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Xi calls for exchanges among civilizations CHINA DAILY 11 July

President Xi Jinping called for exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations, underlining the need to replace estrangement with exchanges, clashes with mutual learning and superiority with coexistence, and to build a community with a shared future for mankind.

Xi made the remarks on Sunday in a congratulatory letter sent to the opening ceremony of an exhibition on the origin of Italy in Beijing.

The exhibition, which features the ancient Roman civilization, is one

of the important events for the China-Italy Year of Culture and Tourism.

Noting China and Italy are outstanding representatives of Eastern and Western civilizations, Xi said that the exhibition will show the rich Italian culture with a variety of

precious antiques and relics.

the CPC Central Committee, said

Saying mutual respect, solidarity,

that in recent years, the China-

and harmonious coexistence are the Italy cultural relationship has right path for the development of

been developing at a high level

human civilizations, Xi expressed

thanks to the strong support from

the nation's commitment to working leaders of both countries. with the international community to The two countries have become promote equality, mutual learning,

an example of mutual learning

dialogue, and inclusiveness among

between China and European

civilizations.

civilizations and even between

Italian President Sergio Mattarella

Eastern and Western civiliza-

also sent a congratulatory letter to

tions, Huang said. He called on

the event. He said that cultural coop- both countries to uphold mutual eration is an important part of the

respect and mutual learning, con-

Italy-China friendship.Given the

stantly deepening their under-

various challenges the world is fac-

standing of each other's culture.

ing, Mattarella said that the interna- Zhang Zhizhou, a professor of tional community needs solidarity

international relations at the Bei-

and cooperation to seek fair and last- jing Foreign Studies University, ing solutions. He is confident that

said that exchanges and mutual

Italy and China will continue to

learning among civilizations are

deepen bilateral relations and jointly the right way to promote peace safeguard world peace and stability, and progress. the Italian president said.

President Xi's vision about build-

Addressing the opening ceremony of ing a community with a shared the exhibition, Huang Kunming, a

future for mankind guides the

member of the Political Bureau of

various civilizations in the world

the CPC Central Committee and

in promoting exchanges and mu-

head of the Publicity Department of tual learning, Zhang said.

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Chinese premier stresses stabilizing market entities, employment, advancing opening-up Xinhua 10 July Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged efforts to well implement policies to stabilize the development of market entities and employment, and advance openingup.

Li, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during an inspection tour in east China's Fujian Province from Thursday to Friday.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visits Jinjiang international land port in southeast China's Fujian Province, July 8, 2022. Li made an inspection tour in Fujian Province from Thursday to Friday. (Xinhua/Li Tao)

encouraged the company to gain larger market share through innovations and quality management.

There are dozens of Taiwan-funded firms at the industrial park where Lioho Machinery was based. Li talked with some of the entrepreneurs, welcoming them to invest in He heard a report on stabilizing the Chinese mainland, stressing to employment by the provincial gov- protect their lawful rights and interernment and visited an innovation ests, and hoping they would cooperpark named Bosssoft. Praising the ate with companies on the mainland parks' achievements in incubating for win-win results. high-tech enterprises and creating many job opportunities, Li urged Li heard a report on foreign trade the local government to provide and investment in Fujian Province funds to help incubators reduce and inspected Jinjiang international costs, such as rent. land port. Noting that ports are a key window for opening up and Talking with entrepreneurs and provide important support for imfresh college graduates working at ports and exports, he urged advancthe park, he said the country ing reforms in delegating power, should encourage mass entrepreimproving regulations, and optimizneurship and innovation by inspir- ing the business environment at ing more people, especially the ports. youth, to start businesses and make innovations.

He also stressed strictly implementing policies on smoothening logisWhile inspecting Lioho Machintics, continuing to facilitate customs ery, a Taiwan-funded enterprise, he clearance, and enlarging the capaci-

ty of ports in collection and distribution to lower costs for firms, stabilize market expectations, and improve international competitiveness.

During his visit to ANTA Sports, a large-scale private sportswear company, Li encouraged the firm to compete in the high-end market while focusing on expanding the mass market with massive consumption potential.

Hearing the company has created over 300,000 jobs nationwide, Li said the Chinese economy has been more resilient and active as many private companies have grown into large ones and worked closely with a large number of smaller firms and selfemployed businesses.

