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中国驻瑞使馆合唱团参加瑞典侨界抗战歌会

北欧绿色邮报网报道(记者陈雪霏)——瑞典华人联合会27日举办抗战歌会,由中国驻瑞典大使馆梦想合唱团压轴领唱《义勇军进行曲》的一幕把歌会推向高潮。

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IMG_8471中国驻瑞典大使陈育明在接受本网记者采访时说,“纪念抗战胜利和世界反法西斯70周年的活动非常有意义。我们使馆梦想合唱团参加侨界的这次演出是为了纪念抗战70周年,用我们自己微薄的力量为抗战胜利贡献一点力量,最主要的是为了铭记历史,永存和平,它的政治意义非常重大,所以能参加这次活动,我们感到非常高兴”。

据了解,使馆全馆人员包括梦想合唱团团长白晓梅参赞,政务参赞李军峰,经济参赞李光军,教育参赞窦春祥,领事部主任郭延航等都参加了大合唱。在他们的领唱下,观众全体起立合唱《义勇军进行曲》,真的唱出了心声,唱出了激情,唱出了精神。

IMG_8493瑞典华人联合会名誉会长王吉生在接受本网记者采访时表示,华联去年就计划在今年搞这个主题的活动。

“2009年的中秋节是我们华联成立的日子,今年此时我们要庆祝华联成立6周年,中华人民共和国成立66周年和抗战胜利70周年。我们把这些都放到一块,但突出的一个主题,那就是抗战胜利70周年。因为我们知道全国人民都重视这件事,海外华人自然也重视。没想到大使馆对我们的这次活动也这么重视,这么投入,他们花了很大的力量。”王吉生说。

王吉生非常感动,发自肺腑地说,“尽管华联提前三个月开始落实早已制定的计划,但真正得到使馆的确认,答应来参加演唱,也就一个月左右的时间。在杨筱音老师的指挥和王路老师的伴奏下,使馆的梦想合唱团作为一个非专业的合唱团,唱出了专业水平。尤其是第二支歌曲《在太行山上》,这是在合唱技术上有一定难度的歌,他们演绎得别具一格。”

IMG_8451“使馆真的给了我一个意外(惊喜),他们演唱的时候,我就在舞台边上,他们的演唱给人一种震撼力,就象一支军队发出的声音一样,那么雄壮有力。他们是一支不穿军装,不配刀枪,从事世界和平的特种部队。这支队伍延续了新中国外交战线60多年来的传统。新中国的第一代大使,就是共和国第一代的将军。他们给中国外交队伍打下了很好的基础。他们的歌声使我们在场的华人都深受鼓舞。领我们唱国歌的时候, 不管大人孩子,都很激动。有他们的参与,有这种互动,让我们感到有一种能量,作为组织者,我觉得收获太大了,太有震撼力了。”

平时一向要求比较严格,非常爱讲也敢讲实话的王吉生今天自己也对演唱会非常满意。他说: 我们今天歌会的另一个亮点是有俄罗斯和塞尔维亚两个协会来支持我们。

IMG_8477本次抗战歌会持续90分钟,分三个部分,抗战前期,歌曲有王乃宁独唱的《松花江上》,冯昭旋演唱的《重整河山待后生》,女高音歌唱家邹容美演唱的《黄河怨》,斯德哥尔摩华人合唱团演唱的《到敌人后方去》,李佳演唱的《太阳出来照四方》。

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俄罗斯协会演出后合影。                               陈雪霏拍摄

第二部分是国际统一战线,俄罗斯协会演唱了《喀秋莎》等曲目,塞尔维亚协会表演了美丽的民间舞蹈。

第三部分包括杨筱音的《梅娘曲》,男生四重唱《游击队之歌》,张利明演唱的《黄河颂》,双焱钢琴伴奏,中国大使馆压轴曲《保卫黄河》和《在太行山上》,并带领全体观众演唱《义勇军进行曲》。尤其是陈大使的朗诵更是给人留下深刻印象。

IMG_8483俄罗斯协会主席塞格尔女士在接受记者采访时说,“我们来演出是为了我们的中国朋友。我们有很长的交往历史,中国朋友经常参加我们的活动,所以我们今天也愿意为他们来演唱,这次还赶上中国的重要节日(中秋节,国庆节)。我觉得我们应该多多合作,因为它促进团结一致,增进了解和相互理解。今年五月份我们搞了一个大活动,是俄罗斯庆祝反法西斯卫国战争胜利70周年,我们当时邀请了中国协会的朋友。我们需要结交新朋友,我们将举行新的更大的活动,请大家听我们的好消息。

