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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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06GUANGZHOU10088 | An Overview of the Pearl River Delta: Hong Kong's [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a recent visit to Guangdong, Hong Kong Consul General Cunningham met with officials and business leaders to discuss the rapid economic growth of southern Guangdong and its consequences for Hong Kong industry and the region's environment. The Consul General visited Guang [...] | 2006-04-04 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV SOCI EINV ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU10089 | AmCham Presents Report on the State of Business in [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The American Chamber of Commerce in Guangdong recently released survey results that found that three-quarters of the participants -- who were engaged almost equally in providing goods and services -- have profitable operations in China. The production of goods or services for [...] | 2006-04-04 09:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV ELAB CH TBIO |
06GUANGZHOU10260 | China IPR: Better Recognition of the Problem but [...] (SBU) Summary: It is still common for both domestic and American enterprises to face IPR infringement in South China. Despite increasing recognition of the problem at the provincial and local levels, a lack of training, limited human resources, corruption, and local protectionism continue to [...] | 2006-04-05 09:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU10280 | China IPR: Better Recognition of the Problem but [...] (SBU) Summary: It is still common for both domestic and American enterprises to face IPR infringement in South China. Despite increasing recognition of the problem at the provincial and local levels, a lack of training, limited human resources, corruption, and local protectionism continue to [...] | 2006-04-06 07:05:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU10336 | Short March -- A Cold Shoulder in Shanwei [...] (SBU) Summary: Consulate Guangzhou's "Short March" to Eastern Guangdong cities (septel) got off to a non-rousing start when Shanwei officials found it "inconvenient" to meet with us. This probably because Shanwei contains the township of Dongzhou, the site of December 2005 land compensation [...] | 2006-04-06 23:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PHUM PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU10337 | Short March: Consulate Guangzhou Drives Deep into [...] (SBU) Summary: Continuing its efforts to get especially its Entry Level Officers (ELOs) on full two-year consular tours out of the office and onto the roads, cities, and villages of south China to do policy advocacy and public diplomacy work, Consulate Guangzhou embarked on its "short march" [...] | 2006-04-06 23:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR EINV PHUM KPAO PINR AMGT CMGT CH |
06GUANGZHOU10542 | Short March: Shantou Back in the Black [...] (SBU) Summary: Shantou officials say that the city's economy is back on track in a big way after negative growth in 2001 and slow growth in 2002. Long known as a center of smuggling and piracy, city officials state that Shantou plans to realize its role as the key city of Eastern Guangdong [...] | 2006-04-07 03:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR EINV PHUM KPAO PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU10672 | Getting a Piece of the Action: Foreign Banks Try To [...] (U) Summary: Under a five-year transition period in its WTO accession agreement which ends December 11, 2006, the Chinese Government is gradually becoming more liberal in allowing foreign investment to enter China's banking industry. With the Chinese Government opening its RMB currency market [...] | 2006-04-07 08:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON WTRO EFIN EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU10676 | Factories and Money: Visit by Federal Reserve [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong is not reaping long-term benefits from the majority of its manufacturers because they are processing and assembly plants, according to Guangzhou academics. China should move away from this type of manufacturing and focus instead on high value-added and high- technolog [...] | 2006-04-07 08:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL CH TW KN |
06GUANGZHOU10741 | THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR IN SHENZHEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Much attention is being given to China's growing rural-urban gap. At the same time, the gap within urban areas, between established residents and migrants from rural areas, is becoming more marked. Shenzhen, as China's richest city, enjoys unparalleled prosperity, yet at the [...] | 2006-04-07 09:09:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PGOV PHUM ECON EINV PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU10987 | Short March: Shantou In the Light On Innovation [...] (SBU) Summary: Two Shantou companies -- Guangdong Golden Glass and the Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments -- demonstrate that this eastern Guangdong city does have its share of innovative companies despite its reputation of being the "heart of the heart of darkness" in intellectual [...] | 2006-04-10 03:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON EINV KPAO PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU11042 | THAT WAS JUST A DREAM: HAINAN NOT LOSING ITS [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Hainan officials, only 80,000 Hainanese, or about 1% of Hainan's population, practice an officially sanctioned religion. Of these, 40,000, or half, are Protestants. For Hainan's government, the protection of religious freedom is important, but the need to "coordi [...] | 2006-04-10 05:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV SCUL CH |
06GUANGZHOU11043 | Short March: Shantou -- Still in the Dark On IPR, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shantou officials state that despite its notoriety in the past as a haven for the production of counterfeit goods, the city has reformed dramatically in intellectual property rights (IPR). Through education, new laws, and law enforcement, Shantou is cracking down on producers [...] | 2006-04-10 05:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON SCUL EINV PHUM KPAO PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU11045 | Ma May Not Make It -- Xiamen University Taiwan [...] (SBU) Summary: A prominent Xiamen University Taiwan Research Institute professor said that PRC leaders should not be complacent in assuming that Kuomintang (KMT) leader Ma Ying-jeou is a shoo-in to be the island's next president. PRC leaders have consistently underestimated the intensity of T [...] | 2006-04-10 07:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PINR TW CH |
06GUANGZHOU11052 | Who Let the Dogs Out? Canine Ownership in [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a part of China better known for viewing dogs as cuisine rather than as pets, Congenoffs have noticed an increase in dog ownership. Sales of dogs -- and related canine care products -- are up and represent a growing niche in the economy. The reasons for the increase are var [...] | 2006-04-11 01:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV SOCI TBIO CH |
06GUANGZHOU11065 | Short March: Jaunt Through Jieyang -- Poor But [...] (SBU) Summary: One of the oldest and most densely populated municipalities in the province, Jieyang in eastern Guangdong has not been nearly as successful as its neighbors in economic development. Local officials admitted that they might not be up to the challenge of overcoming numerous prob [...] | 2006-04-11 03:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU11352 | Short March: Chaozhou -- One of Guangdong's [...] (U) Summary: Displaced by Shantou after the Communist takeover as the key city of eastern Guangdong, Chaozhou is coming back strong basing its rise on its huge ceramic industry and strong representation in niche sectors such as wedding gown manufacturing, with strong business associations dev [...] | 2006-04-12 04:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR SCUL ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU11468 | Disagreement on Building a New Socialist [...] (U) Summary: A substantial number of Chinese rural development experts at a major think tank conference believed that the rural-urban gap is a startling eight to one (when taking into consideration "public services") instead of three to one. There was a virtual consensus among conference del [...] | 2006-04-12 05:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PHUM SENV EIND SOCI PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU11469 | Revolution and Remembrance -- The Last Stand of [...] (U) Summary: War and revolution -- including that of a cultural nature -- have not been kind to the once highly civilized city of Chaozhou in eastern Guangdong. Still, some artisans hid treasures during the Cultural Revolution and preserved the expertise and aesthetic level as best they cou [...] | 2006-04-12 07:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR SCUL ELAB PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU11471 | China Southern Airlines Wary of U.S. Competition [...] (SBU) Summary: In the lead-up to the U.S.-China aviation talks on April 19-20, China Southern Airlines is in a weak financial position and would not want any U.S. airlines competing directly against it. China Southern is resigned to a gradual expansion of its U.S. routes because of continued [...] | 2006-04-12 07:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON KTIA CH |
06GUANGZHOU11568 | Short March: Innovation and IPR in Huizhou -- TCL [...] (SBU) Summary: TCL Communications -- part of embattled color television and cell phone giant TCL and one of the largest domestic manufacturers of fixed line phone equipment in China -- is itself struggling to find some greater room in a highly competitive environment for a relatively low tech [...] | 2006-04-13 07:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD EINV KPAO ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU11657 | Heart of Gold: It Isn't Easy Doing Good -- The NGO [...] (SBU) While headlines trumpet the growth of Chinese civil society, philanthropy, and volunteerism as part of a budding harmonious society, the truth in South China is that legal status is out of reach for most non-governmental organizations (NGOs) - foreign and domestic. In this legal gray a [...] | 2006-04-14 00:12:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON SOCI KPAO PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU11674 | The Long March to Avian Influenza Preparedness in [...] (SBU) Summary: Professional polls and Post's informal surveys show that only about half of American businesses in South China are actively planning for an Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak despite scientific reports that AI among birds is endemic in Guangdong, with concomitant higher risks of hu [...] | 2006-04-14 07:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU CACS AMED ASEC ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU11680 | "The Voice of Thy Brother's Blood Crieth Unto Me" [...] (SBU) Summary: Senseless killing matters deeply to Chinese -- particularly when involving excessive governmental power (as in the "control" of public unrest). That's why governments, including those in south China, work assiduously to control and suppress public outcry, including that emanati [...] | 2006-04-14 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO SOCI SCUL PGOV PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU11683 | AI Update: Guangdong Suspected Human AI Case [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 11, the front-page headline of the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported a second suspected bird flu case in Guangdong Province and a mainland news blackout on the subject. Guangdong's only confirmed human AI death occurred on March 2. Subsequent investigations b [...] | 2006-04-14 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU11781 | Are Guangdong's Electrical and Electronics [...] (SBU) Summary: According to Moshe Kam of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),less than 10,000 of the Institute's 370,000 members world-wide are from China. With more and more electrical and electronic engineering projects being pursued through global partnerships an [...] | 2006-04-17 08:46:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV SOCI SCUL PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU12155 | (SBU) Heart of Gold: "Business NGO" Legislation [...] (SBU) Faced with nearly insurmountable legal registration requirements foreign and domestic NGOs often turn to registering as a normal for-profit business, which is technically illegal. While widespread enforcement is rare, authorities in South China take advantage of the illegal status of t [...] | 2006-04-21 08:53:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU13381 | Heart of Gold: The Chinese Government (GONGOs) [...] (SBU) Summary: While government-affiliated non- governmental organizations (GONGOs) provide needed social services, they in many cases by nature preclude or impede the development of a strong `western style' non-governmental organization (NGO) sector. Being so tightly aligned with the governm [...] | 2006-04-27 08:05:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON SOCI KPAO PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU13383 | Direct Sales in South China: Still Waiting for the [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. direct sales companies in Guangzhou are optimistic that the China market is once again becoming hospitable to them. A new law issued in December 2005, and a batch of licenses expected for summer 2006, has brought direct selling out of the hybrid retail model in which it wa [...] | 2006-04-27 09:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU13384 | The Long March: Driving Deep into the Hakka and [...] (SBU) Summary: Continuing its efforts to get especially its Entry Level Officers (ELOs) on full two-year consular tours out of the office and onto the roads, cities, and villages of south China to do policy advocacy and public diplomacy work, Consulate Guangzhou embarked on its "long march" [...] | 2006-04-27 09:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR EINV PHUM KPAO PINR AMGT CMGT CH |
06GUANGZHOU13385 | The Long March: From Fossils to Feathers: Heyuan's [...] (SBU) Summary: As part of the Long March, a series of road journeys through the Guangzhou consular district (septel),we traveled to Heyuan, an impoverished prefecture largely untouched by the recent rapid development in South China. Heyuan is bidding to draw further investment away from more [...] | 2006-04-27 09:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU13550 | UPS One Year On: Despite Bumps in the Road, Big [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UPS officials recently discussed their experiences in South China as the company reaches its one year anniversary of direct cargo services between Guangzhou and the United States. Its China operation now wholly owned, company officials are generally positive but raised WTO-rela [...] | 2006-04-28 06:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD WTRO ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU13562 | The Long March: The Fourth Wall, Meizhou's Opening [...] (SBU) Summary: As part of the Long March, a series of road journeys through the Guangzhou consular district (reftels),we traveled to Meizhou, the traditional capital of the Hakka, a subset of China's majority Han ethnic group. The Hakka, or "guest people," currently find themselves faced with [...] | 2006-04-28 09:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PGOV ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU13563 | Guangzhou IPR Officials Tout 2005 Achievements, [...] (U) Summary: In the run-up to National IPR Week, Guangzhou's IP enforcement agencies released a white paper detailing their 2005 accomplishments and some 2006 goals. Guangzhou authorities will focus their resources on specific markets within the city in 2006, and highlighted leather, auto part [...] | 2006-04-28 09:05:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR KJUS KCRM ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU13564 | Migrant Labor and Rural Disputes in Guangdong: [...] (SBU) Summary: Migrant labor and land issues headed the agenda of the recent visit by two human rights officers to Guangdong province. The trip was an excellent opportunity to probe some of Southern China's most sensitive issues: migrant laborer discrimination and corruption in land compensa [...] | 2006-04-28 09:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ELAB EAGR SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU13565 | AIDS in Guangxi: "The Problem Is Overwhelmingly [...] (U) Summary: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region's HIV-AIDS problem continues to worsen. During a recent visit to Guangxi's Center for Disease Control (CDC) and AIDS Care China, an AIDS-related non-governmental organization (NGO) based in South China, Congenoffs learned about how the province i [...] | 2006-04-28 10:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV EAID SOCI TBIO CH |
06GUANGZHOU13576 | RELIGION IN XIAMEN: TRUE TO FORM, OFFICIAL NUMBERS [...] (SBU) Summary. During a visit to Xiamen's religious affairs bureau, an official provided numbers that, almost certainly, underestimate the true size of Xiamen's flocks. The official also stressed the separation between education and religion in Xiamen, and that there were no formal links betw [...] | 2006-05-04 09:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV SCUL CH |
06GUANGZHOU14013 | The Rights Protection Movement Leadership in South [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) The rights protection movement in China, a QvirtualQ network of democracy activists throughout the mainland, is gaining force and membership. This is the vision optimistically espoused by Guo Feixion [...] | 2006-05-11 07:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU14660 | Guangzhou Economic Officers Inter-Consulate Dinner [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Econoffs met with diplomats from other Guangzhou-based consulates to discuss a wide- range of South China economic issues. The meeting was the fourth meeting of the ongoing inter-consulate discussion group, which at best is held periodically; the last meeting was h [...] | 2006-05-16 09:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU14707 | Long March: Country Roads Bring Tourists, Trade, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Longyan Prefecture in western Fujian Province is literally at a crossroads. Newly constructed highways and some still in the works are central to the area's plans to increase tourism, diversify agriculture, expand exports, and improve rural conditions. Leaders in the Prefectu [...] | 2006-05-16 09:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PHUM CMGT CH |
06GUANGZHOU14710 | Guangdong IPR: Enforcement Efforts in 2005 [...] (U) Summary: Guangdong officials praised their intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement efforts and highlighted Guangdong enterprises' IP creation in the annual white paper on IPR enforcement and development. Guangdong courts concluded 94 IPR-related criminal cases in 2005, involving 2 [...] | 2006-05-17 00:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR KJUS KCRM ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU14712 | Heart of Gold: A Solid "Foundation" for NGO Work? [...] (SBU) Summary: If the Foundation Law serves as an example, non-governmental organization (NGO) legislation is in for a slow, twisting, uneven ride. One and a half years after new regulations were issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA),foundations in South China still are trying to rea [...] | 2006-05-17 04:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON SOCI KPAO PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU14818 | Long March: Restoring Streets, Harbor, and Pride in [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Zhangzhou Prefecture, in southwest Fujian, was once a major Chinese port. Today leaders are trying to restore the area to its golden era by developing the Zhangzhou harbor, attracting business, strengthening ties with Taiwan, and renovating cultural and historical sites. Leade [...] | 2006-05-17 09:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ETRD ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU14820 | Corruption and Customer-Service: Improving CCP [...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of countless land protests throughout Guangdong Province, the Guangdong Communist Party School wants to eliminate the corruption and management failures of its cadres and civil servants. Besides increased anti-corruption training, assessments of leaders are increasi [...] | 2006-05-17 09:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU14846 | XIAMEN'S ECONOMIC AND LABOR SITUATION: RISING WAGES [...] (SBU) Summary. Xiamen is Fujian's economic powerhouse, but like many highly developed coastal cities, it suffers from labor shortages in certain sectors. The manufacturing sector remains its principal job provider, but its service industry is quickly gaining ground. Average wages in the cit [...] | 2006-05-18 02:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON EINV SOCI EAGR CH |
06GUANGZHOU14848 | XIAMEN: CITY WITH A VISION [...] (U) Summary: The city of Xiamen, Fujian Province's vibrant economic driver in the southern part of the province, continues to impress with both its current execution and future vision to be one of China's leading cities. During an early April visit to the city, Xiamen Vice-Mayor Zhan Cangz [...] | 2006-05-18 03:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EWWT ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU14936 | LONG MARCH: QUANZHOU - IT'S HARD TO BEAT XIAMEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Quanzhou, the wealthiest city in Fujian and itself a coastal city in the southern part of the province, strikes a contrast to Xiamen as the city neglects its vast potential as a tourist and economic hub through poor intellectual property rights protection and conservative plann [...] | 2006-05-21 23:47:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU15230 | Shenzhen Optical Disc Forensics Lab Clarifies Its [...] (SBU) Summary: Located in Shenzhen but falling under the authority of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS),the Disc Production Source Identification Center (DPSIC) is responsible for etching source identification (SID) codes onto production dies and analyzing optical discs to determine their [...] | 2006-05-23 08:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR KJUS KCRM ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU15376 | Heart of Gold: Chinese NGOs - What's in a Name? [...] (SBU) Summary: What do the Guangdong Petroleum Society, the Communist Youth League Volunteers, the Guangdong Tobacco Society, and World Vision (a Christian charity group) have in common? According to the Chinese government, they are all NGOs. By broadening the definition of NGO beyond the t [...] | 2006-05-24 08:28:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU15379 | Microsoft Opens Technology Center in Guangzhou [...] (SBU) Summary: Following on the heels of President Hu Jintao's meeting with Bill Gates in Seattle, Microsoft unveiled its first technology center in South China. The center is the result of an agreement between Microsoft and the Chinese government to set up at least 10 such centers throughout [...] | 2006-05-24 08:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EDUC TNGD CH |
06GUANGZHOU15382 | Long March: Searching for God in Fujian [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two churches near Zhangzhou's city center denote Zhangzhou's relatively relaxed approach to religious practice. The city's new Catholic Church sits prominently in the city center, replacing a nearby older church torn down in recent years. The church pays for its upkeep by re [...] | 2006-05-24 08:30:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU15429 | Typhoon Chanchu Blows into South China Causing [...] (U) Summary: Typhoon Chanchu, following its strike on the Philippines, headed toward eastern Guangdong Province late last week with landfall on Thursday, May 18. Preparing for the typhoon's landfall, over 600,000 persons were evacuated, with numbers reaching more than one million by the time [...] | 2006-05-25 06:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU15624 | Twelve Dongzhou Villagers Sentenced: Government [...] (U) Western and Hong Kong media sources have reported that on May 24, sentencing was given for villagers involved with the December 2005 Dongzhou riot in Guangdong Province. Of the approximately 20 villagers standing trial for illegally using explosive materials and disturbing public order, 1 [...] | 2006-05-26 09:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU15726 | Guangdong Vice Governor: IPR Protection Crucial [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangdong Vice Governor Song Hai said that the province's intellectual property rights (IPR) protection efforts were improving but many gaps remained. He noted that the urgency of the issue so that the province could proceed vigorously down a path of innovation. In that regar [...] | 2006-05-30 08:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR PGOV ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU15728 | Fake Medicine Kills Nine in Guangdong [...] (U) Summary: Nine people have died in Guangdong after receiving injections containing a toxic chemical provided by a fraudulent supplier. An initial investigation by central- government agencies has also pinned blame on the manufacturer's lack of internal quality control. The State Food and [...] | 2006-05-30 08:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU16330 | SHENZHEN AIRLINES PLANS TO SOAR [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent meeting, Shenzhen Airlines Vice President Zhang Pei laid out the airline's ambitious expansion strategy. Operating mostly Boeing aircraft, Shenzhen Air runs an efficient operation that has made it China's most profitable airline after flag carrier Air China. H [...] | 2006-06-01 05:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON KTIA CH |
06GUANGZHOU16392 | Shenzhen High-Tech Company SiBiono on the Cutting [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: High-tech company SiBiono has received significant government support in its cutting-edge efforts to introduce new gene therapy medicines to treat serious diseases. The company's key product, the State Food and Drug Administration of China (SFDA)-approved anti-cancer drug Gend [...] | 2006-06-01 07:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU16394 | Austria Coming, Singapore Expanding, Cuban CG in [...] (SBU) Summary: Austria is the newest European Union country looking to open a Consulate General in Guangzhou in the fall. Meanwhile, Singapore, which currently has a Consulate General in Xiamen in Fujian Province, intends to open a separate Consulate General in Guangzhou this summer, because [...] | 2006-06-01 07:23:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EINV CONS PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU16447 | USDOC BIS Under Secretary McCormick Visit to South [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While in Guangzhou, USDOC BIS Under Secretary David McCormick gave a speech at Huawei SIPDIS Technologies, Inc. Training Center, met with the Guangdong American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Board of Governors, and conducted a site visit to True Temper Composite Material Prod [...] | 2006-06-02 06:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BEXP ETTC ETRD PGOV PREL CH |
06GUANGZHOU16875 | Fujian Sees Gold in Geographical Indications [...] (SBU) Summary: Fujian's agricultural sector can rise above its domestic and international competitors by tapping into China's trademark system for geographical indications (GIs),according to officials at a recent conference on GIs organized by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and [...] | 2006-06-07 03:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU17249 | SHENZHEN METRO'S EXPANSION PLANS ON TRACK [...] (SBU) Summary. The Shenzhentong, a smart card used to pay for public transportation much like Washington's SmarTrip, is proving quite popular with Shenzhen commuters, gaining 10,000 new cardholders each day. Already in use at all metro stations, Shenzhentong is now working to expand its abov [...] | 2006-06-09 09:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ECON ETRD EINV CH HK |
06GUANGZHOU17358 | Higher Education in Shenzhen -- Training Their Own [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As has been widely reported in the Chinese press, this year's college graduates are facing an extremely tight domestic job market -- there are reportedly only jobs for 75% of the graduates. During Econoffs' informal survey of the general higher-education situation in Shenzhen, [...] | 2006-06-12 08:44:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU17359 | FLOODS KILL DOZENS IN SOUTH CHINA, FORCE HUNDREDS [...] (U) Summary. Flooding in Fujian and Guangdong has killed 55 people and forced 472,000 to evacuate. In Fujian, the hardest hit province, one source claims 41 people have died, while more than 356,000 have been evacuated. Economic losses in Fujian already near USD 30 billion. Meanwhile, no r [...] | 2006-06-12 08:44:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID CASC ECON PGOV KLTN SENV CH |
06GUANGZHOU17360 | Capitalizing on Taiwan Cache: The Fuzhou Cross- [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan-based and -invested companies displayed their wares to an eager crowd at Fuzhou's annual Cross-Strait Trade Fair. Taiwan agricultural produce occupied a prominent spot at the fair, following on China's 2005 elimination of tariffs on ten types of agricultural imports from [...] | 2006-06-12 08:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL CH TW |
06GUANGZHOU17422 | Shut Up Erin Brokovich!: China's Fear of Popular [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) The Chinese government cannot allow rising political personalities to develop without its control. Zou Tao, a Shenzhen-based businessman with connections to the "Rights Protection Movement", single-ha [...] | 2006-06-13 01:53:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU17671 | Moving on Up? Dongzhou Doesn't Faze Guangdong [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the problems of the December Dongzhou and other recent protests, the credibility of Guangdong Provincial Party leaders appears strong. On the public side, Party Secretary Zhang Dejiang has given a number of well-received speeches instructing local leaders on how to bett [...] | 2006-06-14 07:47:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SOCI PHUM CH |
06GUANGZHOU17685 | AI Update: Guangdong 2nd Possible Human AI Case [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 14, the Guangdong Provincial Health Department confirmed Guangdong has a second suspected avian influenza (AI) case, in Shenzhen, near the Hong Kong border. On June 15, the Guangdong Province Foreign Affairs Office sent a diplomatic note to the Consulate also detailin [...] | 2006-06-15 08:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU18102 | New Property Measures Should Have Little Immediate [...] (SBU) Summary: The Central Government recently announced six new measures to guide property development and the real estate market. The government hopes that measures on transparency, capital gains tax and increased low-income housing development will help slow down rising property prices. T [...] | 2006-06-21 08:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU18103 | PAS Speaker Barth Relates U.S. Banking Experience [...] SUMMARY: Visiting speaker James Barth spoke to banking regulators, attorneys, and students in Guangzhou about the development of financial systems and similarities between the U.S. and China experience. He highlighted the role of governments in banking industry bailouts, foreign ownership of [...] | 2006-06-21 08:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV KPAO CH |
06GUANGZHOU18105 | XIAMEN AIRLINES: LOYAL BOEING CUSTOMER LOOKS AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary. Xiamen Airlines, a regional airline whose biggest shareholder is China Southern Airlines, plans to add 30 new Boeing aircraft to its fleet by 2010, augmenting its current all-Boeing fleet of 35. The fleet's simple structure is credited in part for helping the airline confront [...] | 2006-06-21 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON KTIA CH |
06GUANGZHOU18191 | GUANGDONG HUMANISTIC ASSOCIATION BEGINS PRIVATE, [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary. China's first-ever privately-funded magazine has recently been launched in Guangdong Province. According to its publisher, Hao Yuanwen, the monthly magazine, entitled Citizen ("Shimin"),was designed to lay th [...] | 2006-06-22 01:30:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU18748 | WHERE LONELY PLANET DOES NOT GO: A VISIT TO XILIN [...] (SBU) Summary. A visit to Guangxi's Xilin County revealed one of the poorest and most remote areas in Guangzhou's consular district. Despite the area's overall poverty, there were marked distinctions between relatively prosperous Xilin Town and the county's backward countryside. The Zhuang m [...] | 2006-06-23 08:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU18749 | Guangdong Muslims: Few but Increasing (C-DI5-01546) [...] (SBU) Summary. The Guangdong Muslim population is small but rapidly increasing. The increasing numbers are due mostly to economic reasons (Guangdong's booming manufacturing economy attracts domestic and foreign Muslims) rather than religious ones (South China has no Islamic institution of h [...] | 2006-06-23 08:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SCUL SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU20593 | Can Pollution Harm an Unborn Child? Despite [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The following cable describes the perception and the basis for the perception many residents in South China have that the pollution in the region is harming unborn babies; it does not address the hard science related to this issue. Recent press reports and anecdotal accounts h [...] | 2006-06-30 09:23:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO CH SOCI PGOV |
06GUANGZHOU20753 | IPR Conference Highlights Local Issues; Guangdong [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese and U.S. officials and companies discussed a range of IPR issues and generally agreed on the direction Guangdong must take on IPR matters at a recent conference co-hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Guangdong Provincial IP Office. The conference was part of [...] | 2006-07-03 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU20883 | British Discuss South China: Economic/Political [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a recent meeting with British Consulate colleagues, the topics for discussion included growth in the high-end real estate market, prospects for continued economic growth in South China, successful strategies for requesting meetings with local officials on sensitive topics, [...] | 2006-07-05 07:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV SENV PHUM ASEC CVIS CH |
06GUANGZHOU20888 | Rise in Number of Middle Easterners: Threat or [...] (SBU) Summary. Over the past five years, the number of Middle Eastern businessmen in Guangdong Province has exploded to an estimated 7,000 (the majority coming from Yemen, Jordan and Syria). Additionally, during the Canton Trade Fair, as many as 11,000 Middle Eastern visitors flood the city [...] | 2006-07-05 23:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SCUL SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU20890 | Guangdong Humanistic Association Part 2: The [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary ------- 2. (C) Emboldened by government protection in provincial and national party circles, the Guangdong Humanistic Association is leading an experiment in civil society development. The association publi [...] | 2006-07-06 01:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU20891 | GHA Part 3: The May Fourth Movement and [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary ------- 2. (C) A recent meeting with two pro-democracy activists revealed significant aspects of contemporary Chinese activism. These activists, involved with the magazine "Citizen" and the Guangdong Humanis [...] | 2006-07-06 02:49:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU21191 | South China IPR: Product Identification Seminar [...] (U) Summary: Post recently organized a seminar at which representatives from eight U.S. companies and industry associations trained 96 working-level officials from Guangdong Customs on how to distinguish genuine products from counterfeits. The companies' representatives used Powerpoint presen [...] | 2006-07-12 09:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU21192 | From Rural to Urban, Part 1: Industry Finds a New [...] (U) Summary. Qingyuan, Guangdong Province's largest and fastest-growing prefecture, is in the middle of an industrialization boom that will have far-reaching consequences for its urban and rural populations. The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is no longer as cost-competitive as it once was due to a [...] | 2006-07-12 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU21212 | From Rural to Urban, Part 2: Qingyuan Villages Tap [...] (SBU) Summary: Qingyuan, Guangdong province's largest and fastest-growing prefecture, is riding a wave of industrialization that has brought rising incomes to its rural communities. Villages that used to live off their crops and government subsidies now rely on family members who work in citi [...] | 2006-07-13 06:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU21213 | House Church Registration in South China: Few [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (SBU) While crackdowns against house churches in South China seem on the decline, nevertheless, registration seems a daunting task to many groups. Throughout the Consular district, the only tr [...] | 2006-07-13 07:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU21232 | The River of Life?: Mass Swimathon in Guangzhou's [...] (U) Summary: In a public display that harks back to the Mao era, 3,500 Guangdong officials and local residents swam across the Pearl River to promote environmental clean-up efforts. Though Guangzhou is spending vast sums of money on waste-water treatment plants, and is clamping down on highly [...] | 2006-07-14 07:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU21650 | Hunan Walk-in: Tiananmen Era Protestor's Ideals [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) A former imprisoned protestor from the Tiananmen Square era recently approached the Consulate with information of his personal history and continued harassment from the Chinese government. [...] | 2006-07-17 06:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU25214 | BEATING AROUND THE BUSH: STRATEGIES FOR WRITING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AN EXAMINATION OF THE EDITORIALS IN RECENT ISSUES OF "CITIZEN" ("SHIMIN"),A POLITICALLY PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE THAT WAS STARTED LAST FEBRUARY (REFS A, B AND C),REVEALS A ROUNDABOUT STRATEGY FOR DISCUSSING SENSITIVE POLITICAL ISSUES IN CHINA. THOUGH IT IS OF COURSE EXTREMELY RIS [...] | 2006-08-02 07:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU25215 | EMPLOYEES FORM FIRST UNION AT WAL-MART IN CHINA [...] (U) SUMMARY: WAL-MART EMPLOYEES IN THE CITY OF QUANZHOU, FUJIAN PROVINCE, RECENTLY ESTABLISHED THE FIRST UNION FOR THE STORE'S EMPLOYEES IN CHINA. ON SATURDAY, JULY 29, THE WAL-MART UNION MEMBERS ELECTED A SEVEN-PERSON COMMITTEE AND SELECTED 29-YEAR OLD KE YUNLONG AS CHAIRMAN. ACCORDING TO T [...] | 2006-08-02 07:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU25667 | SOUTH CHINA Q1 ECONOMIC REPORT [...] (U) SUMMARY: THIS REPORT REVIEWS THE 2006 FIRST QUARTER ECONOMIC AND TRADE PERFORMANCE FOR SOUTH CHINA. ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR GUANGDONG, FUJIAN, AND HAINAN PROVINCES AS WELL AS FOR THE GUANGXI ZHUANG AUTONOMOUS REGION SHOW SIGNIFICANT GROWTH. EACH PROVINCE OR REGION RECORDED DOUBLE- DIGIT [...] | 2006-08-08 01:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU25675 | TYPHOON PRAPIROON SWEEPS THROUGH SOUTH CHINA [...] (U) TYPHOON PRAPIROON MADE LANDFALL IN SOUTHERN CHINA'S GUANGDONG PROVINCE ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 3RD, SWEEPING THROUGH AN AREA ALREADY DAMAGED BY TYPHOONS BILIS AND KAEMI (REFS A AND B). NO AMCITS HAVE BEEN REPORTED KILLED OR INJURED. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA REPORT A TOTAL OF 80 PEOPLE KIL [...] | 2006-08-08 03:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID CASC SENV CH |
06GUANGZHOU26903 | THE HEAT IS ON: GUANGDONG PROVINCE H1 ECONOMIC [...] (U) SUMMARY. This report offers an overview of the economic performance in the first half of 2006 for Guangdong Province. The province continues to be an economic hot spot despite government control measures, murky bookkeeping, and natural disasters. The strong industrial and export sectors [...] | 2006-08-14 08:23:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU27482 | WAITING TO INHALE: THE STATE OF AIR POLLUTION IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AIR POLLUTION IN CHINA HAS GROWN SO BAD THAT CHINESE OFFICIALS ARE ACKNOWLEDGING THE CHALLENGE IT PRESENTS, AND VARIOUS FOREIGN SCHOLARS ARE OFFERING ALARMING STATISTICS ABOUT THE FINANCIAL AND HEALTH COSTS IT BRINGS. IN SOUTH CHINA, FACTORIES AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SUPPOR [...] | 2006-08-16 07:09:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO CH SOCI PGOV |
06GUANGZHOU27721 | IPR CONFERENCE EXPLAINS HOW TO BRING ADMINISTRATIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: CHINESE REPRESENTATIVES FROM A VARIETY OF IPR-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS TOLD US BUSINESSES HOW TO BRING JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS TO PROTECT THEIR IPR AT A RECENT CONFERENCE IN SHENZHEN. CONFERENCE SPEAKERS EXPLAINED TO U.S. BUSINESSES THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN CHINA THAT DEAL [...] | 2006-08-17 06:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU27723 | "Adapting to China's Situation": Self-Censorship by [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent discussions with editors of two prominent South China newspapers revealed a conformist attitude and a willingness to "go with the flow." Based on these two interviews, Congenoffs found that mainstream journalists must be willing to work within the system in order to surv [...] | 2006-08-17 06:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU27725 | With U.S. Consulate's Help, Magazine "Citizen" [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting between a representative of the American philanthropy group the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the publisher of the magazine "Citizen," arranged by the Consulate, methods for raising money for "Citizen" were discussed. The Rockefeller representative, without making [...] | 2006-08-17 06:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU27726 | "Citizen" Article Writes About "Wei quan" Activists [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent article in the progressive magazine "Citizen" ("Shimin") profiles ten Chinese activists, linking them under the term "wei quan." Yet the nature of the "wei quan" movement remains unclear, and articles such as this may indicate that various activists are trying to set d [...] | 2006-08-17 06:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU27729 | Normalized Piracy: A Glimpse at DVD Shops in [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent visit to a number of Guangzhou stores selling pirated DVDs showed how embedded the industry is in the Chinese economy. The relative ease with which these stores operate indicates that, at least in Guangzhou, recent crackdowns have not acted as a deterrent. End summar [...] | 2006-08-17 07:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU28035 | A/S MCMURRAY DISCUSSES WILDLIFE PROTECTION EFFORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. THE A/S MCMURRAY DELEGATION MET WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GUANGDONG WILDLIFE PROTECTION ADMINISTRATION (WPA) ON AUGUST 4 TO DISCUSS PROVINCIAL-LEVEL EFFORTS AND CHALLENGES. THE WPA OFFICIALS ASSURED A/S MCMURRAY THAT THEY WERE SERIOUS ABOUT WILDLIFE PROTECTION, BUT RECOGNIZE [...] | 2006-08-18 04:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU28065 | A/S McMurray Visits Sites Implementing P2E2 [...] (U) SUMMARY: OES A/S McMurray visited two sites in the Pearl River Delta where measures such as those being promoted by the Hong Kong-based pollution prevention and energy efficiency (P2E2) initiative have been implemented -- the Huangpu power plant operated by Guangdong Yuehua Power Company [...] | 2006-08-21 04:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG CH |
06GUANGZHOU29114 | South China H1 Economic Report: Fujian, Guangxi, [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the first half of 2006, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Fujian Province, and Hainan Province recorded rapid growth rates despite government control measures and natural disasters. Strong industrial and export sectors fueled rapidly rising gross domestic product (GDP) figures [...] | 2006-08-30 09:19:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU29575 | South China Lawyer Detained in Guangzhou -- Law [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General James Turner. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) On September 6, labor rights lawyer and China Labor Watch employee, Tang Jingling, was detained at the Guangzhou East Train station while proceeding through passport control to board a train to Hong Kong. TangQs [...] | 2006-09-08 06:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU29875 | IPR Enforcement in South China: USTR-led [...] (SBU) Summary: Following JCCT IPR Working Group meetings in Beijing, a USTR-led delegation traveled to Fujian and Guangdong provinces in late August to engage local leaders on IPR issues and raise specific areas of concern. The visits were part of the provincial review of China announced in t [...] | 2006-09-12 07:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU30120 | APEC Workshop on Non-discrimination in Investment [...] (U) Summary: Developing country representatives meeting at a September 1-3 APEC workshop in Xiamen on "Non- discrimination Treatment in Investment Agreements" expressed some concerns about new U.S. free-trade agreements in Southeast Asia. The nine APEC countries attending the meeting focuse [...] | 2006-09-15 05:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL CH |
06GUANGZHOU30121 | ASIA PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP ON CLEAN DEVELOPMENT AND [...] (U) Summary: In his roundtable discussion with American Chamber of Commerce South China representatives September 1, White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chairman James Connaughton said that his mission in China was to advance the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development a [...] | 2006-09-15 09:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG TSPL BEXP CH |
06GUANGZHOU30122 | ASIA PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP ON CLEAN DEVELOPMENT AND [...] (U) Summary: In a September 1 meeting with Guangdong Province Development and Reform Commission (DRC) Deputy Director Li Miaojuan, White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chairman James Connaughton called for eliminating tariffs on environmental technology products; he told Li that [...] | 2006-09-15 09:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG TSPL BEXP CH |
06GUANGZHOU30123 | YES, CHEN SHUI BIAN WILL STEP DOWN, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY TAIWAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DESPITE RUMORS OF RESIGNATIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL SHENANIGANS, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY TAIWAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE ACADEMICS BELIEVE THAT THERE IS LITTLE LIKELIHOOD TAIWAN PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN WILL STEP DOWN BEFORE HIS TERM IS UP. THEIR FOCUS IS NOT ON THE SHORT- TERM OF DEMONSTRATI [...] | 2006-09-15 10:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PINR TW CH |
06GUANGZHOU30165 | Waiting to Inhale: Important First Steps in South China's [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial and municipal governments have implemented many pollution-control measures, most notably installing desulfurization equipment, closing factories, developing an emissions trading scheme, implementing a "credit system," and increasing regional cooperation. Despite thes [...] | 2006-09-18 03:24:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO CH SOCI PGOV |
06GUANGZHOU30247 | CIFIT 2006: Taiwan Tourism, Arab Oil, and U.S. Investment [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. attendees at the annual China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) in Xiamen left feeling pretty good about their reception while Taiwan travel agents -- who turned out in large numbers -- had to feel somewhat disappointed about the lack of movement in real cr [...] | 2006-09-18 08:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTRO CH TW |
06GUANGZHOU30248 | Air Pollution in South China: Academics and Research [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Academics and research scientists in Guangdong, who are increasingly concerned about the region's serious air pollution but feel pressured to tone down their comments lest they face cuts in research funding, are interested in learning more about U.S. EPA's experience, especially [...] | 2006-09-19 05:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU30413 | Foreign Banks in South China Continue to Face Regulatory [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign bank representatives based in Guangzhou reviewed with the Consul General at a lunch on September 18 barriers that continue to limit the expansion of their market share. These include lending caps, high capitalization requirements, RMB 1 million minimum deposit for RMB cu [...] | 2006-09-19 23:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU30511 | Xiamen Mayor on Progress, Future Expansion [...] (U) Summary: Xiamen mayor Zhang Changping told the Consul General September 10 that the city's continuing development was dependent on the expansion of its infrastructure, especially its cargo transport system. In addition, he acknowledged the importance of further developing Xiamen's economic [...] | 2006-09-21 09:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PINR TW CH |
06GUANGZHOU30513 | China SME Fair: Italy Comes on Strong [...] (SBU) Summary: The Third China International Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Fair, co-hosted by Chinese and Italian governments, brought a wave of Italian businesspersons, entertainers, and government officials, including Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, to Guangzhou September 15-18. Tho [...] | 2006-09-22 01:57:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU30533 | Leading Member of "Rights Protection Movement" [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary: On September 14, Guo Feixiong, a leading figure in the "Rights Protection Movement," a nation-wide virtual network of activists, was arrested in Guangzhou on charges of "illegal business operation". This [...] | 2006-09-22 08:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU30534 | Shenzhen Independent "Candidates" Zou Tao and [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) A PSB-led effort to crackdown on dissidents appears to have thwarted efforts by democracy activists to run as candidates in upcoming Shenzhen elections. Shenzhen-based activists Zou Tao and Jian [...] | 2006-09-22 08:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU30648 | U.S. Industry Promotes Transparent Standards System in [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Representatives from Intel, Qualcomm, and Cisco encouraged China to adopt a transparent, market-oriented standards development process during a DOC-hosted seminar on standards and IPR in Shenzhen on September 21. Chinese industry attendees, who have a generally sophi [...] | 2006-09-25 08:24:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU30782 | Behind Everyday Low Prices - Consular Outreach to Wal-Mart [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Employees at Wal-Mart Global Procurement in Shenzhen China told Conoffs during an orientation trip that the company is pleased with how staff are treated when they apply for visas and that that they are interested in working with the consulate to facilitate and improve the workin [...] | 2006-09-26 08:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU30810 | Microsoft Growing Rapidly in South China [...] (SBU) Summary: Microsoft representatives told the Consul General September 21 that with the company's rapid growth in Shenzhen and elsewhere, they expect sales in South China to surpass those in Hong Kong. Company representatives complained about weak copyright enforcement and asked the Consul [...] | 2006-09-27 06:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV KIPR CH |
06GUANGZHOU30812 | Foreign Insurers in South China See Systemic Problems [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of AIU and Metlife and the Consul General reviewed the difficulties of operating in South China's "cutthroat" insurance industry at a luncheon on September 25. They cited unethical sales agents and the poaching of staff by competitors. Local regulators are still [...] | 2006-09-27 06:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU30826 | The Politics of History: "Freezing Point" Author [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary and comment: Guangzhou history Professor Yuan Weishi, who is best known for his January "Freezing Point" article, is following in the footsteps of Chinese intellectuals whose views are out-of-sync with thos [...] | 2006-09-27 08:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU30894 | IPod City - Consular Outreach to Foxconn in Shenzhen. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Conoffs met with Foxconn executives August 25 to discuss ways in which we could work together to facilitate issuance of non-immigrant visas to the company's employees, the majority of whom - along with Foxconn's products - do not appear to be a Technology Alert List (TAL) concern [...] | 2006-09-28 02:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU30900 | Taiwan Businesses in Dongguan: Well Organized and [...] (SBU) Summary: Dongguan's Taiwan Business Association (TBA) leaders told Econ/Poloffs September 26 that their focus was on business and community issues, not politics; like other Taiwan businesspeople in China, they prefer to keep their politics to themselves, even declining to comment on a rec [...] | 2006-09-28 05:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL CH TW |
06GUANGZHOU30941 | Mindrays! - Consular Outreach to Shenzhen Mindray in [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At an August 25 meeting with Congenoffs, Shenzhen Mindray officials - whose company is a fast-growing producer of low-cost medical diagnostic equipment - emphasized the importance of U.S. trade shows in their overall sales growth. Despite Mindray's heavy research and development [...] | 2006-09-29 02:48:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU30952 | Baise, Guangxi: Poor Amidst a Wealth of Resources [...] (U) Summary: Baise, Guangxi, is one of China's poorest prefectures and despite relatively successful anti-poverty efforts, accounts for one-fourth of the poor population of Guangxi. The prefecture has rich agricultural, mineral and tourism resources, but is only now developing its economy; ear [...] | 2006-09-29 07:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON SOCI PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU30954 | Baise, Guangxi: New Countryside Program Impact May Be [...] (U) Summary: Baise in western Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has been a poor place for many years. Sporadic fighting with Vietnam through the late 1970s prevented concerted efforts at economic development. In response to Beijing's 11th Five-Year Plan to develop rural areas, Baise is buildin [...] | 2006-09-29 07:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON SOCI PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU30986 | Chinese Authorities Ban AMCIT from Leaving China Pending [...] (SBU) Summary: PRC immigration authorities detained AMCIT Robert Jonathan Carr for 12 hours at the Zhongshan port of entry on October 3 and ordered him to remain in China until the resolution of a civil case brought against him by a manufacturing company in Changsha, Hunan. The Hunan company c [...] | 2006-10-05 05:24:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC CJAN ECON EINV KJUS CH |
06GUANGZHOU31041 | GHA 4: Citizen Magazine Chooses Self-Censorship [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary and comment: "Citizen" will hold back the magazine's tenth issue till next year due to government pressure--including blacklistings, electronic surveillance and direct warnings--put on the group since August. [...] | 2006-10-06 06:12:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU31046 | Urbanized Western PRD: Losing Agricultural Land and Making [...] (U) Summary and comment: Although the loss of land, through sales, eminent domain or simple expropriation has often been accompanied by rural unrestthree key cities in Guangdong's prosperous western Pearl River Delta have escaped this cycle of violence during the past eight-to-fifteen years [...] | 2006-10-09 23:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU31300 | Canton Export Commodities Fair: Not Just Exports Anymore [...] (U) Premier Wen Jiabao - with Vice Premier Wu Yi and Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai in attendance - announced at the October 15 opening ceremony of the 100th session of the Canton Export Commodities Fair that the Fair will be renamed the Canton Import and Export Commodities Fair. Premier Wen co [...] | 2006-10-17 06:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BEXP CH |
06GUANGZHOU31565 | South China's Taiwan Scholars Concerned about Chen, but [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Taiwan research centers throughout South China are concerned about Chen Shui-bian's strategy for constitutional reform and the impact it could have on cross-Strait ties. They also worry that the anti-Chen campaign could have a significant negative impact on Taiwan's econo [...] | 2006-10-20 00:12:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI CH TW |
06GUANGZHOU31579 | South China's White Collar Worker Shortage [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Speakers at an October 16 conference on human resources organized by the American Chamber of Commerce - South China addressed the increasingly serious competition among foreign multinationals in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) for the limited number of skilled professionals [...] | 2006-10-20 08:30:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU31747 | South China's Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station: Commissioner Jaz [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-26 02:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | SECRET | ENRG KNNP KSCA ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU31861 | South China's Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station: [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a September 26, 2006 tour of the Ling Ao units of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station near Shenzhen in Guangdong Province, Steven Lau, Senior Vice President of the Daya Bay Operations and Management Co., told NRC Commissioner Gregory Jazcko that Chinese plans for nuclear pow [...] | 2006-10-30 07:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | SECRET | ENRG KNNP KSCA ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU32090 | FREE TRAVEL TO HAINAN - ALMOST [...] (U) SUMMARY: According to officials from the Sanya Foreign Affairs Office and Tourism Bureau, Hainan's landing visa and visa waiver programs are intended to increase tourism to Hainan, particularly from East Asia. Americans are permitted to travel to Hainan without a visa if they are part of a [...] | 2006-11-02 09:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU32092 | Fighting Copyright Infringement at the Canton Fair [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Representatives from U.S. and Canadian art publishing companies spotted numerous vendors selling copies of their products at both the Canton Fair and the Jinhan Fair in Guangzhou on October 25, 2006. Officials at the Canton Fair IPR complaint center, after first insi [...] | 2006-11-02 09:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU32097 | PACING DEVELOPMENT IN SANYA, HAINAN PROVINCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging discussion of Sanya's development policies during an October 9 meeting with the Consul General, representatives of Sanya's municipal Foreign Affairs Office, the Environmental Protection Bureau, and Tourism Bureau discussed the city's balanced approach to developme [...] | 2006-11-02 09:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV CH |
06GUANGZHOU32144 | U.S.-China Bilateral on Margins of Seventh North Pacific [...] (SBU) Vice Admiral Wurster, Commander of the Coast Guard's Pacific Area, told Deputy Director General Li Qingping of the Maritime Safety Administration (under the Ministry of Communications),at an October 25 bilateral meeting on the margins of the Seventh North Pacific Coast Guard Forum that t [...] | 2006-11-03 08:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHSA MARR CH |
06GUANGZHOU32145 | Guangdong Vice Governor Welcomes Further Direct Dialogue [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong Executive Vice Governor Tang Bing Quan welcomed dialogue on bilateral issues ranging from IPR to the U.S.-China trade balance in his first meeting with the Consul General on October 23. Tang said that given the high quality of Guangdong's infrastructure and hi-tech ma [...] | 2006-11-03 08:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD KIPR ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU32146 | U.S.-China Bilateral on Margins of Seventh North Pacific [...] (SBU) Summary: Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen and PRC Vice Minister of Public Security Meng Hongwei exchanged views October 25 on a variety of maritime safety and security topics, including `border security, search-and-rescue and disaster relief issues. The Admiral said that the U.S. was pre [...] | 2006-11-03 08:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHSA MARR CH |
06GUANGZHOU32154 | Central and Local Officials Debate Public Services [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Central officials, local officials, and academics attending a high level academic symposium in Hainan disagreed on how to efficiently and equitably build a "public service government." Central and local officials in attendance had very different views of their governance responsi [...] | 2006-11-03 08:47:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHUM CH |
06GUANGZHOU32161 | Fujian Dissident Calls for Efforts on Behalf of [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Former Tiananmen-era activist and dissident writer Lin Xinyu discussed with poloffs his efforts, along with other activists, to pressure the Chinese government for the release of detained activists Gao Zhi [...] | 2006-11-06 01:44:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32163 | Hainan Airlines Plans Expansion and Name Change [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Hainan Airlines (HNA) Chairman Chen Feng told the Consul General that HNA plans to begin direct cargo flights to Boston in early 2007, followed by passenger flights later that year. Chen also said that HNA will change its name to "Grand China Air," and will invest an additional [...] | 2006-11-06 02:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU32171 | Guangdong Real Faith Enterprises Group: Exporting [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong Real Faith Enterprises Group, like many of the large, Chinese-owned, general manufacturing conglomerates in the Pearl River Delta, takes advantage of low labor costs, domestic suppliers, proximity to high-volume shipping hubs, and a ready supply of capital from Chinese [...] | 2006-11-06 03:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD CH |
06GUANGZHOU32173 | Limited Constitutional Reform OK, say Xiamen [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: In October 30 meetings with U.S. officers, Xiamen-based Taiwan experts, city officials and Taiwan businessmen were upbeat about cross-Strait ties, touted increased economic and cultural exchanges and said th [...] | 2006-11-06 07:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SOCI CH TW |
06GUANGZHOU32263 | Labor Law Implementation and CSR Cynicism are Key [...] (U) Summary: Despite China's many international labor commitments, migrant workers remain poorly trained, overworked and underpaid, according to experts at a recent conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Shenzhen. Many legal experts said that China's labor laws are theoretical [...] | 2006-11-13 08:28:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32264 | Guangdong Villagers Clash with 1,000 Police: [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Western and Hong Kong media sources reported that on November 8, villagers protesting in Shunde, Guangdong, (one hour southwest of Guangzhou) detained around 300 officials and foreign dignitarie [...] | 2006-11-13 08:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32265 | Enron Prosecutors Share Lessons Learned with Guangdong [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In two days of meetings and roundtables with Guangdong officials, legal experts, students, and media, Department of Justice prosecutors John Hueston and Robb Addison discussed their involvement in the Enron case and highlighted the differences between the U.S. and Chine [...] | 2006-11-13 08:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV KPAO CH |
06GUANGZHOU32273 | Five Shenzhen Judges Arrested on Corruption: An [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Guangdong's Party Secretary Zhang Dejiang, although a Jiang Zemin appointee, is not expected to be affected by the November 10, arrest of five Shenzhen judges - including a rising star - on corruption charg [...] | 2006-11-15 08:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS CH |
06GUANGZHOU32305 | EPA A/A Wehrum Discusses Air Pollution Issues with [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EPA Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation William Wehrum stressed to Guangdong Province Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) officials that environmental protection, public health, and economic development can co-exist. Wehrum commended Guangdong for addressing sulfur d [...] | 2006-11-21 03:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG BEXP CH |
06GUANGZHOU32306 | Dongzhou Crackdown II: No Blood, but Amcit [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: On November 18, in a scene reminiscent of the violent clash on December 6, 2005 in the same village, up to 2,000 armed police, using tear gas and flash bullets, secured the release of eight local officials [...] | 2006-11-21 08:20:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC DENNIS DANFUNG PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32315 | Guangdong Development Bank: A Benefit or a Burden? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Citibank's Guangzhou branch manager said the Citibank-led bid for Guangdong Development Bank (GDB) is a "done deal" and that Citibank will gain significant management control over GDB as a result. Bank of America and Deutsche Bank representatives said Citibank would benefit from [...] | 2006-11-22 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU32317 | New Foreign Banking Regulations: Foreign Bankers are [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the November 15 release of banking regulations that permit wholly foreign-owned banks in China, Guangzhou-based representatives of foreign banks believe they can now operate on a level playing field with domestic banks. Citibank and Deutsche Bank branch managers said t [...] | 2006-11-22 09:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN WTRO ECON EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU32321 | Religious Round-up: Amcit Missionaries Denied [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Several recent incidents may highlight the Guangzhou's Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB) intent to make a religiously restrictive environment for Christian missionaries. Four Amcit Protestant "tentmaker" mis [...] | 2006-11-27 08:49:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CH |
06GUANGZHOU32347 | China Southern Airlines: Turning a Profit but No Plans for [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In a November 28 meeting with the Consul General, China Southern Airlines President Si Xianmin discussed his airline's improving financial health, its relationship with U.S. suppliers and airlines, the state of the Chinese airline industry, and the recent technical t [...] | 2006-11-29 09:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON KTIA CH |
06GUANGZHOU32364 | Two Shenzhen Labor Campaigns Stopped: NGOs Closed [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Shenzhen officials continue to be concerned about the activities of labor NGOs and recent government reaction to restrict their political activities seems to bear this out. On November 9, during investiga [...] | 2006-12-04 07:47:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32368 | (C-AL6-01852) South China Rights Protection Part I: [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Rights activists in South China believe that access to money and the ability to organize and address issues of concern are among the key problems they will continue to face in the future. They know that f [...] | 2006-12-06 06:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32369 | (C-AL6-01852) South China Rights Protection Part [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Some South China Rights Protection Movement activists want to focus less on overt political activities that the government will view as opposition and more on information sharing and education, thereby bro [...] | 2006-12-06 06:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32380 | Hostage Taking Again in Same Township: Do Foshan's [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Approximately 1,000 villagers in Foshan, Guangdong Province, stormed the local village committee office on November 30, to protest illegal land sales and to demand the release of 23 village rep [...] | 2006-12-07 01:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM CH |
06GUANGZHOU32384 | Hewitt Associates Survey on Expat Hiring: Number of Expats [...] (U) Summary: Among the recent conclusions of a Hewitt Associates study of Expatriate Hiring and Returnee Wages and Benefits released December 7 were: -- An expected increase in the number of expats from 150,000 to over 200,000 within a few years; as business opportunities for foreign firms gr [...] | 2006-12-08 08:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU32394 | Guangdong Province Q3 Economic Report [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guangdong Province registered double-digit gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the third quarter (Q3) of 2006 despite government control measures and an emphasis on increasing domestic consumption. Fixed asset investment did not grow as rapidly compared to the same period in 2 [...] | 2006-12-13 05:20:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU32397 | Guangzhou CCPIT Told by Beijing to Increase U.S. Exports to [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In a December 11 meeting with the Foreign Commercial Service section, the President of the Guangzhou office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) said that he had been ordered by Beijing to formulate a plan, due on the first week of Jan [...] | 2006-12-13 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BEXP CH |
06GUANGZHOU32401 | Huawei: The Human Resource Component of a Modern Chinese [...] (U) When you walk around the Huawei "campus," you are staring into China's future in more ways than one. Huawei, one of China's brightest lights in terms of telephone service (fixed, mobile, routers and connectors) and one of the country's most internationally-oriented firms, is also a pionee [...] | 2006-12-15 08:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU32402 | Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Q3 Economic [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guangxi's gross domestic product (GDP) growth reached a record high 13.1% in the third quarter (Q3) of 2006. The Statistics Bureau again characterized Guangxi's economic development as "fast and steady" despite government control measures. The secondary and tertiary sectors expe [...] | 2006-12-15 08:05:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU32406 | Visit of HHS Secretary to Guangzhou Highlights Infectious [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O. Leavitt and his delegation met with doctors, hospital and orphanage administrators, students, and businesspersons to discuss infectious diseases and health-care issues during a December 11-12, 2006 visit to Guangzhou. Hi [...] | 2006-12-18 02:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI ECON ELAB PGOV SCUL SENV CH |
06GUANGZHOU32421 | Labor Conditions in the Pearl River Delta (Part 1 of 3): [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Many migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) - mostly little-educated young people, including some who are underage, from interior and western provinces - continue to face harsh and unsafe working conditions, long hours, overtime wage arrears, child labor, unsuitable liv [...] | 2006-12-19 07:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32430 | South China Environmental Brief [...] (U) This cable summarizes the following recent environmental events in South China: -- U.S. venture capital interested in China's environmental sector. -- Raising water prices to pay for treatment plants. -- Euro III vehicle emission standards for Guangdong. -- Pollution from mining industr [...] | 2006-12-19 07:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV SOCI PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU32431 | Labor Conditions in the Pearl River Delta (Part 2 of 3): [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial and municipal authorities both inside and outside of Guangdong Province have enacted protective measures such as labor rights training, vocational training, higher minimum wages, labor inspections, and the blacklisting of malfeasant companies to deal with labor viola [...] | 2006-12-19 07:48:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32432 | Labor Conditions in the Pearl River Delta (Part 3 [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary: Pearl River Delta (PRD) labor conditions remain poor because many migrant workers are ignorant of their basic rights, too destitute to pursue complaints legally, are barred from receiving minimum wages and [...] | 2006-12-19 07:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32439 | Major Environmental Incidents in South China [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Enforcement of environmental regulations remains problematic in South China. Major environmental incidents occur with disturbing regularity, despite greater efforts by provincial and local governments to avert them. Increased reporting about such incidents does sugge [...] | 2006-12-21 01:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU32440 | Trial of Sanshan Farmers Begins: More Protests to [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A Foshan court official has confirmed that the trial of seven farmers - accused of Triad-related extortion - from a village in Guangdong has begun; outside lawyers have been barred from particip [...] | 2006-12-21 04:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM CH |
