BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said here on Tuesday that the key to Sino-U.S. relations was to mutually respect and accomodate each other's core interests and major concerns while differences from different national conditions were normal. "The China-U.S. relations are very important. Maintaining and promoting such ties is a shared responsibility of both sides," Hu told reporters here after meeting visiting U.S. President Barack Obama. China is ready to work together with the United States to push forward the continuous, healthy and stable development of Sino-U.S. relations to better serve the interests of the two peoples and the people around the world, said the Chinese leader. Hu said that the two sides have reaffirmed the "cardinal principle" of "mutually respecting national sovereignty and territorial integrity" and voiced opposition to any attempt by any force that violates this principle. He said that China appreciates President Obama's support for the one-China policy and the three Sino-U.S. joint communiques, and his respect for China's national sovereignty and territorial integrity on the Taiwan issue and other matters. "We have both agreed to conduct dialogues and exchanges on issues including human rights and religion, in the spirit of equality, mutual respect and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, so as to boost understanding, mitigate differences and broaden consensus," Hu said.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- United States President Barack Obama is to meet with Shanghai Party chief Yu Zhengsheng on Monday and have a dialogue with Chinese youths afterwards before heading for Beijing in the afternoon. A girl presents a bouquet to U.S. President Barack Obama after he arrives at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Nov. 15, 2009Obama arrived in Shanghai Sunday night to start his four-day state visit to China, his first trip to the country since taking office in January. The China visit is one leg of Obama's Asian tour, including state visits to Japan and the Republic of Korea and attending a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
BEIJING, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese top political advisor Jia Qinglin attended a symposium here on Wednesday to mark the 60th anniversary of the uprising of two air carriers in Hong Kong in 1949. On Nov. 9, 1949, a total of 12 aircraft from the carriers flew from Hong Kong to Beijing and Tianjin on the Chinese mainland during the uprising, a move embraced by the New China. Mao Zedong called it "a very patriotic action of great significance." Du Qinglin, head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said the precious spirit of the uprising should be inherited and promoted, to encourage all the Chinese to make unswerving contributions to the rejuvenation of the nation.
BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao is to meet his U.S. counterpart President Barack Obama Tuesday morning at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The summit meeting is scheduled to be held at 10:40 a.m. after a grand welcoming ceremony. The two leaders will meet the press after the talks. Wu Bangguo, chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, will meet President Obama Tuesday afternoon. President Obama will also visit the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, and attend a state banquet in his honor hosted by President Hu.
BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's visits to Japan, South Korea, Myanmar and Cambodia consolidated friendly relations, enhanced mutual trust and promoted practical cooperation with the countries, the vice foreign minister said Tuesday. Xi was the first Chinese state leader to visit Japan since the new Japanese government led by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama took office in September, said Wu Dawei. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 14, 2009. Xi highlighted the great importance the Chinese government has attached to its ties with Japan, saying both sides should continue efforts to enhance the friendly links between the two countries. Xi called on both sides to work together to further the China-Japan strategic and mutually beneficial relationship in a bid to realize their peaceful co-existence and long-term friendliness. During the visit to Seoul, Xi said China and South Korea should strive to deepen their strategic and cooperative partnership under the new situation. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (1st, L) meets with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (1st, R) in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Dec. 17, 2009When meeting with leaders of Myanmar and Cambodia, Xi stressed that it has been a fixed policy of the Chinese government to develop relations with the two countries no matter how the world situation might change. Xi has focused his visits on efforts to push for a practical cooperation with the four Asian nations, as well as on more exchanges on low-carbon and high technology and circular economy. The vice president called for more cooperation between China and Japan in confronting the international financial crisis. Efforts also should be made to deepen their cooperation in new energy, new material and information technologies in bids to enhance the level of the China-Japan trade links, he said. Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) meets with Than Shwe, chairman of Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council, in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Dec. 20, 2009.Noting Japan's advancement in environmental protection and technology, Xi said there exists a huge potential for the two countries to expand their cooperation in such areas. Japanese businessmen and officials hoped China's good economic momentum could last as the country is turning from a "world manufacturer" to "world market." China's development would bear on the Japanese economic recovery. Emphasizing the mutually beneficial relations between China and South Korea, South Korean businessmen expressed a readiness to deepen cooperation with China as it provides a huge market for South Korea's development. Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) review the guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Dec. 21, 2009. In meeting with the foreign leaders, the vice president elaborated on China's accomplishments over the past sixty years since the birth of the People's Republic of China. He also spoke of the difficulties facing China's economic and social development. Xi said China would follow the path of sustainable development under the guidance of the scientific outlook on development. Speaking of China's measures against the global financial crisis and its effects, Xi said China is willing to work with the international community to deal with the adverse impact of the crisis. The vice president said China will adhere to the policy of building friendship and partnerships with neighboring countries and continue its path of peaceful development. China's development serves as an opportunity instead of a threat, Xi said. China would keep on building a harmonious society domestically while committing to constructing a harmonious Asia and world. Promoting exchanges among various cultures is one of the most notable features of the vice president's visits. In Tokyo, he attended the opening ceremony of the China Culture Center. In addition, before the end of the visit, he inaugurated the first Confucius Institute in Cambodia. Tightly scheduled, Xi's four-nation tour was fruitful and influential, Wu concluded
BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's visits to Japan, South Korea, Myanmar and Cambodia consolidated friendly relations, enhanced mutual trust and promoted practical cooperation with the countries, the vice foreign minister said Tuesday. Xi was the first Chinese state leader to visit Japan since the new Japanese government led by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama took office in September, said Wu Dawei. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 14, 2009. Xi highlighted the great importance the Chinese government has attached to its ties with Japan, saying both sides should continue efforts to enhance the friendly links between the two countries. Xi called on both sides to work together to further the China-Japan strategic and mutually beneficial relationship in a bid to realize their peaceful co-existence and long-term friendliness. During the visit to Seoul, Xi said China and South Korea should strive to deepen their strategic and cooperative partnership under the new situation. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (1st, L) meets with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (1st, R) in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (ROK), Dec. 17, 2009When meeting with leaders of Myanmar and Cambodia, Xi stressed that it has been a fixed policy of the Chinese government to develop relations with the two countries no matter how the world situation might change. Xi has focused his visits on efforts to push for a practical cooperation with the four Asian nations, as well as on more exchanges on low-carbon and high technology and circular economy. The vice president called for more cooperation between China and Japan in confronting the international financial crisis. Efforts also should be made to deepen their cooperation in new energy, new material and information technologies in bids to enhance the level of the China-Japan trade links, he said. Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L) meets with Than Shwe, chairman of Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council, in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, Dec. 20, 2009.Noting Japan's advancement in environmental protection and technology, Xi said there exists a huge potential for the two countries to expand their cooperation in such areas. Japanese businessmen and officials hoped China's good economic momentum could last as the country is turning from a "world manufacturer" to "world market." China's development would bear on the Japanese economic recovery. Emphasizing the mutually beneficial relations between China and South Korea, South Korean businessmen expressed a readiness to deepen cooperation with China as it provides a huge market for South Korea's development. Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) review the guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Dec. 21, 2009. In meeting with the foreign leaders, the vice president elaborated on China's accomplishments over the past sixty years since the birth of the People's Republic of China. He also spoke of the difficulties facing China's economic and social development. Xi said China would follow the path of sustainable development under the guidance of the scientific outlook on development. Speaking of China's measures against the global financial crisis and its effects, Xi said China is willing to work with the international community to deal with the adverse impact of the crisis. The vice president said China will adhere to the policy of building friendship and partnerships with neighboring countries and continue its path of peaceful development. China's development serves as an opportunity instead of a threat, Xi said. China would keep on building a harmonious society domestically while committing to constructing a harmonious Asia and world. Promoting exchanges among various cultures is one of the most notable features of the vice president's visits. In Tokyo, he attended the opening ceremony of the China Culture Center. In addition, before the end of the visit, he inaugurated the first Confucius Institute in Cambodia. Tightly scheduled, Xi's four-nation tour was fruitful and influential, Wu concluded
