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Xiamen’s tourism. Thank you for coming, I would like to give you a brief introduction to some investment projects for Xiamen’s tourism.
Xiamen covers a total area of 1565 square kilometers. Its coastline is 234 kilometers and among which 12.56 kilometers are suitable for developing into bathing beaches. As it is a habitat for egrets, the city is also called the “Island of Egrets”. It is also known as the “Garden on the Sea” and the “Most Congenial City in China”, and famous at home and abroad for its charming landscape and seascape and beautiful city environment. In 1998, the title of “Excellent National Tourism City” was awarded to Xiamen, along with some other cities, for the first time in China. It has become one of the 10 most popular tourist destination cities in China. For 13 consecutive years since 1991, it has been one of the top 10 tourist cities in China in terms of earning foreign exchange from tourism. In 2003, 13.34 million tourists visited Xiamen and the city’s revenue from tourism totaled RMB 16.532 billion.
Both the Xiamen municipal committee of the CPC and the city government have attached great importance to developing tourism, fully realizing the important role tourism plays in developing the city’s economy, and regarding tourism as a new growth point and a pillar sector in its economic development. Accordingly, the government has offered quite a few preferential policies aimed at encouraging the development of tourism and is determined to build Xiamen into an important central tourism city for the economic zone along the western coast of the Taiwan Straits.
Now, let me introduce some key projects. First let’s look at a five-star hotel project on Minzu road. The site is located in the central part of Xiamen’s traditional urban area, enjoying a very favorable geographical location. It is close to the busy Zhongshan Road commercial area and near Lujiang Road, which leads to the City’s ring road. It is convenient and easily accessible. What is more, with the beautiful surrounding environment and the site overlooking the famous tourist attraction of Gulangyu islet across the sea, the hotel will be an ideal place for enjoying the panoramic view of Gulangyu as well as the beautiful sights on both sides of Lujiang.
The planned construction area for this project, a five-star hotel, is 9066.409 square meters. Other major requirements are as follows: The total floor space should be no more than 50 thousand square
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meters, with a maximum plot ratio of 5.51, maximum height of 100 meters, a maximum construction density of 45%, and a minimum green rate of 30%. It should be a project funded by one company alone with a total investment of US$48.36 million.
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Family related issues are complex.
They connect with all dimensions of economic, social and cultural development. There is ample evidence worldwide that changes in family structure and size: aging, migration, and HIV/AIDs, can have adverse effects on families economically, socially and culturally, unless the links are consciously looked at and dealt with.
This is equally true for China. As the most populated country in the world, China has experienced rapid demographic transitions since the 1950’s with its 1.3 billion population growing at a rate of 7 million each year. The Chinese government continues to place a high priority on family issues------issues concerning the “clothing, food, lodging and transportation” of every member of the family and the society, which normally consists of three generations, though there have been changing dynamics more recently.
China’s long-term commitment to reform over the last two decades, its strong and robust institutions and a hard-working people, have all combined to produce unprecedented progress: in the lifting of some 400-500 million people out of poverty, in transforming China into one of the largest trading nations in the world, and in meeting most of its Millennium Development Goals, some of them 11 years ahead of the 2015 targets. Yet as China’ MDG progress report, launched last March, points out, there are some remaining and some new challenges arising as a direct consequence of the rapid progress.
Growing inequalities between east and west China, between rural and urban areas and between men and women required urgent and rapid attention. Uneven development is also being manifested in the balance between economic and social development and between people and nature.
It is families, especially those who are poor, who face threats of HIV/AIDS, lack of opportunity and access to resources and services, and impoverishment by the degrading environment. The Chinese leadership is taking on these challenges through its own version of the MDGs—“xiaokang”, the concept of an all round well off society to be reached by 2020.
The National Population and Family Planning Commission and other functionaries of the government at both national and sub-national level have the challenge and the responsibility of ensuring that family issues
are fully connected to the national development agenda. It is our collective interest to help in that mission.
