According to an article published on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the anti-corruption office of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region will inspect the border crossing records of its Party members and its municipal staff. The purpose is to determine whether the purpose of the trip was consistent with the pre-approval and whether public funds were used. The municipal office also set up a hotline to report any violations. It vowed to cooperate actively with the central administration in the anti-corruption effort.

Source: Central Commission for Discipline Inspection website (CCDI), June 24, 2016
http://www.ccdi.gov.cn/yw/201606/t20160624_80878.html

Wang Xiuying, an eighty-year-old senior from Beijing wrote an open letter to Xi Jinping, which Mingjing News then published on its website. Wang’s home had been torn down and she became the oldest petitioner in Beijing. In the letter, Wang urged Xi Jinping to register the Communist Party with the Ministry of Civil Affairs as soon as possible. Wang wrote that, as a social group, the Chinese Communist Party has never registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which is in violation of the existing constitution. Wang wrote in her open letter, “Even though the Communist Party is the ruling party, it is also a social organization. If it is not registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it is an illegal organization.” 

Source: Ming Jing News, June 26, 2016
http://www.mingjingnews.com/MIB/blog/blog_contents.aspx?ID=0000803700002588

Xinhua published a report on a special interview with Zhou Jian, representative of Boundary and Ocean Affairs from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the interview, Zhou affirmed that China must say no to the South China Sea Arbitration.

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Gao Zhisheng recently published a book describing his experience of being tortured while in the custody of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He also predicted that the CCP will end in 2017.

On June 16, Global Times published a commentary in which it criticized Gao and “certain overseas [hostile] forces.” The commentary said, “Gao’s book is nothing. We mentioned it as an example in this article to tell the public that certain overseas forces have even praised such a garbage book. This shows how badly they want to see China collapse. … They are using booing and cursing, instead of criticism and debate [to attack China].”

“These dissidents truly wish China to get into trouble. They view China’s getting into political turmoil as an opportunity for them to gain political power. They are very willing to sacrifice the Chinese people’s interests …”

“The overseas hostile forces use the extremists in China to conduct damaging activities. This approach was already known to Chinese society and they discarded it. For those people and those forces, there is a pole of shame in China’s history waiting for them.”

Then netizens commented on the Global Time‘s article:

“It seems that this book is worth reading. It poked at the sore spot of a certain organization.”

“Your husband beats you every day. You report him to the police. Is that counted as ‘collaborating with outside forces’?”

“The party that rules China does not equal China. [Gao’s book talked about the collapse of the CCP, not China.]”

“China will never collapse, but it is hard to say that about the CCP.”

“Thank you Global Times for letting me know about this book. I will search for the electronic version of it.”

Source: China Digital Times, June 2016

【异文观止】单仁平：诅咒中国可耻，倚仗境外势力可悲

On June 13, 2016, the U.S. Congress passed House Resolution 343 unanimously, condemning China’s "practice of state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting" and demanded "an immediate end to the 17-year persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual practice."

Epoch Times interviewed Luo Yu, the son of former Grant General (a military title only lower than Marshall) Luo Ruiqing, on the impact of the resolution. Luo Yu has published ten open letters to Xi Jinping, whom he called "brother" due to their princeling connections, urging him to adopt political reform and stop political persecutions.

Luo Yu said, "This U.S. house resolution will impact all Chinese. No Chinese, I believe, besides those criminals like Zhou Yongkang [who participated in the organ harvesting], would agree to the anti-humanity crime – conducting live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and criminals of conscience. Nobody would agree. Now the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has tried to block this information, but I don’t think it can block it. The Internet has been well developed. The more people know about this practice, the more people will oppose it.

"The U.S. represents the people’s opinions, ideas about democracy, and justice. It has a profound and long-term impact on China. Because there are always people speaking out in the world, there are always voices of the upright condemning these crimes. This is the meaning of the U.S. house resolution."

As to the Spokesperson, Zhu Haiquan of China’s Embassy to the U.S. claimed that all these [organ harvesting] accusations were groundless, Luo Yu observed, "When the U.S. Congress passes a resolution, it won’t, as China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said, only listen to lies. If it did not have evidence, it would not pass such a resolution. The U.S. Congress’s resolution makes the intellectuals of China understand that the whole world is watching it and moreover, that it is true.

Luo Yu called on Xi Jinping to stop the organ harvesting. "You are the General Secretary of the CCP. How can you let this heinous crime continue to happen in China? This did not start with Xi Jinping. It is actually [the former CCP leader] Jiang Zemin’s crime." "Now Xi Jinping promotes the rule by law. If you can’t stop live organ harvesting which obviously violates the law, how can you rule by law?"

Source: Epoch Times, June 21, 2016
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/16/6/20/n8018289.htm