Vol. 33, No. 51 December 17-23, 1990 New Structure of DNA Discovered Coal miner cap lamps twinkle like stars. jun Beijing'^^r VOL. 33, NO. 51 DEC. 17-23, 1990 Foreign Banks Expand Business in China CONTENTS • China's reform and open policy have provided a good opportunity for foreign banks to enter the Chinese market. Many foreign banks have established branches in China and EVENTS/TRENDS 4 7 their operations have been satisfactory (p. 8). Li Peng Starts Four-Nation Tour Agriculture Stressed for 1991 New Structure of DNA Discovered Religious Freedom Stressed Again New Strucfure of DNA Discovered Market Role for Materials Ministry • A laboratory of the Research Institute of Chemistry of the What's to Be Done With Extra Chinese Academy of Science recently discovered a new DNA Money? New Fashion in Store for Beijing structure. News in Brief Senior researcher Bai Chunli, director of the laboratory, said this was the world's first direct discovery of the three-ply CHINA plait-like new structure using a scanning tunnel microscope Foreign Banks Seek Development (p. 5). in China 8 Welfare Business for the Disabled 11 Light for the Blind 14 STVF '90 Presents a Rainbow of Premier Li Specifies Poiicy on iteiigious Affairs Cultures 17 Workers' Engravings 18 • Speaking at a recent national working conference on reli• Facts and Figures: Geographical gious affairs. Premier Li Peng stressed the importance of Distribution, Density and correctly implementing the Party's policy protecting the free• Natural Growth Rate of China's Population 21 dom of religious belief. He said properly handling religious affairs is of great im• Pictorial Centrefold portance to strengthening stability and national unity in China (p. 5). INTERNATIONAL Future Complications in US-Latin American Ties 24 New Developments in the Gulf LiglitfortheBiind Situation 28 BUSINESS/TRADE 29 31 • Since the programme of enabling blind children to study at the same schools as those with normal eyesight was introduced CULTURE/SCIENCE 32-33 on a trial basis to 30 counties three years ago, over 75 percent of the blind children there have entered school, a big jump FROM THE CHINESE PRESS 34 over the country's average of 3 percent up to 1987 (p. 14). COVER: Now in Lhasa, many handi• capped Tibetans have found jobs with the help of the people's government. Agricuiture Stressed for 1991 Their livelihood and health care are quaranteed. Here an investigation group from the United States visits a printing • The Party Central Committee and the State Council jointly house employing handicapped persons. issued a circular recently, calling on local governments at all The group observes deaf-mute workers levels to make more efforts for further growth of agriculture binding Tibetan books. in the next year (p. 4). photo by Chen Zonglie General Editorial Office Publislied every Monday by BEIJING REVIEW Subscription rates (1 year): Tel: 8314318 24 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing 100037 Australia A.$30.50 TU<: 222374 FLPDA CN The People's Republic of Cfiina New Zealand NZ.$40.50 FAX: 8314318 Distributed by China International Book UK 16.50 Englisin 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 "leaped to a new high" since the full consideration. Li Peng Starts two nations forged diplomatic The circular pointed out that Four-Nation Tour ties in 1974, with a marked in• a good agricultural harvest and crease of various exchanges and steady rural economic growth in remier Li Peng arrived in prominent achievements in eco• 1991, the first year of the Eighth Kuala Lumpur on Decem• nomic co-operation and trade. Five-Year Plan (1991-95), will P ber 10 to begin his four- Party Session on Schedule. Be• be of great significance to the day official visit to Malaysia, the fore Premier Li Peng left Beijing development of the national first by a Chinese head of gov• for his visit, he announced that economy as a whole. ernment in almost a decade. the Seventh Plenary Session of Emphasis will be placed on Malaysia is the first leg of the the 13th Central Committee of transforming low-yielding farm• Chinese premier's 10-day tour, the Communist Party of China land, and wasteland will be re• which will also take him to the (CPC) will be held in late De• claimed and water resources Philippines, Laos and Sri Lanka. cember as scheduled. tapped to grow crops and trees or Speaking at a banquet in hon• Li told reporters at the airport raise domestic livestock and fish. our of his Chinese guests, Ma• that the forthcoming Party ses• In addition, measures will be laysian Prime Minister Mahath• sion will work out the Eighth adopted to protect cultivated ir Mohamad said that Li came at Five-Year Plan and a 10-year areas and agricultural resources. a propitious moment in the rela• programme for the country's Localities are encouraged to in• tionship between the two coun• economic development. And this crease investment so as to boost tries. is "the sole item on the agenda," agricultural production, effect he stressed. an overall agricultural develop• Li's visit "testifies to the im• He believed the time for con• ment and ensure supplies of portance China attaches to vening the session is completely farm machinery and raw mater• maintaining good relations with mature, saying, "I am sure we ials. Southeast Asian countries, the can achieve our expected results They are also encouraged to Prime Minister said, adding that during the session." adopt scientific farming meth• there is no doubt that the Asso• In order to ensure success, the ods, train agrotechnicians, use ciation of Southeast Asian Na• premier said, it took time for the improved seed strains, study and tions (Asean) recognizes the role Party to solicite opinions from introduce advanced cultivation which China plays in the stabili• people from all walks of life and and breeding techniques, and in• ty and prosperity of the region. make all necessary preparations. crease management efficiency. In reply, Premier Li noted According to the circular, next that the international situation is year the rural household con• "undergoing profound changes." tract responsibility system will But power politics still exists and be consolidated and a healthy destablizing factors are on the Agriculture increase. The dangerous situa• agricultural social service net• Stressed for 1991 work established. Land contracts tion in the Gulf, for example, will continue to be honoured. In has commanded grave concern r I ihe record grain harvest this rural areas where agriculture de• of people throughout the world. year has brought a happy velops on a large scale, adjust• On the Cambodian issue, he T glow of success to China in ments will be made in the land said, new obstacles and difficul• overcoming its agricultural stag• contract system according to lo• ties have kept cropping up in the nation, but any further growth cal conditions.No more farm• way of a final settlement. of agriculture in the years to land will be occupied for hous• He said China is ready to come needs more painstaking ef• ing projects. make unremitting efforts, along forts. A healthy agricultural social with Asean and other countries According to a circular joint• services network will be devel• concerned for an early, compre• ly issued by the Party Central oped. The circular called on gov• hensive, fair and lasting settle• Committee and the State Coun• ernments at county and town• ment of the question on the basis cil on agriculture and rural work ship levels to help local co• of the UN Security Council Re• for 1991, China will strive for operative economic organiza• solution 668 within the frame• comprehensive agricultural dev- tions expand their services to work of the Paris Conference. leopment by taking the coun• meet farmer needs. The Chinese Premier said try's huge population and lim• They are also urged to esta• Sino-Malaysian relations have ited agricultural resources into blish special funds to assist poor 4 BEIJING REWEWt'BECEMBEH 17-23, 1990 EVENTS / TRENDS i villages and help them diversify i firming the existence of this type ficant to stability, unity, nation- : I their economic undertakings. I of DNA formally indirectly ob• al reunification, and the fulfill- The principle for a multi- served only by X-ray diffrac• i ment of goals set forth in the | ownership economy with the col• tion. And their discovery won ^ 1990's socio-economic develop- lective as the main body should the highest honours among the I menl programme in addition to I be upheld, the circular said. year's 100 scientific awards in ; safeguarding world peace. 1 '• It also pointed out the iegi- the United States. I Li said various religious or- ^ I timate interests of families en- I The laboratory which made ganizations in China have hnks • gaged in production along spe- the recent discovery is led by the with their worldwide coun• i cialized lines, industrial and 37-year-old senior researcher Bai terparts. Exchanges based on commercial households, and rur• I Chunli. Previously, a similar friendship and equality between • al private enterprises should be DNA structure had been conjec• I these Chinese and overseas or• protected. tured by foreign scientists on the ganizations can promote under• I The circular called for unceas• basis of indirect study through standing between the Chinese ing efforts in water conservancy alternative technology. and other peoples of the world. construction and land improve- ! It is unimaginable to achieve a He also said that the govern- ; i ments, attributing this year's i significant discovery in micro- I ment will continue to support i bumper harvests to water conser- observation of an organism with• religious circles to independent• I vancy facility and land improve- out high technology and sophis• ly manage their own affairs, in• I ment efforts.