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HANGZHOU, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Fifty-year-old Shanghai native Yang Liyou had been doing research on solar cells in the United States for many years, but when he came back to Zhejiang Province, he became a "shipmaster."
"Let's buy a ship together, and you could be the captain," Yang was quoting Nan Cunhui, board chairman of an low-voltage electrical manufacturing company, who described their relationship five years ago when he invited Yang to help the company compete in the solar energy industry.
In October 2006, Yang became president and CEO of Astronergy Solar, a leading photovoltaic manufacturer under the CHINT Group, Nan's company.
"Many returned Chinese talents possess advanced projects and competent research teams, but what they lack are funds and the ability to put everything into practical operation," Yang said, adding that getting used to doing things the Western way might also get them into trouble in China.
Yang believes the best way is to unite overseas Chinese talents with domestic privately-owned companies.
"China's private companies are more familiar with the local enterprise environment, and they can handle detail issues more easily and effectively," he said.
Figures from the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange under the Ministry of Education show that more than 1.9 million Chinese went overseas for study from 1978 to 2010, and 632,000, or more than 33 percent, have returned home.
According to the center, 134,800 learners returned to China in 2010, up 24 percent year-on-year.
The hike came following the global financial crisis when many foreign countries, including the United States, Australia and Singapore, tightened their immigration policies, while China became a hotspot for overseas Chinese with its unique working environment and policies.
According to a circular made public earlier this year by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, enterprises started by Chinese entrepreneurs who have returned from overseas that have good innovation capacity and market prospects can receive substantial support, such as a proportion of their start-up capital during their start-up phases.
Further, the government will collect corporate income tax from recognized state-encouraged high-tech enterprises led by overseas Chinese entrepreneurs at a lower rate of 15 percent.
Meanwhile, local governments are aiming to allure overseas-educated talents to boost regional development.
In Zhejiang, which is home to the most vibrant private businesses and one of the richest provinces in China, high-level overseas talents can receive a one-off bonus of 500,000 yuan (77,000 U.S. dollars) as long as they spend two to six months working in the province for three consecutive years.
The government of Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, plans to attract 150 domestic and overseas elites from 2009 to 2013 to boost the city's technology innovation drive by spending 100 million yuan every year to support them in start-up capital, research funding, housing and living allowance.
According to Shen Youzhong, an official with the management committee of the Zhejiang Overseas High-level Talents Innovation Park, 200 overseas enterprises have opened their businesses in the park so far, and half of them involve overseas returned Chinese and capitals from domestic private groups.
"With vigorous policy support from the government, China's economic development has a lot of potential," said returned Chinese Charlie Xiang, CEO of the Hangzhou-based S-Evans Biosciences.
According to Xiang, after graduating from the University of Waterloo in Canada, flourishing development opportunities enticed him to bring his stem cell project back to China in 2009. And very soon, he set up S-Evans Biosciences with the investment of a private company in Hangzhou.
Xiang, known for his long-term research on stem cells, is now a leading scientist in China's "Program 973," also known as the National Key Fundamental Research Development Program.
"Returning to China to start a career is now a consensus among many overseas Chinese," Xiang said.

URUMQI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Three people were confirmed dead after a mudslide Saturday in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local government sources said Sunday.
The mudslide occurred at around 5:38 p.m. Saturday in Ke'erguti township of Hejing County, trapping 37 tourists, according to the information office of the government of Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, which holds jurisdiction over Hejing.
Rescuers have retrieved three bodies and saved the other 34 people.
The 37 tourists grouped voluntarily through the Internet. The township was located at a gorge 96 km to the northeast of the county seat of Hejing.

