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Shopping spree breaks records35.02 billion yuan spent in Single’s Day extravaganza

TOP NEWS/A2

Typhoon survivors begging for help TOP NEWS/A3

Children in Cebu hold signs asking for help and food along a highway after Typhoon Haiyan brought devastation to the

central Philippines, killing at least 10,000 people. The typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands face a daunting relief effort, as

bloated bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and dazed survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine. Police

guarded stores to prevent people trying to haul off food, water and non-essentials as TVs and treadmills, but there was often

no one to carry away the dead — not even those seen along the main road from the airport to Tacloban, the worst-hit city on

the country’s eastern seaboard. The death toll is likely to rise as rescuers reach other affected areas. — Reuters

3-point plan for Shanghai’s futureTOP NEWS/A3

Iran allows extended nuclear monitoring

WORLD/A9

METRO

Dogs On PatrolPolice dog patrols are strength-

ened in Shanghai’s Zhabei District

ahead of the period leading up to

the Spring Festival holiday — Jan-

uary 30 to February 5 next year —

when there is usually an upsurge

in thefts. Since dog patrols were

introduced about a year ago the

district has seen the number of

crime cases halved. A4

NATIONAL

Surveys CollideSingle men in Guangdong Prov-

ince are having difficulty in finding

their other half because of their

fast pace of life and devotion to

wealth, according to a matchmak-

ing website. However, a rival site

says men in the province have

the highest chance of success in

finding a girlfriend compared to

other regions. A7

WORLD

Temple RulingThe UN’s top court rules that the

area around an ancient temple

on the Thai border belongs to

Cambodia and any Thai security

forces there should leave. At least

28 people have been killed since

2011 in disputes over owner-

ship of the patch of land next to

the 900-year-old Preah Vihear

Temple. A10

BUSINESS

Lending LessBanks in China lend less than

expected in October with the

central bank prioritizing managing

risk and controlling inflation over

boosting the economy. New yuan

lending was 506.1 billion yuan

(US$83 billion), short of analysts’

expectations for about 600 billion

yuan. A16

SCOPE

Bridge TalesThe old Garden Bridge over the

Suzhou Creek, known today as

the Waibaidu Bridge, has seen

more than 100 years of joy and

sorrow in Shanghai. Michelle Qiao

tells the story of this Bund main-

stay, a city showpiece since it

opened in 1908. B1

United tops Arsenal in yet another EPL twist

SPORTS/B8

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Online shopping splurge one for the record books

A worker moves

packages at a

YTO Express

distribution center

in the souther city

of Guangzhou.

Delivery

companies

nationwide

were dealing

with millions

of packages

after this year’s

Single’s Day

online shopping

frenzy yesterday.

The State Post

Bureau estimates

that delivery

companies will

handle more

than 323 million

packages this

week. — Xinhua

Hu Xiaocen

YESTERDAY’S online shopping spree extended beyond the more traditional merchandise to in-clude financial products.

Insurance and fund manage-ment companies sold 908 million yuan (US$146 million) of wealth management products on Tmall, operator Alibaba Group said.

One product sold by a Shanghai-based insurance firm notched up sales of over 100 million yuan in just 10 minutes. It offered an an-nual expected return of 7 percent, compared to China’s one-year fixed deposit rate of 3 percent,

making such products more lu-crative than traditional deposits.

Shanghai, Beijing and Hang-zhou were the top three cities in terms of the value of wealth man-agement products purchased, Alibaba said.

However, China Guangfa Bank, which had planned to launch four wealth management products in its Tmall store yesterday, accord-ing to Florida-based consumer financial service company Bank-rate Inc, announced last Friday that the products would not be sold on Single’s Day for “internal compliance” reasons.

“There are pros and cons of

selling wealth management prod-uct on e-commerce platforms like Taobao.com,” said Bankrate.

“The upside is that it broadens sales channel for the financial products, offers faster access to product information and more convenient purchase experience to the customer. Wealth manage-ment products issued by banks have relevantly lower risks com-pared to other types of products.

“However they are still es-sentially different from bank deposits. The capability of online customer service for professional services such as risk assessment is in question,” Bankrate said.

How sales added up

55 seconds: 100 million yuan (US$16.4 million) 6 mins, 7 secs: 1 billion8 hours, 42 mins: 12.1 billion (more than 2012’s Cyber Monday)13 hrs, 4 mins: 19.1 billion (equal to last year’s 24-hour total sales)13 hrs 39 mins: 20 billion21 hrs 20 mins: 30 billion24 hrs: 35.02 billion yuan

Financial products proving popular

Ding Yining

CHINESE shoppers spent billions online yesterday as they took advantage of discounts offered on Single’s Day, a festival seized on by online retailers to increase sales.

November 11 was proclaimed Single’s Day because of the num-ber of ones in the date and first appeared on student campuses, with young single people celebrat-ing the day by eating together, sending gifts or going shopping.

Now a massive shopping ex-travaganza, it took just 13 hours for sales on just two online sites, Taobao and Tmall, to fly past last year’s overall total of 19.1 billion yuan (US$3.1 billion).

Yesterday’s final figure reached an astonishing 35.02 billion yuan as hundreds of thousands of con-sumers rushed to buy clothes, furniture, home decoration items at discount prices.

A common greeting among friends and colleagues yesterday was “Bought anything today?” as they exchanged tales of bargains or disappointing news of popular items sold out minutes after the spree began at midnight.

In under nine hours, turnover

at the Alibaba Group’s Tmall and Taobao sites had exceeded that of last year’s Cyber Monday, a simi-lar event in the United States.

Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving in the United States, recorded US$1.4 billion in sales on November 26 last year.

There were a few glitches at Alibaba’s payment unit in the first 10 minutes of yesterday’s shopping spree with some orders declined and customers having to refresh webpages and repeat the payment process to secure purchases.

Round trip to SydneyJenny Dong, a Shanghai office

worker, was one of the lucky shop-pers as she grabbed a round-trip ticket to Sydney for 4,700 yuan, a 30 percent discount on the nor-mal price.

“The price was so attractive as I’ve been longing for a vacation to Australia and I was so excited to successfully put the order the very second after midnight,” she said.

Sherry Chen, a postgraduate student, was among the many consumers delighted to pick up a bargain online. Chen said she got a pair of boots on Tmall at 40

percent of the department store price.

“I don’t care if it’s November 11 or December 12. As long as they have sales promotions, I’m more than happy to participate,” she said.

The line between online and offline retailers is gradually blurring, said Jason Yu, general manager of market research firm Kantar Worldpanel China.

“The offline retail presence of apparel vendors such as Uniqlo is an indispensable part of the mas-sive amount of sales of its online unit, and retailers need to create a multi-channel shopping experi-ence for consumers,” Yu said.

A Kantar Worldpanel study showed that up to a third of con-sumers are spending their money online this year instead of in tra-ditional stores, Yu said.

The study found that of 1.1 tril-lion yuan in sales of fast moving consumer goods in the 52 weeks to September 6 this year, ex-penditure through e-commerce channels jumped 45 percent from a year earlier, much faster than the 9 percent annual growth in hypermarkets and supermar-ket chains.

In an online survey by CTR

Market Research Co of 7,117 web users last week, 73 percent said they would buy from online vendors this year and spend an average of 1,078 yuan, 68 yuan more than last year.

In the past 12 months, online shoppers spent an average of 4,185 yuan, according to media investment firm GroupM.

The survey of 19,400 respon-dents in 279 cities across China reported a sharp rise in online expenditure among third and fourth tier cities with residents spending 31.8 percent more than the previous year, or 3,768 yuan each. The average amount spent by first and second tier city resi-dents was 4,378 yuan.

Biggest transactionPrivately-owned smartphone

maker Xiaomi Technology record-ed the biggest transaction size of all Tmall vendors this year with sales amounting to 553 million yuan after it sold 110,000 Xiaomi 3 models in less than three min-utes along with other models and smart TV sets.

It was also the first company on Tmall to break the 100 million yuan threshold.

Alibaba was the first company to seize Single’s Day as an op-portunity to woo consumers, but e-commerce sites, including 360Buy, Amazon.cn and 51Buy.com, also did big business.

51Buy, the online shopping arm of Internet company Tencent, estimated that both home appli-ance and electronic compliances transaction size yesterday would surpass 100 million yuan.

Shanghai-based general mer-chandise vendor Yihaodian.com, in which Walmart holds a controlling stake, said sales in the first hour yesterday were 11 times those of a week ago.

“We hope other e-commerce sites also did a good job as we want Single’s Day to be a holiday for consumers and good chance for retailers to discover the unmet needs of shoppers,” Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Ali-baba Group, told reporters.

“It’s not a difficult thing to bring our total transaction size to 100 billion yuan in a couple of years but we hope to do more to help vendors and manufactur-ers to upgrade their products and service to reach more clients,” Ma said at a news briefing.

At the end of last year, China had 242 million online shoppers on the mainland, 24.8 percent more than the year before. They spent nearly 1.26 trillion yuan in 2012, up 66.5 percent from 2011, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.

Shanghai Daily Tuesday 12 November 2013 TOP NEWS A3

After the storm: Dazed survivors begging for help

4 dead as heavy rainfall hits China’s southern regions

Han highlights 3-point plan for Shanghai’s future

DAZED survivors were beg-ging for help and scavenging for food, water and medicine yesterday in the aftermath of the super typhoon that killed thousands of people in the cen-tral Philippines.

President Benigno Aquino declared a “state of national ca-lamity” and deployed hundreds of soldiers in the coastal city of Tacloban to quell looting.

The huge scale of death and destruction from Friday’s storm become clearer as re-ports emerged of thousands of people missing and images showed apocalyptic scenes in one town not yet reached by rescue workers.

One of the most powerful storms on record, Typhoon Haiyan levelled Basey, a seaside town in Samar Province about 10 kilometers across a bay from Tacloban in Leyte Province, where at least 10,000 people were killed.

About 2,000 people are missing in Basey, according to officials.

“The situation is bad, the dev-astation has been significant. In some cases the devastation has been total,” Secretary to the Cabinet Rene Almendras told a news conference.

The United Nations said of-ficials in Tacloban had reported one mass grave of 300-500 bod-ies. More than 600,000 people were displaced by the storm across the country and some have no access to food, water, or medicine, the UN says.

Flattened by surging waves and winds up to 378 kilome-ters per hour, Tacloban, 580 kilometers southeast of Manila, was relying almost entirely for supplies and evacuation on just three military transport planes flying from nearby Cebu City.

Dozens of residents clamored for help at the airport gates.

In a nationwide broadcast, Aquino said the government

was focusing relief and as-sistance efforts on Samar and Leyte provinces, which acted as “funnels for the storm surges.”

The declaration of a state of national calamity should quicken rescue, relief and re-habilitation efforts. It will also allow the government to use state funds for relief and reha-bilitation and control prices.

Aquino said the govern-ment had set aside 18.7 billion pesos (US$432.97 million for rehabilitation.

More bad weather was on the way with a depression due to bring rain to the central and southern Philippines today, the weather bureau said.

Three days after the typhoon made landfall, residents of Ta-cloban told terrifying accounts of being swept away by a wall of water, revealing a city that had been hopelessly unprepared for a storm of almost unprec-edented power.

Most of the damage and deaths were caused by waves that in-undated towns, washed ships ashore and swept away villages in scenes reminiscent of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Aquino, who before the storm said the government was aiming for zero casualties, has shown exasperation at conflicting re-ports on damage and deaths. One TV network quoted him as telling the head of the disaster agency that he was running out of patience.

The official death toll is likely to climb rapidly once rescuers reach remote parts of the coast, such as Guiuan, a town with a population of 40,000 that was largely destroyed.

About 400 people were con-firmed dead in Samar province, according to provincial gover-nor Sharee Ann Tan. Baco, a city of 35,000 in Oriental Mindoro Province, was 80 percent under water, the United Nations said.

(Reuters)

13 killed as Haiyan makes landfall in Vietnam

Haiyan made landfall in northern Vietnam yesterday as a tropi-

cal storm, just days after leaving massive destruction in the Phil-

ippines as the season’s strongest typhoon.

The national weather agency said Haiyan made landfall in the

northern province of Quang Ninh and was moving toward south-

ern China.

Officials said 13 people died and 81 others were injured while

reinforcing houses or trimming trees. More than 1,300 houses

and 39 fishing boats in Quang Ninh were damaged.

(AP)

SHANGHAI can tolerate some slowing of growth as it seeks to transform its economy, ac-cording to Han Zheng, the city’s Party chief and former mayor.

Han made the remarks in an exclusive interview with Caixin magazine.

The city could “slow down the growth a bit” as it switches its focus, he told Caixin.

“Right now our main focus is not at all GDP growth but to promote reform and restruc-turing,” Han said. “Innovation and transformation are the two

major tasks at hand.”In response to reports that

Shanghai was suffering eco-nomic decline, Han said he was satisfied with the current pace of growth.

“It could hardly get any high-er,” he said.

Shanghai’s GDP grew by 7.7 percent in the first nine months of the year. The government’s target for 2013 is 7.5 percent.

Han also told the magazine that next year’s economic plan for the city was being finalized.

It wi l l focus on three

aspects, he said. The first was the quality and efficiency of economic development and structural optimization. Han said that maximizing total output was “definitely not” the primary objective.

The second focus was on the environment, he said.

Shanghai will reform, develop and continue to build itself as an international financial center, Han said, but these goals would not be carried out at the cost of environmental degradation.

“We must no longer maintain

the old mindset of ‘pollute first, deal with the environment later’,” he said. “We need to im-prove the environment in every step we take. The air quality in Shanghai is still among top 10 cities in the country.”

The third point of empha-sis, Han said, was improving the well-being of the city’s residents.

“In a large metropolis like Shanghai, people naturally have higher expectations and stan-dards,” he said.

“Their needs differ from

some people in other provinc-es, so you have to understand what it is that they care about the most.”

Han said his strategy for im-proving people’s livelihoods was to understand what the government can do and make the best efforts to carry out changes.

“Not statistical changes, but positive changes in quality of life that people can feel in their daily life,” he said. “Those are very important.”

(Shanghai Daily)

A car is submerged in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, after Haiyan

brought torrential rain to the southern province of Hainan and neighboring Guangxi yesterday.

Houses were destroyed, farmland inundated and at least four people were killed. — Xinhua

AT least four people died while five others are missing in south China after rainstorms trig-gered by Typhoon Haiyan.

The epicenter of the storm reached Ningming County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region at 9am yesterday, pack-ing winds up to 118 kilometers per hour, the regional meteoro-logical station said.

One person drowned in Beihai City and a total of 12,000 people were affected in Guangxi as of 10:50am yesterday, the regional flood control and drought relief authority said. The downpours had caused several local rivers to swell, exceeding warning levels.

Rainfall in Guangxi was re-corded at 300 millimeters in eight townships between 8am on Sunday and 9am yesterday, the authority said. The Fangcheng district in Fangchenggang City saw a maximum rainfall of 451mm.

Kindergartens, primary and middle schools suspended classes in Qinzhou, Beihai and Fangchenggang cities.

Downpours will continue to

sweep parts of Guangxi today. Local meteorological sta-

tions issued a red warning, the highest level, for rainstorms in several areas.

The storm left three dead and nearly half a million affected in the southern island province of Hainan, where 39,000 residents were displaced and more than 650 houses collapsed or were damaged, the provincial civil affairs department said.

The Sanya Phoenix Airport re-sumed normal operations early yesterday after the storm, which sideswiped the island province, caused the cancelation of more

than 200 flights. Power has not been fully restored in the city however.

Two of the dead in Hainan were believed to be sailors re-ported missing from a cargo ship which broke its moorings on Sunday. Rescuers recovered their bodies yesterday.

Five crew of the Guangxi-regis-tered ship remain unaccounted for, the local maritime search and rescue center.

Ships, speedboats and heli-copters were mobilized to join the search after the ship drifted into the South China Sea.

(Xinhua)

Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shanghai DailyA4 METRO

Hu Min

A SHANGHAI tourist died in a fall from the Simatai section of the Great Wall in Beijing on Saturday during a hiking trip, Beijing police said yesterday.

According to media reports, the group undertook the hike despite being told by a forest ranger that conditions were unsafe.

The 45-year-old woman, sur-named Dai, slipped and fell down a 400-meter cliff while descending a steep section of the wall, said a team leader surnamed Yang.

Her hand may have slipped, and loose brickwork may also have been a factor, Yang said.

Dai was among around 100 people taking part in a hike

organized by an outdoor activities website, through mountains near the Simatai section of the wall, 120 kilome-ters from downtown Beijing.

This section is known for its steepness and narrowness.

Dai took part while on a busi-ness trip in Beijing, Yang said. Her parents have left for the capital.

A gale was blowing in Miyun County, where the section is lo-cated, and a local forest ranger tried to stop the group, Metro Express reported yesterday

The ranger is said to have told the group that the moun-tain has not been developed as a scenic spot and that walkers had got lost there in the past.

But this advice was ignored,

according to the newspaper.In recent years, adventure

trips to undeveloped, rugged and often dangerous scenic areas have become popular, but this has brought an in-creased numbers of deaths and injuries in accidents.

A tourist and nine rescuers were taken off uninhabited Bodaozui Island in Shengsi County in neighboring Zheji-ang Province last month, after being stranded overnight.

There have been calls for the government to regulate such activities to ensure that anyone taking part has the necessary training and proper equipment.

However, at present, hikers are not required to register.

Dog patrols add bite to crime fight

Cai Wenjun

FUDAN University plans to spend three years establishing the nation’s biggest center for autism identification, diagnosis and treatment.

The Shanghai university will team up with universities and hospitals in eight provinces and municipalities to under-take an epidemiological study of 120,000 Chinese children with autism, aged between six and 12.

It will also collect biological samples from 1,200 autistic children to study the incidence and factors behind autism in China.

