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China Press and Publishing Media Group Co. Ltd. hosts the China Press, Publication, Radio and Television website. On October 19, 2015, it published an article titled, “‘A Cross Country Tour Group of the Leading Cadres Learning Sinology’ Enters Guizhou Province.” Xinhua republished the article on the same day. The article indicated that the purpose of the tour was to spread and promote outstanding traditional Chinese culture among the Chinese Communist Party cadres across China. On October 17, 2015, a launching ceremony on how leading cadres should read the classics and learn sinology was held in the Confucius Hall in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. Guiyang was the second stop in the learning Chinese culture tour campaign.

The article pointed out that sinology is the study of Chinese culture. “For leading cadres, learning sinology is significant in two respects: 1) Within sinology, there are major statecraft principles; only those who cultivate their body and virtue can be officials.  2) In the final stage of a win or lose battle, leading cadres cannot be muddle-headed themselves but require others to be clear-minded. They need to improve their governance capability.”

Sources: China Press, Publication, Radio and Television website and Xinhua, October 19, 2015
http://www.chinaxwcb.com/2015-10/19/content_327230.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2015-10/19/c_128335227.htm

Caixin reported that, by the end of October, the CCP’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) will send inspection teams to conduction corruption investigations at the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the People’s Bank of China, and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC). The inspection teams are expected to stay onsite for two months. One team will be at the CBRC and the CSRC and the other will be at the People’s Bank of China and the CIRC. Investigations at four State-owned commercial banks will soon follow. These banks are the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the China Construction Bank, the Bank of China, and the Agricultural Bank of China. 

On Wednesday, October 14, 2015, one day before the one year anniversary of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s speech on the arts, Xinhua was authorized to publish it in full. Xi Jinping delivered the speech to select Chinese artists, authors, actors, script writers and dancers on problems in Chinese art. 

Caixin, a provider of financial and business news and information, based in Beijing, reported that an inquiry into Su Shulin, the governor of Fujian Province, was linked to corruption allegations made during an audit of Sinopec, a state-owned oil company. 

On October 7, 2015, Central News Agency, the state news agency of Taiwan, published an article titled “Mainland China Media Continues the Taboo Topic: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Is Not the Same as China.”

On October 1, 2, and 6, 2015, during China’s national holiday period, three well-known Chinese published articles explaining why they think that, “The Chinese Communist Party is not the same as China.”

On October 1, 2015, the 66th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), He Weifang, a law professor at Peking University, published a blog article saying, “Since my country has a long history and a splendid civilization, it must not be a country that exists for only just over 60 years.”

On October 2, 2015, Ren Zhiqiang, China’s famous real estate developer, published a long blog article titled, “A New China or a New Regime.” Over 100,000 people read the article in just a few hours, but the article was soon removed from Internet.

On October 6, 2015, Bao Tong, who used to be the political secretary for the former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, published an article on Radio Free Asia. In the article he stated, “I am more than 10 years older than the People’s Republic of China. I am not able to call the PRC my motherland.”

On October 7, 2015, the Paper, a media in Mainland China, published an interview article on the treatment of parasitic diseases in which the words “new regime” were used several times, including in the article title. The CCP’s official phrase in such a context has always been “new China.” It seems that the Paper article purposely continued the discussion on this taboo topic.

Source: Central News Agency, October 7, 2015
http://www.cna.com.tw/news/acn/201510070434-1.aspx

Hu Shuli, editor-in-chief of Caixin, a Beijing-based premier provider of financial and business news and information, published an editorial at the end of September calling for the authorities to do a better job of protecting China’s lawyers. 

People’s Daily published a commentary that stated that the current wave of refugees in Europe is a direct result of the “Color Revolution” and the Western countries are simply paying for the full consequences of their support for the “Color Revolution.” The article said that the "Color Revolution" has resulted in dramatic political and social turmoil and the death of countless civilians; economic crises from the reduction in foreign investment, travel, and foreign reserves; and the social instability resulting from people’s dissatisfaction with the ruling government. “The wave of refugees is an issue that challenges the West, but it is also a warning sign to the West. The West is having difficulty in dealing with the social and economic issues that the wave of refugees brought, but, more importantly, the West should reflect deeply on its role in stirring up the “Color Revolution” which caused the current wave of refugees.

Source: People’s Daily, October 4, 2015
http://world.people.com.cn/n/2015/1004/c1002-27661170.html