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Chinese key rail projects to boost regional socioeconomic development www.chinadaily.com.cn

China is accelerating the planning of a number of key railway projects, as the government looks to boost connectivity and fuel its prodigious economic growth, according to the country's top economic regulator.

Meng Wei, spokesperson for the National Development and Reform Commission, said strengthening railway infrastructure construction will play a key role in improving public transport, boosting regional economic and social development, and fostering a robust market.

"To give full play to the basic supporting role of the railway to major strategic plans - the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the development of the Yangtze River economic belt, and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the NDRC and related parties are speeding up the preparation of the specialized transportation planning," Meng said on Wednesday during an NDRC news conference in Beijing. "Several major projects have begun initial work. When the conditions are in place, they'll get approved."

China invested 449.6 billion yuan ($63.4 billion) in rail fixed assets in the first eight months of 2019,NDRC data showed.

According to the 2019 government report, 800 billion yuan will be invested in railway construction by the end of this year.

"We will work with related parties to focus on targeted investment and effective investment, to promote economic and social development,"Meng added.

The announced investment drive comes as the Chinese economy moderated in August amid mounting downward pressure.

In the first eight months of 2019, investment in fixed assets, excluding rural households, surged 5.5 percent year-on-year, 0.2 percentage point lower than that in the first seven months, data from National Bureau of Statistics showed.

Meanwhile, investment in infrastructure increased 4.2 percent year-on-year, 0.4 percentage point higher than that in the first seven months. Among the total infrastructure investment, investment in rail transport increased by 11 percent.

Experts said the focus of steady investment in the second half of 2019 is to stabilize manufacturing investment and increase investment in infrastructure.

"Despite some structural highlights, the slower growth in production, investment and consumption means that we are likely to see a slowdown in economic growth in the third quarter," Orient Securities said in a new research note. "We need to focus on the infrastructure investment, which will be key to stabilize the investment."

Tang Jianwei, chief researcher at the Financial Research Center of the Bank of Communications, noted in a new report that the significant jump in infrastructure investment came as the government has taken a series of measures to boost infrastructure construction and address inadequacies.

"As the country ramps up the issuance of local government bonds and the construction industry recovers, we may see strong growth in infrastructure investment," Tang said.

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Illegal licenses of artisanal mining to be revoked www.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The Cabinet gave orders to corresponding government organizations and officials to speed up the works targeted to erasing negative environmental impacts of artisanal mining, protection of environment, land rehabilitation and stop illegal mining activities and take enhanced control.

A large number of small-scale miners are found to be engaged in illegal mining activities by using equipment and facilities that do not meet requirements or reselling the exploration licenses to others and not using personal protective equipment. The presentation made during the cabinet meeting by the Mineral Resource Authority of Mongolia remarked that miners carry out small scale milling of ores with no licenses, use toxic chemical substances and undertake mining operation under the name of rehabilitation.

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IMF: ‘aid flood’ to Mongolia to end www.news.mn

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Mr. Geoff Gottlieb visited Mongolia from 19 to 28 June, 2019, to conduct discussions for the 2019 Article IV consultations. The IMF’s Executive Board for Discussion and Decision has concluded the reports presented by the team and made the following statement:

‘Mongolia’s economy has been recovering from recession. In the first half of 2019, Mongolia’s economy growth reached to 8.6 percent and balances of budgets were good in 2018. Mongolia’s currency reserves have been increased by USD 2.5 billion since 2016. However, Mongolia is still unable to cope with external shocks due to the high amount of foreign debt and dependence of exports.

The IMF experts forecasted that Mongolia’s economy growth would reach 6.5 percent in 2019 and 5-6 percent in the mid-term. However, the country will face some difficulties in the near future as volume of exports and size of loans decrease. Furthermore, direct investment to Mongolia is expected to decrease due to government policy and large-scale financial aid from donors will be stopped from 2021.

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Powering the West www.news.mn

The Mongolian Cabinet has decided to take a total of 28,000 hectares of land in the Erdeneburen and Myangad Soums of Khovd Province, the Bayannuur Soum of Bayan-Ulgii Province and Umnugobi Soum of Uvs Province for hydroelectric power station construction. The government’s top plan is to construct the Erdeneburen Hydroelectric Power Station within four years with a total investment of USD288 million. Nearly 90 percent of the financing will come from a USD 1 billion soft loan by from the Chinese Government.

When the Erdeneburen Hydroelectric Power Station comes into operation, it will be a reliable and cheap energy source for the western parts of Mongolia. The 100MW facility is expected to produce 300 million kW/h of electricity annually.

Currently, 75 percent of all the electricity needs in the western parts of Mongolia are provided by imports from Russia and China.

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Mongolia’s mineral exports dependence may curtail economic growth www.zgm.mn

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Mongolia, highlighting the country’s vulnerability to external shocks given its high debt levels and the economy’s dependence on mineral exports. Collapses to mineral demand can lead to a sharp fall in exports, weakening growth outlook and fiscal accounts, said the IMF in the report.

Mongolia’s economy has recovered vigorously from the recent downturn. Economic growth accelerated to 8.6 percent in the first quarter of 2019, after recording its first fiscal surplus in 2018, and gross international reserves increasing by USD 2.5 billion since 2016. The recovery stems from a stronger policy framework, significant official financing and a rebound in external demand.

Directors of the IMF encouraged the Bank of Mongolia (BoM) to continue to build reserves and do so through direct purchases and limit sales of foreign exchange to address disorderly market conditions. They also highlighted that financial sector reforms, including enhancing risk-based supervision and increasing bank capital are key to ensuring macroeconomic stability.

According to the IMF assessment, structural reforms should focus on strengthening governance and diversifying the economy. Furthermore, the authorities should improve infrastructure, enhance the legal framework and the investment environment, reduce environmental degradation, and make the agriculture sector more resilient to climate change.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to be strong, and improving current accounts spur reserves accumulation, said the IMF report. However, the trend is likely to slow down from 2021 due to domestic policy.

The IMF expected Mongolia’s economic growth to remain above 6.5 percent in 2019 and moderate to around 5 percent over the medium term. The primary headwinds are weaker export and growth. Partially balancing these headwinds, fiscal policy is expected to loosen in 2019 and 2020 relative to the 6 percent primary surplus seen in 2018.

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Changing the face of mining in Mongolia www.cimic.com.au

Thiess’ Erdenetsetseg Narantsatsralt is part of the first wave of women legally allowed to work underground in Mongolia.

In late 2017, new legislation passed enabling women to be employed as underground operators.

As part of their commitment to gender equality, Thiess’ Mongolia team have been working with local women from South Gobi to upskill and promote opportunities.

Erdenetsetseg is one of three women employed by Thiess this year after undergoing extensive role and safety training.

All three women are now qualified to operate equipment and undertake daily operator duties.

"I am very happy to work with experienced miners. I will do my best to be an experienced female miner in the future," Erdenetsetseg said.

Thiess Executive Director Mongolia and member of Mongolia’s Diversity and Inclusion working group Leon Coetzer said his team were working hard to encourage better gender balance.

"CIMIC is a global company with diversity and inclusion strategies throughout the global business including Mongolia," Leon said.

"It's a big step forward for females being permitted to work underground in Mongolia.

"As a business, we continue supporting the diversity and inclusion strategy at OT C2S Project by aiming to recruit more female operators and training them to the highest possible standards."

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The civilizational dimension of foreign policy www.telegraphindia.com

That Delhi Cantonment has a long road called Ulaanbaatar Marg seems quite intriguing. I don’t know whether, like the Murree Gate, the Kashmiri Gate and the Lahori Gate in the old city, this is an old name that has persisted in the new city, or like the streets named after Josip Tito, Archbishop Makarios and Gamal Abdel Nasser, is a feature of post-Independence non-aligned/Third World diplomacy. Whatever the historical reality — and I am tempted to believe that this is an old name that has somehow survived — Ulaanbaatar is a very long way from Delhi.

It took me nearly 17 hours — which included a seven-hour wait at the airport in Seoul — to get from Delhi to the capital of the country that used to be called Outer Mongolia, distinguished from Inner Mongolia which is a part of China. The journey would have been a few hours shorter had I chosen to fly via Hong Kong. However, with the troubles in that city occasionally spilling over into the airport, the travel agent advised against an incremental surge in the quantum of adventure.

Ulaanbaatar is a very long way from the dusty plains of Hindustan. Before motor and air transport entered the picture, it must have taken the horse and camel caravans nearly two years, including a forbidding journey across the great Gobi Desert, to get from Delhi to Ulaanbaatar. Even the mighty Genghis Khan, the redoubtable 13th-century warrior whose empire extended from Ukraine and Georgia in the west to China, including much of Central Asia, stopped at the gates of India. At one time, after his conquests of Bukhara, Samarkand, Tabriz and Bamiyan, not to mention much of China, his Mongol chiefs had contemplated a military expedition to India. However, if a modern historian is to be believed, the mighty Genghis vetoed the swoop on India because he couldn’t bear the soaring summer temperatures. Timur or Tamerlane, who married into the Genghis Khan family, realized that Mongol dream in the 14th century in a spectacularly brutal way. However, it was Timur’s descendant Babur who brought the tradition of the steppes into India by founding the Mughal empire which endured till 1857.

The tradition of pan-Mongolism, which appealed to many Asian nationalists in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, sought to link the outposts and the subsequent history of Genghis Khan’s huge empire by a common thread. While this is an interesting narrative that once served as a counterpoint to European domination, the commonalities are very tenuous today.

I was in Mongolia for a two-day Hindu-Buddhist dialogue on conflict avoidance and the environment. It was held at the imposing Gandan monastery (picture) in the heart of Ulaanbaatar and graciously hosted by the Khamba Lama, who occupies a pivotal place in the unofficial hierarchy of Buddhist monks in Mongolia. The Gandan monastery — which now boasts a new central temple built by the government of India — has a chequered history. Following the anti-Buddhist purges of the 1930s by the communists, most monasteries were either closed or destroyed and the priceless manuscripts and artefacts either destroyed or stolen. Buddhism was outlawed and nearly 30,000 monks were killed. Gandan survived because the communists needed a token monastery to show visitors that religious practices remained undisturbed under socialism.

Six decades of regimented communist rule had a catastrophic effect on the character of the Mongolian people. Apart from the loss of invaluable treasures, it snapped a tradition of classical learning that had been shaped by the Buddhist inheritance of Tibet and even India. But more than the scholasticism of the monks, the attempt to secularize Mongolian culture left a huge cultural void, particularly among the generations who felt uprooted.

Today’s Mongolia is a study in contrasts. Outwardly, there is a country with imperfect infrastructure, international brands, an excess of SUVs and absolutely infuriating traffic jams in Ulaanbaatar. This is not to mention the pollution in the city. However, existing on a parallel track is the world that is sought to be preserved and lovingly nurtured by the Buddhist monks in monasteries such as the Gandan or even the Pethub Stangey Choskhorling monastery established by the great Ladakhi spiritual leader Kushak Bakula Rinpoche in 1999. Kushak Bakula served as India’s ambassador to Mongolia from 1990 to 2000 and played a seminal role in recovering Buddhism for post-communist Mongolia.

Buddhism in Mongolia is more than just a spiritual and religious tradition. It is the link between its past and present and exists as an upholder of the Mongolian way of life. Genghis Khan was not a Buddhist. Like other herdsmen of the steppes, he worshipped the open blue sky and had a special veneration for Mount Burkhan Khaldun near the Siberian border — an area that till recently was considered out of bounds because it was the sacred space of Genghis Khan. Yet today, this national hero of Mongolia whose imposing statue looks over the main square of Ulaanbaatar has been incorporated as a key spiritual figure in the Mahayana Buddhism of Mongolia.

The seamless merger of spiritualism, history and the Mongolian way of life is quite striking. Coinciding with the conference, the Gandan monastery also hosted a Naadam — the traditional games that centred on archery, wrestling and horse riding. The sporting events were preceded by an elaborate ritual of traditional dance and music aimed at invoking the gods and driving out the evil spirits. The musicians and dancers were professional artistes. As the Khamba Lama explained to me, they were monks who had spent the preceding six days in prayer and meditation — the necessary preparation for the event.

The event was conducted in a stadium with a striking backdrop. There was a gigantic hand-embroidered tapestry of Vajrasena and below that was a depiction of a serene Genghis Khan who is also venerated as a spiritual guide. The stylized dance was performed by monks dressed in traditional Mongolian finery and masks. It is interesting to note that the elaborate use of silk dates back to the 13th century and Genghis Khan’s subjugation of kingdoms in China. Prior to that, Mongolian tribesmen had been bereft of luxuries and were dependent only on animal skin and fur.

