FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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Over the past weeks, 1,265 cyclists from 22 countries competed in race legs of 2017 Granfondo International Cycling Festival held in Kun-ming, Yuxi, Chuxiong, Dali and Lijiang. After four consecutive sessions, the Granfondo International Cycling Festival has become a highly influential sports event in Yunnan Province. Photo by Zhang Cheng

As pointed out by President Xi Jin-ping in his report to the 19th CPC Nation-al Congress, the era of Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new phase at this new and historic junc-ture in China’s development. Standing on a new historical horizon, how will the Chinese nation, which has stood up and grown rich, become strong and influence the world in the future?

In August this year, Ipsos, the French market advisory body, conducted a survey among people in 26 countries, including China, the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan. The survey showed that 87 percent of Chinese people are optimistic about their country’s development future, ranking first among the countries surveyed. This is interpreted by many foreign media outlets as a type of “positive energy” for the development of a rapidly changing world.

The China model and experience is also reflected in its anti-corruption cam-paign. This effort has deeply impressed Simon Khaya Moyo, National Chair-man of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)—Zimbabwe’s ruling party. He is also Zimbawe’s Minister of Media, Infor-mation and Broadcasting. “We admire the CPC’s anti-corruption campaign, because we are also combating cor-ruption in Zimbabwe. It is not an easy task. We should learn from China’s anti-corruption experience. In partic-ular, our anti-corruption officials have a lot to learn.” he said.

The report to the 19th CPC National Congress stressed that the CPC is a political party seeking happiness for all people while struggling to promote the overall progress of mankind. Vandee Boutthasavong, Laotian Ambassador to China, expressed her approval, saying, “The CPC loves peace, pays great attention to development issues and advocates for win-win cooperative efforts. The country pursues an inde-pendent foreign policy of peace and has made contributions to the peace-ful development of the world. The CPC stressess that China’s develop-ment is inseparable from regional and global peace, development and stabil-ity. The CPC’s path of development has provided beneficial experience for the development of Laos and other countries across the world.”

In response to the challenges posed by trade protectionism, anti-globalisation and rising populist thought in today’s world, the CPC reiterated the concept of global governance through common development. Additionally, the CPC promotes growth through joint consul-tation and has proposed a foreign policy of opening up to the outside world in terms of economic development, active-ly developing global partnerships and promoting the building of a community of shared future for all of mankind. Laurie Pearcey, assistant president of the University of New South Wales in Aus-tralia, believes that China will propel all countries toward a participatory process of global integration. (Staff Reporters).

Recently, the 5th Asia Micro Film Festival and the 7th Lincang Border Trade Fair opened in the city of Lin-cang in Yunnan Province.

The 5th Asia Micro Film Festival had two themes, “Integrating into the Belt and Road Initiative, opening up for win-win cooperation” and “Asia Wind, China Dream and Lincang Love”. In addition to the opening ceremonies, a summit forum, a news conference and the Golden Begonia awards party, hosts staged the Five Years of Forging Ahead - Lincang Development Achievements Exhibition, the First Lincang Concert and joint China-Myanmar Art Perfor-mances. The 7th Lincang Border Trade Fair attracted a total of 300 enterprises from 11 countries and regions, includ-ing Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.

China to make greater contributions to the new

world era

Micro Film Festival and

Lincang Border Trade Fair held

BY ZHANG YUNBI

CHINA STORY

The second volume of the book Xi Jin-ping: The Governance of China has been published in both Chinese and English language editions.

The new publication brings together 99 of Xi’s speeches, conversations, instruc-tions and letters between Aug 18, 2014, and Sept 29 of this year, Xinhua News Agency said a few days ago.

The first volume, published in September 2014, has had a total circulation of 6.5 million copies in 23 languages in more than 160 countries and regions as of September, according to the Beijing-based Foreign Languages Press, the book’s publisher.

Since the publication of the first volume, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has put forward a range of groundbreaking new concepts, thoughts and strategies that enrich the Party’s theories.

In the second volume, the articles included are categorized into 17 topics. The use of 29 photos of Xi as well as some annotations make it more reader friendly.

The new volume shows the development and main concepts of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

It also highlights the wisdom and solutions offered by the Party for developing a community with a shared

future for mankind and for promoting peace and development, according to Xinhua.

Chen Mingming, former Chinese ambassador to Sweden, said the simultaneous publication of Chinese and English language editions of the second volume is a key gesture of China for boosting communication with the outside world and sharing its recipes for success.

Also, the thematic arrangement of the articles is inviting and could better attract readers as it helps them find topics they are interested in, Chen said.

Dong Guanpeng, dean of the Academy of Media and Public Affairs at Communication University of China, said

the latest publication “marks the confidence of both the country and the Party as well as their strong sense of duty for boosting global peace and development”.

The two volumes of Xi’s book offer a summary of China’s evolving, unique model for a developing economy, and officials in many countries have said they expect to learn from China and use China’s lessons as a reference, Dong said.

The second volume “shows the consistent efforts of China in translating theories into practice, provides a new calling card for China and offers a new introductory manual for foreigners”, Dong said.

(China Daily)

Governance volume two is published

From November 17 to 19, the 2017 China International Travel Mart (CITM) are being held in Kunming.

As the largest professional travel expo in Asia, the CITM has attracted the atten-tion of the global tourism industry since its founding in 1998. Beginning in 2001, the CITM has been held on a yearly basis, al-ternating between Shanghai and Kunming.

This year’s CITM will cover an exhibition area of 70,000 square metres. The venue includes pavilions dedicated to tourism images, commodities, health and sports, providing room for 3,700 standard display booths.

