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CHINADAILY chinadaily.com.cn RMB ¥1.5TUESDAY, May 17, 2011 By WANG ZHENGHUA CHINA DAILY SHANGHAI — Power shortages that gripped many parts of the country in recent months could herald the worst energy crunch in years amid growing concerns that eco- nomic growth may suff er. Power cuts and blackouts since March, due to price controls, surging demand and a drop in hydropower produc- tion because of drought, have hit businesses in coastal areas and some inland provinces. According to estimates by regional power distributor East China Grid Co Ltd, the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Anhui and the fi nancial hub of Shanghai may face combined power shortages of up to 19 million kilowatts (kW) in the summer. Jiangsu is likely to be hardest hit, with a defi cit of more than 11 million kW, or 16 percent of the power it needs. Power shortages are also due to the push to transform the economic development pattern by encouraging investment in emerging industries, such as new energy, Xinhua News Agency said. Thermal power previously accounted for 75 percent of China’s total installed power capacity and 82 percent of the country’s generating capacity. But investment in the sector dropped to 130 billion yuan ($20 billion) last year from 200 billion yuan fi ve years ago, Yu Yanshan, deputy director of the offi ce of the State Electricity Regulatory Commission, said. The China Electricity Council predicts a decline in the growth rate of installed power capacity over the next three years. Xue Jing, director of the council’s statistics depart- ment, said the recent drop in investment in the thermal power sector dragged down electricity supplies. Meanwhile, coal-fueled power plants are reluctant to boost production amid rising coal prices. Power shortages are exac- erbating the plight of many small and medium-sized enterprises in the delta regions of the Yangtze and Pearl rivers, adding to the existing diffi cul- ties of financing and rising production costs. Th e power crunch is partly caused by the resurgence of high energy-consuming industries as local governments, trying to pursue robust growth, ignore Beijing’s decision to shut down outdated production capacity, Yang Jianhua, research head at the Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences, said on Monday. SEE “POWER” PAGE 2 Energy crunch looming Surging demand and drought blamed for severe power shortages CARE FOR THE DISABLED PHOTO BY YU PING / FOR CHINA DAILY European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and his wife Geertrui Windels visit a training program for disabled people fi nanced by the European Union in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, on Monday. Van Rompuy is on a four-day visit to China. See story on page 3. ‘‘ Our client willingly consented to a scientifi c and forensic examination.” WILLIAM TAYLOR, IMF CHIEF’S LAWYER In this issue NATION............................................ 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 COVER STORY.................................................6 COMMENT ...................................................8, 9 WORLD ......................................................10-12 BUSINESS ................................................. 13-17 LIFE.............................................................18-21 SPORTS ....................................................22-24 Contacts News (86-10) 6491-8366 Subscription (86) 400-699-0203 Advertisement (86-10) 6491-8631 E-mail editor@chinadaily.com.cn iPhone app chinadaily.com.cn/iphone © 2011 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 31 — No. 9684 国内统一编号:CN11-0091 国际 标准 excel标准偏差excel标准偏差函数exl标准差函数国标检验抽样标准表免费下载红头文件格式标准下载 编号:ISSN0253-9543 邮发代号:1-3 On chinadaily.com.cn Bilingual news: Zurich voters reject ban on ‘suicide tourism’ Web comment: China’s positives