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Chinese mainland tourists were expected to make 54 million outbound trips last year, up 15 percent year on year, the China Tourism Academy said in its annual report on the national tourism industry.Stronger purchasing power and the appreciation of the Renminbi helped boost overseas trips, the report noted.Private trips made up about 90 percent of the total, as the government tightened checks on business trips funded by public money.The report predicted that outbound tours would increase 5 percent to 57 million in 2011, while overseas spending would jump 14 percent to $55 billion.Tens of millions of wealthier ordinary Chinese will continue to help boost economic growth and employment in the world's major tourist destinations, said Dai Bin, deputy head of the academy.Chinese citizens with stronger yuan in their pockets were estimated to have spent $48 billion abroad in 2010, an increase of 14 percent from one year earlier, a research group reported on Monday.UK businesses hope that China will continue opening its markets to foreign investors, said a senior British business leader as Vice-Premier Li Keqiang visits the country."What British businesses would like to hear (are) his views in terms of China being open to foreign business - in particular UK businesses - and that they are welcomed to continue to invest in China," said Stephen Phillips, chief executive of the China-Britain Business Council (CBBC).He added that UK businesses would also be interested in Li's views on "the outlook for the Chinese economy against the backdrop of the global economic environment".Accompanied by some 120 Chinese business leaders, Li arrived in the UK on Sunday. This is the first visit by a senior Chinese leader to the UK since the coalition government came into office.

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The West likes to charge China for its low environmental and labor standards. But when China takes action to raise its standards, the West cries foul, because the moves hurt their selfish commercial interests. This is sheer hypocrisy.The importing nations should instead help Chinese mining and extraction companies improve efficiency with their state-of-the-art mining technology, so that the industry can improve its environmental protection.The West should applaud China's move toward improving the environment instead of denouncing it. Western companies should apply the standards they use at home in China and contribute to the country's environmental protection efforts instead of undermining them.China should remain steadfast in its decision to clean up the rare earth industry. It should even act more aggressively, because toxic elements from rampant rare earth mining and extraction are claiming a high toll on the nation and the population every day.Wang made the remarks at the 2011 national conference on religious work held in South China's Hainan Province on Monday.The administration will actively support religious circles in China to promote the concept of religious harmony during the first World Interfaith Harmony Week, which has been recognized by the United Nations and will be held in the first week of February, Wang said.Additionally, Wang said that the country is working to streamline the social security system to further benefit religious personnel.

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For months, the West has been attacking China for tightening control of its rare earth exports.The assault is likely to escalate, as China recently announced it would slash its rare earth export quota by 37 percent for the first half of 2011. China is also introducing more stringent environmental standards for the rare earth industry, which are likely to send many small businesses in the industry into possible bankruptcy.The country's environmental concern is fully justified. Its actions taken in the past months, and those to be taken in the months to come, are totally legitimate.During the months of debate, few in the West have talked much about the appalling environmental degradation and health hazards caused by China's rare earth industry.Many companies importing China's rare earth elements like to brag about their high environmental and ethical standards and good corporate citizenship, yet they are quite willing to source these raw materials from Chinese producers that observe minimum environmental and labor standards. Maybe the standards they claim only apply to their activities in their home countries. Their exploitation of resources and cheap labor in developing countries is something they don't like to acknowledge.If they claim their standards apply everywhere, they should go and live in one of the rare earth mining towns in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, East China's Jiangxi province or Southwest China's Sichuan province for six months or longer. The air they breathe and the water they drink should contain enough doses of toxic chemicals to clear their minds.I am pretty sure that they would prefer wearing gas masks all day, including when sleeping.Many workers in China's rare earth industry are not that fortunate. They wear no masks but cover their faces with towels. Waste from the processing, often radioactive, has been randomly dumped, polluting the water system and farmland.For years, the heavily polluting rare earth industry has been a source of frequent complaints, sparking protests from local residents.China has 36 percent of the global reserve of rare earth elements but is producing 97 percent of the world's output. Many developed countries, such as the United States whose reserve is as large as China's, have cut down their rare earth production due to their own environmental concerns.Some wealthy nations have reportedly cashed in on cheap Chinese rare earth exports for their strategic metal reserve for the next decades.For China, the rare earth industry typifies the serious environmental and social costs of the country being the world's manufacturing workshop.
Par andayhan le vendredi 18 mars 2011

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