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1. News Brief (12 Items) ............................................... 196
2. QIAN Meets Christopher, No major Progress ............................ 40
3. Donation Drives for Flood Relief in China (2 Items) .................. 58
4. Sports Highlights .................................................... 23
5. What's in August 4th's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #227 (cm9508a) ............... 30
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1. News Brief (12 Items) ............................................... 196
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(1) Worst Flooding in China Since 1954
(2) Beijing Expels Two American Officers
(3) China Denies Its Military A Threat to Regional Peace
(4) Taiwan To Hold A Military Exercise
(5) Hijack Attempt Foiled
(6) U.S. Senate's Move To Boycott Beijing Conference On Hold
(7) U.S. to Send Full Delegation to UN Women's Conference
(8) UN Women's Conference Organizers O.K. NGO Conference Site
(9) Industrial Accidents Kill 6,656 from January to May
(10) Document Publicized Testified "Comfort Women" Allegation
(11) Yunnan Tobacco and Cigarette Industry Battles Fakes and Smugglers
(12) Fifty-four Arrested on Corruption Charge
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(1) Worst Flooding in China Since 1954
[CND, 08/03/95] BEIJING -- The International Red Cross said the floods now
affecting one hundred million people in 22 of China's 29 provinces
are the worst since 1954, and may get worse because the peak period in mid-
August has yet to come, KRF reported on Wednesday. According to Jerry
Talbot, director of the organization's Asia-Pacific Department, at least
1,391 people have died and 80 percent of Jiangsu province was under water.
The Hunhe river in northeastern China is at the highest level it has been in
this century. In Shanghai it set a record for its second highest level since
1949. Reuter reported that at least 60 people have died or remain missing in
the Hunhe flood. (Weijun LIU, Jian LIU)
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(2) Beijing Expels Two American Officers
[CND, 08/02/95] BEIJING -- One day after a face to face meeting between QIAN
Qichen and Warren Christopher in Brunei, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman
SHEN Guofang announced that two American officers violated the law and
seriously undermined China's national security. They will be expelled
from the country within 24 hours, Reuter and VOA reported. The two
officers, Joseph Wei Chan, an air force liaison officer, and Dwayne
Howard Florenzie, an assistant air force liaison officer of the U.S.
Consulate-General in Hong Kong, entered China on July 23. They "sneaked
into a number of restricted military zones in China's southeast coastal
areas and illegally acquired military intelligence by photographing and
video-taping," SHEN said. They were caught "on the spot" on July 29 by
Chinese soldiers. (Tien ZHANG, Jian LIU)
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(3) China Denies Its Military Is A Threat to Regional Peace
[CND, 8/1/95] BEIJING -- On China's August 1 Army Day, Foreign Minister QIAN
Qichen tried to allay the fears in neighboring countries caused by China's
increasingly bellicose posturing in the region. QIAN spoke at the annual ASEAN
meeting in Brunei, calling for peaceful negotiations of regional conflicts, a
Knight Ridder report said. In 1995 China planned an increase of 21.25 percent
in military spending to 63.097 billion yuan, Reuter cited the China Daily as
saying. The Beijing newspaper, however, blamed high inflation in 1994 for the
budget increase, saying the proportion of the defense budget to gross national
product in absolute terms decreased. Western experts said the official figures
were not reliable because they did not include state funds for defense
research or profits made by army owned businesses, Knight Ridder's report said.
(Zhaohua, Liedong ZHENG)
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(4) Taiwan To Hold A Military Exercise
[CND, 08/02/95] TAIPEI -- Taiwan's LEE Teng-hui told the National
Assembly, "We may hold an exercise with certain scales before or after the
Double Ten (Oct.10) festival," Reuter reported. This exercise was apparently
prompted by the Mainland's recent missile tests north of Taipei. Monday,
Chinese Defense Minister CHI Haotian reiterated that the People's Liberation
Army would not refrain from using force against Taiwan if the island tried to
declare independence. LEE Teng-hui wanted to make sure Taiwanese knew that
Taiwan had enough power to defend itself. Last week, LEE said Taiwan should
consider whether it needs to build a nuclear arsenal. (Tien ZHANG, Jian LIU)
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(5) Hijack Attempt Foiled
[CND, 08/02/95] HONG KONG -- A passenger plane of China's Eastern Airlines
on route from Shanghai to Guangzhou foiled a hijack attempt, AP cited Hong
Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited as reporting. Briefly after the plane
was lifted in Shanghai a man stepped out of the rear lavatory on board with
a newspaper wrapped parcel in hand, he claimed that he had explosives and
demanded that the plane be diverted to Taiwan. However, the crew ignored
his threat and the pilot managed to slide the plane down in the capital of
Zhejiang province, Hangzhou. Two passengers aboard the plane pressed down
the suspect hijacker and he was taken away by police, local TV reported.
