NationWorldLife20 young men rescued from organ-selling gangJiangsu police crack down on criminals organizing illegal kidney transplants.& PAGE 3Putin sworn in again as presidentRussia’s new leader submits bill nominating ally as prime minister.& PAGE 11Attraction of failed relationsAn industry is evolving around splitting up as mementos lure the curious. & PAGE 18TUESDAY, May 8, 2012CHINADAILY.cnRMB ? 1.5‘New’ name for island sparks furyBeijing slams Manila as oil rig launch in South China Sea loomsBy ZHANG YUNBI and ZHOU YANB e ij i n g on Mon d ay slammed Manila’s attempt to “rename” Huangyan Island as China is set to launch its first deepwater oil rig in the South China Sea. Manila declared on Thursday that it would “rename” Huangyan Island as Panatag Shoal, and is considering removing signs Inside on the island Editorial, related to China. page 8 Manila als o planned to involve other countries and organizations in the dispute by raising the issue before international tribunals. The Foreign Ministry warned on Monday that Manila’s actions targeting Huangyan Island are “illegal and invalid’’, and will not change the fact that the island belongs to China. “We strongly urge the Philippines to return to diplomacy,’’ and any remark or move that complicates or intensifies the situation is nonsensical, Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a news conference in Beijing. Beijing’s stance in resolving the situation through diplomacy is “unchanged,’’ Hong added. Huangyan Island has been an integral part of China’s territory for centuries. The Philippines did not challenge China’s sovereignty over the island until 1997. Manila’s latest actions over Huangyan Island have incited a nationalist fervor amongthe Philippine public, Yang Baoyun, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at Peking University warned. A Philippine warship entered the island’s territorial waters on April 10, and dispatched personnel to harass Chinese fishing boats and attempted to detain Chinese fishermen. The move infringed sovereignty. Two Chinese patrol ships in the area came to the fishermen’s rescue, and the warship left. But the impasse continues as Philippine vessels were reported still to be in China’s territorial waters on Monday. In-depth oil drills Meanwhile, China’s first home-made deepwater rig will formally start operations on Wednesday in the South China Sea. The move is widely expected to pave the way for mutually beneficial cooperation with neighboring countries. China National Offshore Oil Corp, owner and operator of the platform, said on Monday that deepsea equipment, capable of operating at depths of 3,000 meters, will drill the first well 320 kilometers southeast of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It demonstrates China’s technological capacity to explore and develop oil and gas resources in the South China Sea, said Zhou Shouwei, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.SEE “SEA” PAGE 2THOMAS COEX / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSEWith companion Valerie Trierweiler at his side, Francois Hollande celebrates his election victory with supporters at the Place de la Bastille in Paris on Monday.Hu reaches out as Hollande winsPresident congratulates new French leader on historic election victoryBy ZHAO SHENGNANin BeijingLI XIANG in Paris and FU JING in BrusselsChina congratulated the newly elected French president on Monday and said that it was willing to work with Francois Hollande amid concerns his victory could derail plans to cut the deficit and reduce cooperation. Hollande, 57, defeated Nicolas Sarkozy by 51.8 percent to 48.2 percent on Sunday, becoming the country’s first Socialist to win thepresidency in more than two decades. Sarkozy was the first incumbent since 1981 not to win re-election. President Hu Jintao sent a message of congratulations to Hollande saying that China is ready to work with France, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Monday. Maintaining momentum in relations serves not only the fundamental interests of the two countries but also of the world, Hong told a daily news conference. Hollande would like to visit China in the fall, Hollande’sspokesman Bruno Le Roux said earlier. Jean-Marc Ayrault, French parliamentary leader and possible prime ministerial candidate, expressed the importance of trust. “We want a relationship with China based on trust,’’ Ayrault told China Daily. “China (is a) Inside great power, not ? Additional just in economcoverage, page 12 ic terms but a ? Bonds rally, world power. We r e s p e c t page 17 China. We have to have discussions between France and China. “Sincerely, I believe that Francois Hollande will be more than happy to visit China,” Ayrault added.Analysts said that Hollande’s victory may introduce some uncertainties to relations, but the new president is likely to adopt a pragmatic approach. During the campaign, Hollande opposed China’s aid to France and criticized the exchange rate. He also proposed that the European Union increased tax on imports from China. Hollande said that he didn’t oppose Chinese products but only hoped for, what he described, as a trade balance with China. When candidates, either in the US or Europe, have not formulated a concise plan to address domestic problems, China is often a scapegoat, said Zhang Haibing, a European studies expert with the Shanghai Insti-tutes for International Studies. Increasing trade protectionism targeting China will not solve the EU crisis, Zhang said, stressing that Europe has to first of all improve economic competitiveness. “No matter Hollande’s personal opinion toward China, cooperation with China is inevitable for France and for Europe,” she added. Relations between France and China will not change overnight and Hollande is well aware of China’s importance on the world stage and of the role it can play in helping the French economy, said David Cordonnier, a policy adviser and president of the Jeunes Socialistes de la Belgique in Belgium.SEE “FRANCE” PAGE 2Wired into an online world of opportunityInternet gives companies a web of possibilities, report Shen Jingting in New Delhi and Chen Limin in Beijing.verseas expansion and global-player status may no longer be a pipedream for China’s Internet companies as several have already taken steps abroad and a small numCOVER ber have tasted a STORY modicum of initial success. On a sunny day in New Delhi, Duan Wei, a manager at the Chinese mobile browser manufacturer UC Mobile, rose early in preparation for an important conference at one of the city’s.cnBilingual News: The problem with your boss is that he thinks he’s much better than he really is Forum: One sentence to tell what happiness is Video: China’s role in global economy Slide: “Blind” dating in ChongqingIn this issueNATION ........................................ 2-5,7 COVER STORY .................................. 6 COMMENT .................................... 8, 9 WORLD ........................................ 10-12 BUSINESS..........................13,14,16,17 LIFE ..............................................18-21 SPORTS ..................................... 