Training will be given to 100 community doctors, 100 pri-mary school teachers and 50 special needs teachers in eight regions to help with early autism screening and intervention.

Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and verbal and non-verbal commu-nication, and usually repetitive or stereotyped behavior.

Dr Wang Yi, vice president of the Children’s Hospital of Fudan University where the research center is located, said autism is a complicated condition with different clinical symptoms.

“The condition may be jointly caused by multiple genes and the environment,” she said.

“We’re not very clear about its mechanism, although some studies have found that the older the father, the higher prevalence of children with autism.”

The World Health Organiza-tion has estimated that there are at least 1 million children with autism in China.

Studies in some cities found that one in 120 children had au-tism. But there are fewer than 10 hospitals with qualified medical teams on the condition.

Experts say the earlier an autistic child is diagnosed the better treatment can work.

Zhao Wen

A BUSINESSMAN discovered bringing 905,000 euros (US$1.21 million) in cash into Shanghai from Italy has received an administrative punishment, customs offi-cials said yesterday.

Such a punishment can in-clude a warning and a fine of up to 20 percent of the total amount of cash involved.

It was discovered during a luggage check by the customs at the Pudong International Airport last Tuesday.

Officials said this is the largest sum they have seized in the past five years.

The passenger, from Wen-zhou City in neighboring Zhejiang Province, was on a flight from Rome.

The cash was wrapped in newspaper, inspectors said.

The businessman, whose name was not revealed, said the money was goods pay-ment from his Italian client.

He claimed that he didn’t know that passengers can bring foreign currency total-ling no more than US$5,000 back into China.

Between January and Oc-tober, Shanghai customs discovered 263 cases of passengers bringing in too much cash — 2.7 times the number of last year.

Begging tip-offs aid police efforts POLICE have dealt with more than 6,700 instances of beg-ging on city Metro lines since July, thanks to tip-offs from commuters through messag-ing services, officers said yesterday.

The Metro police’s of-ficial WeChat platform has received more than 4,000 re-ports of begging since April, with 1,000 dealt with, due to information provided by passengers. This can include pictures of beggars and train serial numbers.

Students stableTWO foreign female students who suffered severe head in-juries after being attacked by a man with a hammer are said to be in stable con-dition and recovering now. The Shanghai University students, one aged 20 from France and the other 22 from Indonesia, were attacked at random by a man surnamed Hu from Anhui Province last Friday on Shangda Road in Baoshan District. Hu was detained by police.

Ke Jiayun

POLICE dog patrols have been strengthened in Zhabei District as the end of the year approach-es, officers said yesterday.

In the period leading up the Spring Festival holiday, which next year runs from January 30 to February 5, there is usually an upsurge in thefts.

To deter thieves, since No-vember 4, Zhabei police have increased the number of dogs in a patrol from one to two, an officer surnamed Ma said.

Dog patrols started about a year ago in Zhabei and areas in which they patrol have seen

numbers of crime cases halved, police said.

Each of the 11 police stations is allocated one dog, with four kept in reserve.

Among them is Hu Zi, a two-year-old German shepherd, which has worked at the police station in Zhabei’s Daning area for more than four months.

In September, a scooter thief had a shock when he found Hu Zi hot on his trail, police said.

Police monitoring video surveillance spotted a suspi-cious-looking man near the Daning Life Hub , a commercial plaza on September 2.

An officer surnamed Chen

was alerted and took Hu Zi to the scene.

Chen identified a man in green T-shirt as the suspect and waited until he committed the theft. When he saw the man fiddling with a scooter, Chen approached him and attempted to detain him.

The thief fled on foot to a greenbelt along the middle of the road. Chen and Hu Zi gave chase and caught him when he tired.

“Hu Zi did a good job. I saw the thief slow down and start to tremble when he saw the officer and dog chasing him,” said Feng Bing, an officer who witnessed

the whole episode on surveil-lance cameras.

“Police dogs can act as a deter-rent to criminals,” added Feng.

Zhabei is the first district in the city to have police dog patrols.

Zhang Jing, a Zhabei police commander, said they review the scope of the dog patrols every week according to their analysis.

Residents don’t seem to mind the sight of police dogs on their streets, said officers.

When Ma was patrolling the plaza with police dogs Hu Zi and Seap, children were eager to see them, he said.

Man tried to bring in 905,000 euro cash

Tourist dies in Great Wall fall ‘as safety warning ignored’

University at forefront of autism center plan

Chilling outPedestrians wrap up in thick coats and scarves on Nanjing Road E. yesterday, when the low

dropped to 12 degrees Celsius in the morning, due to a cold front. Drizzle is forecast for the city

from today to Thursday, with a break on Friday, before more light rain on Saturday. Temperatures

will start climbing to 18-19 degrees from tomorrow through the weekend. — Lu Haitao

BRIEF NEWS

Shanghai Daily Tuesday 12 November 2013 METRO A5

Ma Yue

CARTOON fans have less than a week to vote on the decor of the Metro station that will serve Shanghai Disneyland, scheduled to open at the end of 2015.

The poll closes at midnight on Sun-day, and more than 20,000 votes had been cast by yesterday.

According to organizers, a blue color scheme that highlights fantasy elements has been leading the poll to sprinkle a little magic on Disneyland Metro station.

The six candidate projects have been produced by a team from East China Architectural Design and Research Institute.

And 100 people who vote for the win-ning design will receive a gift worth 300 yuan (US$49).

The Shanghai Shentong Metro Group — Metro operator and organizer of the poll — said the construction of the Dis-neyland Metro station will be based on

the most popular project among the public in the poll.

Changes will be made to meet re-quirements for practical use and safety reasons, after consultation with experts.

To serve the theme park, Metro Line 11 will have an extension from Luoshan Road Station to Disneyland, with sta-tions at Kangqiao Road E, Hengxin Road and Disneyland.

The 9.2-kilometer extension will in-clude 7.7 kilometers above ground but the final stretch will be underground.

Passengers will enter the park through an underground passageway.

According to a plan unveiled earlier, the Disneyland station will be semi-underground, with a skylight to bring natural light indoors. It will be sur-rounded by an artificial lake, trees and shrubs.

Votes for the decor can be cast at http://sh.sina.com.cn/shmetrodsn.

Viola Ke

A MAN who attempted to rob a gold shop in Songjiang District in an appar-ent bid to be detained by police had his wish, officers said yesterday.

The suspect, in his 20s, claimed he sought detention as he could find some peace there, following some recent un-happy experiences, said police.

He showed no sign of mental health problems, officers said.

The man is said to have walked into

a gold shop last Saturday and calmly told a saleswoman that he was going to commit a robbery.

When the saleswoman thought he was joking, the man took out a box cut-ter and tried to open the counter. The woman then called police.

When officers arrived, the man laid down the box cutter and let police es-cort him away without a struggle.

Police said he was frustrated by recent matters and wanted to be detained.

Yang Jian

WORK has finished on the fourth run-way at the Pudong International Airport, which will be put into service next year, officials with the Shanghai Airport Au-thority said yesterday.

The new runway will provide a test-ing ground for the much-anticipated Chinese-made C919 jumbo jet. It will also be used to conduct test flights of China’s ARJ21 regional jet.

With the new runway, the Pudong airport will be able to handle 80 mil-lion passengers a year, said Li Derun, deputy president of the Shanghai Air-port Authority.

At 3,800 meters long, the fourth run-way can cope with the world’s largest commercial plane — the Airbus 380.

Also under construction is a 3,400-meter fifth runway, which will be used for C919 test flights.

Once that is complete, Shanghai will have seven runways — five at Pudong and two at the Hongqiao International Airport.

The cost of the two new runways at the Pudong airport, operated by Shanghai International Airport Co Ltd, will be 9.4 billion yuan (US$1.54 billion).

“The Pudong airport will be important to Shanghai’s free trade zone, while the

establishment of the zone also provides an opportunity for the airport to up-grade its facilities,” Li said.

In addition to the new runways, a new satellite terminal will be built at the Pudong airport by 2015, the city’s top planning body said yesterday.

Aircraft will be able to park around the entire circumference of the new S1 Terminal, said the Civil Aviation Devel-opment Outline 2011-2015, issued by the Shanghai Development and Reform Commission.

Renovations of Terminal 1 at the Pudong airport will also begin soon, including an expansion and upgrade to the luggage system, Li said.

The work, expected to be complete by the end of next year, will benefit Shang-hai-based China Eastern Airlines, which will become the largest occupant of the terminal, said the airport operator.

Capacity of the terminal, which opened in 1999, will grow from 20 million to 36.8 million passengers a year, following the 1.2 billion yuan renovation.

The revamped terminal will be ex-panded by one story to seven floors, and new areas added to make transfers faster and easier, said authorities.

Shanghai plans for its two airports to handle 100 million passengers and 5.5 million tons of cargo a year by 2015.

4th runway ready for take-off in Pudong

A blue color theme, featuring twinkling lights and Mickey Mouse’s distinctive

silhouette, leads the poll for the Shanghai Disneyland Metro station design.

Voting for a little magic at Disney Metro station

Ke Jiayun

A SUITCASE containing jewelry worth 5 million yuan (US$820,000) left by mis-take in a cab trunk was recovered within six hours, police said yesterday.

A jewelry company clerk traveling to the former Expo site in the Pudong New Area last Thursday to help set up a jewelry exhibition put a case in the trunk before getting into the taxi.

Inside the case were 184 pieces of jewelry — including pieces inlaid with rubies and sapphires — together worth about 5 million yuan.

After the cab arrived, the clerk got out in a hurry without taking a receipt and left her suitcase in the trunk.

When she realized the suitcase was

missing, the woman called police.As the clerk had been talking on the

phone on the way and hadn’t paid atten-tion to the exact route, police searched for the cab’s license plate number and route on surveillance videos.

When she remembered the cab turned around at crossroads near Yaohua Road, police located it in a video.

Officers analyzed possible routes and then watched footage to find the cab.

After a five-hour investigation, police identified the license plate number and contacted the taxi driver.

The cabbie confirmed there was a suitcase in his trunk and drove back to return it.

The case had not been opened and no jewelry was missing.

Hold-up was ‘bid to be detained’

5m yuan of jewelry left in trunk

Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shanghai DailyA6 OPINION

❛ Com-pensation to farmers is often in-substantial, and breeds simmering discontent and friction between farmers and local gov-ernments.

Land reform holds key to healthy urbanization

Benefits, costs of new reforms need to be fairly spreadTHE plenary session of China’s central lead-ership that ends today will unleash China’s new round of reform, which is expected to steer the country into a historic turning point and transform its growth pattern.

However, the new round of reform is not only based on the growth and development situation created through China’s past 35 years of opening up, but also entangled with intricate problems and conflicts brought along by its past development.

The key to the success of China’s latest reform lies in whether the Party can coor-dinate different agendas with the strength to tackle hard issues.

During past reforms, economic growth “in overdraft mode” brought about prominent imbalances and conflicts in China’s devel-opment. The growth has been achieved at a heavy cost in land, energy consumption, the environment and cheap labor.

As Justin Yifu Lin, former chief economist and senior president of the World Bank, put it, although comprehensive reform in an all-round way has had the largest consen-sus in China, risks are likely to accumulate to obstruct the progress of the new reform, which leaves the reformers with little room to maneuver.

The economist said at a forum last week that China still needs to boost effective investment to shore up its economy against the backdrop of slow global economic recovery.

Pressing needCompared with the social environment

of reform now and 35 years ago, China’s leadership has a more pressing need to seek an agenda and path for reform that can gather the greatest support. It requires a fair distribution of the costs of reform and the wisdom to pool benefits to take into account various social interests.

In recent years, a large number of “mass incidents,” which involve a group of people staging a protest, have happened annu-ally in China. Such conflicts are becoming “more varied and complicated,” according to a blue book released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in December.

It said land expropriation and housing demolitions, environmental pollution and labor disputes have been the top three causes of mass incidents. Many of those nowadays tend to last for a longer time and are conducted on a larger scale.

Social imbalances in certain fields have constituted the root of the conflicts. For ex-ample, China’s higher education, although expanding rapidly in the past decade, has included a smaller number of students from rural regions than it did 10 years ago.

A widening wealth gap has appeared between cities and the countryside, and dif-ferent regions, jobs and groups of people.

Many offenses against social order by the second generation of China’s wealthy fami-lies in recent years have also demoralized the country’s social working spirit. Some talented young people complain that hard work can never yield the wealth they de-serve, as wealth has come to be dominated by certain groups of people.

Without incorporat ing pol it ica l restructuring into economic restructuring, social wealth cannot be redistributed, and the new strength of social energy cannot be invigorated.

The Chinese leadership is aware that deepening reform rather than maintaining the status quo can ensure the stability of the Party’s rule and help find solutions to all thorny issues the government is facing.

(Xinhua)

Anticipation of land reform is running high in China, where a unique land system has

hobbled urbanization.Whether farmers will be granted the

right to more money through trading their land is key to revitalizing the rural economy and speeding up urbanization, which the government has been pushing for years.

Details of land reform are widely expected to emerge from the plenary session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee.

The land system is a fundamental institution that affects a country’s overall economic development. The ruling party’s decisions on land re-form will change the current land laws and regulations, said Zheng Fengtian, vice dean of the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Renmin University of China.

According to Chinese law, urban land is owned by the state and rural land is under collective ownership. Farmers use the land but have no right to sell or develop it.

Since the 1990s, the property market has flourished in cities and has been a major engine of growth, while ownership rules for rural land have not changed in decades, constricting rural development.

Urbanization means hundreds of millions of farmers leaving the land to work in cities. As the profits from farming are far less than income from working in the cities, much land is now left uncultivated.

Aware of the problems, the gov-ernment has experimented in many regions with new systems for rural land transfers. Now, farmers can only lease their land to other farmers or to rural cooperatives. For example, a vegetable cooperative at Shichaomen Village in Chongqing Municipality has more than 1,000 mu (66.7 hectares) of land under cultivation, originating from almost 700 farmers.

“Rent has risen to more than 600 yuan a year per mu (US$98) this year from

400 yuan in 2009,” said He Guoquan, head of the cooperative. “Farmers also share in the dividends.”

Restrictions on land transfer limit the rent farmers can make from their land. With no right to trade the land, those who move to the cities often live precariously, contribute little to domestic demand and do not enjoy the privileges of urban residents because of their rural origins.

With no hukou (urban household registration) in big cities, migrants cannot buy houses or register cars, nor avail themselves of medical care and education.

More secure footholdDismantling the hukou system

would allow farmers transplanted to cities to exchange rural property rights for a more secure foothold in the metropolis. It could also provide the boost to consumption that the Chinese leadership fervently wants.

In a tour to the city of Wuhan this July, President Xi Jinping listened to reports on the progress of rural equity transactions, saying that the transfer of land must be done while respecting the will of rural residents, protecting farmland, ensuring food supplies and increasing rural residents’ incomes.

Xi called for further research on the relationship between ownership, contract rights and management rights of rural land.

On the back of galloping economic growth since the start of reform in 1978, China has urbanized. The urbanization rate has increased from just under 18 percent in 1978 to over 50 percent in 2012, but if you strip away migrant workers with no hukou, the “real” rate is much lower.

Speeding up urbanization is at the top of the agenda to boost domestic demand in a country determined to change an aged development model still based on exports and investment.

Urbanization means modernization and land reform holds the key to urban-ization, claims Hu Shuli, a renowned

economic columnist, in an article in the South China Morning Post.

Restrictions on land development must be eased, rules for land acquisition simplified, standardized registration of ownership introduced, and full rights awarded to farmers to freely trade land on the market, she said.

While farmers cannot trade their land, the law allows the government to acquire land for public use after compensating occupants. It may then legally change the land use, transferring the title to real estate developers at a substantial profit. This is currently a major source of income for some local governments.

Compensation to farmers is often insubstantial, and breeds simmer-ing discontent and friction between farmers and local governments. Com-pensation for one mu of land is usually between 30,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan in villages while the profits at auction could be millions of yuan.

“Local government profiteering not only threatens food security but drives farmers to protest,” said Zheng Fengtian.

More money to farmersA lot of farmland has been

requisitioned in the past decade, generating enormous earnings for local governments while leaving farmers almost excluded from the revenues. The priority is to improve the farmers’ share by formalizing their rights of ownership, he said. Farmers have the right to use land but no specific tenure of ownership.

Gu Yikang, a professor at Zhejiang University, suggests farmers be given deeds of ownership. For those migrant farmers living in the cities, their ownership and management rights should be guaranteed.

Giving more money to farmers means breaking the government monopoly on land supply and reducing their earnings, so resistance from local governments is likely, said Zheng.

(Xinhua)

Illustration by Zhou Tao/Shanghai Daily

Your land is mine, now. Take the pennies and get lost!

Shanghai Daily Tuesday 12 November 2013 NATIONAL A7

Guangdong has biggest singles population

Great Wall guardians put their faith in local efforts

Beijing subway suicide brings services to halt

SOUTHERN China’s Guang-dong Province is home to the country’s largest population of singles, accounting for 11 percent of the total number of singletons in the country, according to the Yangcheng Evening News yesterday.

It also has the largest number of single men, the report said, quoting a survey by matchmak-ing website baihe.com.

The survey attributed Guang-dong men’s difficulty in finding the other half to their fast pace of life and devotion to wealth.

Oddly enough, a study by

another matchmaking website Jiayuan.com said their male members from Guangdong are also the group that has the high-est chance of success in finding a girlfriend, compared to mem-bers from other regions.

The study attributed Guang-dong men’s charm to their wealth and mild character.

Another survey conducted by Zhenai.com, a matchmak-ing website that claims to have 60 million members, showed that singlehood is growing in more of China’s second-tier cities. The ratio of unmarried

men to women has reached 100 to 74.3 in Shenzhen, a city in Guangdong Province, making the city the “capital” for unat-tached men.

Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, has become the “capital” for unat-tached women, even though the city is famed for its beauties, according to the survey.

