Interesting news from China

[ahojunk]

Instead of opening a new thread, I decided to put it here.
IKEA is also saying that the consumer in EU and China are smarter than those in US, hence a recall is not necessary.
All companies will try to get away with murder and maximize their profits if they can!

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Chinese consumers require IKEA recall
CRI, July 4, 2016

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People queue to enter the IKEA shopping mall in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, June 25, 2015. The first IKEA shopping mall opened here on Thursday, which is the 17th IKEA, the world-renowned furniture retailer, opened in China. [Photo/Xinhua]


Many Chinese consumers are complaining over Swedish furniture maker IKEA's decision to exclude the Chinese market from a massive recall plan.

But the manufacturer says a recall is not necessary in China as the product in question meets all design standards in the country.

While more than 35 million dressers are being recalled from North America, the very same IKEA model is still being sold in Guangzhou.

The recall was launched after six children in the United States and Canada lost their lives in tipping and entrapment incidents associated with the dressers.

But consumers in China and Europe are not in the plan.

Xiang Li, marketing manager of the company's branch in Guangzhou, explains why.

"This model is sold not only in China, but also in other regions outside the United States. It's also sold in European Union countries. This product meets the mandatory safety requirements of EU and our country."

Installation instructions on how to attach chests of drawers and dressers to the walls are seen in IKEA's Guangzhou store.

The manager says the installation accessories are included when purchasing the product.

She strongly urges consumers to follow the proposed steps during assembly.

"If one follows the instruction to install the product, it's safe. In fact, our packaging specification repeatedly emphasizes the steps of anchoring. If required by the consumers, we will resort to a third party to provide them with paid installation services."

But such precaution is not enough to calm down local consumers.

"They should use larger labels to remind parents because many of them can't be aware of such a problem."

In North America, the recall covers chests of drawers and dressers which do not meet the performance requirements of the U.S. voluntary industry standards.

The company is offering a full or partial refund between 70 and 200 U.S. dollars on chests of drawers and dressers sold from 2002 through last month.

So far, the municipal Consumer Council in Shenzhen has appealed to IKEA to extend the same recall to China.

It argues that IKEA should not discriminate against Chinese consumers.

I think the issue was the wall anchor was not originally sold with the chest. After the issue was brought up they then included the anchor (I think 1.5 years ago). They then offered a free anchor to people who purchased it in the last 14 years. Of course the majority of the people who previously purchased them are probably unaware of the problem and never got the anchor. More kids died. Full recall issued.

China should be outraged. The chest is unsafe. Having people anchor it to the wall is a lame bandaid excuse for an obvious design problem.

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IKEA has finally succumbed to consumer pressure and will recall dressers......

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IKEA vows to fix or recall dangerous dressers in China
2016-07-08 11:31 | Ecns.cn | Editor: Mo Hong'e

(ECNS) -- Swedish furniture maker IKEA has decided to fix or recall a line of dressers after the company came under fire for excluding China from its massive recall plan.

IKEA said it would help attach the chests to walls free of charge, or customers could return the product if they wanted.

A staff member at IKEA also said that if the wall was not load bearing, then the chest of drawers couldn't be attached and should be returned, Beijing Youth Daily reported.

The recall was launched after six children in the United States and Canada lost their lives in incidents associated with the dresser, marketed mainly under the Malm brand and also sold in China.

IKEA previously refused to recall the products in China, saying that the furniture met Chinese standards and there had been no reported accidents with it.

The furniture maker's revised move came about after Chinese media outlets, including state news agency Xinhua, joined online outcry over the different treatment of the Chinese market.

IKEA's annual sale figures in China reached 10.5 billion yuan ($1.58 billion) in 2015, about one third of global sales, while the annual growth in China from 2010 to 2015 was 5.1 timers higher than the global pace.

 

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IKEA has finally succumbed to consumer pressure and will recall dressers......

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IKEA vows to fix or recall dangerous dressers in China
2016-07-08 11:31 | Ecns.cn | Editor: Mo Hong'e

(ECNS) -- Swedish furniture maker IKEA has decided to fix or recall a line of dressers after the company came under fire for excluding China from its massive recall plan.

IKEA said it would help attach the chests to walls free of charge, or customers could return the product if they wanted.

Well forget the fix part they should just recall it.

Unfortunately IKEA has a bit of a reputation as "disposable dorm room quality thermofoil over particle-board furniture just a step above Walmart crap". When light particleboard chests start tipping over (considering the kid probably weighs as much as the chest) it wasn't exactly shocking. I haven't been in IKEA lately so maybe they have gotten better..

I pulled out every drawer in all my kids furniture and even with me pulling from the back of the top edge it won't budge. It's solid wood...plus it's wider from front to back.

Oh BTW anchor it to the wall...are they serious?

 

[TaiShang]

Well forget the fix part they should just recall it.

Unfortunately IKEA has a bit of a reputation as "disposable dorm room quality thermofoil over particle-board furniture just a step above Walmart crap". When light particleboard chests start tipping over (considering the kid probably weighs as much as the chest) it wasn't exactly shocking. I haven't been in IKEA lately so maybe they have gotten better..

I pulled out every drawer in all my kids furniture and even with me pulling from the back of the top edge it won't budge. It's solid wood...plus it's wider from front to back.

Oh BTW anchor it to the wall...are they serious?

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Finally!

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IKEA forced to recall products over safety fears
By Hu Min | July 13, 2016, Wednesday |

IKEA China has started recalling more than 1.66 million of chests of drawers, including the popular Malm line series, in China’s mainland today, following criticism about double standards for refusing to order a recall of products in China as it did in North America.

On June 29, IKEA announced that it would recall 35.6 million chests and dressers in the United States and Canada after six children were crushed to death after the furniture toppled over them.

However, the Swedish furniture giant refused to recall the products in China, provoking accusations of discrimination and consumer rights violations.

It eventually relented after the Shanghai Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau got in touch with IKEA China and ordered it to fulfill its obligation on quality issues and safety hazards.

IKEA China said products sold in China had passed the country’s national quality standard and no injuries or fatalities were reported on the mainland.

But it eventually relented and ordered a recall scheme, which was submitted to China’s quality watchdog. It said the products in question were available in China between 1999 and 2016 with 1,660,845 pieces sold, China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said.

During a visit to the IKEA’s Xuhui outlet yesterday, Shanghai Daily found that the supposed-recalled products were still being sold with the Swedish company insisting that it had no quality problems. The affected lines of drawers such as Hemnes, Malm, Tarva and Brimnes were still available for buyers at the outlet.

“We will not stop the sales of these furniture because anchoring them to the wall will solve the problem,” said Vivian Tang, IKEA Shanghai PR manager.

IKEA China had also posted messages at its outlets, website and on its product assembly instructions, reminding consumers to secure the furniture to the wall to ensure safety, the company said in a statement.

Tang said free wall-anchoring service was available for consumers.

IKEA China said if buyers still insist on a return, its staff would come home and take away the furniture listed in the recall plan. They can get a refund with the receipt.

But the continued sales of the controversial products did not go down well with some people. “Recalling and selling the same models of products at the same time is a contradictory practice and ignores consumers’ rights and interests,” said Ge Zhihao, a local lawyer.

Some buyers said they were not aware of the safety issues of the furniture.

“After media reports of the incident in the US, I tried shaking the chests of the drawers to see if they could topple over,” said Chen Li, who has a 10-year-old daughter.

“I think IKEA should stop selling these furniture immediately otherwise the recall plan is meaningless,” she said.

But there were a few consumers who were sympathetic about the situation.

“If IKEA tells its consumers to secure the furniture on the wall, it does not have to be recalled,” said Sherry Shen who has a 6-year-old son. “It is not like a children’s furniture containing excessive formaldehyde, which affects health,” she said.

 

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IKEA forced to recall products over safety fears
By Hu Min | July 13, 2016, Wednesday |

IKEA China has started recalling more than 1.66 million of chests of drawers, including the popular Malm line series, in China’s mainland today, following criticism about double standards for refusing to order a recall of products in China as it did in North America.

On June 29, IKEA announced that it would recall 35.6 million chests and dressers in the United States and Canada after six children were crushed to death after the furniture toppled over them.

However, the Swedish furniture giant refused to recall the products in China, provoking accusations of discrimination and consumer rights violations.

It eventually relented after the Shanghai Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau got in touch with IKEA China and ordered it to fulfill its obligation on quality issues and safety hazards.

IKEA China said products sold in China had passed the country’s national quality standard and no injuries or fatalities were reported on the mainland.

But it eventually relented and ordered a recall scheme, which was submitted to China’s quality watchdog. It said the products in question were available in China between 1999 and 2016 with 1,660,845 pieces sold, China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said.

During a visit to the IKEA’s Xuhui outlet yesterday, Shanghai Daily found that the supposed-recalled products were still being sold with the Swedish company insisting that it had no quality problems. The affected lines of drawers such as Hemnes, Malm, Tarva and Brimnes were still available for buyers at the outlet.

“We will not stop the sales of these furniture because anchoring them to the wall will solve the problem,” said Vivian Tang, IKEA Shanghai PR manager.

IKEA China had also posted messages at its outlets, website and on its product assembly instructions, reminding consumers to secure the furniture to the wall to ensure safety, the company said in a statement.

