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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 06CHENGDU1249 |
MIXED MESSAGES ON NARCOTICS TREATMENT IN KUNMING [...] (C) Summary. Officials from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) in Beijing recently visited Kunming's Daytop Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center (Daytop) Director facilities to learn more about its treatment and counseling centers, in addition to methadone maintenance clinics and [...] |
2006-12-07 12:06:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PHUM CH |
| 06CHENGDU1250 |
FEDERAL RESERVE LOOKS AT SOUTHWEST CHINA DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. A Federal Reserve delegation visited Chengdu from November 28-30. According to local government leaders, the economies of Sichuan and Chengdu will continue to grow rapidly, although environmental protection is a concern. Representatives of smaller U.S. businesses operating in [...] |
2006-12-08 05:34:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV SENV CH |
| 06CHENGDU1252 |
HHS SECRETARY SEES SOUTHWEST CHINA HEALTH CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O. Leavitt visited rural health-care providers in Sichuan Province and met with Central Government and Provincial health authorities on southwest China's health-care challenges. While touring the small village of Yujian, about tw [...] |
2006-12-12 11:18:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON ELAB PGOV SCUL SENV TBIO CH |
| 06CHENGDU1253 |
NO MORE "IRON RICE BOWL" FOR TIBETAN GRADUATES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) recently announced it would be the last region in China to eliminate the "iron rice bowl" system of guaranteed lifetime employment in governmental organs and state enterprises. The announcement, as well as the results of recent civil service [...] |
2006-12-13 09:57:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PHUM PGOV SCUL CH |
| 06CHENGDU1256 |
TAR PARTY SECRETARY TRIES TO PRESSURE NGOS [...] (C) Summary: Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the Tibetan Autonomous Regions (TAR) could be facing increasing difficulties, according to a scholar from the Tibet Academy of Social Science. The scholar described an internal document authored by TAR Party Secretary Zhang Qingli which d [...] |
2006-12-14 06:41:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID ECON PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU100 |
LOCAL RELIGIOUS FIGURES ON ISLAMIC RESURGENCE IN CHINA'S [...] (C) Summary: During a series of informal discussions in southern Yunnan Province along China's borders with Vietnam and Laos, local Muslim leaders described with pride the resurgence of Islam in their communities. A recently-completed mosque and religious training school in Najiaying has attr [...] |
2007-04-12 06:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF CH |
| 07CHENGDU108 |
EXPECTATIONS HIGH FOR RURAL HEALTH CARE IN SOUTHERN SICHUAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: China's voluntary health insurance scheme, the Rural Cooperative Medical System (RCMS) was designed to make healthcare more accessible and affordable for the poor, particularly in the event of catastrophic illness. However, as the RCMS expands to reach the poorest areas, many commu [...] |
2007-05-04 06:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR CASC CH |
| 07CHENGDU12 |
AIDS IN TIBETAN AREAS OF SICHUAN PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary: During a recent conference on "Social Changes and Development in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan Areas," a researcher from the Sichuan Provincial Ethnic Research Institute said the HIV/AIDS situation in Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province has grown more seriou [...] |
2007-01-11 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO EAID ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU123 |
HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS -- A MODEL FOR GRASSROOTS GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary: Consulate contacts recently described the role of homeowner associations in rights protection at the local level, referring to them as a central point for democratic reforms in China. The homeowner rights movement in Chengdu, which began in 2004, recently resulted in the establis [...] |
2007-05-10 09:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL CH |
| 07CHENGDU124 |
CHINA'S YUNNAN PROVINCE BUILDS OUT TO SOUTHEAST ASIA [...] (C) Summary: Yunnan officials in southwest China see construction of new road, river, and rail links with neighboring ASEAN countries as the key to ending their mountainous and landlocked province's long history of isolation and stimulating economic growth. While provincial authorities disag [...] |
2007-05-15 04:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU126 |
YUNNAN HOUSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS LEFT ALONE BY GOVERNMENT WHEN [...] (C) Summary: According to two foreign missionaries and a Chinese Christian, the atmosphere for Yunnan house church Christians has improved in recent years and believers are able to worship with little government interference compared to other areas of China, if they are careful to maintain a d [...] |
2007-05-18 06:15:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI SCUL KIRF CH |
| 07CHENGDU128 |
SICHUAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS [...] (C) Summary: Sichuan rights activist Zeng Jianyu was recently sentenced to two years in jail for allegedly "trumped up" charges of business fraud. Zeng was reportedly the first popularly elected deputy to a county-level People's Congress in 1992 and well known for his activism on land, envir [...] |
2007-05-18 07:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI SCUL CH |
| 07CHENGDU129 |
CHONGQING SCHOLARS DISCUSS CITY'S DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary. In a day of meetings with Chongqing academics, Embassy Beijing Econ M/C and Congenoff heard about some of the city's most pressing issues: the aftereffects of Three Gorges Dam construction, industrial reform, the plight of farmers and migrant workers. In addition, the city serv [...] |
2007-05-18 10:26:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU13 |
HOW "HARMONIOUS" ARE SICHUAN'S TIBETAN AREAS? [...] (C) Summary: Social unrest in Tibetan areas of Sichuan Province was serious in the first half of 2006, according to an ethnic Tibetan researcher from the Tibet Study Institute of Sichuan University. Ten "mass incidents" involving over 800 people principally stemmed from conflicts in caterpill [...] |
2007-01-11 07:59:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU137 |
SICHUAN TIBETAN MONASTERIES: TRYING TO GET THE STORY [...] (C) Summary: During recent meetings that were tightly scripted and filmed at five Buddhist monasteries in Tibetan areas of western Sichuan, abbots and local Religious Affairs Bureau officials gave us the party line in response to questions on specific human rights cases and restrictions on rel [...] |
2007-05-31 07:22:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU139 |
FAMILY PLANNING IN SICHUAN'S ABA TIBETAN AND QIANG [...] (SBU) Summary: According to the head of the local Population and Family Planning Bureau, both Han Chinese and ethnic minority families in Western Sichuan Province's Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture are permitted to have at least two, and in some cases, three children. The prefectur [...] |
2007-06-01 06:03:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU14 |
ON THE ROAD THROUGH SICHUAN'S ABA PREFECTURE [...] (C) Summary. During a recent unofficial visit by Congenoff to Sichuan's Aba Prefecture (an ethnic Tibetan area), head monks at two temples complained of heavy-handed oversight by the Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB), and police and military presences were heavy. Although the prefecture seat of [...] |
2007-01-11 08:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM SCUL SENV CH |
| 07CHENGDU140 |
NOMADIC RESETTLEMENT AND THE NEW SOCIALIST COUNTRYSIDE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: According to local Animal Husbandry Bureau officials in Hongyuan County of western Sichuan Province's Aba (Tibetan: Ngaba) Prefecture, the central government has invested 30 million RMB (USD 3.9 million) to implement the "New Socialist Countryside" and facilitate the transitio [...] |
2007-06-04 08:48:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU142 |
MEETINGS CONDEMNING THE DALAI LAMA HELD IN QINGHAI [...] (U) On May 31 Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that the head of Dungkyab Monastery in Gade County (Chinese: Gande) in Golog Tibetan Prefecture of Qinghai Province was forced to resign for refusing to sign documents condemning the Dalai Lama. The 70-year-old abbot, Khenpo Tsanor reportedly ackn [...] |
2007-06-05 02:52:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU143 |
SICHUAN RESEARCHER ON CHALLENGES TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary: Sichuan Province, the third largest in China, ranks only tenth in terms of economic development, according to Wang Xiaogang (strictly protect), Deputy Director of the Sichuan Development Research Institute. While the purpose of "Scientific Development" is to bridge the gap betwe [...] |
2007-06-05 07:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU144 |
YUNNAN EARTHQUAKE -- TENS OF THOUSANDS LEFT HOMELESS [...] (U) On June 3, Southwest China's Yunnan Province experienced an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale. The quake hit Pu'er City, close to Yunnan's southern border with Burma, killing at least three, injuring 313, and leaving more than 180,000 people displaced, according to Chinese off [...] |
2007-06-05 09:48:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON CASC CH |
| 07CHENGDU146 |
THE "BALANCES" OF A HARMONIOUS SOCIETY: PERSPECTIVES OF A [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting, the Director of the Sichuan Institute of Political Science said the core of the Chinese Government's Harmonious Society guiding philosophy is the balancing of various interests so everyone can enjoy the fruits of development. In addition, Harmonious Society [...] |
2007-06-06 09:20:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SCUL CH |
| 07CHENGDU148 |
SICHUAN RESEARCHER CLAIMS "GREAT IMPROVEMENT" IN CHINA'S [...] (C) Summary: Ruan Zhixiao (strictly protect), a researcher in the Media Research Institution of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) said there has been "great improvement" in China's media environment, including the coverage of sensitive topics, but that there are still limits. He [...] |
2007-06-08 09:35:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL PHUM KPAO CH |
| 07CHENGDU152 |
LOCAL ISSUES DRIVE DISTURBANCES IN SOUTHWEST CHINA [...] (C) Summary: Early summer has seen the occurrence of several public disturbances in southwest China. Efforts by authorities to crack down on illegal vendors brought many people onto the streets in Chongqing, and a similar case in Chengdu resulted in the severe beating of a bystander. Although [...] |
2007-06-15 03:18:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU157 |
CONVERSATIONS IN NORTHERN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: Consulate Chengdu recently accompanied the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on a project monitoring trip to some of the highest and most remote areas of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). The TAR Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) said it valued U.S. NGO pr [...] |
2007-06-25 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV EAID SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU158 |
SOCIAL DISTURBANCES FLARE UP IN TIBETAN AREAS [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent weeks there have been three separate social disturbances in Tibetan areas inside and outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Accounts of the incidents were originally reported in the international press. Recently, Post was able to confirm and learn more details [...] |
2007-06-25 09:03:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV SOCI SCUL CH |
| 07CHENGDU159 |
BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILES OF TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION FOREIGN [...] (C) During a recent seven-day road trip through Nagchu Prefecture in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), Consulate had over 40 hours of "quality" time to dialogue with the TAR Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) official assigned to accompany us to remote field sites. In the course of our trip, in [...] |
2007-06-26 03:46:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL CH |
| 07CHENGDU161 |
CHENGDU PATRIOTIC CHURCH LEADER COOPERATING WITH AMERICAN [...] (C) Summary. A local leader of China's officially-sanctioned Three Selves Patriotic Movement (TSPM) Christian Church and two local American English teachers discussed their cooperation in using expatriate-taught "English camps" and similar programs as a means to introduce local residents to Ch [...] |
2007-06-28 08:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KIRF CH |
| 07CHENGDU182 |
TWO MORE MASS INCIDENTS IN CHONGQING [...] (C) Summary. Coming hard on the heels of a spate of recent "mass incidents," (reftel), two more demonstrations in Chongqing appear to have involved thousands of people. One was sparked by the unsolved murder of a middle school student, the other by land takings for industrial development. In [...] |
2007-07-13 08:55:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU19 |
GAY AND LESBIAN CHENGDU [...] (C) Summary. Although Chengdu has been nicknamed "gay paradise," gays here still face considerable challenges, and official, social, and family pressures are often sufficiently intense to keep many local gays in the closet. The situation of lesbians is even more difficult, perhaps due to high [...] |
2007-01-22 05:46:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI EAID PGOV PHUM SCUL TBIO CH |
| 07CHENGDU192 |
TAKING A STROLL DOWN "TIBET STREET" [...] (C) Summary: A recent visit to "Tibet Street" in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu underscored the neighborhood's role as a magnet for a mostly transient or floating population of ethnic Tibetans, which may number as many as 300,000 during any given year. Some of the area's denizens s [...] |
2007-07-23 02:03:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU195 |
