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On August 4, one hundred young journalists from 18 official news media agencies including People’s Daily, Xinhua, PLA Daily, Qiushi, Guangming Daily, and Economic Daily went to Qingliang Mountain in Yan‘an, the birthplace of the media center of the Communist Party. From 1935 to 1948, Yan‘an served as the revolutionary base for the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

They visited the Yan’an Media Memorial Hall and participated in a ceremony where they took an oath to “carry on the party’s media work tradition … and strive to be a media worker who will let the party be worry-free." Following the oath swearing ceremony, the group was divided into ten teams and went to stay with the villagers in Wuqi and Yanchang villages of Yan’an in order to experience the villagers’ life and “increase their sense responsibility as news reporters.”

Source: Chinese Communist Party News Website, August 4, 2011
http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64093/64387/15341421.html

Guangming Daily published an article expressing the Chinese Communist government’s discontent with British Prime Minister David Cameron’s comments on China during his visit to Africa. The article said, “British Prime Minister Cameron visited Africa recently for the first time since he took office. Although his schedule was cut short due to the News of the World phone hacking scandal, Cameron didn’t forget to find time in Nigeria to give the Africans a lecture on Western democracy and free trade. At the same time, (he) specifically warned the African countries not to learn from China’s development model, which is ‘autocratic capitalism;’ (and that) only a ‘free society’ will bring Africa ‘sustainable stability and development.’ What he meant was that the Western system is the only choice for Africa.”

“Attacking China and Sino-African relations is not a manifestation of Western confidence. On the contrary, it is proof that they lack confidence. They deliberately belittle China in front of Africans. (Their purpose) is to maintain their control and monopoly over Africa in ideology, politics, the economy, and culture, and to kill Africa’s self-awareness and independent development. From this perspective, Cameron—the new generation prime minister of the self-claimed ‘out of the shadow of colonialsm’ and ‘not imposing Western beliefs on Africa,’ is no different from his predecessors. What they have done is truly ‘autocratic capitalism.’”

Source: Guangming Daily,July 28, 2011
http://theory.gmw.cn/2011-07/28/content_2357237.htm

Huanqiu reported on some comments made by Liu Yunshan, the Propaganda Minister and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party after visiting the Red Army memorial at Zunyi and the propaganda and cultural units in Guiyang. Liu expressed that he advocated the promotion of red culture. 

“We have blazed a path for the development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics. We are ushering in a golden period of cultural development. We must fully understand the status and role of culture, profoundly grasp cultural characteristics and patterns, institutionalize innovative mechanisms, and strengthen policy support in order to powerfully guarantee the promotion of the development and prosperity of socialist culture.” Liu emphasized that it is necessary to use historical cultural resources, red cultural resources, folk cultural resources and ecological cultural resources wisely.

Source: Huanqiu, July 25, 2011
http://china.huanqiu.com/hot/2011-07/1846044.html

By the end of June 2011, the Chinese Communist Party achieved complete control of the legal profession in Shanghai. According to Sheng Leiming, President of the Shanghai Bar Association, a total of 451 Party branches (381 Independent Party branches and 70 joint Party branches) had been established, along with monitoring of all of the law firms (1090 firms) in Shanghai. In addition, there are 4 general Party branches and 1 Party committee in charge of all of the 451 branches in the law firms. As for those law firms where there are no Party members, political instructors (Party liaisons) are assigned there to monitor the work.

The Shanghai Bar Association has a complete reporting system with rules and procedures, and consults the Party on any important matter.

Source: People’s Daily, July 13, 2011
 http://sh.people.com.cn/GB/140263/15148560.html

After the Vatican rejected the ordination of Chinese Bishops Rev. Lei Shiyin and Rev. Huang Bingzhang as illegitimate and excommunicated them, China’s State Administration of Religious Affairs issued a statement. It said, “The Vatican’s threats of ‘excommunication’ of the two bishops who were ordained without papal approval was unreasonable and rude; it has severely hurt the feelings of Chinese Catholics and made the members feel sad. We are greatly concerned about the matter.” 

The Communist Party Central Committee held a forum on July 21, 2001, at Zhongnanhai in Beijing, to meet with non-party figures and discuss economic issues for the second half of the year. Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, and other members of the Politburo Standing Committee attended the forum.

Hu said that this year, domestic and international situations are complex and unsettled and that predictable and unpredictable new situations and new problems are constantly emerging. He expressed that [the Party] should continue to improve macroeconomic regulations and control, and make price stabilization the top priority of macroeconomic regulations and control. Hu also urged that work continue on agriculture, job creation, economic structural adjustment, and economic reform.

Wen reported on the economic work for the first half of the year and presented the Party’s and State Council’s concerns for the second half. Wen stressed that [the Party] should strengthen the regulation and control of the real estate market.

Source: Huanqiu, July 22, 2011
http://china.huanqiu.com/hot/2011-07/1841369.html

On July 19, 2011, a Xinhua reporter interviewed Cai Wu, China’s Minister of Culture. Cai said that, in the cultural exchanges with foreign countries, China’s “exported” cultural products were more traditionally oriented; however, "the effort to disseminate Chinese contemporary and pop culture is not sufficient. (We) particularly lack excellent books, dramas, art performances, movies and TV programs that can exhibit the image of contemporary China’s development and are culturally profound and deep. As a result, people in other countries lack a comprehensive and accurate understanding of contemporary China." 

Source: Xinhua, July 19, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-07/19/c_13994171.htm

Study Times published an article about a success story – the expansion of the Chinese Communist Party in Foton, a publicly traded company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange with the majority of stock owned by the State. Of close to 40,000 employees, 5,125 are registered Communist Party members with 155 Party branches. Foton has institutionalized the Party’s participation in corporate management through internal regulations which set forth the procedures for the Party’s participation in decision making. The Party is in charge of 4 critical areas: business, strategy, managers, and personnel.

Source: Study Times, July 11, 2011
http://www.studytimes.com.cn:9999/epaper/xxsb/html/2011/07/11/08/08_35.htm