December 30, 1985 lING A CHINESE WEEKLY OF NEWS AND VIEWS New Minister Discuss Public Security Reasserting China's Hongkong Policy spojuQm Designers at the Anshun Batik Factory discussing new patterns. Women sporting modern Artists of the Buyi nationolity batik fashions. , designing batik dress patterns. Batiks Batik is one of China's oldest folk arts. Workers at the .^nshun Batik Factory combine traditional and modern methods to come up with their fashionable clothing and designs. BEIIING REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Vol. 28, No. 52 December 30, 1985 New Minister Discusses Security Problems in a recent interview witii Beijing Review and reporters from other Chinese pubUcations, China's new Minister of Public Security Yuan Chongwu answers questions on public CONTENTS order, including those about parades and rallies in Chengdu and in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and those concerning NOTES FROM THE EDITORS juvenile deliquency and hijack terrorism (p. 15). Party Shifts Consolidotion to Countryside Basic Law to Ensure Hongliong's Future LEHERS The National People's Congress will, in four to five years, draft a Basic Law which will stipulate the political system for EVENTS & TRENDS 6-10 the prospective Hongkong Special Administrative Zone. The China Reasserts Its Hongkong primary objective of the lwa is to ensure its long-term stability Policv and prosperity. This and other aspects of the Chinese policy Islamic Culture Thriving in Kashi Gernnan Leader Visits China towards Hongkong were spelled out at a press conference Learning English in a Pleasant given by State Counsellor ]i Pengfei during his recent visit Way there (p. 6). INTERNATIONAL 11-14 Peace Accord Signed by Uganda's Opposite Sides Cartagena Group: US Plan on Debt Needs Reworking Before the Christmas holidays the Ugandan government US-Soviet Union: High Hopes and its opposition National Resistance Movement signed a Remain Unsatisfied peace agreement. This should bring peace and stability to Uganda: Moving Towards Na• tional Conciliation the Ugandan people in the new year (p. 13). Paris: African States Draw Hope Together Dalian's Centre Trains Entrepreneurs New Minister Discusses Security While charting its own way to modernization, China is Problems 15 quick to absorb the positive experience, theory and technology Dalian Centre Trains Entrepreneurs 18 of other nations. One of such efforts is the setting up of the China National Training Centre for Industrial Science and Education Reform Series (III): Technology Management in 1980, which is staffed with both China's Education Holds Bright Chinese and American professors (p. 18). Prospects 21 FROM THE CHINESE PRESS 24-25 Party Consolidation IVIoves On to Rural Areas BUSINESS & TRADE 26-27 With the Party consolidation campaign completed in ur• ban areas, the task has now shifted to the countryside. While CULTURE & SCIENCE 28-30 the majority of Party branches and their members in the countryside are at least comparatively good, they still need to COVER: Wang Zepu (centre) is a good study and to be re-educated. A handful who have abused director of the Seamless Steel Tubing Mill of the Anshan Iron and Steel their power for their own gain or who have slid down the Compony. road of crime should be prosecuted (p. 4). Published every Monday by Distributed by China International Bo«k Subscription prices (1 year): BEIJING liEVIEW Trading Corporation (GUOJI SHUD(AN), Australia A.S 22.00 U** US$22.B0 24 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing P.O. Box 399, Beijing, Chine New Zealand... NZ.S38.00 UK £12.00 The People's Republic of China Canada Can. S21.00 NOTES FROM THE EDITORS Party Shifts Consolidation to Countryside tions, where the majority of rural sibilities. Further compounding by AN ZHIGUO Party members are good or fairly the problems are a number of un• Political Editor good. Many of these rural Party disciplined Party branches that members and their Party branches have slacked off on their ideologi• The Chinese Communist Party's have excelled in leading the cal and political work. Some efforts to consolidate its organiza• masses towards affluence through Party members and cadres, for• tions nationwide, which began in hard, work. The Zhongtan Vil• getting communsim's lofty ideals the winter of 1983, has been com• lage Party branch in Zunhua Coun• and the Party's sole purpose of pleted in all departments from the ty, Hebei Province, for instance, wholehearted service to the peo• central to the county levels, and established a commodity produc• ple, have taken advantage of their has now shifted to the grass-roots tion service company in order to power for personal gain. In so rural Party organizations. doing some have even violated the The Chinese Communist Party law and disciplinary codes and now has more than 1.1 million have, for the sake their own in• rural Party branches, which com• With the completion ot terests, slid into a life of crime. prise more than 22 