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...first year in office. The most common grievances involve corrupt local officials, land seized by authorities and developers to fuel China's property boom, unpaid wages from cash-strapped state-owned enterprises, and industrial accidents at unregulated private factories. Some cases are doubtless spurious, but most aren't. Even Zhou Zhanshun, head of the State Letters and Visits Bureau, admitted to the state-run Xinhua News Agency in January that 80% of the complaints are reasonable...
Other acts included a Beijing Opera aria performed by Amy G. Zhou ’07, the Chunsa Dance Troupe’s fan dance and the Traditional Dance Troupe’s ribbon dance...
...task of restoring confidence falls to China's top cop, Public Security Minister Zhou. A prot?g? of former President Jiang Zemin, who remains head of China's army and controls the country's security apparatus, Zhou took office in December and set out to clean up China's dirty cops. One of his first proclamations was to ban officers from drinking alcohol while carrying side arms. More recently, police officials say Zhou sent 10 teams of investigators into the provinces to gather information on what reforms would best improve police behavior and will incorporate his findings into new policies...
...Zhou plans to combat the dismal esprit de corps in part by reminding officers that they serve a greater good?witness Shanghai's police slogan: "The People Are Our Mother and Father." Shanghai has become a model for "community policing," an attempt to introduce modern, people-friendly law-enforcement methods. City leaders divided the city into a grid?10,000 households per sector?and opened a tiny office with one officer in each sector. Neighborhood officers respond not just to emergencies but to people locked out of their apartments and senile residents who get lost?a way of breaking down...
...Chinese reformers argue that real improvement will come only if police subject themselves to oversight by prosecutors' offices. But Zhou has resisted this?and has even moved in the opposite direction. Unlike his predecessors, he has been named vice chairman of the party's powerful Political and Legislative Affairs Committee, which oversees judicial matters. That means everyone from the Minister of Justice to the country's top judges must gain Zhou's approval when prosecuting sensitive cases. And he has replicated the system at lower levels by encouraging local chiefs to lead their towns' political committees, giving them the power...