrastructure development and
of the Asia-Pacific economy and make it more
connectivity can generate new sources of growth
competitive. We have adopted the APEC Accord on
and
increase the competitiveness of the AsiaInnovative Development, Economic Reform and
Pacific, which serves the shared interest and longGrowth. We have decided to take economic
term
development needs of all APEC member
reform, new economy, innovative growth,
economies. We adopted the APEC Blueprint on
inclusive support and urbanization as five pillars,
Connectivity,
which is a milestone in APEC
enhance policy coordination and dialogue,
cooperation. We are determined to translate the
promote result-oriented cooperation, experience
vision of enhancing hardware, software and
sharing and capacity building and allow
people-to-people connectivity into reality by

2025 and meet specific targets that we have
jointly agreed upon. Guided by this blueprint, we
will step up investment, build a comprehensive,
all-round and multi-tiered Asia-Pacific
connectivity network, and this will lay a solid
foundation of connectivity for the long-term
development of the Asia-Pacific.
We have decided to expand result-oriented
cooperation in infrastructure development and
financing, promote the public-private partnership
model and help our region remove bottlenecks in
financing connectivity projects. We highly
appreciate the fundamental role of the flow of
people in promoting connectivity and have
decided to launch new initiatives such as crossborder education, business travel card and crossborder tourism, so as to benefit more people on
both sides of the Pacific.
We have decided to jointly meet such global
challenges as pandemic disease, terrorism,
natural disaster and climate change. Facing the
ravaging Ebola epidemic, APEC leaders are
resolved to jointly help African countries
effectively handle, prevent and control the spread
of the disease, and support the United Nations in
leading and coordinating efforts to assist Africa
and fight the disease. We will support the people
in affected countries overcome difficulties until
APEC China 2014 11
the final victory against Ebola is won.

Dear Colleagues,
Before I officially close our meeting, I wish to
take this opportunity to express my sincere
thanks to you all for the trust you have placed in
me and the Chinese government. I thank you for
your support, understanding and cooperation
during the meeting and for your dedication and
contribution to the common development,
prosperity and progress of the Asia-Pacific.
This meeting is not the end, but a new
beginning. I am deeply convinced that our
discussion today is of great significance. Later,
when we look back at the history made here today
at Yanqi Lake, we can say with pride that we did
the right thing.
Good times are always too short; and we will
soon say goodbye to each other. After the meeting,
I will brief the press on the outcomes and our
discussions of the meeting based on the
consensus we have reached. Some of you will stay
in China for a couple more days. Others will leave
soon. I hope you have enjoyed your stay in China,
and wish you all a pleasant and safe trip.
I also look forward to meeting you again in
Manila next year.
Thank you!
Xi Jinping Attends Dialogue Between APEC Leaders and

ABAC Representatives
On November 10, 2014, President Xi
Jinping attended in Beijing the Dialogue
between Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) Leaders and APEC Business Advisory
Council (ABAC) Representatives. Xi Jinping
stressed that China enjoys a sound
development prospect. China is a beneficiary
and more an active advocator and promoter
of regional cooperation. We are willing to
actively advance liberalization and
facilitation of regional trade and investment,
speed up regional economic integration and
join hands to push forward development and

prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.
When arriving at the meeting venue, Xi
Jinping and leaders of other economies were
warmly welcomed by the participants. Xi
Jinping delivered a speech at the plenary
meeting. Xi Jinping pointed out that currently
the Asia-Pacific region is embracing
important development opportunities as well
as broad development prospect, and also
facing multiple unstable and uncertain
factors. As an important economic
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cooperation mechanism in
the region, APEC should
understand the new
characteristics of global and
regional situations, grasp the
future development
direction of cooperation in
the Asia-Pacific region and of
the world economy, and add
more vigor to economic
growth in the Asia-Pacific
region and the world.
Xi Jinping stressed that
China has taken the
important mission as the
host country for APEC this
year, and stands ready to take
this opportunity to actively
promote liberalization and
facilitation of regional trade and investment,
accelerate regional economic integration, and
strengthen the members capability in
economic and technical cooperation, so as to
jointly push forward development and
prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region and build
an Asia-Pacific partnership for the future.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the business
circle is the major driving force for AsiaPacific economy, and it is hoped that all
parties contribute positive energy to APECs
long-term development.
Following that, Xi Jinping attended the
grouping discussion and communicated and
interacted with representatives of the
business circle.
As to the practical results to be yielded
from the meeting hosted by China this year, Xi
Jinping noted that first is to launch the
process of Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific
(FTAAP) and chart the course for Asia-Pacific
cooperation. Second is to issue the
declaration for commemorating the 25th
anniversary of the establishment of APEC,
summing up historical experience and
blueprinting the prospect. Third is to advance
innovative development in economy, reform

and growth, injecting new vigor into the longterm development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Fourth is to blueprint connectivity, laying a
solid foundation for all-round connectivity in
the Asia-Pacific region. China is willing to join
efforts with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific
partnership featuring mutual trust ,
inclusiveness, cooperation and win-win
results.
With regard to the relations between the
FTAAP and other regional free trade
arrangements, Xi Jinping pointed out that the
FTAAP is a strong aggregation of existing free
trade arrangements. To advance the
construction of the FTAAP, we should cement
the integration process and define long-term
goals. The FTAAP is no contradiction to the
existing free trade arrangements, and the
latter ones serve as a feasible path to realize
the FTAAP.
With respect to infrastructure and
connectivity construction in the Asia-Pacific
region and the establishment of the Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Xi
Jinping stated that infrastructure and
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c o n n e c t iv i t y
construction are a
basic issue bearing on
e c o n o m i c
development, and also
important means for
regional economic
integration. The
establishment of the
AIIB enjoys good
timing, geographical
convenience and
strong social basis, and
corresponds with the
building of the Silk
The
night
view
around
the
Bird
s
Nest
stadium
in
Beijing
during
the
APEC Economic Leaders'
Road Economic Belt Week.
(Xinhua/Chen Jianli)
and the 21st Century
long-term manner.
Maritime Silk Road,
I n re l a t i o n to C h i n a s e c o n o m i c
serving as a multi-win measure benefiting all
development prospect, Xi Jinping stressed
parties. The AIIB will work with other
that China is comprehensively deepening
multilateral development institutions to
reforms and opening-up, speeding up
contribute to Asia-Pacific economic
transformation of economic development
integration and development.
mode, intensifying adjustment of economic
In regard to whether China is able to get
structure and implementing the innovationthrough the middle-income gap, Xi Jinping
driven strategy, therefore, its economy will
expressed that for China, the middle-income
maintain a medium-to-high growth for a fairly
gap is bound to be crossed, and the key is
long period and its economic quality will
when it will happen and how to better move
improve constantly. We welcome personages
forward after that. We have confidence in
of Asia-Pacific business circle to actively
balancing reform, development and stability
participate in the process of Chinas economic
as well as steady growth, structure
and social development, and together share
adjustment, improvement of peoples
the opportunities and results brought by
livelihood and promotion of reform,
Chinas reform and development.
advancing Chinas economy in a steady and
China, Neighbors Vow to Strengthen Connectivity,

Deepen Cooperation
Beijing, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) China and its
seek Asias common development.
neighbors pledged on Nov. 8 to enhance
Chinese President Xi Jinping, along with
connectivity and deepen practical cooperation to
leaders of seven other neighboring countries and
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Chinese President Xi Jinping presides over a Dialogue on Strengthening Connectivity Partnership in Beijing, capital of China, Nov.
8, 2014. (Xinhua/Li Tao)
two international organizations, reached
According to the communique, the signatories
consensus on a host of measures to boost regional
recognize that strengthening connectivity is
connectivity, ranging from speeding up
consistent with the trend of times and represents
infrastructure construction to innovating
a common necessity for all Asian countries.
financing mechanism, according to a joint press
They also believe that strengthening
communique released at the ongoing Asia-Pacific
connectivity involves work in five areas, including
Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings.
p o l i c y c o m m u n i - c a t i o n , i n f ra s t r u c t u re
The communique came after a dialogue
connectivity, trade link, capital flow and
meeting on strengthening connectivity and
understanding among peoples with the
improving cooperation in Chinas neighborhood.
infrastructure development being the basis and
Xi chaired the dialogue which was attended by
priority.
leaders of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia,
Strengthening connectivity, which is
Myanmar, Pakistan and Tajikistan, and
conductive to identifying new growth point and
representatives of the United Nations Economic
fostering new competitive edge, offers new
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
driving force for Asian cooperation and sustained
and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
prosperity, the document said.
APEC China 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping poses for a group picture with guests before a Dialogue on Strengthening Connectivity Partnership in
Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 8,2014. (Xinhua/Lan Hongguang)
The communique also hailed the building of
The signatories are resolved to intensify
One Belt and One Road, or the Silk Road
efforts in transportation infrastructure
Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk
development, shape an open economic landscape
Road, saying the initiative will inject strong
in Asia with unwavering commitment to open
impetus in enhancing political mutual trust,
regionalism, as well as adopt a people-centered
deepening economic cooperation and promoting
and development oriented approach for the
cultural and people-to-people exchanges among
realization of prosperity, the document said.
relevant countries.
It stipulated that China and its dialogue
At the dialogue, Xi, in his five-point proposal
p a r t n e r s a re c o m m i t t e d t o i m p rov i n g
aimed at promoting inter-connected
institutions and mechanisms to help develop
development in the Asia-Pacific region, said China
cooperation platform with distinctive Asian
will contribute 40 billion U.S. dollars to set up a
characteristics.
Silk Road Fund.
The signatories support efforts of China and
We welcome and appreciate Chinas
relevant countries to establish the Asian
announcement of creating the Silk Road Fund to
Infrastructure Invest-ment Bank as a comple-
provide investment and financing support for
ment to the existing financial institutions, such as
Asian countries participation in connectivity
the World Bank and the Asian Develop-ment Bank,
cooperation, the communique said.
according to the communique.
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Chinese President Proposes Asia-Pacific Dream
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) CEO Summit in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 9, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)
Beijing, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) Chinese President

Xi Jinping called for efforts to create and fulfill an
Asia-Pacific dream here Sunday, saying Chinas
economy will bring huge opportunities and
benefits to the region and the world.
He made the remarks when addressing the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO
Summit, which attracted over 1,500 business
people from 21 APEC member economies and 17
other countries and regions.
The Asia-Pacific has a strong impetus for
development and a bright future, with a rising
standing in the world, but the region now stands
at a crossroads, Xi said.
He listed several challenges facing the region,
such as lingering impacts of the international
financial crisis, fragile recovery in some
economies, the daunting tasks of raising
economic equality and efficiency, as well as
different directions and priorities in accelerating
the regional economic integration process.

The development prospect of our region
hinges on the decisions and actions we take
today, he said. We are duty-bound to create and
fulfill an Asia-Pacific dream for our people.
When elaborating on the idea, the president
said the dream is about acting in the spirit of the
Asia-Pacific community and out of a sense of
shared destinies, following the trend of peace,
d e v e l o p m e n t a n d m u t u a l ly b e n e f i c i a l
cooperation, and jointly working for the
prosperity and progress of the region.
He added that the dream is about staying
ahead of global development and making greater
contribution to the well-being of mankind.
The dream is also about having more
economic vibrancy, free trade and investment
facilitation, better roads, and closer people-topeople exchanges, the president said.
Moreover, the dream is about ensuring
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greater security and

prosperity for the people and
giving children a better
environment to grow, work
and live, he said.
To realize the Asia-Pacific
dream, the region should
redouble efforts to forge a
partnership of mutual trust,
inclusiveness and win-win
cooperation and jointly build
an open economy, Xi urged.
In addition, the regions
economies need to explore
new drivers for growth and
draw a blueprint for
comprehensive connectivity, The exhibition "This is Beijing" inside China National Convention Center, a venue of the
2014 APEC, displays the culture, tradition and scientific innovation of China's capital city.
he said.
(Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
Speaking of the Free
deepen reform, China needs to stimulate the
Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), the
market vitality, broaden the path for innovation,
president suggested the region remain committed
advance opening-up at a higher standard, as well
to open regionalism while endeavoring to initiate
as improve peoples well-being and promote
the FTAAP.
social equity and justice.
Economies should work for new economic
Comprehensively deepening reform will not
i n s t i t u t i o n s a n d re g i o n a l c o o p e ra t i o n
only liberate the productive force but also unleash
architecture that are open, so that the door of the
the vitality of the society, Xi said. It will serve as a
Asia-Pacific will always be open to the entire
strong driving force for Chinas economic and
world, he said.
social development.
As the fastest growing region in the world,
He pledged that China will stay focused on
Asia-Pacific accounts for 40 percent of the global
managing its own affairs well and endeavor to
population, 57 percent of the global economy and
bring more benefits to the Asia-Pacific and the
48 percent of the global trade.
world.
Regarding the development of the worlds
China is ready to work with other countries in
second largest economy, Xi said that Chinas
promoting
the building of the Silk Road
economy has been growing steadily as a new
Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime
normal of it has emerged.
Silk Road, pushing for the early operation of the
Under the new normal conditions, he said,
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and
Chinas economic growth has become more stable
getting more engaged with regional cooperation,
and been driven by more diverse forces while the
he said.
Chinese economic structure has been improved
As its overall national strength grows, China
and upgraded, heralding a more stable
will be both capable and willing to provide more
development prospect.
public goods for the Asia-Pacific and the world,
T h e i n t e n s i t y o f o u r e n d e avo r t o
especially new initiatives and visions for
comprehensively deepen reform will determine
enhancing regional cooperation, Xi told the
whether we will successfully adapt ourselves to
gathering.
the new normal, Xi told his audience.
The president said that to comprehensive
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China Marks Six Priorities for New Type of Major-Country

Relations with U.S.
Beijing, Nov. 12 (Xinhua)
President Xi Jinping on
Wednesday outlined six
priorities in building a new
type of major-country
relationship with the United
States.
China would like to work
with the U.S. to implement
the principle of no conflict, no
confrontation, mutual
respect, cooperation and
common prosperity and
make the new type of majorcountry relations between
the two countries produce
more benefits to people in the
two countries and the world,
Xi told his U.S. counterpart Chinese President Xi Jinping (L Front) holds a welcoming ceremony for U.S. President
Barack Obama (R Front) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 12,
Barack Obama during their 2014. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)
talks in Beijing.
The priorities in Chinas
sensitive issues in a constructive manner. As it is
diplomacy with the United States include:
inevitable to have differences, they should always
China and the U.S. should improve
resort to dialogues and consultation and do not
exchanges and communication between highact against each others core interests.
level officials in a bid to improve strategic trust.
They should improve collaboration in the
The two sides should give bilateral dialogue
Asia-Pacific, having positive interactions,
mechanisms a better play, such as the China-U.S.
encouraging inclusive diplomacy and work for
Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
regional peace, stability and prosperity.
The two countries should respect each
They should jointly respond to regional and
others sovereign and territorial integrity as well
global challenges. China is willing to work with the
as political system and development path, instead
U.S. on regional hotspots such as the Iran nuclear
of imposing ones will and model on the other,
issue, denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
which is the important condition and foundation
and Afghanistan as well as global issues like
for the two countries to have a healthy, stable and
counterterrorism, climate change and epidemic
sustainable relationship.
control.
They should deepen cooperation in all
INDEPTH TALKS
a s p e c t s i n c l u d i n g t r a d e , m i l i t a r y,
Xi and Obama met at the Great Hall of the
counterterrorism, law enforcement, energy,
People,
following a red-carpet ceremony to
health and infrastructure. The cooperation should
welcome the U.S. president on Nov. 12,2014.
involve governments, parliaments, media, think
Obama arrived in Beijing on Nov. 10 to attend
tanks and young people.
the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
The two sides should manage disputes and
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(APEC) Economic
Leaders Meeting and pay
a state visit to China.
Obama congratulated
the Chinese side for
hosting a successful
APEC summit and
expressed his gratitude
for Xis outstanding
hospitality in the state
visit.
S ay i n g t h i s ye a r
marks the 35th
anniversary of the
establishment of ChinaU.S. relations, Xi said
bilateral ties now stand at
a new starting point.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama shake hands at the
Facing the current Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 11, 2014. Xi Jinping held a
bilateral meeting with visiting U.S. President Barack Obama in Beijing Tuesday evening.
c o m p l i c a t e d a n d (Xinhua/Ju Peng)
changing international
situation, China and the United States should and
priorities and our vision for the U.S.-China
will be able to cooperate in more areas, Xi said.
relationship Tuesday evening and Wednesday
Obama said the trade ties and people-tomorning.
people exchanges between the two countries have
I believe our two nations have enormous
surged over the past 35 years.
stake in each others success, Obama said, adding
We have shown that when we cooperate, the
the United States welcomes a peaceful,
United States and China can make important
prosperous and stable China.
contributions to security and prosperity in the
region and around the world, Obama said.
Obama said he and Xi engage in an honest
Xi reviewed his meeting with Obama at the
and constructive dialogue around those
Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho
differences and ensure we can manage them in a
Mirage, California in June 2013, where they
peaceful and effective way.
reached a consensus on building a new type of
Obama said his discussion with Xi will help
China-U.S. relations.
ensure bilateral relationship continue to deliver
The two countries have since then made
results for China, for the United States and for the
positive progress in bilateral coordination and
world.
cooperation in various areas, Xi said.
On Tuesday evening, the two heads of state
China and the United States have worked
held a meeting at the Zhongnanhai leadership
together in tackling climate change, combating
compound in downtown Beijing after the APEC
the Ebola epidemic and fighting terrorism, Xi said.
meeting.
Facts have proved a new type of majorECONOMIC TIES
country relations between China and the United
The two leaders confirmed the core role of
States serves the fundamental interests of the two
economic
ties in bilateral relationship and
peoples and helps maintain peace, stability and
pledged to boost their economic relations and
prosperity in Asia and Pacific and the world, Xi
improve
the international economic system,
said.
according to a release from the Chinese foreign
Obama said he and Xi discussed our
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ministry on major outcomes of the Xi-Obama

meeting.
Last year, bilateral trade volume soared to 520
billion U.S. dollars, and outstanding amount of
two-way investment stood at 100 billion dollars.
The release said China and the United States
will continue to take the bilateral investment
treaty (BIT) negotiations as the most important
issue regarding their economic relationship and
will input more resources into the negotiations
with a view to reaching a comprehensive highstandard bilateral investment treaty.
China and the United States began the BIT
talks in 2008 as the two countries sought to lift
mutual investment, which only accounted for a
tiny share of their overseas investment.
NEW TYPE OF MILITARY RELATIONS