06GUANGZHOU32442 | Guangzhou Stakes New Territory in Transparency [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangzhou will implement two transparency regulations in 2007 that are reportedly the first of their kind in China and signal a shift to more local government accountability. One requires public discussion of all draft administrative regulations; the other allows the public to re [...] | 2006-12-21 07:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHUM PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU32459 | How Will China Achieve Its Energy Efficiency [...] (SBU) China must use energy efficient products and technologies, implement structural changes in its high energy-consuming industries, and improve its management of energy conservation efforts, according to government officials and experts who gathered in Hainan Province in November 2006 for t [...] | 2006-12-28 03:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON SENV CH |
06GUANGZHOU5377 | Journey to the West Heads South to the Guangxi [...] (SBU) Summary: In Guangxi, the three port cities of Pingxiang, Dongxing and Fangchenggang boast a relatively healthy trade with neighboring Vietnam, though Dongxing's and Fangchenggang's access to the sea demonstrate a clear economic advantage over land-locked Pingxiang. Budding signs of fore [...] | 2006-02-27 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN ELAB CH |
06GUANGZHOU5378 | Progressive Magazine's 2005 Award Winners for [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Li Datong, the originator of the China Youth Daily's "Freezing Point" section, is the most prominent person named in the Nanfengchuang ("South Wind Window") list of 2005 annual award winners for acting "for the public good" -- the magazine's raison d'etre. Then agai [...] | 2006-02-27 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO OPRC OIIP PGOV PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU5379 | The Woes of Foreign Banks in Southern China [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign banking representatives in Guangdong province expressed continued frustration at breaking into domestic markets, while acknowledging the easing of restrictions on paper. The banking officials cited administrative hurdles and a lack of transparency in regulations and gui [...] | 2006-02-27 08:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV WTRO CH |
06GUANGZHOU5380 | South China Fast Food Restaurants Quelling Fears [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent look at how KFC and McDonald's are responding to concerns about avian influenza (AI) -- in a region of China particularly obsessed with food -- found unbridled optimism on the part of these companies about their efforts to inform the Chinese public about the safety of [...] | 2006-02-27 08:48:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU5479 | Journey to the West: HIV/AIDS, Avian Influenza [...] (SBU) Summary: Local governments have taken some measures to combat the threat of avian influenza (AI) and the spread of HIV/AIDS, but the scale of the threat appears to dwarf the size of government programs. In addition with respect to HIV/AIDS, the accuracy and availability of information [...] | 2006-02-28 06:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV KFLU EAID SOCI TBIO CH |
06GUANGZHOU5696 | Andale, Pues: Mexico Establishes Consulate in [...] (SBU) Summary: Mexico has opened a Consulate in Guangzhou. In the celebratory event, Mexican Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Lourdes Aranda cited the heavy weight economic power of Guangdong Province not to mention the fact that most Chinese-Mexicans trace their roots to south China as th [...] | 2006-03-01 02:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EINV CONS PINR CH |
06GUANGZHOU5778 | Got Milk? Two Guangxi Dairy Farms Invest in Future [...] (U) Summary: Two dairy farms -- one state-owned and the other private -- are participants in a Consulate Guangzhou Agricultural Trade Office project to develop the Chinese market for alfalfa and other products that would contribute to greater milk production in China. Both dairies are investi [...] | 2006-03-01 23:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON KTDB ECIN CH |
06GUANGZHOU5798 | Journey to the West: Habitat For Humanity's Will [...] (SBU) Summary: Consulate Guangzhou is assisting Habitat for Humanity's Guangxi branch to continue its projects there through a partnership with Guangxi University's College of Civil Engineering and Architecture which can provide legal cover for Habitat since it cannot register as a non-govern [...] | 2006-03-02 08:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR SOCI PHUM CH |
06GUANGZHOU5870 | Journey to the West -- Beihai: Pearls, [...] (SBU) Summary: Acknowledging that previous economic development planning has not panned out as expected, Guangxi's Beihai City officials see their economic future in developing labor-intensive light manufacturing and logistic industries based on outside investment -- particularly from over-h [...] | 2006-03-03 03:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV CH |
06GUANGZHOU5955 | Journey to the West: Guangdong's Maoming City [...] (U) Summary: In contrast to the "pie in the sky" wishful thinking we heard throughout our tour of Guangxi's top cities, officials in Guangdong's Maoming City professionally presented credible plans for further economic development based on heavy industry with some agriculture thrown in. City [...] | 2006-03-06 00:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EAGR CH |
06GUANGZHOU6174 | New AI Case in Guangdong Grudgingly Admitted: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At 1130 on Saturday March 4, the Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) faxed a diplomatic note (completely in Chinese with no English translation -- Consulate Guangzhou's translation in full text below) confirming the death of a Guangzhou man after contracting the H5N1 strain [...] | 2006-03-06 09:19:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU6294 | Guangdong Government Reaction to AI: Fast but How [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Guangdong Provincial and Guangzhou Municipal governments' reactions to the recent March 2 human avian influenza death were both rather swift and resolute. Both levels of government held emergency meetings and resolved to limit the sale of live animals in Guangzhou's markets [...] | 2006-03-07 09:52:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU6981 | Staffdel Halpin: Thoughts on Chen Shuibian, Social [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chen Shuibian's pledge to abolish the national unification council and guidelines was the first step in a dangerous political game and has outraged mainland academics, said scholars at China's largest Taiwan Research Institute during a recent visit by Dennis Halpin, professional [...] | 2006-03-14 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL CH TW KN |
06GUANGZHOU6984 | PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY PREPARING FOR AI [...] (SBU) Summary: A visiting PACOM/State delegation meeting with civil and military leaders to discuss Avian Flu (AI) preparedness was impressed with the level of planning by the Southern Military Command of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). Civil authorities, however, were less impressive as [...] | 2006-03-14 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU CACS AMED ASEC ECON CH |
06GUANGZHOU6985 | Staffdel Halpin: Thoughts on Chen Shuibian, Social [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chen Shuibian's pledge to abolish the national unification council and guidelines was the first step in a dangerous political game and has outraged mainland academics, said scholars at China's largest Taiwan Research Institute during a recent visit by Dennis Halpin, professional [...] | 2006-03-14 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL CH TW KN |
06GUANGZHOU6994 | Hong Kong-Based Corporate Finance Officers To Try [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chief Financial Officers of several prominent Hong Kong-based international multinational companies along with a few of their mainland-based counterparts have established the "International Association of CFOs and Corporate Treasurers (China) Limited" (IACCT China) with th [...] | 2006-03-14 09:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV SCUL PHUM CH |
06GUANGZHOU7743 | Heart of Gold: Searching for Business [...] (SBU) Summary: Bereft of any significant private sector contributions, a strong and broad civil society sector has not developed to any extent resembling the pace of the enormous economic growth that has taken place in south China. There are signs that many private businesses may want to be [...] | 2006-03-24 08:40:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON KPAO OPRC OIIP PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU8541 | Consulate General Guangzhou Lending a Helping Hand [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of American insurance companies operating in Guangdong province commented that while the insurance environment in Guangdong has improved, many problems still need to be resolved as the industry expands in China. In particular, American companies are concerned a [...] | 2006-03-27 09:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON WTRO EINV PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU8841 | HAINAN AIRLINES APATHETIC ABOUT UPCOMING U.S.-CHINA [...] (U) Summary. Hainan Airlines expressed little interest in the upcoming April 19-20 U.S.-China aviation talks, citing its inability to operate flights to the United States at this point. This inability stems from three reasons: the airline is not a designated carrier; it does not have the nec [...] | 2006-03-29 05:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON KTIA CH |
06GUANGZHOU8842 | PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT IN HAINAN, CHINA'S [...] (U) Summary. According to Hainan officials, the province's environmental quality is China's best. Largely because of its efforts to attract increasing numbers of tourists, Hainan realizes that a clean environment is an asset that must be preserved. At the same time, the island must balance [...] | 2006-03-29 05:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON EIND PGOV SOCI CH |
06GUANGZHOU9084 | AI Update: Guangdong Authorities Coming Clean? [...] SUMMARY: Guangdong provincial health and veterinary officials are showing increased levels of openness and cooperation. On March 29, officials hosted a private information meeting for Guangzhou foreign consulates about the March 2 human avian influenza (AI) death and subsequent health polici [...] | 2006-03-30 08:48:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH |
06GUANGZHOU9166 | AI Update: Guangdong Authorities Coming Clean? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong provincial health and veterinary officials are showing increased levels of openness and cooperation. On March 29, officials hosted a private information meeting for Guangzhou foreign consulates about the March 2 human avian influenza (AI) death and subsequent health [...] | 2006-04-03 03:28:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1023 | Dept of Energy DAS Swift Discusses South China Energy [...] (U) Summary: In an August 26-30 visit to Guangzhou, Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Justin Swift gave the keynote address at an APEC conference on liquefied natural gas (LNG). Outside the conference, he met with local energy sector contacts. An academic who researc [...] | 2007-09-12 09:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1048 | Avian Influenza Update: Guangdong Health Authorities on [...] (SBU) Director of the Guangdong Veterinary Center of Epidemic Prevention and Control Yu Yedong confirmed media reports that the Ministry of Agriculture on September 15 had reported a suspected case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Guangzhou's Panyu District. Yu told us that test results [...] | 2007-09-17 09:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
07GUANGZHOU1049 | South China Drug Makers Differ on Impact of Product Safety [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several pharmaceutical companies in South China appear to have taken steps to improve their quality assurance (QA) procedures and put them more in line with international standards. Product safety and integrity problems interestingly are reinforcing for Chinese companies the need [...] | 2007-09-17 23:41:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1050 | Wai Jia Nu: Gender Inequality in the Urban Village [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the last several months, equal rights for a group of women in South China who have married outside their home village has become an increasingly sensitive issue. After marriage, these women must tra [...] | 2007-09-18 03:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI ECON PGOV |
07GUANGZHOU1051 | Xiamen Taiwan Scholars Concerned about Chen's Next [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg, Reason 1.4 (b/d) 2. (C) Summary: A Xiamen-based scholar of cross-Strait relations told Congenoffs that mainland scholars are concerned that Chen Shiu-bian might take more provocative steps after a referendum on UN membership. He questioned [...] | 2007-09-18 03:40:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV TW CH |
07GUANGZHOU1052 | Wai Jia Nu: Women's Residency Rights an [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Post has recently noted increasing sensitivity about the issue of land rights for married women. Though affecting only a small percentage of the local population, the "wai jia nu" issue (Reftel) has become [...] | 2007-09-18 05:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI ECON PGOV |
07GUANGZHOU1056 | Hotels in Guangzhou Face Food Safety Challenge [...] (U) SUMMARY: In order to meet international food safety standards, foreign luxury hotels in Guangzhou import many of their ingredients and supplies, and even perform their own testing. They work diligently to raise the practices of vendors, employees, and contractors to the quality levels that [...] | 2007-09-18 09:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1070 | Avian Influenza Update: 180,000 Birds Destroyed; No [...] (SBU) Director of the Guangdong Veterinary Center of Epidemic Prevention and Control Yu Yedong told us September 20 that the Guangzhou government had culled 180,000 fowl from farms within three kilometers of Sixian village (Ref A). NOTE: This is an increase from the 134,384 ducks, 18,786 chicke [...] | 2007-09-20 06:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC KFLU TBIO AMED AMGT EAGR PINR CH |
07GUANGZHOU1074 | Express Delivery Services Face Prospect of "Harmonious [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Dan Blair emphasized to Guangdong officials and businessmen his belief that vibrant competition and consumer choice in the express delivery service (EDS) market would provide greater benefits than government regulation. Chinese governme [...] | 2007-09-21 08:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EIND PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1075 | Avian Influenza Update: No Additional Culling Expected. [...] (SBU) In a September 21 meeting with Congenoff, Vice Director Chen Heqing of the Guangdong Province Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economy said there are no plans to cull additional fowl after the recent avian influenza outbreak in Guangzhou's Panyu District [...] | 2007-09-21 08:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
07GUANGZHOU108 | U/S Hughes and PD Envoy Kwan Engage Guangzhou [...] SUMMARY: The January 21-23 visit to Guangzhou of Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes, American Public Diplomacy Envoy Michelle Kwan, and Ambassador Clark T. Randt, Jr. was an unprecedented opportunity to showcase American public diplomacy programs reaching out to previously untap [...] | 2007-01-24 09:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL OVIP CH |
07GUANGZHOU109 | South China Civil Aviation: Views on Subsidies, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Major airlines in South China admit subsidies are available from local governments to offset losses from flying less traveled domestic routes. One airline mentioned they received subsidies for international flights. The airlines have limited expansion plans for the overseas ma [...] | 2007-01-24 09:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON CH |
07GUANGZHOU1094 | USITC Studies the Benefits of Doing Business in South [...] (U) SUMMARY: Access to credit, tax benefits, historical and cultural ties, and the presence of a well-developed transportation system were among the reasons cited by executives from enterprises in Guangdong for doing business in South China during conversations with a visiting U.S. Internationa [...] | 2007-09-28 08:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND ENV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1095 | EPA General Counsel Martella Talks Environmental Law in [...] (U) SUMMARY: Inadequate fines for polluters and lack of funding for inspectors have made punishment of environmental violations difficult in south China, according to local environmental officials. Public complaints about the quality of the environment are on the rise, and the proliferation of [...] | 2007-09-28 08:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1100 | HOW CHINA'S PRODUCT QUALITY SYSTEM WORKS IN THE PEARL RIVER [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese officials hosted a tour of inspection facilities and export production sites (reported septel) that helped shed light on China's product quality control system for imports and exports. This telegram provides details on the system's bureaucracy and procedures as described [...] | 2007-10-05 08:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1101 | CHINA HOSTS FOOD AND SAFETY TOUR FOR FOREIGN DIPLOMATS [...] (SBU) Summary: A tour of inspection facilities and export production sites hosted by the Chinese government offered an opportunity for dialogue with inspection officials that improved understanding of China's food safety and product quality system. Despite obvious staging, it also revealed some [...] | 2007-10-05 08:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1108 | Avian Influenza Quarantine Lifted; Black Market Birds; [...] (U) Summary: Guangzhou's Panyu District Government lifted a 21-day quarantine of the area recently affected by an outbreak of avian influenza (AI). Before it was lifted, Consulate staff saw a few farmers illegally selling birds in the quarantine area. Media reports indicate that the Guangzhou M [...] | 2007-10-11 05:05:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
07GUANGZHOU1143 | Shenzhen Airlines to Buy 100 Boeing Aircraft [...] (SBU) Summary: Shenzhen Airlines will soon announce a deal to buy 100 Boeing Aircraft -- the largest Boeing order for a Chinese airline -- according to senior executives. The carrier claims it is China's most profitable airline. It opened a pilot training school this year, which will graduate [...] | 2007-10-17 07:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD CH |
07GUANGZHOU1180 | Taiwan Investors Lament Changing Investment Environment in [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan investors in Dongguan complain that China's new Labor Law, rising wages, and policies aimed at directing labor-intensive and highly-polluting industries away from coastal regions are harming the investment environment in the Pearl River Delta. However, even with these dow [...] | 2007-10-31 02:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ELAB SENV TW CH |
07GUANGZHOU1183 | Canton Fair: Seizing the Opportunity to Promote U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: In the first ever U.S. Consulate-hosted forum at the Canton Trade Fair, U.S. government and business representatives discussed - with an appreciative Chinese audience - American goods and services available for import and the impact of export controls on PRC companies doing busin [...] | 2007-10-31 05:53:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1186 | CHINA DECLARES SUCCESS AT THE 102ND CANTON FAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: Another record-breaking Canton Fair closed yesterday with increases in contract orders; attendance was lower. Attention to toy safety, export tariff policy changes, intellectual property rights and foreign imports all affected the final numbers, with a ten percent decline in toy [...] | 2007-10-31 09:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
07GUANGZHOU1189 | Minority Girls in Guangxi Face Roadblocks to Higher [...] SUMMARY: There are fewer assistance programs and educational opportunities for ethnic minority girls in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region than for other children in China. Many fail to complete compulsory education, and options narrow further at high school due to their being [...] | 2007-11-01 08:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PGOV PHUM |
07GUANGZHOU1190 | China Rolls Out the Red Carpet at ASEAN Expo [...] (U) Summary: High-level Chinese and ASEAN officials agreed the text of a maritime agreement and a statement on food safety during meetings at the Fourth China-ASEAN Expo in Nanning. The trade fair-like Expo and related events in Nanning reinforce China's commitment to further develop relations [...] | 2007-11-01 08:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV PREL ASEAN CH |
07GUANGZHOU1192 | Fuel Shortage in Southern China Leads to Fuel Hording and [...] (SBU) Summary. China's fuel shortage is hitting the Pearl River Delta hard. High international oil prices have driven wholesale prices above government-mandated retail price caps. The November 1 increase in diesel and gasoline prices (9 percent) may not be enough to restore margins for retail [...] | 2007-11-02 07:09:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
07GUANGZHOU1211 | China Southern Gets Called Up to the Majors with Membership [...] (U) Summary: China Southern has made it to the Big Leagues: it will soon become China's first carrier to join an international airline alliance as a full member of Sky Team. After considerable investment upgrading its operations and services, China Southern sees membership in the alliance as t [...] | 2007-11-09 08:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CH |
07GUANGZHOU1213 | MATTEL - MENDING FENCES AND FIXING PROBLEMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Mattel's relations with Beijing are on the mend and there are no indications that provincial government authorities are planning to sue the company for alleged damage to the "Made in China" brand, according to Mattel executives based in South China. More frequent product testing [...] | 2007-11-14 04:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1214 | (C) Visit of Comoran President Draws PLA Officers [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reasons 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (C) At least one People's Liberation Army (PLA) general from the Lanzhou Military Region attended the meeting between Union of Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi and Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua i [...] | 2007-11-14 06:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH CN |
07GUANGZHOU1226 | SAFETY ISSUES SHAKING UP TOY INDUSTRY IN SOUTH CHINA [...] (SBU) Summary: The toy industry in Guangdong Province is undergoing a major "shake-out" cruise as manufacturers seek to protect the integrity of their product, buyers express concerns, and government officials enforce regulations in the interests of maintaining the China "brand" name. In Shant [...] | 2007-11-16 08:47:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1229 | Human Rights: Guo Feixiong Receives Fine and Jail [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) The trial of democracy activist Guo Feixiong ended November 14 with a conviction for "illegal business practices," resulting in a sentence of five years in prison and a fine of CNY 40,000 (approximately USD 5,387). [...] | 2007-11-20 08:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1230 | VICE PREMIER WU YI TO VISIT MATTEL FACTORIES [...] (SBU) Summary: In another sign that Mattel and Beijing are working together to fix their mutual product safety image problem, Vice Premier Wu Yi, who will be in Guangdong to participate in a major product safety conference, will visit three Mattel factories next week, according to Mattel execut [...] | 2007-11-20 08:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1231 | Pearl River Delta Flotsam and Jetsam, November 19, 2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is the third in a series of periodic cables that will feature snapshots of the Guangzhou consular district. Highlights of this installment include: advanced television flat-panel manufacturing; a HIV/AIDS treatment facility; enforcement of air pollution laws; and PRD labor tre [...] | 2007-11-20 08:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ELAB ECON ETRD KHIV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1241 | CONSUL GENERAL'S IPR ROUNDTABLE - COMMUNICATION AND ACTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Internet-based intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement continues to remain a pressing concern in south China, according to U.S. business people who participated in the Consul General's Annual IPR Roundtable on November 20, 2007. The participants also complained of incons [...] | 2007-11-26 02:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON WTRO PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1242 | New Guangdong Vice Governor to be Named [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Jieyang Municipality Party Secretary Wan Qinliang will be appointed one of Guangdong's Vice Governors during the Provincial Congress's January 17, 2008 session, according to Jieyang Vice Mayor Lin Lijiao. [...] | 2007-11-26 08:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CH |
07GUANGZHOU1249 | CPSC RICH O'BRIEN VISITS FACTORY THAT PRODUCED TOXIC AQUA [...] (SBU) Summary: How does a potential toy nightmare and company branding problem get underway? In the case of Aqua Dots, it was partially caused by having just one manufacturing option. The toxic adhesive formula used in the Aqua Dots was developed locally by the Chinese manufacturer after the [...] | 2007-11-29 06:53:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1260 | New Guangdong, Guangxi Party Secretaries [...] (U) Summary: Key announcements affecting south China leadership were made over the weekend: former Chongqing Party Secretary Wang Yang has been appointed Guangdong Party Secretary while Guangxi Deputy Party Secretary Guo Shengkun will move up to become Party Secretary, replacing Liu Qibao, who [...] | 2007-12-03 07:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR CH |
07GUANGZHOU1265 | KMT Stumps for Votes at Dongguan TBA Celebration [...] (SBU) Summary: Clearly Dongguan in Guangdong Province - China's furniture capital, a city of 7-8 million people with over 6,000 Taiwan businesses - is rooting for Ma Ying-jeou and the Kuomintang in the 2008 Presidential elections in Taiwan. The 14th anniversary of the Dongguan Taiwan Business [...] | 2007-12-04 08:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EINV CH TW |
07GUANGZHOU1266 | Guangzhou Institute to Play Key Role in China's Stem Cell [...] (SBU) Summary: The Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health - in association with institutions in Shanghai and Beijing - will play a key role in China's national stem cell research strategy. Once limited by virtue of resources that could be expended, GIBH and others in China could now be i [...] | 2007-12-04 08:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO CH |
07GUANGZHOU1267 | Citigroup Turning Around Troubled Guangdong Development [...] (SBU) Summary: Citigroup has made impressive progress in turning around Guangdong Development Bank (GDB) in the year since it invested in the bank and installed new management. GDB predicts a profit of RMB 1.67 billion (about US$230 million) for 2007 after sizeable losses a year earlier. Howe [...] | 2007-12-05 23:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN CH |
07GUANGZHOU1270 | Vice Premier Wu Yi's Product Safety Parade Hits South [...] (SBU) Summary: With teams of inspectors scouring the path ahead, Vice Premier Wu Yi and a cast of hundreds (320 national and provincial officials to be exact) visited 11 Guangdong cities last week as part of the four-month national campaign on food safety and product quality. The Guangdong sit [...] | 2007-12-06 08:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1272 | Fujian Cross-Strait Scholars Predict Referendum Passage and [...] (SBU) Summary: The referendum on Taiwan joining the UN is likely to pass with possible serious consequences, according to cross-Strait scholars in Fujian's Xiamen and Fuzhou cities. They are concerned about actions Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian will take in the remaining months of his term [...] | 2007-12-07 07:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TW CH |
07GUANGZHOU1275 | The World's Factory Floor: Unions and Government [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Widespread reports of a labor shortage in the Pearl River Delta are exaggerated, according to representatives from the Guangdong Federation of Trade Unions (GDFTU) and local and provincial government labor officials. Union officials boasted both of portable pension schemes allo [...] | 2007-12-11 08:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1278 | China's New Labor Mediation Law Gets Mixed Reviews [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A new national draft law on labor dispute mediation and arbitration will significantly improve labor-employer relations, Guangdong provincial labor officials and lawyers told officials from the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS). AmCham South China members di [...] | 2007-12-13 08:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1279 | Guangdong's Season for Sickness: Possibilities for [...] (U) Summary: Findings from the December 8 Guangdong Department of Health conference on infectious disease outbreaks during the winter and spring seasons suggest that the risk of SARS is low, but there is the possibility for "sporadic" human avian influenza infection and/or reemergence of an ani [...] | 2007-12-14 06:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AMED CASC EAGR KFLU SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU128 | Efforts on Sanshui Port Closure Stymied, but Re-opening [...] (U) Summary: Members of an American Pyrotechnic Association (APA) delegation, the firework industry's main lobby group, told Congenoffs January 26 that the November 1 closure of Guangdong's Sanshui port, which handles approximately 60 percent of all fireworks shipments to the United States, c [...] | 2007-01-30 03:44:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EWWT PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1287 | The World's Factory Floor: A Tough Place to Work [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Migrant workers in Guangdong Province, especially in the Pearl River Delta, continue to confront a variety of work-related issues -- long work hours, low wages combined with inflation, and few opportunit [...] | 2007-12-17 07:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1288 | Xiamen Shuts Down Online Poll amidst Public Opposition to [...] (U) Summary: In the realm of make sure the response you get is the response you're looking for, the Xiamen city government-sponsored website - Xiamen Web - was shut down after an overwhelming number of online voters expressed opposition to the construction of a chemical plant near the center o [...] | 2007-12-17 08:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SENV ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU1301 | Making Themselves Heard: South China Christians in [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a few exceptions to the general rule of silence, especially in instances where Christian government and media officials help facilitate access, Christians in south China have recently enjoyed opportunities to talk (openly or obliquely) about their faith, according to Guangdong s [...] | 2007-12-27 05:48:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU1303 | Religious Freedom Varies for South China Expats [...] (C) SUMMARY: Control over expatriate churches in south China -- ranging from heavy-handed to laissez-faire -- suggests that local governments have considerable latitude in how to interpret regulations on the practice of religion. Expatriate church members in Guangzhou report strict Religious A [...] | 2007-12-28 08:20:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU147 | Nanning Activist Flees to Burma, Appears Safe for [...] (U) Classified by Consular Chief William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) On January 29, Nanning-based activist Li Xiaolong called Congenoff. Li, formerly of the Beijing group Empowerment and Rights Institute (reftel),said he had illegally crossed into Northeastern Burma, though the exact [...] | 2007-02-02 08:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU174 | Rights Protection Conferences are Useful, but [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: South China participants at the December Amnesty International-organized conference for rights activists (held in Hong Kong) called the event useful, but too brief and disorganized. None of the activists t [...] | 2007-02-07 07:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU175 | Civil Society in South China, Part I: Middle [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Urban professionals in Guangdong are becoming more aware of their rights and demanding more independent representation and associations to express their interests. The cities of Guangzhou and [...] | 2007-02-07 07:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU176 | Civil Society in South China, Part II: "NGO for [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: The three-year old NGO Institute for Civil Society (housed under Zhongshan University) was created to research, train, support, and network NGOs in Guangdong province. Started by Hong Kong academics and r [...] | 2007-02-07 07:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU182 | DAS Christensen?s Meetings on Cross-Strait [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-08 09:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU197 | Making Guangxi a Harmonious Society [...] (U) Summary: Guangxi leaders vow to create a harmonious society in 5 to 10 years through careful implementation of the 11th, and possibly the 12th, Five Year Plans. Leaders emphasized the need to increase urbanization and industrialization, improve rural conditions, and raise the standard of l [...] | 2007-02-13 08:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH NOTAG |
07GUANGZHOU198 | General Counsel Sullivan Visits South China to promote [...] (U) Summary: During a three day visit to South China, the U.S. Department of Commerce's General Counsel John Sullivan met with senior representatives of Guangdong Province, legal representatives and U.S. business representatives, raising U.S. concerns regarding transparency, legal processes, an [...] | 2007-02-13 08:44:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD BEXP ECON WTRO KIPR CH OCEA |
07GUANGZHOU200 | AmCham Explores Guangxi, Discovers Investment Opportunities [...] (U) SUMMARY: Provincial-level and city leaders in the Guangxi cities of Nanning, Liuzhou and Guilin told the Consul General, the President of the American Chamber of Commerce South China and a 72-person business delegation that Guangxi was open for foreign business trade and investment. The lea [...] | 2007-02-13 08:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PREL CH |
07GUANGZHOU206 | Fedex moving forward on South China Hub [...] (SBU) Summary. Fedex is moving strongly forward on both of its China hubs: one in Hangzhou for domestic operations and the other in Guangzhou to serve as its Asia Pacific Headquarters and international hub. A key draw for Guangzhou officials is the proven ability Fedex has demonstrated to att [...] | 2007-02-14 09:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV ETRD CH |
07GUANGZHOU208 | Tough to Talk About: TIP in South China [...] (SBU) Summary: Talking TIP is not a popular topic in South China. Many recent requests by the Consulate have been turned down in Guangxi and Guangdong. However, trafficking in persons, particularly of women, continues to occur from within China's inland provinces to South China, as well as f [...] | 2007-02-14 09:05:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU216 | South China View on Ma Ying-jeou Situation: Will [...] (SBU) Professor Zhang Wensheng, Deputy Director of the Political Research Office at Xiamen University's Taiwan Research Institute, told Congenoff February 14 that Taiwan's political scene will be "chaotic" in the aftermath of Ma Ying-jeou's indictment and resignation as KMT Chairman. Zhang be [...] | 2007-02-15 07:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI CH TW |
07GUANGZHOU223 | DAS Christensen's Meetings on Cross-Strait Issues [...] (C) SUMMARY: Official and academic contacts in Xiamen from the local Taiwan Affairs Office and the University's Taiwan research center told EAP DAS Thomas Christensen February 2 that overall they were cautiously optimistic about the future cross-Strait relations. They pointed to economic ties [...] | 2007-02-16 03:24:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI CH TW |
07GUANGZHOU224 | General Counsel Sullivan Visits South China to Promote [...] (U) Summary: During a three day visit to South China, the U.S. Department of Commerce's General Counsel John Sullivan met with senior representatives of Guangdong Province, legal representatives and U.S. business representatives, raising U.S. concerns regarding transparency, legal processes, an [...] | 2007-02-16 07:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD BEXP ECON WTRO KIPR CH OCEA |
07GUANGZHOU301 | The Labor Shortage in the Pearl River Delta [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the wake of the week-long lunar new year holiday, Guangdong's Pearl River Delta (PRD) businesses and governments are fretting about a labor shortage that has become more pronounced during the past few years. Migrant workers who left for the holiday are switching jobs, staying h [...] | 2007-03-05 09:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU310 | Avian Influenza: Guangdong Officials Quick to [...] (SBU) Guangdong Province officials denied the University of California- Irvine (UCI) report released on March 5 that the original and some subsequent strains of the H5N1 virus originated in Guangdong. The rapidity of the denial suggests the sensitivity of the issue, especially for a province w [...] | 2007-03-08 03:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU PREL CH |
07GUANGZHOU317 | The Tiger Sprints Ahead: ExxonMobil First Western Oil Major [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ExxonMobil became the first U.S. oil major to launch a fully integrated refining, petrochemicals, and fuels marketing joint venture in China with the signing of the contract on February, 25. Although Chinese partner Sinopec stated in the media that the company's ability to refin [...] | 2007-03-09 08:52:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PREF CH TW |
07GUANGZHOU322 | Guangdong Governor announces closure of Dongzhou incident [...] (SBU) Summary: Nearly ten months after Dongzhou villagers were sentenced for their role in a December 2005 violent riot in which protestors were killed by police, Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua announced at a press conference on the sidelines of the Chinese national Congress meeting that poli [...] | 2007-03-09 09:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
07GUANGZHOU344 | U.S. Companies in South China are Profitable; Labor and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: According to an AmCham-South China survey released on March 15, most U.S. investors in South China are profitable and planning further investments in 2007. Companies prefer Guangdong's Pearl River Delta (PRD) because of its large and relatively prosperous domestic ma [...] | 2007-03-16 06:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ELAB EINV WTRO CH |
07GUANGZHOU353 | Dongzhou Protests Flare Up Again [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Just days after Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua announced the closure of the December 2005 Dongzhou incident, Western media reported renewed protests by Dongzhou area villagers. Local government-hired thugs, backed by local police, fought with villagers who continued to protest [...] | 2007-03-19 09:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU357 | South China Migrant Worker NGO - Compensation, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Migrant worker health and labor rights NGO leader Jing Xiang told Congenoffs on March 2 that his Guangzhou-based group and PAS small grant recipient helps workers obtain work-injury compensation and facilitates legal aid for them in addition to organizing seminars to increase thei [...] | 2007-03-20 07:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU376 | USTR's Second IPR Provincial Review to South China [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A USTR-led delegation traveled to four cities in Fujian and Guangdong provinces March 12-15 to engage local leaders on IPR issues and raise specific areas of concern. Provincial and municipal-level officials seemed engaged in IPR issues and often said the right things, but their [...] | 2007-03-23 08:44:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
07GUANGZHOU377 | Let's Make a Deal: Slow Start for Cross Border Emissions [...] (SBU) Summary: The long-planned Guangdong-Hong Kong cross-border emissions trading pilot program was implemented on January 31, 2007. Despite years of cooperative planning between both regions' environmental protection bureaus, no deals have yet been struck. Furthermore, the plan has been met [...] | 2007-03-23 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU378 | NGO Leaders Discuss Barriers to the Growth of China's Civil [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: More than 20 NGO leaders and researchers gathered in Shenzhen on March 18 to discuss the challenges facing China's emerging civil society. NGOs struggle to gain the confidence of both the Chinese government, which is suspicious of their ties to foreign institutions, and the Chin [...] | 2007-03-23 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU398 | Villagers Clash with Construction Workers at Site of [...] (U) SUMMARY: One villager died and others were injured when a fight broke out between construction workers and villagers on Guanzhou island, the site of a planned biomedical industry park on the outskirts of Guangzhou. This incident comes one year after police arrested three villagers on the is [...] | 2007-03-28 09:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
07GUANGZHOU418 | Natural Gas in South China (Part 1 of 2): Delayed LNG Plans [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent progress in negotiations with Indonesia and other LNG suppliers suggest that the Chinese government has adjusted its expectations and renewed its interest in putting LNG projects back into the energy mix in South China. The government's unwillingness earlier to adjust nego [...] | 2007-04-02 10:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON EMIN SENV CH |
07GUANGZHOU419 | Natural Gas in South China (Part 2 of 2): Chinese Taking [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Chinese government has renewed efforts to diversify the nation's energy mix and improve the environment by bringing anticipated large offshore gas reserves in the South China Sea (which had previously been ignored, vented or flared) to production. As offshore oil and gas fie [...] | 2007-04-03 03:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EMIN ECON SENV KIPR CH |
07GUANGZHOU421 | McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut Under Fire for Wage [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut deny that they are violating any Chinese regulations with regard to payment to their employees, however they are consulting with local authorities to assure they are in compliance. The allegations of under payment, made in a recent article by a Gua [...] | 2007-04-03 08:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU449 | Fuzhou Church Thrives inside its Doors [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior members of the Christian Association in Fuzhou are positive about local church development and expansion of community outreach despite limits on promoting religious activities outside of the church. END SUMMARY 2. (U) On March 28, the Consul General and Consulate staff [...] | 2007-04-10 08:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV SOCI PHUM CH |
07GUANGZHOU450 | Changes in Fujian Human Smuggling Patterns [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fujian Border Control Police told the Consul General that that the number of cases of human smuggling to the United States via sea has fallen. Human smuggling out of Fujian Province has increasingly involved traveling directly to the United States with legitimate visas or travel [...] | 2007-04-10 08:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
07GUANGZHOU458 | Guangzhou International Christian Church Faces RAB [...] (C) SUMMARY: Guangzhou International Christian Fellowship (GICF) faces renewed pressure to move its location, but the Religious Authorities Bureau (RAB) has told prospective landlords that the fellowship is composed of troublemakers and advised them not to rent to them. The RAB appears concer [...] | 2007-04-13 04:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU460 | Seminary Lecturer Discusses Protestantism in Guangdong, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A lecturer at the Guangdong Union Theological Seminary provided an overview of the small but active provincial Protestant community. It has ties with U.S. and Hong Kong religious institutions and seeks to maintain good relations with the government. Local governments have encou [...] | 2007-04-13 08:49:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU462 | McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut Cleared by Labor Bureau, but [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: McDonald's and Yum! Brands are pleased that the Guangdong Labor and Social Security Bureau (LSS) investigation has cleared them of charges that they underpaid student part-time workers. The companies acted in accordance with regulations that exempt certain part-time student work [...] | 2007-04-13 10:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU475 | Draft Labor Contract Law: Companies are Concerned but [...] (U) SUMMARY: Most foreign companies with offices in South China have negative impressions of China's draft labor contract law, but few companies believe the law will significantly impact their growth plans in China, according to a survey jointly released on April 11 by Hewitt and Baker & McKenz [...] | 2007-04-17 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU484 | Canton Fair Adds Imports, Strengthens IPR Protection [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In a move that China's leaders say will help reduce the country's trade surplus, the Canton Fair - which in its first one hundred sessions dating back to the 1950s has focused solely on Chinese exports - showcased, for the first time, products that could be imported fro [...] | 2007-04-23 07:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON BEXP CH |
07GUANGZHOU485 | Fuzhou - Fraud Capital of China - (1 of 2) A Detailed Look [...] (SBU) Summary: An analysis of the past year's immigrant visa statistics, discussions with other units and consulates, and a deluge of unsolicited tips still point to the Fuzhou area of Fujian province (Fuzhou, Changle, Mawei, Lianjiang, Fuqing, and Putian) as the capital of visa fraud and illeg [...] | 2007-04-23 10:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT ASEC CVIS KFRD CH KCRM INL HSTC |
07GUANGZHOU486 | Fuzhou Alien Smuggler's advice - study in the U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Through an aggressive outreach program, Post actively encourages Chinese students to attend colleges and universities in the United States. However, Post continues to encounter well-organized attempts by visa brokers and snakeheads to send applicants, primarily from Fujian, to t [...] | 2007-04-24 01:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT ASEC CVIS KFRD CH KCRM INL HSTC |
07GUANGZHOU487 | Fuzhou - Fraud Capital of China (2 of 2): 3 Days in Fuzhou [...] (SBU) Summary: A Conoff from Guangzhou's Fraud Prevention Unit and a LES Investigator visited Fuzhou from January 29-31, performing 14 immigrant-visa field investigations. Of the 14, 12 were confirmed to involve fraud and one applicant could not be located. In many cases, neighbors and village [...] | 2007-04-24 01:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT ASEC CVIS KFRD CH KCRM INL HSTC |
07GUANGZHOU494 | Guangdong IPR White Paper: Criminal Cases, Case Transfers, [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guangdong's 2006 intellectual property rights (IPR) white paper cites specific efforts against infringement in the audio-visual industry, improved coordination between Customs and PSB, and four new IPR complaint centers for the public. Guangdong courts concluded 113 IPR-related cr [...] | 2007-04-26 08:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
07GUANGZHOU498 | Copyright Infringement at the Canton and Jinhan Fairs [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives from U.S. and Canadian art publishing companies noticed a slight decline in the number of infringing vendors at the Canton Fair on April 25, but spotted numerous repeat offenders. The overall reduction likely owes more to current market trends than IPR enforcemen [...] | 2007-04-27 07:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD CH |
07GUANGZHOU499 | South China Leadership Changes; Political Highlights [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong Party Secretary Zhang Dejiang is poised to move to Beijing to become a Vice Premier and current Beijing Mayor Wang Qishan may become the next Guangdong Party Secretary. Beijing, which has long had reservations about whether Guangdong's leaders serve central government i [...] | 2007-04-27 07:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU505 | Guangzhou Police Raid Underground Church, Seek [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a leader of the local Li Jiang Fellowship church, the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau (PSB) raided her underground church on April 22. PSB officials disrupted the gathering of 100 churchgoers gathering in a local restaurant and warned church leaders to cease holding [...] | 2007-04-27 09:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV SOCI PHUM CH |
07GUANGZHOU52 | Human Rights: Guo Feixiong Finally Allowed Legal [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On January 8, legal activist Guo Feixiong (arrested on September 28) was allowed to retain legal counsel according to fellow rights protection activist Tang Jingling. Tang believes Guo's case, [...] | 2007-01-09 09:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU526 | Xiamen Researchers Say Little Change in Taiwan [...] (C) Summary and comment: Scholars at Xiamen University?s Taiwan Research Institute told the Ambassador April 17 that they believed there would be little change in Taiwan?s policy toward the mainland regardless which party wins the presidential campaign. In their view, it would be neither as [...] | 2007-05-09 06:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CH TW |
07GUANGZHOU527 | Dell China: Expanding Amid Concerns of Growing [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with the Ambassador, executives from Dell-China took note of the critical importance of China to Dell?s future operations in the Asia-Pacific region, expressed confidence in their ability to continue building market share and discussed Dell?s expansion plans, especiall [...] | 2007-05-09 06:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU543 | South China Pig Deaths Raise Safety Concerns [...] (SBU) Summary: An epidemic outbreak in pigs in rural Guangdong, caused by porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV),has killed several hundred pigs in Guangdong's Yunfu Prefecture and the county-level-city of Gaoyao since late April. The Prefectural Government excluded the po [...] | 2007-05-10 08:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU544 | Land and Corruption Blamed for Gurao Riots [...] (SBU) Summary: Riots over land sales and disputes over ownership in Gurao Town, in east Guangdong in early May underline again the fragile state of the social compact in the rapidly changing, oft-times corrupt south China environment. Local angry farmers in more than a dozen villages reportedl [...] | 2007-05-10 08:57:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI EAGR EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU556 | Guangdong's Pharmaceutical Professional Association Strives [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Guangdong Pharmaceutical Professional Association (GPPA) disclosed that in 2006 it issued a self-regulatory code of standards for the local pharmaceutical sector in the province. GPPA's code appears to be an attempt to preempt Provincial Government investigation and sanction [...] | 2007-05-15 00:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO ECON ETRD SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU559 | Transportation Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guangdong planners hope to spur development in the western Pearl River Delta (PRD) and create a more sustainable development model by expanding and integrating the PRD transportation network. They aim to create an A-shaped network that links both sides of the delta and integrate t [...] | 2007-05-15 07:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELTN KTDB CH |
07GUANGZHOU562 | Guangzhou's Software Industry: Perspectives from a [...] (U) Summary: The development of Guangdong Province's software industry has been a key priority in recent years for China's Ministries of Commerce, Information Industry, and Education, among others. Guangzhou has emerged as a focal point for the establishment of the province's leading software [...] | 2007-05-15 08:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINT TSPL CH |
07GUANGZHOU564 | Transportation Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guangdong will initiate 62 major transportation infrastructure projects by 2010, requiring an estimated investment of RMB 550 billion (USD 71.5 billion). Projects planned for Guangdong's Pearl River Delta (PRD) include 17 expressways, a fourth and fifth rail line linking Guangzhou [...] | 2007-05-15 09:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELTN KTDB CH |
07GUANGZHOU58 | Human Rights: Guo Feixiong Charges to be Dropped [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Arrested legal activist Guo Feixiong could have his charges of "illegal business procedure" dropped, though new more serious charges might be added instead (leading to possible house arrest),according to [...] | 2007-01-11 03:19:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU589 | Townspeople Riot Over Family Planning Abuses in [...] (C) SUMMARY: Thousands of people in Bobai County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, set fire to government buildings and vehicles and attacked family planning officials in response to alleged abuses, according to Hong Kong and foreign media. Some reports state that five people died in the cla [...] | 2007-05-22 09:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU603 | CSR in the Classroom and on the Factory Floor [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Domestic factories are struggling to comply with multiple responsibilities that can complement one another but that may at times also be at variance with one another: their buyers' corporate social responsibility (CSR) codes of conduct and with government regulations on wages and [...] | 2007-05-24 09:09:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU608 | Guangxi Officials Downplay Family Planning Riots [...] (C) Guangxi officials and Mainland media acknowledged the violence in Bobai County almost a week after the incidents occurred, playing down the severity and extent of the riots. On May 24, Yulin Municipal Government spokesman Guo Chengqiu denied reports of fatalities, estimated that the large [...] | 2007-05-25 08:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU61 | Going Mobile in Heyuan [...] (U) Summary: The northeastern Guangdong city of Heyuan was recently named by provincial authorities as a "Mobile Phone Manufacturing Base" - the first in the province. Discussion at December 2006 conference held at the Heyuan Hi-Tech Development Zone centered on the city's plans to become a c [...] | 2007-01-12 05:47:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU618 | Guangxi: Trafficking on the Vietnam Border [...] (U) SUMMARY and COMMENT: Trafficking of sex workers and spouses from Vietnam continues but cooperation between the Vietnam diplomats and Chinese authorities is good, according to Nanning-based Vietnam Consulate General. A China-announced repatriation center for Vietnamese trafficked victims, [...] | 2007-05-30 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI PGOV ECON CH |
07GUANGZHOU620 | Xiamen Government Suspends Chemical Project After Public [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Xiamen government suspended, but did not cancel, plans for the construction of a large chemical plant near the city center after residents planned a large protest and the story was covered by the mainland and Hong Kong media. The Taiwan-invested paraxylene plant, which the Xi [...] | 2007-05-31 08:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PHUM ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU622 | SOUTH CHINA OUTWARD INVESTMENT IN 2006 [...] (U) Summary: In 2006, Chinese overseas investment surged by 32 percent and reached USD 16 billion, according to China's Ministry of Commerce. Last year Guangdong Province, which accounted for USD 600 million in total overseas investment, was first in the country again. The number of Guangdon [...] | 2007-06-01 00:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO ECON EINV ETRD CH |
07GUANGZHOU624 | Fuzhou Hospital Struggles With Drug-Resistant TB and [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fuzhou Lung Diseases Hospital emphasizes increased training and public education to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. The growing drug-resistance of infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis, and the large number of migrant patients continue to challenge prevention a [...] | 2007-06-01 05:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU627 | South China's Economy in 2006: The World's Factory Floor in [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Despite Chinese central government efforts to rein in economic growth rates and tighten macroeconomic controls, South China's economy surged ahead in 2006. Guangdong Province (paragraphs 5-23) led the pack in almost all areas - gross domestic product (GDP),growth rate [...] | 2007-06-01 06:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH |
07GUANGZHOU631 | A CLEANER GUANGDONG FACES MORE SEVERE POWER SHORTAGES THIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangdong continues to be confronted by severe power shortages this summer. The provincial government's plan to lower local air pollution discharges and shut down small power stations has been affected by the shortages; rolling blackouts have been applied in different areas, ma [...] | 2007-06-03 23:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV ECON KTDB CH |
07GUANGZHOU640 | Guangxi: HIV/AIDS Programs on the Vietnam Border [...] (U) SUMMARY: Consul General and USAID Bangkok Health officer visited the cities of Dongxing and Pingxiang in Guangxi to take a look at and support USG-assisted HIV/AIDS projects along the border between China and Vietnam. Although small in scale, the projects serve two purposes: to provide o [...] | 2007-06-04 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV ECON CH |
07GUANGZHOU655 | South China Analysts Criticize Government's Handling of [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of the plunge in stock prices on the mainland, South China commentators and academics complain that central authorities showed a disappointing, but all too common, lack of transparency before unexpectedly tripling the stamp duty on share trades on May 30. Analys [...] | 2007-06-08 06:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CH |
07GUANGZHOU662 | UPDATE ON NEW CONSULATE COMPOUND: GUANGZHOU URBAN PLANNING [...] (SBU) Acting Admin Officer and Guangzhou Design Institute (GZDI) met with the Director for Consular Affairs of the Guangzhou Foreign Affairs Office Luo Jun and members of the Guangzhou Urban Planning Office (UPO) on June 6 to discuss UPO's proposed design changes of the NCC. Prior to the meet [...] | 2007-06-08 09:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABLD AMGT CH |
07GUANGZHOU663 | Energy Efficiency Conference in Guangzhou Provides [...] (U) Under a U.S.-China cooperation program supported by USD 1.8 million in USAID funding - and convened by Guangzhou's Sun Yat-Sen University School of Law with the Vermont Law School and the Institute for Sustainable Communities - more than 200 government officials, scholars, and business rep [...] | 2007-06-11 08:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG PGOV PREL CH |
07GUANGZHOU669 | RUSSIA RETURNS TO GUANGZHOU AFTER ABSENCE OF 45 YEARS [...] (SBU) Russia's recently arrived Consul General in Guangzhou, Sergei Kotov, the son and grandson of Russian diplomats and sinologists, has a big job ahead of him - renovating the old Soviet-era consulate building abandoned these past 45 years, signing contracts for a diplomatic office with an u [...] | 2007-06-12 07:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OFDP PREL RS CH |
07GUANGZHOU670 | South China Airports: Capacity Shortage, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: To meet the rapidly mounting demands of passengers and cargo transportation, major civil airports in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region are gearing up to upgrade their infrastructure and service. Fierce competition is expected as both airports and airlines compete for a bigger [...] | 2007-06-12 07:28:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON CH HK |
07GUANGZHOU681 | Airline Expansion in South China [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rich and populous South China has become an air traffic hotspot. To win market share, airlines in the region are sharpening their competitive edge by opening new routes, buying more aircraft, and expanding cooperation with other airlines. As the Chinese Government deregulates [...] | 2007-06-13 08:47:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON CH HK |
07GUANGZHOU695 | Guangdong Discusses Anti-Corruption Efforts with Visiting [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Guangdong government is targeting its anti-corruption efforts in the areas of land transaction and commercial development, according to Guangdong officials who met with a U.S. delegation from the bilateral Anti-Corruption Working Group. China's largest construction bidding c [...] | 2007-06-15 06:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
07GUANGZHOU699 | Alleged Labor Violations at Mainland Headwear [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the release of the PlayFair 2008 report, "No Medal For the Olympics on Labour Rights," and media reports of alleged labor violations at four Pearl River Delta (PRD) factories, Congenoff visited one Shenzhen factory cited in the report - Mainland Headwear Holdings Limit [...] | 2007-06-15 08:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU701 | South China EPB Structural Deficiencies Hurt Enforcement [...] (U) Environmental accidents and major polluting discharges occur with all too frequent regularity in south China, the result of a failure to enforce existing regulations and to punish those who profit by ignoring public health and welfare. Even with increased media attention and campaigns by a [...] | 2007-06-17 23:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU716 | Embassy IPR Attache Cohen Visits Shenzhen, Guangzhou to [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Shenzhen People's Congress is revising its technical secrets rule and drafting a new IPR code, and the Shenzhen and Guangdong Intellectual Property Offices (IPOs) will seek meetings with USPTO in the United States this summer, officials told Embassy Senior IPR Attache Mark Co [...] | 2007-06-21 06:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD CH |
07GUANGZHOU717 | Alleged Labor Violations at Yue Wing Cheong [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Congenoff's visit to a second mainland Chinese company (Yue Wing Cheong Manufacturing) cited in PlayFair 2008's report ("No Medal For the Olympics on Labour Rights") led to conclusions similar to those from his visit to Mainland Headwear (reftel). Yue Wing Cheong clearly has pr [...] | 2007-06-22 02:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
07GUANGZHOU720 | Environmental Training Helps Local Officials [...] (U) Embassy Science Fellow (ESF) provided environmental permit training on May 14 to Shenzhen Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) experts in response to Pearl River Delta environmental authorities' concerns over deficiencies in their enforcement program. ESF explained how the U.S. EPA uses [...] | 2007-06-25 00:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU722 | Gurao Protest Follow-up: Protests Against Illegal Land [...] (U) SUMMARY: Factories in Gurao, Guangdong - China's largest underwear manufacturing base - continue to operate without incident despite May protests by hundreds of nearby villagers who claimed village officials profited from illegal land sales. Villagers continue to engage in low-level prote [...] | 2007-06-26 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ELAB EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU742 | Anatomy of a Demonstration: Xiamen Middle Class Organizes [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Among the thousands of people who demonstrated against a planned petrochemical project in Xiamen on June 1-2, most were young and middle-class and organized themselves through cell phone text messages, according to Xiamen residents. A disgruntled anti-corruption official reporte [...] | 2007-06-28 08:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU751 | South China IPR: U.S. Companies Train Guangdong Customs How [...] (U) Summary: At a recent post-organized seminar, five U.S. companies and a music industry association trained 70 working-level officials from Guangdong Customs on ways to distinguish genuine products from counterfeits. The companies highlighted recent trends in manufacturing and exporting. Gu [...] | 2007-07-02 07:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD CH |
07GUANGZHOU753 | IPR Roundtables on Apparel and Sporting Goods: Legal [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China's IPR regulations are vague and its enforcement agencies are weak, according to apparel and sporting-goods companies as well as U.S. and Chinese lawyers. The IPR enforcement efforts of most companies are primarily focused on shutting down domestic IPR violators and prevent [...] | 2007-07-02 08:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD CH |
07GUANGZHOU766 | Gender, Age, Beauty and "Unlucky Name" Discrimination [...] SUMMARY: Students, officials and professors at several South Chinese universities lamented the failure of China's new Labor Contract Law (ref) to eliminate discrimination based on gender, age, and, of all things, beauty, the latter a requirement that usually includes a minimum height. The fema [...] | 2007-07-05 08:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM SOCI SCUL PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU767 | CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE: CHINESE AQUACULTURE COMPANY AFFECTED [...] (U) SUMMARY: A LARGE GUANGDONG SHRIMP EXPORTER EXPECTS ITS REVENUES TO FALL BY 40 PERCENT FOLLOWING THE RECENT FDA ANNOUNCEMENT TO DETAIN SHRIMP AND OTHER SEAFOOD FROM CHINA. THE FDA MEASURE, AS WELL AS BAD PRESS FROM OTHER FOOD SAFETY SCANDALS, IS ACCELERATING A TREND TOWARD NON-U.S. EXPORT [...] | 2007-07-06 01:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ECIN CH |
07GUANGZHOU785 | Devouring Dragon, Disappearing Tigers: A Look at South [...] (U) SUMMARY: China has launched a number of conservation efforts to save the remaining tigers in China, including the nearly extinct South China tiger. However, the demand for tiger products persists, much of it related to the vaunted health, medicinal and preservative qualities of the tiger; [...] | 2007-07-12 01:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV EINV KIPR CH |
07GUANGZHOU786 | Slow Progress in a Tough Neighborhood: Economic and [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: This cable by Guangzhou's departing Economic/Political Section Chief is a brief look at south China after four years, how it has developed economically, the pluses and minuses, challenges and potential, where it's going in the future. The Pluses: South China and part [...] | 2007-07-12 05:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU787 | Devouring Dragon, Disappearing Tigers: A Look at South [...] (U) SUMMARY: China has launched a number of conservation efforts to save the remaining tigers in China, including the nearly extinct South China tiger. However, the demand for tiger products persists, much of it related to the vaunted health, medicinal and preservative qualities of the tiger; [...] | 2007-07-12 05:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV EINV KIPR CH |
07GUANGZHOU788 | Foreign Law Firms in China: Take Your Shoes Off and Stay [...] (SBU) One year after the Shanghai Lawyer's Association petitioned for greater restrictions on foreigners practicing law in China, foreign legal experts in South China say the government has not imposed any new restrictive measures on foreign law firms. Nevertheless, protectionist sentiment may [...] | 2007-07-12 09:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ECON EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU789 | South China's Judicial System: Corrupt? Lacking Experience? [...] (SBU) Summary: Procedural and structural flaws continue to impede the progress of China's judicial system, according to south China legal experts. Oral testimony, a key to perjury trials and many arbitral disputes, remains largely unreliable and thus, underutilized. Increased judicial activi [...] | 2007-07-12 09:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ECON EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU790 | Regulatory Climate in South China: Not All Investment Is [...] (SBU) Summary: Regulatory issues, particularly those relating to administrative discretion, are the biggest impediments to foreign direct investment (FDI) in South China, according to legal professionals and businesspeople. Foreign investors encounter more obstacles when establishing local op [...] | 2007-07-12 10:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD WTRO CH |
07GUANGZHOU795 | Bountiful Harvests: A Look at Cross-Strait Agricultural [...] (U) SUMMARY: Agricultural goods produced in Taiwan? Produced in China with Taiwan seeds by Taiwan farmers? Produced in China with Taiwan seeds by Chinese farmers claiming to be Taiwan farmers? Produced in China with Chinese seeds claiming that the produce was a Taiwan product or "Grown in Tai [...] | 2007-07-13 08:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PREL ECON ETRD TW CH KIPR |
07GUANGZHOU797 | Guo Feixiong's Trial and Current Status [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Democracy activist Guo Feixiong stood trial July 9 on charges of "illegal business activity," but the content and nature of the proceedings belied the political character of his prosecution. Guo [...] | 2007-07-13 09:05:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR CH |
07GUANGZHOU806 | China Rule of Law: Improving Legal Efficiency [...] (U) SUMMARY: In late June conversations with local judges, academics, and lawyers in Guangdong Province, Embassy Beijing Resident Legal Advisor Ronald Cheng discussed ways to improve the efficiency of legal process, responded to inquiries about U.S. legal culture, and the problems related to le [...] | 2007-07-16 07:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS CH |
07GUANGZHOU832 | Pearl River Flotsam and Jetsam, July 24, 2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is the first in a series of periodic cables that will feature snapshots of the Guangzhou consular district. We expect to cover items that are timely for Washington consideration but at this point, do not merit fuller treatment. We are, of course, willing to take a second lo [...] | 2007-07-24 05:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PINR SENV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU836 | Consumer Product Safety in South China [...] (U) SUMMARY: At a time when the safety and quality of goods being exported from China -- not just to the U.S. but elsewhere in the world, from the Philippines to Europe -- has been called into question, foreign companies in this consular district, especially in the Pearl River Delta, are lookin [...] | 2007-07-25 07:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN EINV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU837 | International Standards a Challenge for Many Chinese [...] (U) SUMMARY: As challenging as it may be at times for U.S. companies to get a grip on the changing scene here in South China in terms of consumer safety, it is probably a factor several times greater in terms of difficulty for Chinese companies wishing to export to the United States. They are [...] | 2007-07-25 07:46:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN EINV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU848 | Wal-Mart Discusses Product Safety and Business in China [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Wal-Mart China employs a robust quality assurance program to maintain high standards for the goods it sells. Within China, Wal-Mart is in the vanguard of product safety, utilizing a multi-layer system including producer inspection and education, cooperation with local government [...] | 2007-07-27 05:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU849 | Wal-Mart Discusses Product Safety on a Global Scale [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As part of our series on consumer product safety, we paid a visit to Wal-Mart's Global Procurement team to discuss the company's Quality Assurance program and ways in which its work should assure an increasingly skeptical foreign market about the firm's ability to mon [...] | 2007-07-27 05:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU850 | Foreign Banks: Optimistic About Profits, but Face Hurdles [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fierce competition from Chinese banks, a constantly changing regulatory environment, and difficulties in working with Chinese shareholders are the key challenges confronted by local government and foreign bankers in south China. Despite their concerns, the foreign banking communit [...] | 2007-07-27 05:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | WTRO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU851 | Guangdong Overseas Chinese Businessmen's Association Stands [...] (SBU) Summary: In a conversation with the Consul General on July 26, the new head of the Guangdong Overseas Chinese Businessmen's Association, Zhou Zerong, said that the provincial government, with central government backing, had decided that the new organization was necessary to link together [...] | 2007-07-27 07:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU86 | Hainan Province Q3 Economic Report [...] (U) SUMMARY: Hainan continued its strong growth in the first three quarters of 2006 with GDP growth of 12.1% - particularly in the manufacturing sector - exceeding the national growth rate of 10.7%. The completion of the Yangpu refinery boosted the island province's oil refining capability by [...] | 2007-01-19 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH |
07GUANGZHOU862 | Have You Heard? China Slashes VAT Refunds [...] (SBU) Summary: What's the impact on local companies in the region of the July 1 cut/elimination of export tax rebates on almost 3,000 products? Local companies are unanimous: the price of most goods imported from China just went up. Even so, foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) here are not c [...] | 2007-07-30 08:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN EINV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU863 | HR Issues in South China -- The New Labor Contract Law and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Employers clearly emerged as "victors" in the labor contract law open comment vetting process, with the relaxation of several obligations that had been in the original draft, especially the requirement that they "seek approval from" their employees. Low-end manufactu [...] | 2007-07-30 08:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | WTRO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU87 | Fujian Province Q3 Economic Report [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fujian continued its robust economic growth in the third quarter (Q3) of 2006 despite the negative effects of natural disasters. Fujian's 12.5% gross domestic product (GDP) growth was fueled by the manufacturing and service sectors, exceeding the national Q3 GDP growth rate of 10 [...] | 2007-01-19 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH |
07GUANGZHOU870 | Amway or the Highway: QA in a Risky Business Environment [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Amway is confident that its Quality Assurance (QA) program enhances the quality and safety of its products. As in its dealings with Wal-mart, the Chinese government seeks Amway's advice on ways to elevate safety standards and educate Chinese companies. Across-the- [...] | 2007-08-01 07:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU88 | Guangzhou Baiyun Development Forum: Promotion of [...] SUMMARY: Guangzhou's Baiyun District is stepping up efforts to develop its bio-technology, real estate, and logistics sectors. Officials will focus on developing the industrial zone surrounding the new Baiyun International Airport, strengthening the bio-medical and bio-engineering sectors, an [...] | 2007-01-19 08:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON TBIO KTDB EAIR EIND EINV CH |
07GUANGZHOU887 | MATTEL IN CHINA: THE GOLD STANDARD IN TOY MANUFACTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Mattel officials at the company's Dongguan factory - about an hour south of Guangzhou - told Ambassador Alan Holmer, the Special Envoy to China for the Strategic Economic Dialogue, that a new vendor used fake testing certificates to surreptitiously introduce lead paint into the [...] | 2007-08-07 07:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | WTRO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU888 | "We Feed Waste, Not Oil" [...] SUMMARY: Guangzhou GISE-MBA New Plastics Technology General Manager Eric Wang and MBA Polymers Operations Manager Ron Rau told Special Envoy to China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue Ambassador Alan F. Holmer during a visit to their factory that the economies of scale have made them an effic [...] | 2007-08-07 07:23:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | WTRO ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU889 | Microfinance Poised to Fill Gaps Ignored By Banking Sector [...] (U) SUMMARY: Extending financial services to China's rural poor continues to be an uphill battle with seemingly distant rewards. While foreign banks hope that WTO-driven reforms will allow greater access to China's "nouveau riche," there is no great clamor to extend services to the countryside [...] | 2007-08-07 07:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU891 | HHS Delegation Views Aquaculture Industry in China's [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chinese officials emphasized to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) delegation touring the shrimp-processing industry in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province on August 3 their hope that the visit would help to ease or remove the current import alert on shrimp and other [...] | 2007-08-08 06:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIS TBIO PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU897 | Mentoring: The Guangzhou Way [...] (U) Summary: Nearly all 25 Entry Level Professionals at Congen Guangzhou serve in the consular section but the intent of management - and the desire of the ELPs - is to provide a varied experience, with mentoring integrated into every aspect of work. The Congen, mostly through a dynamic ELP w [...] | 2007-08-09 08:46:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | APER CMGT CH |
07GUANGZHOU911 | Chinese Inspectors Blame U.S. Media and Unlicensed [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangzhou Technical Supervision Bureau (TSB) Deputy Director General Liu Shu Biao blamed an overly negative U.S. media and unlicensed workshops for China's recent spate of high-profile product safety recalls. Despite the defensiveness of his remarks, he said that the central gov [...] | 2007-08-15 09:19:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU937 | Rural Finance Case Study: Changjiang County Hainan Province [...] (U) SUMMARY: In Changjiang County, Hainan Province, a local branch of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) delivers small loans to assist poor farmers. The branch has experienced non-repayment problems rooted in inadequately trained staff and clients accustomed to government han [...] | 2007-08-22 08:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ECIN PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU946 | Guangzhou -- A Hub for the Illegal Drug Trade [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an unusually candid late July meeting, senior provincial and municipal anti-drug officers briefed Poloff on the rising tide of drug trafficking in Guangdong Province. Centered on Guangzhou, growing numbers of foreign drug dealers and traffickers -- many from Africa and the Mid [...] | 2007-08-23 08:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU952 | Export Processing in the PRD Hit with New Deposit [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 23, China started requiring export processing firms to pay large deposits, which could have a substantial negative impact on businesses in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Hong Kong and Taiwan industry associations in southern China have expressed serious concerns about th [...] | 2007-08-24 08:09:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
07GUANGZHOU962 | Human Rights: Guo Feixiong May Stand Trial Again; [...] (U) Classified by Acting Principal Officer Mike Jacobsen. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: The trial of Guo Feixiong, previously thought to have ended, has been placed on hold to allow investigators additional time to turn up new evidence. A new trial date, if granted, would likely be in lat [...] | 2007-08-29 08:09:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU966 | Guangdong Cosmetics Manufacturers Reacting to Consumer [...] (U) SUMMARY: Cosmetics manufacturers in southern China are acutely aware of heightened consumer product safety concerns. One manufacturer told congenoffs that local authorities lack capacity to enforce safety and quality standards. However, some firms are taking steps on their own to help fore [...] | 2007-08-30 00:41:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU993 | CHINA'S NEW PRODUCT SAFETY REGULATIONS DELAY EXPORTS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: A U.S. manufacturer in Guangzhou contacted ConGen Guangzhou after exports to the United States were delayed at the port due to new inspection requirements. After an initially haphazard approach, the Chinese inspectors focused on ensuring the quality and safety of the raw materia [...] | 2007-08-31 08:41:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
07GUANGZHOU997 | Pearl River Flotsam and Jetsam, September 5, 2007 [...] (U) SUMMARY: This is the second in a series of periodic cables that will feature snapshots of the Guangzhou consular district. Highlights of this installment include: official anger and apathy over food and product safety; an ambitious labor lawyer; an anniversary for China Southern Airlines; P [...] | 2007-09-05 02:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAIR ECON PINR EFIN PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU1 | Shenzhen Development Bank Forging New Territory with [...] (SBU) Summary: Shenzhen Development Bank (SDB),the first company to list publicly in China, is working closely with Chinese regulators to clarify untested regulations governing China's financial system especially as they relate to proprietary information, according to the bank's American chair [...] | 2008-01-02 08:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU104 | Attack on Labor Activist - Consul General Expresses U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: At the request of Embassy Beijing, the Consul General Goldberg formally expressed U.S. concern about the physical attack on Huang Qingnan, the Director of Dongzhe Work Safety and Health Center, to Guangdong provincial officials. He urged them to look into Huang's case as well as [...] | 2008-02-20 05:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM CH |
08GUANGZHOU105 | Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Major Economic, Social, and [...] (U) Summary: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a strong economic, social, and cultural foothold in south China, with Guangdong leading the way in total TCM revenue and product output. "Guangdong Liang Cha", for example, an herbal tea, is becoming a national phenomenon and chasing Coca Cola [...] | 2008-02-20 05:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO ECON SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU113 | Avian Influenza Update: One Death Reported in Guangxi [...] (U) A Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region man has died of avian influenza (AI),according to the Health Ministry. The Ministry said the patient was a 41-year-old unemployed man (surnamed Liang) from Xi Xiang Tang District in Nanning, the capital city of Guangxi. Liang developed symptoms on Februa [...] | 2008-02-22 08:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAGR CASC AMED AMGT PINR CH |
08GUANGZHOU119 | Avian Influenza Update: Human Case Reported in Guangdong [...] (U) Summary: The Chinese Government notified Embassy Beijing, Consulate Guangzhou and foreign governments of another suspected human case of avian influenza (AI),this time in Guangdong Province. A 44-year-old female migrant worker fell ill on February 16 after exposure to sick and dead poult [...] | 2008-02-25 09:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAGR CASC AMED AMGT PINR CH |
08GUANGZHOU121 | Coping with Rising Costs in South China -- Foreign [...] (SBU) Summary: Companies in south China told visiting congressional staffer David Lloyd that they are taking different approaches to deal with rising production costs in the Pearl River Delta. Wal-Mart executives said that they are working to develop long-term relationships with suppliers that [...] | 2008-02-27 01:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EINV ECON OVIP CH |
08GUANGZHOU132 | Guangzhou IPR Update for Special 301 Review [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a few successes in intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement efforts over the last year, the overall climate for U.S. owners of intellectual property (IP) has not significantly improved. Moreover, law enforcement cooperation has noticeably deteriorated since the las [...] | 2008-03-02 23:40:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON WTRO PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU135 | Guangdong's Migrant Worker NPC Delegate: Looking for [...] (U) Social security, education for migrant workers' children and the welfare of migrant workers in general are critical issues for South China's workers, according to Guangdong's migrant worker representative to the National People's Congress (NPC) Hu Xiaoyan. Hu, who was not among the original [...] | 2008-03-04 08:20:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PINR PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU139 | Background of Recent Fujian Chemical Plant Protests [...] (U) Summary: Fears that a proposed chemical plant could endanger their livelihood spurred approximately 10,000 residents of Dongshan Island, Fujian Province, to protest the project, according to media reports. The protests, which began February 29 and culminated in the vandalism of local gover [...] | 2008-03-05 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PHUM ECON PGOV EINV TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU146 | Product Safety Testing, Booming Business in South China [...] (SBU) Summary: Business is booming for product testing firms in south China. With heightened awareness of product safety risks among manufacturers and stricter enforcement by Chinese authorities, testing firms anticipate continued rapid growth and in some instances are literally working around [...] | 2008-03-10 08:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU147 | A Generation Left Behind - Migrant Education in the Pearl [...] (U) Summary: How successful have Chinese government and educational officials been in meeting one of the major societal challenges confronting them, i.e., the care and training of the tens of millions of children of the migrant workers who have driven China's economic boom? Clearly the childr [...] | 2008-03-11 07:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM |
08GUANGZHOU148 | Shenzhen Heparin Maker Emphasizes Differences with [...] (U) Summary: Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical Co. - recently the focus of a Wall Street Journal article - clearly takes product safety very seriously and is anxious to reassure visitors about its quality assurance and supply control procedures. The only heparin producer in China to receive U.S [...] | 2008-03-11 08:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO SOCI ECON PGOV PREL CH |
08GUANGZHOU154 | Hundreds of birds culled in Guangzhou; correlation to avian [...] (U) Summary: Following the unexplained death of over 100 chickens in the Liwan district of Guangzhou, hundreds more birds have been culled as a preventive measure to control the spread of what could be an avian influenza outbreak. With samples currently being tested in local labs, final result [...] | 2008-03-14 06:57:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
08GUANGZHOU158 | GUANGZHOU GOVERNMENT OFFERS FOIA WITH CHINESE [...] (U) SUMMARY: A groundbreaking 2007 Guangzhou law ordering government to share information with the public is imperfect but represents an important development in official transparency. Though the law theoretically gives individuals the right to have their queries answered promptly and at no cos [...] | 2008-03-17 06:05:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU159 | Sharing Information to Resolve IPR Issues [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-17 08:46:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO SCUL KIPR PGOV PINR WTRO ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU16 | Guangdong Province Planning Seven High-Speed Rail Lines [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong Province plans to build seven new high-speed rail lines; three are already under construction. All of the projects are government funded, although private companies can bid on construction contracts. One official speculated that manufacturing and real estate industrie [...] | 2008-01-06 23:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN PINR SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU160 | Dead birds in Guangzhou confirmed positive for H5N1 virus, [...] (U) Summary: The National Influenza Reference Laboratory has confirmed that the March 13 death of 114 chickens in a Guangzhou poultry market was the result of the H5N1 virus (avian influenza). Guangdong authorities have increased disinfection and monitoring efforts. The infected birds have been [...] | 2008-03-17 08:46:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
08GUANGZHOU168 | SPEAKING OUT AT THE CPPCC: NINE DRAGONS CEO ZHANG YAN URGES [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 19 conversation with the Consul General, Nine Dragons dynamic CEO Zhang Yan said that she had been moved to offer suggestions to the government on the Labor Contract Law, taxes on the well-to-do and import incentives for energy efficient/environmentally friendly machiner [...] | 2008-03-20 06:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EINV ECON SENV PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU170 | Taiwan Elections: South China Scholar Calls Both Candidates [...] (SBU) Summary: Though Ma Ying-jeou is heavily favored by south China experts to win in the upcoming Taiwan elections, a victory by either of the leading candidates, in their view, would improve cross-Strait relations. In spite of efforts by Taiwan Businesmen Associations to encourage their mem [...] | 2008-03-20 08:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU171 | HUAWEI SAYS 3COM PLANS STILL UNCERTAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Huawei Technologies' plans on whether to resubmit a bid for Massachusetts-based 3Com Corporation remain unclear, according to senior executives. Expressing frustration with the approval process, one senior executive wondered if Huawei had been singled out by the U.S. government. [...] | 2008-03-21 08:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC EINV ECPS ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU173 | GUANGZHOU GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION - HARD TO SEE, EVEN HARDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A team of China researchers estimates that corruption has cost the Chinese economy about RMB 3 billion (USD 420 million) each year between 1980 to 2002, and private sector contacts say the problem is "absolutely endemic" in Guangzhou. There have been some high-profile convictions [...] | 2008-03-26 07:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI ECON EFIN EIND EINT CH |
08GUANGZHOU175 | Guangdong's Power Crunch - a Widening Gap between Supply [...] (U) Summary. South China is experiencing its worst power shortages in thirty years. An annual problem, the situation in the region intensified due to January's winter storms as Guangdong imports almost all of its power from other provinces whose power generation capabilities were affected. The [...] | 2008-03-27 02:30:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
08GUANGZHOU195 | LIMITS ON RESEARCH CAPACITY FOR SOUTH CHINA'S AQUATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: For south China, evaluating the severity of pollution in its various aquatic ecosystems is a daunting task made more difficult by internal factors such as excessive bureaucracy and territorial attitudes among researchers. Agencies, institutions, and even individual researchers [...] | 2008-03-31 09:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON TBIO CH |
08GUANGZHOU201 | U.S. Businesses Still Bullish on South China [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. companies are optimistic about the economic outlook for south China, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in South China's (Amcham) annual survey of firms. However, some results suggested their outlook was slightly less rosy than a year ago, with fewer firms statin [...] | 2008-04-02 08:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ELAB CH |
08GUANGZHOU206 | Guangdong Illegal Blood Trading Ring Uncovered [...] (U) Summary: Since 1998, when Guangzhou first officially permitted citizens to donate blood, authorities have attempted to combat the illegal trade of blood supplies amid fears of disease transmission, especially HIV/AIDS. Recently, authorities have identified a string of cases in which Guangz [...] | 2008-04-03 09:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PGOV EAID SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU212 | Hundreds of Highly-Polluting Factories Relocated to [...] (U) Summary: Guangzhou's municipal government will force more than 400 hundred highly-polluting enterprises to move to designated zones on the city's outskirts to improve environmental conditions downtown. Many of the factories are scheduled to relocate to Nansha, despite the area's delicate [...] | 2008-04-11 08:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SENV ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU214 | SHENZHEN STOCK EXCHANGE STARTUP BOARD TO OPEN IN AUGUST [...] (SBU) Summary: The Shenzhen Stock Exchange's much delayed new board for start-up companies should open sometime around the Beijing Olympics in August. The board, which will benefit some smaller firms that find it difficult to raise capital due in part to Beijing's limits on bank lending, has s [...] | 2008-04-11 09:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU225 | Despite One-Stop Lab, Producers Still Complain about [...] (SBU) Summary: Even with the opening of south China's first joint-venture testing lab that will provide one-stop shopping for third party and government testing, toy manufacturers in the Pearl River Delta complain about the burden of meeting multiple standards. They believe that that a new con [...] | 2008-04-21 07:30:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU228 | Leaving the PRD - Regulations and Market Conditions Forcing [...] (SBU) Summary: The numbers differ dramatically, with some investors hyping a massive exodus of factories from the Pearl River Delta (PRD) while local government officials spout figures that obscure the scale of the trend. But one thing is clear: many firms are choosing to move production to n [...] | 2008-04-21 09:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ELAB ETRD EFIN CH |
08GUANGZHOU241 | Chinese Mind Emancipation at the Guangzhou Party [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: City leaders who do not sufficiently "emancipate their minds" (jiefang sixiang -- the latest Party buzzword) could face reassignment, according to senior staff at the Guangzhou Communist Party School. Even [...] | 2008-04-25 08:48:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU244 | Guangdong Officials Express Willingness to Cooperate to [...] (SBU) Summary: In cordial meetings with Jared Ragland, Director of the U.S. Trade Representative's Office of Intellectual Property and Innovation, Guangdong provincial and municipal officials described recent successes in enforcing intellectual property rights (IPR),as well steps they plan to [...] | 2008-04-25 08:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON WTRO PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU246 | China's Largest Petrochemical Plant Planned for Guangdong, [...] (U) Summary. Sinopec and Kuwait National Petroleum Company are awaiting Beijing's approval on plans to build what will reportedly be China's largest joint venture, a USD 5 billion petrochemical plant located in the heart of the Pearl River Delta. The plant will alleviate the severe gap betwee [...] | 2008-04-29 06:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
08GUANGZHOU248 | Inland Aquaculture Challenges in the Pearl River [...] (U) Summary: Inland aquaculture in south China faces two major environmental challenges: eutrophication (excess nutrient loading) and contamination. Guangdong officials have identified 18 lakes and reservoirs in the province as being more contaminated than Wuxi Lake, a focal point of internati [...] | 2008-04-30 09:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU249 | 103RD CANTON TRADE FAIR OVERALL NO SLACKENING, U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Officially the 103rd Canton Fair was a success with slight increases in attendance and orders, but local travel industry contacts complained of lower participation from U.S., EU, Japanese and Korean buyers. Security was notably tighter with numerous seminars cancelled. End summa [...] | 2008-05-05 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
08GUANGZHOU250 | Guangdong Outbreak - Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Claims [...] (U) Summary: A hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) outbreak has led to three deaths in Guangdong province, and the infection of more than 1,600 local children. Guangdong's Department of Health has created an HFMD task force to increase local monitoring, prevention and control efforts. Guangdon [...] | 2008-05-06 09:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED CASC SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU256 | Guangdong Property Tycoon Sees Opportunities in Taiwan [...] (SBU) Summary: After participating in a delegation of mainland property tycoons who visited Taiwan in late April, Li Sze Lim (Li Silian),a well-placed and successful real estate entrepreneur, is considering investing in the island's hotel sector. Li said his interest was contingent on further [...] | 2008-05-08 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON PREL TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU265 | Enterovirus 71 Outbreak - South China Infections and Death [...] (SBU) Summary: Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) has taken a fourth life in Guangdong Province, and has infected more than 7,100 local children. Provincial health officials are working to determine the incidence rate of EV 71 among HFMD cases. Guangxi has reported two deaths among 636 cases [...] | 2008-05-09 09:20:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED CASC SOCI PREL HHS CH |
08GUANGZHOU266 | WANG YANG MEETING WITH CONSUL GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. A relaxed, confident and very much on-top of his brief Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang told the south China-based consular corps May 8 that he was determined to improve the quality of life for those living in poor areas of the province, bring about a far-reaching industrial [...] | 2008-05-09 09:20:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH ENRG PGOV |
08GUANGZHOU267 | Guangdong Highlights IPR Efforts in 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: Reviewing Guangdong Province's progress on intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement at an April 24 press conference, Intellectual Property Office Director General Tao Kaiyuan announced a new strategic plan aimed at improving IPR conditions. One omission: no plan details. [...] | 2008-05-09 09:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU269 | Lai Appointment Agitates Taiwan Investors in South China [...] (SBU) Summary: Ma Ying-jeou's appointment of the Taiwan Solidarity Union's (TSU) Lai Shin-yuan as chair of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has been as lively a topic of interest, positive and negative, among Taiwan businessmen in the Pearl River Delta as in Taiwan. Close friends are divided [...] | 2008-05-12 08:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINV ECON TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU27 | Migrant Workers Elected to Guangdong People's Congress for [...] (U) For the first time in Guangdong province (and perhaps in other provinces as well),six migrant workers were elected to the eleventh Guangdong People's Congress. According to local press reports, the six, elected by municipal-level people's congresses, could well represent more than 30 mill [...] | 2008-01-17 07:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU28 | Environment a Top Priority at Guangdong-Hong Kong Leaders [...] (SBU) Summary: Environmental issues were at the top of the agenda for new Party Secretary Wang Yang during his January 4 meeting with Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, according to Peter Pak-yan Leung, Director of Hong Kong's Economic and Trade Office (ETO) in Guangzhou. Appreciating ren [...] | 2008-01-17 07:52:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN SENV PGOV ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU280 | South China Academics Discuss Mind Emancipation, [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Is there some resemblance between the Mind Emancipation campaign in Guangdong and Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening period? Academics at Guangzhou's Academy of Social Science certainly think so, as Beijin [...] | 2008-05-15 09:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CH |
08GUANGZHOU285 | GUANGDONG COURTS ALIBABA TO BE THE CANTON TRADE FAIR THAT [...] (SBU) Summary: After heavy lobbying from Guangdong's Party Secretary, E-commerce giant Alibaba, the largest B2B portal in China, recently announced it would set up its South China regional headquarters in Guangzhou, an investment that could bolster the province's efforts to upgrade local indust [...] | 2008-05-16 08:44:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU289 | South China EV 71 Update - HFMD Cases Increase, Though Rate [...] (U) Summary: The number of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) infections in south China continues to rise, though authorities claim that the pace is slowing. In the past two weeks, Guangdong's reported HFMD cases have risen to 23,278, resulting in seven deaths. The current number has far s [...] | 2008-05-22 06:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED CASC SOCI PREL HHS CH |
08GUANGZHOU291 | Uncomfortable Squeeze for South China Shoe Factories [...] (SBU) Summary: What do you do when it costs more to close a south China shoe factory than to continue operations? Some Hong Kong and Taiwan investors downsize and keep their production lines open, adopting a wait-and-see approach. Others turn the key on the door one evening and abscond at nig [...] | 2008-05-23 06:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU292 | "NETIZENS" HAVE THE GUANGDONG GOVERNMENT'S EAR [...] (SBU) Summary: If the Party Secretary can take the time to surf the web for ideas and useful policy proposals, so can you. That's the message from Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang to his subordinates, following a recent highly publicized meeting with 26 prominent south China "netizens" (act [...] | 2008-05-23 08:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU302 | LNG Expansion - Fujian Readies for Operation of South [...] (U) Summary: A delivery from Egypt marked the official opening of Fujian's new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. Supply to domestic users will begin in mid-late June. Success has been tempered by the real world: rising international prices and difficulty finding reliable long-term suppli [...] | 2008-05-29 09:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
08GUANGZHOU307 | GUANGZHOU GOVERNMENT GRAPPLES WITH "AFRICA TOWN" [...] (SBU) Summary: The local authorities have responded to the growing numbers and high concentrations of Africans in various Guangzhou neighborhoods by quietly funding research into crime rates, religious practices, and tax payments associated with their activities. It is unclear whether this is [...] | 2008-06-03 01:39:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PREL SOCI XA CH NI ML RW |
08GUANGZHOU331 | Guangzhou's Bishop Not Optimistic about Future of [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) "We should not be optimistic" about relations between the Vatican and Beijing, according to Bishop of Guangzhou Monsignor Gan Junqiu. During an hour-long private meeting March 14, Gan predicted to the Fren [...] | 2008-06-12 05:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PINR CH VT |
08GUANGZHOU351 | Confirmed Cases of H5N1 Virus on Guangdong Duck Farm, No [...] (U) Summary: It looks as though authorities in south China understand the need to move quickly on a potential H5N1 threat. The National Influenza Reference Laboratory and China's Ministry of Agriculture reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza on a duck farm in Jiangmen C [...] | 2008-06-18 09:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
08GUANGZHOU366 | Border Control - AI Prevention at the China-Vietnam Border [...] (U) Summary: With a 1,020 kilometers border running between south China's Guangxi province and north Vietnam, authorities on both sides have a lot of issues to contend with, many of them health- related. This especially includes cross-border avian influenza (AI) prevention and control cooperat [...] | 2008-06-24 08:20:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | TBIO EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
08GUANGZHOU373 | PROSECUTING RAPE CASES IN SOUTH CHINA'S CRIMINAL COURTS - [...] (SBU) Summary: As Guangzhou's American Citizen Services Section continues to closely monitor the status of a criminal case in which an American citizen has been charged with rape, research into how the local courts handle the prosecution of these cases sheds some light on China's developing cri [...] | 2008-06-26 08:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC CJAN PHUM PINS SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU378 | Regulators' Vague Signals and Inflation Policies Causing [...] (SBU) Summary: To incorporate locally, or to remain a foreign branch, that is the question for south China's international banks. Bank of Montreal, Bank of America and other foreign banks are concerned by what they see as unclear government signals that could lead to future losses if banks fail [...] | 2008-06-27 02:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV CH |
08GUANGZHOU398 | Credit Tightening Squeezing Small and Medium Enterprises in [...] (SBU) Summary: Monetary tightening measures taken by the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) have greatly reduced the amount of credit available in south China, according to bank executives and industry watchers. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are having difficulty obtaining credit [...] | 2008-07-07 09:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU4 | Liu Yubu Named New Shenzhen Party Secretary [...] (SBU) Former Guangdong Deputy Party Secretary Liu Yubu was appointed Shenzhen Party Secretary January 2, according to official news reports. Though the assignment is not a promotion for Liu -- both positions carry equivalent rank -- his installation as a long-time colleague of Hu Jintao in a p [...] | 2008-01-02 08:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU406 | Effort to Move Factories and Migrant Workers from Pearl [...] (U) Summary: He could have called it the "Out with the Old" policy, but instead Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang recently announced a ?Double Transfer? policy to move both labor-intensive industries and migrant laborers to less-developed areas of Guangdong, or out of the province entirely. [...] | 2008-07-10 07:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ELAB SMIG PHUM EINV CH |
08GUANGZHOU408 | Cross Strait Relations: The view from Fujian [...] (SBU) Summary: China is ready to discuss Taiwan's international space, according to officials and academics in Fujian. Negotiations could lead to agreement on Taiwan's accession to the World Health Organization (WHO) as early as next May. In addition, they anticipate that Beijing and Taipei [...] | 2008-07-11 08:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAIR EFIN TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU409 | Bishop of Guangzhou - Walking a Tightrope between Beijing [...] (C) Summary: The Bishop of Guangzhou is clearly someone to watch - politically savvy, a man of immense faith and considerable charm, a connoisseur of fine wines (not just those used in the mass) and someone capable of both walking a tightrope between Rome and Beijing as well as finding ways to [...] | 2008-07-11 08:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU412 | Bishop of Guangzhou - Walking a Tightrope between Beijing [...] (C) Summary: The Bishop of Guangzhou is clearly someone to watch - politically savvy, a man of immense faith and considerable charm, a connoisseur of fine wines (not just those used in the mass) and someone capable of both walking a tightrope between Rome and Beijing as well as finding ways to [...] | 2008-07-11 08:40:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU414 | Guangdong Releases Labor Contract Law Implementation [...] (SBU) Summary: Since it went into effect on January 1, Guangdong businesspeople, domestic and foreign, have struggled to be in compliance in the absence of implementing guidelines. No more. Or to be more precise, some, if not all of the ambiguity, was removed on July 7 when the Guangdong High [...] | 2008-07-14 08:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU415 | Assistant USTR Karesh Discusses the Labor Contract Law in [...] (SBU) Summary: China's new Labor Contract Law is forcing U.S. companies to reassess their hiring strategies, especially with regard to contract workers, according to executives who met recently with Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (AUSTR) for Labor Affairs Lewis Karesh. All of the executi [...] | 2008-07-15 03:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND EINV CH |