Tang said free wall-anchoring service was available for consumers.

IKEA China said if buyers still insist on a return, its staff would come home and take away the furniture listed in the recall plan. They can get a refund with the receipt.

But the continued sales of the controversial products did not go down well with some people. “Recalling and selling the same models of products at the same time is a contradictory practice and ignores consumers’ rights and interests,” said Ge Zhihao, a local lawyer.

Some buyers said they were not aware of the safety issues of the furniture.

“After media reports of the incident in the US, I tried shaking the chests of the drawers to see if they could topple over,” said Chen Li, who has a 10-year-old daughter.

“I think IKEA should stop selling these furniture immediately otherwise the recall plan is meaningless,” she said.

But there were a few consumers who were sympathetic about the situation.

“If IKEA tells its consumers to secure the furniture on the wall, it does not have to be recalled,” said Sherry Shen who has a 6-year-old son. “It is not like a children’s furniture containing excessive formaldehyde, which affects health,” she said.

I can imagine if IKEA start making cars they'd have a note in the manual to "chain it to the ground so the wind doesn't blow it over". "Chain and anchors in trunk under the spare tire"

 

[JSCh]

Ancient Tibetan sutra-printing house to expand facility
Source: Xinhua | 2016-07-14 19:24:48 | Editor: huaxia

Dege Sutra-Printing House. (Xinhua photo/Wang Di)​

CHENGDU, July 14 (Xinhua) -- China's largest Tibetan sutra-printing house, located in Dege County, Sichuan province, will have its own museum to exhibit and preserve the centuries-old wooden printing blocks, local cultural officials said.

The museum will be near Dege Sutra-Printing House, the largest of its kind in China, which has 320,000 Tibetan sutra printing blocks.

Inside Dege Sutra-Printing House. (Xinhua photo/Wang Di)​

"The blocks are stacked up to the roof, the over-crowding is a fire risk," said Yang Sheng, vice director of Kamba Culture Institute in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, Sichuan.

The three-story wooden structure was built in 1729, and it has no electricity, he said.

Craftsmen print sutra in Dege Sutra-Printing House. (Xinhua photo/Wang Di)​

The new 10,000-sq-meter museum will be built in 2018, thanks to state funding of 80 million yuan (about 12 million U.S. dollars).

It will house some of the blocks and there will be space to exhibit materials related to the engraving, printing, and paper-making for traditional sutra-printing. Digital archives of the printing blocks will also be available.

"The museum will introduce visitors to the history and culture of Tibetan sutra-printing," he said.

The printing house boasts a vast collection including classic literature across the five major schools of Tibetan Buddhism -- Nyingmapa, Sakyapa, Kagyu, Bonpo and Gelug.

Craftsmen print sutra in Dege Sutra-Printing House. (Xinhua photo/Wang Di)​

Preservation work has been stepped up at the facility in recent years, Yang said.

More than five dozen craftsmen hand-craft new wooden blocks of the Buddhist Tripitaka, a treasured collection that records the words and deeds of Shakyamuni, the founding father of Buddhism.

"Carving the board is quite time consuming, even a skilled craftsman can only make seven blocks a month," said Yang, adding that Dege government had promised to recruit more craftsmen.

Board carving tools. (Xinhua photo/Wang Di)​

Sutra paper. (Xinhua photo/Wang Di)​

The facility attracts 60,000 Buddhist devotees and visitors every year, and it expects more.

An airport is under construction near the county. Starting from next year, the trip from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, to Dege will be shortened from a two-day drive to a two-hour flight.

 

[ahojunk]

The Panchen Lama is the second highest ranking lama in the Tibetan tradition.

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Panchen Lama's first Kalachakra ritual closes successfully
2016-07-24 21:13:28 | Xinhua | Web Editor: Chen Xieyuan

The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu held a four-day Kalachakra ceremony starting from July 21, 2016, in Shigatse, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, attracting about 50,000 Buddhists and monks. It is the first time for the young, 11th Panchen Lama to hold this event. [Photo: Xinhua]

The first Kalachakra ritual given by the 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu concluded on Sunday.

The four-day Kalachakra (wheel of time) ritual was held in the New Palace of the Panchen Lama at the request of the monks of the Zhaxi Lhunbo Lamasery, the home temple of Panchen Lamas, in Xigaze.

It was the first large-scale kalachakra ritual held in Tibet for 60 years. Records from the Zhaxi Lhunbo Lamasery showed that the 10th Panchen Lama performed one in 1954.

The ceremony began with a closed-door observance by senior monks from Labrang Lamasery in northwest China's Gansu Province and Zhaxi Lhunbo Lamasery every morning from July 21 to July 24.

Every afternoon, Panchen Lama gave four hour sermons, chanting mantras, explaining scripture and giving blessings.
Yanglha, 76, was grateful for the rare teachings. "An ordinary person would be hoarse after speaking for hours, but Panchen Lama's voice is always loud and resonant," she said.

Zhaxi Lhunbo Lamasery began preparations one month ago. A mandala made of colored sand by 20 senior monks was displayed to devotees on Sunday.

Some 100 lamas and 5,000 monks and nuns from Tibet, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai and Yunnan attended the ritual that is to help people through the cycle of life.

Despite intermittent rain, more than 100,000 believers attended the ritual each day. Cumulative attendance for the four days reached 426,000.

Four LED screens and dozens of loud speakers ensured the audience could clearly follow the teachings.

Hong Song, 56, a Tibetan from Qinghai Province, left four days in advance with his family. They flew from Yushu to Lhasa and took a train to Xigaze. He carried three kilograms of fried highland barley for breakfast and snacks in case there was no time for meals. He called the teachings "very, very precious".

Lama Thubten Drakpa with the Gyatso Ling Monastery said Panchen Rinpoche has "set a good example for living buddhas, especially the young ones."

Currently serving as vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, Panchen Lama, 26, has received some 1,000 initiations and given head-touching blessings to about 1.5 million Buddhists.

In Zhaxi Lhunbo last December, he celebrated the 20th anniversary of his enthronement.

Dawa Tsering, a monk and president of the Buddhism Association of Shannan City of Tibet, was present to receive the kalachakra teachings. He said he was very grateful to Panchen Rinpoche's confident and thorough explanation of the teachings.

"I think he is an honor to Tibetan Buddhism and as followers we feel blessed,"said Dawa Tsering.

 

[TaiShang]

Twin brothers return home 44 years later
China Daily, July 29, 2016

When Ma Jianhua and Li Rongfu appeared in front of the waiting crowd on July 24, cheers and applause erupted. The family members who have been separated for four decades hugged and shed tears of joy.

Ma Jianhua (right) and Li Rongfu (middle) pay respect to their deceased parents after going home 44 years later. [Photo/Huashang Daily]


Ma and Li are twin brothers who were born in Shaoxing in Zhejiang province in 1972. They had five elder sisters and brothers.

When they were three months old, their parents decided to give them to other families for adoption, because they were unable to support so many children.

The brothers were given to two relatively well-off families from a village in Henan province, which is over 1,000 kilometers away.

The adoptive families of the two brothers were only 500 meters away, but the two families had no close contact. And the parents did not let them play together.

The two boys' lives were parallel until they entered the middle school.

They were arranged in the same class and sat together as "their teacher thought they looked alike and had similar height."

They became intimate friends, playing together and sharing secrets with each other in spite of the objection from their parents.

They were good buddies and they even found their identity numbers were all the same except the last digit.

Life went on and if it were not the sudden changes that happened, the true identities of the two brothers may have not been revealed.

About 10 years ago, Ma's adoptive parents and elder sister died in succession. The trauma left Ma depressed. And then the foster father of Li Rongfu came to Ma, along with a yellowed photograph.

He told Ma to not be sad because he had other family members alive in the world. It was then that Ma Jianhua found out that Li Rongfu was his twin brother.

After recognizing their real identities, the twin brothers did not start looking for their real parents immediately in order to not harm the feeling of the adoptive parents.

They only started searching for their family members in recent years when they thought it was right time to do it before they came in contact with their sisters and brothers in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province.

When they finally found their family members, they were told that their parents had passed away long time ago.

"I could understand my adoptive parents. I would have done the same if I were in the similar situation," said Ma Jianhua who did not blame his adoptive parents for covering the truth for years, and said he will be grateful to them for the rest of his life.

"We will invite our family members from Shaoxing to my adoptive home in Henan, and we will also go to Shaoxing to visit them often," said Li Rongfu.

 

[ahojunk]

Poverty reduction, good work, keep it up.

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Making poverty history in one of China's poorest provinces
By Zhang Yuchen (China Daily)Updated: 2016-07-27 07:29

Liu Xiaoyang, a vegetable farmer in Chengxian, Gansu province, works in his greenhouse alongside fellow villagers. Zhang Meng/Xinhua


A raft of measures has been introduced to raise living standards in the remote, mountainous area. Zhang Yuchen reports from Tianshui, Gansu province.

A bright smile played across Fang Najia's tanned, wrinkled face as she explained the measures being taken to help her family escape the poverty trap.

The 50-something from Yawan, a village in Gongchang county in the south of Gansu, one of China's poorest provinces, is one of millions of beneficiaries of a poverty-alleviation program that began in 2013.

