蒙古族歌唱家布仁巴雅尔在斯德哥尔摩慰侨演出

北欧绿色邮报报道(记者陈雪霏)2014年8月17日国务院侨办组织慰侨演出,前中国国际广播电台主持人,蒙古族著名歌唱家布仁巴雅尔压轴演唱了主打歌曲《天边》,《阿尔斯楞》和《呼伦贝尔大草原》,给观众留下了难以忘怀的优美歌声。

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瑞典留守儿童怎么办?

北欧绿色邮报报道(记者陈雪霏)--瑞典社会服务值得借鉴,这是记者日前在瑞典南方城市马尔默了解到的实践和体会。

记者访问了一个亲戚家庭发现了这一秘密。以前听说表弟妹在照顾儿童,笔者以为就是给别人家带孩子,象日托之类的。但事实大相径庭。

“我生最后一个孩子的时候,社会服务部就给我打电话联系看我能否照顾一个孩子。”皮雅介绍说。

皮雅和比约恩一起有六个孩子,三男三女,如今大女儿也和男朋友同居,并生了一个小女孩儿。

皮雅喜欢家庭生活,也尽最大努力营造了一个非常和谐的家庭。

原来,皮雅从2006年就开始收养孩子,老大叫索菲,现在已经17岁了,老二叫菲利普,13岁,老三叫埃利亚斯5岁了。索菲和菲利普都是白人,长得非常好看。埃利亚斯也很好看,是个越南后裔,黑头发,黄皮肤。别人说话他都能听懂,但是还不会说话。皮雅是个善良勤快的家庭主妇,但抚养孩子也是一份工作,也可以有一定收入。

“我喜欢在家里工作,也喜欢帮助人,我不是那种只想挣大钱的人。”皮雅说这个过程也很复杂。瑞典社会服务部首先把困难儿童或留守儿童找到,然后,找他们的亲戚朋友,如果亲戚有愿意抚养的,先找亲戚,如果没有亲戚抚养,再找其他人。当然,也不是所有家庭都愿意,但是,首先是家庭有兴趣,然后,向社会部门表示兴趣。社会部门对你的家庭进行评估,觉得你比较合适,就给你登记上。等社会部门发现合适的孩子,再和你联系。所以,皮雅就有第一个,第二个,和第三个。这样加起来,全家就有9个孩子了。

对于留守儿童,社会服务部要给妈妈两三千克朗的食品补助,然后给妈妈3000克朗的工钱。等到上幼儿园的年龄,他也去上幼儿园,到上学年龄也去上学。

菲利普的父亲吸毒不能自理。母亲带着最小的孩子。他还有个哥哥已经长大,自己独立了。索菲和埃利亚斯也都是父母不能对孩子进行很好的照顾,于是社会服务部插手为孩子们找到合适的家庭,直到他们长大成人。

现在皮雅的大女儿,大儿子也都外面自己生活了。只有最小的约翰在家,经常可以和菲利普一起玩儿。

说起来,这一大家子都是造福社会的人。老约翰松二战结束后,在当地一所中学当校长,一直到退休。他的妻子当老师一直当到退休。我以前访问他的时候,他说,人这一辈子,应该为社会做贡献。他们的女儿玛丽也致力于残疾儿童的教育工作。

 

参加瑞典圣经夏令营

陈雪霏

2015年7月20-25日,我们一家三口参加了在瑞典南方布雷奈斯举行的圣经夏令营活动。这是我们第二次参加这个活动。我们是乘公共交通去的。身背旅行包,乘火车,倒两趟汽车,然后需要走步10分钟。但我们遇上好心人,让我们搭车,所以五分钟就到了。

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这里有很多房车,人们准备好了,要在这里野营,很多帐篷也搭好了。右边不远处就是湖,人们可以游泳。但天气实在是很冷。只有特别勇敢的人才能下水游泳。

一到车房附近,一个年轻男子走过来,接待我们,因为我们是住旅馆,所以,我们必须继续走。他说了一些有关的情况,把我们登记了。我们到旅馆发现住的和三年前是同样的房间。上下床,可以住六个人,但我们只有三个人。

