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FBIS4-2879_1 | National Economy Benefits From World Bank Loans | a main area using World Bank loans, with projects covering soil amelioration, cultivation of improved varieties, breeding of aquatic products, forestry, harnessing of rivers and construction of irrigation facilities. With a 60 million U.S. dollar World Bank loan, salinization of soil has been greatly alleviated and flo... |
FBIS4-2894_0 | UN To Send Team to Disputed Area Between Chad, Libya | BFN [Text] United Nations, April 14 (XINHUA) -- The UN Security Council adopted a resolution today to pave the way for Secretary- General Butrus Butrus-Ghali to send a reconnaissance team to Aouzou strip, a disputed area between Libya and Chad. On April 4, Libya and Chad signed an agreement concerning the practical mod... |
FBIS4-2895_0 | U.S. Government To Provide Financial Aid to Kenya | BFN [Text] Nairobi, April 14 (XINHUA) -- The United States has decided to provide seven million U.S. dollars to the Kenyan Government to promote construction of development projects in the country. An agreement signed here today by the United States Information Service and the Kenyan Government said that the money will... |
FBIS4-2930_0 | Minister Says Action on Illegal Road Tolls To Continue | BFN [By Xie Yicheng: "Zero Tolerance for Illegal Road Tolls"] [Text] Chinese authorities will press ahead with their clampdown on illicit highway checkposts, charges and fines, which block traffic and can undermine social stability, said Communications Minister Huang Zhendong at a recent meeting in Beijing. A thorough ... |
FBIS4-2931_9 | Crime and Punishment in the PRC 29 Mar-15 Apr | Province-Wide Crackdown on Vehicle Theft Between January and February, 263 motor vehicles were stolen or hijacked in Shenzhen, representing a 11.4 percent increase over the same period last year. According to Shenzhen's public security authorities, 92 percent of the hijackings occurred on remote roads on the outskirts,... |
FBIS4-2931_15 | Crime and Punishment in the PRC 29 Mar-15 Apr | three characteristics: 1) They concentrated in economically open areas like Beihai, Qinzhou, Dongxing, and Fangchenggang, with cars and electric machinery as the main items; 2) Drug and gun smuggling occur mostly in border areas, exploiting the complicated terrain there; 3) Smuggling is run by individuals. Guangxi has ... |
FBIS4-2959_3 | RENMIN RIBAO on Losses in State Enterprises | yet made good came to 1.7 billion yuan plus 3.7 billion yuan in hidden losses [qian kui 3383 5719]. Second, enterprises are overstaffed and shoulder a heavy burden. Ordinary state-owned enterprises have approximately 20 to 30 percent redundant staff. Since the current social security system is unsound, it is difficult ... |
FBIS4-2971_0 | Editorial Views Report on Reform, Sino-UK Ties | BFN [Editorial: "Questions of Policy"] [Text] The conclusions of Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee are as unremarkable as expected. Having no power to alter British Government policy, and with no influence over China (except perhaps in provoking further outbursts of venom over British perfidy), the committee has l... |
FBIS4-2997_0 | Two Investment Groups Visit Southeast Asia | BFN [By Y.C. Tsai] [Text] Taipei, April 15 (CNA) -- A Taiwan food industry delegation left Friday [15 April] for Subic Bay in the Philippines, where it will look at investment possibilities. Led by Fu Kuang-yen, secretary-general of the Taiwan Gourmet Powder Industrial Association, the group comprises a dozen senior bu... |
FBIS4-2998_0 | Enterprises To Invest $2 Billion in Indonesia | BFN [From the "News" program] [Text] A ranking economic official said that state-run enterprises are expected to funnel a total of approximately $2 billion of investment into Indonesia in the coming three years, part of the effort to comply with the government's go-south investment policy. Vice Economic Minister S.J. L... |
FBIS4-3000_0 | Siemens Set To Transfer Turbines to Taipower | BFN [By T.C. Hu] [Text] Washington, April 14 (CNA) -- The state-run Taiwan Power Company will begin commercial single-cycle operation of its Hsinta plant near Tainan in mid-1995, with gas turbines and other power generation equipment provided by Siemens, a global electronics-electrical firm. Siemens' Milwaukee-based Po... |
FBIS4-3006_0 | Beijing Professor Detained for `Illegal Activities' | BFN [By Geoffrey Crothall in Beijing] [Text] China has extended its dragnet on dissent, detaining another leading intellectual who was active in the official Protestant Church and sympathetic towards the free labour union movement. Xiao Biguang, a professor of Chinese literature at Beijing University, was detained by s... |
