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Sun Wukong, also known as the Monkey King, is a main cha-racter in the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West. Sun

Wukong is also found in many later stories and adaptations. In the novel, he is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through Taoist practices. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, he later ac-companies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India.

Sun Wukong possesses an im-mense amount of strength; he is able to lift his 13,500 jīn (7,960 kilograms (17,550 lb)) staff with

ease. He is also extremely fast, able to travel 108,000 li (54,000 kilometres (34,000 mi)) in one somersault. Sun knows 72 transformations, which allow him to transform into various animals and objects; however, he is troubled in transforming into other forms, due to the accompanying incomplete transfor-mation of his tail. Sun Wukong is a ski-lled fighter, capable of holding his own against the best warriors of heaven. Also, each of his hairs possess magical properties, capable of being transfor-med into clones of the Monkey King himself, and/or into various weapons, animals, and other objects. He also knows spells that can command wind, part water, conjure protective circles against demons, and freeze humans, demons, and gods alike.

Once the most enduring Chi-nese literary characters, Sun Wukong has a varied back-ground and colorful cultu-

ral history. For example, Sun Wukong is considered by some scholars to be influenced by both the Hindu deity Ha-numan from Ramayana and elements of Chinese folklore.

We have reached the Year of the Monkey.

According to Chinese Five Elements Horoscopes, Monkey contains Metal and Water. Metal is connected to

gold. Water is connected to wisdom and danger. Therefore, you will deal with more financial events in the year of the Monkey. Monkey is a smart, naughty, wily and vigilant animal. If you want to have good return for your money investment, then you need to outsmart the Monkey. Metal is also connected to the Wind. That implies the status of events will be changing very quickly. Think twice before you leap when making changes for your finance, career, business relationship and people relationship.

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Free Trade Zones to lead the way

EU - China 2020 Agenda

Croc legumes

HKETO welcomes 2016

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Imports new trend in festival tradition

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30 Haindl’s since 1865

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3 Monts - Westemalle double

Peggy Diggeldey

Pampers18

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Merkel’s Visit to China27

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The company was established by Johann

Schowanek in 1908 and he named it after

himself —Schowanek and the company De-

toa Albrechtice Ltd. became its continuator.

The Schowanek company was one of the re-

putable producers of wooden toys and turned

beads in the ?rst half of the 20th century while

exporting its products worldwide. In its ?elds

it was recognized as the biggest and the most

ef?cient factory of wooden beads and but-

tons in Europe. In 1927 the production range

was extended to include wooden toys, which

boosted the renown of the company. After

1945 factory began to produce mechanics for

upright pianos, with grand piano mechanics

and keyboards coming later. The factory is

now the largest and oldest producer of Woo-

den toys, parlour game components, wooden

beads, upright and grand piano mechanics

and keyboards in the Czech Republic.

DETOA toys meet the requirements of actual Europian authorization and international safety standards. Our products are being

closely tested during the process of manufacturig. They must agree with the Europian standard EN71 and the result of tests is

the safety mark. Our products are made of quality hardwood (maple, beech and hornbeam), that is lumbered mostly in the mou-

ntainous regions of the Central Europe.

If you want to know more, please sent us your inquiry to [email protected] or [email protected]

In present days the company cencentrates on the co-operation with well-knouwn foreign companies, for

which the company produces wooden toys, gift items and board games components. Apart from this cus-

tomized production the company still develops its own line of wooden beads, boards games components,

wooden toys and complete upright and grand piano actions and keyboards.

All products are designed mostly for the youngest children; therefore, quite a lot attention is given to the

technological process and completion. Consequently, permanent and high quality of products made by DE-

TOA Albrechtice, s. r. o. is guaranteed.

The range of products —— Baby range, Pull-along toys, Build and play, Teasers and Puzzles, Board games, Press up toys,

Jewellery, Play Theaters.