17点,人们可以吃香肠。但我和安妮很累,就睡了一觉。

IMG_9768第二天,8点-8点半吃早餐,9点有人吹号集合,然后,看升国旗,仿佛回到了校园。一天的活动开始,首先是组织者讲话,然后,负责学生活动的玛利亚讲话,介绍谁负责0-3岁孩子,3-6岁孩子,7岁,8岁,9岁,10-11岁,12-13岁根据人数多少分组,分别由有经验的幼儿园老师或主日学校老师加中学生大哥大姐们一起负责儿童组活动。安妮加入8岁组行列。

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本次活动有200个家长,有250个儿童。真是亲眼目睹上帝的子民,很多家庭有5,6个孩子。我们住的邻居,男的只有42岁,但已经是6个孩子的父亲,他妻子肚子里正怀着一个,估计很快要生了。她看着非常健康。

和我第一个说话的老人叫福科,瑞典语是人民的意思。他有五个孩子。其中一个叫弗里德里克,是本次活动的重要组织者之一。他也有五个孩子。福科总共有12个孙子孙女。一个儿媳妇是乐队里的主唱,每次讲座开始,都有乐队唱圣歌,她每次都参加,而且还会弹吉他。

当孩子们一组一组地离开后,大帐篷里立即空了许多。家长们可以都坐在里边了。

瑞典的大帐篷和遮阳伞都非常好。很多人或者在军训的时候,或者在这种夏令营中锻炼自己搭帐篷,拆帐篷,培养集体意识,和助人为乐意识。在这里也是互相帮助,例如,吃饭是大问题,人们要做饭满足450人的需求,那么有几个骨干负责,然后,其他人都是助手,每个人都有服务的机会,例如,每天都有不同人负责洗碗,我是第二天早上负责洗碗。当然,这里有大洗碗机,人们都很自觉,吃完饭把碗送到洗碗处,然后,我把它们送到洗碗机里,盖上盖子,洗碗机自动冲洗。这种大能力的洗碗机,一会儿就洗完了。我再把碗都拿出来,放到该放的地方,如果有水,需要擦干。其实凭热水的温度,凉一会儿,就都干了。

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上午有霍贝牧师主讲。我能记住的就是他反复讲了上帝的文字,上帝说的话。上帝说的话就是真理,就是命令,就是人们需要遵循的。人就是要有敬畏之心。虽然我还不能完全听懂瑞典语讲座,但我想,如果人类能够真正按上帝说的话去做,那我们的世界真的会很美好。而上帝的话实际上对人类就是一种鞭策,不成功,要继续努力,要祈求上帝的帮助,其实祈求上帝的帮助本身就是一种执着,一种坚持,坚持久了,也便称为信仰。凡事都可以祈求上帝的帮助,其实在这个过程中,你也自己帮助了自己,所以,有句话说,上帝只帮助那些自助的人。

11点是瑞典典型的FIKA,也就是茶歇。人们吃一片面包加奶酪,喝一杯咖啡或茶,孩子们可以吃冰激凌和饮料。然后,接着活动到12点半。13点午餐。住旅馆的人,付了饭钱的在旅馆吃饭。在车房野营的人们,自己准备饭。下午自由活动。

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其实最有意思的是自由活动。第一天下午就是排球比赛。我们也试了一把,很快被淘汰下来。最终是一对夫妇获得冠军,我记得三年前他们就参加了排球比赛。

第二天下午是青少年足球比赛。最小7岁,最大15岁都参加比赛,其中还有好几个女孩子,都一起参加。看青少年足球赛让我想到自己的童年,初一的时候好像也踢过足球,大脚趾的指甲盖都淤血了,也不知道,后来居然掉了。再后来又长出了新的。 青春竟然是那么美丽。

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因此,我觉得又焕发了青春,感觉坐在露天的草地上看一场儿童足球比赛比在电视上看世界杯还要舒服,还要享受,那种紧张,快乐,欢呼,毫不逊色。

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第三天下午是成年男子足球赛,更有水平,也很有意思。但忙里偷闲,我也趁机到大森林里去采摘了蓝莓。至少够我们一家人吃好几顿的。

IMG_9712一个人,在广阔的大森林里,一开始还有点儿害怕,后来,发现很多人都去采摘蓝莓,回来时,手上紫色红色都有。

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第四天下午还是室外活动,排球足球都有但是自由的。比赛过程中当然也训练出不少裁判。

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每天晚上依然有讲座,孩子们依然有活动到20点,再茶歇,再聚会21点孩子们就休息了。大人们再唱唱歌也休息了。第三天,中学生们编了好多节目,最有趣的是一个学生扮演美国牧师讲英语,一个瑞典学生当翻译,他们把英语翻译成瑞典语时故意翻译错误百出,一差千里。 逗得大家哈哈大笑。学生们还编排了其他小品类节目,有类似双黄的。看了以后,感觉瑞典学生很有创意。

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第五天上午就讲座到11点,然后就开始拆帐篷,打扫卫生,大家自愿帮忙。还有一个有趣的事情,也是钱的问题。在中国办事情需要上礼。在这里,每天礼拜都要捐钱。第四天晚上,组委会负责捐款的人语气沉重,说可能是因为用SWISH手机捐款的原因,可能钱还没到,但好像是连续三年捐款下降了。今年明显是参加人数最多的一年,但捐款却从去年的8.5万减少到了5.8万克朗。他祈求人们多捐点儿。到第二天感谢所有组织者和帮助者的时候,他们宣布,捐款达到了9.1万,比去年有所增加。

组委会还很幽默地说,让我们欢迎明年的组委会。大家站起来鼓掌欢迎,等了一会儿也没人来,然后主持人拿出手机说,最新消息,还没有新的组委会,等组委会成立了,他们会给你们发通知的。

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最后,组织者还要求每个人写反馈,哪些非常好,哪些不好,有哪些建议。我们都感觉这次安妮感觉很高兴,参加活动,画画,做手工,还能和几个朋友玩得很好。这是我们最大的欣慰。因为此前本来打算去哥德堡,她居然一票否决。是否我们太不会管孩子呢?我们希望能讨论这个问题。

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我们不想让孩子做她非常不愿意做的事情,因为可能是她太累了,我们必须理解。这是我们的观点。这种互相帮助的氛围也非常好。家庭孩子能有这么5天时间在统一安排下进行活动,感觉非常好。

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最后,老天下了滂沱大雨,祝福我们。感觉瑞典圣经夏令营让我们很好地放松了身心。

