|
China beleidigt über antichinesische Aktionen einzelner
"Menschenrechtler"
2004-09-03 Xinhua Wang (Übersetzung)
Einzelne "Menschenrechtler" opponieren gegen Chinas
Austragungsrechte der Olympischen Spiele 2008 in Beijing, betonte
der Pressesprecher des Aussenministeriums. In Beijing hatten
zwei Ausländer vor dem Eingang eines Parks ein Banner mit
dem Slogan "Freiheit für Tibet" enthüllt.
Auch sprachen diese Elemente sich gegen die Austragung der Olympiade
2008 in Beijing aus. China verbiete sich solche Aktionen. Ausländer
sind in China willkommen, doch müssten diese die Gesetze
und Vorschriften einhalten. Hierzu gehört auch, dass man
die staatliche Einheit und territoriale Integrität Chinas
respektiert.
Welfare system covers rural workers
2004-09-02 Xinhua News
Shanghai's social security system may cover more than half a
million workers in rural areas by the end of the year, China
Daily reported Thursday. To date, more than 400,000 workers
in Shanghai's rural areas are covered. According to the officials
of the Shanghai Municipal Labour and Social Security Bureau,
more than 90 per cent of the 400,000 workers are farmers-turned
workers whose land was requisitioned in the process of urbanization.
However, these former farmers were not covered by Shanghai's
social security system until last October. The officials also
believe solving their welfare issues is crucial to the stability
of society. Meanwhile, the municipality is working to include
all the farmers in the overall social security and healthcare
systems. At present, there are more than 2.9 million farmers
in the rural areas of Shanghai, the majority of them are already
in the healthcare system. The expense for each farmer to enter
the system is shared between the farmer himself or herself,
the administration of the town he or she lives and the Shanghai
Municipality. Only 100,000 of them did not enter the system
due to poverty, differences between their registered addresses
and actual ones, or other reasons. ( )
Experts predict: China's 10 major risk factors before 2010
2004-09-02 People's Daily
One must think of danger in time of peace. At the time when
the "11th Five-Year Plan" is in the making, the topic
group of the National Development and Reform Commission conducted
an survey among 98 well-known Chinese and foreign experts from
various ministries and commissions under the State Council,
major scientific institutes and academies, main people's organizations
as well as foreign universities and international agencies stationed
in China. ( )
Question of Employment
Question of Farmers, Countryside and Agriculture
Over the past dozen years or so, although China's national economy
has grown at a rate well over 7 percent, agriculture was almost
an unprofitable sector, and farmers' income was basically stagnant.
( )
Question of Finance China's savings ratio is high
and its capital formation is smooth, but its capital market
and financial system have long been imperfect. ( )
Poor-Rich Gap The gap between the poor and the
rich in China has gone beyond the international warning "red
line", its direct result will be that social security,
especially public security, will be greatly harmed, this problem
must have our high attention.
Question of Ecology and Resources China is faced
with a serious environmental problem, water and air pollution,
soil erosion as well as the shortage of water resources have
gravely affected people's health and hindered economic growth.
Taiwan Issue Since the mid-1990s, the Taiwan issue
has been developing in a direction we don't want to see. Future
development trend of the Taiwan question depends on Taiwan's
popular will, how to win the Island's popular feeling will be
key to the central government's policy toward Taiwan.
Question of Globalization ( ) Factors really affecting
China's economic and social sustainable development in the future
will perhaps remain a structural problem within China's economy
and society: for example, the irrational structure of demand,
the exacerbated contradiction of the industrial structure as
well as the change and disharmony between the selling price
of capital goods and the consumer price of residents, etc. (
)
Question of Confidence and Creditability The questions
of creditability and confidence is linked together with the
issue of tackling crisis, people's loss of confidence and lack
of creditability is closely associated with the graft and corruption
of certain government officials and the perversion of social
mores. The question of trustworthiness not only concerns morality,
it is also a systemic issue. ( )
Question of Aids and Public Hygiene In the opinion
of UN experts, unless China adopts effective measures, otherwise,
the number of Chinese infected by aids virus will far surpass
the estimated 10 million and may reach as high as 30 million,
in that case, China will become a country with the most aids
virus infected people in the world. This is by no means an alarmist
talk. Besides aids, the problem of hygiene brought to light
by the crisis of SARS last year will hamper China's economic
development for a long period of time to come.
Das Erdgas werde fliessen
2004-09-02 Guangming Wang (Übersetzung)
Die neue Erdgas-Pipeline verläuft von West- nach Ostchina
und soll die Shanghai Region mit dringend benötigten Energieressourcen
beliefern. ( ) Die Erdgasversorgungsstation in Lunnan im Autonomen
Gebiet Xinjiang hat am Mittwoch begonnen, Erdgas aufzunehmen.