Journalism was ranked the number one singles profession, with 4.8 percent of those in the industry remaining single, fol-lowed by advertising and public relations, the survey revealed.

China’s sixth nationwide cen-sus in 2010 shows the ratio of unmarried men to women was 136 to 100 for those born after 1980, and for those born after 1970, the ratio was as high as 206 to 100.

Chinese who have not paired

off celebrated “Single’s Day” yesterday. The November 11 holiday has increased in popu-larity and is accompanied by an online shopping frenzy.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group took in 10 billion yuan (US$1.2b) in the first six hours of promotions, starting at midnight yesterday.

“The popularity of Single’s Day among young Chinese re-veals the hardships of being in love and getting married,” said Tao Wenzhao, a professor at Renmin University of China.

(Xinhua)

11% The percentage of China’s

singles living in southern

Guangdong Province, the

country’s biggest group.

A BEIJING subway line was halted after a man jumped off the platform, killing himself at a downtown station yester-day evening, the operator and witnesses said.

Sources with Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Cor-poration Limited, the operator, said the incident happened at 5:24pm at Xuanwumen station on Line 2.

Police and subway staff rushed into a train to evacuate passengers and medical staff later arrived.

Sources said the man was killed in the incident.

The station was forced to close and trains running clockwise on the line had to be halted. Services resumed

at 5:41pm, subway authorities said.

The loop line, which runs 23 kilometers with 18 stations along Beijing’s second ring road in the capital’s downtown area, is one of the busiest in the capital.

It started operations in 1987 and transports more than one million people each day.

The suspension made other subway lines, such as Line 1, 4, and 5, even more crowded. The intervals were much lon-ger than normal.

Beijing, with nearly 20.7 million people, has 14 subway lines carrying over 8.5 million passengers on an average day, according to official figures.

(Xinhua)

ZHANG Jun and his team-mates spend almost all their weekends on matters related to the Great Wall, though they rarely go to the famous Badal-ing section in northern Beijing where tourists and foreign heads of state visit.

Zhang’s team prefers sec-tions with steep cliffs, broken walls, and huge piles of rubble that most people ignore.

“Totally shocked,” said Zhang, who was born in south China but became concerned about the man-made marvel stretching across north China, when he saw photographs of dilapidated sections.

In 1999, a dozen Great Wall enthusiasts like Zhang set up a volunteer team to promote and protect the Great Wall. They also launched a website www.thegreatwall.com.cn to share information they gathered.

In the years since, the team has attracted more than 200 members from all walks of life, including an accountant, a chemical engineer, a newspa-per editor and civil servants.

They started as hikers, walking along the Great Wall in many provinces to enjoy

the outdoors. Now, they have become guardians, protect-ing and preserving the world wonder.

“The Great Wall” club values the power of images. They al-ways carry old photos, taken decades or a century ago, to find the spots photographed and see the scenery as it ap-pears today.

Unfortunately, through the lenses of today’s advanced cameras, the great structure appears as deserted walls, ramshackle towers without roofs, or renovated buildings with modern facades.

They organize volunteers to collect garbage and plant trees along the wall. But to their surprise, most damage comes from people living nearby.

“We can’t be the savior of the Great Wall,” said Zhang, who realized that local people must be involved in its protection.

They organized a campaign, “Home alongside the Great Wall,” inviting local people to take photos in front of the Great Wall, and told them that the man-made wonder was not far from their everyday lives.

(Xinhua)

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Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shanghai DailyA8 NATIONAL

Make your plea: Ranking system for petitions set to be abolished

CAS technological innovation boosting farm output

Couple loses son in fiery family feud

Beating the drum of classroom charityA boy strikes a toy drum set during class in a poverty-ridden county in southwest China’s Guizhou

Province yesterday when 17 kindergartens, named “magic classrooms in the mountains” and set up

by a charity group, were launched. The charity group raised over 3 million yuan (US$492,000) from

Tencent Co to fund 165 kindergartens. More than 100 of them have started classes so far. — Xinhua

Li Qian

A NATIONWIDE ranking sys-tem that counts the number of petitioners in every region is to be abolished, Beijing News reported yesterday.

Under the current policy, regions are graded according to the number of petitions received — the more the peti-tions, the poorer the grades given to regional departments in the annual assessment. This has led to many authorities adopting foul means to stifle petitioners.

Illegal detention is believed to be a common ploy, with petitioners frequently inter-cepted by local government agents and detained in shabby hostels known as “black jails.” They are often ill-treated.

In April 2012, 11 petitioners from central Henan Province traveled to Beijing hoping to air their grievances. But six were confined and four were forcibly sent back to their hometown. In February, 10 people who illegally detained the petitioners were jailed.

Also, some petitioners have been taken to court or sent to labor camps under the excuse of disturbing social order.

In August 2012, Tang Hui, a native of central Hunan Prov-ince, was sent to labor camp in Yongzhou City to serve an 18-month sentence after pe-titioning for justice for her daughter, who was repeatedly raped and forced into prostitu-tion at the age of 11.

Tang protested in front of local government buildings and called for the death pen-alty for all convicts. She also complained that the local po-lice department had falsified evidence to reduce the sen-tences of people involved.

Overwhelmed by the media

pressure, the decision was revoked eight days later and Tang was released.

According to Southern Me-tropolis Daily, villages and counties in Yongzhou were warned that their scores would be deducted in assessment if local complaints spread to departments in Yongzhou or even Beijing.

It was reported that the village government spent mil-lions of yuan in fighting Tang, Beijing News revealed.

Petitioning, or xinfang in Chinese, literally meaning letters, calls and visits, was introduced in the 1950s as an administrative system de-signed to hear complaints and grievances from the public.

It is a traditional way for peo-ple to seek justice from higher authorities when they have information or a complaint about the performance of ad-ministrative organizations, enterprises or institutions that supply public services.

China’s top authority for handling complaints and ad-vice from the public adopted the Regulations on Letters and Visits in January 2005 and it went into effect that May.

The State Bureau for Letters and Calls had planned to just openly criticize violations and dereliction among officials in dealing with public com-plaints. But it soon evolved into a public ranking system which was used to measure officials’ performance.

Reacting to the reform de-cision, Duan Feng, deputy director of the petitioning of-fice in a western province, said he won’t need to worry about the “petitioning figures” any longer. They could now simply focus on how to handle rather than stem the complaints.

XU Jingyu had been growing corn and wheat for a dozen years, but never imagined his saline-alkali soil could produce 500 kilograms of grain per mu (about 0.07 hectare).

“Until last year, the average wheat production was only 200 to 300kg per mu,” said the 64-year-old, who lives in Musanba Village in Nanpi County, north China’s Hebei Province, where lands have been less productive due to the soil salinity.

Xu said that last year he

began to grow wheat seeds, called “Xiao Yan 81,” provided by the Chinese Academy of Sci-ences, and adopted farming techniques suggested by the institution.

The land yield of wheat in Musanba village this year has already reached more than 450kg per mu, and corn yields have reached about 600kg per mu, according to Xu.

China accounts for a fifth of the world’s population, but with less than 9 percent of its land

arable, its leaders have aimed to boost agriculture technology to ensure food supply.

In July, President Xi Jinping said during a tour of rural areas in central Hubei Province that the country’s food secu-rity issue could only be solved from within, indicating that we should not rely on imports for our food supply.

Analysts say recent moves, such as the initiatives by the CAS in the Bohai Bay Rim area, which includes Musanba Village,

reflect China’s determination to tackle the problem by promot-ing agriculture innovation.

“China now has 1.8 billion mu of arable land. The key to solving China’s food security problem is not to increase arable land, but to boost agriculture innova-tion to increase food output,” said Liu Xiaojing, a researcher at the CAS’ Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology.

According to CAS statistics, China has more than 40 million mu of medium- and low-yield

fields, and 10 million mu of saline soils in four provincial-level divisions, including Hebei, Shandong, Liaoning, and Tian-jin in the Bohai Bay Rim area.

If technology can overcome problems such as barren soil and the lack of freshwater re-sources, the potential of these lands could be huge, said Liu.

Researchers estimate that by 2020, the Bohai Bay Rim will have the potential to hike crop output by 5 billion kg per year.

(Xinhua)

Li Qian

A 4-YEAR-OLD boy, who suf-fered severe burns in an accidental fire after being fed gasoline by his mother amid a domestic dispute three days ago, has died.

Zhang Zhihao, of Jinhua City in east China’s Zhejiang Prov-ince, who suffered 35 percent burns, was taken off life support on Sunday afternoon. The doc-tors treating him determined that the boy would end up being

an amputee in the absence of the sense of sight, taste, smell and hearing if he survived.

His father, Zhang Qiusheng, had only two choices — either let the boy die in peace or live in pain — and he finally opted for the former decision, Jinhua Eve-ning News reported yesterday.

Zhang Qiusheng, 48, and his wife Shen Dan, 40, also suffered 15 percent burns in the acci-dent. Since Shen is still not in a position to speak, local police

haven’t been able to question her, City Express reported.

The couple was always feud-ing and Shen had threatened to kill their son and then commit suicide. After she came home from work last Thursday, she fed her son from a soft drink bottle, which contained gasoline.

In the ensuing tussle, they ac-cidentally hit the stove and the boy caught fire. He was rushed to Jinhua Center Hospital with third-degree burns.

Sun released after 7-day detentionMa Yue

CHINA’S Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang was freed yesterday morning after a sev-en-day detention for driving without a license in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province.

Chen Hongyan, deputy chief of the Hangzhou Detention House, confirmed to local media that Sun left the house at around 8am yesterday. Accord-ing to a person who claimed to be familiar with the case, the 21-year-old Hangzhou native’s first stop after leaving the house

was to be the Zhejiang College of Sports, his training base.

A throng of media personnel had been waiting at the gate of the detention house since early yesterday. According to an eye-witness, a black Buick was spotted leaving the detention house at around 8am, carrying a passenger wearing a cap, sus-pected to be Sun.

The world record holder was also fined 2,000 yuan (US$328) and suspended from com-petition and training by the national team last week, as well as banned from commercial

activities after his detention. The authorities did not reveal when the ban will be lifted.

According to reports from Zhejiang media, Sun’s food was served separately from other detainees. The identity of his roommate at the detention house was also kept secret by local police, who said the sur-veillance footage of Sun’s life in the house would be given to concerned authorities.

Sun was involved in a minor collision with a bus on Novem-ber 3. He was later found to be driving without a license.

Shanghai Daily Tuesday 12 November 2013 WORLD A9

Iran agrees to give UN inspectors expanded access to nuclear sites

Police arrest dozens for jeering Hollande

Let the party beginRevelers celebrate the start of the Carnival yesterday in Cologne. In many parts of Germany, at

11:11am on November 11, people mark the official start of Carnival, a season of controlled rau-

cous fun that reaches a climax during the days before Ash Wednesday. — Reuters

IRAN and the UN’s nuclear chief reached a deal yesterday to allow expanded monitor-ing of the country’s nuclear sites, including at a planned reactor. The agreement could boost wider negotiations over Tehran’s atomic program.

Although the deal is a step forward in Iran’s cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog agency, the initial “road map” for deeper inspections does not men-tion some of the sites most sought by UN teams, notably a military facility outside Tehran, to probe suspicions of nuclear-related work.

Iran was quick to promote the accord, announced at a joint news conference, as a sign of progress toward reaching a broader accord with the US and other world powers when talks resume next week.

The deal was struck during talks in Tehran with UN nuclear watchdog Yukiya Amano, whose initiative parallels more far-reaching efforts by the six world

powers to reach an accord that would ease Western concerns that Iran could one day develop nuclear weapons — an assertion Iran denies.

The pact reached certainly contributes to the chances of a larger deal. Inspec-tors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, have been working in Iran for years, but have complained of some limitations in reaching some sites and personnel.

The framework would give IAEA teams access to a key uranium mine and the site of a planned heavy water reactor, which uses a different type of coolant than regu-lar water and produces a greater amount of plutonium by-product than conventional reactors. Inspectors have already visited the reactor site, but seek more extensive probing.

The IAEA also received clearance for a visit to the Gachin uranium mine near the Persian Gulf port of Bandar Abbas,

which also has been sought.The deal also calls for Iran to provide

more details on its nuclear program in-cluding all planned research reactors.

Iran’s nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, said the pact is intended as “a road map that clarifies the mutual steps required for resolving the outstanding issues” — points repeatedly raised by President Hassan Rouhani since taking office in August.

A joint statement by Salehi and Amano said both sides seek to “cooperate further ... to resolve all present and past issues.” The IAEA, in a nod to Iran’s concerns, also agreed to protect confidential information regarding its nuclear program.

The deal also could open room for even wider inspections, but no details were given.

“The practical measures will be imple-mented in the next three months, starting from today,” Amano said in Tehran.

(AP)

ONE of the four Westgate Mall attackers once lived in a refugee camp of 50,000 Somali refugees in northwestern Kenya, two security officials said, highlighting Kenya’s interest in speeding up the return of nearly 500,000 Somali refugees to their home country.

Very little is known about the four gun-men who sprayed bullets into men, women and children inside Nairobi’s Westgate Mall on September 21.

Al-Shabab, a Somali Islamic extremist group affiliated with al-Qaida, claimed re-sponsibility for the four-day siege of the mall that killed 67 people.

One mall attack suspect has been identi-fied as Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, a 23-year-old Somalia native whose family moved to Nor-way in 1999. Court documents revealed a second name last week — Mohammed Ab-dinur Said — that an official confirmed was the name of another attacker.

A Kenyan security official said Said once lived in the Kakuma refugee camp, a camp run by the United Nations refu-gee agency, known as UNHCR, that houses 101,000 refugees, including 54,00 Somalis. A second security official investigating the attack said more than one attacker passed through Kakuma camp.

The head of UNHCR in Kenya, Raouf Mazou, said his organization has been co-operating with the Kenyan government on the Westgate investigation but said he was “not aware of any specific case and not the name that you mentioned.”

Kenyan officials have long been con-cerned about security inside the major refugee camps it houses, including Kakuma and a much larger camp near the Somali border called Dadaab, where 388,000 So-malis live.

The agreement signed on Sunday be-tween Kenya, Somalia and UNHCR says

the 475,000 registered Somali refugees inside Kenya will get support when they return to their homeland — if they choose to return.

Kenya in 2011 mounted a military cam-paign inside Somalia largely to address insecurity on that side of the border and set the conditions for the return of the nearly a half million refugees.

Mazou said that UNHCR has supported the government in its efforts to increase security inside the UN camps. In the last several years the camps, particularly Dada-ab, have been hit by a spate of blasts by grenades and other improvised explosive devices.

“Clearly there was some insecurity in the camps,” Mazou said. “Things have improved since Kenyan security has been able to deploy additional personnel in the Dadaab area.”

(AP)

Nairobi attacker lived in a refugee camp

FRENCH police arrested about 70 people at an Armistice Day memorial ceremony yesterday after protesters who the govern-ment said were linked to the far right booed President Francois Hollande.

Newscasters said it was the first time a French head of state had been jeered on November 11, which commemorates the signing of the armistice in 1918 between World War I allies and Germany.

Scuffles erupted between po-lice and the protesters as the Socialist president’s motorcade drove up the tree-lined Champs-Elysees boulevard to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe in central Paris.

Some of the protesters shout-ed “Hollande, step down” and “Socialist Dictator!” and Interior Minister Manuel Valls said they included members of far-right groups opposed to govern-ment policies such as same-sex marriages.

“Today on the Champs-Ely-sees, several dozen individuals linked to the far right ... did not want to respect this moment of contemplation and gathering,” Valls said, describing their ac-tions as “unacceptable.”

One protester told BFM-TV the boos and gibes were targeted purely at Hollande.

“I find it absolutely shameful that we don’t have the right to speak up without being arrest-ed,” said the woman. “Saying ‘Hollande, step down’ is not offensive.”

“We have the impression that he’s not listening so we have to protest,” she said, without elaborating.

A CSA poll published last Friday showed Hollande’s popu-larity ratings had plummeted due to an ailing economy, heavy taxes and other issues.

(Reuters)

THE Saudi government said yesterday a camel has tested positive for MERS, the first case of an animal infected with the coronavirus that has killed 64 people worldwide.

A camel owned by a person diagnosed with the disease had “tested positive in pre-liminary laboratory checks,” the health ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.

The ministry said it was working with the ministry of agriculture and laborato-ries to “isolate the virus and compare its genetic structure with that of the patient’s.”

If the virus carried by the camel and that of the patient “prove to be identical, this would be a first scientific discovery worldwide, and a door to identify the source of the virus,” it added.

The camel was diagnosed in the western province of Jeddah, it said.

Experts are struggling to understand the virus known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, for which there is no vaccine.

It is considered a dead-lier but less-transmissible cousin of the SARS virus that erupted in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 people, 9 percent of whom died.

In August, researchers pointed to Arabian camels as possible hosts of the virus, which has hit hardest in the desert kingdom, where 53 people have died from the disease since it appeared in September 2012.

(AFP)

Saudis say camel tests positive for MERS

Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shanghai DailyA10 WORLD

Cambodia wins temple area border dispute

Breast cancer study surprises scientists

Homeless man’s good deed elicits big response

Lady Gaga poses with a

sculpture of her by artist

Jeff Koons at the artRave

release event of her new

album “Artpop” in New

York yesterday. It is Lady

Gaga’s third album. —

Reuters

A DECADE-LONG research effort to uncover the environmen-tal causes of breast cancer by studying both lab animals and a group of healthy US girls has turned up some surprises, sci-entists say.

At the center of the investi-gation are 1,200 school girls who do not have breast cancer, but who have already given scientists new clues about the possible origins of the disease.

Some risk factors are well understood, including early puberty, later age of childbear-ing, late onset of menopause, estrogen replacement therapy, drinking alcohol and exposure to radiation.

Advances have also been made in identifying risky gene muta-tions, but these cases make up a small minority.

