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Defense Minister: Improve China’s National Defense Mobilization Capability

Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglei stressed that China should adhere to the strategic direction of combining development for military and civilian use and strengthen national defense mobilization and emergency response capabilities. Liang made this statement after visiting several enterprises and inspecting the national defense mobilization work in a few cities in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Source: People’s Daily, June 26, 2010
http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64093/64094/11978520.html

CCP Expanding Its Organizational Presence in Enterprises and Communities

The Party organization has covered all basic residential units, urban and rural, as well as 98% of state-owned enterprises and institutions, according to Wang Qinfeng, the Deputy Minister of the Central Organization Department (COD) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Wang made this statement on June 28 at the COD’s party statistic news press conference. The party organization in non-publicly owned enterprises has also grown 1.3% over last year. By the end of 2009, the party organization and labor union had achieved full coverage of the legal and CPA professions, the two primarily targeted industries.

Source: Xinhua, June 28, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/video/2010-06/28/content_13762430.htm

Germany Investigating Chinese Officials Spying on Falun Gong

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s office is investigating two high-ranking Chinese officials on allegations of espionage targeting Falun Gong practitioners, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on June 26. One of the accused is said to hold the position of a Chinese vice-minister and serves as head of the “610 Office,” an extra-judicial arm of the Chinese Communist Party, which executes the Communist Party’s directive to fight the Falun Gong meditation movement worldwide. The Spiegel report mentioned the investigation could make Chancellor Angela Merkel’s upcoming China visit more difficult.

In December 2009, a diplomat of the Chinese Consulate in Munich was ordered to leave Germany after being found to have spied on the German Uighur community.

Source: The Central News Agency, June 27, 2010
http://www.cna.com.tw/SearchNews/doDetail.aspx?id=201006270171

PLA Daily: China Develops the Bei Dou GPS System

ChinaMil Net recently republished an article by PLA Daily introducing the Bei Dou System – China’s self-developed GPS system. The report is based on information provided by Dr. Qi Faren, who is the former Chief Architect and Designer of the Chinese Manned Space Operations Project, director of the Aerospace College of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, an Academician for the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and an Academician for the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The report covered the architecture of the Bei Dou System, the satellite launching illustration, and a comparison of the four primary GPS systems in the world. The Bei Dou System is entirely based on Chinese intellectual property. By 2012, the system will cover the Asia-Pacific areas. Global coverage with more than 30 satellites is expected by 2020. The bi-directional short messaging capability is believed to be superior to the unidirectional US GPS system.

Source: ChinaMil Net, June 24, 2010
http://chn.chinamil.com.cn/xwpdxw/2010-06/24/content_4245192.htm

Xinhua: China’s New Submarines Finished Important Tests

Xinhua recently reported on the accomplishments of China’s new submarines, based on People’s Liberation Army Pictorial sources. Since the regularization of the Chinese Navy’s blue water training in April, new developments on the Navy’s side have kept rolling in. The recent successful completion of the latest submarine tests included extreme deep water operations, underwater high sailing speed tests, and deep water torpedo launches. All tests passed design and combat goals. The Chinese Navy considers the nuclear submarines the elite of the fleet and a strategic force underwater.

Source: Xinhua, June 25, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-06/25/content_13738847.htm

SASAC: Not A Single World Class Brand

The director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), Li Rongrong, commented on June 25 that out of 125 national level state-owned companies, none has a world class brand. Despite the fact that China is the second largest industrial manufacturing country, Chinese companies have only become competitive on the low and mid-low end of manufacturing. National state-owned companies gained big improvements during the past several years. However, that was basically riding on the countrywide development wave. Li believes that these national companies are still weak on core competitiveness and lack independent innovations. Today, 70% of new industrial products are based on external technologies. Li announced that SASAC is establishing a new motivation system to help the state-owned companies improve, .

Source: China Review News, June 25, 2010
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1013/6/3/8/101363800.html?coluid=10&kindid=253&docid=101363800&mdate=0625105632

A Seven Month Crackdown across China: the 2010 Strike Hard Campaign

According to an article published on on June 21, 2010, on the website of the Ministry of Public Security of the P.R. China, Zhang Xinfeng, the vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security delivered a speech at a national public security work conference regarding launching a massive seven-month crackdown on rising crime. Called the “2010 strike hard campaign,” the purpose of the crackdown is to ensure society’s continued stability.

Zhang pointed out that public security organizations at all levels must further build up the system of social security control networks, such as the control networks on streets, in communities and within work units as well as video surveillances, police cooperation across regions and control of “Internet Society.”

 Source: Ministry of Public Security of the P.R. China, June 21, 2010
http://www.mps.gov.cn/n16/n1237/n1342/n803680/2445282.html

Guangdong Province Emergency Regulation

On June 2, 2010, the eleventh Standing Committee of Guangdong Province held its 19th meeting and passed the “Guangdong Regulation on Handling Emergencies,” reported Nanfang Daily on June 21, 2010.

According to the regulation, any government above the county level must annually evaluate the officials’ emergency prevention and handling performances. The higher level government should maintain oversight, and inspect and assess the emergency management work conducted by the lower level government.

Source: Nanfang Daily, June 21, 2010
http://nf.nfdaily.cn/nfrb/content/2010-06/21/content_13003252.htm