China Chronicles January 1, 2013
- President's message of peace and prosperity
IN his New Year's address, Chinese President Hu Jintao said China will forge ahead with reform and opening up as well as its drive for modernization in 2013.
Wishing Chinese and people across the world a happy new year, he said that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping as general secretary, the Chinese people were forging ahead toward completing the building of a moderately prosperous society.
Hu said China would continue to transform its economic development pattern as well as pursue progress while ensuring stability in the year ahead.
China will stick to the guidelines of "one country, two systems," "Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong," and "Macau people governing Macau," with a high degree of autonomy, thus facilitating the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macau, Hu said.
"We will continue to promote the peaceful development of mainland-Taiwan ties, bring benefit to compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and guard the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation," he said.
Moreover, he said the Chinese people's determination to pursue a road of peaceful development would never waver no matter how volatile the international situation may become.
"The Chinese people are always the ones that will firmly promote world peace and development," he said. The country will encourage and adopt peaceful means to properly settle both international and regional issues, Hu said.
"China will work hard to facilitate the robust, sustainable and balanced growth of the world economy and play its role as a responsible major power," he added.
- Be happy, here comes Year of the Snake!
HONG Kong feng shui master Raymond Lo says 2013 will be less turbulent than 2012 because the Chinese New Year in February will usher in the Year of the Snake, bringing an end to the Year of the Dragon, which was associated with water. Water is one of the five elements in feng shui theory, the Chinese practice of arranging objects and choosing dates to improve luck.
"Water is fear. So that's why we have had so much turbulence especially in the winter months," such as doomsday prophecies, school attacks and concern about the economy, said Lo. "But the good news is that the coming Year of the Snake is the first time that fire has come back since 2007. Fire actually is the opposite to water, fire is happiness. So therefore the Year of the Snake is a much more optimistic year. So you can see signs of economic recovery now," he said.
- duality is evil
- Our Little Holly and Uncle Mauro
johey24 has added a photo to the pool:
For her 1st New Year's Eve she visited us here at home tonight. I know I am biased but isn't she just the most beautiful little thing!! Six months old and she almost never cries. She simply sits there, taking in this big world around her and more often than not just giggles at it all.
100 days old
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12 days old
www.flickr.com/photos/7830239@N06/7445665060/ - Holly
johey24 has added a photo to the pool:
I know I am biased but isn't she just the most beautiful little thing!!
- New Year gifts for Tibetan kids
Children hold their new down jackets in a village near Lahsa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region. The Tibet Gaoshan Culture Development Foundation today distributed 140 down jackets, valued at 70,000 yuan (US$11,240), as New Year gifts to the children. -- Xinhua
- Medical student kills rival in love with an axe
AN Anhui Medical University student who killed another student with an axe was arrested today, prosecutors in Hefei, capital of Anhui Province said yesterday.
A local newspaper, Xin'an Evening News, said the senior student surnamed Hu had a dispute with the victim, a junior student surnamed Tan, over the same girlfriend. They had several quarrels and Hu decided to kill Tan.
He bought an axe from an online shop in late November and took the weapon to the classroom on December 19 to wait for Tan to appear. When Tan showed up at about 8am, Hu hacked at him repeatedly and killed him on the spot.
Hu was apprehended by the school's security guards immediately. - Medical student kills rival in love with an axe
AN Anhui Medical University student who killed another student with an axe was arrested today, prosecutors in Hefei, capital of Anhui Province said yesterday.
A local newspaper, Xin'an Evening News, said the senior student surnamed Hu had a dispute with the victim, a junior student surnamed Tan, over the same girlfriend. They had several quarrels and Hu decided to kill Tan.
He bought an axe from an online shop in late November and took the weapon to the classroom on December 19 to wait for Tan to appear. When Tan showed up at about 8am, Hu hacked at him repeatedly and killed him on the spot.
Hu was apprehended by the school's security guards immediately. - 7 dead in central China road accident
SEVEN people, including two children, were killed and five others injured after a head-on collision between a minibus and an SUV Sunday afternoon in central China's Hubei Province.
The minibus collided with the SUV at around 3:00 p.m. on a section of National Highway 106 in Tongshan County of Xianning City. The icy road due to days of snow and sleet contributed to the collision, a local government spokesman said Monday morning.
Seven died at the scene. The five injured were rushed to a local hospital for treatment, the spokesman said.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
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