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A CHINESE WEEKLY OF NEWS AND VIEWS 3 • Vol. 33, No. 42 October 15-21, 1990 TY, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FRIENDSHIP, PROGRES BeijingR^jir VOL. 33, NO. 42 OCT. 15-21, 1990 CONTENTS EVENTS/TRENDS 4 9 11 th Asian Games Comes to Golden End Table: 11th Asian Games'Gold Beijing Asiad Rounded Off Medal Tally (Sept. 28 - Oct. 6) Sine-Singaporean Diplomatic Ties China Launches 30th Satellite • The Beijing 11th Asian Games ended on October 7 as Plane Crash Takes 127 Lives China's Zhao Jianhua beat out his fellow player Yang Yang to Consumer Market Picks up in win the badminton men's signles title. A review of the thrilling Cities competitions of the final days and of the closing ceremony China's Population Down to Size performances, along with public comments on the opening ceremony and the Asiad, is presented (p. 15). INTERNATIONAL China's Important Role in World Affairs 10 Can Apartheid Be Eliminated? 11 Consumer Marlcet Recovering CHINA • Business in China's major consumer markets began to recov• A Gala Meeting of 'Unity, er in August from its year-long slump. Retail sales have shown Friendship, Progress' 15 Public Opinion on the Asian remarkable activity with the sales volume in 35 major depart• Games 22 ment stores reaching US$132 million, a 25 percent increase 'The Star-Spangled over the same period last year. Beijing's retail market is even Night'—Pageantry at the closing more encouraging with the sales volume growing faster than ceremony of the XI Asiad 25 any other city in China (p. 6). PICTORIAL: The 11 th Asian Games (centrefold) Can Apartlieid Be Eradicated? FROM THE CHINESE PRESS 28 • Despite a tortuous process. South Africa's reform is moving in a positive direction. Now, the future of apartheid will be BUSINESS/TRADE 29 31 decided by negotiations between the African National Con• gress and the South African government (p. 16). CULTURE/SCIENCE 32 34 COVER: Asian athletes at the Beijing Badaling Great Wall. Photo by Xue Chao General Editorial Office Published every Monday by BEIJING REVIEW Subscription rates (1 year): Tel: 8314318 24 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing 100037 Australia.. .A.$30.50 TLX: 222374 FLPDA CN The People's Republic of China New Zealand NZ.$40.50 FAX: 8314318 Distributed by China International Book UK CI 6.50 English Dept. Tel: 8315599 Ext, 546 Trading Corporation (GUOJI SHUDIAN) USA.. US$30.50 P.O. Box 399, Beijing, China Canada. ..Can.$30.50 EVENTS / TRENDS Games in the spirit of brother• hood and for the good of human- ity." The Asiad attacted a record high of more than 6,000 partici• pants from 37 countries and re• gions in Asia. In the 16 days, the athletes had competed with vigour and con• fidence in the Olympic spirit of "Faster, Higher, and Stronger." A letter written by China's State Council to the Games' Or• ganizing Committee says that the achievements and standard of the Uth Asian Games as well as the Chinese people's organizing ability have attracted world at• Fireworks bring the closing ceremony of the Asiad to a triumphant end. tention. The letter owes much of the success of the 11th Asiad to China's political and social 11th Asian Games Comes to Golden End stability and economic develop• ment. • grand ceremony held on the Olympic Council of Asia October 7 marked the end (OCA), told an audience of 70,- A of the 11th Asian Games 000 at the Beijing Workers' Stad• Sino-Singaporean which lasted 16 days in Beijing. ium that Asia's young people Diplomatic Ties Roy de Silva, vice president of should "celebrate the Asian hina and Singapore an• nounced in New York on Table I: Medals Tally of the 11th Asiad C October 3 the establish• ment of diplomatic relations be• Countries (Regions) Gold Silver Bronze Total tween the two countries. China 183 107 51 341 South Korea 54 54 73 181 "The government of the Peo• Japan 38 60 76 174 ple's Republic of China and the Korea 12 31 39 82 government of the Republic of Iran 4 6 8 18 Singapore will establish diplom• Pakistan 4 1 7 12 atic relations beginning October Indonesia 3 6 21 30 3, 1990, which follow the Five Qatar 3 2 1 6 Principles of Peaceful Coex• Thailand 2 7 8 17 istence and the Charter of the Malaysia 2 2 4 8 United Nations (UN)," stated a India 1 8 14 23 joint communique signed at the Mongolia 1 7 9 17 UN headquarters by Chinese the Philipines 1 2 7 