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情感：因为我太爱你了，所以你必须爱我
晨曦
做一个早晨八九点钟的太阳吧！这样，至少自己是高兴的愉快的。人有时总希望自己爱的人能够千倍万倍地爱自己，或者即使爱我一点点。
但她不知道，一个人能一辈子和你不离不弃，这本身就是一种爱。因为你太爱他了，导致你失去了自我。最终，你总是希望能得到更多。但因为你付出了所有，所以你总是感觉别人付出的不够。
与其等老年的时候倒苦水，最好就是要预防。以前我工作起来也是不要命。一根筋，有人劝我悠着点，还不觉得感激。
但现在发现，生活不是那么一帆风顺，心情真的必须要自我调节。
一个人太依赖对方，有可能损自己，也损对方，如果太欺负对方，最终可能导致孤独。最好的办法还是中庸，互敬互爱，互相理解。在一起不累，在一起轻松。
新闻分析：冰岛总理为何辞职？
北欧绿色邮报网评论员陈雪霏
冰岛总理古恩劳松4月5日被迫辞职。因为他夫人在巴拿马拥有壳牌海上石油的股份。那么，这与他有什么关系呢？原来，他在冰岛2008年金融危机之前就拥有壳牌分公司Wintris. 该公司购买了冰岛银行的股份。
冰岛银行在金融危机过程中坏账太多，导致政府垮台，总理被告到法庭，很多议会官员事后被证明都牵涉到金融危机之中。冰岛危机的根本原因就是人为制造了泡沫，导致银行破产，政府崩溃，因为政府挽救不了银行，银行资产比整个国家拥有的资产还多几倍。因此，银行出问题，没人能救。结果是冰岛政府垮台，欠国外客户的钱要经过45年以后还清就行。从国际货币基金组织借了大笔贷款，也从周边国家借了大笔的款。
从此，冰岛国家和人民都过上了勒紧裤腰带的日子。实行外汇管制，保持金融稳定成为重中之重。
本来，冰岛总理在2013年当选总理后，应该坦白交代，或者完全离职，卖掉。但是，他没有这么做，而是把股份转让给了妻子。如果冰岛没有发生过那么严重的危机，或许人们也不会那么无情。但是，冰岛危机给人们带来的伤痛很深，他们不能容忍自己的总理有这样的利益冲突。
他妻子拥有石油公司账户，说明她成了冰岛银行的债权人。而这正是冰岛人不希望看到的。也是冰岛政府想要打击的对象。如果政府不打，就是违规。因此，总理不得不辞职。
由此也可以看出，冰岛人还是不能容忍腐败，吃一欠，长一志。人们的眼里不能再揉沙子。
Meg Rosoff wins 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
By Xuefei Chen Axelsson
STOCKHOLM, April. 6(Greenpost)–Author Meg Rosoff has won 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
Rosoff was born in in Boston, United States in 1956. She has lived and worked in London for many years. The jury’s citation reads:
Meg Rosoff’s young adult novels speak to the emotions as well as the intellect. In sparkling prose, she writes about the search for meaning and identity in a peculiar and bizarre world. Her brave and humorous stories are one-of-a-kind. She leaves no reader unmoved.
Meg Rosoff made her authorial debut in 2004 with the dystopian YA novel How I Live now, which became an immediate success. Since then she has written six more YA novels, several picture books, and a novel for adults. Her collected body of work is richly varied and profoundly affecting for readers of all ages.
Rosoff writes about young people in the borderlands between childhood and adult life who face difficult trials in their quests to find themselves. At times they are pushed to the brink of the unbearable and beyond. Her protagonists battle questions of identity and sexuality and are thrown involuntarily into chaotic situations. Like Astrid Lindgren, Rosoff empathizes completely with young people and is utterly loyal to them. The adult world, when it appears, remains on the periphery. She uses concrete, vibrant language, whether she is describing a landscape, a piece of clothing, or the groceries in the pantry. She infuses darkness with humor to produce stylistic masterpieces.
In What I was (2007), questions of body, identity, and gender, the confusions of falling in love, and the desire and sexuality of the young all come to a head as the narrator sets out to find himself and choose a path different from the one laid out for him by the adult world.
