A CHINESE WEEKLY OF NEWS AND VIEWS Vol. 33, No. 12 March 19-25, 1990 Hong Kong—The Basic Law and Democracy Farmers in Fujian Province opened a bamboo-raft service company in the scenic area of Jiuquxi in the Wuyi iVIountains, and each year host more than 200,000 domestic and foreign visitors. Photo by Gu Xinsheng BeijingR«>ir VOL. 33, NO. 12 MAH. 19-25, 1990 Basic Law Drafting a Democratic Process D The Basic Law (Draft) for the future Hong Kong Speical CONTENTS Administrative Region is a product of more than four years of painstaking efforts through democratic procedures. It aims to EVENTS/TRENDS 4-8 ensure the implementation of the policy of "one country, two Party Calls for Closer Ties With systems" and the continued prosperity of Hong Kong after the People 1997 (p. 9). Lei Feng Back in Limelight Taiwan Situation Concerns Mainland Beijing Mayors Meet the Press China's Anti-Pornographiy Campaign Successfui 100 Rural Women Honoured for Merits • The nation's drive against pornography has been a big Confidence Builds for 11th Asiad success. There was once a" deluge of obscene publications and Resolution on China Vetoed at UN audio and video products, a key contributing factor to criminal Session acts. Now, however, they are hard to find in bookstores and news-stands. In order to build on this achievement, the central China Welcomes More Sino-Soviet and local governments are improving the management of the Exchanges publication and cultural market (p. 22). INTERNATIONAL Basic Law and Democracy Japanese-US Relations in a Taiwan Political Situation: a Cause for Concern Changed World 10 New Wave of Jewish Immigration • An authoritative source has expressed "deep concern" over Arouses Concern 12 the intensive struggle within the Kuomintang in Taiwan, which is causing instability on the island (p. 5). CHINA Socialist Democracy—A Process of Development 14 Multi-Party Co-operation in Ciiina—Past and Present Formation and Development of System of Multi-Party • The system of multi-party co-operation led by the Chinese Co-operation 16 Communist Party is a system of socialist political parties that China's Democratic Parties 18 is in accord with China's reality. It emerged and developed China Declares War on under the special historical conditions of China and reflects Pornography 22 the characteristics of the historical development of Chinese Shanghai: Culture Still society (p. 16). Flourishing 26 FROM THE CHINESE PRESS 28-29 Learning from Lei Feng Back on Agenda BUSINESS/TRADE 30-31 Q Activities to learn from Lei Feng, whose name is synony• CULTURE/SCIENCE 32-34 mous to selflessness and utter devotion to socialism, reached a new upsurge in China. Recently senior Chinese Party and COVER: Beijing bookbuyers browse government leaders wrote messages urging all the Chinese through new publications a; the Xinhua people to emulate the young hero and translate his spirit into Bookstore in Wangfujing. a high standard of socialist culture and ethics in China (p. 5). Photo by Chen Zonglie 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 Australia A.$29.00 TLJ<: 222374 FLPDA CN The People's Republic of China New Zealand NZ.$39.00 FAX: 8314318 Distributed by China International Book UK El 4.50 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 Party Calls for Closer Ties With tlie People nphe Sixth Plenary Ses- political restructuring, and the Party and the people and I sion of the 13th Central make vigorous efforts to keep making a relevant decision is Committee of the Com• open and broaden channels of immediate significance to munist Party of China by which the Party maintains achieving further political, (CPC), held in Beijing from its ties with the people. economic and social stabili• March 9 to 12, adopted a de• 4. Continue with unswerv• ty and developement in the cision on strengthening the ing efforts to strengthen the country. ties between the Party and building of an honest and Such closer ties would also the people. clean government and im• exert a far-reaching influence In a communique released prove the Party's style of on achieving the Party's ge• at the end of the session, the work, and energetically carry neral goals in the new period Central Committee urged on the spirit of hard work, so of historical development and Party organizations at all lev• as to overcome the negative pushing forward the great els to pay special attention to and corruptive practices ex• cause of building socialism the solution of problems of isting within the Party. with Chinese characteristics. most concern to the masses as 5. Establish and perfect the On the whole, the session a practical move to close the system of supervision within said, the relations between ties between the Party and and without the Party, and the Party and the masses and the masses. strengthen supervision over between the cadres and the leading organizations and masses have been good. But The communique listed the leading officials at various bureaucratism, subjectivism, following seven aspects in levels. formalism, passivism, corrup• which the ties between the 6. Bring into full play the tion and other serious pheno• Party and the people are to be role of grassroots Party or- | mena that tend to drive the strengthened: ganizations as fighting Party and the masses apart 1. Adhere to the practice of strongholds and the exempla• have grown among some Par• "coming from the masses and ry role of Party members in ty organizations and Party going to the masses," and es• mobilizing the masses and or• functionaries in recent years. tablish and perfect a demo• ganizing and leading them The session urged all Party cratic and scientific process forward. members to keep high vi• of policy making and imple• 7. Conduct within the Par• gilance against these phen• mentation, so as to ensure ty extensive and deep-going omena, fight unremittingly that such policy making and education on the Marxist against them and make every implementation are in line point of view concerning the effort to restore and develop with the interests of the peo• masses so that members can the Party's fine tradition and ple. follow the Party's mass line working style of maintaining 2. Leading cadres at all lev• more consciously. close ties with the masses. els must persist in the system The communique pointed The 1990s will be a de• of frequently going down to out that at a time when the cade crucial to China's de• the grassroots units and going work defined by the fourth velopment. Despite a change• among the masses, and work and fifth plenums (held last able world situation and the in a down-to-earth manner so June and November respec• temporary domestic difficul• that the Party's line, princi• tively) of the 13th CPC Cen• ties, China will surely esta• ples and policies are imple• tral Committee is being done blish itself in an unassailable mented with tangible results. in all fields and various un• position provided no time is 3. Persistently strengthen dertakings are developing in lost in attending to domestic the building of socialist de• a sound way, issuing an ear• affairs, most notably the na• mocracy and legal system in nest call to the whole Party tional economy, said the com• the course of deepening the for closing the links between munique. • 4 BEIJING REVIEW, MA8CH 19-25, 1990 EVENTS / TRENDS also help the people resist the ef• Lei Feng Back fects of bourgeois liberalization, Taiwan Situation In Limelight eliminate negative factors that Concerns Mainland have emerged in the process of illions of Chinese from economic development and prom• 'olent rifts in the bogus all walks of life devoted ote economic readjustment and "National Assembly" and M their Sunday holiday on deepening reform. V"Legislative Yuan" and pol• March 4 to serve others in various Just before the 27th anniver• itical infighting that has con• ways in a new nationwide upsurge sary of Mao's call to learn from vulsed among the Kuomintang to resurrect the spirit of Lei Feng, Lei Feng, Jiang Zemin, Yang are causing political and social a 22-year-old People's Liberation Shangkun, Li Peng and other Par• instability in Taiwan, according Army (PLA) soldier who died at ty and government leaders wrote to an authoritative source from his post in early 1962 and whose inscriptions calling on all Chinese the Chinese mainland. name has since become synony• people to learn from Lei Feng, to "We are deeply concerned over mous with such socialist ethics as develop his spirit and to contri• the situation there," the source utter devotion to the revolution bute to the building of socialism told the news agency Xinhua in and wholeheartedness in serving with Chinese characteristics. an interview. the people. Now, to learn from Lei Feng The Kuomintang authorities A well-known line of Lei Feng has become a hot topic again have gone against the wishes and was: "A man has limited years among university students in Chi• interests of the majority of the but to serve the people is an infin• na's capital. people, he said, and have violated ite cause. I am resolved to plunge the democratic process in their "Lei Feng's spirit demonstrates my limited years into the infinite nomination of candidates for the the national spirit," said Li Hong, cause of serving the people." Taiwan leadership — the "presi• a law major at Beijing University, On March 5, 1963, Mao Ze• dent" and "vice-president." This, "and the campaign to learn from dong wrote an inscription, "Learn he added, has aroused strong op• him accords with the people's de• from Comrade Lei Feng." Other position among many people in sire to cultivate a better inter• Chinese leaders also wrote in• the party's central committee and personal relationship character• scriptions, calling on the people has developed into an internal ized by comradeship, fraternity of China to learn from Lei Feng.