Stressing the role of market entities in promoting economic growth, he urged efforts to provide equal support regarding relief and development to stateowned, private, and foreigninvested companies.

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Mission Must Be Achieved, a musical by Guangdong Song and Dance Ensemble, is a person's self contemplation after gaining some life experience. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Southern culture

highlighting traditional elements and the zeitgeist of today.

The ensemble's first musical Goodbye 1990-that tells the stories of young people who went to Guangdong province's capital Guangzhou hoping to make it Guangdong Song and Dance Ensemble big in the 1990s-was performed in 2019, with vintage stage design and set for national tour this year, with Cantonese songs reenacting the social one musical and three dance dramas, environment and urban culture.

Cheng Yuezhu reports.

For Guangdong Song and Dance EnsemThe ensemble is now taking it even ble, the local culture is a source of creafurther by incorporating Guangdong tivity, with many of its performances

Artist tackles weighty issue

Rhythm, a sculpture by Xu Hongfei, is on display at his solo exhibition at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. [PHOTO BY LIN QI/ CHINA DAILY] Exhibition highlights large women enjoying a sense of liberation, Lin Qi reports.

At a time when people often have anxieties over their body shape and social image, Xu Hongfei, an eminent sculptor from Guangzhou, Guangdong province, tries

cultural elements, such as nanquan (a martial art style that originated in the southern banks of the Yangtze River) and the lion dance, into their second original musical Mission Must Be Achieved, which started touring Guangdong on June 25.

The musical tells the story of Zou Li, a courier who is searching for his long-lost sister. When delivering a package to a boxing club, he finds a clue that could lead him to his sister, but little does he know that the mission also leads him to a boxing championship.

to soothe this collective distress by revisiting the distinctive image of large women in his work.

Xu's depiction of these chubby, yet flexible and joyful women bears testimony to embracing an easygoing, humorous attitude toward life and living with a free spirit, disregarding what others might say about them or their way of life.

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Dr. GEORGE H. FERNANDES has left for his heavenly journey on 6th July 2022.

Dr. Fernandes dedicated entire life to promote India-China people to people friendship.

He was the principal and medical director of NETAJI SUBHASH INSTITUTE. He did a remarkable service to strengthen India –China friendly relations as the National President of India- China Friendship Association (ICFA) and President of ICFA (Maharashtra) As the Vice President of Organization for South Asia Regional Friendship and Cooperation with China (OSARFCC) he extended tremendous support to promote friendship between South Asia and China.

He was a very close friend of the Association for Sri Lanka-China Social and Cultural Cooperation (ASLCSCC).

In the condolence letter of ASLCSCC issued by its president Indrananda Abeysekera says “He was always so thoughtful, kind and a phenomenal person. A true friend who was always there during the ups and downs, a pioneer of the OSARFCC.

His extraordinary qualities, untiring efforts and friendly farsighted guidelines has brought the OSARFCC countries much closer.”

Anoop Ranjan Bhattarai the President of OSARFCC said “His lifelong dedication and contribution to the development of South Asia China people to people friendship will always be remembered. He made invaluable contribution towards the establishment of OSARFCC. He was supportive and motivating and would always keep OSARFCC before himself and that is such a rare quality to find. It was truly an honour to work with him.”

“There are no goodbyes for us.

Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” Gandhi

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Australia urged to view China as partner, not rival

Beijing is willing to recalibrate bilateral ties based on mutual respect, FM says Beijing has urged Canberra to seize the current opportunity and reshape its understanding of China as the two countries agreed to stabilize relations and put the ties back on the right track.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with AusThe pledge was made by State tralian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Bali, Indonesia, July 8, 2022.

Councilor and Foreign Minister [Photo/Xinhua] Wang Yi and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Friday durests of both peoples and helps proing a meeting on the sidelines of the Canberra's court to improve its tect peace and stability in the AsiaG20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in ties with Beijing, observers Pacific region, he added.

Indonesia. said.

Wong said that her country hopes It was the first meeting of the two Chen Hong, director of East to make Australia-China ties more countries' foreign ministers since China Normal University's Ausstable and mutually beneficial, and 2019 and also the first between the tralian Studies Center, wrote in she pledged Canberra's continuous two officials since the new Australian article that the former Auscommitment to the one-China prinan prime minister took office in May. tralian government tied Canberciple.

Wang said the root of the difficulties Australia has no intention of magni- ra to Washington's anti-China in China-Australia relations over the chariot and hyped China as a fying its differences with China, past years was the former Australian strategic opponent, which was nor of joining in the containment of government's insistence on regarding not in Australia's interests.

China, she said.

China as a rival, or even a threat, and The new Australian government Australia would like to maintain allowing irresponsible words and constructive contact and exchanges, should not allow its relations actions against China. with China to continue to deteAs this year marks the 50th anniver- increase mutual trust, expand equal riorate, he said. cooperation and remove existing sary of diplomatic relations between China remained Australia's barriers in bilateral ties, she added. the two countries, Wang said China largest trade partner in 2021, In response to Australia's repeated is willing to recalibrate bilateral ties with bilateral trade volume concerns over China's cooperation based on mutual respect. reaching $231.2 billion. with Pacific Island nations, Wang He suggested that Australia stay "Canberra needs to show stressed that China's cooperation committed to viewing China as a enough sincerity to avoid seeing with the countries is based on partner rather than a rival and to its ties with Beijing through the equality. seeking common ground while lens of geopolitical competiHe added that China is willing to shelving differences. tion," said Lin Duo, research Wang said Australia should stop tar- conduct tripartite cooperation in the fellow of the Department for geting any third party and being ma- South Pacific region with countries Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chiincluding Australia and New Zeanipulated by any third party, and na Institute of International land to achieve win-win and multibuild public support featuring posiStudies. ple-win results. tiveness and pragmatism.

Australia should focus on mutuThe meeting was a crucial and subA healthy development of bilateral ally beneficial cooperation, do stantial step in efforts to repair bities conforms to the common intermore to enhance mutual trust lateral relations, and the ball is in and meet China halfway, he added.

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2500 food packs donated by Red Cross Society of China have been distributed to underprivileged families in Nuwara Eliya on 9th July via Sri Lanka Red Cross. Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong attended the distribution ceremony. Another 2500 and 2060 packs will be distributed in Kandy and Matale soon.

1,000 Metric

Tones Rice Donated by China Another 1,000 metric tonnes rice donated by China to Sri Lankan students have arrived in Colombo Port and been handed over to Sri Lanka today.

More rice will arrive in the coming-

weeks together.

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samples, but all of the to the scientific report.

Experts lunar previous methods required a comparatively large amount of One of the world's most notable find way to samples and would use a con- space activities in 2020, the proportion of them. Chang'e 5 robotic mission was make better use siderable Meanwhile, those approaches launched on Nov 24 that year at cannot allow for the simulta- the Wenchang Space Launch of lunar samples neous analysis of particle size Center in Hainan province and Though China now has more than 1.7 kilograms of lunar soil gathered from its historic Chang'e 5 mission, the government practices a prudent policy when it comes to distributing these valuable samples to researchers.

and mineral modes because they are usually independently obtained with different instruments, and are difficult to correlate, said Wang.

Now, a group of researchers at China University of Geosciences headed by the professor has figured out a solution, which they call a novel method for the simultaneous analysis of particle size and mineralogy for lunar soil with minimum sample consumption.

They have published their method in the latest edition of the scientific journal Science China－Earth Sciences.

Professor Wang Zaicong, a senior researcher at the School of Earth Sciences of the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, Hubei province, said his team received 200 milligrams of Chang'e 5 lunar soil in July 2021, becoming one of the first recipients of the freshest materials that mankind has brought back from the moon in more than four decades.

With a Raman spectroscopybased particle analysis system, "The samples are very precious the researchers managed to and limited. We can only afford simultaneously determine the at most 50 milligrams that can particle size properties and be used during experiments and mineral constituents of the soil analyses. We must spare no ef- samples retrieved by the fort to keep sample consumption Chang'e 5 probe. The method as low as possible if we want to uses only 30 micrograms, acmake good use of our samples," cording to their paper. he said.

"In addition to minimum samWang explained that during an ple consumption, this method experiment or analysis, a certain requires very little sample amount of samples will be used, preparation, and can rapidly which means that their inner build a large database with structure will be irreparably each particle precisely traceadamaged. ble. Therefore, this novel technique is particularly suitable Since the 1970s, scientists for the analysis of future soil around the world have devised samples returned from extramultiple techniques to analyze terrestrial bodies," according

successfully landed on the moon on Dec 1. It was the world's third spacecraft to touch down on the lunar surface in the 21st century after its two Chinese predecessors－Chang'e 3 and 4.