08GUANGZHOU418 | NGOs and Media Finding Space to Advance Environmental [...] (SBU) Summary: NGOs and the media in south China are managing to find ways - within the limited space the government allows them to operate - to advance environmental protection in south China. Although local authorities permit little if any direct criticism of their handling of environmental i [...] | 2008-07-15 09:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV PHUM CH |
08GUANGZHOU419 | South China's High-Tech Zones Struggling to Attract New [...] (U) Summary: If you build it and offer the right package of incentives, they might come. Then again, they might not. Those that do might have been coming anyway. It's not exactly gambling south China style, but the "build it and see what happens" mentality that sometimes infuses the creation [...] | 2008-07-16 08:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV CH |
08GUANGZHOU42 | DOC 'Clean-Energy' Trade Delegation Visits Guangzhou [...] (U) Summary: During meetings with key government agencies in Guangzhou on January 11, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Market Access and Compliance David Bohigian, along with 16 members of his 'Clean-Energy' Trade Delegation, discussed environmental protection, IPR, energy conservation, moni [...] | 2008-01-24 07:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
08GUANGZHOU425 | Gone with the Wind - Guangdong Advances Wind Sector [...] (U) Summary: As Guangdong's power crunch worsens, and the province faces brownouts and blackouts in the years ahead, local officials are looking at new ways to generate energy, including the use of wind and the construction of China's largest off-shore wind farm. Scarce land resources and diff [...] | 2008-07-21 08:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
08GUANGZHOU426 | Environmental Protection a Higher Priority in the PRD...For [...] (C) Summary: Is Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang serious when he talks about the importance of environmental protection as part of his "mind emancipation" campaign? Two of our local contacts closely linked to environmental protection efforts believe that he is. They tell us that Wang wants [...] | 2008-07-21 08:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU43 | Guangdong's AI Strategy: Raising Awareness and [...] (U) Summary: At the end of 2007, Guangdong provincial authorities announced a new AI prevention plan to increase public awareness, test response strategies, and ensure regional communication and cooperation. Also of some interest is the province's new emergency awareness website (www.gdemo.gov. [...] | 2008-01-24 07:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
08GUANGZHOU435 | A Lighter Coat of Varnish: PRD Furniture Manufacturers [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 03:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU437 | A Lighter Coat of Varnish: PRD Furniture Manufacturers [...] (SBU) Summary: Hard times are here - and likely here to stay - for the Pearl River Delta's (PRD's) furniture makers. The industry has been among the most affected by a local business environment that has become less friendly to labor-intensive, export-oriented firms. As with other similarly o [...] | 2008-07-23 05:52:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU438 | 2008 Pearl River IP Forum Achieves Breakthrough in [...] (SBU) Summary: The 2008 Pearl River IP Forum - jointly organized by the U.S. Consulate's Guangzhou branch of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO Guangzhou) and Guangdong Intellectual Property Office (IPO) on July 15 - brought together -- for the first time in recent memory -- bus [...] | 2008-07-23 06:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU45 | China's Young Urban Christians: Optimistic and [...] (C) SUMMARY: China's new generation of urban Christians are supportive of government policies and confident that relations between underground churches and religious authorities will continue to improve, according to south China church elders and missionaries. However, older Christians worry th [...] | 2008-01-25 08:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU452 | Shenzhen Priest Finding Room for Faith [...] (C) Summary: Father Francis Xavier Zhang may have been a little surprised by how much more restrictive the environment for the Catholic Church was in Shenzhen than in Beijing, but that seems to have barely slowed him down. Seven months after his transfer here, he described several accomplishme [...] | 2008-07-25 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU453 | Green Building in the Pearl River Delta - a Fad or the [...] (SBU) Summary: In an effort to woo high-end clients in the highly-competitive South China property market, developers here have started building green. Property developers are spending more to invest in U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green B [...] | 2008-07-29 08:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU455 | U.S. Firm Sees Rising Number of Child Labor Cases [...] (SBU) Summary: Factory auditors from a major U.S. firm have seen an increase in incidences of child labor at some factories of firms it contracts with, especially in Shantou, Guangdong and Quanzhou, Fujian. A senior auditor told us that a tighter labor market, with employees looking for opport [...] | 2008-07-30 08:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU461 | GUANGZHOU - DESIGNATION OF POST DISASTER RELIEF OFFICER [...] (U) The U.S. Consulate General - Guangzhou designates Ms. Ashley Brady, Economic Officer, TED 08/2009, as the Post Disaster Relief Officer. Work phone: 86 (20) 8121-8000, ext. 5786; Fax: 86 (20) 8121-9001; Cell phone: 86 138-0296-2392; Home phone: 86 (20) 8121-5702; Email: BradyAL@state.gov. [...] | 2008-07-31 05:44:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU466 | Reforming the Countryside: Micro-Finance in Guangxi [...] (U) Microfinance is on the rise in Guangxi, as commercial banks, rural credit unions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) expand their lending programs. Banks are eager to make rural finance profitable. The area's dominant rural credit union complains that defaults continue to be a probl [...] | 2008-08-01 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU47 | Guangdong's AI Strategy: Expanding Vaccination and [...] (U) Summary: As part of its five-point AI prevention strategy (Ref G),Guangdong is implementing a compulsory vaccination program which aims for 100 percent coverage of domestic poultry. Significant resources and manpower have been invested in this prevention strategy and to strengthening the t [...] | 2008-01-28 07:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
08GUANGZHOU479 | Wal-Mart Signs Collective Agreement in Shenzhen - A Model [...] (SBU) Summary: Wal-Mart just wanted a good contract that burnished its reputation as a good corporate citizen. What it got, according to the firm's senior human resources (HR) manager, was one that the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) hopes will be a model for foreign enterprises t [...] | 2008-08-08 07:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU48 | 400,000 Stranded Rail Passengers in Guangdong [...] (SBU) Summary: Severe weather, which is causing transportation shut-downs in Central and East China, has left 400,000 passengers stranded at railway stations in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta. With the delays to date, it is possible that upwards of 700,000 passengers [...] | 2008-01-29 06:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN SOCI PGOV ELAB ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU486 | Environmental Impact Assessments vs. Economic Development: [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangdong has set lofty goals aimed at becoming a leader in environmental protection, but a look at how it goes about doing Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) suggests it still has a long way to go. According to contacts familiar with the process, auditors can easily manipu [...] | 2008-08-11 09:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU487 | Guangdong's Cosmetic Makers Sees Stronger Safety Regulation [...] (U) Summary: The Chinese government's regime for protecting consumers from unsafe cosmetic products has strengthened in the last year -- foreign consumers that is. Executives in Guangdong's cosmetic manufacturing industry point out that government testing and inspection of export products has [...] | 2008-08-11 09:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU489 | Guangdong Labor Law Guidelines - Good News and Bad for U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: There's good news and bad news for U.S. firms in Guangdong's new implementation guidelines for the Labor Contract Law and Labor Mediation and Arbitration Law, according to HR executives at U.S. companies with major operations in the province. On the plus side, the guidelines [...] | 2008-08-13 08:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU498 | Unraveling? - Guangdong Apparel Exports to the U.S. Drop [...] (U) Summary: The apparel export powerhouse that is Guangdong has become a little less powerful. Global apparel exports dropped 31.3% during the first half of the year, and exports to the United States fell 27.3%. Local firms blame demanding U.S. buyers, renminbi (RMB) appreciation, increased [...] | 2008-08-18 05:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU500 | American Companies in Guangdong Take Lead in Adopting [...] (U) Summary: HIV/AIDS awareness training, especially its transmission sexually, has increasingly become a priority for U.S. firms - like New Balance, Nordstrom, Levi Strauss and Wal-Mart - with suppliers and migrant workers in south China. Winning support from factory management is often the k [...] | 2008-08-18 09:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PGOV EAID SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU509 | SOUTH CHINA REPORTING OFFICERS CONFERENCE, Guangzhou, [...] (U) Consulate General Guangzhou is pleased to announce that it will host the 2008 South China Reporting Officers Conference September 24-27, 2008. Consulate General Guangzhou welcomes attendance and participation from all addressee posts. Topics of Discussion -------------------- 2. (U) [...] | 2008-08-21 06:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU51 | Bad Weather Making It Hard on Stranded Guangzhou Train [...] (SBU) Summary: As many as 200,000 stranded passengers continue to wait at the main Guangzhou train station with most standing outside or seeking shelter in nearby buildings. Despite deteriorating weather conditions, the majority of travelers do not seem dissuaded from continuing their homeward [...] | 2008-01-30 08:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN SOCI PGOV ELAB ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU512 | Guangzhou - Avian Influenza Pandemic Planning [...] (U) Summary: Consulate General Guangzhou has reviewed pandemic preparedness efforts based on guidance issued by the Department (reftel). Post's Emergency Action Committee meets regularly and reviews tripwires annually or as often as necessary if circumstances warrant. Employees are strongly en [...] | 2008-08-22 02:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR KFLU CH |
08GUANGZHOU513 | Guangdong's Glass Ceiling -- Few Cracks Showing [...] (U) Summary: Promoting women cadres may be a priority for provincial officials, but Guangdong continues to fall short. Despite an increase in the number of women officials here, some academics believe that the environment is not favorable for their promotion; few women are actually given the ch [...] | 2008-08-22 06:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU518 | Guangdong's 'Double Transfer' Policy - A View from the [...] (U) Summary: Guangdong province will spend RMB 50 billion (USD 7 billion) to encourage labor-intensive industries and migrant labor to move out of the Pearl River Delta under its new "double transfer" policy (ref A). Less-developed, third and fourth tier cities in the province like Heyuan are [...] | 2008-08-26 02:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU52 | SHENZHEN STOCK MARKET LAMENTS LACK OF AUTONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary: Managers at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) are frustrated that excessive regulation and limited market access for foreign investment banks stymie financial innovation, SSE officials told Embassy Beijing's Financial Attache and Congenoffs. As a large institutional investor, S [...] | 2008-01-30 08:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN SENV ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU526 | China Merchants Bank Sees U.S. Financial Sector Recovery in [...] (SBU) Summary: The CEO of China Merchants Bank, the country's sixth largest lender, predicts the U.S. financial sector will recover from the sub-prime mortgage crisis by the second half of next year and this will be good news for China. CEO Ma Weihua's bank is opening a new branch in New York [...] | 2008-08-27 08:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN CH TW |
08GUANGZHOU529 | Local Focus on Brand Promotion Leads to Stronger IPR [...] (SBU) Summary: Next to industrial powerhouses like Shenzhen and Dongguan, Shunde is small potatoes among Pearl River Delta cities. But its brand promotion efforts have yielded impressive results. The town boasts market leaders in the household appliance industry that rank among China's top 50 [...] | 2008-08-28 06:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU540 | Shenzhen Political Reform -- Small Steps [...] (C) Summary: Talk of political reform is in the air in Shenzhen and being promoted by think tanks "in the know" in Guangdong. But the reality is that any potential reforms are likely to be modest and will take considerable time before they gain any traction. A document approved by city leader [...] | 2008-09-04 09:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU55 | Trains Resume, Conditions Improve for Stranded Guangzhou [...] (SBU) Summary: Conditions for Guangzhou's stranded rail passengers have generally improved as many trains resumed service in the last 24 hours and rain stopped. Onsite police and government workers appeared better rested and calmer in the face of continuing large crowds, with no new reports of [...] | 2008-01-31 07:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN SOCI PGOV ELAB ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU554 | Taiwan Media Too Hard on Ma According to Fujian [...] (SBU) Summary: Is Ma Ying-jeou getting a bum rap from the Taiwan media? Cross-Strait scholars at Xiamen University in Fujian province say he deserves higher marks, citing good progress on cross-Strait relations, foreign affairs, political and social issues. One researcher blamed disappointing [...] | 2008-09-17 08:57:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PGOV TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU558 | New South China Evaluation Criteria less GDP [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: What do YOU need to do to get promoted? For Guangdong Party and government leaders hoping for recognition at the municipal and department-head levels, the answer is better balancing of GDP growth with soc [...] | 2008-09-19 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU56 | Guangdong Strengthens Infectious Disease Research Capacity [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chinese central and Guangdong provincial governments have invested significant resources to expand the province's infectious disease research capacity; this includes two new infectious disease research institutes. Obstacles remain to the development of an effective research [...] | 2008-01-31 07:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO CH |
08GUANGZHOU562 | South China Bankers Calm in Face of U.S. Financial Storm [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. financial crisis will have little impact on China's financial sector, according to U.S. managers at two south China banks. They point out that the exposure of Chinese banks to "toxic" instruments that have been weakened by the crisis is very small. They are more concer [...] | 2008-09-24 09:33:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PFIN ECON EINV ETRD CH |
08GUANGZHOU58 | No Bubble in South China Property Market Say Developers [...] (SBU) Guangdong real estate developers and consultants are confident of continuing growth in the regional property market, and reject concerns about a potential real estate "bubble". Some maintain that affordability, at least among the region's professional class, is not on the decline, but li [...] | 2008-01-31 07:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV SOCI CH |
08GUANGZHOU590 | SOUTH CHINA REPORTING OFFICERS CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER 24-27, [...] (U) Summary: The September 24-27 2008 South China Reporting Officers Conference - with participation by officers from Embassy Beijing, Consulate General Shanghai, Consulate General Hong Kong, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT),and Consulate General Guangzhou - addressed four main themes: r [...] | 2008-10-09 09:20:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PREL ECON PGOV CH TW HK |
08GUANGZHOU6 | Guo Feixiong Stages Hunger Strike, Is Beaten in [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Jailed democracy activist Guo Feixiong, who has been on a hunger strike since December 13, was beaten by another prisoner December 18, according to his wife, Zhang Qing. Zhang believes that Guo's mistreatm [...] | 2008-01-03 06:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU60 | South China's Foreign Lawyers - Strangers in a Strange [...] (SBU) Foreign attorneys in south China are subject to tight restrictions, including prohibitions on advising on Chinese law, with regard to the nature and scope of their professional activities. Traditional Western legal touchstones such as confidentiality, conflict of interest, and legal prec [...] | 2008-02-01 09:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ECON EINV CM |
08GUANGZHOU600 | Public and Experts Vote on Key Events of Thirty Years of [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The thirtieth anniversary of China's "reform and opening" policy is emerging as topic number one among south China government and media circles. Media outlets are beating the drums to stir public interest in the occasion. Two local media outlets working with governm [...] | 2008-10-17 09:05:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV KPAO CH |
08GUANGZHOU618 | Toy Factory Closure Raises Concern, Foreshadows More [...] (SBU) Summary: Factory closures, especially those like Smart Union in the toy industry, have become topic one in south China, especially in the Pearl River Delta. Local governments are now scrambling to identify other factories that might be on the verge of shutting down; many of these have be [...] | 2008-10-24 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU619 | Shenzhen Stock Exchange Official Sees Trouble Ahead for [...] (C) Summary: A Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) official believes that the impact of the global financial crisis is already being felt in south China's real economy. However, she acknowledged that many firms are well positioned to weather the storm. She complained about the effect of retail inve [...] | 2008-10-24 08:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU62 | Crowds Persist at Train Station [...] (SBU) Summary: Thousands of stranded travelers have successfully departed Guangzhou's train station in the last two days, but progress has attracted as many as 200,000 more travelers to the station. Police efforts to maintain general control appeared effective even as isolated incidents of dis [...] | 2008-02-01 09:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN SOCI PGOV ELAB ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU625 | South China IPR: Visiting US Federal Judge and Prosecutor [...] (U) Summary: Conventional wisdom says that judges can talk with judges, police can talk with police. During a PTO-sponsored two-day program in south China, a Senior U.S. District Judge and a Department of Justice (DOJ) Prosecutor talked with both, and students too, sharing ideas on how to prot [...] | 2008-10-29 08:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU63 | Large Numbers of Travelers Depart Guangzhou; Up to One [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangzhou's main train station continues to draw travelers, with estimates that as many as one million people remain stranded in South China. In the wake of two train-station-related deaths over the weekend, police erected additional roadblocks outside Friday's half-mile perimete [...] | 2008-02-04 09:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN SOCI PGOV ELAB ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU648 | 104TH CANTON TRADE FAIR: ATTENDANCE AND BUSINESS DOWN, BUT [...] Summary: The 104th Canton Trade Fair could not escape the effects of the global financial crisis, with almost 15,000 fewer visitors and a transaction volume down nearly seven billion U.S. dollars from the 103rd Fair held six months ago. Fair officials claimed that the event had nonetheless gon [...] | 2008-11-10 06:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
08GUANGZHOU655 | 104TH CANTON TRADE FAIR: ATTENDANCE AND BUSINESS DOWN, BUT [...] Summary: The 104th Canton Trade Fair could not escape the effects of the global financial crisis, with almost 15,000 fewer visitors and a transaction volume down nearly seven billion U.S. dollars from the 103rd Fair held six months ago. Fair officials claimed that the event had nonetheless gon [...] | 2008-11-12 03:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
08GUANGZHOU668 | China's Largest Association of Taiwan Investors Complains [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 500 out of 6,000 Taiwan-invested enterprises have closed in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) city of Dongguan since last year, with more closures to come over the Lunar New Year holiday, according to the Secretary General of the Dongguan Taiwan Businessmen's Association [...] | 2008-11-14 09:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ELAB TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU679 | Guangzhou's "Economist:" Nanfengchuang Sees Itself [...] (U) Classified by Economic and Political Section Chief Stephan Lang for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: The editor of Guangzhou's reform-minded biweekly Nanfengchuang (Southern Window) -- who views his magazine's role as that of a watchdog on social and economic issues -- hopes to turn the [...] | 2008-11-18 05:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU685 | South China Financiers Prepare for China's First Real [...] (SBU) Summary: The withdrawal of inter-bank credit lines to foreign banks following Lehman's collapse was largely due to bankers' concerns about increased counter party risks, according to south China bankers. They told Financial Minister Counselor Loevinger that regulators did not explicitly [...] | 2008-11-21 09:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN SENV ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU692 | China Labor Experts Fear Downturn could Delay [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Doubts about the government's willingness to enforce labor regulations and mixed messages from senior Party leaders on assistance to failing business have left many enterprises in the Pearl River Delta reluctant to conform to the Labor Contract Law and related regulations. Years [...] | 2008-11-25 08:52:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU696 | Guangdong Toy Association 20th Anniversary -Celebration or [...] (SBU) Summary: The Guangdong Toy Association's recent Twentieth Anniversary Banquet was both a celebration of the organization's milestone, but also a rallying cry for manufacturers facing economic challenges unprecedented in the organization's history. Concerns about declining overseas orders [...] | 2008-11-26 09:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU7 | LNG Expansion - A Key Component in South China's Energy [...] (U) Summary: South China is betting big on liquefied natural gas to diversify its energy mix and plans to expand LNG import capacity dramatically over the next few years. Fujian Terminal will become the region's second LNG terminal in 2009. Dapeng Terminal in Shenzhen, currently China's only [...] | 2008-01-03 07:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
08GUANGZHOU704 | South China SEZ Blog Now Online at Communities @ State [...] U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou is pleased to announce its newest communication tool -- South China SEZ -- an interactive blog hosted on the OpenNet's Communities @ State website. South China SEZ is a "special exchange zone" on the economic and political issues affecting the Pearl River Delta [...] | 2008-12-03 09:19:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV AINF CH |
08GUANGZHOU711 | CHINESE CIVIL AVIATION: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE IN SOUTH [...] (U) Summary: An early-November agreement on direct charter flights between Taiwan and mainland China will have a negative effect on the number of passengers transiting Macau, according to aviation experts gathered for Zhuhai's biannual Airshow China at the 2008 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau-Taiwan [...] | 2008-12-08 07:12:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD EINV ECON PGOV CH HK TW |
08GUANGZHOU712 | South China's Soil in Desperate Need of a Clean Up [...] (SBU) Thirty years of "pollution first, treatment later" has led to a severe and growing soil contamination problem - perhaps more troubling health-wise than air and water pollution - in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Excessive concentrations of heavy metals, pesticides, fertilizers and other ca [...] | 2008-12-08 07:12:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU714 | Guangzhou Taxi Strike: Collective Bargaining, Taxi Style [...] Summary: Though downplayed by the official media as "taking a day off" or "having tea," Guangzhou's taxi strike was accompanied by rumors of violence and fear of physical danger. Drivers willing to risk retribution from colleagues found working during the strike lucrative, while others, ordere [...] | 2008-12-08 09:12:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU715 | Dire Predictions in Dongguan -- Hong Kong Investors Predict [...] (SBU) Hong Kong investors in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) are sounding the alarm, eager to attract attention to the growing economic impact of the global financial crisis on labor-intensive export manufacturers that have been a driving force in the region's economy. Leaders of an industrial as [...] | 2008-12-09 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EFIN ECON ETRD EIND PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU719 | Dongguan Officials Express Optimism But Acknowledge [...] (SBU) Summary: Government officials in Dongguan, a major manufacturing center in the heart of the Pearl River Delta between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, are doing their best to put a positive spin on the city's economic prospects. They express hope that Dongguan's growth in 2009 will be comparable [...] | 2008-12-11 08:57:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ELAB TW CH |
08GUANGZHOU72 | Straits Times Reporter Released; Traveling to Hong Kong [...] (SBU) Ching Cheong, the Straits Times reporter arrested in 2005 and convicted in 2006 for spying, was released today and is on his way to Hong Kong, according to South China Morning Post reporter Ivan Zhai. Zhai speculated that Cheong, whose five-year sentence was due to end in 2011, was relea [...] | 2008-02-05 07:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU720 | South China IPR: Rights Holders Call for "IPR Summit" and [...] Summary: Lax enforcement remains the key problem for intellectual property (IP) rights holders operating in south China, according to the 30 business and legal professionals at the Consul General's December 2 IPR roundtable. Rights holders recommended that senior Obama Administration IP offici [...] | 2008-12-11 09:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU723 | Thirty Years of Reform and Opening: Shantou - The SEZ That [...] (U) Summary: Despite its special economic zone (SEZ) status and natural advantages such as a seaport and a large overseas Chinese population, Shantou's economic performance over the last 30 years has lagged behind that of Guangdong Province as a whole. Shantou officials and academics say their [...] | 2008-12-16 06:28:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV ETRD |
08GUANGZHOU724 | Shantou - Eastern Guangdong Economy Has Advantages to [...] (U) Summary: Maybe our industry and government contacts in Shantou are dreaming but they are starting to think that perhaps after thirty years their time has come and the global financial storm won't have the same damaging impact in eastern Guangdong Province that it's wreaking on the export-p [...] | 2008-12-17 06:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN ETRD EIND PGOV |
08GUANGZHOU727 | CHARTER 08 SIGNATORIES DISCUSS FALLOUT, HUMAN [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary: Charter 08 signatory Ai Xiaoming has not been detained or formally contacted by authorities since publication of the charter, though her home was superficially searched under a public health pretense. The [...] | 2008-12-19 09:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU731 | 30 Years Of Reform and Opening in South China: [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Enshrining Communist Party legitimacy is the political focus of celebrations commemorating Guangdong Province's 30 years of Reform and Opening, just as increased living standards are the economic focus. Of [...] | 2008-12-22 09:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU732 | 30 Years of Reform and Opening in Guangdong - Retreat to [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Guangdong Province, where China's economic transformation began, is in a celebratory mood publicly, but behind the scenes, everyone - from top government and business leaders to think tankers whose job it is to peer into the future - is fretting over the meaning of 30 [...] | 2008-12-22 09:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ELAB ETRD EINV EIND CH |
08GUANGZHOU737 | INFANT CONTRACTS AVIAN INFLUENZA A (H9N2) VIRUS IN [...] Summary: An eleven-week old girl who resides in Shenzhen has reportedly contracted avian influenza A (H9N2) virus. She is being treated in a Hong Kong hospital. Some medical experts have expressed concern that avian influenza A (H9N2) virus - which has only been documented in a low pathogenic [...] | 2008-12-31 08:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU CASC SOCI PREL HK CH |
08GUANGZHOU74 | Guangzhou Train Station Returns to Normal Holiday [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangzhou Train Station sent 200,000 passengers home February 4, with air and bus lines also operating at full holiday capacity. Access control restrictions have been lifted, providing the first opportunity for Consulate employees to enter Railway Station Square in over a week. [...] | 2008-02-05 09:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN SOCI PGOV ELAB ECON CH |
08GUANGZHOU92 | Government Incentives Diminishing in South China Investment [...] (SBU) Summary: Government policies encouraging investment in south China have significantly diminished and are no longer a major factor in most foreign and domestic companies' investment decisions here, according to local manufacturers who met with visiting U.S. International Trade Commission ( [...] | 2008-02-14 07:49:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD EIND ECON SENV PGOV CH |
08GUANGZHOU97 | Looking toward ASEAN - Guangxi Hopes to Expand Economic [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is eager expand economic relations with Southeast Asia. ASEAN already accounts for 32 percent of its total foreign trade, and the capital, Nanning, hosts the high-profile China-ASEAN Expo, which attracts hundreds of businesses and many heads of s [...] | 2008-02-15 08:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EINV ELTN EWWT EIND ECON ASEAN CH |
09GUANGZHOU10 | Black Pearl - The Threat of Water Pollution to Guangdong's [...] (SBU) Summary: The following is neither an overstatement nor is it hyperbole. It is a fact. The contaminated waters of the Pearl River and other water sources in Guangdong are as serious a threat to the region's health and economic sustainability as the decline in exports, the closure of smal [...] | 2009-01-08 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON EAGR CH |
09GUANGZHOU112 | China Economic Stimulus Plans: Plentiful But Lacking in [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials in Guangdong Province have been working overtime for months on plans to stimulate the local economy, knowing that the central government will not be sending much new funding their way. Party Secretary Wang Yang and Governor Huang Huahua as well as a cast of thousands o [...] | 2009-02-18 07:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EIND ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU113 | Is Dongguan the Key to Pearl River Delta [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 05:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM CH |
09GUANGZHOU114 | Is Dongguan the Key to Pearl River Delta [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong authorities are more worried about the current labor situation in Dongguan, an hour south of Guangzhou on the way to Hong Kong, than they are about Guangzhou, Shenzhen or other PRD cities. The [...] | 2009-02-19 07:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PHUM CH |
09GUANGZHOU127 | Think Twice about that Scrumptious Sliver of Pig Liver: [...] (U) Summary: Another day, another adulterated food problem. Pork tainted with the chemical clenbuterol has severely sickened 70 in Guangdong. An illegal pig-feed additive, clenbuterol, continues to be used by pig farmers to improve the quality of meat and increase wholesale profits, but with [...] | 2009-02-23 09:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AMED CASC EAGR KFLU SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU131 | Dongguan Factory Does Damage Control after Labor Abuse [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Executives at Meitai Plastics and Electronics, criticized in a recent report by the U.S.-based National Labor Committee, acknowledged to Congenoff that some of its labor practices were not in compliance with global standards set by the industry. They were at pains t [...] | 2009-02-24 07:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON ETRD TW CH |
09GUANGZHOU151 | Leaders to Watch: Guangdong's Rising Political Stars [...] SUMMARY: By the end of the current term in 2013, the governor of Guangdong Province and six of eight vice governors will leave office. In the selection of the next generation of leaders, experience in the Communist Youth League (CYL) and membership in the powerful local Hakka community will li [...] | 2009-03-05 07:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU157 | Fujian: Alternative Energy Development Attractive Amid [...] (U) Summary: Fujian's alternative energy development is picking up steam in spite of a worsening global economic downturn. While coal will continue to be the primary source of energy in the near future, but major investments are being made in nuclear power (more than USD 20 billion at two pla [...] | 2009-03-06 10:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY ETTC IAEA CH |
09GUANGZHOU16 | Guangdong's High Tech Incentives Fall Short for Industrial [...] (U) Summary: Industrial equipment manufacturing (EM): with its high-tech, high-value-added, environmentally friendly, capital intensive and skill labor focus, it's just what Guangdong's leaders are looking for to replace labor-intensive export manufacturers that are being encouraged to move out [...] | 2009-01-09 09:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN ETRD EIND PGOV |
09GUANGZHOU162 | Sustainable NGO Development in Fujian: A Lesson from Green [...] (U) Registered non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Fujian province are few and far between, but at least one, Xiamen Green Cross, is finding room to operate successfully and form a cooperative relationship with government authorities. After 10 years of gradually expanding environmental an [...] | 2009-03-11 07:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU163 | Labor Unrest in South China? - Unlikely...For Now [...] (SBU) Summary: Increasing unemployment and isolated labor disturbances will not likely translate into broader social instability in the near future, according to South China business and academic contacts. Local governments have taken steps to help returning migrant workers find jobs and have [...] | 2009-03-11 06:57:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ELAB PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU166 | CHINA: AMCIT BUSINESS DISPUTE SHAKEDOWNS INCREASING AS [...] (U) Summary: There appears to have been an increase in the number of business disputes in which American citizens have been forcibly detained until money is paid to obtain the victim's release. We believe the trend is related to worsening economic conditions, and that many cases likely go unre [...] | 2009-03-15 08:20:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC ASEC ELAB PGOV PINS SNAR KCRM CH |