FBIS4-3074_0 | Beijing Higher Court Upholds Sentence on Xi Yang XINHUA Domestic on Sentencing | BFN [Text] Beijing, 15 Apr (XINHUA) -- Tian Ye, deputy director of the General Office of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the People's Bank of China; and Xi Yang, a Hong Kong MING PAO reporter, were today respectively sentenced by the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court to 15 years in prison and deprived of political ... |
FBIS4-3077_3 | Beijing Higher Court Upholds Sentence on Xi Yang Paper Views Verdict | one time a reporter with a newspaper publisher in Beijing. Someone like him who received long periods of education in citizen ethics and the legal system naturally knows the state security law and the serious consequences of violating it. His obtaining secrets through Tian Ye by illegal means points to his awareness th... |
FBIS4-3078_0 | Police Detain Two Dissidents in Shanghai `Briefly' | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 17 (AFP)--Chinese police briefly held two leading Shanghai dissidents for questioning less than one week after releasing them from detention, one of the activisits said Sunday. Yang Zhou, spokesman of the Chinese Human Rights Association, said by telephone that he was taken from his home at 3:... |
FBIS4-3092_1 | Foreign Investment Sought To Develop Power Industry | capacity of at least 120 million kilowatts must be installed by the year 2000. That means an average 17 million kilowatts of generators should be installed each year. The government plans 12 million kilowatts for this year, but financing has not been fully-arranged. Some 10 billion yuan ($1.15 billion) of the 66 billio... |
FBIS4-3097_1 | Officials Turn to Market To Modernize Railways | expand production. Later it will be authorized to become a share holding company and manage State property. This in effect will make the 35 manufacturing and repair plants independent and responsible for State assets. Simultaneously, profound reforms will take place in the railway planning, pricing, investment, financi... |
FBIS4-3197_1 | Officials Transfer Dissident Bao Tong to Hospital | for permission to see his doctors. The source said, although he was admitted to hospital in Beijing last month, it was not an indication that the senior member of the Communist Party's liberal faction would be granted "parole for medical treatment". The news came despite hints by Chinese officials that in return for un... |
FBIS4-3198_0 | Wei Jingsheng `Under Police Surveillance' at Hotel | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 19 (AFP) -- China's best known dissident Wei Jingsheng has been placed under police surveillance in a hotel in the Beijing suburbs, his family said Tuesday. "Police told my father that Wei Jingsheng was in a medium-class hotel in the suburbs," said Wei Ling, his younger sister told AFP. But th... |
FBIS4-3203_0 | Commentator Article Advocates Media `Guiding' People | BFN [Commentator's Article: "It Behooves One To Help Another"] [Text] On 28 March, this newspaper carried a newsletter entitled "The Affection and Tears of a Foster Mother of Korean Minority," and a commentary entitled "Everyone Comes To Give Some Love," attracting attention and strong responses from the broad masses o... |
FBIS4-3212_3 | Article Views Changes in Deficit Enterprises | a total annual decrease of 5.85 billion yuan in losses. The losses incurred by coal, petroleum and tobacco industries decreased by 17 percent, 54.4 percent, and 66.2 percent, respectively. While their losses were due to policy factors, the decrease in losses was mainly because the state readjusted prices in favor of th... |
FBIS4-3213_0 | Sino-U.S. Study Views Work Environment | BFN [Text] Hefei, April 16 (XINHUA) -- An initial survey of a large-scale Sino-U.S. joint investigation of the impact of environment and occupations on people's health was recently concluded in East China's Anhui Province. It has produced a large body of data for experts to process and analyze. The survey was sponsored... |
FBIS4-3218_2 | Guangdong Authorities Hold Four After Riot | of the money gone?" angry villagers asked. The entire community gathered in the main street, waving banners bearing the words "anti-corruption". Shortly afterwards dozens of PSB officers arrived and fired tear-gas to curb the protest. "It was just like a war, I was really scared. Tear-gas was everywhere," one eye witne... |
FBIS4-3233_0 | Serious Pollution Reported in Beijing Rivers | BFN [Text] Beijing, 16 Apr (ZHONGGUO TONGXUN SHE)--In recent years river channels inside and outside Beijing have suffered from human-made destruction and serious pollution. Therefore, some experts have time and again warned relevant departments and citizens that because there is a serious shortage of water resources a... |
FBIS4-3244_0 | Taipei Lags Behind ROK in Steel Production | BFN [By Y.C. Tsai] [Text] Taipei, April 16 (CNA) -- Taiwan's crude steel production lagged behind South Korea's in 1993, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) reported Saturday [16 April]. However, Taiwan's steel consumption topped that of South Korea, CEPD officials noted. The officials said South K... |
