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FBIS3-2410_0
Taipei Banks Encouraged To Follow `Southern Strategy'
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Y. C. Tsai] [Text] Taipei, March 9 (CNA) -- The government is encouraging domestic banks to make inroads into Southeast Asian countries in tandem with the "southern strategy." Chen Mu-tsai, director of the Bureau of Monetary Affairs under the Ministry of Finance, said Wednesday [9...
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Taipei To Push For Open Financial Markets at APEC Meeting
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Sofia Wu] [Text] Taipei, March 3 (CNA) -- Taiwan will push Southeast Asian countries to open their financial service markets during the forthcoming meeting of finance ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member states, a Finance Ministry official said Thursd...
FBIS3-2419_1
Expatriates Establish New Political Party
the provision of right of abode for foreign residents. In a written reply to a question from Leong Che-hung, Asprey said the Government would publish a guide as soon as an agreement was reached on the right of abode in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Lam said the Basic Law, which regards all foreign passpo...
FBIS3-2427_0
Further on Detention, Interrogation of Democracy Dissidents
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special dispatch": "Wang Dan Was Detained and Later Released by Public Security Authorities; Given Five Warnings"] [Excerpts] Wang Dan, a student leader during China's 1989 democracy movement, was taken from his home by Beijing public security officers for questioning and was given ...
FBIS3-2444_0
Reportage on Eighth National People's Congress Meeting Paper on Li Work Report
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special article" by reporter Chang Sheng-tai (1728 5110 1486) ] [Text] The portion of the work report made by mainland premier Li Peng on foreign affairs was smaller compared to previous years in terms of length and number of characters. The highlighted keynote was still that China ...
FBIS3-2464_1
Editorial Urges Effort at Poverty Relief
income rose sharply. In some areas, peasants led the way toward a comparatively well-off status, and most of the peasants now have enough to eat and wear. The problem of poverty, one that has long plagued rural areas, has been solved to a significant extent. The party and government have always been concerned about pro...
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Article Views Reforming Medical Insurance
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Article by reporter Zou Peiyan (6760 3099 7346): "Reforming Medical Insurance Is Imperative -- A Newsletter on Public-Funded Medicare"] [Text] Beijing, 16 Feb (XINHUA] -- "Progressing with unsteady pace" might be apt wording to describe China's efforts to reform its medical system re...
FBIS3-2468_0
Efforts To Recycle Used, Waste Materials Increased
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Wuhan, March 5 (XINHUA) -- China has stepped up efforts to recycle used and waste materials so as to stem the worsening resources shortage and environmental pollution. According to information from the Ministry of Internal Trade, a comprehensive waste-recycling system has taken...
FBIS3-2487_0
PRC Delegate Outlines Targets for UN Women's Conference
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] United Nations, March 8 (XINHUA) -- By the year 2000 the world should remove all sex-related differences in adult literacy, eliminate sex-biased presentations in text books, and eradicate legal illiteracy, a Chinese delegate to the 38th session of the U.N. Commission on the Sta...
FBIS3-2489_1
Guangdong Foreign Trade Registers Record Expansion
cooperation contracts with overseas investors, involving contractual foreign investment exceeding 34.89 billion U.S. dollars, rises of 47.2 percent and 75.7 percent over 1992, respectively. The province actually used more than 9.65 billion U.S. dollars in foreign investment in 1993, up 98.6 percent over a year earlier....
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Dissident Wang Dan Questioned, Released
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 8 (AFP) -- Chinese dissident leader Wang Dan was pulled in for questioning by public security officials Tuesday evening, friends of the 1989 student pro-democracy leader said. Wang, who had been held for 24 hours last week during a police sweep of prominent dissi...
FBIS3-2491_0
Questioned After ABC Interview
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 8 (AFP) -- China's crackdown on political dissidents continued Tuesday, as public security officials picked up 1989 student pro-democracy leader Wang Dan for the second time in a week. Wang was pulled in for questioning at 7:00 p.m. (1100 GMT), friends said, addi...
FBIS3-2500_1
Article Views U.S. President's `Human Rights Diplomacy' If a Country Refuses to Become a Puppet, that Country Will Be Accused of "Having No Human Rights"
has done in recent years, it has very seldom respected China as an independent country: this was "unacceptable" to any Chinese with national dignity. U.S. politicians asserted that the two people "were arrested because of involvement in freedom of speech," but Beijing claims that this was "summoning according to the la...
