Jenny Zhang, Attorney at Law, Lawyer, Law firm in Dalian, China

A foreign who involved in a sexual assault against a Chinese woman arose a new campaign against foreigners who entry in to China illegally.

The 100-day campaign will start on Tuesday, according to the public security bureau. Wang Wenjie, a spokesman for the bureau, dismissed any suggestion that the move is linked to the arrest last week of a British tourist suspected of indecently assaulting a Chinese woman. The man, who has not been identified by Beijing police but was confirmed as a tourist with a valid visa, was detained in Xuanwumen Dajie, in Xicheng district, on May 8 at about 11 pm after a confrontation with several men that was caught on camera and broadcast on the Web. The campaign is aimed at tackling the illegal employment of foreigners, overstaying and illegal entry. These are “major problems”, said Lin Song, the police officer in charge of the campaign who works for the bureau’s section overseeing exit and entry into the country. Foreigners must carry passports and accommodation registration documents at all times in line with Chinese regulations. “We will enforce the rule and make sure that every foreigner knows that,” said Lin. “We’ll check passports and accommodation registrations in areas where foreigners gather in the capital.” Among the locations he mentioned specifically were Sanlitun, an area popular for its shops, bars and restaurants in Chaoyang district, and universities in Haidian district. Lin also said authorities had asked police across the city to publicize this to foreign residents by publishing notices in communities and engaging in face-to-face conversations. Police have already posted information about the campaign in Korean in Wangjing, Chaoyang district, where about 40,000 foreigners, mostly Korean, live, Lin said. They have also asked colleges in Haidian to inform foreign students of the campaign. “In the meantime, we’ll invest more police officers to do more checks in hotels, at embassies and at customs checkpoints,” he added. News about the campaign received a mixed response among Sina Weibo micro-bloggers on Tuesday. Some Chinese and foreign users hailed it as a positive step, while others raised concerns that it may cause animosity among law-abiding expatriates.

Officials in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, have confirmed that a similar campaign will be rolled out there soon. A spokesman for the public security bureau in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, declined to comment on whether the city will follow suit, while his counterparts in Shanghai were unavailable for comment as of Tuesday night. Beijing, second only to Shanghai in terms of the number of foreigners with residency permits, was home to almost 120,000 foreigners at the end of 2011. The capital has reported 13,000 cases of illegal entry, overstaying and illegal employment concerning foreigners from more than one hundred countries since 2008, according to exit-entry statistics. Although 80 percent of foreigners identified as illegally residing in China do not initially intend to do so, according to recent statistics from the Ministry of Public Security, “the issue still needs attention,” he said. “Some foreigners, whose visas expired, couldn’t afford tickets back to their countries and were afraid to find normal jobs in China. Instead, they committed crimes,” he said. A hotline will allow residents to give tip-offs to the police, he added. Chengdu, the largest sub-provincial metropolis and provincial capital of Sichuan, said it will launch a similar plan by the end of this year, Wang Lin, deputy director of Chengdu exit and entry administration bureau, confirmed. Yang Huanning, vice-minister of public security, told lawmakers at the legislature’s bimonthly session that foreigners who work without an authorized permit in China are mostly language teachers, performers, and domestic helpers, while most illegal entrants come from neighboring countries. The number of foreigners who stayed for at least six months rose to 600,000 in 2011 from fewer than 20,000 in 1980, he said. But due to a lack of repatriation centers and language barriers it has been difficult to crack down, he said. Yang Lin, an attorney at Ying Ke Law Firm who specializes in cases involving foreigners, suggested police distribute brochures highlighting relevant Chinese regulations for foreigners in different languages at the airport. “After all, many foreigners have no knowledge about local laws and regulations and police should tackle the problem at source,” she added.

(from China.org.cn)

Usually, I don’t like to write articles beyongd the topics of laws here in my legal blog. But this time, I am really angry, I intend to take advantage of my limited influence to tell a real Dalian.

I have no idea until I got the call from my best friend in Shanghai. She was too worried about me and the conditions in Dalian. When I got home at night on July 16, I got the whole picture on TV. Fire,exhausted  fireman, oil, polluted sea—all these days, my eyes and ears are flooded with these key words. Ten days passed, I decided to have a look by myself. 

Dalian New Port is an industrial port in Yellow Sea and it is about 35 kilometers from downtown. We drove to Dalian Development Zone, where is obviously affected by the oil. The rocks in the seashore are wearing black. No seagull at all.  Boshi Shore(which means white rocks), which is a famous seashore in Developent Zone and where sea-view buildings and fancy resteraunant located,  seems very ugly and the beautiful constrution form a distinct contrast with the dirty seashore.

We drove to one of my relatives. There we were told not to go to the New Port in that it is not accessible to visitors. We had to quit our plan but anyway, we would drive along to Gloden Pebble Beach. Misery! The shining fine white sand in the beach was gone forever, black , nothing but desolation. In this tourism season, it should have been full of visitors. BUT—

I felt very sorry for the scene. Even though I got the new from local govenment that the clean-up in the sea has made great development, I could not expect how long the beautiful beach would turn back to its oringinal picture.

Whose fault for this disaster? NO NEWS. How to compensate? NO NEWS. But I got that  the distance of  oil tanks is only 5 meters, which is the minimum distance speculated in the  Code for design of petroleum depots. When the fire broke up, the fire fighter truck could not go through the oil tanks to  the site of the explosion and thus delayed the putting out.

for more information, pls check China Dalian oil spill cleaned nine days after accident.

News from DalianNews.

The U.S. International Trade Commission has found in favor of a Dalian steel company, in an anti-dumping case against the U.S. Department of Commerce. This is first time that the trade panel has ruled that Chinese steel products aren’t harmful to the U.S. industry.

Dalian Eastfound Metal Products Company is China’s largest exporter of metal wire decking to the U.S. market. In June last year, the U.S. Department of Commerce slapped dumping charges on more than 20 Chinese firms, including Dalian Eastfound. Last month, the department announced it would impose duties ranging from 14 percent to 437 percent.

Jiang Ming, Sales Director of Dalian Eastfound Metal Products said “That basically meant the U.S. market was closed to us. We can’t sell products there anymore. 400 of our employees will lose their jobs.”

But Dalian Eastfound decided to appeal the decision, submitting detailed materials in its defense. The U.S. International Trade Commission allowed the appeal, voting 4-2 that U.S. producers didn’t suffer injury or threat of injury as a result of steel imports from China.

Fan Huisheng, Vice GM of Dalian Eastfound Metal Products said “As an exporting firm, we not only have to produce, but we should be aware of international trade regulations and adhere to them.”

Dalian manufacturers are highly reliant on exports. But in 2009, they were rocked by 4 anti-dumping cases. Dalian industry officials say businesses should actively respond to lawsuits. They also recommend Chinese manufacturers to invest in research and development, in order to build their own brands.

The 8th China International Software and Information Service Fair just closed its curtain today.  On 23rd, I attended the seminar of IP Protection of Software.

As the previous seminar, two experts from EU-China Project on the Protection of IP Rights gave the speeches about patent protection and IP rights on outsourcing. Both of them provided some pertinent suggestion to the software industry in Dalian.

And what I felt especially resourceful is the report from Ms.Liu in King & Wood. She analyzed the protential legal risks in software outsourcing and also focused risk prevention.

In all, this seminar is more successful than the previous one and I guess the new information that I got from this seminar would be helpful for my work.

(DALIANNEWS) – Overseas enterprises invested in the port city of Dalian slumped in numbers but increased in terms of scale last year aimed the global financial crisis, according to the local Industry and Commerce Bureau, January 17.

Investment in modern service industries such as construction, real estate and banks accelerates fast.

New investment value totaled 6.577 billion dollars and registered capital reaches 5.473 billion dollars last year, up 146 per cent and 158 per cent respectively year- on- year.

Japan leads the list of investment source countries and regions, followed by Hong Kong, South Korea, U.S. and Canada.

As of the end of the year 2009, an aggregate of 8074 foreign companies have invested in Dalian with the value totaled 52.25 billion dollars and registered capital of 29.94 billion dollars.

(From:DALIANNEWS.COM)

Long time no see, my blog! During my absence, too much things happened. The recent hot issues are Dalian Davos 2009 and the trade war between China and U.S. in steel industry.

According to Dalian government, the Davos 2009 was very successful although the Chairman Mr Schwab didn’t announce the next host city as usual. Dalian was too warm-hearted for the forum and desired  to be the regular host for it. Did Schwab not want to hurt Dalian’s heart? Who knows? Anyway, self-improvement is the most important for the growth of the city. We could not expect Davos brings everything.

Both government officials said there is no trade war between China and U.S.. Maybe it’s because the scale of spat is still low. China has appealed against the WTO ruling. We began to learn make use of WTO. Good news.