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MAKE IT UNDERSTOOD
The key for TCM's globalization is to make it understood by Westerners, Shau said, adding that efforts should be made to "modernize it and use science to prove it" by answering the question, what kind of mechanism on Earth uses TCM for treatment?
"But never use the concept of Western medicine to explain TCM," he warned.
The concept of TCM is a reflection of China's dialectic philosophy. In TCM, the understanding of the human body is based on the holistic understanding of the universe as described in Taoism, and the treatment of illness is based primarily on the diagnosis and differentiation of syndromes.
Traditional Chinese culture, with thousands of years of history, enabled TCM to pass from one generation to another. TCM includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage and dietary therapies, which are a common part of medical care throughout East Asia but are considered alternative medicine in the West.
Western medicine, developed in only hundreds of years and encompassing methods such as surgery and radiation, cannot cure all diseases and is weak at infectious disease prevention, which is exactly TCM's strength, according to Shau, who said that TCM "has every reason to develop and thrive."
Honeysuckle, a major TCM ingredient, sold out during an outbreak of the A/H1N1 influenza in 2009, which caused nearly 180 deaths in China, as the herb was said to prevent the infectious disease. Its price surged ten fold due to the intense demand.
Despite TCM's magical effect, it's not a testable method, which complicates research on TCM's efficacy.
TCM uses different physiological and disease models from that of modern medicine, and makes a number of assumptions that are inconsistent with scientific principles.
"It's very difficult to explain TCM to Western medicine practitioners, as the two have fundamentally different language systems and for them, TCM is a foreign language," said Prof. Wang Yanhui of Xiamen University's Medical College.
To make TCM a universal language, Shau said the mainland and Taiwan should join to improve TCM's "clinical evidence," introduce new methods such as "using genes to prove its curative effect," and draw up a standard in order to break its international hurdles.
"Currently, there are no standards for TCM, so the mainland and Taiwan should work together to formulate one accepted by the global market," Shau said.
However, Prof. Wang said a standard is "hard to establish," as it is difficult to "quantify" TCM therapies. For example, different physicians would prescribe different medicine to different patients even if they share the same illness, but practitioners of both sides look forward to a standard.

SEEK STATUS
In Taiwan, efforts of seeking status for TCM have never ceased, as the herbal medicine's development there is far less rosy than that on the mainland, Shau said, adding that TCM accounts for less than one twentieth of the entire medical sector on the island, whereas it takes up about one quarter on the mainland.
TCM in Taiwan is considered an alternative medicine, and TCM hospitals are banned, whereas such hospitals are thriving on the mainland, and its development has been put into the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).
"In order to promote TCM in Taiwan, many practitioners turned to outside markets, especially the West, decades ago, to persuade Westerners to understand or accept TCM," Shau said.
Taiwan should share with its mainland counterpart its experience of overseas promotion and the medicine's modernization, he said.
Traditional TCM holds that doctors prescribe medicinal ingredients for patients who will decoct them in pots at home or ask pharmacists to do so, but it's not convenient for the users to always take decoction with them.
"Busy people prefer a 'pill' instead of decoction, and instead of pure treatment, some use TCM for health care and disease prevention," Shau said, adding that Taiwan is working hard to modernize TCM manufacturing and service.
However, both TCM sectors of the mainland and Taiwan still cannot reach a consensus on some modernization methods.
Mainland practitioners usually stick to the traditional way of decoction, but some Taiwan doctors believe that the efficacy would be greatly differentiated after the prescribed ingredients are watered. Instead, Taiwan manufacturers use modern technology to extract ingredients into powders so that when taking medicine, users can take the powders while drinking some water.
"TCM physicians across the Taiwan Strait should conduct exchanges more often to discuss the differences and improve the medicine," Shau said.
Wang Chengde, director of the department in charge of exchanges with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan under the State Administration of TCM, said that Taiwan boasts "abundant experience and channels for TCM's international marketing."
"Before the mainland's reform and opening up in the late 1970s, Taiwan TCM practitioners set up clinics overseas, helping the medicine's overseas promotion," Wang said.
Moreover, granular formulation's production on the island is more mature than that of the mainland, and Taiwan's TCM granules have been exported to many countries, he said, adding that the island's TCM could "seek development with the help of the mainland's huge market."
According to a cross-Strait medical cooperation agreement signed last December in Taipei, the mainland and Taiwan will conduct more cooperation on measures ensuring safety of herbal medicinal materials and TCM clinical research and academic study, which Shau said establishes "a solid platform for TCM's joint promotion."
Based on the agreement, Wang said the two sides could jointly develop new drugs and share qualification and clinical data, which would help accelerate the process for new drugs to hit the market.
However, as for TCM preparations, produced by both sides respectively, they could not enter the other's market due to different drug standards, he said.
The two sides started TCM cooperation as early as the late 1980s when some Taiwan medical students came to study in mainland schools such as Xiamen University's Medical College in Fujian Province, facing Taiwan across the Strait, where people used the same Minnan dialect with that used in Taiwan, Wang said, adding that TCM cooperation across the Strait had never been affected by political changes.
Mainland-Taiwan relations entered a tense era after the Kuomintang lost a civil war with the Communist Party of China and fled to Taiwan in the late 1940s. In the 1980s, Taiwanese were allowed to visit the mainland, and TCM became the earliest field of cross-Strait exchanges.
Currently, TCM cooperation across the Strait covers education, academic research and trade. More than 90 percent of Taiwan's TCM raw materials are imported from the mainland, Wang said.
He said the two sides would jointly develop new drugs for the international market to combat cancer and other major infectious and autoimmune diseases.