22-24ONATURE’S WRATHPHOTO BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE / JIJI PRESSDamage to a building is assessed after a tornado ripped through Tsukuba city in Ibaraki prefecture, just north of Tokyo, on Monday. The tornado killed a teenager, injured dozens of people and left more than 3,000 homes without electricity. See story on page 11.most luxurious hotels. The meeting had been ar range d to announce encouraging news: The Beijing-based company was planning to take its most audacious step overseas by setting up an Indian subsidiary in New Delhi. UC Mobile will invest at least $5 million in India this year, according to CEO Yu Yongfu. The company aims to become the number one player in India’s mobile Internet browser market by 2015, with a user base of 100 million. It currently holdsmarket share of 20 percent in India, second only to Norway’s Opera Software. The announcement was a reward for Duan and his teammates, who had been working in India for nearly two years. Born in the central province of Hunan in 1984, Duan has had a bittersweet experience in India. 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E-mail: .cn iPhone app: .cn/iphone? 2012 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 32 ― No. 9987A member of the Asia News Network国内统一编号:CN11-0091 国际标准 编号:ISSN 邮发代号:1-3nationPAGE 2 | TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012.CN/CHINACHINA DAILYbrie?ySHANGHAIExport tax rebate arrestsShanghai customs and police department have cracked a case involving six companies illegally claiming 42 million yuan ($6.67 million) in export tax rebates. Customs in January found the companies declaring unreasonably high prices for electronic parts and components exported to Hong Kong, and smuggling the commodities back to Shanghai again to swindle tax refunds. The authorities later found that the six companies were controlled by the same group of people. Ten masterminds working for the companies have been arrested.BEIJINGBoy ?nds voice in musicBy CHENG YINGQI .cnAir transport gets 36.3 billionThe air transport industry reaped a total profit of 36.3 billion yuan ($5.76 billion) for 2011, down by 13.9 percent from 2010, according to statistics released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China on Monday. Despite that, air traffic, including passenger and cargo traffic, grew to 57.7 billion ton-kilometers last year, up 7.2 percent from 2010. Some 293 million passengers traveled by air last year, up 9.5 percent year-on-year. But the industry registered a decline in cargo transport, at 5.58 million tons of cargo last year, which is down 1 percent from the previous year. The administration had earlier planned a 13 percent rise in passenger transport and 11.5 percent growth in cargo traffic in 2011.Subway ?re brigade plannedBeijing police will establish China’s first subway fire brigade in May to better ensure the safety of subway lines that millions use daily, municipal police said on Monday. The brigade, under the Beijing municipal public security bureau, will be responsible for supervising, checking and eliminating fire hazards in Beijing’s 15 subway lines, and conducting emergency rescue and firefighting missions, said Li Jin, deputy chief of the fire department of the municipal public security bureau. The firefighting responsibilities of the subway lines are currently shouldered by the fire brigades of each district.INNER MONGOLIAThirteen-year-old Samuel held his best friends, two teddy bears, in his arms. He looked a little excited about his first trip to China, and kept giggling in the minibus speeding down the country road in a Beijing suburb. When the giggling turned into shrieks, CHINAFACE his mother Lin Yansheng stopped him immediately. “Samuel, do you still want to perform?” “Yes.” “Then what?” “Quiet,” said the boy, looking down at the teddy bears without any other words. For the past 13 years in the United States, as a mother with an autistic child, Lin is used to this kind of conversation. “Samuel just won’t be good for any period of time unless he is playing some musical instrument,” Lin said. Despite the special efforts required, her son learned to play the piano, the cello and the pipa, a stringed Chinese lute, in the past nine years. “It was unimaginably difficult to teach a child like Samuel, but I managed. So I brought him to China with his friends to let more Chinese parents with autistic children know that there is still hope for these children,” Lin said. Born and raised in China, Lin left her post as a college teacher in 1991 to study education in the US. Then she married and settled there. However, when Samuel was four years old, he was diagnosed with autism, a neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. “For a year, I was just shocked. I thought I must havedone something bad, that God was punishing me,” Lin said. “It took me a whole year to recover from the depression.” Lin quit her job and became a full-time caregiver for Samuel, but she found what she had learned from college didn’t work on Samuel at all. “You can’t imagine how difficult it was to teach him to sit on a chair, to look at me and say hello,” Lin said. “You just repeat the simple move for months before he starts to understand.” Lin bought countless teaching aids, including tools to teach autistic child about traffic lights, telling time or counting money. “Meanwhile, I was also wondering whether it was possible to buy these kinds of tools in the Chinese market. If not, how did parents there cope with the education of autistic children?” Lin asked. Last December, Lin came back to China to find answers. After investigating several NGOs for autistic children, Lin made up her mind to do something. “Official organizations for disabled people focus more on protecting the rights of visually impaired people or physically disabled people, but do not pay much attention to those with mental disabilities. In society, few know about autism, let alone have educational aids or services provided for this group,” Lin said. Lin packed four suitcases with teaching tools that she bought over the years and donated them all to China NGOs. Sun Zhongkai, director of a Chinese NGO for autistic children, said his NGO Xingxingyu is sharing the tools with four other NGOs, which they have found very helpful. “Chinese parents usually care more about children’s academic performance, but they tend to neglect the fact thatFrance: New leader ‘will foster trade ties’FROM PAGE 1Tian Ling, a member of the French National Council for Diversity, agreed that Hollande will seek to foster smooth trade and investment relations with China. “He is unlikely to clash with China on ideological issues but rather he will be pragmatic as he is a smart politician. However, it will take time for Hollande and his team to get to know more about China and Chinese policymakers, so there is still a question mark around his policies,” Tian said. Hollande did not fully elaborate his policies during the campaign, Zhang Jinling, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said. Former Chinese ambassador to France Cai Fangbo told Chinese media that the partnership between the two countries would continue movingPROVIDED TO CHINA DAILYforward, but the Taiwan and Tibet questions remained red lines for China. Sarkozy was the first French president since Valery Giscard d’Estaing in 1981 not to be reelected and the 11th eurozone leader to be ousted from office since the beginning of the sovereign debt crisis. US President Barack Obama on Sunday congratulated Hollande. European leaders also scrambled to congratulate Hollande. German Chancellor Angela Merkel extended an invitation to him in a phone call on Sunday night to visit Berlin. Contact the writers at zhaoshengnan@chinadaily. , lixiang@chinadaily.
and fujing@ .cn AFP and Tan Xuan in Brussels contributed to this story.Lin Yancheng watches as her 13-year-old son Samuel plays the piano in their Beijing home.autistic children can be trained with a lot of other skills, though they are not good at communication,” Sun said. What made Lin feel even worse is that some autistic children lead “invisible” lives. “The parents hide these children at home, being afraid of other people’s discrimination,” Lin said. To encourage the parents, Lin hopes to use her own story as an example, to let them know about autistic children’s talent for music and art. Last December Lin collected a fund of 35,000 yuan ($5,500) from a TV program with Jiangsu Television Station. With the fund, she managed to gather another five autistic children to form a small band in the US. Then she brought the band to Beijingand gave two performances in a small theater in Beijing’s Daxing suburb in April. After the show, around 300 parents and their autistic children swarmed the stage and took photos with the band, some with tears in their eyes. “At first I worried that people would make comments if they found I had an autistic child, so I didn’t want to take part in the show,” said Yang Haiping, a 32-year-old mother from Beijing. “Actually it was not only me, but all the parents like me have this concern. But I saw a US child playing electronic drums, which are easy for the child to control. I thought, maybe my child could play that, too,” Yang continued. “After all, you can’t always hide your child at home.”Sea: ‘Rig will play positive role’ in maritime regionFROM PAGE 1“The operation of the rig will also play a positive role in turning the sea into a peaceful area that countries can jointly develop,” said Zhou, a former deputy general manager of CNOOC. He was closely involved in the six-year project to build the rig. About 70 percent of oil and gas reserves in the resourcerich South China Sea are more than 300 meters deep across an area of 1.54 million square kilometers. However, most of China’s current offshore oil exploration is conducted less than 300 meters below the surface. The South China Sea is estimated to have 23 billion to 30billion tons of oil and 16 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, accounting for one-third of China’s total oil and gas resources. Estimates of resources in the South China Sea vary as the territorial issues have blocked the development in the region. China, the world’s secondbiggest oil consumer saw its annual petroleum consumption rise from 220 million tons in 2000 to 470 million tons in 2011. It lags far behind its neighbors in the region in terms of oil exploration. Contact the writers at . cn and zhouyan@chinadaily. Apple offers settlement in trademark case, lawyer claimsBy XINHUAFour killed in mine accidentFour workers were killed in a coal mine accident on Sunday in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, officials confirmed on Monday. The accident happened at 4 pm in the State-owned Zhongtian Hechuang Hulusu Coal Mine in Uxin Banner, Ordos city, said authorities with the region’s safety inspection bureau. According to a preliminary investigation, it was caused by the collapse of safety gears when the four were doing reconstruction work.CHINA DAILYTech giant Apple has offered compensation to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad trademark in China, said a lawyer connected with the case. “Right now, there is still a big gap between the two sides on the settlement amount,” said Xie Xianghui, a lawyer for Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Co, which claims it owns the iPad trademark on the Chinese mainland. Xie declined to disclose the amount or when Apple made the offer.“The Guangdong High People’s Court is trying to mediate this, and both parties are trying to negotiate and come to a settlement,” Xie said. Carolyn Wu, a spokeswoman for Apple in Beijing, declined to comment on Xie’s remarks. Apple has said it acquired the rights to the iPad trademark in China from a Proview sister company in 2009 and that the company has refused to honor that agreement. On Feb 29, the Guangdong court heard Apple’s appeal of a lower court ruling last year that Shenzhen Proview owned theiPad trademark in China. Proview, a Shenzhen-based maker of computer screens and LED lights, has been suing Apple in court over the right to use the iPad trademark commonly associated with the California-based technology giant’s popular tablet computer. Proview claims that the Taipei subsidiary of its Hong Kong-based parent, Proview International Holdings, registered the iPad trademark in a number of countries and regions as early as 2000. Though Apple bought the rights to use the iPad trade-mark from Proview Taipei in 2009, Shenzhen Proview says it reserves the right to use the trademark it registered on the Chinese mainland in 2001. Shenzhen Proview claims that it is a different entity than Proview Taipei and thus is not bound by the deal between Proview Taipei and Apple. Apple, however, insists the 2009 purchase of the iPad trademark worldwide includes the right to use it on the Chinese mainland. Although the dispute between the two sides is fierce, Apple’s products sold like hot cakes in China. Last year,China contributed 16 percent of Apple’s revenues during its fiscal quarter ending September, almost triple from a year earlier. Apple unveiled its latest iPad in the United States on March 8, but it has not started selling it on the Chinese mainland. It remains unclear whether the trademark dispute will further postpone the sale of Apple’s latest tablet computer with the “iPad” name in China. Some Apple fans have purchased new iPads from Hong Kong or abroad, even through smugglers. “It’s good for both sides toreach a settlement as soon as possible,” said Xie. The possibility that Proview will win the lawsuit is very high, but it may take years to get the compensation, said Li Xiaoning, a lawyer specializing in intellectual property rights cases. Proview stumbled in the 2008 global financial crisis and applied for bankruptcy protection in 2009 as it owed more than $400 million to eight Chinese banks, according to media reports. 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While social organizations serving purposes such as commerce, charity and social welfare have had an easier time getting registered since the second half of last year, other favorable policies for their development will expand from pilot cities, such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou in Guangdong province, the minister said. Current regulations on social organizations require that a non-governmental organization must find an administrative body to oversee its activities as a precondition before they can register with the civil affairs authorities. Under the new registering system, social organizations can register without an administrative body to oversee them, which will cut time and help more grassroots organizations get legal status. The Guangzhou government has eased registration conditions for social organizations in all categories except for privately-run education, training and medical care organizations. Guangzhou Green Point Environmental Protection Information Center, which helps university students across Guangdong province carry out environmental protection activities, has failed to get registered as a social organization since 2007. “Government departments are reluctant to take responsibility as the supervisor, risking fraud or other problems that may happen,” said Zhang Lifan, director of the center. “A social organization in China used to be either a puppet of its connections in government or an unregistered, unsupervised one,” he said. “But now, we can get rid of such an existence, becom-‘‘The new registration system is not a simple move ... (it) may involve other changes, such as adding government departments and releasing supporting policies.”WANG MINGDIRECTOR OF THE NGO RESEARCH CENTER AT TSINGHUA UNIVERSITYA VISIONARY CREWPHOTO BY LI LIN / CHINA NEWS SERVICEMonks line up to have eyesight checkups at the Lhasa People’s Hospital in the Tibet autonomous region on Monday. More than 100 monks from eight monasteries received free health checkups at the hospital. Lhasa, capital of the autonomous region, now grants free checkups to all monks in the city’s monastries.ing an independent legal entity, responsible for our own behavior, and the supervision is more reasonable and effective now.” But many cities do not have such favorable policies, and they may have to wait for some time to see the easier registration process after the new system is in place, experts said. “The transitional period from the current system may last three to five years,” said Wang Ming, director of the NGO Research Center at Tsinghua University and also expert consultant for the Ministry of Civil Affairs. “The new registration system is not a simple move open to every social organization but may involve other changes, such as adding government departments and releasing supporting policies.” But the ministry cannot give a timetable for such an expansion in China, because the new registration system can be implemented only after the three administrative regulations are released, Li said. “To better manage the flourishing social organizations, governments also need to change their minds about supervising by leading the public, media and industry to supervise the organizations,” said Deng Guosheng, Wang’s colleague. After the registration process is reformed, the number of social organizations in China may increase to 1 million in five years, almost double the current figure, Wang said. Contact the writers at . cn and caoyin@chinadaily. Donations pour in for ill toddler’s careLittle girl’s plight draws attention of netizens, welfare groupsBy WANG QINGYUN wangqingyun@ .cnA seriously ill toddler whose family was too poor to pay for her medical care is now being treated in a Beijing hospital thanks to donations from netizens and an anonymous visitor. Hui Yuxin, who will turn 2 in July, was diagnosed with anal polyps shortly after birth in Lantian county, in Northwest China’s Shaanxi province. Her family, however, only took her to a hospital when her condition dramatically worsened in March. They brought her to a children’s hospital in Xi’an, the provincial capital, but checked her out again three days later. “We just didn’t have the money for the hospital bills,” said the girl’s grandmother Chen Yaqin, 49. “The mother left the family when the girl was 4 months old. Her father, who couldn’t take the stress of his daughter’s illness, got aZHOU GANGFENG / FOR CHINA DAILYHui Yuxin, a 22-month-old girl who is ill with several diseases, receives treatment at Beijing Children’s Hospital on Sunday.concussion from hitting his head against the wall, and my husband is recovering from a traffic accident.” In April, Chen contacted Angel Mom, an NGO in Beijing that specializes in taking care of and raising money for disadvantaged children. With 400 yuan ($65), she brought the girl to Beijing on April 29. “I was shocked when I first saw the child. She was so skin-ny and weak, and she had to close her eyes every once in a while,” said Wang Yu, an Angel Mom staff member. “We immediately recommended that Chen take her to a children’s hospital. But the doctor there told us that the child was in serious condition and needed to be transferred for better treatment.” On May 4, Angel Mom helped Hui get registered atBeijing Children’s Hospital, where she is now in the intensive care unit. The organization also opened an account to raise donations for her care. “We put posts on Sina Weibo (China’s answer to Twitter) asking for help, and planned to raise 80,000 yuan at first to stop her diarrhea and help her recover from malnutrition,” said Wang. “The amount of donations pledged onlinehas reached nearly 40,000 yuan, more than 10,000 yuan of which has already been received.” On Monday, a man came to visit Hui and left 150,000 yuan in cash for her treatment, “but he didn’t tell me who he was”, said Chen. An Angel Mom staff member who give only his surname Pan, helped Chen deposit 140,000 yuan of the donation to the hospital for further treatment. “We hope that the money can be used to help the baby,” said Pan. Hui has been diagnosed with diarrhea, severe malnutrition and rectal fistula. “She is much better now,” Chen said on Monday as she cared for Hui, who was receiving nourishment intravenously. “The doctor told me that if the diarrhea is cleared up, it will really help in resolving her fistula problem. She needs the diarrhea to stop, and she needs to gain weight before undergoing surgery.” A 23-year-old woman named Du came to visit Hui on Monday. “This is my second time visiting her after getting to know her story on Sina Weibo,” said Du, “When I put lotion on her skin, which is all shrivelled up, I could feel her bones. It was heartbreaking.”Police thwart illegal kidney transplant gangBy CANG WEI in Nanjing and CAO YIN in BeijingCHARITY FAIR TO OPENThe ?rst national charity fair, which will be held in July in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, will provide a platform for social organizations to exchange experience in running charities. At the fair, major domestic social organizations, experts and governments will exchange opinions on philosophy and raise public awareness about their activities. “Shenzhen, as a city of migrants and ?rst of the special economic zones, has conducted registration system reform for eight years, making it rich in experience to exchange with others,” Xu Qin, mayor of Shenzhen, said at a news conference on Monday in Beijing. More than 350,000 volunteers have registered in the city, home to more than 4,800 registered social organizations. Many of these organizations engage in education or social surveys. As a pilot city where a social organization can register without ?nding a sponsoring administrative department, Shenzhen has a lower threshold. “But we will highlight the social organizations’ transparency and make their conduct fair,” Xu said. The city has become well known for its support of social organizations after it gave legal status to One Foundation, which encountered trouble in other cities in 2010 because it existed in a gray area.ZHENG JINRANA gang of 16 people has been arrested for running illegal kidney transplant operations in Changzhou, East China’s Jiangsu province, the provincial public security bureau announced on Monday. Police in Changzhou rescued 20 young men who were being held by the suspects. They also arrested four human organ transplant intermediaries. Twelve kidney transplant operations had been conducted, one of which took place in Indonesia. One person was sent there, and his kidney was sold to a foreign recipient, said the provincial public security bureau. The gang contacted potential kidney donors, most of whom were in financial trouble, through online chat rooms. The donors were asked to live together after taking physical examinations and were supervised by the suspects. The suspects contacted recipients and illegal organ transplant clinics through the Internet.However, local public security bureau refused to release more details. Wang Xing, a Beijing-based lawyer from Hui Cheng Law Firm specializing in criminal cases, said that the Internet has provided a great deal of opportunity for human organ traders to commit crimes. “The current punishment regulated by China’s Criminal