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FBIS3-44767_9 | Rules for Implementing Business Tax Statute | Regulations. Article 25. The turnover of a unit which gratuitously gives immovable assets to others shall be determined in accordance with Article 15 of the rules. Article 26. The scope of partial tax exemption items stipulated in Article 6 of the Regulations is limited as follows: 1. Service provided by disabled perso... |
FBIS3-44782_0 | `Yearender' Reports Review 1993 On International Situation | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Yearender" by the China International Studies Center: "Review of International Situation in 1993 and Future Prospects"] [Text] The year 1993 was the second after the disintegration of the bipolar structure. Taking the whole situation into account, the international situation has ten... |
FBIS3-44782_3 | `Yearender' Reports Review 1993 On International Situation | its "new interventionism" has been subject to constant setbacks. All these have served to show its difficult position of not having the ability equal to its ambition. At present, the United States has stepped up its efforts to readjust its internal and external policies. Regional conflicts and local wars in 1993 gave r... |
FBIS3-44782_8 | `Yearender' Reports Review 1993 On International Situation | tending to open up the markets of developing countries. The year 1993 has also witnessed the further growth of regional cooperative organizations among developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The Third World has made new headway in safeguarding independence, opposing power politics, and in striving to ... |
FBIS3-44836_0 | New Policies To `Improve' Domestic Car Market | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Chang Weimin: "State Shifts Gears To Boost Motor Market"] [Text] The Chinese Government has decided new policies which aim to improve the domestic motor market. The moves range from tax shifts on retail sales of domestically-made cars to new tariffs on imports. A policy that for y... |
FBIS3-44845_0 | MOFTEC Official on Expanding to Iraqi Market | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Xiao Wang] [Text] China will take on new markets this year to expand its overseas labour and engineering service, a senior official said last week. The Middle East, a magnet damaged by the Gulf War, is especially promising, said Chen Yongcai, director general of the international ... |
FBIS3-44860_3 | Li Peng, Chen Junsheng Discuss Flood Prevention | of supplementary funds. Chen Junsheng emphatically said: It is necessary for departments concerned to further strengthen leadership in the work of harnessing the Huai He and the Tai Hu, clarify their responsibilities, and carry out their duties. All relevant provinces and cities in the Huai He and the Tai Hu valleys sh... |
FBIS3-44870_0 | Hong Kong Daily On Dissidents Starting Businesses Reportedly Watched by Secret Police | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Amy Yip] [Text] China's dissidents-turned-businessmen are facing close surveillance by secret police while they catch up with the tide of running profit-making ventures. And state-linked businesses have been ordered to sever ties with dissidents, Chinese sources told The Standard ... |
FBIS3-44905_0 | Reports on President Clinton's Trip `Roundup' Previews Visit | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Roundup" by staff reporter Bao Shishao (7637 0013 4801): "Clinton's First Trip to Europe"] [Text] Washington, 7 Jan (RENMIN RIBAO)--On 8 January, U.S. President Clinton will depart and begin his first trip to Europe since he has taken office in the White House. Clinton will first at... |
FBIS3-44905_1 | Reports on President Clinton's Trip `Roundup' Previews Visit | and with Russia in the new post-Cold War situation and thus maintain the United States' "leading position" in Europe and the whole world. This is the main purpose of Clinton's current visit to Europe. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the precondition for a U.S.-European alliance aga... |
FBIS3-44908_0 | Reports on President Clinton's Trip Column Views Visit | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Jottings" column by Chen Junfeng (7115 0193 6912): "Clinton Reassesses Europe's Attraction"] [Text] The recent development of events shows that after paying attention to Asian affairs in his first year after taking office, the U.S. President has begun to shift his eyes to Europe aga... |
FBIS3-44937_0 | MOFTEC Official on Expanding to Iraqi Market | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Xiao Wang] [Text] China will take on new markets this year to expand its overseas labour and engineering service, a senior official said last week. The Middle East, a magnet damaged by the Gulf War, is especially promising, said Chen Yongcai, director general of the international ... |
FBIS3-44974_0 | Tibet Reportedly Jails Nuns for Organizing Rally | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Robert Barnett] [Text] The Chinese authorities in Lhasa have sentenced 12 nuns to up to seven years in jail for apparently trying to organise a pro-independence rally in June last year, sources said. The imprisoned nuns, which included a 15-year-old girl, came from Garu nunnery, f... |
