A CHINESE WEEKLY OF NEWS AND VIEWS Vol. 33, No. 38 September 17-23 All Ready for XI Asian Games I. A trip to the dragon's native place. Photo Beijing'^!'!?' VOL. 33, NO. 38 SEPT. 17-23, 1990 CONTENTS EVENTS/TRENDS 4-7 Jiang Stresses National Unity Shanghai Maps Out Pudong's Future Beijing Ready for the Asian Games Asiad Participants: A Record Number New Railway Spans Asia, Europe • The Asiad Village, after four years of arduous yet elaborate Another Weather Satellite preparation, now stands ready to welcome athletes from all Launched Asia. Beijing hotels will provide top-notch services. Have the Li Peng Meets Iraqi Official athletes prepared as well for the competition? An analysis of the warm-up exercises by the Asiad member countries provide INTERNATIONAL some hints (p. 10). Chinese and Soviet Foreign Ministers Conclude Talks 8 CHINA An Interview With Asiad Project Nuclear Teciinology Boosts Agricuiture Leader Zhang Baifa 10 Asia Prepares for the Games 14 Beijing Hotels Ready for the 11 th • With the application and comprehensive research of nuclear Asian Games 16 science for agricultural use, China leads the world in the The Origin of the Chinese Legal promotion of such technology to improve crop variety, prevent System 19 insect and pest infestation and extend the shelf-life of fresh Nuclear Technology Boosts foods (p. 24). Agriculture 24 FROM THE CHINESE PRESS 27 BUSINESS/TRADE 28 30 CMnese and Soviet Foreign Ministers Conciude Tali<s TOURISM 31 CULTURE/SCIENCE 32-34 • During the recent Sino-Soviet foreign ministers' talks, the COVER: China has made a lot of pro• two sides called for a political settlement of the Gulf crisis by gress in agriculture by using nuclear peaceful means and stressed that the solution to the Cambod• technology. Top Left: the micropylar re• ian question is at the decisive stage (p. 8). gion of a silver carp egg under SEM observation. Top Right: eggs of irradiat• ed corn borers; sterile eggs (left) and semisterile eggs (right). Bottom Left: a selected strain of good quality flammuli- Tiie Basis of the Chinese Legai System na relutips. Bottom Right: an autoradi- ograph of 3H-DNA in a wheat zygotic cell. The symbol in the left corner stands • This article explains how Chinese laws are formulated, the for the Energetic Applied Reserarch In• reasons why they are in accordance with the national condi• stitute under the Chinese Academy of tions and the wishes of the people and the ways in which public Agricultural Science. opinion is gathered during the legislative process (p. 19). 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With this as a common ued in the future. during his inspection tour of will, all difficulties will be over• However, he said, the system the Xinjiang Uygur Autonom• come, he said. should continuously be devel• ous Region from August 22 to At a discussion session with oped and improved. Where con• September 1. local leaders, the general secre• ditions permit, more intensive Unity and mutual support tary stressed the importance of farming and socialized services should be stressed in the big adhering to the Party's leader• may be introduced so as to solve family of the Chinese Nation, he ship. He said, because China has problems that individual house• said. As long as people of all a strong proletarian party the holds maybe unable to tackle, nationalities in China, under the country has weathered all types Jiang said. leadership of the Communist of difficulties and remains pow• When inspecting army units Party of China (CPC), are unit• erful in the East. Only under the in the region, Jiang told officers ed for a common objective and leadership of the CPC will Chi• and soldiers there to heighten share weal and woe, the China na's reform and open policy pro• their political consciousness and will remain stable, he added. ceed along the socialist road. to carry forward the fine tradi• During the tour, Jiang, to• Jiang urged local leaders to tions of the Army. He also urged gether with Yang Baibing, persist with the Marxist views them to play an active part in secretary-general of the Central on nationality and religion and supporting and participating in Military Commission of the Par• to promote mutual dependence the construction of Xinjiang ty Central Committee, visited a among all nationalities. which will contribute to the number of factories, rural and When talking with local farm• prosperity of the region. pastoral areas, oilfields and ers and herdsmen, Jiang said Jiang said that Xinjiang Jiang Zemin (in the middle) chitchatting with an old man of the Uygur nationality should be developed into a prod• during his inspection tour of Xinjiang. uction base for cotton, grain, sugar and animal husbandry. Communications, energy, and especially petroleum, natural gas, and the petrochemical in• dustry should be given high priority. The general secretary called on local governments to attach great importance to the training of ethnic minority leaders and give full scope to their role. Leading officials at all levels should devote more time to the | study of Marxist theory and i works of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, build a clean govern• ment and share weal and woe with the masses of the people, Jiang said. • 4 BEIJING REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17-23, 1990 EVENTS / TRENDS financial institutions, as well as conference — evidence of the retail dealers, will want to choose central government's concern Shanghai Maps Out the planned new "Waitan" (the and confidence in this project. Blind) at Lujiazui, where they Deputy Director Chen Yuan of Pudong's Future will be allowed for the first time the People's Bank of China, an• to establish their China branch• nounced a package of policies in• hanghai is ready to substan• es. In the future, new high- volving the operation of foreign tially begin her next centu• rise buildings of banks, aven• banks in the Pudong zone. Dai S ry with the blueprinted am• ues flanked by large shops and Jie, chief of the General Cus• bition of developing the Pudong. super-markets will shape the sky• toms Administration of China, The metropolis will soon open a line of the Lujiazui zone along explained the regulations per• free zone at Waigaoqiao and pre• the Huangpu — Shanghai's taining to the customs proce• pare for a new throughfare lined translation of the Thames or dures for the Waigaoqiao Free with financial and commercial Seine. Zone. Vice-Minister of Finance institutions at Lujiazui facing The third zone is a light indus• Xiang Huaicheng announced the Bund across the Huangpu trial processing zone located in policies concerning taxation. River. Prospective investors and the Qingningsi-Jinqiao District, In addition, He Chunlin, depu• constructors will find their op• one of five major districts to ap• ty secretary-general of the State portunity and fortune in Pu• pear on the landscape of Pudong. Council, spoke highly of the ef• dong, protected by a series of To date, three development com• forts of the local government to concisely specified policies and panies have been established un• open the Pudong to the outside rules. This message was con• der the Pudong Development world and stressed the signific• firmed at a press conference held Office to provide services to the ance of the epoch-making pro• in Shanghai on September 10, three particular zones. ject. He also pledged support and 1990. From May thorugh August, in backing from the central gov• Yang Changji, director of the the name of municipal govern• ernment. Along with the above- Pudong Develpment Office un• ment and with co-operation from mentioned Beijing officials, der the municipal government, the local and central authorities Mayor Zhu Rongji answered presided over the conference. concerned, Yang Changji's De• questions from Chinese and for• About 300 people, including a velopment Office drafted the eign journalists. large group of national and inter• nine documents. The central and Beijing Review will continue to national journalists, leading offi• local authorities have both con• report on the detailed contents of cials from the city's different au• firmed and approved these docu• the documents announced at the thorities concerned and foreign ments. press conference, along with the consultants and business repre• Huang Ju, vice-mayor of mayor's answers to the questions sentatives in Shanghai, attened Shanghai, announced the pro• raised by the journalists, and the the conference at the invitation mulgation of six of the nine do• latest achievements in develop• of the local government. cuments, which were admin• ing the Pudong. At the conference, a total of istered by the central by Dai Gang nine documents concerning offi• government, on the basis cial policies and legal regulations of the 10 principal preferential were announced.