(Frank LING, Jian LIU)
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(6) U.S. Senate's Move To Boycott Beijing Conference On Hold
[CND, 08/03/95] WASHINGTON -- A Senate bill containing an amendment linking
U.S. participation in the Fourth World Women's Conference to be held in
Beijing with future funding for the State Department was put on hold after
twice failing to win the votes needed to end debate on the bill, AP reported
on Tuesday. The bill, meant to reform the State Department, was called
"dangerous and shortsighted" by President Clinton and has threaten to
veto it. Unless Henry WU is released before the conference opens, Senate
majority leader Bob Dole has proposed to cut the State Department's $3.5
million budget for international conferences by half should the administration
send a delegation to the U.N conference to be held in Beijing in September.
(Weijun LIU, Jian LIU)
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(7) U.S. to Send Full Delegation to UN Women's Conference
[CND, 08/02/95] WASHINGTON -- The U.S. will not let its recent crises with
China deter it from sending a full delegation to the UN Women's Conference in
Beijing, American UN Ambassador Madeline Albright confirmed Wednesday, AP
reports. The Ambassador was referring to China's detention of human rights
activist Harry Wu and its apprehension of two U.S. Air Force officers for
allegedly spying. Albright reaffirmed that it is important for America to
support a conference meant to help improve human rights. (Tricia, Jian LIU)
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(8) UN Women's Conference Organizers O.K. NGO Conference Site
[CND, 08/02/95] BEIJING -- The Chinese organizing committee issued a press
release stating that the organizers of the NGO Forum on Women's Conference are
satisfied with the Huairou site. Approximately 100 km from Beijing, the site
is large enough to accommodate the more than 36,000 participants expected at
the Aug. 30 - Sep. 8 gathering. (Tricia, Jian LIU)
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(9) Industrial Accidents Kill 6,656 from January to May
[CND, 8/1/95] The China Youth Daily carried statistics disclosed by the
Ministry of Labor on industrial accidents in the first five months of this
year, totaling more than 6,985 cases with casualty numbered 6,656 and
serious injured 2,716, according to a Reuter report. The figure of people
killed in industrial accidents decreased, compared to the same period in
1994, but the number involved in mining labor increased, causing serious
concern from the government to enforce its mining safety law, the report
said. (Zhaohua, Liedong Zheng)
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(10) Document Publicized Testified "Comfort Women" Allegation
[CND, 06/06/95] BEIJING -- TONG Zeng, a Chinese activist campaigns
for compensation for Chinese victims of Japan's invasion in WWII,
publicized on Tuesday a copy of the document showing the Japanese army
had forced Chinese women into "comfort women," sex salves for Japan's
army in WWII, Reuter reported. One day earlier, TONG of the China
Elderly Scientific Research Centre, was informed by officials from the
Civil Affairs Ministry that he would not be allowed to attend the NGO
forum, which is to be held from August 30 to September 8 in Huairou.
Showing a letter dated Feb 9, TONG said that he was nominated to take
part in the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Forum on Women, which
will include more than 2,100 NGOs, and that he had planned to present
this historical document there. TONG declined to reveal the source
of this document except saying that it was turned over to the archive
of a northern port city of Tianjin by a district court in 1946, one year
after Japan's surrender. According to TONG, Chinese government has
ordered archives nationwide not to release historical documents concern-
ing "comfort women." Last week, TONG's passport was confiscated by the
authorities. TONG and 11 other Chinese planned to file a lawsuit in
Japan's court to seek compensation from the Japanese government for
Chinese war victims. (Ray ZHANG, Jian LIU)
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(11) Yunnan Tobacco and Cigarette Industry Battles Fakes and Smugglers
[CND, 08/02/95] KUNMING -- Yunnan, home of the two of China's most
prestigious three cigarette brands -- Yun Yan, or Cloud Tobacco and Hong Ta
Shan, or Hill of the Red Pagoda, is battling smugglers bringing in contraband
foreign brands and fakes of its own products. According to a Reuter report,
an official of Yunnan monopoly administration said Tuesday that Yunnan's
tobacco and cigarette industry is threatened by products from beyond China's
borders. Since 1990, smugglers have been bringing fake produced in Vietnam,
the Philippines and Indonesia into China. Manufacturers in the Philippines
and Indonesia have registered the Chinese trademarks in their countries and
therefore consider what they are doing is legal, the official added. In
1995, Yunnan's annual production was 6 million boxes, each containing
10,000 cigarettes, which is about one-fifth of he total national output.