10 Foreign Minister Qian Qichen Syria 1 0 2 3 Oman 1 0 0 1 and Singaporean Foreign Minis• Chinese Taibei 0 10 21 31 ter Wong Kan Seng. Hong Kong 0 2 5 7 Qian said, after the signing Sri Lanka 0 2 1 3 ceremony, that the establishment Singapore 0 1 4 5 of diplomatic ties with Singapore Bangladesh 0 1 0 1 has ushered China's relationship Burma 0 0 2 2 with the Association of South• Laos 0 0 1 1 east Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Macao 0 0 1 1 Nepal 0 0 1 1 a period of all-round devel• Saudi Arabia 0 0 1 1 opment. China has friendly and Total 310 309 357 976 co-operative relations with the 4 BEIJING REVIEW, OCTOBER 15-21, 1990 EVENTS/TRENDS ASEAN countries, having esta• The satellite tracking and con• blished diplomatic relations with trol centre in Xian, capital of Plane Crash five of the six member states. Shaanxi Province, has been mon• Takes 127 Lives The new relations between the itoring the satellite, and various two countries will also produce technical parameters show that ne hundred and twenty- positive impacts on resolving re• the meters and instruments on seven people died and 53 gional conflicts and maintaining the satellite have been working O were injured in a plane peace and stability in the region, well. crash at Guangzhou's Baiyun particularly on the settlement of The satellite carried animals Airport on the morrting of Octo• the Cambodian issue, Qian said. and plants so that their reactions ber 2. Singapore is an important under conditions of weightless• According to report by an in• trading partner of China, Qian ness can be observed. vestigating team dealing with the said. He expected that the econo• The satellite is scheduled to re• aftermath of the crash, of the mic and trade relations between turn to earth in eight days. It dead 36 were from Taiwan, Hong the two countries will grow is the 30th satellite successfully Kong and Macao, 90 from the further. launched by China. • mainland of China, and one Singapore became China's sixth largest trade partner last year, when the two-way trade to• talled US$3.2 billion, a 27 per• Table II: 11th Asian Games' Gold Medal Tally (Sept. 28 - Oct. 6) cent increase over the previous year. Date Event Ctr/Regn Winners Records Latest customs statistics show Sept.28 Shoot. W.'s s-b s.r. that current bilateral trade vol• •3x20 China team 1,722 ume stands at US$1.73 billion, a M.'s air psl.60 China team 1,739 10 percent drop from the cor• M.'s air psl.60 responding period of last year. ind. China Zheng Shengge 680.8 W.'s s-b s.r. However, the slump was not sig• 3x20 ind. Japan Minamoto Yoko 674.1 nificant as large quantities of M.'s 50m r.t. goods will be delivered in the last 40 China team 1,168 quarter of this year. M.'s 50m r.t. Qian, on behalf of the Chinese 40 ind. China Huang Shiping 393 government, invited Prime Min• Swimm. W.'s 200m ister Lee Kuan Yew to pay an butterfly China Wang Xiaohong 2.09'62 official visit to China in the near W.'s 200m future. backstroke China Lin Li 2.13'81 M.'s 1500m " The signing of this agree• freestyle Japan Fujimoto ment formalizes the diplomatic Masayuki 15.43'24 ties and it will, of course, only M.'s 200m strengthen the relations between medley ind. Japan Fujimoto Singapore and China," stated Takahiro 2.05'50 Foreign Minister Wong. • W.'s 50m freestyle China Yang Wenyi 25'86 M.'s 4x100 China Launches medley relay China 3.45'18 Cycl, M.'s 50km 30th Satellite points race S.Korea Park Min-soo W.'s 3km ind. hina successfully launched pursuit China Zhao Yi 4.01'57 another scientific experi• M.'s 4km ind. C mental satellite from the pursuit S.Korea Park Min-soo 4.55'16, space centre in Jiuquan, Athle. M.'d 100m Qatar Talal Mansoor 10'30 northwest China, at 2:15 pm on M.'s 20km Mao Xinyuan 1:23.16' October 5. walk China M.'s 110m The satellite was sent into or• hurdles China Yu Zhicheng 13'82 bit by a Long March 2 carrier M.'s shot put China Cheng Shaobo 18.89 rocket. M.'s 10,000m Japan Morishita BEIJING REVIEW, OCTOBER 15-21, 1990 5. EVENTS/TRENDS woman from the United States. Koichi 28.47'96 There were 100 survivors. W.'s 200m China HanQing 23'42 The Boeing 737, Flight 8301 W.'s javelin China Zhang Li 66.00 of the Xiamen Airline .Co., was W.'s 800m China Li Wenhong 2.01'04 hijacked after taking off from W.'s 400m hurdles China Chen Juying 56'05 Xiamen at 6:57 am on October 2 Fencing M.'s foil team China en route to Guangzhou.