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Article Views U.S. President's `Human Rights Diplomacy' If a Country Refuses to Become a Puppet, that Country Will Be Accused of "Having No Human Rights"
1991, almost 50,000 children were shot dead in the United States, an average of more than 4,000 each year, and more children have died in recent years. This ranks first in the world. "Now 13 children die through guns every day, and 30 others are wounded...." "Is there anything else more valuable than the lives of innoc...
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Article Views U.S. President's `Human Rights Diplomacy' If a Country Refuses to Become a Puppet, that Country Will Be Accused of "Having No Human Rights"
does, and the more they are doubtful about the U.S. human rights record. This circuitous response has appeared in Chinese society. The Chinese believe that this "circuitous response" emerged from a "bad thing" and has become a "good thing" which "helps the younger generation to understand deeply the hypocritical nature...
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Article Views U.S. Secretary's Visit, MFN, Human Rights
another city. Today, all these restrictions have been abolished and people do not need residential registration to find a job or do business across the country. Neither did the Chinese people enjoy any freedom in choosing jobs in the past. Today, people can quit and change their jobs if they feel dissatisfied with thei...
FBIS3-2505_0
Decisions of DPRK Agriculture Meeting Noted
Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Unattributed talk: "Korea Is Exerting Great Efforts To Develop Its Agriculture"] [Text] Korea [choson] gives priority to agricultural development over any other activity, and agriculture is an issue to which Korean people pay overwhelming attention. The 21st plenary meeting of the Six...
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Reportage on Second Session of Eighth NPC Li Peng Government Work Report
modernization. We must actively press ahead with reform of the culture management structure, enhance the vitality of cultural undertakings to advance, perfect economic policies related to culture, and correctly handle the relationship between social and economic benefits of spiritual works, placing social benefits at t...
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Reportage on Second Session of Eighth NPC Li Peng Government Work Report
increased last year. A preliminary understanding was reached in talks of a functional nature. We maintain that, under the principle of one China, differences between the two sides of the strait should be settled through increased contacts and consultations. It is the common aspiration of all Chinese people to realize t...
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Beijing's Chen Xitong, Li Qiyan Visit Former Mayor
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By Yan Liqiang (0917 0500 1730): "Comrade Peng Zhen Wishes Beijing People A Happy New Year"] [Text] Chen Xitong, secretary of the municipal party committee, and Li Qiyan, mayor of Beijing, visited Comrade Peng Zhen at his home on the eve of the Spring Festival. They extended new year...
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Zhejiang Nongovernment Hi-Tech Enterprises Prosper
least ten million yuan each a year. Under the centrally planned economy, research institutions used to undertake projects assigned by the government, which allocated limited funds and took charge of the findings. Such a system could hardly arouse the enthusiasm of scientific workers for research work, a provincial gove...
FBIS3-2577_0
`Massive' Military Build-Up Reported in Tibet
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] China has engaged in a massive military build-up in Tibet and conditions there are getting worse despite U.S. pressure for greater respect of human rights, a watchdog group said on Thursday [3 March]. "Today there are as many Chinese soldiers in Lhasa as there are Tibetans. Tib...
FBIS3-2581_0
Beijing `Cannot Accept' U.S. Secretary on Human Rights Issue
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special dispatch" by staff reporter Chen Shao-chiang (7115 1421 1730): "Wu Yi on Most-Favored-Nation Status, Says the United States Should Not Wield the Big Stick"] [Text] Beijing, 10 Mar (HSIN WAN PAO) -- Wu Yi, minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation, said today: "The A...
FBIS3-2589_7
Commentary on Upcoming NPC, CPPCC Sessions Seize the Opportunity: A Year of Brilliant Achievements. The "Resolution" of the Third Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee Is An Important Sign of "Moving Toward Maturity" Macroregulation and Control: The Unforgettable 1993. Deepening the Comprehensive Understand...
which macroregulation and control aims to solve or a difficulty that macroregulation and control itself encounters, there are always underlying causes in the system. That is why it is only logical that strengthening and improving "macroregulation and control" should lead the way in the overall deepening of reform. Ther...
