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President’s Report
Our sincere thanks to China Cultural Centre for giving
our members such an interesting and enjoyable August
lunchtime meeting. They showed videos and explained
the culture and traditions behind the Spring Festival
and the Lantern Festival celebrations. We were taught
to make glutinous rice balls - see recipe elsewhere in
this Bulletin. There was also an exhibition curated by
Shen Jiawei of some of his own paintings and those of
Chinese artists who had their paintings in the finals of
the Archibald Prize over the years.
Our evening meeting featured ACFS Committee
member Architect Robert Dodgson, who gave us
glimpses of his life in China and his exciting future
projects in Australia. It was lovely to meet Mia, his
lovely Shanghai wife, and daughter Snow. Dinner at our
favourite Haymarket Chinese Restaurants ended a
delightful evening.
Other events attended were:
■ A talk by former diplomat Cavan Hogue on Putin and
Russia
■ The Peace Foundation's book 'Conversations in
Peace' launched by Dame Marie Bashir at Gleebooks
■ ACRI talk by Hugh White
Dr David Ng and Hans (Johnny) Schneider are our
September speakers and I look forward to catching up
with some of you then.
We are planning a 'Spirit of Mao's Long March' Tour to
China in October 2016. Details will be published in the
October Bulletin.
Margaret Yung Kelly, President, August 2015
Donations:
Many thanks to Dr Rosita Holenbergh and
Ms Carol Lindsay for their kind donations.
Welcome New Members
Mr James Duker and Mr Jerome Prince Foster;
Ms Cherie Rawson-Harris.
NB: Note to Members:
Please advise if you would like to receive your Bulletins by email. Please email ACFS at:
acfsnsw@acfsnswi.com.au
Upcoming Tour:
Harbin Ice Sculptures Tour, Jan 2016, with Tour Leader
Christine Wong. Please register your interest.
ACFS Library
ACFS has a great collection of books and magazines on
China both in English and Chinese. The books and
magazines are both non-fiction and fiction and date
back over 70 years. The list of books is published on our
website http://www.acfsnsw.org.au/joomla/. Further
to the note in the last bulletin, the ACFS Library will be
open to members to browse and borrow books
between the hours of 10.15am to 12.00pm every
Tuesday. The period of borrowing will be 4 weeks but
can be renewed if not reserved by another member.
Please contact Mark Seeto before going to the library.
Contact:
Mark Seeto on
0417 691 988 mseeto@bigpond.net.au
ACFS President Margaret Kelly with
ACFS Patron Prof Dame Marie Bashir
at Gleebooks for the launch of the
Peace Foundation’s ‘Conversations in
Peace’
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Dates for your Diary:
ACFS Regular Activities
Qigong: Every Wednesday, 10am, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney, exercise class $15.
Call Miranda Ho on 0402 918 383
Mandarin: Every Tuesday. General Language class 10.30am-12noon in our ACFS Rooms, $17. Contact Mark Seeto,
ph. 0417 691 988 or email mseeto@bigpond.net.au
FILM – FENG SHUI
When: 6pm, 11 September 2015 (Friday)
Where: China Cultural Centre in Sydney
Director: Wang Jing
Stars: Yan BinYan, Chen Gang, Jiao Gang, Li Xian
Duration: 118 Minutes
Subtitle: English
Cost: Free
The film is set in the city of Wuhan in 1990s. Ma
Xuewu, head of the general affairs office of a state
owned factory movies into a new apartment
provided by the factory, together with his wife Li
Baoli, who works at a socks shop. However, the
move is by no means the beginning of a happier life
for the family. Ma suggests a divorce, his wife finds out about his these changes in life and the pressure that comes with them, Ma takes his
own life. Baoli’s best friend, Xiao Jing, believes that all the mishaps are due to the bad Feng Shui of their new house, calling it a heart shot
by then thousands arrows. Baoli, the strong-minded widow, refuses to yield to her destiny, yet is determined to support the whole family
on her own.
EXHIBITION - ANIMATION SHORTCODE
PLEASE NOTE: Our ACFS October lunchtime meeting will be a visit to
yhis Exhibition on the 7th of October.
Date &Time: 10am-1:00pm &2:00pm-5:00pm
Tuesday to Saturday, 19 Sep-10 Oct 2015 (Except 1, 2 & 3 Oct)
Venue: China Cultural Centre in Sydney,
Level 1,151 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
Entry: Free
In China, Hunan is entitled as “the Forerunner of Animation” and
“the Capital of Original Animation”.
