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JINGHONG, Yunnan, March 27 (Xinhua) -- A governmental decision to go ahead with the sprinkling spree to celebrate a traditional festival has sparked controversy as a prolonged severe drought in southwest China has left tens of millions of people thirsty for water and crops withered.Netizens posted their harsh criticism after Duan Jinhua, head of the information office in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, confirmed in his microblog a week ago that celebrations for the New Year in the ethnic Dai calendar, featuring the sprinkling spree, will not be canceled despite the drought that is ravaging most parts of the province. A woman touches the base of a dry reservoir in the drought-hit Yi Autonomous County of Shilin, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 25, 2010An online survey on the leading Internet portal Sina.com, showed that 52.3 percent of respondents backed the celebrations while 40 percent regarded it a waste of water.However, the government of the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture has decided to cancel official celebrations for the Water Sprinkling Festival, and leave local people free for their own choices.The Water Sprinkling Festival, which is also observed by several other ethnic groups in addition to Dai in Yunnan, falls on April 15 this year. The traditional festival was listed a state intangible heritage in 2006 and has become a chance for carnival.Actually, the official celebration in Xishuangbanna would be cut to two hours, three hours shorter than in previous years, and people are encouraged to splash less water, according to Duan.But the cut did not satisfy critics as the worst drought in a century has increasingly become a major national concern.

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Xinhua) -- World Bank member countries reached an agreement on Sunday to shift more power to emerging and developing nations, under which China's votes increased to 4.42 percent from 2.77 percent, making it the third largest voting power holder in the Washington-based international institution.In total, the World Bank approved a 3.13-percentage-point increase in the voting power of the Developing and Transition Countries (DTCs), making it 47.19 percent now and representing a total increase of 4.59 percentage points for the DTCs since 2008."This increase fulfills the Development Committee commitment in Istanbul in October 2009 to generate a significant increase of at least 3 percentage points in DTC voting power," said the World Bank in a statement.Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren (C, Front) and other participants pose for a group photo prior to the IMF-World Bank Development Committee meeting in Washington April 25, 2010.After a first phase of reforms agreed in 2008, developing countries have an around-44-percent share in the World Bank.At the Pittsburgh G20 summit in September 2009 and the Istanbul Development Committee meeting in October 2009, the bank's shareholders agreed to raise the voting rights to at least 47 percent for developing and transition countries."We were just pleased that we are getting close to reflecting China's increasing share in world economy, and that is reflected in edited voting share," World Bank President Robert Zoellick told Xinhua after the Development Committee meeting."Today was a good day for multilateralism," said Zoellick. " This shift of shares is agreed by our shareholders. They try to recognize the change in the world economy and include the contribution to the development in the methods, which can encourage developing countries in transition."

GENEVA, May 31 (Xinhua) -- China will continue its economic opening-up policy and it stands ready to join hands with other countries to overcome the global economic difficulties, a senior Chinese official said here on Monday."We firmly believe that opening-up will generate unlimited vitality for trade as well as dynamism for economic growth. Under no circumstances will China change its opening-up policy," said Yi Xiaozhun, China's vice minister of commerce.Addressing a WTO session reviewing China's trade policies in the past two years, Yi said his country was still going through a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization, a process that "will unleash enormous demand for investment and consumption.""It is predicted that China's total imports will exceed 7 trillion U.S. dollars in the next five years," Yi told delegates from the world trade body's 153 members.According to the official, many uncertainties still exist in the global economy, with major developed countries still in slow recovery and the international money and bond markets haunted by potential crisis.In the meanwhile, China, which suffered severe impacts by both natural disasters and the global economic crisis, still faces a big challenge in creating jobs at home."China still has 150 million people living in poverty. We have to create jobs not only for 30 million unemployed people registered in cities, but also over 20 million people newly added to the working population every year," Yi said."Nevertheless, China is ready to join hands with other countries to overcome the difficulties," he added.The official reiterated that "China firmly supports multilateralism and always regards the multilateral trading system as the cornerstone of its trade policy."He also called for a successful conclusion of the long-stalled Doha Round trade negotiations, as it "is of great significance to realize rebound of the global economy and resist trade protectionism.""China stands ready to make joint efforts with other members to conclude the Doha Round with an outcome that is comprehensive and balanced, delivering its development mandate," he said.

