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FBIS3-3315_0
Russia Differs With U.S. Openly Over Iraq
Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Russia Favors To Encourage Iraq in Arms Destruction" -- XINHUA headline] [Text] United Nations, March 18 (XINHUA) -- Russia differs with the United States openly today over the Iraq issue, saying that Iraq has made some progress on arms destruction and Russia is considering lifting ...
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Wang Dan Clarifies Stand on Renewal of MFN Status
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter from Beijing: "Wang Dan Calls for Extension of Most Favored Nation Status for a Year"] [Text] The mainland's most famous pro-democracy activist, Wang Dan, yesterday issued a statement calling on the United States to renew the mainland's most favored nation [MFN] sta...
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Reparation Demanders Protest at Japanese Embassy in Beijing
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By John Kohut] [Text] Chinese police defused a potentially explosive protest yesterday by detaining more than 100, mainly elderly people, as they attempted to demonstrate against Japan on the eve of Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's arrival in Beijing today, according to witnesses a...
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Intellectuals Demand Release of Compensation Activists
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 21 KYODO -- A group of 500 Chinese intellectuals sent an open letter to the ongoing National People's Congress (NPC) on Monday [21 March] demanding the release of war compensation activists detained by Chinese security authorities. The letter says more than 100 v...
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Beijing Frees Protesters
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 21 KYODO -- China's Public Security Bureau released more than 100 Chinese protesters late Sunday night [20 March] after detaining them for two days for demanding war compensation from Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, informed sources said Monday. The pr...
FBIS3-3402_1
Heilongjiang Governor on Seizing Opportunity, Reform
long, we must seize them. As far as Heilongjiang is concerned, a very important opportunity for the province these years has been the central authorities' (?policy) concerning opening up border areas. By opening up border areas, Heilongjiang has made significant development in economy and foreign trade over the past ye...
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Provincial Party Chief Discusses Shanxi's Development
basically accelerated its construction of energy and chemical industry bases last year. On the strategy of emphasizing both coal and electric power, Hu Fuguo said: Shanxi will take advantage of its coal to develop the electric power industry. With the State Planning Commission's approval, we recently started the constr...
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Agriculture Ministry News Conference
principle of guiding, enlightening [su dao], and serving them. We have also taken some measures to make the flow more rational. Moreover, we plan to set up a consolidated, nationwide labor market to regulate the supply and demand of laborers between cities and rural areas. [Unidentified correspondent] I am a reporter f...
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Commentary Examines Six-Character Principle
reality and choose suitable main industries, as well as other related industries. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure the rational division of labor and cooperation among regions and avoid uniform industrial structures, so that all localities can give play to their strength and make effective and full use of th...
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AFP Details Report on Protesters in Tiananmen Square
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 21 (AFP)--At least two protestors Monday [21 March] scattered pamphlets in Tiananmen Square here as a group of delegates to China's parliament were passing, witnesses said. Police immediately grabbed the camera of an Agence France-Presse photographer who had take...
FBIS3-3419_0
Protestor Reportedly Arrested in Tiananmen Square
Language: English Article Type:BFN [From "News at One"] [Text] Police in Beijing have arrested at least one person who tried to distribute leaflets in Tiananmen Square, and one news photographer had his film seized. Witnesses said that they saw leaflets being thrown into a crowd in the square, the site of the 1989 Beij...
FBIS3-3420_0
State Acts To Prevent Unauthorized Antismuggling Operations
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Dispatch: "The Ministry of Public Security Standardizes the Names and Codes of Coast Guard Boats"] [Text] Hangzhou, 15 Mar (XINHUA)--To counter the chaotic state of marine antismuggling operations which began last year, in which some departments who were not involved in antismuggling...
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News Agency Protests on Photographer Incident
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 21 (AFP) -- Agence France-Presse protested to the Chinese foreign ministry Monday after police grabbed the camera of an AFP photographer who had been taking pictures of a protest in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. AFP's Beijing bureau chief, Gilles Campion, filed a v...
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GUANGMING RIBAO Urges Stop Using Human Rights as Pretext
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 22 (XINHUA) -- One cannot use human rights as a pretext for sticking one's nose into the internal affairs of other countries, according to a signed article in today's "GUANGMING" DAILY [GUANGMING RIBAO]. While calling for an end to this practice, the article said...
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Guangxi To Earmark 667 Hectares for Singapore Companies
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by staff reporter Wang Yong: "Guangxi Land Woos Firms From Singapore"] [Text] Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region plans to earmark 667 hectares for companies from Singapore. This was announced over the weekend in Beijing by Cheng Kejie, chairman of the regional ...
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NPC Deputies Discuss Inflation, Price Controls
are not strictly controlled, economic relations will be distorted, the macroeconomic environment will become intense, and the overall situation of reform and opening up will be endangered. Chinese statesmen are absolutely sober-minded about this point. They do not deny inflation and have made up their minds to introduc...
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Newspaper Views Amendments to Government Work Report
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Report by WEN WEI PO News Team: "Li Peng's Government Work Report Amended in 13 Places"] [Text] Beijing, 21 Mar (WEN WEI PO) -- In light of the views expressed by the deputies to the National People's Congress [NPC] and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conferenc...
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Guangxi Region Leaders Hold News Conference
four such projects. In exports, "san zi" enterprises are a force that should not be underestimated. Their exports now account for about one-eight of Guangxi's total exports. [Unidentified Vietnamese correspondent in Mandarin] I am a reporter with VNA. First, in the past few years, especially since the normalization of ...
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Articles Urge Curbing Peasants' Move Into Cities
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Jottings on the Two Sessions" by reporters Pu Liye (5543 4539 2814) and Xu Xingtang (1776 5281 1016): "There Are Thousands of Ways To Get Rich; Why Does Everyone Have To Go to the Cities?"] [Text] Beijing, 20 Mar (XINHUA) -- Tens of millions of peasants have streamed, like the tide,...
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Anhui Province Becomes Key Mineral Producer
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 14 (XINHUA) -- Chinese geologists have discovered more than 90 types of minerals in east China's Anhui Province. According to the "CHINA GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES NEWS", 540 out of the newly found 1,900 deposits are available for exploration. The reserves of ...
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Hunan To Double Power Output Through Foreign Investment
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Liu Weiling: "Closing The Power Gap"] [Text] Central China's Hunan Province, where the shortage of electricity restrains economic growth, is inviting overseas investment and cooperation in building power stations. Several power plants, including three 1.2 million-kilowatt stations...
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Endemic Diseases Under Control in Sichuan Province
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Chengdu, March 10 (XINHUA) -- Sichuan Province in southwest China has made marked progress in preventing and curing endemic diseases, using foreign loans, local officials said. According to officials at the provincial office for endemic disease prevention and cure, the local in...
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Tibet Increases Number of Rural Industrial Enterprises
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Lhasa, March 15 (XINHUA) -- Rural industrial enterprises are booming in the Tibet Autonomous Region and becoming a fresh force in its economic development. A survey shows that the region has 9,180 such enterprises employing 51,000 people. Their gross income last year amounted t...
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Roundup Views Yunnan's Efforts To Open Up
navigation. In January this year experts from the four countries sponsored a conference here to study the prospects of official navigation of the river. The two ports of Jinghong and Simao along the Lancang River, the name of the part of the Mekong in Chinese territory, have been approved as state-level outlets designe...
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Yunnan Exports More Machinery, Electrical Products
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Kunming, March 17 (XINHUA) -- Southwest China's Yunnan Province, a leading producer of quality cigarettes in China, saw a sharp increase in its exports of machinery and electrical products last year. According to local officials, Yunnan exported machinery and electrical product...
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Inner Mongolia Promotes More Women To Leadership Roles
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Huhhot, March 15 (XINHUA) -- The Inner Mongolia autonomous region, north China, has been promoting more women to leading positions in recent years. Official sources here said the region now has 243,000 women cadres -- 34.2 percent of all the cadres in the autonomous region. Som...
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Inner Mongolia Promotes More Women To Leadership Roles
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Huhhot, March 15 (XINHUA) -- The Inner Mongolia autonomous region, north China, has been promoting more women to leading positions in recent years. Official sources here said the region now has 243,000 women cadres -- 34.2 percent of all the cadres in the autonomous region. Som...
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Activist Detained Before Hosokawa's Arrival
[By Daniel Kwan] [Text] Police have stepped up their intimidation of war reparation campaigners by detaining almost all activists in Beijing and Shanghai during Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's three-day visit to China. Although Beijing yesterday released more than 100 elderly anti-Japan activists after two ...
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Security Forces Said Trying To Defuse `Challenge'
to give up their plans before Mr Wei, who had been asked by police to leave town during Mr Christopher's visit, returns to the capital later this week. Witnesses at Tiananmen Square said at least two protesters were arrested when they tried to distribute pamphlets as a group of NPC delegates were walking out of the Gre...
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Dissidents Continue Campaign for Political Reform
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 21 KYODO -- Chinese dissidents continued their campaign for greater political and social freedom Monday [21 March] as police took quick measures to stop leaflets being distributed in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. "I started taking pictures when I saw leaflets flyin...
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Government Bans Latest Edition of NEWSWEEK
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Amy Liu] [Text] Chinese police yesterday arrested two women for distributing leaflets in Tiananmen Square and detained a dissident who planned to go there to distribute a pro-democracy statement. The authorities have also acknowledged a ban on the latest edition of the United Stat...
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Editorial Views Tibetan Human Rights Situation
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Mark What Tibet NPC Deputies Say on Human Rights"] [Text] Fifteen deputies from Tibet attending the Second Session of the Eighth National People's Congress [NPC] met Chinese and foreign reporters a few days ago and answered their questions on Tibet's human rights and othe...
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Editorial Views Tibetan Human Rights Situation
105 "peaceful dissidents" jailed in Tibet was also fabricated. Re Di told reporters: According to an investigation, many people on the list do not even exist. Some of them are living in their own homes. We do not know where the list came from. What would be the reaction of Christopher to such an explanation? The Tibeta...
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More Mineral Reserves Discovered in Tibet
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Lhasa, March 19 (XINHUA) -- A massive geological survey since 1986 has resulted in the finding of 130 new mineral deposits, including copper, lead, zinc, silver, gold, mercury and other important minerals, in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, official sources here said. The source...
FBIS3-3701_0
Guangdong Deputies Urge Halt To Misuse of License Plates
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Yuan Hsiu-Hsien (5913 4423 6343): "Guangdong People's Deputies From Hong Kong Call For a Halt To Abuse of Military Vehicle License Plates"] [Text] Guangzhou, 23 Feb (TA KUNG PAO) -- A total of 17 Hong Kong deputies to the Guangdong People's Congress, including Ye Ru...
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New NPC Member Nie Li Views Role of Women in China
As General Nie is currently the vice chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, our interview naturally focused on "women." As soon as we took our seats, she started to talk enthusiastically about the Fourth International Women's Conference, which is scheduled to be held in Beijing next year. She said: "Premier Li P...
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Gansu Governor Interviewed on Tax Sharing System
Language: Mandarin Article Type:BFN [Text] At 1800 on 10 March, Acting Governor Zhang Wule, deputy head of Gansu delegation to the Second Session of the Eighth National People's Congress, agreed to be interviewed at Beijing's Guoyi Guest House by reporters from REUTER and Hong Kong's SING TAO WAN PAO. Dealing with the ...
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`Sources' Say Two Activists Released
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 22 KYODO -- Chinese authorities released activist Tong Zeng on Tuesday [22 March] from five days of detention after demanding compensation for civilian victims of the war with Japan, reliable sources said. Tong is a long-time activist in a movement which saw hund...
