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China-India border talks
2004-06-03 China Daily
In response to news that New Delhi announced on Tuesday that
the new National Security Advisor Jyotindra Nath Dixit will
be India's new special representative for ongoing talks with
China on border issues, Liu Thursday did not give exact dates
for discussions between the Dixit and his Chinese counterpart
Dai Bingguo. However, External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh
said the next meeting of the two special representatives would
be held soon. Dixit replaces Brajesh Mishra, who, as the Vajpayee
government's security advisor and special representative, has
already conducted two rounds of talks with Dai Bingguo. The
Sino-Indian boundary question was left over by Britain colonialists.
China and India share a 2,000-kilometre border, with disputed
areas of about 125,000 square kilometres. The two countries
fought a brief war over the border in 1962, which greatly impaired
relations.
Japan urged to destroy discarded chemical weapons
2004-06-02 China Daily
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao said Wednesday
that the Chinese government strongly urges the Japanese government
to take proper measures to speed up the process of destroying
those abandoned Japanese chemical weapon discovered in China.
Liu made the remarks in response to a journalist's question
on the latest discovery of chemical weapons abandoned by invading
Japanese troops during World War II in Qiqihar City of northeast
China's Heilongjiang Province. Liu said on May 23 and 24, Qiqihar
City reported finding a mustard gas cylinder, which experts
confirmed to be chemical weapons left by invading Japanese troops
during World War II. ( ) Liu said the Chinese government has
requested the Japanese sideto send staffs to China to clear
up and seal up those chemical weapons. At the same time, the
Chinese side strongly urges the Japanese side to take proper
measures to speed up the process of destroying those weapons.
US report on China's military forces "ill-motivated"
2004-06-01 Xinhua News
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Tuesday refuted a recent
report issued by Pentagon on Beijing's military forces, saying
that the report deliberately exaggerated China's military forces
and expenditure and had ulterior motives. The Pentagon report
was filled with cold war mentality and the hackneyed theme of
"China threat", spokesman Liu Jianchao said at the
ministry's regular press briefing. As a sovereign state, China
has the right to build up national defense in safeguarding national
security and territory integrity,the spokesman said. The spokesman
said there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is part
of China. He said the Chinese government always adheres to the
basic principles of "peaceful reunification" and "one
country, two systems", and is willing to try its best,
with the utmost sincerity, to realize a peaceful reunification.
But, Liu said, China will never tolerate "Taiwan independence",
neither will China allow anybody to split Taiwan from the motherland
with any means.( ) Liu said China urges the United States to
take concrete steps to fulfill its commitments of adhering to
the "one-China" policy, abiding by the three China-US
joint communiques and opposing "Taiwan independence".
The spokesman also asked the United States to stop selling advanced
weapons to Taiwan under any pretenses and refrain from sending
wrong signals to Taiwan.
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Regional autonomy of minorities to be enhanced
2004-06-01 Xinhua News
China will adhere to the Law on Regional Autonomy for China's
Minority Nationalities, and further improve the system of regional
national autonomy, said an article in Tuesday's People's Daily.
The article, written by Li Dezhu, director of the State Ethnic
Affairs Commission, was published to mark the 20th anniversary
of the endorsement of the law, which was passed on May 31, 1984,
at the 2nd Session of the 6th National People's Congress (NPC).
According to the law, which was revised in 2001, the system
of regional autonomy should be treated as one of China's basic
political systems as well as the national people's congress,
the multi-party cooperation and political consultation under
the leadership of Communist Party of China. The revised law
has added some provisions concerning preferential treatment
for ethnic minorities in such fields as investment, finance
policy and employment. China's system of regional autonomy,
based on the respect to diversity of ethnic minorities, reveals
the unity between ethnic and regional factors, between politics
and economy, between traditional systems and laws and between
history and the current situation, said the article. ( ) Besides
the support from the central government, China has launched
a special policy asking a relatively developed eastern province
to provide comprehensive assistance to one minority autonomous
region. The article said that the number of ethnic-minority
cadres had reached 2.9 million, but its covering percentage
in the whole still could not be seasoned with the proportion
of the minority population. Training of ethnic-minority cadres
should be further strengthened to guarantee the long-term stability
and development of ethnic autonomous areas, it said.
Left-behind rural minors ring alarm bell for more social
problems in China
2004-06-01 People's Daily
Rural migrant workers in China are helping their hometowns shackle
off poverty by mailing back their earnings cent by cent, but
their kids left behind in rural areas suffer much more "growing
pains" than their peers in urban areas. While about 9 million
of minors, most of them in big Chinese cities, are learning
how to play pianos and enjoying their happy childhood, millions
of China's under aged are beset with such challenges as less
care, sense of insecurity, unreliable education and psychological
problems. ( ) They left behind problems in education and management
of their children. Still worse, the migration has led to a fast
growth in divorce cases, and most of them involved children
5-10 years of age. Rural development is one of the top concerns
of the Chinese Government. And the problem is quite outstanding
with five provinces, namely Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi,
in the central part of the country. ( )
Crackdown on illicit entry-exit agencies pays off
2004-05-31 Xinhua News
Beijing police have so far closed down 29 illegal intermediate
organizations engaged in entry and exit businesses, cracked
five related cases and detained 13 suspects during a nationwide
clean-up campaign, according to the Ministry of Public Security
on Monday. Han Yusheng, deputy director of the Exit-Entry Administration
Bureau of the ministry, said the campaign, starting from March
25, aims to crack down on illicit intermediate agencies providing
services for people who want to go abroad for living, study
at their own expenses, obtaining employment, making a tour or
offering labor services. ( ) Scheduled to end on June 25, the
campaign mainly targets intermediate agencies without official
authorization, or without capital, formal offices and institutions,
as well as overseas organizations in China involved in illegal
entry-exit intermediate services. "Those who deceive the
public through boastful ads or who organize illegal labor exports
through phony labor or tourism projects will receive the most
rigid punishment," Han said. Statistics show that law enforcement
departments in east China's Fujian, Jiangsu, Shandong and Liaoning
Province have so far shut down over 100 illegal intermediate
companies. ( )
Guangdong reports 20 mln migrants
2004-05-30 Xinhua News
The migrant population in south China's Guangdong Province,
pioneer of the country's two-decade reform and opening-up, has
exceeded 20 million, which tops all other provincial areas.