During their talks, Xi proposed a new type of
military relations that suits the new type of
major-country relationship between China and
the United States.
Xi said defense departments of the two
countries have signed Memorandums of
Understanding (MOU) on establishing a mutual
reporting mechanism on major military
operations and a code of safe conduct on naval and
air military encounter.
The two militaries
should deepen
exchanges, mutual trust
and cooperation based on
the two MOUs, he said.
China would like to
make progress in the
exchanges between
senior officers of the two
armed forces, smooth
communication
mechanism and conduct
more joint trainings and
drills with the U.S. side.
the two countries and asked the U.S. government

to stop arms sales to Taiwan and support crossStrait peace with actual actions.
In response, Obama assured that there has
been no change of the U.S. stance on Taiwan and it
does not support Taiwan independence.
The U.S. favors the improvement of crossStrait relations and expects it to continue, he said.
O b a m a a l s o s t re s s e d t h a t t h e U. S .
acknowledges Tibet as part of the Peoples
Republic of China and does not back Tibet
independence.
LANDMARK GOALS FOR CLIMATE

CHANGE
After their meeting, China and the U.S. issued a
joint announcement on climate change, listing
ambitious goals and pledging joint efforts to
tackle climate change in the next 15 years.
The United States intends to achieve an
economy-wide target of reducing its emissions by
26 to 28 percent below its 2005 level in 2025 and
to make best efforts to reduce its emissions by 28
percent, according to the announcement.
Chinas carbon dioxide emission is expected to
hit the peak around 2030 and it intends to
increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary
TAIWAN, TIBET
Xi urged the U.S. to
follow the one-China
policy and principles set
by the three joint
communiques between
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and U.S. President Barack Obama attend a joint press
conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 12,
Xi
Jinping
and
Obama
held
talks
before
the
press
conference
Xinhua
Pang
Xinglei
energy consumption to around 20 percent by

2030, according to the announcement.
AGAINST TERRORISM
Xi and Obama jointly denounced all forms of
terrorism and pledged to fight terrorism together
by following the Charter of the United Nations and
fundamental principles in international relations.
The two countries will also improve
cooperation in law enforcement, such as jointly
hunting down fugitives, recovering their ill-gotten
assets, fighting drug trafficking and cyber crimes.
According to the foreign ministry release, the
two presidents agreed that Chinas Ministry of
Public Security and U.S. Department of Homeland
Security will hold a minister-level meeting early
next year to discuss how to boost anti-terrorism
and law-enforcement cooperation.
CHINAS ROLE
China is a participant, builder and contributor
of the existing international system, Xi said at a
joint press conference with Obama, telling
reporters that Chinas economic development has
made important contribution in boosting world
economic recovery after the financial crisis.
China is also the largest contributor of
peacekeepers among the five permanent
members of the United Nations Security Council,
and China has sent over 20,000 peacekeepers to
UN peacekeeping missions, Xi said.
Since the Ebola outbreak in April, China has
offered 750 million yuan (122 million U.S. dollars)
worth of aid to countries plagued by the epidemic,
Xi said.
According to the foreign ministry release,
China and the United States will enhance
communication and boost cooperation to fight
Ebola in Africa.
Obama told reporters the U.S. views China as
an important cooperative partner, be it on the
bilateral, regional or global level.
Developing a strong relationship with China
occupies the center stage in the U.S. strategy of
rebalancing to Asia.
When answering a question on human rights,
Xi said China has made great achievements in
human rights since the founding of New China in
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1949, especially after 30 years of reform and

opening up.
He said China is willing to engage in dialogues
with the U.S. on human rights on the basis of
equality and mutual respect.
CHINA, U.S. ANNOUNCE AMBITIOUS

CLIMATE CHANGE GOALS
Beijing, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) The worlds two
biggest economies on Nov. 12,2014 announced
ambitious goals and pledged joint efforts to tackle
climate change in the next 15 years.
China and the United States announced their
respective post-2020 goals of coping with climate
change in a joint announcement issued after the
two countries presidents held talks Wednesday
in Beijing.
The United States intends to achieve an
economy-wide target of reducing its emissions by
26 to 28 percent below its 2005 level in 2025 and
to make best efforts to reduce its emissions by 28
percent, according to the announcement.
China intends to achieve the peaking of
carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and
increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary
energy consumption to around 20 percent by
2030.
China and the United States hope that by
announcing these targets now, they can inject
momentum into the global climate negotiations
and inspire other countries to join in coming
forward with ambitious actions as soon as
possible, preferably by the first quarter of 2015,
the announcement said.
The two countries will jointly push
international climate change negotiations for the
adoption of a protocol at the United Nations
Climate Conference in Paris next year, according
to the announcement.
China and the U.S. will step up cooperation in
the fields of clean energy and environmental
protection, the announcement said.
To achieve their climate goals, China and the
U.S. will establish a major new carbon storage
project based in China through an international
public-private consortium led by the two
countries to study and monitor carbon storage
using industrial CO2, it said.
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The two countries will also work together on a

new Enhanced Water Recovery project to produce
fresh water from CO2 injection into deep saline
aquifers.
In addition, China and the U.S. will convene a
Climate-Smart/Low-Carbon Cities Summit where
leading cities from both countries will share best
practices, set new goals and celebrate city-level
leadership in reducing carbon emissions and
building resilience.
Bilateral trade in sustainable environmental
goods and clean energy technologies will be
encouraged, according to the announcement.
It said a U.S. trade mission led by U.S. Secretary
of Energy Ernest Moniz and Secretary of

Commerce Penny Pritzker will visit China in April
2015, with a focus on smart low-carbon cities and
smart low-carbon growth technologies.
China was the first among developing
countries to formulate and implement a national
climate change program and adopted a national
plan to make sure that it will meet the target of
cutting carbon intensity by 40 percent to 45
percent by 2020 from the 2005 level.
In 2013, carbon intensity in China was down
by 28.5 percent from the 2005 level, which was
equivalent to a reduction of 2.5 billion tons of CO2
emissions.
APEC Beijing
Summit
Historic
Chinese
FM
Beijing, Nov.13 (Xinhua) Chinese Foreign
Minister Wang Yi on Thursday said the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in
Beijing was productive and historic.
The summit strived to tackle difficult issues
in Asia-Pacific relations and in APECs
development. A string of crucial achievements
have been made in a great number of areas, Wang
told a press briefing on Thursday.
Wangs comments came after APEC leaders
concluded their annual meeting on Tuesday,
agreeing on economic integration, innovation and
connectivity.
The meeting adopted two important
documents: The 22nd APEC Economic Leaders
Declaration: Beijing Agenda for an Integrated,
Innovative and Interconnected Asia-Pacific and
the Statement on the 25th Anniversary of APEC:
Shaping the Future through Asia-Pacific
Partnership.
The meeting made clear the direction and
objectives for future Asia-Pacific cooperation,
Wang said.
APEC members agreed to start a joint
strategic study on the Free Trade Area of the AsiaPacific (FTAAP), marking the official launch of the
FTAAP process.
This decision will be written into the history
books. It shows how the Chinese mindset of
integration and culture of harmony worked to
resolve diplomatic difficulties, Wang said.
APEC leaders adopted a blueprint to promote
regional connectivity by 2025, which Wang said

enabled the Asia-Pacific region to seek the cutting
edge in global competition.
Wang said the summit had ushered in new
areas of cooperation on global issues, citing a joint
statement on anti-corruption cooperation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced China
would contribute 40 billion U.S. dollars to set up a
Silk Road Fund at a dialogue meeting on
strengthening connectivity and improving
cooperation in the countrys neighborhood, Wang
said.
The summit promoted Chinas bilateral
relations with major countries in the Asia-Pacific
region, citing Xis meetings with U.S. President
Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir
Putin, among others.
Wang highlighted the conclusion of
substantive negotiations on a bilateral free trade
agreement (FTA) between China and the Republic
of Korea, saying it would benefit the two countries
and the region.
The APEC Beijing summit was not the end,
but rather a new starting point, Wang said,
stressing that Beijing APEC was significant and
would have a long-term impact.
Wang pledged China would continue to
demonstrate the China voice, come up with
China solutions and contribute China wisdom.
We will make efforts to turn Chinese
opportunities into world opportunities and turn
world opportunities into Chinas, Wang said.
APEC China 2014
Making the Cake of Cooperation Bigger, Promoting

Prosperity in Asia-Pacific
Keynote
Speech
by
Chinese
Ambassador
H
E
Mr
Le
Yucheng
at the Round
Table Discussion on APEC
New Delhi
India
on November 4th, 2014)
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Friends,
It is my great pleasure
to join you in this Round
Table Discussion on AsiaPacific Economic
Cooperation. Id like to
express my heart-felt
appreciation for the
Institute of Chinese
Studies for co-organizing
this event. APEC is the
largest, highest-ranking
and most influential
economic cooperation
mechanism in the AsiaPacific region. It is of great
strategic significance in
the world with 21 members, 40% of the worlds
population, 57% of the total world economy and
46% of the total global trade. The choice of this
topic for todays discussion vindicates the wide
range and deep insight of the ICSs academic focus.
With fond memories of the 2001 APEC
Summit held in Shanghai, China is ready to host
once again APEC in Beijing this time. Starting from
tomorrow, China will host the 2014 APEC
Economic Leaders Week, including the 22nd
APEC Economic Leaders Meeting, APEC CEO
Summit and APEC Business Advisory Council
Dialogue with Leaders. Celebrating its 25th
Anniversary, the theme of 2014 APEC is Shaping
the Future through Asia-Pacific Partnership.
Beijing is ready to host the APEC leaders to seek
common development of the Asia-Pacific region.
At this opportune moment I would like to talk with
all of you about the future path of development
and cooperation of the Asia-Pacific region.
First of all, allow me to make an introduction

to the background and priorities of the 2014 APEC
Economic Leaders Week.
The present global economic situation
remains complex, where the after-effects of the
international financial crisis can still be felt. The
road to recovery in developed countries is still
bumpy. Growth in emerging market economies
and developing countries has slowed down.
Today, the Asia-Pacific region has become the
engine of the global economy with the highest
growth rate, the greatest potential and the most
active intra-regional cooperation. Its status in the
global economy is rising steadily.
Never before had the cooperation in AsiaPacific been so full of hope and opportunities. Yet
never before had we to deal with so many risks
and challenges.
First, with deepening globalization and
proliferation of various regional free trade
agreements, Asia-Pacific economic cooperation
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now stands at a crossroads that could lead to

connectivity, which includes business mobility,
either integration or fragmentation.
labor and professional mobility, tourism
Second, the international financial crisis has
facilitation, and transnational education. This
exposed the pitfalls and unsustainability of the
year we have the mandate to develop the
traditional growth model. Asia-Pacific member
Blueprint, which will address the achievements
economies should accelerate innovative
and challenges of connectivity in this region, as
development and reform so as to find new
well as the key initiatives for enhanced APEC
approaches to development and new areas of
connectivity and strategies for implementation.
economic growth.
Second of all, Id like to talk about how China is
Third, hindered by the
going to promote development in
financing bottlenecks,
In the age of economic Asia-Pacific through Chinas
infrastructure is still weak in the
globalization, countries development.
Asia- Pacific region. Hence, the
Asia-Pacific is at a crucial
c
a
n
n
o
t
a
c
h
i
e
v
e
effective resolution of financing
stage of development. We should
d e v e l o p m e n t i n adhere to the overarching goal of
bottlenecks requires all of us to
isolation from each common development and build
think out of the box and work
creatively.
other, still less can they an Asia-Pacific community of
Taking these challenges into
pursue development as shared interests and common
consideration, this years APEC
destiny. In the age of economic
a zero-sum game.
meeting will focus on three
globalization, countries cannot
priorities:
achieve development in isolation
Priority One: Advancing Regional Economic
from each other, still less can they pursue
Integration. Important items under this priority
development as a zero-sum game. Rather, with
include promoting Asia-Pacific free trade area,
our interests closely entwined, we the Asia-Pacific
supporting the multilateral trading system,
countries need to seek mutually beneficial
advancing cooperation on global value chain and
cooperation.
supply chain, strengthening capacity- building in
Great minds think alike. Ancient wisdom see
trade and investment.
eye to eye. There is a Chinese proverb, one plus
Priority Two: Promoting Innovative
one can make more than two. I learnt that there is
Development, Economic Reform and Growth. The
a similar saying in the Hindi language, one plus
objective is to promote pragmatic cooperation
one equals eleven. That is also the moral of the
around the five pillars of economic reform, new
following story known widely both in China and
economy, innovative growth, inclusive support
India. Once an old man gave each of his sons a
and urbanization in order to leap over the
single chopstick, everyone broke it easily.
middle-income trap, to bring green development
However, when the old man put all the chopsticks
and innovative growth, to build a blue economy
into a bundle, none of the young guys could break
and an internet economy, and to achieve
them. The story tells us about the importance of
urbanization.
unity and cooperation. We the Asia-Pacific
Priority Three: Strengthening Comprehensive
countries are brothers to each other as in this
Connectivity and Infrastructure Development.
story. We need to deepen pragmatic cooperation
Connectivity has three pillars: first, physical or
in all fields, seek development through
hard connectivity, which includes transport,
integration, and thus jointly bring into reality the
telecommunications, ICT and energy
Asia-Pacific Century.
infrastructure; second, institutional or soft
Asia-Pacific is the region where our home is.
connectivity, which includes customs, supplyAs a member of the Asia-Pacific big family, China
chain, financial and regulatory coherence,
sees the prosperity of the entire region as the
structural reform, etc.; third, people-to-people
foundation of its own well-being. Chinas
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development is also a driving force for regional

reforms to simplify the administrative approval
growth and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. China
system so as to lower the threshold for starting
is willing to promote common development
businesses and remove restrictions on them.
through its own development. We desire to live in
Within only one year, central government
harmony and work in unison with our neighbors
departments have removed or delegated to lower
to make the cake of cooperation even bigger so
levels administrative approval on over 600 items.
that we can all share the fruits of our common
This has given a great boost to business
prosperity.
development in the whole country. From January
Here, Id like to share with all of you our ideas
to September this year, the number of newly
about the common development in four key
registered market entities exceeded 9 million,
words all starting with the letter C, the four Cs.
generating more than 10 million jobs. The reform
The first word is Creative. Chinas reform and
and innovation fuels the new wave of mass
opening-up over the past 30 years is a text-book
entrepreneurship at the grassroots level and
example of creative thinking and large-scale
releases great potential of the market in China.
innovation. I remember vividly that when China
Within next two years, per capita GDP in one-third
considered whether to accede to the WTO, there
of the provinces in China will exceed 10,000 US
was a strong domestic opposition crying wolves
dollars. In the next seven years, China is expected
are coming. However, after dancing with the
to import goods worth more than 17 trillion US
wolves for years, China not only survives but also
dollars, and the amount of outward Chinese
thrives. China has adapted to international
foreign direct investment is expected to reach 1.2
competition through its opening-up. Recently,
trillion US dollars. By 2020, 600 million Chinese
Alibabas IPO success has become a household
people would be earning middle-level-income,
story. I would like to say that Alibaba might be the
which will create an attractive world market.
star at the moment yet it is just one in the Milky
The third word is Contributive. According to
Way of Chinese private enterprises that have
Goldman Sachs statistics, China contributed 22
made great achievements over many years. Other
percent to global growth between 2000 and 2010.
Chinese companies such as Huawei and ZTE have
The IMF stated that the proportion of Chinas
embraced competition at home and abroad and
contribution to the world economy has reached
have emerged as industry leaders. Their products
30 percent and for each percentage point the
are highly cost effective and liked by customers as
Chinese economy grows, the economy of Asia as a
value for money in India as well. Nowadays, the
whole expand by 0.3 percent. Former World Bank
ever deeper integration of Chinas vibrant
chief economist Lin Yifu said that just like the
economy with the global economy not only
contribution of the Four Asian Dragons to the
improves the living standards of the Chinese
development of mainland China in the past,
people but also enhances the well-being of the
Chinas economic upgrading will now create a
peoples of all other countries, including India.
new growth space for the growth of other
The second word is
developing countries, especially
Conducive. We have strived to
the neighboring ones. Taking
Realizing that development into account that the size of
remove market obstacles and
is inseparable from peace Chinas economy is far bigger
make the market play a decisive
role in resources allocation so
and stability, China is also than that of the Four Asian
that everyone interested in
committed to safeguarding Dragons, Chinas contribution
starting a business could give full
will certainly be more apparent.
regional peace and security
play to his or her spirit of
Realizing that development
while
contributing
to
entrepreneurship. Since its
is inseparable from peace and
regional development.
formation, the new Chinese
s t a b i l i t y, C h i n a i s a l s o
government has introduced
committed to safeguarding
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regional peace and security while contributing to

countries. He welcomed active participation by all
regional development. The latest example is that
countries that are interested so as to achieve winChina firmly supports Afghanistan to promote
win results. He said that the establishment of the
peaceful reconciliation and reconstruction
AIIB incorporates the desire, resolve and action of
process and is willing to help Afghanistan to
all parties in pursuing development through
enhance its capacity building. During the 4th
cooperation and contributes to improving global
Foreign Ministerial Conference of the Istanbul
financial governance. The AIIB itself is an
Process on Afghanistan held in
innovative mechanism. It
Beijing on October 31, China
China has always been thinking complements the existing
announced Afghanistan grant
mechanisms instead of
about
ways
to
make
new
assistance of 500 million RMB
replacing them. The AIIB
contributions
towards
deepening
yuan this year and 1.5 billion
would facilitate
RMB yuan in the coming three the Asia-Pacific economic i n f r a s t r u c t u r a l i n t e r years, training of 3,000 Afghan integration and is willing to use its connectivity in this region,
professionals in various fields
advance regional economic
experience, funds and technology
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impetus into the Asian
years. This action of China has development of the Asia-Pacific.
economic development. I am
been widely acclaimed by the
sure that through concerted
international community.
efforts of all parties, the AIIB
The fourth word is Cooperative. China has
can be built into an equal, inclusive and highlyalways been committed to promote the Asiaefficient platform for infrastructure investment
Pa c i f i c d e ve l o p m e n t t h r o u g h i t s o w n
and financing as well as a multilateral
development and provide new opportunities for
development bank that meets the needs of the
regional prosperity through its own reforms and
countries in this region.
opening-up. China has always been thinking about
Last but not least, I feel that our discussion
ways to make new contributions towards
would be incomplete without further deliberation
deepening the Asia-Pacific economic integration
on the cooperation between China and India.
and is willing to use its experience, funds and
As you know, President Xi Jinping concluded
technology to promote the common development
his historical and very successful state visit to
of the Asia-Pacific. Infrastructure connectivity is a
India last month. During the visit, President Xi
basic condition for integrated development. China
Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
is promoting the Bangladesh-China-Indiareached broad consensus on bilateral ties. It was
Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor, the Silk
emphasized that China and India should become
Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century
closer partners for development, cooperative
Maritime Silk Road in order to achieve regional
partners for growth and global partners for
policy communication, connect roads, smoothen
strategic coordination, the two countries should
trade, encourage currency circulation and link the
jointly pursue our respective dreams of national
hearts of people. Here Id like to talk more about
renewal; and jointly achieve peaceful, cooperative
Chinas proposal to establish the Asian
and inclusive development. Now the two sides are
Infrastructure Investment Bank to resolve the
stepping up efforts to implement the outcome of
financing bottlenecks in the path of regional
this visit.
interconnectivity. India and 20 other prospective
As President Xi Jinping said, development is
founding members of the Asian Infrastructure
the top strategic goal shared by the two countries
Investment Bank signed the MoU in Beijing on
and nothing is more imperative than to deliver a
October 24. After the signing ceremony, President
more comfortable, more secure and happier life to
Xi Jinping met representatives from these
our peoples. I believe that Indian people will
benefit immensely from Chinas development and

the cooperation between China and India. Here Id
like to discuss what the Sino-Indian cooperation
means from the perspective of the common Indian
people.
According to the China-India economic and
trade cooperation program, China will invest 20
billion US Dollars in India in the next 5 years in
va r i o u s i n d u s t r i a l a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r e
development projects. The Indian people will
soon benefit from more high-quality and
reasonably priced goods made by Chinese
manufacturers in India; enjoy 24x7 power supply
with the support from Chinese power enterprises;
and hopefully experience more convenient and
comfortable high-speed railway service. Chinas
investment will create jobs for thousands of
Indians. Huawei, a Chinese IT company, alone has
already created more than 5,000 jobs in India at
present. Its R&D Center with 2000-plus posts will
soon operate in Bangalore. Meanwhile, Indian
pharmaceutical, agricultural and IT products will
find greater access to the Chinese market.
Indian tourism operators will have the
opportunity to increase their revenues from
receiving more Chinese tourists. In the next 5
years, there will be more than 500 million Chinese
outbound tourists. As a neighboring country,
India could expect to be an important destination
for the Chinese tourists. The current arrival figure
of 100,000 seems too meager. We should make
good use of Tourism Years in 2015 and 2016 to
promote Incredible India. For example, visaupon-arrival for the Chinese tourists might be a
good idea to boost tourism in India. More Indian
tourists are also welcome to visit China. To
facilitate the Indian pilgrims, the Chinese side has
agreed to open a new route for the KailashMansarovar Yatra through Nathu La Pass, which is
expected to be operational next year. By the way,
Indian yoga gurus and practitioners would be
pleasantly surprised to find that yoga is already
part of the popular exercise regimen of the
Chinese.
People with real-life experience understand
fully that neighbors may sometimes encounter
problems and there are always ways to solve
APEC China 2014
them. Of course the boundary question, which is a

leftover from the western colonialists, needs
solution. I earnestly believe that both sides have
the ability and wisdom to reach fair, reasonable
and mutually acceptable solution through
peaceful and friendly consultation to prevent the
boundary question from affecting the overall
bilateral relations. As long as we continue to have
sufficient foresight, courage and tolerance, we
will be able to dispel these stray clouds and bring
our bilateral cooperation forward to the bright
future.
Being ancient oriental civilizations at similar
stages of development, China and India are both
pursuing the great dream of national renewal,
dreams that are interconnected and mutually
compatible. China and India are now in a crucial
stage of national rejuvenation, where they need to
become closer development partners that draw
upon each others strengths and work together for
common development. As members of the BRICS
and as emerging economies, China and India are
two major forces in the process of the formation of
a multi-polar world.
Mahatma Gandhi once observed that China
and India are fellow travelers sharing weal and
woe in a common journey. Prime Minister
Narender Modi has likened China and India to
two bodies with one spirit. President Xi Jinping
also pointed out that if we speak with one voice,
the whole world will listen, and if we join hands,
the whole world will pay attention.
Lets draw wisdom from our great ancient
civilizations and our visionary leaders, show
sufficient foresight to promote the China-India
strategic cooperative partnership and closely link
our development strategy. Lets bring more
benefit to the two peoples and make greater
contribution to promoting the prosperity and
revitalization of Asia-Pacific as well as the
stability and development of the world.
A few days ago, Chinese Foreign Minister
Wang Yi announced to the world that the
countdown to APEC Beijing had started. Speaking
today, I want to reiterate that China is ready,
Beijing is ready.
Thank you.
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EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
China to Maintain Growth, Contribute to Global Economy:

Chinese President
Chinese President Xi Jinping
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Brisbane
Australia
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Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) China

will keep the momentum of economic growth and
make greater contribution to the global economy,
Chinese President Xi Jinping told a Group of
Twenty (G20) summit here on Nov. 15,2014.
He urged the worlds major economies to
jointly promote reforms, implement
comprehensive growth strategies and advance
the transition of the world economy from cyclical
recovery to sustainable growth.
Noting that the world economy has gradually
moved out of the bottom in the past years but the
overall recovery remains lackluster, he said the

top priority for G20 members now is to coordinate
macroeconomic policy, mitigate economic risks,
create more jobs and improve peoples livelihood.
He added that the just-concluded Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in
Beijing formulated plans for promoting the
development of the Asia-Pacific region, and that
G20 members have also worked out
comprehensive growth strategies.
In order to realize comprehensive growth, he
said, G20 members should seek and boost driving
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (5th R front) and other G20 leaders pose for a group photo at the 9th Group of 20 (G20) Summit in
Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 15, 2014. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)
forces for sustained growth and open up a new

situation that features innovative development,
integrated interests and interconnected growth.
Firstly, G20 economies should innovate in
their economic development patterns, Xi said,
adding that more vitality should be brought into
the economy through structural reforms in
finance, investment, trade and other fields.
Stressing the important role of infrastructure
construction in generating economic growth, he
said China supports the G20 in setting up a global
infrastructure center and supports the World
Bank in establishing a global infrastructure fund.
Meanwhile, Xi pledged to make contribution
to global infrastructure investment via such
initiatives as the Silk Road Economic Belt, the 21st
Century Maritime Silk Road, the Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Silk Road
Fund.
Secondly, G20 members should build an open
global economy, Xi said, calling for concerted
efforts in resisting trade and investment
protectionism and safeguarding multilateral
trade systems.
Thirdly, G20 members should improve global
economic governance, he said, urging all
members to strive for a fair, just, inclusive and
orderly international financial system.
Efforts should also be made to increase the
presence of developing countries and emergingmarket economies and offer them a bigger say in
international systems, and ensure the equality of
different countries in global economic
cooperation in terms of rights, opportunities and
rules, he added.
Chinas economic growth serves as a main
engine for global economic growth, and China is
one of the largest contributors to the G20s
comprehensive growth strategies, Xi said.
Thanks to various domestic reforms, the
Chinese economy will maintain its momentum for
powerful, sustainable and balanced growth, and
provide the world with greater demands and
more opportunities, he added.
In his speech, Xi announced that China will
adopt the Special Data Dissemination Standard of
the International Monetary Fund.
Xi also called on G20 members to regard
themselves as a community of common interests
and shared destinies and turn the bloc into a
stabilizer of the world economy, an incubator of
global growth and a propeller of global economic
governance.
Other leaders attending the ninth G20 summit
applauded Chinas efforts in restructuring its
economy and expressed their confidence that the
Chinese economy will grow continuously and
healthily and make greater contribution to the
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world economy.
Xi Proposes Reinforcing Global

Economys Anti-risk Capacity
Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 16 (Xinhua)
Chinese President Xi Jinping raised four proposals
for strengthening the world economys anti-risk
capacity during the Group of Twenty (G20)
Summit here on Nov. 16,2016.
Firstly, the world should continue to reform
the international financial system and speed up
the International Monetary Fund quota reform, Xi
told the second day of the G20 Summit.
Secondly, the world should enhance global
cooperation in collecting tax, crack down on
international tax evasion and help the developing
countries and low-income countries improve
their abilities in collecting and managing tax, Xi
said.
Thirdly, the world should deepen cooperation
in anti-corruption, Xi said.
Fourthly, the world should exert more efforts
to deal with the issue of development and
facilitate the developing countries to develop

their economies by establishing the concept of
promoting development through growth while
stimulating growth through development, he said.
On the issue of energy, Xi said the G20 have to
build a partnership in energy cooperation,
nurture a free and open global energy market with
orderly competition and efficient supervision,
jointly maintain stability of energy prices and
market, improve energy efficiency, formulate and
improve global energy governance principles so
as to form a new cooperation pattern of equal
negotiations and common development among
consumer, producer and transit countries.
Xi also declared that China will release data of
its oil stocks regularly.
Regarding international trade, Xi said trade
protectionism only delivers damage to others
without serving ones own benefits.
The G20 is capable of and obliged to building a
united, open and universally benefiting global
market, promoting an early completion of the
Doha round of global trade negotiations, Xi said.
BRICS Countries Should Raise Their Voice in Global

Economic Governance: Chinese President
Brisbane, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) The BRICS
countries should actively participate in
international multilateral cooperation and raise
their voice in global economic governance,
Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Saturday.
Xi made the remarks while meeting with
other leaders of the BRICS countries on the
sidelines of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit.
Economic cooperation serves as the lasting
power house for the development of the BRICS
countries, Xi said when meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, South African President Jacob
Zuma and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
The BRICS countries should remain
committed to drafting long-term blueprint for
economic cooperation and forging a closer
economic partnership by facilitating market
inter-linkages, financial integration,
infrastructure connectivity as well as people-topeople contacts, he said.

All sides should step up efforts to the
establishment of a new development bank and a
contingency reserve arrangement since both are
of great significance, he added.
The cooperation between the BRICS countries
should be driven by the two wheels of economy
and politics so that the BRICS can act as not only
the worlds economic engine, but also a shield for
world peace, said the Chinese president.
The BRICS countries should further their
cooperation and coordination in worlds politics
and security to safeguard the worlds fairness and
justice, Xi said.
All sides should also strengthen coordination
and cooperation at the G20 summit to help
achieve positive results, he said.
On the just-concluded Asia-Pacific Economic
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Leaders Meeting, Xi said the
leaders decided to build a
future-oriented Asia-Pacific
partnership, construct an
open economy featuring
development and innovation,
i n t e r l i n ke d g ro w t h a n d
interests integration, and
starts setting up an AsiaPacific free trade zone.
The APEC meeting also
drafted a blueprint for interconnectivity and reached
consensus on economic
i n n o va t i o n , r e f o r m a n d
growth, Xi said.
The leaders called on
emerging economies to strive
for a sustained growth and
Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd R), Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (C), Russian
a c t ive ly p ro m o te gl o b a l President Vladimir Putin (1st L), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (2nd L) andSouth
African
President
Jacob
Zuma
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of
leaders
of
the
economic governance.
BRICS
countries
in
Brisbane
Australia
Nov
15,
2014.
Xinhua
Li
Xueren
They also called on related
developed countries to adopt
G20 summit in Brisbane. He arrived here late
responsible monetary polices to prevent spillover
Friday to attend the summit and will later pay a
effect, expand investment and create sustained
state visit to Australia.
growth forces.
Xi met other BRICS leaders hours ahead of the
Chinese Premier Urges Further Cooperation

within East Asia
Nay Pyi Taw, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) Chinese
Premier Li Keqiang said here Thursday that China
will strengthen cooperation with Southeast Asian
countries and upgrade their partnership in the
diamond decade.
Li, who is here for a series of leaders meetings
on East Asian cooperation and an official visit to
Myanmar, also called on East Asian countries to
maintain peace and stability in the region, push
forward regional economic integration and
enhance cooperation in finance and regional
connectivity.
UPGRADE PARTNERSHIP IN
DIAMOND DECADE
Li said China and Southeast Asian countries
will upgrade their partnership in the diamond

decade of their cooperation, which would bring
more benefits to their peoples and make further
contribution to regional and world peace and
development.
Li and President U Thein Sein of Myanmar
presided over the 17th China-ASEAN leaders
meeting, during which the participating parties
discussed the cooperation between the two sides
and reached a wide range of consensus.
Li said the China-ASEAN friendly cooperation
has maintained sustained and stable
development, which is a good example of regional
cooperation in East Asia. The strategic
partnership between China and the ASEAN has
entered a new historical stage which provides
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more treasured opportunities for their comprehensive cooperation.