At times, as in Just in Case (2006), reality and fantasy almost merge, so that we are hard-pressed to say what is ”really” happening. In There is no Dog (2011), things get truly crazy when a hormonal teen is given the job of the great Creator.
Meg Rosoff is the recipient of numerous prizes, including Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, Carnegie Medal and Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages and she became Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2014.
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award will be presented in a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on May 30, 2016.
斯德哥尔摩国际和平研究所所长史密斯在安全与发展论坛开幕式上的讲话
北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）－－斯德哥尔摩国际和平研究所所长丹.史密斯5日在斯德哥尔摩安全与发展论坛开幕式上发表讲话。
他说，今年是研究所建立50周年。我们确定这是反思的一年。当今世界确实存在很多问题，但是，也存在很多机遇和希望，最典型的例子就是去年11月在巴黎气候大会上达成的协议。联合国千年发展目标也已经实现。我对即将召开的有关人道主义的会议也充满希望。多年来，不管你喜欢不喜欢，也不管是好是坏，一路走来，你们都愿意一起走，因此，我们希望向你们学习。反思一下过去的道路，应该吸取哪些教训。
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China Focus: Inland city helming Yangtze shipping growth
YIBIN, Sichuan, March 30 (Greenpost) — A ship loaded with three tanks weighing about 60 tonnes each is nearing Shanghai during a pioneering two-week journey starting from southwest China’s Yibin City along the Yangtze River.
Such a shipment from China’s inland along the mighty Yangtze would have been impossible just a few years ago when only small docks for barges, ferries and fishing boats dotted Yibin’s banks.
Yibin, an industrial city known for coal mining and liquors, used to rely on trucks and trains to transport goods, even though it is where two upper tributaries meet to form the main section of the Yangtze.
Local authorities began developing a major port in Yibin in 2010, amid broader work by China to turn the Yangtze into a “golden waterway” with an enhanced role as the cargo artery between the wealthy coast and the vast under-developed inland. Central and local governments see increasing trade as the key to strengthening economies away from the coast.
On March 25, the Communist Party of China Central Committee passed a guideline on developing the Yangtze River Economic Belt, stressing that the program must be driven by market principles and have green credentials.
Yibin was years ahead of the curve. Its port with five docks is designed to handle half a million containers and 2.24 million tonnes of cargo every year. Ships of up to 3,000 tonnes can set sail even in the dry season.
Transporting giant goods like the tanks by land is extremely difficult, as they would overload lorries or trains and have to be dismantled to pass through tunnels or bridges. The costs tend to be very high, explained Yuan Daiqian, general manager of Jiangyuan Chemical Engineering Machinery, which manufactured the tanks for a fertilizer plant being built by Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi in Turkmenistan.
Thanks to the Yibin Port and new shipping routes, “we can do business that was not possible before,” Yuan said. His company has manufactured 71 pieces of large equipment for Mitsubishi’s project, including the tanks.
They will head for Turkmenistan from Shanghai, where the Yangtze empties into the sea. Shanghai International Port Group and the government of Yibin co-funded the construction of Yibin Port.
Yibin’s shipping industry has grown rapidly as investment has flowed to infrastructure along the Yangtze River.
The volume of goods passing through Yibin harbor has been growing at an average 130 percent a year since the port became operational in 2010. It handled 200,000 containers in 2015 and 66,000 in the first quarter of 2016.
China’s development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has accelerated since a plan approved by the government in September 2014.
There is certainly a lot riding on it. The belt includes nine provinces and two municipalities. It spans 2.05 million square km and accounts for more than 40 percent of China’s population and economic aggregate.
Yibin, a city of about five million people, is nudging into the global market through better connection with big cities along the river.
It has launched shipping routes to Japan and the Republic of Korea via central China’s Wuhan and east China’s Nanjing and Shanghai. It is also planning four routes to Southeast Asia.
As a result, Yibin’s foreign trade reached 890 million U.S. dollars and 950 million U.S. dollars in 2014 and 2015, growing at 9.1 percent and 7 percent year on year, at a time when China’s overall foreign trade has stalled.
To help e-commerce, Yibin is also building a bonded warehouse where imported goods can be stored without paying duty. With a storage area of 53,000 square meters, the warehouse is due to open before the end of June.
