Word: zhao
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...warring factions have since settled into an uneasy standoff, as Deng has sought the middle ground. That was clearly evident last week when Premier Zhao Ziyang, a leading Deng disciple, delivered the Congress's opening address. While some reformers "are not sober-minded enough," Zhao declared in his 1-hour, 50-minute speech, their conservative opponents may not be "mentally emancipated enough." In any case, Zhao said, the government has already rooted out the worst excesses of reform: "After several months of work since the end of last year, we have curbed bourgeois liberalization, which was once quite widespread." Having...
...Zhao, 68, painted a grim picture of the Chinese economy. Echoing a conservative rallying cry, Zhao began his speech by demanding boosts in grain production. Lashing out at consumers who are "given to pleasure seeking," he called for more unglamorous projects, such as the construction of roads, bridges and energy facilities. Zhao railed against "blindly seeking an excessively high growth rate" lest China's inflation, which is now running at a roughly 6% annual clip, get completely out of hand. His remarks seemed aimed at the policies of the once influential Hu, who last week was re-elected...
...13th Communist Party Congress is to meet in Peking. The current political stalemate is likely to continue until that gathering, when top party and government posts will be filled. Among the appointments will be that of a permanent successor to Hu as party General Secretary, a job Premier Zhao now holds on an acting basis...
...still uncertain whether Deng's free-market economic reforms are seriously threatened by the current power struggle. While a freeze has been imposed on new economic initiatives, General Secretary Zhao insisted last week that those already in place are "irreversible." But despite such statements, signs of a rollback are cropping up. In the northeastern province of Hebei, the local radio station recently carried a report that peasants with "muddled ideas" have suspended free-enterprise experiments until the political air clears. "Some who have raised capital to set up ((private)) factories dare not set them up now," the report said. Since...
Despite repeated assertions by acting Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang that the campaign against bourgeois liberalization would be restricted to the Communist Party, the conservative movement has now spread to all Chinese institutions. Two weeks ago, the 3.5 million-member People's - Liberation Army signed up. Said a P.L.A. statement: "In view of the characteristics of the armed forces, all cadres, fighters, workers and staff are required to take part in the education ((about the dangers of bourgeois liberalization...