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FBIS3-26439_0 | Leaders Attend Spring Festival Celebrations Jiang, Li Celebrate in Beijing | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, February 8 (XINHUA) -- Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng celebrated the upcoming Spring Festival tonight with 20,000 Beijing citizens at the Great Hall of the People. The get-together of capital's soldiers and civilians was held to greet China's most im... |
FBIS3-26450_0 | Article Urges `Civilized' New Year Celebrations | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Guangming Forum" by Shen Xunzhong (3088 6064 0112): "Establish a New Concept for the New Year"] [Text] With the improvement of people's material life, the significance of the New Year and the way people celebrate it also have changed. The overall trend of development is good, but th... |
FBIS3-26451_0 | New Rules Set for Foreigners' Religious Activities | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, February 5 (XINHUA) -- China's State Council recently promulgated two groups of regulations on religious services in China. Signed by Premier Li Peng, the two series of regulations -- on "The Management of Foreign People's Religious Activities in China" and on the "Man... |
FBIS3-26458_0 | Reports on Guangdong's Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant Commentator Hails Startup | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Commentator's article: "A Rich Fruit of Reform and Opening Up -- Congratulating the Start of Commercial Operations by the No. 1 Generating Unit of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station"] [Text] The Spring Festival is just around the corner, and inspiring good news has come from the Daya... |
FBIS3-26458_1 | Reports on Guangdong's Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant Commentator Hails Startup | station has adhered to the policy of reform and opening up, has opened up a new path for making use of foreign funds to build large basic industrial projects, and also has made useful attempts at the establishment of a modern enterprise system. At each crucial moment, leading comrades of the CPC Central Committee and t... |
FBIS3-26472_1 | Article Views Reform of State-Owned Enterprises | than the 314-percent growth rate marked by collective enterprises and the growth rate of enterprises in other categories, whose taxable profits multiplied 33.5 times. Some state-owned enterprises even found it hard to make further development and a large number of state-owned enterprises in some trades incurred busines... |
FBIS3-26495_1 | Delegate Stresses Economic Work at UN Human Rights Meeting | noted that given the past experiences, the realization of the right to development is more difficult than the universal recognition of such right. "While the obstacles to the realization of the right to development are various, more attention should be paid to the elimination of the most important ones," he stressed. "... |
FBIS3-26496_2 | Daily Views Background for Lifting U.S. Trade Sanctions | pressure, the Bush administration announced in February 1992 a partial lifting of trade sanctions against Vietnam; meanwhile, it also lifted bans prohibiting U.S. enterprises from establishing representative offices in Vietnam as well as signing contracts with Vietnam. U.S. enterprise circles immediately responded to t... |
FBIS3-26503_0 | President Begins Private Visit to Southeast Asian Countries | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Debbie Kuo] [Text] Taipei, Feb. 9 (CNA) -- President Li Teng-hui departed Wednesday [9 February] morning for Southeast Asia, embarking on a week-long private vacation journey to the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. In his unofficial visit to Subic Bay, the first leg of the tri... |
FBIS3-26508_0 | Malaysia Top ASEAN Target for Investors | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Debbie Kuo] [Text] Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) -- Taiwan investments in Malaysia through last year totaled US$5.915 billion, making the country the favorite target of Taiwan investors in Southeast Asia, the Ministry of Economic Affairs reported Tuesday [8 February]. Taiwan was the second... |
FBIS3-26511_23 | Shanghai Secretary Discusses Development Topic of Conversation One: What Mode of Thinking Has Shanghai Adopted in Its Operations? Topic Two of the Conversation: Shanghai's Reform at Its Own Expense and With the Initiative in Its Own Hands Under the Prerequisite of Three Guarantees Topic Three of the Conversation: How t... | idea about developments in the rural areas. [Zheng] You mentioned the question of pooling the wisdom of the masses. This reminds me of something I have pondered all the time: Shanghai has been making tremendous achievement based on great ideas. The great ideas are, I believe, the result of the efforts of the current mu... |
FBIS3-26549_0 | Prisoners Celebrate Spring Festival Eve | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, February 9 (XINHUA) -- The 2,700 inmates of Beijing No. 2 prison, in an eastern suburb of the capital, are today celebrating in their own ways the eve of the Spring Festival, China's most important traditional holiday. At 9:30 in the morning, 149 prisoners in a large c... |