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Planned Parenthood Program in Poor Areas `Fruitful'
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Kunming, March 22 (XINHUA) -- Officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) said the cooperation with the Chinese Government in implementing the woman-child health care and planned parenthood program in poverty-stricken areas is "pleasing and fruitful". One of the biggest co...
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Planned Parenthood Program in Poor Areas `Fruitful'
the woman-child health care and planned parenthood program in poverty-stricken areas is "pleasing and fruitful". One of the biggest cooperative programs between the Chinese Government and international organizations ever, the program started in 1990 has witnessed remarkable progress in improving the health and nutritio...
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RENMIN RIBAO Views U.S.-Russian Relations
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Roundup" by staff reporter Bao Shishao (7637 0013 4801): "`Honeymoon Is Over, Marriage Still Exists' -- Changing U.S.-Russian Relations"] [Text] Washington (RENMIN RIBAO) -- U.S. Secretary of State Christopher concluded his visit to Asia on 14 March. On his way home, he stopped over...
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Pros, Cons of Private Schools Discussed
that private schools are very different from public schools in teaching programs, facilities, equipment, the layout of courses and had a markedly better teaching staff. They said that most of the private schools were boarding schools, which appeal to parents who are single-mindedly pursuing their careers. Meanwhile, th...
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Minister Views Doing Better Propaganda Work
their heavy responsibility for providing ideological education and should, like Premier Zhou said, "take pleasure in educating people." They should bring the main theme into prominence and stick to diversification. They should sing in praise of the main theme -- patriotism, collectivism, and socialism -- and make their...
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Minister Views Doing Better Propaganda Work
what attitude should we take on satellite television programs from outside the country? Out of consideration for the country's fundamental interests and for the sake of strengthening socialist spiritual civilization, we should exercise strict management. This is very explicit, but we have encountered many difficulties....
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Intellectual Salon Turns Attention to Ancient Culture
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Bruce Gilley in Beijing] [Text] An intellectual salon born during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests is to drop its focus on present-day China after five years of government imposed restrictions. The Modern Culture Society of China, which held its founding meeting within earshot o...
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Nuclear Power Development Seeks Foreign Capital
studies of nuclear power plants. All these provinces are in South and East China and suffer severe shortages of electricity. "The market for nuclear electricity is potentially vast, and with advanced nuclear technology we have the ability to develop nuclear power," Sun said. Encouraged by the safe and efficient operati...
FBIS3-3919_2
National Synchrotron Radiation Lab Scores Many Achievements
experiments in photochemistry, optoelectron energy spectrum, soft X- ray microscopy, X-ray phototechnology, and time-sharing light spectrum have been put into operation. According to a briefing by Professor Zhang Xinyi, principal person in charge of the NSRL and vice president of the CUST, the NSRL's scientific and tec...
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Fliers Take Samples From 1st Hydrogen Bomb
Nanchang Military Cadre Guest House. Welcoming him at the door was an old man with a white beard and deep wrinkles on his forehead. He was Chen Qingluan. A few years ago, he retired as deputy divisional commander. The writer introduced himself and stated his purpose of the visit. Chen opened the conversation. One week ...
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Drive Launched To Eradicate False Statistics
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 19 (CNS) -- The State Statistical Bureau and the Ministry of Supervision have joined forces to fight against false reports on industrial output value. The two departments have since the beginning of this year dispatched investigative teams to several areas to loo...
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Experts Call For Early Start on Hydropower Plant
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 18 (XINHUA) -- The construction of the controversial Daliushu Hydropower Plant on the Huanghe River in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is urged to start as soon as possible. More than 60 experts called for an early start of the construction at a m...
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Navy To Take Delivery of Second Frigate
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Taipei, March 23 (CNA) -- The second of the eight Perry class frigates ordered by the Republic of China [ROC] Navy is scheduled to be delivered on Monday [28 March], the China Shipbuilding Corp. (CSBC) announced Wednesday. Construction of the frigate, named "Cheng Ho" after a n...
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ROK Industrialists Detail Bilateral Economic Contacts
enterprises will develop rapidly. Chung Chae-kwan, chief representative of Hyundai Corporation's Beijing office, said that as the ROK and China are neighbors with a long history of culture exchanges and economic and trade contacts, there is a solid foundation for the cooperation of the companies of two countries. Since...
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Li Lanqing Meets Vietnamese Industry Minister
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 24 (XINHUA) -- Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing met here today with the Vietnamese minister of heavy industry, Tran Lum, and his party. As guest of China's Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, Tran arrived here on Monday to discuss transformation and expansion of t...
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Southwest Region To Develop Outlet to Southeast Asia
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 19 (XINHUA) -- The southwestern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will develop into another outlet of China, besides Guangdong, to Southeast Asian areas and the world, chairman of the regional government Cheng Kejie said here today. At a press conference held here...
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Shandong Reports Villages Enjoy Access to Power Supply
Article Type:BFN [Text] Learned by this reporter on 23 March from the provincial meeting on management of power departments, the province's last 400 administrative villages beyond the reach of power supply will all be supplied with power by the end of this year. Then, 91 percent of peasant households in the province wi...
FBIS3-4042_0
Family Says Dissident Zhai Weimin Imprisoned in Henan
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 25 (AFP) -- Zhai Weimin, leader of the pro-democracy movement crushed at Tiananmen Square in June 1989, has been in jail in central China's Henan province since his March 6 arrest, his family said Friday. They said he was being held at Yeshugou jail, near the cit...
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Lancang River Becomes Key Energy Development Base
southwest China is scheduled to be located on the upper reaches of the river, where lead, zinc, antimony, copper, asbestos, salt and marble abound. Eight hydroelectric power stations and two reservoirs will be built at different altitudes along the river. Upon completion, these power stations will have a total installe...
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Minister Notes Worsening Water Shortage
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 22 (XINHUA) -- China's water shortage has worsened as a result of booming economic and social development and pollution, Chinese Minister of Water Resources Niu Maosheng said here today. Speaking at a rally today marking the Second Annual World Day for Water, the...
FBIS3-4102_0
Ministry Reissues Circular
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Circular on Carefully Examining Commodity Trademarks When Registering Export Enterprises" --promulgated by Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation on 5 October 1993] [Text] In recent years, when some local departments in ch...
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Shaanxi Provincial Trade Delegation Ends Cuba Visit
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Yan Qinghua (7346 1987 5478); exclusively for Shaanxi Provincial newspapers, radio, and television] [Text] Havana, 23 Mar (XINHUA) -- Following a four-day visit to Cuba, China's Shaanxi Provincial economic and trade delegation left Havana for Madrid on 23 March. Before le...
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Nation's Southwest To Become Hydroelectric Power Source
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 21 (XINHUA) -- Mammoth projects are under construction in southwest China to convert its rich hydropower resources into electric power for its own use and for the energy-hungry east China. As a result, southwest China is soon to become China's premier hydroelectr...
FBIS3-4152_0
WEN WEI PO Greets `Pragmatic' U.S. MFN Policy
Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Subtle Moves Toward Separating Human Rights From MFN Status"] [Text] Since Warren Christopher's China visit, a debate has started among U.S. officials handling economic and foreign affairs. U.S. officials have thus had a pragmatic change on the most-favored-nation [MFN] q...
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U.S. State Department Official Views Kashmir Issue
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] New Delhi, March 26 (XINHUA) -- The United States Friday [25 March] denied support of Pakistan on Kashmir issue and claimed it support India to pursue a political process in the region. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Robin Raphel told a selected gathering here that "we vigor...
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Leaders at NPC Discuss Shanxi's Development Premier Li Peng: Thanks for Shanxi's Significant Contributions to the Nation Vice Premier Li Lanqing: In Education, the Fundamental Way Out is Reform
improve various self- governing mass organizations based primarily on party branches, such as villagers', neighborhood, public security, and mediation committees. We should remove various difficulties hindering the normal operation of these primary organizations; give full rein to their role in maintaining social stabi...