FBIS3-44976_3 | Circular Issued on Combating Corruption | necessary to resolutely deal with those who obstruct investigation of cases. We should resolutely stop unhealthy tendencies. Continued efforts should be made to deal with problems related to illegal collection of fees, and with cases involving those who make overseas sightseeing tours at public expense. It is important... |
FBIS3-44998_0 | Articles View Impact of U.S. Textile Quota On Hong Kong, Taiwan | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special article" by Li Xiaozhun (2621 1321 6150)] [Text] Hong Kong, 9 Jan (ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE) -- The recent decision by the United States to unilaterally cut mainland China's textile quotas has aroused the great concern of manufacturers from three sides across the Taiwan Strait. ... |
FBIS3-45000_1 | Articles View Impact of U.S. Textile Quota Guangdong `Hurt' | by the United States to slash textile import quotas from China, according to a leading textile maker in Guangdong. Wang Shenghuai, Vice-President of Guangdong Textile Import and Export Corporation, said he hopes China and the U.S. will find a satisfying solution to this sensitive issue during the coming fourth round of... |
FBIS3-45075_0 | Minister Addresses Educational Reform, Projects Continues Anti-Illiteracy Campaign | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 11 (XINHUA) -- China is to lift at least four million out of illiteracy this year, a top official has vowed. Zhu Kaixuan, minister in charge of the State Education Commission, said in a national telephone meeting on education here today that, if programs go acc... |
FBIS3-45088_4 | Li Peng Tours Three Gorges Project Site Voices `Concern' for Settlers | site, he made a special trip to visit the people who were resettled at the Zhujiawan resettlement zone located at the lower reaches of the dam site. The Three Gorges Project, being an extra-large and key water-control project, is confronted with a tough task of resettling the people. Premier Li Peng has repeatedly emph... |
FBIS3-45105_3 | Army Paper Views U.S. Military Strategy Change | weapons as targets for strategic nuclear weapons. Regarding policies for nuclear force development, the goal is guaranteed quality, reasonable curtailment, maintaining research and development, halting production, scrapping the Strategic Defense Initiative project, and implementing the "anti-missile defense" plan. Two,... |
FBIS3-45121_0 | Yugoslav Military Chief on Outside Interference | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Belgrade, December 29 (XINHUA) -- Momcilo Perisic [name as received], chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Armed Forces, today blamed foreign powers for the outbreak of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In an interview with the Yugoslav TANJUG News Agency and the Army newspa... |
FBIS3-45143_0 | Hebei To Build Power Plant in Inner Mongolia | Language: Mandarin Article Type:BFN [Text] There is hope of easing the power shortage situation of the northern power grid which has disrupted our province's economic development. The agreement on building Zhenglan power plant with joint invesments from our province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was concluded in... |
FBIS3-45152_5 | Paper `Yearender' Lauds `Fine Traditions' How Can Our Armed Forces Always Be Invincible in Times of Peace? One Thing in the Basic Experience Is: Maintaining the Fine Traditions. New Times, New Tasks--Only by Integrating the Fine Traditions With the Spirit of the Times Can They Add Radiance to One Another and Shine With... | topic of discussion among the people, and some officers and soldiers had some doubts about the value of life, the education of fine traditions showed its unique might. The education on the outlook on life and the sense of value has been conducted throughout the Army in a lively and down-to-earth manner. Being faced wit... |
FBIS3-45163_0 | Vatican May Forge Diplomatic Ties With PRC Vatican Official Confirms Plans | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "News" program] [Text] The Vatican will establish formal diplomatic ties with the PRC but will maintain its current ties with Taiwan, a high- ranking Vatican official has said. The official's statement was reported on semi-official radio in Taiwan, but neither the official's... |
FBIS3-45164_0 | Vatican May Forge Diplomatic Ties With PRC Taiwan Minister on Establishing Ties | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "News" program] [Text] Minister without Portfolio Chiu Hung-tao said Tuesday [11 January] it is up to Peking [Beijing] whether the Vatican will maintain diplomatic ties with Taipei after establishing such relations with mainland China. Chiu was responding to reports that the... |
FBIS3-45166_0 | Economic Minister Promotes `Southern Strategy' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Y.C. Tsai] [Text] Taipei, Jan. 13 (CNA) -- The government is promoting the "Southern Strategy" to cut Taiwan's investment risk in Mainland China, Economic Affairs Minister P.K. Chiang said Thursday [13 January]. The strategy encourages Taiwan manufacturers to invest more in Vietna... |
FBIS3-45214_0 | Fujian Southeast TV Station Begins Operating | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Lin Siding (2651 2448 1353)] [Text] Fuzhou, 1 Jan (XINHUA]--The Southeast Television Station officially starts broadcasting in Fuzhou today. Zhan Jincan, director of the Southeast Television Broadcasting Station, said at A news briefing here today that at present, the cre... |
FBIS3-45247_0 | New Process for Using Ore Tailings Developed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Shenyang, January 11 (XINHUA) -- Chinese scientists have developed a new technological process for dressing tailings of ferrous metal ores, which is said to be internationally advanced. The process has passed state appraisal and been patented. Experts noted that the technologic... |
FBIS3-45249_0 | Development of Zhejiang's Technology Markets Noted | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hangzhou, January 14 (XINHUA) -- Years of effort to develop technology markets have successfully speeded up the commercialization of new- and high-technology in east China's Zhejiang Province. Official statistics show that from 1992 to the end of 1993 more than 27,000 technolog... |
FBIS3-45252_2 | Qian Qichen To Be Deputy Head of Taiwan Group | Taiwan. Referring to the development of cross-strait economic relations and trade, the central leader said: Judging from current developments, as some big projects invested by Taiwanese businessmen are not coordinated with the planning and deployment of the central authorities and the relevant departments in charge do ... |
FBIS3-45265_0 | Fujian Southeast TV Station Begins Operating | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Lin Siding (2651 2448 1353)] [Text] Fuzhou, 1 Jan (XINHUA]--The Southeast Television Station officially starts broadcasting in Fuzhou today. Zhan Jincan, director of the Southeast Television Broadcasting Station, said at A news briefing here today that at present, the cre... |
FBIS3-45274_0 | Tiananmen Dissident Zhou Duo Returns to Shenzhen | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hong Kong, Jan 14 (AFP)--Zhou Duo, a major figure in the 1989 democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, has quietly returned to China after more than a year abroad, human rights sources said Friday. Zhou, 45, an economist, crossed into the neighboring city of Shenzhen -... |
FBIS3-45291_0 | Beijing Holds CPC Plenary Session | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By Yan Liqiang (0917 0500 1730): "Emancipate the Mind, Seize the Opportunity To Accelerate Reform and Opening Up, Expedite Economic Development, and Strive To Achieve A Fairly Comfortable Standard of Living Three Years Ahead of Schedule"] [Text] The Third Plenary Session of the Seven... |
FBIS3-45304_1 | U.S., Sino Textile Talks Underway in Beijing KYODO Reports Accord | could have gravely effected all levels of bilateral relations. "This agreement does provide over the life of three years, an overall reduction from what the 1993 agreement had been of approximately 700 million dollars," chief U.S. textile negotiator Jennifer Hillman told KYODO NEWS SERVICE after the signing of the agre... |
FBIS3-45306_2 | U.S., Sino Textile Talks Underway in Beijing Official Comments | Americans agreed: 1) Not to imposed the quota reductions from 25 to 35 percent demanded earlier; and 2) not to apply the anti-corruption random clauses [fan wu bi di sui yi xing tiao kuan 0646 5294 1705 4104 7151 1942 1840 2742 2949], which allow the U.S. authorities to send special fact-finding missions to China to in... |
FBIS3-45307_0 | Article Says U.S., Beijing on `Equal Footing' | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special article" by Kuan Wen-liang (7070 2429 0081): "Pragmatic U.S. Diplomacy and Its Relations With China"] [Text] In the past several months, Sino-U.S. relations have attracted people's attention again. Both sides disagreed with each other on the textile trade issue; U.S. officia... |
FBIS3-45344_1 | Official Details Economic `Southern Strategy' | Article Type:BFN [By Sofia Wu] [Text] Taipei, Jan. 15 (CNA) -- The Ministry of Economic Affairs has drafted a three-year plan to promote trade and economic cooperation with Southeast Asian countries, Vice Economic Affairs Minister Sheu Ke-sheng said Saturday [15 January]. "The plan is part of the government's much-publ... |
FBIS3-45385_3 | CPC Responds to Hijackings With `Violence' The New Measures Stress "Taking Emergency Measures on the Scene" | country would be conducted in November; takeoffs and landings would be immediately suspended in those airports operating against rules and regulations. Safety examination work would be implemented by an institution of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. To Stop Hijacking With Violence The new measures have authorized secur... |