“Most of breast cancer, partic-ularly in younger women, does

not come from family histories,” said Leslie Reinlib, a program director at the National Insti-tute of Environmental Health Sciences.

“We have still got 80 percent that has got to be environmen-tal,” said Reinlib, who is part of the Breast Cancer and the En-vironment Research Program (BCERP) program that has re-ceived some US$70 million in funds from the US government since 2003.

Some of its researchers track what is happening in the human population, while others study how carcinogens, pollutants and diet affect the development of the mammary glands and breast tumors in lab mice.

The program’s primary focus is on puberty because its early onset “is probably one of the best predictors of breast cancer in women,” Reinlib said.

Puberty is a time of rapid growth of the breast tissue. Research on survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombings in Japan has shown that those ex-posed in puberty had a higher likelihood of developing breast cancer in adulthood.

The 1,200 US girls enrolled in the study at sites in New York City, California and the Cincin-nati, Ohio, area in 2004. They were aged six to eight years.

The aim was to measure the girls’ chemical exposures through blood and urine tests, and to learn how environmental exposures affected the onset of puberty and perhaps breast can-cer risk later in life.

Breast cancer is the most com-mon cancer in women and took 508,000 lives worldwide in 2011, according to the World Health Organization.

(AFP)

MULTI-PLATINUM selling singer Lady Gaga electrified several thousand hand-picked groupies with a live performance at the Brook-lyn docks, kicking off the global release yesterday of her third album.

Strutting and writhing across the stage dressed in a white leotard and white wig, Gaga late on Sunday performed tracks from her new album “Artpop,” launched in collaboration with US artist Jeff Koons.

Fans in fishnets, men in sequined drag and lipstick, girls in stilettos, gay men in platforms, older men in kilts and the odd grand-mother, the crowd was as eclectic as they were die-hard Gaga fans, mobbing her with cell phone cameras and dancing madly.

“Artpop” signals a return to the limelight for Stefani Germanotta, the 27-year-old privately educated New

Yorker best known as Lady Gaga, after she was forced to tone down her wall-to-wall engagements to undergo hip surgery.

She has collaborated with several world famous contemporary art ists, including Koons, who por-trayed her as a post-modern Botticellian Venus for the album artwork.

“I just want 11/11 to be a time for us all to really open our minds and project a brand-new future in com-munication, in technology, in visual art,” Gaga said in reference to the date.

“Artpop” is a return to the synthpop of Gaga’s massively successful 2008 debut album “The Fame” after she experimented with other styles on her second album, “Born This Way.”

Critics gave the album only lukewarm reception.

(AFP)

OFFERS of support have been pouring in from around the US for a formerly homeless New Jersey man whose good deed proved costly.

James Brady of Hackensack was notified recently that his government benefits were being suspended after he failed to re-port as income the US$850 he had found on a sidewalk and turned over to police.

Brady, who was homeless when he found the money on a sidewalk in April after leaving a local shelter, turned the cash over to police. He was allowed to keep it six months later after no one claimed it during a man-dated waiting period.

The Hackensack Human Ser-vices Department denied him General Assistance and Medic-aid benefits through December 31 because he failed to report the cash as income. Its direc-tor of human services said they were just following the rules.

Brady, 59, is a former photog-rapher and market data analyst who has suffered from depres-sion since losing his job a decade ago, according to The Record of Woodland Park newspaper.

Brady told The Record he hadn’t realized he was required to report the money. Formerly homeless, he had recently found housing and was seeing a therapist and a psychiatrist and taking medication, but was unsure he’d be able to afford continuing care after his ben-efits were cut off.

The newspaper said offers of support for Brady have been pouring in from readers.

Bergen County’s United Way also set up an account for Brady through its Compassion Fund.

The chapter’s head, Tom Toronto, told the newspaper the offers of help stem from a feeling Brady did a good deed when it would have been easier to keep the money.

(AP)

THE United Nations’ high-est court ruled yesterday that Cambodia has sovereignty over a disputed promontory around a 1,000-year-old temple, in the latest attempt to settle a border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand.

In a unanimous decision, the International Court of Justice said a 1962 ruling by its judges gave Cambodia sovereignty over the Preah Vihear prom-ontory and said Thailand was therefore “under an obligation to withdraw from that territory the Thai military or police forc-es or other guards or keepers that were stationed there.”

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said he was happy with the ruling even though it did not give Cambodia all the land it was hoping for. Speaking on Cambodian state television TVK, he called the decision “a gift from the International Court of Justice to our Kingdom of Cambodia.”

The court granted Cambodia sovereignty over the temple in 1962 and said Thai forces were obliged to withdraw from the temple “or in its vicinity on Cambodian territory.”

Cambodia went back to the court in 2011, following several clashes between its army and

Thai forces to ask exactly what judges meant by “vicinity” in 1962.

The court did not draw any new maps, but said the prom-ontory is bordered by steep slopes on most sides and to the north a border line drawn up in 1907 by a commission of French officials.

Tha i Foreign Min ister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said the verdict included “sat-isfactory results to both sides,” adding the two neighbors will work together to implement it.

In a televised address, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shi-nawatra said her government

would look at how to proceed following the ruling, but also stressed the need for coopera-tion with Cambodia.

“Thailand and Cambodia share an 800-kilometer border,” she said, adding the countries “have to rely on each other for prosperity.”

Close to the border, Cam-bodian national Mann Vanna, 55, said he was happy with the decision.

“This ruling I hope will end the long dispute between Cam-bodia and Thailand, and that the Thais will respect this ver-dict,” he said, his eyes filling with tears. “This ruling will end

the black blood that has flowed from the people of both coun-tries. Thailand has to respect it.”

Soldiers from both countries were near the temple over the weekend ahead of the an-nouncement of the judgment at the court’s headquarters in The Hague and villagers nearby feared the ruling could trigger new military clashes.

In Srah Kdol, a Cambodian vil-lage about 20 kilometers from the temple, several families had left ahead of the verdict and others had dug or were in the process of digging bunkers.

(AP)

Lady Gaga thrills fans, releases a new album

Most of breast cancer, particularly in younger women, does not come from family histories.Leslie ReinlibProgram director at the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

“

Thai Senate rejects amnesty bill to help ease political tension

Satellite remains splash down into Atlantic Ocean

Astronauts bring Olympic torch home

Shanghai Daily Tuesday 12 November 2013 WORLD A11

A RUSSIAN space capsule car-rying the Sochi Olympic torch and three astronauts returned to Earth yesterday from the In-ternational Space Station in a flawless landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

The Soyuz capsule landed at 8:49am, about three and a half hours after undocking from the station with Russian Fyodor Yurchikhin, American Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano of Italy aboard.

The unlit Olympic torch was brought to the ISS last Thursday when three new crew members

arrived. Two Russian crew mem-bers took it on a spacewalk on Saturday.

The capsule descended through brilliantly clear skies under a parachute.

Yurchikhin, the mission com-mander, was extracted from the capsule within about 10 minutes of touchdown and carried to a reclining chair, where he was put under a blanket against the minus 4 chill and began adjust-ing to the pull of gravity after 166 days of weightlessness.

The torch, in a protective bag, was brought out and given to

Yurchikhin to hold after it was unwrapped. He waved it a little and smiled.

Nyberg was quickly given dark glasses to protect her eyes against the intense sun-light. Parmitano, the last out, appeared thrilled, grinning broadly and pumping his fists.

All three were to be taken for tests at a medical tent at the landing site, then flown to the city of Karaganda for a welcome ceremony.

Six people remain aboard the space station.

(AP)

Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin holds the Olympic torch yesterday after returning from the

International Space Station in a Soyuz capsule that landed in central Kazakhstan. — Reuters

THE German government said yesterday it plans to speed up research into the rightful own-ership of recently unearthed artworks looted by the Nazis, amid mounting calls for a full online list.

Federal and regional authori-ties involved in shedding light on the vast trove of artworks, including masterpieces by Pi-casso and Matisse, held talks on Friday, the government’s spokesman said.

Representatives from the cul-ture and finance ministries and

the southern state of Bavaria agreed they “want to advance considerably faster the research into the origins of the artworks from this collection”, Steffen Seibert said.

The head of the World Jewish Congress yesterday added his voice to calls for an inventory of the artworks to be published on the Internet.

Ronald S. Lauder told Die Welt daily that time was of the essence with possible heirs now elderly and that “injus-tice” would continue as long

as clarity was lacking.“The German government

must show these pictures,” he told the newspaper. “Valuable time has been wasted. Neither the possible claimants nor pos-sible witnesses in the return process are getting any young-er,” Lauder said.

Despite international calls, German prosecutors have re-fused to publish a full inventory of the works, citing a need for more time to fully catalogue them and for discretion.

(AFP)

THAILAND’S Senate yesterday rejected government-backed amnesty bill that has sparked mass protests in Bangkok, a decision that could ease po-litical tensions over a possible return from exile of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

In a late night session, 141 senators voted unanimously to return the bill to the lower house, complicating what critics say are efforts by the pro-Thaksin ruling party to bring him home without serv-ing jail time for a 2008 graft conviction.

Thaksin, still adored by his mostly poor, rural supporters but distrusted by much of the Thai establishment, was con-victed in absentia on charges he says were politically mo-tivated. His sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is now Thai prime minister.

“The Senate has voted and fully rejects this bill,” said Senate president Surachai Liengboonlertchai.

The government has been under pressure to ditch the bill amid demonstrations, mostly by royalists and nationalists, which have highlighted the deep political divisions that have plagued Thailand since a 2006 coup that toppled Thaksin.

“I cannot accept this bill,” said Senator Rosana To-sitrakul, one of Thaksin’s harshest critics. “Not only because the people have come out to oppose it, but because it is unconstitutional.”

The Senate’s scuttling of the bill does not mark an end to the long-running saga over Thaksin’s comeback. The rul-ing Puea Thai party controls

the lower house and according to the constitution can re-introduce the bill in another 180 days.

In an effort to cool tempers, his sister Shinawatra gave televised speeches last week saying her government would withdraw the draft if rejected by the Senate. But opponents say a withdrawal is not enough and want it scrapped completely.

“We will fight until this bill is wiped off the face of this earth,” Suthep Thaugsuban, a protest leader and former deputy prime minister, told a rally yesterday.

Billionaire former telecoms tycoon Thaksin commands strong support among the rural and urban working-class poor, but is reviled by members of the elite, who used corrup-tion scandals and claims that he was undermining the mon-archy to mobilize the middle classes against him. Thaksin denies the accusations.

Some elements of the pro-Thaksin “red shirt” movement are also against the bill be-cause it would absolve those who ordered troops to quell their protests in 2010 in a crackdown which killed more than 90 people.

The original draft of the bill did not extend amnesty to the leaders of both the pro-Thaksin “Red Shirt” protests and the anti-Thaksin “Yellow Shirt” groups, but a House committee vote in mid-Octo-ber changed the bill to include both. The last-minute change led to criticism it was planned all along to apply to Thaksin.

(Agencies)

Germany speeds up probe of looted art

THIS time it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean — but what about next time?

The European Space Agency says one of its research satel-lites re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere early yesterday on an orbit that passed over Sibe-ria, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica.

The 1,100-kilogram satellite disintegrated in the atmosphere but about 25 percent of it — about 275 kilograms of “space junk” — slammed into the At-lantic between Antarctica and South America, a few hundred kilometers from the Falkland

Islands, ESA said. It caused no known damage.

The satellite was launched in 2009 to map the Earth’s gravita-tional field. The information is being used to understand ocean circulation, sea levels, ice dy-namics and the Earth’s interior. The satellite had been gradually descending in orbit over the last three weeks after running out of fuel on October 21.

But how much space junk is out there? Here’s a look:

Satellites in orbit •

Some 6,600 satellites have been launched. Some 3,600 re-main in space but only about

1,000 are still operational, according to ESA. Not all are intact, and the US Space Sur-veillance Network tracks some 23,000 space objects, ESA said. A lot of junk comes down un-noticed, said ESA Space Debris Office deputy head Holger Krag. Statistically, he said, “roughly every week you have a re-entry like GOCE.”

When it starts to fall •

About 100 to 150 tons of space junk re-enters Earth’s at-mosphere each year, according to Heiner Klinkrad, the head of ESA’s Space Debris Office. In 56 years of spaceflight, a total

of 15,000 tons of human-made space objects have re-entered the atmosphere.

At what speed does space •junk travel?

Space junk — mostly sat-ellites and rocket stages or fragments — typically travels at about 28,000 kilometer/hour shortly before re-entry at about 120km above the earth, according to ESA. It starts to slow down and heat up in the dense atmosphere. In the last 10 minutes, it hits a traveling speed roughly equal to that of a Formula One racing car — be-tween 200kph to 300kph.

How dangerous is it? •

There have been no known human injuries or significant property damage caused by space junk, according to ESA. Unlike meteorites, which hurl into the Earth as solid chunks traveling about three times faster, space junk typically falls as fragments and is dis-tributed over a fallout zone up to 1,000 kilometers long. Krag says fragments from a satellite came down in 2011 over the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic but no pieces were ever found.

(AP)

Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shanghai DailyA12 BIZ INSIGHT

Market may see return of same-day trading

An investor reacts in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a

brokerage house in this file photo. Chinese equity traders believe the government

is considering resuming a same-day stock trading system. — Xinhua

CHINESE equity traders believe the government is considering resuming a same-day stock trading system, after a recent insider-trading scandal saw small investors trapped in losing positions by regulatory restrictions.

They say that bringing back the set-tlement system known as “T+0” would boost battered mainland markets. China’s Shanghai Composite Index has lost about two-thirds of its value since late 2007, and regulators have struggled since then to restore confidence.

China needs a vibrant market that would promote two policy goals — giv-ing retail investors an alternative to the real estate investment craze that has fu-elled inflation, and giving Chinese firms a viable fundraising tool separate from bank borrowing.

The current “T+1” system was origi-nally implemented in 1995, shortly after massive speculation tripled the value of the main index in just two months. By preventing investors from jumping in and out of positions in a single day, regu-lators hoped to discourage the sort of herd mentality investing behavior that could lead to a massive collapse.

Regulators followed up by barring stocks from rising or falling more than 10 percent on a single day, further cramping momentum moves.

But there are few signs the restric-tions have improved the Chinese stock investor culture. Instead, value-oriented investors have largely exited mainland stocks, putting their money into real estate and high-yielding wealth manage-ment products, both widely considered one-way bets.

At the same time, other forms of financial innovation have put the inves-tors who remained at greater risk than before.

“A consensus is building that using administrative edicts to enforce the T+1 system is not market-oriented,” said Ren Chengde, a senior analyst at Galaxy Se-curities in Shanghai.

With market reforms already underway,

the T+0 system might be back in use in the first half of 2014, Ren said.

On October 19, the Shanghai bourse took a short step in that direction, an-nouncing it will permit T+0 trading in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that follow bonds or bond indexes, money market funds and gold, from December 9.

No legal barrierAlso, there is no legal barrier to re-

sumption of T+1, as the government removed a clause banning T+0 trading from the country's securities law in 2006.

China has suffered multiple trad-ing scandals, and regulators are still

struggling to combat the widespread perception that the market is a hive of speculation and insider trading.

The most recent scandal, which led authorities to hit Everbright Securities with a record fine and bar top execu-tives from the industry for life, may have spurred the government to move more quickly.

It can be argued that the scandal would have had less fallout if T+0 had been in place.

On August 16, a glitch with Everbright’s order execution system sent 26,082 er-roneous “buy” orders worth 68.6 billion yuan (US$11.26 billion) to the Shanghai Stock Exchange during a two-minute

period, leading to a short-lived 6 percent pop for the main index.

Everbright reacted to the errant trades by building up huge short positions in index futures, before it disclosed details of the glitch — the revelation of which caused indexes to collapse.

The many small retail investors who jumped on the bandwagon as the index soared couldn't get off when it crashed, thanks to the T+1 rule.

Nor could many hedge their bets, as trading in index futures is still limited to institutional and wealthy investors with more than 500,000 yuan in their accounts.

Bid to build confidence“Judging from the need to protect the

interests of small and medium-sized in-vestors and maintain the fairness of the market, the Shanghai Stock Exchange believes it is necessary to quicken the pace to study and justify the T+0 trading system," the bourse said after the Ever-bright scandal, but gave no timetable.

In a bid to build confidence in the market, regulators have exhorted re-tail investors to go long on blue-chip stocks. They have also introduced new derivatives products, hedging tools and low-maintenance ETFs tracking major in-dexes, which they hope will pull money back into the part of the market they think most needs funding.

Traders believe that the liberalization of T+0 is likely to start by targeting blue-chip companies.

“Regulators hope to test new methods to activate the stock market, in particular trading in large-capitalized blue chips,” said analyst Zhang Gang at Central Se-curities in Shanghai.

“The first major step to resume T+0 stock trading is thus logically expected to start with large caps,” he said. “It may take some time to cover all the products as past experience has proven the neces-sity of tighter supervision.”

