Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon Date: Sat, 9 Dec 89 15:46:39 EST Sender: From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Message-ID: <8912100146.AA14909@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Original-To: china-distribution@cs.toronto.edu Subject: Dec. 9 (II), News Digest Newsgroups: ut.chinese Distribution: ut Sender: list-admin@csri.toronto.edu Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu | +---------I __L__ ___/ \ -------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | J * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Dec. 9 (II), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News .................................................. 50 1) China To Close 10% Of Newspapers And Publishing Houses ..... 23 2) State-Owned Enterprise Went Bankrupt ........................ 42 3) Jailed Writer Allowed To See Ailing Relative ............... 71 4) Wang Bids For Power General Backs Reforms .................. 94 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) U.S. State Dept. official said yesterday that no special delegate would be sent to PRC to report the U.S.-Soviet summit at this time. Before, after the summit, a special envoy would go to Japan, South Korea and PR China to report the results of the summit. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/7/89 (2) Japnese government at the first time has loaned $35 millions to China since June 4th, among which $25 millions was given to Beijing TV Station, and the left will be used in a hosipital in Shanghai and two educational projects in Gan Su province. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: AP, 12/6/89 (3) 'People's Daily' criticized that Dalai Lama had received a human right award which was awarded by French first lady in Paris. The newspaper also reported the meeting between Dala and 'the collaborator', blaming that Dala and Yan Jiaqi 'encouraged each other'. Beijing government meanwhile protested to East German for allowing Dala to visit East Berlin. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/7/89 (4) FDC leaders are having a meeting in Newton, Mass. to plan its long-term strategy and the relationship with Taiwan in the future. FDC also criticized Wuer Kaixi's statement about HR2712 bill, which was on 'World Journal' a few days ago and has drawn many critical remarks since then. Wuer apologized for the statement. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/7/89 (5) Sculptures of 14 solders, who were killed during the June 4th military crackdown in Beijing, are put in 'The Military Museum' in Beijing. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/7/89 (6) A Japanese newspaper reports that CCP Party chief Jiang Zemin criticized Soviet leader Gorbachev as the initiator of East Europe's reforms. Jiang is also reported blaming the former East German President Krenz as a traitor. It reported that Deng has recently ordered not to report too much about Grobachev. From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang) Source: World Journal, 12/7/89 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. China To Close 10% Of Newspapers And Publishing Houses --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Source: AP News BEIJING - China plans to shut down 10% of its newspapers and publishing houses, the official Xinhua news agency said Thursday. It is targeting for closure those printing pornography or material critical of the Communist Party. The Press and Publications Administration will also merge newspapers and periodicals that are similar in content, Xinhua said. The report said China has 1,600 newspapers, 3,000 social science periodicals and 500 publishing houses. Many are similar in nature and have few readers. In the past year, particularly after Communist leaders used troops to crush the pro-democracy movement in June, the government has moved to consolidate and exert greater control over the publishing industry. Millions of publications have been confiscated and destroyed in a nationwide anti-pornography campaign. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. State-Owned Enterprise Went Bankrupt --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" Source: BEIJING (AP) December 06, 1989 An eastern China motorcycle factory has become the first state-owned enterprise to go bankrupt in the country's 40 years of Communist rule, the official news agency reported Wednesday. The Nanchang Motorccle Factory in Jiangxi province was declared insolvent by a local court after accumulating losses equivalent to $1.4 million and debts of $2.6 million, the Xinhua News Agency said. The 631 workers in the factory will receive government relief funds, the report said. China began experimenting with bankruptcy in several cities in 1985. In 1986, a collectively owned explosion-proof equipment factory in the northeastern city of Shenyang became the nation's first to be declared bankrupt. A national bankruptcy law went into effect on Nov. 1, 1988, prompting the official Economic Daily to predict that at least 30,000 money-losing enterprises with a workforce of millions would soon be out of business. More than 20 percent of large state-run factories run at a loss and must be heavily subsidized by the government. Hundreds of thousands of smaller firms are perennial money losers. But the new law has been largely ignored as banks resist declaring debts unpayable, local cities seek to avoid further strain on their inadequate unemployment systems, and party officials in money-losing enterprises use their influence to keep plants operating. China's current hard-line leadership has generally given a cold shoulder to free-market reforms, stressing that China must maintain its state-run socialist economic system. The Xinhua report said the Jiangxi court also declared bankrupt a 645-worker collectively owned cardboard box factory with debts and losses totaling about $1.3 million. It said the property of both factories would be auctioned by the court. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Jailed Writer Allowed To See Ailing Relative --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net Source: South China Morning Post, Thursday, December 7, 1989 [Seth Faison in Beijing] Dai Qing, a leading writer who has been jailed since early July, was recently allowed out for an afternoon visit to her ailing father-in-law in the Beijing hospital, sources close to her family said. Dai, who looked thin but otherwise healthy, was escorted to the hospital one day last month by two officials from Qincheng prison, and return to her cell a few hours later. Contrary to earlier reports, Dai had been let out of prison on bail, and the sources said her family was not expecting her to be released any time soon. A respected writer and reporter for the Guangming Daily, Dai was, until her arrest, an outspoken critic of the Communist Party on Political, environmental and feminist issues. Many Chinese intellectuals could not believe she would spend a long time in prison because of her well-known political connections, which stemmed form her upbringing as a step-daughter in the home of late marshal, Mr Ye Jianying. Guangdong Governor, Mr Ye Xuanping, son of the late marshal, wrote a personal appeal in the summer for her early release, apparently to no avail. The father of Dai's husband is seriously ill with cancer. In October, her husband told authorities that the elderly man had asked to see his daughter-in-law before he died. Dai's husband was told he needed to produce detailed statements from hospital doctors to verify the seriousness of his father's condition before the request could be considered. The statements were produced, but no response given. One day last month, Dai's husband was sitting silently with his father, when she appeared at the door with two guards and a third, unidentified official. Dai told her husband she was being treated well in prison. He noticed that her grey hair was growing back and offered to bring her some of the hair dye she customarily used. "I will never dye my hair as long as I remain in prison," Dai allegedly responded. It was the first time she had seen her husband since she was arrested at their home in early July. Dai was one of the journalists who met senior party officials to demand guarantees for greater freedom of the press. On May 14, she made an impassioned plea for hunger-striking students to abandon their sit-in Tiananmen Square. She publicly resigned her membership from the Communist Party on June 4, saying she wanted to distance herself from politics and concentrate on her writing. She apparently made no attempt to hide from the post-massacre purge that was sure to include her, and was required at the Guangming Daily to write detailed reports about her activities during the spring. She was named in Beijing mayor, Mr Chen Xitong's June report that listed those intellectuals and activists considered by authorities to have engaged in serious anti-government activity. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Wang Bids For Power General Backs Reforms --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net Source: South China Morning Post, Thursday, December 7, 1989 [WILLY WO-LAP LAM] The state Vice-President, General Wang Zhen, is emerging as one of the most powerful patriarchs in China. With the retirement of senior leader, Mr Deng Xiaoping, and the growing sickness of economic theorist, Mr Chen Yun, General Wang, 81, is exerting an influence second only to that of the President and military strongman, Mr Yang Shang-kun. Like Mr Deng, General Wang is a politician who can appeal to different factions in the party. A conservative ideologue, General Wang has nonetheless been a staunch supporter of China's open door policy. Chinese newspapers in Beijing reported yesterday that while inspecting the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone recently, General Wang said the reform and open policy should be further carried out in the zones. According to the papers, the Vice-President spoke highly of the results achieved by Zhuhai and encouraged local officials to develop the zone's resources with foreign investment. The patriarch said: "Furthering the reform and open policy is what Deng Xiaoping has proposed time and again. "It is also a strategic decision made by the party Central Committee." The Vice-President said local cadres must not adopt a wait-and-see attitude. They must implement the reform policy without hesitation. Analysts say General Wang is trying to add to his political power by appearing to be the protector of the former associates of ousted liberal leader, Mr Zhao Ziyang. A regular visitor to Shen-zhen, Zhuhai and other open cities along the coast, General Wang has assured local leaders their positions would not be undermined because of their association with Mr Zhao. Chinese sources say General Wang's intercessions were partly responsible for the Shenzhen mayor, Mr Li Hao, and Zhuhai mayor, Mr Liang Guangda, staying in power. In early summer, Mr Liang came under investigation for using powers to seek personal gain but he has since emerged unscathed. The Vice-President is one of the few Beijing leaders who regularly meet foreign business leaders. As honorary president of the China Association for International Friendly Contacts and honorary president of the China-Japan Friendship Association, General Wang is well-known to Japanese business executives. Business analysts say General Wang has shown personal interest in large projects in Guangdong, Hunan and Hainan provinces. His support was one of the factors behind Beijing's approval of the development of Hainan's Yangpu port by the Japanese construction giant Kumagai Gumi. A Western diplomat said: "General Wang has a personal stake in the preservation of the coastal policy as hammered out by Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang. "After all, his son, Wang Jun, a senior manager with the China International Trust and Investment Corp, is heavily involved in business deals in the zones and open cities." Because of his hard-line conservatism in ideological matters, however, General Wang is also popular with the party's right-wing. He was the first leader who proposed using military force to suppress the student movement in late 1986 and this year Soon after the June 4 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the Vice-President openly proposed sending liberal intellectuals to exile in far away Xinjiang province. Analysts say General Wang's standing in the army is very high. A career soldier, the general became army vice-chief of the general staff as early as 1955. Shortly before the opening of the party fifth plenum in November, there was speculation in Beijing that should there be a deadlock over the choice of a new Central Military Commission chairman or vice-chairman, General Wang might be a "dark horse" candidate. Even though General Wang walks with the aid of a stick, he is believed to be in robust health. In the event of Mr Deng's incapacitation, the Vice-President, who enjoys Mr Deng's total trust, could play the role of king-maker in the succession struggle. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ========================================================================== News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat Dec 9 20:44:46 EST 1989