Law is not strict enough, and the country has no specific judicial interpretations to regulate crimes involving human organ trades, which is a big problem that needs to be solved urgently,” said Wang. According to the law, people involved in the illegal organ trade could face sentences of at least five years in prison. In 2007, the Chinese government issued the first regulations on human organ transplants, banning organizations and individuals from trading human organs in any form. Now organ transplants from living donors, except for spouses, blood relatives and in-laws or adopted family members, are banned in China.According to the Ministry of Health, about 1.5 million people in China need transplants, but only 10,000 transplants are conducted every year, less than 1 percent of the demand. “China has too many patients who need kidney transplants, and this situation has contributed to the thriving underground organ market,” said Shi Bingyi, a veteran organ transplant expert at the No 309 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army in Beijing. “Reluctance by a majority of Chinese people to donate organs also makes the situation worse,” Shi said. “China’s medical and legal systems provide little public information about how to donate, which may also lead to illegal organ trades,” said Wang Hongjun, director of the public order research office at the Chinese People’s Public Security University. Illegal human organ trades are in the media spotlight from time to time. In April, a teenager in Central China’s Hunan prov-ince who sold his kidney to buy an iPhone and an iPad, drew national attention. Five people, including a surgeon, were charged with intentional injury. In February, 16 people were charged with running illegal kidney transplant operations in Beijing’s Haidian district. More than 50 people sold their kidneys to the gang. It was believed to be China’s largest illegal underground transplant operation. In October 2011, police in East China’s Shandong province arrested 18 people and shut down two illegal organ transplant clinics. Huo Feng, dean of the liver transplant center at the General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of the PLA, told China Daily that he was shocked by the news. “Such crimes tarnish the industry’s image and affect the ongoing effort to set up a national organ donation system,” he said on Monday. Recipients’ health was at risk, he added, if operations failed or if patients got infections.The organ trade’s only goal was to make profit, so correct procedures would not be strictly followed, he said. Moreover, health authorities did not recognize most hospitals and doctors involved in these types of crimes. To correct such situations, he recommended more severe punishment for the criminals and full exposure of the medical workers and institutions involved. To help combat the illegal trade, the Chinese government in 2010 piloted a voluntary donation system in 16 of the Chinese mainland’s 31 provincial-level regions. “The voluntary donation system has been promoted nationwide this year in the hope of easing the burden of organ transplant,” said Shi. Contact the writers at .cn and .cn Zhang Yan and Shan Juan in Beijing and Song Wenwei in Nanjing contributed to this story.4 nationT U E S D A Y, M A Y 8 , 2 0 1 2C H I NA DA I LYFalling prices in marketplace spark protests by homeownersBy XIE YU in Shanghai .cnForeign wines gaining groundWhile sales of some wellknown Chinese liquors have fallen lately, the demand for foreign brands continues to grow at a rapid pace. China’s market for imported alcohol is expected to experience explosive growth, according to the projections of local liquor sellers and wine experts. Tong Ye, a manager of Vats Liquor Store, one of the largest liquor stores in Beijing, expects a 30-percent rise in sales of foreign wines from last year. 2011 sales totaled around 2 billion yuan ($320 million) for the store, which sells expensive foreign wines and top-end baijiu, a Chinese liquor, as well as domestic wines. Because the serving of luxury baijiu at State functions has come under public scrutiny, Tong expects sales of Moutai and Wuliangye, two of the most sought-after white spirits, could drop by 10 to 20 percent in sales this year at her store. Wines sales could conceivably shoot up by 40 to 50 percent this year, predicted Lu Jiang, a Bordeaux Wine Council certified trainer and wine consultant. Tong said more middleclass Chinese are choosing wine over baijiu because they are beginning to realize wine is better for health. Dong Hongxia, a senior customer manager of Golden Chateau, a wholesale wine importer in Beijing, said now corporate or institutional purchases of imported wines account for only 2 to 3 percent of the company’s total sales. People buy wines mainly for weddings, gifts and other social activities, Dong said. Statistics from China Customs show that in 2011, Beijing imported nearly $93.6 million worth of wine, almost double the figure of the previous year. The total sales of foreign wines in Beijing were estimated to be between 300 million yuan and 350 million yuan last year, according to the China Industrial Competitive Intelligence Network under the Ministry of Commerce. While growth in foreign wines far outstrips that of local brands, the total Chinese and foreign wine market in Beijing is valued at about 1 billion yuan and is expanding at an annual rate of 15 percent, according to the China Industrial Competitive Intelligence Network. As one of the largest wine markets in the country, Beijing boasts an aggregate yearly sales volume of 39 million liters, or more than 50 million bottles of wine. While sales continue to rise, the price per bottle has dropped due to lower tariffs on wine imports, more choices and greater price sensitivity in the market, Lu said. Chinese wine sellers have begun to impose markups on imported wines due to booming domestic demand. A bottle of wine that sells for 2 to 3 euros ($2.61 to $3.91) in France could be 300 yuan in China. In addition to upscale brands from premium French chateaus, such as Chateau Lafite and other well-known luxury wines, French brand Castel and Australia’s Jacob’s Creek are also becoming more popular among Chinese consumers and fetching 100 yuan to 800 yuan per bottle.CHINA DAILYMore homeowners in East China’s Zhejiang province are protesting, as developers slash home prices without compensating earlier buyers. Discounts offered to attract new buyers already set off protests at three property companies in Hangzhou last week. Homeowners gathered in the sales offices, holding up signs and funeral wreaths from May 3 to 5 asking for compensation. There have been nearly 20 similar protests in Hangzhou this year, local media reported on Monday. The Beijing Times said the three developers slashed their prices from 2,000 yuan to 4,000 yuan ($320 to $640) a square meter. “I bought my apartment for 12,600 yuan per square meter in August, but it is 8,800 yuan per square meter now. I lost more than 200,000 yuan in less than half a year. How can I accept that?” a homeowner named Liu said at a protest lastweek in Hangzhou, according to the newspaper. None of the three property companies could be reached for comment on Monday. Last week in the Zhenhai district of Ningbo, also in Zhejiang, about 400 homeowners broke into the sales office of a property company named Baoyi Real Assets and smashed it up. Angry buyers even wanted to block the expressway to draw the attention of the local government, but were persuaded to give up by the police. “The price cut was a result of the central