FBIS4-3248_1 | Demonstrators Seek Release of Journalist Xi Yang | pro-democracy activists, social workers and students. They walked to the Xinhua (New China News Agency) office at Happy Valley, escorted by 185 police. Chinese officials watched from the building as the crowd arrived at about 5 pm. The police initially allowed the petitioners to sit only on the pavement outside the Que... |
FBIS4-3250_1 | Further on Demonstrators Demanding Xi Yang's Release | slogans and sang songs, including "We Shall Overcome" and "Unity," while at the same time distributing leaflets and asking onlookers to join. While they were marching, a large number of pedestrians stopped to watch and people in residential buildings stuck their heads out to look. Some pedestrians joined the demonstrat... |
FBIS4-3258_6 | Qian Qichen Comments on International Issues, Hong Kong | do not contradict it in that arena. What we oppose is that the Taiwan authorities are sparing no efforts to create "two China's" and expand their so-called diplomatic "international space," and behavior which jeopardizes the motherland's reunification runs counter to the trend and is unpopular. World Issues [TA KUNG PA... |
FBIS4-3258_8 | Qian Qichen Comments on International Issues, Hong Kong | Russian ultra-nationalist, the election of a right-wing alliance in Italy, and the expansion of German xenophobia, Europe seems to be beginning an adverse trend of discord. What is China's attitude toward this? How should one forecast and deal with this adverse trend? [Qian] Various forces in post-Cold War Europe have ... |
FBIS4-3300_0 | State Councillor Meets Burmese Buddhist Delegation | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 19 (XINHUA) -- Chinese State Councillor and Secretary-General of the State Council Luo Gan met here this afternoon with a Buddhist delegation headed by the Myanmar [Burmese] Minister of Religious Affairs, Lieutenant-General Myo Nyunt. The 17-member delegation from Myanmar (formerly Burma) arri... |
FBIS4-3333_2 | Article Views Religious Groups, Foreigners | and religious affairs should not be directed by overseas forces. No foreigner should interfere in China's religious affairs. The eighth article of the regulations on the management of religious activities of aliens, for example stipulates that "foreigners must not set up religious organizations, offices or sites in Chi... |
FBIS4-3348_0 | XINHUA Carries Economic News Briefs 17 Apr | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 17 (XINHUA) -- Today's economic news briefs: Engineering Industry Develops Rapidly in Guangxi The engineering industry has been developing rapidly in south-west China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region over the past few years, thanks to the adoption of a series of effective measures aimed at i... |
FBIS4-3351_1 | Journal on Supply, Demand for Major Materials | in 1994 First, total demand will not decrease. 1. The macroeconomic regulation and control this time is a structural readjustment and a change in the investment direction and flow volume of capital, not total retrenchment. Therefore, the ultimate demand of the means of production will not decrease. It is only a questio... |
FBIS4-3351_6 | Journal on Supply, Demand for Major Materials | to fill the timber-shortages gap in 1994. In the meantime, affected by world timber shortage and the frantic increases in prices, timber prices in 1994 are expected to be consistently high. Fourth, cement demand will slightly decrease and the price differences between regions are obvious. Because fixed assets investmen... |
FBIS4-3354_0 | Fujian Official on Foreign `Exploitation' of Workers | BFN [By Daniel Kwan] [Text] In a comfortable air-conditioned meeting room on the third floor of the Fujian Labour Bureau, labour-dispute arbitrator Peng Weidong drew on a cigarette, sipped some Fujianese tea, lay back on a sofa and said: "They say they respect human rights, I say what they do is exploitation." "If they... |
FBIS4-3391_0 | Hong Kong-Backed Funds Help Eliminate Poverty | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 19 (XINHUA) -- Three projects -- in Henan, Hunan and Shanxi provinces -- were given awards here yesterday as outstanding contributions to the elimination of poverty in China. At the same awards giving ceremony, 75 technologists were presented with the service award of the Zhenhua poverty relie... |
FBIS4-3402_10 | Jiangsu Economic, Social Development Plan | Completion of Key Projects. This year, the state set the fixed assets investment scale for our province's collective-owned units at 82.92 billion yuan. The state-owned units will invest 34.05 billion yuan in fixed assets. A total of 12.31 billion yuan and 16 billion yuan will be used for basic construction and technolo... |
