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A New Round of MassiveTraining of Law Enforcement

Public Security Bureaus chiefs, presidents of courts and prison political commissars have been called on to go through mandatory training with increased responsiblities to neutralized social conflicts and maintain national stability. A special Symposium started on March 20 for district and municipal level public security bureau chiefs. The fifth class for presidents of intermediate and lower courts opened on March 23. On the same day, prison political commissars throughout China attended the first class in Beijing.

Source: Legal Daily, March 29, 2010
http://www.legaldaily.com.cn/bm/content/2010-03/29/content_2097065.htm?node=20733

Reporting of 18 Issues Banned by Chinese Communist Propaganda Department

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Propaganda Department banned the Chinese media from reporting on 18 sensitive issues. Asahi Shimbun reported as front-page news on March 25 that Liu Yunshan, the Head of the Propaganda Department, ordered the ban on March 21, a day before Google announced its decision to stop censoring information on its Chinese site. The 18 issues include the Renminbi appreciation, official corruption, the high cost of medicine, food poisoning, turmoil in Xinjiang and Tibet, the gap between the rich and the poor, household registration reform, the unemployment of college graduates, corruption in handling Sichuan Earthquake donations, corruption of the police and gangsters in Chongqing, sky-rocketing real estate prices, and so on.

Concerning the Renminbi appreciation and Google’s refusal to censor information in China, the media was told that only Xinhua can report on those two issues. However the media can criticize the US.

It’s a sign that the Propaganda Department is trying to strengthen its control over the media after its negotiations with Google failed.

Source: Radio France International, March 25, 2010
http://www.chinese.rfi.fr/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20100325-

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Xinhua: CPC Press Spokesman System is important to strengthen Party building.

Xinhua reported on February 25, 2010, that Xinhua had an exclusive interview with the CPC Central Committee Propaganda Department’s press spokesman regarding how to “constantly strengthen the Party’s power in creativity, cohesion and combat.”

“The establishment of a CPC Committee Press Spokesman System,” which is very important to strengthen the  building of the Party, was first proposed in the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee Conference.

Several CPC Central Committee departments have established their press spokesman systems, such as the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the CPC Organization Department, the CPC United Front Work Department, the CPC External Liaison Department, the CPC Party History Research Office, the CPC Literature Research Center, the CPC Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, and the CPC State Archives Administration.

Source: Xinhua, February 25, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-02/26/content_13055994.htm

Party Building: Public Security Officials Under Intensive Training

March 20 saw the opening of boot camp training for 472 regional and municipal public security directors at the People’s Public Security University in Beijing. The Minister of Public Security taught the first lecture. The 10 day training will address social stability, the rule of law, and corruption, among other topics. The training was touted as the first since the Communist Party came to power as an important endeavor to safeguard national security and social stability. In 2009, the Ministry of Public Security held similar training for county public security directors to implement a new directive from the Communist leaders to improve party building.

Source: Xinhua, March 22, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2010-03/22/content_13220070.htm

Jia Qinglin: Increasing Political Trust Across the Strait

On March 18, Jia Qinglin, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) stressed the importance of increasing political trust between the two sides of the strait (Taiwan and Mainland China). Jia made his remarks during a meeting with the Taiwan delegation headed by Yao Eng-chi. Jia stated that it had become the mainstream opinion in Taiwan that support for the equal consultation and cooperation and peaceful relationship with Mainland China is important. The economic and financial cooperation between the two sides should proceed to a new height. Also the cultural and educational exchange should be further developed to strengthen cultural and national identity and promote cross-strait cultural, social, and thoughts and ideas integration.

The Taiwan delegation visited on the invitation of the CPPCC’s Committee for Liaison with Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese.

Source: Global Times, March 19, 2010
http://taiwan.huanqiu.com/liangan/2010-03/749790.html

Xinhua: National Defense Mobilization Implementation Act and Emergency Response Act Interrelated

According to Xinhua on February 26, 2010, the National Defense Mobilization Law approved by China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee stipulates that both the National Defense Mobilization Implementation Act and the Emergency Response Act are interrelated in terms of command, manpower, resources, information and guarantee.

Sun Zhenping, deputy head of the National Law Office of the NPC Standing Committee’s Legislative Affairs, said at a press conference in the NPC Standing Committee General Office on February 26, 2010, “This law takes full account of the two functions in the development of national mobilization: ‘responding to war’ and ‘responding to emergencies’… thus, the law stipulates the above specification.”

Source: Xinhua, February 26, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-02/26/content_13057247.htm

Beijing Calls UK Rights Report A Political Show

After visiting China, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband released a report that reviewed human rights around the world and was highly critical of Beijing. In response, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said that the report is “a political show” of ideology. Qin blamed the report for having a double standard and interfering with China’s internal affairs. 

Qin also said that all the nations singled out were developing countries. He asked why Britain did not talk about itself and other Western nations which, he said, had violated human rights.
Source: China News Service, March 18, 2010
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2010/03-18/2178096.shtml

SWAT Officer Becomes China’s New Role Model

On March 16, Hu Jintao, the President and Chair of CCP’s Central Military Commission, issued a directive to “vigorously carry forward the advanced deeds and lofty spirit of Comrade Shen Zhandong,” a SWAT officer who reportedly died from “overwork on the frontlines in maintaining stability in the Xinjiang region.” 

According to Xinhua, Shen’s death came in the early morning on January 30, when he finished his patrol mission and returned to his residence. He was posthumously awarded the "First Class Heroic Model in National Public Security Organs" and the "China Youth Medal." Zhou Yongkong, the country’s security czar, and Meng Jianzhu, the Minister of Public Security, called for national police forces to learn from Shen as another role model to advance the party’s political agenda. 
Source: Xinhua, March 16
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-03/16/content_13183450.htm