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XINHUA Version of Li Peng NPC Work Report
what form, runs counter to the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation and will be in vain. We place high hopes on the Taiwan authorities and still higher hopes on the people of Taiwan. We hope the Taiwan side will attach great importance to the overall interests of the nation and join us in developing relations ac...
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State Council Concerned Over Water-Control Project
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Yichang, March 28 (XINHUA) -- Since February this year, China has started work to harness a dangerous rock formation within the Three Gorges area on the middle reaches of the Chang Jiang river where a huge water-control project is to be built. Containment measures are being pur...
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`Wildcat Strike' Halts Progress on Dam Project
suspected leaders, direct action by workers is gaining popularity. "There is clearly widespread, spontaneous industrial unrest emerging in China," Robin Munro, director of Human Rights Watch/Asia (formerly Asia Watch) said. "These are wildcat strikes, not organised actions." A crackdown on labour groups has widened in ...
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`Wildcat Strike' Halts Progress on Dam Project
Rights Watch report, China: New Arrests Linked To Worker Rights. The report details the cases of four labour organisers arrested this month, with three -- Zhou Guoqiang, Yuan Hongbin and Wang Jiaqi -- still in custody. A U.S. State Department official told the SUNDAY MORNING POST that worker leaders had come under incr...
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Representative to UN Views Family Planning Policy
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] United Nations, March 28 (XINHUA) -- China's family planning had been a cause of concern to the world, a Chinese representative told the Population Commission which opened its twenty-seventh session today. In explaining why such efforts were necessary, Peng Yu, vice-director of...
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Li Lanqing Meets Executive as General Electric Wins Bid
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 28 (XINHUA) -- The Canadian branch of the General Electric Company (GE Canadian) won an international bid to produce a turbine-generator unit for the Ertan hydropower station, the largest in China, located in southwest China's Sichuan Province. According to a con...
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Seoul To `Consider' Proposal for `Non-Binding' UN Statement
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Zeno Park] [Text] Beijing, March 29 (AFP)--Washington and Seoul will seriously consider China's proposal for a non-binding UN Security Council statement urging Pyongyang to accept fresh nuclear inspections, South Korean Foreign Minister Han Sung-chu has said. At a late evening pre...
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Friends, Family To Attempt Meeting With Jailed Dissident
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Friends and family of the jailed pro-democracy activist Zhai Weimin are to travel to Henan province's Yeshugou jail today in an attempt to secure his release. At least two Beijing-based dissidents and half a dozen family members met in Luoyang city last night and will set out f...
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Leaders Reportedly Avoiding Blame for Tiananmen Incident
June 4. "We in Shanghai were able to neutralise the trouble- making elements without upsetting stability." The leadership decided soon after the crackdown to freeze the "Tiananmen Square issue", particularly the question of responsibility, until the death of Mr. Deng. While the military side of the operation was superv...
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`Village Despot' Undergoes Pre-Sentencing `Popularity Poll'
sentence would not be contentious as were many of those passed after June 4," he said, referring to harsh sentences dished out to Tianjin students after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, which had caused resentment in the city. Yu was sentenced to 10 years for bribery, six years for harbouring criminals, three yea...
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Rural Areas Develop Unconventional Energy Sources
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Chengdu, March 26 (XINHUA) -- Chinese farmers are using various forms of energy to replace the traditional firewood and straw, according to an official with the State Planning Commission. Since the 1980s more and more of China's rural areas have begun to develop methane, electr...
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XINHUA Replaces Item on Women's Conference
host countries in previous conferences. Through the forum, Chinese women will make friends with their counterparts in other countries, share experiences, and learn from each other so as to let the world understand China and to inform Chinese women about the world. CPPCC member Kang Ling also discussed the significance ...
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China, UN To Renew Women-Children Health Care Project
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Wuhan, March 29 (XINHUA) -- China will continue to gain support from United Nations organizations in providing health care for mothers and children in the country's poor areas, as well as population-control services. The UN Children's Fund and Population Fund have decided to pr...