FBIS4-3418_0 | Huaihe River Improvement Projects Making Progress | BFN [Text] Beijing, April 18 (XINHUA) -- Water-control projects on the Huaihe River are making good progress, according to sources at the Ministry of Water Resources. The river flows through Henan, Anhui, Shandong and Jiangsu Provinces in the eastern part of China. With close co-operation between the four provinces, a ... |
FBIS4-3463_11 | `Excerpts' of 1993 Jiangsu Court Work Report | they handled pass the examination of history. In particular, they made sure that all big, important cases they handled become "iron [incontestable] cases." Sixty defendants in criminal cases were pronounced not guilty in accordance with the law. They insisted on conducting public trials; public trials of 97.94 percent ... |
FBIS4-3484_1 | Wan Li Inspects Tianjin Municipality | Zheng Zhiying, standing committee member and secretary general of the municipal party committee; and Ye Disheng, vice mayor of the municipality, Comrade Wan Li inspected the bonded area of Tianjin harbor, the Tianjin economic and technological development zone, and the Tianjin steel tube company, from 9 to 10 April. Co... |
FBIS4-3495_0 | Official Views Indonesia Agricultural Cooperation | BFN [By Sofia Wu] [Text] Taipei, April 21 (CNA) -- Taiwan will continue to promote agricultural cooperation with Indonesia despite recent violent labor protests in Medan which later turned into a highly- charged race riot against the economically dominant ethnic Chinese, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said Thursday [... |
FBIS4-3538_2 | Article Views U.S. Administration Policies | has always been a world leader in aeronautic, astronautical, and computer technology. In traditional industrial sectors such as the auto industry, it is also enhancing its competitiveness. At the end of last year, Vice President Gore announced that the nationwide information network called the "information highway" wil... |
FBIS4-3538_8 | Article Views U.S. Administration Policies | Forces. No sooner had he become the president than he legalized homosexuality in the Armed Forces and continued to cut military expenditures, thus offending many high-ranking military personalities. Recently, U.S. leaders had an internal argument as to how to use limited foreign aid. Clinton and Gore were on one side, ... |
FBIS4-3539_0 | Article Views Shift to South in Sino-U.S. Ties | BFN [By Zhang Baijia (4545 4102 1367): "A Shift to the South in Focus and Fulcrum--a Noteworthy Change in Sino-U.S. Relations"] [Text] Chairman Jiang Zemin and President Clinton had a formal meeting in the second half of last November in Seattle. The two leaders agreed that Sino-U.S. relations were very important. The ... |
FBIS4-3539_5 | Article Views Shift to South in Sino-U.S. Ties | of new elements may emerge from, and what kind of new problems we may have to face in future Sino-U.S. relations. In my view, the following two points are important: First, cooperation between the two countries is absolutely necessary, though competition will run alongside it. In the early days of improvement in Sino-U... |
FBIS4-3570_1 | Beijing Sentences Zhejiang Official for Bicycle Theft | in Beijing and Willy Wo-lap Lam] [Text] After being beaten up by a policeman in Beijing last year, Yan Zhengxue, a well-known deputy from the People's Congress of Zhejiang province, has been sentenced to two years in a labour-education camp for allegedly stealing a bicycle. The sentence came just two weeks after the po... |
FBIS4-3572_0 | Article Views Life for Dissidents Facing Harassment | BFN [By A.R. Wilkie] [Text] As Gou Qinghui was returning home from work on April 12, she looked up at the window of her flat. When she saw there was no light on, she knew immediately that something was wrong. She had already tried unsuccessfully to telephone her husband at his office and knew he had not been to work. G... |
FBIS4-3572_1 | Article Views Life for Dissidents Facing Harassment | Despair. The flat Gou lives in is in a block owned by the party's Central Discipline Inspection Commission, where her father works. On her front door, Gou displays an Easter message which reads, in English, "Christ is Risen". Inside the one-room apartment, a cassette tape of choral music by Handel played as Gou, her cu... |
FBIS4-3572_3 | Article Views Life for Dissidents Facing Harassment | do to them. Wei Jingsheng, before his re-arrest, would describe how the prison guards force-fed him, twisting a tube down into his stomach. He said he was prepared to live through it again. Just once in a while, however, the fear shows through. A young student who had escaped from jail and was on the run admitted in de... |
FBIS4-3573_22 | Article Views Deng Design of Country's `Image' | foothold in the past, at present, and in the future. He also stressed that China is now a poor country, but why can it hold the position of a pole in the multipolar pattern of the world? Because we do not act according to other peoples' orders and do not sit on other people's chariots; instead, we are an independent co... |
