The HRIC Daily Brief is a daily selection of news stories and commentary related to human rights in China, drawn from Chinese- and English-language news and online media sources that we monitor daily. In addition to headlines and source links, HRIC also provides English translation of Chinese headlines.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Corruption (腐败)

决定:推行地方政府及部门权力清单制度 (Third plenary decision: implement checks on power of local governments and their departments)
China News Service, November 15, 2013
http://news.sohu.com/20131115/n390232487.shtml

Related Tencent Weibo post:
zippo, November 15, 2013
治标不治本,这样的改革有多大意义?就像一个癌症病人,再怎么用药那也只能延迟一下死期而已。要反腐,却不敢公办官员财产;要市场化,却不敢土地私有;要民生,却不敢谈民主;要法治,却不敢谈宪政。。。这样的改革说到底不过为了巩固某些人的利益,到时候实在撑不住了方向一转,就成第二个俄罗斯了。
http://t.qq.com/p/t/311501121423547

Environment (环境)

三中全会决定:独立进行环境监管和行政执法 (Third plenary decision: implement independent environmental monitoring and administrative enforcement)
China News Service, November 15, 2013
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2013/11-15/5509763.shtml

China's smog threatens health of global coal projects
Reuters, November 14, 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/14/us-china-coal-idUSBRE9AD19L20131114

Health (健康)

Chinese activists continue to be “mentally illed” in spite of new law
Radio Free Asia, November 14, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/law-11142013172615.html

Hukou (户口)

三中全会《决定》:全面放开建制镇和小城市落户限制 (Third plenary decision: China to accelerate hukou reform)
People’s Daily, November 15, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1115/c1001-23559116.html

Related Tencent Weibo post:
llqlnmy, November 15, 2013
这不是放松,这是通过农民身份转换剥夺其土地集体所有权。根本目的是改变社会结构。
http://weibo.com/1033037903/AiUej9IWM?mod=weibotime

Human Rights Defenders (人权卫士)

超期关押数十天郭飞雄终获准见律师 狱中曾绝食25天拒绝认罪 (Guo Feixiong allowed to meet with lawyer for first time since detention in August, refuses confession)
Radio Free Asia, November 14, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/xl2-11142013101914.html

王登朝案改判11年 律师称控罪莫须有 (Former Shenzhen police officer’s sentence reduced to 11 years on "trumped up" charges)
Radio Free Asia, November 15, 2013
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/yataibaodao/renquanfazhi/sy-11132013114319.html

China claims credit for blind activist's U.S. studies
Reuters, November 15, 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/15/us-china-dissident-idUSBRE9AE0BQ20131115

International Human Rights (国际人权)

The good, the bad and the ugly of China on the UNHRC
The Diplomat, November 15, 2013
http://thediplomat.com/2013/11/15/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-china-on-the-unhrc/

Land, Property, Housing (土地、财产、房屋)

以土改再造农村 (Land reform policy will reshape China’s countryside)
Caixin, November 15, 2013
http://magazine.caixin.com/2013-11-15/100605699.html

Police beat back supporters in sensitive China land grab case
Reuters, November 14, 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/14/us-china-tri al-idUSBRE9AD05720131114

Migrants (农民工)

China risks tension through urbanization
Asia Times Online, November 14, 2013
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/CBIZ-01-141113.html

National Defense (国防)

三中全会《决定》:我国将减少军队非战斗机构和人员 (Third plenary decision: China to reduce non-combat military institutions and personnel)
People’s Daily, November 15, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1115/c1001-23559119.html

Political and Economic Reform (政治经济改革)

三中全会《决定》:允许混合所有制经济实行企业员工持股 (Third plenary decision: China to allow employees to own stocks of enterprises financed by mixture of public, collective, and non-public capital)
People’s Daily, November 15, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1115/c1001-23559474.html

三中全会《决定》:废除对非公有制经济的不合理规定 消除隐性壁垒 (Third plenary decision: China to abolish unreasonable regulations on “non-public” economy, including elimination of hidden barriers to development)
People’s Daily, November 15, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1115/c1001-23559519.html

三中全会《决定》:非公有制经济财产权同样不可侵犯 (Third plenary decision: non-public property rights are as inviolable as their public counterpart)
People’s Daily, November 15, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1115/c1001-23559025.html

See the official document:
中共中央关于全面深化改革若干重大问题的决定 (CPC Central Committee’s decisions on major issues concerning comprehensively deepening reform)
Xinhua, November 15, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1115/c1001-23559207.html

Related Tencent weibo post:
热, November 15, 2013
没有具体的时间节点的改革,你说呢呲牙?
http://t.qq.com/p/t/341462044316691

Reform in China: every move you make
The Economist, November 16, 2013
http://www.economist. com/news/leaders/21589882-xi-jinping-has-made-himself-most-powerful-leader-deng-xiaoping-probably-good

Population (人口)

三中全会《决定》:启动实施“单独”生育二胎政策 (Third plenary decision: implement policy allowing two children if one parent is an only child)
People’s Daily, November 15, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1115/c1001-23558874.html

China reforms: One-child policy to be relaxed
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 15, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-24957303

China to ease 1-child policy, abolish labor camps
Associated Press, November 15, 2013
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/state-media-china-will-loosen-one-child-policy-abolish-labor-camp-system

Related Tencent Weibo post:
苏晓玉, November 15, 2013
放开可以生二胎偶们家也不生.谁爱生谁去生吧.现在是越富的越生.越穷的越生.富的是生再多人家不差钱养的起.穷的是反正没钱罚.也不考虑孩子能否养的起.就是偶们这些中产阶级小资生不起.多一个孩子.就多一份负担.赶生个俩仨出来.等孩子18岁了.全家也从中产被拉回到小康以下了.
http://t.qq.com/p/t/342462044981888

Reeducation-Through-Labor (劳教)

三中全会《决定》:废止劳动教养制度 (Third plenary decision: abolish Reeducation-Through-Labor)
People’s Daily, November 15, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1115/c1001-23558929.html

China plans to abolish labor camps and ease one-child policy
The New York Times, November 15, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/world/asia/china-to-loosen-its-one-child-policy.html

Related Sina Weibo post:
斯言9, November 15, 2013
劳动教养这个名目玩的时间太长,玩旧玩破了,废弃了它换一种新花样玩法,还记得反革命这个罪名么?取消了,但监狱里还是这么些人啊一个也没有少。北京关押访民的窝点比文革时的五七干校还要黑暗残暴的多,这分明是所谓的改革开出的花果,可哪来什么进步。
http://weibo.com/1902453325/AiUuBmvKC?mod=weibotime

Rule of Law (法治)

三中全会《决定》:严禁刑讯逼供、体罚虐待 逐步减少适用死刑罪名 (Third plenary decision: prohibit torture and corporal punishment, gradually reduce death penalty sentences)
People’s Daily, November 15, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/1115/c1001-23559111.html

遏制司法地方化 (China to curb judicial localization)
Caixin, November 15, 2013
http://magazine.caixin.com/2013-11-15/100605697.html

Related Tencent Weibo post:
共识网, November 15, 2013
【张思之:我对《全会决议》司法改革部分并不乐观】废除劳教应当肯定,但要密切注意公安机关在执法过程中有没有新的“法外制度”替代劳教制度。比如刑法中的一些口袋罪是适用问题。决议写的再好,没有具体措施跟进,司法机关不能摆脱工具地位,司法改革就不能彻底深入下去。
http://t.qq.com/p/t/276133016218129

State Security (国家安全)

China's new national security committee to blend domestic, foreign duties
Sydney Morning Herald, November 14, 2013
http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinas-new-national-security-committee-to-blend-domestic-foreign-duties-20131114-2xhrc.html

Taiwan (台湾)

台政府:对冈比亚断交感"震惊与遗憾" (Taiwan expresses “shock and regret” as Gambia cuts diplomatic ties)
British Broadcasting Corporation, November 15, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2013/11/131115_taiwan_gambia_china.shtml