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COLLEGE HEAD STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY STUDIES
Xinhua in English 0750 gmt 2 Aug 89
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Two months ago Chen Minheng, President of Shanghai's East China Institute of Chemical Technology, told a 'People's Daily' reporter that the college planned to add four political courses next semester: "Chinese Contemporary History", "Western Social Analyses”, “Socialism and Reform” and “Marxism and Philosophical Methodology".
When Chen was interviewed after the recent turmoil and counter-revolutionary rebellion, he was even more decided and said that next semester the college would require all its students to take the course on Chinese contemporary history. He thought the biggest problem for students was their ignorance of the national situation.
At the beginning of the student unrest, the president argued with students who insisted on demonstrating and invited dozens of students for individual talks so as to help them give up demonstrating. At that time some students felt depressed and dissatisfied with the current situation in the country, yet they realised that student unrest would not solve any problems, Chen said.
He also said that, since official profiteering and corruption had appeared in the country during the period of reform and opening to the outside world, the government was required to use its power to improve the economic environment and rectify the economic order.
As for the students' demand for democracy, the president said there was a long way to go to construct a democratic system. China was still backward economically and culturally, and the people had very little sense of democracy and a legal system, so it was improper for China to imitate the democratic systems of Western countries.
The president attributed the wide spread of the ideology of bourgeois liberalisation to ineffective propaganda on the importance of adhering to the four cardinal principles.
Though Chen has no complete plan as to the study of contemporary history, he put forward some views. He suggested stressing the history of the Chinese Communist Party in leading the people to establish a New China in 1949, the history of the socialist construction since then and the history of the reform and opening to the outside world.
In addition, he said, the history of "the cultural revolution" (1966-1976) should be studied, since the progress of the recent rebellion was to some extent similar to that of "the cultural revolution”, in that it was started by young students, was taken advantage of by people with ulterior motives and ended with a nationwide turmoil.
MOST PEKING GRADUATES ASSIGNED JOBS
Xinhua in English 0649 gmt 2 Aug 89
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Most of the 32,000 graduates from 80 universities and colleges in Peking have been accepted by their assigned units.
5 Aug 89
More than 1,000 graduates who have not found appropriate jobs are still waiting for new assignments. One reason for it is that some units such as foreign enterprises, party schools, judicial departments, travel agencies and the military have dropped plans to receive more than 300 students. A total of 2,148 students have passed the entrance examination for graduate school this year. The number is less than that of last year.
This year, more graduates have been assigned to work in grass-roots units. A number of graduates have gone to work in township and village-run enterprises. Only a few have been assigned to work in departments under the central government.
Qinghua University has more than 2,100 graduates this year. More than 600 have passed the entrance examination for post-graduates. The rest participated in the assignment process. More than 5,000 units came to the university to take graduates. On average, each graduate had four units to choose from.
Peking University has 1,500 graduates participating in the assignment process, while the other 461 passed the examination for post-graduates. Graduates who majored in computer science, biochemistry, analytical chemistry, English, sociology and some other subjects are in short supply.
Han Xueping, head of the student department of the Peking Higher Education Bureau said all the graduates had gone through three weeks' political study in which they reviewed their ideology and acts during the recent student unrest and counter-revolutionary rebellion.
PEKING MUNICIPALITY DEALS WITH TOP- LEVEL CORRUPTION
Peking home service 0930 gmt 30 Jul 89
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According to Xinhua, the Peking municipal CCP committee held a meeting of its standing committee members yesterday to seriously discuss, in the light of Peking's actual situation, the CCP Central Committee and State Council decision on doing several things of concern to the masses in the near future. All participants pledged support for the decision. They expressed determination to implement the decision, saying its spirit is suitable to Peking's situation.
It was decided at the meeting that Peking municipality will do several things first in the near future, beginning with the standing committee members of the municipal party committee and vice-mayors.
(1) Steps will be taken to further consolidate companies. Companies in need of being closed and merged must be closed and merged accordingly. The focus will be placed on companies engaged in commerce, supply and marketing of goods and equipment, finance and foreign trade as well as on companies run by party and government organs. The primary method of consolidation will be to close them instead of merging them.
(2) Children of high-ranking cadres will be strictly forbidden to run businesses. Beginning with members of the