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FBIS4-24567_0 | Two Chinese Groups Among WHO Health Award Winners | BFN [Text] Manila, May 30 (XINHUA) -- One health official and four organizations including two from China were chosen to be bestowed with the World Health Organization's (WHO) 1994 Tobacco or Health Award for their continuing effort and support in fighting tobacco. The awardees were announced here today by the WHO regi... |
FBIS4-24568_0 | Journalists Interview UN Official on Women's Conference | BFN [Text] Beijing, May 29 (XINHUA) -- Gertrude Mongella, visiting secretary-general of the Fourth World Conference on Women, said here today that she was very pleased to see that "China is really determined to make the conference a success." She made these remarks in an interview here this afternoon with a group of Ch... |
FBIS4-24583_0 | Article Views China's Policy on Ties With Russia | BFN ["Beijing Political Situation" column by Jen Hui-wen (0117 1979 2429), written in Beijing on 25 May 1994: "China's Strategic Considerations in Developing Sino-Russian Relations"] [Text] Striving for a peaceful environment favorable for economic development is an important principle upheld by Deng Xiaoping in foreig... |
FBIS4-24583_6 | Article Views China's Policy on Ties With Russia | China Wants To Accomplish Something in the World According to informed sources, in handling its relations with Russia, China of course will not deviate from the guidance of Deng Xiaoping's diplomatic ideas. To be specific, China follows four principles: 1. Uphold good neighborliness, friendship, and peaceful coexistenc... |
FBIS4-24628_2 | Reform Through Labor in Prison System Explained Part Two | the warden of the prison. He said the meals of the inmates are scientifically arranged. [Mai is briefly heard speaking in Mandarin fading into English translation] We pay a lot of attention to the nutrition of the food. We are supplying vegetable, meat, and other staple food according to the needs of the body. [Dong] M... |
FBIS4-24628_3 | Reform Through Labor in Prison System Explained Part Two | million, even law-abiding citizens don't have a big enough place to live. Twenty-two-year-old Xie Ying has been an inmate here for three years. [Xie is heard briefly speaking in Mandarin fading into English translation] The food here is alright. The room is very small; there are two people who share one room. It's OK. ... |
FBIS4-24632_1 | Security, Judicial Organs Get Personnel Boost | echelons of the CPC leadership. What made them nervous was the multiplying of factors they deemed anything but reassuring and the simultaneous existence or worsening of those factors. It is revealed that the factors include the following: Intellectuals' Free Discussion Becomes a Focus of Attention 1. The political fact... |
FBIS4-24633_5 | Crime, Punishment in the PRC for 17-31 May | last year. According to information, influenced by the Hong Kong and Taiwan movies which depict martial arts and gun battles, some young people organize gangs and fight. The Licheng Public Security Bureau recently cracked a criminal gang which called itself "pocket knife society." The youngest member of gang was only n... |
FBIS4-24633_15 | Crime, Punishment in the PRC for 17-31 May | Hunan Anti-Crime Drive Hits Violent, Economic Criminals Recently, people's courts at various levels have severely punished a number of hooligans, local ruffians, and lawless elements who carried out holdups on trains and buses, with the stress on striking at rapists, murderers, and other criminals whose cases were vici... |
FBIS4-24635_0 | WHO Awards China `Tobacco or Health' Medals | BFN [Text] Beijing, May 31 (XINHUA) -- The World Health Organization awarded the Chinese Association on Smoking and Health and the Health Bureau of Jishan County of Shanxi Province with WHO Tobacco or Health Medals here today. Today is "World No-Tobacco Day", on which who annually awards individuals and units which hav... |
FBIS4-24672_0 | `Vegetable Basket' Plan Top on Leaders' Agenda | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 1 (XINHUA) -- The "vegetable basket" program has become one of the important weapons used by the Chinese Government to curb inflation. Chinese leaders Jiang Zemin and Li Peng have time and again since January this year called for redoubled efforts to increase supplies of vegetables, meat, fish,... |
FBIS4-24705_4 | Guangxi Regulations on Religious Affairs | and autonomous region on the requisition of land. Article 12. Expansion, reconstruction, and renovation of temples, monasteries, mosques, and churches must be reported for approval to the religious affairs departments of people's governments at the county level and above; expansion, reconstruction, and renovation of ke... |
FBIS4-24705_11 | Guangxi Regulations on Religious Affairs | run a religious institute or school, it is necessary to report to the religious affairs department of the regional people's government; to send a believer to a religious training class or to a religious institute or school to study, it is necessary to have the recommendation of a religious body and to solicit the view ... |
FBIS4-24710_0 | Textile Company's Plans in Northern Ireland Unchanged | BFN [Text] Taipei, June 1 (CNA) -- The Hualon Group is unlikely to reverse its plan to open a textile mill in Northern Ireland due to opposition from some European textile makers, the group's founder T. M. Weng said Wednesday [1 June]. Weng, a legislator, noted that the investment project in suburban Belfast, which cal... |
FBIS4-24721_0 | ATV `Backed Down' on Not Screening Tiananmen Program | BFN [By Linda Choy] [Text] The management of ATV yesterday backed down from its refusal to screen a documentary on the Beijing massacre, after journalists resigned over the station's self-censorship. Executives pledged to "return" to the News and Public Affairs Department the power to decide whether the film would be s... |
FBIS4-24738_0 | Achievements of `Shopping Basket' Program Reviewed | BFN [By reporter Wang Yanbin (3769 6056 1755) ] [Text] Beijing, 30 May (XINHUA) -- Since the Ministry of Agriculture called for the nationwide implementation of the "shopping basket" project in 1987, the quantity and quality of nonstaple food on the market for urban and rural citizens have increased and risen, thus bas... |
FBIS4-24780_3 | Li Peng Views Work To Alleviate Poverty | southwest and northwest. Speaking in this sense, solving the problem of food and clothing for the masses in impoverished regions and helping them escape poverty and attain prosperity is a question of gradually narrowing the difference between the eastern and western regions. On this question, we should have a correct a... |
FBIS4-24785_6 | CPC Reportedly Concerned About Labor Unrest | The authorities later even discovered that some of the underground trade unions had joined hands with some intellectuals and were greatly shocked by this trend. In early 1994, the authorities found that the trend was getting more and more unfavorable to them, and they had to check it without delay. Material prepared by... |
FBIS4-24788_0 | Public Security Ministry Cracks Down on Fake Police | BFN [Text] Beijing, 1 Jun (XINHUA) -- The Public Security Ministry recently distributed a circular calling on public security organizations at various levels to make concentrated efforts to investigate and ban the illegal production and sale of police uniforms and police insignia and emblems, and to seriously crack dow... |
FBIS4-24790_1 | Discusses Equal Rights for Women | "the state applies the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women alike and trains and selects cadres from among women", according the Constitution. The white paper informs that since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the government has promulgated over 10 fundamental laws, including ... |
FBIS4-24793_0 | Says China Participating in Women's Forums | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 2 (XINHUA) -- China has taken an active part in international women's activities sponsored by the United Nations, according to a document released by the Information Office of the State Council here today. The white paper entitled "The Situation of Chinese Women" says that China is striving to ... |
FBIS4-24794_1 | Says Women Increasing in Leadership Posts | of women, children and the disabled, social security and the general mood of the society. They are active in raising suggestions for legislation and policy making and working hard to promote advances in these fields. The enactment of the "Law on the Protection of the Rights and the Interests of Women" and many other la... |
FBIS4-24795_0 | Discusses Safeguarding Women's Rights | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 2 (XINHUA) -- China's government organs, social organizations, enterprises, institutions and rural and urban mass groups at the grass roots have all made efforts to safeguard the rights and interests of the country's women, says a white paper issued by the Information Office of the State Counci... |
FBIS4-24808_1 | Commentator Cites Auto Plant Example | always ask for help from banks to solve their problems. But strengthening and improving management can not only dispense with capital inputs, it can even save large amounts of funds and under these circumstances improve returns and obtain funds. Why do we not make great efforts to use this method? Successful enterprise... |
FBIS4-24810_5 | More Worker Protection Urged in Foreign Firms | for workers. In particular, women workers, who account more than half of the total number of workers in foreign-invested enterprises, are seldom given reasonable maternity leave, and some have even been dismissed during their pregnancy or after giving birth to a child. A Taiwanese businessman once said with a straight ... |