IMG_8473瑞典华人艺术家协会会长,著名华人女高音歌唱家邹容美在接受记者采访时说,“瑞典华人艺术家协会是华联的一个协会。一个月之前,大家都在庆祝二战胜利70周年,华联说我们要以歌来庆祝胜利,所以就和俄罗斯和塞尔维亚协会一起举办这场国际抗战歌会。由于时间比较紧,波兰和印度协会没有来得及参加。不过,在大使馆的大力支持下,我们的歌会也还是很成功的。”

据王吉生介绍,华联在瑞典全境有14个分会共有1100多个会员。

采访图片由丹妮拍摄。

 

 

 

欲了解新中国的第一任将军大使的故事,请看下面的链接:

http://dangshi.people.com.cn/n/2015/0429/c85037-26923188.html

 

 

Chinese acrobatics performance by Wang Qiang–Absolutely Challenging

By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

Stockholm, Sept. 25(Greenpost)–Chinese acrobatic performer Wang Qiang gave an excellent performance on Thursday in Stockholm.  This is one of the programs performed by Cultural China’s European Tour for overseas Chinese.

Filmed by Xuefei Chen Axelsson, on Sept. 24, 2015.

专家访谈:斯德哥尔摩水奖获得者印度水专家辛格

北欧绿色邮报记者陈雪霏专访印度水专家辛格。今年56岁的辛格本来是学医的,但是,被分到农村当医生时,当地农民说,我们不需要医生,我们更需要水,我们要你给我们治水。于是他和当地村民一起修河修渠,植树治水,收集雨水,经过30多年的努力,他已经恢复了7条河,让1200个小村庄都有水喝,而且年轻人又回到村里种菜了。新农村就这样建立起来了。

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视频链接如下:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvF9pvRJQI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvF9pvRJQI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvF9pvRJQI

摄像丹妮。

专访瑞典生物能协会CEO古斯塔夫.梅林

北欧绿色邮报网报道(记者陈雪霏)--瑞典生物能协会9月16-17日在斯德哥尔摩阿兰达机场举行高级生物燃料大会,吸引了欧美几十家政府,企业和科研单位人事进行研讨和经验交流。期间,北欧绿色邮报记者陈雪霏采访了协会首席执行官梅林先生。

梅林表示,瑞典决定在2030年在交通运输领域实现零排放,因此,需要大量提高生物能源的使用。瑞典及北欧都有这个优势。目前瑞典交通部门的生物能使用已经达到12%。

他希望欧盟能够同意成员国利用税收调节来激励生物能源的使用。

McDonald’s offers online reservations in Sweden

Stockholm, Sept. 22(Greenpost)–For the very first time, McDonald’s offers online reservations. Selected restaurants across the country now offer guests the option to book a table and be waited upon – offering burger lovers an entirely new way of experiencing the new Maestro Classic gourmet burger. Starting tonight, September 22nd, dinner reservations are available for selected evenings.

Sweden is the first country in the world where McDonald’s will offer table booking service.

“We have a very exciting and tasty new premium hamburger coming to our restaurants, the Maestro Classic, so we wanted to give our most loyal customers a unique and memorable experience when they try the Maestro hamburger for the very first time. They’ve never had the opportunity to ‘book a table’ at their favourite restaurant in Sweden. With the new Maestro burger, we thought it was the right time to give them a chance to do so”, says Jeff Jackett Director of Marketing at McDonald’s Sweden.

Bookings can be made at more than 30 McDonald’s restaurants all around Sweden. Parties will be served a two course meal with the new gourmet burger as the main course. Reservations are handled through Bookatable at www.bookatable.se/mcdonalds

“We provide reservation services for a wide range of food establishments, from neighbourhood bistros and local favourites to Michelin starred restaurants. It was a natural choice to team up with McDonald’s Sweden to help them launch this globally pioneering initiative, offering online reservations for a limited period of time. We want to encourage everyone to take this opportunity to experience the new gourmet burger in this special way,” says Jonas Carlén, Commercial Director at Bookatable Sweden.

Table booking is available from September 22nd for selected dates between September 25th and October 2nd.

Zhejiang Hangzhou Jianggan Delegation visits Tillväxtverket

By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

Stockholm, Sept. 21(Greenpost)–Zhejiang Hangzhou Jianggan District Delegation has visited Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth.