The Chinese government
always places the ChinaASEAN relationship as a
priority in its neighborhood
diplomacy, Li said, adding
t h a t C h i n a w i l l f i r m ly
support the building of the
ASEAN community and
support the ASEANs leading
role in East Asian
cooperation.
C h i n a i s w i l l i n g to
expand pragmatic
cooperation with ASEAN
countries in various fields,
continuously deepen
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attends the 17th China-ASEAN summit in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar,
integration of interests of Nov. 13, 2014. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)
both sides, and forge a closer
China-ASEAN community
PEACE, ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
with a common destiny, the premier said.
Li called for maintaining peace and stability in
Building on the achievements of the past gold
East Asia and pushing forward regional economic
decade of China-ASEAN partnership, Li said
integration and common development.
there are more favorable conditions for both
He said that the fundamental reason for East
China and the ASEAN to upgrade their
Asias rapid development is a peaceful and stable
relationship in the upcoming diamond decade.
regional environment.
The ASEAN leaders welcomed Lis proposal to
Stressing that durable peace and stability
strengthen China-ASEAN cooperation, saying that
require the backing of strong institutional
China, as one of the most important partners of
arrangements, Li said at the 9th East Asia Summit
ASEAN, has made positive contribution to
that China and the Association of Southeast Asian
regional peace, development, stability and
Nations (ASEAN) members are discussing the
prosperity. ASEAN believes a rising China would
possibility of concluding a treaty on goodbenefit the Asia Pacific and the world.
neighborliness, friendship and cooperation.
Thanking China for its support, the leaders
The treaty is aimed at providing an
said ASEAN is willing to increase mutual political
institutional framework and legal guarantee for
trust, implement the 2+7 cooperation framework,
peaceful co-existence between the two sides from
deepen pragmatic cooperation, expand two-way
generation to generation, Li said.
trade and economic cooperation and investment,
He said China is willing to sign legal
and facilitate regional interconnectivity with
documents with more countries in the region on
China.
good-neighborliness and friendship, and to
They said ASEAN will also actively push
discuss the security concept and framework that
forward a good-neighborly cooperation treaty
are in line with the regional situation.
with China and further upgrade the ASEAN-China
On non-traditional security, Li stated that
strategic partnership, in a bid to safeguard
China stands ready to work with others in the
regional peace, stability and development.
region to address issues including terrorism,
infectious diseases, climate change and disaster

management.
Regarding the maritime issues, the premier
said the situation in the South China Sea is on the
whole stable and the freedom and safety of
navigation in the region is ensured.
China and ASEAN members have identified
the dual-track approach for dealing with the
South China Sea issue, he said, according to which
specific disputes are to be solved through
negotiations and consultations by countries
directly concerned and peace and stability in the
region be jointly upheld by China and ASEAN
countries working together.
China and ASEAN agreed to actively carry out
consultation to reach, on the basis of consensus
and at an early date, a code of conduct in the South
China Sea, for which early harvest has been
achieved, Li said.
In seeking the settlement of disputes, China
proposes that relevant countries actively explore
joint development, as this is a realistic and
effective way to management differences, he
added.
To achieve regional economic integration, the
premier urged cooperation in six key areas,
including promoting trade and investment
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facilitation, accelerating interconnectivity,

expanding financial cooperation, stepping up
poverty reduction cooperation, advancing
maritime cooperation as well as intensifying
people-to-people exchanges.
He said that China will work with other
parties to conclude negotiations on the Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
before the end of 2015, and called for
strengthening financial and fiscal cooperation
with a special focus on improving the Chiang Mai
Initiative Multilateralization, which is expected to
effectively relieve regional short-term liquidity
strains.
Li also called on all parties to advance East
Asia maritime cooperation. With next year being
the Year of Maritime Cooperation between China
and ASEAN, the two sides should take this
opportunity to strengthen the dialogue between
their maritime law enforcement organs and to
well implement the projects under the ChinaASEAN Maritime Cooperation Fund, he noted.
FINANCIAL, CONNECTIVITY
COOPERATION
Li also called on the East Asian economies to
enhance cooperation in finance and regional
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (C) poses for a group photo with other leaders attending the East Asia Summit before the welcome
banquet at Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Nov. 12, 2014. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)
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connectivity.
Li made the remarks while attending the 17th
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Plus Three (China, Japan and South Korea)
Summit.
He said that China is willing to coordinate the
implementation of East Asian inter-connectivity,
trade and investment, as well as poverty
reduction, three of the 25 priority areas listed in
the report of the East Asia Vision Group II
(EAVGII).
In his six-point proposal on strengthening
regional cooperation, Li urged the ASEAN Plus
Three countries to promote East Asian economic
integration process, enhance the level of regional
financial cooperation, strengthen regional
connectivity, deepen cooperation to improve
people s livelihood, expand the channel for the
people-to-people exchanges and advance public
health cooperation.
The premier said that the ASEAN Plus Three
countries should enhance financial cooperation
and improve the Chiang Mai Initiative
Multilateralization, which is expected to
effectively relieve regional short-term liquidity
strains.
He also urged to establish an efficient regional
mechanism for economic regulation,
coordination and early warning step by step.
China and ASEAN should further expand the scale

and width of the local currency swap, enlarge the
local currency settlement in the cross-border
trade, Li told the summit.
Regarding regional inter-connectivity
construction, the premier said China stands ready
to strengthen coordination with Japan and South
Korea to give a full display of their edges in capital,
technology and talents to assist ASEAN in its
infrastructure construction.
He also pledged that China will provide 30
million yuan (4.9 million dollars) for the East Asia
Maritime Cooperation platform. Talking about the
agriculture cooperation, Li said that all sides
should enhance their cooperation in agricultural
technical exchanges and food security, as well as
improve the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice
Reserve mechanism, in a bid to feed East Asia.
Stressing the importance of peace and
stability, Li urged countries in the region to treat
each other on an equal footing with mutual trusts.
We should discard the zero-sum mentality of
win-or-lose and make a joint effort to control
conflicts and differences, so as not to lose East
Asias historical development opportunities
because of the distraction, Li told the summit.
He also voiced his countrys willingness to
reach a treaty on good-neighborliness, friendship
and cooperation with the ASEAN members.
China, ASEAN to Upgrade Partnership in

Diamond Decade"
Nay Pyi Taw, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) Chinese
Premier Li Keqiang said here Thursday that China
and Southeast Asian countries will upgrade their
partnership in the upcoming diamond decade,
which would bring more benefits to their peoples
and make further contribution to regional and
world peace and development.
Li and President U Thein Sein of Myanmar,
which holds the rotating chair of the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) this year,
presided over the 17th China-ASEAN leaders
meeting, during which the participating parties
discussed the cooperation between the two sides

and reached a wide range of consensus.
Li said the China-ASEAN friendly cooperation
has maintained sustained and stable
development, which is a good example of regional
cooperation in East Asia. The strategic
partnership between China and the ASEAN has
entered a new historical stage which provides
more treasured opportunities for their
comprehensive cooperation.
The Chinese government always places the
China-ASEAN relationship as a priority in its
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neighborhood diplomacy,
Li said, adding that China
will firmly support the
building of the ASEAN
community and support
the ASEANs leading role in
East Asian cooperation.
China is willing to
expand pragmatic
cooperation with ASEAN
countries in various fields,
continuously deepen
integration of interests of
both sides, and forge a
closer China-ASEAN
community with a common
destiny, the premier said,
make a six-point proposal
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) holds talks with Myanmar President U Thein Sein in Nay Pyi
to achieve the goal.
Taw, Myanmar, Nov. 14, 2014. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)
Firstly, Li said China is
willing to outline the grand
strategy for further developing China-ASEAN
between China and ASEAN. With next year being
relations, speed up the drafting of the third Plan of
the Year of Maritime Cooperation between China
Action to implement the joint declaration on the
and ASEAN, the two sides should take this
China-ASEAN Strategic Partnership for Peace and
opportunity to strengthen the dialogue between
Prosperity (2016-2020), and actively negotiate
their maritime law enforcement organs, set up a
for a good-neighborly cooperation treaty between
maritime cooperation center, well implement the
China and ASEAN countries.
pan-Beibu Gulf economic cooperation roadmap
Secondly, China is going to work together with
and the projects under the China-ASEAN
ASEAN to upgrade the China-ASEAN free trade
Maritime Cooperation Fund, he noted.
zone and complete the related negotiation before
Fifthly, Li said China will work with ASEAN to
the end of 2015, Li said.
ensure both traditional security and nonThe Chinese side is willing to adopt a more
traditional security, well prepare for the Chinaopen attitude to discuss with the ASEAN the
ASEAN defense ministers informal meeting next
investment agreement negotiations based on the
year, explore possibilities of building a Chinapre-establishment national treatment plus
ASEAN defense hotline, conduct joint exercises,
negative list management mode, as well as to push
deepen the law enforcement cooperation in the
forward the construction of cross-border
Mekong River Basin, and carry out cooperation
economic cooperation zones and industrial parks.
projects for disaster management.
Thirdly, Li proposed to accelerate the building
Lastly, Li also said China will actively explore
of basic connectivity network. Besides promoting
new areas of cooperation in culture, people-toland and maritime connection, China will provide
people exchange, science and technology and
finance support to strengthen planning and
environment, speed up the China-ASEAN cultural
building of telecommunication, electric power
cooperation action plan, and strengthen
and Internet sectors, as well as improve
cooperation in education, rural poverty
convenience of customs clearance, market
reduction, public health personnel training,
supervision and standardization and regulation.
scientific research and environmental protection.
Fourthly, Li underlined maritime cooperation
Building on the achievements of the past gold
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decade of China-ASEAN partnership, Li said

there are more favorable conditions for both
China and the ASEAN to upgrade their
relationship in the upcoming diamond decade.
ASEAN, has made positive contribution to

regional peace, development, stability and
prosperity. ASEAN believes a rising China would
benefit the Asia Pacific and the world.
Thanking China for
its support, the leaders
said ASEAN is willing to
increase mutual political
trust, implement the 2+7
cooperation framework,
deepen pragmatic cooperation, expand twoway trade and economic
cooperation and
investment, and facilitate
regional interconnectivity with China.
They said ASEAN will
also actively push
forward a goodneighborly cooperation
treaty with China and
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strengthen China-ASEAN cooperation, saying that
stability and development.
China, as one of the most important partners of
Speech by Premier Li Keqiang

at
Fourth
Ministerial
Conference
of
Istanbul
Process
on
Afghanistan
Beijing, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) Chinese Premier
Li Keqiang delivered a speech at the opening
ceremony of the Fourth Ministerial Conference of
Istanbul Process on Afghanistan held in Beijing on
Friday morning. Following is the full text of his
speech, titled Let Us Join Hands to Promote
Security and Prosperity of Afghanistan and the
Region:
Your Excellency President Mohammad Ashraf
Ghani Ahmadzai,
Distinguished Foreign Ministers and Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,x Friends,
It gives me great pleasure to attend the
opening ceremony of the Fourth Ministerial
Conference of the Istanbul Process on Afghanistan
together with President Ashraf Ghani. Let me

extend, on behalf of the Chinese government and
people and in my own name, welcome to
President Ashraf Ghani, distinguished foreign
ministers, guests and friends and warm
congratulations on the opening of the conference.
Since its inception in 2011, the Istanbul
Process has become a unique regional
cooperation mechanism on Afghanistan and
offered an important platform for countries in the
region and the wider international community to
enhance communication, understanding,
coordination and cooperation on Afghanistan.
Continued progress of the Istanbul Process will
help bring about an early solution to the Afghan
External Affairs
issue and the ultimate

attainment of durable
peace, stability, and
economic and social
development in the
region.
The fourth Ministerial
Conference is the first
important international
c o n fe re n c e o n
Afghanistan since the
elections in Afghanistan.
We h o p e t h a t t h i s
conference will send a
clear signal of strong
support of countries in
the region and the
international community
to a smooth transition,
security and development
in Afghanistan, reiterate Chinese Premier Li Keqiang addresses the opening ceremony of the fourth ministerial
conference of the Istanbul Process on Afghanistan in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 31, 2014. Li
t h e i r l o n g - s t a n d i n g Keqiang and visiting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai attended the opening ceremony
commitment to peace and of the fourth ministerial conference of the Istanbul Process on Afghanistan Friday in Beijing.
(Xinhua/Wang Ye)
reconstruction there, and
demonstrate their full
transition. The Afghan people now face new
confidence in the future of the country.
opportunities to realize unity, stability, peace,
reconstruction and development. Meanwhile, the
Friends,
task
remains formidable and daunting.
Afghanistan holds an important geographical
position as it connects South Asia, Central Asia
Friends,
and West Asia, bordering China to the east. A
A united, stable, growing and friendly
shining pearl on the ancient Silk Road,
Afghanistan
is what the Afghan people hope for
Afghanistan was once where civilizations met and
and it represents the common interests of
numerous kingdoms left their marks in history.
countries
in the region and the international
More than 2,100 years ago, Zhang Qian, an envoy
community. It is important that we vigorously
of Chinas Western Han Dynasty, recorded an
support
Afghanistans peace process and its
Afghanistan bustling with travelling merchants
reconstruction, and work for an early solution of
and trade caravans. The Gandharan art, once
the Afghan issue, as this is the unshirkable and
flourishing in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is known
common
responsibility of countries in the region
across the world and had great influence on the
and the international community at large. Here, I
murals and sculptures in ancient China.
wish
to raise five points regarding the settlement
The Afghan issue has been a regional and
of the Afghan issue.
international hotspot issue since the end of the
First, Afghanistan must be governed by the
1970s. The international community deeply
Afghan people. This means that the Afghan people
sympathizes with the Afghan people who have
should
be allowed to take their destiny into their
suffered from turmoil and war over the past 30
own hands and truly become the masters of their
years and more. Afghanistan is now at a crucial
country.
In the end of the day, Afghan affairs
stage of political, security and economic
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should be managed by the Afghan people. We

believe that the Afghan people have the ability and
wisdom to run their own affairs well and
ultimately achieve peace and stability in the
country. The international community should
truly respect the sovereignty, independence and
territorial integrity of Afghanistan, refrain from
interfering in its internal affairs, and firmly
support Afghanistan in its efforts to achieve
security and stability at home.
Second, promote political reconciliation. As a
Chinese saying goes, Harmony at home brings
prosperity. The Afghan people long for peace and
stability. A torn Afghanistan fraught with internal
strife will not be able to come out of the war or
poverty. To achieve durable peace and prosperity
in Afghanistan, it is imperative to promote a
broadly-based, inclusive political reconciliation.
We call on all political parties in Afghanistan to
leave behind past grievances, join the political
reconciliation process, and discuss ways to
achieve peace and development of their country.
The international community should support an
Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace and
reconciliation process, and create an enabling
external environment for peace and
reconciliation to happen in Afghanistan.
Third, speed up economic reconstruction.
Stability underpins development, while
development guarantees stability. Poverty and
backwardness breed extremism. Only when
economically developed, will Afghanistan ensure
its people a prosperous and happy life. Only
commitment to growing the economy can lead to
improved lives of the people. There is an adage in
China, Give people fish and you feed them for a
day. Teach them how to fish and you feed them for
a lifetime. The international community should
fulfill its assistance commitment and help
Afghanistan enhance its self-development
capacity and realize sustained economic
development.
Fourth, explore the path of development.
Afghanistan faces daunting tasks of rebuilding
itself from the ravages of prolonged war and
turbulence. It now stands at a crucial stage of
national development. The unique history, culture
and the national realities of Afghanistan have
determined that there is no ready development

model for it to copy. The future path of
Afghanistan must be identified by the Afghan
people in light of national realities. The
international community should respect the right
of Afghan people to independently choose social
system and development path, so that they can
develop a way of governance that suits their
national conditions and achieve enduring
political stability and sustained economic
development.
Fifth, provide stronger external support.
Without support and assistance from the
international community, especially from
regional countries, Afghanistan will not be able to
achieve genuine peace and stability. The
international community should give firm
support to Afghanistan in developing external
relations on the basis of mutual respect, equality
and mutual benefit and, in particular, in
strengthening good-neighborly relations with
other countries in the region. It should support
Afghanistan in taking an active part in regional
and international cooperation to integrate more
deeply into regional economic cooperation. It
should help Afghanistan with security capacitybuilding and support the United Nations in
playing a leading role in coordinating
international assistance so that assistance efforts
from various parties may complement and
reinforce each other and form synergy.
Friends,
China and Afghanistan have been neighbors
from generation to generation. Neighbors wish
each other well, just as family members do. Peace
and stability in Afghanistan have a direct bearing
on Chinas security and stability. The Chinese
government has firmly supported and actively
p a r t i c i p a te d i n t h e A fgh a n p e a c e a n d
reconstruction process. Since 2001, China has
exempted Afghanistans matured debts, provided
1.52 billion RMB yuan of grant assistance, and
built a number of major projects to the benefit of
the Afghan peoples livelihood. That included the
Kabul Republic Hospital, Parwan Hydraulic
Project Rehabilitation Work, the National
Education Center of Science and Technology, and
the complex of the Chinese Language Department

of Kabul University. China has also trained more
than 1,000 Afghan professionals in various fields.
China will continue to provide necessary
assistance and support to Afghanistan, do what it
can as a neighbor and fulfill due responsibilities of
a big developing country.
China firmly pursues a policy of friendship
with Afghanistan, and remains committed to
deepening mutually-beneficial cooperation with
Afghanistan in various fields and promoting
steady progress of the Strategic and Cooperative
Partnership between the two countries.
China firmly supports Afghanistan in
advancing the peace and reconciliation process,
and will continue to play a constructive role in this
process.
China firmly supports peace and
reconstruction in Afghanistan, and will help
Afghanistan, not in words but with concrete
actions, to enhance capacity-building for
independent development. China is ready to step
up cooperation with Afghanistan in such areas as
infrastructure, agriculture, water conservancy
and the exploration and utilization of mineral
resources. China has decided to offer Afghanistan
grant assistance of 500 million RMB yuan this
year, and 1.5 billion RMB yuan in the coming three
years. China will also train 3,000 Afghan
professionals in various fields and offer 500
scholarships in the next five years. China will
continue to expand security training and
assistance to Afghanistan.
China firmly supports Afghanistan in
joining regional cooperation to the benefit of
increased trade, closer economic cooperation and
greater connectivity in the region. China wishes to
see Afghanistan fully leverage its geographical
and resource advantages, and actively participate
in Chinas Silk Road economic belt initiative.
Chinas competent departments will send
working groups to have thorough consultation
with Afghanistan on specific cooperation
programs. China takes and will continue to take an
active part in the cooperation on ConfidenceBuilding Measures (CBMs) within the framework
of the Istanbul Process, and plans to hold training
sessions on counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics
External Affairs
and disaster management for Afghanistan this

year.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends,
The Afghan issue is vital to the wellbeing of
the Afghan people. It also concerns the people in
the region and beyond. To the Afghan people who
have suffered enormously from war and
turbulence and who look forward with great
expectation to the future, nothing is more
important and valuable than understanding,
support and help from their neighbors and
friends. Today, the foreign ministers and senior
representatives from 46 countries and
international organizations, including members,
support countries and guests of the host country
of the Istanbul Process, are gathered in Beijing to
discuss important measures to achieve peace,
development and security in Afghanistan and in
the region as a whole. This in itself sends a positive
signal to the whole world: we have a common goal,
which is to achieve peace, stability and prosperity
in Afghanistan at an early date; and we have a
common vision, which is to help Afghanistan, a
shining pearl once, to regain its splendor at an
early date.
As an Afghan proverb goes, as long as there is
determination to climb to the mountain top, one is
always able to find a path. We in China also have a
saying, that is, a thousand-mile journey begins
with the first step. This Ministerial Conference of
the Istanbul Process on Afghanistan marks a good
beginning for Afghanistan-related regional and
international cooperation in the new era. And I
believe it will yield positive results with our indepth discussions and consultations. Let us work
together and make continued and unremitting
efforts for sustained development, security and
prosperity in Afghanistan and in the region as a
whole.
I wish the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the
Istanbul Process on Afghanistan a complete
success.
Thank you.
China Pledges Financial, Training

