ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel Allen) (03/09/91)
China Fires Ministers in Crackdown on Corruption From: IN%"chenh@ucs.indiana.edu" "HUIJIE CHEN" Source: Associated Press, Mar. 2, 1991 BEIJING -- China's ministers of communications and construction were fired as part of a campaign to fight widespread government corruption and win back the trust of the Chinese people, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. Communications Minister Qian Yongchang and Construction Minister Lin Hanxiong are the first Cabinet-level officials dismissed as part of the campaign, launched in 1989. Other key personnel changes are expected to go before the National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp legislature, later this month. Qian was removed for abusing his power for personal gain and Lin for disciplinary reasons. Xinhua said the national legislature's decision-making Standing Committee decided Saturday to remove the ministers, but provided no further details. According to the Ta Kung Pao newspaper in Hong Kong, Lin's removal was to punish him for violating Chinese regulations related to foreign matters. Xinhua said Qian would be replaced by Huang Zhendong, general manager of the State Communications Investment Co. who served for three years as vice minister of the Communications Ministry. Lin would be replaced by Hou Jie, a former vice minister of water resources. Among other expected personnel changes are the resignations of Vice Premier Yao Yilin, 74, and Vice Premier Wu Xueqian, 70, both due to age and health reasons. Xinhua also reported that a high-ranking Chinese official who fled to the United States last year was removed from his post as a member of the Standing Committee. (from China News Digest, March 4, 1991) | To Subscribe CND General News, send "SUB CHINA-NN <Your Full Name>" | | to LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET. To sign off send "SIGNOFF CHINA-NN" to | | same address. ----------- Has anyone else heard anything about this and what it may mean? Nigel Allen ndallen@contact.uucp
0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E. Kimberlin) (03/11/91)
In article <Digest v11, iss190>, Nigel Allen <ndallen@contact.uucp> posts: > BEIJING -- China's ministers of communications and construction were > fired as part of a campaign to fight widespread government corruption > and win back the trust of the Chinese people, > Qian was removed for abusing his power for personal gain... Nigel than poses the question: > Has anyone else heard anything about this and what it may mean? Well, Nigel, I don't monitor the Chinese telecommunications political misfeasance scene as we have plenty here in the U.S. daily. What it seems to mean is that telecommunications politicians are just as crooked in China as in the U.S. or anywhere else. Must be a pretty nice political plum everywhere. In fact, since China has about four times the population of the U.S., such infrequent firings as they do have tend to indicate the Chinese are either far more honest or far more tolerant of political crooks than we are. (You decide which!)
wolfson@mot.com (Steve Wolfson) (03/11/91)
> BEIJING -- China's ministers of communications and construction were > fired as part of a campaign to fight widespread government corruption We can only hope it is because he tried to replace all of the payphones with COCOTs ;-) Steve Wolfson Motorola Inc.
K_MULLHOLAND@unhh.unh.edu (KATH MULLHOLAND) (03/12/91)
I am not sure if there is as much shady dealing here as in China regarding Telecom or not, but I do have some dealings with Chinese students. A few of them have told me that ini their country, it is not uncommon for someone related to or friendly with a telephone operator to get that operator to place calls for them and charge it to someone they dislike. It is very difficult to get those charges reversed. One interesting note about Chinese Telecom -- according to a former AT&T operator -- there are three gateways in China. Beijing, Shanghai and one other that I can't recall at this moment. Any call out of China may go out through any one of these gateways, and it is not uncommon for a call originating in Beijing to be billed as coming from Shanghai. Kath Mullholand UNH, Durham NH