On the other hand, the annual output of counterfeit Yunnan brands in
southeast Asia was estimated at about 0.3 million boxes of 10,000 cigarettes.
In 1994, Yunnan authorities seized just four billion of the estimated
10-20 billion cigarettes smuggled into China - the world's biggest
cigarette market. (Bo XIONG, Jian LIU)
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(12) Fifty-four Arrested on Corruption Charge
[CND, 08/01/95] BEIJING -- In the midst of the latest anti-graft drive,
54 officials of the Ministry of Internal Trade, involved in 36 cases of
economic crimes, were arrested on charges of corruption, Reuter reported
citing China Business Daily. The announcement was made public by the
Minister CHEN Bangzhu in a special meeting on Monday, who has been in
position since last February. The biggest of the 31 graft cases revealed
by Chen in the meeting involved embezzlement of 26 million yuan by an
accountant of an enterprise owned by the Ministry. Ten arrestees were
said to have accepted bribes or embezzled company funds of over one
million yuan. (Ray ZHANG, Liedong ZHENG)
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2. QIAN Meets Christopher, No major Progress ............................ 40
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According to Knight-Ridder, AFP, AP, and JEN, only hours before the
QIAN-Christopher meeting, a Chinese government spokesman stated that the
premise of a Sino-US summit meeting is U.S.'s rectifying its wrong doing
of having Taiwan's LEE Teng-hui visit Cornell University. Earlier, U.S.
media speculated that President Clinton would show a diplomatic gesture
of meeting Chinese President JIANG Zeming to patch up the roller coastering
relations between the two nations since LEE's U.S. trip.
On his way to Brunei on Monday, Christopher said that it would be
hard to imagine a Clinton-JIANG meeting while the Chinese American
human rights activist Harry WU is still held up by the Beijing
government. Christopher and Chinese Foreign Minister QIAN Qichen
were scheduled to meeting on Tuesday. An anonymous senior U.S.
official said in Brunei that Christopher will not apologize to QIAN
for U.S.'s granting LEE's trip, nor will the U.S. promise that nothing
of the sort will happen again.
In Washington, State Department spokesman David Johnson said that
Christopher will hand QIAN a letter from President Clinton, but the
letter contains no invitation to Chinese President JIANG Zeming to
visit the U.S.. Unless China releases WU an official hand shake
between Clinton and JIANG will unlikely be materialized during the
U.N. 50th anniversary celebrations in New York in October when both
leaders are likely present, and Mrs. Clinton's presence in the
international women's conference in the outskirts of Beijing also
hinges on WU's case, Johnson added. Since WU's detention on June 19,
the U.S. Embassy was only allowed one official visit, and Washington
has been explicating that the way Beijing treats WU could be pivotal
to US-China relations.
On Tuesday QIAN met with Christopher in Brunei for one and a half
hours, they discussed the possibility of a JIANG-Clinton summit
meeting in New York, but each side showed no sign of softening
position in Taiwanese officials' U.S. visit and in Harry WU,
respectively, these two issues were major blockcades in the bilateral
foreign minister meeting. (Frank LING, Daluo JIA, Jian LIU, Liedong ZHENG)
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3. Donation Drives for Flood Relief in China (2 Items) .................. 58
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1) Call for Donation by the Association for Progress in China
_From: lai@polisci.sscnet.ucla.edu (Hongyi Lai)
The recent flood along the Yangtze River (Chang2 Jiang1) is probably the
biggest flood in China in this century. It has killed more than 1,200
people, ruined 2.7 million acres of crops in 10 provinces, and caused
estimated losses of $4.4 billion. The flood has started coming down,
yet new flood may happen again. The government relief funds and
overseas donation have been very limited. Your donation, whatever
amount you like, is very much needed to help our people in our homeland
to overcome emotional, personal, and economic losses, to get back to
their normal life, and to get a safe and clear living place.