FBIS4-24812_1 | Article Views Transnational Chinese Enterprises | as the several companies which are listed in the United States, have in fact taken the first step toward becoming transnational companies. Over the past two or three years, proceeding from trading companies, the mainland's overseas enterprises have one after another organized comprehensive commercial associations, that... |
FBIS4-24819_0 | Aviation Official Discusses Airlines' Traffic, Safety | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 2 (XINHUA) -- In the first five months of this year, China's airlines have maintained steady increases in the number of passengers and the amount of cargo transported. Yan Zhixiang, deputy-director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, said today that from January to May this year, dom... |
FBIS4-24827_0 | Guizhou Province To Increase Power Plant Construction | BFN [Text] Guiyang, June 2 (XINHUA) -- Southwest China's Guizhou Province plans to build more power plants and stations in the coming few years. As a mountainous province, Guizhou is rich in hydropower and coal resources. It now has a generating capacity of more than 2.8 million kw. Xiang Dehong, director of the electr... |
FBIS4-24844_2 | Journalists Resign Despite Reversal of Program `Ban' | conflict between their and management's versions of the incident had made it difficult for them to stay with the company, "It has destroyed the basis of mutual trust and cooperation," said acting news controller Poon Fu-yim. "We can see we have no mutual trust, they are saying one thing and we are saying another thing.... |
FBIS4-24853_0 | `Steely Security Net' Reportedly Descends in Beijing | BFN [By Tiffany Bown] [Text] Beijing, June 2 (AFP)--A steely security net has descended on Beijing this week as China's nervous leadership moves to ensure that nobody rocks the boat on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. Hundreds of plainclothes police roam Tiananmen Square -- the vast focal point of the s... |
FBIS4-24882_0 | Li Peng Receives Slovenian Foreign Minister | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 2 (XINHUA) -- Chinese Premier Li Peng said here today that China is willing to contribute to the early realization of peace and stability in the former Yugoslavia with the joint efforts of the international community. Li made the remarks in a meeting here this afternoon with Slovenian Deputy Pr... |
FBIS4-24884_0 | Beijing Professor Ding Zilin Launches Hunger Strike | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 3 (AFP)--Beijing University professor Ding Zilin has launched a two-day hunger strike in protest at heavy police surveillance of her home, ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, a source said Friday. A tearful Ding, whose son Jiang Jielian was shot by soldiers on June 3, 1989... |
FBIS4-24887_4 | CPC Reportedly `Upset' by Prodemocracy Trend | current international and domestic circumstances, the People's Liberation Army should fulfill "four sacred duties." One of the "four sacred duties" is related to suppressing the prodemocracy movement. "We should, according to the party's calls and orders, mercilessly crack down on and smash the organized and premeditat... |
FBIS4-24889_1 | `Church Activists' Detained; CNN Banned Until 6 Jun | 26-year-old car worker, are known to have been released, he said. Mrs Gou is the wife of Xiao Biguang, a former Beijing University teacher and active Christian who was taken into custody on April 12. Mrs Gou was detained last Friday and interrogated for eight hours before being released after she started suffering hear... |
FBIS4-24890_0 | Numbers of Political Prisoners Reportedly Revealed | BFN [Article by Chuan Hsun-che (0278 6061 5074): "Numbers of Political Prisoners Cited in a Document"] [Text] How many "political prisoners" are still in jail in mainland China? This is always an enigma. International human rights organizations and Amnesty International have made painstaking efforts to discover the fac... |
FBIS4-24896_0 | Commentator Article on Family Planning Work | BFN [XINHUA commentator's article: "It Is Necessary To Continuously Attach Importance to Family Planning Work"] [Text] Beijing, 1 Jun (XINHUA) -- In recent years, China's birth rate has been steadily decreasing. Even in years when women of child-bearing age account for a high proportion of the total population, our cou... |
FBIS4-24897_2 | Commentator Views Expectations of Children, Youth | we can follow Comrade Deng Xiaoping's demand that "education must face modernization, the world, and the future," to cultivate students' all-round quality and enable them to shoulder the important trans-century duty, is a strategic topic which badly needs attention. Precisely based on this kind of understanding, the Al... |
FBIS4-24900_2 | Telecommunications Industry Develops Information Network | cent between 1996 to 2000. With the further upgrading and expansion of China's public telecommunications network, more and more data communications will be come possible, such as videotex, e-mail, EDI [Electronic Data Interchange] and other services. Videotex integrates data transmission and data processing and display... |
FBIS4-24905_0 | Police Detain U.S. Television Team Near Tiananmen | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 3 (AFP)--Police detained a team of three journalists from the U.S. television network CBS near Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Friday and held them for two hours, one of the journalists said. The American journalists and their Chinese driver were taken to a police station for an identity check an... |
FBIS4-24937_0 | `Few Hundred Students' Mark 4 Jun at University | BFN [By Geoffrey Crothall and John Kohut in Beijing] [Text] A few hundred students at Beijing University observed the fifth anniversary of the June 4 massacre last night by holding a silent vigil. At midnight, all lights were on at the post-graduate dormitories of the university and many students were seen standing out... |
FBIS4-24938_0 | Beijing Students Support Tiananmen Suppression | BFN [By Geoffrey Crothall in Beijing] [Text] "Tell the world", protesting students beseeched foreign journalists as the Army stormed its way into the centre of Beijing on the night of June 3-4, 1989. Today, five years later, Beijing's students are equally anxious that their voice be heard -- but it is a different messa... |
FBIS4-24939_0 | Dissident Bao Ge Reportedly Detained in Shanghai | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 4 (AFP)--Chinese dissident Bao Ge, who defied the authorities by setting up a human rights group, was detained in Shanghai on the eve of Saturday's fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, a friend said. The friend said by telephone that several police went to the home of Bao's parents arou... |
FBIS4-24940_0 | Dissident Seeks Recognition for Human Rights Organization | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 4 (AFP) -- Shanghai dissident Bao Ge defied the authorities on Saturday, fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, asking for official permission to set up a human rights organization, one of his friends said. The activist wrote to the ministry of civil affairs to formally register th... |
FBIS4-24941_0 | Bao Tong's Family Bemoans Harsh Treatment | BFN [By Bao Pu] [Text] Five years after the Tiananmen Square crackdown, many Chinese live in enforced silence. They suffer helplessly and are consumed with anger and dismay. My father, Bao Tong, was arrested suddenly on May 28, 1989, in connection with the student movement that spring. Still in prison, his health is be... |
FBIS4-24942_2 | Workers' Protests Reportedly Widespread | bravely to "rescue our party" and of "down with the old-line capitalist-advocate Deng Xiaoping." Party members and three types of persons in the Cultural Revolution were in these "extremist organizations. The conference urged party committees and departments concerned at all levels to stand fast at their posts, remain ... |
FBIS4-24952_4 | Army Paper Lauds Deng Adaptation of Marxism | rise of the economy of some burgeoning industrialized nations and regions surrounding China has brought not only a rare opportunity but also a grim challenge and pressure on China in its development. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, while summing up our country's experience of successe... |
FBIS4-24953_4 | Article Views `Unpredictable' Political Situation | stressed that dissidents should be caught boldly, and it does not matter if anybody is wrongly caught. Anyhow, troublemakers must not be given any opportunity to do what they want. In order to tighten control over pro-democracy activists, an addition will be made to Article 18 of the Penalty Regulations for the Managem... |
FBIS4-24953_6 | Article Views `Unpredictable' Political Situation | of the antiriot force was located in the college district on the west bank of the Xiang Jiang. In order to intimidate the public, on 17 May, the antiriot force staged a large-scale parade around the city. The policemen carried machine-guns and rode motorcycles; and the militiamen carried wooden clubs and rode on large ... |
FBIS4-24956_1 | Agency Assesses Overall Environmental Conditions | year. The volume of solid industrial wastes stabilized at 20 million tons last year. Meanwhile, more trees were planted, leading to a new total of 133 million hectares of forested land. But some environmental problems became worse last year. Emissions of certain air pollutants grew. Soot emissions rose by 7.1 percent, ... |
FBIS4-24960_1 | Commentary Greets 5 Jun World Environment Day | a concerted effort in the battle to protect the environment, China has forged close relations with relevant world bodies. In response to the call of the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, China published a white paper earlier this year entitled: "Population, Environment and Development in the 21st Century." ... |
