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Riot-damaged Chengdu shopping centre reopens (Excerpts) The people's shopping centre in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, resumed business yesterday [1st August], 56 days after it was completely burned by rioters during the recent turmoil in the city. On 4th June the shop, the largest comprehensive store in south-west China, was burned to ash, causing a total direct loss of more than 46m yuan and putting 2,100 people out of work... The Ministry of Commerce allocated 2m yuan, loaned 3m yuan and provided of building materials, such as rolled steel and timber, for the store's restoration. . . (Xinhua in English 0755 gmt 2 Aug 89)
Rectification of pharmaceutical market (Text) According to 'Jingji Cankao', pharmaceutical markets in many localities across China are currently in disarray. To deal with the problem with the circulation of medicines, as well as with quotations, fake and low-quality medicines, and destruction of medicinal materials, the State Pharmaceutical Administration has laid down following specific provisions: Apart from state- run pharmaceutical wholesalers no organs are allowed to engage in wholesaling medicines without the approval of competent pharmaceutical management authorities at the provincial level. Departments and units are not allowed to buy or sell chemicals without the examination and approval of the State Pharmaceutical Administration. Enterprises engaged in the production and sale of medicines are not allowed to quote or raise prices without authorisation, neither are they allowed to widen price differential rates prescribed by the state and various localities. Medicines and preparations purchased or compounded by health and medical units are not allowed to be transferred, sold wholesale or resold. (Xinhua in Chinese 1211 gmt 31 Jul 89)
Revision of law on protection of minors
According
to the special group for youth and juvenile affairs under the NPC Internal and Judicial Affairs Committee, the Law on the Protection of Minors is being revised so that it can be submitted to the NPC for discussion and ratification as soon as possible. (Peking 'Renmin Ribao' in Chinese 29 Jul 89)
Shanxi mine director arrested for neglect of duty
(Text) A mine director and a technician in a village- run coal mine in Shanxi Province were arrested, charged of being responsible for a gas explosion last month. Five other officials involved in the case have been dealt with according to party and administrative disciplines.
The gas explosion, which occured on 24th June in the Xinbi coal mine on the outskirts of Jincheng city, killed 23 miners and caused property damage worth 420,000 yuan. The mine director was accused of putting undue emphasis on production while neglecting safety, according to an investigation. (Xinhua in English 0530 gmt 31 Jul 89)
Tiananmen rostrum increasingly popular visitors (Text) Peking's Tiananmen rostrum has received 46,385 visitors from both home and abroad since its reopening on 1st July.
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According to an official of the Tiananmen administration office, since the rostrum reopened to visitors a month ago, increasing numbers of people have come to visit it. It receives
5 Aug 89
1,496 visitors a day on average, including leaders of foreign countries, overseas visitors, officials and soldiers from martial law enforcement troops, and domestic visitors. The official said visitors welcomed the reopening of the rostrum. Invited by the Peking tourist administration, more than 400 travel agents from 29 countries visited the rostrum. After the visit they had better understanding of the stable social order in Peking. (Xinhua in English 1132 gmt 1 Aug 89)
"Asia's first" sports administration college planned for Shenzhen Preparations are underway for a sports administration college in the Shenzhen SEZ in Guangdong Province. The non-governmental college, which is to train management and development personnel in sports administration, will be the first of its kind in the country or even in Asia when it opens in 1992. (Xinhua in English 0729 gmt 1 Aug 89)
Publication of Fujian magazine suspended (Text) The Fujian provincial bureau of press and publication recently suspended the publication of 'Wuyi Mountain' magazine of its obscene content. Starting publication in 1977 and named 'Minbei Literature and Art' at first, the magazine was once appraised as the best prefectural magazine in Fujian Province, east China. Since July last year, however, the editorial department of the magazine has given priority to profits and empowered individual book pedlers to publish four issues of the magazine. As a result, the four issues were full of stories describing obscenity and violences. More than 100,000 copies of the issues each were distributed, producing serious social influence. A recent decision made by the Fujian provincial bureau of the press and publication ordered to confiscate all the gains of the four illegal issues and to destroy the copies unsold.
Meanwhile, the bureau has decided to look into all the 72 magazines and 32 newspapers in the province and strengthen administration of them. (Xinhua in English 1442 gmt 2 Aug 89) Publications and tapes banned in Shaanxi From 14th to 21st July, the Shaanxi provincial authorities sent approximately 5,500 personnel to check books, magazines, videotapes and audiotapes in 966 shops and stalls of large and medium-sized cities. About 120,000 copies of books and magazines were banned, and 170,000 others were sealed for further investigation. A total of 442 videotape display centres were examined, and 20,000 videotapes and 24,000 audiotapes were banned, illegal videotape screening groups were dissolved, and business licences for shops and stalls that violated laws and regulations were revoked. Therefore, obscene and objectionable publications in these cities have been greatly reduced, as have books describing murders and superstition. (Zhongguo Tongaun She, Hongkong, in Chinese 0443 gmt 1 Aug 89)