blank-staring contest in Qingyuan
Two children stare blankly at a Chengdu blank-staring contest in Qingyuan, South China’s Guangdong province, on May 31.[Photo/chinanews.com]
Two children stare blankly at a Chengdu blank-staring contest in Qingyuan, South China’s Guangdong province, on May 31.[Photo/chinanews.com]
Students in uniforms watch the flag-raising ceremony at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, June 1, 2015 as China marks International Children’s Day. [Photo/China News Service]
About 1,000 parents burn incense to pray for good luck for their children taking part in National College Entrance Examination on June 7, before a… Read More »National College Entrance Examination
A woman, with a bedsheet draped around her legs, rolls on a racing track during an event in Shenyang of Northeast China’s Liaoning province, on… Read More »event in Shenyang of Northeast China’s Liaoning province
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Children by Zhou Sicong sold for 184,000 yuan ($29,618) at the 30th ChinaGuardian Quarterly Auctions. [Photo/ China Guardian] Some famous Chinese painters like to depict children in their paintings, including Li Keran,Feng Zikai, Zhou Sicong and Fan Zeng. Their paintings of children make us feel relaxed andhappy, recalling childhood memories. Today is Children’s Day. Let’s have a look at thepaintings of children depicted by Chinese masters.
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Investors smile at a securities brokerage in Fuyang city, Anhui province, June 1, 2015. [Photo/IC] China stocks rose sharply on Monday, as investors took a positive view on fresh officialeconomic surveys and welcomed a chorus of domestic media commentary asserting the bullmarket has not yet ended. The CSI300 index closed at to 5,076.18 points rising 4.86 percent, while the ShanghaiComposite Index gained 4.71 percent, to 4,828.74 points and the Shenzhen ComponentIndex gained 5.07 percent to close at 16,917.53 points. ChiNext, a market for Chinese startups, gained 4.97 percent to 3,718.75 points. Growth in China’s giant factory sector edged up to a six-month high in May although exportdemand continued to shrink, according to the official manufacturing Purchasing Managers’Index (PMI). A similar official survey on the services sector showed activity cooled to its slowest rate inover five years, reinforcing views that authorities will have to roll out more stimulus in comingmonths. “The PMI figures, both the official one and the HSBC one, were very close to the consensusview and they can be interpreted as a further normalization in the economy,” Gerry Alfonso,director of Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co, wrote in a note. Major state-backed newspapers, including the China Securities Journal and the ShanghaiSecurities News, carried front-page articles saying despite the market tumble on Thursday,the logic behind the bull market – monetary easing and economic restructuring – remainunchanged. Last Thursday, both main indexes dropped more than 6 percent. On Friday, China’s central bank said it wants to see a “healthy” stock market, as it willcontinue to expand the main board and the small-and medium boards, with plans also to setup a new board for emerging industries on the Shanghai stock exchange. The market-friendly rhetoric emboldened investors sitting on ample cash to pile into stocks,taking advantage of relatively low valuations after Thursday’s plunge. According to data compiled by Shanghai-based fund consultancy Z-Ben Advisors, Chinesemutual funds raised roughly 300 billion yuan ($48.42 billion) last month, 15 times more than ayear earlier, making May the best month to date for the industry in terms of fundraising. Pharmaceutical stocks surged on Monday, as investors bet some drug makers will benefitfrom growing concern over the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Banks were firmer on a report by Bloomberg that China’s Ministry of Finance may enlarge theexisting local government debt swap program by 500 billion to one trillion yuan, potentiallyimproving lenders’ asset quality. But Ping An Insurance Group was flat, underperforming the broader market, after thebrokerage unit of Chinese financial firm Shenwan Hongyuan Group Co Ltd said it will stoplending money to clients to buy Ping An shares. Shares in Huatai Securities Co Ltd climbed 4 percent in their Hong Kong debut on Monday,as investors bet China’s biggest broker by trading volume would continue to benefit from aboom in the country’s stock markets. ChinaDaily
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Workers deliver commodities to Qingdao Dagang Customs for inspection on March 20, 2015. Thesecommodities are among the first batch of 6,000 shipments by sea from South Korea through directcross-border e-commerce transaction. [Photo by Hu Qing/chinadaily.com.cn] China and South Korea signed a bilateral free trade agreement on Monday, the largestbilateral FTA deal for China in terms of volume. Under the agreement, China will abolish tariffs on 91 percent of all South Korean productswithin 20 years, while South Korea will eliminate tariffs on 92 percent of all goods from China. The countries began talks in May 2012 covering 17 areas, including trade in goods andservices, health care, entertainment, investment and trade rules, as well as e-commerce andgovernment procurement. After Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Seoul in July 2014, negotiations on the pact maderapid progress. President Xi and his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye announced aconclusion of substantive negotiations on the deal in Beijing in November 2014. The deal, written in English, Chinese and Korean, will be implemented after getting approvalfrom parliaments of both countries. The FTA, the largest bilateral free trade deal for China in terms of trade volume, covered 17areas, including trade in goods and services, investment and trade rules as well as e-commerce and government procurement. During the talks on the sidelines of the signing ceremony, Chinese Commerce Minister GaoHucheng and his South Korean counterpart Yoon Sang-jick shared views that the China-South Korea FTA will expand bilateral trade and investment, and that it will serve as an all-round cooperative platform for the two countries to seek new growth engines. The two ministers exchanged views about various issues, including a regional economicintegration via the trilateral FTA between Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo and the RegionalComprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The RCEP is a multilateral FTA that will include China, South Korea, Japan and 10 membersof the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as India, Australia and NewZealand. ChinaDaily