The Belt and Road Initiative can become an "experimental field" for China and Japan to achieve mutually beneficial cooperation and common development, Beijing said on Tuesday. The Foreign Ministry's remark was made after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a speech on Monday that Tokyo is ready to work with Beijing on the initiative, with conditions. Conditions proposed by Abe include "harmony with a free and fair Trans-Pacific economic zone".He also said it is "critical for infrastructure to be open to use by all and to be developed through procurement that is transparent and fair", Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported. In response, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Tuesday that Beijing had taken notice of Abe's remarks. Japan is welcome to talk with China about introducing cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, Hua said. "We also hope that the Japanese can translate its will of improving bilateral ties into tangible actions," she added. Naoya Yoshino, deputy editor of Japan's Nikkei Business Daily newspaper, commented in an article on Tuesday that Abe's "conditional" support "tells Beijing that Tokyo is ready to work toward warmer bilateral ties". Lyu Yaodong, a Japanese diplomacy researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, noted that Tokyo is "adapting itself to the evolving trend" of win-win cooperation as it tones down its negative stance toward the initiative. "What China has proposed lives up to the interests of regional stakeholders, and it (the initiative) has won recognition by the international community, a fact that offers no excuse for Tokyo to continue defying it," Lyu said. [email protected]paper wristbands uklivestrong braceletrubber arm bandscustom fidget
The male giant panda Baxi is pictured in the wild at the Mount Tiantai or Tiantai Mountain in Chengdu city, Southwest China's Sichuan province, 25 July 2017. [Photo/IC] Chinese authorities have extended the search for logo designs for the country's first giant panda national park to the whole world for five months, and the top prize winner will be granted 100,000 yuan ($15,383.4), thepaper.cn reported. China initiated a pilot plan last January to establish the national park, covering 27,100 square kilometers and spanning parts of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. Authorities of the three provinces have finished boundary demarcations for the park over the past year, and now they want a logo design for the park when it is formally established. The logo should be themed based on the park's features and implicate state ownership, being shared by all people and inherited by future generations. It should embody the park's Chinese and English names, and should be original work and unpublished. Any organization or individual can submit their work through both standard mail and e-mail before the deadline May 31. The mail address is No 15 of Renmin North Road in Jinniu district, Chengdu, Sichuan province, Post code: 610081. The e-mail address is [email protected]. Besides the top prize of 100,000 yuan for the designer whose work is adopted, there will also be excellence awards for 10 other works, each winning 5,000 yuan.