TIBETAN LOCAL PARTY SECRETARY SACKED AFTER OUTBREAK OF [...] (C) According to Consulate contacts, west Sichuan Ganzi Prefecture Party Secretary Dorje Rabten was removed from his post following a violent clash on July 13 between two neighboring Tibetan townships (Sumdo and Danba) over caterpillar fungus harvesting rights. The contacts confirmed a July 18 [...] |
2007-07-24 05:40:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU203 |
PRESENTING CHENGDU'S COLORFUL FIRST PAKISTANI CONSUL [...] (C) Summary: Recently arrived to assume his duties in Chengdu, Pakistan's first consul general to southwest China may have been picked for his current assignment due to his experience in Burma and military background. The JF-17 fighter aircraft jointly developed and produced by China and Paki [...] |
2007-08-03 01:01:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MASS PK CH |
| 07CHENGDU206 |
VIOLENCE FLARES ANOTHER YEAR AT LOCAL TIBETAN FESTIVAL [...] (C) Summary. Protests and arrests again marked the opening of a popular festival in Litang in western Sichuan's Ganzi Prefecture, with tensions between ethnic Tibetans and Han Chinese reportedly high. Travelers, local contacts, and the media also report sporadic violent incidents in other ar [...] |
2007-08-03 06:10:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM CH |
| 07CHENGDU210 |
SECURITY FORCES STEP UP PRESENCE IN LITANG FOLLOWING [...] (C) Several local contacts in Litang told us August 6 that People's Armed Police (PAP) personnel are out in force throughout the town and its surrounding county following a protest that occurred August 1 at the annual Litang Horse Race Festival when a Tibetan nomad, Runggye Adak, seized a micro [...] |
2007-08-06 09:36:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 07CHENGDU219 |
TENSIONS SPREADING FROM TIBETAN TOWN OF LITANG?; ANOTHER [...] (C) Summary: Although local officials may be keen for it not to affect the tourist trade, tensions remain high in the town of Litang in the west of China's Sichuan Province following the arrest of Runggye Adak, a Tibetan nomad who publicly called for the return of the Dalai Lama. Roadblocks a [...] |
2007-08-13 05:52:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 07CHENGDU220 |
SICHUAN OFFICIALS RESPOND TO TIBETAN "LITANG AUGUST 1 [...] (C) Summary: Officials in China's Sichuan Province hope the experience and reputation for toughness of newly-appointed local Party Secretary Liu Daoping will lead to a "calm" resolution of recent ethnic Tibetan disturbances in Ganzi prefecture. In addition to Runggye Adak, another individual [...] |
2007-08-14 07:30:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 07CHENGDU230 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA'S TIBETAN AREAS - SIMMERING TENSIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: Ethnic Tibetan areas of Sichuan and Yunnan are under increased security pressure from government authorities in the wake of demonstrations in the town of Litang in western Sichuan's Ganzi Prefecture that were set off by the arrest of a man calling for the return of the Dalai Lama [...] |
2007-09-06 09:26:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SCUL CH |
| 07CHENGDU231 |
POLITICAL CONTROL INCREASING IN SICHUAN'S GANZI PREFECTURE [...] (C) Summary: Local sources indicate that officials in Sichuan's Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture are implementing new measures directed at affirming the loyalty of government and religious figures in the prefecture following the "August 1 Litang Incident" (reftel). End summary. 2. (C) [...] |
2007-09-07 08:15:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SCUL CH |
| 07CHENGDU235 |
TRYING TO DISCUSS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AT TIBET'S TASHILHUNPO [...] (C) Summary: While doing everything possible to dodge our questions during a recent meeting choreographed by the Lhasa Foreign Affairs Office (FAO), a high-ranking monk/official of the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse did acknowledge that the over decade-long dispute between Chinese authoriti [...] |
2007-09-24 03:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU236 |
HIV/AIDS AND POLITICAL CONTROLS IN ONE OF TIBET'S MOST [...] (C) Summary: While optimistic their outreach efforts can have a positive impact, Swiss Red Cross representatives in China's Tibetan prefecture of Shigatse believe that a continued overall lack of education and awareness about HIV/AIDS, the spread of prostitution in the wake of increased number [...] |
2007-09-25 08:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | KHIV PGOV SOCI ECON CH |
| 07CHENGDU237 |
DETENTION OF TIBETAN STUDENTS IN GANSU; LITANG SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: A Congen contact originally from the area confirmed up to seven ethnic Tibetan boys between the ages of 14-18 were arrested and likely remain in detention in the Ganan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China's Gansu Province for writing pro-Dalai Lama slogans. According to the cont [...] |
2007-09-25 10:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU239 |
PORTRAIT OF A "HELP TIBET CADRE" [...] (C) Summary: A two-week road trip in remote western areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), throughout which we were closely accompanied by both Tibetan and Han Chinese officials, gave the Consulate a rather unique opportunity to experience firsthand the sometimes tense working dynamic at [...] |
2007-09-27 03:13:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CH |
| 07CHENGDU243 |
EVEREST AND BEYOND -- A RARE GLIMPSE INTO WESTERN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: The remote western areas of China's Tibetan Autonomous Region are a mixture of active military facilities, sensitive religious sites, and vulnerable archeological ruins. The Everest Base Camp, at which a People's Armed Police station was recently added, has become a rather squalid [...] |
2007-10-09 04:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR ECON CH |
| 07CHENGDU247 |
CHINA RAMPS UP "PATRIOTIC EDUCATION" OF TIBETANS IN WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: Local contacts confirm Ganzi Prefecture government authorities in China's western Sichuan Province are making an all-out effort to implement a political cleanup of the majority Tibetan area in the wake of public disturbances that occurred during August. "Patriotic education" sess [...] |
2007-10-10 09:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 07CHENGDU252 |
ETHNIC TIBETANS REACT TO DALAI LAMA'S GOLD MEDAL [...] (C) Summary: Despite stepped-up security, a number of ethnic Tibetans both inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and in other areas of southwest China reacted to the Dalai Lama's Congressional Gold Medal by praying in monasteries and by setting off firecrackers. Unconfirmed reports indi [...] |
2007-10-19 09:06:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 07CHENGDU255 |
FARMLAND TO FOREST IN SICHUAN: TIME FOR REEVALUATION? [...] (C) Summary. With an uneasy eye on the province's grain supply, Sichuan authorities are taking another look at the province's "Farmland to Forest Conversion" (tui geng huan lin, or FFC) program, originally implemented in 1999. Although authorities claim that the program has brought substantia [...] |
2007-10-25 09:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELAB EAGR PGOV SENV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU269 |
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL STRESSES ON THE RISE IN THREE [...] (C) Summary: The Three Gorges Reservoir area of Chongqing may be under increasing environmental and social strains. Local authorities are devoting increased attention to the problems of landslides and erosion in resettled areas and recently formed a "specialized research group" to study "geol [...] |
2007-11-26 09:14:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ELAB PGOV SENV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU272 |
GUIDE TO OFFICIAL RELIGIOUS RESTRICTIONS IN SOUTHWEST [...] (SBU) Summary: The religious activities of the official 350,000 Muslims - , Protestants, Buddhists and Catholics in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in Southwest China, are organized according to both national and local religious affairs regulations. While the 2004 State Council regul [...] |
2007-11-27 11:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU274 |
KUNMING CHURCH FLOURISHES DESPITE RESTRICTIONS [...] (C) Summary: According to the co-pastors of an officially-registered church in southwest China, while person-to-person proselytizing remains severely restricted, the number of Protestants in the city is growing rapidly. The city of Kunming, including subordinate adjacent counties, has 360 a [...] |
2007-11-30 06:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU285 |
ENCOUNTER WITH SOUTHWEST CHINA PROPAGANDA OFFICIAL [...] (C) Summary: Openly disparaging of the Communist Party's standard propaganda manual, a young Kunming City propaganda department official in southwest China told us of his hopes to work his way up to a comfortable job in a state enterprise. Among other "pearls of wisdom," the widely available [...] |
2007-12-07 09:44:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH SOCI |
| 07CHENGDU286 |
KUNMING CATHOLIC NUNS TRY TO REBUILD [...] (C) Summary: According to a nun presiding over a group of ten sisters at the Kunming Sacred Heart Church in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local religious affairs authorities are in general more difficult to work with than their counterparts to the north in Sichuan. The church was able, [...] |
2007-12-07 09:57:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF CH |
| 07CHENGDU289 |
REINCARNATION BEFORE DEATH: MORE COMMON THAN YOU THINK [...] (C) Summary: The Dalai Lama's recent statement that he may choose a successor before his death drew accusations from self-styled protectors of religious orthodoxy in the Chinese Communist Party that the Dalai Lama was breaking with Tibetan tradition. According to Congen's Tibetan Buddhist relig [...] |
2007-12-12 03:39:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU290 |
ALONG THE CHINA-BURMA BORDER: WWII, DRUGS, HIV, AND JADE [...] (C) Summary: Common ethnic linkages, villages that hug or even straddle the border, a visa-free regime for local residents, spotty security controls, and corruption appear to facilitate a wide-open atmosphere in areas along China's border with Burma. One stretch of road outside the Chinese po [...] |
2007-12-12 09:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV SOCI SNAR CH |
| 07CHENGDU292 |
HUKOU REFORM IN YUNNAN: BIG TALK, LITTLE ACTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Southwest China's Yunnan Province recently announced it would soon abolish the distinction between urban and rural household registrations (hukou), which if true might lead to dramatic changes in the province's migration patterns. However, financial requirements (announced with [...] |
2007-12-14 09:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU297 |
A PRC SCHOLAR LOOKS AT LHASA'S FLOATING POPULATION [...] (C) Summary: The July 2006 opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway greatly boosted access to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) for both tourists and migrant workers, accelerating economic growth and ethnic Han immigration to the TAR. Sichuan University Tibetology Department PhD student Bao Do [...] |
2007-12-20 02:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU298 |
THE TAR'S FLOATING POPULATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE [...] (C) Summary: The completion of the Qinghai-Tibet railroad has accelerated the outsider-driven development of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Numerous official, academic, and other sources indicate that during at its peak the floating population is at least half of Lhasa's permanent reside [...] |
2007-12-20 03:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU30 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA LEADERSHIP CHANGES FROM THE "PRINCELING" [...] (C) Summary: Discussing the prospects of key local government leaders, a well-connected Congen contact suggested it is possible Chengdu Party Secretary Li Chuncheng's promotion hopes could be somewhat dented due to real estate-related corruption in the city. New Sichuan Party Secretary Du Qin [...] |
2007-01-31 08:22:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PINR CH |
| 07CHENGDU300 |
CHINA NGO PROJECTS AND STRATEGIES: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY [...] (C) Summary: While the Nature Conservancy (TNC) believes the overall environment for non-governmental organizations to operate in China has been noticeably more difficult during the last few years than during the late 1990's, the increased focus by central and local government authorities on [...] |
2007-12-20 07:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU31 |
SICHUAN PARTY SCHOOL ON IMPLEMENTATION OF "HARMONIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Officials from the Sichuan Province Party School and Organization Department said the Harmonious Society doctrine represents a significant change from the "class struggle"-oriented Marxism that was the former ideological focus of Party member education. While actual implementati [...] |
2007-02-01 07:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU32 |
GUIZHOU LACKS RESOURCES TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (C) Summary: A women's issues NGO-founder and researcher from the Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences recently told Congenoff that Guizhou Province -- one of China's poorest -- lacks both human and financial resources to fight trafficking in persons. Guizhou faces a serious problem with traff [...] |
2007-02-01 07:41:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KTIP CH |
| 07CHENGDU33 |
ORANGE GROVES AND CORRUPTION ALONG THE YANGTZE [...] (U) This cable contains business sensitive information - please protect accordingly. 2. (C) Summary. During a recent visit by Consul General and Congenoff to Chongqing's Zhongxian County, U.S. investors in a citrus cultivation project described the many trials and tribulations of trying to [...] |
2007-02-01 09:21:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR PGOV SENV CH |
| 07CHENGDU34 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA MUSLIM POPULATION GROWING [...] (SBU) Summary: Poor environmental and living conditions where many Muslims live in China's northwest have contributed to the expansion the Muslim population in the country's southwest provinces. Almost all of Sichuan Province's 200 Imams receive both religious and Arabic language training fro [...] |
2007-02-02 07:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF CH |
| 07CHENGDU35 |
CHONGQING ATTORNEY'S FIGHT FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent discussion with us on the challenges he faces trying to advocate for the rights of migrant workers, former People's Liberation Army soldier and Chongqing attorney Zhou Litai stressed that economic and political realities are putting the viability of his law firm [...] |
2007-02-02 07:34:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM CH |
| 07CHENGDU36 |
CHONGQING STRUGGLES WITH RURAL POVERTY, RESETTLEMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary. While Chongqing officials praise their own response to last summer's drought -- the worst in the region in over a century -- and speak optimistically of development prospects, necessary funding for water conservation, education, and health care may be lacking. The city of Fulin [...] |
2007-02-03 10:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ELAB PGOV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU43 |
SICHUAN SCHOLARS ON HARMONIOUS SOCIETY'S ROLE IN POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary: Scholars from the Sichuan Academy of Social Science described to a visiting EAP Desk Officer how the Harmonious Society "guiding philosophy" is being implemented at the provincial level. The policy plays an important role in democratic experiments at the local level, including r [...] |
2007-02-08 09:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF CH |
| 07CHENGDU44 |
GUIZHOU'S CATHOLIC CHURCH [...] (C) Summary: The Vatican has approved the upcoming ordination of a new bishop for Guiyang, according to a seminarian at the Guiyang North Catholic Church. While Guiyang has few underground Catholic churches, "patriotic" Catholic leaders in Guizhou Province hope to "unite with" underground [...] |
2007-02-09 06:27:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRD CH |
| 07CHENGDU58 |
GUIZHOU GRASSROOTS NGOS FOCUS ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary: Grassroots NGOs working on rural development in Guizhou Province have identified education of migrant children, health care, and rural governance as three primary areas of focus. One NGO trains teachers and volunteers who serve the needs of hundreds of migrant children in unregis [...] |
2007-02-27 08:57:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID ELAB SOCI SCUL CH |
| 07CHENGDU74 |
WATER AND LAND USE IN SOUTHEASTERN YUNNAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Although southeastern Yunnan boasts good soils, warm growing seasons, and adequate rainfall, its geology makes agriculture difficult in many areas. Land use patterns show a predominance of Han people in well-watered areas, with minorities tending to farm highland regions with l [...] |
2007-03-20 10:30:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ELAB PGOV SENV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU77 |
URGING TAR FAO DIRECTOR GENERAL TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON [...] (C) Summary: The Consul General and Beijing Polmincouns urged Director General of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) Ju Jianhua to provide information on the Chinese investigation of the September 30, 2006 shooting (reftel) of border crossers by Chinese border gu [...] |
2007-03-22 01:36:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID SOCI SCUL CH |
| 07CHENGDU83 |
TIBET FEELING THE IMPACT OF RAILROAD LINK FROM QINGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary: The Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) is already feeling the impact of the Qinghai-Tibet rail link that opened in July. Inland Chinese laborers, military personnel and tourists bunk side-by-side on the train as they take advantage of rail travel at a fraction of the cost of air [...] |
2007-03-28 00:34:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV ELTN EMIN EPET PGOV SOCI CH |
| 07CHENGDU86 |
TAR FAO RESPONSES ON SEPTEMBER 2006 SHOOTING AT NATULA PASS [...] (C) Summary: During a recent Consulate visit to Lhasa, the Director of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) promised to provide us with a written copy of an "official statement" on the September 2006 shooting of a Tibetan nun at the Natula Pass. After our return to [...] |
2007-03-29 08:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU88 |
SED ENVOY HOLMER SEES WESTERN CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-05 06:38:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EFIN KIPR PGOV SENV CH |
| 07CHENGDU89 |
INDICATIONS OF SOCIAL TENSIONS IN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: During a recent reporting trip to the Tibetan Autonomous Region, Consulate contacts detailed several examples of religious, inter-ethnic, and Tibetan/Han business disputes. While reports of conflicts between government officials and religious believers receive more international [...] |
2007-04-06 06:31:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON PGOV SCUL CH |
| 07CHENGDU90 |
TAR OFFICIALS TOUT BENEFITS OF NOMAD RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMS [...] Summary: According to government officials in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), policies to resettle Tibetan nomads and pastoralists are not only good for the grassland, but are also good for the people because they improve living conditions and access to education and health care. In the [...] |
2007-04-06 06:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU91 |
VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESETTLED [...] (C) Summary: In the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), local Poverty Alleviation, Animal Husbandry and Labor Bureaus are responsible for carrying out the job skills and vocational training programs that complement nomadic and pastoral resettlement policies. Officials acknowledge that changing [...] |
2007-04-06 08:28:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM PGOV CH |
| 07CHENGDU94 |
DEMOLITION OF HOUSING CONTINUING AT LARGE TIBETAN MONASTERY [...] (C) Summary: A reincarnate lama from one of Sichuan's largest and fastest growing Tibetan Buddhist monasteries said local authorities are under orders to control and reduce the number of monks and nuns there. The monastery currently houses 5,000 monks and 3,000 nuns, and local work teams are [...] |
2007-04-09 05:42:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 08CHENGDU11 |
GUIZHOU PARTY SECRETARY HOSTS LUNCH FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary. During a lunch banquet hosted for the Deputy Secretary, Guizhou Party Secretary Shi Zongyuan described his SIPDIS professional challenges, especially the problems of economic development in the face of deep rural poverty. He urged more high-level visits to interior China, c [...] |
2008-01-23 01:15:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU122 |
POST-QUAKE SICHUAN: A MANUFACTURER LEAVES FOR THE COAST? [...] (C) Summary: According to a well-connected local businessman, the famed Dongfang Electric Machinery Company based in Deyang, Sichuan Province, which sells billions of dollars in power generation equipment worldwide including to Iran and Pakistan, may move its hydroelectric power operations to [...] |
2008-06-04 04:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND PGOV CH |
| 08CHENGDU135 |
ETHNIC TENSION REMAINS HIGH IN TIBETAN AREAS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Ethnic Tibetan cadres may be coming under increased scrutiny and suspicion by their Han colleagues and additional pressure not to participate in public religious observances. New Congen contacts relayed stories of alleged killings in Lhasa during March, as well as an incident [...] |
2008-06-20 10:30:00 | Consulate Chengdu | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR CH |
| 08CHENGDU140 |
SECURITY CRACKDOWN IN CHENGDU'S "TIBET TOWN" [...] (S) Summary: Following several days of a progressively escalating People's Armed Police (PAP) presence in a Tibetan area of downtown Chengdu, a large-scale security sweep was conducted the evening of June 25. A growing floating population of ethnic Tibetans in the city, including monks who h [...] |
2008-06-26 09:38:00 | Consulate Chengdu | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PINR CH |
| 08CHENGDU156 |
CHINA HIV/AIDS ACTIVIST KEEPS UP THE FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Internationally-recognized HIV/AIDS campaigner Dr. Gao Yaojie discussed with Congenoff during a recent visit to Chengdu her ongoing work and the upcoming publication in Hong Kong of her politically-charged memoirs. She expects to travel through Guangdong and Hong Kong on her way [...] |
2008-07-18 02:36:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KHIV CH |
| 08CHENGDU157 |
CHINA HIV/AIDS ACTIVIST KEEPS UP THE FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Internationally-recognized HIV/AIDS campaigner Dr. Gao Yaojie discussed with Congenoff during a recent visit to Chengdu her ongoing work and the upcoming publication in Hong Kong of her politically-charged memoirs. She expects to travel through Guangdong and Hong Kong on her way [...] |
2008-07-18 02:38:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KHIV CH |
| 08CHENGDU158 |
CHENGDU TRANSPORTATION EXPERT CRITICAL OF NEW INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C) Summary: According to a former long-time transportation advisor to Chengdu party secretaries, it is highly unlikely the city will be able to recoup the costs of either a new light rail line to Dujiangyan, still scheduled to begin construction in late 2008 despite the recent earthquake, or [...] |
2008-07-18 02:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ELTN PGOV CH |
| 08CHENGDU17 |
EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN VISIT TO CHENGDU: LOCAL SCHOLAR ON [...] (C) Summary: During a recent meeting in Chengdu with EAP DAS Christensen, noted Sichuan-Tibetan scholar Tsering Dhudrup frankly shared his concerns on the economic and political challenges faced by ethnic Tibetans in China. He complained that assistance funds directed by the central government [...] |
2008-02-11 01:59:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU171 |
KUNMING BOMBINGS: SOME LOCAL PERSPECTIVES [...] (C) Summary: Following the July 21 bombing of two buses in Southwest China's Yunnan provincial capital of Kunming, security forces remain on alert with a noticeable stepped up presence in some downtown areas. Speculation in the city appears still focused, although not exclusively, on alleged [...] |
2008-08-01 08:20:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PHUM ASEC CH |
| 08CHENGDU175 |
TIBETAN PREFECTURE IN SOUTHWEST CHINA -- HIGH SUBSIDIES [...] (S) Summary: A series of internal government documents recently obtained by post provide an unusually detailed look into the internal workings of the poor and predominantly ethnic Tibetan prefecture of Ganzi in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Massive subsidies are being invested in infra [...] |
2008-08-07 05:42:00 | Consulate Chengdu | SECRET | PGOV ECON PHUM CH |
| 08CHENGDU183 |
LHASA SECURITY: INTIMIDATING TIBETANS, REASSURING HANS [...] (C) Summary: Omnipresent People's Armed Police (PAP) patrols in Lhasa brandishing automatic weapons appear to serve the dual purpose of intimidating ethnic Tibetans while reassuring ethnic Han Chinese residents. Some Tibetans note the current heavy security presence in Lhasa was hidden during [...] |
2008-09-05 02:01:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 08CHENGDU184 |
LHASA MONKS DESCRIBE CURRENT RELIGIOUS CLIMATE [...] (C) Summary: According to Buddhist monks and Tibetans at religious centers in Lhasa visited by ConGenOff in late August, many monks remain in detention, and security officials continue to monitor closely and restrict the activities of monasteries. The 150 monks of the Jokhang Temple, Tibetan B [...] |
2008-09-05 09:28:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 08CHENGDU188 |
LHASA: CONVERSATIONS WITH TAR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: In a week of meetings with Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) foreign affairs, religion, health, education, and tourism officials, ConGenOffs' interlocutors generally responded readily to questions but at times showed considerable unease. TAR officials apparently believe that the March [...] |
2008-09-10 07:09:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KHIV SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU189 |
LHASA: FEAR CURTAILS VISITS TO TIBETAN HOMES [...] (C) During ConGenOff's August 25-30 visit to Lhasa (see refs), an ethnic Tibetan man invited ConGenOff to visit his home several blocks from the Johkang Temple. The man told ConGenOff in his apartment that constant patrols by People's Armed Police armed with machine guns make people feel they [...] |
2008-09-10 07:27:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 08CHENGDU197 |
WITH MONKS IN SHANGRI-LA [...] (C) Summary: Monks at the Ganden Sumtsen Ling Monastery in Shangri-la County, Yunnan Province, told ConGenOff August 18 that monks from their monastery studying in the Tibetan Autonomous Region were all sent back to Yunnan after March 2008. Despite PRC compulsory education regulations that st [...] |
2008-09-19 06:46:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 08CHENGDU2 |
HENAN AIDS CAMPAIGNER GAO YAOJIE'S MEMOIRS SET FOR EARLY [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Gao Yaojie's youngest sister discussed her two week stay with her sister in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Gao is closely monitored and her family members regularly pressured. Gao's next two books -- on AIDS in Henan and her memoirs -- may tempt the authorities to deal more h [...] |
2008-01-03 09:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KHIV SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU210 |
CHENGDU MANIPULATING AIR QUALITY DATA? [...] (SBU) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Official data published on the Ministry of Environmental Protection website strongly suggests that Chengdu air quality data is being manipulated to appear cleaner [...] |
2008-09-29 09:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON PREL CH |
| 08CHENGDU238 |
NORTHWEST YUNNAN'S DIQING PREFECTURE: SNAPSHOT OF A QUIETER [...] (C) Summary: Northwest Yunnan's Tibetan Diqing Autonomous Prefecture (TAP) has been the calmest of all the ethnic Tibetan areas in China during 2008, likely due to a large presence of Han and other minorities (Tibetans only make up about a third of the population), the influence of its ethnic [...] |
2008-10-24 05:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU241 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA'S REAL ESTATE CONTINUES PRE-QUAKE SLIDE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Land prices and housing prices in Chengdu and Chongqing, two major cities in southwest China, have been declining since late last year as government regulations have [...] |
2008-10-27 08:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB CH |
| 08CHENGDU247 |
SENIOR TIBETAN MONK ON SECURITY SITUATION IN WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: During the recent visit to Chengdu of G Special Assistant/Office of the Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues/Jeannette Windon, a senior monk from the Yachen Gar Monastery in western Sichuan's Ganzi Prefecture discussed China's widespread security clampdown in Tibetan areas (in [...] |
2008-10-29 02:16:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 08CHENGDU249 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: CONVERSATIONS WITH LOCAL COMMUNIST PARTY [...] (C) Summary: During recent discussions with ConGenOff in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu, several Communist Party members shared their frustrations about local Party organizations. The head of a state enterprise complained of the emptiness of the Party's concept of "democracy" and t [...] |
2008-10-29 06:41:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CH |
| 08CHENGDU251 |
CHENGDU LEADERSHIP PORTRAITS AND THE PERILS OF POOR TIMING [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of several high-level events held in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu during late October, contacts shared their views about local political leaders and how their careers are developing. There was wide consensus that Chengdu Party Secretary Li Chuncheng's [...] |
2008-10-31 09:09:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CH |
| 08CHENGDU263 |
VETERANS: CHENGDU BURMA-INDIA OLD SOLDIERS REMEMBER [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-14 07:21:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI MARR PGOV |
| 08CHENGDU267 |
CHENGDU YET TO SEE SURGE OF RETURNING WORKERS FROM CLOSED [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. While laid off workers from the coast returning to Sichuan may eventually boost unemployment in Sichuan Province, Chengdu labor experts have yet to see evidence of t [...] |
2008-11-26 08:53:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB FCS PAS POL |
| 08CHENGDU275 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: MIGRANT LABOR, DIALECTICS, AND LIES [...] (C) Summary: An excursion arranged by an influential Southwest China businessman for some of his employees that ConGenOff was invited to join provided a rare opportunity for informal exchanges on challenges faced in a relatively underdeveloped part of eastern Sichuan Province. Many of the ar [...] |
2008-12-03 01:24:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB CH |
| 08CHENGDU286 |
MCC ELIGIBILITY: THE CASE FOR TIMOR-LESTE [...] On December 12, the Ambassador briefed Finance Minister Pires, Foreign Minister da Costa, Vice Prime Minister Guterres, Acting Speaker of Parliament Guterres, the head of Timor's MCC team, and President Jose Ramos Horta on the MCC Board's decision to not reselect Timor-Leste as Compact eligibl [...] |
2008-12-15 09:10:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MCC ECON EFIN TT |
| 08CHENGDU287 |
SOUTHEAST TIBET: ETHNIC HAN TOWNSHIP FLOURISHES ON [...] (C) Summary: Massive government subsidies and military infrastructure improvements have doubled the size of Bayi Township (80 percent ethnic Han) in the southeast of China's Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) over the past decade. Large contributions on infrastructure and in kind "Help Tibet Ca [...] |
2008-12-15 09:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM CH |
| 08CHENGDU288 |
SOUTHEAST TIBET: TRAVELING WITH THE PARTY'S MINDERS [...] (C) Summary: A week spent in the Bayi capital of Linzhi Prefecture in China's Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) with local authorities and "Help Tibet Cadres" yielded a number of insights on prevailing attitudes about government policies in the region and the personalities involved. The array of [...] |
2008-12-16 01:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CH |
| 08CHENGDU289 |
SOUTHEAST TIBET: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL OVERVIEW [...] (C) Summary: According to Linzhi Prefecture officials in the southeast of China's Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), ninety percent of local government expenditures are subsidized by the central government as well as the provincial governments of Fujian and Guangdong. A major source of income fo [...] |
2008-12-16 01:40:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU293 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: QUAKE RECONSTRUCTION AND ECONOMIC STIMULUS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: According to two prominent researchers in Chengdu, the national-level economic stimulus plan will bolster Sichuan Province's economy during the two to three year windo [...] |
2008-12-18 09:16:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN CH |
| 08CHENGDU299 |
ASSISTANCE TO RETURNING LABORERS IN SOUTHWEST CHINA'S [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Authorities in southwest China's Guizhou province have set up booths at the capital city's train station to assist the thousands of migrant laborers who are returning [...] |
2008-12-31 08:25:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB CH |
| 08CHENGDU30 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA -- THE SATELLITES ARE HIGH AND THE EMPEROR [...] (C) Summary: Satellite television ties rural Chinese to urban culture and brings unjammed foreign broadcasts to a large audience throughout China. Simple satellite receiver dish packages selling for USD 50 bring central Chinese television to rural areas and the world to Chinese cities. To [...] |
2008-02-21 09:18:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PHUM ECPS KIPR CH |
| 08CHENGDU36 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA -- GUIZHOU SLOWLY RECOVERING FROM STORM [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of what provincial authorities claim was the worst winter storm since 1904, China's poorest province is struggling to deal with the provision of basic necessities to the countryside. Damage to the province's electrical power distribution system was particularly s [...] |
2008-02-26 09:37:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU39 |
ISLAM ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU - TWO LOCAL PERSPECTIVES [...] (C) Summary: According to a Tibetan active in Lhasa's Muslim community who studied Islam in Nepal and Pakistan, the inflow of Muslim businessmen and laborers from other parts of China into traditionally Tibetan areas has sometimes caused tension and "incidents" with local Buddhists, but for ec [...] |
2008-03-05 06:24:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU42 |
LHASA CONVERSATIONS - WHAT ARE THE PEOPLE THINKING? [...] (C) Summary: A series of unscripted Consulate encounters in Lhasa, including with a Han teacher from Hebei, a Hui Muslim vendor of pirated DVDs from Gansu, a longtime resident Han barber from Sichuan, a lama recently arrived from Qinghai, university students from Chamdo (eastern Tibet), and B [...] |
2008-03-06 09:41:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU43 |
TIBET: TOURISM, THE TRAIN, AND MIGRANT LABOR [...] (C) Summary: Local officials in charge of tourism, railroad, and labor issues in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) claim to be "unsure" how many people from inland China may be resettling in traditional Tibetan areas. In 2007, over four million tourists (mostly from inland China) visited t [...] |
2008-03-07 09:33:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU52 |
TIP IN SOUTHWEST CHINA IMPROVING? AUTHORITIES SHED LITTLE [...] (C) Summary: Sichuan and Yunnan authorities insist that effective law enforcement, education campaigns, and victim assistance programs have dramatically reduced human trafficking in southwest China. But a healthy dose of skepticism seems to be in order. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Accompanied [...] |
2008-03-24 03:05:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU55 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: INSTABILITY AND RESENTMENT IN TIBETAN AREAS [...] (C) Summary: According to an influential Han Chinese businessman and patron of Buddhism in Chengdu, the Communist Party will likely have to purge many ethnic Tibetans from its ranks as they are sympathetic to the Dalai Lama. A high-ranking Tibetan administrator of a local university where st [...] |
2008-03-26 07:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU56 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: "PATRIOTIC EDUCATION" FOR TIBETANS -- [...] (C) Summary: Well prior to the recent outbreak of unrest, a "Patriotic Education Campaign" launched by the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP) in western Sichuan Province following a series of security incidents during the summer of 2007 provoked considerable resentment among the area's [...] |
2008-03-27 07:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 08CHENGDU61 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: TRYING TO CONTROL FOREIGN NGOS IN A [...] (C) Summary: While it remains unclear what impact recent unrest in Tibetan areas of China will have on the work of foreign non-governmental organizations operating in the region, according to a limited-distribution government document obtained by the Consulate, Ganzi Prefecture in western Sich [...] |
2008-04-02 02:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 08CHENGDU65 |
GROWING UP A TIBETAN CADRE KID IN CHINA - DIALOGUE WITH HAN [...] (C) Summary: While not going into detail about recent unrest in western Sichuan and other Tibetan areas, a well-educated son of Communist Party officials shared with Post his experiences as a young ethnic Tibetan studying and working in inland China. An admirer of the banned Tibetan-Chinese w [...] |
2008-04-10 05:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
| 08CHENGDU78 |
TIBETAN ECONOMIC DISCONTENT -- LHASA MERCHANT ON OBSTACLES [...] (C) Summary: According to a merchant from Lhasa, the overall poor education level of Tibetans, their lack of access to capital, and the "discrimination" they face from Han Chinese make it very hard for Tibetans to succeed in business. The merchant's comments are reflected in a Chinese academi [...] |
2008-04-22 07:39:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM CH |
| 08CHENGDU98 |
CHENGDU PETROCHINA PROJECT PROTEST [...] (C) Summary: Summoned by anonymous text messages, a crowd of 100 or more protestors gathered in Chengdu on May 4 to express their opposition to the construction of a large chemical plant north of the city. The project in question is a USD 5.5 billion joint investment by PetroChina and the Sic [...] |
2008-05-08 03:31:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SENV PHUM ECON CH |
| 09CHENGDU101 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: SICHUAN WORKER LAMENTS PARTY AND PLA [...] (C) Summary: A 55-year old worker in the southern Sichuan city of Xichang vented to us recently about how the Communist Party had ruined his life, chronic corruption in Xichang, bribery in the People's Liberation Army, and the arrogance of the Party/government elite that wastes resources on bi [...] |
2009-06-10 04:07:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI MCAP CH |
| 09CHENGDU102 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: CONVERSATIONS WITH XICHANG CHRISTIANS [...] (C) Summary: According to Catholic and Protestant church members in the city of Xichang in southern Sichuan Province, urban and rural churches in the area operate relatively freely. The local Catholic community boasts nine priests and 25 nuns, regularly receives priests from South Korea and Ta [...] |
2009-06-11 03:21:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF SOCI PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU11 |
SICHUAN QUAKE RECOVERY: CONTRASTING TWO SOUTHWEST CHINA [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Eight months after the May Sichuan Earthquake, harder hit areas in Southwest China's Sichuan province face a long recovery process that may exceed the official targe [...] |
2009-01-14 10:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU110 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: PEASANTS, TITANIUM, AND HALTED DAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Displaced peasants, a new dam that will be second only to Three Gorges, China's largest titanium deposits, a sudden dam-halting order from the PRC Environment Ministry and the transformation of villages on Xichang's rural periphery are all linked to the construction of a va [...] |
2009-06-24 03:42:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN SENV SOCI ECON CH |
| 09CHENGDU114 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: SICHUAN OFFICIALS ON GREEN ENERGY [...] (SBU) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Sichuan has rich developed and potential hydro and biogas power resources, but far fewer solar and wind energy development opportunities, according to a recent pr [...] |
2009-06-29 11:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV SENV CH |
| 09CHENGDU115 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: TIBETAN NEW EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: According to local official media, ten thousand Tibetan middle school graduates students are to be given three-year government scholarships under the new "Sichuan Tibetan Areas Nine Plus Three Free Education Plan." The Tibetans will attend schools in Chinese-speaking parts of S [...] |
2009-06-30 01:51:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU117 |
TIBETAN TEACHER ON PACIFYING KHAM BY JOBS AND EDUCATION [...] (C) Summary: According to an ethnic Tibetan teacher from Aba Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, government job programs begun there over the past few years aim to give young people something to lose so they think twice about "stirring up trouble." A new program that will send ten thousa [...] |
