From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: CND-Global 14-8-92 FRI
Summary: CND
Keywords: CND
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date: 14 Aug 92 04:13:04 GMT

              * * *  C h i n a   N e w s   D i g e s t  * * *

                              (News Global)

                         Friday, August 14, 1992

Table of Contents                                                # of Lines
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................ 23
2. China Lifts Some Controls Over Publishing ........................... 38
3. Free Enterprise Blooms in Wenzhou ................................... 60
4. Hong Kong's Rise in Car Thefts Blamed on China ...................... 72
5. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #72 (cm9208b) .................... 33
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[CND's note: Due to network problems, readers have been unable to reach CND
             at addresses cnd-xxxx@djohn-sun.kent.edu since August 2.Please
             use  CND-XXXX@LIBRARY.UTA.EDU to reach CND for the time being.
             Substitute "XXXX" with  EDITOR or US or CM  where appropriate]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................ 23
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

[AP-DJ, 8/12/92] HONG KONG -- China will open its map-making industry to
foreign joint ventures, breaking a tradition of keeping the politically
sensitive area under close government supervision, according to Jin
Xiangwen, head of the National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. The country
seeks to modernize the field by bringing in foreign technology to produce
maps that can be sold on the international market. He said the government
has set up a state-owned company, Siwei Surveying and Mapping Corp.,
specifically for the purpose of drawing outside investment. Maps have long
been considered a matter of national security in China because of their use
in settling border dispute and their military value. (From: Jian Liu)
                      ____  ____  ____  ____

[AP-DJ, 8/12/92] MANILA -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) announced
Thursday it has approved a 55-million-dlr loan and a 800,000-dlr grant to
China to improve tropical crop production in Guangdong province. The loan,
from the bank's ordinary capital resources, is payable in 25 years,
including a grace period of seven years. Interest will be determined
according to the bank's pool-based variable lending rate system. The project
will enhance Beijing's economic reform policies in agriculture by improving
the efficiency of Guangdong's tropical crop production and processing, as
well as helping to provide jobs and raise the income of farmers. Processing
factories for rubber, wood, sugar cane and sisal and a trading and marketing
center for these crops will be built under the project. (From: Huijie)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. China Lifts Some Controls Over Publishing ........................... 38
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: A CND Reader
Source: UPI 8/13/92

BEIJING  -- In the second indication this week of a cultural thaw, an
official newspaper reported Thursday that China is lifting central
government restrictions on the publishing of some literature and arts books
-- as well as bikini wall calendars.

The Communist Party newspaper Guangming Daily quoted government officials as
saying they would end censorship requirements for central approval of
certain material and that such publications could be issued under local
authority.

The newspaper said the move was linked to the renewed drive for economic
reforms and opening China wider to outside influences. The reform was said
to be designed to "raise the quality of books."

Liu Gao, deputy director of the government Press and Publications
Administration, said his office had decided to "decentralize" publishing
approval rights for several kinds of material.

Included were older literary works, except those containing high amounts of
sexual descriptions, along with martial arts novels and art picture books on
the human body.

The decision also cancels restrictions on printing wall calendars featuring
bikini-clad models and foreign movie and music stars as well as those
performers from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

It was the second such indication this week of a loosening of the strict
government control of culture that has prevailed since the 1989 Tiananmen
Square demonstrations.

Li Ruihuan, a member of the party Politburo's ruling Standing Committee who
supervises culture for the leadership, called Monday for freer creation of
art and literature and less political interference in those fields.

"Following the deepening of the reform and opening, the Press and
Publishing Office will guarantee that it vigorously carries out its main
duties using macro-management," the Guangming Daily said.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. Free Enterprise Blooms in Wenzhou ................................... 60
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Jian Liu
Source: Wall Street Journal 8/13/92
By: James McGregor

WENZHOU, China -- Communist leaders in Beijing are wringing their hands over
how to revive rotting Soviet-style state factories. But while they agonize
over how best to blend central planning and free markets into a "socialist
commodity economy," the entrepreneurial folk of Wenzhou don't waste any time
in theory. They just do it, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Isolated along the seacoast near Taiwan, and long paid little heed by the
central government, Wenzhou has become one of China's thriving hubs of
private enterprise. Its citizens have found their own secret to success: Act
Chinese -- as in work hard, innovate and try to make money. Without having
left China, they pursue business ambitions in the manner of millions of
Chinese who have scattered across the globe in the past 150 years, whether
to Malaysia, Peru, Paris or San Francisco.

The typical Wenzhou living room doubles as either a factory or shop. Family
members and employees paid by piecework often toil past midnight, cobbling
shoes, sewing together clothes, or providing haircuts, laundry and other
services. Profits get plowed into bigger stores, fancier restaurants,
more-efficient factories or other businesses.

All this is done without outside investment. While the economies of China's
other boom towns are fueled by foreign capital and export markets, Wenzhou's
entrepreneurs use their own savings and target domestic markets.

Isolation has been a blessing for Wenzhou, which has a population of 6.5
million including surrounding rural areas. Until the airport opened in 1990,
Beijing bureaucrats coming here had to ride a rusty overnight ferry from
Shanghai, 200 miles to the north, or endure a long auto journey along
rutted, winding roads.

As a result, Stalinist central planners mostly stayed away as Mao worked in
the 1950s and 1960s to squeeze capitalism out of China. Nor did
central-government subsidies arrive: Wenzhou is only 80 miles from Taiwan,
making it a front-line military zone unworthy of economic-development
spending.

"We've always had to depend on ourselves," says Xu Shunsheng, head of the
city's Private Business Management Department. He thinks the rest of China
should do likewise. "A few years from now, when you look back and ask why is
the Chinese economy so alive, it will be because of private enterprise," he
says.

Wenzhou started taking off in the early 1980s when Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping closed communes and sanctioned small-scale private business.
Unencumbered by big state factories, Wenzhou flourished fast, so fast that
economists now call the process of revival through private enterprise the
"Wenzhou model."

These days, Wenzhou is jubilant. Its entrepreneurs -- forced to lie low
after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and hard-liner resurgence -- were
emboldened anew in January by Deng. Touring south China, the aging patriarch
lashed out at ideologues and declared, in essence, that it is all right to
use capitalism to save socialism.

Wenzhou needs no prodding. Yang Jiaxing kneels on the floor of his office,
scanning blueprints for an office tower he wants to build. In 1986 Yang
founded the first private bank in China since the Communist era began -- not
bothering to get prior authorization. Now he is dusting off some old schemes
and dreams. "We want to do stock and bond trading, property development,
whatever we can get the central bank to approve," he says.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. Hong Kong's Rise in Car Thefts Blamed on China ...................... 72
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: A CND Reader
Source: South China Morning Post 8/1/92

Car theft has reached almost epidemic proportions, and many leaders in the
motor industry feel that the problem has more to do with politics than
policing.

Newly released figures show that the total number of car thefts has
increased by about nine per cent to 1,630 in the second quarter compared
with 1,496 in the first quarter of this year.

This represents a 23 per cent rise over the same period last year. A total
of 275 Mercedes-Benz cars were stolen in the second quarter, representing a
rise of more than 100 per cent.

Thefts of BMW cars increased by 250 per cent, from 33 in the first three
months to 114 in the second quarter ending in June. Many people in the motor
industry blame China.

Mr John Haines, managing director of Crown Motors, said China did not make
enough effort to solve the problem, and similarly the Hongkong authorities
did not do enough to persuade the Chinese to try harder. Mr Haines believed
the Hongkong police force was doing a good job under the circumstances.

Mr Paulus Kam, a member of the general committee of the Accident Insurance
Association, said the problem was a simple question of supply and demand and
that the thefts would continue as long as there was still a high demand on
the black market for specific types of vehicle.

The problem had to be treated at its source, according to Mr Kam, who added
that until both the Hongkong and Chinese authorities looked at the problem
seriously, the thefts would continue.

The Director of the State Council's Hongkong and Macau Affairs Office, Mr Lu
Ping, told the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hongkong, that the
car theft problem in the territory would be solved once China had become a
member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

Mr Lu said the 200 per cent tax charged by China on foreign cars might have
to be scrapped after it had joined GATT.

The reduction in tax would make legally imported cars better able to compete
on price with stolen cars from Hongkong.

The Chinese decision, announced earlier this month, to send a high-ranking
policeman to liaise with the Hongkong police on matters of cross-border
smuggling, suggests that the Chinese authorities are sincere in their
concern about car theft.

However, the results suggest the opposite.

Senior Superintendent Fung Siu-yuen, senior staff officer of the Organised
Crime and Triad Bureau, said China had not returned any cars this year,
compared with 39 cars which were handed back in a similar period, between
May and December, last year.

Mr Kam said cars from Hongkong were easily spotted because they were right-
hand drive cars.

A Mercedes-Benz official told Motoring Post that the thieves often did not
bother removing dealers' stickers from cars stolen from Hongkong, making it
obvious that the car had not been bought from an official mainland
dealership.

Thefts of the Toyota Lexus and Crown - the traditional favourite luxury car
target for thieves - have fallen by about 60 per cent.

This is despite a 48 per cent increase in sales of the Lexus during the
first half of this year.

Mr Haines said the reduction was achieved by fitting double security systems
to all Lexus and Crown cars sold, and by rigorously controlling the sale of
spare parts.

The sale of parts usually damaged in a theft would only be made to people
who could prove ownership of the car.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #72 (cm9208b) .................... 33
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: CND Hua Xia Wen Zhai Editorial Board < cnd-cm@library.uta.edu >


                 Hua Xia Wen Zhai  (CND Chinese Magazine)
                              Issue #72
                            August 14, 1992

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Table of Contents (cm9208b)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Inside China:
   The Vicissitudes of Stock Application Form (Part 1 of 2)
                               ............................Zhao Guocheng
2. Story:
   The Plan of Angling for Tuna
          --- Excerpt from <<My Wealth Is in Australia>> .....Liu Guande
3. Social Phenomenon:
   A Wolf from North .........................................Xiao Fuxin
   Fake Merchandise --- A Crazy Tide ..........................Sun Yuzou
4. Children's Humor ..............................................Ya Lin
   Sleeping with Herself
   Aspiration After Growing Up
   Waterweeds
5. "We"(Wo3 Men2): The Oriental Cherry in Front of My House ...Chen Ling
6. Recipe: Dongpo Rou
7. Between Readers and Editors
------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Executive Editor:  Bao, MinQi < cnd-cm@library.uta.edu >
------------------------------------------------------------------------

   See the box below for subscription information. To seek technical
      help, send your questions to <cnd-help@library.uta.edu>.
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|             Executive Editor:   XU Ming Yang  ( Australia )              |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|   China News Digest (CND) offers the following services:                 |
|    (1) Global News (Daily)      (2) US Regional News                     |
|    (3) Canada Regional News     (4) Europe & Pacific Regional News       |
|    (5) Hua Xia Wen Zhai (Weekly Chinese Magazine)                        |
|    (6) Several Information Packages                                      |
|   To subscribe or get info,  mail to: CND-INFO@LIBRARY.UTA.EDU           |
|   To contribute news, please send to: CND-EDITOR@LIBRARY.UTA.EDU         |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Newsgroups: aus.culture.china