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Honda, the Japan-based multinational automaker, has partnered with the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (CSCLF) on Monday to support distressed and poor youth in China.

The CSCLF & Honda Dream Fund is launched in Beijing on Sept. 11, 2017. [Photo/China.org.cn]

Called the CSCLF & Honda Dream Fund, the program was launched in Beijing to help youngsters nationwide pursue their dreams.

“China is an enormous country with a large population, and many of the youth have lost their dreams due to economic constraints,” said Mizuno Yasuhide, president of Guangqi Honda Automobile Co., Ltd.

He hoped that the fund can encourage young people to dream boldly and embrace more hope and opportunities in life.

Unlike traditional charity programs, the fund provides a package of measures to the qualified students including long-term financial support, mentorship and continued tracking system to monitor and evaluate their performance.

The program will not only target talented students in prestigious universities but also those in remote areas and vocational schools, according to Honda’s briefing.

As of the end of 2016, there were over 40 million people in China living below the country’s poverty line, accounting for about 3 percent of the country’s population.

Jing Dunquan, vice chairman of CSCLF, said the fund will help establish a platform for poor young Chinese to pursue and achieve their dreams and motivate them to embrace a better future.

He hoped the initiative will also bring vitality to China-Japan relations.

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An international research team led by Chinese astronomers revealed an evidence of dynamical dark energy. The discovery, recently published on Nature Astronomy, with a News & Views article written by a world expert on cosmology, found that the natu… read more

A former banker, who is one of Shanghai’s most-wanted fugitives, has turned himself in.

Chen Fujin, 72, former director of the Minhang branch of the Bank of Communications, used a fake passport to fly to the United States on March 13, 1996.

Chen Fujin is met at Pudong airport on his return to Shanghai. [Photo/Shanghai Daily]

His wife escaped with him, according to prosecutors of Minhang District.

On October 18, 1997, he was put on Interpol’s “red notice” wanted list of Chinese economic fugitives who had fled overseas. He was also wanted as part of China’s “Sky Net” anti-graft campaign, started in April 2015, to repatriate fugitive officials.

Details about what Chen’s corruption involved were not disclosed.

Sun Jing, director of the Minhang District People’s Procuratorate, said officials approached Chen and his relatives via WeChat and persuaded him to return to Shanghai, which he did last Thursday.

“I am willing to receive any punishment,” Chen said on a local TV broadcast.

He was arrested on his arrival, prosecutors said.

Shanghai prosecutors said that they have now detained nearly 20 suspects, or about half of those who are being sought in the Sky Net campaign.

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More than 100 scholars and history researchers from China, Japan and South Korea called for peace and mutual understanding in Nanjing, which became China’s first International City of Peace on Saturday.

Ye Nanke, head of the Nanjing Academy of Social Sciences, said Nanjing has set up international peace schools, peace communities and peace research institutes to educate the next generation and bring peace to the public.

“Nanjing plays a key role in peace education and international communications because of its history,” he said. “In the future, the city will establish more peace museums, squares, hospitals and schools.”

Ye made the comments at China’s Concept and Practice of the Right to Peace Seminar, which was held in Nanjing on Monday.

Starting on Dec 13, 1937, some 300,000 Chinese people were killed by Japanese troops in a six-week rampage－one of the most brutal massacres in modern history.

International Cities of Peace, a global nonprofit association dedicated to connecting, promoting and encouraging peace worldwide, approved the city’s application on Aug 31.

Cui Yuying, vice-minister of the State Council Information Office and deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said at the seminar that China adheres to peaceful development as it tries to promote common development globally.

“China has always been peace-loving, and peace is one of the core values of Chinese civilization,” she said. “Over the years, China has made a significant contribution to the maintenance of peace, both for the Chinese people and the peoples of the world.”

Chang Jian, deputy director of the Human Rights Research Center at Nankai University in Tianjin, said the right to peace means the right to enjoy a peaceful life.

“To enjoy peaceful lives, people should not be threatened by organized violence. Many methods should be adopted to eliminate violence and its causes,” he said.

“Researchers should look at how violent methods used to eliminate violence can be controlled and what alternatives can be used instead,” he said.

Chen Xiaolyu, director of the European Union Research Center at Nanjing University, said that long-term peace can only be acquired when the interests of all parties are respected without the influence of military forces.

“China doesn’t want to realize its goals by forcing other countries,” he said. “We say that China is a peace-loving country, and that is not empty flattery. Plenty of evidence can be provided to prove that.

“China will be an important force in safeguarding world peace. Its development will benefit not only the Chinese but also the peoples of the world.”

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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday stressed global cooperation to combat desertification, which he said is a common challenge for mankind. Xi made the remarks in a congratulatory letter to a high-level meeting of the 13th session of the Conference… read more