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
Global Times, under Chinese state daily news People’s Daily, reported that a former Canadian diplomat suggested that Canadians should not be fooled by Chinese illusion. Former senior diplomat Brian McAdams, an expert on Chinese mafia and spy activities, has been working in the diplomatic field for 30 years in Europe, and the Middle East and Far East.
Now an international consultant, Brian suggested that the West has been fooled by five Chinese “illusions”: (1) Canada benefits from trade with China; (2) China has 1.3 billion consumers; (3) China is embracing democracy; (4) China improved on the human rights front; (5) China is friendly. None of these is true, he believes. As an example, Chinese spying activities in Canada is “startling”
Source: Global Times, September 10, 2008.
http://china.huanqiu.com/eyes_on_china/politics/2008-09/221817.html
From July 21 to 26, the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Education organized a group of 100 college-level Ideology and Politics teachers from 31 cities to tour Shanghai and Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Their mission was to utilize concrete examples from the tour so as to rationalize the theories related to the socialist path such as “why we should insist on walking the socialist path with Chinese characteristics,” “why we should guard the socialistic core value system,” “how can we demonstrate the superior quality of the socialist system among all the different types of economic ownership.”
The trip “helped the college Ideology and Politics teachers to witness and gain confidence in socialistic theory with Chinese characteristics,” which allows them to “envision the future and strengthened their sense of responsibility.”
Source: Xinhua, August 18, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-08/18/content_11905267.htm
Concerned over the lack of party spirit among second generation civil enterprise owners, the Organization Department of Jiangsu Province said it will launch a training program which will cover 1000 second generation private business owners over the next two years. The selection criteria for the trainees are those who are 40 or younger, at a minimum have a college education, solid political background, strong management skills, a good public image and potential development qualities. The first wave of a seven-day training class will start with 50 people including Gao Xiaodong, the son of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bosideng, the largest down apparel company in China.
According to the Organization Department of Jiangsu Province, private businesses account for 51.3 percent of the businesses in Jiangsu Province. It said “the training of second generation business owners for them to quickly step up to a leading role has become the biggest wish of those business owners as well as a vital need for the party’s development work in private businesses.”
Source: Guangmin Net, August 18, 2009
http://www.gmw.cn/content/2009-08/18/content_965270.htm