Few outsiders would describe Fang's family of four, whose details were entered in a poverty database last year, as impoverished. Unlike their less-prosperous neighbors, the family's courtyard contains three straw-and-mud houses, but as average villagers their combined income is only about 3,000 yuan ($450) a month.

While that's just about enough to live on, it isn't enough to lift the burden of the 8,000 yuan Feng's daughter has to pay every year to attend a university in the eastern province of Jiangxi.

After Gongchang's leaders had collected information about the situations of households across the county to compile the poverty database, Fang's family was deemed eligible to receive aid from a program designed to help people who are being pushed into poverty by the cost of higher education, or through illness and disability.

Under the program, Fang's daughter is permitted to collect an annual loan of 10,000 yuan from a special education aid program operated by the county government. The loan, which will be interest free until she graduates and starts work, means she can continue her studies.

For their part, Fang and her husband can claim a low-interest, five-year loan of 50,000 yuan. If they invest the money in a mushroom-cultivation project in the village, the family will receive 4,000 yuan at the end of the year. When the contract expires, the family can repay the original sum, plus a small amount of interest, and arrange another loan. Together, the programs account for 15 percent of the county's annual budget.

Lasting solutions

Zhang Wengang, deputy head of Gongchang, said that before the project began, every person in the county classified as impoverished was allotted the national 100 yuan minimum monthly living allowance, which was a drain on resources and provided no lasting solutions.

Fang's family has enjoyed support from similar programs organized by different levels of the local government, which has been working to alleviate poverty since 2013, when President Xi Jinping visited the region and demanded better conditions for the rural poor.

Gansu has a population of nearly 26 million, and at the time of Xi's visit nearly 7 million people had been assessed as living in poverty. By the end of last year, after the measures started to take effect, the number had fallen to about 3 million, a step towards achieving the target of zero poverty nationwide by 2020, as outlined in the 13th Five-Year-Plan (2016-20).

To ensure resources are targeted at those in greatest need, the Gansu government intends to build a comprehensive database of the provincial poor. The guaranteed minimum income is being extended to a larger number of families, and a range of new social security policies is being introduced in areas such as education, health and housing.

"When I was assigned to my post nine years ago, I realized that conditions have remained unchanged for decades in some mountain villages," said Diao Xiaoling, a researcher with the publicity department of the Gansu office of poverty alleviation and development. "Now, things have really changed: people no longer dress in tattered clothes, houses are being renovated, residents are being relocated and new infrastructure is under construction - even people's attitudes have changed."

Chengxian villager Su Yanyan shows her online store on her smartphone. Many local famers have improved their standards of living through e-commerce. Xiao Zhengqiang/Xinhua


Online opportunities

Until recently, Zeng Xueyi didn't know how to access online shopping portals on his low-end smartphone. Since his teenage years, the 60-year-old resident of Chengxian county in the city of Longnan, has earned a living by raising honeybees and selling the honey to his neighbors.

Last year, a concrete road was built to link Zeng's remote mountain village with a small road about two-hours away that connects with a major highway. The improved communications and transportation links convinced Zeng to expand his business. Now, after a few lessons from his adopted son on how to use the internet, he is attempting to exploit e-commerce opportunities via online dealers.

In the old days Zeng earned about 0.5 yuan for each kilogram of honey he produced, but now the same amount sells for 50 to 80 yuan via online channels. Two traditional hives have housed Zeng's bees for the majority of his career, but seeking improved productivity he has taken out a small loan from an aid program and invested in 20 modern hives, which will allow him to raise more bees.

He has also contacted local e-commerce coaches - mostly college graduates who have been assigned to work as assistant village leaders - for advice about getting his produce to a wider audience.

"When we paved the road and gave them a new direction, the villagers' enthusiasm was stimulated," said Diao, the researcher. "They will seek every opportunity to improve their lives. Poverty in the past never destroyed their hopes of prosperity in the future."

Gu Qing, assistant country director of poverty, equity and governance at the United Nations Development Programme in China, said new measures must be devised to tackle the fundamental problems.

"To a certain extent, poverty reduction is like picking fruit on a tree. The low-hanging fruits of poverty-reduction have already been picked, so now we need to pick the high-hanging fruits and address the hardcore issues of poverty," she said.

While Fang Najia is hoping her family's prospects will further improve when her daughter graduates from college, Zeng Xueyi is still faced with uncertainty.

He has collected his honey harvest twice since summer began, but so far he hasn't been approached by middlemen from online sales channels.

"Making a living like this isn't as easy as it appears, but I will persevere - it's the new way," he said.

Contact the writer at zhangyuchen@chinadaily.com.cn

 

[ahojunk]

I love stories that show how the rural folks are improving their lives.
But this guy may not be able to compete with DJI.

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Migrant workers return home to start business
CCTV.com
07-31-2016 05:42 BJT

Video is in this link:-
http://english.cctv.com/2016/07/31/VIDEaK8Tgk9nqF65DalOedSD160731.shtml


It used to be that ambitious people from rural areas of China moved to cities in search for higher-paid jobs and a better life. But things are changing. Today, more and more migrant workers are finding better job opportunities back home.

Flying drone isn't all just fun and games ...He Chunlin is a technician at a drone manufacturing company. He has to fly drones for his job.

"There are two people controlling the drone, one is the main flyer and the other is the assistant," He said.

He Chunlin used to work in a high-tech company in Tianjin.

After working there for half a year, he decided to return to his home town to help build a start-up company.

The knowledge and skills that he picked up while working in Tianjin helped him stand out at the company. He has already made big contributions to the success of the start-up team.

"We are currently one of the leading companies in the drone industry, now we've successfully produced three generations of drones," He said.

According to the Agriculture Ministry, there has been a rapid increase of people like He Chunlin over the past five years. More people are returning to their home towns to start their own businesses.

Today, there are over 25 million small and medium-sized companies being run by migrant workers that have returned home. Their companies provide a number of products and services, including -- tourism, e-commerce, and information technology.

Experts say it's just the start of a growing trend. In the future, more Chinese workers, searching for better opportunities, will end up finding them back home.

 

[ahojunk]

If the western narrative that Tibetans are oppressed, why are these people moving back to Tibet from Myanmar?
There are always two sides to a story. I believe this one!
With further infrastructure improvements, these people's lives will become better.

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From hunting wild fruits to satellite dishes:
Life of returnees from Myanmar to Tibet
By Guo Kai (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2016-08-01 11:20

The location of Zayu county in Tibet autonomous region. [Photo/tibet.cn]


Families who returned to their hometown in Tibet from Myanmar three decades ago have been living a well-off life thanks to the country's farmer-friendly policies after their nationality was restored, the news website tibet.cn reported.

These families living in Zhuwagen town of Zayu county moved to northern Myanmar in 1950s as they were oppressed by lords and former local governments before the Tibet's peaceful liberation.

However, even though they had been living in Myanmar for decades, the Myanmese government never granted them citizenship. They became people with no nationality.

Between 1984 and 1986, these families started returning to their hometown in Zayu and settled down in Xituola, Zhaga and Zhuwu villages, after learning about Chinese government's new policies and people's life being improved.

Tenzin, 48, said that his father was 30 years old when he moved to Myanmar. His father said his family moved there because they could not afford the taxes imposed by the local governments and the oppression of landlords.

Tenzin's family lived in a mountainous area that was delineated by Myanmar government, Tenzin said. Ten family members lived in wooden sheds and hunted wild fruits and animals to survive. Tenzin said they were living like savages at that time.

In 1985, Tenzin's family returned to Zayu. Families that returned from Myanmar missed the Tibet's reforms after the peaceful liberation, and they could not access land or ID cards because they had no nationality. Their education and employment were also badly hampered.

In September 2006, the Chinese government granted these people nationality. Now they could enjoy the country's subsidies for border people, medical insurance and pension, housing projects and other benefits.

The three villages now have tap water, power grid and roads. Villagers can watch satellite TVs at home, and take part in cultural activities.

Tenzin's new house in Zayu county. [Photo/tibet.cn]

Tenzin and his family. [Photo/tibet.cn]

Zhuwagen town of Zayu county. [Photo/tibet.cn]. Looks like a gorgeous place to live.

A village in Xilatuo with a nice looking vehicle. [Photo/tibet.cn]

Yongqing and her husband Dang Sheng. Yongqing's grandpa led the family to Myanmar when her father was 5 years old, and returned in 1986. [Photo/tibet.cn]

Baima Raodeng shows the household booklet of his family. In May 1985, Baima Raodeng led more than 10 people to return to Zayu county. [Photo/tibet.cn]

Baima Raodeng's house in Zayu county. [Photo/tibet.cn]

 

[ahojunk]

These videos show the situation in Tibetan feudal society in the last century.
They are interesting to watch.

Documentary commemorates end of Tibetan serfdom-Part1

CCTV News
Published on 23 May 2016
Monday marks the 65th anniversary of Tibet’s peaceful liberation. Watch the documentary, "Tibet: The end of serfdom" to know more about the origins of Tibetan serfdom and the significance of ending it, from the perspective of those who lived through it.

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Documentary commemorates end of Tibetan serfdom-Part2

CCTV News
Published on 25 May 2016
Monday marks the 65th anniversary of Tibet’s peaceful liberation. Watch the documentary, "Tibet: The end of serfdom" to know more about the origins of Tibetan serfdom and the significance of ending it, from the perspective of those who lived through it.

