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The 2011 Summer Universiade is under way in Shenzhen, China. The government arranged highly tightened security for the event. For the opening ceremony, 500 families near the stadium were prohibited from staying home. They were required to leave their houses for 5 hours – for security reasons. Meanwhile, they had to leave their lights on – so the area would be well-lit for better views. If the home owners refused to leave, security officers would stay in their homes for that period. The government also established three areas in Shenzhen for security inspections. Hundreds of security inspection stations were established to allow civil-military joint checks on vehicles arriving from nearby towns and provinces. Regular helicopter patrols were scheduled and all purchases of cooking knives required the registration of the buyer’s real name. Shenzhen international airport was closed during the opening and closing ceremonies.

Source: NetEase, August 15, 2011
http://help.3g.163.com/11/0815/08/7BG3G75R00963VRO.html

China has deployed its top anti-terrorist "Snow Leopard Commando Unit” to Aksu City, 286 miles west of Xinjiang district. According to China Daily, two incidents of violence took place in the area in July, causing more than 20 deaths. On August 12, 2011, Zhang Chunxian, the head of Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang, told the media that, lately, violent attacks have occurred frequently in Xinjiang and the government needs to use both soft and hard measures to fight back.

The “Snow Leopard Commando Unit” is a special police force directly controlled by Beijing. It was formed in December 2002 and participated in the US-Russia anti-terrorist exercise in 2007. China Daily disclosed that the “Snow Leopard Commando Unit” will also handle security for the "China-Eurasia Expo," which will take place in Urumchi in the first week of September.

Source: Voice of America, August 13, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110813-CHINA-UNREST-127650223.html

According to a report from Xinhua, the People’s Supreme Court of China approved the death sentences of two Chinese deputy mayors. They were executed on July 19, 2011. Xu Manyong, the deputy mayor of Hangzhou City (the capital of Zhejiang Province), solicited and accepted bribes totaling 145 million yuan (about US$22.5 million). Jiang Renjie, the deputy mayor of Suzhou City (in Jiangsu Province), solicited and accepted bribes totalling 108 million yuan (US$17 million).

Source: Xinhua, July 19, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2011-07/19/c_121687423_2.htm

During an interview with Outlook Weekly, Zhou Xiaozheng, a professor at the Institute of Law and sociology, China’s People’s University, discussed the government’s credibility. Zhou said that China’s current lack of social integrity is primarily due to problems with the government’s integrity. According to Outlook, the integrity crisis has become the most urgent social issue in China. Zhou believes that there are serious problems of varying degrees with the integrity of the government, businesses and individuals, the most serious being the government’s integrity. “If the government is not truthful, it will be difficult for businesses to maintain their integrity, not to mention personal honesty.”

Source: Outlook Weekly, July 25, 2011
http://www.lwgcw.com/NewsShow.aspx?newsId=22249

Xi Jinping, China’s Vice President, the expected incoming paramount leader of the Chinese Communist Party, led a central government delegation to Lhasa to attend the celebration of “the 60th anniversary of China’s peaceful liberation of Tibet.” In his speech at the celebration, Xi called for the promotion of advanced socialist culture and a patriotism-based national spirit, as well as sticking to, consolidating, and expanding the patriotic united front and “carrying the struggle against the Dalai group’s separatist activities to a deeper level.” Xi praised all those who are stationed in Tibet – the PLA, the armed police, and law enforcement – as “loyal guards and strong pillars who defend the country, safeguard Tibet’s socialist development, and maintain Tibet’s social stability.”

Source: Xinhua, July 19, 2011
http://tibet.news.cn/xwzt/xzhpjf60/qzdh/wzzb.htm

  Beijing Daily recently reported that the Communist Party branch in Dongcheng District was building a grass roots structure based on a grid format, dividing the District into grid cells. The 17 streets in the District have 589 cells in which 822 Party units were created. These units further include 1,565 Party Groups that reach 37,452 Party members. The grid structure is designed to do better “social service management,” enabling Party members to have a deeper reach. Party members in each grid cell are to note down detailed information about the resident families in the cell, such as some family’s low-income status or whether some household has a water leak. It is believed that this is a new model for community self-management. 

Source: Beijing Daily, July 17, 2011
http://bjrb.bjd.com.cn/html/2011-07/17/content_426162.htm?div=-1

Xinhua published an article featuring stories of how Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members and branches inside foreign invested companies in Shanghai helped the companies pull through difficult times during the global financial crisis. A few large corporations including the U.K.’s Hamworthy, the U.S.’s Medtronic, Walmart, and Hamilton Sundstrand, Korea’s Samsung, and Finland’s Nokia Siemens Networks, have CCP branches in place in their China subsidiaries.

According to the article, “In 2004, Shanghai Foreign Service Co., Ltd, (abbreviated SFSC, a subsidiary company of Shanghai World Expo Group, which specializes in human resource management for foreign investment companies in Shanghai) assumed the function of manageing its 3,900 Chinese Communist Party members. Among the 550,000 employees of foreign invested companies, almost 10,000 are CCP members. As of end of March this year, under SFSC, there awere 407 stand-alone CCP branches in individual foreign invested companies and 88 CCP branches jointly across foreign invested companies.”

“There are more than 6,000 foreign invested companies in Suzhou City, with over 1,000 CCP organizations in place. Statistics indicate that, at the end of 2010, there were 7,300 CCP organizations in ‘two new’ types of organizations, managing 110,292 CCP members, accounting for one third of the city’s total membership.”

[Ed. note: The “two new” types of organizations refer to new economic and social organizations. Before the economic reform, CCP organizations existed in virtually all units of Chinese society. Since the reform, many new economic and social organizations, such as foreign invested companies, appeared and there were originally no CCP organization in place.]

Source: Xinhua, July 15, 2011.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-07/15/c_121671880.htm.

According to officials from the Public Security Bureau (PSB) of the Shenzhen Municipality, to prepare for the security work of the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, they have installed more than 30,000 networked category I cameras, covering all the major public spaces and important Universiade stadiums. A total of 41 game sites, 22 training sites, and 3 backups were prepared for the 2011 Summer Universiade. For the opening and closing ceremonies of the Universiade, the Shenzhen PSB implemented very strict security measures; they also set up specific security teams for the ceremonies.

Source: Nanfang Daily, July 14, 2011
http://gd.nfdaily.cn/content/2011-07/14/content_26673126.htm