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Survey Samples Political Views of Young People 4. Young People Are More Chaotic in Areas of Ideology and Theory
they did not care about it, and 6.4 percent said that it was hard to tell. These three answers accounted for only 10.7 percent. Arranged in order of the degree of hatred, the five kinds of evil social phenomena hated most by young people are: bureaucracy, abuse of power for private interest, corruption and bribery, dis...
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State Organs Call For Improved Economic Efficiency
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Zhang Jinsheng (1728 6930 0524)] [Text] Beijing, 18 Feb (XINHUA) -- In analyzing our country's industrial economic efficiency last year, the State Statistical Bureau, the State Planning Commission, and the State Economic and Trade Commission recently drew the following co...
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Qinghai Secretary Views Economic Development
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Report on an interview with Qinghai provincial party committee secretary Yin Kesheng by XINHUA reporters Jin Jiasheng (6855 0857 5116) and Sun Ninghai (1327 1337 3189): "Take Advantage of Resource Superiority To Develop Qinghai's Economy"] [Text] Beijing, 20 Feb (XINHUA) -- Qinghai i...
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Article Views U.S. Secretary's Visit, MFN, Human Rights
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Fourth of four installments: "Special article" by Chu Hsing-fu (2612 1630 4395): "China and the United States Should Highly Value Their Harmony--Written on the Eve of Christopher's Visit to China" -- previous installments published in the 9, 10 March China Daily Report] [Text] Mutual...
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XINHUA on Chen Jinhua Economic, Social Development Report Discusses Foreign Trade, Debts
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 11 (XINHUA) -- Opening wider to the outside world and making efficient use of foreign funds, resources, technology and markets will be one of the major tasks in the 1994 plan for national economic and social development, a senior government official said today. T...
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Article Notes Additions to Li Peng's Government Work Report
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special article" by staff news team: "Latest Amendment to Li Peng's Report"] [Text] Beijing, 10 Mar (WEN WEI PO) -- Premier Li Peng's government work report has been prepared since the end of last year. The original draft was amended several times. By extensively soliciting views fr...
FBIS3-2711_1
XINHUA Reports on Taiwan Economic Revitalization Plans
and technological industrial zone each in northern Xinzu in northern Taiwan, in Yunlin County in central Taiwan, and in Annan district in southern Taiwan. On this basis, Taiwan's "Economic Affairs Ministry Industrial Bureau" has come up with the "Medium- and Long-Range Plan for the Development of Industrial Zones in th...
FBIS3-2717_1
CPC Reportedly Reviews Taiwan Policy Li Kills Three Birds With One Stone by Carrying Out "Holiday Diplomacy"
businessmen making investments in the mainland to channel their funds to Southeast Asia, in a bid to break the mainland's blockade with economy as an open sesame and expand Taiwan's diplomatic space) and an implementation of the "wild geese formation theory" (a Japanese economist's theory highly recommended by Li Teng-...
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Paper Views Tax Reform Impact on Foreign Firms
which enterprises need for daily operation, as well as raw and processed materials which are needed for manufacturing products to be exported. Goods which are imported with special permission are subject to tax reduction or exemption. No circulating tax is to be levied on goods imported by foreign-funded enterprises op...
FBIS3-2738_0
Dissident Leaves Beijing; Police Cordon Around U.S. Mission
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 11 (AFP)--Three Chinese dissidents, including the leading pro-democracy campaigner Wang Dan, left Beijing early Friday [11 March] at police behest, just hours before the scheduled arrival of U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, a relative of Wang said. "Wa...
FBIS3-2739_0
Dissident Arrested in Shanghai `For No Apparent Reason'
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 11 (AFP)--Wang Fucheng, secretary general for the China Association for Human Rights, was arrested Friday [11 March] by police in Shanghai, a spokesman for the group said. "Wang was arrested early this morning for no apparent reason," spokesman and fellow disside...
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Justice Minister on Detained Reporter, Activist Wang Juntao
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special dispatch" from Beijing by staff reporter Tu Fu-liang (2629 4395 5328): "Ministry of Justice Says That Beijing Will Handle Xi Yang Case Leniently"] [Text] Answering Hong Kong reporters' questions about MING PAO reporter Xi Yang, who has been detained for over five months, Chi...
FBIS3-2742_0
Intellectuals Petition for Release of Political Prisoners
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Willy Wo-lap Lam] [Text] The highest councils of the Chinese Communist Party are holding emergency sessions to deal with what could be the most potent challenge to the administration since the June 4, 1989, crisis. In a gesture of defiance seven internationally known intellectuals...
FBIS3-2745_1
Further on Hijackers' Sentencing
Daxing, a self-employed industrial and commercial businessman from Jiangsu's Taicang county who was doing business in Shanghai, asked Chen Jiangfu, a farmer from Jiangsu's Wujin county who wanted to start his own household tailoring business in Shanghai Municipality's Baoshan County, to go out with him under the pretex...
FBIS3-2746_0
Minister Says Reports of Dissidents' Detention `Incorrect'
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special dispatch": "Minister of Justice Xiao Yang Stresses That Reports on Detention of Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan Were Incorrect"] [Text] Beijing, 10 March (TA KUNG PAO)--Clarifying rumors that Wei Jingsheng, Wang Dan, and other people have were detained, Minister of Justice Xiao Y...
FBIS3-2749_0
Article Views Leadership `Power Struggle'
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special article" from Beijing by staff reporter: "The Greatest Two-Line Struggle in Zhongnanhai Since Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour"] [Text] Although an "arrangement" has been made for Wei Jingsheng to leave Beijing and Beijing is carrying out large-scale arrests of political dissid...
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Article Views Leadership `Power Struggle'
States and Japan will also be strongly worded. This informed source in Beijing said that Deng Xiaoping's health will have a major impact on this struggle. After a video showing of Deng Xiaoping's public appearance, conservatives were overjoyed and became active in engaging in foreign economic and trade relations. The c...
FBIS3-2756_1
National Program for Water, Soil Conservation Approved
go by in carrying out the work. Soil erosion in China, which is enormous in magnitude and covers vast tracks of territory, has inflicted great harm on the country. It has brought about long-term low yields and poverty to localities, and even is endangering the subsistence of the masses of people in some localities. Mor...
FBIS3-2761_0
Government To Launch `Massive Assault' on Pollution
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Zhu Baoxia: "State Plans Massive Assault on Pollution"] [Text] The government plans to develop eight major environmental projects in the next three years in a bid to control industrial pollution by the turn of the century. The schemes will be supported by internatio...
FBIS3-2762_0
Vice Premier Urges Major Industrial Safety Drive
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Cao Min: "Zou Demands Major Industrial Safety Drive"] [Text] Vice-Premier Zou Jiahua has called for a nationwide campaign to protect workers following a horrific increase in the number of people killed in industrial accidents last year. More than 60,000 people died ...
FBIS3-2763_0
Seminar Hails New Religious Regulations
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Zhong He: "New Laws Regulate Religions"] [Text] A seminar last week praised two new laws as important steps to set up a framework to govern religion. Speakers at the meeting, sponsored by the State Council Religious Affairs Office and Legal Daily, saluted the Regula...
FBIS3-2768_0
U.S. Considers Lifting Military Aid Ban on Pakistan
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Washington, March 13 (XINHUA) -- The U.S. Administration is considering a proposal that Congress lift its ban on military aid to Pakistan in exchange for halting production of nuclear weapons materials. The proposal would allow Pakistan to take possession of dozens of F-16 figh...
FBIS3-2773_0
Northern Iraq Situation Reviewed in Ankara
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara, March 10 (XINHUA) -- High-ranking officials from countries taking part in the mandate for anti-Iraqi Coalition Forces in northern Iraq met here today to discuss the ongoing operation. Deputy foreign ministers from Turkey, France, the United States and Britain reviewed t...
FBIS3-2776_2
U.S. Secretary of State Meets PRC Leaders Qian Qichen Hopes for `Frank Dialogue'
of concern to the U.S. side. Qian Qichen said: China is a country that stresses the rule of law. We can only do what Chinese laws allow us to do. Qian Qichen also elaborated to the U.S. side on issues of concern to the Chinese side, such as U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and the sanctions it has imposed on China. On Sino-U....