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Newspaper Urges U.S. To Separate Trade, Human Rights
with China. Another chairman of the U.S. Shoe Wholesale and Retail Association said that Chinese shoes account for half of the U.S. market. If imports from China are ceased, the prices of shoes will soar. If China's MFN status is revoked, some people predicted, inflation in the United States will increase by at least 0...
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RENMIN RIBAO Views Conversion of U.S. Arms Industry
period of the Cold War. Most advanced technologies in the United States were first developed and applied in the military field before they were applied to civilian projects. However, in the new circumstances, although military strength remains of great importance for the United States, the existence of a gigantic indus...
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Gansu To Adopt Measures To Aid Poverty-Stricken Areas
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Lanzhou, March 25 (XINHUA) -- Northwest China's Gansu Province has decided to adopt a series of measures to help residents living in the province's poverty-hit southern areas to become prosperous over the coming seven years. The mountainous southern areas are far from towns and...
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PRC Signs Contracts With Japan for Foreign Power Equipment
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, March 29 (XINHUA) -- The China National Technical Import and Export Corporation signed a contract here today with Japan's Itochu Corporation to import a turbine island worth 100 million U.S. dollars. The island is being imported for the Ezhou Power Station, 30 km east ...
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Ministry Spokesman Reveals Unified Social Insurance System
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Cao Min: "Five-Year Plan for New State Insurance"] [Text] The government plans to bring in a unified social insurance system nationwide within the next five years, it was announced yesterday. This means all enterprises across the country, regardless of ownership, wi...
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Fang Sheng Interviewed on Market Economy Opening Up to the Outside World Is Liberating and Developing the Productive Forces Re-Entry Into the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Requires the Establishment of a Market Economy Structure
agriculture, communications, telecommunications, and the energy and raw materials industries, and for strengthening some weak links in the national economy. To develop foreign-invested enterprises is an important way to introduce advanced foreign technology, to use foreign scientific management methods for reference, a...
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Newspaper Criticizes British `Ulterior Motives' The True Color of the Colonialists Who Attempt in Vain To Infringe Upon China's Sovereignty The Old Trick Is Played Again; Their Character Remains Unchanged
selected professions and other people outside these professions enjoy only one chance to vote in the direct election based on geographical divisions. This man-made discrimination regarding the citizens' right to vote is definitely unreasonable. It also violates the principle of "gradual and orderly progress" for the de...
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Dissident Bao Ge Explains Aims of Signature Campaign
in Shanghai, he said. The list of demands in the petition include adoption of a law on press freedom and on a multi-party system, the authority to create independent unions, and abolition of the notion of "counterrevolutionary crime" in the penal code. The petition also demands an end to "re-education through work," im...
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Yeltsin, Chernomyrdin Meet With U.S. Commerce Secretary
markets. The meeting was attended by Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Vladimirovich Kozyrev, presidential aide Dmitriy Pyurikov and U.S. Ambassador in Moscow Thomas Pickering, according to the INTERFAX NEWS SERVICE. On Tuesday, Brown met with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. Chernomyrdin told Brown that some ...
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`News Analysis' Views U.S. Commercial Interests in PRC
Language: English Article Type:BFN [News Analysis by Wang Nan: "U.S. Commercial Interests in China: The Lure and The Drag"] [Text] Washington, March 30 (XINHUA) -- From wheat to oil, from aircraft to software, from jeans at fashion stores to transformers at Toys `R' Us, the whole truth of U.S. commercial interests in C...
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`News Analysis' Views U.S. Commercial Interests in PRC
fourth largest export market and third largest supplier. "The overwhelming amount of U.S. sales is in manufactured goods," Jeff Garten, undersecretary of commerce, said in a recent speech in Tokyo. Over the past five years, U.S. imports from China have been increasing at a rate of five times faster than exports. While ...
