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On October 30, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Ministry of Supervision website published the results of the anti-corruption initiative regarding the international pursuit of stolen goods. Since the office for the international pursuit of stolen goods was set up under the Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group in 2014, China has launched the special actions of “Skynet 2015” and “Skynet 2016.” As of September 2016, more than 2210 fugitives, including 363 government staff members, had been captured and returned to China from 70 countries and regions. The amount recovered was 7.994 billion yuan (US$1.18 billion). Among the Interpol issued red arrest warrants for 100 suspected criminals who were government workers, 35 have been arrested. A total of 19 were returned from Western developed countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The 100 red warrant suspects came from 23 provinces and cities. Most of them were from Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and other coastal provinces in the southeast.

Source: People’s Daily, October 31, 2016
http://legal.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1031/c42510-28819554.html

One of the most trusted Hong Kong polling organizations, HK Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), recently released the results of a scientific poll on emigration. The key finding of the survey was that around two-fifths (38.9 percent) of respondents indicated they would emigrate to other places if they got the chance. A further analysis to break down the tendency of emigration by age group or level of education indicated that younger people (aged 18-30: 57.0 percent) had a higher tendency to emigrate. More people with a college or above education (53.8 percent) indicated their intention to emigrate. The most preferred destinations, ranked by popularity, were Taiwan (16.3 percent), Australia (15.2 percent), and Canada (13.8 percent). The top motivating factors for emigration among those inclined to move were “dissatisfaction with the government and the high-ranking government officials” (11.0 percent), “overcrowded living conditions” (10.5 percent), “too much political disputing / social cleavage” (10.3 percent), and “slow economic growth or poor economic prospects” (10.3 percent).

Source: CUHK Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, October 11, 2016
http://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/tc/press_detail.php?id=2364

Xinhua recently reported that, according to data that the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) released, 81 percent of the new medicine registration submissions were denied because the clinical trial data submitted was false. A large amount of the analytical data had no differential tracks, some data lacked trace-ability, some omitted records of adverse reactions, and some data got modified to meet “expectations.” The entire chain in the medical industry has been identified as problematic. This chain includes medicine manufacturers, medicine wholesalers and retailers, doctors, and government inspection and administrative units. This situation is not news – it has been there for years. Research that the Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology conducted in 2013 showed that 85.7 percent of the medicine trial data was found to be “irregular” and the research project found no issues in only one seventh of the organizations conducting trials. Some medicine company owners expressed their anger over the fact that they are “punished” by having to follow a strict and ethical standard – their costs are too high to compete and it actually takes a longer time to obtain approval if they don’t take the “shortcuts.”

Source: Xinhua, September 20, 2016
http://news.xinhuanet.com/yuqing/2016-09/20/c_129288865.htm

According to an article that Xinhua published on October 2, the statistics that the public security bureau released reveal that telecommunication scam cases have grown 20 to 30 percent each year in China. In 2015 there were 590,000 reported telecommunication scam cases, which resulted in financial losses of 222 trillion yuan (US$33.45 trillion). Most of the cases involve scams such as claiming lottery numbers; tax refunds or rebate benefits; unsecured bank accounts, and court orders. Some of those who commit such scams have moved overseas and now operate in such foreign countries as Laos, Taiwan, or Indonesia.

Source: Xinhua, October 2, 2016                                                                                                                                   http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2016-10/02/c_129309678.htm

On September 23, BBC Chinese reported that a non-profit organization known as the “Speech NPO” conducted a survey of residents of Japan. The survey done in 2016 showed that 90 percent of the Japanese respondents had a poor impression of China which was compared to the results from the previous year.

The organization has published reports on such public opinion surveys between China and Japan for the past 12 years.

On the Japanese side, the survey company sent out questionnaires to 2,000 business operators, academicians, media workers and civil servants. The results from 477 respondents were analyzed. On the Chinese side, the results were based on telephone interviews of 612 people.

Among the Japanese respondents, 91.6 percent of those respondents surveyed had a poor perception of China, a slight increase from 88.8 percent the previous year; 76.7 percent of the Chinese respondents did not feel good about Japan, which was down slightly from 78.3 percent the previous year.

The main reason for the poor perception from both sides is the territorial dispute.

Source: BBC Chinese, September 23, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/world/2016/09/160923_japan_china_survey