Xinhua News reported on August 21, 2007, that the directors of China’s Family Planning Association at the provincial levels held a meeting in which they discussed that China’s family planning work faces eight challenges [1].
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The Chinese Government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong Concerned about Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Grandnephew
Axiang (an alias), a Hong Kong Democracy activist revealed to the Epoch Times that he has often been contacted by the Liaison Office of the Chinese Government in the Hong Kong S.A.R. [1] (LOCPG) over the past several years. Recently, the LOCPG contacted him to get information about Hong Kong people participating in the Quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Movement. Axiang told the reporter that three thugs attacked Albert Ho Chun-yan (何俊仁), the chair of the Democratic Party (Hong Kong) and a member of the Legislative Council, because he protested the CCP’s harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners and supported the civil rights movement in Mainland China. The LOCPG told Axiang that it will treat Mr. Sun Bin, the grandnephew of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen , [2] the same way it treated Mr. Ho. [3]
Chinese Have Mixed Feelings about Foreign Companies
A survey sampling 1,000 citizens in major cities in China was published in the August issue of Global Enrepeneur Magazine. It reveals that the Chinese public has mixed feelings about foreign companies doing business in China.
On the one hand, the results showed that over 80 percent of those surveyed think that the foreign companies have promoted economic development in China. On the other hand, 73.1 percent expressed strong dissatisfaction towards the foreign companies as they have "relocated environmentally hazardous industries and factories to China."
Internet Security Law to be Proposed at the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
On August 29, 2007, during the Computer Malware Management and Law Seminar held in Shanghai, the government agencies involved with Internet security jointly proposed an "Internet Security Law" to be presented at the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (NCCCP). [1]
China Says the Sino-Russia Joint Anti-Terror Maneuver Not Meant to Target Any Third Country
On September 2, 2007, Huo Yi, the Chinese chief of the Sino-Russia joint military maneuver "Collaboration 2007," claimed that the joint drill was aimed at combating terrorists as well as improving Sino-Russia bilateral relations and was not meant to target any third country. [1]
Officials at the Provincial Level Found To Be Corrupt Since the 16th National Congress of Chinese Co
On September 1, the website of Procuratorial Daily (检察日报) published a short list of officials at the provincial level who have been found to be corrupt since the 16th National Congress of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held in 2002. [1]
College Tuitions Have Skyrocketed in the Ten Years Since Combining Tracks
In 1997, colleges in China combined the tracks for the tuition system. Previously there existed two tracks: one track was that most college students paid nothing or only nominal fees for a college education; the other track was that some students financially supported their college education. Various scholars have found that since the two tracks were combined, most students have had to pay the full tuition. College tuitions across the country have skyrocketed. [1]
China Has Highest Rate of Executions: 5000 to 8000 in 2006
According to the 2007 Annual Report on Capital Punishment released by Hands Off Cain, between 5,000 and 8,000 prisoners were executed in China in the year of 2006. Chinese official Xinhua News reports that more would have been executed in the first seven months of 2007 had mandatory case review by the Supreme People’s Court of China not passed in 2006. [1]