government’s policy. We understand the earlier buyers, but we can’t do anything,” said a worker from Baoyi’s sales office who declined to give her name. “It is a mega trend that the housing price is going down. No one guarantees that the property will appreciate. It’s so normal the price goes down, like stocks,” she said. “You are an adult, and you should be responsible for your own decision. Why didn’t you stand up when housing pricesGAO YUAN / FOR CHINA DAILYSome homebuyers want to block an expressway in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, on the evening of May 4. About 400 homeowners broke into the sales office of property company Baoyi Real Assets and smashed it up as developers slashed home prices without compensating earlier buyers.went up?” a netizen named Xiao Bai said. Qiu Shi, a lawyer at He and Partners Law Firm in Nanjing, said there are differences of opinion in legal circles. Most say that both the buyers and the developers should stick to their contracts. As long as the contracts are legal, there is no reason for the buyers to ask for refund or compensation if price goes down, he said. “However, some lawyerspoint out that housing is different from general goods as they usually cost a family’s life savings. More consideration or flexibility should be given in handling such disputes, to preserve social order,” he said. Tension between homeowners and developers keeps building up as the nation tightens control over the property industry. Several protests by homeowners erupted in big cities including Shanghai last year,when property prices began to cool down. Events in Hangzhou and Ningbo suggest the trend is continuing and that metropolitan real estate markets are still subject to bubbles. A report from the China Index Academy in April showed that the average home price in 100 cities dropped for the first time on both a monthly and yearly basis since China initiated its new round of housing market control measuresin April 2010. The measures include tighter lending policies, higher down payments, bans on third-home purchases, property tax trials and a greater supply of low-income housing. Meanwhile, home prices dropped 2.6 percent year-onyear to 15,391 yuan a square meter in 10 major Chinese cities ― Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Tianjin, Nanjing and Chongqing.Publicly funded banquets on menuSociety believes regulations could reduce waste of funds by officials at pricey mealsBy CAO YIN .cnThe issue of whether laws can restrain or regulate banquets that are paid for with public money is still a hot topic among experts, two months after the two sessions ended. During the annual session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in March, the Jiu San Society, one of eight non-Communist parties in China, proposed a bill to use laws to solve the problem of publicly funded banquets. Feng Pei’en, vice-president of the society, said in the proposal that government officials should not use public funds to enjoy banquets, so laws to regulate the situation should be made urgently. “Like corruption, using public funds to eat or drink has become a very serious social problem, but it is rare to see and hear of any official being dismissed for this wrong deed,” Feng said. He gave the example of laws that have been taking effect to reduce drunken driving and said waste caused by banquets at public expense would also be reduced, if appropriate laws were written. “Previously, people were only fined if they drove after drinking. But now they have to face heavier punishments, such as detention and even jail terms, because the problem was regulated by laws,” he said. According to a survey by People’s Daily in February, the amount of public money used for banquets totaled more than 300 billion yuan ($48 billion) in 2005, nearly 10 times the figure in 1989. Wang Yukai, a professor withLIU DAJIANG / XINHUAThis high-end restaurant in downtown Shanwei, Guangdong province, is one where local tobacco authority officials frequently visited and used public funds to eat and drink. Chen Wenzhu, head of the Shanwei city branch of the tobacco monopoly bureau, was removed from his post and expelled from the Party in October 2011 for corruption. Probes found the bureau’s expenditures on entertainment exceeded its budget, but did not give speci?c numbers.the Chinese Academy of Governance, welcomed the proposal of the Jiu San Society and said coping with this problem in legal ways would be a good choice. “Having banquets with public funds is a serious waste. Those who spend large sums of public money at banquets deserve criminal punishment, because they have harmed society,” he told China Daily in April. There are no specific lists of dishes and their prices at banquets held by government officials and thus the total amount of expenses has not been easy to calculate, he said. “This brings opportunities for some officials to abuse public funds, and it is hard to control the situation with the current administrative regulations.” However, Zhu Lijia, another professor at the Chinese Academy of Governance, said he is pessimistic about using laws to solve the problem. “More laws cannot solve this issue. Now, there are many regulations or rules to curb the problem, but we have not seen effective results,” Zhu said. “It’s not the regulations that didn’t work. Instead, it’s the enforcement that wasn’t strictly carried out.”In practice, local governments are considering new ways to restrain banquets at public expense. An office responsible for banning drinking among officials in Ningling county, Henan province, attracted media attention in April. Although the local government claimed the office had played an active role in punishing those who violated regulations and drank during work, the public doubted its effectiveness. Liu Binjie, director of the General Administration of Press and Publication, said it was a great failure for the government that current regulations and rules had failed to solve the problem of banquets at public expense. He suggested in his micro blog on April 8 that public funds should only pay the expenses of banquets related to foreign affairs. In addition to banquets paid for with public funds, several measures have been enacted to combat government waste, including one passed in 2011 requiring ministries to disclose their expenditures on overseas trips, vehicle purchases and receptions.C H I NA DA I LYT U E S D A Y, M A Y 8 , 2 0 1 2nation 5Chongqing cracks down on duty crimeBy XU WEI in Chongqing .cnLocal prosecutors in Southwest China’s Chongqing municipality prosecuted 473 people for duty-related crimes in the first four months of this year as it vowed to further crack down on abuses of power. The 473 people, including 71 officials at the county level and above, were indicted in 376 individual cases, 70 percent of which were duty crimes in areas important to people’s wellbeing, according to a statement on the municipal government’s official website. “This year, with the municipal government increasing its investment in areas important to people’s well-being, we will increase our scrutiny on the key segments,” an official from the People’s Procuratorate of Chongqing Municipality, the city’s prosecuting body, was quoted by local media as saying.The key segments include social welfare, food and drug safety, land requisition and demolition, subsidies provided to farmers and people relocated due to the Three Gorges Dam. Meanwhile, the procuratorate also pledged intensified investigations in the infrastructure area. The local authority said it had no further comment to make