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Title: National Peoples Congress, Beijing – PSB Corruption Refugee Review Tribunal AUSTRALIA RRT RESEARCH RESPONSE Research Response Number: CHN30726 Country: China Date: 6 October 2006 Keywords: CHN30726 – National Peoples Congress, Beijing – Employment in Beijing hotels – PSB corruption This response was prepared by the Country Research Section of the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the RRT within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Questions 1. Could you please find out for me where the National Peoples Congress of March 2005 in Beijing was held, how many days it ran, and how many delegates there were and if possible what hotels they stayed at? 2. Can we find out who were the deputies for Haikou or Fuqing city or Fuzhou city or Fujian province? 3. Could you find out if you wanted to get a job in a hotel in Beijing and you were from Fujian how you would go about doing this, do you have to register with the police, what requirements are there for employment and whether there are any reports about the security situation for the hotels where the delegates are staying? 4. Can you also locate information about the action that the Chinese government is taking about corrupt PSB officials and whether it is possible to lodge a complaint or court proceedings against the action of PSB officials? RESPONSE 1. Could you please find out for me where the National Peoples Congress of March 2005 in Beijing was held, how many days it ran, and how many delegates there were and if possible what hotels they stayed at? The Third Session of the Tenth National People’s Congress (NPC) was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. It began on 5 March 2005 and ran for nine and a half days, closing on 14 March. Security measures were put in place for a few days either side of this period, and lasted for about sixteen days. There were about 3000 deputies to the NPC from around China. Names of the particular hotels where they stayed were not found; deputies apparently stayed in a number of hotels around Beijing and were shuttled to and from the sessions along secured routes in a massive security and logistics exercise. A Xinhua report from 2 March 2005 describes the extensive preparations for the NPC and the arrival of thousands of deputies, advisors and journalists in Beijing for the “political season”: Beijing, as host city of the high-profile political events, has beefed up traffic management by restricting trucks and cars from entering the city as of Tuesday. Sedan cars with a pass to the capital will be permitted to stay for only three days instead of 30 days. Yet the city has also vowed to avoid significant traffic slowdowns during the parliament season. The traffic police bureau has worked out faster routes for deputies to shuttle between their hotels and the Great Hall of the People where the meetings will be held. Police cars equipped with global positioning systems will lead the motorcades to monitor real-time traffic flows and minimize inconvenience for ordinary residents, according to a spokesman with the bureau on Tuesday. He said a halt of normal traffic flows will occur every 40 seconds instead of every 30 seconds last year, and more scientific traffic manipulation will reduce an average motorcade ride to 30 minutes from 35 minutes reported in 2004. The security work has also been tightened in China prior to the major political events. Last week, Beijing pronounced a ban on all air sports involving paragliders, model airplanes and hot-air balloons between March 1 and 16 to guard against possible terror attacks in the political fortnight. China’s public security authority said it will enforce 24-hour monitoring over chatrooms and forums of major Chinese Internet portals during the parliament fortnight. Any messages submitted by Internet users will go through strict censoring and filtering before they appear on the Internet… …Officials said a thorough-going examination was kicked off in the fields of transport, coalmines, public places, communities, construction sites and business districts. Zhou Yuqiu, head of the Beijing Production Safety Supervision Bureau, said his bureau has got fully prepared for the meetings and will work harder still to uproot any possible threats to production safety. The bureau’s deputy chief Li Jianwei said that security examination has already begun in January covering over 4,000 sites, enterprises and organizations. Five inspection teams will go to almost every corner in the city hunting for hidden troubles that may be turned into various mishaps or disasters, he said. Meanwhile, at least 650,000 volunteers wearing red armbands will join the police to patrol lanes, roads and streets throughout Beijing to help tighten security during the meeting period (‘China enters annual political season’ 2005, Xinhua News Agency, 2 March – Attachment 1). A Reuters report states that most of the 3000 parliamentary delegates were ferried by