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一句话新闻

News in Brief

政治

◎中国海南省已经与菲律宾巴拉望省达成共识，不久就将缔结友好省关系。

◎菲律宾南部地区遭受地震灾害，造成人员伤亡和财产损失，中国红十字会提供了5万美元人道主义援助。

◎新加坡总统选举将于2017年9月举行，以避开其国庆节的庆祝活动。

经济

◎中国数字金融公司蚂蚁金服与菲律宾电信运营商Globe旗下数字金融平台Mynt公司签署协议，将把中国开展普惠金融的经验和技术输出给Mynt，为当地的消费者和小微企业提供更安全、便捷的普惠金融服务。

◎为缓解柬埔寨金边的交通堵塞，金边政府计划推出“水上出租快艇服务”。

◎印尼2016年新车销售106万辆，已连续3年成为东盟第一大汽车市场。

◎老挝政府预计到2020年，建成运营的水电站将达到90个，使全国大约95%的家庭能实现永久通电。

◎中国手机制造商小米公司开始在印尼本土生产手机，年产量最高可达100万部，产品主要在印尼市场销售。

◎印尼政府正加紧制定“超微信用计划”，以便为低收入群体提供融资便利。

◎老挝政府获得世界银行2500万美元贷款，用于升级全国路网。

◎中国—马来西亚钦州产业园区首座110千伏变电站投产，可满足进驻园区等数10家企业生产经营的用电需求。

◎马来西亚国家银行调整外汇交易条例，允许本地银行之间进行100万美元以内的跨行交易，以方便出口商处理汇款。

◎自2009年起，中国已连续第8年成为马来西亚最大的贸易伙伴。

◎2016年中国对缅甸投资仍居首位，投资额累计已达185.34亿美元。

◎菲律宾 PLDT公司与华为菲律宾公司签署谅解备忘录，将对第5代无线宽带技术（5G）进行联合研发，并拟在2020年前投入运营。

◎2016年菲律宾经济全年增速为6.8%，在东盟10国中增速最快。

◎泰国政府与马来西亚政府将就建设连接两国首都的，总长度约1500公里的高铁进行协商，预计中日两国将再度展开竞争。

◎越南政府发布了《关于电力行业2016年至2020年、远景2025年体制改革方案》，旨在进一步提高电力行业生产经营效益和市场化程度。

◎越南工商银行、越南投资发展银行等17家商业银行跻身“2016年亚洲银行500强”榜单。

◎越南工贸部批准2017年国家贸易促进计划主办单位的199个提案，经费总额930亿越盾（约合2800万人民币）。

人文

◎东盟知识产权将于2025年实现一体化，使得注册商标在东盟区域内达成一致，同时创立机制推动经营便利化，加强东盟区域内的知识产权保护。

◎2016年赴印尼旅游的中国游客达142.9万人次，中国成为印尼第一大旅游客源地。

◎菲律宾旅游部表示，计划2017年内对中国游客实行落地签政策，以实现2017年吸引100万人次的中国游客赴菲的目标。

◎“中泰校企联盟”在泰国曼谷成立，它将为驻泰中资企业定向培养专业技能及语言能力兼具的人才。

◎1月16日,中国—东盟人文题材新媒体电影(中越篇)《爱也有阿禾》在中国广西南宁开机拍摄。

01. 408 million trips during Lunar New Year holiday

February 3, 2017 (Xinhua) — The week-long Spring Festival holiday witnessed 408 millon passenger trips in China, up 2.1 percent year on year, according to the data from the Ministry of Transport (MOT) showed Friday. Between January 27 and February 2, the number of road trips totaled 336 million, a 0.8 percent increase from last year, while train trips reached 52 million with an annual increase of 8.8 percent. The average distance traveled was 262 km as most trips were intra-province and 87.8 percent of the trips were within a range of 500 km, MOT data showed. Nearly 80 percent of the travels were for visits to relatives and friends, as the festival is the most important occasion for family reunions.

02. Laos in bid to attract more Chinese tourists

February 10, 2017 (Xinhua) — Laos has been seeking to attract more Chinese tourists after noticing the large number of Chinese people who travel overseas and the large sum of money they spend, local media reported on Friday. “Laos should target more Chinese tourists because they are high-end customers and spend a lot,” Lao state-run Vientiane Times on Friday quoted Lao Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Bosengkham Vongdara as saying at an annual meeting of the information, culture and tourism sector held recently in capital Vientiane. According to the statistics from the ministry’s tourism sector, China ranked third in terms of the number of people visiting Laos in 2016. Some 399,556 Chinese nationals came to Laos from January to September in 2016. In 2011, the number of Chinese tourists visiting Laos was recorded at 150,791 people and the fi gure has steadily increased since then.

