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