HANGZHOU, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Fu Xianjun, a farmer in east China's Zhejiang Province, stared at his submerged cropland, smoking one cigarette after another.
"This is the biggest flood I've ever seen in 20 years," Fu said, who has more than 25 hectares of rice fields in Longyou County. "The crops were looking good, but now they're under about two meters of water."
Fu is working day and night, trying to drain away the water. "I can only save 20 percent of the crops at most, and the flood will at least lead to an economic loss of 500,000 yuan (77,279 U. S. Dollars)," Fu said with a sigh.
Fu's frustration is shared by many farmers as several rounds of torrential rains have swept the province since June 3, flooding vast swaths of farmland and driving the Qiantang River to the highest flood peak since 1955.
The Zhejiang Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said that by Saturday the disaster had afflicted about 2.59 million people and caused an economic loss of nearly five billion yuan.
According to statistics released by the agricultural department of Zhejiang Province, the rainstorms have reduced the vegetable production by about 20 percent.
The deepening flood crisis has also pushed up the prices of vegetables, fruits and grains in Zhejiang.
At the Wanshouting food market in Hangzhou City, the provincial capital, the prices of the green vegetables have risen by 40 percent on average.
Jin Changlin, an official of the Agricultural Department of Zhejiang, said, "The heavy rains have ruined much farmland, which has brought up the food prices, and it's estimated that prices will continue to rise for about two weeks."
The city government of Hangzhou has already put to use the city's emergency green vegetable base, which is expected to provide vegetables within 20 days, Jin said.
Pelting rains have lashed parts of central and southern China since the beginning of June. Food price hikes triggered by floods have also been reported by local media in the eastern provinces of Anhui and Jiangxi.

KUNMING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- China's development of the Internet of Things (IOT) fosters huge potential for promoting agricultural management, said an expert with the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Through establishing an IOT platform, highly-effective governance could be achieved in managing production resources, farmland environment and production mode, Wang Maohua, a CAE academician, said at a science forum held in Kunming, capital of southwestern Yunnan Province.
According to Wang, the IOT could be first adopted in areas such as important land reclamation projects, supervision over basic farmland and production resources, farmland environment, as well as crop and aquaculture production.
Citing the example of controlling temperature, humidity, fertilizer and pesticide in flower planting, Wang said the IOT will enable personalized management and help establish a biological environmental control and information management system.
"Accelerating the engineering science and technology innovation, which has played an active role in field management of agricultural production, will further enhance modern agriculture," Wang said.
The IOT, the so-called third wave of the information industry after the personal computer and the Internet, is a network of real-world objects linked to the Internet that interact through Web services.
According to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the ministry will increase efforts to make breakthroughs in the core technologies of IOT, and boost their research, development, application and industrialization.