Every year DETOA takes part in prestigious fair related to the toy — The International Spielwarenmesse in

Nuremberg. DETOA has been exhibiting there since 1996.

Hong Kong Welcomes the Chinese year of the monkey 2016Year of the monkey brings energy and creativity

Once again the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) has invited to the

Chinese New Year welcome to celebrate the new year of the monkey 2016, held in

the foyer of the Deutsche Bank in Berlin. Ms. Betty Ho, director of the HKETO Berlin

welcomed the numerous guests and representatives of industry, trade, government

and politics from Germany, China and Hong Kong.

Mrs. Ho explained that one of the most important opportunities is the implementation

of Chinas Road and Belt initiative. The initiative aims at connecting the vibrant East

Asia economic circle at one end and developed European economic circle at the

other end.

“The Belt and Road initiative will result in soaring investment in infrastructural facilities, deepe-

ning financial integration, expanding trade and the building of people-to-people bonds. Hong

Kong, being the gateway for doing business with Mainland China, will continue to provide

the platform for finance, logistics and professional services for trades and projects under this

initiative”, Ms. Ho concluded (1).

Germany is the largest trade partner of Hong Kong among all European countries. In 2014

the German Federal Statistics Office (Statistisches Bundesamt) has recorded a total bilateral

trade volume of 7,39 billion Euros. This makes Germany the no. 10 of the worldwide trade

partners of Hong Kong and the largest partner in Europe. Additionally Hong Kong is one of the

major ports for Germany’s export and imports to China (2).

In order to strengthen the business relations between Germany and Hong Kong, Dr. Wing-hin

Chung, leader of the department of investment development of the HKETO explains, that “the

Government of the Special Administration Region of Hong Kong has developed new initiati-

ves, to establish the city as a new regional start-up center. This initiative addresses in parti-

cular small and medium sized companies from the sector of innovation and technology”(3).

I.e. on January 21st the HKETO has announced a new cooperation with ALBA Group from

Berlin, one of the leading recycling specialists in Germany. ALBA Group announces that they

will build the most modern recycling facility for waste electronic and electrical equipment in

Southeast Asia (4).

Ms. Betty Ho, Director HKETO

Dr. Wing-hin Chung, HKETO Berlin

Cultural highlight of the New Year’s event was the performance of the Windpipe Ensemble from Hong Kong that played tradi-

tional Chinese music. The Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble promotes Chinese and Hong Kong music culture. The ensemble

features different types of classical Chinese instruments played by young musicians from Hong Kong (5).

Hong Kong with its large music and film industry is one of cultural cen-

ters of Chinese culture and history, which is equally popular in Hong

Kong and China and also all over the world. Music is one of the stron-

gest cultural links that has the power to join people worldwide. This is

also reflected in the history of the music instruments that were shown

by the Windpipe Ensemble.

Gaohu player Chan Pik-sum

For example the Gaohu, a two-stringed fiddle that was developed from the Chinese

Erhu, origins from Central Asia’s endless plains already several thousand years

ago. From there it made its way all over China, making it one of the essential ins-

truments in classical Chinese music. Same as the Pipa, the four string lute that was

created somewhere on the Silk Road and joins a large family of instruments from

Southeast Asia, to the Near East and Europe.

About Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Berlin

HKETO Berlin is the official Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government

representative in commercial relations and other economic and trade matters in

Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Slo-

venia and Switzerland.

1 HKETO Berlin, Press release 05.02.2016, „Year of the monkey brings energy and creativity“

2 Statistische Bundesamt. 22.10.2015, „Außenhandel, Rangfolge der Handelspartner im Außenhandel der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“

3 HKETO Berlin, Press release 01.09.2015, „Hongkong – Asiens Zentrum für Forschung und Entwicklung.

4 HKETO Berlin, Press release 16.01.2016, „Construction of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Treatment and Recycling Facility commences”.