FBIS3-45456_2 | `News Analysis' on Sino-Franco Relations | in Sino-Franco relations was made possible due to various factors. First, tense Sino-Franco relations do not conform to France's long-term interests. Sino-Franco economic and trade cooperation is mainly in the nuclear power industry, transportation, energy industry, and other technical projects. According to statistics... |
FBIS3-45491_0 | Plans To End Threat of U.S. Sanctions Set Forth | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Special to THE CHINA POST" by Christopher Bodeen] [Text] Extended measures aimed at removing the Republic of China's name from a list of countries threatened with sanctions by the United States over intellectual property rights (IPR) were issued yesterday by officials meeting at the... |
FBIS3-45511_2 | Foreign Economic, Trade Ministry Issues Circulars On Accountants Abroad III. Supervision, Examination, and Leadership Over Accounting Work | professional accounting personnel who have worked as accounting personnel in economic (commercial) counseling offices and are competent can be exempted from taking the exam. The Financial Accounting Department will sponsor irregular training courses on the financial accounting operations of economic (commercial) counse... |
FBIS3-45522_0 | Unemployment Benefits to 1.2 Million Since 1986 | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 13 (CNS)--Since the establishment of an insurance system for unemployed people in 1986, China has distributed relief funds to 1.2 million such people, most of whom have now found jobs, an official of the Ministry of Labour said at a national work meeting of the... |
FBIS3-45530_4 | Academics Air Views on Economic Development | defended the tendency to place undue emphasis on speed by quoting the statement, believing they could strive for a high growth rate at any cost. This was not what Comrade Deng Xiaoping meant. While speaking about the economic growth rate, Comrade Deng Xiaoping usually stressed the need to improve economic efficiency. F... |
FBIS3-45561_0 | Article Reviews Trade with ASEAN Countries | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Yearend special article" by ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE correspondent Zhao Haiyan (6392 3189 3601)] [Text] Beijing, 24 Dec (ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE)--Relations between China and ASEAN countries this year have moved ahead on all fronts; in particular, bilateral economic cooperation and trade hav... |
FBIS3-45573_0 | Foreign Ministry Holds Weekly News Briefing On Relations With Vatican, Russia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "Current Affairs" program] [Excerpts] China says it wants a positive response from Britain before negotiations on the Hong Kong airport can resume. The Foreign Ministry spokesman made the statement Thursday [20 January] in Beijing during his weekly press conference. Our repo... |
FBIS3-45580_0 | U.S. Treasury Secretary Bentsen Continues Visit Makes Statement on `Prison Exports' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, Jan. 20 KYODO -- China has agreed to cooperate with the United States on alleged "prison exports" in an apparent appeasement to U.S. demands for improvement on human rights issues. The Thursday [20 January] announcement, made by visiting U.S. Secretary of Treasury Lloy... |
FBIS3-45586_0 | `Text' of Statement Issued | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, 21 Jan (XINHUA) -- The eighth session of the Sino-U.S. Joint Economic Committee took place in Beijing today. The meeting issued a joint statement here today. The full text follows: 1. At the invitation of Chinese Finance Minister Liu Zhongli, U.S. Treasury Secretary Be... |
FBIS3-45626_3 | `Commentary' Attacks Patten on Press Freedom Exerting Pressure on the Media With the Theory of "Self-Examination" | the media of their sufferings. This kind of unaccountable "attention" has caused uneasiness even among the media, which has seldom taken a critical attitude toward the British Hong Kong Government. According to a commentary carried by a Hong Kong newspaper, Chris Patten "often tells the British press that everyone in j... |
FBIS3-45640_3 | Qiao Shi on Legal System for Market Economy | is necessary to bear in mind the overall situation of safeguarding the fundamental interests of the state and its people, and to avoid undue emphasis on local interests and powers. Third, we must proceed from the reality in China and boldly study and draw on the experience of other countries. Fourth, we must improve th... |
FBIS3-45688_0 | Editorial on Bentsen Visit, GATT Return Bid | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The United States Firmly Supports China's Return to GATT"] [Text] U.S. Secretary of Treasury Lloyd Bentsen's China visit has made inspiring achievements and vigorously promoted bilateral trade and economic cooperation. With the issuance of a joint statement by the Sino-U.... |
FBIS3-45689_0 | `New Stage' Seen in Sino-U.S. Trade Ties | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Sino-U.S. Trade Ties Head for New Stage"] [Text] Beijing, January 22 (XINHUA) -- China and the United States last week reached a new textile agreement and reactivated the joint economic committee after a suspension of six years. The two events mark a major step toward a new stage of... |
FBIS3-45690_2 | Column Views Sino-U.S. Relations China Pays Attention to Abnormal Moves Taken by the United States | top priority. It showed that Clinton wanted to change the past practice of dealing with foreign relations which treated human rights in China as the top priority and which neglected economic issues related to U.S. national interests and national security. U.S. political circles described the revised policy towards Chin... |
FBIS3-45696_3 | Article Views Changes in U.S. Intelligence Work | their influence on a stable international situation which includes the economies of "allies" and "potential enemies," and track economic activities and unusual financial relations and commercial transactions. Second, track trends in international science and technology, particularly advanced technological trends, such ... |
FBIS3-45725_0 | Continuing Reportage on Hong Kong Airport Project Warning on `Grave Consequences' | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Special dispatch": "Chen Zuoer Warns That if British Hong Kong Authorities Continue To Act Arbitrarily, Consequences Will Be Very Serious"] [Text] Beijing, 19 Jan (TA KUNG PAO)--Chen Zuoer, director of the First Department of the State Council Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, ind... |
FBIS3-45741_0 | Dissident May Be Repatriated From Taiwan | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Lawrence Chung] [Text] Taipei, Jan 24 (AFP) -- A pro-democracy Chinese dissident who fled China after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, now facing repatriation to the mainland, called on Beijing Monday to stop persecuting his relatives and friends. "Because of my involvement in the pro... |
FBIS3-45749_0 | Li Lanqing Visits Beijing Development Zone | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 20 (XINHUA) -- Vice-Premier Li Lanqing said recently that industrialization of new and high technology will not only produce better economic results and social efficiency at present, but also lay a solid foundation for economic development in the future. In his... |
FBIS3-45817_0 | Gold Industry Welcomes Overseas Investors | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 21 (XINHUA) -- China has once again demonstrated its resolution of developing domestic gold industry by using overseas funds and technologies. The China National Gold Corporation (CNGC), the only specialized gold industry company in the country, has set up a sp... |
FBIS3-45838_0 | Fujian Cracks Down on `Bogus Armed Policemen' | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Text] Fuzhou, 12 Jan (ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE)--The Fujian Armed Police Headquarters is carrying out activities to crack down on "bogus armed policemen" across Fujian Province and has found over 20 "bogus armed policemen" and four bogus armed police driving licenses. Since last year, som... |
FBIS3-45857_0 | Hubei City Approved To Open to World | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Yichang, January 21 (XINHUA) -- Yichang city, in central China's Hubei Province, has been approved by the central government to be the latest open city along the Chang Jiang river. The approval entitles the city to all the preferential policies granted to coastal open cities. T... |
FBIS3-45862_1 | Daily: Future of U.S.-Russian Ties `Uncertain' | handling international affairs. It had to seek Russia's cooperation on the issues of establishing a new security structure in Europe and settling the problem of nuclear proliferation. On the other hand, Russia tried to work through this summit to strengthen its economic cooperation with the United States and to emphasi... |
FBIS3-45866_0 | Commentary Assesses Beijing's World Position | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["LIAOWANG Forum" by staff commentator: "1993: China Secures an Advantageous Foothold in the Present World"] [Text] The year 1993 was of special significance to China. I make this statement on the basis of two major events: 1) Asia's economy has grown rapidly. While trying their best ... |
FBIS3-45871_0 | Exchange Views on Issues | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Text] Paris, Jan 24 (XINHUA) -- Chinese Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher met at the Chinese Embassy here today with the two sides exchanging views on bilateral relations, disarmament, the prevention of proliferation of weapo... |
FBIS3-45872_0 | Qian Calls Talks `Positive' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Paris, January 24 (XINHUA) -- Chinese Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher met here today with the two sides exchanging views on bilateral relations, disarmament, the prevention of proliferation of weapons, human rights an... |
FBIS3-45885_0 | Plans To Release `Prominent Dissidents' `Confirmed' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hopes rose last night that leading mainland dissident Wang Juntao might be one of three political prisoners China yesterday pledged to release "in the next few days". Hong Kong-based human rights lobbyist John Kamm, speaking in Beijing yesterday, said mainland officials had con... |
FBIS3-45894_4 | CPC Seminar Views U.S., Japan as Leading Archenemies Twenty-three Departments Participated in a Symposium on Developments in the International Situation Many Central Leaders and Senior Statesmen Attended the Meeting Over 60 Percent of Participants Regarded Japan as China's Archenemy A Quarter of the Participants Still ... | Japan will surely challenge China politically and militarily. By that time, the United States will change its policy from utilizing, inciting, and manipulating Japan to follow its strategy to supporting Japan's policy and strategy toward China. Under the present situation where the Soviet Union has disintegrated and Ru... |
FBIS3-45897_1 | Further on Possible Release of Wang Juntao | of any planned releases. Sources in the capital said yesterday that Wang, who had previously been confined to a well-guarded room, could now walk freely around the hospital. Moreover, his rights to visits by family members were now on a par with ordinary patients there. "Food and medical supplies for Wang have generall... |
FBIS3-45909_3 | `Commentary' Attacks Patten on Press Freedom Exerting Pressure on the Media With the Theory of "Self-Examination" | the media of their sufferings. This kind of unaccountable "attention" has caused uneasiness even among the media, which has seldom taken a critical attitude toward the British Hong Kong Government. According to a commentary carried by a Hong Kong newspaper, Chris Patten "often tells the British press that everyone in j... |
FBIS3-45919_1 | Airplane Hijacker Sentenced to Life Imprisonment | 13 January 1994, the Nanjing City Intermediate People's Court, in accordance with the relevant law, sentenced Sun Xianlu to life imprisonment and deprived him of political rights for life on the charge of air hijacking. After the sentence was pronounced, Sun Xianlu did not appeal, nor did the procuratorial organ lodged... |
FBIS3-45922_1 | Column Views Major Goals of Reform in 1994 | to maintain world peace for a fairly long time to come. According to this conclusion, Deng corrected Mao Zedong's opinion of the 1960's that another world war was inevitable and could even break out suddenly, and put forward a new thesis that peace and development were the two main themes of the contemporary world. Den... |
FBIS3-45925_1 | Peng Peiyun Urges `Strict' Population Growth Policy | close attention should be paid to the following aspects in dealing with national family planning: -- what is most important is to redouble efforts to keep the birth rate down, which still remains high in some areas in the country. The development of family planning is uneven across the country and outdated beliefs rega... |
FBIS3-45949_1 | Iran Rules Out U.S. Attack Before 1996 | (XINHUA) -- Iran today ruled out the possibility reported by the Western press that the United States will carry out military strike against the country before 1996. Mahmoud Vaezi [name as received], deputy foreign minister for Euro-American affairs, said in an exclusive interview with XINHUA, "We believe that this act... |
FBIS3-45979_0 | Taipei Asks To Be Dropped From U.S. `Watch List' | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Text] The Ministry of Economic Affairs on 13 January assessed our country's 1993 achievements in protecting intellectual property rights and found that progress was made both in legislative and administrative measures. Minister of Economic Affairs P.K. Chiang said that he would offer... |
FBIS3-46023_2 | Commentary Views NATO Strategy on Eastern Europe, Russia | carry out its obligations in Europe. Clinton pledged before the leaders of the 15 member countries that his administration would be different from that of his predecessor and that he "will support European efforts to promote its own security and interests." The United States wants to exercise leadership over NATO, but ... |
FBIS3-46024_3 | Article Previews 1994 World Situation | year, the U.S., European, and Japanese Governments will still be plagued by their domestic problems, and may adopt more protectionist measures under domestic pressure. In the political and security fields, in January, U.S. President Clinton will promote his "New Atlantic Doctrine" during his visit to Europe. The United... |
FBIS3-46024_4 | Article Previews 1994 World Situation | United States, and Japan. Improving and developing their internal cooperation mechanisms, and properly handling the contradictions and problems inside their own regions will be the most pressing and also the most important task for regional economic circles in 1994. Before this task is successfully fulfilled, it is har... |
FBIS3-46025_3 | XINHUA Praises Uruguay Round Agreement | countries and developing countries, will benefit to varying degrees. Of course, countries with more developed commodity economies and greater exports will benefit more. For this reason, developed countries will benefit much more than developing countries. According to calculations by several international organizations... |
