This year's host city of BRICS Summit: Xiamen

[cirr]

Gulangyu gets certificate of world heritage site

2017-09-04 13:02

chinadaily.com.cn Editor: Mo Hong'e

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova delivers a speech at the ceremony in Gulangyu Island, Xiamen city, Fujian province on Monday. (Photo/gmw.cn)

China's Gulangyu Island was issued a certificate of the world heritage site by the UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova on Monday, making China the country with the most world heritage sites worldwide.

The moment was celebrated with a photo exhibition themed on world cultural heritage in the five BRICS countries, which also accompanied a folk concert at Gulangyu Island, Xiamen city of Fujian province.

Gulangyu Island joined UNESCO's world cultural heritage list at the 41st United Nations World Heritage Committee meeting on July 8, as China's 52nd world heritage site.

The photo taken on Aug 2, 2016 show an aerial view of Gulangyu Island. (Photo/Xinhua)

http://www.ecns.cn/2017/09-04/272011.shtml

 

[TaiShang]

I don't have much hope for BRICS unless it's change to BRCS.

Agreed.

India is just a market for China merely because it has lots of people in it. BRICS is valuable only because it gives a platform for China and Russia leaders to get together.

As a whole, it makes economic sense only, not political.

 

[Jlaw]

Agreed.

India is just a market for China merely because it has lots of people in it. BRICS is valuable only because it gives a platform for China and Russia leaders to get together.

As a whole, it makes economic sense only, not political.

For some stupid reasons Xi keep on including India in world affairs that either don't concern them or they are not needed.

 

[Offshore]

This photo talks a lot.....
The railway on the only seawall between Xiamen island and mainland
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Now this railway has already been upgraded to high-speed railway!
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Xiamen Port is also one of the biggest in the world.
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Downtown Xiamen, near Bailuzhou Park
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Xiamen Island circular road and bikeway
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Xiamen University, founded by overseas Chinese
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Xiamen government and parks
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Looks alot like singapore...

 

[AnnoyingOrange]

For some stupid reasons Xi keep on including India in world affairs that either don't concern them or they are not needed.

And this Chinese troll who exported is sorry *** out of China thinks he knows more about Geopolitics than people who actually practice it...

 

[TaiShang]

For some stupid reasons Xi keep on including India in world affairs that either don't concern them or they are not needed.

You know an insect could be insignificant but still keeps annoying. President Xi needs to micromanage them. In IR, you never burn all the bridges (Turkish president style), but keep talking to the even the worst enemy. And India is not even a credible enemy. Not talking to them would give them much more significance than talking to them.

India is much of a lesser threat to China than the US, and Xi talks to Trump, as well.

He needs to be an emotionless statesman so that he could, when/if the time comes (hopefully not), give the order to annihilate an entire population.

An innate enemy that can talk directly to you is more scary than an enemy (like Trump towards NK) that foams in the mouth and never talks.

Panda style; hug outside, break the bones inside.

 

[Acknowledge]

Don't post stupid comments and spoil your own thread.

He's a Chinese so boorish behaviour is only natural for them. And he probably still can't believe that India forced China to stop any construction and go back to status quo in Doka La despite their 'Dear Leader' and CCP.

Passive aggressive behaviour is typical for these people.

He needs to be an emotionless statesman so that he could, when/if the time comes (hopefully not), give the order to annihilate an entire population.

That's not really possible for China to do against any of the P4 + 4(India, Israel, Pakistan and now North Korea).

All of them have nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that reach every single part of China. It would only ensure Chinese are wiped out as well.

 

[AndrewJin]

You know an insect could be insignificant but still keeps annoying. President Xi needs to micromanage them. In IR, you never burn all the bridges (Turkish president style), but keep talking to the even the worst enemy. And India is not even a credible enemy. Not talking to them would give them much more significance than talking to them.

India is much of a lesser threat to China than the US, and Xi talks to Trump, as well.

He needs to be an emotionless statesman so that he could, when/if the time comes (hopefully not), give the order to annihilate an entire population.

An innate enemy that can talk directly to you is more scary than an enemy (like Trump towards NK) that foams in the mouth and never talks.

Panda style; hug outside, break the bones inside.

india has been forced to engage in a milltary competition.
Their economy is extremely weak, such competition will destroy them.
See how Soviet Union was destroyed.

 

[TaiShang]

india has been forced to engage in a milltary competition.
Their economy is extremely weak, such competition will destroy them.
See how Soviet Union was destroyed.

Yes, China is generating situations in which India is pushed to expensive militarization while its population is impoverished, malnourished, illiterate and its cities are filthy, underdeveloped, and filled with irregular housing.

 

[AndrewJin]

Yes, China is generating situations in which India is pushed to expensive militarization while its population is impoverished, malnourished, illiterate and its cities are filthy, underdeveloped, and filled with irregular housing.

