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                          Tuesday, December 15, 1992


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1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................. 15
2. Clinton Says He Expects China to Retain MFN Trade Status ............. 17
3. Yeltsin's Visit to China Said to Learn Capitalism .................... 35
4. China to Restructure Ministry of Culture ............................. 48
5. H.K. Financial Group Petition Opposes Patten's Political Plan ........ 41
6. What's in This Week's Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan #10 (cm9212z) ........ 15
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1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................. 15
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[JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 12/14/1992] BEIJING -- Israeli President Chaim
Herzog will pay an official visit to China December 24-30, the Chinese
Foreign Ministry announced Monday. China and Israel have previously
exchanged foreign ministerial visits since establishing diplomatic relations
in January this year. Herzog was invited to China by President Yang
Shangkun, Xinhua News Agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.
(Forwarded by: Liu Jian)
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[DOW JONES INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12/13/1992] HONG KONG -- An investigation
into the share distribution system in Shenzhen after August's riots has led
to the punishment of seventeen civil servants, a report said Monday. The
China Daily, quoting Sunday's People's Daily newspaper, said 10 of the
city's 11 financial institutions authorized to sell share application forms
were involved in illegal practices. Different degrees of malpractice took
place in the sales of application forms in almost half of the 300 form-
selling outlets in Shenzhen, the reports said. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)

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2. Clinton Says He Expects China to Retain MFN Trade Status ............. 17
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE, 12/14/1992

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Bill Clinton said he doesn't believe China
will lose its most-favored nation status, but indicated he expects to hold a
hard line on China's human-rights policies and its trade surplus.

In remarks during a two-day economic conference in Little Rock, Clinton said
he doesn't favor revocation of China's MFN status as long as that cuntry
continues to make progress in improving human rights and opening its markets
to U.S. products.

"I don't want to isolate China for political and economic reasons, but I do
think in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square and errors made in the aftermath
we have an obligation to at least be insistent about the things we believe
in," he added.

Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, Clinton's choice for Treasury Secretary agreed,
adding that China "is one of the most protectionist markets we run into."

"They must understand early on, if we're going to have an open market for
them they must have an open market for us," Bentsen added.

Clinton and Bentsen's comments were monitored on C-Span, which is
broadcasting the conference live.

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3. Yeltsin's Visit to China Said to Learn Capitalism .................... 35
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Forwarded by: A CND Reader
Source: UPI, 12/12/1992

BEIJING -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin's three-day summit visit to
China, the first between the two former rivals since the breakup of the
Soviet Union, will present the struggling leader with an opportunity to
escape his domestic problems and take lessons in capitalism from his
Communist neighbor.

Russian Ambassador Igor Rogachov said to a news conference Monday the summit
would boost relations to "a new stage."

After two days of talks beginning Thursday with top Chinese leaders in
Beijing that were expected to focus on trade and security agreements,
Yeltsin will spend the final one-third of his visit in the booming south
China capitalist enclave of Shenzhen.

"There is no doubt that the Russian-China summit will be of great importance
for Russia and China as well as for international politics," Rogachov said.

Yeltsin will meet President Yang Shangkun, Premier Li Peng and Communist
Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin, and will sign one major diplomatic
accord and more than 20 trade, science, culture and other agreements.

Russian weapons sales to China, some of which already have taken place, also
will be discussed during the visit, Rogachov said, declining to list
specific sales.

Russia recently reportedly sold 24 jet fighters to China, and Rogachov said
it is "still in the world market for armaments."

The fanfare given the summit by Russian officials evokes comparisons with
Mikhail Gorbachev's historic 1989 summit, which broke 30 years of icy
relations and fanned the flames of student pro-democracy protests taking
place in Beijing at the time.

Unlike Gorbachev, Yeltsin apparently will not be granted a meeting with
patriarch Deng Xiaoping, a sign the Chinese do not regard the visit as
highly as the Russians.

Nevertheless, Russian officials have reason to be optimistic about the
visit. Despite its repressive political system, China has emerged as a
formidable economic power in the last few years, and its erstwhile dependent
relationship with the former Soviet Union reversed.

China's strengthening market economy has sent bilateral trade skyrocketing
and helped officials step up an aggressive campaign to import Russian
technology and manpower, including an undetermined number of weapons and
peaceful nuclear technology.

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4. China to Restructure Ministry of Culture ............................. 48
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 12/14/1992

BEIJING -- China has drawn up extensive plans to overhaul the Ministry of
Culture as part of a State Council shake-up to simplify government
structures, ministry sources said Monday.

In a series of changes to be promulgated at next spring's Eighth National
People's Congress, the nation's film industry and publishing houses will
return to the auspices of the Culture Ministry after a seven-year hiatus,
the sources said.

Responsibility for film work was transferred to the newly-named Ministry of
Radio, Film and Television in January 1986, the same year that the State
Publications Bureau was placed directly under State Council jurisdiction.

