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SARFT: Vigorously Develop the Internet Radio and TV

"Capable radio and television stations must vigorously develop Internet radio and Internet TV, breaking away from the traditional mode of production, so as to gather the resources and wisdom of Internet users," said the Zhu Hong, of the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT), on January 14. 

Zhu announced that 2010 will be a year to digitalize radio, film, and television, actively transforming the traditional media and accelerating the development of new media and new industrial trends. 
Source: Xinhua, January 14, 2010 
http://news.xinhuanet.com/newmedia/2010-01/14/content_12810045.htm
Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

Meng Jianzhu Addresses Armed Police

At a meeting of Party officials of the armed police force, Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu gave a speech emphasizing the force’s absolute loyalty to the Party, the continuous buildup work of Party organizations, and the improved capacity of handling emergent social unrest. 

Source: Ministry of Public Security, January 8, 2009
http://www.mps.gov.cn/n16/n1237/n1342/n803680/2271940.html
Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Xi Jinping Texting One Million Party Cadres

“On behalf of the Central Committee of the Party, I am extending my cordial greetings to the nationwide grass-roots Party secretaries and college graduate village officials.” On January 5, 2010, Xi Jinping, China’s Vice President and a member of Politburo Standing Committee, sent the above text message to cell phones of one million local-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres. 

The message marks the launch of the mobile phone information system for national grass-roots Party development work. The system, with a collection of one million cell phone numbers belonging to CCP officials at the province, city, township, and village levels, has been initiated to build up Party organizations through the use of modern technologies. 
Source: china.com.cn, January 6, 2010 
http://www.china.com.cn/news/txt/2010-01/06/content_19190206.htm
Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Zhou Yongkang in Sichuan, Nipping Social Conflicts ‘In the Bud’

Zhou Yongkang, member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Chair of the Chinese Communist Party’s Political and Legal Affairs Committee, was recently in Sichuan Province. While there, he emphasized three key tasks that had been highlighted in the December 18 National Video Teleconference on Political and Legislative Affairs: resolving social conflicts, innovations in social management, and ‘fair and honest law enforcement.’ 

At a town in Beichuan County, the center of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, Zhou requested the establishment of mediation agencies “wherever there are people and wherever there are conflicts,” so as to eliminate the conflicts “in the bud.”  
Source: China News Service, January 7, 2010 
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2010/01-07/2058123.shtml
Briefings | | |   Social Stability

China’s Overcapacity in the Coal Industry

In a meeting on December 31, 2009, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced a halt to approvals of new coke, carbide, methanol, and other traditional coal chemical projects. 

China has seen an acute overcapacity in the coal industry in recent years. At the end of 2009, the newly added production capacity in the coal industry on top of 2008 is estimated at around 300 million tons. Thirty-one carbide and 25 methanol national projects are currently under construction. The overcapacity will be further intensified after they are put into operation. Coal-rich regions, one after another, have been planning coal chemical projects in recent years. The capacity of total submitted coal-to-oil conversion projects exceeds 40 million tons, coal-to-olefins is at 20 million tons, and coal-to-natural gas is 25 billion cubic meters — the equivalent of a one trillion yuan investment.
Source: People’s Daily, December 31, 2009 

http://finance.people.com.cn/GB/10685015.html

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

Ministry of Public Security to Blacklist Illegal Websites

On December 31, 2009, the website of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced a plan to set up a mechanism for reporting and handling Internet illegalities and directing communications authorities to blacklist the illegal sites. 

The MPS released the “Network Security Protection Agency under the Ministry of Public Security Report on the Work of Cracking Down on Internet Pornography” which listed a number of statistics on recent strikes against pornographic and illegal websites, including the detailed monetary rewards to individuals who reported the “harmful information.” Pledging to up the punishment on the Internet crimes, MPS is to coordinate with propaganda, broadcasting, and publication authorities on “vulgar and bad information” and to work with industrial, communications, and banking authorities against illegal service providers and Internet advertisers. 
Source: China News Service, December 31, 2009 
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2009/12-31/2049822.shtml
Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

80% of Newly Elected Academicians Are Officials

A recent Xinhua report shows that among the 35 newly elected members of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 80% hold administrative positions in universities or research institutes; among the 48 new Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) members, the proportion runs as high as 85%. In China, there are few private universities and research institutes. 

In 2001, a Minister of the Railroad was elected into CAE; in 2003, a Minister of Construction and Deputy Minister of Agriculture, together with some businessmen made their way into the nation’s highest body of scientists. 
In recent years there have been calls to set up elections for Academicians for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Many opposed the idea, however, seeing the rampant corruption in the education system. In an article, a scholar from Yunnan Province said, “A number of politicians have stolen the professorship. … How will such a high honor of Academicians not be tarnished by politicians?”
Source: Xinhua, December 17, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-12/17/content_12661657.htm
Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

China-Central Asia Natural Gas Pipeline to Fulfill Beijing’s Energy Goals

China’s Hu Jintao was in Turkmenistan on Monday December 14, attending the opening ceremonial of the launch of a natural gas pipeline that runs 1,140 miles across three Central Asia nations to the Chinese border, and into the Chinese region of Xinjiang. Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev, Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, and Uzbekistan President Islom Karimov turned the valve of the pipeline with Hu. 

"China gives the highest priority to cooperation between our neighbors and this pipeline is witness to the uninterrupted cooperation that continues to flourish between our nations," Hu said Monday. 
The pipeline is the first major export corridor for natural gas out of the region that does not pass through Russia. 
Source: China News Service, December 14, 2009 
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2009/12-14/2017220.shtml
Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources