Word: dalian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media report the incarceration or execution of several corrupt bureaucrats or businessmen. Jiang has also approved a slew of nationalistic campaigns, including a drive against the recent fad of putting miniature foreign flags on the dashboards of private cars and taxis, a practice now officially banned in Shanghai and Dalian. ''To place a foreign flag in a place where a Chinese national flag should be placed will not only bring damage to the nation's dignity but also hurt the patriotic feelings of the Chinese people,'' the official Press Digest reported last month...
...banks of the Yalu River, where he met the smuggler and his well-hidden boat. A driving rain cloaked their escape from the numerous watchtowers and patrols, and in 10 silent minutes they rowed across to China. There he made his way to the port city of Dalian, where he found another Chinese smuggler, who transported him to South Korean authorities...
...response among laborers has been increasingly militant. Since March a series of wildcat strikes and slowdowns has been reported in Shenyang, Dalian, Chengdu, Shenzhen and other major cities. A particular center of discontent is the northeast, home to many of China's crumbling state-owned industries. According to the China Labor Bulletin, a publication printed in Hong Kong and smuggled to mainland labor dissidents, more than 300 strikes and protests broke out in March and April in the northeast provinces of Anhui, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Liaoning, Shaanxi and Sichuan, some lasting more than 40 days and involving more than...