Contacted by telephone, a film ministry spokesman admitted the ministry move
is a distinct possibility but added that a final decision has yet to be
made.

Analysts say the proposed changes accord with Communist Party chief Jiang
Zemin's 14th Party Congress pledge to reform the organizational structure of
government to achieve "simplification, uniformity and efficiency."

Acting Culture Minister He Jingzhi has already stepped down from office to
give his replacement sufficient time to oversee the changes, cultural
sources said.

Liu Zhongde, deputy head of the Communist Party's Propaganda Department, has
already started work as acting minister of culture and a formal announcement
is expected soon, the sources said.

"Liu's appointment is a sign that ultimate power over cultural matters will
remain with the Propaganda Department," one source said.

Meanwhile, other sources say China's Central Television Station (CCTV) may
also break off from the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television to become a
separate institution under the State Council.

Such a move would give CCTV ministry status on a par with Xinhua News Agency
and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, they said.

A CCTV spokesman said there has been no official directive to this effect
but said he could not rule out the possibility that such a structural change
will be implemented.

In other related moves, cultural sources say there are also tentative plans
to create a State Cultural Commission to act as a watchdog over the arts.

The new body would have similar functions to the State Education and State
Planning commissions which oversee their relevant minisries and departments,
the sources said.

Disgraced military strongman Yang Baibing is tipped to assume a senior
position in the new cultural commission, sources said.

Yang, who was promoted to the ruling politburo at the 14th Party Congress
despite losing his military posts, is a well-known patron of the arts.

Party leaders are said to support the creation of several powerful state
commissions in various fields to strengthen central control and boost
economic construction.

The State Council Economic and Trade Office, formed in June this year to
promote liberal economic reforms, is expected to be granted state commission
status at the National People's Congress and a new agricultural commission
may also be created, sources says.

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5. H.K. Financial Group Petition Opposes Patten's Political Plan ........ 41
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: DOW JONES INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12/14/1992

HONG KONG -- A group of 500 financial services professionals, in a strongly-
worded petition Monday, criticized the Governor Chris Patten's political
reform plan as "unrealistic."

The group asserted in a full-page statement published in local newspapers
Monday that the governor's proposal "breached an earlier understanding"
between China and Britain.

The signatories weren't expressing the views of their companies, and few are
the top ranking officials of brokerage houses or banks. Among the petition
signers, however, was Chim Pui Chung, the legislator who represents the
financial services community on the colony's rule-making Legislative
Council.

They said the governor's political reform package isn't the only way to
bring democracy to the colony, as "the Basic Law has already provided a path
to democracy."

"What we consider as a matter of utmost importance is the smooth transition
and convergence towards 1997 by maintaining the status quo. We believe that
this could not be achieved by an unrealistic attempt to fight for more
democracy in a hostile manner," the statement said.

"Without a smooth transition, any democracy contemplation before 1997 would
be unrealistic. We do not hope to see a fight for an Utopian democracy at
the expense of stability and prosperity in the domestic economy," it added.

They also urged the governor to seek "more consultation from different
parties" in handling future matters, charging him with a lack of knowledge
of China and Chinese people. "We feel that Mr. Chris Patten is handling the
recent Hong Kong affairs with strong political dosages. It seems that he
might not understand China and the Chinese people."

The group had earlier announced plans to issue the petition after the local
stock market lost 17% the week of Nov. 30 on worries Patten's proposals were
behind China's threats to walk away from contracts signed by the colony's
government after 1997.

But publication of the petition was delayed until after three days of Sino-
British talks under the auspices of the Joint Liaison Group (JLG). The JLG
discussions ended last Thursday and failed to make headway on the dispute.

Also, the petition published Monday was watered down, as the original was to
have called for the governor's resignation.

Separately, a poll published by the South China Morning Post found that
almost half, 47%, of Hong Kong's residents now back the governor's proposals
compared with 42% three weeks ago. Half of the population also believes
China is being unreasonable in its demand that Patten scrap the plan before
further talks can be held. But the majority also say that convergence with
the Basic Law was important.

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6. What's in This Week's Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan #10 (cm9212z) ........ 15
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From: CND Hua Xia Wen Zhai Editorial Board <cnd-cm@sdsc.edu>

                        Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan
                   (Supplement to CND Chinese Magazine)
                           Special Issue #10

                 A Profile of Chinese Sexual Relationship
                            December 13, 1992

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                       Table of Contents (cm9212z)
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1. The Leisure Class in Chinese Metropolis ........ From <<Shanghai Wenxue>>
2. A Profile of Shanghainese Sexual Relationship .............. Yuan Youming
3. Another World of Marriage ...................................... Ma Yijun
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           CND-CM Executive Editor:  Jiang Yong <cnd-cm@sdsc.edu>
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