2009-07-01 01:59:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU122 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: ENERGY EFFICIENCY UP AS OFFICIALS EMPHASIZE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Industrial energy efficiency progress was highlighted in a recent government-sponsored conference held in Chengdu, which drew little attention despite government emph [...] |
2009-07-09 09:10:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON CH |
| 09CHENGDU132 |
SW CHINA: CHENGDU RECYCLES THANKS TO MIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Migrant worker entrepreneurs help Chengdu recycle by providing multiple filters for the city's waste, keeping recyclable material of all kinds out of landfills. Labo [...] |
2009-07-24 06:31:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU141 |
SW CHINA: CHENGDU ENVIRONMENTALIST INDICTED FOR BLOOD DRIVE [...] (SBU) Chengdu environmentalist Tan Zuoren, who organized protests against a USD 5.5 billion petrochemical plant near Chengdu (ref A) and published online politically sensitive lists of the numbers of children killed when their schools collapsed in the May 12, 2008 earthquake (ref B), was i [...] |
2009-08-04 09:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SENV |
| 09CHENGDU147 |
SW CHINA: A TIBETAN PAP OFFICER SPEAKS POSITIVELY OF POLICE [...] (S/NF) Summary: A young Tibetan People's Armed Police (PAP) graduate of a nationalities university, leads a unit of 28 ethnic Han Chinese primary school graduates in Ngari (Ari) Prefecture in the western part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Tibetans in this remote area commonly displa [...] |
2009-08-06 08:16:00 | Consulate Chengdu | SECRET | MCAP PHUM PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU149 |
US NGOS SUPPORT LIVELIHOOD PROJECTS AMONG ETHNIC TIBETANS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information -- not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Ethnic Tibetans and other minority communities benefit from income-boosting and cultural preservation projects in northwest Yunnan implemented by U.S. NGOs and fun [...] |
2009-08-11 04:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU154 |
SW CHINA: A FALUNGONG ALERT, BUT ANNIVERSARY PASSED [...] (C) Summary: Local governments in Sichuan issued an internal order to be on high alert in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the issuance on July 20, 1999, of the internal PRC government document ordering a nationwide crackdown on the spiritual movement known as the Falun Gong. A local off [...] |
2009-08-17 06:55:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU155 |
NEW TELEMEDICINE CENTER AIMS TO EXPAND QUAKE ZONE HEALTHCARE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Introduction and Summary: In the aftermath of the massive, May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, ConGen Chengdu has closely monitored disaster reconstruction and response efforts, [...] |
2009-08-17 11:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU157 |
SW CHINA: JUNE FOURTH DISSIDENT, U.S. LPR ZHOU YONGJUN [...] (SBU) Summary: US LPR Zhou Yongjun, who was reportedly seized by PRC mainland authorities in Hong Kong in September 2008 and subsequently detained in Guangzhou and Sichuan, will go on trial in Suining, Sichuan on August 21. Zhou's lawyers at the Beijing "Mo Shaoping Law Firm" legal opinio [...] |
2009-08-19 09:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PHUM PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU162 |
SW CHINA'S DIRTY WATER: WESTERN WATER GROUP BRIEFS CG [...] (U) This cable contains business confidential information, not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: U.S.-based Western Water Group (WWG) confirmed to CG that China lags behind its own goals for wastewater treatment. While WWG has been quite successful in winning contract [...] |
2009-08-24 09:12:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD SENV TBIO PREL CH |
| 09CHENGDU163 |
UK CG'S VIEWS ON CHONGQING ECONOMY, MARKET ACCESS, CLIMATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The impact of the global financial crisis on domestically focused Chongqing has been relatively small, with China's stimulus package and auto-sector incentives boosting GDP by 12.1 percent in the first half of 2009, the UK's Chongqing-based Consul General told us. Chongqing's P [...] |
2009-08-24 11:42:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD SENV TBIO PREL CH |
| 09CHENGDU165 |
HUMAN TRAFFICKING REMAINS SERIOUS IN YUNNAN PROVINCE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Yunnan faces more serious human trafficking issues than other Chinese provinces, particularly cross-border trafficking of women for forced marriages and children for ille [...] |
2009-08-25 08:07:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KWMN PHUM SMIG PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU166 |
FORD PROSPERS IN CHINA AUTO MARKET; CHINESE FIRMS AS FUTURE [...] (U) This message contains business confidential information. Not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. China's 2009 car sales will be 12 million, a Ford executive told CG in Chongqing on August 7. Ford's China sales were up 21.5 percent in the first seven months of 2009 [...] |
2009-08-25 08:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ELAB ECON PREL CH |
| 09CHENGDU168 |
SW CHINA: BLOGS, TWITTER ALERT PUBLIC TO DISSIDENT'S TRIAL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Supporters of Chengdu environmentalist Tan Zuoren, put on trial for incitement to overthrow state power on August 12, used blogs and twitter text messages to raise public awareness of the case. Tan's two lawyers, both active bloggers, and other supporters put the [...] |
2009-08-26 05:05:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU169 |
YUNNAN: CHINA'S MAIN COUNTERNARCOTICS BATTLEFIELD SEES [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Narcotics control is making progress in Yunnan Province, the heart of Chinese drug trafficking, a senior provincial official told Consul General, but interdicting imp [...] |
2009-08-26 05:39:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM PGOV PREL CH |
| 09CHENGDU170 |
TIBETAN-HAN TENSIONS; LHASA TOURISM UP; HOTELS, HOSPITAL [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: Conoffs traveled July 16-20 to Tibet to evaluate hotel options for a possible high-level U.S. delegation, as well as to evaluate emergency preparedness in Lhasa. The number of Chinese and foreign tourists in Lhasa is up from last year, when tourism halted for se [...] |
2009-08-26 09:27:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC PHUM PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU171 |
YUNNAN OFFICIALS ON EVOLVING ECONOMY, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Yunnan Province lags behind other provinces in economic development, though its rich resources offer great potential. Its economy is slowly shifting from traditional sec [...] |
2009-08-27 03:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD SENV PREL PHUM CH |
| 09CHENGDU181 |
TIBETAN SURVIVAL IN SHANGRI-LA: TOURISM, BUDDHISM, AND [...] (C) Summary: A recent visit to Shangri-la by CG and ConGen staff found a booming tourism industry that some say threatens the local Tibetan Buddhist landscape, though the local Party Secretary asserts that it benefits religious life, bringing necessary financial support. New high-end, Tibetan- [...] |
2009-09-03 01:25:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU182 |
AMBASSADOR HUNTSMAN MEETS SICHUAN GOVERNOR JIANG [...] (C) Summary: In an August 28 meeting in Chengdu with Ambassador, Governor Jiang praised U.S. private and government assistance to Sichuan after the May 2008 earthquake and reported that good progress had been made in rebuilding homes, schools and hospitals. Ambassador recalled how, like oth [...] |
2009-09-03 09:15:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | CH PGOV PHUM ECON |
| 09CHENGDU184 |
TIBET: US NGO SAYS T.A.R. OFFICIALS WANT THEM OUT [...] (C) Summary: Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) officials want foreign residents, particularly those who speak Tibetan, out of the TAR, Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF) Country Director Tony Gleason said. The situation of international NGOs (INGOs) in the TAR has steadily worsened since the [...] |
2009-09-04 07:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU187 |
TIBET: NGO WORKING TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN NW YUNNAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting USG-funded projects to support Tibetan livelihood in NW Yunnan run by the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF), CG and ConGen staff saw successful programs that teach engine repair and business skills and support craftspeople by connecting them with international marke [...] |
2009-09-10 02:44:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU189 |
TIBET: MANY INTERNATIONAL NGOS FORCED OUT SINCE 3/08 [...] (U) This is the second of two reports on the current situation faced by international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), following Chengdu 184. This cable was coordinated with Embassy Beijing. 2. (SBU) Summary: Since March 2008, TAR officials [...] |
2009-09-14 08:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU190 |
SW CHINA AEROSPACE COMPANIES CLAIM U.S. EXPORT RESTRICTIONS [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: Following up on issues raised by American business leaders during the Ambassador's August 28 meeting with members of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Southwest China, Consul General met separately with Lienjing Chen, Director of Manufacturing and Sourcing [...] |
2009-09-15 03:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM EAIR EIND ETTC CH |
| 09CHENGDU195 |
SW CHINA: TIBETAN HIGH SCHOOLERS ARRIVE IN SICHUAN HAN [...] (C) Summary: An Aba Prefecture plan to send many Tibetan middle school graduates to Sichuan high schools has been delayed a year, an ethnic Tibetan former middle school teacher from Aba Prefecture in western Sichuan Province said. The plan overall has more students than originally planned, wi [...] |
2009-09-17 03:11:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU196 |
SW CHINA OFFICIALS SIGN MOU FOR MODULAR NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (C) Summary: Chinese officials from the Future Nuclear Energy Technology Application Institute (FNETA) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with U.S.-based NuScale Power to work toward an agreement to build modular light water nuclear reactors (LWR) in China. Chengdu officials p [...] |
2009-09-18 02:06:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV KNNP CH |
| 09CHENGDU198 |
GETTING TRADE FLOWING: A PHASED APPROACH TO BEEF [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. What's at "Steak": A Billion Dollars in U.S. Exports in Short Order --------------------------------------------- -------------- -------- 2. (U) At a recent meeting with Ambassador in Chengdu, AmCit Steven Allemang pleaded [...] |
2009-09-21 07:28:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EINV ECON PREL CH |
| 09CHENGDU203 |
PRC-BURMA BORDER: CHINESE ACADEMICS SAY PRC INFLUENCE [...] (C) Summary: Chinese officials from both the central government and Yunnan Province are directly involved in current negotiations between the Government of Burma (GOB) and the leadership of ethnic minority "ceasefire groups" in northern Burma, according to a Kunming-based scholar. Other Chines [...] |
2009-09-25 08:40:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH |
| 09CHENGDU206 |
BURMA: YUNNAN LOCALS ON THE BORDER SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary: A range of local Kunming residents, including jade sellers and travel agencies with ongoing business along the border, expressed uncertainty regarding long-term security in border areas following the August conflict in Kokang. A larger jade operation in Kunming, and local seller [...] |
2009-09-28 08:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV PREF BM CH |
| 09CHENGDU208 |
SICHUAN SEES HUMAN TRAFFICKING INCREASE SINCE 2005 [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Sichuan Province has seen a dramatic increase in human trafficking cases since 2005, a Sichuan Public Security Bureau (PSB) official reported, though in the past five mont [...] |
2009-09-29 06:10:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KWMN PHUM SMIG PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU210 |
CHONGQING LABOR LAWYER SEES LEGAL SYSTEM PROGRESS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: After 13 years of advocating for migrant workers' legal rights, Chongqing lawyer Zhou Litai says he has seen positive progress, especially in the PRC's legal system. Zhou [...] |
2009-09-29 07:20:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU211 |
SW CHINA MINERAL RESOURCES FUELING NASDAQ-LISTED COMPANY'S [...] (C) Summary: Executives at NASDAQ-listed Sichuan Apollo Solar Science and Technology Company (SASST) say that access to Southwest China's mineral resources differentiates their company from many competitors in the solar power industry. The company aims to triple their output of high-purity ma [...] |
2009-09-30 03:31:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV KNNP CH |
| 09CHENGDU212 |
CHENGDU MINORITIES UNDER WATCH FOR OCTOBER HOLIDAY [...] (C) Summary: Uighur students studying in Chengdu are being closely monitored by security personnel in the run-up to the October 1 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and continue to worry about anti-Uighur sentiment from Han Chinese. Some Han continue to fear [...] |
2009-09-30 08:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU213 |
TIBET: TIGHT SECURITY IN LHASA IN OCTOBER 1 LEAD UP [...] (C) Summary: An elderly Tibetan couple visiting Chengdu described to PolEconOff the environment in and around Lhasa in the weeks leading up to Chinese National Day on October 1 as "very tense" with "soldiers everywhere." The environment they described tracks closely with observations by ConOff [...] |
2009-09-30 09:31:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU214 |
U.S. FIRM PLAYS CHONGQING CONNECTIONS AGAINST CENTRAL [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: TY Lin International China (TYLI China), a U.S. bridge and transportation consulting firm, has used its position of being headquartered in Chongqing to great advantage, u [...] |