The landmark mission returned 1,731 grams of lunar rock and soil back to Earth on Dec 17, 2020, achieving a historic accomplishment about 44 years after the last lunar substances were brought back from our nearest celestial neighbor.

The 23-day mission was one of China's most sophisticated and challenging space endeavors, and made the nation the third to retrieve materials from the moon, after the United States and the former Soviet Union.

The China National Space Administration distributed the first batch of Chang'e 5 lunar samples in July 2021.

The samples, weighing about 17.5 grams, were divided into 21 lots and handed over to scientists from 13 domestic research organizations working on 31 scientific projects.

Chang'e 5's orbiter is now flying around Lagrange Point 1, which is located between the Earth and the sun and is an ideal position for monitoring solar activities, for extended scientific operations.

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The South China National Botanical Garden in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. [Photo/CCTV News]

Second national botanical garden opens in Guangzhou China Daily 7 July

Guangzhou, Guangdong province, after the country's first was unveiled in Beijing in April.

Built on the current South China Botanical Garden in the eastern part of the city, its establishment was approved by the State Council in June.

With a total area of 333 hectares of exhibition and scientific research, it is the world's largest south subtropical botanical garden, as well as one of China's oldest institutions for botanical research and conservation.

China's second national botanical garden opened on Monday in

It is home to about 17,000 taxa of

conservation plants away from their natural habitats, including 643 rare and endangered plants, and 337 wild plant species on national key protection lists.

So far, 36 species of rare and endangered plants, including Camellia azalea, Michelia guangdongensis and Dunnia sinensis, have returned to the wild thanks to the garden.

In the next three to five years, a national plant ex situ conservation center will be established there, to effectively protect 95 percent of rare and endangered plants in South China.

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Better Development for all with the Focus on Global Development InitiativeWebinar

A webinar co-hosted by SIRONET and ASLCSCC was held on 5th July 2022 with the theme “Better Development for all with the Focus on Global Development Initiative” Indrananda Abeysekera, President, Association for Sr i Lanka-China Social and Cultural Cooperation, Upendra Gautam, Gener al Secretar y, China study Centre, Nepal, Muhammad Zamir Assadi, J our nalist and Sinologist, Independent News Pakistan, Tesfaye Melaku, Executive Director, Light Ethiopia and Zhu Jingfang, Researcher, China NGO Networ k for Inter national Exchanges delivered speeches at the webinar.

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Aerial photo taken on June 28, 2022 shows the cultural relics unearthed in a tomb complex in the city of Leiyang in central China's Hunan Province. Archaeologists have found 14 tombs dating back to between the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) and the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in central China's Hunan Province. (Hunan provincial institute of archaeology and cultural relics/ Handout via Xinhua)

14 ancient tombs unearthed in central China's Hunan Xinhua 9 July

Archaeologists have found 14 tombs dating back to between the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) and the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in central China's Hunan Province.

They have excavated 8 tombs and unearthed more than 130 relics items, including pottery, porcelain and bronzeware, in a tomb complex in the city of Leiyang, according to the provincial institute of archaeology and cultural relics.

Six Eastern Han Dynasty tombs are brick tombs, three of which might have had owners from the same family, said Chen Bin, head of the archaeological team of the tomb complex under the institute.

Archaeologists have also discovered a trench 4.5 meters west of the back chamber of the largest tomb, measuring about 0.9 meters in width, nearly 15 meters in length and about 0.1

meters in depth. "The trench would have been the boundary line of the family cemetery, which shows that the cemetery had a strong territorial nature at the time," Chen said.

"This excavation is of great significance to further understanding the funeral customs of people in southern Hunan, as well as the levels of economic development and cultural exchanges during the period," Chen said.

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Tourists walk on a glass-bottomed bridge at Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, central China's Hunan Province, July 8, 2022. As the summer vacation approaches, Zhangjiajie, a popular tourist destination in Hunan Province, has taken a series of measures to boost the recovery of tourism. (Xinhua/Zhao Zhongzhi)

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