Specially designed for Sydneysiders,
this “Fantastic Hunan” Animation Exhibition consists of video screening
zone, experience zone, parent-child zone and display zone, exhibiting new animation works and products of Hunan. Twenty
animation films will be shown, such as Crazy Magic, Shanmao and Jimmy, Splendid China—Hunting
Treasures and The Story of Hongmao and Lantu. Fifteen mobile and web games,including Manor Era and Constellation Hunter can be exper
ienced on the spot. The exhibition employs full use of parent-child experience, challenging missions
and mobile APP experience shows, allowing visitors to enjoy the real spirit of Hunan Animation. We welcome Sydneysiders to explore this
fantastic exhibition at China Cultural Centre in Sydney.
The ACFS
Bulletin is kindly
sponsored by:
Ph: 1300 764 224; email: ctstours@chinatravel.com.au
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ACFS social activities
ACFS August meeting
With Robert Dodgson at
CHINA BOOKS, and at
dinner below.
Making sticky rice balls with sesame filling
for Spring Festival at the
China Cultural Centre, Sydney.
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Happy
Spring
Festival!
China's transition to innovation hub
By Peter Cai , China Spectator, 19 /8/2015
The Chinese like to remind people that they are to
thank for a many invention including gunpowder, the
compass, printing and papermaking. Today, we’d
probably refer to them as ‘disruptive technologies’ as
they fundamentally transformed the way things were
done. The reason that China is so keen to remind the
world of its incredible creativity of the past is its
lacklustre present-day performance.
These days, it is common for China-watchers to ask
if the country can innovate as it transforms from the
world's factory to a nation based on developing cutting
edge science and technology? Some leading Western
business people don’t think the Chinese can do it.
Take Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard,
who, before declaring her candidacy for the presidency
of the US mocked China’s ability to innovate: “ …Yeah,
the Chinese can take a test, but … they are not terribly
imaginative. They’re not entrepreneurial, they don’t
innovate. That is why they are stealing our intellectual
property.”
China-bashing has become something of a US
presidential election ritual among candidates.
“We invest in 3,000 people here. We contribute a lot
to the development of Microsoft’s global products. If
we don’t contribute anything in terms of innovation,
why should the company invest in China? It would be
totally unthinkable,” Mr Hon told Business Spectator.
“I can say that for all the multinational companies
based here in China.”
Hon, an internationally recognised expert in speech
technology, says the idea that Chinese companies
simply copy Western technology and business models
is out of date. Hon says it was fair to make that point
few years ago, but says it is no longer valid.
“Now, it is no longer true. I see some of the
innovations for the first time in China. China absolutely
has first-rate stuff to show the world, I would even say,
in some areas, it leads the world,” he says.
The veteran computer scientist says that Chinese
companies are particularly good at combining,
integrating and improving business models, processes
and technology.
A recent report by McKinsey Global Institute, titled The
China Effect on Global Innovation, supports Hon’s take.
The report finds China is now taking the global lead in
two areas of innovation, namely in improving
consumer products and in improving manufacturing
processes. To take Tencent as an example, its average
revenue per user was $US16 in 2014, $US10 more than
Facebook. The Chinese computing giant generates
most of its revenue from online gaming.
Hon also identifies two areas where the Chinese are
overtaking the US: mobile internet and mobile
payment.
“Forty per cent of transactions in the US are still being
done through cheques,” according to Hon. He then
pointed at me and noted: “The kids your age have
never seen a cheque. In terms of mobile payment,
more innovation will come from China.”
Indeed, during a recent trip to China it was obvious to
me that mobile payment through WeChat is
ubiquitous. When I tried to pay a taxi driver in cash, he
seemed mildly frustrated and asked: “Can’t you do it
through WeChat?”
According to Hon, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of
Facebook, is taking hints from Chinese internet giants
in terms of mobile payment. There you go, a Silicon
Valley giant learning from a Chinese upstart, something
no one could imagine just a few years ago.
China’s sheer number of consumers also help their
companies to thrive. Chinese consumers are ready
adopters of smart phones, social media and e-
commerce. “That part I have so much confidence in,
because if you look at China in terms of mobile
internet usage, it is far more than anywhere else in the
world. So they have an environment that is better than
anyone else,“ he says.
The Taiwanese-born scientist says that although China
is not yet at the forefront in terms of ground-breaking
disruptive technologies, it is nevertheless good at
inventing ‘Uber-type’ innovation.
“If you look at the companies that generate the most
wealth, it is the ones that combine technology with
better business process and models,” he said. “Uber is
that type of innovation.”
If you are looking for signs of positive development in
the world’s second largest economy, the ability and
enthusiasm to innovate is a good place to start.