2009-09-30 11:05:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EINV ELTN ETRD PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU218 |
SICHUAN QUAKE RECOVERY: MANY RURAL RESIDENTS STILL LACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite official Sichuan Province statistics claiming 97 percent of rural home rebuilding following last year's earthquake has been completed, a trip to the area in mid-September revealed a significant proportion of rural residents remain in temporary housing. Banners proclaimin [...] |
2009-10-07 09:24:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU220 |
TIBET EXPERT ON BREAKDOWN IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH PRC; BEIJING [...] (C) Summary: Both the Dalai Lama and the PRC leadership are to blame for the breakdown in Tibetan-China negotiations, the Director of the Mountain Institute's China Program told us. This Amcit Director, a seasoned Chinese and Tibetan-speaker, said irredentist Tibetans fail both to focus on the [...] |
2009-10-08 09:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU222 |
CHONGQING'S AIR/RIVER FREE TRADE PORT TO BECOME AMONG [...] Summary: Chongqing's Lianglu/Cuntan Free Trade Port Area, China's first inland free trade port, is a huge airport/river bonded area with extensive highway and rail links, and will make Chongqing the logistics hub of China, local officials boldly predict. Chongqing Airport, the first in China t [...] |
2009-10-09 04:25:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND EINV ELTN ETRD PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU223 |
FRAUD SUMMARY - CHENGDU (APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 2009) [...] The Chengdu consular district covers Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), and the Chongqing Municipality. The majority of the Consulate's NIV applicants hail from Chengdu, Chongqing and Kunming, followed by Guiyang and smaller cities and towns throughout th [...] |
2009-10-09 04:55:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC CH |
| 09CHENGDU228 |
TIBETAN MONKS SAY VOA BROADCASTS ARE INFORMATION LIFELINE [...] (S) Summary: Chengdu ethnic Tibetan LES (strictly protect) in early October spent a week at Labrang Monastery in Gansu Province, visiting family and senior monks -- including the chief religious tutor to the Beijing-recognized 11th Panchen Lama. The tutor did not have a picture of the young P [...] |
2009-10-15 09:20:00 | Consulate Chengdu | SECRET | PHUM SOCI VOA CH |
| 09CHENGDU229 |
CHONGQING GOALS FOR BALANCED URBAN-RURAL DEVELOPMENT [...] Summary: As one of only two pilot areas in China working to reduce the economic imbalance between urban and rural citizens (ref A), Chongqing Municipality -- where rural residents account for 70 percent of 33 million inhabitants -- is focusing inter alia on reforming the social security, land [...] |
2009-10-15 09:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EAGR PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU23 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: PARTY ORDER TO ENFORCE DISCIPLINE OF [...] (S/NF) Summary: Classified regulations issued in late 2007 by the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan Province outline in detail sanctions to be taken against Communist Party members who participate in Dalai Lama teachings abroad or allow their children to study to [...] |
2009-02-06 06:14:00 | Consulate Chengdu | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PINR CH |
| 09CHENGDU230 |
TOP LAWYER USING YUNNAN ENVIRONMENTAL COURTS TO EXPAND [...] (C) Summary: An open-minded chief judge and new guidance for environmental courts make Yunnan Province the logical place to pursue public interest environmental litigation, one of China's top public interest lawyers said. Similar courts and early cases in Guizhou and Jiangsu have set new prece [...] |
2009-10-16 05:06:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV PGOV PHUM CH |
| 09CHENGDU231 |
U.S. VENTURE SEEKS FOR-PROFIT RURAL HEALTH CLINIC NETWORK IN [...] (U) This cable contains business confidential information, not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: To address the lack of adequate rural healthcare in SW China, a U.S. firm seeks to establish a for-profit network of clinics using a telemedicine and "barefoot doctor" model bo [...] |
2009-10-16 06:44:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU232 |
CITIES OF CHONGQING AND CHENGDU: RIVALS AND BROTHERS [...] (U) Summary: Chongqing and Chengdu have a long history of rivalry, but are increasingly becoming part of a larger megalopolis. Chongqing's GDP growth was 12.5 percent in the first half of 2009, ranking it sixth among all provinces, and resulted from: construction of new economic and financial [...] |
2009-10-16 09:31:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EAGR ELAB PGOV PINR CH |
| 09CHENGDU236 |
CHEVRON'S SW CHINA GAS PARTNERSHIP MOVING FORWARD, BUT [...] (C) Summary: The first stage of Chevron's upstream gas development project on the Sichuan-Chongqing border is poised to take a significant step forward when it receives National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) approval in the coming weeks. Chevron and PetroChina signed a multi-year p [...] |
2009-10-27 03:46:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV SOCI KNNP CH |
| 09CHENGDU237 |
WEN JIABAO ON DEVELOPING CHINA'S WESTERN PROVINCES: 10 YEARS [...] (U) Summary and Comment. Over the last 10 years, China's central government has made huge transfer payments and infrastructure investments that have helped 12 western provinces grow faster than its already booming coastal provinces, Premier Wen Jiabao said in an October 16 speech in Chengdu. [...] |
2009-10-27 05:10:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN ENRG EMIN PGOV PREL CH |
| 09CHENGDU239 |
SW CHINA OFFICIALS SEEK GREATER CONTROL OF CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. Even as Chinese officials in Beijing discuss national-level climate change initiatives in the run-up to the Copenhagen conference, Sichuan officials have been stymied [...] |
2009-10-28 05:39:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV CH |
| 09CHENGDU247 |
TIBET: CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN ENERGY, MINING, POACHING, AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Climate change is moving faster in Tibet than in other areas of China, and fastest at the highest elevations, leading the State Council to pass an ambitious plan for ecological protection earlier this year, Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) officials told us October 22 in Lhasa. G [...] |
2009-11-06 02:47:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG EMIN EAGR CH |
| 09CHENGDU248 |
TIBET PARTY OFFICIAL DERIDES DALAI LAMA, YET WELCOMES HIM [...] (C) Summary: The Dalai Lama bears exclusive responsibility for the breakdown in talks with PRC officials, which Beijing is open to resuming once the Dalai Lama abandons his "hidden agenda" for independence and accepts "history" that Tibet has always been a part of China, a Tibet Communist Party [...] |
2009-11-06 07:33:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU249 |
CHINA ENLISTS U.S. AEROSPACE SUBCONTRACTOR IN BID TO BEAT [...] (C) Summary: China is seeking the assistance of foreign aerospace companies to increase the international competitiveness of its new C919 passenger jet, due to come to market in 2016, that will compete with Boeing and Airbus. The Chinese lead firm for the project, Commercial Aircraft Corporat [...] |
2009-11-06 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAIR EINV ETTC PREL PGOV TRGY CH |
| 09CHENGDU251 |
TIBET VICE GOVERNOR: SLAMS DALAI LAMA, DENIES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The Dalai Lama and his "clique" masterminded the "March 14" incident as part of a bid to take back feudal power in Tibet, Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Vice Governor Wu Yingjie told Consul General October 20. The many people praying at temples in Lhasa testify to the government [...] |
2009-11-09 06:36:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV EAGR SENV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU252 |
TIBET 15 YEARS LATER: CONGENOFF'S OBSERVATIONS OF CHANGING [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: ConGen Chengdu Officer visited Lhasa in mid-October for the first time since 1994, when he was a university student in religious studies (including Buddhism). This cable provides his informal vignettes of life in Lhasa. ConGenOff noted that Western tourists in Lhas [...] |
2009-11-09 07:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU253 |
GUIZHOU COALMINE SAFETY MAKES PROGRESS, BUT REMAINS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Between 2003 and 2008, coalmine deaths in Guizhou - one of the poorest provinces in China - fell from 973 to 453, an industry regulator told Consul General November [...] |
2009-11-09 09:41:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EMIN ECON PREL PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU254 |
LHASA TECH COMPANY COMMERCIALIZES TIBETAN LANGUAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Tibet Luozang Digital S&T Co., founded by an ethnically Tibetan computer science professor at Tibet University, produces two innovative Tibetan-Chinese-English electronic dictionary and language learning machines. Professor Luozang, who holds four PRC patents on his elect [...] |
2009-11-10 02:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR CH |
| 09CHENGDU257 |
LHASA STORIES: MONK, CONSTRUCTION WORKER, WRITER, CAB [...] (C) Summary: Conversations with non-official Han and Tibetan residents of Lhasa reflect continuing tight government controls and the quiet determination of many Tibetans to remain loyal to their religious leader, the Dalai Lama. Young monks at Sera Monastery showed off a cell phone picture [...] |
2009-11-13 02:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU259 |
SW CHINA SOLAR FIRM BUYS MAJORITY OF US COMPANY, HAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials from Tianwei New Energy, a solar power company based in southwest China's Sichuan province, said that the recent acquisition of a controlling share of the U.S. firm Hoku Scientific was a sudden opportunistic move rather than a key part of the company's long-term develop [...] |
2009-11-17 03:41:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV SENV KNNP CH |
| 09CHENGDU262 |
SW CHINA ELECTRONICS GIANT SETS SIGHTS ON U.S. MARKET, SEEKS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: Sichuan electronics giant Changhong recently told us success in the U.S. market, elusive up to now, would be a litmus test of its arrival as a major globa [...] |
2009-11-18 07:48:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV PGOV KIPR KNNP CH |
| 09CHENGDU263 |
RED ALERT! U.S. DIPLOMATS VISIT (QUASI-) CLOSED CITY OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Consul General recently visited Mianyang, Sichuan Province's second largest city, and a "Science and Technology City" where Beijing carries out research for its nuclear weapons program. The city is also home to Changhong, a former military-industrial company that no [...] |
2009-11-18 08:29:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON EINV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU264 |
CLIMATE CHANGE: UK EFFORTS IN SOUTHWEST CHINA TO ENCOURAGE A [...] (U) This message contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. Chongqing leads SW China in moving towards a low-carbon economy, with Guizhou lagging furthest behind, a UK official told Consul General. Chongqing owes its lead [...] |
2009-11-18 09:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN PREL PGOV PINR SENV KGHG |
| 09CHENGDU266 |
CHENGDU B1/B2 VALIDATION STUDY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Consulate Chengdu's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) conducted a validation study of all private Chinese passport holders who were issued B1/B2 visas in CY2008. Based on a review and analysis of 800 randomly-selected visa issuances, the illegal overstay rate was found to be 2.0 perc [...] |
2009-11-19 09:09:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC CH |
| 09CHENGDU270 |
FORMER PRESIDENT CARTER DISCUSSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DURING [...] (U) The message contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for distribution on the internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Former President Jimmy Carter, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, and officials from the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity, traveled to Sichuan Province November [...] |
2009-11-29 01:38:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EAID ECON PGOV SOCI OVIP KPAO CH |
| 09CHENGDU271 |
WORLD BANK/IFC'S CHENGDU OFFICIALS ON STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENTS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Small business access to credit in China is a long-term, structural problem that 'is not going away for the next 10-20 years", a Chengdu-based official of the World Bank's [...] |
2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU272 |
WORLD BANK/IFC'S CHENGDU OFFICIALS ON STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENTS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Small business access to credit in China is a long-term, structural problem that 'is not going away for the next 10-20 years", a Chengdu-based official of the World Bank's [...] |
2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU273 |
WORLD BANK/IFC'S CHENGDU OFFICIALS ON STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENTS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Small business access to credit in China is a long-term, structural problem that 'is not going away for the next 10-20 years", a Chengdu-based official of the World Bank's [...] |
2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU274 |
WORLD BANK/IFC'S CHENGDU OFFICIALS ON STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENTS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Small business access to credit in China is a long-term, structural problem that 'is not going away for the next 10-20 years", a Chengdu-based official of the World Bank's [...] |
2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU275 |
WORLD BANK/IFC'S CHENGDU OFFICIALS ON STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENTS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Small business access to credit in China is a long-term, structural problem that 'is not going away for the next 10-20 years", a Chengdu-based official of the World Bank's [...] |