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家庭问题是十分复杂的，与经济、社会和文化等各方面的发展息息相关。世界各地有充分的证据证明，需要仔细地研究和对待经济、社会和文化与家庭的联系，否则老龄化、人口迁移和艾滋病等引起的家庭结构和规模的变化将在经济、社会和文化上对家庭产生负面影响。
中国也是如此。中国是世界上人口最多的国家，自20世纪50年代起经历了一个人口快速增长的时期，现有13亿人口以每年700万人的速度在增长。中国政府一贯将关系到每个社会成员衣、食、住、行等的家庭问题作为首要问题来对待。中国的家庭一般三代同堂，近年来有所变化。
中国进行了20多年的改革，拥有强大的体制和勤劳的人民，这些使中国取得了前所未有的成就，使四五亿人口成功脱贫，使中国成为世界上最大的贸易国之一，并完成了大部分的联合国千年发展目标，而且其中有些比预期的2015年提前了整整11年。然而正如去年3月发布的中国千年发展目标进度报告指出的，中国的快速发展的背后还存在一些新老问题。
中国致力于发展中欧富有活力和长期稳定的经贸合作关系，并期待欧盟成为中国最大贸易与投资伙伴： ——发挥经贸混委会机制作用，加强经贸监管政策对话；适时考虑更新《中欧贸易与经济合作协定》；运用WTO规则，妥善解决不合理限制及技术性壁垒，放宽高技术出口限制，发挥技贸合作的巨大潜力；尽早给予中国“完全市场经济地位”，减少并消除对华反倾销及有关歧视性政策和做法，慎用“特保措施”；合理补偿因欧盟扩大对中方经贸利益的减损。 ——加强中欧在世界贸易组织新一轮谈判中的协调与合作，共同推动谈判获得成功。 ——加强投资对话，推动建立双边投资促进机构，积极引导双方企业相互投资，扩大中小企业合作；开展加工贸易、承包工程和各种劳务合作，鼓励跨国经营和国际化生产。 ——欢迎欧盟增加对华发展援助，特别是在环保、扶贫、卫生保健、教育等领域的援助。同时也欢迎在加强人力资源培训、尤其是对中国中西部的人员培训、中国参与多边贸易体制的能力建设等方面发挥作用。 ——加强在质量监督检验检疫领域的合作，建立磋商机制，在维护安全、卫生、健康、环保的原则下，及时解决影响双方产品市场准入的问题。 ——加强海关合作，适时签署中欧海关协定。 （二）金融合作 建立健全中欧金融高层对话机制，扩大中欧央行间的政策交流，深化在防范金融危机、反恐融资和反洗钱方面的合作。中方欢迎欧盟成员国银行拓展对华业务，希望妥善解决中国金融机构在欧盟的市场准入问题。 中方将依照保险法规及入世承诺，积极审核欧盟成员国保险机构来华营业申请，完善监管法规体系。 加强证券立法、市场监管、投资运作合作，鼓励更多的欧盟成员国证券经营机构、基金管理机构以及其他机构投资者进入中国市场，也鼓励中国证券经营机构在条件成熟时进入欧盟证券市场，同时积极支持中国企业进入欧盟证券市场融资。
China is committed to developing dynamic, long-term and stable economic cooperation and trade with the EU and expects the latter to become China's largest trading and investment partner.
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-- Give play to the mechanism of the economic and trade joint committee and step up economic and trade regulatory policy dialogue; give attention to updating the Trade and Economic Cooperation
Agreement Between China and the European Union at an appropriate time; properly address irrational restrictions and technical barriers, ease restrictions on high-tech exports andewd tap the enormous potential of technological cooperation and trade in line with the WTO rules; grant China a full market economy status at an early date, reduce and abolish anti-dumping and other discriminatory policies and practices against China, and apply the Transitional Product-Specific Safeguard Mechanism (TPSSM) prudently; and compensate the Chinese side for its economic and trade losses which may arise due to the EU enlargement.
-- Boost China-EU coordination and cooperation in the new round of WTO negotiations and work together for the success of the negotiations.
-- Strengthen dialogue on investment, promote the establishment of bilateral investment-promotion institutions, energetically encourage and guide mutual investments between enterprises of the two sides, and expand cooperation between their small- and medium-sized enterprises; develop processing trade, contractual projects and labour cooperation of various kinds and encourage transnational business operation and internationalised production.
-- China welcomes more EU development aid, especially in such fields as the environmental protection, poverty-alleviation, public health and hygiene and education. China also welcomes a p;stronger and more active role of the EU in human resources development, in particular, personnel training for China's central and western regions and build-up of China's capacity of participating in multilateral trading regime.
-- Step up cooperation in the area of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, establish
appropriate consultation mechanisms and, subject to the principle of ensuring safety, security, hygiene, health and environmental protection, promptly address and resolve issues which may adversely affect market access of each other's products.
-- Boost the customs cooperation and conclude a China-EU Customs Agreement in due course. 2. Financial Cooperation
China and the EU should launch a high-level financial dialogue mechanism, expand exchanges
between their central banks on policies and deepen cooperation in preventing and managing financial crises and combating the financing of terrorism and money laundering. The Chinese side welcomes an expansion of China-related business by banks of the EU countries and hopes to see an appropriate settlement of the issue of Chinese financial institutions' access to the EU market.
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The Chinese side will positively examine and consider applications of EU insurance institutions for business operation in China and improve its supervisory and regulatory regime in line with the Chinese insurance laws, regulations and statutes and China's WTO commitments.
Cooperation in securities legislation, market supervision and regulation, and investment operation will be strengthened and more EU securities institutions, fund management institutions and other
institutional investors will be encouraged to enter into China's market. Chinese securities institutions will be encouraged to enter into the EU's securities market when conditions are ripe. In the meantime, Chinese enterprises will be strongly supported to raise funds in the EU's securities market.
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