03. Chinese smartphone producer Xiaomi launches Indonesian version

February 10, 2017 (Xinhua) — Chinese prominent smartphone producer Xiaomi initiated the production in its Indonesian plant, aimed at complying with Indonesia’s local content adoption obligation. Xiaomi’s Indonesian production was declared in an event themed “We are made in Indonesia” held in a lavish hotel here on Friday, attended by the firm’s executives, senior government officials and Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Xie Feng. Operating its production facility located in Indonesia’s Batam industrial zone, Xiaomi embraces local partners, that is, Erajaya Swasembada, Sat Nusapersaada and TSM Technologies. Addressing the event, Xiaomi Senior Vice President Wang Xiang said that initializing its production in Indonesia is a proof of the importance of the Indonesian market to Xiaomi.

04. China to increase protection of immovable cultural relics

February 13, 2017 (Xinhua) — The State Administration of Cultural Heritage plans to step up preservation of immovable cultural relics amid rapid urbanization. “Immovable cultural relics should be avoided as much as possible in the choosing of construction sites,” according to a circular issued by the administration. The circular clarified procedures for the removal of immovable cultural relic status, and said that authorities should review and establish whether they still had heritage value, if such cultural relics were destroyed by natural disasters or construction activity. Authorities should also publish such information and solicit public opinion. More efforts will be made to protect poorly-preserved immovable cultural relics through government support. China is home to more than 760,000 registered immovable cultural relics, according to a national archaeological survey in 2011.

05. China to launch world’s largest carbon market soon

February 16, 2017 (China Daily) — China’s national emissions trading system (ETS) is expected to be launched in the near term, creating the world’s largest carbon market, the 21stCentury Business Herald reported. By the end of this year, there will be 19 carbon trading systems in operation worldwide covering nearly 7 billion tons of emissions, according to a report from the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP). China has already launched seven pilot regional carbon trading markets in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shenzhen, Hubei and Chongqing since 2013. As of December 31, 2016, the cumulative trading volume in the seven pilot markets reached 160 million tons, worth nearly 2.5 billion yuan, according to a report by the China Beijing Environment Exchange and the Beijing Emission Trading Association.

06. Chinese-developed electric power achievements in Cambodia displayed

February 16, 2017 (Xinhua) — An exhibition on the Chinesedeveloped electric power achievements in Cambodia kicked off on Thursday, with an aim of promoting the importance and advantages of electric power for socio-economic development. Cambodian Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Xiong Bo jointly opened the two-week fair, which was held in the complex of the Royal University of Phnom Penh. “It is vital to raise awareness of hydroelectric power plants and their advantages for social and economic development by making good use of the exhibition,” said Suy Sem. The minister said Chinese companies had invested in seven hydroelectric power plants in Cambodia in the past decade. Six of them were operational, producing a total of 928 megawatts, while the seventh one, Lower Sesan II hydropower plant, with the capacity of 400 megawatts, was under construction.

07. China offers emergency aid to quakehit Philippines

February 16, 2017 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government will offer US$ 1 million emergency humanitarian aid to quakehit Philippines, an official statement said late Wednesday. China hopes that the assistance will help relief work after an earthquake struck a southern Philippines province last week, according to an online Ministry of Commerce statement. A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit Surigao city in the southern Philippines last Friday night, killing at least seven and injuring more than 100. Infrastructure facilities including airport and roads were damaged during the quake. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Tuesday that the Red Cross Society of China would offer US$ 50,000 to the Philippines for relief work, adding that the Foreign Minister Wang Yi had conveyed sympathy to his counterpart in the Philippines.

08. China eases restrictions on stock index futures trading

February 17, 2017 (Xinhua) — The Shanghai-based China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) announced late Thursday that it was easing restrictions on domestic stock index futures trading in a “sound and orderly” way. It will double the maximum limit on daily stock index future trading from 10 lots to 20 lots from Friday. Hedging transactions will be excluded from this restriction. The CFFEX will also reduce margin requirements for non-hedging transactions on Hushen 300 index futures and SSE 50 index futures from 40 percent of the contract value to 20 percent from Friday’s clearing, while that for CSI 500 index futures will be cut to 30 percent. The margin requirement for hedging transactions will be kept at 20 percent. Commission fees for intra-day position-closing will be lowered to 0.092 percent of the transaction volume from the previous 0.23 percent.