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via: financial times - China textiles exports to EU jump 40 per cent

a new victim is found to blame ever increasing chinese textile exports to the EU:

The European Commission’s latest trade figures are likely to confirm fears that developing countries are among the main losers after last January’s worldwide removal of textiles quotas.

They have struggled to keep up with China’s large and modern clothing production facilities in a liberalised trading environment.

Burma and the Philippines were the worst-hit Asian countries, with EU imports down respectively by 54.4 per cent and 41.4 per cent in value terms in the first eight months.

South Korea, Thailand, Pakistan and Bangladesh also saw significant falls, by 28.6 per cent, 15.1 per cent, 16.3 per cent and 9.3 per cent respectively.

almost every of my friends received some requests from foreigners, mostly americans and europeans, to help them export chinese products to their home countries. many of them came to china to seek for cheap products like mad and help chinese firms or individuals to export those cheap products. certainly they take away the largest chunk of the profit and leave the scraps to the factory workers, those poor people who work with the minimum wages, little security and no fringe benefits become the target of their government's attack on china's exports, and occasionally the target of their sympathy and concern for china's workers' rights.

so, my suggestion to EU's trade commission is: jail those foreign traders and your trade imbalance with china will improve a lot :-)

via: xinhua news

related links: Weekend PR Blog: The Harbin Water Crisis

when asked why Harbin lied about the reason of water stoppage, Zhang Zuoji, the governor of Heilongjiang province, said, "when the incident (of pollution) first happened, there do had some panic and suspicion among the public. one of the reasons for that is that we made an announcement of water stoppage and said that was for maintenance, we considered carefully to make such a decision: we needed to take others' feelings into consideration and didn't want to create pressures of "you pollute, we cure"; we were worried that the public can not take the sudden disaster; and we needed to consider the foreign relations, worried that (the disaster) might influence the relationship between china and foreign nations. with the support of the central government, we corrected this "lie of good intention" in less than 10 hours, and announced the whole truth to the public and got their understandings. after this incident, we know that we must safeguard the public's right to know and participate when sudden disaster happens"

the original report of chinese version: 据新华社报道，张左己谈到当初隐瞒停水原因时表示：“事件发生之初，确实出现了群众恐慌和怀疑。一个原因是我们以管网检修为由发布的停水公告，对此我们是颇费斟酌的：我们顾及别人的感受，不希望产生‘你污染，我治理’的压力；还顾及群众对突如其来的灾难承受不了；也顾及涉外问题，担心给国与国之间的关系造成影响。在中央的支持下，不到十个小时，我们就纠正了这个‘善意的谎言’，向群众公布了真相，得到了群众的谅解。通过这件事，我们感到，在突发事件来临时，必须维护群众的知情权和参与权。”

Mr Zhang Zuoji drinks the first glass of water after water supply is restored: