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March 11, 2007 (Sunday) － Issue No. 92 |
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Chinese
Job Fairs: Many More Applicants than Openings |
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Is
the Heart Numbed or Warped? |
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Beijing's
Military Build-up Criticized |
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Document Reveals Chinese Regime's Interference with NTDTV New Year Show It is believed that this order was not passed down only to the state administration and its affiliated organizations, since the Chinese consulates and embassies in various countries have also actively participated in suppressing and sabotaging NTDTV shows....…Full Article |
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Hu Jintao Visits Sudan, Supports Darfur Genocide Hu's visit to Africa is an indication that he had abandoned Deng Xiaoping's attitude to "bide our time and focus on building ourselves." Instead he intends to be the leader of a rising superpower. In Lin's opinion, the destruction of a satellite last month by the People's Liberation Army was also a sign of Hu's change in foreign policy......…Full Article |
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Shortly after the Chinese New Year (the most important holiday in China), Chinese university graduates turned their attention back to finding a job. Nearly five million students will graduate from Chinese universities this year—820,000 more than the year before—and they face a tough road ahead to find employment. The lack of employment opportunities available to these recent grads is best reflected in the job fairs that are held all across the country. Many of these fairs—held during the end of February and early March—are usually packed with students pouring in to look for jobs. There is always a big turn out of applicants, even if there is heavy rain, and the eager applicants always far outweigh the available openings. Hebei Province organized a spring job fair on March 1 in its capital city, Shijiazhuang. Held over two days, the fair saw 874 registered employers offering 12,700 positions. There were 60,000 attendees in the fair but the achievement rate of the job-seekers' inclination on employment was only 40 percent. On the same rainy day, job fairs could also be found in the cities of Beijing and Tianjin, where tens of thousands attended hoping to get employment. On February 28 Liuzhou City in China's southern Guangxi Province also offered a job fair. This event saw only 200 recruiters, but nearly 20,000 job seekers, with most leaving the fair empty handed. In Qingdao City of Shandong Province, 15,000 employee hopefuls attended a job fair on February 26. Although admission to the event was free, many students left disappointed having been offered salaries far below what they had expected. A job fair in Beijing's Agriculture Exhibition Center on March 1, 2007 saw tens of thousands of job seekers. (The Epoch Times) So where can one find employment in China? The country's top ten job markets include: construction, IT, mechanics, trade and marketing, management, health care, steel, education training, chemical industry, and electronics. There are also a fast growing number of positions found in fields such as education training, medicine health, automobiles, mining, and logistics. While China has
seen its recent grads struggle to find employment over the past several
years, the numbers have recently become worrisome. However, analysts
claim that China's job market is far from saturated, contending that
it's the country's unbalanced industrial structure that's creating
the problem. They say significant reform is needed to solve the growing
employment crisis. Back The Chinese nation is a great and sympathetic nation. Nourished by traditional Chinese culture, many Chinese people have a caring, sympathetic nature and show great kindness towards each other. Nobody knows, however, when the Chinese people started becoming more inhumanely indifferent towards others. This indifference ranges from just sweeping away the snow in front of one's own house to not lifting a finger to save someone in mortal danger. Sichuan Elder
Beaten to Death, No One Intervenes Teenage Girl Ready
to Jump from Sixth Floor, Onlookers Jeered During this time, it was bustling with noise and excitement under the building. Some watchers jeered, "Jump! Jump!" Some people took out cameras to take pictures and some people made cell phone calls to their friends telling them to the scene. A young man even sat on a windowsill playing guitar and singing while watching. Fortunately the girl was persuaded not to commit suicide and climbed back into the room. Some people made catcalls as if unsatisfied. Crowd Jeers, Man
Jumps From Ninth Floor Within only one
year, multiple tragic scenes occurred in the provinces of Sichuan,
Hainan, Henan and Guangxi. Some people posted a comment on the Internet,
"When those watchers' coldness and indifference turned into numbness,
and the numbness then turned into a distorted soul, we cannot help
but ask: Why has the morality of those people degenerated to such
a degree that they, facing loss of life, acted so callously?"
