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Xinhua: Construction Started for China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipeline

Global Times, under Chinese state daily news Renmin, republished a report by Xinhua that China National Petroleum Corporation recently signed an agreement with Myanmar Oil and Gas Company to be the controlling shareholder in a joint venture to construct an Oil and Gas Pipeline. The Gas Pipeline is 793 kilometers long in Myanmar while the Oil Pipeline is 771 kilometers in Myanmar. Both start from Kyaukpyu City of Myanmar and enter China via Ruili City of Yunnan Province. The design capacity of the Oil Pipeline and Gas Pipeline are 22 million tons per year and 12 billion cubic meters per year, respectively. On other fronts, the China-Russia Oil Pipeline will start production by the end of this year, and the China-Kazakhstan Oil and Gas Pipeline has been operational since last year.

Source: Global Times, June 4, 2010
http://china.huanqiu.com/roll/2010-06/843160.html

Du Guang: Many Cases of Injustice Caused by “the Superiority of the Party above the Law”

On June 3, 2010, www.21ccom.net reprinted an article from http://www.taosl.net/ called, “Many Cases of Injustice Caused by ‘The Superiority of the Party above the Law’" by Du Guang.

According to the article, torture and forced confessions provided the basis for the wrongful imprisonment of Zhao Zuohai [1], but they are not the major reason of the miscarriage of justice. Guangzhou Daily reported on May 16 that the prosecutor found a lot of suspicious points and was reluctant to prosecute Zhao in 1999. In 2002, the Shangqiu City CPC Central Committee Political and Law Commission decided to "prosecute Zhao within 20 days." The prosecutor did not dare to defy the Party Committee’s decision and had to submit the case to the court, which also found problems and thus only sentenced Zhao to “death with reprieve”.

[1.] Editor Note: Zhao Zuohai was tortured and imprisoned for 11 years for a murder he did not commit. Earlier this year the alleged "victim" turned up alive.

Source: www.21ccom.net, June 3, 2010
http://new.21ccom.net/articles/sxpl/pl/article_2010060310729.html

China Review News: 100 million Chinese people are reported as “mental illness patients”

On May 30, 2010, www.ChinaReviewNews.com reported that more than 100 million Chinese people have various forms of mental illnesses, according data provided by China’s Health Center for Disease Prevention and Control; 16 million of them have serious mental diseases (Global Times, May 29).

“From the reports in recent years, we know that some petitioners and some families who refused to move out of their houses when facing the forced evictions, were jailed. Many people are worried that some organizations may use such a big proportion of data on mentally ill patients as an excuse to ‘arrest more people’ more freely.”

Source: www.ChinaReviewNews.com, May 25, 2010
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1013/3/8/7/101338749.html?coluid=5&kindid=24&docid=101338749&mdate=0530160358

21ccom.net: Chinese Suicide vs. Chinese Model

On May 25, 2010, www.21ccom.net published an article titled “Chinese Suicide vs. Chinese Model “ by Lu Nanluojia, one of the chief editors of 21ccom.net. Lu Nanluojia pointed out that the repeated Foxconn Group’s employee suicides reflect the cruelty and the social costs of “Made in China.” Among large countries, China has become a country with high suicide rates.

"While some scholars boost the superiority of the ‘Chinese Model,’ have they ever thought that suicides also exist as the other ‘Chinese Model?’ Have they realized the negative effects of the ‘Chinese Model’ on social morality and the human heart?”

“The suicide problems in China may symbolize a broken and defeated society. The solution is to reform so as to improve the degree of integration into the social structure, in addition to precautions at the individual psychological level.”

Source: www.21ccom.net, May 25, 2010
http://new.21ccom.net/articles/ztyj/hot/spec_2010052510146.html

China’s Nebul’ Named World’s Second-Fastest Computer

The Nebulae system at the National Supercomputer Centre in Shenzhen in southern China has been ranked the world’s second-fastest machine in a list issued by U.S. and European researchers, highlighting China’s ambitions to become a global technology center. 

Nebulae, only behind the U.S. Department of Energy’s Jaguar, is capable of sustained computing of 1.271 petaflops or 1,271 trillion calculations per second, according to TOP500, a semiannual list compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 
China has risen to No. 2 overall on the TOP500, having 24 of the 500 systems on the list and 9.2 percent of global supercomputing capacity, up from having only 21 systems on the list six months ago. 
Source: China News Service, June 1, 2010 
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2010/06-01/2316577.shtml

Major Chinese Internet Media Embrace Red Culture

In late May 2010, more than 70 CEOs, chief editors, and senior management personnel of 35 major websites including Sina.com, 163.com, Sohu.com, Baidu.com, ifeng.com, and tom.com went on a tour in China’s southwest Chongqing City to pay tribute to the “revolutionary martyrs” who died during the communist’s upheaval from 1921 to 1949 against the then ruling KMT. 

The trip is the regime’s 7th organized event to spread propaganda on the Internet media about the “red culture.” Sites visited include Jinggangshan and Mao Zedong’s residence. [1] Forums were held to discuss the “direction of the Internet.” 
Chen Yizhou, the CEO of China Inter Active Corp., an Internet media group, said after the tour, “We would like to learn from the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries … and firmly put national interests first. In addition to doing a good job with the company, we will also comply with the requirements of Internet culture buildup and more proactively make contributions.” 
Source: Xinhua, Chongqing channel, June 3, 2010 
http://www.cq.xinhuanet.com/2010-06/03/content_19973527.htm
[1] Jinggangshan, a mountain located in Jiangxi Province, is known as the birthplace of the Chinese Red Army (the People’s Liberation Army of China) and the "cradle of the Chinese revolution." After the Kuomintang (KMT) turned against the Communist Party in 1927, the Communists either went underground or fled to the countryside. Following the unsuccessful Autumn Harvest Uprising in Changsha, Mao Zedong led his 1000 remaining men to Jinggangshan, where he set up his first peasant soviet.

A Fourth Navigation Satellite Launched, China’s COMPASS

China launched a fourth satellite into space at 23:53 Wednesday June 2, as a part of its satellite navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system. The satellite was launched from the Long March 3 carrier rocket. 

China has a three-step plan to build up its own satellite navigation system to break its dependence on the U.S: the first step, already done, from 2000 to 2003, was to launch three satellites to test the system; the second step is, by 2012, to enable the system to navigate, position, and communicate throughout the Asia Pacific region; the third and final step is to build a network eventually consisting of 35 satellites to cover the whole globe. 
Source: China News Service, June 3, 2010 
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/news/2010/06-03/2320012.shtml

China’s Rich Moving Overseas û Fear of Losing their Wealth

2009 saw a 100% increase of EB-5 category applications for immigration to the United States, with the intent to be an investor. In 2008 the number was 500. According to the Economic Observer, there are two reasons for China’s rich to immigrate overseas: children’s education and finding a of safe haven. The latter pertains to the lack of social stability. The domestic investment environment is far from the rule of law. More importantly, “the rich people are on pins and needles because the ever widening income disparity has led to public challenges of their ‘original sins’ [getting wealthy through illegal or unfair practices] and to ‘hatred of the rich.’” “You never know. Maybe one day people will rob the rich to give to the poor. It is too unsafe,” said a rich Mr. Li.

Source: Huanqiu, May 30, 2010
http://china.huanqiu.com/roll/2010-05/833734.html