Choose ONE of the following two ways to make and send your donation.
Choose ONE of the following two ways to make and send your donation.
A. Make your check or payment payable to the order of "Bank of China,
Business Department" with a memo at the LOWER-LEFT corner of your check
or payment in English: "Flood Relief Fund of the Ministry of Civil
Affairs, Account No. 71402180", or in Chinese, "Zhong1 Guo2 (China) Min2
(- people) Zheng4 (- politics) Bu4 (- Ministry) Jiu4 (- rescue) Zai1 (-
disaster) Ji1 (- basic) Jin1 (- gold), Zhang4 (account) Hao4 (number):
71402180". Mail your check or payment to:
Education Department, (or Overseas Chinese Department)
The Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles
443 Shatto Place, Los Angeles, CA 90020 (USA).
The consulate will hand your payment over to Ministry of Civil Affairs.
B. Write your check or payment to "Bank of China" (English only). Write on
a piece of paper (NOT on the check/payment) in English or Chinese: "The
payment should be used as relief fund (Jiu4 Zai1 Ji1 Jin1) of the
Ministry of Civil Affairs (Min2 Zheng4 Bu4) for the recent Yangtze flood.
Bank account number: 71402180." SIGN and date this statement. Mail your
check/payment AND your statement to:
Bank of China,
444 South Flower Street, 39th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
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2) The IFCSS Calls for Donation to Help the Flood Victims
_From: ifcss@center.net (ifcss) July 26, 1995
It is reported that the people living in the Southern part of China are
suffering from serious flood disaster. This news raised concern among
Chinese students and scholars staying in U.S.
There is a resolution adopted by the Seventh IFCSS Annual Convention to
raise donation to help the flood victims. In the past years, oversea
Chinese students and scholars as well as other concerned people made
donation to aid natural disasters victims.
The IFCSS Headquarters appeals to all Chinese students and scholars for
help to raise the donation for flood victims. You can send the check
payable to the IFCSS, with a note "for flood relief", to the IFCSS
Headquarters. Each donor will be acknowledged when the check is received.
The collected fund will be sent to Chinese Red Cross in one month. The
donation report will be publicized.
Your concern and help is highly appreciated.
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4. Sports Highlights .................................................... 23
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CND Sports Editor: CHEN Huxiong
Contributors: OUYANG Xiang <ouyang@slater.cem.msu.edu>,
Men's Soccer
[BEIJING, 08/01/95] The leading team in the Chinese Professional Soccer
League first division Group A -- Beijing Guo2 An1 -- played a game against
its South Korean counterpart Hyundai Tigers on Tuesday, according to China
News Services.
The South Korean club has five national team members and is leading in the
South Korean league. They played Beijing Guo An twice last year (5:1, 3:3)
and declared they would win by 3:0 this time.
Five minutes into the first half, GAO1 Feng2 received a pass in the penalty
box from XIE4 Feng1 and scored. The Beijing team completely controlled the
first half.
In the second half, the South Koreans eventually prevailed and tied the
score at the 11th minute by a header. In the final penalty kicks, the South
Korean goalie blocked two of them. Hyundai Tigers won 5:3.
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5. What's in August 4th's Hua Xia Wen Zhai #227 (cm9508a) ............... 30
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_From: HXWZ Editorial Board
Hua Xia Wen Zhai
(CND Chinese Magazine)
Issue #227
August 4, 1995
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Table of Contents (cm9508a)
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1. Headline News of the Week (7/22 - 8/1) ............................. CND
2. Glimpse of China: Inflation Problems in 1994
Booming Weaponn Smuggling Trade in Hainan Island
3. People: Time of Revelation -
Chinese Nuclear Scientists ..... YU Hao, YING Xingguo
4. Travel Diary: Visit to the Arlington National Cemetery ......... QIU Mu
5. Poetry:
6. Different Cultures: Those Flight-Addicted Americans ..... WANG Xianping
7. Prose: My Neighbourhood Jewllery Shop .......................... Xiaofu
8. Novellette: MAZE ................................................. Tuya
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