BEIJING: World champion high hurdler Liu Xiang’s return from the Achilles injury that destroyed his Beijing Olympic dream moved another step closer when he started training in spikes on Wednesday.
Liu, who celebrated his 26th birthday on Monday, has already written off defending his 110 metres hurdles world title in Berlin next month but aims to return to international competition at the Asian championships later this year, local media reported. “From this Wednesday, Liu will run with spiked shoes,” his coach Sun Haiping told the Oriental Sports Daily.
“But it doesn’t mean he is completely recovered. We can’t be in such a hurry at present and we won’t put a large training burden on him.”
The 2004 Athens Olympic champion and former world record holder had an operation on the injury in the US last December and Chinese fans have anxiously been awaiting the return to competition of their top track and field athlete.
“Liu will take part in the National Games in October and it will be a warm-up for the Asian Championships in November,” Sun added on the sports.cn website.
The 11th China National Games take place in Jinan from October 11-23, while the Asian championships are in Guangzhou from November 10-14.

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China has embarked on new frontier that American can never catch up. President Hu’s foreign policy to stabilize the region, to serve as broker between India and Pakistan, to demarcate the border with Russia first time and improve the economic ties between the Straits if Taiwan proves President Hu is a great Statesman.
China’s internal policy continued to be improvement of infrastructure, banking, finance, education, public health, and internal security.
In addition to Shanghai, China has special economic zone, Hong Kong and Macao as “One Chian, Two system” policy.
China will take over U.S. by 2040-2050, if everything goes well.

Heilongjiang Province, situated in the centre of Northeast Asia and northeast end of China, boasts abundant resources.
It covers 454,000 square kilometres with a population of near 40 million.
Located near Russia, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK), Heilongjiang is one of China’s major border provinces.
It shares over 3,000 kilometres of border with Russia. There are 25 national first-class ports and nine Sino-Russian mutual trading zones in the province.
Currently, Heilongjiang has 57 domestic and international air routes, of which 16 direct air routes reach more than 10 countries and territories in Asia, the America, Middle East and Europe.
Heilongjiang is China’s major bases of industry, energy, grain and green food.
Sound infrastructure: A convenient telecommunication system and a comprehensive transportation network have taken shape.
State-of-the-art land, water, air and underground pipeline systems are in place.
Abundant natural resources: The reserve of resources such as land, forest, minerals and water, rank among the top in China.
Competitive industrial strength: Six major bases of equipment, energy, petrochemicals, food, pharmacy and forestry, have become new hot spots for attracting foreign investment.
Prominent advantages for opening-up: Heilongjiang enjoys geographical advantage and great potential for co-operation with Northeast Asian nations.
It has scored considerable achievements in its overall international economic and trade co-operation, especially with Russia, Japan and ROK.
Notable achievement in agriculture: Heilongjiang ranks top in China in terms of grain reserve, and the quantity of commodity grain, dairy products and green food.
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The 17th China Harbin Fair for Trade and Economic Co-operation (Harbin Trade Fair) is a large-scale international trade event approved by the Chinese government.
The event has been held successfully for 16 consecutive years since its initial launch in 1990. Over the past 16 years, the fair has attracted more than 1.2 million participants from 50 countries and regions, with a total recorded trade volume of US$80 billion.
The 17th Harbin Trade Fair will be held from June 15 to 19, 2006 at the Harbin International Conference, Exhibition and Sports Centre.
The event will be jointly hosted by the Ministry of Commerce, the Office of the Leading Group for Revitalization of the Traditional Industrial Bases of Northest Chian under the State Council, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Heilongjiang provincial government, and Harbin municipal government.
The 17th Harbin Trade Fair is also co-hosted by more than 10 international organizations and chambers of commerce including United Nations Industry Development Organization, United Nations Development and Planning Organization, Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, China-EU Chamber of Commerce, and China-US Chamber of Commerce.

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are expected to be Vietnam’s biggest import markets this year, local newspaper Investment reported Friday.
Vietnam’s imports from China and the ASEAN are expected to respectively account for 20 percent and 25 percent of its anticipated total import revenues of US$59 billion in 2007, the paper quoted the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade as saying.
Vietnam’s major import items from the two markets include machines, equipment, steel, fertilizers and motorbikes.
Vietnam, which reaped import turnovers of US$44.4 billion in 2006, spent nearly US$50 billion on importing goods in the first 10 months of 2007, according to the General Statistics Office.

Chinese reality TV show The Disciple had its closing ceremony at the Great Wall late last month, when Jackie Chan chose 24-year-old Jack Tu as his protg. Tu’s reward is to die for: He will accompany the action star to learn everything about international filmmaking and even get to star in Chan-produced films.
Tu headed off more than 50,000 other hopefuls after a massive selection process, live kungfu contests and broadcast training with real stunt teams.
Like most Chinese reality shows, The Disciple bears all the hallmarks of Western TV shows. Even the name is reminiscent of Donald Trump’s The Apprentice, in the United States, in which 16-18 businesspeople compete for a one-year, $250,000 starting contract to run one of Trump’s companies.
Since Guangdong TV launched a remake of Survivor in 2000, reality shows have been a very popular genre on China’s small screens. Most of them borrow ideas or formats from overseas shows, such as Super Girls, the singing contest show based on American Idol, and Shall We Dance, a version of Dancing with the Stars.
The three most watched genres nowadays are talent contests, general knowledge quizzes and melodramatic talk shows, while adventure shows copying Survivor and Fear Factor are largely spurned.
Talent shows peaked in 2005, when Super Girls-mania hit the country. That year the show’s finale drew one of the largest audiences in Chinese history, with an estimated 400 million viewers tuning in, dwarfing the 12 million for the final of Pop Idol. Chris Lee, the top winner of the 2005 Super Girls, is now an A-lister and idol of millions.
Like American Idol, viewers of Super Girls can vote by text messages for their favorite girl singer and their votes help to decide the contestants’ fate, which is a totally new concept on Chinese TV. The voting segment is now widely believed to be one of the key factors in the show’s popularity. The huge popularity of Super Girls soon prompted a slew of similar shows, such as My Hero and Super Boys, but most of the winners have not enjoyed the kind of fame Lee has.
General knowledge quizzes like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and The Weakest Link, have also been smash hits. CCTV’s Quiz Show (Kaixin Cidian) and Luck 52 (Xingyun 52) are broadcast on weekend evenings, a golden time for variety shows.
Emotional talk shows strike a chord with viewers by focusing on people’s minor tribulations, family disputes and lovers’ tiffs. These shows’ popularity, says Fang Yanming, dean of Nanjing University’s Journalism and Communications School, reflects the fact that Chinese society is experiencing a great transformation, with new social problems emerging. People want to express their confusion over these problems, while at the same time peeping at others’ problems and how they deal with them.
Despite the apparent similarities between the formats, Chinese reality shows are less dramatic and fierce, more harmonious and morality-oriented, compared to their counterparts on Western TV. No Jerry Springer here!
While scenes in which eliminated contestants swear and yell at the judges are quite common on American Idol, the contestants on Super Girls were always seen as saying thanks to the judges – some of them are as mean as Simon Cowell – for their precious advice, often in tears. When a contestant is eliminated, his or her competitors must be seen offering hugs, shedding tears and saying encouraging words.
Unlike America’s Next Top Model or The Apprentice, you do not see contestants bad-mouthing each other behind each others’ backs or plotting to get rid of a competitor. In Chinese talent shows, friendship among the contestants is highlighted and praised, while competitiveness is frowned upon.
Even so, Super Girls and similar shows were panned by critics for “amusing the public to death” and “lowering aesthetic standards”, among other sins. “Confucius says articles are to convey values,” Fang says. “The belief has been deep in Chinese culture that artistic works are destined to carry positive values and this even applies to entertainment programs.”
This also explains why adventure game shows like Survivor do not succeed in China. Individualism and lonely heroes are not as encouraged as loving friendship and teamwork, at least not on TV, which broadcasts to a mainstream audience.
Emotional talk shows differ with their Western counterparts even more. “The focus of the Western melodramatic talk show is to share and show people’s private lives while in China, the ultimate purpose of the show must be harmony,” Fang says.
Moreover, Chinese are still somewhat shy about revealing their private experiences in public, especially the embarrassing ones – some guests wear masks. How many times have guests on Jerry Springer attacked each other, even breaking each other’s bones in front of the cameras?
The good thing is, people do not take such shows that seriously; the bad thing is, Chinese versions of these shows are often drab affairs.
“I hope such shows can help people better understand and reflect on their state of living, rather than simply using the audience’s anxiety, curiosity and privacy to make money,” says Wu Jing from Peking University.