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China's economy giving us a fair shake July 25, 2015 - 12:49AM
By Harold Mitchell
I was always amazed by our China expert Kevin Rudd
and his colourful use of the Australian vernacular,
especially, 'fair shake of the sauce bottle.' Louise
reckons he should have added a suck and lost a shake
while Charlie thinks he should have deleted sauce and
inserted "the sav", if you know what I mean.
In any case KR was quoting the wrong "sauce" if you
ask me because, like all the Sinophiles, he could see
that the great Heavenly Kingdom would become the
source of our future wealth even though many of our
leading economists are now talking about the Chinese
economy hitting a wall, some even think a great one.
It's obvious to me that a lot of our leaders and
commentators are getting it wrong.
However Trade Minister Robb has pulled off a coup
with the Australia China Free Trade Agreement. The
2014 figures show the Chinese share of Australia's total
trade at 24 per cent. Clearly understanding China is
all-important as Charlie, our regular economic
commentator has always said. There is absolutely no
doubt that the People's Republic is going to continue
to be a real source of our future wealth.
Building relationships with China is important and this
week I hosted a lunch with a very powerful source,
Mr Sun Shoushan, a senior member of the Chinese
administration as well as the Communist
Party. Malcolm Turnbull would reel at the power
Mr Sun has. He's effectively the boss of all state-owned
media, including publishing, press, television, radio and
film. It was an honour to have Mr Sun join me with a
number of colleagues from the Dentsu Aegis Network
advertising company, the company to which I sold my
advertising interest.
Mr Sun had a very clear message: the Chinese
economy will continue to have sustained growth. It's
GDP per capita has more than doubled in the
past seven years with annual growth rates of around 9
per cent and 10 per cent. Net savings per household
is 40 per cent and is proof the Chinese are thrifty and
disciplined people. As a percentage of GDP, their debt
is running at about 1 per cent, well below
Australia. Mr Sun made it very clear that the growth in
the Chinese economy would continue but it would
moderate by necessity as the economy matured. He
made it plain that the growth was managed and
that makes all the sense in the world because their
economy is changing from one based on building great
infrastructure to a new era of output based on the
operation and utilisation of those infrastructure
assets. And even though they have a rapidly growing
and enormous domestic consumer market, they know
they need to be involved with the rest of the world and
Mr Sun's visit to Melbourne and Sydney indicated just
that.
My other invaluable source of information about the
Peoples Republic of China is Mr Min Zhu, the deputy
managing director of the IMF and formerly a deputy
governor of the People's Bank of China. He previously
worked at the Royal Bank and taught economics at the
John Hopkins University. Mr Zhu's message was exactly
the same: China is managing its economy down so that
it doesn't become over-heated and exposed to the
boom-and-bust syndrome so common in the
West. They take a very long-term view and so should
we by realising that they are great allies and partners
for what we will both want and need for generations to
come.
Current negative commentary about China's
performance underestimates their intelligence.
Mr Min Zhu has a PHD and an MA in economics from
John Hopkins University and a Masters from the
Woodrow Wilson School. Mr Sun, has a PHD from his
Chinese university. They know East and West better
than most of us.
China's going to be a major force for the foreseeable
future and Andrew Robb has got us on board. Good on
him. So has Barnaby Joyce with his deal this week to
send a million live cattle to China. I think my two
sources stack up against all the doubters.
Louise wanted to finish with a go at Australian slang.
"This is not just icing on the cake. It's the dead horse
for the dog's eye – you can't live without that!"
World's first 3 D printed houses
A 3D printed house under construction.
Photo: Yang Hui/GT
Freshly-printed walls waiting to be turned
into a building.
The interior of a 3D printed house.
A cleaner washing the basin in the bathroom.
The basin was also 3D printed.
The exterior of a 3D printed villa built by the
Shanghai company.
Buildings appearing overnight and being created by huge
machines is no longer science fiction.
A Shanghai-based construction company is now one step
ahead in the global race to build some of the world's first 3D
printed houses.
So far, Yingchuang Construction Technique has built over a
dozen 3D printed houses, including a villa and the world's
tallest 3D printed building - a five-story apartment building.
The company uses four 3D printers, that are 6.6 meters tall
and almost as wide and long as a basketball court, to print
walls layer by layer, one by one. The "ink" used is a fine
mixture of cement and construction waste which is
environmentally-friendly and cost-effective. The company said
the walls they build are even stronger than normal concrete
walls.
Visitors can check out their 1,100-square-meter villa in the
Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province. The company took
a week to print and assemble the villa, moving much faster
than if they used traditional construction methods which would
have taken one to three months. The company is now
decorating the interior of the apartment building.
