A CHINESE WEEKLY OF NEWS AND VIEWS VOL 34, NO. 26 July 1-7, 1991 HE CPC: 70 YEARS If "Maintaining close links with the masses" is a fine tradition of the Chinese Communist Party and an ef• fective weapon for the Party's suc• cess. Top: General Secretary Jiang Zemin has a heart-to-heart chat with farmers in Yanan, Shaanxi Province. Bottom: Li Peng, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and premier of the State Council, calls on workers at Zhong- yuan Oilfield in Henan Province, one of China's largest oilfields. Photos by Bei Xingong HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK BeijingRf^'- VOL. 34, NO. 26 JULY 1-7,1991 CPCi Seven Decades of Contributions CONTENTS • In the 70 years following the founding of the Communist Party, China has undergone tremendous changes. The CPC led EVENTS/TRENDS 4 7 the Chinese people in the overthrow of imperialism, feudalism Declaration Calls for Better Environment and bureaucrat capitalism and founded New China, bringing Housing Reform High on Agenda about independence, democracy, peace and stability to the Bangladesh Prime Minister in nation and ensuring the country's all-round economic, cultural Beijing and social progress (p. 9). Labour Export to Be Expanded Financial Markets Thrive in China Premier LI Talks to Mexican Newspaperman INTERNATIONAL Germany Wields Influence on • Chinese Premier Li Peng commented on a wide range of EC 8 topics including domestic and international issues during an interview with Mario Vazquz, president of the Mexican news• CHINA paper the Sun Mexico. Sino-Mexican relations were also CPC: Seven Decades of Contribution 9 discussed at the Beijing meeting not long ago (p. 23). Great and Glorious Course—Marking the 70th Anniversary of the Communist Conference on Environment and Development Party of China 17 Li Peng on Domestic and World Issues 23 • In today's world, the environment and development has INDEX (Nos. 1 -26, 1991) I XII become an issue of common concern for all countries. In order to find out an effective way to keep the environment clean, FROM THE CHINESE PRESS 29 30 officials from 41 developing countries recently held a minis• 31-33 terial conference in Beijing, aiming to reach a common Third BUSINESS/TRADE World agreement on international environmental affairs. Par• TOURISM 34 ticipants stressed and called for further co-operation in this field among developing countries and between developing and BOOKS 35 developed countries (p. 4). CULTURE/SCIENCE 36-38 COVER: Top: Chairman Mao at the EC After German Unification grand New China founding ceremony (October 1949). Centre: Deng Xiaop• • The unification of Germany will produce a negative impact ing inspects the Tianjin Economic and on the integration process of the European Community in the Technological Development Area (Au• gust 1986). Bottom: General Secretary short term. But in the long run, a unified Germany will Jiang Zemin lights the Asian Ganic^' strengthen the EC and promote European co-operation (p. 8). torch (August 1990). General Editorial Office Published every Monday by BEIJING REVIEW Subscription rates (1 year): Tel: 8314318 24 Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing 100037 Australia A.$33.60 TIJ<; 222374 FLPDA CN The People's Republic of China New Zealand NZ.$45.00 FAX; 8314318 Distributed by China International Book UK 18.00 English Dept. Tel: 8315599 Ext, 546 Trading Corporation (GUOJI SHUDIAN) USA„.....,„t^j.;.i.ii;iS.ti.ife...US$33.80 P.O. Box 399, Beijing, China Canada Can.$33.80 EVENTS#¥RENDS Declaration Calls for Better Environment he Beijing Declaration adopted on June 19 at the T two-day Ministerial Con• ference of Developing Coun• tries on the Environment and Development has been hailed as an important contribution of the developing countries to the 1992 United Nations Confer• ence on the Environment and Development and a historical document guiding world envi• ronmental protection and devel• opment. Premier Li Peng at the opening meeting of tlie conference on the environment and "The conference discussed a development. LISHENGNAN wide range of issues such as co• ordination between developing mental protection and economic backwardness. countries in environmental pro• development are an important They sell raw materials at low tection and economic develop• part of the new international or• prices and buy industrial prod• ment, co-operation between de• der. ucts at high prices, and as a veloped and developing coun• All countries, big or small, result, money keeps flowing tries, the role of developing rich or poor, have a part to play into the coffers of developed countries in global environ• in world environmental protec• countries. The natural resources mental protection and sus• tion and development, he said, of the developing countries are tained development, and fund and developed countries have consumed and their environ• and technology transfer to de• special responsibilities and obli• ments seriously damaged, Li veloping