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Subject: CND-Global, January 23, 1993  A Happy New Year to All
Date: 23 Jan 93 12:58:48 GMT
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1. News Brief (5 Items) ................................................. 41
2. Deng Xiaoping Appears on TV, Expresses Confidence .................... 38
3. Five Tibetans Sentenced for Pro-Independence Protests ................ 27
4. Chinese Teachers Unpaid for Up to Seven Months ....................... 18
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1. News Brief (5 Items) ................................................. 41
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[China Radio International, 1/23/1993] -- China's State Council has approved
the establishment of a free-trade zone within the Shantou special economic
zone, located in south China's Guangdong province. In its reply to Shantou's
proposals the State Council noted the free-trade zone should take full ad-
vantage of its port to develop trade, transportation, warehouses and pro-
cessing industries. The Shantou free-trade zone is located between the sea
and a deep-water port.  Construction has started on roads, a ferry dock and
security fencing. (Forwarded by: Andrew Waldie <awaldie@web.apc.org>)
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[REUTER, 1/22/1993] HONG KONG -- A Hong Kong journalist, convicted  in China
of spying for the United States, has returned to the British colony after 10
years spent mostly under house arrest. Lo Fu, a former deputy editor of the
Beijing-controlled daily Ta Kung Pao and a Chinese Communist Party member,
told Reuters on Friday he had been freed because his term was up. He declin-
ed to comment on his conviction for spying. However, rumours had circulated
in Beijing earlier this week that Lo would be released as a gesture to co-
incide with U.S. President Bill Clinton's inauguration last Wednesday.
(Forwarded by: Deming)
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[China Radio International, 1/22/1993] -- Analysts say Beijing's economic
performance last year was the best in the decade.  Statistics show that the
city's domestic product was more than 70 billion Yuan in 1992, an 11% in-
crease over the previous year.  Per capita domestic output in Beijing is now
second only to Shanghai.  The service sector grew by 12% over the previous
year. It's now about 45% of the city's gross domestic product, the highest
in the country. More than 2000 foreign-funded enterprises were approved to
set up their businesses in Beijing, 40% more than approved in the past 13
years.  The amount of foreign investment last year amounted to nearly $1.5
billion. (Forwarded by: Andrew Waldie <awaldie@web.apc.org>)
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[China Radio International, 1/22/1993] -- Sino-Russian border trade has been
given a boost in the northeast province of Heilongjiang thanks to a new
port.  Fuyuan port is located at the confluence of two rivers.  Only 65
kilometres away is the Russian city of Chabarovsk with a population of over
a half a million people.  The two cities have agreed to build a pontoon
bridge to foster better relations and trade.
(Forwarded by: Andrew Waldie <awaldie@web.apc.org>)
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[China Radio International, 1/22/1993] -- Shanghai's suburban areas witness-
ed rapid economic growth last year.  The Shanghai Liberation Daily [Jiefang
Ribao] reported yesterday the GNP for the region exceeded 25 billion Yuan,
an increase of 22% over the year previous. Last year 1200 foreign-funded
projects were approved in the city, twice the total of projects undertaken
over the last 12 years. Production of grain, cotton and other agricultural
crops has also gone up. (Forwarded by: Andrew Waldie <awaldie@web.apc.org>)

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2. Deng Xiaoping Appears on TV, Expresses Confidence .................... 38
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Forwarded by: Stephen Kam-Cheung Ng <skn1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Source: AFP, 1/22/1993

BEIJING --  China's  reclusive paramount leader Deng Xiaoping appeared on
television Friday, expressing Lunar New Year greetings and his confidence in
the nation's future.

Deng, 88, who is by far  China's  most powerful leader despite no longer
holding any official post, was shown in Shanghai in the company of municipal
leaders of  China's  biggest city.

In a four-minute report, Chinese Central Television (CCTV) showed him stand-
ing alongside one of his daughters, Deng Nan, wearing his familiar grey Mao
suit, smiling but walking hesitantly.

"I wish a happy new year to the people of Shanghai," he said on the eve of
the Chinese Year of the Rooster.

He exorted Shanghainese "to seize every occasion" to develop the economy.

To compensate for her father's poor hearing, Deng Nan, his private secre-
tary, had to repeat to him remarks made by some of the people he met, notab-
ly Shanghai communist party secretary Wu Bangguo.

Deng posed for a photograph with about 100 officials and workers in Shang-
hai, where he is passing the Lunar New Year holiday, the most important of
the year.

He then was seen congratulating Chinese Communist Party general secretary
Jiang Zemin, Shanghai's former mayor and party boss.

"Jiang Zemin's leadership work is good. We can have confidence in him,"
CCTV quoted Deng as saying.

The television network said Jiang had telephoned  China's  patriarch to
offer his respects and wish him good health.

Deng last appeared in public in October, after the 14th communist party con-
gress which endorsed his call made one year ago for quicker, bolder economic
reforms and re-elected Jiang as general secretary.

At that time, Deng was seen being applauded by congress delegates who had
elevated his theory of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" -- a blend
of economic liberalism and political dictatorship -- to the ranks of Mao
Zedong thought.

Before its report on Deng, CCTV's main evening newscast ran a series of news
items portraying the situation in  China  as being good in all sectors.

It also showed the two men in authority -- Jiang and Premier Li Peng -- who
currently have Deng's blessing.

Deng's television appearance followed similar reports Wednesday and Thursday
on four other ageing communist veterans who helped Mao found the people's
republic in 1949.

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3. Five Tibetans Sentenced for Pro-Independence Protests ................ 27
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Forwarded by: Zhao Hua
Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1/21/1993

BEIJING -- Five Tibetan farmers were given prison sentences ranging from 13
to 15 years for staging a pro-independence protest, a Western human rights
group said today.

The London-based Tibet International Network said the sentences were
unusually long, reflecting China's concern about the growing numbers of
Tibetans from rural areas who have joined the independence movement. Eighty-
eight percent of Tibetans live in the countryside.

Small-scale protests against Chinese rule reportedly occur frequently in
Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet. The report said this was the first time de-
tails of punishments of Tibetans outside the capital had been revealed.

The five men were sentenced on Nov. 1 by a Lhasa court, but their sentences
were not announced, Tibet International said in a news release. Chinese
authorities generally do not make public the trials and sentences of people
accused of political crimes.

The group did not say how it obtained the information about the sentencing.
But it quoted unidentified people who witnessed the demonstration on June 30
that led to the arrests in the Gyama district of Meldro Gungkar county, a
rural area 40 miles east of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.

The incident reportedly began when four men, all 23-year-old farmers from
the same village, interrupted a political education meeting and unfurled a
Tibetan flag, the possession of which is a crime in China. Witnesses said
the farmers shouted slogans such as "Tibet is independent!", the report
said.

Police reportedly arrested the men and beat them before taking them out of
the village. A fifth man, a 41-year-old farmer, was arrested a day later and
charged with "cooperating with the demonstrators." He was sentenced to 15
years, the report said.

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4. Chinese Teachers Unpaid for Up to Seven Months ....................... 18
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Forwarded by: Zhao Hua
Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1/21/1993

HONG KONG -- Thousands of teachers in central China have not been paid for
months because of budget problems and rampant corruption among Communist
Party officials, a Chinese-language newspaper reported Thursday.

The financial crisis in Sichuan province has forced more than 100 elementary
school principals to resign because they can no longer feed their families,
the Ming Pao newspaper said.

The report is the latest example of how China's market-oriented economic
reforms appear to be largely bypassing rural areas as China concentrates on
building up urban coastal areas.

The worst case involves Sichuan's Yilong county, where 7,000 teachers had
not been paid for seven months as of November, the report said. It said 10
out of 12 counties in Sichuan's Nanchong district had fallen behind by two
to six months in paying teachers, and that more than 500 teachers had quit
their jobs.

The report attributed the crisis to the region's deteriorating economy,
which is based mostly on revenues from agriculture. It also said local party
officials have embezzled funds intended for teachers or diverted them to
contruction and other profit-making ventures.

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