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Ministry of Health Issues Guidelines for the Risk Assessment of Health Related Social Emergencies

In order to implement the State Council’s requirements for increasing control over social stability, the Chinese Ministry of Health recently released a Guideline on assessing the risks of health related social emergencies. The Guideline includes seven features: (1) acknowledging the importance of health related risk assessment; (2) the basic requirements of the assessments; (3) the scope of the Guideline, especially for events triggering large scale social emergencies; (4) key assessment areas such as “controllability;” (5) the organizational and responsibility structures of the assessment system; (6) the fundamental procedures for the assessment process; (7) measuring the quality of the assessment. The Ministry requires all the branches under its administration to move rapidly to implement the Guideline. According to the Guideline, those responsible for triggering large scale group petitions or other group events will be punished.

Source: Ministry of Health, January 5, 2011
http://www.moh.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/mohbgt/s3589/201101/50484.htm

66,000 Visited Yonghegong Lamasery on Day One of the Chinese New Year

Beijing News reported that, on February 3, 2011, the first day of the Chinese New Year, around 66,000 Beijing residents visited Yonghegong Lamasery, the largest Tibetan Buddhist lamasery temple in inner China. Most of the visitors came to pray for blessings and to make wishes. In order to light the “first stick of incense,” some people started waiting in line outside the lamasery at 10 p.m. the night before, despite very cold weather in Beijing. There were 4.8% more visitors this year than last.

Source: Beijing News, February 4, 2011
http://news.bjnews.com.cn/2011/0204/107514.shtml

Huaqiao University Indoctrinates Foreign Students with CCP Revolution History

Huaqiao University recently organized a winter camp for its foreign students to visit CCP historical revolutionary sites — Yan’n in Shaanxi Province and Xibaipo in Hebei Province. Both served as the capital city of the CCP during its war against the Kuomintang that eventually led to the CCP seizing power in China. ”During this trip, foreign students were indoctrinated with China’s revolutionary history and learned about the hardships endured when the CCP leaders created a brand new China.” “China’s revolution was not by accident; it was the result of many soldiers giving up their lives.”

In English, Huaqiao means “Overseas Chinese.” Huaqiao University is directly under the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council. Its students are from overseas Chinese families.

Source: China News Service, January 30, 2011
http://www.chinanews.com/hwjy/2011/01-30/2822310.shtml

Nationwide Training Planned by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security

Guangming Daily recently reported that China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced a three-year national training plan involving 3000 county-level directors of the Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security. This will implement the requirements set forth by the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which called for massive training plans across all government branches. It is believed that the county-level directors play an important role in solving social problems and maintaining social stability. The content of the training focuses on government policies, international and domestic political studies, social crisis management, fighting corruption, etc.

Source: Guangming Daily, January 28, 2011
http://epaper.gmw.cn/gmrb/html/2011-01/28/nw.D110000gmrb_20110128_6-10.htm?div=-1

China’s Police Armed with New Communication Technology

The Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China published a report on January 13, 2011, originally from its own newspaper www.cpd.com.cn, regarding new policies, rules, and technological improvements recently taken by either a provincial Public Security Department or a Municipal Public Security Bureau in China.

For example, the Lanzhou Municipal Security Bureau in Gansu Province has recently upgraded its Command Center. A large display screen is connected to 4200 city roads, "social order" monitoring points, and traffic control points. The Command Center can send out police officers quickly, according to the situation, to wherever the police are currently located.

Source: The Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China, January 13, 2011
http://www.mps.gov.cn/n16/n1237/n1342/n803715/2666879.html

Poverty Lies behind the Rising Consumption of Luxury Goods

Behind the increase in luxury brands, China’s manufacturing industry is silently creating poverty, said Twenty-first Century. Per Goldman Sachs, China is becoming the second largest consumer of luxury goods. With consumption in 2010 at $6.5 billion, luxury goods scored the fastest growth three years in a row. The Ministry of Commerce predicts that, by 2014, China will become the largest market for luxury goods in the world, accounting for 23% of the market share. However, “this may be a blessing for luxury brand names, but not for improving China’s domestic demand,” said the article. “Residential consumption in GDP spending has been on the decline every year, while government consumption is rising consistently. … Booming luxury consumption now has become a symbol of the gap between the rich and poor, and of sluggish domestic demand. It is very worrisome.”

Source: Twenty-first Century, December 30, 2010
http://www.21cbh.com/HTML/2010-12-30/yNMDAwMDIxMzcyNQ.html

Xinhua: Theme-based Education Planned for the Political Judicial System

The Political and Judiciary Commission of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party decided that, in 2011, theme-based educational training activities will be planned to deal with significant issues of beliefs, goals, and the law-enforcement attitudes of the “Political Judicial System” personnel. “Lecture groups” will be formed to tour the country to promote “revolutionary traditions, ideals, and beliefs.” Self-regulation activities will be encouraged to ease the people’s severe complaints about the laxity in law-enforcement and the unfairness in sentencing. The mission is to ensure that the people believe justice is “right there. “ Meanwhile, the planned campaign is to get serious about effectuating police discipline. “Zero tolerance” will be enforced in cases involving the abuse of power. The police will also be required to take reports from the masses seriously.

Source: Xinhua, December 20, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2010-12/21/c_12900764.htm

Urgent Need to Solve the Problem of Social Injustice in China

Study Times, a newspaper published by the Party School of the Central Committee of the CCP, published an article discussing the urgent need to solve the problem of serious social injustice in China. According to the article, social injustice is becoming more serious among most social groups in China. The younger generation, e.g., the “Rich 2nd Generation” and the “Poor 2nd Generation” has also inherited it. If China does not solve the problem of social injustice now, it may be too late.

China’s per capital GDP has reached U.S. $3,600 based on the foreign exchange rate in 2009. Thus it has the necessary economic foundation to enhance social justice by establishing a basic social security system. The article concludes that China must not miss the current opportunity to establish a basic social security system.

Source: Study Times, December 27, 2010
http://www.studytimes.com.cn:9999/epaper/xxsb/html/2010/12/27/01/01_30.htm