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Article Views Whitewater Incident's Impact on President
real estate investment? Was any money from the bank used to repay Clinton's $50,000 debt he owed when campaigning for the governorship, thus causing losses to taxpayers in Arkansas? Was any government loan offered through a certain company, or was any favorable administrative decision made in exchange for funds for cam...
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Russian Envoy Promises Cooperation on Cross-Border Crime
ally. The ambassador, who worked in China during the Cultural Revolution, said he was optimistic about the development in Russian Chinese relations. He said that in 1993 there had been 2.5 million crossings of Chinese into Russia, and 1.5 million crossings of Russians going the other way. "Neither side had anticipated ...
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Caravan Denied Cambodia Entry, Fighting Noted
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Thai-Cambodian `Caravan for Friendship' was turned back by Cambodian officials yesterday shortly after it was allowed to enter Cambodia, and the tour was eventually cancelled. The caravan began moving into Cambodia at 1 p.m. after a day's delay caused by Cambodian officials...
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Businessman on U.S. Pressure on Trade Ministry
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Chae Hui-muk] [Text] U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown has sent a letter to his Korean counterpart Kim Chol-su, asking for help in a lawsuit involving the top managers of two U.S. firms here, business sources said yesterday. David D. Ussery, representative dir...
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Energy Minister, Delegation Return From Indonesia
Language: Burmese Article Type:BFN [Text] A four-member Myanmar [Burmese] delegation led by Energy Minister U Khin Maung Thein, which visited Indonesia on 15 February at the invitation of the Indonesian mining and energy minister to inspect energy enterprises, returned to Yangon [Rangoon] by air this afternoon. During ...
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* Aceh Studying Possible Agricultural Reform
However, the other regencies have become used to shortages and limitations affecting their budgets, and the consequences will not be particularly felt. Dr. M. Djakfar G. Hatta, a staff assistant of the regent for the economic sector who was formerly chairman of the North Aceh Regional Development Board, said that Aceh ...
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Possible Trade War Discussed
"unless improved measures are implemented, the license of JMCC [Japan Mobile Communications Company] -- a firm which handles Motorola's cellular telephones along with NTT's cellular telephones -- will be confiscated. Thus they have cut off Japan's retreat, creating a situation in which nothing is left but imposing sanc...
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Trade Policy on High-Tech Industry Criticized National Interests Are Being Pushed to the Forefront With Active Government Involvement Government Should Expedite Establishment of Provisions for Private Research
lowered through mass production (advantage of scale). Further, as is often said of the production of such items as semiconductors, sustained production processes lead to increased yields and lower production costs. Because of such perceptions, it is thought that markets are susceptible to being monopolized, that import...
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Trade Policy on High-Tech Industry Criticized National Interests Are Being Pushed to the Forefront With Active Government Involvement Government Should Expedite Establishment of Provisions for Private Research
development capabilities. As an example, it is thought that the United States is adept at giving birth to creative new products because of its superiority in product innovation (new product development) and that Asian nations such as Japan are highly competitive in producing universal products because of their superior...
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Trade Policy on High-Tech Industry Criticized National Interests Are Being Pushed to the Forefront With Active Government Involvement Government Should Expedite Establishment of Provisions for Private Research
neither nation necessarily enjoys any major social benefits in the area of research and development for high-tech industries relative to other industries. And, as is evident in the higher utilization of high-tech products in other industries as reflected in charts showing use of such products among various industries, ...
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Foreign Minister Interviewed on Nuclear Issue
NEWSWEEK. He is recognized as the minister among all former foreign ministers who has the best command of English. This is attributed to the fact that he lived in the United States for a long period of time. Prominent press and publications in the United States sometime show unprecedented friendliness by publishing spe...
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Recent Development in Nuclear Issue Assessed
of the nuclear issue, and notes the fact that "the United States failed to put down in writing the resumption of inter-Korean dialogue as a precondition to the third round of U.S.-North Korean talks, accepting the North Korean stance that if South Korea proposes the exchange of special envoys, North Korea will hold a w...