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U.S. Secretary of State Meets PRC Leaders Qian, Christopher Hold `Candid' Talks
that, the U.S. media made a fanfare of the event and U.S. Government officials time and again attacked China. All those acts clearly go against President Clinton's statement in Seattle that the U.S. supports a strong, stable, and prosperous China, Qian said, adding that it also constitutes a harrassment to the current ...
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U.S. Secretary of State Meets PRC Leaders Qian, Christopher Hold `Candid' Talks
understanding, reduce troubles, avoid confrontation and make the dialogue conducive to the improvement of the Sino-U.S. relations and to the success of Christopher's visit, Qian said. Christopher elaborated to the Chinese side issues of U.S. concern. Qian responded that China is a country ruled by law. "We can only do ...
FBIS3-2778_0
Li Peng Gives U.S. Secretary Views on Relations, MFN
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 12 (XINHUA) -- Sino-U.S. relations have been established only on the basis of common interests instead of on the basis of ideology or concept of values, said Premier Li Peng. The disputes between the two country must be settled properly through consultation on an...
FBIS3-2779_0
More on Meeting
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Xin Huaishi (6580 2037 2514)] [Text] Beijing, 12 Mar (XINHUA) -- At a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher at Zhongnanhai this afternoon, State Council Premier Li Peng said: Sino-U.S. relations have been established only on the basis of common interests...
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Columnist Criticizes U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy
is a developing country, and the population of the developing countries in the world accounts for four-fifths of the world's total population. It is unfair to impose the human rights concept of the developed nations on the developing countries. Moreover, the U.S. accusations concerning China's human rights problem were...
FBIS3-2787_0
U.S., Foreign Journalist Reportedly Held in Beijing U.S. Journalists Held
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 12 (AFP) -- Two American journalists have been released after being held by police for six hours after interviewing the wife of a Chinese dissident, Western reporters said Saturday. Nick Driver, of the US news agency UPI, and Matthew Forney, a correspondent with ...
FBIS3-2789_0
U.S., Foreign Journalist Reportedly Held in Beijing BBC Journalist Detained
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special dispatch": "Chinese Public Security Authorities Detain, Interrogate Western Reporter"] [Excerpts] The Chinese public security authorities have detained one more Western reporter, a female journalist with the BBC. She was the fourth Western journalist detained and interrogate...
FBIS3-2798_11
Premier Lien's Work Report on Administration Treat 12 Construction Projects as the Focal Points of Administration
with current and future social, political, economic, and cultural development trends; to satisfy popular aspirations and demands for knowledge and advanced studies; and to accommodate the growing liberalization and openness of our society. In addition, we will ensure that "human resources" will contribute to economic d...
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Premier Lien's Work Report on Administration Treat 12 Construction Projects as the Focal Points of Administration
better guidance to women, children, and youngsters and strengthen protection for them. In addition, we shall enlist the help of all the people and do our best to promote the system of "health insurance for all the people" as well as the "citizens' annuity" system. The system of health insurance for all the people combi...
FBIS3-2802_0
Leading Banker Urges End to U.S. Dollar Peg
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hong Kong, March 11 (AFP) -- One of Hong Kong's most influentual bankers called Friday for an end to the local dollar's peg to the U.S. greenback, saying it was a major cause of chronic inflation in the territory. Bank of East Asia Ltd. Chairman David Li said the 10-year-old pe...
FBIS3-2816_11
Chen Jinhua Reports on National Economy 1. The Basic Situation of the National Economic and Social Development in 1993 2. The Major Goal and Tasks of the National Economic and Social Development in 1994 3. Strengthen and Improve Macroeconomic Regulation and Control; Comprehensively Accomplish the 1994 Plan for National...
the overall situation, including the Huai He and Tai Lu harnessing project, the Xiaolangdi key water conservancy project on the Huang He, and other water conservancy projects; the Beijing-Jiulong and Lanzhou-Xinjiang railways; harbor construction at such key ports as Qinhuangdao, Dalian, and Shanghai; the Beijing-Sheny...
FBIS3-2873_0
Yang Zhou Detained Overnight, Released 12 Mar
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 12 (AFP)--Chinese dissident Yang Zhou, spokesman for the Chinese Human Rights Association, was released here Saturday after being detained by police for questioning overnight. "I spent the night at the police station and the police made it clear I was not to go t...
