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Chinese Premier meets Russian deputy PM
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) talks with visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov during their meeting in Beijing, capital of China, on March 27, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) shakes hands with visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov during their meeting in Beijing, capital of China, on March 27, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)
BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met Friday with visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, ahead of the debut of the "Year of Russian Language" in China.
In the "Year of Russian Language", the two nations will hold more than 260 cultural exchange activities in 14 provinces, four autonomous regions and four municipalities in China.
The activities include language and singing contests, art performances, literature and arts exhibitions and the launch of a Russian-language TV channel.
In his opening remarks, Wen said the fifth China-Russia trade promotion conference held Friday morning was successful and had fruitful results.
He said he believed the opening ceremony of the "Year of Russian Language" in Beijing, scheduled for Friday night, would be a success and a good start for the Years of the Chinese and Russian Languages.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev announced the start of the two language years on Dec. 31.
China is holding the "Year of Russian Language" this year, while Russia will stage the "Year of Chinese Language" in 2010.
Wen said China and Russia had boosted cooperation and communication as well as their strategic and cooperative partnership in recent years, which laid a foundation for cooperation in dealing with the financial crisis.
Wen urged the two sides to implement cooperative projects involving energy, finance and infrastructure and maintain growth momentum in trade so as to create conditions for the long-term economic development of the two countries.
He also called for more coordination in international affairs.
Zhukov said Russia and China had expanded their strategic cooperation, especially in the area of energy resources.
He believed the "Year of Russian Language" would promote understanding and friendship of the two peoples as well as the strategic and cooperative partnership.
After the discussion, Wen met with the Russian and Chinese students who were scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the "Year of Russian Language" on Friday evening.
http://english.sina.com/china/p/2009/0327/229487.htmlTibetan lawmaker says "Tibet independence" daydream of separatists
Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak (L), a living Buddha and head of a five-member delegation of Tibetan deputies to China's National People's Congress, smiles at a press conference held after the delegation's trip to the United States and Canada over the past two weeks in Beijing, March 27, 2009. The delegation briefed media about their trip to the United States and Canada. (Xinhua Photo)
BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua) -- So-called "Tibet independence" is a daydream of separatists and such a concept never existed in history, a Tibetan lawmaker, also a living Buddha, said Friday.
Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak, head of a five-member Tibetan legislative delegation, told a press conference after the delegation's trip to the United States and Canada over the past two weeks, that the region had witnessed great changes and received support from the central government and other parts of China after Democratic Reform in Tibet in 1959.
"Do you think Tibetans still want independence?"
He said a video, made public online recently by the Dalai Lama's "Tibetan government-in-exile" that showed Chinese police "using excessive force" last March, was to "deceive the public who do not know the truth."
An official from Tibet had said the video was a lie. The official said technology experts found that the video and audio had been edited using material involving different places, times and people.
Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak said the Dalai Lama used the word "peaceful protest" to describe the March 14 riot but local people's lives and property were threatened and 18 people died during the riot.
"When lives or property are damaged and the production order is affected, it's inappropriate for the government not to take any action," he said.
"Some foreign friends we met in the United States and Canada tell us the March 28 Serfs Emancipation Day has the same significance with the Emancipation Proclamation that freed all slaves in the United States and was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in the 1860s."
"Tibetans did not have human rights before 1959," he said. "The post-1959 period is Tibet's best time."
The living Buddha said in the past "if a family has three sons, the second son must be sent to a monastery. If poor people wore cassock and became a monk, they were still oppressed in serfdom society."
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