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The Central Committee General Office released the document, “The 2009-2013 education training initiative for CCP party members.” The initiative covers five years of training for the grass roots party members.

The primary training topics include, “constantly placing education about the theory of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics as the top priority;” party guidelines, basic principals, history, policy, and tasks; rules and laws; party regulations and styles; and business knowledge and technical training skills. It will focus on a few programs that target the countryside Party secretaries, new party members, college graduates taking countryside leadership positions, and party members who are facing employment challenges.

Source: China News, July 26, 2009
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2009/07-26/1790992.shtml

According to a survey released by Xinhua, half of the presidents of the provincial supreme people’s courts lack training in the law. Many of them are leaders of local governments, the Party or the People’s Congress. This happens because the Communist Party controls the entire judicial system. Appointing Party officials to the position of president of the provincial supreme courts is a demonstration of the party’s leadership over the administration of justice. Wang Shengjun, President of the National Supreme Court, is also the Party secretary of the National Supreme Court. In that capacity, he doubles as the Chief Justice. Wang recently stated in his article in the Party’s Qiu Shi journal that Chinese courts must uphold the supremacy of the cause of the Party, the people’s interests and the Constitution.

Source: Voice of America, July 21, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2009-07-21-voa42.cfm

Xinhua reported that Xi Jinping, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Vice President of China, implicitly criticized Xinjiang Party officials as being responsible for the unrest, especially the events of July 5. Xinhua linked the two studies that Xi Jinping conducted recently, one in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region from June 17 to 21, and the other in Liaoning Province from July 6 to 8.

The article states, “Xi Jinping repeatedly stated ‘The key to resolve the Xinjiang issue is the Communist Party’ (in Xinjiang). In fewer than 20 days he has repeatedly urged strengthening the Party (and stated) ‘the cadre team is the most important’ (in Liaoning this time). Especially since Xi conducted research in Liaoning after the Urumqi, Xinjiang riot on July 5, we can see the high expectations the Party’s Central Committee has for cadre teams to have a strong ideological grounding, good moral standards, good administrative ability and a solid work style.”

Source: Xinhua, July 9, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-07/09/content_11680693.htm

Study Times, a newspaper by the CCP Central Party School, recently published an article on food safety. The article mentioned frequent food safety accidents that have occurred in recent years, which became a problem of wide concern for the entire society.

The article concluded that the government lost control of the issue and that the loss of control had three aspects: supervisory organizations were behind the offending technologies; the government’s control was not effective and credible due to limited resources; usually the local government gave some level of protection to offenders.

Source: Study Times, July 6, 2009.
http://www.studytimes.com.cn/WebPage/ny1.aspx?act=1&id=2766&nid=10036&bid=4&page=1

Xinhua carried a commentary by the International Herald which reaffirmed the policy to maintain overall control of the Internet. It referred to the recent “July 5 Riot” as an example and attributed the cause of the riot to overseas separatists who used the Internet to stir up and control activities inside of China. It also suggested a need for domestic developed online communities such as “Google,” “Facebook,” and “Twitter,” so that the government (the party) can systematically and actively manage the Internet’s contents.

Source: Xinhua, July 17, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/herald/2009-07/17/content_11723116.htm

Xinhua reported that, in order to create an absolutely secure environment during the 60th anniversary celebration of the Communist Regime, on June 30, Beijing Police initiated a 60-day Operation, “Frightening Thunder.” The operation employs a large number of police in plain clothes, to target gangsters in entertainment facilities (though normally the police protect gangsters, the police operation serves the higher political purpose of protecting the security of the 60th anniversary celebration – Ed). Xinhua reported that, in 10 days, the Beijing police solved 1519 criminal cases, arrested 1095 suspects and cracked down on 51 gangster groups.

Source:
[1] Xinhua, July 1, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/local/2009-07/01/content_11630725.htm
[2] Xinhua, July 15, 2009
http://bj.xinhuanet.com/bjpd_bjzq/2009-07/15/content_17102396.htm

According to Xinhua, as the media increases its coverage of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Communist China, “some politically sensitive issues are surfacing.” It is a convention to separate the 60 years of the  communist regime into the first 30 years (Mao Zedong’s era, with strong ideological control and poor economic development, but little corruption and social problems) versus the second 30 years (the Revolution and Opening up era, with strong economic growth but uncontrollable corruption and social problems). Xinhua stated that the authorities have informed the media that they should not use the first 30 years to belittle the second 30 years, and vice versa. Reports should use each period to justify the other one.

Also, each of the 30 years has its own theoretical basis. The Mao Zedong Thought vs. the Chinese Characteristic of Socialism (and they are in nature different from each other). According to the Party’s Central Committee’s request, reports should handle well the relationship between the two theories. The top leader has instructed that in-depth research should be done to find the connection between the two.

Source: Xinhua, July 13, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-07/13/content_11700924.htm

Xinhua recently published a report quoting experts’ opinions, suggesting that it’s time for Chinese leaders to establish a global vision of overall strategy covering both domestic and international aspects. The recent global financial crisis offered a major opportunity in the reshuffling process of the international financial order.

When the Reform started 30 years ago, China could only join the “games” and obey the established rules. Now China is the third largest economy and feels more and more about the restrictions set by those existing rules. Facing today’s international rule-changing opportunity, China should stand up for Chinese interests and build a strong base for the decades to come.

Source: Xinhua, July 1, 2009.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-07/01/content_11633180_1.htm