(Reuters)

MARKETS DIGEST (As of 9pm Monday, Beijing Time)

Hang Seng

23,069.85

+1.43%

Nikkei 225

14,269.84

+1.30%

KOSPI

1,977.30

-0.38%

ASX All Ordinaries

5,380.78

-0.25%

Frankfurt DAX

9,104.46

+0.29%

FTSE-100

6,728.57

+0.30%

Dow Jones

15,761.78

+1.08%

Nasdaq

3,919.23

+1.60%

Best 5 performers

Worst 5 performers

5 most actively traded companiesTurnover

(10,000 yuan)

Code Company Price (yuan) Change

601005 Chongqing Iron & Steel Co 2.70 +10.20%

002201 Jiangsu Jiuding New Material Co 8.88 +10.04%

601908 Beijing Jingyuntong Technology Co 9.10 +10.04%

600521 Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical Co 12.51 +10.03%

300338 Changsha Kaiyuan Instruments Co 14.50 +10.02%

Code Company Price (yuan) Change

600119 Y.U.D Yangtze River Investment Industry 18.95 -10.02%

600278 Orient International Enterprise 10.25 -10.01%

002148 Beijing Bewinner Communications Co 45.00 -10.00%

600822 Shanghai Material Trading Co 10.17 -10.00%

000928 Sinosteel Jilin Carbon Co 8.38 -9.99%

Code Company Price (yuan) Change

002024 Suning Commerce Group Co 10.51 -1.87% 1,301,819.36

600839 Sichuan Changhong Electric Co 2.74 3.01% 1,138,395.43

000725 Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co 2.09 -0.48% 1,119,476.69

000897 Tianjin Jinbin Development Co 4.41 -2.22% 1,097,476.49

601766 Csr Corp Ltd 5.08 7.17% 1,096,672.56

CHINA’S MAINLAND STOCK MARKETS WORLD MARKETS

Shanghai Composite Index

2,109.47

+0.16%+3.34

2,115

2,110

2,105

2,100

2,095

Shenzhen Component Index

CSI 300

8,168.67

+0.16%+13.28

2,315.89

+0.34%+7.94

8,200

2,340

8,170

2,320

8,140

2,310

8,110

2,300

8,080

2,290

Percent Change (BP)

O/N 3.6000 -16.10

1W 3.7800 -15.90

1M 5.2690 19.20

6M 4.2200 -0.01

1Y 4.4000 0.00

CURRENCIES VS YUAN

SHIBOR (%)

COMMODITIES

Currency (100) PBOC rates

British pound 983.04

HK dollar 79.2

US dollar 613.9

Yen 6.1864

Canadian dollar 585.78

Australian dollar 575.02

Euro 820.14

Shanghai Futures Exchange (yuan/ton)

cu1401 51650 110

zn1401 14920 -20

pb1401 14265 -60

au1401 255.25 -5.00

rb1401 3563 -8

Shanghai Gold Exchange (yuan/gram)

Au9995 258.24 -0.39

Au9999 258.11 -0.64

Au100g 258.75 -0.25

Pt9995 300.75 0.25

Shanghai Daily Tuesday 12 November 2013 BUSINESS A13

US and EU resume talks on deal to boost trade and investment

PepsiCo set to invest over US$5b in India to raise output

Japan in surplus againA cargo freighter

is moored at the

international cargo

terminal in Tokyo

yesterday. The

Japanese government

announced that the

current account,

Japan’s broadest

measure of trade with

the rest of the world,

logged a September

surplus of 587.3 billion

yen (US$5.9 billion),

marking the eighth

straight month of

black ink. — AFP

TRADE

THE United States and the Eu-ropean Union, which already enjoy the world’s biggest busi-ness relationship, resumed talks yesterday on a deal to further grow two-way trade and investment.

The talks are taking place against the backdrop of Eu-ropean pique over reported US electronic espionage, and were delayed due to the US government shutdown. But officials for both sides said the benefits of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and In-vestment Partnership are too great for the talks to be affected.

The week-long bargaining session in Brussels was ex-pected to discuss services,

investment, energy and raw materials, and regulatory issues.

Negotiators for the Obama administration and the EU say the expected payoff of the TTIP agreement is job cre-ation and economic growth. The trade volume in goods and services between the two economies — representing almost half of global output — totaled 800 billion euros (US$1.08 trillion) last year.

A deal, which would cover manufacturing, services and agriculture, could include a reduction in tariffs. But nego-tiators say the biggest boon, to business and consumers alike, could come from trim-ming the red tape that often makes it difficult to buy and sell across the Atlantic.

One European study has found that dealing with regu-lations and bureaucracy on the other side of the ocean can add 10 to 20 percent to the price of an imported item, like a car. TTIP could make it possible for a vehicle deemed safe for sale in Europe to be sold in the US, or vice versa, without additional tests or adaptations being needed.

According to a study co-sponsored by the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, TTIP could cre-ate as many as 750,000 jobs in the US. The European Commission estimates it would inject 120 bil l ion euros yearly into the econ-omy of the 28-nation trade bloc, and lead to hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

“The TTIP would be the cheapest stimulus package imaginable,” the commission said in a report.

Frances Burwell, the At-lantic Council’s director of Transatlantic Relations and Education Programs, said that as well as administering a welcome jolt to the Ameri-can and European economies, TTIP could establish health and safety rules that would become standard not just for America and Europe, but for China and other rising eco-nomic powers.

“If you look forward, the US and Europe in 20 years will be a smaller part of the global economy. We need to figure out ways to stay competitive,” Burwell said.

(AP)

ENERGY

JAPAN switched on the first turbine at a wind farm 20 kilometers off the coast of Fu-kushima yesterday, feeding electricity to the grid teth-ered to the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant onshore.

The wind farm near the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant is to eventually have a generation capacity of 1 gigawatt from 143 turbines, though its significance is not limited to the energy it will produce. Symbolically, the turbines will help restore the role of energy supplier to a region decimated by a popu-lation exodus following the multiple meltdowns triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

“Many people were victim-ized and hurt by the accident at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nu-clear power plant, so it is very meaningful to have a new source of energy — renewable energy — based here,” said Kazuyoshi Akaba, vice min-ister of economy, trade and industry, after the turbine was turned on.

“It is the government’s mis-sion to ensure this project is a success,” he said.

The project also highlights Japan’s aspirations to sell its advanced energy technology around the globe.

Trading houses such as Marubeni Corp, which is lead-ing the consortium building the offshore wind farm, are investing aggressively in renewable energy as well as

conventional sources, helped by government policies aimed at nurturing favored industries.

All of Japan’s 50 viable nuclear reactors are offline for safety checks under new regulatory guidelines drawn up after the Fukushima di-saster. Utility companies have applied to restart at least 14 reactors under those new guidelines, which include more stringent requirements for earthquake and tsunami protections, among other precautions.

In Japan, the push to tap more renewable sources to help offset lost power ca-pacity, and reduce costs for imported natural gas and oil, also got a boost last year with the implementation of

a higher wholesale tariff for energy generated from non-conventional sources.

Japan, whose coast is mostly ringed by deep wa-ters, is pioneering floating wind turbine construction, required for seabed depths greater than 50 meters. The 2 megawatt downwind floating turbine that began operation yesterday was built at a dry dock near Tokyo and towed to its location off the north-eastern coast. Six huge chains anchor it to the seabed 120 meters below.

The turbine is linked to a 66 kilovolt floating power substation, the world's first according to the project op-erators, via an extra-high voltage undersea cable.

(AP)

Japan’s 1st turbine at wind farm blows

BEVERAGES

US soft drinks giant PepsiCo said yesterday it would invest over US$5 billion with its partners in India to raise production, saying it had only “scratched the surface” of the Asian giant’s potential.

PepsiCo said the investment by 2020 in India, one of its largest mar-kets globally, would strengthen its capabilities manufacturing, infra-structure and agriculture.

“India is a country with huge po-tential and it remains an attractive, high-priority market for PepsiCo,” said PepsiCo chairman Indra Nooyi.

“We’ve built a highly successful business in India over the course of many years, and we believe we’ve only scratched the surface of the long-term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo,” she said in a statement.

“This investment is PepsiCo’s vote of confidence in India’s future.”

The announcement is welcome news for the embattled Congress-led gov-ernment, which has been struggling to attract foreign direct investment in the face of corruption scandals, a weakening rupee and slowing eco-nomic growth.

PepsiCo and its bottling partners aim to more than double production capacity in India by 2020. They now have some 38 bottling plants and three food plants in the country.

Last year Coca-Cola Co said it would spend US$5 billion in India over the next seven years to lift operations.

(AFP)

Flybe to cut another 500 jobs in UKAVIATION

FLYBE Group Plc, operator of Europe’s largest regional airline, said yesterday it would cut another 500 jobs, mainly in the UK, after deep cost cuts helped it post its first half-year profit in two years.

Having already cut about 590 jobs this year, the firm also said it would further cut its routes, review its fleet mix, remove surplus capacity and im-prove aircraft and crew utilization.

“It was clear to me that the existing Phase 1 and 2 cost savings were neces-sary but we simply needed to do more and to do it immediately,” CEO Saad Hammad said in a statement.

Flybe said it had 2,700 employees as of end-September.

The airline will exit its slots at Gat-wick airport by March 2014, reducing its London operations to just the few flights it runs out of Luton airport.

Flybe, which counts British Airways parent IAG and billionaire investor George Soros among its top share-holders, posted a pretax profit of 13.8 million pounds (US$22.1 million) for the six months ended September 30, from a 1.6 million pound loss a year earlier.

(Reuters)

Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shanghai DailyA14 BUSINESS

Ye Zhen

DAIRY

SHARES of Yashili International Hold-ings Ltd soared to a record high in Hong Kong after investors, including Singapore state investment company Temasek Holdings, bought stakes in the infant-formula maker from parent China Mengniu Dairy Co.

Temasek, China-focused private equity firm Hopu Investment Man-agement and three other investors have agreed to buy an aggregate 471 million shares of Yashili from Meng-niu at HK$3.50 each (45 US cents), Yashili said in a stock exchange fil-ing yesterday.

Temasek bought 47 percent of the shares through one of its Mauritius subsidiaries while Hopu took 38 per-cent. The other three investors bought the remaining 15 percent, according to the filing.

Shares of Yashili, the Hong Kong-listed arm of Guangdong Yashili Group, surged 17 percent to end at HK$4.24 yesterday, the highest close since its flotation, after it resumed trading from a nearly three-month suspension.

Shares of Mengniu gained 2.7 per-cent to HK$32.10.

The share sale will pare Mengniu’s interest in Yashili to 76.58 percent after it acquired 89.82 percent of the stock in August. Mengniu failed to meet a 90-percent threshold that would allow it to launch a compulsory acquisition of Yashili’s remaining shares and de-list the company from the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Maggie Zhang

DAIRY

NEW Zealand will continue to improve and monitor food safety systems as well as adopt precautions to prevent any health scare that could harm con-sumers such as the Fonterra botulism incident in August, Economic Devel-opment Minister Steven Joyce said yesterday in Shanghai.

“We believe in and take a very open and precautionary approach to en-sure customer safety,” Joyce said in response to Shanghai Daily’s inquiry during a press briefing yesterday.

Fonterra, the world’s largest dairy producer, in September blamed systematic glitches and the use of non-standard equipment for the botu-lism contamination scare, which later turned out to be false. But the scare led to recalls that affected big-name infant formula makers and bever-age companies in China and other markets.

Joyce is in the city on a six-day visit to China to promote New Zealand-Chi-na trade and to reinforce consumer confidence in the Kiwi quality after the botulism scare. He will also visit Hangzhou, Beijing and Shenzhen.

Bilateral trade will expand to NZ$20 billion (US$16.47 billion )by 2015.

Ye Zhen

SHANGHAI shares posted their first increase in four days yesterday, led by automakers which gained from strong domestic sales last month.

The Shanghai Composite Index added 0.16 percent, or 3.34 points, to 2,109.47.

Most carmakers rallied after data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed vehicle sales in October surged 20.3 percent from a year earlier, faster than the 19.7 percent gain in September.

Guangzhou Automobi le Group Co jumped 3.9 percent to 8.85 yuan

(US$1.45). Great Wall Motor Co rose 2 percent to 41.40 yuan. SAIC Motor Corp added 0.61 percent to 14.79 yuan.

“The automobile sector is likely to out-perform the overall market with positive earnings and a rational valuation,’’ said Deng Xue, analyst at China Galaxy Secu-rities Research.

The market also rode on positive eco-nomic data released over the weekend pointing to an economic recovery.

China’s industrial output jumped 10.3 percent year on year in October, up slightly from September’s 10.2 percent gain, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed. Retail sales, a gauge of

domestic demand, rose 13.3 percent, the same as in the previous month.

‘‘The data came in slightly better than expected, suggesting a continuous recovery in activity momentum,’’ said Zhu Haibin, chief economist for China at JPMorgan.

But property developers fell after Shanghai announced a rise in minimum down-payment for second-home buyers to 70 percent from 60 percent to rein in soaring home prices.

Poly Real Estate, China’s second-larg-est listed developer, slumped 2.1 percent to 8.95 yuan. Gemdale Corp shed 1.2 percent to close at 5.91 yuan.

Yashili soars after investors buy stakes

NZ minister to rebuild trust in Kiwi quality

Cherry Cao

REAL ESTATE

STRONG sentiment in the mid- to low-end housing segment lifted new home sales in Shanghai to a six-week high, latest market data showed.

The purchases of new homes, exclud-ing government-subsidized affordable housing, rose 8.2 percent week on week to 406,600 square meters during the seven-day period ended on Sunday, Shanghai Deovolente Realty Co said in a report released yesterday.

“It’s a little bit surprising to see the

weekly volume exceed the 400,000 square-meter threshold in early No-vember after strong home sales were registered in September and October,” said Lu Qilin, a Deovolente researcher. “Notably, mid- to low-end projects seemed very popular among home buyers.”

The average cost of a new home fell 4.4 percent to 24,405 yuan (US$4,000) per square meter in Shanghai last week, the first time in four weeks that it has fallen below the threshold of 25,000 yuan per square meter, the report said. Half of the city’s 10 best-selling projects were sold

under 20,000 yuan per square meter.The city saw 493,200 square meters of

new homes released last week, a week over week jump of 16.8 percent.

But Huang Zhijian, chief analyst at Shanghai Uwin Real Estate Information Services Co, said “the current strong momentum may probably ease over the next couple of weeks” because the local government last week unveiled new tightening policies to cool the overheat-ed market, which include bigger down payment for second home buyers and a higher threshold for non-locals to qual-ify for home purchase in Shanghai.

Asian shares mixed as positive data boost trading sentiment

New home sales rise to 6-week high

Automakers drive key index higher

STOCKS

ASIAN shares were mixed yesterday following positive economic data from the United States and China, with inves-tors awaiting the outcome of a Beijing meeting with major economic reforms in focus.

Trading sentiment was buoyed by strong US jobs figures and by healthy in-dustrial production figures out of China — further evidence of a steady recovery from a slowdown earlier in the year.

Tokyo ended up 1.3 percent, or 183.04 points, at 14,269.84, Sydney closed 0.25 percent off, or 13.6 points, at 5,387.1 and Seoul lost 0.38 percent, or 7.57 points, to 1,977.3.

Hong Kong closed up 1.43 percent, or 325.46 points, at 23,069.85 after staging a late-afternoon rally.

In the Philippines, which is reeling from the aftermath of super typhoon Haiyan, which smashed into the archi-pelago on Friday, the Manila market lost 1.42 percent after slumping 2.4 percent earlier in the day.

Authorities fear more than 10,000 people may have been killed.

On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 1.08 percent at a fresh record of 15,761.78. It was lifted by fig-ures which showed the world’s biggest economy added 204,000 jobs in October, double what analysts forecast.

The positive figures, despite a 16-day partial federal government shutdown last month, are another sign of economic improvement.

Investors are wary that a US recovery could encourage the Federal Reserve to decide to cut its US$85-billion-a-month asset purchase programme, which has

flooded international markets with extra cash, by the end of the year.

But SMBC Nikko Securities general manager of equities Hiroichi Nishi said: “Equity sentiment remains generally strong globally — enough to resist the fear of Fed tapering for now.”

China’s industrial output grew by 10.3 percent annually in October. The data came as a meeting began on Saturday in Beijing to chart the direction of the economy for the next decade.

Analysts have played down the pros-pect of detailed measures, since such gatherings tend to unveil general prin-ciples rather than concrete policies.

“What the market fears the most is uncertainty, and with unknown policy changes afoot, perhaps even including the speeding up of approvals of IPOs, many investors have decided to stay out of the market,” said Deng Wenyuan, an analyst at Soochow Securities.

(AFP)

A local resident walks past a displaying showing the closing figure of the Hang

Seng Index in Hong Kong yesterday. The index closed up 1.43 percent, or 325.46

points, at 23,069.85, ending five straight days of losses. — Xinhua

Shanghai Daily Tuesday 12 November 2013 BUSINESS A15

Zhu Shenshen

TECHNOLOGY

A 700 million yuan (US$115 mil-lion) business center, developed by the Pudong Software Indus-try Park, will open in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area next year, the park operator said yesterday.

The 110,000-square-meter Huizhi Life Center will incor-porate hotel, office, a park, shopping mall, convention and apartment, or HOPSCA. The in-tegration of these segments is expected to boost the develop-ment of the Jinqiao area, where the park is located, and bet-ter serve about 40,000 people working in the park.

It’s the first time a local high-tech industry park has expanded into the business property market, the park op-erator said.

By the end of 2012, companies operating in the park gener-ated a revenue of 45.9 billion yuan. Their exports were worth US$630 million.

The park houses 539 multina-tional corporations.

Lu Nengneng

AUTO

VEHICULAR sales in China soared more than 20 percent in October for the second consecutive month, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said yesterday.

The deliveries of passenger cars and commercial vehicles surged 20.3 percent last month from a year earlier to 1.93 million units — the second month in a row for sales to expand around 20 percent.

The sales included 1.61 million passenger cars, which hit their second-highest level this year after rising 23.6 percent.

The robust sales pointed to a high season, the association said, although they were also partly the

effect of a low base after Japanese carmakers saw sales plunge during the same period of last year amid the Diaoyu Islands dispute between the two countries.

The carmakers staged a huge turn-around last month, which included Honda sales soaring 211.6 percent and Nissan’s surging 128 percent.

The market’s strong rally lifted the combined sales in the past 10 months by 13.5 percent, up 0.8 per-centage point from the September figure. The opening of the Guang-zhou Motor Show next Thursday may drive up China’s car market.

Auto purchases are set to reach a new peak at the end of the year when price discounts are given, said Rao Da, secretary-general of China Passenger Car Association.

Hyundai recalls 1,547 Rohens cars

Hyundai Motor Group (China) Ltd started recalling

some of its imported Rohens cars yesterday, due to

problems with the hydraulic electronic control unit

(HECU), China’s quality watchdog said yesterday.

