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VOL.57 NO.14 APRIL 3, 2014
EDITOR’S DESK 12 CULTURE
02 A New Nuclear Vision 42 Finding Laughs in Beijing
Comedy finds feet in capital
COVER STORY
THIS WEEK 44 Opening-Up Mics
Expat comedians tickle ribs
COVER STORY
WORLD FORUM
16 Intimate Diplomacy 46 Pivot to Peace
A meeting of minds
ESSAY
NATION
48 How to Regulate Online Finance?
22 Charity Law Anticipated Nuclear Philosophy
Monitoring philanthropy
No split in atomic resolve
24 Collective Contracts
Employer-employee bargaining
26 Quenching the Thirst
New waterway comes on stream
BUSINESS
32 Widening the Band
NATION
RMB liberalization advances
34 A New Road for Urbanization P.20 | Harnessing Officials
Household registration system
Protecting public redress against
overhauled
38 Market Watch government agencies
BUSINESS
P.28 | Alibaba IPO Looms
Online giant lists stateside
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Summit in session on March 24 (XNHUA/AFP)
P.18 | As Long as It Takes
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Business Editors: Y u Shujun, Lan Xinzhen Though often overshadowed by hotly con- in all of the three summits on nuclear
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Yu Yan, Yu Lintao, Zhou Xiaoyan, Bai Shi, Li Fangfang, Deng Yaqing, Ji Jing
Summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping joined the latest summit in The Hague, President
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Photographer: Wei Yao other world leaders in sounding the alarm Xi took an unprecedented step in unveil-
Art: Li Shigong once again as he spelled out the Chinese ap- ing a new vision of nuclear security—a
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THIS WEEK
XINHUA
RETURNING HOME
Soldiers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army grasp coffins containing the remains of soldiers of the Chinese
People’s Volunteers who died in the 1950-53 Korean War, during a handover ceremony at the Incheon
International Airport in South Korea on March 28.
South Korea found the bodies of 437 Chinese soldiers south of the military demarcation line of the Korean
peninsula after the war. The handover was arranged according to an agreement between Chinese and South
Korean leaders last year.
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THIS WEEK SOCIETY
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be expanded to cover more than half of
all county-level hospitals.
The scale of public hospitals, which
provide 90 percent of China’s medical
services, will be controlled and medical
resources will be optimized, according
to the meeting.
Non-public hospitals and public
hospitals will be treated equally in
terms of access to medical insurance
programs and other qualifications.
The State Council has also an-
nounced that it will raise the percentage
of shares that foreigners may own in
medical joint ventures and improve wel-
fare for rural doctors.
Eco-Promotion
China has established a special com-
mittee to take part in the Future Earth
program and strengthen international
Suzhou Honored cooperation in the building of an eco-
civilization.
The Chinese National Committee
Suzhou in east China was conferred with the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize for this year, standing out from 36 nomi- for Future Earth (CNC-FE) was founded
nated cities worldwide, the nominating committee of the prize said on March 24. on March 21 in Beijing and is sponsored
The biennial prize aims to honor outstanding achievements and contributions to the creation of livable, vibrant by the China Association for Science
and sustainable urban communities around the world. Spain’s Bilbao and the U.S. New York City won the prize in and Technology.
2010 and 2012, respectively. The CNC-FE aims to organize
Chinese scientists to participate in the
Future Earth (2014-23) project and
make full use of international resources
to boost China’s technological level
Anti-Graft Inspections reaucracy, hedonism and extravagance. and policy making in the construction
The CPC began routinely sending RARE SPECIES of an eco-civilization, said Qin Dahe,
The top discipline watchdog of the teams to oversee the performance Chairman of the CNC-FE.
Communist Party of China (CPC) on of officials in 2003, and the practice The committee is made up of more
March 25 started a new round of inspec- was formally written into the Party’s pAront ienctteironna otfio tnhael Hfoariunman o Gnib tbhoen than 40 experts from the fields of natu-
tions of officials to expose corruption Constitution five years later. is held in Bo’ao, south China’s ral science, engineering, social science,
nationwide. Hainan Province, from March 18 and media.
Inspectors will be sent to the Medical Reform to 20. The Hainan Gibbon, the
Under the Future Earth project, the
provincial-level regions of Beijing, rarest primate and one of the
Tianjin, Liaoning, Fujian, Shandong, China will inject more funds and let the most endangered mammals, CNC-FE will focus on major subjects
has a total population of only of public and government concern,
Henan, Hainan, Gansu, Ningxia, market play a bigger role in reforming 23, all living in Hainan’s Tropical including atmospheric pollution, ur-
Xinjiang, and the Xinjiang Production its medical sector, according to an Rainforest Reserve
banization’s impact on the environment,
and Construction Corps, the Central executive meeting of the State Council
energy supply and natural disaster
Commission for Discipline Inspection of on March 25.
