Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel Allen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: China Fires Communications Minister Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 05:06:00 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Contact Public Unix BBS. Toronto, Canada. Lines: 45 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 190, Message 1 of 5 China Fires Ministers in Crackdown on Corruption From: IN%"chenh@ucs.indiana.edu" "HUIJIE CHEN" Source: Associated Press, Mar. 2, 1991 BEIJING -- China's ministers of communications and construction were fired as part of a campaign to fight widespread government corruption and win back the trust of the Chinese people, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. Communications Minister Qian Yongchang and Construction Minister Lin Hanxiong are the first Cabinet-level officials dismissed as part of the campaign, launched in 1989. Other key personnel changes are expected to go before the National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp legislature, later this month. Qian was removed for abusing his power for personal gain and Lin for disciplinary reasons. Xinhua said the national legislature's decision-making Standing Committee decided Saturday to remove the ministers, but provided no further details. According to the Ta Kung Pao newspaper in Hong Kong, Lin's removal was to punish him for violating Chinese regulations related to foreign matters. Xinhua said Qian would be replaced by Huang Zhendong, general manager of the State Communications Investment Co. who served for three years as vice minister of the Communications Ministry. Lin would be replaced by Hou Jie, a former vice minister of water resources. Among other expected personnel changes are the resignations of Vice Premier Yao Yilin, 74, and Vice Premier Wu Xueqian, 70, both due to age and health reasons. Xinhua also reported that a high-ranking Chinese official who fled to the United States last year was removed from his post as a member of the Standing Committee. (from China News Digest, March 4, 1991) | To Subscribe CND General News, send "SUB CHINA-NN " | | to LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET. To sign off send "SIGNOFF CHINA-NN" to | | same address. ----------- Has anyone else heard anything about this and what it may mean? Nigel Allen ndallen@contact.uucp