DSC_2442Jacob Bemgård, Financial Officer for Enterprise Europe Network in Sweden, Henrik Arwidsson, Project Manager for Business Support and Stefan Nordin Project Manager from Tillväxtverket gave a brief introduction about Swedish overall industry and trade, Voucher for Internationalization,  Enterprise Europe Network and the cooperation product web page www.verksamt.se.

The six member delegation was impressed by Swedish way of helping SME’s to develop and to go abroad.

Cai Jianyun, Vice Mayor of Jianggan District Government in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province said he welcomed Swedish Game’s industry to go to his district because it is located in a very important area where there is good conditions for game’s development.

Cai said he was also impressed by Swedish measures to take care of gender equality and equality in general for both Swedish residents and immigrants. Back in Chinese cities like Hangzhou, there are also many rural immigrant workers working in the cities, but their children cannot enjoy the same treatment as the urban residents’ children. This is something they are going to strive for.

They also welcome Swedish enterprises to settle down in Jianggan for Swedish export to China or Chinese export to Sweden.

Cai said the purpose for their visit is also to improve mutual understanding and establish important contacts for the future.

According to Henrik Arwidsson, Sweden has made good use of its own resources, for example the cold climate can be turned into hot business, one good example is that Facebook’s computers and Data center is located in northern city Luleå.  Sweden has been investing in music since long time ago, so there has been famous bands like ABBA , Roxette and many others.  In recent years, the Game industry such as Minecraft is prosperous. And these are all for export.  Let alone they also supported green tech companies to export.

Tillväxtverket also directly gave SMEs grants for development and export.

China Voice: Party leadership is “safety valve” for SOE

BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) — The leadership and supervision of the Communist Party of China (CPC) over China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are a “safety valve,” not shackles, on SOE development.
The website of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on Tuesday published reports by the China Nuclear Engineering Co. Ltd. (CNEC) and several other enterprises on their efforts to correct problems found by CCDI inspection teams.
The CCDI sent inspection teams to 25 centrally administered SOEs and conducted discipline checks from March to May.
It set up a special section on its website last week to publish the responses of the SOEs, including the CNEC, the China National Petroleum Corporation and the State Development and Investment Corporation, to the problems found by CCDI inspectors.
Problems that the companies vowed to address included unfair transactions, cronyism, violations in decision-making processes and other acts of corruption, according to the reports published so far.
In their reports, the SOEs pledged to strengthen anti-corruption precautions including enhanced management of funds and projects, stricter supervision over selection of officials, intensified auditing and internal rule enforcement.
Also last week, the CCDI announced that Song Lin, former chairman of the state-owned China Resources, was expelled from the CPC after the commission found he had taken advantage of his post to seek promotions and benefit businesses for others in exchange for bribes.
CPC authorities’ efforts to supervise, punish offenders and root out corruption fit the requirements of the rule of law and they will promote, not hinder, the establishment of a modern enterprise system within SOEs and benefit their long-term development.
The anti-corruption and discipline drive is expected to ensure effective SOE reform and remove obstructions to change.
China on Sunday unveiled a guideline to deepen SOE reforms featuring measures to modernize the companies, enhance state assets management, promote mixed ownership and prevent the erosion of state assets.
The guideline noted that supervision will be intensified both from inside and outside SOEs to prevent abuse of power and the erosion of state-owned assets. A mechanism for accountability will be established to track violations, including corruption and embezzlement.
Proper oversight of SOE operations will also help maintain sound market order as the health of SOEs and related sectors is important to the Chinese economy.
As such, the leadership and supervision of the CPC act as a “safety valve” to make sure enterprises, as well as the Chinese economy, stay on track.
It should be noted that management and supervision by authorities should not turn into meddling in SOE operations.
Such concerns, however, can be answered by the CPC’s pledge to check the use of power and respect market forces in the economy.  Enditem

News Analysis: New reforms open China’s borders and business

BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) — China is working to open its economy wider to the world as persistent headwinds threaten to derail growth.
Promoting opening up while pushing forward reforms will add new impetus and vitality, President Xi Jinping said at a meeting of a group tasked with steering reforms on Tuesday.
In an effort to do so, several new guidelines including a negative list regulating market access, easier green card applications for foreigners and allowing border areas to explore new business models were adopted at the 16th Meeting of the Central Leading Group for Deepening Overall Reform.
China will further expand on its negative list to identify sectors and businesses that are off-limits for investment and gradually improve the list through pilot programs. The list has been piloted in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone since 2013.
To live up to its promise of “letting the market play a decisive role in resource allocation,” the government vowed efforts to delegate powers to the enterprises and let them decide how to run their businesses in sectors that do not appear on the negative list.
The list approach is intended to give freedom for foreign investors as any sectors not banned on the list are open for investment.
It is also a critical part of protracted talks between China and the United States on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT). After rounds of talks since 2008, the two sides began discussing implementation of a negative list since June. An agreement would mean a breakthrough on the BIT deal.
According to Tuesday’s statement, it will be easier for foreigners to apply for permanent residence permits, or green cards, by simplifying requirements and streamlining the application procedure.
China only issued around 5,000 permanent residence permits between 2004, when the green card policy was introduced, and 2012. That compares with about 600,000 total foreigners living in the country, most on medium- or long-term visas.
The statement also said China will allow border areas to explore new models of cross-border economic cooperation and new mechanisms for promoting regional growth.
Compared to coastal areas in eastern China, border areas in the west lag behind in terms of opening up, said Shi Benye, a professor at Jilin University.
To fix that, authorities will increase infrastructure construction in border areas, improve local tourism and ramp up fiscal and taxation support, according to the statement.
Experts believe there is vast potential waiting to be unlocked in China’s border areas.
For example, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region can play a key role in the country’s cooperation with the ASEAN member countries. Yunnan and Xinjiang can leverage their geographical advantages to forge closer business ties with neighboring countries.
China’s northeastern “rust belt” provinces and Inner Mongolia can work to tap northeast Asia.
Guangxi has achieved a 13.3 percent growth in exports in the first eight months, compared to a 1.6 percent drop in China’s total exports during the same period, statistics show.
Guangxi’s fast growth in exports is closely related to its increased efforts to promote border trade, especially with ASEAN countries, according to Wang Dongtang, an official with the Ministry of Commerce.
In the next five years, China will seek to advance the opening up of its border areas under the guidance of state-level development strategies such as the Belt and Road Initiative and the Yangtze River Economic Belt development plan, said Huang Shengqiang, an official of the General Administration of Customs.
“The government will not change its policy toward foreign investment, and will continue to protect the lawful interests of foreign-funded companies and provide better services for them,” said a statement issued after Tuesday’s meeting.
With a cooling domestic property market and falling external demand amid a tepid global recovery, China’s economy has hit a soft patch, growing only 7 percent in the first six months, the slowest pace in nearly a quarter of a century and a far cry from the double-digit expansion in previous decades.
The official growth target for 2015 is around 7 percent.  Enditem

China outbound direct investment jumps 18.2 pct

 BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) — China’s non-financial outbound direct investment (ODI) continued to see robust growth in the first eight months of 2015 as investment to countries along the Belt and Road surges, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Wednesday.

The ODI rose 18.2 percent to 473.4 billion yuan (74.3 billion U.S. dollars) during the January-August period, according to MOC spokesman Shen Danyang. In August alone, outbound investment came in at 13.5 billion U.S. dollars, up 7 percent year on year. Chinese companies’ ODI to Hong Kong, the United States, Singapore and Australia surpassed one billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months, while those to countries along the Belt and Road jumped 48.2 percent to 10.73 billion U.S. dollars during the period.

The Belt and Road refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, proposed by China in 2013 with the goal of boosting trade and investment between Asia and Europe. The network incorporates more than 60 countries and regions, with a total population of 4.4 billion.

China revised an ODI regulation last October, streamlining procedures and allowing domestic enterprises to invest in more sectors abroad.

China became a net capital exporter for the first time last year when ODI outnumbered foreign direct investment (FDI). ODI grew 14.1 percent in 2014, eclipsing the 1.7-percent FDI growth.