China Focus: Consumer inflation picks up, producer deflation stays stubborn

BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) — China’s consumer inflation ticked slightly higher in June while at wholesale level, deflation remained a problem for a 40th month in a row, official data showed on Thursday.
China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged up 1.4 percent in June, slightly above market forecasts of 1.3 percent and a 1.2-percent rise in May, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
On a monthly basis, consumer prices in June remained unchanged, compared with a dip of 0.2 percent posted in May.
NBS statistician Yu Qiumei attributed the pick-up to a lower comparative base from June last year and higher prices of food, including vegetables and pork.
For the first half of the year, CPI edged up 1.3 percent year on year.
Minsheng Securities forecast that China’s CPI growth will continue accelerate in the second half, to around 2 percent in the last quarter, but remain under the government’s annual target of 3 percent set for the year.
The producer price index (PPI), a measure of costs for goods at the factory gate, fell 4.8 percent year on year in June, widening from the 4.6-percent drop seen a month earlier.
The reading also marked the 40th straight month of decline.
“This showed industrial demand is worsening, and China continues to face prominent deflationary risks,” noted Qu Hongbin, chief China economist at HSBC.
Wen Bin, chief researcher with China Minsheng Bank, said the data pointed to continuously weak domestic demand in the economy, adding there is still room for the central bank to ease its monetary policy.
China’s economy grew at its lowest rate in six years in the first quarter, expanding 7 percent, weighed down by a housing market downturn, weak domestic and external demand and overcapacity.
To bolster growth, the Chinese government has unveiled measures including four interest rate cuts since November, accelerated fiscal spending and industrial reforms.
However, analysts predict growth will slip further in the second quarter to below 7 percent as the impact of these pro-growth measures has yet to spread. Second-quarter GDP data is due on July 15.
Given the weak growth, Qu predicted an interest rate cut by 25 basis points and 100-basis-point reductions in banks’ reserve requirement ratio in the third quarter.
Recent stock market volatility has cast a further shadow on the world’s second-largest economy, with its key Shanghai index shedding nearly one third since a June peak.
A batch of supportive policies has been rolled out in the past week to revive investor confidence, including asking 21 major securities brokers to spend 128 billion yuan (about 21 billion U.S. dollars) on exchange traded funds that track the performance of blue chip stocks.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index opened 2.13 percent lower on Thursday, but turned positive to close the morning trading session by rising 1.3 percent. The market staged a strong rally minutes after the afternoon trade started.
As of 13:30, the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index surged nearly 5 percent while the Shenzhen Component Index gained 4 percent. Enditem

 

China Focus: E-commerce behind new wave of consumption in China

BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) — When Jia Hailan wants to buy something, she reaches for her phone almost as much as she opens her wallet.
The Beijing twentysomething buys food and clothing for her cat via her mobile phone and orders lunches through apps that track nearby eateries with delivery services. She hails taxis through cab-hailing apps when she goes out, and much of her home possessions were purchased online, including an electronic scale she uses to track her weight every morning.
Young Chinese born in the 1990s are a generation of online consumers, and older generations are catching on as well. By late 2014, the country had 360 million online shoppers, accounting for almost a quarter of the nation’s population.
In the first five months of 2015, online retail sales value in China grew 40 percent year on year, four times the growth for general retail sales value for consumer goods during the same period.
The trend is expected to continue as the number of Chinese Internet users grows. The country’s online population reached 649 million by the end of 2014, with some 557 million accessing the Internet via mobile phones.
“The Internet has brought three irreversible changes to China’s social consumption: online shopping is reaching everyone after becoming popular with young people, desktop shopping is being rapidly overtaken by mobile-based shopping, and buying based on what other people are buying has given way to personalized consumption,” said Shang Yan, online marketing director of womai.com, an online food retailer.
“These changes are certain to deeply transform Chinese people’s consumption style,” Shang said.
The online shopping boom is helping lift consumption’s role in the Chinese economy, which once relied too heavily on exports and investment.
The National Bureau of Statistics said consumption contributed 51.2 percent to China’s economic growth last year, beating contributions by exports and investment, which cooled due to uneven global demand and a downturn in the domestic property market.
A McKinsey report from 2013 said China’s online consumption has not simply replaced consumption that would have taken place offline. For each dollar of online consumption, around 40 cents were from incremental — or new — consumption, it said.
The report predicted that by 2020, China’s “e-tailing” market could generate up to 650 billion U.S. dollars in sales, equal to the 2013 e-commerce sales value of the United States, Japan, the UK, Germany and France combined.
Experts said the Internet is making consumption easier due to free flow of information between sellers and buyers. “It is just open information on the Internet that is making new consumption possible,” said Zhang Jindong, founder of top Chinese retailer Suning, a leader in home appliances.
Brick-and-mortar stores are also feeling pressure to adopt new business models to retain customers.
Shenzhen-headquartered Rainbow, a department store chain with 58 flagship stores across the country, has rolled out its own online sales service and promoted discounts and new product information through instant messaging service WeChat.
“By analyzing customers’ online shopping data, we will be able to refine and deliver our product promotions directly to users’ phones,” said Tan Xiaohua, deputy general manager of Rainbow’s e-commerce department.
In addition to boosting consumption, the government is exploring other ways the Internet can bolster the economy and employment.
It unveiled an “Internet Plus” action plan on July 4 to integrate the Internet with sectors such as modern manufacturing, agriculture, energy, finance, public services, logistics, traffic and e-commerce.  Enditem