FBIS3-26581_8 | Chen Junsheng Discusses Peasants' Income | assisting the poor. Presently some 80 million people in rural areas still do not have enough to eat and wear. Without solving the problem of food and clothing for this segment of the population, it will be difficult to realize prosperity in the entire country. To solve the problem, the State Council has decided to draw... |
FBIS3-26583_2 | CAS President Discusses Cross-Strait Cooperation | of the world's rare earth resources are in the Mainland. However, the Mainland still has a lot of catching up to do in developing technologies for exploiting and applying rare earth elements, while Taiwan has strong production and applied mechanical and electrical technologies. He said: Taiwan has many electrical manuf... |
FBIS3-26585_3 | Yunnan Secretary Views Township, Town Enterprises | be summed up because they are not general experiences which are universally applicable. Rather, we must proceed from local conditions to sum up unique, rational, and regularized experience so as to guide future work and practices. This helps some cadres and people overcome the thinking of "being content with small impr... |
FBIS3-26597_0 | Security Ministry Views Antinarcotic Talks With U.S. | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "China, US Team Up in Drug Control"] [Text] China and the United States have agreed to join efforts to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration, according to officials of the Ministry of Public Security. The agreement was signed by Bai Jingfu, vice-ministe... |
FBIS3-26609_1 | Jiangsu Province Carries out `Practical' Tasks | well as village and town enterprises, and 108 provincial-level enterprise groups were formed. The pace of market construction quickened, resulting in the establishment of 63 markets for production factors, 138 markets for the means of production, and 250 wholesale markets for agricultural, sideline, and industrial prod... |
FBIS3-26639_1 | XINHUA Note Regulations | of places of religious activities to carry out activities that undermine national unification, national unity, and social stability; that harm the health of citizens; and that hinder the country's educational system. Places of religious activities shall not be under the control of organizations or individuals outside C... |
FBIS3-26641_1 | XINHUA Notes Regulations | by foreigners at places recognized by the religious affairs departments of people's governments at or above the county level. Article 5. Foreign nationals may invite Chinese clergy to hold religious ceremonies for them, such as baptism, weddings, funerals, and Taoist and Buddhist rites, within the boundaries of China. ... |
FBIS3-26651_0 | Article Reviews Twenty Unsettled Major Cases | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By Chuan Hsun-che (0278 6061 5074): "Twenty Unsettled Major Cases That the CPC Has Failed to Crack"] [Text]Rewards Ranging From 50,000 to 250,000 Yuan Offered for Cracking Cases Did the society of China's mainland witness a peaceful and stable year in 1993? Ten major unsettled crimin... |
FBIS3-26655_1 | UK Scholar Links Fates of Li Peng, Three Gorges | four billion US dollars. Political analysts say his future will be cast in doubt in the power struggle that is certain to emerge in Beijing after the death of China's present senior leader Deng Xiaoping, who is 89. Once mooted by Mao Zedong, the Three Gorges project was approved by China's parliament, the National Peop... |
FBIS3-26668_0 | U.S. May Cut Aid to Drug Producing, Trafficking Nations | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Washington, February 10 (XINHUA) -- The United States may reduce anti-drug aid to Peru, Panama, Bolivia and other countries that produce or traffic in illegal drugs, official U.S. sources said here today. These countries have escaped penalties because of friendly relations with... |
FBIS3-26681_0 | European Parliament `Condemns' PRC Human Rights `Abuses' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By "Post Correspondent" David Wallen in London] [Text] The European Parliament has issued a ringing condemnation of China's human rights abuses, urging guarantees for the liberties of Hong Kong and calling on the European Union (EU) not to improve links with Beijing until there is an... |
FBIS3-26702_1 | Environment Chief Issues Warning on Pollution | Although industrial emissions may be controlled by 2000, he said, sulfur dioxide emissions, the leading cause of acid rain, will rise from 16 million tons per year now to up to 23 million tons in 2000. Such increases will come as China's annual coal consumption grows from the present 1.2 billion tons to a projected 1.6... |
FBIS3-26735_6 | Article Reviews 1993 Employment Situation The Urban and Rural Labor Supply-Demand Contradiction Was Alleviated The Renewed Increase in the Number of Staff and Workers Has Slowed | other regions to seek employment increased, with about 50 million people seeking work in other areas. Of these, about 13 million people entered various types of units or individual trades in urban areas. This large-scale flow of labor has also begun to move from a disordered to an ordered flow. For example, in 1993, Gu... |
