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On October 16, 2011, Qiushi, a Journal of the CCP Central Committee, published an article titled “The Formation of the Socialist Legal System with Chinese Characteristics and the Historic Mission of the People’s Court.” The article emphasized the importance of the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership over all court work and the importance of building up grass-roots Party organization branches throughout the court system.

“(We should not waver in our) socialist legal concept of the Party’s leadership. Use the socialist legal concept to take over the ideology of the law and guide all kinds of court work.” “(We should) deeply understand the superiority of the socialist judicial system with Chinese characteristics; consciously resist the influence of different wrong legal concepts; truly understand ‘who has power, for whom judicial work is done, and who to serve.’”

Source: Qiushi, October 16, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zxdk/2011/201120/201110/t20111014_116684.htm

On October 16, 2011, Radio France Internationale reported on the discussions taking place at the Sixth Plenary Session of 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, held from October 15 to 18, on the subject of China’s cultural system reforms. The focus was mainly on strengthening the CCP’s control and monitoring of the media and Internet communication. The participants explored how to use the Internet and the media to serve the Chinese Communist Party before the upcoming new generation of CCP leaders come to power next year.

China currently has 500 million Internet users; 200 million of them are micro-blog users. Beijing authorities are more and more worried about the power of the Internet to influence public opinion. In addition, the CCP has recently stepped up its monitoring of some reformist newspapers.

Source: Radio France Internationale, October 16, 2011
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20111016-%E4%B8%AD%E5%85%B1%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%83%E5%B1%8A%E5%85%AD%E4%B8%AD%E5%85%A8%E4%BC%9A%E4%B8%BA%E4%BD%95%E8%81%9A%E7%84%A6%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E8%AE%AE%E9%A2%98

On October 16, 2011, Guangming Daily published an article about China’s confidence in Chinese culture. “The foundation of our confidence in Chinese culture is our successful practice on the socialist road with Chinese characteristics.”

According to the writer, the Vice President of Beijing Normal University, “Our self-confidence in our culture comes from the big achievement of China’s socialist practice which our great people brought about under the leadership of our great Party." China’s self-confidence in Chinese culture is also based on the guidance in the latest achievements in the study of Chinese Marxism.

Source: Guangming Daily, October 16, 2011
http://culture.gmw.cn/2011-10/16/content_2794150.htm

Huang Renwei, the deputy dean of the International School of Economics and Politics at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) and deputy director of the Center for International Strategic Studies, wrote an article for Qiushi Theory titled “Deepen Our Realization of the Long-term, Complex, and Serious Test in Facing the World’s Political Environment.”

The article attributed the current situation to the shift in the world’s power that occurred after the world economic crisis in 2008 resulted in the weakening of the national power of such Western giants as the U.S., the EU, and Japan. The article said that while those Western giants still lead in the high tech, military and media industries, many have “adjusted their strategy to shift the conflicts and reduce their economic burden while using both soft and hard means to suppress socialist and developing countries in order to maintain the old political and economic order.”

It further stated that the models and ideologies that the Western developed countries adopted are “not only impossible for China to follow, but also show the uncertainty of their own future.” The article used the economic crisis in the US, the debt crisis in the EU, and the nuclear power leak in Japan as examples and said that they “exposed the inferiority and deadly weakness in their models and ideologies.”

The author also pointed out that the West has not done any self-reflection on its own issues and still uses its powerful media, Internet, and NGOs to attack developing countries and even "dreams of lighting up the ‘democratic fire’ in China that come from the turmoil in western Asia and northern Africa.” It noted that the Western courntries have been using their "universal values" to undermine the ideology and cultural values that are not part of their own system. "They use the Internet, email, microblogs, texting, games, TV, and movies to directly influence and win over the next generation. … They even form opposition groups to stir up riots in order overthrow political power.”

The article concluded that the Party’s leadership is the key to guaranteeing control in maintaining China’s peaceful development. “If we are clear headed, follow the new development, increase our strategic predictability, fully utilize the political advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and manage our internal and external affairs well, we are guaranteed to have firm control over China’s peaceful development.”

Source: Qiushi Theory, October 16, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zxdk/2011/201120/201110/t20111014_116665.htm

The focus of the Sixth Plenary Session of 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, held from October 15 to 18, was on “cultural system reform and promoting the prosperity of socialist cultural development." This is the first time that the Chinese Communist Party has used “culture” as the focus of a plenary session since the 17th Plenary Session in 2007.

Party Chairman Hu Jintao spoke on July 1, during the 90th anniversary of Chinese Communist Party, emphasizing “the need to speed up the reform of the cultural system, build a public culture service infrastructure, and further promote Chinese culture on the world stage in order for China’s cultural soft power to be compatible with its world status and increase the international influence of Chinese culture.”

It is expected that more discussions on cultural strategy will occur after the session.

Source: China Review News, October 15, 2011
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1018/6/9/3/101869348.html?coluid=151&kindid=0&docid=101869348&mdate=1015103736

Li Shenming, the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), published an article in Qiushi on the lessons to be learned from the experience of the former Soviet Union. The failure of the former Soviet Union to effectively solve the problem of underground publications, dissidents, and informal organizations may have contributed to its downfall.

Initially, the works that were published underground were merely some censored poems and literary works. Later underground publications started to include political contents that were critical of the existing government. The publishing center in Moscow became the center of a “liberal democratic movement.” Dissidents were exceptionally active during the Gorbachev period. The Soviet authorities not only restored their reputations, but also encouraged and supported them in various political activities. Sakharov is a classic example. The first "informal organization" appeared in 1986. They usually were small, secretive, unofficial, flexible, and run by amateurs. As Gorbachev condoned these organizations, their publications become the media pioneers of the anti-socialist and anti-communist movement.

Source: Qiushi, October 11, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zz/zgtsshzyll/201110/t20111011_115583.htm

According to Voice of America on October 9, 2011, Hu Jintao, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party stated in a ceremony celebrating the 100-year anniversary of 1911, the year of the Xinhai Revolution (named after the year in the Chinese calendar), that the CCP has been Sun Yat-sen’ most faithful successor.

Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the 1911 Revolution, ended the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. Taiwan has been the home of the Republic of China since Chiang Kai-shek, Sun’s successor, fled the mainland in 1949. Sun’s ideal was to establish a republic with a democratic system similar to the United States, based on his three principles of nationalism, democracy, and the welfare of the people.

Hu Jintao said in the ceremony held in Beijing that the Chinese people have finally found the correct path and the core strength to realize the great rejuvenation of China. "The correct path is the socialist road with the Chinese characteristics; the core strength is the Chinese Communist Party."

Source: Voice of America, October 09, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20111009-Sun-Devoted-Successor-131413743.html

After Hu Jintao’s July 1 speech, all Party organs were required to study and digest the messages that were conveyed. On October 8, Xinhua published the first article in a series that summarized the collected feedback that resulted from those studies. Below are the subtitles of each section:

1) Only socialism can save China: Hu’s speech highlighted the path that the Party has walked over the past 90 years. The truth is that there is no other ideology that can save China other than the socialist ideology.
2) Only socialism with Chinese characteristics can help China to develop and prosper: the economic achievements in the past 30 years of the "reform and opening-up" policy were due solely to the fact that the Party took the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
3) Firmly walk our own path: if we deviate from the path which has proven to be the only choice, or if we dream of adopting any other form of ideology or formality, it is doomed to have no hope and no future and to be meaningless.

Source: Xinhua, October 8, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2011-10/08/c_122129952.htm