Seven Million College Graduates Every Year for the Next Five Years
"Overall, the basic pattern of oversupply of the labor force has not changed. The pressure is still great, and will persist in the coming period." said a senior official at the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security at the National Employment Working Symposium held in Beijing on February 22, 2011. In the next five years, the total population of China will reach 1.37 billion with an army at the working age to peak at nearly one billion in 2014. The annual number of unemployed is expected to be 13 million. It is expected that the number of college graduates alone will approach 7 million every year.
Source: People’s Daily, February 23, 2011
http://edu.people.com.cn/GB/13981879.html
CRN: the U.S. Is Changing its Propaganda Method against China
China Review News (CRN), a Hong Kong based Chinese government news agency, recently reported that the Voice of America (VOA) is planning to stop its Chinese language short wave, medium wave and satellite broadcasting services. The report expressed the belief that this only represents a strategic change in the propaganda method used against China and that the U.S. is switching to the Internet as the new approach, where U.S. technologies have clear advantages. The article referred to Hillary Clinton’s recent speech on Internet freedom, given at George Washington University, as proof of the strategy shift. The State Department recently announced that it plans to establish Chinese and Russian Twitter accounts as a new means of communication. The report expressed deep doubts about the effectiveness of the “Twitter Approach,” citing that Chinese users have already gotten used to China’s domestically developed microblogging services.
(Editor: The CRN report failed to mention the fact that the “Great Fire Wall” currently blocks Twitter, and that Chinese domestic microblogs are heavily censored.)
Source: China Review News, February 24, 2011
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1016/0/7/6/101607644.html?coluid=148&kindid=0&docid=101607644&mdate=0224002804
Scholar Warns of Risks to a Volatile Economy
China Review News (CRN) recently republished an article by the deputy dean of the School of Economics of Fudan University, on the risks to a volatile economy. The article summarized the external elements that may bring risks: 1) unexpected changes in the international environment, such as the recent Arab Revolution; 2) unexpected economic recovery in the developed countries, of which the United States is the leader; 3) the continued existence of some old problems that caused the global financial crisis.
The article also identified the internal causes of risks: 1) complicated pressures leading to inflation; 2) the pressure of economic structural adjustments; 3) pressure caused by domestic market friction. The article concluded that the current approach to controlling inflation, which is based solely on currency policies, needs to be adjusted, and that effective implementation of policies requires understanding and support from the general public.
Source: China Review News, February 25, 2011
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1016/0/9/8/101609884.html?coluid=53&kindid=0&docid=101609884&mdate=0225074409
Zhou Yongkang Stresses Public Order before the “Two Sessions”
Zhou Yongkang, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, Party Secretary of the CCP Central Political and Legislative Committee, and Director of the CCP Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Public Security, called on all Party committees and government organs at various levels do a good job in maintaining public order and stability so as to ensure the smooth convocation of the “two sessions,” the annual Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on March 3, 2011, and the National People’s Congress on March 5, 2011. Zhou made the call on February 25, 2011, at a plenary meeting of the Central Committee for the Comprehensive Management of Public Security. He requested that everyone in the national system of the Comprehensive Management of Public Security conscientiously study and follow the speech that Hu Jintao gave on social control on February 19, 2011.
Source: People’s Daily, February 25, 2011
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1024/14009093.html
Ministry of Public Security to Step up Ideological Propaganda for the Police Force
Beijing Blames U.S. for Abandoning Mubarak
On February 25, 2011, People’s Daily published an article criticizing the U.S. government for “abandoning Mubarak unsympathetically at the critical moment,” which has “not only disappointed other US Middle East allies, but also let them further understand the pragmatic nature of the U.S. Middle East foreign policy.” By listing current and historic examples of U.S. foreign policy decisions in Egypt, Iran and Libya, the article concludes that the purpose for the U.S. to promote democracy in the Middle East is to control its strategic benefits in the Middle East out of self interest.
Source: People’s Daily, February 25, 2011
http://world.people.com.cn/GB/14001278.html