FBIS3-26770_1 | Editorial Urges Caution in Dealings With Vietnam | to move somewhere, authorities here rightly encouraged them to set up production lines in Southeast Asian countries, such as Vietnam, in order to avoid risking too many of the country's financial and industrial resources in mainland China, which has been the top choice for outbound investment for many years. Now that t... |
FBIS3-26807_0 | Shandong's Jiaodong Peninsula Rich in Gold Resources | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Yantai, February 14 (CNS) -- The Jiaodong Peninsula, a major production base for gold, boasts abundant resources of this precious metal, with fruitful results from state level scientific research on gold after four years' efforts passed inspection by the Ministry of Geology and... |
FBIS3-26823_1 | Column Views Differences in Human Rights Concepts | cultural traditions, ways of life, and stages of development. For example, over 2,000 years ago, China's ancient philosophers had the ideology of treasuring the people and cherishing universal love such as "the people are the foundation of an imperial ancestral temple," "it is a virtue to honor other aged people and lo... |
FBIS3-26849_6 | Article Views Role of Chamber of Commerce | trade activities in recent years, we have launched the campaign of regulating foreign trade order and rectifying unfair trade practices. The Chamber of Commerce has sent teams to carry out deep investigations in the major place of origin and the principal place of business with the finding that some enterprises were co... |
FBIS3-26854_3 | Shanghai Mayor Views Economic Development, Stability | the new one on the operations of economy to ensure sustained, rapid, and stable economic development [chi xu kuai su wen ding fa zhan 2170 4958 1816 6643 4489 1353 4099 1455] in Shanghai in the first quarter of this year. Huang Ju said: Shanghai is enjoying social stability, and the basic conditions are good currently,... |
FBIS3-26859_2 | Commentary Views Shanghai Auto Industry | will be very important for Shanghai, which occupies an important place in China's car production and sales, to build a specialized national automobile market ahead of other places; this will help change the current state of affairs of China's automobile industry, which is suffering from clogged circulation channels of ... |
FBIS3-26859_3 | Commentary Views Shanghai Auto Industry | The practice is compatible with the general laws of market economy. There are special requirements for futures trading. For example, product standards and varieties must be simple; standardization of product quality must be easy; price fluctuation range must be wide; large quantity purchases and sales must be possible;... |
FBIS3-26879_2 | `News Analysis' Views U.S. Moves To Enter Japan's Markets | designed to open the cellular telephone markets, we still find ourselves struggling to gain access to Japanese market," Galvin said. The issue of cellular phones has nothing to do with the trade framework talks between U.S. and Japan, although it coincided with the summit, whose failure is the first of its kind since t... |
FBIS3-26891_2 | Patten Attacks Asian Opposition to Human Rights, Democracy | strictly bilateral affair between London and Beijing. More to the point, it will regard the Governor's speech as an attack on its own human rights position, which was restated in yesterday's Communist Party newspaper, People's Daily. The paper accused foreign critics of trying to impose alien values on China, and of fa... |
FBIS3-26892_4 | WEN WEI PO Criticizes Patten's Australia Trip | would not be in keeping with Australia's political goal of becoming a republic. The Australian mass media have played down Chris Patten's visit. Many local Chinese community leaders, as well as figures from the business circles, have expressed their views, noting that what Chris Patten has been doing in Hong Kong is un... |
FBIS3-26903_0 | DPP Supports President Li Teng-hui's Southeast Asian Tour | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Y. C. Tsai] [Text] Taipei, Feb. 16 (CNA) -- President Li Teng-hui's current trip to Southeast Asia has won recognition from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Li, who started the unofficial visit on Feb. 9, is scheduled to return to Taipei late Wednesday. He has me... |
FBIS3-26904_0 | Trade With Southeast Asia Shows `Dramatic Increase' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Taipei, Feb. 15 (CNA) -- Trade between Taiwan and five members of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) and Vietnam showed a dramatic increase last year, according to statistics compiled by Taiwan's Ministry of Finance. The statistics showed that Taiwan's trade wit... |
FBIS3-26920_0 | Construction To Begin on Hydroelectric Station | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Nanning, February 16 (XINHUA) -- Construction is due to start on the Longtan Hydroelectric Power Station, on the Hongshui River in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Cheng Kejie, chairman of the region, told reporters that the hydropower station is believed to ... |