Assistance to Afghanistan
Beijing, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) China pledged to
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and guests pose for group photos ahead of the opening ceremony of the fourth ministerial conference
of the Istanbul Process on Afghanistan in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 31, 2014. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)
provide non-reimbursable assistance of 500

million yuan (about 81.43 million U.S. dollars) to
Afghanistan this year at an international meeting
on Afghanistan held in Beijing on Oct. 31, 2014.
China will provide non-reimbursable
assistance of 1.5 billion yuan (about 244 million
U.S. dollars) over the upcoming three years to
Afghanistan, to help the country train 3,000
people of all circles in the upcoming five years and
provide 500 scholarships, said Chinese Premier Li
Keqiang while addressing the opening ceremony
of the fourth ministerial conference of the
Istanbul Process on Afghanistan.
Firm support for Afghanistans peaceful
reconstruction should be concrete action instead
of verbal commitment, the premier said.
He p ledg ed to st ren g t hen b ila tera l
cooperation in areas such as infrastructure
construction, agriculture, water conservation and
mineral resources exploitation.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged
that the Chinese side will implement assistance
and training plans, and try to open training
courses on anti-terrorism, drug control and
disaster management.
China will have a broader and deepened

participation in cooperation under the
framework of the Istanbul Process, and promote
Afghanistan-related regional cooperation, Wang
said.
Started in 2011, the Istanbul Process is the
only Afghanistan-related cooperation mechanism
led by regional countries.
To promote result-oriented cooperation
through practical means, the Istanbul Process has
identified a number of confidence building
measures (CBM) in areas including antiterrorism, drug control, disaster management,
trade and investment opportunity, regional
infrastructure construction and education to be
jointly implemented by interested participating
and supporting countries and organizations.
According to Wang, 15 cooperation programs
in those areas have been conducted over past year,
which have seen good results.
Sixty-four more priority programs were
identified in Fridays ministerial conference,
which will help Afghanistan develop its national
governance, self-development, public security
and defense, Wang said.
He called on all parties involved to implement

these programs, provide financial or
technological assistance and strengthen
cooperation.
Wang also stressed that realizing political
reconciliation as soon as possible and
strengthening Afghanistans capability building
were of vital importance to its transition process.
He hoped all political parties in Afghanistan
work toward the realization of inclusive political
reconciliation through dialogue and negotiation.
He called on the Istanbul Process to play an
important and constructive role in helping
Afghanistan .
Premier Li also presented a five-point
proposal for the solution of Afghan issue,
including insisting self-governance of the Afghan
people, promoting political reconciliation among
different Afghan political parties, speeding up
economic reconstruction, exploring a
development path for the country, and
strengthening external support.
The international community should respect
Afghanistans sovereignty, independence and
territorial integrity, not interfere with its internal
affairs and support Afghanistans efforts to realize
security and stability, Li said.
He called on the countrys political parties to
lay aside former enmity and join the
reconciliation process. The international
community should support the Afghan-led
Afghan-owned peace process and create a
suitable environment for the peaceful
reconciliation, he said.
He urged the international community to
fulfill assistance commitments and help
Afghanistan achieve sustained economic
development.
He said the international community should
respect the choice of the Afghan people regarding
the countrys development path and social
system.
The international community should also
support Afghanistan in developing relations with
other countries and to participate in global and
regional cooperation on the basis of mutual
respect, equality and reciprocity, and help it build
up security security capability, Li added.
External Affairs
He also voiced support for the UN to play a

leading role in coordinating the global efforts to
assist Afghanistan.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai,
who is paying his first China visit since taking
office in September, agreed with Lis proposals
while addressing the opening ceremony.
He said the Istanbul Process would lay the
foundations for an early solution to the Afghan
issue as well as the regions peace and stability. He
also hailed the important contribution China
made to expedite the process.
Fridays conference is the first time China has
hosted an Afghanistan-related international
meeting. This was also the first meeting since the
new Afghan government assumed office.
Beijing Declaration was released after the
meeting.
The declaration said the fourth ministerial
conference is a crucial opportunity for enhancing
cooperation through achieving consensus among
the Heart of Asia countries and the wider
international community on achieving lasting
peace, sustainable security and economic
development in Afghanistan and in the Heart of
Asia region.
We believe that the new government will
make every effort to continue to successfully lead
the Heart of Asia- Istanbul Process and realize
its objectives in building confidence and
enhancing cooperation for a secure and stable
Afghanistan and the region, the declaration said.
We commit to maintain the input into the
capacity building and support of the Afghan
National Security Forces, according to the
declaration, it said.
In the declaration, the ministers called on the
Taliban to renounce violence, cut ties with all
terrorist groups and institutes supporting these
groups, and respect the Afghan Constitution, and
called on all parties to encourage the Taliban
towards reconciliation.
We s u p p o r t t h e i n i t i a t i o n o f t h e
reconciliation process as soon as possible. We
welcome the contribution by the Heart of Asia
countries to this process, it said.
The declaration reiterated that terrorism and
extremism pose a serious threat to the security
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and stability of Afghanistan, affirming the

determination to enhance regional cooperation to
dismantle their sanctuaries and training bases,
cut off their sources of funding, combat arms,
lethal goods smuggling, and strengthen border
control in the region and beyond. We strongly
condemn all forms and manifestation of
terrorism, particularly those targeting innocent
civilians, it said.
The declaration called on the international
community to provide further support and
assistance to Afghan refugees to enable their
voluntary repatriation and resettlement in
Afghanistan in a safe, timely and dignified manner.
We commit to pursue opportunities to

enhance regional economic cooperation and call
upon the rest of the international community to
fulfill their commitments to the long-term
development of Afghanistan, it said.
The declaration expressed hope that the
United Nations support the Afghanistan during
the transition period. We also emphasize
stronger coordination and collaboration with the
Heat of Asia-Istanbul Process by the supporting
regional and international organizations.
According to the declaration, Pakistan will
host the fifth ministerial meeting of the Istanbul
Process in 2015.
CHINA INDIA RELATIONS
Chinese Premier Pledges to Strengthen Cooperation

with India
Nay Pyi Taw, Nov. 13
(Xinhua) Chinese
Premier Li Keqiang said
here Thursday that China
will work with India to
comprehensively
upgrade their pragmatic
cooperation.
Li made the pledge
during a meeting with
Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi in Nay Pyi
Taw. He said China is
willing to work with India
to grasp the overall
direction in developing
the bilateral ties and keep
good-neighborly
cooperation of mutual
benefit as the main theme
of their relations.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Nay Pyi Taw,
China is willing to Myanmar, Nov. 13, 2014. (Xinhua/Li Tao)
comprehensively
and coordination on global and regional issues,
upgrade the pragmatic
and
work with India to benefit the billions of
cooperation, enhance bilateral communication
people in the two countries and the region.

Li said Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a
successful visit to India recently, which ushered in
new progress in the bilateral relationship.
The premier invited Modi to visit China early
next year.
For his part, Modi said strengthened IndiaChina cooperation benefits not only the two
countries, but also the region and the world.
President Xis recent visit to India was fruitful,
Modi said.
Modi also appreciated the fact that Li chose

India as the first stop of his first overseas trip as
premier, and that Li was also the first foreign
leader to have phone talks with him after he took
office
Modi said he hopes to visit China soon and
discuss with the Chinese side on how to further
push forward the bilateral relations.
Li arrived here on Nov. 12 to attend a series of
leaders meetings on East Asia cooperation and
pay an official visit to Myanmar.
China and India to Strengthen Dialogue and Cooperation

on Afghan Issue
On October 31, 2014,
Foreign Minister Wang Yi
met with Minister of State
for External Affairs Vijay
Kumar Singh of India,
who came to China to
attend the fourth Foreign
Ministerial Conference of
the Istanbul Process on
Afghanistan.
Both sides believed
that China and India
should strengthen
dialogue and cooperation
on the Afghan issue and
jointly help Afghanistan
achieve peace and
stability. Singh said that
India appreciates Chinas
position and relevant proposals on the Afghan
issue and is willing to strengthen cooperation
with China on counter-terrorism, drug control,
and other areas and jointly promote regional and
international cooperation involving Afghanistan.
Wang Yi said that the Chinese side has always
s u p p o r t e d t h e p ro m o t i o n o f p o l i t i c a l
reconciliation and peaceful reconstruction in
Afghanistan on the basis of Afghan-led and
Afghan-owned. The international community,
particularly regional countries including China

and India, should actively participate in the
peaceful reconstruction of Afghanistan in a way
that is acceptable to Afghanistan so as to jointly
help Afghanistan truly realize Afghanistan must
be governed by the Afghan people. India is a
regional major country with important influence
on Afghanistan and the Chinese side stands ready
to strengthen coordination and cooperation with
India on the Afghan issue.
Both sides believed that President Xi Jinpings
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state visit to India this September achieved

fruitful results. Both sides should maintain close
coordination and cooperation, effectively
implement the results of the visit, and accelerate
cooperation in industrial parks, railways, cultural

exchanges, tourism years to be held in each
others country and other fields so as to constantly
promote bilateral relations for new progress.
China: Advancing the Rule of Law Domestically,

Contributing to Peace and Development Internationally
by
Chinese
Ambassador
H
E
Mr
Le
Yucheng
Autumn is the season of harvest. For China,

this autumn has seen the harvesting of the historic
fruits in the field of national governance. On
October 23, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th
Central Committee of the Communist Party of
C h i n a ( C P C ) a d o p te d t h e D e c i s i o n o n
Comprehensively Advancing the rule of law, and
proposed to build a socialist system of rule of law
with Chinese characteristics and a socialist
country ruled by law.
Looking back at history, from the time when
China adopted its first constitution in 1954 till the
reaffirmation of the idea of the rule of law after the
promulgation of the reform and opening up policy
and again from 1997 when the general plan of the
rule of law was established in the 15th CPC
National Congress till the formation of the
socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics
in 2010, one can see that China has found its own
path to build the rule of law through the long
practice of national governance. For the first time
the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central
Committee of the CPC has taken the task of
promoting the rule of law at its level, which itself is
a firm step by China on the road to build the
system of the rule of law. As the Chinese
Ambassador to India, I would like to share my
understanding and experience on this issue.
As the old saying goes in China, When those
who implement the law behave as per the law the
state becomes strong, when those who
implement the law dont behave as per the law the
state becomes weak. Law is the linchpin in

governing the country, rule of law is the mainstay
of national governance. China has a big
population of 1.3 billion and huge
responsibilities. In order to ensure economic
development, clean politics, flourishing culture,
just society, healthy ecology and realize the goal
of peaceful development, China must bring into
play the leadership and normative role of the rule
of law. One may say that the comprehensive

promotion of the rule of law by China is a
response to both the domestic and international
demands, and a vital plan sought to be
implemented at a new historical juncture.
Comprehensive promotion of the rule of law is
the essence of the Socialism with Chinese
characteristics. Only the rule of law can ensure
that the people become the masters of our
country, and only the strict enforcement of the
rule of law can guarantee social harmony and
stability.
Comprehensive promotion of the rule of law
by China is an inevitable requirement for building
a moderately prosperous society and deepening
reforms. Reforms have entered a crucial stage in
China, now the overall implementation of the
reform measures, removal of hindrances in the
path of reforms, regulations on the exercise of
power and safeguarding of justice should be
ensured through the rule of law.
Comprehensive promotion of the rule of law
by China is an important guarantee to attain the
goal of peaceful development. In a globalized
world where the frequency of international
exchanges is increasing on daily basis, law plays
an increasingly prominent role in regulating a
countrys external behavior and, safeguarding a
countrys legitimate rights and interests.
According to the plan of promoting the rule of law,
China will actively participate in the international
rule-making process, promote law-based
approach to handle foreign economic and social
affairs, and resort to legal means to safeguard our
sovereignty, security and development interests.
The observance of the rule of law in Chinas
foreign policy will constructively contribute to the
peace and development in the region and in the
world at large.
Since the reform and opening up, the market
economy with Chinese characteristics developed
by China has achieved remarkable economic
success. Now, Chinas economic development has
entered a crucial phase, the launch of a
comprehensive strategic plan to promote the rule

of law at this very time has undoubtedly given a
booster dose to the process of economic reform
and development, thus enhancing the reform
dividends and improving the law-governed
economic system. The IMF has stated that the
proportion of Chinas contribution to the world
economy has reached 30 percent and for each
percentage point the Chinese economy grows, the
economy of Asia as a whole expand by 0.3 percent.
Therefore, that China makes efforts to maintain
the healthy and sustainable economic
development meets the expectations of other
countries as well as its own interests, which is
encouraging news for both Asia and the world.
Meanwhile, peace and stability are closely related
with development. We see that in some countries,
the lack of rule of law has caused serious social
unrest to the extent that their economic
development and peoples lives have been
disrupted. The experience and lessons tell us that
the rule of law is the key to safeguard the social
prosperity and stability. Chinas ensuring of its
own stability and development plays an
important role in preserving the worlds stability
and development.
China firmly follows the path of peaceful
development. It is not only Chinas solemn
commitment to the world, but also the
cornerstone of its diplomatic practice.
Comprehensive promotion of the rule of law,
adapting to the continuous opening-up,
improving the foreign-related laws and
regulations, and constructing an open economic
system provide the legal safety to Chinas peaceful
development. Chinas development is inseparable
from a peaceful and stable world, and the world
also calls for a peaceful and stable China.
Following the decision of the Fourth Plenary
Session to comprehensively advance the rule of
law, China will be more determined to keep the
path of peaceful development and make greater
contributions to the regional and the global peace
and development.
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Chinese Enterprises in India
CHINESE ENTERPRISES IN INDIA
SANY, Partnering with India

s Future Growth Potential
SANY Group Co, Ltd. of
China was established in
1989. SANY Group has built a
renowned industry and ranks
1st among equipment
manufacturers in China &
ranks 5th around the world.
During the last 20 years, SANY
Groups sales have increased
more than 100 times and
reached USD 14 billion, with
over 60 thousand employee
all over the world. SANY has
35 R&D bases (5 in overseas);
31 production bases (11 in
overseas),including 8
production bases ranked one
of the largest in the world.
S A N Y I n d i a w a s SANY Group office building
established in December
2002. This is the first and the
the first big Chinese investment in Maharashtra.
largest overseas investments by Sany. Also, this
Sany India with a total investment of USD 60
million, have 2 factories, one
in Pune, and the other in
Goa, and covers a total area
of 500 thousand square
meters. In India, we provide
Truck Crane, Excavator,
Crawler Crane, Port
Machinery, Road Machinery,
Trailer Mounted Concrete
Pumps, Truck-mounted
Concrete Pumps, Concrete
Batching Plants, Transit
Mixers, Mining Machinery,
etc. The Crane Machinery
and Concrete Machinery
have been ranked 1 and has
the largest market share in
India. We want to satisfy the
continuously increasing
SANY factory gate
demand of construction
machinery in the Indian market.
SANY India annual sales
income is USD 17 billion million,
total of 800 employees working in
the fields of Marketing, R&D,
Production, Distribution and
Service, the localization rate more
than 92%. In India, we have 20
offices comprising of service
centers, parts and accessories
and additionally 23 dealers.
There are more than 12,000
heavy equipments across the
country to cater to the needs of
t h e r a p i d I n f r a s t r u c t u r e First of SANY Pumping Machinery 86 meters in the world
development in India and has
SANY product range introduced in India
been widely recognized by the Indian customers.
includes concrete pump trucks, trailer-mounted
The main and potential markets for SANY Heavy
concrete pumps, excavators, motor graders,
Industry India Pvt. Ltd are India, South Asia,
crawler cranes, truck cranes, pile driving
Southeast Asia and the Middle-East.
machinery, port machinery, pavers, etc. and some
India is a great country, has great potential. So,
of these are leading the ways in Indias
SANY emphasizes on India market. We are
construction industry. In 2011, SANYs trailerinsisting on localization in India. We have
mounted concrete pump set a new pumping
recruited many local talents to fulfil employee
record
in India by a single pump delivering
localization; we have developed 15 suppliers to
concrete vertically to a 290m height in the
fulfil localization purchase; we have localization
prestigious
project in Mumbai.
R&D team and production team to fulfil local
Besides, SANY India also actively participated
manufacture. Our key purpose is to develop
in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). In the
products adapting to the India market, We would
July 30th landslides disaster that struck Malin
like to contribute to the extent possible in the
Village (Maharastra, India) SANY was the first and
Indian Markets.
the only company to respond and
deploy immediately 3 of its high
performance machines to aid the
rescue operations of the victims.
SANY India CEO Mr. Deepak Garg
along with SANY rescue team 15
members went to the disaster site. All
of them worked round the clock for 10
consecutive days with NDRF(National
Disaster Response Force).They found
and dug up most of the bodies during
rescue. According to what
Commandant of NDRF Mr.Alok
Awasthi said, They could accomplish
this task well ahead of stipulated time
by
contribution of Sany Machines.
Sany India CEO Mr.
Deepak Garg helps to command rescue site
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The office of Director General of NDRF also

praised highly, the efforts and support of SANY
India during the rescue operations. The spirit of
SANY rescue team and the quality & efficiency of
equipment earned praise of NDRF and the social
from all walks of life.
In next 3 years, SANY India will become a

production base, outsourcing base and service
base among overseas in SANY Group. We need
more quality Indian talent to join us and
furthermore contribute to the development of
India.
Shandong Electric Power Construction No.2 Company

Affiliated with Power
Construction Corporation of
China which is one of the world
top 500 enterprises, Shandong
Electric Power Construction No.2
Company is an international
corporation capable of providing
the full-industry chain services of
domestic and overseas power
engineering and infrastructure
planning, consultation and
supervision, construction
management and investment
operation, etc. with its business
scope covering power station, fire
control, implementation of Project Panorama of GMR Kamalanga Thermal Power Plant, EPC Contractor SEPCOII.
m u n i c i p a l p r o j e c t s , h e av y
prediction and assessment program and other
m a c h i n e r y m a n u f a c t u r i n g , re a l e s t a t e
aspects.
Since the commencement of work, the
development, steel structure manufacture,
Project Department has adhered to principle of
natural gas marketing and international trade, etc.
Undertake
A Project, Make Local Friends and Set
As one of the first Chinese power construction
Up a Monument, fully implemented the Remote
companies to develop the international business,
Copy of the Companys template project and
Shandong Electric Power Construction No.2
solidly carried out the activities of Quality
Company vigorously implements the strategy of
Management Year, Standard Construction Year,
Internationalization and is dedicated to the
Image Building Year and Fine Management
expansion of international market.
Year, etc., with the orientation of Fine Works
In 2008, the Company won the bidding in
Strategy and the target of International Quality
Kamalanga 4x350MW Subcritical Unit Power
Project Award; moreover, all the staff worked
Project invested by Indian GMR Group, which is an
with
one heart and one mind, faced difficulties
EPC general contracting and turn-key project.
with courage, communicated with the Owner and
Adhering to the idea of Creating the Quality
local
contractors, performed the comprehensive
Project and Fulfilling the Dreams of the Owners,
coordination of the key factors of design,
the Company focuses on the innovation and
equipment manufacture, logistics and customs
development, pursuits excellence and has made
clearance, conquered such adverse factors as
full preparation for preliminary construction
lagged land acquisition by the Owner, complex
organization and planning, personnel allocation
local relation and adverse natural environments,
and entry plan as well as development of risk
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etc. and finally poured the first

cubic meter of concrete on
October 8, 2010. In the process
of project implementation, we
has always taken into
consideration the Owners
interests, adhered to the
principles of Pay Attention to
Details in both Construction
and Management Processes,
faced the difficulties and taken
the responsibilities bravely and
consistently, focused on the
safety and quality production,
achieved the elaborate plan and
fine construction as well as
Steam Turbine Generator of GMR Kamalanga Thermal Power Plant, EPC Contractor
realized the success in hydraulic SEPCOII.
boiler test, turbine box-up,
the highest level in the same industry and the
back-energizing, steam purging of piping, 3,000layout of small bore pipes and secondary
round rolling test for turbo generator set and
connection and other advanced techniques were
initial synchronization and other key projects at
highly praised, accounting for the Owners
the very first time. The 275m high chimney selfevaluation of It is the Best Power Plant We Have
organized and constructed by the Company was
Ever Seen.
evaluated by the Owner as the benchmarking
The Company acted as the Cultural
single project of Minimum Work Force, Top
Ambassador
in the process of collision and fusion
Quality, Shortest Construction Period, Safety &
of Sino-Indian cultures, made efforts to merge
Zero Accident in the same industry of India. The
Sino-Indian cultures, strengthened the
three units successively passed the 72-hour fullcommunication actively to seek common ground
load test and 336-hour reliability test at the very
while reserving difference, respected the local
first time in succession. Moreover, the turbine
folk tradition, custom and religion, integrated into
vibration of the major index parameter, reached
the local society, benefitted the
surrounding villagers and
consequently got the support
from the functional government
departments.
The plant site was remote
and inconvenient for
transportation. For the purpose
to strengthen the connection
with the surrounding villagers,
the Owner and the Project
Department jointly invested in an
8km long asphalt road to the local
villagers doorway connecting
the five surrounding villages,
which facilitates the travel of
Night View of GMR Kamalanga Thermal Power Plant, EPC Contractor SEPCOII.
villagers and guarantees smooth
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SEPCOII,
EPC
Contractor
of
GMR
Kamalanga
Thermal
Power
Plant presented stationeries
to
local
students
on
Children's
Day.
access road to the site.

Considering that there were few medical
institutions and schools near the project location
and it was difficult for the local villages to benefit
from the corresponding services, the Owner and
the Project Department jointly constructed a large
scale complex hospital, a primary school and a
junior high school, solving the difficulties of the
local villagers in seeking medical advice and
education once and for all.
Implementation of strategy of localization.
The Company introduced more than 80 local
construction teams, providing more than 1,000
employment opportunities. Considering the fact
that the surrounding villagers had neither
technology nor construction experience and with
the prior consent of the local construction teams,
the Project Department incorporated more than
50% of the surrounding labors to participate into
the construction of the power plant. The local
employment rate was thus greatly improved and
the surrounding villagers gradually became
workers and some even high-skilled
professionals.
The Project Department actively absorbed the
local high-skilled talents, introducing and
cultivating the foreign skilled workers, engineers
and management personnel on key positions. The
Project Department helped each foreign worker
comprehend the cultural concept of Shandong
Electric Power Construction No.2 Company, work
out of his/her own accord and participate into the
construction of power plant actively by adopting
undifferentiated management in departments,
teams and groups, implementing incentive policy,
arousing their enthusiasm and developing
subjective initiative. The Project Department
successively established the Turbine Proper
Construction, Cable Connection and Highvoltage Electrogas Welding and other
technological breakthrough groups according to
the construction agenda. With highly skilled
Chinese staff as group leaders and 8-10 foreign
workers as group members respectively, Project
Department organized various professional skill
training. In the process, many group members
Reviving the Silk Road
became badly-needed engineering and technical

personnel with high skill and quality rapidly.
During construction peaks, the Project
Department recruited more than 180 foreign
workers, 3 of whom won the opportunity to study
in China in reward of their outstanding
performance.
On Childrens Day every year, the Project
Department gives full play the role of the labor
union, party, league and other primary-level
organization, visiting local schools, donating
books and school supplies to the children,
teaching local children Chinese and spreading
Chinese culture.
There are many festivals in the project
location and in case of a large festival the Project
Department will donate money and goods and
specifically appoint a representative to present
for congratulations, integrating into the local life
and getting along well with local residents. With
our sincerity and actions, we moved the local
villagers and bridged the gap between us, and the
local villagers became friendlier and closer to us
with more recognition and support, so the
relationship between us turned from the former
Mutual Incomprehension to the current

Respect, Acceptation and Harmony.
The smooth implementation of the project
cant be achieved without the vigorous support
and help from the local government departments.
The Project Department reported works regularly
to the local department of labor, ministry of the
interior, urban council, police station and other
departments and invited the local government
officials to carry out the on-site inspection,
investigation and survey, for the purpose of
showing the management level and Construction
Strength of the Company, promoting exchange
and communication, enhancing confidence and
getting trust and support from the government
departments.
At present, Unit 1 of India GMR Project has
completely met with the relevant requirements
according to the performance test and we are
making the first-phase preparations for the
performance tests for unit 2 and unit 3. All the
staff of the Project Department are marching into
the bright future with pride, enthusiasm and
confidence among the mutual care and help
between the people of China and India.
REVIVING THE SILK ROAD
China Pledges 40 Billion USD for Silk Road Fund

Beijing, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) President Xi
Jinping on Saturday said China will contribute 40
billion U.S. dollars to set up a Silk Road Fund at a
dialogue meeting on strengthening connectivity
and improving cooperation in the countrys
neighborhood.
Xi made the pledge when making a five-point
proposal aimed at promoting interconnected
development in the Asia-Pacific region as he met
with leaders of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos,
Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Tajikistan.
Also attending the meeting were
representatives of the United Nations Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

The new Silk Road Fund will be used to
provide investment and financing support to
carry out infrastructure, resources, industrial
cooperation, financial cooperation and other
projects related to connectivity for countries
along the Belt and Road, Xi said, referring to
Chinas Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st
Century Maritime Silk Road initiatives.
He added that the fund will be open to active
participation by investors from both within and
outside of Asia.
According to Xi, the goal of the new Silk Road
Fund is to break the bottleneck in Asian
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connectivity by building a
financing platform.
An Asian Development
Bank report estimates that
Asia as a whole needs as
much as 730 billion U.S.
dollars per year in
infrastructure investment
before 2020.
The Chinese President
said funding stands out as
the most challenging issue in
Asias connectivity
development.
To address these and
other problems, the efforts
by a single or several
Chinese President Xi Jinping presides over a Dialogue on Strengthening Connectivity
countries are far from Partnership in Beijing, capital of China, Nov.8,
2014. (Xinhua/Li Tao)
adequate, said Xi.
Earlier reports said the AIIB was also
Only by building extensive partnerships
e
s
t
a
blished to finance infrastructure
where all will think and work in unison, can we
constructions along the Belt and Road.
expect to achieve positive results, he said.
But according to Yao, unlike the AIIB which
His words were echoed by Yao Zhizhong,
could only be put into operation by the end of
deputy head of the Institute of World Economics
2015 at the earliest, the Silk Road Fund can be
and Politics under the Chinese Academy of Social
launched
immediately.
Sciences.
Jin Zhongxia, head of the Research Institute of
According to Yao, funding is key to provide
the
Peoples Bank of China, also said the open
impetus to the infrastructure construction in the
nature of the Silk Road Fund gives it more
Asia-Pacific, which in turn contributes to interflexibility
in its future operation, and that the fund
connectivity in the region.
could constitute a fine alternative to the AIIB in
He said the Silk Road Fund can also promote
financing
Asian infrastructure constructions.
diversified use of Chinas foreign reserves and
Connectivity is also a key theme of this years
help China make full use of its funding advantages.
APEC
meeting, which prioritizes three topics:
China has been pushing for an interconnected
advancing regional economic integration,
development in the Asia-Pacific region for some
promoting innovative development, economic
time.
reform
and growth, and strengthening
Xi put forward the Belt and Road initiatives
comprehensive development in infrastructure
to build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st
and
connectivity.
Century Maritime Silk Road during two separate
APEC members will work for the formulation
visits to Central Asia and Southeast Asia in 2013,
of
the
APEC Blueprint on Connectivity in order to
in a bid to revive the historic trade routes by
provide a strong backing for the Asia-Pacifics
boosting cooperation between China and other
long-term
development.
Asian nations.
Nonetheless, Xi has in the meantime
Last month, a total of 21 Asian countries inked
cautioned
that connectivity is not merely about
a Memorandum of Understanding on the
building roads and bridges or making linear
establishment of the Asian Infrastructure
connection of different places on surface.
Investment Bank (AIIB) with an expected initial
More importantly, it should be a three-way
subscribed capital of 50 billion U.S. dollars.
combination of infrastructure, institutions and

people-to-people exchanges and a five-way
progress in policy communication, infrastructure
connectivity, trade link, capital flow, and
understanding among peoples, he said.
To further deepen the connectivity
partnership between countries whose leaders
were present at Saturdays dialogue, Xi stressed
that efforts should be made to realize Asias
connectivity by making Asian countries a priority.
Asian countries are just like a cluster of bright
lanterns. Only when we link them together, can we
light up the night sky in our continent, he said.
China is ready to provide more public goods
through connectivity development to its Asian
neighbors who are welcome to get on board the
train of Chinas development, he said.
Meanwhile, the basic framework of the Asian
connectivity project should be developed by
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making economic corridors its support pillar, Xi

said while pointing to the Belt and Road
initiatives which have basically taken shape.
Such a framework accommodates the needs
of various countries and covers both land and searelated projects, Xi said.
The president continued to say that the
countries should realize an early harvest in Asian
connectivity by making breakthroughs in
transport infrastructure development, and that
China will provide neighboring countries 20,000
training opportunities for connectivity
professionals in the coming five years.
These proposals showed Chinas resolve to
promote the building of the Silk Road Economic
Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and its
willingness to take up its responsibility to
contribute to the inter-connectivity in Asia, Yao
said.
Maritime Silk Road Expo Inaugurated,

Brings Businesses
Dongguan, Guangdong,
Nov. 2 (Xinhua) The first
international expo for the
21st Century Maritime Silk
Road closed on Nov. 2,2014
with 174.7 billion yuan
(28.6 billion U.S. dollars) in
business deals signed.
The three-day ChinaGuangdong 21st Century
Maritime Silk Road
International Expo in the
southern city of Dongguan
h a d n e a r ly e q u a l t h e
amount of contracts as
those signed at the 21-day
Canton Fair this spring. The The first China-Guangdong 21st Century Maritime Silk Road International Expo was held in
Canton Fair saw a total of the southern city of Dongguan from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2
Photo: cri.cn
31.05 billion U.S. dollars
day expo, including those from 25 countries along
worth of contracts signed.
the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
According to the organizing committee of the
Rosewood from Laos, shrimp chips from
expo, 80,000 businessmen, scholars and visitors
Indonesia, fruits from Thailand and decorations
from 42 countries and regions attended the three-
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from India were among the commodities

exhibited.
Last October, Chinese President Xi Jinping
proposed the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
during his visit to Indonesia. The concept was
written into the countrys government work
report this March.
I know Chinese President Xi Jiping has said
that China wants to rebuild this route. So I think
this exhibition is part of that. We really like this
idea, said Chamara Udugama, a tea dealer from
Sri Lanka.
He said he decided to attend the expo after
Chinese dealers e-mailed him orders after he
distributed thousands of free tea samples at the
China-South Asia Expo in Kunming, capital of
southwest Chinas Yunnan Province, last June.
If you give very high quality products, very
high quality Ceylon tea, then the Chinese people
are very knowledgeable. They will buy your tea,
he said.
Former Malaysian Minister of Tourism Ng Yen
Yen said the concept of a 21st Maritime Silk Road
could help their country increase the number of
tourists from 25 million to 60 million.
She advised involved countries to work
together to help build a top-level cruise tourism
industry in Asia, which would bring billions of U.S.
dollars in income and provide thousands of new

jobs in Asia.
Cruise industry revenues in the Asian market
reached 2 billion U.S. dollars last year. The number
could increase tenfold using the idea of a 21st
Century Maritime Silk Road, she said.
Former chief economist of the World Bank Lin
Yifu said countries along the 21st Century
Maritime Silk Road were mostly regions with
abundant natural resources, huge market
potential, low labor cost and numerous tourism
destinations.
Lin said that since 2008, when traditional
industrialized countries in north America and the
Europe encountered economic slowdown, new
markets have been emerging in developing
regions.
Long Yongtu, Chinas former chief negotiator
for WTO entry, said China could strengthen the
21st Century Maritime Silk Road concept by
shortening the expression to MSR, and promote
organized structure in the scheme.
To build a regional development strategic
mechanism, for example, we could form a
cooperation committee of MSR before
establishing a secretariat so that the concept
would turn into a practice and keep running, he
said.
CULTURE & LIFE
Xi's Wife Calls for Just, Tolerant Society for

Disabled People
Beijing Nov. 10 (Xinhua) Peng Liyuan, wife
of Chinese President Xi Jinping, has called for a
more just, tolerant and sustainable environment
for the development of disabled people.
Much more understanding, respects and care
should be given to the group to make sure that
they are entitled to fruits of social and economic
development, which is the responsibility of the
entire society, she said on Monday.