They never have long term vision.
Their action is only for headlines, but noting benefiecial in the long run.

I guess they will have more money that is supposed to build toilets (do they forget sewerage system?) to import weapons from abroad.

 

[Tshering22]

Has any study been done on what concrete gain India has had as a member of BRICS ?
Has it helped our trade or helped our domestic production ?

The five countries are not stupid to put billions into the New Devleopment Bank without conducting feasibility studies.

Contrary to what the CCP trolls speak here, the realpolitik is very different.

While we all have disagreements, BRICS is beyond two members.

There was a reason why countries before Dilma's collapse and Russian sanctions were talking whether BRICS could emerge as a military alliance.

Frankly speaking it could have been possible had it not been for our and China's disagreements.

 

[beijingwalker]

China overtakes eurozone as world's biggest bank system
https://www.roguemoney.net/2017/03/...seek-to-use-the-rmb-during-its-next-bailouts/

 

[lastone]

http://globalriskinsights.com/2016/04/brics-little-opportunity-india/
This is a well researched article from 2016.
Since BRICS is a financial bloc , we should leave extraneous matters and just study the advantages it will bring to India.
If India is looking for a export based growth , then pharma industry can be a source of growth.
In 2016 we had 17 b usd export in medicines but china has not opened its market to india.
Usa remains our biggest importer with around 7 b usd medicine imports.
Similarly software exports were 90 b usd in 2016 , how much went to china ?

If china keeps blocking india exports , than all these blocs are meaningless.

 

[TaiShang]

NDB funds US$3 billion for 11 projects
By Guo Yiming
China.org.cn, September 4, 2017

The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) has so far approved the financing of 11 projects worth up to US$3 billion, announced China's vice finance minister Shi Yaobin on Sept. 3.

Leaders of the five BRICS countries meet in Xiamen, Fujian Province on Sept. 4. [Photo/China Pictorial]

"As we have seen with our Chinese customers, NDB's loans mainly flow to areas concerning people's livelihoods, environment protection and new energy," said Shi, citing the wind power project in Fujian, flood control program in Hunan and the green low-carbon development project in Jiangxi, which, in his words, "will set a model for the bank's future orientation."

Founded in Shanghai on July 21, 2015, the bank was established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the five emerging economies, as the brainchild of the BRICS mechanism.

Last month, the NDB opened its first regional center in Johannesburg, South Africa and recently broke ground for its permanent headquarters building in Shanghai.

Compared with its counterparts in the financial sector such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB), the BRICS bank is growing at a much faster pace, said Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, dismissing global voices which question the bank's role and its "slow" development.

The first loan project, Shanghai Lingang Distributed Solar Power Project, in China funded by the bank has started operation recently, with a maturity length of 17 years, under an agreement signed between the NDB, the Ministry of Finance and Shanghai municipal government in December 2016.

In the initial phase, it's been the original five countries working together to build something new, without participation from the developed countries.

While NDB wants to cooperate with the World Bank and other existing banks, it also wants to innovate to meet the required needs, said Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr, the bank's vice president.

The general strategy for the next five years is to focus on sustainable infrastructure development, he said.

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The NDB seems to be providing benefits.

 

[AndrewJin]

NDB funds US$3 billion for 11 projects
By Guo Yiming
China.org.cn, September 4, 2017

The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) has so far approved the financing of 11 projects worth up to US$3 billion, announced China's vice finance minister Shi Yaobin on Sept. 3.

Leaders of the five BRICS countries meet in Xiamen, Fujian Province on Sept. 4. [Photo/China Pictorial]

"As we have seen with our Chinese customers, NDB's loans mainly flow to areas concerning people's livelihoods, environment protection and new energy," said Shi, citing the wind power project in Fujian, flood control program in Hunan and the green low-carbon development project in Jiangxi, which, in his words, "will set a model for the bank's future orientation."

Founded in Shanghai on July 21, 2015, the bank was established by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the five emerging economies, as the brainchild of the BRICS mechanism.

Last month, the NDB opened its first regional center in Johannesburg, South Africa and recently broke ground for its permanent headquarters building in Shanghai.

Compared with its counterparts in the financial sector such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB), the BRICS bank is growing at a much faster pace, said Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, dismissing global voices which question the bank's role and its "slow" development.

The first loan project, Shanghai Lingang Distributed Solar Power Project, in China funded by the bank has started operation recently, with a maturity length of 17 years, under an agreement signed between the NDB, the Ministry of Finance and Shanghai municipal government in December 2016.

In the initial phase, it's been the original five countries working together to build something new, without participation from the developed countries.

While NDB wants to cooperate with the World Bank and other existing banks, it also wants to innovate to meet the required needs, said Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr, the bank's vice president.

The general strategy for the next five years is to focus on sustainable infrastructure development, he said.

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The NDB seems to be providing benefits.

This bank is well serving China and Made-in-China 2025.