FBIS3-26922_1 | Hong Kong Paper Views Wage Reform Implementation | servicemen, and teachers should be sped up and that it should be completed before the Spring Festival so as to maintain the stability of the "backyard" [hou yuan 0683 7108]. Following the wage reform, Jiang Zemin has become the official who receives the highest income. Of the many titles he holds, he receives his salar... |
FBIS3-26928_3 | Article Says Human Factor Boosts Farm Output | had helped to create. They noted that before the introduction of the reform, the emphasis on "taking agriculture as the key link" had been repeated time and again and that 800 million farmers were bound to the earth for farming. Despite all this, grain production remained stagnant. Following the introduction of the con... |
FBIS3-26928_4 | Article Says Human Factor Boosts Farm Output | gave the farmers the right to manage the land. The benefit mechanism fired up farmers' enthusiasm for farming, which brought about creativity that was unthinkable in the times of people's communes. Farmers had a simpler explanation: "After fulfilling the set quotas for the state and for the collectives, the rest is our... |
FBIS3-26928_9 | Article Says Human Factor Boosts Farm Output | producing more grain?" Reform has liberated millions and millions of farmers from the shackles of the old system. When this human factor becomes brisk, all other key elements for production will no longer remain in "a cesspool of dead water." Statistics show that in 15 years of reform, the overall generating power of o... |
FBIS3-26935_3 | Review of Guangdong `Hotline' Program | staff members are protected by laws in our country. 11. Another listener called in to support the employees. He also complained about insufficient and imperfect laws and regulations in China on protecting workers' rights, which was why foreign-funded enterprises could use this loophole. He stressed that workers' rights... |
FBIS3-26948_0 | U.S. Missionaries Return From PRC After 5 Days' Detention | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hong Kong, Feb 15 (AFP)--A group of Hong Kong-based U.S. Christian missionaries returned to the colony Tuesday after being detained for five days under China's sweeping new laws to control religious activity. Cathy Balcombe, wife of Reverend Dennis Balcombe of the Revival Chris... |
FBIS3-26960_0 | Foreign Ministry Holds Weekly News Briefing Spokesman Defends Detention | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, 16 Feb (AFP)--China defended Thursday [17 February] its detention of five foreign missionaries, including three US citizens, saying they had violated sweeping new laws introduced this month to control religious activity. The three Americans and two Indonesians had "con... |
FBIS3-26981_3 | Article Views Shifts in U.S. Foreign Policy | in Russia, and this cannot but cause concern and apprehension to the United States. In addition, the United States is still trying to keep more than 100,000 troops in Europe after the end of the Cold War, and this shows that Europe remains the key point of U.S. security interests. However, because of the dissolution of... |
FBIS3-27010_2 | Article Views Situation at Social Sciences Academy | -- and rampant corruption. Inflation and corruption were the two most important factors which drove millions of citizens to join in open protests in many Chinese cities in 1989, which the regime was able to disperse only by using armed force. The situation in the Year of the Dog is in many ways as serious as at the beg... |
FBIS3-27014_0 | CHINA DAILY Views Pollution Problems Blames Township Enterprises | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["CD News" report: "Rural Firms to Blame for Nation's Polluation"] [Text] Township industries are seriously polluting the air and water in Tianjin, Shanghai and Beijing, according to the National Environmental Protection Agency. Rural enterprises are also pumping out massive amounts o... |
FBIS3-27023_0 | Interview With Environment Official on Coal Use | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Robert J. Saiget] [Text] Beijing, Feb. 17 KYODO -- China's growing coal consumption poses a huge threat to the environment, a leading Chinese official said recently, and things are bound to get worse as the country struggles to generate enough energy to fuel its booming economy. "... |
FBIS3-27023_1 | Interview With Environment Official on Coal Use | contributor to the global warming or "greenhouse effect," and sulfur dioxide (So2), the main cause of acid rain, which destroys the nutritional value of soil and pollutes rivers and lakes. "As far as I'm concerned, laws are the only way to restrict the rapid development of the coal industry. We can also use laws and re... |
FBIS3-27032_0 | Hainan Plans Big Boost in Power Generation | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Haikou, February 15 (CNS)--Hainan will boost its vast spending on power generation this year with the planned capacity of generating sets to be installed put at 400,000 kilowatts. The tense state regarding power consumption which has surfaced throughout the province since the s... |
FBIS3-27036_3 | `Military Brass' Transfers To Aid Jiang Zemin's Power | original units, and their hidden influence should not be overlooked. At the same time, a number of military brass who had been promoted for suppressing the 1989 students' movement were demoted. This category included Commander Wang Cheng, Deputy Commander Zou Yuqi, and Political Commissar Zhang Gong -- all of the Beiji... |
FBIS3-27040_1 | Army Paper Views `Business Card Fad' in Ranks | in office work, accounting for 92 percent, and 15 others working in military-run enterprises, accounting for 8 percent. These business cards are characterized by the abundant use of Army unit designations, titles, and sensitive internal Army telephone numbers. With these problems in mind, this writer has conducted inve... |
FBIS3-27046_2 | Tibet Nuns Escape, Recount Prison Experiences | be repatriated to Tibet if they did not pay up. The nuns did pay, but they were still arrested and jailed for a number of days in Kathmandu. After that, their rescuers took them to India's Damoshara, where the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual and political leader, lives in exile. Two motives made the nuns face the hard jo... |
FBIS3-27048_21 | Hebei Province Holds Seventh Plenary Session Secretary Addresses Session | work to ban unwarranted pooling of funds, wanton requisition of donations, and exaction of fees should be carried out through to the end until actual results are achieved; and conscientious efforts should be made to straighten out and thoroughly correct the problems of some leading cadres at and above the county level ... |
FBIS3-27054_0 | Foreign Ministry Holds Weekly News Briefing Views Detention of Missionaries | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Management of Foreigners' Religious Activities in China" -- XINHUA headline] [Text] Beijing, February 17 (XINHUA) -- A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said here today that claims that the recently promulgated regulation on the management of f... |
FBIS3-27056_2 | `News Analysis' Views U.S. Leader as `Salesman in Chief' | In selling 50 airplanes to Saudi Arabia, the U.S. is expected to keep nearly 200,000 high-paying, high-tech jobs in the two companies, and in United Technologies Inc. and General Electric Co., makers of aircraft engines. Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, the first and third largest aircraft makers, are competing with the E... |
FBIS3-27058_5 | Article Views Challenges to British Diplomacy | has lacked the strength to recover. Just as the British magazine the ECONOMIST has stated, "Britain's real significance has been on the wane to a considerable extent." Economic reality has made people realize that "its position of strength of the past is gone forever." The radical changes in the Soviet Union and Easter... |
FBIS3-27094_0 | Hijacker `Mainland Soldier' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Debbie Kuo] [Text] Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) -- A mainland soldier, identified as Lin Wenqiang, teamed up with his wife and three other family members to hijack a Southwest China Airlines Boeing 737 to Taiwan Friday morning. It was the first hijacking of a mainland passenger plane to ... |
FBIS3-27098_1 | Legislators Urge Stronger Punishments for Hijackers Recommend `Heavy Punishment' | a police officer. Lin, 36 (eds: correct), impersonated a military police officer, and ordered the crew of the Chinese airliner with 130 people on board, including eight crew, to change course when the plane was on a domestic flight from Changsha to the coastal city of Fuzhou. Lin, a business manager at a state-run comp... |
FBIS3-27099_10 | Premier Lien on Cross-Strait Ties, Other Issues We Cannot Consider Things on Purely Economic Grounds; the Time Is Not Ripe for Direct Cross-Strait Shipping and Air Services The Southern Policy Is Based on Pragmatism; More Efforts Will Be Needed To Break Out of Our Diplomatic Predicament The Cabinet Will Be Partly Reshu... | We do not want to place all our economic strength in one basket; the preservation and development of Taiwan's economic strength should be the guiding principle governing all our economic activities. I made a trip to Southeast Asia recently. Economics departments have also come up with the so-called southern policy. Our... |
FBIS3-27104_0 | Accidents Force Closure of Coal Mines in Northeast | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, Feb 18 (AFP)--Some 1,783 coal mines in northeastern China have been closed amid concern about the growing number of fatal accidents there, the China Business Times reported Friday. The report blamed Heilongjiang province's Jixi city mining accidents on poor management ... |
FBIS3-27114_0 | Shanghai Sets Goals for 1994 Scientific Work | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By correspondent Shi Kehui (2457 0668 6540) and reporter Zhang Xuequan (1728 1331 0356)] [Text] Hua Yuda, chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, said recently: To steer science and technology onto the market as soon as possible, and to organize scientis... |
