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PLA Daily: China Should Guide the Public’s View of War

People’s Liberation Army Daily called for proactive guidance of the public’s view of war to ensure “the masses, the party, and armed forces maintain a high degree of unity in terms of ideology.” “The Public’s view of war" is an awareness that the masses can widely influence the public’s general knowledge and basic attitude toward war. “Particularly in national defense education activities, the Marxist view of war is an important component to be explained and spread in a comprehensive systematic and lively manner, to help the public have a more scientific knowledge and attitude on war activities, so as to lay a solid foundation for further improvement of the quality of national defense, and for curbing and winning future wars.”

Source: Xinhua, March 4, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-03/04/content_13093575.htm

National People’s Congress Passes National Defense Mobilization Act

On February 26, 2010, the thirteenth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress passed the National Defense Mobilization Act. The Act provides for national defense mobilization leadership structure, reserve personnel enlistment, strategic materials deployment, and war disaster prevention and relief. According to the legislation, the National Defense Mobilization Act should link up with the Emergency Contingency plan in terms of command, man power, information, and logistics. 

In case of war, the NPC Standing Committee determines nationwide or partial mobilization; the President proclaims the mobilization order; and the State Council and CCP’s Central Military Commission jointly lead the mobilization work. 
Source: China News Service, February 26, 2010 
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2010/02-26/2141293.shtml

CCP Implementing Quality Assurance Certification in Grass-Roots Party Branches

Ninyang County in Shandong Province has in place a quality assurance certification process for its party branches. As of end of 2009, 983 of the 1,486 party branches in the county received AAA certifications. Certification covers five areas: organizational structure, institutionalization of implementing party directives and duties, membership build-up and records keeping. The process includes self-inspection, application for certification, review by higher party organizations and final scoring. The total score is 1,000. 800 or above is certified AAA, 750 to 800 AA, and 700 to 750 A. No certification is given for any below 700.

Source: Xinhua, February 19, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-02/19/content_13006832.htm

MII Publishing Website Registration Information Validation Work Plan

The Ministry of Industry and Information (MII) has issued a directive to all local communications administration offices in China to accelerate efforts to fortify website registration information. The plan claims that companies and individuals may register websites. 

Any individual, who is a future website owner, has to provide an original copy of his identification card, or his household register, military officer card, Taiwan compatriot travel certificate, or foreign passport as an alternative. The individual owner will also be photographed and his photo kept on record.

MII claimed the goal is to control the online pornography industry. VOA reported that human rights activists see it as political tightening to restrict website owners from criticizing the government.

Sources:

1. China News Service, February 23, 2010
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/it/it-itxw/news/2010/02-23/2132878.shtml
2. Voice of America, February 24, 2010
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/CHINATIGHTENSINTERNETCONTROL-20100224-85190912.html

China Will Continue Its Loose Monetary Policy

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting to review the State Council’s “Report On the Work of the Government.” 

The report outlined the economic direction for 2010, which calls for continuing to implement the proactive fiscal policy and moderate, loose monetary policy in an effort to maintain the continuity and stability of the government policies. 

On one hand, the government should keep up enough policy efforts to consolidate the good momentum of economic recovery, but on the other hand, it should also speed up the adjustment of the economic structure and promote the transition mode of economic development.

Source: Xinhua, February 22, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-02/22/content_13026203.htm

Qiushi: Corruption is the Enemy of the Ruling Party in Times of Peace

As the official periodical of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee, Qiushi is the Chinese Communist Party’s core publication. In a recent issue of Qiushi, the article “On Alert for Dangers in Peaceful Times: The Key is Anti-corruption” underscores fighting against corruption: 

"Throughout human history, although every regime change has had complex external causes … such as foreign invasions and natural disasters, internally they are related to the corruption of those in power. … When the corruption was serious and directly hurt the vital interests of the majority of the people, there were riots, revolutions, and regime changes. " 
"… analyzing the lessons learned from the loss of power of Communist parties in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe countries, one can learn this: any ruling political party and political group is facing the danger of losing power. In peaceful periods, the danger is mainly from within the party.” 
Source: Qiushi, February 16, 2010 
http://www.qstheory.cn/zxdk/2010/201004/201002/t20100209_20826.htm

Hu Jintao: Accelerating Transformation of the Mode of Economic Development

From February 3 to 7, 2010, senior provincial Party leaders attended a workshop at the Party School of The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. Hu Jintao and other members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo spoke at the workshop about how to speed up transforming the mode of economic development. He stated that the key to the transformation is to "speed up" and bring results. Wen Jiabao emphasized that only by speeding up the transformation can China better cope with predictable and unpredictable international risks, and constantly improve the international competitiveness of China’s economy. Xi Jianping highlighted the urgency of strengthening the efforts to grow the Party to ensure success in the transformation.

Source: Xinhua, February 12, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-02/12/content_12977549.htm

Party Directive: Party to Focus on Establishing Study Groups

The General office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has issued a new directive on Party growth. “Study-oriented Party organizations are the foundation of a Marxist-study Party,” it says. The Party organizations are called upon “to conduct in-depth studies of Marxist theory, of the Party’s line, of principles and policies and State laws, of the Party’s history, and of the knowledge needed for modernization, and to achieve new results in arming the mind, guiding the practice, and promoting the work.”

Source: People’s Daily, February 9, 2010
http://theory.people.com.cn/GB/10956975.html