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8
月
31
日
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月
6
日
一、
两岸关系的报道
Mainland,
Taiwan Sign Agreements on Flight Safety, Taxation
Chinese
mainland
and
Taiwan
negotiators
signed
two
agreements
concerning cross-Strait flight safety
and taxation cooperation
（两岸谈判代表签
署税收和飞行安全合作协议）
on
Tuesday.
The
agreements
were
signed
by
the
mainland-based
Association
for
Relations
Across
the
Taiwan
Straits
(ARATS)
President
Chen
Deming
and
Taiwan-based
Straits
Exchange Foundation
(SEF)
Chairman
Lin
Join-sane
during
their talks in Fuzhou city.
The
civil
aviation
agreement
covered
licensing
for
civil
aviation
organizations,
products
and
personnel
as
well
as
flight
standards
and
airworthiness
certification.
The
two
sides
agreed
to
set
up
a
reporting
system
and mechanism to
coordinate responses to accidents and emergencies.
Based
on
this
agreement,
the
negotiators
discussed
cooperation
for
investigating and handling civil air
accidents.
The
tax
agreement
outlined
rules
for
income
from
cross-Strait
economic
exchanges. It also
covered favorable tax rates for such activities
and strategies to
avoid double
taxation.
The
two
sides
also
agreed
to
establish
a
system
that
would
avoid
discriminatory
taxation.
According
to
Chen,
the
civil
aviation
agreement
will
make
flying
safer,
reduce
civil
aviation
costs
and
deepen
cross-Strait
exchanges
in
this
industry,
while
the
tax
deal
will
reduce
costs
for
enterprises
and
individuals
and
encourage cross-Strait direct
investments.
ARATS
Executive
Vice
President
ZhengLizhong
said
at
a
press
conference
after the
agreements signing that a major feature of the
taxation agreement is
reciprocal
arrangements for both sides to create a more
stable, transparent and
competitive
environment for investors.
The
agreement
will
also
provide
more
convenient
and
efficient
taxation
services, equal taxation treatment
and more effective dispute remedies,
Zheng
said.
Taiwan's
financial
authority
has
estimated
that
the
taxation
agreement,
once
come
into
force,
may
save
Taiwanese
businesses
3.9
billion
new
Taiwan
dollars ($$120
million) in tax payments every year.
As
for
the
civil
aviation
pact,
Zheng
said
it
is
expected
to
expedite
timely
and
necessary
collaboration
of
the
mainland
and
Taiwan
in
relevant
fields
to
protect the personal and
property safety for air passengers of the two
sides.
Zhang Hongying, chief engineer
of the Civil Aviation Administration, noted
the agreement would help reduce costs.
flights do not need to bring
their own machinists and spare parts. Instead,
they
can simply resort to local
maintenance,
become an
important concern of both sides,
of
Xiamen
Airlines.
smoother
contact
and
closer
collaboration
in
both
regular
operations
and
emergencies,
flights
across
the
Strait
will
also
fly
smoother and safer.
During
Tuesday's
talks,
the
two
sides
agreed
to
continue
negotiation
on
issues such as the
agreement of cross-Strait trade in goods under the
Economic
Cooperation
Framework
Agreement
(ECFA),
arrangements
to
allow
mainland
travelers'
layovers
in
Taiwan
and
the
two
organizations'
setting
up
offices
on
each other's side.
Topics
also
included
cooperation
in
environmental
protection
and
exchanges in education,
culture and science and technology fields.
Cross-Strait
relations
have
been
developing
stably
since
the
last
round
of
talks
last
year,
although
there
have
been
some
frustrations,
Chen
said
in
a
speech before the talks.
He
said
talks
between
the
two
organizations
constitute
an
important
avenue
to
promote
peaceful
development
of
cross-Strait
ties
and
people's
livelihoods.
Agreements
signed
at previous talks
have
facilitated
exchanges
across
the
Strait and enhanced
mutual benefits.
between the mainland
and Taiwan have brought benefits to the general
public
and various sectors on both
sides,
Lin
said
in
his
speech
that
the
two
sides'
resolve
to
promote
peace
and
prosperity across the Strait is
unshaken despite some difficulties.
Both sides have called for further
talks and development of cross-Strait ties
on the basis of the
At
Tuesday
afternoon's
press
conference,
Zheng
expressed
hope
that
the
two new agreements will take effect and
get implemented as soon as possible.
In
response
to
a
question
on
a
previous
service
trade
pact,
which
was
signed
by
the
two
sides
in
2013
but
has
yet
to
be
approved
in
Taiwan,
Zheng
expressed his disappointment as both
sides have made
reaching
the
agreement
and
it
is
supposed to bring benefit
to people on
both
sides especially those in Taiwan.
earliest possible
date,
二、
这次特赦的报道
China
Confirms Prisoner Amnesty for WWII Anniversary
China's top legislature has adopted a
prisoner amnesty deal which will see
thousands of war veterans as well as
very old, young or infirmprisoners granted
official
pardons,
in
a
move
marking
the
70th
anniversary
of
the
end
of
World
War II on September 3.
The deal, promulgated by President Xi
Jinping on Saturday, comes 40 years
after China granted an amnesty to
war criminals in 1975, and 56 years
after it
granted its first pardon to
non-war criminals in 1959.