FBIS3-46041_0 | Government Rejects Possible Beijing Visit by Pope | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, Jan 26 (AFP)--The Chinese Government said Wednesday there was no possibility Pope John Paul II could visit Beijing so long as the Vatican persisted in refusing to recognise China and supported underground church movements. "The Vatican must sever its so-called diplomat... |
FBIS3-46045_0 | RENMIN RIBAO Views Legacy of British Colonial Rule | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [Article by Hua Wen (5478 2429): "Inglorious Record--Various Kinds of Trouble Britain Left Behind in Its Former Colonies"] [Text] Britain used to have the largest colonial empire in the world. By the end of World War II, the struggle of Asian and African peoples for national independe... |
FBIS3-46045_2 | RENMIN RIBAO Views Legacy of British Colonial Rule | supporting the Zionist movement, roping in the Jews to elbow out the Arabs at one point, then taking advantage of the Arabs to oppose the Jews at another. In Cyprus, to split the anti-British struggle of the local people, Britain encouraged Turkish Cypriots to confront the EOKA, the anti-British Greek Cypriot organizat... |
FBIS3-46069_0 | New Hydropower Station Begins Operation in Hainan | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Haikou, January 19 (XINHUA) -- The first generating unit of the Daguangba Hydropower Station was put into operation a few days ago in the western part of south China's Hainan Province. As one of the key national projects of the Eighth Five-Year Program (1991-1995), the project ... |
FBIS3-46104_0 | Beijing Hospitals Begin Initiative for Handicapped Orphans | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 18 (XINHUA) -- Four-year-old Xu Lihua and seven-year-old Zhai Xiaolong would have lived in miserable disability for their whole lives were it not for a large-scale initiative for handicapped orphans launched by Beijing hospitals. Now, they have returned to the ... |
FBIS3-46117_0 | Heilongjiang Reports 1993 Power Production Results | Language: Mandarin Article Type:BFN [Summary] In 1993 Heilongjiang Province enjoyed again the news of victory in its power production. Its annual power output reached 37.15 billion kwh and showed a 7.4 percent increase over 1992. Its annual volume of power supplies reached 30.85 billion kwh and showed a 4.1 percent inc... |
FBIS3-46135_0 | XINHUA Views Cross-Strait Hijackings Commentary Urges `Punishment' | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN ["Commentary" by unidentified XINHUA commentator: "Criminal Hijackers of Aircraft Must Be Sternly Punished"] [Text] Beijing, 25 Jan (XINHUA) -- Sun Xianlu, a criminal who used violence to hijack a plane, was sentenced to life in prison and was stripped of his political rights for life... |
FBIS3-46136_3 | XINHUA Views Cross-Strait Hijackings Article Criticizes Hijackers | Taiwan authorities did not produce for mainland civil aviation a tragedy of plane crashes and human casualties, these did indeed "set up" an extremely dangerous "time bomb." To the mainland's criminal elements, the Taiwan authorities' actions are like their sending them this "message: "If you hijack a plane to Taiwan, ... |
FBIS3-46145_0 | Official Discusses Increasing Consumer Protection | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Shenyang, January 25 (XINHUA) -- The Chinese people have become increasingly more consumer-conscious and learned to protect their rights by resorting to legal instruments. A case in point involves two young women who won a law suit last year for illegal body search by a shoppin... |
FBIS3-46149_0 | Official Cites Negligence For Last Year's Fires | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 25 (XINHUA) -- China today reported the outbreak of more than 38,000 fires in 1993, in which 2,467 people were killed and 5,977 injured. According to Liu Shipu, director of the Fire-Control Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, direct losses of the fires i... |
FBIS3-46170_0 | Article Views U.S. Dilemma on MFN Issue, Human Rights | Language: Chinese Article Type:BFN [By staff correspondent Liu Liping (0491 4539 1627)] [Text] Washington, 24 Jan (ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE)--Early in the year, THE NEW YORK TIMES chose to interview J. Stapleton Roy, U.S. ambassador to the PRC, on the China issue, sparking off media interest in keeping track of the White Ho... |
FBIS3-46195_0 | `Roundup' Views Reform of Medical System | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Roundup" by Li Wei: "China Speeds Up Reform of Medical Care System"] [Text] Beijing, January 27 (XINHUA) -- China will speed up its reform of the medical care system this year. The reform will focus on the more than 40-year-old free health service and the labor insurance medical car... |
FBIS3-46196_0 | Survey: Quarter of Married Women Have Had Abortion | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, Jan 27 (AFP)--A quarter of all married women in China have had at least one abortion, according to poll results published Thursday in Beijing Youth News. The urban abortion rate is higher than that of the countryside, the poll by the All China Women's Federation said. ... |