A series of important activities will be held during the CITM 2017, including the China Greater Shangri-La Tourism Promotion Union joint conference, Shangri-La Night, the CITM opening ceremony, a tour of the venue by Chinese and foreign guests, the Lancang-Mekong tourism city development seminar, the closing ceremonies of the year of China-ASEAN tourism cooperation and a professional buyers and sellers matchmaking session. A number of new tourism routes and products will be released as well, all with the theme “2017 The Year of Silk Road Tourism.” The sports travel pavilion will make its official debut during the expo.

Editor’s note: The 19th CPC Nation-al Congress drew great attention from people from all over the world. To help readers at home and abroad under-stand the 19th CPC National Congress, we launch the column of “Key thoughts from the 19th CPC National Congress.”

The key words from the 19th CPC National Congress cover many ideas. These include Xi Jinping Thought on So-cialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Other ideas include the historic changes and undertakings of the Party and the state since the 18th CPC National

Congress, the entry of Socialism with Chi-nese characteristics into a New Era, and the principal contradictions facing Chinese society today.

“Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”: The report to the 19th CPC National Congress makes clear the main ideas through eight major points while vowing to faithfully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in fourteen ways.

“Remarkable five years”: The report to the 19th CPC National Congress points out that the five years since the 18th Nation-al Congress have been truly remarkable in terms of the development of the Party

and the country. The achievements of the past five years have touched every area and broken new ground, and the changes in China have been profound and funda-mental. These historic changes have had wide-ranging effects and far-reaching im-pact on the development of the Party and the country.

“Principal contradiction”: The report to the 19th CPC National Congress pointed out that Socialism with Chinese charac-teristics has entered a new era, and the principal contradiction now facing Chinese society is the contradiction between unbal-anced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing need for better lives. (People’s Daily Overseas Edition)

BY XIE JIN

Liu Shude successively worked as a teacher, a pipe-fitter and a business man-ager. He can also play several musical instruments and is a good singer. Today he is engaged in making guqin, which is a very old occupation. A guqin artisan is a carver of sound. He passes down the charm and beauty of the guqin to future generations. Liu Shude has made guqin intermittently for more than 20 years. “I’ve made about 100 guqin during my career,” he explained.

Guqin making starts with the selection of good wood. To find proper materials, Liu Shude sometimes goes into the mountains at 4,000 to 5,000 metres above sea level. Sometimes he goes to other provinces. Liu Shude always soaks the wood for guqin in water and then lets it dry naturally. “If you dry it with fire, the fibres will break and the sound won’t be good,” he said.

“You need to scrape it bit by bit,” Liu Shude said while picking up one of sev-eral scrapers on his workbench. “Every guqin has a different belly. When you

have made many of them, you’ll see it.” A guqin takes more than a dozen steps to make. These include assembling, apply-ing hemp, puttying, painting and tuning the strings.

Liu Shude believes that a guqin-mak-er is more than a carpenter—he should have an ear for music, know how to play the guqin and have a good understand-ing of classical Chinese culture. “Being restraining, the instrument can be used to entertain oneself. Guqin are not suitable for group performances, so they cannot be part of a band. Men of letters used them for self-cultivation. They played the guqin for themselves.” In this way, guqin are carriers of ancient values and classical culture.

Liu Shude often teaches the history of musical instruments in university class-rooms. He believes that culture should be passed down and inherited. He also hopes that the guqin can influence those students interested in music, encouraging them to play the guqin, understand classical Chinese culture and possibly become guqin-makers one day.

Artist Liu Shude continues tradition of creating guqin

NEWS IN BRIEF

New era, new ideas

VOICE

2017 CITM kicks off in Kunming

BY ZHU HAI

South Asian businessmen attened the past CITM. File photo by Zhang Tong

BY CHEN ZHENKAI

BY PU MEILING

19th CPC NATIONAL CONGRESS KEY IDEAS

SPORTS

China-South Asian literature symposium held

The First China-South Asia Literature Forum, sponsored by the China Writers Association, kicked off in Chengdu, Sichuan the other day. Writers from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka joined counterparts from China to discuss the development opportunities surrounding the Asian literature of a new era.

The forum was called “Belt and Road – A New Silk Road of Literature”. More than 40 writers and guests from China and four South Asian countries carried out in-depth discussions on “cultural development in inheritance and integration” and “personality in

literary creation in a global context”. The gathered writers shared their insights on the trends of literary development, exchanged creative ideas and techniques and explored the prospects of future literary exchanges.

The four South Asian countries all have profound cultural heritage and literary traditions. Since ancient times, the literature of these four South Asian countries and that of China have enriched the splendour of Asian culture through continuous interaction. Today, with the Belt and Road, writers from the four South Asian countries and China are increasing their exchanges and strengthening cultural ties. (Xinhua News Agency)

BY LI SHUJUAN

China-South Asia Expo

(Nepal) a success

From November 2 to November 5, the China South Asia Expo (Nepal) was successfully held in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. This is the first time the expo was held outside of China. It is also the first time that Yunnan Province organized an exhibition overseas.

The expo covered an area of 3,300 square metres, and attracted more than 100 Chinese and foreign enterprises. It received an enthusiastic response from representatives from Nepal and other South Asian countries. Many exhibitors found local agents or reached cooperative agreements during the four-day event. The expo also attracted local television stations, newspapers and other mainstream media in Nepal.

BY CHEN ZHENKAI

According to the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Science and Technological Development, the South and Southeast Asia Tea Cultivation and Processing Training programme recently launched in Kunming.

As the world’s major tea producing region, South and Southeast Asia has a long history of tea cultivation. The major tea producing countries include India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Most of the trainees involved in the new programme are from these countries.

The training aims at providing technical information for the management of the tea industries of the involved nations.

S and SE Asia tea cultivation training

underwayBY XIE JIN

CULTURE

Liu Shude works to make a guqin (Online photo)