FBIS4-3614_0 | Article Views CPC's Hong Kong Policy | BFN [By Fan Chun (5400 0689) ] [Text] Forces From Various Quarters Vie With Each Other To "Step Forward" At the Second Session of the Eighth National People's Congress [NPC], the proposal put forward by Cheng Yiu-tong (an NPC deputy from the Hong Kong region) suggesting that Hong Kong's constitutional structure should ... |
FBIS4-3626_1 | Pro-Democracy Activist Wang Jiaqi Reportedly in Hong Kong | control of the public security personnel and, thereafter, was assisted by another person to flee safely to Hong Kong. According to sources, this pro-democracy activist, who has a "special status," was a high official in Tangshan City Public Security Bureau's Legal System Office. Because he had worked for 11 years in th... |
FBIS4-3631_0 | Commentator Laud's Doctor's `Bethune Spirit' | BFN [Commentator's article: "Let the Bethune Spirit Reappear"] [Text] After reading reports about Zhao Xuefang's deeds, who could not but be deeply touched by them? It is not at all going too far to call her a living Bethune because she vividly embodies Norman Bethune's spirit; neither is it going too far to call her a... |
FBIS4-3652_0 | PLA Chief of Staff Attends Exhibit in Malaysia | BFN [By reporter Ding Baozhong (0002 1405 1813)] [Text] Kuala Lumpur, 19 Apr (XINHUA) -- Malaysia's "1994 Asia Defense Exhibition," scheduled to last for four days, opened here today. In his opening speech, Malaysian Defense Minister Najib Razak said more than 500 firms from 37 countries and regions are participating i... |
FBIS4-3664_4 | Editorial on Importance of Sino-U.S. Cooperation | of U.S. threats having made full preparations for the worst a long time ago. Just as Wu Yi, minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation, said: "If there is darkness in the east, there is sunlight in the west," and "if the north turns dark, the south is bright," so "the sky over China will never collapse." Recent... |
FBIS4-3668_2 | Column Views Political Situation | prevented. At present, the consensus reached by the ruling coalition on the taxation issue is an agreement to reduce direct taxes, improve or remove current consumption taxes, and greatly increase indirect taxes while calling for the nation's understanding. The Social Democratic Party originally strongly opposed the op... |
FBIS4-3734_0 | Foreign Investment in Power Generators Considered | BFN [By Chang Weimin: "China May Open Up its Power Industry"] [Text] The Chinese Government is considering allowing foreign investments in the manufacture of large electrical generators. Westinghouse Electric Corp of America and Siemens AG of Germany reportedly desire to co-operate with Chinese manufacturers. For years... |
FBIS4-3734_1 | Foreign Investment in Power Generators Considered | to at least 300 million kilowatts by the year 2000. However, State planners predict that the manufacture of large power generators over the next seven years will be short of demand by a big margin. Large generators representing more than 3.2 million kilowatts of capacity were imported last year. Imports this year will ... |
FBIS4-3736_1 | Scientists Propose Deepening Yangtze River Course | meters. Upon completion of the project, the channel may allow the passage of 100,000-ton common vessels in high tide and of 50,000-ton container ships day and night, said Yan Kai and Dou Guoren, academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, it allows the passage of only 10-ton vessels in high tide. The ... |
FBIS4-3762_0 | Taiwan Lawmaker Accuses PLA of Involvement | BFN [From the "News" program] [Text] About eight to 10 renegade soldiers of the People's Liberation Army [PLA] were involved in the mass murder of 24 Taiwan tourists last month and the three mainland civilians arrested were just scapegoats, lawmakers quoted Taiwan's top intelligence officials as saying. Lawmaker Chen S... |
FBIS4-3821_0 | Wang Juntao Released From Jail for Medical Treatment | BFN [By Laura Beck and agencies] [Text] Tiananmen Square "black hand" Wang Juntao left China yesterday after being released from jail to gain medical treatment abroad for severe hepatitis. Mr Wang's mother, Ge Yumei, said by phone that her son -- sentenced in 1991 to 13 years' jail, in the heaviest sentence given to 19... |
FBIS4-3822_0 | Wang's Release Raises Hopes of Other Detainee Families | BFN [By John Kohut in Beijing] [Text] The early release from prison of democracy advocate Wang Juntao calls into question the continued detention of other 1989 activists and is raising the level of both hope and indignation from the families of jailed dissidents. "Theirs was the same case. Why not let Chen Ziming free?... |
FBIS4-3822_1 | Wang's Release Raises Hopes of Other Detainee Families | release of Mr Wang, allowing him to travel to the United States for medical treatment. "It was a deal for MFN [Most Favoured Nation trade status]," Ms Wu said of Mr Wang's release. She said her family would press for the release of Chen. "We want more foreign pressure," she said. The Chinese Government says the nation'... |
FBIS4-3823_0 | Escaped Dissident Granted Asylum by Western Country | BFN [By Willy Wo-lap Lam and Chan Wai-fong] [Text] A rising star in the dissident movement has fled China and made his way safely to the West through Hong Kong. Informed sources said yesterday that Wang Jiaqi, 34, who was detained by Beijing police in early March for helping organise a petition for labour rights, arriv... |
FBIS4-3873_2 | Article Rejects U.S. Stance on Human Rights | in society. The idea of human rights has developed from the 18th century to its third generation at present. The first generation of the human rights concept stresses civil rights. In the second generation of the idea, economic rights, social rights, and cultural rights were added. The third generation, which emerged 2... |
FBIS4-3873_4 | Article Rejects U.S. Stance on Human Rights | country. However, the United States holds that human rights have only one standard, which is the international standard of the West. In fact, the human rights standards of various western countries are not the same. For example, Canada has accepted the "International Convention on Eliminating All Forms of Racial Discri... |
FBIS4-3873_9 | Article Rejects U.S. Stance on Human Rights | reform-through-labor prisoners engage in production of export goods violates human rights, but the United States itself is enthusiastically engaged in exporting goods made in prisons. According to a report by the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Higgs [xi ge 1585 2706], the marketing manager of Oregon State's prison industri... |
FBIS4-3874_0 | Racial Homicides Suspected, Proven in U.S. | BFN [Text] Washington, April 25 (XINHUA) -- At least 30 Asian Pacific Americans were killed in 1993 as a result of homicides in which racial animus was suspected or proven, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium reported today. In its "Audit of Violence Against Asian Pacific Americans 1993," the first com... |
FBIS4-3874_1 | Racial Homicides Suspected, Proven in U.S. | result of homicides in which racial animus was suspected or proven, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium reported today. In its "Audit of Violence Against Asian Pacific Americans 1993," the first comprehensive, nationwide, non-governmental survey to assess the extent of anti-Asian violence, the consorti... |
FBIS4-3889_0 | Beijing Increases Tapping, Surveillance of Foreign Firms | BFN [By staff reporter: "Beijing Tightens Control Over External Communications to Prevent Foreign Businessmen From Leaking State Secrets"] [Text] As an increasing number of foreign businessmen have come to the mainland to invest, in order to prevent them from gathering information on the mainland in the name of investm... |
FBIS4-3927_0 | Fujian Determines Site for Third Nuclear Power Plant | BFN ["Special dispatch" by staff correspondents Yang Hsiao-yang (2799 1420 3152) and Shih Ping (0670 0365): "Huian Chosen as the Site for the Fujian Nuclear Power Plant; Feasibility Studies Have Been Approved"] [Text] Quanzhou, 23rd--Shanqian Township in Fujian's Huian County has been chosen as the site for the third n... |
FBIS4-3967_1 | Editorial Says Wang Release Needed for MFN Renewal | a decision many believed was already inevitable, then the sudden release from prison of democracy activist Wang Juntao removed them at a stroke. With an astute eye on the U.S. political scene, China handed Mr Clinton the gilt-edged gesture he so desperately needed to honourably fulfil his pledge of no MFN without "sign... |
FBIS4-3984_0 | Dissident Wang Jiaqi Arrives in New York via London | BFN [Dispatch by reporter Tseng Hui-yen (2582 1979 3601): "Wang Jiaqi Arrives in New York Smoothly"] [Text] This newspaper has learned that mainland dissident Wang Jiaqi, who was helped by a Hong Kong underground rescue organization called "yellow bird operation" in his flight from China, has already been granted polit... |
FBIS4-3992_1 | Article Views Ways To Improve Sino-U.S. Relations | At the same time, U.S. media has given voluminous coverage to "China's miraculous economic growth," which created a positive climate of opinion for the Clinton administration to review its China policy in a comprehensive way and to improve Sino-U.S. relations. However, since the beginning of the third quarter, some tro... |
FBIS4-3992_10 | Article Views Ways To Improve Sino-U.S. Relations | as scholars. The issues of human rights in China, as well as in the United States, can be discussed. According to a U.S. State Department official, this the minimum requirement of the U.S. side on the "human rights" conditions, the fulfillment of which will somewhat help the extension of the MFN status. Releasing Count... |
FBIS4-4043_0 | Activist Wang Dan To Leave Beijing for 4 June Anniversary | BFN [By Geoffrey Crothall in Beijing] [Text] Wang Dan, one of the most prominent leaders of the 1989 student movement, will not be in Beijing for the fifth anniversary of the June 4 massacre. Mr. Wang, 25, said yesterday he had decided to leave the capital towards the end of May and return a few days after the annivers... |
FBIS4-4044_0 | Dissident Trials Reportedly Postponed `Indefinitely' | BFN [By Angel Lau and Michael Smith] [Text] China is secretly maneuvring to polish its human rights image after the authorities suddenly postponed the trials of 14 dissidents held on counter-revolution charges for nearly two years. The decision was made in the runup to June when the United States decides if the most-fa... |
FBIS4-4045_4 | Article Discusses `Policy' of Exiling Dissidents | in China could actually help Beijing defuse tension in the dissident community and society in general. In spite of Wang's reputation as the "black hand" of the 1989 movement and his being characterised by Premier Li Peng as a "tiger which should never be allowed to return to the hills," the economist and editor is a mo... |
FBIS4-4063_10 | Jiangsu Province Procuratorate Work Report | finally changed to eight years' imprisonment plus the deprivation of his political rights for two years. (2) Improve Procuratorial Work at Detention Centers; Supervise the Implementation of Court Verdicts and Rulings on Criminal Cases, and Court Decisions on Reeducation Through Labor and Remold Through Education Under ... |
FBIS4-4067_44 | Zhejiang Publishes Government Work Report | and Promote the Integration of Science, Technology, and Education with the Economy We will further put into practice the strategy of invigorating Zhejiang with science and education and closely integrate science, technology, and education with the economy. This is aimed at making science, technology, and education serv... |
FBIS4-4068_1 | Zhejiang Secretary on Nuclear Power, | rapid development can be attributed to two major reasons. First, Zhejiang benefited from Deng Xiaoping's policy of reform and opening up. Second, Zhejiang enjoys unique conditions for developing its economy. [passage omitted on Zhejiang's superiority in development] [CHUNG KUO SHI PAO] What about the current operations... |
FBIS4-4077_0 | Guangdong Police Crack Down on Vehicle Theft | BFN ["Special Dispatch" by staff reporter Hu Hsiao-i (5170 2556 0308): "Guangdong Organizes Army-Police Joint Discipline Teams to Investigate Bogus Army, Police Vehicles"] [Text] Guangzhou, 25 Apr (TA KUNG PAO)--Commencing tomorrow, the Guangzhou Military Region, Guangdong Military District, and Guangdong Public Securi... |
FBIS4-4100_0 | Trade Minister Thanks Hong Kong for MFN Lobbying Effort | BFN [By reporters Xu Hong (1776 3126) and Wang Huicun (3769 1920 1317): "Wu Yi Expresses Appreciation for the Efforts Made by the Hong Kong Authorities and Businessmen To Lobby for China's Most-Favored-Nation Status"] [Text] Macao, 27 Apr (ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE)--Wu Yi, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation,... |
FBIS4-4126_1 | Gansu Province Enjoys Economic Boom | mine second in the world, while reserves of 23 other minerals take fifth place in China, and those of 10 more deposits take first place in China. Nonferrous and rare metals such as nickel, copper, zinc, antimony, cobalt, platinum, rhodium, and iridium have realistic and potential advantages for extraction. Gansu is one... |
FBIS4-4127_0 | Newsletter on Ningxia Drug Crackdown | BFN ["Newsletter" by Wu Guoqing (0702 0948 3237): "Ningxia Curbs Drug Trafficking"] txt}[Text] Yinchuan, 8 Apr (XINHUA) -- International drug trafficking rings have gone all out in recent years in an attempt to open up a so-called "China passageway." Drug traffickers who ply their trade from their provinces emerged eve... |
FBIS4-4149_0 | China Joins Association of Tin-Producing Countries | BFN [Text] Bangkok, April 29 (XINHUA) -- China joined today the Association of Tin Producing Countries, becoming the eighth member of the organization. On behalf of the Chinese Government, Chinese ambassador to Thailand, Jin Guihua, signed the "agreement establishing the Association of Tin Producing Countries" at the F... |
FBIS4-4163_4 | Article Views Changing Anglo-American Relations | relations must obviously change," but the question lies in "whether or not the United States and Britain still have similar interests. In this regard, I am not sure." Have No Alternative But To Face Reality In recent years, Anglo-American relations have become cooler and cooler, which is inseparable from the fact that ... |
FBIS4-4163_6 | Article Views Changing Anglo-American Relations | of its Europe policy in striving for Germany's support and cooperation, saying that its relations with Germany is a kind of leading partnership. The fact that Anglo-American relations have weakened is also closely related to the eastward shift of the U.S. diplomatic focus. As pointed out by certain western scholars, th... |
FBIS4-4164_2 | `News Analysis' Views Trade With U.S. | open" than the U.S., Japan and other East Asian countries, with "extremely high" import penetration in some sectors. As an obvious contrast with Japan, China is the only country with which the U.S. has run a trade deficit that has not been a global trade surplus country as well. "China has run a systematic global trade... |
FBIS4-4208_2 | Li Ruihuan Meets European Diplomats Before Visiting Europe | and your five countries maintain good ties, which have been furthered in the past few years. High-level contacts have been constantly on the increase, and economic, trade, scientific, and technological cooperation and cultural exchanges have borne new fruit. The volume of two-way trade between China and your five count... |
FBIS4-4209_0 | Article Views Prospects for Trade With Western Europe | BFN ["International Commentary" by Li Changjiu (2621 7022 0036): "Broad Prospects for Economic Cooperation between China and Western Europe"] [Text] In early April, Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho, French Prime Minister Edward Balladur, and Portuguese Prime Minister Cavaco Silva arrived on different occasions in Beijin... |
FBIS4-4217_1 | Hu Jintao Meets Argentine President Menem Visits Argentine Training Center | "He was working at the vegetable farm just now." Hu Jintao praised him: "You really are a good boy." After hearing this, his parents smiled happily. Hu Jintao presented gifts of embroidered table cloth, a Chinese painting, and colorful velvet birds to Cuellar's family. Holding a velvet bird, young Miguel innocently ask... |
FBIS4-4241_0 | Statistics on Diseases, Immunizations Reported | BFN [By staff reporter Zhu Baoxia: "Small Town Model for Immunizing Children"] [Text] The small town of Zhaohegou in Hebei has turned into a national model for vaccinating children against epidemic diseases through its immunization insurance effort, now in its 10th year. For several years, the town outside Sanhe City h... |
FBIS4-4251_0 | Agriculture First Priority for Foreign Investment | BFN [By staff reporter Song Ning: "Agriculture Needs Overseas Cash"] [Text] Agricultural technology is the most favoured form of overseas investment sought by the government. Technology is required for high yield seeds, animal feed, low-poison pesticides, fertilizers, and agricultural machinery, said Lin Kun, deputy di... |
FBIS4-4256_0 | Shandong Devises Strategy on More Competitive Products | BFN [Text] Shandong Province has planned to devote three to five years to cultivate and develop 16 competitive brand name industrial products through technological transformation. This is one of the important strategic moves for readjusting Shandong's industrial product mix determined by the provincial technological tr... |
FBIS4-4278_0 | Minister Criticizes China Airlines Over Nagoya Crash | BFN [Text] Taipei, April 28 KYODO--Taiwan's Transportation and Communications Minister Liu Chao-shiun on Thursday [28 April] said that the government will instruct China Airlines to sufficiently improve its safety measures in the wake of its jetliner crash at Nagoya airport in central Japan, which killed 263 people. Li... |
FBIS4-4280_0 | Exodus of Labor-Intensive Industries Harms Exports | BFN [By Sofia Wu] [Text] Taipei, April 29 (CNA)--The exodus of labor-intensive industries to Mainland China and Southeast Asia has taken its toll on Taiwan's export business, the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) said Friday [29 April]. Exports grew a marginal 0.4 percent in the first quarter of this... |
FBIS4-4285_0 | Buddhist Escort Group Ends Burma Visit | BFN [Text] Yangon [Rangoon], April 27 (XINHUA) -- The Chinese escort group of Buddha tooth relic to Myanmar [Burma] led by Ven. Ming Yang, vice president of The Buddhist association of China (BAC) left here for home this afternoon after ending a one week visit to Myanmar. The group was seen off by Myanmar Minister for ... |
FBIS4-4299_0 | Vice Finance Minister Departs for ADB Meeting | BFN [By Danielle Yang] [Text] Taipei, April 29 (CNA)--A 10-member Republic of China [ROC] delegation, led by Vice Finance Minister Li Chung-ying, is leaving for France Friday [29 April] to attend the 27th Asian Development Bank (ADB) annual meeting. Some 54 ADB member countries are expected to attend the May 3-5 meetin... |
FBIS4-4322_1 | * Golkar Leadership To Evaluate Voter Mood | Golkar, the level of the people's political maturity was still low and the system for running the general elections favored Golkar. In future elections, on the other hand, the situation will be very different. The strong impetus towards democratization, ABRI's neutral position, the people's increased political maturity... |
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