5 Windpipe Chinese Music Ensemble, www.hkwindpipe.org

All pictures by Lars Kellner, Point Group Europe 9


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“Chinese New Year is the most celebrated festival and holiday in China, and is traditionally a time to go shopping,” says Frank Zhang, general manager of SAP Hybris Greater China, an e-commerce software company. “This is a great opportunity for e-commerce companies to increase busi-ness, and for low-profile major rural brands to win exposure in smaller cities.”

E-commerce companies are selling foreign goods in the hope of enticing Chinese consumers who wish to add an exotic twist to their shopping.

Leading the charge was Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Mul-tinational brands and retailers on its Tmall Global, an online platform dedicated to selling imported products to Chinese shoppers, began preparations for this year’s Spring Festival sales offensive as early as November. On offer were 5,000 brands from 25 countries.

Lest the offerings be interpreted as an invasion by for-eign brands, Daniel Zhang, Alibaba Group’s chief executive, said at this year’s sales launch that the aim is “to enable rural customers to access an extensive range of new year’s goods from home and abroad, while making products from rural China more available among urban customers”.

The overseas goods Zhang talked of include 150 tons of chocolates made in Italy, 20,000 Canadian deep-sea lob-sters, 50 tons of Australian beef and 500,000 bottles of wine from France.

Alibaba says its best-selling imported goods are mater-nity and baby products, accounting for nearly 30 percent of total sales, and imported food, accounting for about 25 per-cent.

JD.com Inc, Alibaba’s main rival, began a monthlong Spring Festival sales drive on Jan 4, offering consumers a host of products including food, beverages, baby and mater-nity products, and cosmetics.

Amazon.cn, the China unit of the US e-commerce giant, launched a Chinese New Year sales festival on Jan 11 with more than 9 million overseas products. It worked out its lo-gistics four months before Spring Festival.

Imports new trend in festival tradition

Chinese consumers reached across the globe via e-commerce more than ever this year to stock up on traditional Lunar New Year’s feasts and gifts

Every Spring Festival, Xu Xiaoding, 55, of Ningbo, in East China’s Zhejiang province, lovingly and painstakingly cooks a fantastic banquet consisting of more than 10 cours-es for his extended family.

Typically, Xu’s preparations would start weeks in ad-vance. The best of vegetables, meat, spices, fruit, drinks and dairy are sourced from numerous local markets.

This year, however, Xu’s efforts took a radically differ-ent turn. Without stepping out of his home, he went global, thanks to e-commerce.

The result was an exotic meal for his children, grandchil-dren and relatives. It included not only traditional Chinese food, but also seafood from New Zealand, cherries from Chile and wine from Australia.

“I started to look online because I couldn’t find the spe-cial kind of rice cake my pregnant daughter really loves,” he says. “Then I couldn’t stop clicking on the pictures of other products. There turned out to be so many options online with even better deals compared with what regular shops offer.”

Xu is among the growing number of Chinese consum-ers who are embracing online shopping. In doing so, they spawned sales worth hundreds of billions of yuan from mid-January to mid-February for the Chinese New Year.

That’s glad tidings for China’s e-commerce players, who are flush with the record-breaking success of the so-called Singles Day online shopping festival on Nov 11.

Zhang Jianbin (right), a farmer in Wujiazhuang village, Shaanxi province, places

orders for foreign-made goods on Taobao with the help of an employee from the

website's customer service section. Provided to China Daily

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Laura Xiong, vice-president and marketing head of JD.com, says market research shows many shoppers, es-pecially those in the largest, first-tier cities, were keen on buying imported goods to celebrate the festival.

“Young people love to take imported foods to their home-towns as gifts,” she says, adding even those in rural areas have shown great interest in vodka, French wine and im-ported foods, as they are eager to try something unusual, in keeping with the festival mood.

She says a growing number of people shop online and choose to have their shopping delivered directly to their par-ents through couriers, so they can travel home light. “It just takes a little bit more time to deliver imported goods in inte-rior areas,” Xiong says.

Niu Yinghua, vice-president of Amazon China, says big data technology helps predict products with high demand before Spring Festival. “Our US center can send out pack-ages within one hour of receiving an order. It takes only six to eight days for Chinese shoppers to get their Spring Festival purchases.”

Not everyone is impressed. Critics of online shopping festivals think consumers have already spent a lot of money during the Nov 11 event and subsequent events like Black Friday and 12-12 (Dec 12). The concern is that frequent on-line sales could over-exploit the consumption power of Chi-nese shoppers.

But Niu disagrees. “Nov 11 was about bargain-hunting. The Black Friday event was more about high-end overseas products. But Spring Festival shopping can be for everything, from clothes, toys and food to something related to home decoration.”

The market is big enough for e-commerce players to tap, she says.

Lu Zhenwang, an independent Internet expert and chief ex-ecutive of Shanghai-based Wanqing Consultancy, says: “Spring Festival can be another big online shopping event if e-com-merce players handle it properly.”

But Xiong at JD.com, believes the convenience of e-com-merce will persuade more consumers to go online to shop soon-er or later. “People tend to finish shopping one week ahead of Spring Festival because many brick-and-mortar stores close as the Chinese New Year nears.

“So, starting this year, we will offer nonstop delivery services during Spring Festival. Shoppers will get the same fast delivery during the holiday. In the long run, we hope the service will change customers’ shopping habits.”

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Relations between the EU and China have developed fast since diplomatic ties were established in 1975. In particular, the creation of the EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2003 has deepened and broadened cooperation in a wide range of areas, and the EU and China have become highly interdependent as a result.

The world of today is experiencing profound and complex chang-es. As important actors in a multipolar world, the EU and China share responsibility for promoting peace, prosperity and sustainable devel-opment for the benefit of all.

They agree to continue to consolidate and develop their strategic partnership to the benefit of both sides, based on the principles of equality, respect and trust. The EU reaffirms its respect for China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. China reaffirms its support to EU integration.

The EU and China have both put forward strategic development plans - China’s two centenary goals and the 12th Five Year Plan, the EU 2020 Strategy - which present potential for synergies to enhance cooperation for win-win results. The two sides are committed to pro-moting the EU-China Comprehensive strategic Partnership in the next decade.

In that perspective, both sides jointly adopted the EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation. The two sides will fully implement the Strategic Agenda for Cooperation through their annual Summit, which provides strategic guidance to their relationship; through the three pillars directly underpinning the Summit (the annual High Level Strategic Dialogue, the annual High Level Economic and Trade Dia-logue, and the bi-annual People-to-People Dialogue); through their regular meetings of counterparts and through their broad range of sectoral dialogues.

These objectives will be reviewed annually and reported to the Summit which will, when appropriate, consider further complementary initiatives.

I. PEACE AND SECURITY

The world’s trends toward multipolarity and economic globalisa-tion are deepening. The importance of cultural diversity is growing, and an information society is fast emerging. Countries are increas-ingly interdependent, with their interests more closely intertwined than ever before. On the other hand, the world is still far from being peace-ful. The global financial crisis has had a far-reaching impact. Imbal-ance in global development has widened.

International and local conflicts keep breaking out. Convention-al and non conventional security issues are interwoven. However, peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit have become the trend of the times. Promoting multilateralism remains crucial to en-sure effective, coordinated and coherent responses to pressing global challenges.

As important actors in a multipolar world, the EU and China commit to enhancing dialogue and coordination at bilateral, re-gional and global levels, to meet regional and global challenges to-gether, and work to make the international order and system more just and equitable.

II. PROSPERITY

The EU and China enjoy one of the world’s biggest and most dynamic trading relationships. Their trade and investment ex-changes have become a major engine driving their respective eco-nomic development and innovation. Both sides share responsibil-ity for ensuring that their economies remain key drivers for global economic growth and providing prosperity for all.