09GUANGZHOU17 | The Plight of NGOs in Guangdong - Educating Government, [...] (U) Summary. Political reform and a serious debate about civil society have not been at the forefront of 30 years of reform and opening in Guangdong province. In fact, the development of non-government organizations (NGOs) has been held back by a combination of government suspicion, their own [...] | 2009-01-09 09:49:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAGR PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU176 | Illegal Migration or Illegal Entry/Illegal Exit: Whatever [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Consul General -- in concert with five other Guangzhou-based Consuls General representing Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom -- discussed illegal immigration, visa fraud and human trafficking with Fujian provincial leaders, February 25-26. [...] | 2009-03-21 08:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KTIP KFRD ASEC PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU180 | Guangzhou's Garbage Goldmine: From Waste to Renewable [...] (U) Summary. Is trash the ticket to solving Guangzhou's energy woes? The city government sure thinks so. Local officials are hoping that converting more of Guangzhou's waste into energy will help solve power shortages and strengthen environmental protection. Two garbage power plants are alre [...] | 2009-03-22 09:24:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN SENV PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU188 | NONIMMIGRANT VISA DEMAND FALLS AS SOUTHERN CHINA ECONOMY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guangzhou has seen a 10.4 per cent decline in nonimmigrant (NIV) cases in the first half of FY2009; this contrasts with a 17.4 per cent increase in NIV cases during the same time frame in FY2008. While tourist and business visa (B1/B2) applications dropped by 14.9 per cent, studen [...] | 2009-03-24 09:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CMGT ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU192 | Making Room for Civil Society - Guangdong NGO Leaders Talk [...] (U) Summary and Comment. What can you expect if you work for a Guangdong NGO? At best, a degree of official oversight, which could be even greater than before if authorities follow through with the idea of having a party committee in each NGO. At worst, outright interference, especially if y [...] | 2009-04-01 07:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU193 | VISA REFERRAL PROGRAM: GUANGZHOU AMCHAM NEARLY FLAWLESS [...] (U) Summary: A recent validation study conducted by the Guangzhou Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) with the assistance of the Office of Fraud Prevention Programs revealed that post's American Chamber of Commerce of South China (AmCham) referral program continues to function almost flawlessly. As [...] | 2009-04-01 07:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU196 | Lower our expectations: It's a job tough market out there [...] (SBU) Summary: Don't get your hopes up! That's the message employment agencies, university career centers and society at large are sending university graduates in South China. To lower expectations as students prepare to enter a tough job market, university employment centers retelling them [...] | 2009-04-02 09:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU216 | Shenzhen Start-Up Board to Open in August...Probably [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Shenzhen Stock Exchange's (SSE's) long, long wait to establish a new "NASDAQ-like" start-up board may be nearing an end. The board received final approval from securities regulators in Beijing and could open as soon as August. It will target fast-growth companies [...] | 2009-04-09 10:41:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU218 | Dealing with the Global Economic Crisis - Officials and [...] (SBU) Summary: The global economic downturn got an early start in South China, but most U.S. companies here have been less severely affected and many continue to grow, according to business leaders who met with visiting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for China Timothy Stratford April 2-3. [...] | 2009-04-13 09:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU219 | Waiting for Godot? Or Just Plain Waiting? Xiamen Waits [...] (SBU) Direct cross-Strait air and sea links have arrived, but many in Xiamen are still waiting for the economic benefits. Officials at Xiamen's port say you don't have to look far; the benefits are already here, especially for Taiwan companies that want to export to China. However, Taiwan inve [...] | 2009-04-13 09:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD EWWT EAIR PREL PGOV CH TW |
09GUANGZHOU237 | HOW REALISTIC ARE THEY? CHINESE GOVERNMENT GOALS FOR THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: What's new in the Pearl River Delta? Yet another, newer, improved development plan for one thing. The Chinese government recently unveiled its "Outline of the Plan for the Reform and Development of the Pearl River Delta," though it seems to be based largely on existing policy. [...] | 2009-04-24 09:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ECIN ECON PGOV CH HK |
09GUANGZHOU260 | Phoenix TV in the Mainland - Self Censorship or Just [...] (SBU) Summary: So how's Phoenix TV doing in China? How much has it expanded its coverage in China over the last fifteen years? Is it on its way to becoming the Chinese-language CNN (or FOX)? How much independence can it realistically aspire to? Of course, it all depends whom you talk with a [...] | 2009-04-29 09:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL SOCI PHUM PGOV ECON HK TW CH |
09GUANGZHOU276 | ECONOMY TOXIC FOR SOUTH CHINA'S CHEMICAL INDUSTRY [...] (U) SUMMARY: It doesn't matter too much where you fall in the supply chain - upstream manufacturers in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) are suffering the same impact from the global economic downturn as their downstream customers. The chemical industry in South China has been hit hard with orders [...] | 2009-04-30 08:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV CH |
09GUANGZHOU283 | CHINESE INTERNET PORTALS SPINNING A LARGER WEB [...] (U) SUMMARY: China's online community is not simply a group of young men hanging out at home, at a university center or (less frequently today) in an internet cafe, whiling away the time, playing games, viewing the equivalent of Youtube (or Youtube itself when it's not blocked) and even occas [...] | 2009-05-05 08:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU30 | A Political and Economic Miscellany: For Guangdong [...] (SBU) Summary: If one ever had to be reminded of the primacy of economics in Guangdong, Provincial Governor Huang Huahua's response to a question from the Consul General should seal the deal: Beijing, Huang averred, is taking the lead in directing political reforms in the province's cities and [...] | 2009-01-16 08:48:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU304 | LNG Plans Delayed - Supply Problems Threaten Progress on [...] (U) Summary: High liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices and difficulty securing long-term LNG supplies have stalled the much-anticipated Zhuhai Jin Wan LNG terminal project. Without a secure, long-term supply contract, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) refuses to give final a [...] | 2009-05-14 07:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
09GUANGZHOU314 | Green Cars: Could Guangdong Help China Become a Global [...] (U) Summary: China has set its sights on becoming one of the world's leading producer of hybrid and pure-electric cars by 2011. Guangdong's BYD Auto Company may lead China toward that goal; it has impressive technology, a hybrid model on the market and an electric vehicle scheduled for product [...] | 2009-05-21 08:23:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON SENV PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU315 | Toy Safety: Phthalates Still Problematic, Lead Under [...] (SBU) Summary: Supply chain security is still the biggest challenge for the south China toy industry, Hong Kong-based owners of two top-tier toy manufacturers told Congen Hong Kong and Congen Guangzhou officers in their Pearl River Delta factories. Phthalates (an ingredient that increases pla [...] | 2009-05-21 08:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND TBIO ECON PGOV CH HK |
09GUANGZHOU318 | Corruption Case Shakes Up South China [...] (C) Summary and comment: The sacking of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Guangdong Committee Chairman Chen Shaoji over accusations of serious corruption and connections to organized crime has sent shockwaves through south China's political world. The case, which could [...] | 2009-05-22 05:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU32 | Economic Downturn Takes Guangdong's Recycling Industry for [...] (U) Summary. In this economy, even the recycling industry is getting "trashed." For much of the last decade, Guangdong's recycling sector has boomed, but the global economic downturn is hurting the industry, leaving many firms struggling to stay afloat. A combination of declining consumption [...] | 2009-01-16 08:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN SENV PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU320 | IPR: Enforcement Numbers Decline in Guangdong 2008 Annual [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement action in Guangdong Province appeared to decline overall in 2008 as shown by case statistics in the province's annual white paper. Despite official pronouncements by Guangdong authorities that IPR enforcement continued t [...] | 2009-05-26 07:48:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR KIND ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU325 | Guangzhou Consuls General and Fujian Authorities Hold [...] (U) Summary and Comment. Fujian government officials appear to have received our message about the need to work together to address fraud and illegal migration issues. At a May 26 meeting in Guangzhou, six Guangzhou-based consuls general and their staff met with Fujian officials to discuss [...] | 2009-05-29 09:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | CFIS KTIP KFRD ASEC PGOV CH CMGT CVIS |
09GUANGZHOU338 | Tiananmen Anniversary Likely to Pass Quietly in Guangzhou [...] (C) Summary and comment: The big surprise in Guangzhou would be if the June 4 anniversary attracted much notice all, according to our contacts. They point out that young people are ignorant of the events of the Tiananmen Square massacre and older people have lost hope of bringing about change [...] | 2009-06-03 01:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU346 | Rep. Larsen Meeting with GD Party Secretary Wang Yang: [...] (U) SUMMARY: Guangdong remains highly dependent on exports, so higher savings rates in the United States could adversely affect the province's economy, Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang told Congressman Rick Larsen in a May 26 meeting. His plan for surviving the current economic downturn: c [...] | 2009-06-04 06:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU348 | Island Life and Leadership Tourism: Hainan's Political [...] SUMMARY: Though far from the center of power in Beijing, leaders of the southern island province of Hainan have gone on to bigger and better things, as in the case of former Hainan Party Secretary and current Vice Premier Wang Qishan. Today it is home to several leaders with promotion potenti [...] | 2009-06-05 05:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU354 | Rep. Larsen Meeting with Guangzhou Mayor: Ten Percent GDP [...] SUMMARY: The global economic crisis will make it difficult for Guangzhou to achieve its goal of 10 percent GDP growth this year, according to Mayor Zhang Guangming in a May 26 meeting with Congressman Larsen. The municipal government hopes that growth in the services sector will offset slowed [...] | 2009-06-05 09:30:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU355 | Corruption Shake-Up Spreads to Shenzhen Mayor [...] (SBU) Summary: Corruption allegations have brought down Shenzhen Mayor Xu Zongheng. Xu's downfall, part of a series of investigations that are shaking up the political leadership of Guangdong, which included the removal of former Guangdong Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (C [...] | 2009-06-08 09:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU361 | Suzhou Party Secretary Likely to be Named New Shenzhen [...] Summary: Media reports from Hong Kong predict that Suzhou Party Secretary Wang Rong will become mayor of Shenzhen after the fall of Xu Zongheng due to corruption charges. Some speculate Wang will soon move up to become the city's party secretary. End summary. From Suzhou to Shenzhen ------ [...] | 2009-06-12 08:48:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU372 | Climate Change: Xiamen in the Forefront of Mitigation and [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: In the battle against climate change, Xiamen in Fujian province is increasingly a focal point for efforts by government, NGOs and businesses in south China. The city government has created a new, unique institution to assess the impact of climate change; NGOs have fo [...] | 2009-06-16 09:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY SENV ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU375 | Growth amid the Gloom - Some Companies Still Prospering in [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Factories are closing and migrant workers are unemployed, but there are still success stories in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). While the city of Dongguan with its heavy concentration of Hong Kong and Taiwan investment in labor-intensive export manufacturing has been h [...] | 2009-06-17 09:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ELAB CH |
09GUANGZHOU384 | South China Labor Market - Good News and Bad News for [...] (SBU) Summary: If you're a migrant worker looking for a job in southern China, the latest news on the labor market is mixed. Job seekers still outnumber job openings in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta (PRD),but some companies are having trouble finding enough skilled workers. Overall, leaders [...] | 2009-06-23 09:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU397 | South China Bankers See Signs of Economic Improvement, [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangzhou bankers differ over whether South China's economy is as bad off as some media reports would have us believe. They agreed, however, that Beijing is increasing the pressure to expand lending to small and medium enterprises. They expressed interest in the Chinese governm [...] | 2009-07-01 07:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD HK CH |
09GUANGZHOU400 | The "Airborne" Leaders in Guangxi [...] (SBU) Summary: The leadership of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has no shortage of "airborne" (kong jiang) officials, as leaders who have previously served in Beijing are known, and it has witnessed major personnel changes since 2007. This is due in large part to the efforts by the Guangxi g [...] | 2009-07-02 07:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR CH |
09GUANGZHOU409 | Two New Labor NGOs - Different Missions, Different [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: How much room do labor non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have to operate in the Pearl River Delta (PRD)? The different experiences of two new organizations show that it depends on the group's mission. The Green Grass Workers Service Department is trying to expos [...] | 2009-07-07 08:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU410 | Huawei - Chinese Telecom Firm Plans for Growth in U.S. Market [...] (U) Classified by Economic/Political Section Chief Stephan Lang for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Summary: Huawei will nearly double its U.S. workforce this year, according to executives who briefed visiting students from the U.S. National Defense University's Industrial College of the Arm [...] | 2009-07-07 08:53:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ECPS ETTC ETRD EINT ECON PGOV PINR CH |
09GUANGZHOU414 | THE LIMITS OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN GUANGZHOU [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY ECONOMIC/POLITICAL SECTION CHIEF STEPHAN LANG FOR REASON 1.4 (D). 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: SELF-CENSORSHIP IS WIDESPREAD IN THE LECTURE HALLS AND PUBLICATIONS OF GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITIES, WHERE PROFESSORS GENERALLY CHOOSE NOT TO SPEAK OR WRITE OPENLY ABOUT SENSITIVE SUBJECTS SUCH A [...] | 2009-07-09 07:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU42 | Bad News Sinks In: It's Worse than We Thought it would be - [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: It's always instructive and well worth revisiting Dongguan, a Pearl River Delta (PRD) export manufacturing center that is a barometer of the worst economic downturn China has confronted in the past decade or two. According to the head of the local Taiwan Businessmen [...] | 2009-01-22 03:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ELAB TW CH |
09GUANGZHOU43 | South China Rule of Law Retreating in the Face of Economic [...] (SBU) Summary: Is the rule of law yet another casualty of the economic downturn in south China? That's what international firms and other concerned observers are afraid of, and the signs are pointing somewhat ominously in the direction of turning back the clock. A large multinational toy firm [...] | 2009-01-22 03:28:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND KIPR ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU433 | THE LEADERSHIP LANDSCAPE IN FUJIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-21 08:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR CH |
09GUANGZHOU444 | PRD Labor NGOs Prepare Comments for Draft Social [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Brian Goldbeck for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Labor nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) are in the process of preparing suggested revisions to a draft Social Security Law. The NGO document, which is not yet [...] | 2009-07-28 09:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU451 | Taiwan Research Institute: Cross-Strait Understanding [...] (SBU) Summary: "Ignorance is our greatest enemy," said Professor Liu Guoshen of Xiamen University's Taiwan Research Institute (TRI) as he opened a recent meeting with visiting American scholars. TRI academics used the opportunity to emphasize the value of direct exchanges between PRC and Taiwa [...] | 2009-07-30 08:49:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TW CH |
09GUANGZHOU463 | Trafficking Women and Children: A Perspective from the [...] (SBU) Summary: The Guangdong Women's Federation and Public Security Bureau are combining resources with other government agencies to combat the trafficking of women and children. Authorities are hesitant to say where these women and children end up, claiming that the women "mostly become farmer [...] | 2009-08-03 09:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KTIP SOCI ELAB CH |
09GUANGZHOU466 | Rule of Law Interference Snapshot: Pingnan Green HomeQs [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The emergence and continued growth of civil society organizations in China over the past decade appears to support claims that the country's leadership grasps the need to allow greater room for social action and public expression. Still, the challenges these group [...] | 2009-08-04 08:52:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV PHUM SOCI SENV ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU47 | Down on the Farm? Migrants Unlikely to Remain in Villages [...] (U) Summary: Once you've seen the bright lights of the big city, it's hard to go back to the farm. Local labor NGO leaders predict that the large numbers of migrant workers who lost their jobs and returned to their home villages early for the late-January 2009 Chinese New Year holiday will mos [...] | 2009-01-22 09:19:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM CH |
09GUANGZHOU480 | Environmental Law in Guangzhou's Universities [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Brian L. Goldbeck for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (SBU) Summary: Interest in the study of environmental law is on the rise in Guangzhou. Sun Yat-sen University Law School, South China Agricultural University and South China University of Technology are all expanding [...] | 2009-08-07 07:41:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON SENV CH |
09GUANGZHOU481 | Fujian Businesses: Looking for Opportunities In the Midst [...] (U) Summary: Although the global economic crisis has severely impacted export businesses, the crisis has also created new opportunities, according to Fujian Province company executives. Larger, more efficient export-oriented companies said they had consolidated and increased market share as [...] | 2009-08-07 07:41:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD CH TW |
09GUANGZHOU482 | South China Rail Lines Expanding, But Not Due to Economic [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: South China rail lines will almost double to 9,400 km by 2020, but the expansion projects were included in central and provincial railway plans initiated in 2004, rather than as part of China's massive economic stimulus. Expanded railway capacity will do little to a [...] | 2009-08-07 08:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN SOCI ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU496 | Hi-Tech Zones in the Western Pearl River Delta Strive to [...] (SBU) Summary. Guangdong province is eager to move beyond the labor-intensive export processing industries that have driven much of its growth over the last 30 years to develop hi-tech industries to take their place; hi-tech industrial zones are an important part of its development strategy and [...] | 2009-08-18 09:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EINV ECON ETRD SENV ELTN CH |
09GUANGZHOU497 | Solar Energy in Guangdong - A Big Supplier Trying to [...] (U) Summary and comment: Guangdong is a major producer of solar energy equipment in China, but local demand for solar energy is still low. The province has set ambitious targets for increasing solar energy use. The provincial government has initiated demonstration projects and has taken advan [...] | 2009-08-18 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON SENV PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU498 | Guangzhou's Minorities: Uighurs and Others in a Sea of Han [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Linguistic, cultural and religious differences often lead to "major communication difficulties" between Guangzhou officials and minority groups. The municipal government has mandated sensitivity training for police and other officials who deal frequently with minorities. Provin [...] | 2009-08-18 09:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB SOCI KJUS CH |
09GUANGZHOU503 | South China IPR: Rights Holders Reiterate Need for [...] (SBU) Summary: American brand owners said Guangdong Province remains the global source for most counterfeit and infringing products during an August 11 introductory meeting with the Consul General. Executives highlighted continued concerns about weak IPR enforcement in South China and suggeste [...] | 2009-08-20 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU504 | South China-Southeast Asia Relationship - Growing Closer, [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Local governments and businesses in south China are using a range of tools to capitalize on the region's proximity with Southeast Asia to increase trade and attract investment. Annual trade expos, special economic zones and infrastructure development are among the in [...] | 2009-08-20 09:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV CH VM SN MY |
09GUANGZHOU507 | Consul General Discusses Visa Issues in [...] (SBU) Summary: Visa outreach and the need for increased cooperation on establishing travel document authenticity were among the key topics raised during Consul General Brian Goldbeck's initial trip to Fujian's provincial capital of Fuzhou, August 12-14. (See ref A for overview and other issue [...] | 2009-08-21 06:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD ETTC PREL ECON CMGT OEXC CH |
09GUANGZHOU51 | Preaching and Practicing -- Fujian Churches [...] (C) SUMMARY: Officially registered churches in Fujian Province are growing steadily, with a demographic shift toward younger, urban, educated and more affluent members. In the wake of the economic downturn and gaps left in the government's social safety net, many churches are launching social [...] | 2009-01-29 09:30:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU510 | Uighur Departure a Loss for Guangdong Shoe Factory [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A short-lived experiment by a Nike supplier in Guangdong to employ 1,200 Uighur workers will end the last week in August when the 193 remaining Uighurs return to Xinjiang at the end of their year-long contract. Though some Uighur workers had considered extending for another year [...] | 2009-08-24 09:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KTIP PGOV SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU514 | South China IPR: Cooperation with Fujian Authorities [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The willingness of Fujian Provincial Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and Fuzhou Customs officials to meet and share information with the Consul General on August 12 and 13 was an important step after a two-year freeze that began when the United States filed intelle [...] | 2009-08-25 07:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR KIND ECON EINV PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU519 | No Bad News: South China Media Guidance for [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Brian L. Goldbeck for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: In Guangdong, propaganda officers have begun preparations for the 60-year anniversary of the People's Republic of China by instructing local news outlets not to reprint articles from four Guangzh [...] | 2009-08-28 08:47:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO ECPS PROP PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU528 | South China Exports and Labor: Toy Industry Registers Some [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Good news for one oQ south Qhina's beProfits are expected to decline by an average of 20% for the year, pick up in May and June, according to Guangdong-based contacts. Profits are expected to decline by an average of 20% for the year, mostly because higher unit costs [...] | 2009-09-04 08:02:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB PGOV ECON CH HK |
09GUANGZHOU529 | Guangdong Vice Governor Wan Advised of Visits by Commerce [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 2, the Consul General informed Guangdong Vice Governor Wan Qingliang that U.S. Commerce Secretary Locke and the Ambassador would visit Guangzhou to attend the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Forum on Innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) October 26-27 and that the Amba [...] | 2009-09-04 08:41:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OVIP KPIR ECON CVIS CH |
09GUANGZHOU534 | Senior Citizens Seize, Hold Suspect Wastewater Plant to [...] (U) Summary: Residents of villages neighboring a controversial wastewater treatment facility near Quanzhou, Fujian Province, expelled workers and occupied the plant August 26 in protest of government claims that the plant's discharges were safe and that the local water source was unaffected by [...] | 2009-09-10 09:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PHUM ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU54 | What to do with Migrant Workers: Guangxi Government and NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: Authorities and NGOs don't know how many migrant workers will remain in Guangxi after the Chinese New Year, but they're getting ready for them. Local governments in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are currently encouraging workers who choose to remain in the autonomous regi [...] | 2009-01-30 07:23:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU544 | Fujian's Minorities: Hard To Distinguish But Still [...] (U) Summary. Fujian's two largest ethnic minorities-the She and the Hui-are already visually indistinguishable from their Han neighbors and appear to have lost or are rapidly losing culturally distinctive characteristics. This is especially the case with the urban She and the Hui minority m [...] | 2009-09-15 09:23:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV SOCI SCUL CH |
09GUANGZHOU545 | Stalemate at Wastewater Plant Holds; Still no Communication [...] (U) Summary: Local villagers continued to control a suspect Quanzhou wastewater treatment plant (reftel) as of September 14. To attract the attention of officials, villagers began filling contaminated holding tanks with soil September 9. Authorities have restricted inter-village communication [...] | 2009-09-15 09:34:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PHUM ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU55 | AVIAN FLU UPDATE: GUANGXI TEEN BECOMES FIFTH AI FATALITY IN [...] (U) Summary: Mindful of the need for transparency on pandemic diseases, Chinese authorities released information that an 18-year old in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had become China's fifth H5N1 avian influenza (AI) fatality of 2009. Possible sources of the infection under i [...] | 2009-01-30 07:28:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU CASC SOCI PREL HK CH |
09GUANGZHOU553 | Quanzhou Officials Tell Their Side of the Wastewater [...] (SBU) Summary: Quanzhou Foreign Affairs Office officials met CongenOff without warning at Xiamen Airport September 18 and offered to arrange meetings with local officials to discuss the continuing standoff at a suspect wastewater treatment plant. Local officials disputed villager claims that t [...] | 2009-09-21 08:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PHUM ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU555 | Political Campaign Season in Full Swing in South China [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Though less overt than the average American political campaign, maneuvering by senior leaders in south China has become increasingly public in recent months as officials look to shore up their power base and better position themselves for advancement in 2012. Guangdong Party Sec [...] | 2009-09-22 02:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PINR KJUS CH |
09GUANGZHOU567 | Asia Games Environmental Plan - Guangzhou Looks to Beijing [...] (SBU) Summary: As Guangzhou prepares to host the 2010 Asia Games next November, it will use as a model pollution control measures implemented in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Environmental clean-up efforts already underway in Guangzhou, but the event's organizing committee ha [...] | 2009-09-28 09:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PREL BEXP CH |
09GUANGZHOU57 | South China Migrant Workers: Coming Back Soon, Tickets [...] (SBU) Summary: Last year's cold and snow storm chaos were a distant memory at south China train stations teeming with migrant workers and other travelers under the watchful supervision of student volunteers and police, backed up by military-uniformed People's Armed Police. This year's Lunar Ne [...] | 2009-01-30 09:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN ELAB PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU570 | Another Fujian Community Grapples with Unwanted Wastewater [...] (U) Summary. Residents of Chang'an Village oppose government plans to build a wastewater treatment plant in their community. But unlike villagers of Fengwei Township who have responded with a violent protest (reftels),the Chang'an villagers have sought the guidance of a Fuzhou-based environ [...] | 2009-09-29 07:42:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PHUM ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU573 | Nike Facing Old Child Labor Allegations Anew in Jiangsu [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A disgruntled former employee of a Nike supplier in east China has alleged that his company and others supplied Nike with soccer balls made with child labor 2003-2007. Nike said it investigated identical allegations in 2007 but, after failing to substantiate the claims, conclude [...] | 2009-09-30 05:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM EINV ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU574 | Cross-Strait Trade and Economics Surging Forward at CIFIT [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Cross-Strait economic cooperation was a hot topic at the 13th annual China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) Conference earlier this month in Xiamen. A large group of Taiwan business leaders, academics and working-level officials participated in a h [...] | 2009-09-30 08:40:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EINV KIPR ECON PGOV TW CH |
09GUANGZHOU585 | H1N1 PREPAREDNESS DEEMED SUFFICIENT BY GUANGDONG HEALTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Health officials in Guangdong Province, birthplace of SARS and the H5N1 virus in Asia, are confident that they are well prepared to deal with the threat of influenza outbreaks this flu season. Officials expressed confidence that existing H1N1 prevention and control measures --i [...] | 2009-10-14 09:06:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU CASC SOCI PREL HK CH |
09GUANGZHOU586 | H1N1 PREPAREDNESS DEEMED SUFFICIENT BY GUANGDONG HEALTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Health officials in Guangdong Province, birthplace of SARS and the H5N1 virus in Asia, are confident that they are well prepared to deal with the threat of influenza outbreaks this flu season. Officials expressed confidence that existing H1N1 prevention and control measures --i [...] | 2009-10-14 09:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU CASC SOCI PREL HK CH |
09GUANGZHOU587 | Big Plans for Hainan -- Officials and Business Leaders [...] (SBU) Summary: Key components of China's economic development strategy will be pilot tested in Hainan Province, according to provincial officials and researchers. Officials claimed central government proposals set to be approved soon would position the island province as a duty free zone, ful [...] | 2009-10-14 09:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV ETRD PREL EINV PGOV TW CH |
09GUANGZHOU59 | GUANGZHOU HOUSE CHURCHES - GROWING DESPITE SPORADIC POLICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Guangzhou's underground house churches continue to grow, particularly among students and professionals, even in the face of periodic police pressure and oversight of large gatherings and religious training. Church leaders tell us that most area house churches continue to hold serv [...] | 2009-02-03 08:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU592 | Fujian Wastewater Treatment Plant Update: Officials Claim [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite official claims that a standoff at a villager-occupied wastewater treatment plant in Fujian Province had been resolved peacefully, local Party and government officials prevented travel to the site or contact with the villagers in mid-October by Post personnel. End summar [...] | 2009-10-19 06:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PHUM ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU593 | Fujian Wastewater Treatment Plant Update: Officials Claim [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite official claims that a standoff at a villager-occupied wastewater treatment plant in Fujian Province had been resolved peacefully, local Party and government officials prevented travel to the site or contact with the villagers in mid-October by Post personnel. End summar [...] | 2009-10-19 06:59:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PHUM ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU597 | Promoting Business, Education Ties with Zhuhai [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Consul General's first official visit to Zhuhai October 8-9, he encouraged stronger academic and cultural ties between the coastal Guangdong city and the United States and promoted increased U.S.-China trade and investment. The CG also addressed students at Hong-Kong [...] | 2009-10-21 06:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV SENV ELAB EINV ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU598 | Visits of Secretary Locke and Ambassador Huntsman: South [...] (SBU) Summary: During your visit to Guangzhou in China's economically vibrant Pearl River Delta (PRD),you will see that the region was hit hard by the fall in exports that followed the global financial crisis, but is starting to show signs of recovery, including a tighter labor market. The co [...] | 2009-10-21 06:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV ELAB EINV CH |
09GUANGZHOU6 | INFANT CONTRACTS H9N2 AVIAN FLU IN SHENZHEN, HOSPITALIZED [...] Summary: An eleven-week old girl who resides in Shenzhen has reportedly contracted the H9N2 strain of avian influenza (AI). She is being treated in a Hong Kong hospital. Some medical experts have expressed concern that the H9N2 virus, which is less virulent than H5N1, may have mutated because [...] | 2009-01-05 07:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU CASC SOCI PREL HK CH |
