Vol. 28, No. 38 September 23, 1985 ING REVIEW 1^ Vanguards of Reform Engineer Sun Zhenguo (left), 44, ttie new manager of the Anshan Iron and Steel Company, getting first• hand information from a worker in the company's No. 3 steel making plant. Anhui peasant Shi Dooqin, who two years ago set up a primary school with his own money, has trained many top students. Last year, he was cited as a national model teacher. Assistant Engineer Luo Jundong, 28, is one of the designers for the International Trade Centre in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK Vol. 28, No. 38 September 23, 1985 Historic Meeting Rings Changes The_ Fourth Plenary Session of the 12th Party Central CONTENTS Committee was held to pave the way for the national Party con• ference on September 18. The session passed the draft pro• NOTES FROM THE EDITORS 4 posals on the country's Seventh Five-Year Plan and took a Reshuffle and Policy Continuity giant step towards bringing more younger people into the Party's LEHERS 5 leadership (p. 6). EVENTS & TRENDS 6-11 Plenum Sets Agenda for Party Reshuffle Ensures Continuity of Policies Conference Party Secretary Hu Acts on Letters With some older officials stepping down, from the central Deng Talk Links Freedom, Peace Nation Censures Shabby Products leading bodies to make way for younger, dedicated and better- Cities Make Plans for Yangtze educated people confirmed at the national Party conference, the Areo continuity of China's current policies will be ensured (p. 4). Beijing's YMCA Back In Action INTERNATIONAL 12-15 A Fair Settlement of Korean Issue Benefits All United States: Jenkins Bill Haunts Asian Textiles The two parts of Korea are now charging their approaches Bulgaria: Privote Economy Mokes Strides towards each other. All parties concerned, especially the South Pacific: French Interests United States, should take positive action to help them achieve Under Fire reconciliation and co-operation, leading finally to the peaceful Sudan: Peaceful Settlement reunification of the country. A fair settlement of the issue Looks Dim Norway: Government Faces New benefits peace and stability not only in the Far East, but in Trials the whole world (p. 16). Observations on the Korean Situa• tion 16 Chinese Is Studied Over the World Visit to Tibet (III): Science Changes Highland Life 19 An on-the-spot report on the First International Symposium •Chinese Now Spoken Here' ... 24 on Teaching Chinese As a Foreign Language held in Beijing recently by Beijing Review correspondent points up the world• FROM THE CHINESE PRESS 27-28 wide craze for Chinese studies and the academic exchanges between the scholars of various countries and regions in teach• BUSINESS & TRADE 29-30 ing Chinese (p. 24). CULTURE & SCIENCE 31-32 SPORTS 33 Science, Technology Propelling Tibet Forward BOOKS 34 In the last part of the Tibet series, our correspondent tells COVER: Details of the new mural, "Har• how the introduction of science and the use of local rich vesting Festival", which decorates the water, sun and wind resources have changed the life of the Tibetan Hall of the Great Hall of the farmers and herdsmen, who for centuries had been using dried People in Beijing. Painted by Zhu Youtoo 'dung as fuel and butter lamps for light (p. 19). Published every Monday by Distribution and subscriptions handled by SubMriptlan prks* (1 year)! BEIJING REVIEW China International Book Trading Australia A.$ 14.00 USA USS 18.00 24 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing Corporation (GUOJI SHUDIAN), New Zealand NZ. SI8.00 UK tS.OO The People's Republic of China P.O. Box 399, Beijing, China Canoda Can. $15.00 NOTES pgoSTfHlTWfSI^ Reshuffle and Policy Continuity by AN ZHIGUO plete before the current national fore the readjustment. Among Political Editor Party conference. them, the proportion of people under 55 has increased from 10 to One of the major topics dis• Now, the reshuffling of the 30 perceint. Seventy-one percent cussed at the current national Com• Party and government leaders in all of them have college education, as munist Party conference in Beijing of China's 29 provinces, munici• compared with the 44.5 percent palities and autonomous regions is before the reshuffle. is the readjustment of the Party's basically complete. Except for central leading bodies. some top older officials in a few There has been much specula• On the eve of the conference, areas who are still needed at their tion over who will step down and 131 older officials, many of whom posts, the country's leaders are who will replace them at the are not in good health, have asked younger. Provincial Party secretar• Party, conference. This will to step down from the Central ies and governors average 58 and only be clear after the conference Committee, the Central Advisory 55.6 years old, 7.5 and 3.7 years and the coming 5th Plenary Ses• Commission and the Central Com• younger than before the reshuffle. sion of the 12th CPC Central Com• mission for Inspecting Discipline to Some are under 50. mittee end. According to reliable make way for younger people who sources, however, the reshuffle is are both good politically and pro• Progress has also been achieved still a partial one, even though a lot fessionally. in reshuffling the leading bodies of of people will be involved, because many central ministries and com- This is both a major policy de• consideration must be given to the cision and a concrete step towards smooth transition of power to abolishing life-long tenure in lead• younger people and a basic balance ing posts. It will be of great signif• must be maintained between the icance in ensuring the continuity The resignation of 131 from number of people going out and of China's current policies and pro• the CPC central leading the number of people coming in. moting reform of the cadre system. bodies set a good example The current reshuffle is a con• Since the Third Plenary Session in doing away the de facto tinuation of China's cadre system of the 11th Party Central Com• lite-long tenure in leading reform, which has been in progress mittee in late 1978, and especially posts in China. With some for several years. All the pro• since the nationwide administrative new faces appearing in the gramme's achievements so far, restructuring which began in 1982, top leadership of the Party however, are only a favourable be• satisfactory results have been and state, China's current ginning. The reform of the cadre achieved in reshuffling the coun• policies will not be affected. system will be synchronized with try's leadership. More than future economic development and 200,000 younger, revolutionary- the undertaking of other reforms. minded, better-educated and pro• Proceeding from the interests of fessionally competent people have missions.' Over the past year or the state and the people, many been promoted.to top posts at or more, about 100 middle-aged and veteran cadres have set a good above the county level. In the young people who are bold in example in the reshuffle of the process, 1.08 million veteran cadres blazing new trails have beem pro• central leading bodies by helping have retired. moted to the posts of ministers to do away with the de facto life• Last April, the Party Central and vice-ministers as well as to long tenure of leading posts. This Committee called for the readjust• other senior positions under the will have a far-reaching influence ment of leading bodies in prov• State Council. The average age on quickening China's reforms and inces, municipalities and central . of the major leaders of 81 depart• perfecting the cadre system in line ministries and commissions.. The ments under the State Council is with the country's modernization reshuffle was schedulfed to com• 56.6, five years younger than be• programme. 4 Beijing Review, No. 38. LETTERS Peng Di's Article experience. Fully aware as we Better [\/lutual Appreciated must be that we were seeing the Understanding emergence of a modern city out In the July 8 issue of your maga• of its past — and the material com• As for my wife, my friends and zine was an article I very much forts of its modern hotels are be• myself, we have a great love for appreciated — Image of US Media yond all praise. We were pro• the people of China and wish that — A Chinese View, by Peng Di, foundly impressed by thb respect some day a close understanding and former chief of the Washington and care shown everywhere for friendship between our nations will Bureau of the Xinhua News Agen• the preservation and maintenance come together. With the articles cy. I have been in the People's of its magnificent treasures from of your well-written magazine, the Republic two times and feel that the past. It has survived many de• readers should better understand his criticism of Fox Butterfield's cades and centuries of storm and the views of the people of China book was clear and concise. I upheaval but the sense of an an• and better understand the interna• know, too, of the policy the Peo• cient culture has not been lost. tional issues with regard to world ple's Republic has of self-criticism peace. and agree thoroughly on those two We of the Western world have points. come to recognize that many of I'd like to express admiration for our problems, moral and social, Chairman Deng Xiaoping and Pre• have their roots in the easy af• mier Zhao Ziyang for their efforts Thank you for your always-good to seek world peace.