“The golden waterway has boosted Yibin’s shipping cooperation with cities along the Yangtze, opening up markets for local companies and improving their competitiveness by saving transport costs,” said Liu Zhengyu, board chairman of Yibin Port.
“When e-commerce gets going, this industrial city will become a major trading center in southwest China,” Liu said. Enditem
Source Xinhua
Moody’s China outlook downgrade misses big picture: MOF
BEIJING, March 30 (Xinhua) — Credit rating agency Moody’s decision to downgrade the outlook for China’s sovereign bonds misses the bigger picture and has little impact on financial markets, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Wednesday.
Moody’s changed China’s credit rating outlook to negative from stable earlier this month, citing a weakening of fiscal metrics, a continuing fall in foreign exchange reserves and uncertainty over capability to implement economic reforms.
Rating firms should learn more about China’s economic and financial conditions to avoid information asymmetry, according to a statement released by MOF.
Domestic stock and bond markets, and the onshore and offshore yuan foreign exchange rate remained stable despite the downgrade, reflecting investors’ confidence and upbeat expectations of the Chinese economy, the statement said.
Meanwhile, balancing economic growth, structural reform and market stability is not a contradictory task — as claimed in Moody’s report — but a complementary process, MOF said.
Steady economic growth is the basis, pushing structural reform is the means to the end, and a stable financial market is a precondition to secure the sound development of the whole process, MOF pointed out.
Local government debt level and corporate leverage ratio are both below the international warning line and the government is taking active measures such as debt-for-equity swap to help ease debt pressure, the statement added. Enditem
Chinese vice premier presents proposal to deepen China-Israel innovation cooperation
JERUSALEM, March 30 (Xinhua) — Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong has presented a four-point proposal to deepen and broaden cooperation between China and Israel on innovation in various fields.
Liu made the proposal while addressing the second meeting of the China-Israel Joint Committee on Innovation Cooperation in Jerusalem Tuesday. The meeting was co-chaired by Liu and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In her speech, Liu said that initial achievements have been made in bilateral pragmatic cooperation in such areas as science and technology, education, culture and health,since the joint committee successfully held its first meeting in January last year in Beijing.
China has made innovation-driven development as a national strategy and such a perception is shared by Israel, which is known for innovation, Liu said, adding that the two countries have great potential in deepening innovation cooperation.
China and Israel should further strengthen the joint committee’s role in planning holistically and coordinating and constantly expand the scope of bilateral innovation cooperation, she pointed out.
The Chinese vice premier, who arrived in Israel Monday evening for a two-day visit, suggested that the two countries increase the complementarity of their innovation strategies and facilitate the incorporation of Israel’s experience as a “startup nation” and its technologies into China’s strategy of pursuing innovation-based growth.
Liu said that China will step up the protection of intellectual property rights, encourage local governments and enterprises to strengthen exchanges with their Israeli counterparts and establish a more fair, regulated and predictable environment for development.
Other proposals offered by Liu included setting up more industrial innovation parks in China in cooperation with the Israeli side, learning from each other’s useful experience, and intensifying joint efforts in research and development.
On the same occasion, the two sides signed 13 cooperation agreements in the presence of Vice Premier Liu and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Among them was an agreement which allows both sides to issue 10-year multiple-entry visas to each other’s applicants, making China the first country to have such an arrangement with Israel.
In another major step to boost bilateral economic ties, the two sides agreed Tuesday to officially start talks on a free trade agreement, when Liu and Netanyahu met earlier Tuesday. Enditem
Central bank pumps more money into market
BEIJING, March 31 (Greenpost) — China’s central bank pumped more money into the market to ease a liquidity strain on Thursday. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) conducted 100 billion yuan (15.4 billion U.S. dollars) of seven-day reverse repurchase agreements (repo), a process in which central banks purchase securities from banks with an agreement to resell them in the future.
The reverse repo was priced to yield 2.25 percent, unchanged from Wednesday’s injection of 60 billion yuan, according to a PBOC statement. The injection has resulted in a net 40 billion yuan being pumped into the market Thursday, offset by 60 billion yuan in maturing reverse repos.
The move follows a week-long rise in money-market rates as maturing reverse repos continued to drain liquidity from the market while commercial lenders hoard cash to meet quarter-end regulatory reserves.