FBIS4-24975_0 | Top Arms Manufacturer To List on Irish Exchange | BFN [By Kerry Wong] [Text] China arms maker North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) has set up a fund to be listed on the Irish Stock Exchange to raise US$170 million (about HK$1.326 billion) [Hong Kong dollars]. NORINCO is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China's defence ministry, which has a number of investments that hav... |
FBIS4-24987_1 | Flood-Control Preparations Started | and hazardous reservoirs. Drawing lessons from last year's accidents at Qinghai's Gouhou Reservoir and Shandong's Longshan Coal Mine, various localities stressed both construction speed and quality in building flood-control projects. Last year, Shandong Province invested 500 million yuan in water conservancy projects, ... |
FBIS4-25006_0 | Guangdong Jams Transmission of Tiananmen Square Documentary | BFN [Text] China last night jammed transmission into the mainland of a controversial ATV documentary about the Tiananmen Square massacre. Instead, Guangdong viewers who normally receive Hong Kong TV, saw a concert by the pop star Sally Yeh. ATV Home viewers said an episode of the Justice Pao series was shown and then t... |
FBIS4-25013_0 | Hubei Hydro Power Generating Unit Becomes Operational | BFN [Text] Wuhan, June 5 (XINHUA) -- A new hydro power generating unit with a capacity of 300,000 kw went into operation last Saturday [4 Jun] at Geheyan Hydro Power Station in Hubei Province. Funded by a Canadian loan of 108 million U.S. dollars, the Geheyan Power Station, a major peak and frequency modulation power p... |
FBIS4-25021_0 | Beijing Clamps Down on Security Prior to 4 Jun | BFN [By Giles Hewitt] [Text] Beijing, June 3 (AFP)--The Chinese authorities wrapped an all-embracing security blanket around Beijing on Friday [3 June] to avert any public incident on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. In a clampdown unprecedented since martial law was imposed in 1989, t... |
FBIS4-25032_2 | Hunan Compiles Laws on Social Stability | the unity of or instigate secession of nationalities are prohibited. -- Article 4 of "The PRC Constitution" PRC citizens enjoy freedom of religious belief. No state organ, public organization, or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion; nor may they discriminate against citizens... |
FBIS4-25037_0 | Article Views Future of Pro-Democracy `Alliance' | BFN [Article by Chan Wai-fong and Daniel Kwan] [Text] When followers of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China assemble in Victoria Park tomorrow night for the annual June 4th candle-light vigil, they will not just be there to mourn those killed five years ago at Tiananmen Squar... |
FBIS4-25046_2 | Security Police Will Pursue `Hostile' Elements | pursue agitation, sabotage, and subversion with overseas hostile forces. This is regardless of what people might think about these matters, and these forces and elements will desist because of our warnings. Agitation, sabotage, and subversion are the missions of these hostile forces. Overthrowing the socialist system a... |
FBIS4-25051_12 | Tibet's Gyaincain Norbu's Address to Regional Cadres | should not be too optimistic about the work of helping people get rid of poverty and become rich. We should not overestimate the income standard of peasants and herdsmen. It should be noted that there are many people who have not yet solved the problem of having enough food to eat and clothing to wear. With the introdu... |
FBIS4-25051_14 | Tibet's Gyaincain Norbu's Address to Regional Cadres | as well as prices in the service industry. This is an effort to control prices within a limit that most of the people can bear. To check the excessive growth of prices and combat unfair trade practices, it is advisable to formulate regulations for combating price cheating and exorbitant profits. Such regulations can be... |
FBIS4-25085_33 | `Special Report' Views Agricultural Problems | of farm machinery had dropped 30-40 percent since the latter half of last year. A RENMIN RIBAO reporter wrote a commentary which described it very vividly: Beginning in June last year, it was as if farmers had discussed and agreed on a course of action; suddenly, no one would buy farm machinery any more. It is impossib... |
FBIS4-25085_39 | `Special Report' Views Agricultural Problems | there is no stability. The "peaceful" scenario left problems for later. Third stage: From 1989 to 1991, grain output went up, but the rise in farmer income slowed down. The income of over half of the farmers experienced negative growth. After the three years' stagnation, the leadership and the rank and file all made ef... |
FBIS4-25095_0 | Students, Police Clash at XINHUA Office | BFN [Report: "Student-Police Confrontation in Front of XINHUA Office Gate"] [Text] After hustling and bustling for some time in front of the gate of the Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch Office Building last evening, many members of the Hong Kong Students Union scuffled with the police who were on the alert on the sp... |