 

[ahojunk]

The Panchen Lama is doing some good work.

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Panchen Lama donates 250,000 yuan to Nagqu Welfare Home for Children
2016-08-02 16:53:36 Xinhua Web Editor: Chen Xieyuan

The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu talks with children of Nagqu Welfare Home for Children in Nagqu, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 1, 2016. Erdini Qoigyijabu donated 250,000 yuan on Monday to improve children's living conditions in Nagqu Welfare Home for Children. [Photo: Xinhua/Chogo]

The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu donates 250,000 yuan to Nagqu Welfare Home for Children in Nagqu, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 1, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua/Chogo]

 

[Three_Kingdoms]

The Panchen Lama is doing some good work.

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Panchen Lama donates 250,000 yuan to Nagqu Welfare Home for Children
2016-08-02 16:53:36 Xinhua Web Editor: Chen Xieyuan

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The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu talks with children of Nagqu Welfare Home for Children in Nagqu, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 1, 2016. Erdini Qoigyijabu donated 250,000 yuan on Monday to improve children's living conditions in Nagqu Welfare Home for Children. [Photo: Xinhua/Chogo]



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The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu donates 250,000 yuan to Nagqu Welfare Home for Children in Nagqu, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Aug. 1, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua/Chogo]

Holy and sweet!

 

[Three_Kingdoms]

More and more Tibetans/ Monks in exile strongly want to go Home.
Their frustrations are:
They are living in a state of arnarchy. The Government in Exile (GIE)does not take care of them. No one is taking care of them. They dont even have a valid passport. The living environment is very bad: broken houses, narrow streets. This is the fact because India is a poor country itself. From time to time they have fightings with local Indians and it is an open secret that the local police always stands on the Indian side. They have no identity in India. They cannot do a lot of things like buying a property there. Last May, a "living Buddha" was allowed to return and settle down in Tibet. The frustrated people have followed Dalai Lama's calling for the journey over the Himalayas to India now they feel that Dalai Lama has hurt them badly. More capable Tibetans have emigrated. For those who have no choice but to stay behind feel like homeless people in India and there is mounting discontent of them against their GIE. The tremendous improvement in the livelihood of their fellow Tibetans in China is another strong pull for the frustrated people's wish to go Home. They dont want DaLai to regain his political power through violence. They just want to go Home safely one day


德媒：“流亡藏人”想回国 称达赖“让我很受伤”(转载)

据中国西藏网5月24日援引@德国文化电台报道，德国记者前往“西藏流亡政府”所在地印度达兰萨拉深入采访，当地藏人向记者表现出强烈的回国愿望，称“无政府，无人管，达赖让我们‘很受伤’”。

　　旅印藏人Ranzin在接受德国媒体采访时，讲述了当时他当初因为听达赖的“召唤”离开西藏来到印度，然而事实并非如宣传的那样。藏人Dorjee向记者抱怨：“我们翻越喜马拉雅山跑到印度，却发现这里街道狭窄，房子破烂，甚至‘流亡政府’根本就不管我们，真的让人‘很受伤’”。

　　在接受采访的时候，许多“流亡藏人”都向德国记者表达了自己的“认同感”：“哪怕现在在印度，从心里我们坚持认为我们是西藏人，真的盼望有一天能回到祖国。”而对于日前闹得沸沸扬扬的“流亡政府”大选，这几位受访藏人表示，“这个‘政府’并没有政治权力，他们甚至不能给我们一本护照，我们无家可归。希望达赖再不要采取暴力行为来获得政治权力，我们只想有朝一日平安回家。”

　　事实上，没有护照的“流亡藏人”在印度面临着种种困境。由于缺乏合法身份，他们无法购买当地的土地房产，只能租赁，同时在跟印度人的纠纷中也得不到任何保障。国际在线曾经报道，2014年8月两名在印藏人同当地人发生冲突被打得满脸是血，而其他藏人并不能前来帮忙。“流亡藏人”多仁(化名)向记者直言：“在达兰萨拉警察在处理冲突时偏袒印度人是公开的秘密。”

　　而更令达赖和“流亡政府”所担忧的是，由于生活条件迟迟得不到改善，愈演愈烈的焦 躁情绪和认同感的缺失已经在“流亡藏人”中蔓延开来。长期难以融入当地社会，加之印度本身经济状况堪忧，部分藏人试图跑到欧美等发达国家去；一些剩下“力不能及”的藏人则希望回到西藏。随着网络通信的发达，国内日益丰富的物质条件和西藏自治区飞速发展的经济状况也令他们非常向往。

