From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
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Subject: China News Digest (Global), Wed, 11/18/1992
Date: 18 Nov 92 06:25:59 GMT
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				(News Global)

			 Wednesday, November 18, 1992


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1. News Brief (3 Items) ................................................. 29
2. China Posts Record Industrial Growth in October....................... 20
3. Looser Controls Urged for State-Run Newspapers........................ 22
4. Ye Xuanping Predicted "Great Economic Leap Forward"................... 25
5. New Air Force Chief of the People's Liberation Army Appointed......... 20
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1. News Brief (3 Items) ................................................. 29
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[UPI, 11/17/92] BEIJING -- Foreign Minister Qian Qichen left Beijing for the
Commonwealth of Independent States Tuesday on the first visit by a Chinese 
foreign minister since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Xinhua reported.
Qian is slated to visit Uzbekistan, Kirghiztan, Kazakhstan and Russia during
his 8-day visit. Qian's visit will include a trip to Moscow and is expected 
to complete preparations for Russian President Boris Yeltsin's planned visit
to Beijing next month. Xinhua quoted Qian as saying China attaches "great 
importance to President Yeltsin's visit."  
(Forwarded by: Chongyu Hua <cyuhua@ncsa.uiuc.edu>)
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[CANADA NEWSWIRE, 11/17/92] BEIJING -- Northern Telecom, the leading global 
supplier of fully digital telecommunications switching systems, today 
announced it has entered into a joint venture partnership in the People's 
Republic of China with two divisions of China's Ministry of Posts and 
Telecommunications (MPT) -- the China International Telecommunications 
Construction Corporation (CITCC) and the Xian Institute of Posts and 
Communications. The new joint venture, Posts and Telecommunications-Nortel 
Technical Corporation (PNT), will provide the high technology skills and 
continuing network support services that will enable the growth and 
expansion of China's digital telecommunications network in the 1990s and 
beyond. PNT will be headquartered in Beijing. (Forwarded by: Huijie)
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[Business Week, 11/17/92] Mao Tse-Tung may be dead and gone, but the father 
of Chinese communism is hot among hip Chinese consumers.  At markets 
throughout the Chinese capital, sacred relics from the Cultural Revolution, 
including Mao's Little Red Books, ceramic Mao pins, and colorful Mao statues 
and plates are on sale.  A Cultural Revolution alarm clock with a Red Guard 
brandishing a Little Red Book on the second hand goes for $9. You can also 
find newer items such as cigarette lighters that beep "The East Is Red", one 
of Mao's favorite anthems.  Millions of Chinese have already snapped up 
cassettes featuring disco versions of Mao's revolutionary songs. 
(Forwarded by: Charles Mok)

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2. China Posts Record Industrial Growth in October....................... 20
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/17/92

BEIJING -- China posted a record industrial growth in October, spurring 
local analysts to assert that the Chinese economy has now developed a 
pattern of high-speed growth, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported
Tuesday.

Industrial output soared 22.4% in October over the same month in 1991,
Xinhua said, quoting the latest monthly State Statistics Bureau figures.

This is the largest year-on-year increase this year and raises the
annualized growth rate for the January-October period to 19.7%, Xinhua said.

China's phenomenal growth rate has prompted fears the economy is overheating
and bringing strong inflationary pressures in its wake.

Similar growth figures in 1988 caused inflation to hit 18% and forced the
Chinese government to introduce a harsh two-year austerity program.

Growth euphoria among state planning officials may be exacerbating the
problem now that China looks likely to boast the fastest-growing economy in
the world this year, foreign observers say.

"Analysts say this year has seen the appearance of a high-speed growth
national economic model," Xinhua said.

Other economic indicators are less encouraging, with some 30.8% of all
state-owned enterprises losing money last month, down just 0.5% from the
previous October, it said.

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3. Looser Controls Urged for State-Run Newspapers........................ 22
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: DJ, 11/17/92

BEIJING -- China's state-run newspapers must discard old-fashioned
management principles and adapt to the times by going commercial, the
Workers Daily newspaper reported Tuesday.

The call to liberalize China's tightly-controlled newspapers was made at a
gathering of Beijing journalists hosted by the State Press and Publications
Administration (SPAA), the newspaper said.

Liang Heng, director of the SPAA's Newspapers Administration Department, was
quoted as saying China's new socialist market economy demanded a new type of
newspaper.

"We cannot continue the practice whereby the State spends money producing
newspapers and then spends more money buying the newspapers regardless of
their quality," Liang said.

"Newspapers must in future be run according to a management system which
suits the socialist market economy," he said.

But Liang warned that the country's 1,755 newspapers must continue to
support the party's basic line.

Although most major newspapers routinely quote the Communist Party line
verbatim, a number of new weekly publications have started to run more
daring articles to attract readers and sell advertising space.

In one such example, Saturday's China Business Times included an
investigative article examining reports that China is considering purchasing
an aircraft carrier, a taboo subject for most official publications.

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4. Ye Xuanping Predicted "Great Economic Leap Forward"................... 25
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/17/92

TOKYO -- A visiting Chinese Communist Party leader said Tuesday China has 
set the stage for a "great economic leap forward" to achieve its goal of 
quadrupling the country's per-capita gross national product by the end of 
this century.

Ye Xuanping, a member of the party's Central Committee and vice chairman of
the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body,
made the remark in an interview with Kyodo News Service.

Ye said the most significant accomplishment at the party's 14th congress
held in October was that the foundation was laid for the consolidation of a
market economy under the principle of socialism.

With the decision, he said, China is in a position to boost the per-capita
GNP to four times that of 1980 by the end of the current century.

That goal was originally set in the early 1980s.

Citing a remark by China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping at the beginning
of this year -- that it is a mistake to consider that market economy means
capitalism and planned economy equals socialism -- Ye said, "The economic
system has nothing to do with the political system."

Asked about concerns that Sino-U.S. relations may worsen over the human
rights issue with the election of Democratic candidate Bill Clinton as new
U.S. president, Ye predicted there might be minor changes in the bilateral
relationship.

He added, however, that it is the American people and not political parties
who determine their national interests.

Ye said Deng is in good health but China's domestic situation will remain
stable and the country will continue to follow the present path of
development after his death.

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5. New Air Force Chief of the People's Liberation Army Appointed......... 20
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/18/92

BEIJING -- China has appointed a new air force chief as part of a significant 
military reshuffle in the aftermath of last month's 14th Communist Party 
Congress.

Lieutenant General Cao Shuangming recently succeeded General Wang Hai as 
Commander of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force, the state-run 
Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.

Cao, 63, met with Pakistan's visiting air-defense force chief Lt. Gen. Nazar
Hussain on Tuesday to discuss friendly cooperation, Xinhua said.

Cao, who comes from Henan Province in central China, once led a flying
squadron during the Korean War and was formerly deputy commander of the
Shenyang Military Region and commander of the region's air force.

"He became the new PLA air force commander this month," Xinhua said, adding
that he was also elected to serve on the party's central committee after the
October 12-18 congress.

Political analysts say his appointment is part of a major reshuffle to
offset the influence of PLA strongman Yang Baibing, who lost his military
positions after the Congress.

Yang, the half-brother of Chinese President Yang Shangkun, was accused of
empire building after he used his position as director of the PLA's General
Political Department to promote close colleagues, the analysts said.

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