09GUANGZHOU602 | Guangzhou Consulate Count: In - Argentina, Ecuador, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ecuador and Ethiopia recently opened consulate offices in Guangzhou, and Argentina opened in name though its "presence" is currently limited to frequent visits by a nominated CG resident in Beijing. Budget cuts at Sweden's Foreign Ministry will lead to the closure at month's en [...] | 2009-10-23 09:45:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD SCUL PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU603 | U.S. VISA PROGRAM FOR CHINESE OFFICIALS NEARLY FLAWLESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangzhou's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) recently conducted a visa validation study which revealed that post's Public and Service Passport Program for Chinese officials seeking visas, better known as the "Waiban visa program," continues to function almost flawlessly. Between July [...] | 2009-10-26 06:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU61 | An Evening with Guangzhou's Bishop Gan: Whither Religious [...] (C) Summary. A wry, at times bemused, Bishop Joseph Gan (Gan Junqiu) told the U.S. and French Consuls General over dinner February 3 that he did not see any possibility for China-Vatican relations over the next 4-5 years. The issue, the Bishop said, was not whether the Vatican "de-recognized" [...] | 2009-02-04 06:31:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI CH PGOV |
09GUANGZHOU611 | Secretary Locke and Wang Yang Discuss IPR, [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Brian L. Goldbeck for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (SBU) October 27, 2009; 3:00 p.m.; Zhudao Hotel, Provincial Party Compound; Guangzhou. 3. (C) Summary: In a wide ranging discussion October 27 in Guangzhou, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Ambassador [...] | 2009-10-30 00:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KIPR PREL ECON EINV PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU612 | CHINA IPR: CARMAKER BYD SEEKS TO "BUILD YOUR [...] (SBU) Summary and comment. Boosted by a major investment from Warren Buffet and poised to apply its world-class battery technology to automobiles, Chinese automaker BYD has been heralded as one of the most promising carmakers of the future. However, even a cursory look at the BYD product lin [...] | 2009-10-30 03:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU613 | Exports to Remain Pillar of Guangdong's Economy [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the global economy showing signs of recovery, Guangdong province is reassessing its export market orientation and attempting to make structural adjustments to expand its domestic market in light of the global economic downturn, according to Guangdong contacts who met with re [...] | 2009-10-30 05:46:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EIND PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU614 | Airlines in South China Poised to Grow Despite Global [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The global economic downturn has had minimal impact on major airlines in south China despite international airlines industry losses of US$11 billion for 2009. Though some of China's airlines have diversified their business portfolio and others have made operational adjustments, [...] | 2009-10-30 05:47:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL BEXP CH |
09GUANGZHOU616 | Secretary Locke and Guangzhou Mayor Zhang [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Brian L. Goldbeck for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (SBU) October 27, 2009; 11:00 a.m.; Sam's Club, Panyu District, Guangzhou. 3. (SBU) Summary: In a brief 25-minute discussion October 27 in Guangzhou, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Ambassador Huntsm [...] | 2009-11-02 09:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KIPR PREL ECON EINV PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU619 | Secretary Locke's Participation in IP Forum Advances IPR [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The participation of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Ambassador Jon Huntsman in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Forum on Innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) on October 27 focused local attention on a top-priority concern for the U.S. government and business in so [...] | 2009-11-03 08:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR PREL KPAO KIND ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU622 | U.S. SOUTH CHINA COMPANIES REVIEW WEAK IPR ENFORCEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Intellectual property right (IPR) infringement -- including counterfeiting, unlicensed technology transfer, hard-disc piracy and unauthorized internet distribution of copyrighted content -- cost U.S. firms in south China hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue and pose a [...] | 2009-11-04 09:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD EINV PREL PGOV CH TW HK |
09GUANGZHOU626 | Optimism Returning to Manufacturing Heartland of the Pearl [...] (SBU) Summary: Things are looking up for Dongguan, the export manufacturing powerhouse at the heart of the Pearl River Delta. A year ago business leaders in the city raised dire alarms of impending factory closures and massive layoffs. During meetings last month, contacts told the Consul Gene [...] | 2009-11-06 08:01:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU627 | CHINA'S 106TH CANTON FAIR SHOWS GRADUAL EXPORT RECOVERY [...] (U) Summary: Guangzhou's semi-annual Canton Fair concluded its 106th installment this week and reported that Chinese export orders continued to strengthen. However, orders have not recovered to pre-financial crisis levels, highlighting the need for China to further restructure the economy from [...] | 2009-11-06 09:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON KIPR PREL EINV CH |
09GUANGZHOU628 | Fujian Officials Describe Rural-Urban Disparities in Health [...] (SBU) Summary: Public health officials in Fujian admit there are significant gaps in the level of medical care and health insurance protection available to Fujian residents. Farmers, in particular, fare poorly in the type of government health insurance coverage and health care to which the [...] | 2009-11-09 05:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI TBIO ELAB PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU630 | CLIMATE CHANGE - GUANGZHOU STILL NOT FEELING THE HEAT [...] (SBU) Summary: A trio of obstacles -- public indifference, media apathy and government double-speak -- seem to be making it more difficult for climate change issues to gain traction in this south China megacity. According to local newspaper reporters, Guangzhou residents are largely unaware o [...] | 2009-11-13 09:12:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV PREL ECPS CH |
09GUANGZHOU631 | CHINA: ON-SITE FRAUD CHECKS STRENGTHEN VISA OFFICER [...] (SBU) Summary: In mid-September, Guangzhou's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) conducted on-site visits as part of a validation study focusing on the accuracy of issuances and refusals for students from Fuzhou, Fujian. Fujian province has become notorious over the past 30 years for immigration docu [...] | 2009-11-16 07:09:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CMGT ASEC PGOV PINS CH |
09GUANGZHOU635 | Guangxi Opens Its Doors, But Does Not Roll out the Carpet [...] (SBU) Summary: On his initial visit to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Consul General Goldbeck promoted trade and investment, advanced the possibility of establishing an American Corner and learned about Sino-Vietnamese cooperation on trafficking in persons. He also discussed the plans o [...] | 2009-11-18 09:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD KTIP PGOV KIRF SOCI CH VN |
09GUANGZHOU640 | Ambassador and Commerce Secretary Receive Massive Press [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Over a billion people are believed to have read, watched or listened to Chinese and international media reports covering the Ambassador and Commerce Secretary's October 26-27 trip to Guangzhou. While south China press -- government owned and operated -- is accurately [...] | 2009-11-20 00:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO KMDR PREL KIPR ETRD OVIP CH |
09GUANGZHOU641 | Fujian Province Triples Its Oil Refining Capabilities [...] (SBU) Summary: The opening of the Fujian Integrated Refining & Ethylene Joint Venture Project (FREP) Commercial Operation will increase Fujian's annual refining capacity from 4 million to 12 million tons. The project is a joint venture between China's SINOPEC (50%),Exxon-Mobil (25%) and Saudi [...] | 2009-11-20 05:16:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
09GUANGZHOU642 | Guangzhou Begins Asian Games Campaign to Promote Its [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangzhou held its one-year countdown celebration for the November 2010 16th Asian Games, kicking off an effort to use the Games to advance its image as a modern, cosmopolitan city and a worthy destination for tourists and foreign investment. The countdown ceremony capitalized [...] | 2009-11-20 05:17:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PREL ETRD PGOV SENV CH XA |
09GUANGZHOU643 | Container Shipping Industry Sees Slow Recovery Ahead [...] (U) SUMMARY: The global container shipping industry hit rock bottom in 2009 and is slowly climbing out of the trough, according to industry experts attending the 3rd Annual Trans-Pacific Maritime Asia Conference in Shenzhen in late October. Executives of shipping lines and major retailers poin [...] | 2009-11-20 09:13:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN ETRD EIND PGOV |
09GUANGZHOU644 | CHINESE BLOGGERS FEEL INCREASING GOVERNMENT PRESSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Chinese government has been tightening its grip on the Internet, and the trend won't be reversed any time soon, according to prominent bloggers attending the 5th Annual Blogger Conference (Septel). Bloggers viewed the role of the Internet in Chinese society alternatively as a [...] | 2009-11-20 09:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL KWWW SOCI EINT KEMS CH |
09GUANGZHOU645 | CHINESE BLOGGERS CONFERENCE MORE DIFFICULT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: It can be tough being a blogger in China. But try gathering dozens of bloggers from all around the country for a conference and then you'll face some challenges. The 5th Annual China Blogger Conference faced numerous obstacles from the initial planning stages right up to the last [...] | 2009-11-20 09:15:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL KWWW SOCI EINT KEMS CH |
09GUANGZHOU646 | American Culture Week A Big Hit at Xiamen University [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ConGen Guangzhou hosted its first ever "American Culture Week" at Xiamen University's School of Humanities from November 9-13. Despite pressure from the University's Foreign Affairs Office to cancel the program, including the Consul General's opening speech highlighting the Pr [...] | 2009-11-23 02:24:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI SCUL PREL ETRD PGOV SENV OPRC CH XA |
09GUANGZHOU647 | Chinese Protestant Christians Discuss Finding [...] (C) Summary: Pastors at the state-approved Three-Self Patriotic Movement Protestant Zhongshan Road Church in Nanning, Guangxi, say they have more freedom to minister to their flocks but still must avoid discussing sensitive topics. The Zhongshan Road Church takes pride in its professionally t [...] | 2009-11-23 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF SOCI ELAB CH |
09GUANGZHOU648 | GOVERNMENT REPORT SPARKS CONTROVERSY OVER USE OF LIQUIFIED [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: If disagreement among government entities regarding high-profile policy initiatives is rare in China, rarer still is it for these disputes to play out in the press. But this is exactly what occurred last month when the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress (GZPC) re [...] | 2009-11-25 05:51:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PGOV ELTN CH |
09GUANGZHOU652 | CONSULATE GUANGZHOU STEPS UP STUDENT OUTREACH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ConGen Guangzhou continues to bolster its student outreach efforts as its F-1 student visa refusal rate -- historically the highest among China posts -- drops incrementally year over year. In 2009, Guangzhou refused 28% of student visa applicants, a large drop compared to 38% in [...] | 2009-11-30 06:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD PGOV PREL ECON SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU653 | Supporting the POTUS Visit: ConGen Guangzhou Swarmed to [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangzhou programmed significant outreach to amplify the POTUS November 15-18 trip to China, hosted bloggers for the All-China Bloggers DVC prior to the visit, and used Twitter to deliver live content of the POTUS Shanghai speech to thousands of Chinese netizens. Although Foreign [...] | 2009-12-01 09:26:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO KMDR PREL EINT SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU654 | Anatomy of a Media Murder: How Beijing Killed [...] (C) Summary: President Obama gave only one interview during his visit to China, and he chose Guangzhou's Southern Weekend (Nanfang Zhoumo),a paper the New York Times called "China's most influential liberal newspaper." Reporters in Guangzhou, working for the Southern Daily Group or closely as [...] | 2009-12-02 07:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO KMDR PREL EINT SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU667 | China Sees Explosive Growth in Immigrant Investor Visas [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-11 05:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT KFRD ECON EFIN CH |
09GUANGZHOU670 | CHINESE MFA HOSTS VISA CONFERENCE: MANTIS SAOS, REFUSAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) organized a visa conference in Guangzhou on December 2-4 to discuss U.S. visa policy. Consistent with previous visa conferences, the main issues on the Chinese side were complaints about the length of time to process Mantis securi [...] | 2009-12-11 06:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT PREL KFRD CH |
09GUANGZHOU671 | China Sees Explosive Growth in Immigrant Investor Visas [...] (U) Summary: Guangzhou saw an increase of over 600 percent in the issuance of investor immigrant pilot program (EB5) visas from fiscal year (FY) 2008 to FY 2009, with total applicants issued rising from 245 to 1,732, giving China the highest volume of EB5 visas in the world. These applicants h [...] | 2009-12-11 10:58:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT KFRD ECON EFIN CH |
09GUANGZHOU677 | Female Official Named New Fujian Party Secretary [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Twenty-five years since the last woman was appointed to a provincial party secretary position, the Chinese central government has named Sun Chunlan as the new Party Secretary of Fujian Province. Sun's appointment suggests a further expansion of President Hu Jintao's [...] | 2009-12-15 08:03:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON SOCI SCUL CH TW |
09GUANGZHOU678 | Slow Improvements in South China NGO Environment [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake, when the Chinese government tacitly allowed some non-government organizations (NGOs) to play a role in the relief effort, NGOs have had relatively more freedom in which to operate, according to NGO leaders and academics in south China. Howe [...] | 2009-12-15 09:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV SOCI SCUL EAID SMIG PHUM CH |
09GUANGZHOU679 | South China NGO Getting More Professional But Still Face [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the operational space for non-government organizations (NGOs) continue to slowly widen in China (septel),the sector's social role is becoming more defined and some organizations are beginning to mature in how they organize and operate, according to NGO experts in south China [...] | 2009-12-15 09:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PGOV ECON SCUL EAID CH |
09GUANGZHOU686 | GUANGDONG PROVINCE TRADE NUMBERS SHOW SOME IMPROVEMENT [...] (U) According to Guangdong Customs, November bilateral trade numbers snapped a 12-month string of declines, with total trade volume between the United States and Guangdong Province growing 0.5% to USD 7.27 billion, year-on-year. Of that number, U.S. imports accounted for USD 1.14 billion, an i [...] | 2009-12-17 08:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PREL EINV CH |
09GUANGZHOU688 | After Attempted Cover-Up, China Calls Cobalt-60 Incident a [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese officials took more than six weeks to resolve an incident at a food irradiation center where a quantity of Cobalt-60 could not be returned to its protective storage well. Ministry of Environmental Protection officials insist, probably correctly, that there was no danger d [...] | 2009-12-18 09:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV SENV KSCA IAEA CH |
09GUANGZHOU689 | Shenzhen Tightens Limits on Petitioner Activity [...] (U) Summary: The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court, Procuratorate (prosecutor's office),Public Security Bureau and Judicial Bureau in November jointly issued a "Notice on Dealing with Abnormal Petition Behaviors in Accordance with the Law" and defined 14 behaviors as "abnormal petition beha [...] | 2009-12-21 03:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI PHUM CH |
09GUANGZHOU696 | Public Health in Fujian Province: Dealing with Disease [...] (SBU) Summary. Drawing on lessons learned from the 2003 SARS outbreak, public health officials in Fujian worked to establish a comprehensive emergency response and alert system for communicable diseases. The current H1N1 outbreak has highlighted the limitations of the system and a need to i [...] | 2009-12-22 05:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI TBIO ELAB PGOV ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU697 | Fujian Officials Describe Rural-Urban [...] (SBU) Summary: Public health officials in Fujian admit there are significant gaps in the level of medical care and health insurance protection available to Fujian residents. Farmers, in particular, fare poorly in the type of government health insurance coverage and health care to which t [...] | 2009-12-22 05:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI TBIO ELAB PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU70 | SOUTH CHINA BUDDHISTS - EMPHASIZING CHARITY, RAISING [...] (C) Summary: Buddhist leaders in South China, like many other religious leaders, are ramping up charitable efforts, especially in the wake of China's economic slowdown, and in the process are maintaining positive and cooperative relationships with the government. Guangdong's government-approve [...] | 2009-02-05 06:36:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM SOCI CH |
09GUANGZHOU701 | Shenzhen's Planned Comprehensive Reforms: What will They [...] (SBU) Summary: Shenzhen is currently undergoing "comprehensive" reform of its administrative system (see also reftel),including instituting a balance of power scheme and reducing the number of government departments by one-third. Attrition -- not personnel cuts -- will be the primary means of [...] | 2009-12-23 04:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI SENV CH |
09GUANGZHOU703 | Green Investment in China's "Backyard Garden": [...] (SBU) Summary: Seeking to capitalize on Hainan's stated objectives of boosting clean energy research and development (R&D) and strengthening protection of its natural environment (reftel),Consul General Goldbeck and AmCham South China President Harley Seyedin jointly led a delegation December [...] | 2009-12-24 03:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV ETRD PREL EINV PGOV TW CH |
09GUANGZHOU704 | Express Delivery Hubs Find New Home in South China, But Not [...] (SBU) Summary: Situated within three hours flight time from most major cities in the Asia-Pacific region, the Pearl River Delta (PRD) is an excellent hub for logistic companies serving this part of the world, according to express delivery firms. FedEx and UPS are both positioning themselves t [...] | 2009-12-28 01:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EAIR EINV ELTN ECON ETRD PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU707 | Over-Capacity Not a Concern in Zhanjiang and Beihai [...] (SBU) Summary: Big plans for industrial expansion are underway in Beihai and Zhanjiang near the southern end of China's coast, where local officials recently described to the Consul General ambitious plans to develop steel, petrochemical, ship building, export processing and other manufacturing [...] | 2009-12-28 08:50:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND EWWT ENRG PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU709 | Bio-fuel Plant Taking Root on Guangxi's Coast [...] (SBU) Summary: Guangxi is expanding its use of bio-fuels and COFCO Bio-Energy, in the city of Beihai, is playing a key role. The firm uses cassava root to produce ethanol that is sold in gas stations throughout the autonomous region. In addition, it uses the plant's solid waste and methane pr [...] | 2009-12-28 09:04:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV ETRD EINV EAGR PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU711 | Growth Returns to Guangdong with Rising Domestic Demand and [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials in Guangdong are declaring victory over the global financial crisis's impact on the trade-dependent province's economy. They point to projections that growth for the province will exceed 8% for the year after falling to a 30-year low in the first quarter. Our contacts [...] | 2009-12-30 03:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU713 | Rural/Urban Divide - Officials and Academics Ponder the [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chinese government hopes urbanization will boost domestic consumption and reduce reliance on exports, according to officials and academics at a conference on rural-urban integration in Hainan December 5-6. One academic estimated, for each one percentage point increase in urb [...] | 2009-12-30 09:52:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU715 | South China Airlines Battle New High-Speed Train [...] (SBU) Summary: The new high-speed train service between Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and Wuhan, Hubei Province debuted on December 26, 2009 as the world's fastest long-distance passenger train service. Ticket prices for the new service, however, are beyond the grasp of most Chinese, according [...] | 2009-12-30 09:54:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELTN EIND ECON CH |
09GUANGZHOU716 | Guangxi Snapshot: Local Volunteer Association Flourishing [...] (SBU) Summary: Volunteer organizations formed with the support of local government appear to be spreading to third-tier cities in China as illustrated by the example of the Beihai Civil Volunteer Association (BCVA) in coastal Guangxi. The organization has more than 400 members and is engaged i [...] | 2009-12-30 09:55:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON PGOV SCUL EAID PHUM CH |
09GUANGZHOU72 | CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS -- A GROWING FORCE IN GUANGDONG [...] (U) Summary: Volunteerism is gaining strength in South China, with the government-sponsored Guangdong Volunteer Federation (GVF) database of four million mostly young volunteers supposedly ready to heed the call when and where needed. Last year's three highly visible events -- the central Chi [...] | 2009-02-06 01:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU76 | Guangxi AI Update: Still No Link To Bird Outbreak - [...] (U) Summary: Authorities have been unable to link the H5N1-death of a Guangxi teen, the 5th fatality of 2009, with an outbreak among bird populations. Some south China health experts suspect that recent human AI cases may be associated with birds that carry and transmit the virus but do not t [...] | 2009-02-06 09:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU CASC SOCI PREL HK CH |
09GUANGZHOU8 | Forced Labor Conference Draws High Interest in Fujian [...] (SBU) Summary: For local labor associations eager to learn more about combating forced labor in China, a recent International Labor Office (ILO) sponsored conference should have been just the right venue. However, for them, as for many officials, a lack of relevant legislation and legal preced [...] | 2009-01-06 09:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KTIP PHUM CH |
09GUANGZHOU80 | Guangdong Moving to Expand Nuclear Power [...] (U) Summary: Guangdong province, the home of the Daya Bay and Ling Ao power stations, is getting set to rely even more on nuclear power as an energy source in the years ahead. The Yanjiang Nuclear Power Station (YNPS) 189 km south of Guangzhou, on which workers broke ground on December 16, is [...] | 2009-02-09 06:43:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY ETTC IAEA CH |
09GUANGZHOU81 | Government-NGO Cooperation Expanding in Guangxi [...] (SBU) Summary: International nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) willing to register and observe a limited set of rules and limited supervision have generally found willing government partners in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The financial benefits of cooperating with NGOs are not los [...] | 2009-02-09 08:56:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KTIP CH |
09GUANGZHOU84 | Chinese Bloggers Enjoy More Freedom within the "Red Lines" [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg for reason (d). 2. (C) Summary and comment: The fine line between outright expression and self-censorship is one that bloggers in China walk everyday. They enjoy a level of freedom unmatched by the written press, and the development of the Int [...] | 2009-02-11 07:27:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
09GUANGZHOU87 | Slowing Economy Eases Guangdong's Electricity Crunch [...] (U) Summary. One unintended consequence of the global economic downturn: it's easing Guangdong's power shortage. With slowing demand for electricity, power grid construction is catching up, spreading electrification to more remote rural areas. Increased energy-efficiency among power producer [...] | 2009-02-13 03:32:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EMIN SENV PGOV TRGY CH |
09GUANGZHOU9 | Economic Slump Takes the Wind Out of Shipping Industry's [...] (U) SUMMARY: There's no hiding from the numbers: the shipping industry in south China is suffering and they have little choice but to continue aggressively cutting costs to deal with the impact of the economic downturn. South China's ports appear to have been hit harder than those in other re [...] | 2009-01-06 09:14:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN ETRD EIND PGOV |
10GUANGZHOU13 | "Fe" vs. Climate Change: China's BYD Bets on Batteries in [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The answer to climate change may be as simple as the chemical formula of a lithium iron phosphate battery, according to one ambitious south China company. Referred to simply as "Fe" and already the key component of the world's first mass produced plug-in hybrid elec [...] | 2010-01-07 09:11:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL ETRD KIPR PGOV CH HK |
10GUANGZHOU18 | (U) Energy Efficient LED Lighting Has Bright Future in [...] (U) Summary and comment: China will invest in energy efficient LED (light emitting diode) lighting on a massive scale in the next three to five years, according to leading south China LED manufacturers. Guangdong province, which currently produces approximately half of China's LEDs, stands to [...] | 2010-01-12 09:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON SENV ETRD EINV TNGD PGOV CH |
10GUANGZHOU23 | Climate Change Network Fills Void in South China [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Wasting no time -- government, business, and NGO leaders gathered in Guangzhou to celebrate the launch of the South China Climate Change Network (SCCCN) on the first workday following the conclusion of the COP-15 Climate Change Conference. Inspired by a British Con [...] | 2010-01-14 07:37:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG PGOV PREL CH HK |
10GUANGZHOU24 | Xiamen-Based Taiwan Watchers Say Cross-Strait Relations [...] (C) SUMMARY: Beijing's policies toward Taiwan likely will remain unchanged in the near term, according to Xiamen-based officials, academics and business leaders. One Taiwan business leader said that the cross-Strait relationship could weather a 2012 win by Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party [...] | 2010-01-15 08:41:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD EINV PREL CH TW |
10GUANGZHOU33 | CHINA-HONG KONG: CEPA IMPLEMENTATION IN GUANGDONG NOT [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Numerous barriers continue to hinder service sector liberalization as envisioned by the Beijing-Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Agreement's (CEPA) sixth supplemental agreement that took effect on October 1, 2009, according to Guangzhou-based contacts in meetings [...] | 2010-01-20 07:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH HK |
10GUANGZHOU34 | (C) South China Sea - Hainan-Based Think Tank Probes DATT [...] (U) Classified by Economic/Political Section Chief Steve Lang for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a visit to the National Institute for South China Sea Studies (NISCS),Defense Attach (DATT) Rear Admiral Gehrke was treated to more than a generic overview of the institute's history an [...] | 2010-01-21 09:07:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PHSA PGOV CH |
10GUANGZHOU49 | Ambassador Attends Symposium Comparing U.S., Chinese [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Huntsman addressed representatives from the Counselor's Office of the State Council of China and the Kissinger Institute at a January 20-22 symposium on similarities and differences between U.S. and Chinese government systems. Speakers from both sides gave comparative v [...] | 2010-01-29 07:46:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI PREL CH |
10GUANGZHOU50 | Something Stinks in Guangzhou - Government Forced to Adopt [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: After sustained public pressure forced officials in December to shelve a garbage incineration project, Guangzhou is now turning to the Internet for solutions to the city's growing waste disposal problem. Guangzhou's municipal government issued a notice January 14 ur [...] | 2010-02-01 00:52:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV ECPS EIND CH HK |
10GUANGZHOU6 | China Financial Markets: Shenzhen Start-Up Board Rocking [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The long-awaited "NASDAQ-like" start-up board, ChiNext, completed its first 2 months of operation in positive territory after finally making its Shenzhen debut on October 23, 2009. The new board opened by offering a first batch of 28 companies followed by another lis [...] | 2010-01-06 09:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CH |
10GUANGZHOU7 | New Semiconductor Foundry to Open in Shenzhen; High Tech [...] (SBU) Summary: High-tech industry in Shenzhen might have reached critical mass, now attracting new industries and growth with encouragement from the municipal government. In addition to favorable policies and support, government and industry contacts cite free market forces in Shenzhen as a ma [...] | 2010-01-06 09:22:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETTC EINV TNGD PGOV CH TW |
10GUANGZHOU74 | U.S. AND CHINA HOLD FIRST PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Officials and nuclear energy experts from the United States and China convened in Shenzhen, Guangdong January 20-23 to share information and best practices for improving safety in the operation of nuclear power plants (NPPS). The workshop was a key cooperative activity that the U.S. Depa [...] | 2010-02-10 00:21:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY SENV PREL PGOV CH |
10GUANGZHOU75 | NGOs, EDUCATION, AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING: BUILDING CIVIL [...] (U) Summary: The Consul General's February 1-3 visits to Guilin and Liuzhou focused on developing civil society through strengthening NGOs and forming educational partnerships. The CG visited Guangxi Normal University officials and librarians, as well as administrators of the Liuzhou Minority H [...] | 2010-02-10 05:38:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO ECON PGOV ELAB SOCI SCUL PREL OPRC CH |
10GUANGZHOU76 | Domestic Demand Strong, But Not "High End" in Guangxi's [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Demand for inexpensive automobiles and heavy machinery produced in Liuzhou, the main manufacturing city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, increased in 2009 and is likely to exceed sales records in 2010, according to local executives. However, China's domestic [...] | 2010-02-10 08:10:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR EFIN EINV PGOV CH |
10GUANGZHOU77 | South China Economic Analysts Predict Continued Reliance on [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Although China is making gradual progress towards greater economic diversification, cheap exports will continue to drive growth in the near term, according to comments made by local economic analysts during a conversation with the Consul General, visiting Deputy Direc [...] | 2010-02-10 08:35:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ELAB PGOV PREL SENV ECON CH HK |
10GUANGZHOU8 | Labor NGO Stuck with Fine for Unpaid Taxes [...] (C) Summary: A Shenzhen-based labor NGO was charged more than RMB 79,000 (approximately US$12,000) in back taxes and fees in what the organization's director says was a move orchestrated by local security authorities. The situation appears to be limited to the single NGO, though directors of s [...] | 2010-01-06 09:23:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
10GUANGZHOU82 | Migrant Worker Generation Gap Underscores [...] (C) Summary and comment: China's new generation of migrant workers has more education, less interest in rural life and a higher rate of criminality than the previous generation. Younger workers favor jobs in the service sector over manufacturing and often do not plan to retire to the countrys [...] | 2010-02-12 07:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV CH |
10GUANGZHOU83 | South China Violent Land Disputes Symptomatic of the [...] (SBU) Summary: Violence erupted in a long festering land dispute in rural Longya Village of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early on January 12, 2010, resulting in a number of arrests and hospitalizations for local villagers and public security officers. Congenoff visited the site on February [...] | 2010-02-12 07:28:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI ECON PGOV CH |
10GUANGZHOU84 | South China IPR: Enforcement Still the Problem, High-Level [...] (SBU) Summary: Rights holders came to the Consul General's IPR Roundtable on January 28 and 29, with a clear message: Problems remain serious and continued high-level U.S. engagement is critical to improving the situation. Representatives of 39 south China-based rights holders and law firms p [...] | 2010-02-12 07:29:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH HK |
10GUANGZHOU85 | POSITIVE MEDIA REACTION IN GUILIN AND LIUZHOU [...] (SBU) Summary: Consul General Goldbeck's February 1-3 visit to Guilin and Liuzhou garnered unprecedented media coverage for a Consulate Guangzhou event outside of Guangzhou city. The positive media coverage from over 100 outlets reached over 700 million people in and outside of China (ref A). [...] | 2010-02-18 00:08:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL OPRC ECON CH TW |
10GUANGZHOU86 | Guangdong and Fujian Take the Reins of China's Nuclear [...] (SBU) Summary: Over one third of the total nuclear generating capacity set to come online in China by 2020 will likely be concentrated in two southern provinces: Guangdong and Fujian. Home of the nation's first nuclear reactors in Daya Bay -- which along with two units at neighboring Ling Ao [...] | 2010-02-18 06:18:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV TW CH |
10GUANGZHOU88 | New Indian CG's Major Complaint - Lack of Access [...] (SBU) During a brief introductory call, Indian Consul General Indra Mani Pandey expressed surprise and dismay over the lack of access to senior local government and communist party leadership. Shortly after arriving on January 20, he placed requests to meet Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang a [...] | 2010-02-22 09:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD SOCI CH IN |
10GUANGZHOU9 | CONTAINER SHIPPERS IN GUANGDONG SUFFER A TUMULTOUS 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Serving the heart of China's export market, container terminal operators and carriers in Guangdong Province did not escape the damaging effects of the latest global economic downturn. Volumes dropped precipitously in the first half of 2009 and showed only modest signs of recove [...] | 2010-01-06 09:25:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ETRD ECON PGOV CH |
10GUANGZHOU95 | CHINA: CA PDAS Kirby's Visit to Guangzhou [...] (SBU) Summary: CA PDAS Michael Kirby, accompanied by MCCA Linda Donahue (Beijing),visited Guangzhou on February 23-24 for an update on Consulate General Guangzhou's consular operation, particularly the growing demand for consular services in the "workshop of the world," the Pearl River Delta [...] | 2010-02-26 08:00:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT CVIS PREL ETRD BEXP CH |
88GUANGZHOU8077 | HU JINTAO--A GLANCE AT HIS CHARACTER [...] CONFIDENTIAL-ENTIRE TEXT. 2. DURING A RECENT CALL ON THE CONSUL GENERAL, U.S. POLITICAL SCIENTIST XXXXXXXXXXXX RECOUNTED A CONVERSATION HE HAD RECENTLY HAD ABOUT HU JINTAO. IN TRAVELLING BACK FROM HAINAN TO GUANGZHOU HE WAS SEATED NEXT TO AN ENTREPRENEUR FROM GUIZHOU. XXXXXXXXXXXX ASKED WHAT HE T [...] | 1988-12-21 09:23:00 | Consulate Guangzhou | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV CH |
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