Wednesday’s data also showed China’s service trade totalled 370.3 billion U.S. dollars in the first seven months of 2015, rising 14.1 percent from the same period last year.  Enditem

 

 

China’s fiscal revenue growth plummets, spending leaps

BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) — China’s fiscal revenue rose much slower in August as the economy continued to plateau, while expenditure growth picked up over more proactive fiscal policies, official data showed on Tuesday.
Fiscal revenue increased 6.2 percent year on year to 967.1 billion yuan (152 billion U.S. dollars) in August, compared with a 12.5-percent rise in July, according to figures from the Ministry of Finance.
Revenue in the first eight months reached 10.35 trillion yuan, up 7.4 percent year on year.
Meanwhile, fiscal spending in August jumped 25.9 percent to 1.28 trillion yuan, a faster growth than 24.1 percent in July. Combined spending in the first eight months expanded 14.8 percent to 10.29 trillion yuan.
The ministry attributed the slower revenue growth to falling producer prices and slumping imports, which reflected flagging domestic demand and led to lower income from taxes on companies and tariffs.
Structural tax reductions and fee cuts, aimed at supporting economic growth, also kept a lid on fiscal revenue growth.
Revenue from value-added taxes dropped 4.7 percent year on year in August, while that from corporate income taxes declined 15.4 percent and that from tariffs slipped 15.5 percent.
China’s producer price index, a measure of costs for goods at the factory gate, fell 5.9 percent year on year in August, widening from the 5.4-percent drop seen a month earlier and the lowest level since the end of 2009.
The country’s imports slumped 14.3 percent year on year in August, compared with July’s decrease of 8.6 percent.
China will continue to face great fiscal pressure for the rest of this year, the ministry said.
The government plans to raise the country’s budget deficit to 2.3 percent of 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.  Enditem

 

 

Yantai city planning for 2011-2020 approved by State Council

BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Greenpost) — The State Council, China’s cabinet, has approved the urban planning for 2011-2020 of Yantai city, Shandong province, east China.
Under the planning, by 2020, the downtown area of Yantai will have a maximum population of 2.3 million and urban construction land area should be restricted within 255 square kilometers.
The planning also requires improvement of roads, waterways, railways and airports. Enditem

Source Xinhua

Iceland to recommend parliament to prove support for refugees

By Xuefei Chen Axelsson

Stockholm, Sept.20 (Greenpost)– Icelandic government of has decided to recommend to Parliament that 2 billion ISK (14 million EUR) will be provided for support to refugees and asylum seekers in the course of next 15 months in order to respond to the alarming refugee crisis due to the conflict in Syria.

According to a press release from Reykjavik reaching here, the fund will be used to support office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, UNICEF, UN Central Emergency Relief Fund and the World Food Program. If Iceland receives refugees, it will receive it through the UN organisations.

To strengthen measures that can radically change and expedite the processing of asylum applications and respond to the huge increase in their numbers, thereby reducing uncertainty and inconvenience.

The newly appointed Ministerial Committee on refugees and immigrants will provide detailed suggestions for the allotment of funds, and these shall be ready prior to Parliament’s second reading on the financial budget for 2016.

Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 goes to director Stephen Frears

Stockholm, Sept. 16(Greenpost)– 2015 Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award will go to director Stephen Frears.

During the premiere of his latest film The Program, Frears will visits Stockholm International Film Festival to receive the Bronze Horse.

Justification:  British director Stephen Frears never shies away from taking on people’s dark and tragic sides, doing so with warmth, passion and a sense of humor.

This year’s receiver of the Lifetime Achievement Award is a filmmaker who is not afraid to take a stand for those who exist at the margins of society. His filmmaking ranges from political films with social pathos to grand epics with the biggest stars. Regardless of what form the story takes, Stephen Frears shows us that he is a director with a genuine curiosity for people’s life stories.

Stephen Frears has since his breakthrough with My Beautiful Laundrette (1984) mesmerized the audience with a series of acclaimed films. The director has been nominated for two Oscars with The Grifters (1990) and The Queen (2006), and awarded with the Silver Berlin Bear for The Hi-Lo Country (1998) at the Berlin International Film Festival. His latest film Philomena (2013) was shown during the Stockholm International Film Festival two years ago and was praised by both audiences and critics.

In the exhilarating thriller The Program (2015), Frears narrates the dramatic story of Lace Armstrong. The undefeated Tour de France champion was discovered to be involved in the most sophisticated doping program in the history of cycling. Starring Ben Foster as Armstrong and Chris O’Dowd as David Walsh, the journalist who devoted years to reveal the scandalous fraud, The Program is a gripping story with a deeply psychological portrait of its main characters.

Cast: Ben Foster, Lee Pace, Dustin Hoffman, Chris O ‘Dowd, Elaine Cassidy, Jesse Plemons, Laura Donnelly.
The Program has premiere in Swedish cinema December 4. Distributor: AB Svensk Filmindustri.

The Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually to honor and acknowledge a longstanding career and an outstanding achievement in cinema. The prestigious award, in the shape of a 7,3kg (16 lb) Bronze Horse is the heaviest film award in the world. It is also a paraphrase on a national design icon, the Swedish Dala horse, and was created by artist Fredrik Swärd. The prize has previously been awarded to directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Quentin Tarantino, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Oliver Stone and Mike Leigh.

Spotlight: China economy enters “new normal” eyeing 7 pct growth rate: G20

ANKARA, Sept. 5 (Xinhua ) — The Chinese economy has entered a “new normal” status and the growth rate of economy is predicted to be around 7 percent in the coming 4 to 5 years, said Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei here on Saturday.

Lou said it in a written statement after the 2-day G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Ankara Turkey.

Zhou Xiaochuan, People’s Bank of China governor pointed out in the joint statement that there is no foundation that RMB will keep devaluing for a long term.

Zhou Xiaochuan stated that the bubble in Chinese stock market keep increasing before June 2015. The Shanghai Composite Index has mounted up 70 percent from March to June.

Risks as Investors leverage rapid rise occur during this period of time. China has implemented the correction phase of stock market for three times among which the third time in August has some global impacts.

China has been taking measures to prevent its economy from systematic risk including the PBOC providing liquidity to the market through multiple channels.

The measures taken by Chinese government has prevented the stock market from decline in precipice way and the occurrence of systematic risk.

According to the statement, since the August correction in stock market, the Investors leverage in Stock market has been going down significantly and the real economy has not been impacted.

The reform of the middle price quotation of RMB exchange rate mechanism on August 11 is an important step to the marketing reform of RMB rate.

RMB was devalued for a certain degree after the reform, but the RMB was over valued for reasons like the value-up of U.S. dollar ,the generally value depreciate of Currency in emerging market economies.

“But there is no substantial transformation in the real economy of China and large surplus still remains in the foreign trade of China, so there is no foundation that RMB will keep devaluing for a long term,” Governor Zhou strengthened in the Statement.

“The status of Chinese economy is till in predication. The Chinese Economy has entered a “new normal” status and the growth rate of economy is predicted to be around 7 percent in the coming 4 to 5 years” Chinese Finance Minister of Lou Jiewei said in the joint statement.

It is stated that there are mainly two reasons that the growth rate of China will enter the 7 percent period.

Firstly, the rapid growth rate which keeps 9-10 percent in the past and highly depends on the stimulation of policy is not sustainable, and is over the potential growth rate of China which lead to over capacity and mass increase of inventory. It will take years to consume these over capacity and inventory.

The next 5 years will be a painful period for the reform of Chinese economy, and the main goals need to be achieved by 2020. China’s economy will be mainly driven by consumption rather than investment and foreign trade during the reforming period, and this will not be an easy job to accomplish.

Secondly, China’s economic cycle is different with the developed countries. Developed countries generally initiated the process of deleveraging after the global crisis, however, China initiated its leveraging process between 2009 and 2010 and achieved the 10 percent in growth rate.

The contribution rate to growth of global economy was as high as 50 percent above during that time. China now is initiating its process of deleveraging and the growth rate will down to 7 percent but still making 30 percent contribution rate to growth of global economy.

Lou stressed in the statement that there are some positive changes in Chinese economy despite the lower of growth rate, including the contribution rate to growth of consumption comes higher than that of investment, the proportion of service in GDP over passed industry, the proportion of trade surplus in GDP has been decreasing, 7 million new jobs was created in the first half year, the quality of economic growth keeps rising etc.

China will continue to implement a proactive fiscal policy and the increasing rate of central government spending is predicted to be 10 percent, which is higher than the 7 percent budget.

China is taking measures to plug fiscal gap to maintain moderate economic growth and support the structural reform, the statement added.

“The Chinese government will not pay particular attention to a seasonal short term economic fluctuation, and will keep the stability of macroeconomic policies,” Lou pointed out in the statement.

China has achieved a 7 percent growth despite the decreasing of demographic dividend and falling on rate of capital return.

The huge potential of Chinese economy lies in reform and China is unswervingly promote reform and opening up in accordance with the established plan.

“G20 financial ministers and central bank governors have talked about the economy problems in China and we are not pessimistic about China keeping the 7 percent growth rate in the future,’ Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Cevdet Yilmaz said in the press conference Saturday in Ankara.   Enditem