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RSOF BEIJING REVIEW VOL. 32, NO. 40 OCT. 2-8, 1989 CONTENTS Chinese Leaders on Domestic and Foreign Affairs EVENTS/TRENDS 4-9 China Protests France's Support For Fugitives • At a press conference held on September 26 in Beijing and Study of Marxist Philosophy attended by all members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Urged Political Bureau, Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin and Premier Deng on Handling International Li Peng met Chinese and foreign journalists. Full text of the Relations conference (p. 15). CPPCC Marked 40th Aniversary Leader Explains Policies to HK Journalists French Interference Protested Deng on Handling international Relations Taiwan Renounced for Propaganda Trick Quality of Party Members to Be • While meeting Masayoshi Ito in Beijing, senior Chinese leader Improved Deng Xiaoping said the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence Publications Will Be Streamlined News in Brief should be the guideline for settling international political and eco• INTERNATIONAL nomic problems. He told Ito that no matter what happens in the China's Foreign Trade in Past 40 world, the friendship between China and Japan must not change and Years 10 will not change (p. 5). CHINA Top Party Leaders Answer Questions at Press Conference 15 Only Socialism Can Develop China Only Socialism Can Develop China 19 China Advances Towards Its • China has attained notable achievements of economic develop• 40th Anniversary 26 ment and improvement in the standard of living over the pjst four Ordinary People of the People's decades. These successes are impossible for China without the Republic 35 leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, the socialist system, the 'Present Policies Are Best' political power at the service of the people and the public ownership 'My Dream Comes True' A Private Entrepreneur's of the means of production. The remark "only socialism can develop Dream China" is the reahty proved by China's 40 years of history (p. 19 ). Literature Is From Life and More Than Life The Second China Art Festival: "Letting a Hundred Flowers China's Foreign Trade In Past 40 Years Bloom" Remains Un• changed 42 Listing of Some Programmes and • Zheng Tuobin, China's Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Performing Groups of the and Trade, in an interview with Beijing Review, discussed the Second China Art Festival 44 progress China has made in his work field over the past 40 years. BUSINESS/TRADE 47 CULTURE/SCIENCE 48-50 For the future, he said, the introduction of new technology, the COVER: Tiananmen Square. (August establishment of projects in foreign countries and the development 1989) of labour exchanges will continue to be pursued and conducted by Wang Chao according to China's set policies (p. 10 ). Unless written by Beijing Review correspondents, the opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily reflect the view of the Beijing Review editorial board. General Editorial Office Published every Monday by BEIJING REVIEW Subscription rates (1 year): Tel; 8314318 24 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing 100037 Austraiia JV.$29.00 TU; 222374 FLPDA CN The People's Republic of China New Zealand NZ.$39.00 FAX: 8314318 Distributed by China International Book UK C14.50 English Dept. Tel: 8315599 Ext. 546 Trading Corporation (GUOJI SHUDIAN) USA.. US$29.00 P.O. Box 399, Beijing, China Canada. ..Can.$ 25.00 EVENTS/TRENDS it is a serious move that will cause the deterioration of rela• tions between China and France, China Protests France's the official said. He concluded that as a sover• Support for Fugitives eign state, China will never toler• ate such interference in its in• he Chinese government has ities on its territory by a handful ternal affairs by any foreign lodged a strong protest with of foreigners aimed at opposing country. As well, he told the T the French government for and subverting the government French ambassador that China granting permission to the so- of a foreign country with which strongly demands that the called Front for Democracy in it has normal diplomatic rela• French government truly abide China (FDC) to hold its "found• tions. by the norms governing state-to- state relations, stop its interfer• ing congress" in Paris. The French government's ac• According to a press release ence in China's internal affairs, tion tramples on the principles of and immediately prevent further issued in Beijing by the Foreign mutual respect for each other's FDC activities on French territo• Ministry, an official with the sovereignty and mutual non• ry against the Chinese govern• ministry's Department of West interference in each other's inter• ment. European Affairs met on Sep• nal affairs as established in in• Otherwise, the official told tember 25 with the French am• ternational law, as well as the Malo, the French government bassador to China, Charles Malo. purposes and principles of the should assume full responsibility Xinhua News Agency reported Charter of the United Nations, for any further damage to Sino- on September 24 that "a three- he added. French relations. D day inaugural farce" of the FDC ended on that day. And the or• ganization chaired by Yan Jiaqi, Study of Marxist Philosophy Urged Wu'er Kaixi and Wan Rennan, adopted a "constitution," which ome Beijing theoreticians in Beijing and other cities be• aims at overthrowing the told a recent forum that the tween April and June was ser• Chinese government. S entire Communist Party of ious confusion in ideology and The official pointed out that China (CPC) should study theory caused by bourgeois liber• the French government, disre• Marxist philosophy, according to alization. garding the solemn representa• the People's Daily in its Septem• To study Marxist philosophy tions made by China, had gone ber 17 edition. is a key element in the current so far as to allow the FDC to Organized by the theory struggle against bourgeois liber• hold its "founding congress" in bureau under the Propaganda alization, they said. Paris. Department of the CPC Cen• The basic theory and stand• Such action by Paris consti• tral Committee, the participants points of Marxist philosophy tutes serious encroachment upon agreed that to study Marxist phi• have been lashed by trends of China's sovereignty and gross in• losophy is helpful for clarifying bourgeois liberalization, the par• terference in its internal affairs, theoretical contradictions, unify• ticipants added. the official said, expressing Chi• ing people's thinking and rais• In fact, they said, those who na's "profound indignation" at ing the theoretical standard of stuck to spreading bourgeois lib• France's action. cadres. eralization viewpoints were Yan, Wu'er, Wan and others It is an important political task trying to negate Marxist philoso• have violated Chinese Criminal of the whole Party, they said. phy under the slogan of "devel• Law, the official told Malo, and The forum discussed the im• are wanted by Chinese public se• portance of studying Marxist opment." curity organs for instigating philosophy and the better ways The participants stressed that and organizing counter• to study it. It also talked about to study the Marxist philosophy revolutionary activities aimed at eliminating bourgeois liberaliza• is to first of all study the basic overthrowing the Chinese gov• tion influences and strengthen• viewpoints of the dialectical and ernment by violence. ing theoretical knowledge among historical materialism and grasp He said that it is indeed a Party officials. the true essence of Marxist world rare case in international rela• The participants pointed out outlook and methodology in a tions that the government of one that a major reason for the tur• way of combining theory with country brazenly supports activ• moil and anti-government riots practice. • 4 BEIJING REVIEW, OCTOBER 2-8, 1989 portant to both sides, is condu• cive to the interests of both peo• ples, and to world peace and de• velopment. "It is their common aspiration to pass on the bilateral friend• ship from generation to genera• tion," Deng said during the meet• ing, which lasted more than an hour. Ito expressed his full agree• ment. Japan and China should base their relations on the 1972 de• claration, that is, the principle of one China, and repudiating the unfortunate past relations be• tween Japan and China, Ito said. "You are still in very good health since we met a year ago," Ito told Deng. "Rumours are rife in the Japanese newspapers that [ you are ill. But we see that you are very healthy." Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping meets MasayoshI Ito on September 19. "Some people said I died or UU SHAOSHAN was seriously ill," Deng replied. "That caused fluctuations on the Deng on Handling International financial markets in Hong Kong. Relations A few days ago I met Professor T.D. Lee, and when the news he Five Principles of Peace• not work. At present, not only reached Hong Kong, the stock ful Coexistence should be the a new world economic order market there picked up. Actual• T guideline for settling inter• should be established but also a ly, I've been very well the whole national political and economic new world political order, he ad• time." problems, said senior Chinese ded. On September 18, Jiang Zem• leader Deng Xiaoping in Beijing Deng criticized the summit of in, general secretary of the Cen• on September 19. seven Western nations held in tral Committee of the Commun• At a meeting in the Great Hall Paris during the summer. The ist Party of China (CPC), met of the People with Masayoshi meeting's resolution concerning with Ito. Jiang said that China Ito, leader of the Parliamen• China was based on "lies and dis• will surely achieve its economic tarians League for Japan- tortions" and was "too shallow" development targets.