million Party members, or more than half the Party consolidation in all As they were in the urban areas, nation's Communists. The rural departments from the the tasks of Party consolida• Party consolidation, which has in• central to the county levels, tion in the rural areas are to volved the largest number of peo• the campaign has now achieve ideological unity, improve ple and covered the widest area shifted to the countryside the Party's work style, strengthen since the Party's consolidation cam• where more than half of discipline and purify the Party or• paign began two years ago, is an China's 40 million Party ganization. Currently, the prob• important stage of the campaign, members live. lems existing among rural Party scheduled to be completed in organizations and Party members, spring 1987. in essence, are mainly ideological. Given this, rural Party consolida• Over the past seven years, Chi• help the peasants overcome their tion should stress positive educa• difficulties in acquiring funds, fac• tion, and the overall enhancement na's rural areas have undergone a tory buildings, information, tech• of the Party members' ideologi* number of historic changes. Dur• nology, water, electricity and sales cal consciousness. Party members ing the economic reforms, the col• outlets. Their efforts turned the who have made grievous errors lectivized peasants created the con• once poor hamlet into a prosper• or who have violated the law and tract responsibility system where• ous village. Many" other Party disciplinary codes will be subject by remuneration became linked to members have not only worked accordingly to disciplinary action output. In addition to giving the hard to better their own lives, but or prosecution, depending on the jpeasants added management de• have also done their best to help severity of their mistakes. cision-making powers, the system other peasants improve their in• also injected a degree of dynamism comes by supplying them with The education of the Party rank into the entire rural economy. As money, technical know-how and and file will focus first on reiterat• a result, the peasants' enthusiasm labour. for developing commodity pro• ing the sole purpose of the Chi• duction is now soaring, the rural However, in the face of such nese Communist Party, which is economy has new energy and the rapid and profound changes, to serve the people wholehearted• peasants' standard of living has many rural Party members have ly. Such education aims to ensure improved annually. found themselves lacking mental that all Party members understand preparations for and an under• the importance of placing the The success of the rural econom• standing of all that has happened. state and the people's interests ic reforms can be attributed to Further study and re-education are above their own, and that it is the efforts of rural Party members needed therefore, in order to help they who must be the first to bear and the rural Party organiza• these members meet their respon• hardships and the last to enjoy 4 Beijing Review, No. 52 LETTERS Criticisms and Suggestions It is useful to publish readers' criticisms and suggestions. But Last year I had the opportunity you should also respond in some to visit China twice and to travel way to those letters. Exchanges widely, my previous visit having between readers and editors are been some 40 years earlier. Need• most important. less to say, I was deeply impressed comforts. Party members should Christopher Sengfelder by the incredible progress I ob• also study various policies regard• Coburg, FRG served in every aspect of Chinese ing rural economic reforms and life and society. Beijing Review is economic development, so that extremely helpful in keeping up they can be in a better position to with the continuing development. IVIore Explanations Needed lead the masses to consolidate It is most encouraging to note the and develop the rural production The article "China Promotes frank, open attitude in your dis• responsibility system, diversify Innovative Jobs Policy," in your cussion of problems and difficul• the economy, and develop com' November 11, 1985 issue, was ex• ties and the efforts to overcome modify production, education, tremely informative. But I was them. science and culture. concerned by the sentence, "By 1990, among the 400-million- Many articles concerning the In order to continue to inject strong worker force in the coun• present modernization drive and younger, better-educated and tryside, 100 million will be the responsibility system mention more progressive blood into the unemployed." the policy of enabling some peo• Party, the consolidation of rural ple to become prosperous first so Party organizations will also in• Later in the article you men• they can then help others to do clude the reshuffling of Party tion some measures that could be so. [ have heard some voices of leadership at the township and taken to combat this and, 1 hope, skepticism about this, which ex• village levels.