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BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The United States has repeatedly blocked investment from Chinese companies on national security grounds, a protectionist move that will only harm its own interests, analysts say.Eight U.S. congressmen recently asked the Obama administration to scrutinize a deal between Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei and the American operator Sprint Nextel on national security grounds.It was not the first time Huawei's attempts to break into the U.S. market have been stymied. Earlier its buyout attempt of 3Com was summarily dismissed by the U.S. government.Citing national security concerns again, a bipartisan group of 50 lawmakers in July requested that the government investigate an investment project of China's Anshan Iron and Steel Group (Ansteel), China's fourth largest steelmaker, which plans to establish a joint rebar venture with a U.S. partner in Mississippi."It is inappropriate for some U.S. lawmakers to label regular business behavior as a move that threatens national security," Yao Jian, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, recently said about Ansteel's investment plan."I hope the United States can create a better investment environment for Chinese enterprises," he said.Chinese analysts said the actions were sheer protectionism, adding that national security concerns is only a lame excuse by U.S. authorities, whose true intention is to protect the interests of domestic enterprises and industries.Moreover, standing up to China's allegedly unfair trade practices can easily earn the congressmen much needed political chips in the upcoming mid-term election in November, the analysts said.The setback that Huawei and Ansteel suffered is only the tip of the iceberg. Actually, blocking investment from Chinese companies in the name of national security has morphed into a knee-jerk reaction that could only harm America's own interests.Emcore Corporation, a U.S. fiber optics producer, announced in late June that it has abandoned a joint venture in partnership with China's Tangshan Caofeidian Investment Corporation because the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States "has certain regulatory concerns about the transaction."

BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government on Wednesday stressed the importance for the country to improve river controls and prevent mountain floods in the wake of this year's frequent natural disasters.The statement was issued following an executive meeting of China's State Council, or the cabinet, which was chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday.In contrast with large rivers, the medium and small rivers in China are the Achilles' heel of the country's river control work, which surfaced in the wake of a series of flood-triggered disasters this year, according to the statement.Over the next five years, China will increase efforts to control medium and small rivers, remove dangers and consolidate medium and small reservoirs, as well as preventing mountain floods in a bid to protect the safety of people's lives and property, according to the statement.The central government will take flood-prone areas with dense population as priorities in dyke building and river regulation works, it said.Further, reservoir consolidation work should seek to increase the modulation capacities of water resources.The construction of flood storage regions along large rivers and lakes, including China's Dongting Lake and the Poyang Lake, should also be intensified.China will set up more radar stations and meteorological stations in flood-prone areas, and make thorough investigations across the country in order to have a panoramic view of the areas with hidden natural disaster dangers like flood, mudslide, landslide and collapsing mountains .Also, the country will strengthen ecological protection by planting more trees and vegetation to guard against soil erosion, according to the statement.To that end, the central government promised to provide financial support to local governments by increasing input and expanding funding channels, as well as strengthening supervision of construction.Floods, landslides and mud-rock flows in China killed 3,185 people and left 1,067 missing this year, as of the end of August, according to statistics from the Chinese National Committee for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Civil Affairs.The Chinese central government has spent 2.43 billion yuan (361 million U.S. dollars) on flood control and drought relief as of Aug. 23 this year, according to the Ministry of Finance.The meeting also noted that maintaining ecological diversity, including three tiers of ecosystems, species and genes over the next 20 years, is the basis of the existence and development of human beings and also a guarantee of safe ecological security and food safety.China will continue to improve laws and policies and promote international collaborations to protect ecological diversity, it added.

BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Wang Jianping, 63, a healthy retiree from a Beijing-based enterprise, has recently begun searching for nursing homes."When I cannot move, I will live in the old people's home and will not inconvenience my children," Wang said.Her experience of caring for her 89-year-old mother-in-law, who suffers from senile dementia over the past 14 years, prompted her to "search for nursing homes as early as possible," she said.As China marks Seniors Day Saturday, or the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, experts have called for an improvement in the country's services to the aged, especially at a time when the "only child" generation is finding it increasingly difficult to care for four parents (their own and their spouse's parents).The Office of the China National Committee on Ageing said the number of people aged 60 or above stood at 167 million in 2009, or 12.5 percent of the 1.3-billion population.Chen Chuanshu, deputy director of the Office of the China National Committee on Ageing, said the ageing problem not only affected individual families, but was also a major social problem that concerned the national economy and people's livelihoods.Yang Yanan, a 24-year-old postgraduate student at the Department of Sociology of Peking University, said her grandmother was cared for by four children, and the grandmother would live, in turn, in the homes of Yang's parents and her uncles and aunts.Hao Maishou, an expert on the ageing issue at the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences in northern China, said that traditionally, the elderly were taken care of by their sons, financially and socially.After the New China was founded in 1949, a pension and the aged insurance system was established in both urban and rural areas, but since it was far from perfect, most old people continued to be cared for by their own families. Only a few lived in old-age homes, Hao said.But today, most parents of the country's first-generation of children with no siblings, following the government's "one-child" policy, have started realizing that they cannot depend on their children to look after them when they grow old. These parents are mostly in their 50s.Chen said that family-based care was still the main way of caring for the aged in China, and the country was working on improving these policies, financial support and caring services for the elderly.In the recent past, the government has mobilized non-public sectors to serve the aged and encouraged private capital to enter the sectors providing services to this demographic.Towards that end, a project called the "Aiwan (Loving the Old Age) Project" was begun in 2008, covering major Chinese regions with serious ageing problems, using an investment of 10 billion yuan (1.47 billion U.S.dollars). Twenty centers for living, entertainment, cultural activities and rehabilitation were to be built in these regions in five to eight years.Hao of the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences said that after 2030, caring for the aged in China would be jointly shouldered by families and the society, as a large number of elderly people will also have to care for their own aging parents."The country will expand the coverage of social security to the entire population," he said.

BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened its fifth plenary session in Beijing Friday to discuss the nation's next five-year development plan.The four-day meeting will review proposals for the country's 12th five-year program (2011-2015) on national economic and social development.The period would be critical for building a moderately prosperous society, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee announced last month.It would be a time of difficult issues for deepening the reform and opening-up process while accelerating the transformation of the nation's economic development pattern, said the announcement.China has pledged to build a "xiaokang" -- moderately prosperous -- society in the first two decades of the 21st century."The next five-year program will be vital for dealing with difficulties to realize the objective by 2020," said Prof. Hu Angang, a prominent expert on China's national situation in Beijing."The new program will basically be in accordance with the principles of Scientific Outlook on Development," Hu said.Despite of high GDP growth for years, China still faces huge challenges in development, ranging from unbalanced economic growth pattern, widening gap between urban and rural areas and between different regions, to environmental problems as well as international trade protectionism."China's export-driven economic growth is unsustainable," said Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President."Transformation of the country's economic growth pattern should still be a major issue for the next five years, 15 years and even a longer period of time."The CPC Central Committee Political Bureau said in a last month's statement that transformation of the economic growth pattern should be based on improving people's livelihoods.President Hu Jintao has pledged to adopt "Inclusive Growth," a concept created and advocated by Asian Development Bank in 2007, for resolving social problems as a result of economic development.According to Hu, inclusive growth means to spread the benefits of economic globalization and development among all countries, regions and people and to realize balanced economic and social progress through sustainable development.World Bank President Robert Zoellick said developing countries will play a more important role in balancing and stabilizing the world economy, and China's effort will be of great significance for restructuring the world economy after global downturn.A draft version of the proposals for the 12th five-year program has been offered to some delegates of the CPC's 17th National Congress and organizations outside the Party.The document was further revised based on their suggestions.Sources with the CPC said the proposals, accumulated from throughout the Party and other organizations, would become a guideline document for China's continued reform and opening-up process as well as socialist modernization.

XIAMEN, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Second World Investment Forum (WIF), seeking to offer insights on the balance between investment and sustainable development, opened Tuesday in Xiamen, in southeast China's Fujian Province.With the theme "Investment for Sustainable Development," the forum is organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and has attracted more than 1,500 overseas investors, policymakers and international organization representatives."International investment is high on the agenda of global policy-making," United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said in a video message to the forum.Despite the recovery of worldwide capital flows since the downturn in 2009, Ban said, the recovery remained fragile and the consequences of climate change were "increasingly clear.""We must work together to advance responsible investment and corporate sustainability," said Ban.He urged governments and businesses to make investments that better stimulated economic activity while promoting energy efficiency and green technology.He stressed the critical role of private investment in the spread of environment friendly practices and in reaching the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).Established in 2000, the MDGs are eight development goals to be achieved by 2015. Agreed to by UN member states, the goals include time-bound targets for reducing extreme poverty and child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics, promoting gender equality, education and environmental sustainability.The forum participants include World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy and senior officials from many countries.The high-profile list "demonstrates the importance that international investment has gained as an engine of growth and development," UNCTAD Secretary-General Supachai Panitchpakdi said at the opening ceremony.The four-day forum would examine the challenges and opportunities for global investment in the post-crisis economy.He urged "a new generation of investment policies" to promote a transformation towards a low carbon economy.The forum also features presentations from countries showcasing climate change-related investment projects.Energy and drilling companies and engineering firms from Iceland will also attend the event to contribute their experience on the use of clean energy."The abundance of clean energy is the main reason why Iceland is... an attractive investment location for foreign companies," said Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland.Iceland had based all its electricity production and space heating on clean energy.However, Grimsson recalled that before the 1970s, more than 80 percent of energy in Iceland came from imported coal and oil."The climate crisis is primarily a call for a fundamental energy revolution, a comprehensive transformation from fossil fuel to green energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and biomass sources," he said.Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony.The three-day forum will include conferences on the impact of investment on sustainable development; how stock exchanges can promote sustainable business practices; and the need for a recognized set of principles for borrowers and lenders that promotes sustainable debt and credit conditions.Also included is a ministerial round table that will address investment policy coherence in the post-crisis environment.

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