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Subject: China News Digest (Global), Wed, 11/24/1992
Date: 24 Nov 92 05:43:04 GMT
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			 Tuesday, November 24, 1992
 
 
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1. News Brief (5 items).................................................. 43
2. Li Peng Lashes out Against Hong Kong Reforms ......................... 20
3. Foreign Investment Flows into China .................................. 15
4. First Case in Software Copyright Violation Accepted by Court ........  34
5. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan #9 Part 3 (cm9211z3) ..... 28
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1. News Brief (5 items).................................................. 43
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[AP, 11/21/92] BEIJING -- A careless smoker set off detonators loaded on a 
freight train at a station in central China, killing six people and injuring 
100, an official newspaper reported today. The smoker started a fire under 
the freight car, attracting a crowd. Before they could extinguish the fire, 
the detonators exploded, ripping apart the train car, the China Daily 
reported. The report said the explosion occurred last Friday at the train 
station in Xian. (Forwarded by: Zhao Hua)
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[DJ, 11/24/92] BEIJING -- China has agreed to buy 2 million tons of wheat 
from the U.S., an official newspaper reports, despite earlier threats to 
halt purchases over plans by Washington to sell fighter jets to Taiwan. The 
state-run China Daily gave no other details of the planned purchase, and 
didn't mention Beijing's warnings over the fighter deal. China usually 
imports between 4 million and 5 million tons of U.S. wheat annually. 
Widespread drought that reduced China's grain production may have forced 
Beijing to ignore its threat and buy the U.S. wheat this month. 
(Forwarded by: Huijie)
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[HPCwire, 11/23/92] Beijing -- China's first supercomputer was powered up 
late last week after five years of development on a shoestring budget of 
about $10 million, according to Reuters. Called Milky Way II, the 
supercomputer was developed by a team of engineers at the National Defence 
Science and Technology University in Changsha, Hunan province. Officials 
said it will have "wide applications," but did not give details. Milky Way 
II reportedly is capable of processing one billion bits per second.  
(Forwarded by: Jian) 
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[DJ, 11/24/92] TAIPEI -- Taiwan authorities Monday detained 11 Chinese 
customs and public security officers who allegedly entered Taiwanese 
territorial waters on an anti-smuggling patrol, police said. Police in 
Keelung port said a Taiwanese patrol boat detained the seven Chinese 
customs officials and four armed public security officers aboard a Chinese 
patrol boat off the northern tip of Taiwan. They said also detained was a 
Taiwanese fishing boat which was seized by the Chinese patrol Sunday night. 
The Chinese boat was loaded with 860 cases of foreign cigarettes, while the 
Taiwan fishing boat was carrying 34 Chinese who had planned to sneak into 
Taiwan for better jobs, police said. (Forwarded by: Huijie)
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[AP, 11/20/92] BEIJING -- The discovery of more damage to a 1,300-year-old 
Tibetan palace has added an extra year and $3.6 million to a renovation 
project, officials said Friday. It is largest renovation ever undertaken in 
China, said Zhang Deqin, general director of the State Bureau of Cultural 
Relics. The white-and-maroon Potala Palace has 100,000 rooms stacked 13 
stories high atop a hill overlooking Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. It was 
built in the 7th century as a pavilion and enlarged in the 17th century. 
Work on the palace, once home to Tibet's god-king, Dalai Lama, began in 
October 1989 and was scheduled for completion next year at a cost of $7.2 
million. (Forwarded by: Zhao Hua)
 
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2. Li Peng Lashes out Against Hong Kong Reforms ......................... 20
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: DOW JONES INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 11/23/92
 
BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Li Peng lashed out Monday at Hong Kong Governor 
Chris Patten's proposed political reforms, saying Beijing will not 
compromise because the changes violate previous agreements for ruling the 
territory. 
 
"This is a matter of principle," the state-run Xinhua News Agency quoted Li
as saying. "The Chinese government will never compromise or make any 
concession on matters of principle."
 
Xinhua said Li made the comments during a meeting with a group of visitors
from Hong Kong. The group included Wai Kee-shun, chairman of a pro-Beijing
political party in Hong Kong, and Lo Tak-shing, another member of the party
and a political adviser to the Chinese government. 
 
Li's comments mark the latest move by Beijing to increase pressure on Patten
to try to get him to abandon democratic reforms he has proposed for the
territory in the run-up to its transition from British to Chinese rule in
1997. 
 