NANNING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Six people were confirmed dead, two others injured, and another still missing after a steel structure collapsed Saturday in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a local government official told a press conference Sunday.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon when 11 workers were dismantling a scrap generator of Heshan Electricity Generating Company in city of Heshan, according to Vice Mayor Wu Zhiqiu.
The steel structure of the generator's No. 4 unit collapsed during the process, killing three people on the scene and injuring another four with two more missing and the rest two unharmed.
Two of the injured died later in hospital, and the remaining two injured are in stable conditions.
At around 7:40 p.m. Saturday, rescuers retrieved one body at the accident site, which brought the death toll to six.
The rescue work is still under way.

SHANGHAI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- "Now you have a 50-strong team. What can you expect from its development over the next 28 years? Remember, the Communist Party of China (CPC) managed to grow from a 50-member organization into the ruling party of the country in just 28 years. Amazing!" Chen Xiang'an said.
Chen, chief executive officer (CEO) of 116.com.cn, a Chinese Internet portal, made the remarks via his Sina microblog during a four-day tour of historic CPC-related sites in Shanghai and Zhejiang Province.
Chen and some other senior high-ranking executives of China's biggest Internet companies, embarked on the tour to discover the history of China's ruling party and adapt some of the strategies the Party had used to ascend to power to their own businesses.
Other Internet tycoons taking part in the tour included Zhang Chaoyang, CEO of sohu.com; Ding Lei, CEO of Netease; Li Yanhong, CEO of Baidu; Cao Guowei, president and CEO of sina.com; Gu Yongqiang, CEO of youku.com and Zhou Hongyi, chairman of Qihu 360.
These business people visited the location of the first CPC National Congress, which was held in July 1921. They also attended lectures on CPC history and held discussions to share their thoughts and ideas on the tour.
The annual tour, sponsored by the Internet management office of the Beijing municipal government, has allowed representatives from dozens of leading Internet companies to visit historic revolutionary areas around the country for the past nine years.
This year's tour destinations included Xibaipo, where CPC leaders lived for ten months in 1948 while preparing for the CPC's new role as China's leading party; and Jinggangshan, where Mao Zedong established a rural base for the Chinese revolution in 1927.
In addition to learning about the country's revolutionary history, the Internet tycoons drew inspiration from the development of the CPC to apply to their own entrepreneurial efforts.
"In light of the hardships of China's revolution, how could the CPC manage to steer the situation, launch proper policies and unite people from all walks of life? This is an issue far more profound than those described in business administration textbooks," said Sohu CEO Zhang Chaoyang, who has participated in the tour six times.
"How can a small business compete with big companies? Chairman Mao Zedong's guerrilla tactics will tell you to avoid competing with them in areas where they are strong, but to focus on their weaknesses," said Qihu 360 chairman Zhou Hongyi.
FACING FRUSTRATIONS
The digital giants were especially interested in the way the CPC and its leaders dealt with difficulties and frustrations.
Born in Hong Kong, Youku CEO Gu Yongqiang said he didn't have much knowledge of the country's revolutionary history.
"During the trip, I learned that the CPC dealt with many difficulties and confusing times, much like a youngster experiencing growing pains," he said.
"The CPC once tried to emulate the experience of the Soviet Union, but failed to do so. It then adopted a different path and succeeded. This means that there is no universal approach to success for every venture," said Ma Xiaolin, CEO of blshe.com, a Chinese blog portal.
Baidu CEO Li Yanhong said he was impressed by the faith and hope held by the CPC during their revolutionary efforts.
"Similar to past situations in China's revolution, some people have had doubts or given up after encountering uncertainties in their business ventures. But there are others who have cherished hope and followed their beliefs, eventually achieving success," Li said.
Li said that a previous trip to Zunyi in 2006 reminded him of the situation he dealt with in 2000, when he first started his search engine venture.
Zunyi, a city in southwest China's Guizhou Province, is the place where Mao Zedong was first elected to the leadership of the CPC.
"At that time, many friends of mine opposed my idea, saying that the Chinese market was too small," he said.
"I stuck to my goal of providing more accessible Internet services for Chinese netizens, just like in Zunyi, where Mao proved himself and gained authority despite the many ideological disputes that occurred during the revolution," Li said.

