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Hong Kong based Ming Pao reported on June 28 that the latest Chinese statistics showed the government has less income from tax but is spending more. The government’s official response is to reduce spending on car purchases, receptions, officials’ visits (tours) of other countries, and construction of government buildings. However, given the massive corruption in China, it is impossible to control the government’s spending. The other option is to increase taxes, but that also presents big challenges, as the government promised the public that it would reduce the tax burden to stimulate the economy’s growth. Therefore, the government is trapped.

Source: Ming Pao, June 28, 2009
http://specials.mingpao.com/cfm/News.cfm?SpecialsID=20&News=8a449547606c739b9a24c44c2ebb40919b1dd5c4a23f11a0a804595d2eb7

According to Public Security Bureau, for the first time in history, 400 Secretaries of the Discipline Inspection Commission from the district Public Security Bureaus will take the centralized training class at the People’s Public Security University in Beijing.

Source: China Huanqui June 28, 2009
http://china.huanqiu.com/roll/2009-06/499357.html

Over three thousands representatives of the national security forces met in Beijing on June 23, marking the launch of the security work for the 60th anniversary of China’s National Day on October 1, 2009. "Beijing Public Security is the main security force and has heavy responsibilities," said Wang Anshun, Director of Beijing Public Security Bureau. “We shall take security as our most important number 1 political task, the priority overrides everything else. We will do our utmost to prevent major political incidents, violent and terrorist incidents, and major mass incidents during the National Day period to ensure the absolute security of the National Day celebrations.”

June 23, 2009 was the 100-day countdown to the 60th anniversary of the the Communist regime’s takeover of China.

Source: China News, June 23, 2009 http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2009/06-23/1746182.shtml

China will increase its classified information system’s security measures, said Xia Yong, head of the National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets (NAPSS), in order to deal with “the grim situation.” The classified information system will provide technical protection to information according to the level of confidentiality of top secret, secret and confidential. The system has set forth tight security rules that must be enforced in the classified information system.

Source: Xinhua, June 22, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-06/22/content_11582833.htm

In an interview with the People’s Daily, Zhen Xingli, Vice Chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE) revealed that CCIEE has formed a grant foundation team with the target of raising 500 million yuan by seeking financial support from corporations and enterprises. CCIEE received 5 million yuan from the Ministry of Finance as its initial funding.

Since its formation three months ago, CCIEE has provided dozens of research papers to the central administration, including topics on green recovery and expansion in exporting channels. On July 3 and 4, CCIEE will host its first "Global Think Tank Summit" in Beijing.

Source: Xinhua, June 18, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-06/18/content_11560072.htm

Global Times, under the Chinese state daily news publication Renmin, recently republished a report by the World Journal, a U.S. based Chinese language newspaper partially funded by the Chinese government. The report mentioned a manual that has been widely spread online, “western spies around Chinese people everyday,” 

The manual ranks the U.S. “anti-China” spies at the top level and Western European spies as second. Taiwanese spies under cover as “students” need attention too. It also classifies the spies into government funded and non-government funded.

Due to the fact that the West has recently increased the number of Chinese spies, the article reported that Global Times called for striking back with more exposure of foreign spies.

Source: Global Times, June 12, 2009.
http://china.huanqiu.com/eyes_on_china/military/2009-06/487124.html

Following the training session held for the chiefs of local public security bureaus, Beijing recently called for a similar training session for the wardens of prisons and labor camps as well as the party chiefs of the selected law firms.

The training session will be held at the Central Institute of Correctional Police in Baoding, Hebei Province. It will be divided into 8 sessions and will last for 65 days. According to Wu Aiying, Minister of Justice, the training will “target how to improve prison management skills as well as prevent corruption and increase the effectiveness of investigations of illegal cases.”

Source: Xinhua, June 4, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-06/04/content_11484457.htm

Deutsche Welle recently published a digest article based on a report by Friday Weekly – a Hong Kong based magazine. The report focused on female college graduates who are applying for Communist Party membership. The students believed that the structure of the Party is changing due to the fact that 30% – 50% of students apply for Party membership. Although the students generally find the Party’s theories very boring, they are interested in better job opportunities. The Party welcomes young idealists with outstanding academic records and leadership capabilities – though the students are often just acting to demonstrate these qualities.

Source: Deutsche Welle
http://www.deutsche-welle.de/dw/article/0,4307287,00.html