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program was jointly launched by the
graft teams to the Ministry of Science and speed up reform in public hospitals, and
International Council of Scientific
Technology, Fudan University and the relax market entry requirements for the
Unions, the International Social Science
China Oil and Foodstuffs Co., it added. private sector to build health institutions
Council and the United Nations. It aims
The inspection aims to uncover in an orderly manner, said a statement
to gather global resources to try to find
harmful behavior by officials, including issued after the meeting.
solutions for the sustainable develop-
trading power for money, abusing It was decided at the meeting that a
ment of the Earth.
power, and bribery, as well as adverse national database will be set up to facili-
work practices such as formalism, bu- tate the reimbursement of medical costs
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Educational Equality XINHUA
China is eyeing a 10-percent increase in
the number of students from impover-
ished rural areas attending the country’s
top universities this year, according to
a circular released by the Ministry of 
Education (MOE) on March 24.
The MOE said that the growth will “For long-term
be realized through expanding the three development,
existing programs.
the country
Under the first program, central
government-affiliated universities and should create
key universities at local levels will recruit more supportive
50,000 rural students, up from 30,000
policies to
last year.
This program will be carried out upgrade
in 832 impoverished counties and 10 education Tough Competition
provinces with low rates of enrollment
resources in
in key universities, said the circular.
Under the second program, MOE- less-developed Candidates take part in the 2014 civil service exams in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province,
affiliated universities and a handful regions, such as on March 23. More than 240,000 examinees competed in the exams to qualify for
of universities piloting discretionary around 6,480 provincial civil service posts.
building more
enrollment should set aside 2 percent
of their enrollment quota for students top-class
from underdeveloped regions. universities.”
livestock and prevent desertification. by locoweed,” said Wang Jinglong,
The third program will see leading
Li Chang’an, a public Researchers with Tibet’s Academy another expert with the academy. “China
universities at local levels offer more
policy professor at of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry has granted it a national patent.”
seats to rural students of the same
the University of Sciences have developed both drugs The researchers have also discov-
jurisdiction.
International Business against the effects of locoweed, a com- ered a comprehensive mechanism for
The MOE also stressed transpar-
and Economics in mon name for any plant that produces locoweed prevention and treatment.
ency in information disclosure and stern
Beijing swainsonine, a phytotoxin harmful to They removed locoweed in a fenced
qualification assessment of candidates
livestock. area of grassland, where poisoned
during enrollment so as to guarantee
Wang Baohai, a researcher with the livestock can be isolated and recover.
justice and equality.
Lhasa-based academy, said that the Herdsmen call locoweed the
remedies included therapeutic liquid for enemy of grassland because livestock
Locoweed Remedies
oral administration and preventive pills show symptoms of intoxication after
Chinese scientists said on March based on Western medicine and tradi- eating the plant, which causes animal
24 that they have “tamed” wild poison- tional Chinese medicine, respectively. reproduction rates to drop or even
ous plants on the Tibetan Plateau, an “According to clinical tests, the liquid death. Its rampant growth can also lead
achievement that can help protect can cure 95 percent of livestock poisoned to grassland degradation.
XINHUA
Car Curb
Cars queue up to get licensed in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on
March 25, after the local government announced its decision to
restrict issuance of new car licenses from the next day.
In a bid to ease traffic congestion and combat air pollution,
Hangzhou will restrict the number of plates issued every year to
80,000. Eighty percent of the quota will be decided by lottery and
the remaining 20 percent will be auctioned with a starting price of
10,000 yuan ($1,610) each.
Hangzhou had about 2.6 million motor vehicles registered by
the end of February, with 276,000 added in 2013 alone.
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New Reform Measures working in the zone to open an account payments in the Chinese currency. It
for overseas investment. also burnishes London’s position as the
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and allows offshore financing in the financial reforms. Key programs include Historically, economic links
China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone easing the cross-border use of the between China and Europe have been
(FTZ) will be rolled out before the end of Chinese yuan, liberalizing interest rates centered on trade, but as China’s wealth
June, an official said on March 25. on foreign currency loans, and facilitat- grows, and its authorities move to
The account will help Chinese ing offshore financing and outbound liberalize currency and capital markets,
companies, especially those engaged investment. financial centers in Europe are targeting
in foreign trade, secure cheaper yuan- investment. The UK is determined to
denominated funding from offshore, Offshore RMB Trading defend its role as the main offshore
where financing costs have been lower renminbi trading center outside Asia.
than that on the Chinese mainland. The Bank of England and the People’s
“We hope to have the account in Bank of China (PBC) are to sign an A WORLD OF Slower Growth
place by the end of the first half of this agreement on renminbi clearing and ENTERTAINMENT
year,” said Dai Haibo, deputy director of settlement in London on March 31. A China International Capital Corp. (CICC)
the Shanghai FTZ administrative com- designated clearing bank will be named A visitor tries a game machine expects the nation’s economic growth
mittee. “soon,” the UK Treasury said on March at the 2014 China International to slow to 7.3 percent in 2014 due to
China’s central bank previously 26. Amusement Facilities multiple downward factors.
eased restrictions on overseas invest- The change will allow investors Equipment Exposition held in The investment bank attributes the
Beijing from March 26-28
ment by individuals by allowing those to cut the risk from making overseas “weakened growth momentum” mainly
to the restraining effects of economic
restructuring and financial risk control
on demand.