In the outer circle of the pageant were those dressed up as gods who were the protector of the elements — a throwback to some features of Mongolia’s pre-Buddhist faiths. These included at least three figures that have a place in Hindu mythology: the elephant-headed Ganesh, Saraswati and Yama represented by two walking skeletons. The ceremonial burning of the evil spirits in a huge bonfire was an elaborate affair in which all the important monks, including the Khamba Lama, participated.

I did not stay for the entire Naadam which stretched into the late evening. However, what was amply clear is that organized Buddhism in Mongolia had evolved well beyond concerns of the personal salvation of the monks. In the post-communist world, where the country now boasts a reasonably vibrant democracy, religion has extended to upholding the traditional Mongolian way of life and, equally important, Mongolian nationalism.

India enjoys a tremendous goodwill in Mongolia. From today, the Mongolian president, accompanied by the Khamba Lama, is visiting India. Of course, there will be the usual agreements on trade and services — we can be a major market for Mongolia’s evolved cashmere knitwear industry, and they can benefit from India’s information technology services and scholarships to students. However, the soft power linkages between the two civilizations must proceed autonomously. Foreign policy must incorporate a civilizational dimension.

By Swapan Dasgupta

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Mongolia intensifies battle against drugs www.xinhuanet.com

ULAN BATOR, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia has been intensifying its fight against drugs, a senior official of the country's National Police Agency (NPA) said Wednesday.

"Unfortunately, the number of drug-related crimes has been significantly increasing in our country," Jamiyansengee Erdenebold, head of the narcotics department at the NPA, told a press conference.

"We recently started carrying out operations at nightclubs and other suspicious places in the capital city of Ulan Bator to 'hunt' down drug users," said Erdenebold.

The police have arrested 330 people so far this year, the colonel said, adding that 85.4 percent of the offenders are young people aged between 18 and 35.

A total of 193 drug-related criminal cases were registered across Mongolia in 2018, up more than 30 percent from the previous year.

A lack of knowledge about drugs, curiosity, an attempt to make easy money and weak law enforcement are said to be the main factors in the growth of drug-related crimes.

According to Mongolian law, drug-related criminals face prison terms of at least two years. A life sentence or the death penalty do not exist under the country's drug laws.

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INVITATION: Business seminar during Inspireme Festival on 21st September at White Rock Centre www.mongolianbusinessdatabase.com

The British Embassy Ulaanbaatar invites you to Inspireme Festival on 21st September 2019 at White Rock Centre.

There are 60 spaces available in the business and government dome which will feature presentations and speeches including the British Ambassador, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sciences and Sport of Mongolia and a range of different British education companies. The event is particularly suited to Mongolian education organisations, businesses and entrepreneurs who may want to purchase UK education products and services, partner with UK companies or learn about education in the UK.

RSVP required to projects@ventureeducation.org

Date and time: 10:30-14:00

Networking Lunch: 14:00-15:00

Where: Dome 3, White Rock Centre

Commercial Team | British Embassy Ulaanbaatar | Mongolia

Department for International Trade | Peace Avenue 30 | Bayanzurkh District | Ulaanbaatar 13381 |

Tel: +976 11 458133 | E-mail: Commercial.Mongolia@fco.gov.uk

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MMC’s coal sales increase by 20 percent in H1 www.zgm.mn

The coal sales of Mongolian Mining Corp. (MMC), listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, increased by about 20 percent in the first half of 2019 to 2.5 million tons. The company’s share price has dropped 35 percent since 2019.

The company’s sold two million tons of solid coking coal in the reporting period. The volume of washed solid coking coal sales increased by 14 percent from the same period of the previous year, according to MMC’s report.

MMC increased its sales by using the channels of Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Hebei, and Tianjin. The company also sold 300,000 tons of coal to Tavan Tolgoi Tulsh LLC free of charge. With high demand and coking coal prices, the company aims to perform the highest level of production and sales in the second half of the year. MMC’s sales revenue rose 19.6 percent to USD 325.6 million in the first half of the year. The average price of solid coking coal at core sales was slightly above USD 147 per ton. In the meantime, China’s steel production has also accelerated, up by 10 percent.

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