FBIS3-27125_0 | Hijacker `Mainland Soldier' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Debbie Kuo] [Text] Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) -- A mainland soldier, identified as Lin Wenqiang, teamed up with his wife and three other family members to hijack a Southwest China Airlines Boeing 737 to Taiwan Friday morning. It was the first hijacking of a mainland passenger plane to ... |
FBIS3-27129_1 | Legislators Urge Stronger Punishments for Hijackers Recommend `Heavy Punishment' | a police officer. Lin, 36 (eds: correct), impersonated a military police officer, and ordered the crew of the Chinese airliner with 130 people on board, including eight crew, to change course when the plane was on a domestic flight from Changsha to the coastal city of Fuzhou. Lin, a business manager at a state-run comp... |
FBIS3-27130_10 | Premier Lien on Cross-Strait Ties, Other Issues We Cannot Consider Things on Purely Economic Grounds; the Time Is Not Ripe for Direct Cross-Strait Shipping and Air Services The Southern Policy Is Based on Pragmatism; More Efforts Will Be Needed To Break Out of Our Diplomatic Predicament The Cabinet Will Be Partly Reshu... | We do not want to place all our economic strength in one basket; the preservation and development of Taiwan's economic strength should be the guiding principle governing all our economic activities. I made a trip to Southeast Asia recently. Economics departments have also come up with the so-called southern policy. Our... |
FBIS3-27134_0 | PRC Bans Sea Dumping of Radioactive Waste | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, February 18 (XINHUA) -- Beginning Sunday, China will ban dumping of all kinds of radioactive wastes and disposal of industrial waste and incineration of industrial waste and sewage sludge in its sea waters, a Chinese official said here today. According to Yang Wenhe, d... |
FBIS3-27164_2 | Editorial Says NATO Air Strikes To Be Counterproductive | problem of Bosnia-Herzegovina since it took power. In his presidential campaign, Clinton criticized Bush as weak and incompetent, saying that he would dispatch a shock brigade to march to the Sarajevo Airport. However, faced with the complicated situation of Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as acting under the constraints of... |
FBIS3-27208_2 | Editorial Attacks Patten's `Absurd Remarks' in Australia | Position on the Issue of Hong Kong," and its annotations in volume 3 of the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, to have a clear picture that, in the course of the Sino-British talks on the future of Hong Kong, the British side repeatedly insisted on its position of prolonging its right to rule over Hong Kong and maintaini... |
FBIS3-27214_0 | `Most Serious Railway Accident' Occurs in Hunan Guangdong Increases Troops | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Bruce Gilley] [Excerpt] Guangzhou has called in the People's Liberation Army to manage a deluge of out-of-province rural job-seekers that is expected to reach a peak in the next few days. The head of the city's New Year Transport Committee, Ma Yijun, said soldiers were being used ... |
FBIS3-27224_6 | Chi Haotian Marks Anniversary of Su Yu's Death | masterpiece of Comrade Su Yu's systematic planning in operational command, and is of immortal military and academic value. In planning the campaign, Comrade Su Yu considered the war situation in central China as a big system. After giving consideration to the situations of both the enemy and his own army in central Chi... |
FBIS3-27231_0 | Air Force Control Unit Supervises Civil Aviation | Language: Mandarin Article Type:BFN [From the "News and Press Review" program] [Text] The Air Force's aviation control unit, which is in charge of managing and directing China's air traffic, has formulated a comprehensive system for civilian flight safety. Imbued with a profound sense of responsibility, officers of thi... |
FBIS3-27272_1 | Reports on President Li's Southeast Asia Trip Premier Lien Comments | that President Li's unofficial visit is of positive significance to prosperity and progress in Southeast Asia. The premier also instructed ministries to compile the results and cooperation plans achieved during the tour and assign them to ministries for implementation. Yuan Tung has filed the following report: [Begin Y... |
FBIS3-27273_0 | Reports on President Li's Southeast Asia Trip Spokesman on Purpose | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Sofia Wu] [Text] Taipei, Feb. 19 (CNA) -- The main purpose of President Li Teng-hui's recent informal visit to Southeast Asia was to demonstrate the Republic of China [ROC]'s desire to play an active and constructive role in the international community, a Presidential Office spoke... |
FBIS3-27285_0 | `Most Serious Railway Accident' Occurs in Hunan Zhu Rongji, Zou Jiahua React | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter: "Zou Jiahua Issued Instruction on More Quickly Expanding the Hengyang Railway Station"] [Text] Up to yesterday, the number of deaths in the Hengyang Railway Station tragedy on 15 February increased to 52, three more than the 49 deaths reported by MING PAO a few day... |