This
is
the
eighth
amnesty
since
the
founding
of
the
People's
Republic
of
China in 1949.
Four
categories
of
prisoners
who
are
not
deemed
a
threat
to
society and
who were
sentenced before January 1, 2015, will be consider
ed:
（对依据
2015
年
1
月
1
日前人民法院作出
的生效判决正在服刑，释放后不具有现实社会危险性的四类罪犯实行特赦）
1)
Criminals
who
fought
in
the
War
of
Resistance
against
Japanese
Aggression and the civil war against
the Kuomintang (KMT)
（
参加过中国人民
抗日战争、
中国人民解放战争的）
.
2)
Criminals
who
participated
in
wars
to
safeguard
national
sovereignty,
security
and
territorial
integrity
after
1949,
with
the
exception
of
those
found
guilty of serious crimes including
embezzlement and bribe-taking, terrorism and
organized crime, as well repeat offende
rs
（
中华人民共和国成立以后，
参加
过保卫国家主权，
安全和领土完整对外作战的，但犯贪污受贿犯罪，故意杀人，强奸，抢
劫，绑架，放火，爆炸，投放
危险物质或者有组织的暴力性犯罪，黑社会性质的组织犯罪
，危害国家安全犯罪，恐怖活动犯罪的，
有组织犯罪的主犯以及累犯除外）
.
3) Criminals who are 75 or
above, and those with physical disabilities who
are unable to care for themselves.
4) Those who committed crimes while
under the age of 18 and received a
maximum sentence of three years in
prison, or who have less than a year of their
prison term to serve, with the
exception of those convicted of homicide, rape,
terrorism or narcotics offences.
The
National
People's
Congress
(NPC)
Standing
Committee,
China's
top
legislature,
reviewed
a
draft
of
the
resolution
during
a
bimonthly
session
that
started on Monday. The
lawmakers voted on it on Saturday.
Li
Shishi,
director
of
the
committee's
legislative
affairs
commission,
made
clear while briefing
the session that the amnesty is designed to
exclude people
guilty of embezzlement
and bribe-taking, as China continues a campaign
against
official corruption.
Several thousand prisoners will
qualify
Judicial
authorities
have
been
preparing
for
the
amnesty
since
May
and
estimate there are
95.
All
pardoned
prisoners
will
be
released
by
the
end
of
this
year,
said
Prof.
Chu
Huaizhi
of
Peking
University,
one
of
the
government's
consultants
on
the
amnesty.
offer help for their life
out of prison,
The exact number of
pardoned prisoners will not be known until
provincial
courts
and
prisons
complete
all
the
amnesty
rulings
later
this
year,
Chu
said,
stressing how
complicated their decisions will be.
Li
urged strict and prudent selection of criminals
fit for the amnesty.
Chu said all
prisoners who fought in the War of Resistance
against Japanese
Aggression and the
civil war will be more than 80 years old. Their
number is very
small
and
they
do
not
pose
a
threat
to
society,
so
they
should
all
be
granted
amnesty.
This amnesty
reflects China's tradition of respecting the
elderly and caring
for the young, and
it is in line with the Criminal Law, which was
amended in 2011
to allow leniency in
the punishment of the aged, according to the
professor.
GaoMingxuan,
honorary
president
of
the
China
Criminal
Law
Research
Society, said the
amnesty
Great political, legal
significance
Li said
amnesties are a humanitarian practice common
internationally but
this one has
war anniversary.
Gao
said
the
amnesty,
along
with
the
military
parade
and
other
events
marking
the
anniversary
on
September
3,
will
remind
people
to
history, oppose war and
cherish peace.
Granting
amnesty
to
war
veterans
is
an
apt
recognition
of
their
contributions to the conflicts, and it
shows China's resolution to safeguard world
peace, according to Chu.
Gao
noted other amnesties granted on the occasion of
national festivities or
big
political
occasions
in
other
countries,
including
Germany's
Christmas
amnesty,
the
Republic
of
Korea
Liberation
Day
amnesty
and
the
Thai
king's
birthday amnesty.
Law
experts
and
prison
managers
consulted
by
the
government
ahead
of
China's amnesty
thoroughly researched these international
equivalents, he said.
To
mark
the 70th
anniversary
of
its
independence
from
France,
Viet
Nam
has pardoned more than
18,000 prisoners, who will be released from
Monday.
Gao
said
the
amnesty
also
shows
China's
criminal
policy
of
punishment
with leniency
In his briefing, Li told
lawmakers the act would show the government and
country's
confidence
in
its
system
of
governance
and
give
China
an
democratic, civilized and
legal
Past Chinese amnesties included
those granted to KMT war criminals as well
as
Puyi,
the
last
Qing
emperor
who
collaborated
with
the
invading
Japanese
during the 1930s
and 40s.
China's
Constitution
specifies
the
process
by
which
an
amnesty
must
be
granted.
The
NPC
Standing
Committee
decides
to
issue
one,
the
president
promulgates
the
order,
the
courts
handle
respective
cases,
the
procuratorates
supervise the
process and the police enforce the order.
Gao expressed hope that the process can
be perfected 40 years since it was
last
applied.
pressure on prisons
and save judicial resources, he said.
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