FBIS4-25096_0 | Editorial Marks Tiananmen Anniversary | BFN [Text] As the world focuses on China for the fifth anniversary of the June 4 massacre, Beijing has ordered hotels to pull the plug on CNN television broadcasts and tried to divert domestic attention elsewhere. Chinese officials complain of the West's obsession with Tiananmen and the crushing of the student democrac... |
FBIS4-25096_1 | Editorial Marks Tiananmen Anniversary | China provided stability while Hong Kong delivered its own prosperity. The disappointment and anger which drove a million people to march through the streets reflected the realisation that Chinese rule after 1997 might not be so benign after all. In the five years since the crackdown, human rights in China have hardly ... |
FBIS4-25097_1 | `Thousands' Hold Candlelight Vigil To Mark Anniversary | of the student protests in Beijing. Legislator and chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China, Szeto Wah, discounted rumours that his organisation was about to fold. "The struggle must continue, especially on a piece of land which will return to China so soon," he said. ... |
FBIS4-25110_1 | State Council Vice Premier Inspects Wuhan Auto Plants | the State Council of China Mr Li Lanqing made an inspection tour in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province from May 28 to June 2 to investigate development of the Dong Feng Automobile Manufacturing Corporation there, saying a big problem facing the automobile industry in China was its decentralized layout resulting in a numb... |
FBIS4-25116_0 | Diplomatic Source Says Li Peng to Visit West Europe in Jul | BFN [By Yoshihito Horie] [Text] Beijing, 3 Jun -- According to a Chinese diplomatic source, Premier Li Peng may visit three West European countries, including Germany and France, as early as July. This will be the first time that Li Peng -- the person responsible for the suppression of the democratic movement during th... |
FBIS4-25116_1 | Diplomatic Source Says Li Peng to Visit West Europe in Jul | by pro-democracy forces, since sanctions were imposed on the PRC following the Tiananmen incident. It was Li who declared martial law in Beijing. Li's trip will return the visits made to Beijing by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in November 1993, and French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in April. He is expected to pro... |
FBIS4-25122_0 | Wang Dan Interviewed on Recent Social Situation | BFN [Interview with Wang Dan, former student movement leader in the Tiananmen incident, by MAINICHI SHIMBUN reporter Koji Kamimura in Beijing; date not given; first paragraph is Kamimura's introduction] [Text] Former Beijing University student Wang Dan (age: 25), who is known as a leader of student movement in the Tian... |
FBIS4-25123_2 | Analyst Warns of 20-Percent Inflation Rate | concerns about economic overheating and the surge of inflation in certain areas. Inflation suddenly became rampant in 1993. In 1993, the national retail price index climbed 13 percent, more than double the 6-percent target set in the national program for economic and social development. There Is No Effective Way To Che... |
FBIS4-25167_1 | Oxfam Warns of Potential Problems for Poor Peasants | perfectly illustrated how difficult it was for peasants in these remote areas just to survive -- let alone get rich. Due to poor soil and difficult farming conditions, Mr Li has difficulty in growing enough food to support his family. Every year, he manages to squeeze the equivalent of about $200 by selling his meagre ... |
FBIS4-25172_1 | Report on Communique on Environmental Conditions | the strategies for sustained development, and put forward a series of countermeasures and measures on environment and development. Environmental conditions around the country are stable as a whole. The communique issued today notes: Air pollution caused by smoke from burning coal is still very serious in cities -- it i... |
FBIS4-25176_1 | XINHUA Introduces Column on Tax Awareness | should be of obvious concern to the people's livelihood, and may know even less with regard to other kinds of taxes. As a matter of fact, the moment one becomes a member of society, taxes will accompany him or her for the rest of their life. We must arouse all people's awareness to pay taxes! I In a civilized society, ... |
FBIS4-25177_0 | Shanghai's Environment Improves as Its Economy Grows | BFN [By reporter Ji Jincheng (1323 6651 2052)] [Text] Shanghai, 6 Jun (XINHUA) -- While experiencing a great margin of economic growth last year, Shanghai city witnessed a remarkable drop in discharges of industrial waste water and waste gases. However, the city's solid waste discharge increased in 1993. These are fact... |