The company's four printers are able to print 10 200-square-
meter houses within 24 hours. The company refused media
requests to show their printers in action, saying that it's a
business secret.
3D printing technology can save between 30 and 60 percent
in building materials and shorten production times by 50 to
even 70 percent, while decreasing labor costs by 50 to 80
percent, the company claims.
So far, it has already received orders from several countries,
including Egypt. It's also working with Dubai to build the
world's first 3D printed office building.
Global Time
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*Fully inclusive tour with
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*Travel bag Tour Exclusions:
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Tour Cost: $3900 per person
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Single Room Supplement: $1100
ACFS Ice & Snow Tour of China
18 January-28 January 2016(10 Nights/11 Days)
18 January Day 1, Sydney / Shanghai/ Harbin
Fly from Sydney to Shanghai with China Eastern Airlines on flight MU562 at 1200. Upon arrive in Shanghai at 1920, you will
need to clear the airport formalities and connect to flight MU5619 at 2105 to Harbin; upon arrival, meet and greet by CTS tour
guide, transfer to your hotel. Hotel: Wanda Realm Harbin Hotel or similar
19 January Day 2, Harbin (B/L/D)
Harbin is the city bears “Ice World” as its main claim to fame. Highlights today: Visit to the St. Sophia Church, which was built
in 1907. Then head for the Central Avenue of Harbin, a place that is full of Russian style buildings. After dinner, visit to the Ice
& Snow World.
20 January Day 3, Harbin (B/L/D)
Morning tours to the famous Songhua River. Watch the local winter swimmers exercise, one of the features of Harbin’s Ice &
Snow Festival, then go to visit the Sun Island Snow Carving Exhibition. You may also take your free time wandering around the
riverbank or participate into local citizen’s amusement activities. After lunch, we will visit the Siberian Tiger Park. As the
natural environment becomes worse, many creatures are endangered and some have died out. The Siberian tiger is
considered endangered. In the 1980s, it was listed as one of the first-class national protected animals of China. For dinner,
enjoy the Russian Style Meal.
21 January Day 4, Harbin/Changchun (B/L/D)
After breakfast, travel by coach to Changchun, the capital city of Jilin province. Upon arrival, visit the Imperial Palace that used
by the last Emperor PuYi of Qing Dynasty after 1924.
Hotel: Sheraton Changchun Jingyuetan or similar
22 January Day 5, Changchun/Shenyang (B/L/D)
In the morning, you will visit the largest park in Changchun---the Nan Hu Park. With its beautiful lake, weeping willow trees,
flowers, singing birds and traditional Chinese ancient buildings, this park is able to compare with the beautiful landscape of
Southern China. Continue travel by coach heading for Shenyang. Upon arrival, check in at your hotel.
Hotel: Shangri-la Hotel or similar
23 January Day 6, Shenyang (B/L/D)
The highlight of today’s trip in Shenyang is the renowned Shenyang old Forbidden City. Before the Qing emperor defeated the
peasant uprising army at the end of Ming dynasty and conquered Beijing, Shenyang was the capital city of the Qing Dynasty.
Shenyang old Forbidden City is one of the only two large-scale palace complexes in China. Later, visit 918 Museum. The noble
Chinese resistance is presented in a heroic way. For dinner, you will have the local flavour meal, Lao Bian Dumpling Feast.
24 January Day 7, Shenyang/Dalian (B/L/D)
After breakfast, take a bus ride to Dalian. Up arrival, visit the Russian Style Street or Japanese Style Street. Afterwards, tour to
the Bin Hai Road, North Giant Bridge, Tiger’s Land, Xin Hai Square City Sculpture or the People’s square if time permit.
Hotel: Hilton Hotel or similar
25 January Day 8, Dalian/Shanghai (B/L/D)
After breakfast, take the morning flight MU5624 at 1125 to Shanghai Pudong Airport. Upon arrival in Shanghai, visit the
Shanghai Xintiandi, which is a new tourist attraction in downtown Shanghai, featuring the city’s unique “Shikumen” houses
and a maze of narrow alleys, which have been converted into specialist F & B, retail, entertainment and cultural facilities. For
dinner, we sample the delicious Shanghai Cuisine.
Hotel: Grand Central Hotel or similar
26 January Day 9, Shanghai (B/L/D)
A day excursion to Zhujiajiao water town, the town is a vibrant ancient water village which formed 1,700 years ago, it was an
important trading hub for the surrounding countryside, and many of the buildings that can be seen there today date back to
the Ming and Qing dynasties.
27 January Day 10, Shanghai /Sydney (B/L)
Free time in the morning; in the late afternoon, we will take the Maglev train to airport for your flight MU561 at 2020 to
Sydney.
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