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Chongqing embraces 90 districts and twelve counties. In 1983 it was given the economic and administrative powers of a province, although it remains part of Sichuan. For the past two years the city has become an economic laboratory for the country. Chongqing has plants that produce trucks, buses, machine tools, chemicals, textiles and munitions. It has ample supplies of high-grade coal, natural gas and iron ore, as well as rich red earth, which provides an abundance of vegetables and grain. Thus it is an ideal testing ground for the plans of Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, a Sichuan native...
With Peking's blessing, Chongqing's city government has taken over the administrative functions once managed by 22 separate government ministries and Sichuan province. It has also been empowered to negotiate contracts worth up to $5 million directly with foreign companies without consulting Peking. Last year alone, the city signed deals worth about $100 million with 70 foreign firms...
...estimates, which show that in 2003, some 3 million citizens engaged in 58,000 public protests, up 15% compared with the previous year. Figures for last year are not available, but there's been no apparent letup in unrest. In November, for example, as many as 100,000 Sichuan province residents physically blocked construction of a hydroelectric dam before police could regain control...
...paraded through the streets of Canton in a dunce's cap and denounced as ?a stinking remnant of the landlord class.' He has come a long way from that parade, and in the process has effected a more substantive revolution of his own. His agricultural reforms as governor of Sichuan (among them: allowing peasants to keep some profits) increased productivity by 25%. They were subsequently adopted for the nation as a whole...
...COMMUTED. The death sentence of TENZIN DELEK RINPOCHE, 54, prominent Tibetan monk jailed by Chinese authorities; to life in prison, by the Higher People's Court of Sichuan province; in Chengdu, China. In 2002, Delek was convicted of participating in terrorist bombings and secessionist activities in a closed-door trial widely criticized by international human-rights groups, who made numerous appeals on his behalf...