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Qiushi: The Party’s leadership Oversees All Court Work

On October 16, 2011, Qiushi, a Journal of the CCP Central Committee, published an article titled “The Formation of the Socialist Legal System with Chinese Characteristics and the Historic Mission of the People’s Court.” The article emphasized the importance of the Chinese Communist Party’s leadership over all court work and the importance of building up grass-roots Party organization branches throughout the court system.

“(We should not waver in our) socialist legal concept of the Party’s leadership. Use the socialist legal concept to take over the ideology of the law and guide all kinds of court work.” “(We should) deeply understand the superiority of the socialist judicial system with Chinese characteristics; consciously resist the influence of different wrong legal concepts; truly understand ‘who has power, for whom judicial work is done, and who to serve.’”

Source: Qiushi, October 16, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zxdk/2011/201120/201110/t20111014_116684.htm

Five percent of China’s Construction Waste Is Recycled

The amount of China’s municipal solid waste has reached 70 million tons; the total construction waste is estimated to be between 2.1 to 2.8 billion tons, with 300 million tons of new construction waste generated each year. However, according to Xinhua the disposal of construction waste is mainly temporary pilings and landfill. For example, the annual production of construction waste in Qingdao city’s urban district is as high as 10 million tons, 70% of which is used in reclamation, while 10% is dumped in landfills.

Xinhua said that only five percent of the country’s construction waste is recycled, with only a handful of companies in the business. The problem lies in the inadequate supervision of the disposal of the waste. Construction companies only clean up the waste from the site, while the transportation companies randomly dump or bury the waste nearby to lower their cost. The mechanism involved in waste collection, transportation, recycling, product quality supervision, and product promotion is yet to be put in place.

Source: Xinhua, October 18, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/society/2011-10/18/c_111103536_3.htm

Beijing to Step up Discipline of Online Activities

The Beijing Association of Online Media (BAOM) is the city’s media self-censoring organization. According to its website, both Beijing’s Chinese Communist Party committee’s Department of Propaganda and the city government’s Civil Affairs Bureau are responsible for its guidance and supervision. Senior management personnel from China’s well-known online media and IT companies, such as Sina.com, Sohu.com, and Baidu, as well as CCP officials in charge of censorship, are on its board.

On October 17, BAOM held its seventh annual meeting, which focused on strengthening real name registration for online activities. According to Beijing Daily, “Sina.com and Sohu.com, …, hired special personnel to screen and filter bad online information. They target microblogs where the message spreads rapidly; it is easy to use; and  people put in a lot of effort.” “Search engine Baidu established a review team of a thousand people who will examine all of its products on a daily basis so as to make sure the online environment is clean.”

Source: Beijing Daily, October 18, 2011
http://bjrb.bjd.com.cn/html/2011-10/18/content_7652.htm

Passers-by Ignore Bleeding Two-year-old Lying on the Street

Xinhua news agency reported Monday that more than a dozen passers-by ignored a two-year-old girl as she lay critically injured on a street in southern China after a van, and later a truck, ran over her.

A surveillance camera showed a series of people walking past and ignoring the child, named Yue Yue, after she was hit first by a van and then run over by a truck in the street outside her family’s shop in the southern Chinese city of Foshan. Xinhua said a rubbish collector, who finally came to the child’s aid, moved her to the curb and shouted for help. Several shopkeepers ignored the cries for help before he finally tracked down the child’s mother who took her to the hospital.

The video from the surveillance camera has sparked wide-spread outrage on China’s social media sites. One netizen on Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blog similar to Twitter, wrote: "This society is seriously ill. Even cats and dogs shouldn’t be treated so heartlessly."

Source: AFP, October 17, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3t4lejl

China to Focus on Cultural System Reform

The focus of the Sixth Plenary Session of 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, held from October 15 to 18, was on “cultural system reform and promoting the prosperity of socialist cultural development." This is the first time that the Chinese Communist Party has used “culture” as the focus of a plenary session since the 17th Plenary Session in 2007.