bus from their hotels to the Great Hall of the People, which is “four storeys high and covering roughly four football pitches”. The buses were then parked in Tiananmen Square (Beck, Lindsay 2005, ‘Great Hall of the People a throwback to Mao’s China’, Reuters News, 5 March – Attachment 2). A February 2005 Reuters report states that the hotels where the deputies were to stay would be patrolled by police, in order “to watch for petitioners, who travel to Beijing to air grievances over issues such as unemployment and unpaid wages” (Kang Lim, Benjamin 2005, ‘Focus on Taiwan ties at China parliament session’, Reuters News, 27 February – Attachment 3). A report from the NPC website states that the 2005 NPC session ran for nine and a half days; that the NPC had 2,988 members; and that its annual full session was generally held in March. When the legislature was not in session, the NPC Standing Committee served as the executive body (‘People’s Congress closes annual session’ 2005, website of the Third Session,10th National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, 14 March, http://www.10thnpc.org.cn/english/2005lh/122750.htm – Accessed 3 October 2006 – Attachment 4). The website of the Third Session of the Tenth National People’s Congress at http://www.china.org.cn/english/2005lh/120271.htm contains numerous reports from the March 2005 session. A tourist website contains a list of hotels in Beijing which may be of some use http://hotel.china.org.cn/ehotel_list.asp?Nes_user_id=100019&session_areainfo_city=01010 0. 2. Can we find out who were the deputies for Haikou or Fuqing city or Fuzhou city or Fujian province? Only a few names were found for deputies from Fujian Province in 2005, and none were from the particular areas in Fujian Province which are mentioned above. It is worth noting that reports indicate that there were over 350 deputies from Fujian at the NPC. A report from the NPC website mentions three Fujian deputies: Lu Zhangong, the secretary of the Fujian provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC); Dai Zhongchuan, an associate professor of law at Huaqiao University; and Chen Qingyao, the political commissar of the Chinese Armed Police Fujian Division (‘Fujian deputies discuss Anti-Secession Law’ 2005, website of the Third Session, 10th National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, 14 March, http://www.china.org.cn/english/2005/Mar/122371.htm – Accessed 3 October 2006 – Attachment 5). A BBC Monitoring report mentions further deputies from Fujian: Zheng Daoxi, the mayor of Quanzhou; and Luo Gan. Another name is mentioned, but it is not clear whether he is from Fujian: Xie Guoqiang from the Armed Police Headquarters (Lin Guorui, 2005, ‘China’s Fujian officials urged to ensure social harmony’, BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific, sourced from Chinese news agency Zhongguo Xinwen She, 7 March – Attachment 6). A China Daily report mentions the name of a woman delegate from Fujian, Chen Huizhu (Daozu, Bao 2005, ‘Vision for developing ties hailed’, China Daily, 5 March, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/05/content_421939.htm – Accessed 3 October 2006 – Attachment 7). A 2006 report was found which mentioned the recent expulsion of NPC deputies from Fujian for corruption. They may have been at the 2005 conference: Zhou Jinhuo, former director of Fujian’s Bureau of Industry and Commerce, was accused of graft in the relatively wealthy coastal province. The 57-year-old official tried to flee overseas in June while being investigated for corruption by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He was caught in Yunnan after police traced a call he made to one of his three mistresses informing her of his whereabouts. On August 2 the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People’s Congress in east China decided to sack him… …Former publicity minister of the provincial committee of the Communist Party of China of east China’s Fujian Province, Jing Fusheng, had his membership of the NPC terminated earlier this month for receiving bribes (‘Three NPC Deputies Expelled’ 2006, Xinhua News Agency, 28 August, http://service.china.org.cn/link/wcm/Show_Text?info_id=179327&p_qry=deputies – Accessed 3 October 2006 – Attachment 8). Information reports from the China.org website state that the base number of deputies from any province is 350, with one more for every 150,000 people. A proportion must be from minority ethnic groups, women, and returned overseas Chinese (‘How are deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC) elected?’(undated), China.org.cn website, http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/56452.htm – Accessed 3 October 2006 – Attachment 9; ‘How is the number of deputies to local people’s congresses, at various levels, defined?’(undated), China.org.cn website, http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/56429.htm – Accessed 3 October 2006 – Attachment 10).
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