In Thursday’s interbank market, the benchmark overnight Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor), which measures the cost at which Chinese banks lend to one another, climbed by 1.3 basis points to 2.017 percent, the highest level in a month. Shibor for two-week loans rose the most, by 5.8 basis points to 2.788 percent. Enditem
联合国秘书长潘基文访问瑞典
北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）－－联合国秘书长潘基文30日从日内瓦抵达瑞典对瑞典进行为期两天的访问。
当天下午，潘基文与瑞典首相勒文进行了会谈。潘基文在会谈后双方举行的记者招待会上说，他们就最富有挑战性的席卷欧洲的难民问题进行了交谈。他对瑞典接受最多难民的努力表示赞赏。
“我尤其对瑞典首相提出的支持叙利亚妇女的倡议表示高度赞同。”
潘基文还表扬了瑞典在可持续发展方面，在实现2030年远景目标方面发挥的带头作用。
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UN Chief is going to visit Sweden to discuss refugee crisis
STOCKHOLM, March 30, (Greenpost)–UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is in Stockholm to meet Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven in Rosenbad in a few hours.
The Secretary-General is travelling to Sweden directly from Geneva, where he kicked off a ministerial conference hosted by UN refugee agency UNHCR on Wednesday morning by calling on all countries to help resettle nearly half a million Syrian asylum seekers over the next three years.
“This demands an exponential increase in global solidarity,” he told the summit.
According to Swedish government website, Swedish PM will also talk about UN goals in 2030 and other issues.
The UN wants to resettle around 480,000 refugees by the end of 2018, but is facing a tough challenge as an increasing number of countries, including Sweden, have been tightening their borders in the past year.
Ban’s visit comes less than two weeks after the EU struck a bargain with Turkey to plug migration flows to Europe, with all refugees arriving in Greece to be sent back across the border.
More than 1.2 million migrants have come to Europe since January 2015 in the continent’s biggest migration crisis since World War Two, and around 4,000 have drowned while trying to cross the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece.
But the UN has criticized the deal, fearing it could violate international law.
Sweden on the other hand, which took in a record 163,000 asylum seekers last year, was one of the main proponents behind the controversial agreement made in Brussels.
“We must put an end to the unregulated, very dangerous escape over the Mediterranean which this year alone has cost several hundred people their lives,” Löfven said at the time.
They are expected to hold a joint press conference at around 5pm, after which the UN Secretary-General is set to give a speech at a memorial event for one of his predecessors, the late Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld.
China Focus: China makes gains, faces hurdles in extending financial services
BOAO, Hainan, March 24 (Xinhua) — By removing systematic blocks and adopting new technology, China will be able to expand access to financial services to all people, according to experts at the Boao Forum conference.
Recent changes by China’s rural and private financial institutions will help relieve obstacles to inclusive finance, which have held back the nation’s anti-poverty efforts, according to experts at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Boao Forum for Asia, held in China’s island province of Hainan.
INCLUSIVE FINANCE IN THE SPOTLIGHT
With a bad loan rate of 88.3 percent, Hainan Rural Credit Union, a rural credit cooperative in Hainan, was on the verge of collapse in 2007. Over the past nine years, the cooperative has focused on rural microcredit, lending a total of 23 billion yuan (about 3.5 billion U.S. dollars) to Hainan’s 600,000 rural households. The non-performing loan rate has dropped to less than 2 percent.
Thanks to financial education and agricultural training provided to borrowers, Wu Weixiong, board chairman of Hainan Rural Credit Union, isn’t worried about the 23 billion yuan in loans his cooperative has made to the island’s rural population.
“Our staff are experts in both finance and agriculture, which enables them to help farmers acquire necessary knowledge and techniques to make a living and pay back the loan,” he told attendees at the “Inclusive Finance” Boao sub-forum.
Private financial institutions are also making financial services much more accessible to people who are underserved by traditional banks. Ant Financial, a financial arm established last June by the E-commerce giant Alibaba, has lent a total of 45 billion yuan to farmers, online merchants, restaurant owners and mom-and-pop stores, extending loans to 800,000 borrowers who have trouble accessing financial services.