ISTANBUL, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Li Changchun, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said here Wednesday that the economic cooperation between China and Turkey has "broad perspective."Li, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, was on an official goodwill visit to Turkey.He addressed businessmen from Turkey and those Chinese enterprises who operate in this country in the crossroad of Asia and Europe."Mutual trust is the pretext for bilateral cooperation," he said, urging both sides to consolidate political foundation for promoting economic cooperation in line with mutual respect, mutual benefit, equality and common development.Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, addresses the China-Turkey business seminar in Istanbul of Turkey, April 14, 2010.Dual-track trade registered 12 folds growth in the first decade of the new century. The trade volume increased 69 percent in the first quarter of this year, of which Turkey's export to China scored a year-on-year growth at 152.8 percent."We are satisfied with and proud of such performance in the backdrop of international financial crisis," he said, adding the economic cooperation has become "a pillar" of bilateral relationship.The recovery of the world economy still has certain instable and uncertain elements. Under the context, Li made proposals to further promote bilateral economic and trade cooperation.First, he urged the two sides to cherish the traditional friendship and nurture the sound development momentum of bilateral economic and trade cooperation.Second, he required the relevant governmental departments to enhance policy-oriented guidance to the enterprises. The two sides should use different channels, including the dispatch of procurement delegations to the other country, so as to steadily expand trade volume.

BEIJING, March 31 -- The appointment of three new academic members to the central bank's monetary policy committee on Monday reflects the increasing inclusiveness of monetary policymaking, but may not have any apparent bearing on the timing of an interest rate hike, analysts said.The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said three Chinese economists - Xia Bin, Li Daokui and Zhou Qiren - will replace Fan Gang, the only academic member of the committee, which advises on major monetary issues."Adding two more academics to the monetary policy committee is a welcome change," said Wang Tao, head of China economic research at UBS Securities. "I hope this helps to increase healthy debate within the committee, and increase the independence of monetary policy.""The appointment of three academic members this time - instead of one - indicates the increasing importance of academic voices in monetary policymaking and the three, with different backgrounds, are expected to complement each other to add to the inclusiveness of the panel," said Sun Lijian, an economist with Fudan University. It would make the country's monetary decision-making more rational, he said.Going by their recent comments on inflation, with Li saying that China could precede the United States in raising the rates and Zhou urging a timely and firm exit from stimulus policies, it is speculated that their appointment may signal chances of an earlier rate hike.Zhou said in a February speech that it was high time that China exited from the stimulus measures. "Given the past experiences, the stimulus through expanding money supply and debt only has a short-term effect," he said in the speech.One of the side effects of the stimulus is rising inflation. "The price of the stimulus policies is mainly the adverse effect of the large-scale release of money on the overall market price situation," he said. "We have seen it on the market."Li said early this month once China's consumer price index (CPI), a major measure of inflation, rises 3 percent, the country is set to increase the rates. China's CPI rose by 2.7 percent year-on-year in February.He also said on Monday that China may suffer from exported inflation from developed economies as their continued relaxed monetary policy would lead to surging raw material prices and large-scale capital flowing into the emerging economies, including China.Meanwhile, China should keep itself alert against possible price rises due to weather changes, such as the recent severe drought in southwestern regions.Xia Bin said on Monday that three factors should be taken into account when deciding on whether to raise the interest rates. It should be considered if real negative deposit interest rates occurred. But if inflationary expectations are not strong, the hike would be inappropriate. Moreover, China should not move ahead of the US since it would bring in speculative capital.China's benchmark one-year deposit rate stands at 2.25 percent.Dong Xian'an, chief macroeconomic analyst of Industrial Securities, said economic fundamentals should be the paramount determinant in interest rate related policymaking and the appointment of a new monetary policymaking panel would not have any substantial bearing on the timing of the possible hike.The month-on-month CPI figure is a crucial factor and as it continues to rise, the hike may come in the second quarter of this year, he said.

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