Peng made the remarks while attending a
meeting focusing on development issues
concerning disabled people, together with wives
of some leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) member economies, who are
in Beijing for the 22nd APEC Economic Leaders
Meeting.
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Peng Liyuan (2nd R), wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping

demonstrates
to
spouses
of
some
leaders
of
the
Asia
Pacific
Economic
Cooperation
APEC
member
economies
how
to
communicate
with
a
deaf
mute
girl
by
sign
language
during
an
activity
focusing
on
development
issues
concerning
disabled
people
in
Beijing
China, Nov. 10, 2014. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)
Peng accompanied the guests to visit an

exhibition of art works of Chinese people with
disabilities, where they interacted with a group of
hearing-impaired children by playing puzzle
games.
State Councilor Wang Yong said China is

willing to work with other countries and regions in
the Asia Pacific to help disabled people better
participate the regional cooperation while
enjoying the results from the cause.
Peng Liyuan (in white dress), wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, plays jigsaw puzzle with children with hearing impairment
together with spouses of some leaders of the Asia
Pacific
Economic
Cooperation
APEC
member
economies
during
an
activity
focusing
on
development
issues
concerning
disabled
people
in
Beijing
China
Nov
Xinhua
Huang
Jingwen
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Peng Liyuan (C), wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, reacts while playing jigsaw puzzle with children with hearing impairment
together with spouses of some leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies during an activity
focusing on development issues concerning disabled people in Beijing, China, Nov. 10, 2014. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)
The event received a videotaped speech of the

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
who urged more Asia-Pacific economies to
include the development of disabled people into

their overall development strategies.
Beijing Bid Promotes Life on the Ice

B e i j i n g , N o v. 3
(Xinhuanet) Hockey is
becoming increasingly
popular on the back of the
Chinese capitals
application to be chosen
as host city of the 2022
Winter Olympic Games.
Just halfway through
his 90-minute training
session, every piece of
Wen Bochengs hockey
gear helmet, gloves, and
even his shoulder pads was drenched in sweat as
the 10-year-old drove the
puck up and down the
Students from Tsinghua University Primary School at a hockey training session in Beijing. The
sport is becoming increasingly popular among youngsters in the Chinese capital, and many
parents see it as a great way of improving their childrens fitness and mental resilience. Cui Jun /
For China Daily
rink.
Despite fatigue and the occasional bruise, the
fifth-grade students face is full of excitement and
satisfaction after every practice session he
attends with more than 20 of his peers at the
Tsinghua University Primary School. The students
meet three times a week on the standard 1,800square-meter rink at the Dreamport Mall in north
Beijing, and Wen also plays one full-contact game
every week to feed his growing passion for the
sport.
Sometimes Ive bruised my elbow or knocked
my nose, but I am cool with it because I love
playing hockey, he said. It was totally new for me
at the beginning, but Ive become addicted after
playing for almost six years. Its helped me to
become a tough boy.
Wen and his hard-working peers are among
1,500 children from a record 96 teams registered
with the Beijing Ice Hockey Associations 2014-15
Beijing Minor Hockey Premier League. They play
throughout winter and spring.
Skating on frozen ponds for fun has been a
popular winter pastime for Beijingers since the
1960s, but modern winter sports such as hockey
and figure skating have only recently emerged as
fashionable forms of recreation for urban youths
such as Wen.
The popularity of winter sports will be further
fueled by Beijings bid to host the 2022 Winter
Olympic Games, said Liu Ge, vice-president and
secretary-general of the BHA.
The executive board of the International
Olympic Committee named Beijing, Oslo, and
Almaty in Kazakhstan as the final candidate cities
for 2022, but Oslo withdrew its bid in October,
leaving the contest a straight fight between
Beijing and Almaty. The winner will be selected in
Kuala Lumpur in July.
Grassroots participation in hockey has
boomed in recent years, with an increasing
number of middle-class families accepting the
once high-end sport as a unique tool to improve
their childrens fitness and mental toughness. The
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Olympic bid will definitely provide another boost

for the sport, attracting more people and more
funds, Liu said.
In an attempt to further push the popularity of
winter sports and raise awareness of the Olympic
movement and the spirit it embodies, Beijing and
nearby Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, launched
their joint Olympic bid in November 2013.
The aim is to encourage 300 million people in
North China to participate in winter sports, while
simultaneously accelerating upgrades of the
urban infrastructure and controlling air pollution.
Interschool Rivalry
To promote hockey among juniors, the BHA
organized the first interschool tournament in
2014, and 19 teams from 15 primary schools in
Beijing competed in this years event, which was
held in May.
Observers said the tournaments intense final,
featuring end to end action and plenty of big hits
demonstrated the players determination.
In the beginning, we were kind of worried
about the frequent body checks, but when you
watch your children working hard at something
they love at a young age, learning discipline,
teamwork and camaraderie, theres really nothing
you can do but support them, said Wen Quan,
Wen Bochengs father.
To raise awareness of the bid among children,
the education authorities in Beijing have included
winter sports in the regular physical education
curriculum. They have also provided a special
budget to allow schools to rent commercial rinks.
Given that students lack outdoor exercise in
winter and are under intense pressure
academically, its a great boost to physical
education on campus. Playing team sports such as
hockey will help build character and improve the
students physical health, said Huang Kan,
commissioner of the Beijing Municipal Education
Commission.
According to Zheng Shiyong, deputy director
of education in north Beijings Yanqing county,
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where the alpine skiing events of the 2022 Winter

Games will be held if the bid is successful, seven
schools in the suburb have been identified as
winter sports special schools. Its expected that by
2022, more than 10,000 teenagers in the county
will participate in winter sports every day.
However, a lack of decent rinks and qualified
coaches has made it difficult for the sports to
flourish in the Chinese capital, which currently
has just five game-standard rinks - far from
enough to meet the growing public demand - and
the dearth of facilities mean too few games of
hockey are available to juniors, according to the
BHAs Liu.
To promote winter sports in schools, the
association is working with a number of
companies to develop artificial ice surfaces, which
could be assembled, disassembled and
transferred like mobile basketball courts, but with
much lower operating costs.
Expansion Plans
Century Star, Chinas first commercial icesports club, operates 13 nationwide. It plans to
open at least 10 more this year, most of them in the
south of the country. Another Beijing club,
Champion Rink, which manages 12 facilities, has
prepared a five-city expansion plan that will cover
a large number of provinces in the south.
Promoted by the bid for the Winter Olympics,
ice-based sports are more popular than ever, and
the governing bodys call to develop them in the
warmer areas in the south will bring us more
business opportunities, said Fan Jun, a former
national skating champion who is the chairman of
Century Star.
Huang Feng, the chief coach at Century Star,
said the clubs Capital Gymnasium Rink has been
full from 1 pm to 8 pm almost every working day
since the beginning of the year. Before that
development, weekends were the venues busiest
times.
Demand is growing, and weve had to stop
accepting random walk-up customers at
weekends because the rink is usually fully booked

by customers on training courses, he said.
Fan said one of the clubs commercial rinks, in
the suburbs of north Beijing, was visited by almost
180,000 skaters in 2013, a 25 percent increase
from the previous year.
Last year, Century Star established a
development program in association with Jilin
Sports University to train and draft graduates as
coaches.
Becoming a junior coach is a really good job
for college graduates and student athletes. More
people should get involved, said Wang Shuai, a
Beijing Sport University graduate in 2007 who has
been coaching hockey for four years.
Parental sacrifices and dedication key to
success in the junior leagues
Kang Ping saw a skating rink for the first time
in 2001. The Sichuan native was fascinated by the
elegance of the youthful skaters and the smiles
that spread across their faces as they rocketed
across the ice at Beijings China World Mall.
She quickly made a decision. Growing up in
the warmth of South China, I had never seen a real
rink or had the opportunity to play with ice and
snow. Children born in North China are so lucky to
be able to play on the ice in winter, and I decided I
wanted my children to have the same chance, said
Kang, who arrived in Beijing in 1990 as a student.
Her wish came true. She now has two lively
sons, and both of them play hockey.
Kang brought her elder son, He Shuyang, 10, to
a rink for the first time when he was just 4, hoping
that the full-contact sport would hone the boys
strength and toughen him up.
He quickly fell in love with the game, so Kang
introduced her younger son, He Shuhang, to the
rink at an even earlier age. In fact, she says she
almost brought him up on the ice.
Once people are involved with the sport, both
the children and parents cant help but become
obsessed by it. Our children have grown a lot, both
physically and mentally, through playing hockey,
and we enjoy watching them grow, she said.
To fully support her sons, who play for the

Tsinghua University Primary School team in the
Beijing interschool league, Kang quit her job to
become a full-time driver and practice partner.
Several of her hockey mom peers have done the
same.
Driving her children to rinks five times a week,
helping them with their equipment and taking
videos, has become an enjoyable routine,
according to the 41-year-old.
You really have to prepare yourself to
sacrifice your career, but seeing them grow and
learning the virtues of teamwork and dedication
through exercise is pretty rewarding, she said.
Although the popularity of winter sports is
rising in China, hockey remains a relatively
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expensive hobby. A 90-minute session at one of

Beijings commercial rinks costs from 200 yuan
($33) to 300 yuan, and a full outfit for a junior
player costs at least 20,000 yuan.
Junior ice hockey players train at least three
times per week and upgrade their entire set of
gear every two years as they grow, said Liu Ge,
deputy-president of the Beijing Ice Hockey
Association.
Wen Quan, the father of a student player,
spends at least 200,000 yuan, including travel and
accommodation for trips, on his sons hobby every
year. Its really a large amount of money for the
average family, but the benefits our son gains
make it a worthwhile investment, he said.
Yunnan Hosts International Mandarin Competition

B e i j i n g , N o v. 4
(Xinhuanet) Its often
said that Chinese is one of
the most difficult
languages for English
speakers to learn. But
every year, high-school
students from across the
world gather in China to
show off their Mandarin
skills, in the Chinese
Bridge Competition. The
latest event was held in
Yunnan, Southern China.
Learn Chinese,
D o u b l e Yo u r Wo rl d
Thats exactly what these
contestants have done. Theyve even dressed up
for the occasion, at the 7th Chinese Bridge
Competition in Yunnan Province.
Some of the contestants are fluent, almost to
the point of perfection.
They gave the audience a show of traditional
Chinese skills, which included folk songs, dancing,
Taichi, opera, martial arts and of course speaking

and writing.
Over 390 contestants from 76 countries took
part. Some had spent time honing their skills
while living in small Chinese villages. The winners
are given an opportunity to further their study in
China or win scholarships to teach Chinese as a
Second Language.
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Chinese-style Outfits Designed for APEC
This undated photo shows the sketches of traditional Chinese-style women's coats designed for female participants and female
spouses of participants of the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting which takes place
in Beijing
capital
of
China
from
Nov
to
Xinhua
This undated photo shows a traditional Chinese-style

women's coat designed for female participants and female
spouses of participants attending the 22nd Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting
which takes place in Beijing, capital of China, from Nov. 10 to
11. (Xinhua)
In this undated photo, designer Luo Zheng
nd
L
and
her
team
discuss
the
details
of
the
official
outfits
for
spouses
of
leaders
and
representatives
attending
the
nd
Asia
Pacific
Economic
Cooperation
APEC
Economic
Leaders
Meeting
which
takes
place
in
Beijing
capital
of
China
from
Nov
to
11. (Xinhua)
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This undated photo shows Chu Yan, one of the designers of a series of traditional Chinese-style outfits designed for participants of
the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting which takes place in Beijing
capital
of
China
from
Nov
to
Xinhua
This undated photo shows a traditional Chinese-style men's

coat designed for male participants attending the 22nd AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders'
Meeting which takes place in Beijing, capital of China, from
Nov. 10 to 11. (Xinhua)
This undated photo shows a traditional Chinese-style

women's coat.
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History of Cheongsams
Cheongsam is one type of
traditional Chinese female
costumes. It is featured by stand
collar, right side opening, fitting
waist and slip bottom, which can
fully set off the beauty of the female
shape.
Derived from the garment of
bannermen in the Qing Dynasty,
cheongsam was the basal garment
for the Manchus in Northeast China.
It was modified in early 20th
century to be more suitable and
comfortable yet retained the
craftwork of traditional ones.
Cheongsam greeted its prime time
in the 1930s when its irreplaceable
role in female garment was
established. It was extraordinarily popular with
the women in Shanghai for the reason that its
slimness and fitness had made it as a perfect
choice for the slender and exquisite-stature
women in South China. Soon afterwards, it swept
the whole country as the favorite garment for
Chinese women. Compared with old-style
cheongsam, the modified style is more capable of
popping out the beautiful curves of a woman and

has stood out from the obsolete pattern as a
typical representative of Chinese female garment.
Cheongsam has been experiencing constant
changes with the fashions in different ages. While
inheriting the characteristics of traditional
cheongsam in details, the new-style one is
associated with new features and a great deal of
modern design elements
in color, cutting and
match, which are mainly
embodied in the change
of the bottom (A-shape,
asymmetrical type and
picture puzzle type, etc.)
as well as diversified
materials. Other than
meeting aesthetic
requirements of young
women in China, newstyle cheongsam is of
great vitality with its easy
wearing.
As a special
traditional garment ,
cheongsam is of unique
aesthetic values and
t h e re fo re a c t s a s a
spokesman of the art of Chinese garment.
Evolution History
In the beginning, women in Shanghai altered the
traditional long shirt into the weskit, (it is also
known as the cheongsam-weskit).
In 1926, the long weskit and the short
Chinese-style jacket were combined into the
classic oriental fashion - the cheongsam.
In 1927, the cheongsams worn by trendy
ladies often covered the body above the calf and
had butterfly pleats, about ten to twelve
centimeters long, in the lap.
In 1928, the development of the cheongsam
entered a new stage. The length was reduced to
about six centimeters below the knees; thus the
whole lower leg would be exposed and it was very
convenient for ladies to walk at ease in the dress.
In terms of the style, the sleeves changed from the
sloppy medium sleeves into short sleeves and
later into vest-sleeves.
In the early 1930s, as was advocated by Ms.
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Xue Jinyuan, chiffons were added to

cheongsams by the ladies in Shanghai
and came into vogue.
In 1933, Gu Lanjun became the
first one to wear a cheongsam with a
slit on the left side and a 17cm-long
slit in the cuffs. Soon modern ladies
all followed her example. Later on,
the slits became deeper and deeper,
reaching as high as the end of the
thigh. At the same time, the waist of
the cheongsam was made tighter and
tighter.
The silk mantle used to be the
original coat popular among women
in cold weather. After 1927, imitating
the western women, they started to
wear the overcoat. As a result, the old-fashioned
mantle was replaced by the overcoat as the latter
became more and more popular. In the 1930s and

1940s, wool coat was once in vogue.
Explore China's Famous Old Town

Pingyao
Located in Jinzhong Basin of Shanxi Province, the 2700-year-old Pingyao Ancient Town is one of the most well-preserved
ancient towns in China. Pingyao
which
was
added
to
the
World
Heritage
List
by
UNESCO
in
attracts
numerous
tourists
from
all
over
the
world
Source
www.china.org.cn
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TIBET TODAY
2014 Canada China Tibetan Culture Week

Goes to Toronto
Toronto, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) 2014 Canada
China Tibetan Culture Week arrived in Toronto on
Nov.5, 2014, offering the largest city in Canada a
rare chance to appreciate the beauty of landscape
in Tibet and uniqueness of Tibetan culture.
Following a welcoming reception to guests, a
spectacular film entitled Roof of the World was
enjoyed by audiences at the Toronto International