regarding the cases or further probing efforts. Most of those prosecuted are facing bribery allegations. The most high-ranking official prosecuted was Jia Jinming, the former deputy inspector of the municipal police, who is facing allegations of abuse of power and bribery. Records on the official website of the municipal government show that Jia rose from police chief of Fuling district in the municipality to the political commissar of the municipal police’s public transportationsection in 2008. He then rose to deputy inspector of the municipal police, a symbolic position with a rank equivalent to deputy police chief, in 2010. Meanwhile, 14 people have been found guilty of bribery and two others guilty of malpractice of duty in a coal mine accident in the municipality’s Fengjie district last year. The accident, which took place on Oct 17, 2011, killed 13 miners. The bribery case is estimated to reach tens of millions of yuan. Duty crime has been one of the biggest targets of China’s procuratorates in recent years. In 2011, the people’s procuratorates nationwide probed 32,567 cases of duty crime involving 44,506 people, up 1 percent from 2010, according to a work report delivered this year by Cao Jianming, China’s chief prosecutor, at the National People’s Congress session.A FRIEND IN NEEDPHOTO BY SHE YI / FOR CHINA DAILYLan Jingchao, a researcher with the Chengdu Giant Panda Reproduction and Research Center in Sichuan province, helps a giant panda named Long Long to eat bamboo on Monday. The panda was found critically ill in the wild on April 17.Burial laws spark violent protestBy ZHENG CAIXIONGin GuangzhouAbsentee workers getting paidBy ZHOU WENTINGin Shanghaizhengcaixiong@ .cn.cnA recently concluded investigation found that nearly 200 people were still receiving pay from government agencies in a city in Zhejiang province despite the fact they were no longer employed, and some of them had not been for two decades. Local authorities vowed on Monday to take serious action to deal with these no-show job cases after follow-up investigations are completed in June. The Party discipline committee of Yongkang in Zhejiang published the names of the 192 people in Yongkang Daily on May 3. The city government began the investigation in April in hopes of improving work efficiency, said Lan Qunying, secretary of the discipline committee. It instructed more than 100 agencies, institutions and Party organizations to carry out internal audits focused on cases of extended absences, such as long-term sick leave, overextension of advanced studies and unauthorized leave. Hu Buqing, a teacher at Yongkang Xixi Junior High School on sick leave since 1989, was still paid monthly, according to the announcement. Phone calls to the school wentunanswered on Monday. Xinhua News Agency previously quoted an unnamed official from the school who said Hu left and started his own business, and his salary is used by the school for teaching and administration. With 88 people on the list, the city’s school system accounts for the greatest portion, according to the investigation. Sociologists say the low salaries of teachers in the 1990s prompted many to leave the field. “But it’s important to check the current jobs of these people to avoid wasting revenue,” said Xia Xueluan, professor of sociology at Peking University. The publication of this kind of accountability information is a first for the city, and it is a means for improving oversight through public participation, Lan said. “We encourage people familiar with the situation to report cases that were concealed,” she said. “We’ll perform a thorough investigation of every particular case and prevent recurrence.” Some people applauded the crackdown, but others worry the action will accomplish little in the end. The practice of no-show jobs has long been denounced but remains commonplace in the country, some experts said. Wang Hui, deputy mayor of Wenshui county, Shanxi prov-ince, was relieved of her post in April after officials investigated her based on media reports accusing the woman of “never going to work” during her 15 years in office. Wang Ye, daughter of Yang Cunhu, secretary of the Party committee of Jingle county, Shanxi province, was paid by the Shanxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention for five years since 2007, although she began working there in July 2011 after graduation. The total pay and allowance she got during the years was more than 100,000 yuan ($15,878). The problem is tricky in the country because it is tradition not to interfere with matters of a previous administration in official and business circles for fear of displeasing others, said Fan Ming, director of the institute of market economy at Henan University of Economics and Law. “The government should have explicit policies to encourage people to break with tradition,” Fan said. He added there are no regular official investigations openly or secretly. “The commission for inspecting discipline is responsible for examining malfeasance of officials, but this practice has never been defined as evil because it was encouraged in the past.”A clash between villagers and law enforcement officers over funeral and burial reforms was settled peacefully in Haifeng county, Guangdong province, over the weekend. Several police officers were slightly injured in the rioting and four police cars plus two other government vehicles were turned over and damaged by the villagers. “None of the villagers and local residents were hurt during the events,” said Xie Liqun, deputy head of the county publicity department.“And so far, no one has been detained, and the unrest has come to an end,” Xie told China Daily on Monday. “Police officers exercised self-control to pacify the villagers and onlookers during the event,” he said. The clash broke out in Haifeng’s Chikeng township on Saturday morning when the township’s burial ceremony supervision team and local Shada village committee jointly issued a notice to asking a villager named Zeng to cremate the dead body of his 103-yearold grandmother. The notice said Zeng had violated the county’s funeral regulations by burying his grandmother, who died of ill-ness several days earlier. Zeng refused to comply and carried his 70-year-old ailing father to the village committee to protest. Zeng has many family members in the village and his protest attracted more than 100 onlookers, who later besieged and attacked law enforcement officers and overturned and damaged police cars. In addition to police officers sent to restore order, top Party and government officials of Haifeng county went to the scene to help resolve the unrest. The onlookers were finally persuaded by the police officers and other county and township officials to disperse at 11:50 pm.Zeng’s father was also taken to a hospital in the county for treatment. Xie said Haifeng is a county that still promotes cremation. But the practice is not accepted by some residents, particularly in the rural areas where many farmers prefer burials, he said. Wang Fuquan, a white-collar worker in Guangzhou, said that the clash indicated a communication gap between the local township government and villagers. “Local government departments have to give more attention to promoting cremation, especially in remote areas, to avoid repeats of the event in the coming months,” he said.Nanjing Agricultural University Faculty Recruitment NoticeNanjing Agricultural University welcomes top talent in research and academics for full-time positions. Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) is a national key university under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. While agriculture and life sciences have historically been the university’s core strengths, NAU’s educational mission today encompasses a broad range of academic disciplines including science, economics, management, engineering, law and the arts. NAU is a Project 211 institution and one of the Innovation Platforms for Outstanding Disciplines under the 985 Excellence Initiative Project launched by China’s Ministry of Education. With a 110-year history, Nanjing Agricultural University is committed to a blueprint for developing into one of world leaders among agricultural universities, cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial talents, and emerging as a regional hub for international academic exchange and cooperation. New development strategies have been implemented to ful?ll NAU’s mission of ensuring education quality, enhancing research strength and extending technology transfer and business outreach. Centered on two major goals of recruiting and retaining high-caliber faculty and building world-class campus facilities, NAU is committed to a leading institute of agricultural education. Development, reform, originality, harmony and pioneering spirit are the keywords of NAU’s strategic plans. The Zhongshan Scholar Program is a new NAU initiative to support career development and innovation for leading scientists of today and tomorrow. Recruitment is divided into four categories: Zhongshan Distinguished Professor, Zhongshan Leading Professor, Zhongshan Leading Researcher, and Zhongshan Young Researcher. ? Eligible applicants: 3. NAU also provides housing and a relocation allowance. 4. Special support will be provided to each leading researchers, including a full-time administrative secretary, assistance in assembling a research team, and priority in recommendations for research funding and government talent schemes. 5. Opportunities for career development and advancement including deanships of College of Agriculture and College of Life Sciences. 6. Job placement assistance and assistance with school placement will be provided to the spouses and children of successful candidates. ? Application materials: 1. Curriculum vitae 2. PhD degree and current employment certi?cate 3. Copies of 5 selected articles published over the last ?ve years 4. 1,000-word executive summary of academic achievements and proposed research or work plan 5. Three letters of recommendation from professors or associate professors (optional). ? Application deadline: Application deadline: December 31, 2012 Applicants for the position of Dean of the College of Agriculture and Dean of the College of Life Sciences, please provide application materials before June 30, 2012. Mailing Address: Talent Recruitment & Service Office Nanjing Agricultural University No 1, Weigang, Nanjing, China Post Code: 210095 Tel: (86) 25- Mr. GUO Zhongxing (86) 25- Mr. LI Yousheng (86) 25- Mr. ZHANG Zhengguo Fax: (86) 25- E-mail: rcb@; talent@; gzx@ Website: www.The People’s Republic of ChinaInvitation for Prequali?cationLiaoning Third Medium Cities Infrastructure Project (LOAN NO.: 75240-CN)Kangping County Central Heating Supply Network Engineering Project ICB NO.: 4J005 This invitation for prequali?cation follows the general procurement notice for this project that appeared in dgmarket of January 14, 2008 online. The People’s Republic of China has received a loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) toward the cost of the Liaoning Third Medium Cities Infrastructure Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to payments under the contract for Kangping County Central Heating Supply Network Engineering Project. The Kangping County Zhongwang Heat Power Co,. Ltd. intends to prequalify contractors and/or ?rms for Kangping County Central Heating Supply Network Engineering Project (4J005). It is expected that invitations for bid will be made in June, 2012. The Applicant shall be an independent legal entity. Minimum average annual construction turnover of the Applicant shall amount to US$42 million, within the last 5 years. Cash ?ow of the Applicant shall reach US$7 million for the subject contract(s) net of the Applicants other commitments. The Applicant should have a minimum construction experience in the following key activities successfully completed: at least the production rate of the construction of pipelines is 18.6 km per month, and the rate for construction of substation is 3 substations per month, and have completed 2 similar contracts, minimum value of each contract being US$10 million between January 1, 2007 and application submission deadline. Construction Period is temporarily ascertained as 15 months, July 31, 2012 to October 31, 2013. Prequali?cation will be conducted through prequali?cation procedures speci?ed in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits, January 2011, and is open to all bidders from eligible source countries, as de?ned in the guidelines. Interested eligible Applicants may obtain further information from and inspect the prequali?cation document at the Procurement Agent (address below) between 9:00 and 11:00/14:00 and 16:00 (Beijing time) ever Monday to Friday from May 8, 2012. A complete set of the prequali?cation document in English may be purchased by interested Applicants (a) on the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of RMB1,500.00 or US$200.00. The method of payment will be in cash or by T/T. We can accept the request from the applicant for dispatch by registered mail, the cost of delivery by registered mail in the fee. Applications for prequali?cation should be submitted in sealed envelopes, delivered to the address below by June 19, 2012, and be clearly marked “Application to Prequalify for Kangping County Central Heating Supply Network Engineering Project (KPEHC-1).” The Procurement Agent: China National Technical Import and Export Corporation Address: Room 1707, No. 90 Genertec Plaza, Xisanhuan Zhonglu, Fengtai District, Beijing 100055, China Contact person: Mr. Chen Z Tel: +86-10-; Fax: +86-10- E-Mail: chenzhenchao@.cnGroup 1: Members of Chinese Academy of Sciences, members of Chinese Academy of Engineering, experts listed in the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, distinguished professors and lecture professors in the Changjiang Scholars Program, recipients of China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists. Group 2: Tenured professors at overseas universities or young scholars with PhDs from overseas universities. Candidates should be involved in one or more of the following research areas: crop science, agriculture resource utilization and environment sciences, plant protection, veterinary medicine, horticulture, agricultural and applied economics, land resource management, food science, history of science and civilization, ecology, animal husbandry, agrostology, public administration, industrial economics, business administration, ?nance, agricultural and bioinformatics, marine biology, agricultural and mechanical engineering. ? Employee bene?ts: 1. Successful applicants under the Zhongshan Scholar Program will be provided with a salary commensurate with title. 2. Initial research funding ranging from RMB500,000 to 10,000,000 will be provided, depending on discipline and applicants’ status. Laboratory and office will be arranged.NAU Faculty Recruitment Fairs in the USATime 3:00pm C 5:30 pm, May 17, pm C 5:30 pm, May 21, am C 10:30am, May 24, pm C 5:30 pm, May 25, 2012 Location Meeting Room 102, Albert Mann Library Cornell University Tower Road, Ithaca, NY College of Agriculture, Pur