PUBLIC SUPPORT IS CRUCIAL
The success of China's revolution and the rapid growth of China's Internet sector have had one thing in common: both of them have attached great importance to China's grassroots citizens, said Fang Xingdong, chairman of blog service provider bokee.com.
"The CPC saw the common people as a fundamental base for its cause. For Internet enterprises, customers are their main support base. A company cannot develop without the support of customers," said Ma Xiaolin.
"Mao Zedong's wisdom was that if you want to win their support, you should first know them well," Zhou Hongyi said.
"Mao conducted an in-depth investigation into the farmers' movement in Hunan Province, which is similar to the careful market research conducted by today's companies. The CPC knew the public's demands very well, and that is why they won the battle with the Kuomintang," Zhou said.
Chen Hua, an official from Beijing's Internet management office, appreciated the fact that the tour was actively participated in by the senior executives.
"These entrepreneurs found their trip to the country's red history to be fruitful," Chen said.

by Xinhua writer Hu Longjiang
SHENZHEN, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Li Mengzhi still recalls how he was chosen as one of the two final candidates for head of the Yangxi County Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Guangdong Province.
On June 7, Li stood behind a podium with six other candidates where they would each deliver a 15-minute speech. The 136 audience members, Party cadres of Yangjiang and some experienced Party members, then voted immediately after the final speech.
Li, an official in charge of the housing and urban-rural development of Yangjiang, later learned via a text message that he was one of the two  finalists competing for the Party head of Yangxi. The message came from Li Zelin, a standing committee member of the Yangjiang city Communist Party committee and organizer of the election.
Candidates for the preliminary election were required to meet specific criteria. Each candidate had to be a county-level official under age 52, hold a university degree, and have at least two years of government work experience, Li Zelin said.
Altogether, 21 people in Yangjiang qualified.
The fact that the CPC is selecting a county-level head through a multi-candidate election is novel enough, although Yangxi is not the first one to do it.
In 2008, four districts and counties under the jurisdiction of Guiyang, provincial capital of Guizhou, elected their Party heads by this method.
Typically, Party heads in counties are directly nominated or appointed by an upper-level Party head without an election. Even if there is one, the initial candidates can qualify only by recommendation of the upper-level Party heads or Party committees.
In Guiyang's election, the initial candidates were nominated, and many qualified cadres didn't have the right to apply for that election.
But in Yangxi's election, all qualified persons could apply for the multi-candidate election "personally," or nominate themselves.
"The change is aimed at giving qualified cadres themselves the right to choose to be or not to be nominated, and giving the power of appointment and removal to the lower cadres and party members," Li Zelin said.
But the key problem in the selection of cadres lies in the initial nomination process, according to Zhu Lijia, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Governance. "But Yangjiang has granted the right of initial nomination to more people, and that shows the democracy," Zhu said.
Those who are qualified and are willing to take the post can apply to compete transparently, which also makes the process fairer and competitive, Zhu added.
Yangjiang's move shows China's determination to advance democracy within the Party in a larger scale and at a higher level, Zhu said.
"The CPC has tried to implement democracy in several different ways in recent years, but one common trend, the attitude has changed from 'select from a few and by few' to 'select from the masses and by masses,'" Zhu said.
The CPC, which is in the lead-up to the 90th anniversary of its founding on July 1, has always taken intra-Party democracy as the Party's life line.
"The democratic-style changes that have already been made in the initial nomination process have shown great progress," said Wu Kechang, chairman of the Public School of Administration at the South China University of Technology.
Wu believes this kind of multi-candidate election will also serve to select the really capable for the posts of county Party heads, who are considered the backbone of the CPC.
"It will also effectively eliminate bribery and other illegal practices in the election," Wu said.
Similar to the multi-candidate elections conducted for village and township-level Party committees, Wu thinks that multi-candidate elections for county-level Party heads will eventually cover more areas.
In 2003, the Party selected its first township Party head through a multi-candidate election in Mulan township of Sichuan Province. So far, the method has been promoted in more and more areas, including Jiangsu, Chongqing, Guangxi and Liaoning.
Wu thinks Yangxi may set an example and hopes to see the exemption of restrictions for initial nominations in future multi-candidate elections for Party heads in other areas.
During the Yangxi election, Li Mengzhi said his speech was plain but touching, without too much cliche.
"I have a clear and comprehensive understanding of Yangxi's economic and social conditions, and more importantly, I have my own plan about Yangxi's future development," he said.
That might be the key of his winning. In Party member and voter Huang Jindong's eyes, the ideal candidate must have a "delicate" administrative plan and make certain promises to audiences before taking a post.
"If the candidate doesn't have an overall knowledge of Yangxi county and its people, or doesn't have a plan to improve the county, I won't vote for him or her," Huang said.
Wu Hongjian, head of the Yangxi County government and the only female to compete in the election, failed to canvass Party members to vote for her.
"We didn't know the themes of our speeches until the morning of the election," she said, adding that the whole process highlighted democracy, fairness and competitiveness.
Another also-ran, Chen Jingyong, director of the Management Committee of Yangjiang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, said, "I'm willing to accept this selection process, which gives me an opportunity to compete fairly with others."
Chen said he had no complaints that he wasn't selected and believes the winners are actually more capable.
According to Li Zelin, the final election will be held soon in Yangxi.
"There may be drawbacks to some forms of democracy, such as loopholes in institutional design or flaws in the methods of selection and appointment, but it reflects the CPC is stepping forward in finding more effective ways," Wu Hongjian said.
Yangxi's experiment is just part of the Party's accumulated experience in pushing forward its democracy, Zhu Lijia said. "It will finally lead to a higher level of democracy for all Chinese people."
(Xinhua reporters Wang Pan, Kong Bo and Mao Yizhu contributed to the story.)

BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- More security guards are to be trained and more high-tech facilities will be used in schools in China's southeastern Fujian Province to better protect students.
These measures are in response to last year's killing spree in Nanping city where a man stabbed eight primary school students to death and injured five others.0   "More than 500 guards were trained last year after the tragedy and we plan to train more this year," Liu Zhenzhong, deputy director of Xiamen Security Science and Technology College, was quoted as saying by Sunday's  China Daily.
Liu said the guards were dispatched to schools in the province and were trained to handle attackers, and taught to operate security facilities such as surveillance cameras, automatic alarms and face- and fingerprint-recognition systems.
Chen You, a division chief with the Fujian provincial public security bureau overseeing school security equipment, said his bureau had asked all schools and kindergartens to get equipped with high-tech security facilities right after the Nanping tragedy.
"A recent confidential survey by our bureau and the Ministry of Public Security showed that almost all schools in Fujian are now equipped with necessary security facilities," he said.
"But in some rural areas, schools are yet to be covered and strangers can still walk in and out of campus freely. Some school guards are not even equipped with basic facilities such as electric batons," he said.
Local police have also been stationed at school gates before and after school each day to protect students since last year, he said.
To better ensure campus security, Liu has suggested different trials be conducted according to the students' ages to help them know how to protect themselves.
Students should also be equipped with simple mobile phones with global positioning functions and shortcut keys that can call for police assistance, he said.
Other cities in the country are also gearing up efforts to better protect students.
In Beijing's Xicheng district, schools and kindergartens have been equipped with defense sprays and slash-proof gloves.
In Shenyang of Liaoning province, teachers and security guards now patrol boarding schools 24 hours a day.

URUMQI, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Three people were confirmed dead after a mudslide Saturday in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local government sources said Sunday.
The mudslide occurred at around 5:38 p.m. Saturday in Ke'erguti township of Hejing County, trapping 37 tourists, according to the information office of the government of Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, which holds jurisdiction over Hejing.
Rescuers have retrieved three bodies and saved the other 34 people.
The 37 tourists grouped voluntarily through the Internet. The township was located at a gorge 96 km to the northeast of the county seat of Hejing.