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BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Equality has become a catchphrase when Chinese lawmakers mull over two major moves in the history of China's legislative progress. Chinese rural and urban people are about to get equal representation in lawmaking bodies. It means farmers will have the same say in the country's decision-making process as urbanites. At the five-day legislative session beginning Tuesday, members of national legislature discussed to give rural and urban people equal representation in people's congresses. A draft amendment to the Electoral Law was tabled at the bimonthly meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee. It requires that both rural and urban areas adopt the same ratio of deputies to the people's congresses. The electoral system is the foot stone of democracy, and the principle of equality is a prerequisite to guarantee people's democratic rights. The Electoral Law was enacted in 1953 and completely revised in1979. It then underwent four minor amendments. Senior people are still nostalgic about the bean-counting way of electing their representatives in villages, which was the country's primitive mode of democracy after New China was founded in 1949. Candidates who stood for election as deputies to a people's congress were elected if they received more than half of the beans. Later voters began to use ballots. After the last amendment in 1995, the law stipulates that each rural deputy represents a population four times that in urban areas. That means in China, every 960,000 rural residents and every 240,000 urbanites are represented by one rural and urban NPC deputy respectively. Critics say this can be interpreted as "farmers only enjoy a quarter of the suffrage of their urban counterparts." During previous amendments in the 1980s, the difference was even as great as eight times. But Li Shishi, director of the Commission for Legislative Affairs of the NPC Standing Committee, said such a provision is "in accordance with the country's political system and social conditions of that time" and is "completely necessary" as the rural population is much more than that of cities and an equal ratio of rural and urban representation will mean an excessive number of rural deputies. Rural population made up almost 90 percent of the country's total in 1949. With the process of urbanization, the ratio of urban and rural residents was about 45.7 to 54.3 last year. Li said that with rapid urbanization and rural economic development, the time is right for equal representation, which is conducive to "mobilizing people's enthusiasm and creativity" and the development of democracy. Zhou Hanhua, a research fellow with the Law Institute under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the draft amendment is inline with social change, and "from the legal perspective it shows that all rights are equal under the law." Obviously, the change will be a significant political progress and it is in line with the constitutional spirit that "everyone in the nation is equal." It also reflects the transition of the country's urban and rural society. According to the law, the number of deputies to the NPC is limited within 3,000, and the distribution of NPC deputies is decided by the NPC Standing Committee, the top legislature. The draft amendment says the quotas of NPC deputies are distributed to 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions on the basis of their population, which ensures equal representation among regions and ethnic groups. Another big issue that lawmakers deliberate at the session this week is to grant "equal compensation" to the victims of traffic, mining and industrial accidents as well as medical negligence, among others, regardless of the victims' identity, status, income and regional disparity. The proposal is specified in the draft on tort liability, which is deliberated by members of the NPC Standing Committee for the third time. Farmer victims normally get much less compensation than their urban counterparts. And there are often disputes from "different prices paid to different lives." At the session, lawmakers consider to set the same compensation for all victims of an accident that results in many deaths. It will be a significant step if the draft law on tort liability is adopted by the legislature, as it ensures equal rights for each Chinese and shows respect for every human life.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Visiting U.S. President Barack Obama said here Monday that Shanghai and Chicago can learn from each other especially on clean energy. He made the remarks during a dialogue with Chinese students at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. It is his first trip to China since taking office in January. "It's a terrific opportunity for us to learn from each other," he said. "In the United States we are learning how to develop buildings that use much less energy and that are much more energy-efficient. I noticed in Shanghai many new buildings are growing up. It's important to incorporate these new technologies so that each building is energy-efficient when it comes to lighting, when it comes to heating," he said. Clean energy issue is going to be a major focus in the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, he said. Shanghai and Chicago have been sister cities since 1985.
BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- China and the United States agreed here Tuesday to further collaboration to jointly research in the health sector and in the control of diseases, especially pandemics, according to a joint statement issued after the talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama. The joint research will include that on stem cells. Both sides will deepen cooperation on global public health issues, including the prevention, surveillance, reporting and control of the A/H1N1 influenza, avian influenza, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, said the statement. The two sides will also enhance cooperation on food and product safety and quality, it added.
TAIPEI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou vowed Wednesday that he will push forward the reform of the Kuomintang (KMT) "at full speed" four days after he took the position of the party's chairman. He said his aim of running for the chairman was to guarantee closer cooperation between the party and the administrative authorities to make the administrative work more effective. Ma made the remarks Wednesday at the first conference for the Central Standing Committee of the KMT since he took the position. Ma stressed that it is now a key period to strengthen the relations between the party and the administrative authorities as the island's economy is showing signs of revival. During the conference, the party approved a decision to remove two officials from their newly-elected positions as the members of the KMT Central Standing Committee for being involved in vote-buying.