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

The International Investment Dalian Summit 2009 was closed this Wednesday.

The summit invited senior management leaders of U.S. New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the Nasdak Stock Market and financial elites in risk investment fund, private equity investment institutions, investment banks to join.

As I knew the summit pretty late, I just attended a road show on the last day in the New World Hotel. I believed it a good opportunity for many small and medium sized enterprises in northeast of China. That could be a platform for these enterprises to attract more overseas capital, or at least our enterprises can know where to find “help”.

In that meeting, I also met my counterpart, a lawyer from the U.S. Really a nice guy and nice meeting.

Hide and Seek originally is a kind of game. In America’s dictionary, it is called cops-and-robbers. Everybody played the game in our childhood. But the name of the game turns out to be the hottest network language nowadays. It results from a case. 

 According to the report in China Daily, the mysterious death of Li, 24, who allegedly died of a head injury while playing “hide-and-seek” game with fellow detainees, sparked wide discussion and doubts over internet.

Some warm-hearted netizens even formed a “hide-and-seek incident investigation committee” to investigate the sudden death of the detainee. This case continued to draw fire from the online community.

I am not stupid, so I just cannot believe the reason provided by the local police office as everybody else. We can imagine the size of space in a local detention house. How would a detainee could have enough time and space to play such a game. Based on my knowledge as a lawyer, a detainee could not have such freedom to go around somewhere besides their small cabinet, let alone play any game there. Even if they have enough freedom, how do they have such a mood! Yeah, based on the logic of such reasoning, Li and his fellow detainees are probably be nuts.

Not being a member of this committee, I think I just know the truth. One of our unspoken rules to examine the suspects is to “give him some color see see”. Maybe this time, one of the officers just neglected enough to harm his life.

Who can play hide-and-seek any more?

More articles online about this tipic:

Prosecutor: Man beaten to death in Chinese prison “hide-and-seek” game

County gov’t website hacked after “hide-and-seek” prison death

Netizens join probe into “hide-and-seek” prison death in China’s Yunnan

BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) — China’s State Council on Wednesday announced support plans for the country’s nonferrous metals and logistics sectors.

     Presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao, Cabinet members agreed to promote company restructuring and will offer subsidized loans to support technical innovations within the nonferrous metals sector.

    The export rebate rates of nonferrous products should be adjusted, said the Cabinet without elaborating.

    The establishment of a national reserve system for the industry was also demanded.

    The product structure of the nonferrous industry should be adjusted to meet the demand of power, transportation, construction, mechanics and light industries, the announcement said.

    Cabinet members agreed to eliminate technically undeveloped producers and avoid the increase of excessive output capacity.

    Nine key projects were also decided on as a way to boost the logistics sector, including supplying necessary equipment as well as promoting an industry standard and an information platform.

    The plan would also build a special district for logistics development, and boost urban delivery, wholesale and rural logistics.

    The logistics industry was a service sector that could give a major boost to production and consumption, as well as provide a great number of job opportunities, said the meeting.

    Company merging and restructuring should be encouraged in order to nurture large and modern logistics companies which could compete in the international market.

    The development of logistics for energy, mining, automobile, and medical industries and agricultural products should be especially encouraged.

    The meeting underlined the development of technical innovations and decided that central and local governments should allocate 100billion yuan within two years to support the promotion and application of innovative products.

    Beginning last month, China has unveiled stimulus packages for 10 industries. Previous support packages include the auto, steel, shipbuilding, textile, machinery-manufacturing, electronics and information industries, the light industry and petrochemical sectors.

Related Article: On American and Chinese Economic Stimulus Plan

    News from Xinhua net, the Obama administration on Monday announced it had imposed sanctions on companies in China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Iran for violating U.S. laws aimed at stopping the spread of missiles and other weapons technology.

    The U.S. government said it had determined that two Chinese companies, Dalian Sunny Industries(大连盛辉) and Bellamax, had engaged in activities that breached the Arms Export Control Act and the Export Administration Act of 1979, according to the Monday edition of the U.S. Federal Register.

 (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a090202c.html)

    The United States also claimed that the two companies had engaged in proliferation activities, which violated Executive Order 12938 of Nov. 14, 1994.

    The sanctions, which took effect on Feb. 2, bar the companies from providing goods, technology or services to U.S. government agencies and departments for two years. The sanctions also bar the import of any goods, technology or services from these companies into the United States, the Register said.

     China expressed opposition Tuesday to the United States’ decision to impose sanctions on two Chinese companies that allegedly violated U.S. anti-proliferation laws.

     ”China’s stance on anti-proliferation is clear,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular news briefing.

    She said China firmly opposed the U.S. sanctions against the Chinese companies and added that the action “was not good for healthy bilateral cooperation in the field of anti-proliferation.”

Comments:

I surfed the net and found Dalian Sunny Industries is a manufacture of titanium materials for aerospace, medical applications. Since I am not familiar with materials industry, I can’t tell the exact relationship between titanium and nuclear. But U.S government really used excessive “weapons” recently to attack Chinese products. All the harsh domestic laws would just harm international trade and make the the economy condition worse.

Although the New Year has passed almost half a month, I still like to write something personal here as one of my New Year’s Resolutions.

Yes, to manage this website and provide more legal information for all my friends and clients. Meanwhile, I guess I would learn more by editing and writing in English.

Two articles for each week.