Back HONG KONG—On March 2, 2007, the Hong Kong Service Center for Quitting the CCP, The Epoch Times and local civil groups held a parade during the Lantern Festival to declare their support for the 19 million people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. The parade organizers appealed to the world’s people to clearly recognize the CCP for what it is and to support the withdrawals so as to peacefully bring an end to the CCP. Around 10:30 a.m., majestic drums marked the beginning of the event. Editor of The Epoch Times in Hong Kong Xu Haiqing said that right before the Chinese New Year, Dr. Wang Lian, the former computer technician for the Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times, removed his fear and bravely stepped forward to disclose the process the CCP used to pressure him into being a spy. The most important task he was assigned was to bring down the Hong Kong Epoch Times. This further exposed the fact that the CCP fears the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” which can expose its evil nature and awaken the conscience of the populace. This also shows that The Epoch Times has achieved great accomplishments in spreading the “Nine Commentaries,” and dismantling the CCP. Around noon, over 600 people paraded along Cheung Sha Wan Road. The parade attracted a large crowd that took pictures and accepted reading materials that were handed out. A-Qun, a 75-year old woman, watched the parade in tears. When she was in Mainland China, she and her family were brutally persecuted by the CCP. When she spoke of her memories, her tears streamed down. She said, “The CCP is truly very bad. I hope that heaven will quickly eliminate it. I wish the parade participants peace and safety.” Many mainlanders also witnessed the parade. They appeared shocked and some said, “I am very happy and joyful having seen this because there is no chance of seeing something like this in mainland China.” Another person said, “I am from Shenzhen, but I have never seen something like this before, because we can’t have such a parade where I come from. One should be happy to see this because it shows democracy and human rights are alive and well.” Some observers
even said that they would tell what they saw to their friends in mainland
China. After three hours, the parade ended at Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry
Pier. Back Beijing on Sunday announced its biggest increase in military spending in a decade, the latest hike in a 19-year trend of consecutive double-digit growth that has drawn concern from the international community, most notably the US, Japan and Taiwan. Speaking to reporters at the Great Hall of the People, spokesman for the Communist regime Jiang Enzhu, justified the 17.8 per cent increase to $44.9 billion as being largely about increasing wages and living allowances, as well as upgrading weaponry for "defensive operations". However, many critics believe that, as in the Soviet Union, Communist China's stated military budget differs substantially from its real expenditure. Estimates of real expenditure range from around double the stated amount to up to four times the official figures at $US180 billion, and it is generally agreed that the Chinese regime's military budget is now the second highest in the world, according to Defense Industry Daily. Japan and the US were quick to question the motives behind Beijing's military expansion, with Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki saying that the Communist regime needs to "try harder" to bring more transparency into its defence policy. Taiwan, the most likely of any nation to bear the brunt of the Chinese Communist Party's military might, was much more forthright. Joseph Wu, the Chairman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs council, said Beijing's growing missile capability, increasing naval strength and development of anti-satellite weapons are a threat to Taiwan and the rest of the world. "China does seek now to be able to project power, or aspires to be able to in the future," said Dr Paul Monk, managing director of Austhink Consulting and formerly a senior intelligence analyst in Australia's Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO). "The United States and Japan would be less uncomfortable if China was at the same time actually making it clear that the emphasis was on peaceful and constructive relations with all concerned, and we saw no contradictions between its developing capabilities and this rhetoric. But there is still sometimes a gap." Dr Monk said that
while Westerners often take a sympathetic attitude to the idea of
China seeking to resume its former glory after years of humiliation
under the hands of colonial powers, the Chinese Communist regime's
rise and ambitions pose serious questions. "The aspiration in
China to become the primary power in Asia and possibly in the world,"
Dr Monk said, "is way of thinking that could make for very serious
trouble." Back The Epoch Times has obtained a secret document from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television that reveals the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) attempts to interfere with New Tang Dynasty TV's Chinese New Year shows. The document, translated below, orders that the NTDTV New Year Show should be destroyed by "any and all means", and if not possible, to "contain them and minimize their impact." It is believed that this order was also passed down to the state administration and its affiliated organizations, since the Chinese consulates and embassies in various countries have also actively participated in suppressing and sabotaging NTDTV shows. The following is part of the text of this highly classified document To: The Broadcasting and Television Bureaus in each province, autonomous region, and directly administered municipality (Signature and stamping required upon receipt) Classification: Highly confidential; Classification No.: XXXXX Re: The incident of "Falun Gong" Plotting for the "Inaugural Global Chinese New Year Gala" The Broadcasting and Television Bureaus in each province, autonomous region, and directly administered municipality: It was learned that the "NTDTV Station" by "Falun Gong" is expediting the recording of the "Inaugural Global Chinese New Year Gala" and is planning to broadcast it on January 18, 19 and 21 next year. The gala lasted about 100 minutes, and will be broadcast globally via three satellites leased by the "Washington DC Chinese Television Station" (with Taiwanese background), with one of the satellites, NSS-6, covering regions of Asia. The "Falun Gong" organization is also plotting to propagate the gala through DVDs and radio broadcasting networks. Li Hongzhi is planning to show up on the site of the gala to make a live speech. The "Falun Gong" organization is also planning to invite VIPs of the American government, diplomats to the U.N. from various countries, Chinese celebrities, and people from the entertainment and athletic circles to attend the gala, in an attempt to expand the international impact of "Falun Gong" through the gala and interfere with the broadcasting of the CCTV's Spring Festival Show. Currently, "Falun Gong" is, in the name of "Chinese Television" or the "NTDTV Station", "interviewing celebrities" in various places and will use the interviews in their gala. The intended targets of their interviews are the unknowing members of the delegations from China. For the aforementioned activities, the leadership of the Central Government has ordered that they be destroyed by any and all means. If the situation is such that it is not possible to destroy them, we need to contain them and minimize their impact, so as to prevent them from interfering with our Spring Festival Show. The Broadcasting and Television Bureaus at various levels are required to implement the order from the central government seriously and raise their guard. It is prohibited for the personnel of your unit to be interviewed; it is prohibited for our delegates visiting overseas countries to watch any related shows; it is prohibited to spread the "Falun Gong" programs. In the meantime, our overseas propaganda needs to be intensified in order to eliminate the impact caused by these activities of "Falun Gong." Any important developments are required to be reported to the Central Government in a timely manner. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television December 16, 2003. Back Hu
Jintao Visits Sudan, Supports Darfur Genocide Back Willy Lam, currently a CNN commentator on Chinese issues said that Hu's visit to Africa is an indication that he had abandoned Deng Xiaoping's attitude to "bide our time and focus on building ourselves." Instead he intends to be the leader of a rising superpower. In Lin's opinion, the destruction of a satellite last month by the People's Liberation Army was also a sign of Hu's change in foreign policy. Recently the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has adopted a very aggressive policy towards African countries. Hu visited Africa twice within a year. Just three months ago, China invited 48 African leaders to attend a forum on China-Africa relations in Beijing and generously wrote off 33 African countries' debts with China in a bid to win them over. Before Hu's visit to Africa, the CCP's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that the main purpose of Hu's visit was to encourage the peaceful development of Africa. However, Hu actually went to Sudan to reward the Sudanese president who advocates genocide and promised to help him build a presidential palace. Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby wrote a column on Feb. 5 titled "A Palace for Sudan—China's No-Strings Aid Undermines the West." In this article, Mallaby considered that it wasn't coincidental that Hu agreed to finance a palace for the Sudanese. Hence the decision to choose Sudan was a deliberate act against the Western world. In recent years, the Sudanese government has received much criticism from Western society for its suppression of the independent movement in the Darfur region. According to human rights organizations, in the past four years, more than 200,000 were killed in this genocide. On Hu's visit to Sudan, not only did he not censure the government for carrying out genocide, instead he agreed to give the brutal dictator 140 million yuan (US$18 million) in aid to build a presidential palace, condoning and rewarding the Sudanese dictator. In "Sovereignty Trumps All For China," Washington Post columnist Liu Kin-ming, former chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, wrote: "Beijing safeguards the cardinal principle of sovereignty for one obvious reason: It doesn't want to be told by outsiders what to do either. Thus, the Tiananmen Massacre was 'none of your business—it's a domestic issue, and we do whatever we want'—thus, no one should say anything when the People's Liberation Army makes it across the Taiwanese Strait." Today, Beijing's policy favoring the Sudanese dictator again proves that none of the CCP's ideology will change just because Hu took over the leadership. One should not hold any illusions about such a regime. Back |
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