Migrant rural workers flocked to Guangdong in the 1980s and
1990s, becoming an indispensable labor force in many product
linesof the Pearl River Delta area, Sunday's Economic Daily
reported. According to the statistics released by the provincial
government, migrants in Guangdong reached 21.303 million in
February this year, accounting for about one third of China's
total migrant population. Experts say that every one out of
three job-holders in Guangdong are migrant workers from other
Chinese areas. ( )
Cao Gangchuan: Great efforts should be made to open a new
situation for national defense mobilization and to boost national
defense capabilities
2004-05-31 PLA Daily
Cao Gangchuan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central
Committee of the CPC, vice-chairman of the Central Military
Commission, state councillor and minister of national defense
emphasized at the third plenary session of the National Defense
Mobilization Committee of the Shenyang Military Area Command
held on May 28 that the army should unify thinking, high-light
the key points, forge ahead, work in the down-to-earth manner,
strive for bringing about a new situation for national defense
mobilization, keep on beefing up China's national defense capabilities
and provide powerful support for safeguarding national security
and unification of the motherland as well as for the construction
of a well-off society in an all-round way. Cao Gangchuan stated
that national defense mobilization should be considered as part
of the overall strategy of national security and development.
Overall planning should be strengthened and scientific guidance
should be carried out, so as to better master the trend of development
of national defense mobilization. ()
HIV/AIDS treatment centre created in Beijing
2004-06-03 Xinhua News
A special centre for infectious diseases will be established
in Beijing to improve China's capacity for treating an increasing
number of patients attacked by epidemics such as SARS (Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome), HIV/AIDS and hepatitis, according
to Thursday's China Daily. ( ) China has greatly strengthened
its infectious surveillance and prevention system which was
seriously challenged last year by the unexpected SARS crisis.
Meanwhile, medical treatment on emerging diseases, such as SARS,
and established ones like hepatitis and HIV/AIDS, also require
new medications, medical staff and devices. The shortage of
qualified doctors and medical devices, and expensive medicines
are big obstacles for China to control HIV/AIDS, according to
Wang Longde, vice minister of the Ministry of Health. The ministry
estimated that there are 840,000 HIV/AIDS cases including 80,000
patients in China. And the number of AIDS patients is increasing
rapidly. Most of these HIV/AIDS cases cannot get enough medicines
and medical services, experts say. ( )
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Chinese middle-class families defined
2004-06-02 Xinhua News
A total of 100 million Chinese families will be included in
the middle-class income group in six years, with each family
expected to own assets worth of 620,000 yuan (US$74,700). According
to the French investment bank's definition on the Chinese mid-class
group, well-educated professionals and white-collar employees
(brain workers) with per capital annual income of 25,000-30,000
yuan, household annual income of 75,000-100,000 yuan and participating
in the decision-making and management of companies are covered
in the group. Around 13.5 percent of the total Chinese population
is included in the group. In 2002, 50 million Chinese families
were qualified for the standard, with per household having annual
income of 75,000 yuan and owning 310,000 yuan of assets on average.
By 2010, the figures will double, with up to 100 million families
qualified for the standard, per household having annual income
of 150,000 yuan and owning assets of 620,000 yuan, according
to the BNP Paribas Peregrine. With growing population in the
middle-class group, the Chinese consumption rate is expected
to increase from 58 percent in 2002 to 65 percent by 2010 and
to 71 percent by 2020, very close to the rate in developed countries,
said Chen Xingdong, chief China economist with BNP
China's GDP growth to top 9% in 1st half: MOC
2004-06-03 Xinhua News
Report on China's Foreign Trade issued by Chinese Academy of
International Trade and Economic Cooperation under Ministry
of Commerce on June 2 predicts China's economy in the second
quarter would basically keep in pace with that in the first
one and the GDP growth for the first half of year would top
9 percent, People's Daily reported on Wednesday. In an outlook
for China's macro-economy in 2004, the report believes a stable
development is achievable through successful macro-control.
This means, the report stated, consistency and stability of
macro-economic policies has to be secured on one hand and proper
adjustments have to be made on policy implementation in a proper
way and time.( )
China setzt auf Nuklearenergie
2004-05-31 Xinhua Wang (Übersetzung)
In den Provinzen Zhejiang und Guangdong sollen acht zusätzliche
Atomkraftwerke gebaut, oder. neue Generatoren in bereits bestehenden
Atomkraftwerken eingebaut werden, laut Bericht der Energiebehörde.
( ) Momentan wird in China 8.700 Megawatt Strom durch Atomstrom
produziert. Laut dem Entwicklungsprogramm soll die Kapazität
im Jahr 2020 auf 36.000 Megawatt erhöht werden.
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