( ) Insgesamt werden 14 Erdgasfelder mit einem Vorrat von knapp
658 Mia Kubikmetern angebort, was für mehr als 30 Jahre
eine konstante Erdgasversorgung gewährleisten soll. ( )
China to speed up nuclear power construction
2004-09-01 Xinhua News
China will greatly speed up its nuclear power construction in
the next 15 years to achieve a total nuclear power capacity
of 36 million kilowatts by 2020, almost four times the current
one, a senior Chinese atomic energy official said here Wednesday.
( ) Although the concrete nuclear power development program
is being discussed, the Chinese government has decided to make
nuclear power a major part of its power industry. Currently
China has nine generating units in operation, with a total installed
capacity of 7.01 million kw. The total capacity is expected
to reach 9.13 million kw by 2005 when Tianwan Nuclear Power
Plant goes into operation in Jiangsu. ( ) The new nuclear power
plants will sharply reduce the use of 120million tons of raw
coal, which will ease the pressure on fuel transportation and
environmental protection.
Xinjiang urged to maintain stability
2004-08-31 Xinhua News
Senior Party official Luo Gan has urged the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous
Region in northwest China to keep economic development and unite
the local people for maintaining social stability. ( ) The balance
between reform, development and stability lies in realizing
and safeguarding people's interests and improving their living
standards, Luo said, adding that social stability should bebased
on both sustainable economic development and harmonious ethnic
relations. He reiterated the importance of implementing the
Party's policies toward minority nationalities and religions
in a thoroughand comprehensive way, calling for adherence to
the system of regional autonomy for minority nationalities and
urging the local governments to cultivate a contingent of cadres
from the Han and Uygur nationalities.
China to get the bullet train
2004-08-30 Xinhua News
Chinese train manufacturer Nanche Sifang Locomotive and six
Japanese companies have won the bid for China's new bullet train.
The Chinese Railway Ministry's 12 billion US dollar project
aims to double the speed of trains on five major existing railway
lines to 200 kilometers per hour. The five train lines, stretching
over 2,000 kilometers, include one linking Beijing and Shenyang
in the province of Liaoning and another to connect Qingdao in
the coastal province of Shandong with Jinan in the same province.
( ) This would mark the first major transfer of Japan's Shinkansen
technology to China.
Jiang urges improving military equipment
2004-08-30 Xinhua News
Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Jiang Zemin
Monday called for raising the level of weapons in China's military,
saying it is a priority matter to brace against military fighting,
and that it is an important strategic task that will impact
the country's lasting peace and stability. Jiang made the remarks
when he and Hu Jintao, who is vice chairman of the commission,
met with military staff working to improve the combat readiness
of existing military equipment and the ability to guarantee
the supply of such equipment. Jiang urged full preparation for
winning a fight on existing weapons, improving the overall combat
capability of military units and making preparations against
war.
Legal aid system improved to help the disadvantaged
2004-08-29 Xinhua News
Since its inception some a decade ago, China's legal aid system
has helped more than 1.3 million impoverished people who otherwise
could not afford for litigation, and also provided free legal
counseling for 6 million people nationwide. ( ) China began
to establish its legal aid system in 1994, aiming to give those
in need an equal status in court by offering them free legal
assistance. Statistics show that the number of those with less
than 637 yuan (about 80 US dollars) of annual net income in
China rose by 800,000 in 2003. And approximately 29 million
people, or 3 percent of the total population in the country,
were inadequately fed and clothed. ( ) By the end of June, China
had set up 2,892 legal aid offices, with 85 percent located
in towns, and villages, where most of the country's needy people
lived. The number of legal aid personnel working in these offices
reaches approximately 10,000, with half of them holding lawyer's
certificate. Another 120,000 lawyers, and many more volunteers
from law schools, non-government organizations have also rendered
their hand in legal aid. ( ) "The money we provide is far
from adequate, especially in the western part of China,"
noted Minister of Justice Zhang Fusen. ( ) Pertaining to criminal
cases, quite a few people in the country still do not quite
understand why the government pays lawyers to defend and plead
for the accused, Chen said, citing that another big obstacle
for legal aid involving criminal cases.
China amends disease law, bans blood trade
2004-08-30 Xinhua News
The National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, has
passed a law banning the buying or selling of blood to prevent
the spread of AIDS and outlawing discrimination against victims
of infectious diseases.( ) Most significant was the revised
Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, which
requires the government to guarantee funds for infectious disease
prevention. The law stipulates that governments of various levels
should strengthen prevention and control of AIDS and take measures
to prevent the spread of the disease. This is the first time
that AIDS is specifically targeted in the law. Statistics show
that among the reported AIDS cases in China, 11 percent were
infected in the processes of having blood drawn or blood transmissions.
According to estimates of experts, there are 840,000 people
infected with AIDS/HIV in China. The law also rules out discrimination
against people infected with contagious diseases, people carrying
the pathogen of a contagious disease and people who are suspected
of having a contagious disease. ( )
|