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News Analysis: China on track of 7.0 pct GDP growth for 2015

News Analysis: China on track of 7.0 pct GDP growth for 2015LONDON, July 15 (Xinhua) — China’s 7.0 percent gross domestic product (GDP) year-on-year (yoy) growth in the second quarter is better than the going market predictions, suggesting that it is on track for around 7.0 percent GDP growth for all of 2015, economists said here.
China’s economy posted seven percent growth yoy last quarter, unchanged from the pace in the first quarter, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Wednesday.
Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economist at Capital Economics, said in an analysis piece that China’s GDP growth data was better than market expectation consensus, which is 6.8 percent on a yoy basis.
Two reasons contribute to the stronger growth, Pritchard said: “The first, and most widely overlooked, is the impact of surging stock market turnover on brokerage activity, which is counted as part of the service sector. The second reason is the growing evidence of a recovery in the wider economy”.
He added: “With the drag from the structural slowdown in property and heavy industry now easing, we think that growth is on track to slow only gradually over the course of the next few years.”
Both the GDP growth and June economic activity data were largely above consensus, driven by faster growth in the services sector, infrastructure investment, and property sales, said HSBC’s global research team.
Official data showed that China’s industrial output in June expanded at 6.8 percent yoy, up from 6.1 percent in May; fixed asset investment grew by 11.4 percent during the first half of the year; and retail sales growth also strengthened in both real and nominal terms last month.
The largest driver appears to be the services sector. The GDP breakdown suggests that the services sector grew 8.4 percent yoy in the second quarter (Q2), up from 7.9 percent in Q1, said HSBC.
“A full sector breakdown has not yet been released, but finance likely remains the fastest growth sector, followed by some improvement in real estate,” added HSBC.
However, HSBC suggests: “The improvement in both investment and industrial output growth is still tentative and relatively modest. In order to strengthen and sustain the recovery, more policy easing measures are still needed and likely in the second half (2H) of 2015.”
“We forecast another 25 basis points (bps) policy rate cut and 200 bps reserve ratio cut in 2H 2015. We forecast full year GDP growth 7.1 percent for 2015,” added the bank.
Andrew Colquhoun, head of Asia-Pacific Sovereigns at Fitch Ratings, said: “Today’s data were in line with Fitch’s expectation and track the agency’s projection of 6.8 percent growth for the year.
The credit rating agency expects a further sequential pick-up in the second half of the year following recent monetary and credit policy easing.
“The resilience of retail sales in June is a further encouraging sign that downside risk, while not negligible, is receding, despite recent equity market volatility. Nonetheless, the longer-term outlook remains one of structural slowdown as the economy works through a painful process of adjustment and deleveraging,” said Colquhoun.  Enditem

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PBOC allows qualified foreign institutions to trade, after filing, interest rate swap on interbank market

BEIJING, July 15 (Greenpost) – Chinese central bank – the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) released late Tuesday a circular permitting qualified foreign institutions to trade, after filing, interest rate swap and other products on the domestic interbank market.
The decision was made to further boost foreign institutional investors’ investment in domestic interbank market.
Upon publication of the circular, such foreign institutions as foreign central banks, international financial organizations, and sovereign wealth funds are approved to file for recording to the PBOC before trading cash bonds, bond repos, bond lending, bond forwards, interest rate swap, forward rate agreements and others PBOC allows.
What’s more, foreign institutions are free to decide their investment size, according to the PBOC circular. Enditem

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Editor  Xuefei Chen Axelsson

China central bank regulates overseas action in interbank market

    BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) — The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, issued a notice on Tuesday regulating overseas investment in the country’s interbank market.

Institutional investors, including foreign central banks or monetary authorities, international financial institutions and sovereign wealth funds, are now required to register with the PBOC before investing in the interbank market.