The figure was lower than the
previous 7.6 percent forecast by the
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previous 7.8 percent to 7.3 percent.
In the short term, it is difficult for
macroeconomic policies to strike a bal-
ance between readjusting the economy
and maintaining growth, leading to
persistent downward pressure on the
growth of demand, according to its
quarterly report.
As GDP growth is no longer its
top priority, the government would
not adopt full-scale monetary easing
policies, said the report. The authorities’
determination to rein in financial risk
will also dent investment, with the nega-
tive effects already emerging, said the
report.
More Convenient Access
Shanghai Pudong New Area’s approval
process for foreign businesses has
Plugged In Directly
shortened to two days, following the
government’s call to streamline the ad-
Workers patrol to check the normal operation of Maliantai Power Station at Ningdong Energy and Chemical ministrative process and vitalize market
Industrial Base, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. forces.
Since 2013, direct power trading between consumers and power generators has been promoted. By now, a total Shanghai’s Pudong New Area will
of 10 generators and 57 users have engaged in direct trading of electricity, accounting for roughly 10 percent of halve the approval period to two days
Ningxia’s total power consumption. for the establishment and adjustment
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company’s financial report.
Rare Earth Dispute
The World Trade Organization (WTO)
judged that some Chinese raw-
material exporters had violated the
global trade rules on export tariffs and
quotas, according to a report released
on March 26.
China’s Ministry of Commerce re-
acted to the WTO ruling by saying that
the ministry was evaluating the report
and adopting measures in accordance
with WTO dispute settlement protocols.
Rare earths are in great demand for
their use in smartphones and other gad-
gets, and China is the biggest global
supplier, providing over 90 percent
of the world’s rare earth production.
However, there have been concerns
that mining rare earths results in severe
environmental damage.
The WTO report was a response
Tower of Nutrition
to accusations made in March 2012 by
the United States, European Union and
Visitors tour around the Second Beijing Agricultural Carnival. More than 500 advanced agricultural varieties and 60 Japan, and the organization formed a
technologies are displayed at the event. dispute settlement panel in July 2012.
Alleviating Jams
Beijing’s neighboring Hebei Province
is planning to step up development
of Baoding, a local city, in preparation
of projects backed by foreign capital, Through the strategic partnership
REVIVING for the transfer of some functions from
according to a report by Xinhua News with Tencent, CJ Games is expected to
Beijing.
Agency on March 26. PAST GLORY enable its growth in the global mobile
According to an urbanization
This will make Pudong, one of the games market.
document published on March 26,
country’s earliest reform testing-grounds, Farmers pick tea leaves in As part of the restructuring,
the province will enlarge the size of
the fastest hub to provide market access to Xiushui County, east China’s CJ Games will acquire and merge
multinational companies. Jiangxi Province, the historical Netmarble, a game distribution division Baoding to be able to accommodate
origin of the century-old administrative organs, colleges and uni-
The policy will also beat the record of its parent firm CJ E&M, to maximize
Ninghong Black Tea versities, research institutions, medical
of a minimum four days for a company the synergies among distribution
and nursing services transferring from
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With a hi-tech center and modern
initiative to open up the economy and tentatively named CJ Netmarble.
industrial bases to be built, Baoding
attract foreign investment. Martin Lau, President of Tencent,
will also develop the industries of
said in a statement that the partnership
Overseas Venture combines CJ Games’ unrivalled game high-end equipment manufacturing,
new energy, energy-saving and en-
development skills and mobile game
China’s leading Internet company vironmental protection, and modern
line-up together with Tencent’s strong
Tencent Holdings Ltd. announced a plan logistics as well as its airport economy
game publishing and operation capa-
on March 26 to buy a 28-percent stake from 2014 to 2020.
bilities in China.
in South Korea’s CJ Games Corp. at Another local city, Langfang, will
The move is in line with Tencent’s
$500 million, making it the third-largest also boost its service sector so as to
extensive history in the gaming industry
shareholder of CJ Games, a leading serve as an ecological and recreational
in China. Online games contributed
online and mobile games developer and zone for Beijing, said the document.
to nearly half of Tencent’s revenue of
publisher in South Korea.
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THE NETHERLANDS 
Leaders from the Group of Seven countries—the United THE UNITED STATES
States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and
Japan—as well as the European Union hold a meeting in
The Hague on March 24 A man who lost his home in a massive mudslide
prepares to spend the night at a temporary Red
Cross shelter in Darrington, Washington, on March 23
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CANADA
A worker charges an electric car at the 2014
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