FBIS4-25185_1 | Hubei Governor Urges Implementation of Central Policies | A historic, great turn has occurred in the development of industry, which has maintained a relatively high growth rate, some state-owned enterprises have managed to get, or are getting, themselves out of their predicaments, and the industrial output in April increased by 12.2 percent over the same month last year, high... |
FBIS4-25190_0 | Shanghai Opens School for Migrant Laborers | BFN [Text] Shanghai, June 7 (XINHUA) -- A school was inaugurated here today for migrant laborers. Co-funded by Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions, East China Teachers' University, and Shanghai Textile Workers' Trade Union, the school will educate migrant farm laborers in the city and aims to set up branch school in so... |
FBIS4-25192_1 | Further Developments on Hijacked Chinese Airliner Hijacker Interrogated | on board the plane, which was on a scheduled flight from Fuzhou to Guangzhou. . According to preliminary reports, the plane was hijacked by a 36-year-old man (Chou Wen-chiang), using a carving knife and a flash light. The airport police have taken him from the plane for investigation. It was initially determined that t... |
FBIS4-25207_6 | Zhao Ziyang Defends Position on 1989 Unrest | First, before the memorial ceremony to mourn the death of Comrade Hu Yaobang, there were no differences within the Standing Committee -- or at least there were no major differences. Of course, with tens of thousands of students gathering in Tiananmen Square, everybody felt rather nervous and anxious. At the time, I tho... |
FBIS4-25207_26 | Zhao Ziyang Defends Position on 1989 Unrest | had been generally good and the economy had been full of vigor before 1987, which was due to reform and opening up. We have achieved a great success in the economic work over the past few years, but we have committed quite a few mistakes and faults as well. As the principal person-in-charge of working on the front line... |
FBIS4-25208_0 | `Newsletter' Describes Tiananmen `Disturbance' | BFN ["Newsletter from Beijing" by staff reporter Ma Ling (7456 3781): "Disharmony in Peace--Report From Tiananmen Square"] [Text] Beijing, 4 Jun (TA KUNG PAO)--Today, the weather in Beijing was extremely good and people felt refreshed by the blue skies and a balmy breeze. Tiananmen Square had a hint of a "festival" atm... |
FBIS4-25218_1 | Official Presents Statement on Regional Women's Conference | other countries in the Asia Pacific region to make the second Asian and Pacific ministerial conference on women in development a success. Xu Zhijian, deputy secretary-general of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China, made the remark in the Chinese delegation's statement presented here this afternoon. He re... |
FBIS4-25220_1 | Article Views American-Russian Relations | "nuclear opponents," it is not easy to build a new relationship in concrete terms. These two matters quite clearly reflect the current situation of the Russian-U.S. relations. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russian-U.S. relations once became very "hot," and the press in the West called the situation a "h... |
FBIS4-25224_2 | More on Human Rights Report | 10 years, or both, and shall be incapable of holding any office in the United States." Article 2385 of the "United States Code" stipulates: "Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, or advises the overthrow of the United States Government" shall be imprisoned for a period of not more than 20 years. The article ... |
FBIS4-25224_4 | More on Human Rights Report | 51 percent that of their male counterparts. In 1992, the proportion of Chinese female undergraduates and postgraduates accounted for 33.7 percent and 24.8 percent of the total respectively, while the total number of female graduates majoring in engineering stood at 27 percent, a figure much higher than that of 15 perce... |
FBIS4-25224_5 | More on Human Rights Report | in Washington D.C. alone. Harbin, a city with a population of several millions in a developing country like China, was unusually cold this year with the temperature dropping to 34.5 degrees Centigrade below zero on 5 January. Yet, no one froze to death in the city throughout the entire winter. The article says the trag... |
FBIS4-25234_4 | Heilongjiang Official Discusses Coal Industry | to the relations with the focus on economic contacts. Reducing the staff and increasing efficiency is a major measure for the coal enterprises to halt deficits and increase profits. This year, the four bureaus in our province plan to reduce 50,000 staff members and 10,000 raw coal production personnel. According to thi... |
FBIS4-25236_4 | Liaoning Acting Governor Comments on High-Tech Industry | aimed at markets at home and abroad. Efforts should be made to develop a large number of high-and-new tech industries that have large strength in bringing along the national economy, can exert strong influence, and possess the characteristics of Liaoning. These high-and-new technologies include robots, computers, bar c... |