countries," said Song gations in this regard. said. i Jian, minister of China's State He said that every country Only when the unreasonable Science and Technology Com• has the right to decide its stra• economic order is changcid can mission and chairman of the tegy for economic development poverty be wiped out and de• conference, at the closing cere• and environmental protection velopment promoted; only- thus mony. in line with its own conditions, can developing countries;- pro• He said that the declaration and enjoys permanent sover• tect their environments and bet• reflected the developing coun• eignty over its natural resources ter co-operate with the rest of tries' profound understanding and living species. the world in environmentalipro- of and deep concern with the Developing countries should tection. world environment and devel• redouble their efforts in envi• Li noted that large-scale wars opment. ronmental protection, while at and regional conflicta not only The ministerial conference the same time the international threaten existence of mankind was attended by officials from community should offer funds but are also highly destructive 41 developing countries along and technology to fundamental• to the environment. i with observers from eight devel• ly strengthen their capability in "Historical and present facts oped countries and representa• the global cause for environ• tell us that it is necessary for all tives from 12 international or• mental protection and develop• countries to have a peaceful and ganizations. Its aim was to ment. stable international situation in reach a third world consensus Li said that at present, devel• developing economy and pro• on international environmental oping countries are facing the tecting environment," he added. affairs. twofold task of economic devel• Environmental protection is Speaking at the conference's opment and environmental pro• one of China's basic state poli• opening ceremony, Chinese Pre• tection, but many of them are cies, said the Chinese premier, mier Li Peng said that environ- stuck in chronic poverty and and the nation is striving for a 4 BEIJING REVIEW, JULY 1-7, 1991 EVENTS/TRENDS co-ordinated development of lion urban residents, the cur• economy and environmental rent excessively low rents will protection. be raised to cover maintenance But the premier admitted costs, and some newly-built re• that like many other developing sidences will be sold to indivi• countries China is also facing duals. an arduous task in environmen• Chen said that many urban tal protection and development. citizens welcome the housing re• During the last decade of the form programme. century, China will spare no ef• "What's more," he said, "they forts to raise its environmental now have huge amounts of cash protection work to a new level in hand." while developing its economy, It is estimated that there are said Li. about 800 billion yuan (US$152 "Meanwhile, we will streng• billion) of personal bank sav• then wide-ranging co-operation ings or private savings in China, and exchanges with other coun• and government officials hope tries and regions in this field that the new housing business and make our own contribu• would absorb much of this huge XUE LHAO pile of idle cash. Chen Jinhua, minister of the State Com• tions to the global environmen• mission for Restructuring the Economy tal protection," added the pre• Twelve cities, 13 counties and and head of the Housing Reform Office. mier. • 300 townships have adopted various housing reform pro• additional 1.65 billion square grammes. metres of housing floorspace so Shanghai, China's largest that by the end of this century city, initiated the country's first per-capita urban housing space Housing Reform comprehensive housing reform High on Agenda programme last year, and will reach eight square metres. brought it into force on May 1 And in the next five years, ousing reform, which be• this year. about 150 million square metres gan in China three years According to newly appointed should be built every year, he H ago, is now again high Minister of Construction Hou said. on the government's agenda, Jie, China will have to build an Statistics show that over the with the focus on commercializ• Using funds from the state, collectives ;an d individuals, the local government of ing public housing as a means Shantou, Guangdong Province, has over the past seven years built nearly 20,000 to reactivate a sluggish housing flats, totalling 1.1 million square metres ii n floorspace, for 18,000 families. market. ZHENG YONGjl In a nationwide circular is• sued recently, the State Coun• cil asked 450-odd cities in the country to work out specific housing reform programmes. Chen Jinhua, minister of the State Commission for Restruc• turing the Economy and head of the newly formed Housing Reform Office under the State Council, said in Beijing on June 18 that the current social and economic situation in China is favourable for carrying the housing reform through.