The US government is testing a new technology in China that could soon give the country’s 300 million web users another way to access information blocked by the Chinese government’s filters.
The technology would pose yet another challenge to Beijing, which has been struggling to keep improper and violent materials, including pornography, away from its Internet users.
Earlier this week, Chinese officials announced they had abandoned plans to ensure that every computer sold in the country had the controversial Green Dam content-filtering software installed, after being criticized by the international business community and Internet users.
The “feed over email” (FOE) system being tested by the US would allow people living in China to access blocked information via encrypted news feeds sent to foreign email accounts.
The system will provide an easier channel to circumvent web filters, Ken Berman, head of IT at the US government’s Broadcasting Board of Governors, told China Daily on Friday.
Berman said the agency that runs Voice of America, a government-funded international broadcasting service, has been running trials of the new software for six months and expects it to be available for widespread use by the end of this year.
“This is just another way to help try to open the air waves,” said Berman.
“These things are only successful if there is a certain critical mass of people who use it,” said Berman. “This is hard to predict.”
The US government wants to send a message to countries applying strict control over the Internet that people have the right to access any information they want, that is why FOE is developed by the US government, said Pan Wei, a professor in Peking University’s School of International Studies.
“China should be confident enough to be transparent and take criticism. It’s about time China loosened its control over the Internet,” Pan said. “It actually damages China’s international image.”
Charles Mok, chairman of the Internet Society of Hong Kong, said: “It would probably be more ideal if civil society’s efforts within the community gathered resources to come up with a similar sort of implementation rather than being government driven.”
The government had already been losing its battle in monitoring the Net, regardless of the success of the new US technology, said Hu Yong, a founding director for China New Media Communication Association. “People could always find ways to bypass the system as technology develops.”
“Chinese netizens have been using proxy servers to access the information blocked by the government for a long time, FOE is just a more convenient tool,” Hu said.
“From a security perspective, this is nothing new,” said Thomas Parenty, a China-based IT security consultant and former US National Security Agency programmer.
The US seems to be basically trying to tackle the problem of getting past Internet filters by using encrypted email as the transport mechanism as opposed to using web proxies, which has been the traditional approach, he said.
Officials from the Internet affairs bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology were not available on Friday to comment on the news.
Lots of people know how to use proxies to get around Internet blocks, said Jeremy Goldkorn, founder of the Chinese media monitoring website Danwei.org, which was blocked since July this year.
“It doesn’t make any difference to me if the US government has a new one. Of interest to me would be for the Chinese government not to

Relatives mourn for their victims in front of mudslide area at the devastated village of Hsiaolin, in Kaohsiung county, southeast China’s Taiwan Province, Aug. 15, 2009. People mourn for their relatives who died as Typhoon Morakot hit the area seven days after their death, according to local tradition. The death toll in the typhoon disaster in Hsiaolin Village maybe rise to about 400