2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU276 |
WORLD BANK/IFC'S CHENGDU OFFICIALS ON STRUCTURAL IMPEDIMENTS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Small business access to credit in China is a long-term, structural problem that 'is not going away for the next 10-20 years", a Chengdu-based official of the World Bank's [...] |
2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU277 |
GUIZHOU PROVINCE: GREEN INITIATIVES BELIE ITS CONSERVATIVE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Southwest China's Guizhou Province, an early adopter of Beijing's relatively new "Ecological Culture" policy, has become a leader on some environmental issues. Guiz [...] |
2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV PREL ECON EMIN SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU279 |
GUIZHOU: POOR PROVINCE GROWS FASTER THAN NATIONAL AVERAGE; [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Guizhou, an ethnically diverse province 92 percent covered by mountains, remains one of China's poorest. In two recent meetings, officials from the [...] |
2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG PGOV SENV CH |
| 09CHENGDU280 |
A TIBETAN ENGLISH TEACHER TALKS TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: A Tibetan English teacher, school principal, and amateur drama director discussed navigating Tibet's difficult political climate and introducing students to foreign cultures through English language instruction. Norbu once worked with foreign NGOs, but since friends in the Tibeta [...] |
2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI VOA CH |
| 09CHENGDU281 |
WORLD BANK/IFC ON RESURGENCE OF STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Chengdu IFC officials recently shared their assessment that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been on the resurgence since well before the financial crisis. They parti [...] |
2009-12-01 09:20:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU282 |
SW CHINA: BIG CITY GAY HIV PREVALENCE EXCEEDS TEN PERCENT [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information and is not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The HIV rate among gay men living in Chengdu, Guiyang, Kunming, and Chongqing exceeds 10 percent, according to a large nationwide survey conducted by the China Centers [...] |
2009-12-02 07:21:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PGOV KHIV CH |
| 09CHENGDU283 |
TIBET: NEPAL SEEKS INCREASED PRC TRADE/AID/TRANSPORT LINKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Nepal seeks to be a transit point between India and China and hopes to see increased development assistance and investment from the PRC, Nepalese Consul General in Lhasa told CG recently during a visit to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Nepal seeks lower content requirement [...] |
2009-12-02 07:46:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EAID EINV ELTN SOCI NP CH |
| 09CHENGDU284 |
BURMA'S CG IN SOUTHWEST CHINA DISCUSSES RISING TRADE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to Burma's Consul General in Kunming, July-August unrest on the border with China's Yunnan province did not significantly affect overall bilateral trade, which continues to increase. Trade between China and Burma increased annually by: 11-18 percent between 2005 and 2 [...] |
2009-12-03 07:38:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV PREL SNAR SENV KTIP CH BM |
| 09CHENGDU285 |
GUIYANG HOPES ARE HIGH UNDER ENTHUSIASTIC LEADER; [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Brimming with confidence, Guiyang Vice-Mayor Li Zhong told Consul General recently that his city -- long the isolated capital of one of China's poorest provinces -- wo [...] |
2009-12-04 00:15:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EINV ELTN SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU288 |
TIBET: RELIGION MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS EXPLAIN THEIR SYSTEM [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information and is not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Tibetan Autonomous Region's (TAR) Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau recently presented to Consul General in Lhasa the strictly Chinese government, official view [...] |
2009-12-07 07:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU289 |
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN CHINA: CASE STUDY OF RURAL JINTANG [...] (U) This message is contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Sichuan's rural Jintang County has a small Protestant community of 1000 persons organized under one "patriotic" church (a legally registered religious venue), with [...] |
2009-12-07 08:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU293 |
GUIZHOU HUMAN TRAFFICKING TRENDS MIRROR THOSE OF YUNNAN, [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Human trafficking patterns in Guizhou are very similar to neighboring Yunnan province, and are dominated by forced marriages and illegal adoptions, Guizhou Public Secu [...] |
2009-12-08 09:46:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SNAR KTIP KWMN CH |
| 09CHENGDU294 |
KUNMING PHARMACEUTICAL CHIEF CLAIMS CHINESE IPR IS STRONG; [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. Chinese intellectual property rights (IPR) have strengthened considerably in the last 10 years, the chairman of a New York AMEX-listed, Chinese pharmaceutical compan [...] |
2009-12-09 00:02:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV KIPR CH |
| 09CHENGDU295 |
MANY PANDA TWINS FLOURISH AT NEW YA'AN BREEDING CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Sixteen baby pandas were born this year at the Ya'an Panda Breeding Center, successor to the earthquake-devastated Wolong Panda Breeding Center, which will reopen in 2012. Deputy Chief Engineer Huang Yan of the China Panda Preservation Research Center, who is the science and [...] |
2009-12-09 05:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO CH |
| 09CHENGDU296 |
GUIZHOU: PORTRAIT OF A SELF-PROMOTING COMMUNIST YOUTH LEAGUE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: At 39 years old, Chen Cangxu has been the Secretary of the Guizhou Communist Youth League (GCYL) for the last two years. Over dinner, Chen told Consul General how he [...] |
2009-12-09 08:26:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU3 |
GUIZHOU LOOKS TO CHINA COAST TO RE-EMPLOY PEASANT MIGRANT [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Labor officials and researchers say an economic upturn in the more prosperous coastal region is the key to reducing the swelling number of unemployed migrant laborers [...] |
2009-01-06 06:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU30 |
TRYING TO FIND NON-PIRATED MOVIES IN SOUTHWEST CHINA [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Pirated movies appear to remain readily on sale in Sichuan Province's capital city of Chengdu. Packaging is of such a high quality that the average consumer probably [...] |
2009-02-13 05:34:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ETRD KIPR PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU300 |
SW CHINA CONFERENCE RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT PROGRESS ON [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. Notwithstanding official optimism, serious doubts about PRC intellectual property rights protection progress were voiced by foreign-invested Chinese companies partic [...] |
2009-12-12 22:55:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD PGOV KIPR CH |
| 09CHENGDU304 |
SICHUAN QUAKE DONATIONS DEMONSTRATE GREEN BUILDING [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Guangyuan, one of Sichuan's poorest prefectures, is the site for a demonstration of earthquake resistant, environmentally friendly bamboo shelters. The standards being [...] |
2009-12-14 23:32:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECON PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU305 |
TIBET: TAR JUSTICE SERVES THE PARTY, SOCIALISM, AND UNITY [...] (U) This message contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Deputy Director of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Justice Bureau recently outlined to Consul General the TAR prison system, reeducation-through-labor system, and [...] |
2009-12-15 06:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU307 |
DRC PROVIDES SICHUAN DEVELOPMENT OVERVIEW [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information -- not for distribution on the internet. 2. (U) Summary: Sichuan's Development and Reform Commission (SDRC) expects that the province will meet ambitious 2009 growth targets following a decade of 10 percent annual growth. O [...] |
2009-12-15 07:06:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN SENV KGHG PGOV PINR CH |
| 09CHENGDU309 |
VIETNAM CONSUL IN KUNMING FEARS HANOI MIGHT BE LEFT BEHIND [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The development of highway links between Yunnan province and Vietnam is moving slowly on the Vietnam side, a Vietnam Consul in Kunming told Consular Officer. This sl [...] |
2009-12-16 02:06:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR PREL CH VM |
| 09CHENGDU31 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: VISITING GUIZHOU'S MIAO MINORITY [...] (C) Summary: A recent trip with an ethnic Miao anthropologist to his home in the Miao/Hmong heartland of Guizhou, China's poorest province, provided an interesting window on rapid changes currently underway in rural areas of the region. Large government and private investments in tourist dev [...] |
2009-02-17 05:28:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU310 |
SW CHINA CITY SEEKS TO BECOME MAJOR TRANSPORTATION HUB -- [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. Leshan officials told Consul General that currently planned infrastructure projects would transform the city into a transportation and industrial hub for southwest C [...] |
2009-12-17 04:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ELTN EAIR EWWT ETRD SENV PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU311 |
TIBET: LOCAL AUTHORITIES MOVE TO RESTORE GRASSLANDS, BUT [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Director General of the Animal Husbandry Bureau in Lhoka Prefecture said recently that suitable grasslands for grazing animals were becoming increasingly scarce. [...] |
2009-12-17 22:32:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EFIN PGOV PINR SENV CH |
| 09CHENGDU313 |
SW CHINA: SELF-IMMOLATION CASE IN CHENGDU HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Three recent cases in southwest China -- including a high-profile case where a Chengdu citizen set fire to herself to protest a demolition of a property -- illustrate how Chinese citizens [...] |
2009-12-18 09:17:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS ECON EFIN CH |
| 09CHENGDU315 |
TIBET PARTY LINE PITFALL: "TIBET HAS BEEN PART OF CHINA [...] (U) This message contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The politically charged historical statement "Tibet has been part of China since ancient times" has been widely used in the PRC media and officials since 2008 and became [...] |
2009-12-18 09:39:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAS VOA CH |
| 09CHENGDU316 |
SICHUAN PERSPECTIVES: THE APPARATCHIK, THE CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: A Sichuan People's Congress committee chairman, a professor of constitutional law at Sichuan University, and a Chinese blogger recently gave their differing takes on the outlook for Chinese reform: -- the Sichuan People's Congress committee chairman said that strong pres [...] |
2009-12-18 10:09:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU319 |
SEMICONDUCTOR FIRM IN SW CHINA SEES RISING COMPETITION FOR [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Leshan-Phoenix Semiconductor (LPS), a joint venture between U.S. ON Semiconductor (ONS) and Leshan Radio Company, says that attracting and retaining the engineers nee [...] |
2009-12-24 10:24:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EINV EIND ETRD PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU320 |
SW CHINA MAYOR DISCUSSES IMPACT OF EARTHQUAKE RECONSTRUCTION [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Leshan Mayor Jiang Fuyi told Consul General December 8 that demand for construction materials for earthquake reconstruction boosted the city's GDP to seventh place amo [...] |
2009-12-24 11:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ELTN EWWT ENRG SENV PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU35 |
ECONOMIC DOWNTURN POTENTIALLY SPURRING SOUTHWEST CHINA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post recently learned from local NGO and academic contacts that the economic downturn appears to be pushing Yunnan's provincial government to move forward with hydropower projects on the Nu River, previously put on hold by the central government, as a means to funnel government i [...] |
2009-02-19 07:48:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SENV CH |
| 09CHENGDU40 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA ENTREPRENEURS BUILD COUNTERFEIT STORE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Entrepreneurs in Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu have, in at least one case, moved from selling copyright infringing products to copying a company's entire produc [...] |
2009-03-05 02:07:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ETRD KIPR PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU41 |
SICHUAN SECURITY PREPARES FOR TIBETAN ANNIVERSARIES [...] (S) Summary: Although still well below last year's levels, the security presence in Chengdu's Tibet-town and some other areas of the city is steadily growing in lead-up to the March 10 fiftieth anniversary of the Lhasa uprising against Communist authorities. Groups of six People's Armed Polic [...] |
2009-03-05 09:38:00 | Consulate Chengdu | SECRET | PGOV PHUM CH |
| 09CHENGDU62 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: DONGFANG ELECTRIC RECOVERS FROM EARTHQUAKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Dongfang Electric Corporation, a company based in Sichuan province that produces and sells billions of dollars in power generation equipment worldwide, told us its production of electric power generating turbines is increasing. Despite the economic impact of the May 2008 earthqu [...] |