Party Chairman Hu Jintao spoke on July 1, during the 90th anniversary of Chinese Communist Party, emphasizing “the need to speed up the reform of the cultural system, build a public culture service infrastructure, and further promote Chinese culture on the world stage in order for China’s cultural soft power to be compatible with its world status and increase the international influence of Chinese culture.”

It is expected that more discussions on cultural strategy will occur after the session.

Source: China Review News, October 15, 2011
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1018/6/9/3/101869348.html?coluid=151&kindid=0&docid=101869348&mdate=1015103736

Qiushi Theory: The World’s Political Environment: A Long-term, Complex, and Serious Test

Huang Renwei, the deputy dean of the International School of Economics and Politics at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) and deputy director of the Center for International Strategic Studies, wrote an article for Qiushi Theory titled “Deepen Our Realization of the Long-term, Complex, and Serious Test in Facing the World’s Political Environment.”

The article attributed the current situation to the shift in the world’s power that occurred after the world economic crisis in 2008 resulted in the weakening of the national power of such Western giants as the U.S., the EU, and Japan. The article said that while those Western giants still lead in the high tech, military and media industries, many have “adjusted their strategy to shift the conflicts and reduce their economic burden while using both soft and hard means to suppress socialist and developing countries in order to maintain the old political and economic order.”

It further stated that the models and ideologies that the Western developed countries adopted are “not only impossible for China to follow, but also show the uncertainty of their own future.” The article used the economic crisis in the US, the debt crisis in the EU, and the nuclear power leak in Japan as examples and said that they “exposed the inferiority and deadly weakness in their models and ideologies.”

The author also pointed out that the West has not done any self-reflection on its own issues and still uses its powerful media, Internet, and NGOs to attack developing countries and even "dreams of lighting up the ‘democratic fire’ in China that come from the turmoil in western Asia and northern Africa.” It noted that the Western courntries have been using their "universal values" to undermine the ideology and cultural values that are not part of their own system. "They use the Internet, email, microblogs, texting, games, TV, and movies to directly influence and win over the next generation. … They even form opposition groups to stir up riots in order overthrow political power.”

The article concluded that the Party’s leadership is the key to guaranteeing control in maintaining China’s peaceful development. “If we are clear headed, follow the new development, increase our strategic predictability, fully utilize the political advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and manage our internal and external affairs well, we are guaranteed to have firm control over China’s peaceful development.”

Source: Qiushi Theory, October 16, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zxdk/2011/201120/201110/t20111014_116665.htm

Chinese Military Expert: U.S. Competes with China over its Military Influence in Asia Pacific

Huanqiu published an opinion article written by Han Xudong, a professor at China’s National Defense University, on the military competition between the U.S. and China.

According to Han, the U.S. has been fighting with China over its military influence in the Asia Pacific region on issues including the Korean Peninsula, the sale of arms to Taiwan, and the South China Sea. Han claimed that the U.S. and China are demonstrating their military muscle in different ways. The U.S. plan to build a super military base in Guam and expand its sale of arms to Asian Pacific countries is an indication of its effort to increase its presence in the region. As for China, it will increase its military cooperation, including military exercises, with countries in the region. In the mean time, China’s major effort will be to "increase the admission of more foreign students from the Asia Pacific region and spread the Chinese military security ideology to these students."

Source: Huanqiu, October 16,2011
http://opinion.huanqiu.com/roll/2011-10/2085125.html

Red Flag Manuscript: The U.S.’ Strategy of Influencing Public Opinion in the Post Cold War Era

[Editor’s Note: An article published in Red Flag Manuscript, a periodical of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee, discussed the U.S. strategy on international public opinion. The author is with the International Strategic Research Institute of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Party School. "The United States’ central position on global public opinion has led the U.S. to place a high value on the role of public opinion. In different periods of history, the United States always had a clear strategy on international public opinion. The goal was to influence and control other countries through the power of its media and to maintain U.S. supremacy in the world." The complete article is translated below.] [1]

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