FBIS4-25236_11 | Liaoning Acting Governor Comments on High-Tech Industry | make foreign professionals serve China. E. We should do a solid job and pay attention to implementation. Developing high-and-new tech industries, using high and new technologies to transform traditional industries, and conducting the intensive processing of natural resources and raw materials represent a huge systems e... |
FBIS4-25255_0 | KYODO Reports Police Release Dissident Lin Xinshu | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 8 KYODO -- Chinese police have released a dissident in Fuzhou, Fujian Province after detaining him during the June 4 anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the dissident said Wednesday [8 Jun]. Lin Xinshu, 51, interviewed by telephone, said he b... |
FBIS4-25261_16 | State Council Releases White Paper on Women | employ women or raise the recruitment standards for women under any pretext. It cannot fire women or unilaterally annul their labor contracts on the pretext of marriage, pregnancy, maternity leave or baby nursing. It is not allowed to discriminate against women in terms of promotion, award of academic and technical tit... |
FBIS4-25261_52 | State Council Releases White Paper on Women | Civil Affairs and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. The Committee for Internal and Judicial Affairs under the National People's Congress and the Work Committee for Women and Children under the State Council also participated. Since the statute was promulgated, these organizations have launched publicity activit... |
FBIS4-25261_57 | State Council Releases White Paper on Women | sent members to take part in Non-Governmental Organization Forum held during the three conferences. China attended 17 UN-sponsored training classes and seminars aimed at realizing the goals of the UN Decade for Women. In the course of these efforts, China exchanged observations and improved its relations with other cou... |
FBIS4-25261_59 | State Council Releases White Paper on Women | commended as an ideal partner for international cooperation. Support has flowed from China for efforts by developing countries to foster women's participation in economic development. Since 1980, China has provided 101 batches of material assistance to women's and children's organizations in 50 countries. The provision... |
FBIS4-25262_3 | XINHUA Publishes Comments on U.S. Report on Human Rights | jobs. Women hold relatively few positions of significant influence within the party or government structure," charging China with discrimination against women. It should be noted that achieving the goal of full equality between men and women still requires tremendous efforts by various countries around the world. In th... |
FBIS4-25262_5 | XINHUA Publishes Comments on U.S. Report on Human Rights | this is not true. The Chinese people's living standards have continued to improve and their lives are fully guaranteed; whereas in the United States, the richest country in the world, the lives and safety of many people are being threatened. On January 20 this year, the eastern part of the United States was hit by a se... |
FBIS4-25262_7 | XINHUA Publishes Comments on U.S. Report on Human Rights | and that official media and other reports indicate that "coerced confessions have led to erroneous convictions". The report says according to a Chinese report to the United Nations, of the 339 cases related to extorting confessions and torture which occurred in 1992, 209 cases were prosecuted by the procuratorate. In 1... |
FBIS4-25262_14 | XINHUA Publishes Comments on U.S. Report on Human Rights | the Chinese judiciary because they were engaged in criminal activities that violated China's criminal law. Related Chinese authorities have on several occasions presented in-depth accounts of the situation of these people to the UN human rights bodies and human rights organizations in some countries. This society has o... |
FBIS4-25270_0 | Police Launch `Investigation' Into Dissident Bao Ge | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 8 (AFP)--Police have launched a formal investigation into a prominent Chinese dissident, Bao Ge, who was detained last Friday on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square, one of his relatives said by telephone Wednesday. Police told Bao's family that the dissident had "broken th... |
FBIS4-25273_0 | Foreign Ministry Holds Weekly News Conference Attacks Wang Juntao's `Activities' | BFN [Text] Beijing, June 9 (AFP)--The Chinese Government on Thursday accused German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and Danielle Mitterrand of exploiting dissident Wang Juntao to promote "political activities" against Beijing. "Wang Juntao was allowed to go abroad to receive medical treatment," a foreign ministry spokesm... |
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