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Chongqing: Private Sector Entrepreneurs to Be Trained at Central Party School

Fifty-nine private sector entrepreneurs in Chongqing City were sent to Beijing on November 9, 2009, for a week of training at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party. According to Wen Jieming, the head of the city’s CCP United Front Department, more than 10,000 people from the business community are to be trained in ideology, politics, and economic knowledge within five years. The trainings were said to be planned to take place in party schools in the central, city, and country government levels, as well as in communities and neighborhoods.

Source: People’s Daily, November 10, 2009
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/14562/10346700.html

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Hong Kong and Macao Branches of “People’s Daily” Launched

At the inauguration ceremony of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region bureau of People’s Daily on November 9, the state newspaper’s president Zhang Yannong emphasized the importance of reporting on Hong Kong and predicted the paper’s grand overseas expansion. Two days later, People’s Daily launched its Macao branch.

Source: Xinhua, September 9 and 11, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/gangao/2009-11/09/content_12419673.htm
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1026/10360293.html

Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

Joint Communique of China, India and Russia Released

On October 27, 2009, foreign affairs ministers of China, India and Russia met in Bangalore, India. A Joint Communique was issued afterwards and published in People’s Daily.

The Communique stated that the improved economic conditions of the three countries will facilitate even faster growth. “The strengthened communication of the three countries will benefit improvement of their overall influence, promotion of the democratic process, and development of a multi-polar world.”

The Communique enumerated mechanisms for the three countries to launch talks on global economic management, climate change, trade policy, development, and cooperation.

The Communique asked for a “comprehensive reform” of the United Nations. China and Russia support India’s wish to play a larger role in the UN.

Source: People’s Daily, October 29, 2009
http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2009-10/29/content_371134.htm

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

China Develops Supercomputer

China unveiled its fastest supercomputer yesterday, known as a petaflop. At its peak speed, it can do more than one quadrillion calculations per second.

The birth of the supercomputer, named "Tianhe," which means "Milky Way," makes China the second country, after the United States, to build a petaflop computer. This gigantic device can do as many calculations in one day as those done by an ordinary dual-core personal computer in 160 years, said Li Nan, director of the Tianhe Project Office under the National University of Defense Technology, developer of the supercomputer.

The supercomputer has many practical applications, and will be used in seismic data processing, for oil exploration, bio-medical research, development of aerospace vehicles, long-term weather and climate forecasting, financial data analysis and pollution control in the Bohai Sea area.

Source: People’s Daily, October 29, 2009
http://scitech.people.com.cn/GB/25509/10280952.html

Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

Wen Jiabao Emphasizes Science and Technology

In a keynote speech to a group of scientists, Premier Wen Jiabao said that China’s science and technology “will surely support and lead the country toward its grand goal of modernization.”

Quotations from Wen’s speech:

“History tells us that science and technology determine a nation’s prosperity and a country’s fate.”

“The world is experiencing an unprecedented financial crisis in this century. Those who can lead the technological innovation will be able to grasp the initiative in development and be the first to recover and prosper. In response to this international financial crisis, the world’s countries are competing with each other to dominate in the economy and technologies. The world will enter an unprecedented era of innovation-intensive and industrial revitalization. We must strive to grow in this competition by leaps and bounds.”

Wen stressed the research in energy, sensor network, microelectronics, optoelectronic materials, nanotechnology, life science, space and ocean exploration.

Source: Xinhua, November 3, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-11/03/content_12377681.htm

Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

Xi Jinping on Building Urban Grass-roots Party Organizations

During a meeting on studying the Concept of Scientific Development, Xi Jinping, Vice President of China and a member of the Standing Committee of the Poliburo, emphasized the building of grass-roots party organizations as an important part of implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th National Congress of the CCP.

Xi gave clear directions on “seriously focusing on study and practice activities in neighborhoods and communities.” He pointed out that neighborhoods and communities play a more and more important role in “urban management, unifying the residences, dissolving social conflicts, and developing harmonious communities.”

Xi also pointed out that the theme of the work in neighborhoods and communities should be the implementation of the Concept of Scientific Development.

Source: Xinhua, October 27, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-10/27/content_12342476.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

GAPP Official on PRC Newspapers: Landing Overseas Expands Cultural Influence

On October 17, the 42nd Annual Conference of World Association of Newspapers (WAN) concluded in Chongqing. Wang Guoqing, the Division Chief of Newspapers and Periodicals at General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) of China, said that the mainland newspapers and periodicals’ landing overseas and cooperating with international media expanded the global influences of Chinese newspapers and Chinese culture.

At present, more than 60 periodicals from mainland China have copyright cooperation with international partners, with some publications landing outside China, including the China National Geography and ChinaNews magazine. The latter belongs to the official news agency China News Service (CNS).

Source: China News Service, October 18, 2009
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2009/10-18/1916255.shtml

Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

Changsha to Expand Public Security Forces into Three Public Professions

After mobilizing 1,200 tax drivers to participate in public security, the authority of Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province, decided on October 30 to expand the network by “assimilating 5,300 public transportation employees, environment workers, and postmen into the troops of ‘Volunteers for Safety,’ assisting the police to combat criminal activities.”

The decision was reportedly based on the nature of the three professions, which require close and constant contact with the population at the street and neighborhood level. The city government will coordinate with the employers of the participants for their pay and an offer extra bonus for their “outstanding contributions.”

Source: Xinhua, November 1, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2009-11/01/content_12368980.htm

Briefings | | |   Social Stability