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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

Briefings | | |   Social Stability

Xinhua: African Union Praises Chinese Company’s Construction of Convention Center

Xinhua reported that the Committee Chairman of the African Union (AU) recently visited the construction site of the AU Convention Center, which China’s African Aid program funded. A Chinese construction company also did the work. The AU appreciated the “gift” from China and was satisfied with the progress made on the project. It is one of the key projects under the African Aid program. The Convention Center is located in Ethiopia. The construction started on June 16, 2009, and is expected to reach completion by the end of the year 2011.

Source: Xinhua, January 21, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-01/22/c_121011695.htm

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

Survey Shows Many Chinese Not Going Home for Lunar New Year

A recent official survey shows that many Chinese are not willing to go home for the Chinese New Year. Among 1000 questioned by China Youth Daily, 41.1% considered themselves to be “those who dare not return to their parents’ home” for the Chinese New Year. The reasons include the expenditures for gifts (70%), the heavy traffic (38.2%), the fear of being asked why they have not married (37.2%), exchanging debts of gratitude (36.6%), and endless parties and dinners (26.1%). 69.4% do not want to go home because they were unable to show themselves off as successful and rich men or women in front of their parents, relatives, and friends.

Source: China Review News, January 18, 2011
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1015/7/3/2/101573259.html?coluid=154&kindid=0&docid=101573259&mdate=0118130902

Briefings | | |   Grapevine

Qiushi Explains the Leadership Mechanism in China’s Higher Education

In an article published on February 1, 2011, the CCP Central Committee journal Qiushi explained the leadership mechanism in China’s education system – the school president assumes overall responsibility under the leadership of the Party committee.

“First, the Party committee is the core of the school’s leadership and is responsible for the school’s direction. Second, the school president is a university’s or a college’s legal representative, and is in charge of the school’s teaching, research, and other administrative functions under the leadership of the school Party committee. Third, the school Party committee shall be accorded collective leadership, and must support the school president in exercising power independently.”

Sources: Qiushi, Feburary 1, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zxdk/2011/201103/201101/t20110128_64923.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Government Report Obscures Trend in Funding Officials Overseas Trips

The National Bureau of Corruption Prevention of China announced that it made a “significant achievement” last year in preventing officials from using public funds to make overseas trips. “Compared to the average from the three years from 2006 to 2008, the number of government tourist groups going abroad, the number of person-trips involved, and public funds used for this purpose in 2010 registered a decline of 47.1%, 43.9%, and 32.6% respectively.”

However, a local newspaper, Beijing News, pointed out that, compared to 2009 figures, the above three measures actually increased by 1.9% for tourist groups, 1.6% for person-trips, and 5% for public funds.

Sources: Xinhua and Beijing News, February 4 and 6, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-02/04/c_121050638.htm
http://epaper.bjnews.com.cn/html/2011-02/06/content_198562.htm?div=-1

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

How China Deals with the U.S. Strategy to Contain China

[Editor’s Note: On December 10, 2010, the website of Qiushi Journal, the official publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, published an article examining six strategies that the U.S. has developed to contain China: a trade war, an exchange rate war, a public opinion war, an anti-China campaign, military exercises and simulated warfare, and the development of an anti-China alliance. The author also analyzed seven counter-strategies for China to adopt. The entire article is translated below.

Days after Chinascope published this translation, Qiushi website took down the original Chinese and then restored the article with an additional sentence added at the end: “The above article only represents the personal views of the author and does not represent the position or views of Qiushi Journal or this site.” Chinascope has kept a Google cached copy of the original article. To read that copy, please click here.] [1]

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Reports | | |   Report

Qiushi: Persist and Perfect the President Responsibility System under the Party Committee

In 1989, Chinese Communist Central Committee passed a resolution to implement the president responsibility system under the direction of the Party Committee in all institutions of higher learning (colleges and universities). Over the last 20 years, the system has ensured the socialist direction of China’s institutions of higher learning. … This system must be continued.

There are problems in implementing the policy. In practice, some people have arbitrarily separated the “Party’s leadership” and the “president responsibility.” Some people have even questioned the necessity of the system.

Due to the above issues, the Organization Department and Education Working Committee of the CCP Jiangsu Provincial Committee has clarified that “The Party Committee’s function is to make decisions and set policy, and the president’s task is to execute those decisions.

Source: Qiushi, February, 1, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/zxdk/2011/201103/201101/t20110128_64923.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Beware of the U.S.’s New Strategies toward China

Since 2005, Americans have admitted that they can’t prevent China’s rise. They have even realized that the U.S. needs China more than China needs the U.S. They have fewer and fewer cards to play. Thus, the U.S. must seek new strategies to hinder China’s rise and international expansion. 1) Regarding regional security, the U.S. is mobilizing its allies, and uses conflicts between China and its neighbors to establish allies to guard against the “China threat.” 2) In finance and the RMB exchange rate, it maintains pressure on China. 3) In the international media, the U.S. spreads the view that “China is arrogant” and uses various new versions of the “China threat.”

In this battle, China must maximally maintain the stability of its “strategic opportunity phase.” China should not act emotionally. It should remain calm and make no changes to cope with outside changes. The future of China-U.S. relations is totally dependent on how the two side’s compare in how much power they have. At present, China’s biggest advantage is its own development.

Source: Huanqiu, January 30, 2011
http://finance.huanqiu.com/roll/2011-01/1473479.html

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations