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China’s Vice Minister of Health, Huang Jiefu, announced that China will set up a voluntary organ donation program and, within two years, will be able to reduce its reliance on organs from executed prisoners. “China has become a major country in organ transplants, second to the United States. However, China has a ‘soft rib’ – long term reliance on organs donated by executed prisoners,” Huang said.

Huang acknowledged that “there are some deep issues relating to organ transplants that are yet to be resolved, including confusion about organ sources, a lack of donated organs, an illegal organ trade, and transplant tourism.”

Huang stated, “The Party’s Central Committee is determined that China, as a major political and civilized power, will change this situation.”

[Editor’s Note: Several sources have reported that a large number of organs have been harvested secretly, with security forces and military-medical personnel conducting the operations. While the Ministry of Health announced it will reduce its reliance on organs from executed prisoners, it has no authority over operations that take place in military hospitals.]

Source: Southern Metropolis Daily (Nanfang Dushi), November 22, 2012
http://epaper.oeeee.com/A/html/2012-11/22/content_1758753.htm

On November 20, 2012, People’s Daily’s Hebei edition republished an article from China Economic Weekly written by the former editor-in-chief of People’s Daily’s Overseas Edition, Zhanguo Shu, who is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, titled, “China Will Never Take the Evil Road of the Western Multi-Party System.”

Zhanguo cited Hu Jintao in his article, “Unswervingly holding high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must not take the old path that is closed and rigid; nor must we take the evil road of changing flags and banners.” Zhangguo explained that the evil road is that of Western parliamentary democracy and the multi-party system.
 
Source: People’s Daily, November 20, 2012
http://he.people.com.cn/n/2012/1120/c337249-17742793.html

On November 19, 2012, Xinhua published an article by Xi Jingping, China’s new general secretary of the CCP Central Committee, titled “Study the Party Constitution Seriously and Strictly Abide by the Party Constitution.” Xi said that Party leaders are required to “take the lead in implementing the Party’s political discipline, consciously safeguard the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee’s authority, enforce work procedures, carry out orders, and ensure that the CCP Central Committee’s decrees are passed down smoothly.”

The newly amended CCP Constitution incorporated Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Jiang Zemin’s Three Represents, and Hu Jintao’s Scientific Outlook on Development into its guiding ideology.

Source: Xinhua, November 19, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/18cpcnc/2012-11/19/c_113722461.htm

The 18th Political Bureau held a meeting on November 16, 2012, at which it mapped out plans to disseminate key messages from the 18th Congress. The meeting emphasized that the most important political task in the near future will be to “diligently promote and promulgate the key messages from the 18th Congress and to unify people’s understandings and efforts to achieve the goals and tasks set by the Congress.”

Xi Jinping, the new General Secretary of the Party, hosted the meeting.

Source: Xinhua, November 16, 2012
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2012-11/16/c_113707591.htm

In Beijing, on November 15, 2012, as the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party concluded, Xi Jinping, the new head of the Chinese Communist Party and China’s military gave a speech to those present. In his speech he stated, “We are a political Party that serves the people wholeheartedly. … Our Party faces many severe challenges and there are also many pressing problems within the Party that need to be resolved, particularly problems such as corruption and bribe taking by some Party members and cadres, being out of touch with the people, and placing undue emphasis on formality and bureaucratic red tape. We must make a strenuous effort to resolve them. The whole Party must stay on full alert.”

Source: People’s Daily reprinted by the Chinese Communist Party website, November 15, 2012 http://cpc.people.com.cn/18/n/2012/1115/c350821-19590502.html

On November 16, 2012, China’s state media, the People’s Daily, ran an editorial to hail the Party’s new central leadership which was "elected" on November 15, 2012. The article stated, “The 18th National Congress of the Party unequivocally has demonstrated to the world what banner the Party will uphold, which path the Party will take, what kind of mental state we will have, and towards what goal we will progress, … it has established the scientific concept of development, Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and the important thinking of "Three Represents" as the guiding ideology of the Party which the Party shall uphold for a long time to come …”

Source: People’s Daily, November 16, 2012
http://opinion.people.com.cn/n/2012/1115/c1003-19594370.html

Huanqiu (Global Times, a division of People’s Daily) republished an editorial article from Hong Kong’s Wenweipo (a Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece in Hong Kong) titled “The 18th CCP Congress Proposes Maritime Strategy to Power the Nation and Emphasize Maritime Rights." The article said, “The 18th CCP Congress report stressed building a maritime power. It is a comprehensive strategic choice in response to the complex situation in the surrounding countries. It can be expected that China’s efforts to protect its maritime rights will continue to increase. China will use the “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea" to defend China’s core interests and development interests in the international community. The article warned, “If some countries continue to ignore China’s stance and counter-measures, they will only bear the consequences of their own acts (reap what they have sown).”