FBIS3-2874_0
Yang Zhou Released 13 Mar After 2d Detention
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 13 (AFP) -- Leading mainland dissident Yang Zhou, spokesman for the Chinese Human Rights Association (CHRA), was released Sunday after being arrested by police for the second time in 24 hours. Yang, 50, a Shanghai-based dissident who is also a founder of the Peac...
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Wang Fuchen, Yang Zhou Released 14 Mar
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 14 (AFP)--Dissident Wang Fuchen, secretary general of the Chinese Human Rights Association, was released Monday [14 March] in Shanghai after three days in police custody, a source close to him said. The spokesman for the association, Yang Zhou, who was also detai...
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Hong Kong Daily Views Detention of Dissidents
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Leading mainland dissident Yang Zhou, the spokesman for the Chinese Human Rights Association (CHRA), was arrested late yesterday for the second time in 24 hours, his wife said. Yang, 50, a Shanghai-based dissident and a founder of the Peace Charter movement created last Novembe...
FBIS3-2877_1
Wang Dan, Other Disidents Leave Beijing
of the authorities. However, their choice to leave Beijing before Christopher officially began his visit might avoid becoming entangled with the public securities authorities which would most likely happen. Surprisingly, a foreign dispatch quoted Wang Dan and others calling on the U.S. Government to continue to prolong...
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Article Views Coming `Tough Battle' in Reform
level of investment in fixed assets, to maintain a basic balance among the gross economic quantities, and effectively to curb inflation. Third, we should be really of one heart and one mind in using both hands to grasp the work; that is, while carrying out economic reform and economic development, we should also safegu...
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Article Trumpets UK Critics of Governor Patten
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Article by Li Dahong (2621 1129 1347): "How Long Can the `Last Hong Kong Governor' `Hold Out'?"] [Text] The "last Hong Kong Governor" Patten published an article entitled "Braving the North Wind" [carried by THE SPECTATOR], which implies that he will resist China to the end on the Ho...
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Commentary Criticizes U.S. Attitude Toward Human Rights
creating graffiti and accepting stolen property, U.S. President Clinton suggested that Singapore reconsider the sentence. One typical shortcoming of the U.S. Government is the idea that U.S. law is the law of laws and is universally applicable. If the law of a land differs from or contradicts U.S. law, it is automatica...
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Liaoning Secretary Proposes Anticorruption Measures
of government functionaries is still relatively serious, that relevant policies and regulations drawn up by the central authorities have yet to be carried out to the letter, that the anticorruption task is still very arduous, and that we still need to be mentally prepared for making unremitting efforts for a protracted...
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`News Analysis' Views Iraq's Attempts To Break Oil Embargo
Language: English Article Type:BFN ['News Analysis' by Zhang Dacheng: "Will Iraq Find Normandy To Break UN Oil Embargo?" -- XINHUA headline] [Text] Baghdad, March 14 (XINHUA) -- Defying the United Nations trade sanctions imposed since August 1990, Iraq last week sent its first high-ranking official delegation to Paris ...
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Commercialization of Farmland-Use Rights Reinstituted
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Nanjing, March 12 (XINHUA) -- Commercialization of farmland-use rights, a practice which was banned for more than four decades after the founding of New China in 1949, is germinating again in some parts of the country. In a traditional agricultural country such as China, rural ...
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State-Run Enterprise Officials To Visit Indonesia
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Y. C. Tsai] [Text] Taipei, March 11 (CNA) -- Vice Economic Affairs Minister Li Shu-chiu is scheduled to lead a 20-member delegation to Indonesia in early April to help promote the government's "southern strategy," the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced Friday [11 March]. The d...
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`Roundup' Views Improving U.S.-Russian Relations
Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Roundup" by Huang Huizhu: "U.S., Russia Repair `Relations of Partnership'"] [Text] Moscow, March 15 (XINHUA) -- Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher met Monday [14 March] in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok to discuss the ...
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`Roundup' Views Improving U.S.-Russian Relations
not helped Russia tide over its economic crisis or establish a market economy that would help the country integrate with the Western world. Instead, the policy has greatly weakened Russia's impact and role in the international scene and, to the dismay of many Russians, the country has lost some of its traditional spher...
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`Specialist' Discusses Human Rights Issue
values for human rights is quite different from that of a common standard of human rights. Q: The specific situation of human rights differs from nation to nation. Under such circumstances, how can we embody the universal value of human rights while respecting the diversity of human rights in each country? A: For a lon...
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`News Analysis' Views Detroit Job Summit
1991 were in the private sector, while in Europe, according to OECD statistics, two thirds of the new jobs were in government. Another difference: Half of the incomes for European workers come from benefits and pensions, while in the U.S., workers suffered a continuous decline in unemployment insurance benefits, which ...
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Discusses U.S. Linking Prison Products With MFN
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 16 (XINHUA) -- Chinese Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen said today that neither the export of prison labor products nor immigration should become conditions for extending China's MFN status. There are a lot of such issues, they should not be played u...
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NPC News Conference on Environment
also plan to build more nuclear power stations in Guangdong and energy-deficient areas along the coast. Compared with traditional power plants that generate electricity by burning coal or oil, nuclear power stations should be considered a source of clear energy. The key requirement is that these stations must have safe...
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CPPCC News Conference on Education
as the Three Gorges Project. This is the largest-scale project to train talented people in Chinese history. [Reporter] Hong Kong SING TAO DAILY correspondent. My question is directed to Mr. Zhang Kaixun. How do you raise funds for popularizing technological innovations? Were any illicit means ever used in fund raising,...
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Wu Bangguo Joins Shanghai Group Discussion
of energy and raw and semifinished materials; it is an open port city with a huge population and a limited supply of land. Although we have a strong industrial base, we are confronted with the question of how to further enliven large and medium state enterprises. Some of the measures and methods that we have adopted ca...
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Zhejiang Leaders Hold News Conference
Along the coast, there are a dozen or so places suitable for the construction of thermopower plants with generating capacity greater than 2.4 million kw. We are confident that, by early next century, eastern Zhejiang will become the power base of eastern China. With regard to oil development, you all know that, since 1...
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Column Views `Personnel Drain' in Air Force The State Council Issues an Order Prohibiting Such Recruitment
was only about 12 percent. Into the 1990's, the industry has maintained a growth rate of 25 percent each year, but the annual rate of personnel increase has been less than 20 percent. Hungry for qualified professionals, the industry turned its attention to the air force, flaunting its high salaries and benefits. It has...
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Liaoning Teleconference Discusses Occupational Safety
government, delivered a speech in which he put forward demands for the province's work of safe production. (Zhang Wenzhu) said: The province's situation in safe production in 1993 was as elsewhere in the country and a peak of production accidents cropped up again. The number of various accidents occurring in 1993 reach...
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WEN WEI PO Says Sino-U.S. Trade To Continue
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Sino-U.S. Trade Will Continue"] [Text] U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher has concluded his visit to China. Both sides are still taking a forward-looking attitude toward the development of Sino-U.S. relations. Both sides maintain that "Sino-U.S. relations are very...
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Jiangsu, Shandong Governors View Reform, Development
a major event vital to the overall situation. While we should seize the opportunity of development, we should also thoroughly estimate and promptly discover difficulties and problems during the course of economic advance. We should conduct bold analysis, do a good job, and effectively deal with various contradictions a...
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Commentary Hails Convocation of 1995 World Women Conference
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Commentator's article: "Valuable Sense of Participation"] [Text] Over the past few months, a large number of letters have been sent to Beijing from the masses in support of China's sponsorship of the United Nations' Fourth World Women Conference. This has reflected the sense of parti...
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Efforts Toward U.S.-PRC Military Exchanges Viewed
to sell 150 F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan, and is insisting on a reversal of the sale in return for its cooperation on proliferation. Although the U.S. is adamant it will not go back on the deal, with the F-16 deliveries not due to begin until 1997 there may be some room for a compromise. Beijing is also insisting it be ...
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Health-Care Plan Aims To Reduce Maternal, Child Mortality
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Zhu Baoxia: "Health-Care Plan To Cut Death Rates"] [Text] The Public Health Ministry yesterday unveiled a $200 million health project that aims to drastically reduce the death rates of pregnant women and little children in poverty-stricken counties. The programme de...
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Sichuan Secretary Comments on Developing Economy
important point is to seize and use that opportunity to formulate an economic development strategy with a scientific attitude in light of the new situation and to take practical measures to implement it on schedule. The year 1994 is a crucial one for China to establish the socialist market economy structure and is also...
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Dissident Shao Jiang Sends Open Letter Urging Democracy
Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 15 (AFP)--Dissident Shao Jiang has sent an open letter to Chinese leaders calling for political detainees' release, press freedom and respect for citizens' rights. A copy of the letter dated March 12 was received by the foreign press in Beijing Tuesday [15 March]. Shao, who became famous ...
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Han Dongfang, Labor Situation Profiled
his reasons for visiting are nonpolitical. "I'm going to the U.S. to visit my family," he said. "I hope to persuade them to come to Hong Kong." It has been several months since he last saw his wife, Chen Jingyun and his 15-month-old son Linfeng, now living in New York where his son was born. It would have been difficul...
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Regulations on Urban People's Police Patrols Implemented
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By Gong Xinwen (7895 6580 2429): "Public Security Minister Tao Siju Signs Order To Begin Implementation of the `Regulations on Patrols by the Urban People's Police'"] [Text] Beijing, 24 Feb (RENMIN RIBAO) -- Public Security Minister Tao Siju signed and issued an order to begin formal...
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Crime and Punishment in the PRC for 1-14 Mar
and legal organs, and law enforcement personnel; illegal possession of rifles and smuggling and selling ammunition; and other serious crimes, which gravely harm social order. From 20 to 31 January this year, 14 prefectural and city courts throughout the province held 137 rallies to sentence more than 2,700 criminal off...
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Dissident Movement Grows, Rejects U.S. Pressure on Rights
human rights when their economic state was well below that of China today." Ding Zilin, a 57-year-old academic who has also added her signature to the letter, welcomed "all the support that foreigners could bring to the democracy movement." She added however that "improvements in China's human rights cannot be achieved...
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Beijing Calls `Piracy' Acts `Just,' `Lawful'
Organisation (IMO), said: "If the (Hong Kong Government) reports are right, as a human being I would be shocked." Before leaving Hong Kong to continue his East Asian piracy fact-finding mission, Admiral Mitropoulos outlined China's strongest statement on the issue, received during talks in Beijing with Foreign Ministry...
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Li Peng Article on Vegetable Supply 1. Governments at all levels should be very much concerned about and pay attention to improving the people's living standards. 4. Put in Place Effective Means for Exercising Macroeconomic Regulation and Control
feeding the people and the task of construction -- and correctly handle the relationship between the two. Feeding the people means solving the people's livelihood problems, which is a major task that governments at all levels must perform well. We must unify our thinking and understanding with this task in mind; strive...
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Provinces Improve Water Conservancy Facilities
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Changchun, March 16 (XINHUA) -- Provinces in Northeast China have been raising funds from various sources to improve their water conservancy facilities. The region, with a population of 110 million, consists of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning Provinces and the eastern part of ...
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More on Defectors
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hong Kong, March 18 (AFP)--Two illegal immigrants claiming to be North Koreans have asked for political asylum in South Korea after they were arrested by authorities here when they crossed the border from China, a government spokesman said Friday. The two North Koreans, one bel...
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North Koreans Reportedly Defect in Hong Kong
Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Exclusive" report by Political Editor Mary Binks] [Text] Two North Korean defectors--one a scientist--have sought asylum in Hong Kong, prompting fears they may be the first of a wave of refugees fleeing political persecution and economic hardship in their country. Hong Kong immigrat...
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Labor Activist, Church Leader Reportedly Detained
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Prominent dissident and labour activist Liu Nianchun was detained yesterday sparking fears the spate of arrests that started early this month would at least continue until the fifth anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown. A source close to the family of Liu, an unemployed wo...
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Column Analyzes `Tough Stand' on Human Rights
really care about the rights, interests, and well-being of the vast number of Chinese people; instead, they were only concerned about a very small number of people who attempt to subvert the Chinese Government and undermine China's stability. This is in fact a political and legal issue rather than a human rights issue....