FBIS3-27290_2 | `Roundup' Views Russian Mediation in Sarajevo Situation | forces that Russia will deploy peacekeepers in the Bosnian capital. In return, the Serb side agreed to implement the ultimatum. The crisis was eased for a while, and everybody sighed a breath of relief. Local news media commented favorably on Moscow's mediation, describing it as a good show of Russia's independent fore... |
FBIS3-27294_1 | U.S. Protests to Russia | National Security Advisor W. Anthony and others to gauge the damages caused by ames' selling of the CIA's vital operations and personnel information to Russia. In Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering also "raised this case with senior Russian officials," McCurry said. A senior administration official was quoted as ... |
FBIS3-27304_2 | Survey Finds Apathy, Divided Opinion on Political Reforms | Sciences Research Centre of the University of Hong Kong, shows most people have either lost interest, or have never been interested in the political reforms. Only 12.1 percent said they were either very clear or resonably clear about what was going on. The survey shows that neither of the amendments proposed by Liberal... |
FBIS3-27335_0 | Tiananmen Military Spokesman Transferred to Academy | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Carol Pui-yee Lai] [Text] Lieutenant-General Zhang Gong, the military spokesman who claimed no students were killed in Tiananmen Square in the crushing of the 1989 pro democracy demonstrations, has been dismissed from his post. He was the political commissar of the Chengdu militar... |
FBIS3-27347_0 | Fujian's Xiamen Zone To Develop Cultural Center | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Xiamen, February 21 (XINHUA) -- Xiamen, one of China's five special economic zones in Fujian Province, is striving to develop into a center of art to attract more tourists. Hong Yongshi, mayor of the city, pointed out that Xiamen is a port and one of China's major tourist attra... |
FBIS3-27348_0 | Fujian's Foreign-Funded Firms `Making Profits' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Fuzhou, February 22 (XINHUA) -- Foreign-funded enterprises in east China's Fujian Province generally report good economic returns. According to statistics, some 80 percent of the province's 12,778 foreign-funded firms are making profits, 15 percent maintain a balance and the ot... |
FBIS3-27400_0 | PRC `Angrily' Rejects Organizations' Rights Reports | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Geneva, Feb 23 (AFP) -- China has angrily rejected criticism of its human rights record issued by two international organizations, charging that they remain imprisoned in a "Cold War mentality." Sources with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights said Tuesday that the Ch... |
FBIS3-27426_0 | RENMIN RIBAO Analyzes U.S.-Japanese Relations Views Overall Relations | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["News Analysis" by staff reporter Zhang Guocheng (1728 0948 2052): "Japanese-U.S. Relations Viewed From Breakdown of Trade Talks"] [Text] Tokyo, Feb 13 (RENMIN RIBAO)--When discussing the recent Japanese-U.S. trade summit meeting, Japanese public opinion paid more attention to the im... |
FBIS3-27427_0 | `News Analysis' Views U.S.-New Zealand Defense Strains | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["News Analysis" by Chen Jinjun: "NZ, U.S. Still Differ on Nuclear Issue"] [Text] Wellington, February 22 (XINHUA) -- New Zealand's anti-nuclear legislation still remains as a hinderer to closer relations with the United States despite the U.S. decision to lift the restraints on senio... |
FBIS3-27463_0 | Water From Huang He Diverted to Hebei Province | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Shijiazhuang, February 22 (XINHUA) -- Water from the Yellow River [Huang He] is now flowing into Cangzhou and Hengshui cities in the thirsty North China province of Hebei. This is part of the water diversion project to quench the thirst of industries and agriculture in this wat... |
FBIS3-27468_0 | Shanxi Campaigns Against Endemic Diseases | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Taiyuan, February 24 (XINHUA) -- The rampant spread of endemic diseases in north China's Shanxi Province has now been brought under control thanks to the joint efforts of the local government and people. The province is one of those blighted by a high incidence of endemic disea... |
FBIS3-27468_2 | Shanxi Campaigns Against Endemic Diseases | by Keshan disease. Figures show that of 7,172 children aged between seven and 14 in 24 counties heavily hit by undulant fever, the incidence rate of goiter due to iodine deficiency amounted to 32.94 percent. Despite efforts to improve drinking water quality and heating facilities in the province, about two million peop... |
FBIS3-27474_15 | Ren Jianxin Views Procuratorial Work, Stability | cases and guaranteeing expenditures; and so on and so forth. Policy decisions on reform should go hand in hand with those on legislation. It is necessary to step up efforts to draft and revise the "Police Law," "Regulations on Judges," "Regulations on Procurators," "Law on Lawyers," "Prison Law," "Notary Law," and "Com... |
