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Subject: China News Digest (Global), Fri, 11/20/1992
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                                (News Global)

                         Friday, November 20, 1992


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1. News Brief (4 items).................................................. 25
2. Government Begins Dismantling Grain-Planting Quotas for Farmers ...... 19
3. U.S. President-Elect Clinton Signals Tough China Policy .............. 29
4. China Steps up Campaign Against Production Fraud ..................... 24
5. Chinese Economists Predict 12-13 Percent GNP Growth in 1993 .......... 33
6. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #86 (cm9211c) ..................... 29
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1. News Brief (4 items).................................................. 25
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[JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/19/92] WASHINGTON -- U.S. Trade Representative
Carla Hills will visit Taiwan later this month, a State Department spokesman
said Thursday. Hills, who is expected to attend a business conference in
Taipei on November 30, will be the most senior U.S. government official to
visit Taiwan in 13 years. (Forwarded by: Huijie)
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[DJ, 11/19/92] BEIJING -- The overseas edition of the People's Daily
Thursday accused foreign reporters of misquoting Vice Premier Zhu Rongji,
and said China has no intention of abandoning its agreements with Britain
on the future of Hong Kong. (Forwarded by: Huijie)
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[AP-DJ, 11/19/92] BEIJING -- China on Thursday threatened strong retaliation
against France if Paris approves the sale of Mirage jet fighters to Taiwan.
"We strongly demand the French government refrain from approving such a
contract," Foreign Ministry spokesman Wu Jianmin told a weekly briefing.
He did not elaborate on how China would retaliate, but said Beijing was not
making an idle threat. (Forwarded by: Huijie)
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[JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/19/92] HONG KONG -- The People's Congress of
Shenzhen city named its chairman Li Youwei as mayor of the city in China's
Guangdong province, the semi-official Hong Kong China News Agency reported
Thursday. Li, also executive secretary of the Shenzen branch of the
Communist Party, replaces Zheng Liangyu who was recently appointed vice
governor of Jiangxi Province. Zheng's sudden departure earlier this month is
said to be related to apparent mishandling of the sale of stock certificates
in mid-August. (Forwarded by: Huijie)

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2. Government Begins Dismantling Grain-Planting Quotas for Farmers ...... 19
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: DOW JONES INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 11/19/92

BEIJING -- Chinese farmers in several provinces will no longer be told how
much grain to plant, another move toward a market economy, an official
report said Thursday.

Henan province, in eastern China, is the latest to dismantle the 40-year-old
quota system, the China Daily reported. Officials in Guangdong, Zhejiang,
Jiangxi and Hubei provinces and the three cities of Beijing, Tianjin and
Shanghai also have announced an end to the quotas.

Henan officials said that starting next year farmers could decide themselves
what and how much to plant. However, the report said production of grain,
cotton tobacco had to remain stable. It did not say what would happen if
harvests dropped.

The Ministry of Agriculture said more regions would adopt similar reforms
next year, but did not say if it would be nationwide.

China's grain production this year was expected to climb to 440 million
metric tons, a 5-million-ton increase over last year's record yield.

On the consumption side, more than 300 counties in 16 provinces have lifted
controls on prices for grain and grain products.

The China Daily said the reform would be implemented in most parts of the
country in three to five years.

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3. U.S. President-Elect Clinton Signals Tough China Policy .............. 29
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/19/92

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Bill Clinton said Thursday he will take a firm
line in calling on China to improve its human rights record.

"We have to insist on progress in human rights and human decency," Clinton
told a news conference.

The Arkansas governor also expressed confidence that Beijing would not react
rashly to jeopardize its growing, lucrative trade relationship with the
United States.

"They have a big stake in it," he said.

Clinton talked to reporters in Congress after spending a morning meeting
both Democratic and Republican leaders of the U.S. Congress.

Clinton was in Washington for a two-day visit and met President George Bush
on Wednesday.

While making it clear that he will take a strong stand to push for human
rights in China, Clinton said his aim is not to isolate China in the world.

"We have a big stake in not isolating China, and in seeing China continue to
develop a market economy," he said.

Clinton took a strong stand on China's human rights record during the
presidential campaign, accusing the Bush administration of "coddling" the
Chinese leadership in the wake of the violent crackdown on pro-democracy
demonstrations in 1989.

While vowing to "stick by the values I articulated during the campaign,"
Clinton soft-pedaled on whether he will honor his campaign pledge to strip
China of most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status unless Beijing shows
improvement in human rights.

Clinton said China had shown "moderation" on issues such as exporting goods
produced with prison labor and alleged unfair trade practices after the Bush
administration "took a tougher line" against Beijing.

"There are indications in the past few months that a firm hand by our
government can help achieve that," he said.

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4. China Steps up Campaign Against Production Fraud ..................... 24
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/19/92

BEIJING -- China stepped up its campaign against rampant production fraud
Wednesday, executing a sales manager who was caught selling fake name
brand alcohol.

Luo Deming, 33, was executed in Guizhou Province, southwest China, for
concocting bogus Maotai liquor and then selling it for a handsome profit,
the China Daily newspaper reported Thursday.

Luo was indicted in August on speculation charges after amassing 2.9 million
yuan (about 530,000 dollars) from the sale of 41,300 fake bottles of China's
famed fiery alcohol.

His execution was ordered by the Supreme People's Court, which is planning
to toughen up legal action to combat counterfeit production, the China Daily
newspaper said.

Since August, 107 people have received prison sentences ranging from five
years to life for involvement in fraudulent production, it said.

The English-language newspaper quoted a top Supreme Court judge as saying
Luo deserved to die because his acts "infringed on both the Maotai Brewery
and consumers," causing huge losses to the enterprises effected.

"Luo was said to have purchased counterfeit Maotai labels, caps, and
packaging, forged business papers and government licenses, and then hired
workers to repackage common liquors in imitation of Maotai brands," the
China Daily said.

Millions of counterfeit or shoddy goods are destroyed across the country
each year and the Chinese press routinely carries reports of multiple
deaths caused by fake spirits or medicine.

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5. Chinese Economists Predict 12-13 Percent GNP Growth in 1993 .......... 33
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE 11/19/92

HONG KONG -- The Chinese economy will continue to expand at a double-digit
pace through 1993, according to a forecast issued by a conference of
Chinese economic officials and economists in Beijing, a Hong Kong daily
reported Thursday.

In a dispatch from Beijing, the Chinese-language daily Wen Wei Po reported
that the conference to analyze and forecast economic trends was convened
recently in Beijing under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences.

In attendance were over 100 experts and scholars from over 40 key
organizations, including the State Planning Commission, the State
Commission for the Restructuring of the Economic System, the State Council
Research Office, the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, the
People's Bank of China and the State Statistical Bureau, the report said.

The conference participants forecast China's gross national product would
grow by 12% in real terms (all forecasts following are in real terms) in
1992 and between 12% and 13% in 1993.

National income is expected to rise by 12.8% in 1992 and by about 13% in
1993, reported the Wen Wei Po.

In terms of economic sector, the conference forecast that gross industrial
output would rise by 20% in 1992 and 19% in 1993 and that gross agricultural
production would grow in 1993 between 3.5% and 4.0%.

The services sector is forecast to grow by 7.4% this year and by 12-13% in
1993.

The Wen Wei Po added that the conference forecast 1992's level of gross
fixed capital formation at 720 billion yuan, up more than 30% from 1991.
Next year's level of investment is anticipated to reach 880 billion yuan for
a 22.2% rise over 1992.

The conference anticipated that China's central government financial deficit
would be 25 billion yuan and that it could be kept within 29 billion yuan
next year.

The cost of living in urban areas is expected to rise by about 9% this year,
but urban inflation may accelerate to 11-12% in 1993, the Wen Wei Po
reported.

It added that the forecast for the GNP deflator, another measurement of
inflation, was forecast at 7.5% in 1992 and about 9% for 1993.

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6. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #86 (cm9211c) ...................... 29
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From: CND Hua Xia Wen Zhai Editorial Board < cnd-cm@sdsc.edu >

               Hua Xia Wen Zhai (CND Chinese Magazine)
                                Issue #86
                            November 20, 1992

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                       Table of Contents (cm9211c)
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 1. Professors Playing with Stock Market ........................ Zhou Wenjun
 2. The Vexation of Choosing Names ................................. Liu Yida
 3. Headline News of the Week ........................................ Li Xin
 4. Interview with Dai Qing ............... CND/HXWZ Correspondent George Zhu
 5. Prose: Gentleman's Deed ..................................... John Brandt
 6. Lyrics: A Piece of Red Cloth ................................... Cui Jian
 7. Humor: Inside the Besieged Fortress (5 Items)
 8. A Bit of History: America's Aircrafts Production in WWII ......... He Wen
 9. Olympic Heroine: To Compete with Men and Win the Gold Medal .. Zhang Shan
10. "We" (Wo Men): The Bitterness in Freedom ........................ You You
11. Between Readers and Editors
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