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Grassroots Communist Party Organizations Cover the Tibet

On June 10, 2011, the Chinese Communist Party’s Organization Department of the Tibet Autonomous Region announced that CCP organizations have been established in each of the 5,200 administrative villages, a complete coverage of the region’s countryside. 

According to the Organization Department, they have actively developed a cadre team and by the end of 2010, the team had 109,000 members, of which 77,000 or 70.03 percent were Tibetan ethnic minorities. The region now has a total of 208,000 Party members, which accounts for 7.2 percent of the population. Since the region was established, Party membership has grown 14 times in total; the number among farmers and herdsmen has grown 22.86 times, reaching 97,700 members.

Source: China News Service, June 10, 2011
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2011/06-10/3103640.shtml

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Xinhua: The Party’s Loyalty Education Needs to be Institutionalized

Xu Xuejiang, the deputy chief editor of Xinhua News Agency, wrote a commentary calling for beefing up the Chinese Communist Party’s loyalty education, in the run up to its 90th anniversary. 

According to the article, betraying the Party lands on those members who have lost faith in the Party and are against the Party’s policies. It says “A small number of Party members, full of complaints, are dissatisfied with the Party and the government. They are always bad-mouthing the country and socialism. They always feel that China is neither free nor democratic, making a mockery of the People’s Congress system and the CCP-led democratic consultative system with multi-party cooperation. They nakedly advocate the implementation of the Western multiparty system. A few sneakily hope that the Eastern Europe’s ‘color revolution’ and Middle East and North Africa ‘Arab Spring’ are staged in China.” 
Xu suggested five measures to institutionalize loyalty education: 1) Upon joining the Party, new members should sign a written guarantee not to go against the Party’s initiatives or to be corrupt. 2) The Party’s routine activities are to include annual loyalty education. 3) Loyalty education shall also occur on the anniversaries of the Party’s significant dates. 4) The Party School shall include loyalty education as a required course. During each session, students should receive no less than one week of loyalty education and must write an experience sharing paper afterwards. 5) Qualified members should be actively recruited and Party membership should be firmly discontinued for those who are against the Party’s initiatives, constantly spread messages of distrust among the masses, and are unwilling to alter their opinions.

Source: Xinhua, June 10, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/comments/2011-06/10/c_121514513.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Global Fund Freezes Health Fund Payment to China

China’s Ministry of Health (MOH), the Geneva based Global Fund’s freeze on funds will significantly impact disease prevention against Malaria, Tuberculosis, and AIDS in China. MOH hopes “the Global Fund Secretariat solves the problem and restores the funding as soon as possible in a transparent, fair, positive, and cooperative manner.” 

According to the Associated Press, the funding that was frozen is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to China; it was “over concerns about misuse of the money and the government’s reluctance to involve community groups.” The fund spokesperson said that China “breached an agreement that a third of all grant money go to grass-roots groups and that local governments were not providing a full accounting of the spending.”

Sources:
China National Radio, June 10, 2011
http://www.cnr.cn/china/gdgg/201106/t20110610_508085015.html

AP, June 10, 2011
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5glHW1yRKDB85XyXM0t03gP-6gC4A?docId=475409ba0fb8442c926a2b134f76fa25

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

Overseas Chinese to Visit “Sacred Places of Revolution”

For the whole month of June, over 500 overseas Chinese from 50 countries and regions are to visit the “Sacred Places of Revolution” in southern Jiangxi Province, including Nanchang, the Jinggangshan Mountains, and Ganzhou, where, in the 1920s, the Chinese Communists rioted against the then ruling Kuomintang (KMT) government and built its Red Army. According to the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, a Communist led organization for overseas Chinese and the organizer of the tour, the mission is to “help the overseas Chinese, especially the young generation, understand and subscribe to Chinese revolutionary history.” The first group of visitors is mainly young entrepreneurs from Hong Kong and Macao.

Source: The United Front Work Department of the Communist Party Central Committee, June 3, 2011
http://www.zytzb.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/tzb2010/S2012/201106/706525.html

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

Central Military Mission Regulation for Code of Ethics among CCP Cadres

The Central Military Commission (CMC), headed by the chief of the Chinese Communist Party, Hu Jintao, recently issued “Several Provisions of the Code of Ethics for Military CCP Members and Leading Cadres,” demanding conscientious implementation across the People’s Liberation Army and the People’s Armed Police. “Several Provisions,” which is a follow-up regulation for the “Several Principles of the Code of Ethics for Military CCP Members and Leading Cadres” circulated in January 2010. It lists 70 "unacceptable practices" in 11 different categories, stipulating specific responsibilities for various CCP positions in the military. The CMC asks all levels of military CCP committees to regard the fight against corruption an “urgent and realistic task and long-term strategic goal.”

Source: Xinhua, May 31, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2011-05/31/c_121479904.htm

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Online Dating Ban for Chinese Military

To guard against divulging military secrets, the PLA’s General Staff Department and the General Political Department recently issued a joint notice strictly prohibiting military personnel from online dating. The notice also delineates the guidelines for soldiers’ using the Internet to search for marriage prospects or new jobs, as well as using personal blogs or websites. The PLA’s "Domestic Affairs" and "Regulations on the Prevention of Crime" also have strict regulations on military personnel’s participating in various online activities such as reunions with friends from their hometowns, or meetings with alumni or comrades-in-arms. The notice said, “All units must have a thorough understanding of the hidden dangers and threats from online dating and take it as a task to ensure military security and execute (such tasks) with a sense of political responsibility.”

Source: china.com.cn, May 31, 2011
http://www.china.com.cn/policy/txt/2011-05/31/content_22675745.htm

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Grassroots Party Secretaries Trained to Improve Social Management Skills

Starting on May 18, 2011, in Beijing, over 120 nationwide Communist Party chiefs at the grassroots level – counties, villages, street neighborhoods, and communities – attended a training session on social management. Senior Party cadres were invited to give talks on policies and share experiences. Li Yuanchao, a Politburo member and head of the CCP’s Organization Department, emphasized that the focus of social management is being placed at the local level and that grassroots Party secretaries are required to improve their social management skills and demonstrate leadership roles in grassroots social organizations.

Source: Xinhua, May 19, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-05/19/c_13882817.htm

Briefings | | |   Social Stability

Guarding Stability, Top Priority for Beijing’s Armed Police

Liu Qi, a Politburo member and the Communist Party’s chief of Beijing, watched the military exercises performed by the People’s Armed Police (PAP) in Beijing. Liu urged the PAP to “carefully study the situation and characteristics of maintaining stability in the capital, and vigorously step up training and readiness.” 

Liu pointed out a few “outstanding issues” in social harmony and “multiple factors” that affect stability. “Creating a stable environment to welcome the CCP’s 90th anniversary and ensuring a successful 18th National Congress of the CCP” are PAP’s top political priorities.

Source: Beijing Daily, May 21, 2011
http://bjrb.bjd.com.cn/html/2011-05/21/content_403673.htm

Briefings | | |   Social Stability