Word: hsinhua
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...first hints that a successor to Chairman Mao Tse-tung had been chosen came in a Hsinhua communique last week on the disposition of Mao's body. Capping a month of mourning, China's official news agency announced that the body of the Great Helmsman would be enshrined in a crystal sarcophagus in a mausoleum to be built in Peking. It was also noted that Mao's complete works would be prepared under the leadership of the Politburo, "headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng." It was the first time that Premier Hua had been referred...
...event of major importance was taking place in China. Provincial leaders were absent from their posts; hotels in Peking were fully booked; phalanxes of shiny limousines were observed at Peking's Great Hall of the People. Finally, late last week, the announcement came from China's Hsinhua News Agency that the National People's Congress, theoretically China's top legislative body, had been meeting secretly since Jan. 13. It was the first time that the Congress had been convened in a decade. Long expected and long postponed, it produced results that for the first time since...
...tigers may eat you if you go too far." Foreigners are not allowed provincial newspapers, and interviews with knowledgeable Chinese are difficult in the best of times. So the newsmen rely on the People's Daily, Peking's main newspaper, and the English-language report of the Hsinhua agency. When the Tenth Communist Party Congress convened in the Great Hall of the People last August, none of the resident foreign correspondents even knew the session was taking place...
...Fanfare. China has now taken an important step toward filling those vacant ranks and putting its house in order. Last week Hsinhua, the Chinese news agency, announced that the long-anticipated Tenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party-the first such gathering since 1969-had been held in Peking from Aug. 24 to 28. The Congress had been led by Mao himself, whose failing health was belied by the amazingly healthy and even youthful-looking photographs released by the Chinese. Although China watchers for the past few weeks had suspected that the Congress was imminent, neither fanfare nor publicity marked...
...contrast, the Ninth Party Congress, in the process of approving a new constitution, specifically named Defense Minister Lin Piao as Mao's heir. Last week's conclave repaired that embarrassing error. The constitution was revised to expunge the name of Lin Piao, who was, according to Hsinhua, publicly excoriated as a "bourgeois careerist, conspirator, counterrevolutionary, double-dealer, renegade, and traitor...