Despite the efforts, a large proportion of the population still lacks access to financing, according to the experts.
NOT ALL HAVE ACCESS
“The core of the problem is that inclusive financing is badly needed by rural people,” said Dong Wenbiao, board chairman of China Minsheng Investment Corp. Ltd., the nation’s largest private equity firm.
The nation still has 55.75 million impoverished people in rural areas, official statistics showed.
Dong blamed “serious systematic deficiency” for the problem, saying that China’s existing financial establishments, including the banking and insurance systems, don’t support expanding access to finance. Large banks are inclined to lend to big companies with lower risk.
The lack of an individual credit system, high operational costs and risks, and the absence of an information-sharing mechanism have all worsened the situation, according to Li Yang, vice director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Inclusive finance will play a key role in China’s goal of building a “well-off society” by 2020. The nation’s financial industry should make itself available to all people, said Wu Xiaoling, vice chairwoman of the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People’s Congress and former vice governor of the central bank.
More than 50 countries have set formal targets and goals for inclusive finance in recent years, indicating growing global recognition that access to financial services plays a critical role in reducing extreme poverty, boosting shared prosperity, and supporting sustainable development.
SYSTEMATIC REFORMS
To clear hurdles, the State Council in January released the 2016-2020 Plan on the Development of Inclusive Finance, China’s first national strategic plan on financial inclusion. It targeted building inclusive financial service and security systems that provide reasonably-priced, convenient and secure services to small companies, farmers, low-income urban households, the poor, the disabled and the elderly. It vowed to boost inclusive finance’s development to a level comparable to the global average by 2020.
The government also reiterated in a report in March the development of inclusive finance to increase services for micro, small, and medium-sized businesses as well as for rural areas.
“To tackle the issue, systematic reforms are required,” said Dong, suggesting that farmers should be endowed with land rights that can be viewed as assets when obtaining loans.
Ellen Richey, vice chairwoman of Risk and Public Policy at Visa Inc., said that China already has an advantage in fostering inclusive finance, as 79 percent of its residents have financial accounts, much higher than most countries. But account holders generally only use them for basic banking services or use them infrequently.
“The challenge to inclusive finance in China is not necessarily to get someone an account, but to give them an efficient way to use it,” she said, adding that electronic payment and mobile phones will enable China to bypass expensive investment in infrastructure, such as terminals and telecommunications.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jenny Shipley called on lenders to form trust relationships based on human potential, rather than just looking at assets. Shipley said that micro-finance requires collaboration between multiple players, including governments, financial institutions and NGOs. Enditem
Interview: Russian Far East official expects more Chinese investment
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, March 23 (Xinhua) — The Primorsky region in the Russian Far East will see more Chinese investment, said Vladimir Miklushevsky, the region’s governor.
More than half of the foreign trade turnover of Primorsky is connected with Northeast China, Miklushevsky told Xinhua.
“We are now working with 200 Chinese companies investing in agriculture, manufacturing as well as trade. And we’re very excited to increase this investment flow.”
He noted that projects in the priority areas of farm products, logistics, industrial and food production have already started in the region.
The governor said investors can enjoy a number of tax benefits in those sectors and in the meantime, foreign investment will bring benefits to local residents.
Miklushevsky also said cultural, scientific and educational ties is the basis for economic trade relations between the two nations.
Despite global financial woes and Russia’s economic difficulties, new opportunities are emerging for the region’s ties with China, he said.
“A huge influx of Chinese tourists visited Primorsky. In 2015, the number of Chinese tourists doubled compared with the previous years, and our tourist income increased 30 percent,” said Miklushevsky.
The governor said authorities are preparing for this year’s East Russia Economic Forum scheduled for Sept. 6-7.
“The first forum had a great success, and the Chinese delegation was the largest and the most active one. They showed great interest toward Russia,” he added. Enditem
China will maintain medium-high growth: premier
BOAO, Hainan, March 24 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday that China will follow a medium-high track of growth and pay attention to the quality and benefits of development.
The premier said this at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) held in the southern province of Hainan.
Li said the nation will endeavor to maintain medium-high growth in the long term and promote the development toward the medium-high end.
The theme for this year’s conference is “Asia’s New Future: New Dynamics and New Vision.” Enditem