After registration, investors can trade bonds in spot and forward markets, conduct interest rate swaps, and trade forward rate agreements. They will be free to decide on the size of their investment.

“Overseas institutions should be long-term investors and conduct business in China’s interbank market based on the reasonable need to preserve and increase the value of assets,” said the PBOC.  Enditem

China’s electroplating industry to embrace standard management

 

BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) — Chinese authorities have formulated standards for the domestic electroplating industry and are now collecting public opinions on the standards, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Tuesday.


The enterprise scale will be a rigid threshold for access to the electroplating industry, which will help enhance market share of leading enterprises, say analysts.
According to the standards, electroplating enterprises are required to build qualified wastewater treatment facilities and the waste water processed by those enterprises and enterprises with electroplating facilities has to meet environmental standards.
Meanwhile, the total amount of the bath solution should be no less than 30,000 liters during the production process. In addition, annual output value of the electroplating enterprise should be more than 20 million yuan. Enditem

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China to stick to prudent monetary policy: PBOC

          BEIJING, July 14 (Greenpost) — The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the central bank, on Tuesday announced it “will continue to implement the prudent monetary policy, and improve the financial system’s capability to serve the real economy”.
The PBOC did not change its monetary policy stance after the latest quarterly meeting of its monetary policy committee, saying China will pursue a “prudent and balanced” monetary policy with more attention to striking a balance between tight and loose.
China’s economic and financial developments are stable on the whole, but the complexity of economic and financial operations should not be underestimated, the PBOC said in a statement.
The central bank will use multiple monetary policy tools in a flexible manner and maintain moderate liquidity in the market to ensure loans and social financing register reasonable growth.
The PBOC said it will work to improve reform of the financial system, enhance the system’s operational efficiency, improve the structure of financing, increase the proportion of direct financing, and reduce the cost of social financing.
High financing costs for Chinese enterprises, smaller firms in particular, has held back growth, experts said.
It also called for continued market-oriented interest rate reform, and for the renminbi’s exchange-rate reform to keep it stable.
The global economy is undergoing profound adjustments after the financial crisis, with major economies staging divergent performance, noted the statement.
The United States has witnessed more positive economic signs, while the European and Japanese economies are showing mild recoveries with deflationary risks, but some emerging markets face difficulties, said the PBOC.
The central bank said it will follow global economic and financial developments and the behavior of capital flows.
The quarterly meeting was chaired by PBOC governor Zhou Xiaochuan, also the chairman of the committee, and attended by senior government officials and economists.
China’s economy grew 7.4 percent in 2014, the slowest rate for 24 years. The PBOC has moved to combat the economic slowdown, cutting benchmark interest rates four times since November and lowering banks’ reserve requirement ratio twice since February.  Enditem

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China nods local gov’nt bonds to be collaterals for banks’ Treasury cash deposits

BEIJING, July 14 (Greenpost) – China has put local government bonds into the qualified collaterals pool for banks’ term deposits of Treasury cash on June 30, according to a circular released by the Ministry of Finance and the central bank Tuesday.
As the document says, bonds issued or to be issued by any Chinese local governments can be taken by banks as collaterals for their term deposits of Treasury cash from both the central government and local governments.
However, Chinese banks are required to pledge an amount of local government bonds whose par value is equal to 115 percent of the value of their Treasury cash term deposits to rein in risks.
Analysts held that Chinese regulators took the move to increase the relatively poor liquidity of local government bonds, issues of which was set to boom to at least 1.6 trillion yuan in 2015.
In future, MOF and the Chinese central bank will adjust the scale and proportion of collaterals for products to manage Treasury cash to guarantee safety of Treasury cash. Enditem

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China can promote healthy development of capital market: premier

BEIJING, July 10 (Xinhua) — China has the confidence and capability to promote the healthy development of its capital market and provide a sound financial environment for economic growth, Premier Li Keqiang said.