India could adapt My China story: The China Daily web- site invites foreign readers to share their China stories with worldwide audience By BASIL KATZ AND EDITH HONAN REUTERS NEW YORK — Interna- tional Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn makes his fi rst appearance in court on Monday since being accused of trying to rape a hotel maid in a case that sent shockwaves through French politics and left the IMF in turmoil. A handcuff ed and drained Strauss-Kahn, whose hopes of becoming France’s next president appear to have been wrecked, was seen in public for the fi rst time since his arrest when he was taken to the booking station at Manhattan Criminal Court on Sunday night. His lawyers said he would plead not guilty to charges of a criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment and attempted rape that could bring a humiliating end to his public career and political ambitions. “Our client willingly con- sented to a scientific and forensic examination ...,” said William Taylor, the IMF chief ’s Washington-based lawyer. “He’s tired but he’s fi ne.” The IMF chief, who has retained Michael Jackson’s former star defense lawyer Benjamin Brafman to lead his legal team in New York, sub- mitted to the forensic exami- nation with police looking for scratches or evidence of his alleged assault. Brafman said the IMF managing director “intends to vigorously defend these charges and he denies any wrongdoing’’. Any restriction the judge places on Strauss-Kahn’s freedom of movement aft er Monday’s arraignment hear- ing may determine whether he is able to continue in his globetrotting role as manag- ing director of the IMF. His arrest on Saturday plunged the Washington- based global lender into turmoil in the midst of the eurozone’s debt crisis. The IMF board postponed an informal meeting pending further information from New York. German Chancellor Ange- la Merkel, whom Strauss- Kahn had been due to meet on Sunday, said that fi nding a successor for the French- man was “not a question for today”, but there were good grounds to have a European candidate ready. More allegations involv- ing Strauss-Kahn surfaced in Paris, where a lawyer said SEE “SEX” PAGE 2 IMF chief to face court in sex scandal A t a depth of 27 meters, archaeological diver Ruan Youhao found the baseline he laid along a shipwreck last July. He took a tool from his diving partner to mark several cabins in the beam of an underwater fl ashlight. A few minutes later, Ruan looked at his submersion watch and gave a “go up” sign to his partner. Th e two divers had hit their limit for non-decompres- sion diving. Th e divers fi nished their 25-minute dive at 9:35 am on April 27. It was the first day of the fourth excavation of Nan’ao No 1, a sunken merchant vessel of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) that was found in 2007 in the South China Sea near Nan’ao Island, Guangdong province, after local fisherman netted porcelain ware. By the time the project ends, probably in mid-July, the under- water archaeology team and the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau are expected to confi rm the size of the shipwreck and the salvage of its cultural relics. SEE “MUSEUMS” PAGE 6 Archaeologists discover treasure horde of cultural relics beneath the waves, reports Zhang Zixuan in Guangdong. COVER STORY Salvage team dives into history ZHANG ZIXUAN / CHINA DAILY Porcelain ware salvaged from Nan’ao No 1, a Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) ship discovered at the bottom of the South China Sea, undergoes a desalination process at Fuzhou Museum April 23. Nation Rules on home demolition tightened Move aims to prevent forced relocation, land watchdog says. > PAGE 3 Life Foreign staff at Chinese airlines > PAGE 20 MIKE SEGAR / REUTERS Handcuff ed and haggard, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is escorted from a New York Police Department precinct late on Sunday. World Saudi diplomat killed in Pakistan > PAGE 11 19 million kilowatts combined power shortages four eastern provinces and Shanghai may face 16 percent the power defi cit that Jiangsu province faces in the summer PAGE 2 | nation 23 / 33 23 / 33 27 / 32 27 / 31 24 / 34 26 / 33 27 / 34 26 / 31 26 / 32 28 / 44 32 / 43 15 / 20 15 / 22 20 / 23 21 / 25 23 / 27 22 / 28 23 / 26 25 / 29 28 / 36 28 / 33 24 / 33 24 / 33 19 / 29 20 / 31 22 / 27 22 / 30 4 / 16 - 1 / 11 17 / 33 19 / 34 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 14 / 29 16 / 31 14 / 22 12 / 20 TRAVELER’S FORECAST Chengdu Urumqi Beijing Xining New Delhi Kathmandu Thimphu Yangon Singapore Jakarta Kuala Lumpur Bangkok Vientiane Ulaanbaatar Shanghai Bandar Seri Begawan Macao Hong Kong Guangzhou Manila Hanoi Taipei Seoul Pyongyang Tokyo Lhasa CHINA AMERICAS MAY 17-18TUE - WED LOW/HIGH TEMPERATURES, IN DEGREES CELSIUS, AND EXPECTED CONDITIONS C Cloudy D Drizzle Du Dust F Fog O Overcast R Rain Sh Shower S Sunny Sn Snow St Storm T Thunderstorms weather ASIA-PACIFIC-MIDDLE EAST EUROPE BuenosAires 11 / 20 C 11 / 19 O Chicago 4 / 14 S 7 / 14 C Caracas 19 / 26 T 19 / 27 T Houston 13 / 29 S 18 / 28 S Las Vegas 13 / 23 O 13 / 21 O Los Angeles 11 / 15 Sh 13 / 18 D Mexico City 14 / 27 C 14 / 29 C New York 15 / 19 R 16 / 21 R Ottawa 5 / 17 R 12 / 21 D Rio De Janeiro 19 / 22 Sh 19 / 22 Sh San Francisco 10 / 14 R 11 / 14 Sh Sao Paulo 14 / 18 C 13 / 18 C Vancouver 7 / 13 Sh 7 / 16 Sh Washington 14 / 21 T 17 / 22 R Athens 16 / 23 C 14 / 21 S Berlin 11 / 17 Sh 11 / 22 C Brussels 10 / 20 O 12 / 22 C Geneva 7 / 23 S 9 / 24 C Istanbul 13 / 20 C 13 / 18 Sh London 11 / 21 C 12 / 18 C Madrid 12 / 24 O 13 / 23 C Moscow 9 / 15 R 9 / 19 C Paris 9 / 23 C 9 / 24 S Rome 11 / 24 S 11 / 24 S Vienna 10 / 21 C 12 / 23 Sh CHINA AFRICA 11 / 21 12 / 24 Cairo 19 / 29 S 21 / 31 S CapeTown 10 / 17 S 11 / 17 S Johannesburg 8 / 18 Sh 8 / 18 Sh Lagos 26 / 32 T 26 / 32 T Nairobi 14 / 26 T 16 / 25 T Abu Dhabi 26 / 42 D 25 / 43 D Bangkok 26 / 33 T 27 / 34 C Colombo 27 / 30 T 27 / 32 T Dubai 30 / 37 S 30 / 38 S Hanoi 21 / 29 D 21 / 30 O Islamabad 25 / 42 O 26 / 42 S Jakarta 23 / 33 C 23 / 33 C Karachi 26 / 36 S 26 / 36 S Kuala Lumpur 24 / 34 O 24 / 34 O Manila 28 / 36 C 28 / 33 O Mumbai 28 / 32 S 28 / 31 C New Delhi 28 / 44 S 32 / 43 S Pyongyang 11 / 21 S 12 / 22 Sh Riyadh 28 / 38 C 29 / 39 O Seoul 11 / 21 S 12 / 24 S Singapore 27 / 32 C 27 / 31 O Sydney 8 / 19 C 12 / 21 S Teheran 19 / 28 Sh 21 / 30 Sh Tokyo 15 / 20 Sh 15 / 22 S Wellington 12 / 15 C 9 / 13 Sh Yangon 26 / 31 T 26 / 32 T Beijing 14 / 29 O 16 / 31 O Changchun 7 / 23 S 13 / 21 C Changsha 18 / 32 S 20 / 34 S Chongqing 20 / 34 S 23 / 36 S Dalian 13 / 20 C 12 / 19 C Fuzhou 18 / 27 O 19 / 29 C Guangzhou 22 / 27 Sh 22 / 30 C Guilin 18 / 30 C 20 / 30 C Guiyang 12 / 29 S 12 / 31 S Haikou 24 / 30 T 24 / 31 C Hangzhou 18 / 31 S 18 / 32 S Harbin 8 / 24 S 12 / 24 S Hefei 18 / 32 C 20 / 35 C Hohhot 10 / 27 C 12 / 25 C Hongkong 23 / 26 Sh 25 / 29 C Jinan 21 / 31 C 25 / 33 C Kunming 15 / 25 C 16 / 27 C Lanzhou 13 / 30 S 14 / 30 S Lhasa 8 / 20 C 9 / 19 C Lijiang 11 / 23 C 11 / 24 C Macao 23 / 27 Sh 22 / 29 C Nanchang 19 / 30 S 21 / 31 C Nanjing 17 / 32 C 21 / 34 C Nanning 18 / 28 C 20 / 31 C Qingdao 14 / 20 S 14 / 19 C Sanya 26 / 32 Sh 26 / 32 Sh TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011 Shanghai 19 / 29 S 20 / 31 S Shenyang 9 / 24 S 13 / 22 C Shenzhen 22 / 28 Sh 23 / 30 Sh Shijiazhuang 18 / 33 C 20 / 34 C Suzhou 18 / 31 S 21 / 34 C Taipei 20 / 23 Sh 21 / 25 Sh Taiyuan 12 / 32 C 14 / 33 S Tianjin 14 / 28 C 16 / 29 C Urumqi 14 / 22 D 12 / 20 Sh Wuhan 17 / 32 C 20 / 34 S Xiamen 19 / 26 O 19 / 28 C Xi’an 19 / 35 S 22 / 36 S Xining 5 / 27 S 7 / 28 S Yantai 16 / 26 C 18 / 27 C Yinchuan 17 / 32 S 18 / 28 S Zhengzhou 16 / 32 S 19 / 35 S Zhuhai 23 / 27 R 24 / 30 Sh CHINAFACE Desert blooms into life under corps’ caring hand By