FBIS3-46244_0 | Reports on Chinese Academy of Sciences Activities 1993 Research Achievements Reported | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Beijing, January 25 (XINHUA) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) netted 46 national academic prizes and many international prizes for research results in 1993, a CAS spokesman said today. He said the country's most authoritative academic body and comprehensive Natural Scie... |
FBIS3-46249_1 | Article Views Environment Protection Successes 2. Our Country Still Faces Grim Environmental Protection Prospects At a Time of Rapid Economic Development 3. The Entire Country Was Buffeted by the Environmental Protection Wave in 1993 | high residue. The agricultural department began experimenting on pollution-free production and made new progress in afforestation on plains and along coastal regions. In particular, the shelter-forest project in the northeast-north-northwest region is known as "the world's best ecological project." -- Success has been ... |
FBIS3-46253_1 | Editorial Criticizes Lu Ping's `Personal Attacks' | the credentials of Michael Sze Chocheung. Mr Lu insinuated that the Secretary for Constitutional Affairs was not a representative of Hong Kong people: He was too much of a dedicated follower of Chris Patten. Such attacks may be a sign of Mr Lu's own difficulties in Beijing. To his credit he pushed for the Sino-British ... |
FBIS3-46281_8 | Official on Agricultural Development Program | protect the interests of the farmers, and measures taken to ensure the peasants will benefit from state policies to the full. Again, laws and regulations and a mechanism for protecting the peasants' interests should be set up. Five, poor areas should be further helped to shake off poverty and to boost economic developm... |
FBIS3-46285_0 | Taipei Reportedly 1993 Top Investor in Vietnam | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Danielle Yang] [Text] Taipei, Jan. 27 (CNA) -- Taiwan was the top investor in Vietnam in 1993 with investment reaching US$430 million, the Economics Ministry's Industrial Development and Investment Center (IDIC) said Thursday [27 January]. In addition to Taiwan investment, a numbe... |
FBIS3-46286_0 | Investment Guarantee Pact Discussed With Thailand | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Y.C. Tsai] [Text] Taipei, Jan. 27 (CNA) -- Officials from Taiwan and Thailand Thursday [27 January] opened a series of meetings on an investment guarantee agreement between the two countries. Ch'en Yung-hsiang, deputy director-general of the Industrial Development and Investment C... |
FBIS3-46291_6 | CPC Theorist Gong Yuzhi Compares Mao, Deng | think he is. There will be people who are unsatisfied with him, just as there are people who are not satisfied with me. But, on the whole, he is relatively attentive to the overall interests, relatively honest and kind, relatively impartial when handling problems, and he is very strict with himself if he makes a mistak... |
FBIS3-46303_0 | U.S. Links Aid to Russia, Belarus to Reform | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Washington, January 27 (XINHUA) -- Concerned with the personnel changes in the Russian and Belarusian Governments, the United States said it would link economic aid to the two countries' progress in reforms. Washington has shown concern in recent weeks following the departure o... |
FBIS3-46308_7 | Report Examines Sino-U.S. Textile Accord | prevention and crackdown. Three national conferences were convened in early 1991 and in early and late 1993 to specifically thrash out related matters. On the organizational side, in July 1992, China set up a group to investigate illegal textile transshipment problems. With participation by the Ministry of Foreign Trad... |
FBIS3-46319_0 | Possible Wang Juntao Release on Parole Reported | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Toshiaki Arai] [Text] Beijing, 18 Jan -- Chinese judicial authorities plan to release on parole Wang Juntao (aged 36), a Chinese democratic activist who is currently serving a prison term for involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen incident, as early as before the Spring Festi... |
FBIS3-46320_1 | Wei Jingsheng Interviewed on Democratic Movement | I wear false teeth. At first, they did not even take me to a doctor when I had pain in my heart. I was allowed to see a doctor at long last and found out that I had heart trouble. Immediately after that, they transferred me to a prison in the highland of Qinghai Province. I think they wanted see me die in the prison. T... |
FBIS3-46321_0 | Source: Jiang Zemin Solidifying Military Base | Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [By reporter Masaru Soma] [Text] Hong Kong, 30 Dec -- On 30 December it was learned that the CPC Central Military Commission [CMC] recently met in Beijing and decided to remove a top military officer who had previously been promoted in recognition of his contribution in the June 1989... |
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