Film Festival Bell Lightbox. The film features
Tibets vast, gorgeous landscapes and its diligent
people, showcasing incredible documentaries
about the challenges of modernization of a
traditional society.
Canadian audiences excitedly claimed that
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Performers of China's Tibetan Lhoka Art Troupe dance during the Glamorous Tibet Folk Song and Dance Show of the 2014 CanadaChina Tibetan Culture Week at Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, Canada, Nov. 6, 2014. (Xinhua/Zou Zheng)
although they used to be lacking in knowledge

about Tibet, this movie imparted intriguing
information about this mysterious land, and
stimulated passion about Tibetan history and
culture.
Very good details, very realistic and natural. I
got lot of good mileage out of it. I didnt really have
much perspective before, but I feel a lot more
informed now, a Canadian viewer told Xinhua
after the 90-minute screening.
The 2014 Canada Tibetan Culture Week
officially kicked off in Vancouver on Nov. 2. The
event will be held till Nov. 15 in Vancouver,
Toronto, and the capital city of Ottawa. In Toronto,
the Cultural Week also comprises a series of
artistic performances at Bluma Appel Theatre at
the St. Lawrence Center for the Arts on both Nov.
6-7.
Along with other cultural activities in the
C u l t u ra l We e k , t h e f i l m s a n d a r t i s t i c
performances including songs, dances and
traditional Tibetan costumes provide excellent
chances for Canadian people to appreciate the
breath-taking landscapes and unique cultural

legacy of the pearl in Tibetan Plateau.
Dorje Tsedrub, vice chairman of the peoples
government of the Tibet Autonomous Region,
said that this cultural event is constructive in
enhancing Canadians understanding of the
distinctive Tibet. He also pointed out that the
Cultural Week could strengthen the friendship
between China and Canada by lasting initiatives to
better understand each other.
The western media chose to portrait Tibet as
isolated and under developed, but its not the
truth. Tibet has witnessed a tremendous change,
Tsedrub told Xinhua.
The Tibet-themed culture week has become a
popular event to showcase a real Tibet to the
world under the leadership of the Chinese
government. The culture week has toured over 11
countries since 2001, including Australia,
Germany and Spain. And it is the second time for
the activity to land in Canada since September
2002.
Tibet Honors Outstanding Doctors

Lhasa, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) Twenty traditional
Tibetan doctors received government awards on
Nov. 5,2014 for their outstanding skills and
contribution to the preservation of the ancient
practice.
The laureates included specialists from a
Tibetan-medicine hospital in Lhasa, as well as

doctors from county hospitals and remote village
clinics, said sources attending a conference on the
development of traditional Tibetan medicine in
Lhasa, capital of southwest Chinas Tibet
Autonomous Region.
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They were selected from dozens of candidates

by an evaluation committee consisting of experts
and officials from the regional health and social
security authorities.
Nyima Tsering, 55, president of the Lhasabased Hospital for Traditional Tibetan Medicine,
was among the laureates. He was honored for his
compilation of Tibetan medicinal practices, which
he collected over his 40-year career.
Tibetan medicine is an important part of
Tibetan culture, and its the obligation of every
Tibetan doctor to keep this ancient discipline
alive, Nyima Tsering told Xinhua in an interview
on Nov. 5.
This marks the second time the regional
government conferred honors on its local medical
teams. Sixteen Tibetan doctors were honored for
the first time in 2009.
Tibet autonomous region has 33 Tibetan
medical institutions. At least 78 percent of its
village clinics also provide traditional Tibetan
medicine.
Traditional medicine employs more than
2,200 people across Tibet, said Purbu Dolma,
head of the regional health and family planning

commission.
He said Tibet was hoping to include its
traditional medicine in UNESCOs list of
intangible heritage.
In the past, Tibetan medication was available
only at monasteries. The ancient discipline only
gained exposure after the first public hospital for
Tibetan medicine was founded in Lhasa in 1989.
Tibetan medicine, also known as Sowa Rigpa
in the Tibetan language, is at least 2,300 years old.
It has absorbed the influences of traditional
Chinese, Indian and Arab medicine and is in
practice in Tibet and the Himalayan region.
Similar to traditional Chinese medicine and in
sharp contrast to biomedicine, Tibetan medicine
uses herbs, minerals and sometimes insects and
animals.
Tibetan medicine schools have a presence in
more than 30 countries. The four medical tantras,
the primary teaching texts for training Tibetan
physicians, have been translated into many
languages, including English, German, French,
Russian and Japanese.
Tsongo, a Small Lake in North Tibet

Text & Photo by Fan Jiuhui
The Qinghai-Tibet
Plateau has the most
lakes of any area in
China. The total surface
area of the modern
plateau lakes accounts
for 52 percent of the
total surface area of
lakes in China. There are
countless smaller lakes
around the Serling Tso,
which somehow
unexpectedly became
the biggest lake in Tibet
after the sudden rise of
the water level in 2004.
One of them, Tsongo,
has a shoreline shaped
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like a dancing fairy with curvy lines, but it has

remained mostly in obscurity as one of the many
satellite lakes of the Serling Tso. A section of the
famous travel route the Great North Routeruns
past the Tsongo Lake between Palgon County and
Nyima County. Nevertheless, for most tourists,
Tsongo is still merely one of the many Tso
(Tibetan for lake) on the Changtang grassland.
If it werent for the three days I spent by the
Tsongo Lake this year, I would have seen it as just
one of the many anonymous lakes. Lying at an
altitude of 4,562 meters, Tsongo is in Shantsa
County in the southern part of Changtang and to
the south of the Serling Tso. It is 28.5 kilometers
long and 16.7 kilometers at its widest with an
average width of 9.4 kilometers (which gives it a
total surface area of 244 square kilometers). Its
water is a little salt but the lake is still categorized
as a freshwater lake.Aquatic plants thrive in the
lake, as do various species of fish. The rivers
Yondru Zangbo and Phudzong Zangbo are mainly
feeding the lake.
Droma and Her Shop by the Lake
On our way from Palgon County to Tsongo,
our car crossed the vast Changtang grassland.
Goas were often coming into our view with the
white, heart-shaped patches on their rumps.
These cute animals looked at us warily with their
The lake of Serling Tso.
A little girl playing on the lakeside.
big eyes, but when we got closer they skittered

away. Some goas ran along with our car, as if
wanting to have a friendly race with us.
We got a lot of rain this year. Days of heavy rain
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had left the dirt road wet and muddy. On

the Changtang grassland beneath a
moonless sky, our headlights could not
penetrate the darkness. The car was like
a solitary boat in the sea. When we saw
the dim light of Dromas grocery store
from afar, everyone immediately felt
relieved.
Dromas store stood by the highway
along the eastern shore of the lake.
There were six rooms including two
guest rooms. About 100 meters from the
grocery store, you can fi nd what has
been called the biggest and cleanest
five-star washroom on the Great
North Route. The store used solar
The Great Crested Grebes.
power, water from the lake, and yak and
sheep dung for fuel, all very much
would provide free buttered tea and some simple
environmentally friendly. The only drawback was
food to the driver, in exchange for the bus staying
that there was no cellphone coverage here, so we
there for half an hour. The weary passengers
had to rely on Dromas landline telephone.
would usually get off the bus, stretch their legs,
Dromas business model was rather simple:
use the washroom and buy some snacks and soft
most of her customers were passengers riding on
drinks from the grocery store. When the bus
the long distance buses between Nyima County
arrives, the customers enlivened the store by
and Lhasa. The bus leaves Nyima in the afternoon
suddenly walking and chatting, but when they
and stops at Dromas at around eleven at
leave, all that is left is the lake water lapping
night.The next day, when it returns from Lhasa, it
against the shore.
stops here at about eight in the evening. Droma
Droma was excited by our arrival. While
preparing food for us, she told us all about the
migratory birds on the islands in the lake and this
years newcomers (such as Tibetan antelopes and
ravens). Like the herdsmen living here for
generations in this harsh environment, Droma
always feels grateful for the gifts of nature, and
strives to live in harmony with all creatures.
Protecting both domestic and wild animals has
become a conscious decision. To this extent, every
resident of Changtang grassland is a wildlife
ranger.
Looking at Tibetan Antelopes Up Close
The beautiful Droma.
The next morning, we were woken up by the

harsh cries of the ravens. I walked out and saw
several big ravens strolling in the little square
between the store and the bathroom, picking on
the remains of instant noodles left by the bus
passengers the night before. The ravens here
were not afraid of strangers at all. When I walked
up to one, it just tilted its little head and looked at
me. It jumped a couple of steps away when I was
just one meter from it. The raven was all black,
with feathers sparkling in a gorgeous blue-black
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metallic sheen that was

dazzling under the bright
sun. Ravens usually live
alone, but a dozen of them
were gathered here by the
grocery store. These ravens
here were quite smart and
experienced at finding food.
Once I was by myself,
cleaning a leg of lamb by the
lake. After a short while,
several ravens showed up
eyeing the lamb covetously,
with several more were
hovering above me. Later,
when we went to the lake The mother Tibetan antelope suckled her baby.
again trying to restage this
left Dromas grocery store and walked
incident again and snap some photos, not even
counterclockwise
to the west along the lakeside.
one single raven showed up.
Hordes of bar-headed geese wandered on the
The Tibetan antelopes Droma mentioned
grass by the lake, among them small geese whose
were on the pasture to the east of the grocery
two signature black bars on the back of their
store. There were around 30 of them, all female
heads
were yet to grow. Their heads were all black,
antelopes and cubs. Physically, Tibetan antelopes
and their necks were pale gray. When I
are quite similar to Mongolian gazelles, but bigger
approached them, they honked anxiously before
and stronger. The female ones do not have horns
rushing into the lake and swimming away.Then
like the males. Perhaps it was due to the taxing
the
calm was restored.
task of giving birth and lactation, but all the female
This year thousands of bar-headed geese were
antelopes seemed undernourished.Their pale
gathered in the swamp by the lake to build nests
fawn coat looked dull and matted, and some even
and lay eggs. Droma saw some bar-headed geese
showed gray fluff in their coats.
had died from seemingly unnatural causes, so she
Later we saw some male Tibetan antelopes a
reported it to the local forestry police. After some
couple of kilometers away. It seemed the male
investigation the experts drew a conclusion: the
ones did not protect these female antelopes.
sudden increase of the geese population had led to
Droma said she had not seen hordes of Tibetan
a shortage of available food, so some had starved
antelopes show up here like this in the past. This
to death.
year, the Tibetan antelopes seemed to come to this
The Sangle Rira Bird Island is about 100
pasture out of nowhere. The traffic on the road
meters from the lakeshore.Some green Tibetan
and people in the grocery store did not scare them.
worm woods were sparsely scattered on the white
When I quietly approached them with my camera,
gravel on the island. Sangle Rira is the smallest
I saw a little one feeding on her mothers milk. 20
island in Tsongo Lake (less than 5000 square
meters seemed to be the limit: once I got closer,
meters),but here you can spot the biggest number
they ran away. Where did this herd of Tibetan
of the Pallass gulls in the lake. The breeding
antelopes come from, and which route did they
season for PallassGulls is during May and June
take? No one knew. But to be able to watch them
when there are almost 50,000 of them on the
from close range just a couple of hundreds meters
island.
The island is so packed with the nests of the
off the highway was already a huge blessing.
gulls that it is hard to find any vacant space. The
Bird Islands and Wetlands
birds calls are loud to the point of deafening. It is
said that the Pallass gulls are extremely
If the outline of Tsongo resembles a dancing
territorial:
they would drive all of the brownfairy, then the six islands are her sparkling
headed gulls, black-headed gulls and barheaded
accessories, among which the most precious are
geese that came to build their nests on the island.
the two bird islands: Sangle Rira and Tebu Gyale. I
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the water freezes again in winter, they will take

On the west shore of the Sangle Rira Bird
back the grown sheep. This type of grazing
Island, there is a shoal separated from the lake by
practice is quite common in the big lakes on
a white gravel bank. About 10 centimeters above
Changtang
grassland like Namtso and Serling Tso.
the water, it is like a small floating fort. There are
The wetlands, covering an area of over 14,000
over 30 nests made of waterweeds by the Great
square
kilometers around Tsongo, have become a
Crested Grebes. The Great Crested Grebe is a Class
nature
reserve
to protect blacknecked cranes. The
II nationally protected animal, and an
black-necked crane is the only species living on
elegantlooking water bird. It looks like a big duck,
the
plateau among the 15 living species of cranes
but its beak differs from the wide flat bill of the
in
the
world.It is also known as the Tibetan crane.
wild duck.Its neck features brightly colored
Threatened by continued habitat loss and low
feathers, and the most distinctive characteristic is
birth
and survival rates, the black-necked crane is
the feathered crest on its head. The Great Crested
e
va
l
u
a t e d a s v u l n e ra b l e by t h e I U C N
Grebes are excellent divers. One of them dove
(International
Union for Conservation of Nature)
headlong into the water and did not come up
Red List for birds and by CITES (the Convention on
until five minutes later (when it emerged with a
International
Trade in Endangered Species of
fish in mouth). I was amazed by how far away it
Wild
Fauna
and
Flora). I was also told that the
was. The Great Crested Grebes have a strange
crane nestlings fight among themselves after their
voice,loud and distorted. Being extremely wary of
hatching,
and the weaker ones would sometimes
humans, they ran away towards the lake from the
be
pushed
aside.
shoal at the first sight of us.
A black-necked crane was loitering on the
Among the bird islands in the Tsongo Lake,
meadow
by the lake.I could not help but walk
Tebu Gyale Island has the most species of birds. It
toward
her
with my camera. Maybe she had been
lies in the northeastern part of the lake, 300
alone for too long and fancied some company, so
meters off the shore. It is 19.2 square kilometers
she
walked slowly forward flapping her wings as if
in area and 16 meters above the water level.The
to
put
on a show for me; then she strode with her
island is covered with dense vegetation. The bird
thin long legs,rose, and flew skywards with loud
nests are mostly scattered in the northeastern
trumpeting calls.
section of the island. In this years breeding
Sky, earth, lakes, birds and cranes... I was
season, over 60,000 birds were gathered here,
mesmerized by the view in front of me. The
including brown-headed
gulls, black-headed gulls,
white-winged terns,
common terns, bar-headed
geese, sandpipers, tufted
ducks, black redstarts, ruddy
shelduck, Great Cormorants,
crows, and snow-finches.
Unlike Sangle Rira and
Tebu Gyale bird islands, the
ecological environment of
Serdo Kangchen,the biggest
island (2.52 square
kilometers) in the Tsongo
Lake, is similar to the land
around the lake.So the locals
call it the natural pasture.
Before the lake thaws out,the
herdsmen chase the wolves
on the island away, drive
their sheep onto the island
and leave them alone. When The bird islands of Sangle Rira.
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VOL. XXVI No.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra

Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng paid an official call

On October 28,2014 Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng

On October 28, 2014, Chinese Ambassador to India Mr. Le

Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng and Mr. MK Razdan,

Chinese Ambassador Mr.Le Yucheng(L) met with Ms. Alka

On October 23, 2014 Mrs. Madhulika Sen(2nd L), Principal

Discussion on Asia-Pacific Economic

Chinese President Xi Jinpings state visit to

Cooperation. Id like to express my heart-felt

India in September, China and India reached

appreciation for the Institute of Chinese

broad consensus on bilateral relations; now

Studies for co-organizing this event. APEC is

the two sides are stepping up efforts to

the largest, highest-ranking and most

implement the outcome of the visit.

influential economic cooperation mechanism

The ambassador said, It is my great

in the Asia-Pacific region. It is of great strategic

pleasure to join you in this Round Table

significance in the world with 21 members,

40% of the worlds population,

Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng

convenient and comfortable highspeed railway service. Chinas investment will

real-life experience understand fully that

create jobs for thousands of Indians.

neighbors may sometimes encounter problems

Mr. Le Yucheng also added that India, along with

and there are always ways to solve them. Of course

20 other Asian countries that are willing to join

the boundary question, which is a leftover from

Asian Infrastructure Invest-ment Bank (AIIB) as

the Western colonialists, needs solution, he said.

founding members, on Oct. 24 signed the

He said that with fond memories of the 2001

Memorandum of Understanding on Establishing

APEC Summit held in Shanghai, China is ready to

AIIB (MOU) which aims to promote

host once again APEC in Beijing this time. Starting

interconnectivity and economic integration in the

from tomorrow, China will host the 2014 APEC

Economic Leaders Week, including the 22nd APEC

Mr. Le Yucheng noted that the border problem

Economic Leaders Meeting, APEC CEO Summit

between the two countries should not hamper the

and APEC Business Advisory Council Dialogue

overall development of bilateral ties. People with

with Leaders. Celebrating its 25th Anniversary, the

Chinese Ambassador Mr. Le Yucheng

Shaping the Future through Asia-Pacific Partnership

CHINESE ENTERPRISES IN INDIA

REVIVING THE SILK ROAD

China Pledges 40 Billion USD for Silk Road Fund

CULTURE & LIFE

News From China November 2014

6 APEC China 2014

APEC CHINA 2014

Shaping the Future through Asia-Pacific Partnership

on a new flight to shape a new vision for the

News From China November 2014

challenges. How to tackle the risks of