They are committed to building a world economy where all coun-tries enjoy development and innovation, interconnected growth, interests converging, and firmly safeguarding and developing an open world economy. In that perspective, they are determined to enhance further their trade and investment relationship towards 2020 in a spirit of mutual benefit, by promoting open, transparent markets and a level-playing field. Particular importance will be paid to improving opportunities for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).

III. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The EU and China face the common task of achieving inno-vative, inclusive and sustainable development. Addressing climate change, protecting the environment, promoting transparent inter-national energy markets and facilitating resource-efficient, far-reaching, socially inclusive and low-carbon development policies are high on the international action list.

Emerging green sectors contribute to sustainable growth of the global economy and are creating new business opportunities for Chinese and European companies. Green growth should therefore become a key area of strategic and practical EU-China coopera-tion.

The EU and China are committed to continue promoting coop-eration on the environmental flagship initiatives developed respec-tively by China and the EU, with a view to maximising the mutual synergies between China’s ecological civilization and the Europe-an Union’s resource efficiency agenda.

Both sides agree that innovation has an important contribution to make to achieve sustainable development, and that effective protection of Intellectual Property Rights is crucial to support the effective development and deployment of innovative solutions and emerging industries.

EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation

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IV. PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE EXCHANGES

People-to-people exchanges are an essential vector of peace, while contributing to economic development. Together the EU and China represent over a quarter of the world’s population.

Expanding contacts between peoples on both sides is crucial to enhance common understanding and foster cross-fertilisation between societies.

In addition, in order to ensure sustainable development, a num-ber of important social challenges need to be addressed, including social security and health care, high and quality employment and demographic ageing. The EU and China have a common responsi-bility for advancing global development.

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/china/

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Caring For Your Baby’s World

For over 50 years parents have trusted Pampers to care for their babies and nothing is more important to us than the happy, healthy develop-ment of babies. This is a responsibility we take to heart and it inspires us to continue making better products that help keep your baby’s skin as dry and comfortable as possible.

The simple fact is that P&G grow and develop their products, they must continue to do so responsibly. Yes, this means finding ways to make better products for your baby, but it also means continuing to find ways to live up to their promise of caring for your baby’s world. Pampers are doing this in the following ways:

• Reducing our environmental impact read more• Supporting happy, healthy babies around the world read more • Helping communities to thrive read more

Pampers want to help achieve a better future that will benefit babies’ development, now and for generations to come.

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Who is Peggy?

Peggy Diggledey is a 6-year old girl who lives with her parents on a small island in the north of Germany. Peggy and her many friends lead an adventurous life on their little island.

The island really exists…almost in real.

And so does Peggy! Her imagination, her energy, her vitality and her zest for life…. there’s a bit of Peggy Diggledey in every adventurous little girl out there.

Peggy has real pirate blood flowing through her veins and believes that her great-, great-, great-grandfather was a famous pirate. It is said on the island that he was one of the good ones.

Together with her friends Lisa, John and Phil, she experiences at least one small adventure every day. Her constant companion is a shaggy white dog called Klabauter. Pelle the parrot and Edgar the donkey are also a part of the Diggledey family. Peggy’s parents, Loretta and Robert, run a small hotel on their property.

Peggy, Lisa, John and Phil are extremely proud of their driftwood house down at the beach. They built it all by themselves. If one doesn’t find them at the beach, one can be sure that they are on their bikes exploring the island and searching for the next adventure.

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WRITTEN BY ZHONG NAN in Shanghai and LIU CE in Shenyang(China Daily)

Free Trade Zones to lead the way

Local trade areas to feature prominently in next stage of the country’s growth

Every stage of China’s development can be likened to a sporting event played by local governments.