The recall will involve 1,547 vehicles produced be-

tween April 8, 2008 and March 16, 2012 and sold to

the Chinese mainland, the General Administration of

Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said

in an online statement.

The chemical reaction in the HECU of the defec-

tive vehicles has affected the proper working of the

plunger piston, the statement said.

The manufacturer will offer free checks and re-

place the brake fluid in the recalled cars.

Hyundai Motor Group (China) Ltd is a subsidiary of

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group.

(Xinhua)

WINE

WINES from Spain and the New World are gaining ground in China at the expense of their French counterparts, as in-creasingly adventurous Chinese wine enthusiasts push back the frontiers of a surging market, say experts.

Exports of Spanish wines surged 40 percent annually in China in the first half of this year, according to Chinese customs reports. Spain is the third-biggest exporter of bottled wine to China’s wine market be-hind France and Australia.

“The Chinese are now search-ing for wines other than from France because they are more educated about wines from other countries,” wine expert Mabel Lai said.

Price reasonBut price is also a reason.

Wines from Spain and other countries such as Italy, Portu-gal and Australia sell for less compared with French wines said Lai, who is a lecturer at the Hong Kong Wine Academy.

A top bottle of Spanish wine may range from US$260 to US$390, but a bottle of a highly rated French vintage could be double that amount, she said.

French wine makers at the Hong Kong International Wine and Spirits Fair said rising com-petition in the Chinese market is good for the industry. France holds a roughly 50 percent share of the Chinese market.

“A little bit of competition

An exhibitor sits at a Spanish wine booth at the sixth International Wine and Spirits Fair in Hong

Kong last week. Wines from Spain and the New World are gaining ground in China at the expense

of their French counterparts, as increasingly adventurous Chinese wine enthusiasts push back the

frontiers of a surging market, say experts. — AFP

Chinese get increasingly thirsty for Spanish wines

will force us to improve our production and our wine mak-ing,” Jean-Laurent Soule, a sales manager for French wine maker Ravoire et Famille, said, wel-coming competition from other countries.

“We are still confident about the quality of our products,” Soule said.

November’s International Wine and Spirits Fair, one of Asia’s largest, partnered with

Spain this year and has attract-ed more than 1,000 producers from around the world, as Hong Kong cements its position as a global wine hub.

Hong Kong, which abolished duties on wine imports in 2008, has become a gateway to the booming wine market on Chi-na’s mainland. In recent years, the city overtook New York to become the world’s biggest wine auction hub.

Spain is seizing the opportu-nity to introduce its products to one of the world’s fastest grow-ing wine markets.

Market potential huge“Now wines from Spain (and

other countries) are getting bigger and we are traveling around the world, and let-ting people know about their wines,” said Carlos Moreno, ex-port manager for Spanish wine

maker Bodegas d. Mateos.“The potential of this mar-

ket is huge,” Moreno said of China, adding that European and Western markets are “quite crowded.”

Jack Chen, a 35-year-old wine shop owner in Shenzhen and a buyer at the Hong Kong fair, said good wines would always be accepted in the Chinese market.

“The Chinese consumers will have an open attitude toward the wine no matter if it comes from France, Spain or from other countries. As long as it is good stuff, the Chinese will accept it,” Chen said.

October figures from the Bor-deaux wine producers’ body, Le Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB), showed the value for the Chinese mar-ket fell almost 10 percent for the year ending in July.

“We no longer have the expo-nential increases in volume and value that we had a few years ago,” CIVB Vice President Allan Sichel said then.

Chinese wine consumption soared 142.1 percent from 2007 to 2011, reaching a total of 159.25 million cases or 1.91 billion bottles, the leading wine and spirits trade fair organizer Vinexpo said in March.

Although the growth rate, the world’s fastest in wine consump-tion, may slow to 39.6 percent between 2012 and 2016, a total of 252 million cases of wine are set to be drunk annually in the Chinese market in 2016.

(AFP)

Business center to help build up Jinqiao

China’s auto sales surge over 20%

LIGHT INDUSTRY

SWEDEN’S SCA hygiene and forest products group said yes-terday that it has completed its public cash offer for Chinese tissue maker Vinda and now owns 59.95 percent of the shares.

SCA was the second-largest

shareholder in Hong Kong-listed Vinda with 21.3 percent when it presented its offer in September.

The offer valued the Chinese company at 1.1 billion euros (US$1.4 billion), corresponding to a premium of around one third for the shareholders.

“Since its beginnings back in 1985, Vinda has grown and captured market shares in the tissue segment,” SCA chief ex-ecutive Jan Johansson said.

“We see the potentia l to further strengthen the company.”

According to figures for the

first half of this year, the acqui-sition should lift SCA’s revenue by 6 percent.

SCA controls brands such as Lotus (Europe), Peaudouce (Tunisia and Algeria), Nana (France, Belgium, North Africa and Senegal) and Demak’Up.

(AFP)

Sweden’s SCA wraps up deal for Vinda

Auto Sales Soar Vehicular sales in China soar

for the second consecutive

month in October by 20.3 per-

cent from a year earlier to 1.93

million units. A15

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MACRO-ECONOMY

BANKS in China lent less than expected in October as the cen-tral bank prioritizes managing risks and controlling inflation over boosting the economy.

New yuan lending totaled 506.1 billion yuan (US$83 bil-lion) last month, up 700 million yuan from October last year, the People’s Bank of China said yesterday.

But the amount was below 787 billion yuan in September and fell short of analysts’ hopes

for 600 billion yuan according to a Reuters survey.

Total social financing, the broadest measure of credit supply including loans, bank acceptance bills, corporate bonds and equity financing, fell by a third from a year earlier to 856.4 billion yuan.

M2, a broad measure of money supply that covers cash in circulation and all deposits, increased 14.3 percent year on year to 107 trillion yuan at the end of October, the PBOC said.

Wang Yang, analyst with

China Securities Co, said the tight liquidity last month may be due to slower-than-expect-ed credit growth because the central bank may continue to adopt a relatively tight stance to rebalance the economy as earlier economic data point-ed to a recovery in China’s economy.

Industrial profits grew 10.3 percent last month from a year ago, up 0.1 percentage point from September, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. October exports rose a better-

than-expected 5.6 percent.But inflationary pressure con-

tinued to build up as China’s October Consumer Price Index rose 3.2 percent — the fastest pace since February.

Before the inflation data, the central bank has warned in a report that “the foundation for price stability is not solid” and “upward pressure on prices still exists,” which indicates authori-ties will adopt a more hawkish policy stance, according to a lat-est report from Barclays.

Analysts believe the central

bank will keep a steady stance while fine-tuning its policies to balance growth and reforms.

“Though we cautioned in mid-October that the government could scale back its pro-growth measures and the PBOC could prevent credit growth from quickening, we don’t think the PBOC will significantly tighten monetary policy as the new lead-ers still need a stable economic and financial environment,” Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a research note.

(Shanghai Daily/Xinhua)

Banks in China grant fewer new yuan loans

REAL ESTATE

CHINA Investment Corp is set to buy Chiswick Park, a west London office devel-opment, from US private equity group Blackstone for about 800 million pounds (US$1.3 billion), the Financial Times said yesterday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The talks are at an ad-vanced stage and a deal could be finalized before end of November, the FT said.

If successful, the deal would be the second acquisition by CIC in the UK property market after it bought Deutsche Bank’s City of London

headquarters last year, the newspaper added.

Real estate has been the chief driver of Black-stone’s financial success and it has moved aggres-sively to sell or take public its real estate assets. Brix-mor Property Group Inc, the shopping center oper-ator owned by Blackstone, raised US$825 million its initial public offering last month.

On its 133,546-square-meter site, Chiswick Park leases out office space to companies, including Qualcomm, Tullow Oil Plc and Ranbaxy.

Blackstone declined to comment on the matter.

(Reuters)

BANKING

ZIMBABWE signed a US$355 million agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China yester-day to expand power generation and help alle-viate perennial electricity shortages.

“The bank will provide funding amounting to US$319.5 million whilst the government wil l finance the balance, amounting to US$35.5 million,” said Finance Minister Patrick China-masa after inking the deal with the bank’s Vice President Zhu Hongjie.

Chinamasa said the loans would be repaid at 2 percent interest per year, with “a grace period of five years and repayment

period of 20 years.”The money will be used

to increase the Kariba South Hydro-power Sta-tion’s capacity by 300 megawatts.

Zimbabwe generates 1,200MW on average per day against a peak de-mand of 2,100MW.

To conserve scarce electricity, the country’s power uti l ity resorts to long hours of load-shedding, in some cases lasting up to 10 hours in major cities.

The European Union and the United States im-posed sanctions including a travel embargo and an asset freeze on veteran President Robert Mugabe and his close allies.

(AFP)

CIC in talks to buy 2nd London property

Zimbabwe inks deal with Chinese lender

No need to be alone againAn employee of Japan’s electronics maker NEC Corp chats with the company’s new communication robot

“Papero petit” during a demonstration in Tokyo yesterday. The 24-centimeter-tall Pepero petit will be

launched with a rental service from January. — AFP

US sees spending cut 2nd time MACRO-ECONOMY

THE United States faces a second round of automatic, across-the-board spending cuts this year that promise to be far more pain-ful than the first, amid a gloomy outlook for budget negotiations set to resume this week.

The first round of cuts, which took effect last year when bitterly divided Democrats and Repub-licans failed to come up with a deficit-reduction agreement, didn’t live up to the dire predictions from the Obama administration and oth-ers, who warned big disruptions of government services.

Several federal agencies found lots of loose change that helped them through the automatic cuts

in the 2013 budget year that ended on September 30, allowing them to minimize the number of public employees forced off the job and maintain many services. Most of that money has been spent.

The Pentagon used more than US$5 billion in unspent money from previous years to ease its US$39 billion budget cut. Employee furloughs originally scheduled for 11 days were cut back to six days. The Justice Department found over US$500 million in similar money that allowed agencies like the FBI to avoid furloughs altogether.

Finding replacement cuts is the priority of budget talks scheduled to resume this week, but many ob-servers think the talks won’t bear

fruit. It’s a continuation of the par-tisan bickering that has gripped Washington for years. The talks come as both political parties are grappling with the fallout from the 16-day partial government shut-down that resulted last month while the two sides fought over a temporary spending bill.

For the time being, Congress has frozen 2014 spending at 2013 lev-els while negotiators seek a budget deal that would ease some of the automatic cuts. Absent a deal, the spending “caps” on agency operat-ing budgets will shrink by another US$20 billion or so, with most of that money squeezed out of the Pentagon.

(AP)

B1

The Write Stuff Eight foreign authors

complete a two-month

residency with the Shanghai

Writers’ Association and

share their thoughts about

the experience. B3

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michelleqiao@shanghaidaily.com

Waibaidu Bridge witness to historyOne of the earliest camelback truss bridges in China, the old Garden

Bridge over the Suzhou Creek has seen more than 100 years of joy and

sorrow in Shanghai. Michelle Qiao tells the story of this Bund mainstay.

PRELUDEEnchanted by Helen Foster

Snow’s vivid memories of the

Bund, I am launching “Bund II,”

a series that begins where she

began her China journey, the

former Astor House Hotel.

“Shanghai is a marvelous

place for an enterprising young

person with ideas. It is a total

loss for many things, but I see

so many opportunities that I

can hardly decide what to do ...”

wrote Snow (1907-1997).

Dreaming of becoming a writer,

this ambitious and attractive

American girl traveled 8,104

kilometers to land in Shanghai

in the summer of 1931. She met

Edgar Snow (1905-1972), author

of “Red Star Over China” on the

first day and married him one

year later. The Snows interviewed

top Chinese Communist leaders

and became famous writers.

In 20 articles, I will explore

historic buildings and other

“relics” in the north Bund area,

places Helen Foster Snow

might have visited. It was in the

sweeping river breeze of the

Bund that Edgar Snow proposed

to her.

The new series covers a

range of structures, including

offices, hotels, club, a church

and a bridge. It will introduce

cultural and religious buildings on

Yuanmingyuan Road, known as

the “Cultural Bund,” echoing the

commercial and financial Bund

on Zhongshan Rd E1.

In the “Bund I” series, the 23

waterfront buildings lined the

Huangpu River. In “Bund II,” my

stops will form an irregular circle

as shown on the map.

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new journey from the starting

point of an American girl who

traveled thousands of kilometers

for a dream that did come true

in the Orient.

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A recent (above) and an archive (right) photo of the

Waibaidu Bridge, which used to be called the Garden

Bridge, spanning the Suzhou River.

— Zhang Xuefei/Shanghai Library

Under a sunset-mottled sky, the towering framework of Garden Bridge was mantled

in a gathering mist. Whenever a tram passed over the bridge, the overhead cable suspended below the top of the steel frame threw off bright, greenish sparks.”

That was an excerpt from the first paragraph of the famous Chinese novel “Midnight,” written by Mao Dun in the 1930s.

The Garden Bridge, today’s Wai-baidu Bridge, has been a showpiece of Shanghai since the day it opened in January 1908.

The bridge has played a part in nu-merous Shanghai-themed books and

movies, especially postcards on which locals perform tai chi in front of its double hunchback-shaped silhouette of iron in the morning sunlight.

First bridgesHistory of the city’s most famous

bridge is long and eventful. Accord-ing to Shanghai Archives Bureau researcher Zhang Yaojun, the first bridge across the Suzhou River was a floating bridge above a dam built in 1570 during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). After the dam was abandoned in the 18th century, locals had to rely on ferries to cross the river.

“Seeing the anxiety and boredom on the faces of travelers waiting for slow

ferries, a British man named Wills, a Jardine & Matheson employee, hit upon an idea to build a bridge to make money,” says Zhang, author of the book “The Stories of Shanghai’s Rivers and Bridges.”

F.L. Hawks Pott’s 1928 book “A Short History of Shanghai” recorded that Wills organized the Soochow Creek Bridge Company to build the Wills Bridge in 1856, which was “not a very sightly structure” but “the company made a great profit from the tolls col-lected from those using the bridge.” There were complaints from the public about the bridge being a profit-making enterprise.

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Bridge an important figure in literature of city

COMING UP NEXT:The Broadway Mansions,

November 26

Yesterday: The Garden Bridge

Today: The Waibaidu Bridge

Built: In 1907

Type: Camelback truss

Constructor: Messrs Howarth

Erskine, Ltd of Singapore

Tips: It’s pleasant to simply walk

back and forth on the wooden

deck of this old bridge, which

shows different kinds of beauty

during different hours of the day,

especially in the dawn or at dusk.

Above and left:

“The character

of the bridge,”

such as the

wooden decking

and original

curved bracket

on the cross

frame, have

been restored

during the recent

big repair.

— Zhang Xuefei

From B1

In the 1870s, the company started to construct a new steel bridge as the wooden one was rotting away. But “one blow from the small pile-driver employed buried the pilings out of sight in the silt,” according to Rhoads Murphey’s 1953 book “Shanghai — Key to Modern China.” The failure, blamed in part on “the totally unconsolidated material” on which Shanghai rests, also gave foreigners pause about Shanghai’s future.

Finally the then Shanghai Munici-pal Council obtained control. They first erect a free bridge by the side of the company’s and later purchased Wills’ company. As the era of trams arrived and they needed to get across the bridge, the council in 1907 built the steel-frame Garden Bridge, which is what we see today. It is one of the earliest examples of a camelback truss bridge in China.

Crucial locationThe English-language “Social Shang-

hai” paper reported in 1908 that the abutments and pier of the new Garden Bridge were being made with Portland cement and it had granite corner-stones.

“Handsome granite structures are being built at each end at the sides of the abutments. The bridge is being painted light grey with the excep-tion of the railing, which will be dark green. All the paint has been specially ordered from home,” the report said.

Perched at such a crucial location, it was always a busy bridge. Accord-ing to an official 1926 survey, 50,823 people, 14,600 rickshaws, 4,999 cars, 172 buses and 922 trams had passed through the bridge from 7am to 7pm on May 17-18.

The bridge also served as a perfect platform to appreciate the beauty of the Bund. Famous Chinese poet/ar-chitect Lin Huiyin had written subtle lines about the bridge’s night scene, depicting the tiny lights on the bridge as “lotus lights on West Lake on the night of June 18 that gently move in the breeze.”

The bridge also witnessed frighten-ing moments. A typhoon on July 27, 1915 killed a person walking across the bridge by dashing him to the ground and blew several people into the Huangpu River.

Later that year, the city’s top military officer, Zheng Rucheng, was assassinated by two revolutionar-ies while his car was driving on the bridge to attend a ceremony at the Japanese Consulate.

In 1907, Messrs Howarth Erskine, Ltd

The predecessor for Waibaidu Bridge was the wooden Wills Bridge built in 1856 by

the Soochow Breek Bridge Company. — Courtesy of Huangpu District Archives

of Singapore obtained the contract for the supply erection of the steel work for the bridge, which was manufac-tured for them by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company Co of Eng-land.

Time for repairsOfficial Zeng Ming, who used to

work for the Shanghai Municipal Engi-neering Administration Bureau, says they received a letter from the centu-ry-old contractor reminding them to repair the bridge, which was nearly 100 years old in 2007.

The letter not only prompted a large-scale repair project in 2009 but also led to discussions among Chinese netizens about how the company fol-lowed up on a product it had delivered a century ago.

The bridge did need significant repair since “the load-bearing capacity of the Waibaidu Bridge indeed had de-creased due to corrosion,” says bridge expert Pan Zhentao, consultant for the project.

For its repairs, the bridge was re-moved and taken to a shipyard in the Pudong New Area for repair. It also needed to be moved for underground work to be done for the Bund Renova-tion Project before the World Expo 2010 Shanghai.

Pan is proud that the repair had been done the right way, with respect for history.