SHAO WEI CHINA DAILY SHIHEZI, Xinjiang — Sixty years ago, 200,000 soldiers arrived in the Gobi desert to build an oasis. Th e men took off their uni- forms, rolled up their sleeves and got to work, laying the foundation for new cities to fl ourish. Shihezi, which now boasts a population of 320,000 with tidy streets and modern architec- ture surrounded by trees, was a settlement with only a dozen households when the pioneers arrived in far West China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. “I’m the last one from the company staying here. All my comrades-in-arms have left the place where we worked and lived together for nearly 40 years,” said Hu Youcai. Th e 74-year-old retired vet- eran arrived from Shandong province as a young soldier with the No 1 Army Reclama- tion Company of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in 1950. Now he gives tours of the one-time barren outpost, and gives lectures to students about the area’s history. “You won’t see fascinating landscape here, or the hustle and bustle of a city,” said Hu, standing beneath a gate carved as a wooden plough. It’s a symbol of the farm work the corps did to establish not only Shihezi but at least six cit- ies in the region. “As the one-time company commander, and also a par- ticipant and a witness, I feel I’m responsible to tell our stories to the next generation,” the veteran said in front of a showroom where visitors can see a partially underground mud dwelling like those the soldiers lived in when they fi rst arrived. “It was cold and wet. And we used straw as mattresses,” said Hu. “More than 20 soldiers huddled into one nearly 10-sq- m hole. One summer night in 1950, it felt too crowded inside and so I went outside to sleep. Aft er I woke up in the morning, I found four snakes asleep with me,” Hu recalled. There were 176 soldiers in Hu’s company when they fi rst settled in to begin their farm reclamation — all men and no women. “Except for us, it was very dif- fi cult to fi nd anyone else in that deserted land at all, let alone a woman to marry. So the army leaders invited women from Hunan and Sichuan provinces to come to Xinjiang and build families with us,” Hu says. But marriage created another problem — there were not enough mud huts for the new- lyweds. “I asked my soldiers to leave one mud hut free as a wedding room. Th ey were allowed to stay in the room, decorated in red cloth, for at most a week because other new couples were waiting for it,” he says. Hu and his wife from Jiangsu province also spent their wed- ding night and their fi rst three years aft er marriage in a mud hut before they moved in 1960 into a room that was less than 20 square meters. Now the temporary wedding room has become a showroom, and for most visitors it is incred- ible to think of a space like this being sought aft er. Before Hu begins speaking to visitors, he puts on his pale- washed yellow army uniform. “When I put on the uniform, I feel I’ve gone back 50 years. I can tell stories to my visi- tors with solider-like passion,” explains Hu. “Soldiers got only one uni- form a year,” Hu says. To save the uniform, soldiers usually stripped to the waist and worked barefooted in the farm carrying baskets of dirt, digging canals and leveling the land to grow cotton and crops. “I cherish the old memories as my greatest treasure. But I always feel sad when I stay here,” says the now-elderly man, “With my death nobody in this area will be able to recall those glorious days.” According to Hu, people who live around the place now are mostly migrant laborers from Henan, Anhui and Sichuan provinces. “Th ey know little about the history of the corps. Th ey just work here for the money as crop-planters and cotton-grow- ers,” Hu sighs. “But the spirit of the old generation — pioneering, hardworking and self-reliant — should be known by people.” Hu even started a blog last year and