From: elelyc@nuscc.nus.sg (Y.C. Liang)
Subject: Re: Hello from news reader in China
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:24:42 GMT

In article <9224412.19004@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> dht@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Joyous Dave baby) writes:
>deng%mao.cs.tsinghua.cn@darmstadt.dbp.de (Deng Zekun) writes:
>
>Okay, since Jiang ZeMing is reading this, I have to few suggestions and hope
>that you can past it onto him for me.
>
>1)  PLEASE change XiZang (Tibet) Autonomous Region into a Province, I'm really
>getting sick of people (Westerners) claiming that XiZang should be independant
>and all the rest.  Change it into a Province, solve the matter in one go, and
>shut everyone's mouth up!
>

I am not quite sure of the reason why Joyous Dave is sick of people
claiming that Xi Zang should be independant.  Tibet is a Autonomous
Region because people in Tibet decided to do so.  That was a long
history.  They have their own culture, language, religion, life-style
and their own leadership, just like Mongolia.  They have every right to
live in their own land, using their own language and follow their own
life-style.  If China thinks these things are not torlerable and they
have to be changed, Xi Zang faces its own choice. 

>3)  Congratulations on the economic growth.  Please keep up the good work.
>One suggestion.  I was reading a book on Chinese Industries.  I was basically
>impressed, but I saw a picture of an old train carrying coals from some part
>of Northern China.  WHY is China still using those old trains?  If China
>changes their trains to the kind that HongKong MTR and Railway are using,
>things will be much more efficient, and productivity will certainly grow
>even faster.
>

For economical reason, I would not suggest China to use a MTR system to
ship tones of coal mine.  MTR system is mainly for fast and rapid
transportation for a short distance travel, such as in HongKong and
Singapore.  It is also expensive to be built.  

>4)  I read an article talking about how dirty China is.  People throw
>rubbish everywhere, split everywhere... why not try some social engineering,
>to educate people to throw rubbish into rubbish bins?
>

It is more a problem of society.  Even the government officials spit
everywhere easily.  If anyone ever been to China, they know how heavy
the problem is.  For toilets around the countries I have been to,
Australian one is one of the best I can say.

>6)  Following up to 1 and 2, please re-claim Mongolia and parts of
>NW China (which was given to Russia after the Sino-Russian War).  It
>is China's proud to re-unite a Greater China, and re-claim former
>teritories.  For that matter, help Taiwan to pressure Japan to return
>Liou Qiou Islands (North of Taiwan)... The Japanese should've returned
>them in Aug 1945.. why didn't China claim them then, I don't know!
>

What Greater China ?  I think we don't need another "Great Japan",
"Great Soviet Union" or "Great Nazi", do we ?  I will suggest the
government to work on its economy and environmental issue instead.


>The reason I wanted China to grow is because I was born in HKG and
>am now an Australian citizen.  I am getting really sick of Australians
>putting down Asian cultures.  Also, I like China to catch up with
>HKG and Taiwan in terms of economy... that will make re-unification
>much easier.
>

I am not sure if Australian really put down Asian cultures.  I think it
is not too many Asian culture activities in Australia.  I did not see
any social activities organised by Vietnamese, Malysian, Indonesian.
For Chinese, most of them from HongKong, have few.  Therefore, what they
see is not people's cultures, but their behavious.  Even I myself
sometimes cannot agree with their behaviours, such as take advantages of
the social they live in.

Have a nice day. 
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