Since the start of the 1990s, the areas in which local au-thorities have competed include foreign direct investment, new airports with direct flights to popular overseas destina-tions, sprawling urban plans featuring exotic public buildings or office buildings, and high-speed rail services.

But what next, with the economy undergoing a difficult transition and almost every industry seeing a slowdown in growth?

News emerging from provincial-level policymaking meet-ings held before the annual session of the National People’s Congress in March is that setting up local free trade zones will mark the next stage of the nation’s development.

Local governments will embark on a new round of com-petition to obtain central government approval for such zones and to show who can run a local FTZ most successfully.

Commerce officials say that the competition will probably continue throughout the nation’s 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20).

Also called tariff-free zones, FTZs are areas within which goods can be imported, processed and exported without go-ing through customs inspections. Foreign investors can set up facilities in industries that are restricted elsewhere in the country.

FTZs are designed to provide greater access and con-venience for foreign companies to expand in China and for Chinese companies to move money abroad — in diverse services and financial operations, as well as in manufactur-ing.

For foreign enterprises from developed economies, FTZs can help establish beachheads quickly in important

services such as health and education, said Liu Chen-yang, a researcher with the APEC study center at Nankai University, Tianjin.

Liaoning, Henan and Hai-nan provinces and the Ningxia Hui autonomous region have officially included their con-cepts for local FTZs into their plans for 2016.

The chance for these provinces to get the green light from the central government seems good, development spe-cialists and officials say. A new batch of FTZs is expected to be finalized in the first half of the year, although not all provinces will be satisfied.

The nation right now has four FTZs, all along its coast-line. It established its first pilot FTZ in Shanghai in August 2013, and three more in Tianjin, Fujian and Guangdong in April.

In December, the State Council issued its “Opinions on Speeding up the Implementation of FTZ Strategy”, which promised to build more FTZs.

Most likely, the new batch will give priority to inland areas that play a key role in the Belt and Road Initiative, connecting with countries across Eurasia.

Tang Wenhong, director-general of the Ministry of Com-merce’s Department of Foreign Investment Administration, said the new batch is also expected to increase China’s competitiveness in the Asia-Pacific region.

Li Xi, Party chief of Liaoning province, said he is expect-ing the central government to approve the China (Dalian) Pilot Free Trade Zone quickly so that it can help the longtime industrial province reverse its rapid decline in business ac-tivity.

“The Dalian FTZ is designed not just as a copy of oth-ers but as one that is more regionally integrated, targeted and differentiated in its own functions, backed by a strong in-dustrial foundation and strategic positioning” compared with Japan, Russia, Mongolia and the Korean Peninsula, Li said.

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A free-trade zone in Dalian — an international shipping center and regional finance center in Northeast Asia — could boost trade volume between overseas markets and China’s northeastern provinces and the eastern Inner Mongolia au-tonomous region, according to Bai Ming, a researcher at the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.

In particular, it could help Liaoning, which has suffered from a decline in overseas demand and rising wages, to reori-ent its business for the 21st century.

“For sustainable growth, local officials must pay attention to job creation,” Bai said. “They should design new FTZs imaginatively so that they are more regionally integrated. They should not blindly copy existing FTZs.”

At the moment, FTZs make up only a tiny part of China’s economy. But they represent a future scenario for success. In the long run, economists expect the entire country’s economy and economic regime to become more like today’s FTZs.

In a few years, experts say, they will help China get used to a more competitive and more collaborative global busi-ness environment.

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Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone is looking to innovation, March 6, 2015. [Photo/IC]

Third batch of free trade zones to be finalized shortly

The third batch of free trade zones (FTZs) is expected to be finalized shortly, with inland areas and provinces along the Belt and

Road getting priority, China Securities Journal reported on Monday. As an important measure to promote regional economic de-

velopment, applying for FTZ and taking part in the construction of the Belt and Road have been put forward at local governments'

two sessions since the beginning of the year.

Last month, the State Council issued the Opinions on Speeding up the Implementation of Free Trade Zone Strategy, which

proposed to further optimize the construction layout of the free trade zones and quicken the implementation of the FTZ strategy.

Henan CPPCC Chairman Ye Dongsong put forward the construction of Henan FTZ for the first time at the central province's two

sessions on Saturday.

Ye said the provincial government will intensify efforts to improve the construction and competitive edge of Zhengzhou Airport

Comprehensive Economic Experimental Zone, apply for Henan Free Trade Zone, and build Zhengzhou Cross-border E-commer-

ce Pilot Zone.

Shaanxi, a major province along the Belt and Road, has called for FTZ construction in northwestern province. Shaanxi governor

Lou Qinjian said on Sunday that the province will actively try to build Shaanxi Pilot Free Trade Zone, promote trade facilitation,

and establish cooperation with 13 domestic port cities.

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German-Chinese cooperation between SMEs: State Secretary Gleicke chairs fifth

German-Chinese SME consultations

Iris Gleicke, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and Federal Government Com-missioner for Small and Medium-sized En-terprises, travelled to China to chair the fifth German-Chinese SME consultations on 16 - 20 January 2016. The German delegation was joined at the event by representatives of the Sino-German chamber of commerce and of Germany Trade and Invest (gtai).

Many opportunities for SMEs, but reliable framework conditions important In Jieyang (Guangdong Province), State Secretary Gleicke exchanged opinions on current SME policy issues with China's Deputy Mi-nister for Industry and Information Technolo-gy, Dr Fei Feng. Ms Gleicke underlined that in her view China's transformation towards a more sustainable, innovation-based growth model provides many opportunities for the future cooperation of German and Chinese SMEs, e.g. in the fields of environmental te-chnologies, energy efficiency and recycling.

At the same time, she called for further re-forms to be implemented by the Chinese go-vernment. State Secretary Gleicke said: "We need a real level playing field. This means that the rules applying to Chinese compa-nies must equally apply to foreign compa-nies in China. The protection of intellectual property rights must be effectively enforced. German SMEs and start-ups will only have trust and open up to more cooperation in in-novative fields if these conditions are met."German-Chinese SME policy consultations have been held regularly since 2006, alter-nately in Germany and China. They aim to improve economic policy cooperation espe-cially in the interest of small and medium-sized enterprises of the two countries.

You can find further information (in German) about the bilateral economic relations and a country portrait of China on the website of Germany Trade and Invest (gtai).

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Economic cooperation tops agenda for Merkel’s China visit

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“The close contact and exchanges of visits bet-ween Chinese and German leaders revealed the momentum with which our relations are de-veloping,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping in his meeting with Merkel.

Xi called on both sides to consolidate trust, ac-commodate their respective core interests and major concerns, and achieve new progress in their cooperation in finance, urbanization, ag-riculture, electric vehicles, environmental pro-tection, culture and protection of the disadvan-taged.

He urged Germany to help facilitate China-EU personnel exchanges and speed up negotia-tion on a China-EU investment treaty.

Merkel in turn vowed to boost bilateral trade, industrial and financial cooperation, and par-ticipate in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Invest-ment Bank.

Her visit comes a week after Xi visited Britain, and days before French President Francois Hollande’s state visit to China.

Economic cooperation tops agenda for Merkel’s China visit

BEIJING -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel is making her eighth visit to China with strengthening economic links atop her agenda.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Merkel wit-nessed the signing of 13 cooperation agre-ements after their talks on Thursday, inclu-ding a deal for China to buy 130 aircraft from Airbus.

The planes have a list price of 17 billion US dollars, making the deal one of the largest orders China has ever placed with the Euro-pean aviation giant.

MERKEL THE SINOPHILE

Merkel landed in Beijing earlier on Thursday, becoming the most frequent visitor to China among Western leaders. Since 2005, she had paid seven visits to China as German chancellor and spent time in seven Chinese cities.

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