quickly became an Internet icon among visitors. “I hope through the Internet and my telling of these true, moving stories, the corps and its valuable spirit could be known to more people,” Hu says. Hu Youcai, 74, was a soldier doing reclamation work with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for40 years. RESCUED IN TIME PHOTO BY ZHANG JIA / FOR CHINA DAILY Firemen give emergency treatment to a man who was trapped in a fi re in a high-rise building on Monday. Th e fi re broke out in a 15-story apartment building in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. briefl y BEIJING Orphans receive health insurance More than 28,000 orphans in China received free insur- ance coverage for the treat- ment of 12 critical illnesses on Monday, as a joint insurance program sponsored by the government and a Chinese charity organization contin- ues to expand. Th e program, launched by the Ministry of Civil Aff airs and the China Children Insurance Foundation in October 2009, was designed for children of poor families and orphans under the age of 18, registered with the ministry. Th e goal is to extend the insurance coverage to all 712,000 of China’s registered orphans eventually. Online users hit 477 million Th e number of Internet users in China had reached 477 million by the end of March, while the number of websites registered with the authorities climbed to 3.82 million, a senior telecom- munications offi cial said on Monday. Wang Jianwen, deputy head of the Telecommu- nications Administration Bureau under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, gave the fi gures while addressing a meeting on ways to create a healthy online environment. Representatives from some 140 major Chinese websites signed a self-discipline pact at the meeting, vowing that they would never organize or take part in any form of illegal Internet activities. ZHEJIANG Battery plant boss detained A representative for a battery plant in Zhejiang province was detained on Monday aft er more than 300 people, including 99 children, were found to have elevated levels of lead in their blood. Investigations found that the metal was improperly disposed of by the Zhejiang Haijiu Battery Co in Deqing county. Eight offi cials are also being investigated as lax supervision has also been blamed for the poisonings, a spokesman with the county government said. HUBEI Small reservoirs killed by drought A lingering drought in cen- tral China’s Hubei province has rendered 1,392 reservoirs virtually useless as only dead water remains in them, the local water authority said on Monday. As of Sunday, water in four medium-sized and 1,388 small-sized reservoirs had dropped below the allowable discharge level for irrigation and other pur- poses, said Yuan Junguang, director with the reservoir management offi ce of Hubei provincial water resources department. CHINA DAILYXINHUA Power: Shortage to be worst since 2004 FROM PAGE 1 Fang Sihai, chief econo- mist at Hongyuan Securities, agreed. “The country has yet to properly transfer its economic growth pattern and there is a resurgence of energy-hungry industries.” Economists said shortages could slow growth in heavy industry and alter quarterly growth trajectories in the coming months, though the risk of a severe shortage leading to a sharp slowdown is small. “At the moment, we do not see power shortages becoming a serious constraint to overall economic growth this year,” said Wang Tao, chief econo- mist at UBS Securities. “In the short term, however, power shortages and cuts in some provinces will slow growth in some heavy indus- try, including the cement, non-ferrous metal, iron, steel, and chemical sectors.” The power shortage is expected to be the worst since 2004, when coal transport and power generation could not keep pace with demand fueled by the rapid expansion of heavy industry and power rationing hit almost every bu