2009-04-13 02:57:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD ENGR TRGY ETTC PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU69 |
YUNNAN'S ROCKY INTERNATIONAL ROADS HAMPER ACCESS TO SE [...] (C) Summary: Road links from Southwest China's Sichuan province through Yunnan Province to Southeast Asia have not yet developed to the point where motorists can count on these highways for safe and reliable passage south. Problems of highway finance in Yunnan Province, corruption, poor work [...] |
2009-04-21 06:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ASEC PGOV |
| 09CHENGDU71 |
SICHUAN FACES RETURNING MIGRANT WORKER TIDE [...] No summary [...] |
2009-04-28 07:11:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB SOCI CH |
| 09CHENGDU81 |
CONNECTING THE SOUTHWEST: SICHUAN'S NEW ROADS PAVED WITH [...] (SBU) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information -- not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Economic stimulus and earthquake reconstruction money will fund rapid transportation network expansion in Southwest China's Sichuan province over the next thr [...] |
2009-05-13 05:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN SOCI PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU82 |
SW CHINA BROADBAND: GROWING RAPIDLY IN A LARGE POTENTIAL [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: The number of Internet users in Southwest China doubled to 27 million people between 2005 and 2008. The region's population of 200 million people leaves room for su [...] |
2009-05-18 08:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON CH SOCI |
| 09CHENGDU87 |
TIBETAN LANGUAGE INTERNET IN THE PRC [...] (SBU) Summary: The nascent growth of Tibetan language internet in China slowed with the closure of several websites and detention of Tibetan e-activists over the past year. Tibetan language email and websites are nevertheless becoming increasingly popular among students and intellectuals, low [...] |
2009-05-22 04:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI EINT CH |
| 09CHENGDU88 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA ATTENTION TO GREENHOUSE GASES GROWS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Environmental Protection Bureaus in the Southwest Chinese cities of Chengdu and Chongqing are studying local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Chengdu environmental of [...] |
2009-05-22 06:45:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG CH |
| 09CHENGDU90 |
SICHUAN QUAKE RECOVERY UPDATE: RAPID RECONSTRUCTION [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Spurred by the central government's goal of moving displaced quake victims into permanent housing by the end of 2009, reconstruction in the earthquake zone has signi [...] |
2009-05-26 09:41:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON PGOV CH |
| 09CHENGDU95 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: WHAT'S GOING ON WITH AIR QUALITY DATA? [...] (SBU) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Air quality in Southwest China's city of Chengdu, is probably worse than official statistics would suggest. The city records significantly fewer poor air quality [...] |
2009-06-02 06:03:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV CH ENRG PREL ECON |
| 09CHENGDU99 |
SOUTHWEST CHINA: LOCAL SCHOLAR ON TIANANMEN ANNIVERSARY AND [...] (C) Summary: Indicating that controls over media in Sichuan Province have notably increased over the past year, a senior-level Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) researcher described how Communist Party officials applied additional pressure on him and other independent website editors [...] |
2009-06-04 06:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KPAO SOCI CH |
| 10CHENGDU12 |
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST HUANG QI: ATTORNEY PROVIDES MORE [...] (C) Summary. The attorney of imprisoned Chinese dissident Huang Qi told Consul General January 8 that there were significant irregularities in Huang's court case, including fabricated evidence and procedural inconsistencies. Huang's appeal documents are expected to be reviewed by judges in F [...] |
2010-01-15 04:45:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KJUS CH |
| 10CHENGDU14 |
TIBETAN UNIVERSITY DEAN ON SELF-RESPECT, CULTURE, LANGUAGE, [...] (C) Summary: Tibetan youth in China are "demoralized" by the lack of higher education opportunities in their native language that limit their participation in modern society, the consequent lack of standardized scientific and technical vocabulary in the Tibetan language, and erosion of traditio [...] |
2010-01-15 08:01:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SENV CH |
| 10CHENGDU15 |
"LHOKA" AKA "SHANNAN": SINIFICATION OF THE CRADLE OF TIBETAN [...] (C) Introduction and Summary. Although considered the cradle of Tibetan culture, the historical city and prefecture of Lhoka, in southeastern Tibet, is in the midst of a silent cultural and population invasion by Han Chinese, Consul General's November 22-25 visit there suggests. Lhoka's rapid [...] |
2010-01-15 10:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PGOV ECON EAID MCAP MOPS SOCI CH IN |
| 10CHENGDU16 |
SW CHINA CATHOLICS: PRIEST SHORTAGE AND GOVERNMENT CONTROL [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Luo Xuegang, a Catholic priest in Sichuan Province's Yibin city, recently told Consul General that the Yibin diocese has a 135-year history and more than 40,000 beli [...] |
2010-01-26 08:39:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV CH |
| 10CHENGDU17 |
CHANG'AN HOPES TO BUILD ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CAR WITH [...] (U) This message contains company proprietary information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Ford's principal partner in China, Chongqing Chang'an, recently became the PRC's third-largest automaker after purchasing the auto assets of another state-owned enterprise. Some [...] |
2010-01-26 08:57:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ELTN ETRD PGOV SENV CH |
| 10CHENGDU18 |
SW CHINA: CHENGDU MAYOR GE MEETS CONSULATES [...] (SBU) Summary: Chengdu will build on its strengths in high tech areas such as IT, software services, and the aircraft industry, Mayor Ge Honglin said January 22. Chengdu will lead in cutting carbon emissions: it closed all coalmines in the larger Chengdu municipal region, and is now replacing [...] |
2010-01-26 09:12:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ELTN EAIR PGOV PINR SENV BEXP CH |
| 10CHENGDU20 |
U.S. INSURANCE GIANT ADVOCATES MULTINATIONAL APPROACH TO [...] (U) This message contains company proprietary information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. U.S. insurance giant Liberty Mutual chose to open its first PRC branch (and later subsidiary) in southwest China's Chongqing, rather than enter the bruising Shanghai market like [...] |
2010-01-27 10:20:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV CH |
| 10CHENGDU21 |
SW CHINA: LIQUOR AND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUEL YIBIN'S [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Yibin Mayor Wu Guanglei told Consul General January 7 that the city's economy grew by 15 percent in 2009; he expected 14 percent growth in 2010. Wuliangye, China's l [...] |
2010-01-27 11:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ECIN ELTN ENRG SENV PGOV CH |
| 10CHENGDU22 |
SW CHINA CHRISTIANS: RELIGION AND CHARITABLE WORK IN [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Pastor Richard Cai, the founder of Huamei, a faith-based organization in Sichuan, recently provided an overview of Protestant church groups and faith-based work in Si [...] |
2010-01-28 12:24:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 10CHENGDU23 |
CHENGDU IPR JUDGE ON FOREIGN COMPANY CHALLENGES, LOCAL COURT [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Effective intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement is a continuing challenge for judges and attorneys in Southwest China, according to a sitting judge on Chengdu's IP [...] |
2010-01-28 12:56:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ETRD EINV PGOV KIPR KJUS CH |
| 10CHENGDU24 |
SW CHINA: YIBIN'S YANGTZE RIVER PORT PROJECT -- WASTED [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Sichuan's fifth largest city, Yibin, is moving ahead with a river port project that, when finished, will be the largest port facility in the province. An Yibin City/ [...] |
2010-01-28 23:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EWWT EIND ECIN ETRD BEXP PGOV CH |
| 10CHENGDU26 |
CHONGQING LEGAL SCHOLARS, LAWYER ON GANG CRACKDOWN AND [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The organized crime problem in Chongqing is an inevitable outcome of unprecedented economic development, several legal contacts recently told us. However, Chongqing's tradi [...] |
2010-01-29 08:23:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI KJUS CH |
| 10CHENGDU28 |
CHONGQING'S IPR ENVIRONMENT: VIEWS FROM THE GOVERNMENT, A [...] (U) This message contains Sensitive But Unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: Chongqing officials expressed their willingness to cooperate with the USG to further intellectual property rights (IPR) protections during a recent meeting wit [...] |
2010-02-04 02:54:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV ETRD PGOV KIPR CH |
| 10CHENGDU30 |
YUNNAN CHRISTIANITY GROWING, GOVERNMENT ATTITUDE IMPROVING [...] (SBU) Summary: The number of Christians in Yunnan Province continues to grow, both among government-approved congregations and illegal "house churches," the Pastor of a large church in Kunming told us recently. 80 percent of adherents in Yunnan belong to ethnic minorities, though Christianity [...] |
2010-02-04 10:24:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PINR SOCI CH |
| 10CHENGDU31 |
NEPAL'S LHASA CG ON PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO CHINA [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. The unspoken quid pro quo during the December 26-31 visit of Nepal's Prime Minister to Lhasa and Beijing appears to have been a public statement by Nepal that it would no [...] |
2010-02-04 11:20:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EINV ENRG SENV CH NP IN |
| 10CHENGDU32 |
TIBET: LHASA MUSLIMS' RESURGING IDENTITY, WARY RELATIONS [...] (SBU) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Lhasa's small but energetic community of Muslims, both ethnic Tibetan and from other regions of China, is closely monitored by the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), CG's rec [...] |
2010-02-04 12:11:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV CH IN NP |
| 10CHENGDU35 |
SW CHINA: MINORITIES DISCUSS PRC MINORITY POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Retired Tibetan Communist leader Yangling Dorje and three ethnic minority professors at Chengdu's Southwest Nationalities University -- a Miao, a Korean, and a Tibetan -- recently discussed their frustrations with PRC minority policy in two separate meetings with Congen Chengdu. [...] |
2010-02-05 03:58:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SOCI CH |
| 10CHENGDU43 |
SW CHINA CITY AIMS TO REACH NATIONAL COPENHAGEN EMISSIONS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Sichuan's provincial capital, Chengdu, is advancing a pilot project in one of the city's northern districts that seeks by 2012 to reduce carbon dioxide emission inten [...] |
2010-02-23 03:25:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ENIV SENV CH |
| 10CHENGDU44 |
CHINA-ASEAN FTA START-UP: IMPACT ON YUNNAN PROVINCE MODEST [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Although Yunnan's overall foreign trade numbers declined by about 16 percent in 2009 because of the global financial crisis, its trade with the 10 member-nations of ASEA [...] |
2010-02-26 05:57:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN ETRD EINV ELTN CH VM LA BM TH |
| 10CHENGDU45 |
YUNNAN IMAMS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, THE HAJJ, AND BUILDING [...] (U) Summary: Southwest China's Yunnan Province has one of the PRC's highest concentrations of Muslims, with over 640,000 Muslims in the province and 140,000 in the provincial capital of Kunming. Muslims' religious freedom in Yunnan is increasing, though unannounced visits by Religious Affairs [...] |
2010-02-26 06:17:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR SOCI KISL SA CH |
| 10CHENGDU46 |
YUNNAN'S BORDER TRADE: HEKOU AND MOHAN GEAR UP FOR INCREASED [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (U) Summary: Yunnan's main land ports with Vietnam and Laos -- Hekou and Mohan -- are both preparing for significant increases in trade and travel flows with the January 1, 2010 entry- [...] |
2010-02-26 08:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL KTIP CH VM LA BM |
| 10CHENGDU5 |
WORLD BANK'S IFC ON ASSET BUBBLES, HOUSING COSTS, ECONOMIC [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: The head of the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) office in Chengdu, a PRC national with a patriotic bent, acknowledged that China faces possible as [...] |
2010-01-06 07:32:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EFIN PGOV CH |
| 10CHENGDU6 |
WIFE OF SICHUAN DISSIDENT HUANG QI DISCUSSES HIS CASE [...] (C) Summary: Zeng Li, wife of imprisoned Sichuan dissident Huang Qi, told Consul General January 4th that she has not been allowed to see her husband since he was sentenced on November 23, 2009 to three years imprisonment for possession of state secrets. Zeng fears for Huang's health -- she is [...] |
2010-01-06 09:43:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL CH |
| 10CHENGDU8 |
TIBETAN NOMAD POLICIES IN SICHUAN: SETTLEMENT, CONFLICT AND [...] (U) This is the first of two cables on settlement policies and economic development in Tibetan communities of Hongyuan County, Aba (Tibetan: Ngaba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, western Sichuan, based on EconOff's travel there in November and December. Summary and Comment - [...] |
2010-01-08 10:05:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR PHUM PGOV CH |
| 10CHENGDU9 |
TIBETAN HERDERS IN SICHUAN'S HONGYUAN COUNTY FACE UNCERTAIN [...] (U) This is the second of two cables on economic development and nomad settlement policies in Tibetan communities of Hongyuan County, in Aba (Tibetan: Ngaba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, western Sichuan, based on travel there in November and December. See ref A for first report. [...] |
2010-01-11 03:44:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM EAIR EAGR SENV SOCI CH |