Li reiterated China's position that Patten's plan violates agreements 
between Britain and China on the handover of the colony and would create
obstacles to a smooth transition, Xinhua reported. 
 
Patten, however, maintains that the reforms are within the framework of
Sino-British agreements. 
 
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3. Foreign Investment Flows into China .................................. 15
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Forwarded by: Huijie
Source: JAPAN ECONOMIC NEWSWIRE, 11/23/92
 
BEIJING -- China attracted record foreign investment in the first three 
quarters of 1992, approving some 27,000 new foreign-funded enterprises,
the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
 
Contracted foreign investment for the period totaled 30.6 billion dollars, a
three-fold rise over 1991, while actual investment reached 6.61 billion
dollars, up 131%, Xinhua said.
 
Altogether, 72 countries committed funds with more than half the total 
coming from Taiwan and Hong Kong, it said.  The United States and Japan were
the next biggest investors.
 
"Average investment for a project is 1.1 million dollars, an increase of 20%
over the previous figure," Xinhua said.
 
Stock companies, land development and real estate were prime investment 
areas, it said.
 
Foreign funds have flowed into China in recent years with many companies
eager to take advantage of preferential terms Beijing offers to woo overseas
capital to fuel economic expansion.
 
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4. First Case in Software Copyright Violation Accepted by Court ........  34
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Forwarded by: A CND Reader and Chongyu Hua <hua@engin.umich.edu>
Source: UPI, 11/23/92
 
BEIJING -- In the first case of its kind to be accepted in a Chinese court, 
a small software company has charged a state-owned company with copyright 
infringement and is suing for damages, company and court officials said 
Monday.
 
Weihong Computer Software Research Institute filed a suit for 50,000 yuan 
($9,000) in damages and demanded a formal apology from a company run by the 
powerful China Academy of Sciences in what industry officials say could lead 
to a flood of similar suits.
 
The suit by tiny Weihong, a year-old company with $17,000 in investment, 
alleges that Yuanwang Technical, a company under the powerful Academy of 
Sciences, secretly copied and sold translating and editing software created 
by Weihong.
 
An official at the district-level court in Beijing's Haidian District, 
dubbed "Silicon Valley" because of its booming computer industry, confirmed 
the court had agreed to hear the case but said no date had yet been fixed.
 
Prodded by U.S. calls for greater copyright protection, China earlier this 
year passed a copyright protection law to protect foreign and Chinese 
companies.
 
But while industry experts welcomed the new laws, many privately said they 
do not believe China will be able to enforce them, citing the many blatant 
copyright violations found all over the country and China's arbitrary 
enforcement of the law.
 
"No company has ever gone to court before (for copyright infringement), 
partly because they thought it would do no good," a Weihong employee told 
United Press International.
 
Hopeful Weihong employees, spurred by China's increasing commitment to market 
reforms, said they believe their case has some chance of victory and at least 
is a good test of the government's commitment to enforcing its laws.
 
"To protect Weihong's legal rights as well as to genuinely bring about 
software protection in China's computer software world, we want to use legal 
weapons to blaze a trail," Weihong General Manager Yu Bin said in a written 
statement.
 
"We hope we can use (the case) as a way of attracting the scrutiny of 
China's computer world, and we believe we will win the case," Yu Bin said.
 
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5. What's in Today's Hua Xia Wen Zhai Zeng Kan #9 Part 3 (cm9211z3) ..... 28
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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 #9 (Part 3)
                  Reader Responses to "Halloween Tragedy"
                            November 24, 1992
 
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                       Table of Contents (cm9211z3)
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1. Words from the Editors...........................<<HXWZ>> Editorial Board
2. Letters to the Editors: 
   A Letter from the Widow of Mr. Shan Linhua....................Yang Yiling
   A Letter from Some CSS in U. of Iowa.......................An Tao  et al.
   Postscript of <<Halloween Tragedy>>............................Liu Yujian
3. The Echo Wall:
   Topic Somewhat Related to the Lu Gang Incident................Fu Kangyuan
   A Fiction, but Not a Report.....................................Li Zibang
   An Aborted "Lu Gang Incident"...................................Ni Wanmei
   An Unwise Article...........................................Name Withheld
   Relation among Human Beings.....................................Zhang Jun
   Thoughts on "Thoughts on <<Halloween Tragedy>>"...........Liang Changnian
   May the Souls of the Dead Rest in Peace..........................Rong Xin
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           Executive Editor:  Bao Ruixian < cnd-cm@sdsc.edu >
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