The old decking and the “character of the bridge” was maintained, with the load transferred from stringer

structural elements to the floor beam and then to the main truss. The origi-nal curved bracket on the cross frame, which had been straightened during previous renovations, was restored to its nice, old curves. The beloved wood-en sidewalk, which had been replaced with concrete, was restored, too.

“With today’s technology, it’s easy to rebuild a modern, new bridge across the Suzhou Creek. But this is Shanghai’s ‘grandma bridge,’ which had witnessed the sorrow and hap-piness of the city for so many years,” says Pan, 85, a graduate of the city’s historical St John’s College, recalling a painful memory of Chinese having to show respect to Japanese guards while passing the bridge after the Japanese invasion of the 1930s.

“It’s a national relic, but it’s not only a national relic. It’s a bridge that peo-ple and cars are still traveling through it. It’s an evergreen bridge,” Pan says.

In Mao Dun’s novel “Midnight,” the Waibaidu Bridge was the first thing that Old Mr Wu saw after he arrived in Shanghai by boat and met his industrialist son at the wharf. The old man, who had not left his house in the country for 25 years, was forced to flee his home by bandits. As he got into his son’s car and it departed, the old man suddenly opened his eyes and cried out with startling vehemence.

“To the west, one saw with a shock of wonder on the roof of a building, a gigantic neon sign in flaming red and phosphorescent green: LIGHT, HEAT, POWER!”

Perturbed and shocked by the “light, heat and power” of Shanghai, “the Paris of the East,” Old Mr Wu died.

But the century-old Waibaidu Bridge still lives and Pan is optimistic that it will be in use for at least another 50 happy years, until 2057, lending its historical perspective to the city.

Shanghai Daily Tuesday 12 November 2013 FEATURE B3

Savoring tea, sheng and toddlers in the park

Lina ZerónMexico

‘The city helped me grow and face fears’

Denyse WoodsIreland

As a great tea drinker, and having written about tea for various publica-tions, I wanted to set foot in this town that grew out of the tea trade. I have enjoyed many teas while here, and spoken to several experts.

I am also interested in the sheng ( a traditional reed wind instrument consisting of usually 17 bamboo pipes) and I was fortunate to meet musicians who play it with the Shanghai Chi-nese Orchestra, and learn about this extraordinary instrument, which looks as beautiful as it sounds.

If there is one thing that alarms me about Shanghai, however, it is the extensive use of plastics. Very few people bring their own bags or bottles to the shops to re-use them, and every item is wrapped in layers and layers of plastic.

With such a large population, the people of Shanghai need to remember where all this plastic is going: into our oceans, where it does untold damage to our fish and our waters.

Leaving a place is never easy, and leaving new friends is always the hard-est part. During my time here, I have met so many extraordinary people — writers, academics and students, and of course our friends at the Shang-hai Writers’ Association. Ireland is a long way away, but I will keep these people, and my memories of our times together, very close to me.

had to defend myself with my little English.

I realized that my 70 percent is not enough. I should try harder to reach 99 percent. It was so difficult to understand such different English accents. Some spoke as fast as moving trains, some swallowed their letters and words and some made fun of my English. This was very hard to me but also a lesson. Or maybe I should learn Chinese?

I’ll never forget the brave women of this country who excel in a man’s world despite history, traditions and so much misogyny and discrimina-tion. In the past, you Chinese women had no rights, no voice, but you are warriors who never wavered in your efforts. Brave and powerful women, I will miss you.

Thank you to everyone for helping me grow and believing in me, for giv-ing me so much and teaching me how to live day by day, with patience and tolerance, with the assurance that I was not alone.

I was writing all the time and now I have a diary of over 150 pages. I have written so much to finish my novel.

Thank you, Shanghai, for teaching me how to live with myself and share with you.

My heart and gratitude to everyone.

Eight foreign writers recently completed the two-month 2013 Shanghai Writing Program, sponsored by the Shanghai

Writers’ Association. During that time writers learned about the city and created works about their experiences in China.

Shanghai Daily, the exclusive media partner for this annual writing program, publishes some of their thoughts on the city.

Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart once said that the greatest gift for any writer is “unconstructed

time.” In other words, time to write with no constraints, no program or timetable, no school run or deadlines, no distractions or demands. This is what writers’ residencies all over the world offer writers — a time and a place to write.

And so I find myself in Shanghai.Apart from attending events with

the Shanghai Writers’ Association, which afford us the opportunity to meet with Chinese writers, it is indeed a great gift to wake up with a whole day stretching ahead during which all I have to do is writing.

It is also what I must do, since I have deadlines and work that must be completed, but there is one problem: Shanghai. The great city is right out there, beyond my window — so what on earth am I doing indoors at a desk?

This is one of the paradoxes of this residency, which we all feel to some degree — we need to work, but we also want to experience Shanghai and see everything it has to offer. Sometimes it is a difficult balance.

However, although I am of course a tourist on an occasional basis, I find it even more satisfying to fully absorb and appreciate the experience of liv-ing and working here in Changning District, which is another, and perhaps

more enlightening, way of getting to know Shanghai.

I buy my morning bread from a hot oven down the street, get a bun for afternoon tea at Bread Talk, do my gro-cery shopping at Carrefour on Chang-ning Road (and yes — many of our group have become lost in this huge mall, but I believe we will all be found by the time we are due to go home), and I walk in Zhongshan Park nearly every day.

This beautiful park is one of the great pleasures of living here — watch-ing the various activities such as tai chi, waltzing, singing and walking backwards. I intend to take up many of them when I get home!

Above all, I love to see babies and toddlers out with their grandparents. Nearby Suzhou Creek allows for a pleasant and very quiet walk and, to complete my day-to-day life, I have found a café around the corner that sells the most delicious hot chocolate!

It is the people who make any place what it is, and one of the things I most admire about the Shanghainese is that, in spite of living in one of the world’s busiest and most populated cities, they remain relatively calm, easygoing and friendly.

This has made me wonder why, living as I do in Ireland, with a grand total population of about four million — I never seem to walk anywhere if I

can half-run. This short spell of two months in Shanghai has taught me to slow down; to match the pace of those around me.

There is an old Arab proverb that says that if a place calls you, then you should go. Shanghai has tapped me on the shoulder many times, though I cannot say why exactly, apart from my reading a lot of fiction based in this part of the world and, of course, it has such an extraordinary history and a vibrant presence on the world map. There were more particular reasons why I wanted to come.

I’M leaving Shanghai, with armfuls of hugs and the feeling of leaving a part of me here and taking a big part of you. You made me grow up as a person, face fears and value in all its glory my family and my country.

I cried because I missed the birth of my granddaughter, but I deserve and I need my own space and time to develop as a writer. That’s my passion and why I came here.

Thank you Shanghai for being with me every day as a finished my novel on October 30. Here I celebrated my 54th birthday.

I arrived with so much hope and returned with the smiles and love of (Hu) Peihua and the staff of Shanghai Writers Association. Women were the most important persons in my stay here, as Peihua was always with us. The day I was sick, she came to see me at 11:40pm. She always tried to under-stand our whims, our characters.

The staff were brilliant, kind, smil-ing and did great work, including our interpreters Sherry and Haiyan who worked with a smile, despite authors’ frustrations because they could not pronounce foreign names. So many hours translating without breaks, English-Chinese-English, almost simultaneously. We had a wonderful time and laughs with the staff.

Now I feel as if it were a dream, now that my wings take me across the sea, leaving behind the images of the city of skyscrapers and lights. I left behind the terrible driving of motorcycles and cars. It was very difficult for me, fearing that when I crossed the street I might be killed by a crazy driver.

I keep in my mind’s eye the beauti-ful Chinese gardens, the pond with orange fishes, limestone, trees and beautiful architecture, a perfect set-

ting for reflection and writing.I remember the day I let go to mourn

because I didn’t understand why I was here and not in Mexico celebrating the birth of Lilu, my first granddaughter. Denyse (Woods) hugged me and told me that, whenever I needed, she was there, close to me.

There were many memories, the hours I passed, walked and worked in my apartment, my nest, my refuge, where I tried to cook but everything was going so badly that I threw it away. I had to clean it thoroughly myself because the maid only spent a minute inside.

Among cars, motorcycles and bikes, I walked the streets, I found wonder-ful people, who even invited me to a traditional tea ceremony. I almost became addicted to green tea, but the tastiest is jasmine.

I’ll never forget the Bund, the lights on the Huangpu River and all the people enjoying their city.

I remember the park next to the apartments where I walked in the morning and even danced with a Chi-nese man. At the end, people clapped because I could keep up with him.

Goodbye to Shanghai and your con-tradictions, censorship, your spring without birds. But I felt good, though I also felt exiled to a place where I

I never regret what I did. In the dec-ade, the center has treated more than 1,000 kids. I believe the treatment has changed their lives. I am satisfied.

Autism center threatened by financial problems

WEST LAKE EXPO / CULTURE / TOURISM / ECONOMICS

Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shanghai DailyB4 HANGZHOU SPECIAL

Xu Wenwen

A mother of an autistic daughter, Ma Chen has been running her Carnation Autism Therapeutic

Center in Hangzhou for 10 years. She has earned nothing, but paid out more than 4 million yuan (US$655,921) to maintain the center. She might, however, lose it because of financial difficulties.

This 41-year-old woman established the therapeutic center in 2003, when her daughter Miaomiao was confirmed as having autism.

To keep the center running, she has used her savings, sold two apart-ments belonging to her family, and even mortgaged an apartment of her parents-in-law last year. Ma used to work as a sonar engineer, and her husband is also an engineer.

The last financial straw came sooner than she thought. After a renovation of a warehouse space to serve as the center’s new facilities cost her 2 mil-lion yuan earlier this year, Ma has no money left to pay next year’s rent of about 500,000 yuan. She had to move from their previous location because the lease was not renewed, among other reasons.

“If the center gets closed, therapy for the kids will be stopped, and teachers trained to treat autistic kids will have to change jobs,” Ma says.

The center has 57 teachers, and serves 80 children from two to 16 years old. Classes include one-to-one training, art, music and living skills. Only a few teachers and parents been aware of the center’s difficulty as Ma has been reluctant to ask for help.

The center charges 3,800 yuan a month for each child’s eight-hour daily care or 2,000 yuan for four hours of care a day. But 20 percent of the parents are common workers and pay much less; usually a teacher can handle only one child at a time.

Considering all teachers are college graduates who studied related majors, “the tuition revenue just covers their salary,” says Ma.

There are three similar centers in the city. One is part of the YMCA and gets help from the association and the other charges much more. But Ma says she will not raise the price to maintain the center. “My aim is to help, not to get.”

It was not the first time Ma and her Carnation center have had problems. In the past decade, the center changed locations eight times, sought a license from government unsuccessfully for seven years, and lost about 200,000 yuan every year.

“That was my plan. To lose 200,000 yuan every year to run the center,” she says, adding that her family supports her.

Her determination comes from her personal experience.

In 2002, Ma became more and more aware that her two-year-old baby daughter acted differently from her peers. The toddler did not like to talk, repeated the same behavior and seldom looked into others’ eyes.

The mother took her baby to all the hospitals she could visit and saw many of doctors, yet did not get a clear an-swer. The country did not have much

knowledge about autism yet.The characters of autism include

impairments in social interaction and communication, restricted interests and repetitive behavior. Overt symp-toms gradually begin after the age of six months, become established by age two or three, and tend to continue through adulthood.

When Ma, who is good at English, searched on English-language web-sites and found out her daughter had autism, a doctor asked her, “What is autism?” Unsurprisingly, there was nowhere for her daughter to be treated in the city then.

Only a year later did the girl, Mi-aomiao, have a definite diagnosis of autism in a newly opened clinic at Hangzhou No. 7 People’s Hospital, a mental hospital. But the clinic does

not offer treatment.The heartbroken mother turned to

foreign experts by sending them e-mails, and one day she got a mail from the United States saying, “If you cannot find a treatment center in your city, then build one.”

“I saw hope,” she says. “And I think it is necessary for a city to have such a place to treat children like my daughter.”

The engineer gave up her job and started learning — first from the Inter-net, and then from experts she invited to visit Hangzhou to help her establish the center. The center has been visited by dozens of professionals from the US, Germany, the Netherlands, Sin-gapore and China’s Hong Kong and Taiwan.

When the center opened at the end

of 2003, there were eight teachers and two students. One of the students is Ma’s daughter Miaomiao.

Now, over 1,000 kids have been treated at the center. Some went for months and some stayed for years.

One couple, American Greg Moore and his Chinese wife Shao Chenchen, have sent their five-year-old boy to the center for half a year, and Shao says they picked Carnation because of its professionalism, as shown by their philosophy of one teacher per student.

“My son gains more confidence, and has improved balance, after class due to treatment for sensory processing disorder, and classes of music and art,” Shao says.

Despite an increasing number of children enrolled, the center could not get a treatment license from govern-ment or be registered as a company because autism was unknown at the time.

“I never regret what I did. In the decade, the center has treated more than 1,000 kids. I believe the treatment has changed their lives. I am satisfied,” she says.

It was not until 2010 when autism was recognized as a mental disability by the Chinese government, that Ma was able to get her center registered. Today Carnation Center is monitored by the Hangzhou Disabled Peoples Federation and Shangcheng District Disabled Peoples Federation.

The two federations cover one-10th of the center’s annual rent and provide a subsidy to the center every year. All autistic kids in the city also receive a 1,000-yuan subsidy per month from the federations. This year the center has received a total of 218,000 yuan in subsidies.

Help from others is coming as well. Moore, director of Men’s Fellowship of the Hangzhou International Christian Fellowship, offered help by raising money and awareness via his organiza-tion. He is trying to set up an exhibit to sell art and donate money to the center.

“We see the light coming,” says volunteer Shan Shulin. Shan, a retired executive from a state-owned company, helps manage the center.

But right as things were looking up, the over-budget renovation that made their 2,000-square-meter warehouse space into a neat and serviceable therapeutic center took the last of Ma’s savings. Ma, who “had little experi-ence with renovation” but an ambition to “make the center as good as other kindergartens,” is now broke.

The new campus on Shiqiao Road in the northern part of Hangzhou now has been transformed into a space with a dozen classrooms, a canteen and a playground featuring wall paintings and outdoor recreational facilities.

“She is bad at business,” volunteer Shan says. “But as long as we overcome the current difficulty, things will be better, due to the increase of students, support from the government, and more attention to autism from society.”

Ma says: “We thought of all the ways we could think of, and could not fix the problem. Now we can only ask for help from society.”

Anyone willing to help can contact Ma

Chen at 1359055510@qq.com.

A mother takes her autistic child to Ma Chen’s Carnation Autism Therapeutic

Center in Hangzhou. — Photos by Xu Wenwen

Left: A daily schedule of an autistic child at the therapeutic center.

Right: Miaomiao is happy playing the drum set while Ma Chen looks on.

WHAT’S ON B5Shanghai Daily Tuesday 12 November 2013

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Piano RecitalSpanish pianist Alba

Ventura who made

her debut as a concert

soloist at the age of 13

performing Mozart’s “Piano

Concerto K271” is heading to

Shanghai for a recital. Program includes

Liszt’s “12 Etudes, S. 136,” Prokofiev’s

“Sonata No. 1 Op. 1 en F Minor” and

Scriabi’s “Mazurkas, Op. 3.”

Date: November 29, 7:45pm

Ticket available: 120 yuan, 180 yuan, 300

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Date: November 16, 7:30pm

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Date: November 16, 7:30pm

Tickets: 80-880 yuan

Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center

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Italian OrchestraThe Italian Philharmonic Orchestra will

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They will perform well-known folk songs,

love songs and episodes from classical

music dramas such as “Turandot” and

“The Barber of Seville.”

Date: December 20, 7:30pm

Tickets: 80-680 yuan

Tel: 5415-8976

Venue: Shanghai City Theater

Address: 4889 Dushi Rd

Exhibition

Experimental Ink PaintingsWei Qingji’s ink-wash paintings are largely

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paintings. He uses figurative method and

calls “experimental.” A solo exhibition

featuring 25 of Wei’s recent contemporary

Chinese ink paintings is currently on

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Date: Through November 17, 10am-6pm

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Dance artist Wang Yabin will bring Shanghai audiences her new work “Genesis,” which will go on a world

tour marking the fifth anniversary of Yabin and Her Friends.

The branded dance performance is produced annually by Wang and other renowned dancers, choreographers and producers in China and from abroad.

Co-created by Wang and Belgian chore-ographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, “Genesis” is about exploring the original power that gives birth to the origin of creation or formation. Using a tree’s growth as the metaphor, the dance shows how the past, the present and the future impact and work with each other.

Cherkaoui choreographed the movements inspired by the growth process of roots, branches and cell division.

“It’s a ‘divide-and-conquer’ way of devel-oping your spirit, your family and your love life — dividing in order to reach further, to gain a sense of territory. For me, trees offer a perfect model for that phenomenon,” the choreographer says.

“Genesis” will also include performances and work by a host of talented artists and musicians. Barbara Drazkowska’s rendi-tion on the piano will be one of the central elements, while complementing the live instrumentation will be Olga Wojciechows-ka’s electronic score. In addition, lighting designer Willy Cessa will create a unique stage atmosphere.

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Date: November 27-28, 7:15pm

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at first for photographs. Leng is one of the

top realist painters in China. An exhibition

of his latest works, “Limitation and

Freedom,” is underway.

Date: Through December 26, 10am-5pm

Venue: 1929 Art Space

Address: 2/F, 687 Dongdaming Rd

Event

Art FairShanghai Art Fair, one of the biggest in

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the US, Europe, South Korea and many

other countries. Around 1,000 works

will be showcased, including paintings

by Picasso, Dali and Zao Wou-ki. One

highlight is the latest canvas created by

Chen Yiming, younger brother of Chen

Yifei (1946-2005), who established his

“visual empire” in canvas, film and fashion.

Date: November 14-17, 10am-5pm

Venue: ShanghaiMart

Address: 99 Xingyi Rd

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Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shanghai DailyB6 COMICS/GAMES

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

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Happy Birthday: Socialize and get involved in activities and events that will encourage you to try new things and meet new people. Developing ideas and learning about the things you want to pursue will increase your options for growth. Don’t sit back and let others take over, or wait for slowpokes. Live in the present and follow your dreams. Your numbers are 6, 14, 20, 28, 35, 41, 44.

SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21)Social events will connect you to someone special. Learn from every encounter you make. Ask questions and use what you learn to better who you are or what you do. Buy something that will contribute to your happiness. Romance is highlighted.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21)Keep your feelings locked away until you have all the information required to make a sensible decision. Someone isn’t telling you the truth, or is asking for too much. Make changes to your home or living situation that will improve your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19)Communication, coupled with a vision and a job well done, will improve your position, reputation and future. Don’t be afraid to do things differently. Taking a unique approach will lead to good fortune. Put love on a pedestal.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18)Listen to what’s being said, but don’t commit to anything. Clear your head. A change may be required, but it has to be on your terms and when you are ready. Take the first step, but do it your way.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20)An interesting idea will begin to pay off. Take an unusual route to present and promote what you want to do and you will capture influential attention. Leave room for romance. The moves you make tonight will be well received.

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19)A colleague will offer false hope. Do not make promises or rely on others to do things for you. Take on what you know you can complete and do it well. Be observant and ready to make

last minute alterations if necessary.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20)Share your thoughts and opinions and work alongside your colleagues or friends. You will accomplish your goals, as well as build a close relationship that will develop into an experience that will change your life. Positive thought brings positive action.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)Get your work out of the way and future projects organized and ready to go. Haggling will lead to complaints. Don’t let an emotional situation stand in the way of progress. Let go of the past; live in the present.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)Express your feelings and enjoy life, good friends and family. Plan events and do your best to help others. Your feel-good attitude will bring a positive response from someone you want to please. Your attributes will help you advance.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22)Emotions can cause you to do something out of the ordinary. Being flamboyant or ultra generous in order to impress someone will be fruitless. Use your good work ethic and ability to get things done to attract attention.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22)Spend time with people who are dependent on you and you’ll find a way to eliminate some of the burden you carry. Your ability to influence others will put you in a good position and buy you a pass to greater freedom.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 22)Avoid letting a little problem accelerate. Facing whatever comes your way without going overboard is required. A troubled relationship needs to be addressed before it causes unwanted changes. Know what your alternatives are and do what needs to be done.

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BRIEF NEWSThunder outlast Wizards in OT

Nadal, Djokovic in final as Swiss suffer

BASKETBALL

KEVIN Durant scored 33 points, including a game-leveling 3 pointer late in regulation and the go-ahead foul shots in over-time, to send the Oklahoma City Thunder past the Washington Wizards 106-105 on Sunday.

John Wall missed a driving layup attempt at the buzzer for Washington, which was seeking its third straight win. Bradley Beal scored a career-high 34 points for the Wizards.

The hosts trailed 82-92 with 3:26 left in the fourth quar-ter, but went on a 14-4 run. Durant capped the burst with a straightaway 3-pointer with 13.6 seconds left.

Minnesota’s Kevin Martin scored 27 points and Kevin Love had 18 of his 25 points during a 47-point first quarter as the Timberwolves ended a 22-game losing streak against the Los An-geles Lakers with a 113-90 win.

Ricky Rubio had 12 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who hadn’t beaten the Lakers since March 6, 2007. Minnesota took a 28-point lead during the highest-scoring quarter in franchise history and maintained a healthy advantage all night in their first win over the Lakers at Staples Center

since December 2, 2005.Steve Blake scored 19 points

with five 3-pointers, and Jodie Meeks added 16 for the Lakers, who have lost five of seven.

In Phoenix, Eric Bledsoe scored 24 points and Markieff Morris came off the bench to score 23 as the Suns beat the New Orleans Pelicans 101-94.

Morris shot 9 of 12, and has gone 30 for 38 from the field over his past three games while aver-aging 24.7 points in that span.

Gerald Green scored 15 points and Goran Dragic added 12 for the Suns, who have won four of five. Suns coach Jeff Hornacek became the first coach in club history to win his first four home games.

Jason Smith scored 22 points while Jrue Holiday and Antho-ny Morrow each had 16 for the Pelicans.

Danny Green had 24 points and a career-high 10 rebounds for San Antonio as the Spurs pounded the New York Knicks 120-89 for their fourth straight victory.

Kawhi Leonard scored 18 points and Tony Parker had 17 in a game that was close for about 3 minutes. Carmelo Anthony and Andrea Bargnani both scored 16 for the Knicks.

(AP)

Reggie Jackson (left) of the Oklahoma City Thunder goes up

for the shot against the Washington Wizards during their NBA

game at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City,

Oklahoma, on Sunday. The Thunder won 106-105. — AFP

TENNIS

SWITZERLAND’S challenge at the ATP World Tour Finals melted away like an Alpine gla-cier in a heatwave on Sunday as Rafael Nadal and Novak Djok-ovic marched on to the grand finale in London.

Nadal muscled past Roger Federer 7-5, 6-3 before Djokovic extended his hot streak to 21 consecutive victories with a routine 6-3, 6-3 defeat of Stan-islas Wawrinka.

Fittingly the regular season will end with a US$1.92 mil-lion shoot-out between the two dominant forces in men’s ten-nis who will go head-to-head for the 39th time.

Djokovic, who like Nadal had a 100 percent record in round-robin play, will be desperate to retain his title after ceding the world No. 1 ranking to the re-lentless Spaniard in October.

“We are both having a great season this year. This is prob-ably the best possible final

we have here in London. We’ll see what happens tomorrow,” Djokovic, who was rock solid against tournament debu-tante Wawrinka, told a news conference.

Predicting a winner will be a tough task.

Australian Open champion Djokovic is unbeaten since los-ing the US Open final to Nadal in September while Nadal, whose 10 titles this year include the French Open, hopes to cap an astonishing comeback following

a seven-month injury layoff.“The most important thing

for me is that on the toughest surface for me, the most diffi-cult one, I was able to win four matches against top-eight play-ers,” Nadal, whose bulging CV is only missing a Tour Finals title, told reporters.

“Now there remains one more match, probably the hardest, and I need to play my best match to have a chance tomorrow.”

(Reuters)

Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew (left)

runs for a touchdown against Tennessee Titans safety Michael

Griffin during the first half of their NFL game at LP Field in

Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday. The Jaguars won 29-27. — AFP

Jaguars end 8-game skidAMERICAN FOOTBALL

THE Jacksonville Jaguars pulled off the Week 10 shocker upset-ting the Tennessee Titans 29-27 to collect their first win of the season on Sunday to leave the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the National Football League’s only winless team.

While the victory by the Jag-uars (1-8) was the big surprise the St Louis Rams’ 38-8 demoli-tion of the Indianapolis Colts ranked a close second on an-other wild Sunday.

A dismal season that had seen the Jaguars outscored 264-86 fi-nally produced a bright moment as Maurice Jones-Drew and Jordan Todman each ran for a

touchdown to help Jacksonville to a long awaited win.

There was nothing pretty about the Jaguars’ performance as quarterback Chad Henne completed just 14 passes for 180 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions.

However, they never trailed and forced four turnovers they turned into 17 points.

Elsewhere in the NFL, it was: Lions 21, Bears 19; Eagles 27, Packers 13; Ravens 20, Bengals 17 (in overtime); Seahawks 33, Falcons 10; Giants 24, Raiders 20; Steelers 23, Bills 10; Panthers 10, 49ers 9; Broncos 28, Chargers 20; Cardinals 27, Texans 24; and Saints 49, Cowboys 17.

(Reuters)

Zlatan, Neymar in frame for best goalZLATAN Ibrahimovic and Ney-mar are among 10 candidates for the Puskas Award honoring the best goal of the year.

Ibrahimovic was nominated for his long-range bicycle kick for Sweden against England in a friendly last November, which just missed the 2012 award entry deadline. Neymar was selected for his right-foot shot for Brazil against Japan in the Confederations Cup in June. Neymar, now with Barcelona, won the award two years ago for a solo goal for Santos. Other nominees include Antonio Di Natale, for Udinese in a Serie A match against Chievo Verona in April, and Australian forward Lisa De Vanna for US side Sky Blue against Boston Breakers in June. Online voting until De-cember 9 will decide a short list of three finalists which advance to a final round of polling. The winner will be announced on January 13 at the FIFA Ballon d’Or event in Zurich.

Lin triumphsTWO days after blowing away the field at the Sanya Hills La-dies Classic with a 7-under-par 65 performance, Chinese teen-ager Lin Xiyu was declared the winner of the China LPGA Tour event yesterday as Typhoon Hai-yan forced the cancellation of the final round. The organizer had held out hope the third round of the tournament could be played yesterday, but with roads closed and heavy rain battering the southern Hainan Province, the devastation from the typhoon rendered the Dragon Valley Golf Course unplayable. The 17-year-old Lin, who shot 73-65 over 36 holes, had a final score of 6-under 138. Chinese veteran Yan Panpan was five shots back.

Ibra gets a stamp ZLATAN Ibrahimovic has long been considered sports royalty in Sweden. Like the country’s real king, he’s now even get-ting his own postal stamp. The Swedish postal service said yes-terday it will introduce a stamp featuring Ibrahimovic on March 27. The Paris Saint-Germain striker said he was honored by the stamp. He said he “gets mainly bills and they usually don’t have nice stamps, but maybe that will change now”. The 32-year-old was the French league’s top scorer last year.

Jubilant Jaguars Maurice Jones-Drew and Jordan

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United’s back as unpredictable season springs another surprise

Juve clobbers Napoli to close gap on Roma

Injured Messi to miss 6-8 weeks

SOCCER

DAVID Moyes’s claim that the English Premier League title race will go the distance was lent credibility by his own players in Manchester United’s victory over Arsenal — the most significant moment yet of the Scotsman’s Old Trafford tenure.

Robin van Persie’s winner on Sunday, in a game the Dutch striker described as a “six-pointer”, helped repair United’s waning reputation as a team for the big occasion.

It was the first time, as United manager, that Moyes had tri-umphed over a major rival in the league following defeats to Liverpool and Manchester City and a negative goalless draw with Chelsea this season.

And it closed the gap on leader Arsenal to five points, leaving the top eight teams — from Arsenal to eighth-placed Manchester City — separated by six points.

“We are going to get a few bloody noses along the way but this Premier League has shown

BARCELONA star Lionel Messi is expected to be sidelined for the remainder of 2013 after pick-ing up his third leg injury of the season.

The Argentina forward hurt his left leg on Sunday in Barcelona’s 4-1 victory at Real Betis and medical exams yesterday showed he needs a recovery period of six to eight weeks. That would rule Messi out until about Christmas, when the Spanish league takes its annual winter break.

Barcelona will be without the four-time Bal-lon d’Or winner for up to eight games, namely its last two Champions League group games against Ajax and Celtic, four Spanish League matches and the two legs of the Copa del Rey’s round of 32.

Messi, who has scored 14 goals in 16 games, has been plagued by nagging muscle problems since the end of last season. The 26-year-old star missed several weeks last month because of a right thigh problem after first hurting his left thigh in August. He was sidelined at the end of last season with a hamstring pull.

Also, Barcelona says midfielder Cesc Fabregas will need one week to recover from a right knee injury, forcing him to miss Spain’s upcoming friendlies against Guinea and South Africa.

(AP)

Juventus players

celebrate after

winning their

Italian Serie A

match against

Napoli at the

Juventus Stadium

in Turin on Sunday.

The host eased to a

3-0 victory to close

the gap on leader

AS Roma to one

point. — Reuters

ANDREA Pirlo and Paul Pogba scored spectacular second-half goals to help Juventus beat Napoli 3-0 on Sunday, closing the gap on Serie A leader AS Roma to one point and leaving its op-ponent trailing in third place.

Playmaker Pirlo fired a viciously dipping free kick over the Napoli wall from nearly 30 meters, then Pogba collected a pass, flicked the ball up and volleyed home from a similar dis-tance beyond a bemused Pepe Reina six minutes later.

Roma, which won its first 10 games, was held to a second successive 1-1 draw after conceding a 94th-minute equalizer at home to lowly Serie A newcomer Sassuolo.

Familiar routines continued at Fiorentina, where Giuseppe Rossi scored two more goals in a 2-1 win over Sampdoria, and AC Milan, which remained in crisis mode after a goal-less draw at bottom club Chievo.

Roma leads with 32 points from 12 games, with Juventus on 31 and Rafael Benitez’s Napoli on 28 after its second league defeat of the season.

Juventus made a flying start and Reina had already stopped one Pogba effort before Fernando Llorente turned in a deflected shot from close range after only two minutes.

Reina brilliantly stopped close-range headers from Leonardo Bonucci and Llorente before halftime, although Napoli came back into the match after the break with Lorenzo Insigne always menacing.

Juventus settled the match in six

stunning minutes, which began with Pirlo scoring from a typically majes-tic free kick before he was upstaged by Pogba, the player tipped to take over his mantle when the 34-year-old eventually retires.

“I was happy with my goal, but I’m happier with the win,” Pirlo told Sky Sport Italia. “We tried to send a signal to those in front of us, to let them know we’re going to have a great season.”

Titleholder Juventus finished with 10 men after defender Angelo Ogbon-na was sent off for a second bookable offense late in the game

(Reuters)

Manchester United striker Robin van Persie (second right) scores the game’s only goal past Arsenal

goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny (right) during their English Premier League match at Old Trafford in

Manchester, northern England, on Sunday. — Reuters

I don’t think anyone’s going to run away with it.David MoyesMan United manager“

it is not just Manchester United who are going to get a few of them, there are other teams as well,” Moyes told reporters.

The former Everton manager reiterated his belief that United’s rivals would continue to take points off each other, presenting English soccer with a thrilling and unpredictable campaign.

“I don’t think anyone’s going to run away with it,” he said. “I think there (will be) a lot of ups and downs. It’s a close-run league this year.

“It’s another step in the right direction (for United), but we

have a lot of big steps. It is going to take a while for me to get it the way I’d like.”

Arsenal’s only other league defeat this season was its open-ing-day reverse to Aston Villa.

“When we started to play (against United) we dominated the game completely and were unlucky not to score in the sec-ond half,” Arsene Wenger told the club’s website.

“I hope that everybody’s full of rage, basically against our-selves, because it’s unbelievable to lose a game like that.”

Moyes and United were cheered by other results on Sunday — notably City’s 0-1 loss

at Sunderland and Tottenham Hotspur’s 0-1 home defeat by Newcastle United.

Combined with Chelsea’s 2-2 draw against West Bromwich Al-bion on Saturday — when Jose Mourinho’s side needed a late, controversial penalty to salvage a point — and Southampton’s 4-1 victory over Hull City, and the Premier League table looks unfamiliar.

Southampton, in particular, is proving the story of the season so far under Mauricio Pochet-tino, the Argentine who has guided the south-coast club to third place, one point behind second-placed Liverpool and

three behind Arsenal.Pochettino faces his biggest

test to date when the domestic season resumes after the inter-national break — back-to-back trips to the Emirates and Stam-ford Bridge. “We need to keep working with the same work ethic and humility because we will probably be getting a lot of compliments due to how we played,” Pochettino said.

United is now fifth after three league wins in a row — and unbeaten in nine in all compe-titions — a modest upturn in form that has eased early pres-sure on Moyes.

(Reuters)

Songjiang offers museums and sceneryEditor’s Note:Science education and the diffusion of scientific knowledge is important for Shanghai. There are 150 science popularization and education bases around the city, including museums, parks, activity centers and universities.This biweekly column will ex-plore the fun and importance of science, history and urban development.

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• Shanghai Astronomy Museum

Atop the scenic Sheshan Hill is the Shanghai Astronomy Museum which is on the site of the Sheshan Observatory Sta-tion, built by French Catholic missionaries in 1900.

It was turned into a 2,000-square-meter museum in 2004.

It contains two sections: Time and Mankind and Sino-Foreign Astronomy Exchanges. The first includes a timeline of achievements of Chinese people. The second section on international exchanges is the mail building of the old observatory station, in French-style architecture.

Exhibits narrate the intro-duction of Western astronomy

to China and the history of modern Chinese astronomy.

A collection of astronomical observation instruments are exhibited, including a 40cm binocular refracting telescope purchased from Paris in 1898. At one time it was the largest telescope in East Asia.

Address: Western Sheshan Hill

Hours: 8am-4pm (currently closed

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Admission: 30 yuan

Tel: 5765-1723, 5765-1609

• Shanghai Songjiang MuseumThe museum displays

archeological artifacts and relics unearthed in Songjiang, as well as items of modern history.

Opened in 1984, the 4,700-square-meter museum is built in Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) style. The second floor displays relics unearthed since 1949.

On both sides of the exhibi-tion hall stand stone tablets or steles. Inscriptions include government notices about cotton, textiles and taxes in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. Some are inscribed by renowned calligraphers.

The first floor is used for changing exhibitions.

Address: 233 Zhongshan Rd E.

Hours: Tuesdays-Sundays,

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Admission: Free

Tel: 5783-3314, 5783-2250

• Shanghai Earthquake Museum

The museum in scenic Sheshan Hill resort was established jointly in 2001 by the Shanghai Earthquake Ad-ministration and the Sheshan Seismic Station.

It is said to contain the larg-est collection of old seismic instruments and earthquake-related materials in China. Around 20 instruments are more than 100 years old, including the Ali Ott magne-tometer first used in 1882. It is one of only two in the world; the other is in London.

Address: Western Sheshan Hill (in-

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Hours: Daily, 8:30am-4pm

Admission: Free

Tel: 5765-2473, 5765-3795

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Shanghai Astronomy Museum is on the site of the Sheshan Observatory Station, built by French Catholic missionaries in 1900.