　　去年5月，曾任“流亡政府”高官的第三世安曲活佛获中国政府批准，已返回四川阿坝定居。高官回国定居的消息在印度藏族社区内引起轩然大波，越来越多的旅印藏人开始审视自己的处境和出路。Tanzin向德国记者抱怨时用了“乞求”这个词来表达自己回国的渴求：“乞求达赖喇嘛再勿使用暴力，我们只想要有朝一日回到西藏。”

　　达赖仍然四处窜访宣扬自己的“藏独”理念，而他身后的藏人社区，则正面临着“人心涣散，土崩瓦解”的结局。

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[Jlaw]

More and more Tibetans/ Monks in exile strongly want to go Home.
Their frustrations are:
They are living in a state of arnarchy. The Government in Exile (GIE)does not take care of them. No one is taking care of them. They dont even have a valid passport. The living environment is very bad: broken houses, narrow streets. This is the fact because India is a poor country itself. From time to time they have fightings with local Indians and it is an open secret that the local police always stands on the Indian side. They have no identity in India. They cannot do a lot of things like buying a property there. Last May, a "living Buddha" was allowed to return and settle down in Tibet. The frustrated people have followed Dalai Lama's calling for the journey over the Himalayas to India now they feel that Dalai Lama has hurt them badly. More capable Tibetans have emigrated. For those who have no choice but to stay behind feel like homeless people in India and there is mounting discontent of them against their GIE. The tremendous improvement in the livelihood of their fellow Tibetans in China is another strong pull for the frustrated people's wish to go Home. They dont want DaLai to regain his political power through violence. They just want to go Home safely one day


德媒：“流亡藏人”想回国 称达赖“让我很受伤”(转载)

据中国西藏网5月24日援引@德国文化电台报道，德国记者前往“西藏流亡政府”所在地印度达兰萨拉深入采访，当地藏人向记者表现出强烈的回国愿望，称“无政府，无人管，达赖让我们‘很受伤’”。

　　旅印藏人Ranzin在接受德国媒体采访时，讲述了当时他当初因为听达赖的“召唤”离开西藏来到印度，然而事实并非如宣传的那样。藏人Dorjee向记者抱怨：“我们翻越喜马拉雅山跑到印度，却发现这里街道狭窄，房子破烂，甚至‘流亡政府’根本就不管我们，真的让人‘很受伤’”。

　　在接受采访的时候，许多“流亡藏人”都向德国记者表达了自己的“认同感”：“哪怕现在在印度，从心里我们坚持认为我们是西藏人，真的盼望有一天能回到祖国。”而对于日前闹得沸沸扬扬的“流亡政府”大选，这几位受访藏人表示，“这个‘政府’并没有政治权力，他们甚至不能给我们一本护照，我们无家可归。希望达赖再不要采取暴力行为来获得政治权力，我们只想有朝一日平安回家。”

　　事实上，没有护照的“流亡藏人”在印度面临着种种困境。由于缺乏合法身份，他们无法购买当地的土地房产，只能租赁，同时在跟印度人的纠纷中也得不到任何保障。国际在线曾经报道，2014年8月两名在印藏人同当地人发生冲突被打得满脸是血，而其他藏人并不能前来帮忙。“流亡藏人”多仁(化名)向记者直言：“在达兰萨拉警察在处理冲突时偏袒印度人是公开的秘密。”

　　而更令达赖和“流亡政府”所担忧的是，由于生活条件迟迟得不到改善，愈演愈烈的焦 躁情绪和认同感的缺失已经在“流亡藏人”中蔓延开来。长期难以融入当地社会，加之印度本身经济状况堪忧，部分藏人试图跑到欧美等发达国家去；一些剩下“力不能及”的藏人则希望回到西藏。随着网络通信的发达，国内日益丰富的物质条件和西藏自治区飞速发展的经济状况也令他们非常向往。

　　去年5月，曾任“流亡政府”高官的第三世安曲活佛获中国政府批准，已返回四川阿坝定居。高官回国定居的消息在印度藏族社区内引起轩然大波，越来越多的旅印藏人开始审视自己的处境和出路。Tanzin向德国记者抱怨时用了“乞求”这个词来表达自己回国的渴求：“乞求达赖喇嘛再勿使用暴力，我们只想要有朝一日回到西藏。”

　　达赖仍然四处窜访宣扬自己的“藏独”理念，而他身后的藏人社区，则正面临着“人心涣散，土崩瓦解”的结局。

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I say do not let them. These people are just opportunists. They chose to go to India and set their own path. Now that they're not doing so well, these former elites are begging to go back to China.

Let them suffer. You don't want these people to come back and cause trouble in the future.