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Communist Retirees Hired to Monitor Internet Postings

Beijing Daily reported that 50 retired senior Communist Party cadres have been hired to monitor the Internet as part of the Party’s Internet censorship. They are the first group of retired senior cadres to take on this task.

According to the Beijing municipal Party organization department, “Internet information is constantly changing. [Retired] senior comrades have valuable, rich life experience and work experience. These newly hired monitors will be able to use their strengths. After understanding the Internet information environment, they will be able to spot problems promptly, speak up, and publish articles. They will spread positive energy, resist rumors and bad postings, and make contributions that will help purify cyberspace."

“The retired senior cadre monitors can use their own accounts and passwords to join the blogs and chat rooms and may report on bad postings at any time.”

Source: Beijing Daily reprinted by the Chinese Communist Party website, June 6, 2013 http://renshi.people.com.cn/n/2013/0606/c139617-21759335.html

Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

People’s Daily: China’s Talent Loss Tops the World

After a screening of 1,907 of the world’s top technologically innovative, talented people in six fields, including biological and biochemistry, computers, physics, agriculture, mathematics, and chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that China has the leading edge in physics, mathematics and computer science. However, the number of China’s most talented who have been lost tops the world. An average of 87 percent of those in the science and engineering fields have chosen to stay overseas. An official from the Central Talent Work Coordination Group Office pointed to several problems that China has: a shortage of high-level, innovative, creative talent; a lack of innovation capabilities, and a mismatch between the demand for and the supply of talent.

In this current "war for talent," many developed countries are using immigration reform to attract or retain talented people. In recent years, nearly a million overseas Chinese students have chosen to return to China under the "thousands of people plan," including over twenty thousand with high-level talent.

Source: Xinhua, June 6, 2013
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2013-06/06/c_124820431.htm

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

People’s Daily-: The U.S. Forced China to Become a Powerful AWACS Country

People’s Daily reported that pictures of two domestic AWACS (early warning aircraft), the export-oriented ZDK-03 (also known as the "Kunlun Hawk") and a new medium-sized AWACS, were widely exposed on the Internet. The report boasted that China’s AWACS came into being because the U.S. blockage forced China to create it. It will be able to overcome the F-22 stealth fighter jet. 

The report said, “The ZDK-03 has been exported to Pakistan, making China the fifth country after the United States, Russia, Israel, and Sweden to export the AWACS system. 
“Over the past year, as part of the ‘Liaoning’ aircraft carrier’s supporting projects, the Chinese navy also produced domestic ship-borne early warning helicopters and JZY-1 fixed-wing carrier early warning aircraft. In addition, the air marshals -2000 and -200 flew over Tiananmen Square in the 60th national anniversary military parade, China has developed six AWACS over the last 10 years. Moreover, they are equipped with the world’s most advanced airborne active phased array radar.” 
The report stated, “Originally due to the American technology blockade, we were forced to engage in research on the early-warning aircraft on our own. Therefore, [China’s AWACS] are also called China’s contemporary ‘credit-building machine.’"

Source: People’s Daily, June 5, 2013
http://military.people.com.cn/n/2013/0605/c1011-21740027.html

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Qiushi: The “China Dream” and the Open Door Reform

Qiushi published an article written by Li Junru, the former Vice President of the Party School of The Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The article dealt with the relationship between Xi Jinping’s China Dream and the open door reform. “Considering the great cause of China’s open door reform, turning the ‘China Dream’ into a reality is the great objective of deepening that open door reform; the deepening of the open door reform is the powerful driving force to achieve the ‘China Dream.’”

“If we look at the period from the Opium War in 1840 to the year 2050, as we basically achieve modernization, the road to realizing China’s dream is a period of over 200 years.” The first one-hundred year period, according to the article, was to realize the dream of “national independence and the liberation of the people” through the Party leading a people’s revolution. The second one-hundred year period is to realize the dream of “national prosperity, and all people getting rich.” This part depends on the the Party’s leadership of the open door reform.

Source: Qiushi, May 27, 2013
http://www.qstheory.cn/wh/whzl/201305/t20130527_234129.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Chinese Tourists Ranked First in the Global Shopping Market for Three Consecutive Years

According to the Chinese Luxury Traveler White Paper that the Hurun Report released on June 4, 2013, this is the third consecutive year that Chinese tourists have ranked first in the global shopping market. Chinese tourists’ overseas consumption in 2012 grew rapidly at the rate of 57 percent over 2011, while the global tourists spending rate growth remained at around 30 percent. The average amount that Chinese travelers spend per trip is 71 percent higher than the global average.

Source: Beijing News, June 4th, 2013
http://www.bjnews.com.cn/finance/2013/06/04/266929.html

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

China’s Rural Environment Deteriorates

On June 4, 2013, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) released a report on China’s environment. According to the report, pollution has resulted in the poor quality of the water and air in China. Of a total of 113 environmentally protected cities, only 23.9 percent meet acceptable air quality criteria.

The rural environment, including drinking water and air, suffers different degrees of contamination. Last year, China’s emission of chemical oxygen and its ammonia emissions was 24.2 million tons and 2.54 million tons respectively. Rural pollution has resulted in food safety problems. For example, not long ago, Guangdong Province had to admit that their rice contained heavy metals that had exceeded safety criteria.

Source: BBC Chinese, June 4, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2013/06/130604_china_environment_rural.shtml 

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

Huanqiu Compares U.S. Companies with the Eight-Power Allied Forces that Invaded in 1900

In an article published on June 4, 2013, Huanqiu expressed its unhappiness with the United States’ accusations about China’s cyber attacks against the U.S.  Hunqiu warned of the potential danger to security that eight specific American companies may have brought to China. The companies are Cisco, IBM, Google, Qualcomm, Intel, Apple, Oracle, and Microsoft. The article compared these eight companies to the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the aggressive troops that Britain, the United States, Germany, France, tsarist Russia, Japan, Italy, and Austria sent to China in 1900 and said that the eight companies are even more dangerous in a time of crisis.

The writer made three suggestions about how to restrict the power and freedom of these eight companies in China.

Source: Huanqiu, June 5, 2013
http://mil.huanqiu.com/paper/2013-06/3998303.html

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

Li Keqiang: Turning the Service Industry into an Economic Growth Engine

People’s Daily recently reported that new Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered a speech at The Second Beijing International Services Forum and Trade Fair & The Beijing Global Services Summit. In his speech, Li pointed out that the service industry is playing a more and more important role in international development and cooperation. The employment volume in the Chinese service industry has surpassed that in agriculture. However the contribution this industry has made to the growth of China’s GDP is lower than in other developing countries. The Chinese government is determined to develop its service industry to become the key driving force of the sustainability of the Chinese economy. Li suggested that the service industry should play a much more important role in providing employment opportunities, pushing strategic economic structural adjustments, realizing the modernization of the country, and improving the socialist market mechanism. Li also suggested that his government will give priority to expanding international services, increasing international investments in the service industry, establishing a fair services trade market, and promoting free trade in this industry.
Source: People’s Daily, June 2, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/0602/c1024-21701819.html
Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources