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Xinhua News Agency and the Bank of China signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement on August 31, 2009. Under the agreement, the cooperative effort will encompass the establishment of a platform for financial information and corporate, as well as personal, financial services. Lu Wei, vice-president of Xinhua stated that the cooperation is a strategic move to ensure national economic security and enhance the financial competitiveness of the State.

Source: Xinhua, August 31, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-08/31/content_11972878.htm

Class opened for the first group of presidents of lower courts on September 1, 2009, at the National Judges College in Beijing. 235 of them will undergo intensive training in the next two weeks on domestic and international politics and economic situations. The “Curriculum has been developed to include special forums and seminars on how to deal with sudden incidents and social unrest.” In the next 12 months, there will be 15 two-week classes, each with 230 attendees to train a total of 3,500 presidents of lowers courts.

Source: Xinhua, September 2, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/local/2009-09/02/content_11981255.htm

Study Times, a newspaper by CCP Central Party School, recently published an article on a point made by Wang Jisi, Dean of the College of International Relations, Beijing University. Wang suggested that establishing a nation’s image is an exercise for self molding instead of something set by other people.

Wang believes the media in the West demonize everybody, not just China. That’s the nature of Western media. Reports on China represent only a very small percentage of the coverage in the West. A nation full of satisfied citizens will automatically have a good international image. In recent years, a large number of Chinese people have ignored indexes reflecting happiness and social justice. Too many people have focused on GDP, which does not have a direct relationship to the quality of people’s lives. China should bravely face the mistakes made in the past.

Source: Study Times, Issue 14, 2009.
http://www.studytimes.com.cn/WebPage/ny1.aspx?act=0&id=2872&bid=12

Xinhua’s commentary concluding Hu Jintao’s recent trip to Xinjiang suggested that the key to government work in Xinjiang is reform development as well as unity for stability. It also listed “three unshakable grounds,” which are "focusing on economic development," "ensuring social stability," and "insisting on unity and prosperous growth together."

Source: Xinhua, August 27, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-08/27/content_11955307.htm

Liu Yunshan, Director of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee spoke at the teleconference on further promoting the "national unity" education programs. He called for promotion of the unity education programs to establish "an inseparable tie between Han ethnic and the minority ethnic" so as to safeguard the unity of all ethnic groups and enhance social harmony.

Source: China News, August, 25, 2009
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/edu/edu-zcdt/news/2009/08-25/1832910.shtml

According to Nanfang Daily, out of the 32 female officials serving as either the Secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Mayor, or commissioner of an administrative office, 21 of them have worked for the Youth League of the Chinese Communist Party.

Source: Nanfang Daily, August 23, 2009
http://www.nanfangdaily.com.cn/nfjx/200908230024.asp

The City of Jinan, Shandong Province has issued new regulations to rein in overseas trips by government officials and to curtail trips for pleasure on the government accounts. The high-ranking officials must file trip information with the Party disciplinary committees. (Ed: It has been an uncontrollable phenomenon in China that the government officials travel overseas for pleasure using public funds. Many officials also escaped from China in this way when they felt they were about to be arrested for corruption charges.)

Source: China News Services, August 23, 2009
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2009/08-23/1830382.shtml

Politburo member and head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of the China Central Committee, Li Yuanchao, spoke recently on the key role that the Party organizations play in State-owned enterprises. “To maximize the core position of the Party organizations in state-owned enterprises, we need to institutionalize its role. The set up, functions and tasks of the Party organizations must be part of the management system of these enterprises, so that the central role of the political party is organized, institutionalized and specific. Party organizations should be involved in the decision-making on major issues together with the Board, and thus perfect the mechanism for effective participation in decision-making by the Party organizations.”

Source: The Communist Party of China, August 19, 2009
http://cpc.people.com.cn/GB/64093/64103/9890693.html