“China is and will face various challenges and risks during economic expansion. We will never take them lightly,” Li told a conference on the current economic situation on Thursday, according to a cabinet statement released Friday.
“We are confident that the government can ward off any regional or systemic risks in the economy and ensure we have an open, transparent, stable and healthy capital market,” said the premier.
Li’s remarks came as China is trying to arrest a stock market nosedive that devoured huge amounts of wealth in a three-week plunge.
For the premier, the country’s economic fundamentals are sound. Since the second quarter of 2015, the Chinese economy has been operating steadily with signs of improvement, according to Li.
“Economic vitality is increasing and market confidence is rebounding,” he said.
However, the premier warned that the foundation of the economy is not yet solid and external uncertainties are increasing.
“Therefore, we need to make more efforts to underpin economic growth,” said Li.
He reiterated the government’s determination to overhaul economic structure, cut redtape, encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, improve people’s livelihood, and boost public services.  Enditem

China H1 foreign trade drops 6.9 pct

China H1 foreign trade drops 6.9 pct
BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) — China’s foreign trade dropped 6.9 percent year on year to 11.53 trillion yuan (1.89 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2015, official data showed on Monday.
Exports rose slightly by 0.9 percent from a year ago to 6.57 trillion yuan, while imports slumped by 15.5 percent to 4.96 trillion yuan, according to data from the General Administration of Customs (GAC).
Trade surplus expanded 1.5 times to 1.61 billion yuan in the Jan.-June period.
In June, foreign trade decreased by 1.9 percent from the previous year, with exports rising by 2.1 percent and imports falling by 6.7 percent, data showed.
Trade surplus in June jumped by 45 percent to 284.2 billion yuan.  Enditem

China’s fiscal revenue rises 13.9 pct in June

    BEIJING, July 15 (Greenpost) — China’s fiscal revenue rose 13.9 percent year on year to 1.53 trillion yuan (251.39 billion U.S. dollars) in June, the Ministry of Finance announced on Wednesday.

Combined fiscal revenue in the first six months hit 7.96 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.6 percent. The growth was 4.1 percentage points lower than the rise seen in the same period last year.     Several factors have caused slower growth, the ministry said, including lower global commodity prices that triggered a fall in import value, slowing industrial activity, a reduction in business tax collected from a sluggish property sector, as well as the government’s efforts to cut taxes and fees to relieve the burden on businesses.
The ministry said it will strengthen budget management and keep cutting taxes and fees in the July-December period.
Fiscal spending in June hit 1.88 trillion yuan, up 13.9 percent year on year. Total fiscal spending in the first half of the year amounted to 7.73 trillion yuan, up 11.8 percent year on year, with spending on social security and employment up 20.9 percent to 1.04 trillion yuan.
Premier Li Keqiang, speaking at the opening of the annual parliamentary session in March, stressed that a proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy would continue in 2015.
China plans to raise its budget deficit to 2.3 percent of its GDP for 2015, up from last year’s target of 2.1 percent.
China’s economy posted 7-percent growth year on year in the second quarter of 2015, unchanged from the first quarter, the lowest quarterly growth rate since 2009.  EnditemSource XinhuaEditor  Xuefei Chen Axelsson

 

China to deepen reform to boost innovation and entrepreneurship

 BEIJING, July 15 (Greenpost) — China will remove more vocational qualification and certification requirements to support creation of new businesses and bring forth new ideas.

A total of 62 vocational qualifications, including web advertising brokers and port cargo handling workers, will be abolished, according to a statement released after an executive meeting of the State Council presided over by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.

The qualifications used to be required as a threshold to for people to enter the profession.       “China has been strengthening  innovation and entrepreneurship,” the statement read, “and will continue reform to remove unreasonable constraints for market entities, to let the market play the key role in allocating resources.”

Meanwhile, the government also promised to stabilize the exchange rate of the yuan at a reasonable and balanced level.
It also pledged to facilitate renminbi settlement to help enterprises avoid risks in cross-border trade, according to a statement released after an executive meeting of the State Council presided over by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.
The cabinet also stressed providing more support to small and micro enterprises, as well as the development of emerging market.

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