Daily Times Nigeria Monday, October 2, 2017
The China Times
China ready to help S/Sudan achieve peace, development - Diplomat ÏÏÏ China is ready to assist South
Pic story: “Monkey mother” Pan Huifen
Hip-hop lures Chinese to dance floor CONTINUED FROM 1
Producer of The Rap of China. The company has created its own brand “R!CH” (Rising! Chinese Hip-Hop), with clothes, accessories, digital products, food and alcohol. Hip-hop is a culture and art movement developed in New York City during the late 1970s. In the United States, rap is mainstream, while in the Republic of Korea (ROK), rapping has merged with local styles to create a unique style. Hip-hop first appeared in China in the early 1990s, but as a foreign culture completely different from anything Chinese, the acceptance process was long. Social media gives rappers more exposure and for young people searching for individuality and independence, hip-hop has an obvious appeal. “Chinese millennials care more about self-expression and independence. Rapping can give them that,” said Che Che, Chief
Director of The Rap of China. Chen Wei attributed the rise of rapping in China to the close relationship between hip-hop with fashion and the influence of foreign rap. Chinese rapping, perhaps unsurprisingly, has Chinese characteristics. For example, rap often features traditional musical instruments such as pipa and flute, or is delivered in regional dialects. While critics argue that Chinese rapping is not real hip-hop, contestant and rapper, Huang Xu, disagreed. “I wrote songs to present my life and my own feelings, not to imitate others. Rapping can transmit positive energy too,” Huang said. Another contestant, PG ONE, said: “Hip-hop is like an infant who did not get much attention in China. This summer, it finally learned to walk and will grow up.”
Sudan in its quest to achieve longlasting peace, prosperity and sustainable development, the Chinese Ambassador to South Sudan H Excellency, Xiangdong, said on last Thursday evening. Speaking during an event to celebrate the 68th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, He described relations between the two countries as cordial and beneficial to both governments and people. The envoy said it is China’s hope that the attempts led by the East African regional bloc, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), to revive the stalled 2015 peace and the national dialogue initiated by President Salva Kiir will yield substantial results and bring peace back to South Sudan. He added that achieving peace in the war-torn country requires all parties to engage in peaceful dia-
logue in the spirit of understanding and compromise. “China will always be a sincere and reliable partner of South Sudan in its peace and development process,” he said. The Chinese envoy revealed that Beijing has provided a large quantity of humanitarian materials to South Sudan including 8,800 tonnes of rice, 2,400 tonnes of sorghum and 380,000 doses of anti-malaria drugs. He noted that about 1,500 officials, scholars, technicians and young South Sudanese students attended training and scholarship programs in China in the past year. The envoy said the two countries are implementing a number of development projects, including a 33-million-U.S.-dollar grant from the Chinese government that would enable South Sudan to expand and modernize its health infrastructure in Juba Teaching Hospital and Rum-
bek Hospital. On his part, Stephen Dhieu Dau, South Sudan’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, said South Sudan is grateful for the role China is playing in peacekeeping operations, infrastructure development, humanitarian assistance and provision of medical services for the people of South Sudan. He said the government of South Sudan, recognizing the importance of viable relations with Beijing, seeks to strengthen ties with China. “We particularly value our economic cooperation characterized by substantial investment by many Chinese companies in the oil sector which to date remains the live line for the government and the people of South Sudan. China remains the only country that sends medical supplies and officers to our needy people,” Dhieu said
China bans overseas investment in gambling, limits real estate, sports clubs domestic firms, including poor decision-making procedures and failure to abide by local environmental and safety standards, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a separate statement. “Some companies have put their investment focus on fields that are not necessarily the ‘real economy’, such as the property sector. While these investments failed to drive economic growth, they led to increased capital outflows, which could negatively impact China’s financial stability,” said the country’s top economic planner. Chinese authorities have been stepping up efforts to curb aggressive overseas acquisitions by the country’s ambitious dealmakers, including Dalian Wan-
da, HNA Group Co. and Anbang Insurance Group. Dalian Wanda, a property conglomerate, for example, has been flamboyant in purchasing foreign assets in recent years, after its renowned overseas acquisition of cinema chain AMC for 2.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2012. Since late 2016, government agencies have been reinforcing inspections of authenticity and regulation compliance of outbound investments in a bid to improve returns and control risks. In the first seven months of 2017, China’s non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) dropped 44.3 percent year on year to 57.2 billion U.S. dollars, official data showed.
Lanzhou-Chongqing railway to opened traffic on Sept. 29
China overrunning Nigeria with Howo, Sinotruck ÏÏÏ If you describe them as trucks made by the Chinese for African roads, especially that of Nigeria, you are not wrong. But beyond the rough and rugged terrain of roads in parts of Africa and Nigeria, which the trucks are situated for, their prices are also said to be friendly to the pockets of transporters and construction firms in the African continent. Little wonder one of the two, Sinotruck, has worm its way into the hart of Dangote Group, the conglomerate owned by Nigeria’s Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote. The group is so in love with Sinotruck that it has set up
an assembly plant for the truck somewhere in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country. However, that notwithstanding, Howo on its part, has penetrated the heart of heavy haulage transporters especially with its dump truck, for those offering service to construction firms; Howo with its heavy duty (tippers) trucks are now ubiquitous on Nigerian roads. History The headquarters of China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd. (CNHTC) is located in Jinan city, Shandong Province, P. R. China. It is the cradle and leading production base of the
heavy-duty truck industry in China. It is famous for developing and manufacturing the first heavy duty truck -- “HUANGHE” brand vehicle model JN150 in China, for successfully introducing the “STEYR” heavy duty truck production project, and for setting up a joint venture with VOLVO to manufacture the heavy duty trucks with up-to-date international standard. CNHTC was founded on the basis of Jinan Automobile Works (JAW). JAW was founded in 1935, and mainly manufactured spare parts of trucks. It started developping and manufacturing heavy duty truck in 1956.