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Zhou Yongkang: Enhance the Capability to Safeguard National Security and Social Stability

At a national symposium of provincial police chiefs in Shanghai on May 22, 2011, China’s top policeman Zhou Yongkang gave “important instructions” summarizing “precious experience” gained at major events in recent years, including the Beijing Olympic Games, the Shanghai World Expo, the Guangzhou Asian Games, and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. 

Zhou, a member of the Politburo standing committee and head of the Communist Party’ Political and Legislative Committee, said at the symposium, “The police should adapt to changes in international and domestic situations, master general patterns, and build a strong public security force that uses innovative ideas and improved mechanisms so as to improve their ability to safeguard national security and social stability.”

Source: Xinhua, May 22, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2011-05/22/c_121445032.htm

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Grassroots Party Secretaries Trained to Improve Social Management Skills

Starting on May 18, 2011, in Beijing, over 120 nationwide Communist Party chiefs at the grassroots level – counties, villages, street neighborhoods, and communities – attended a training session on social management. Senior Party cadres were invited to give talks on policies and share experiences. Li Yuanchao, a Politburo member and head of the CCP’s Organization Department, emphasized that the focus of social management is being placed at the local level and that grassroots Party secretaries are required to improve their social management skills and demonstrate leadership roles in grassroots social organizations.

Source: Xinhua, May 19, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-05/19/c_13882817.htm

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Guarding Stability, Top Priority for Beijing’s Armed Police

Liu Qi, a Politburo member and the Communist Party’s chief of Beijing, watched the military exercises performed by the People’s Armed Police (PAP) in Beijing. Liu urged the PAP to “carefully study the situation and characteristics of maintaining stability in the capital, and vigorously step up training and readiness.” 

Liu pointed out a few “outstanding issues” in social harmony and “multiple factors” that affect stability. “Creating a stable environment to welcome the CCP’s 90th anniversary and ensuring a successful 18th National Congress of the CCP” are PAP’s top political priorities.

Source: Beijing Daily, May 21, 2011
http://bjrb.bjd.com.cn/html/2011-05/21/content_403673.htm

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Ministry of Health Issues Emergency Response Plan on Poisoning Incidents

On May 20, 2011, the Ministry of Health issued an “Emergency Response Plan on Poisoning Incidents.” The plan’s purpose is to “effectively control sudden incidents of poisoning and any damage they may cause, and to minimize the hazardous impact on public health.” 

The plan requires that all levels of the health authorities be equipped with emergency response equipment, schedule periodic professional trainings and drills, and establish an expert team that can issue warnings, recommend preparation, assess the severity of incidents, and advise on response measures. The plan also classifies the poisoning incidents by the extent and scope of the damage, and calls for setting up a real time monitoring and reporting mechanism. Health authorities at county-and-above levels are required to carry out a risk assessment of the damages that poisonous materials and poisoning incidents cause to public health .

Source: Xinhua, May 20, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/health/2011-05/20/c_121440343.htm

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Red Culture Finds Its Way into Chinese Prisons

China’s megacity of Chongging, famous for spearheading the promotion and renewal of the old-style communist culture from the 1960’s and 1970’s, is now moving the campaign into prisons. As Chongqing Daily reported on May 11, 2011, Liu Guanglei, a top CCP official in the city, visited several local prisons to evaluate the progress of the program to introduce “red culture into the prisons and detention centers.” The officials believe the program is “capable of having a powerful re-education effect on the detainees.” 

Prison detainees were reported singing “red” songs and reciting “red” poems. According to Liu, “In the past, re-education through labor focused on physical labor. It is now necessary to adopt a wide-range of re-education tactics, with ideological transformation being the most important.” He also suggested incorporating the prisoners’ participation in “red cultural” activities into their performance ratings and using it as a measure to determine “awards, term reductions, or release on parole.”

Source：website of Chongqing Daily, May 13, 2011
http://cq.cqnews.net/html/2011-05/13/content_6327153.htm

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Ministry of Public Security to Tighten Control of the Migrant Population

The Ministry of Public Security recently held a conference in Beijing to further strengthen control of the migrant population. Meng Jianzhu, the Minister of Public Security, stressed the importance of managing the migrant population and called it “part of renovating the social management effort and an important part of the measures to ensure social stability and harmony.” 

The Ministry called for stepping up the work to collect population information, build a comprehensive intelligence platform, regularly visit the migrant population to exert dynamic control, standardize the population’s registration, and manage well the rental housing facilities and local communities.

Source: Ministry of Public Security, May 13, 2011
http://www.mps.gov.cn/n16/n1237/n1342/n803680/2776570.html

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Every Effort Needed to Safeguard the Capital City’s Security and Stability

On April 29, 2011, at a meeting with grassroots Party secretaries in Beijing, Liu Qi, Beijing city’s Party chief, called for “every effort to safeguard the capital city’s security and stability.” Liu stated, “Incidents of social conflict remains frequent. Some people with ulterior motives, inside and outside of China, use the Internet and other means in an attempt to create trouble. Potential problems of public security cannot be ignored. We must maintain high vigilance, effectively tighten security and stability, solidly do a good job maintaining stability, and make a great effort to safeguard the capital’s security and stability.” 

Liu also stressed the religious work, “We must strengthen propaganda and education in the Marxist views on religion and the Party’s policies on religion. … (We must) ensure that the leadership in religious organizations is in the hands of those who love the nation and the religion (Ed: meaning ‘those who are loyal to the CCP’).”

Source: Beijing Daily, April, 30, 2011
http://bjrb.bjd.com.cn/html/2011-04/30/content_396262.htm

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Why Wealthy Chinese Citizens Emigrate

According to an Economic Observer article, there are two reasons why wealthy Chinese people choose to move to countries such as the United States and Canada: One, living standards, including education, welfare benefits, lower taxes, clean air, a stable investment environment, and healthy food. Two, a knot in their hearts related to concerns for personal safety, wealth security, and a lack of confidence in the future. “Many rich people are in a vile environment, where if they do not do evil, they cannot survive, so they have to do evil. As they continue to do evil, they fear that one day they will be caught and lose everything. Hence they choose to leave home and start over again in a different country. However, their departure has left the society with an empty hole: they left because of dissatisfaction with society and yet their departure has generated a lot of resentment toward them.”

Source: Economic Observer, April 22, 2011
http://www.eeo.com.cn/observer/shelun/2011/04/22/199565.shtml

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