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Thousands of Local Government Representative Offices in Beijing to be Shut down

According to Xinhua, the Beijing authorities just issued a new red-letter directive that mandates the shutdown of several thousand representative offices in Beijing in the next 6 months. Currently there are 52 Beijing offices representing provincial level governments, 520 representing municipal level governments and over 5,000 representing county level governments. The number of representative offices exceeds 10,000 if it includes those for various government organizations, and liaison offices of state-owned enterprises. The assets of these representative offices totaled 10 billion yuan in 2001.

The function as outlined by the new directive for the representative offices includes carrying out tasks assigned by the Communist Party committees from the sending location, and by the Communist Party Central Committee and the State. Notably, these offices should assist the Beijing municipal government in maintaining social stability in Beijing.

Source: Xinhua, January 24, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-01/24/content_12863841.htm

Promote the Communist Party Organization in Private Businesses

A leadership group for Party development in private businesses was formed in Huaibei City, Anhui Province. In a letter to all private business owners in the city, the group demanded that the Party development in private firms should be the responsibility of Party organizations of all levels.

Party members working in those firms are called on to take the lead and become role models.

In Huaibei, as of December 2009, 217 new party branches had been set up in private companies; 184 party members who disappeared into private companies were recovered.

Source: Xinhua, January 16, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-01/16/content_12820553.htm

Chinese Communist Party’s Spokesperson System

At the end of the year 2009, the State Council’s press conference announced an “important task initiating a press release system in 2010: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee’s spokesperson system.” 

Over the past months, efforts of the pilot project were already put into place in local level party committees. On December 29, 2009, the CCP’s Nanjing Committee held its first press conference, with 117 spokespersons at various branches of the city’s CCP agencies showing up. In October and November, press conferences of the same nature were launched in Meishan City and Changsha City. 
Ever since 2006, five agencies in the CCP’s Central Committee have set up a spokesperson system: the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the United Front Work Department, the International Liaison Department, the Party Literature Research Centre, and the Taiwan Affairs Office. It’s believed that the growing spokesperson system in the CCP system is another measure to dominate public opinion and maintain social stability. 
Source: Xinhua, January 14, 2010 
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-01/14/content_12806960.htm

Xi Jinping: Recruit Outstanding Intellectuals and College Students into the Party

On December 24, 2009, a national working conference regarding the CCP’s development inside colleges and universities was held in Beijing by the CCP Central Committee’s Organization Department, Propaganda Department, and Education Department.  Vice President Xi Jinping, met the representatives of the attendees and gave a speech prior to the meeting according to Xinhua.

Xi stressed the importance of the Party building at higher education under the new situation. A university (or college) president, who must be under the leadership of the university Party Committee, has the administrative power. It is important to use the Chinese style socialist theoretical system to educate teachers and students and recruit outstanding intellectuals and college students into the Party.

Source: Xinhua, December 24, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-12/24/content_12700534.htm

Wang Shenjun: Continue the Judicial Reforms Based on China’s Situations

A symposium on Judicial Reforms vs. China’s Situation was held in Beijing on December 29, 2009, according to Xinhua. Wang Shenjun, the chief justice of the Supreme Court attended the symposium and delivered a speech.
 
Wang stressed that building a socialist judicial system must be based on China’s situation. It is necessary to correctly handle the relationship between China’s situation and the judicial reforms. 

Source: Xinhua, December 29, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2009-12/29/content_12725463.htm

Meng Jianzhu Addresses Armed Police

At a meeting of Party officials of the armed police force, Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu gave a speech emphasizing the force’s absolute loyalty to the Party, the continuous buildup work of Party organizations, and the improved capacity of handling emergent social unrest. 

Source: Ministry of Public Security, January 8, 2009
http://www.mps.gov.cn/n16/n1237/n1342/n803680/2271940.html

Xi Jinping Texting One Million Party Cadres

“On behalf of the Central Committee of the Party, I am extending my cordial greetings to the nationwide grass-roots Party secretaries and college graduate village officials.” On January 5, 2010, Xi Jinping, China’s Vice President and a member of Politburo Standing Committee, sent the above text message to cell phones of one million local-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres. 

The message marks the launch of the mobile phone information system for national grass-roots Party development work. The system, with a collection of one million cell phone numbers belonging to CCP officials at the province, city, township, and village levels, has been initiated to build up Party organizations through the use of modern technologies. 
Source: china.com.cn, January 6, 2010 
http://www.china.com.cn/news/txt/2010-01/06/content_19190206.htm

China Implementing Party Committee Spokesperson System

Advancing the party committee spokesperson system will be a major task for the development of a systematic press release system in 2010, said Wang Chen, director of the State Council Information Office.

“To establish the party committee spokesperson system” was mentioned for the first time in the “Decision” of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Party committees, from the local level to the central committees, should increase the release of information, using press releases, media interviews, and other approaches to publish information about party activities.

As of now, several local party committees including Changsha City, Hunan Province, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, and central committees including the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, the Department of Organization, and the Department of United Front Work have already established a spokesperson system.

Source: Xinhua, December 29, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-12/29/content_12723244.htm