FBIS3-27485_1 | Shanghai Professor Criticizes Economic Policies | Hong Kong newspaper? According to the responsible authorities, you did and that article raised some problematic points." And so, the professor's article was killed. "Every time the government fails, it is because it has refused to listen to its best critics," Li said. China's best-trained economists, including those in... |
FBIS3-27498_6 | Li Teng-hui Gives News Conference on Overseas Trip | the way such matters should be handled. [Correspondent] Your meetings during this overseas trip with the heads of state of the three countries without diplomatic ties with us constitutes a major diplomatic breakthrough, but the Indonesian foreign minister said today that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation [APEC] con... |
FBIS3-27498_23 | Li Teng-hui Gives News Conference on Overseas Trip | Indonesia and other areas is, I believe, their children's education, including how to build schools, hiring of teachers and principals, and curriculum. While in Indonesia, I invited four representatives of a friendship association. The government will address the questions they raised. They all hold ROC passports and w... |
FBIS3-27500_0 | Prosecutor Indicts Mainland Couple for Hijacking | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Lilian Wu] [Text] Taipei, Feb. 24 (CNA) -- The Taoyuan District prosecutors' office Wednesday [23 February] indicted a Mainland Chinese couple for hijacking a mainland civil airliner to Taiwan late last year. In his indictment, the prosecutor recommended a 12-year sentence for Luo... |
FBIS3-27520_27 | Heilongjiang Secretary Views Deng's Works Volume 3 of the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping Inherits and Develops Marxism With New Ideas and Viewpoints In Studying Volume 3 of the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, We Should Have a Good Command of and Make Clear Some Major Issues | why the Soviet Union's pattern was not desirable, why there was evolution and disintegration later, and why Comrade Mao Zedong encountered setbacks one after another during his later years in his exploration on the practice of the "three red banners" and the continued revolution under the dictatorship of the proletaria... |
FBIS3-27522_1 | `News Analysis' Views Russia's Involvement in Bosnia | the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina. On 16 February, Russian Vice Foreign Minister Churkin, as the Russian president's special envoy, flew to Belgrade and continued to influence the Serb leaders and conveyed to them President Yeltsin's new proposal on settling the Bosnia crisis. The proposal not only satisfied the requi... |
FBIS3-27530_0 | Daily Views U.S. Attitudes on Sales of Prison Goods | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By Zhong Yan (6988 1693): "Setting a Fire and Lighting a Lamp"] [Text] On 9 February, the U.S. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR carried an article entitled "U.S. Exports of Prison Goods." The article says: "Just when the Clinton administration continues to criticize China for exporting pris... |
FBIS3-27530_1 | Daily Views U.S. Attitudes on Sales of Prison Goods | news. What merits people's attention is that although the U.S. export of prison goods is an open secret, some people in the United States do not feel ashamed of it. They continue to castigate others on the issue while posing themselves as persons of high morals. This cannot help but arouse dissatisfaction from many peo... |
FBIS3-27531_0 | Committee Urges Continuation of MFN Trade Status | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Washington, February 24 (XINHUA) -- The Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT) today urged the U.S. Government and Congress to continue to extend the most-favored nation (MFN) trade status for China. Kenneth Williams, vice-president of McDonnel Douglas Aircraft Company (... |
FBIS3-27532_1 | Pro-Beijing Column on Russo-U.S. Ties After Ames Case | saying that U.S. espionage against Russia has never stopped, but is as intense as during the Cold War era. Hence, Russia urged the United States not to exaggerate the case as if it was a political incident and not to "revert to the psychology of the Cold War, since making use of the espionage issue to vigorously stir u... |
FBIS3-27545_0 | XINHUA Told 57 Palestinians Die in Jerusalem | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Jerusalem, February 25 (XINHUA) -- The death toll of the Palestinians in today's massacre in Hebron has reached 57 by 10:00 A.M., according to a special report faxed to XINHUA by JMCC, a Palestinian press service in east Jerusalem. According to figures collected from the admini... |
FBIS3-27582_2 | Scholar Comments on Improving Economic Quality | and main propelling forces of economic development, various rates of input and output, labor productivity, and the amount of national income generated by the social GNP. As viewed from our macroindustrial structure, facts clearly show that the second and tertiary industries are not developed. Therefore, we must make gr... |
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