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Subject: China News Digest (Global), Wed, 10/14/1992
Date: 14 Oct 92 06:27:03 GMT
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                              (News Global)

                        Wednesday, October 14, 1992

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1. News Brief (3 Items) .................................................25
2. Party Congress Delegates Discuss on Cadre Promotion ..................33
3. Japan: Nearly 90% of Poll Respondents Favor Emperor's China Visit ....40
4. Japan Extends Funds to Help Save Chinese Ancient Ruins ...............36
5. Taiwan's State-Run Firms Allowed to Export to China ..................35
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1. News Brief (3 Items) .................................................25
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[AP, 10/13/92] STOCKHOLM - An American, Gary Becker, was awarded the Nobel
Prize in economics Tuesday. His research extended economic theory to areas
of human behavior not previously associated with market forces, said the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awarded the $1.2 million prize.
Becker, 61, is from the University of Chicago. He is the 19th American to
win the prize, which has been awarded 32 times since 1969. The Nobel Prize
in medicine was awarded Monday to Edwin Krebs and Dr. Edmond Fischer of the
U.S. for defining a basic biological process important to understanding
cancer and organ transplant rejection. (From: Huijie)
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[AP-DJ, 10/12/92] HONG KONG -- Senior Chinese officials told a group of
Chase Manhattan Bank executives last week that Beijing hasn't any plans to
float the yuan within the next several years, according to a banker who
attended the meeting. (From: Liu Jian)
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[UPI, 10/13/92] MAHWAH, N.J. -- A New Jersey state college is forming a
training center for Chinese executives. Small groups of executives are
expected to begin arriving at Ramapo College in November. Training sessions
will last from two to six weeks. Business Professor Peter Hellawell says
Ramapo will focus on training executives from small and mid-size companies.
Ramapo President Robert Scott and Gang Hu, president of Modern Consulting
Inc. of Shanghai, signed an agreement Monday. (From: A CND Reader)

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2. Party Congress Delegates Discuss on Cadre Promotion ..................33
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From: Liu Jian
Source: Japan Economic Newswire, 10/13/92

BEIJING -- Delegates to China's 14th Communist Party Congress continued
closed-door discussions Tuesday with the emphasis on electing a new,
younger leadership.

The party is expected to announce its new Central Committee lineup on
Sunday shortly before the congress closes.

Congress secretary general Qiao Shi on Monday told a panel meeting of
delegates from east China's Zhejiang Province that more young cadres should
be given high-level posts, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported
Tuesday.

Such promotions are needed to ensure the party's basic line remains
unchanged for 100 years, Xinhua quoted Qiao as saying.

But Qiao stressed that only those officials displaying both ability and
political integrity will make the grade.

Analysts say such remarks suggest party conservatives continue to exercise
tight control over the ideological reigns.

In a separate Xinhua dispatch, conservative Politburo Standing Committee
member Song Ping was also quoted as saying only ideologically-correct
cadres can rise in the party ranks.

Only those who are faithful to the party's basic line can be promoted to
the leading bodies, Song said.

Chinese sources say 75-year-old Song will himself step down when the new
Central Committee elects its Politburo immediately after the congress ends.

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3. Japan: Nearly 90% of Poll Respondents Favor Emperor's China Visit ....40
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From: Huijie
Source: Japan Economic Newswire, 10/14/92

TOKYO -- Nearly 90% of the respondents in a survey released Wednesday by
Kyodo News Service are in favor of Emperor Akihito's scheduled visit to
China next week, and 55% said he should apologize for Japan's wartime
atrocities.

In the survey of 3,000 Japanese nationwide conducted on October 3-4, 54.4%
of the 1,957 respondents said they agreed with the emperor's visit and
another 31.9% said that if asked to choose they would be in favor.

Less than 10% of the poll respondents were opposed to the trip, but among
these 41.5% felt the emperor is being used politically while another 28.4%
said the trip is premature because of abuses of human rights in China,
among other issues.

For those in favor of the visit, 62.7% of respondents stressed the
significance of deepening friendly relations with China while 20% said it
would "punctuate the end of unfortunate relations of the past with China."

Another 11.4% agreed to the visit because the emperor makes goodwill visits
to other countries.

Agreement with the visit appeared to cut widely across party affiliations
with 91% of the poll respondents identifying themselves with the ruling
Liberal Democratic Party in favor, along with 86% of the respondents
identifying with the leading opposition Social Democratic Party.

Japan Communist Party supporters came in on the low side with 64% of those
responding being in favor.

Asked about an apology by the emperor for Japan's wartime atrocities
against China, 55.4% said he should apologize, while 34.7%, including
several older respondents, said it is not necessary.

The respondents appeared less in favor of an imperial visit to South Korea
with only 22.4% saying it would be better realized as soon as possible,
while 67.2 said there is no hurry but it would be better to realize the
visit sometime.

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4. Japan Extends Funds to Help Save Chinese Ancient Ruins ...............36
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From: Liu Jian
Source: Japan Economic Newswire, 10/13/92

TOKYO -- Japan will extend about 390,000 dollars to help protect and
restore the remains of an ancient city in western China, the Foreign
Ministry announced Tuesday.

Officials said Japanese representatives in Paris concluded an agreement
earlier Tuesday with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to draw 389,850 dollars for the project from
a Japanese fund set up under the organization's umbrella to finance
conservation of cultural heritages.

The money will go toward a three-year, 1 million dollar UNESCO project to
save the ancient city of Jiaohe from further deterioration.

Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa offered to contribute to the project during
a visit to Tokyo last April by Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.

Jiaohe, which has been declared a nationally protected monument by the
Chinese government, is located near the northwestern city of Turpan in
China's arid Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region along the northern route of
the fabled Silk Road.

The city served as the capital of a local kingdom between 108 BC and 450
AD.

It was destroyed by fire in the latter half of the 14th century and since
then, despite its historical significance, little has been done toward its
conservation and restoration.

UNESCO studies say that winds are steadily wearing down the city ruins.
Located on a narrow strip of elevated land between two rivers, the city
could suffer the complete collapse of its cliff-top walls at any moment due
to vibrations caused by vehicles and people visiting it as a tourist
attraction.

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5. Taiwan's State-Run Firms Allowed to Export to China ..................35
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From: A CND Reader
Source: UPI, 10/11/92

TAIPEI -- Taiwan's giant state-run enterprises have received the green
light to begin exporting to China, a market for decades off limits to
government firms.

Taiwan's Economics Ministry last week issued a letter permitting state-run
enterprises to export to China under the same conditions now applied to
private industry, local media reported Monday.

According to Taiwan's Board of Foreign Trade (BOFT), both private and
public firms are now free to export to China anything except high-tech
products.

However, the new rules uphold a decades-old ban on direct trade, requiring
goods bound for China to first pass through a third country, usually Hong
Kong.

China Steel and Taiwan Fertilizer are the two state-run firms likely to
benefit most from the liberalization, BOFT officials said.

"Our fertilizer is quite suitable for China, as are our iron and steel
products," said BOFT analyst Thomas Chuang. "The China market has great
potential."

Media reports speculate that Taiwan's Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau, the
island's second largest state-run enterprise, is also likely to move
quickly into China.

In 1991, Taiwan's exports to China via Hong Kong totalled $4.7 billion, up
from $380 million a decade earlier, and two-way trade reached $5.8 billion.

Analysts expect two-way trade, including a growing volume of illegal direct
commerce, to surpass $10 billion this year.

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