When customs officials in Luanda, Angola, searched a cargo container from China, they found something hidden inside a shipment of loudspeakers: 1.4 million packets of counterfeit Coartem, a malaria drug made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG.

The discovery, last June, led to one of the largest seizures of phony medicines ever. The fakes—enough to treat more than half the country’s annual malaria cases, had they been genuine—are part of a proliferation of bogus malaria drugs in Africa that threatens to undermine years of progress in tackling the disease.

[…] China’s foreign ministry said the country “has always attached great importance to drug safety and resolutely combats the…manufacture and sale of counterfeit medicines.” The ministry added that it is “not aware” of evidence that any fake Coartem found in Africa came from China.

[…] Counterfeit Coartem has also been found and seized in Guangzhou itself. In February 2012, the Chinese police and the Chinese Food and Drug Administration seized 600 boxes of fake packets of the drug—enough to treat 18,000 patients—in two lorries in Guangzhou, according to a private investigator familiar with the haul. [Source]

A Chinese crackdown last year led to almost 2,000 arrests and the confiscation of $180 million worth of counterfeit medication. The Journal’s story follows an AFP report on Sunday about the seizure of 1.2 million doses of fake aspirin in France, hidden in a shipment of tea from China. The fake malaria drug trade has previously been the subject of a series of reports by Kathleen McLaughlin, which were subsequently denied by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. McLaughlin later discussed the issue with Dr. Patrick Lukulay of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention and The China in Africa Podcast’s Cobus Van Staden in a Google Hangout hosted by the Pulitzer Center.

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When the research team approached China’s Ministry of Commerce, which oversees main components of the country’s aid program, the answer they got was, “Everyone who needs to know about our generosity already knows,” Parks said.

The database, compiled from English- and Chinese-language media reports on African projects, includes an interactive map that breaks down information to country and project levels. It will continually incorporate contributions from those involved in African aid, Parks and Fuchs told Reuters in an interview.

The creators of the database offered no judgments on the contentious questions surrounding Chinese aid to Africa, saying their aim was to inform the debate with data that has been missing from existing aid statistics.

But Parks said one stereotype about China in Africa – that Beijing focuses on resource extraction and big infrastructure projects like roads, dams and stadiums – partly unravels in the face of the newly compiled data.

The beta web site for the new database includes data on Chinese projects as well as links to several recent academic publications on topic. In his first overseas trip last month, new Chinese president Xi Jinping reaffirmed China’s commitment to maintaining “friendly relationships with all African countries.”

Update: As Fons Tuinstra points out in the comments, Johns Hopkins University’s Deborah Brautigam has expressed strong reservations with the database on her blog:

Today, a new paper and media-based dataset on Chinese aid/finance was released by the AidData project, in an event at the Center for Global Development. AidData collected these numbers over the past year, from media reports. According to AidData, the Chinese have committed $75 billion in official development finance to Africa, 2000 to 2011.

[…] I’ve already provided my comments to the authors in an earlier draft, and warned them about the pitfalls of this approach. Here’s my conclusion: this number is way off. Yes, it’s a start, and yes, the goal is a good one, but the approach, and the publication of this data at this early stage, is a problem, for several reasons.

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About 1.2 billion people in the world lived in extreme poverty in 2010, subsisting on less than $1.25 a day [in 2005 PPP U.S. dollars]. That’s down from 1.9 billion three decades ago despite a nearly 60% increase in the developing world’s population.

[…] The sharpest decline came in China, where the extreme poverty rate fell to 12% in 2010 from 84% in 1981. India’s extreme poverty dropped to 33% of the population from 60% three decades ago.

[…] More than three-fourths of the world’s 1.2 billion poorest people live in rural areas, the bank said in a separate report Wednesday. Urbanization has been a key driver in reducing extreme poverty. About half the world’s total population now lives in rural areas.

China’s share of the world’s extremely poor population also fell from 43% in 1981 to 13% in 2010. Despite the country’s overall population growth of over 300 million during this time, the number of Chinese living in extreme poverty crashed from 835 million to 156 million people. Life expectancy at birth climbed from 67.8 to 74.8 over the same period from just 35 in 1949, according to China’s Ministry of Health and National Bureau of Statistics.

Earlier this month, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim called for an international effort to bring the global extreme poverty rate below 3% by 2030.

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In 2001, China’s GDP was equal to the GDP of all the RIBS combined. In the five years since the global financial crisis, just the increment of growth in China’s economy is larger than the entire economies of Russia and India combined. Indeed, in the half decade since the financial crisis, 40 percent of all growth in the global economy has occurred in China.

[…] Concepts that jumble together elements with more differences than similarities sow confusion. While it may have played a useful purpose at the beginning of the century to highlight faster-growing emerging economies, BRICS has become an analytic liability. Like generalizations about per-capita growth in countries where wealth disparities are widening (as the rich get richer while the income of the poor declines), submerging China in this acronym misses more than it captures. If a banner is required for a meeting of these five nations, or for a forecast about their economic and political weight in the world ahead, RIBS is much closer to the reality. Even if governments, investment banks, and newspapers keep using BRICS, thoughtful readers will think China and the rest.

But while China may have little in common with the RIBS economically, Beijing still appears to see political utility in BRICS membership. From Yun Sun at Brookings:

Xi’s first overseas trip reveals the international quagmire China is in. The past 10 years witnessed unprecedented growth of Chinese economy, but it was also accompanied by unparalleled foreign policy challenges. As many Chinese analysts observed, China’s external environment did not improve as a result of China’s rise, instead, it has worsened. China has become richer, but less respected. It has more transactions with the world than ever, but less friends.

Therefore, Xi’s trip to Russia, Africa and the BRICS summit genuinely reflects China’s strategic moves to break away from this predicament. It seeks to reconsolidate friendship with a Russia also antagonized by the West, with Africa to reinforce its developing-country identity and solidarity with the developing world, and with other emerging economies to align their collective power against the traditional developed countries. China learned its lesson that it is yet to be strong enough to challenge the existing international order (and the supremacy of the U.S.) alone. Alignment with other rising powers, like the BRICS countries, and reinforcement of its friendship base among developing countries will be a new emphasis for China’s foreign policy in the foreseeable future.

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Monday’s statement says the men are employees of the China Railway 18th Bureau Group who were building a road in North Darfur just outside the regional capital of El-Fasher.

Sudan’s state news agency SUNA has blamed the abduction on a Darfur rebel movement, but it stopped short of naming which group.

The news agency has reported that five Sudanese were also abducted along with the four Chinese workers, among them drivers and engineers.

China’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Hong Lei, has said Beijing is urging Sudan to rescue the Chinese nationals, from the People’s Daily Online:

Since the Chinese nationals were kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry has directed the embassy in Sudan to launch an emergency mechanism.

The embassy has made representations to Sudan’s relevant departments to strengthen the protection of Chinese nationals, Hong said at a daily press briefing.

The Chinese government attaches great importance to the safety and security of overseas Chinese citizens and institutions, Hong said.

He stressed that the Foreign Ministry will work with relevant departments to direct the embassy and relevant companies to make every effort to rescue the Chinese nationals.

Despite Beijing’s demand to rescue the workers, critics say the Sudanese government is ‘incapable’ of the task. AsiaOne reports:

But Li Xinfeng, an expert on Sudanese studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the Sudanese government, gripped by ethnic and territorial disputes, often finds itself incapable of managing the task.

“Chinese citizens in the country should always be alert, and at the very least make sure they never venture out alone”, he said.

He Wenping, director of the African Studies Section at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the delay in claiming responsibility probably meant the kidnappers were likely to be seeking a ransom.

But Li said the kidnappers probably took the Chinese nationals because of the country’s close ties with Sudanese government, making them valuable bargaining chips.

According to The South China Morning Post, 18 military vehicles are pursing the kidnappers:

In recent years, there have been a wave of kidnappings for ransom in Darfur, where ethnic rebels a decade ago began an uprising against the Arab-dominated Khartoum government.

Although violence is down from its peak, villages have been razed and rebel-government fighting, banditry, inter-Arab and tribal disputes continue to afflict the region, in Sudan’s far west.

In December, a Sudanese court handed down life sentences to four Sudanese for killing a Chinese worker during a raid on a workers’ oil camp, the state-linked Sudanese Media Centre said. It gave no details.

Last year 29 Chinese workers were abducted by rebels,but the Chinese nationals were eventually released. Read more about China’s relationship with Sudan, via CDT.

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There are cries that China’s is a new imperialism. If so, at least it is new and not trapped in a stagnant history of ex-colonisers and their ex-colonies. Hearteningly, China does not hide its wish to make profit out of its dealings with Africa behind altruism or religion or paternalism. Thus, if indeed we are witnessing a 21st-century attempt to colonise Africa once more, at least there will be no hegemony to destroy when the fight for independence begins. But if China’s dealings in Africa do not point to an attempt to make Beijing a metropolis, then it is better not to recast the Chinese arrival in Lagos as the second act of the British landing in Eko; it is better that history serves as merely a loose reference for dealing with foreign powers.

Or perhaps the best way to proceed is to work in tandem with the past and the future. In Nigeria, where the power industry is being privatised, the Chinese Nigeria Power Consortium has won the bid for the Sapele power plant. It consists of Nigerian, Chinese and UK companies and thus maybe we can hope that all cultural and historical sensibilities will be preserved, while constant electricity is generated.

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The eight-member Chinese medical team sent to Kampala, Uganda’s capital, a year ago by the Chinese government is booked solid, each routinely seeing 20 patients or more every day. They are specialists, led by urologist Cao Guihua, and their mission is more than medical. They are here to build goodwill among Ugandans for China.

“We are sent by the government,” says Cao. “It’s a kind of political mission by the Chinese government to African countries to build political friendship between the countries. Of course it’s working.”

[…] Cao and the other doctors are the foot soldiers in China’s soft power efforts in Africa. Their medical expertise, often more advanced than what can be found locally, is well-known and sought-after. For the doctors, working in Africa is a chance to see diseases they don’t normally deal with, but have only read about. Malaria, for example, has been all but eradicated in China but remains one of the top killers in Uganda. So the doctors make adjustments, hone their treatment skills, and as employees of the Chinese government offer treatment services for free.

McLaughlin notes that grey-market pharmaceutical sales from Chinese clinics “add an element to the endeavor that goes beyond goodwill”. The report is part of a series on China’s health aid in Africa, and this grey-market trade hints at the focus of other current instalments: fake malaria medication, which may account for up to a third of the total in Uganda and Tanzania, and is believed to originate primarily from China and India.

Malaria medications are not the only target: one instalment covers the production of fake anti-retrovirals ostensibly intended to combat HIV. Nor is China the only culprit: Tanzanian authorities blamed a local producer for one recent haul of fake HIV drugs, and McLaughlin also points out the role of Western organisations which push drugs at the cost of preventative measures. But with its efforts to counter the counterfeiters currently lagging behind India’s, China is the apparent epicentre of much of the fake drug trade. From The Guardian:

“Let’s not exonerate other countries […," David Nahamya of Uganda's National Drug Authority] added, noting that African factories had also been busted for making fakes. “But of course China is entering into the African market with everything … I think you have seen their strategy in so many of our sectors. To bring in as many of their own products as possible, in every possible level of quality, and take over.”

Beijing’s multibillion-dollar economic foray into Africa has rapidly turned into a double-edged sword, the boon in terms of growth offset by negative perceptions of its motives and actions.

“If reports from African regulators are accurate, Chinese companies are responsible for the most egregious medicines frauds and misformulations seen on the continent,” said Laurie Garett, senior fellow for global health at the US Council on Foreign Relations.

“Nobody has a head count, or a body count, on numbers of Africans that have died as a result. But China’s role certainly has been dreadful … Even within China’s own official media, you can find reports of dumping, drugs/medicines found substandard or fraudulent, causing harm to Chinese, are relabeled and dumped on Africa,” she added.

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As was highlighted at a recent conference at Oxford University, Chinese news media are seeking to compete with players such as CNN and Al Jazeera, but they are rolling out what they claim is a different approach to journalism. What Chinese media are offering to Africa is “positive reporting,” a style of journalism that focuses on collective achievements rather than divisive issues like political crises or sensational negative news like famines.

[...] The Africa of today, while still consumed by many intractable problems, is no longer the Africa of the 1990s: Millions of Africans are seizing on unprecedented opportunities to build new lives.

This optimistic message about Africa turning a corner has faced criticism on different fronts. One of the most pertinent charges is that “positive reporting” fails to deliver on one of the main mandates of journalism: acting as a watchdog and keeping those in power in check, rather than praising them for their successes.

[...] A major potential pitfall is that an equally stereotypical positive image will substitute a stereotypical negative image of Africa. There is a crowd of self-appointed experts of the continent who are reinventing clichés to stress Africa’s untapped potential, when just a few years ago they were the propagators of a relentless Afro-pessimism.

As the article notes, China Central Television has also been moving into Africa. At Foreign Policy last month, Alex Pasternack examined the network’s parallel efforts to gain a foothold in the United States. Observers have been divided over the effectiveness of this state media expansion. See also more on Sino-African relations via CDT.

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The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media.

1 November 2006, 15:44, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chai Yue

(1) All websites: Please reprint the China Economic Net article Chinese Trade Growth Is No “Menace” But Contribution in the business and trade section.

(2) All websites: Please clean up and delete the text “Senior Cadres of Seven Provinces and Municipalities Have Assets Exceeding 70 Million” in forums and blogs.

(3) All websites: Please immediately delete the report of the Chinese Medicine Bureau concerning “Signatures to Cancel Chinese Medicine.”

1 November 2005, 17:21, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chai Yue

Briefing concerning reports on “Tsinghua Master Student Jumps Off Building and Dies”

Today, some websites reprinted the article “Tsinghua Master Student Jumps Off Building and Dies” published by the Haikou Evening News, please notify all websites that this matter may not be played up, this information is to be pushed to the back stage, website forums, blogs, and post bars may also not discuss this matter.

2 November 2006, 11:28, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chai Yue

The Forbes 2006 China Rich List, is to be removed from main page of websites and the main news page, and to be removed to the economics and business channel.

2 November 2006, 17:50, Beijing Municipal Information office, Chai Yue

All websites: Please delete the article “55 Years of Compulsory Insurance on Train Tickets – Where Has More than 10 Billion Grey Income Flowed To?”

2 November 2006, 18:22, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chai Yue

All websites: Please immediately delete the article “43 Beijing Buses Not In Compliance with Regulations on Sealing Investigated.”

3 November 2006, 10:06, Beijing Municipal Information Office

All situations concerning the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation leaders and their wives shopping in China are no longer to be reported. (2) Traffic management incidents concerning sealed-up vehicles are no longer to be brought up, corresponding numbers, examples and images are no longer to appear.

7 November 2006, 14:55, Municipal Network Propaganda Office, Huang Jing

All websites: Do not reprint reports on a so-called public security department investigation of the brothers of Guomei’s Huang Guangyu, where it has been reprinted, it must be deleted. Forums and blogs are also not to post this sort of articles. Where special subjects have been made, immediately push them to the back stage.

8 November 2006, 8:44, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites: Please immediately delete the article “False Certification Seller States He Was Robbed by Beijing Chengguan with Masked Faces – Robbing Him of Everything He Had.”

8 November 2006, 9:24, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites, please immediately delete the article “More than 100 Villagers in Tongzhou, Beijing Want the Village Head Dismissed.”

8 November 2006, 14:37, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites, concerning the matter of the conflagration that happened at the construction site of the National Stadium (Bird’s Nest) on 8 November, this may not be reported without exception, existing reports are to be pushed to the back stage without exception, it is not permitted to send short messages, strengthen management over forums, do not let corresponding content appear on forums.

9 November 2006, 9:43, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites: recently, a number of inaccurate reports concerning relevant departments in Xinjiang having decided to send 19 students who were infected with Hepatitis B back to their hometown to attend schools, have been published online, foreign media have also gotten involved. This matter touches upon ethnic and religious issues, and is relatively sensitive. All websites are requested to not transmit this sort of reports, and where they have been transmitted, they must be removed. Management over forums, blogs, and other interactive columns must be strengthened, timely delete incitements, provocations, rumors, attacks on the Party and the government, and all other harmful information.

17 November 2006, 9:51, Beijing Municipal Information Office

(1) News concerning the fact that someone in Jihe County, Shandong posed as the Party Committee secretary and signed off on work to be arranged for 33 people, is to be pushed to the back stage by all websites without exception.

(2) All websites: After coordination, websites who do netizen surveys with Airui Company, may put the surveys in the center of the news center page, and may not put it on the main page of websites or at the top of the news center page.

2006年11月北京网管办发出的禁令

2006年11月1日15时44分 北京市新闻办柴玥

1.各网：请在财经频道首页转载中国经济网文章《中国经贸的增长不是“威胁”而是贡献 》http://intl.ce.cn/specials/zxxx/200610/31/t20061031_9216431.shtml

2. 各网：请在论坛、博客中清理删除《七省市高干财产逾700万》一文。

3. 各网：请马上删除中医药局有关”取消中医签名”的报道。

2006年11月1日17时21分 北京市新闻办柴玥

关于”清华硕士生跳楼身亡事”的报道提示

今日，一些网站转载了《海口晚报》刊发的”一名清华大学研究生跳楼身亡”的文章，请通知各网站不要炒作此事，将此消息压置后台，网站论坛、博客、贴吧也不得讨论此事。

2006年11月2日11时28分 北京市新闻办柴玥

福布斯2006中国富豪榜，撤出网站首页和新闻首页，撤到财经频道

2006年11月2日17时50分 北京市新闻办柴玥

各网：请删除<火车票强制保险55年 上百亿灰色收入流向何处>一稿.

2006年11月2日18时22分 北京市新闻办柴玥

各网:请马上删除《北京43辆公车未遵守封车规定被查》一稿。

2006年11月3日10时05分 北京市新闻办

所有关于中非论坛领导人及其夫人在中国的购物情况一律不再报道。 2、交通管制中关于封存车辆的事件不要再提，相关数字、比例、图片不再出现。

2006年11月7日14时55分 市网宣处黄婧

各网站:不要转发所谓公安部门调查国美黄光裕兄弟的报道，已经转载的要删除。论坛、博客也不贴发此类文章。已经做专题的，马上压到后台。

2006年11月8日08时44分 北京市新闻办黄婧

各网:请马上删除<假证贩子称遭北京城管蒙头打劫 财物被洗劫一空>一稿.

2006年11月8日09时24分北京市新闻办黄婧

各网:请马上删除<北京通州百余村民要罢村主任>一稿.

2006年11月8日14时37分北京市新闻办黄婧

各网:关于11月8日国家体育场（鸟巢）工地发生火灾一事一律不要报道，现有报道一律压到后台,不得发送短信,加强对论坛的管理,不要在论坛中出现相关内容.

2006年11月9日09时43分 北京市新闻办黄婧

各网:最近，网上对新疆有关部门决定19名乙肝病毒感染学生转回生源地就读一事刊发了一些失实报道，境外媒体也有插手。此事涉及民族宗教问题，比较 敏感，请各网站不要转发此类报道，已转载的要立即撤除。要加强对论坛、博客等互动栏目的管理，及时删除煽动、挑拨、造谣以及攻击党和政府等各类有害信息。

2006年11月17日09时51分 北京市新闻办

1.关于山东齐河县有人假冒县委书记签名给33人安排工作的新闻，各网一律压到后台

2. 各网：经协调，有与艾瑞公司做网民调查的网站，可将调查置于新闻中心页面中部，不要放网站首页和新闻中心页面上部。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 10, 2012 (here).

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Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org (Participate) and date from 2005 to 2007. According to Canyu, the directives were issued by the Beijing Municipal Network Propaganda Management Office and the State Council Internet management departments and provided to to Canyu by insiders. China Copyright and Media has not verified the source.

The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media.

23 October 2006, 19:00, Beijing Municipal Network Management Office, Duty manager

Please do not reprint the Lookout Oriental Weekly article “Chongqing Civil Servants Write Short Messages Remonstrating Against Present-Day Evils to More than One Hundred People for Survey,” where it has been reprinted, please immediately remove it. This article may also not be posted in forums or blogs.

24 October 2006, 9:08, Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Office, Sun Ying

Delete the video concerning the Jiangxi Gan River Academy students making trouble, please delete text and images after backing up and investigate IPs.

24 October 2006, 15:30, Network Management Office, Duty manager

Mass-type student events successively occurred in the Jiangxi Gan River Vocational Academy, the Jiangxi Apparel Academy and other people-run academies, this matter is still extending, all websites are requested to strengthen management, it is prohibited to post text, images or video information in forums, news trackers or blogs concerning the mass-type student incidents in Jiangxi higher education institutes, please earnestly inspect online situations, timely delete this sort of information.

24 October 2006, 13:27, Beijing Municipal Information Office

I. All websites are to remove news concerning SK-2 cosmetics to the back stages, this is no longer to be discussed in forums and blogs.

II. News of beautiful women collecting pictures of the lower body half of men online, is no longer to be played up, remove it to the back stage, do not guide discussions in forums and blogs.

24 October 2006, Haidian Bureau Science, Technology and Information Communication Office

Notice concerning Guaranteeing Internet Information Security during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Period

All websites:

The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Beijing Summit will be convened from 1 November to 5 November in Beijing, more than 3400 delegates from more than 40 will participate in this summit, which is one of the major foreign affairs events in our country this year, in order to provide a good and harmonious network atmosphere for the Forum, and guarantee Internet network information security during the period of the Forum in our district, the following work requirements are hereby notified:

(1) All work units are requested to strictly implement network security management systems, formulate emergency guarantee plans for the Forum period, immediately implement a specialist duty management structure, and report the name and contact telephone number of the duty manager to our office before 30 October through e-mail (e-mail: hdwj@263.net.cn);

(2) In order to guarantee that management is conducted even better over websites having established forums, chat rooms, BBS, electronic announcement columns, and other service programs, and effectively prevent the occurrence of sudden incidents, all websites providing forum services are requested to open up super-user management powers for our office’s network supervision and inspection office (being the powers to delete content), and report this to our office before 30 October through e-mail;

(3) During the Forum period, it is necessary to persist in an approval first and posting later system for posts, focus supervision and control on sensitive topics and active columns, vigorously discover harmful information, and especially where situations such as mass-type public order incidents, Falun Gong, etc., occur, it must be achieved that as soon as they are discovered, they are immediately deleted, and attention must be paid to timely preserving clues and timely reporting our office. Contact telephone: 82571260, contact person: Yu Haiyang.

Haidian Bureau Science, Technology and Information Communication Bureau

24 October 2006

15 October 2006, 10:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office

All websites’ articles concerning SK-2 are no longer to be reprinted in the important news section of the news center, posts are not to be recommended on the front page, no longer produce new special subjects or special columns, existing special subjects must be put on the back stage, new report articles are no longer to link to the original special subject.

26 October 2006, 10:51, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chai Yue

All websites are requested to immediately delete the text content of “Masterstroke Confuses Bureau” issued in the “News Investigation” column of CCTV on 23 October. Related higher education institute mass-type incidents may not be reported without exception, and management over forums, blogs, instant communication and other interactive columns must be strengthened, delete all corresponding text, image and video content.

26 October 2006, Beijing Municipal Information Office

Notice concerning Further Doing Online Propaganda and Reporting Work of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress Well

All websites: Studying, propagating, and implementing the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress is an important political task in the present and future periods’ Internet news and propaganda work, Qianlong Net and all main commercial portal websites must further do propaganda, reporting, and management work concerning the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress well, and strive to create a harmonious online public opinion atmosphere.

I. General requirements

Earnestly implement the general requirements and uniform deployment of the Center, fully give rein to the superiority and characteristics of the Internet, deeply propagate the spirit of the important speech of General Secretary Hu Jintao at the Plenum, deeply propagate the “CCP Central Committee Decision concerning Some Major Issues in Building a Harmonious Society” (hereafter simply named “Decision”), promote studying and implementing the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Committee, create a strong online public opinion atmosphere for welcoming the victorious convention of the 17th Party Congress, building a Socialist harmonious society, completely constructing a relatively well-off society, and initiating a new picture for the undertaking of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, further enhance recognition and understanding of the outside world of all of our principles and policies, work measures and China’s development progress situation.

II, Propaganda focus points

Strengthen online propaganda and reporting on the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress, the key is to grasp the following points well and achieve the seven deeps: first, deeply propagate the spirit of General Secretary Hu Jintao’s important speech and the major significance of the “Decision”. Propagate the deep elaboration of General Secretary Hu Jintao concerning building a Socialist harmonious society, the important deployment to implement the spirit of the Plenum, as well as the correct requirements put forward to do the present work well. Propagate the guiding ideology, objectives and tasks, work principles and major deployments on building a Socialist harmonious society put forward in the “Decision.” Second, deeply propagate the importance and urgency of building a Socialist harmonious society. Propagate that social harmony is an essential property of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is an important guarantee for the country’s wealth and strength, the vitalization of the nation and the happiness of the people. Third, deeply propagate the guiding ideology, objectives, tasks, and principles for building a Socialist harmonious society. Fourth, deeply propagate the series of important measures of the Center concerning building a Socialist harmonious society. Fifth, deeply propagate the strengthening of Party leadership over the construction of a Socialist harmonious society. Sixth, deeply propagate the real actions of the entire party and the people of all ethnicities in the entire country in deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenum and welcoming the victorious convention of the 17th Party Congress. Seventh, deeply propagate the fine aspirations and real actions of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government in persisting in marching the peaceful development path, and proposing the construction of a peaceful world.

III. Propaganda arrangements

(1) All websites are to set up “6th Plenum” and “Harmonious Society Construction” special subjects. On the main page of websites and main news pages, continuously strengthen reporting of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress. The special subjects must be maintained in the first position of the focus special subjects, and real-time news is to be used in the important news section to create a special subject entry point; after all websites roll out a real-time news special section, they shall put real-time news on the 6th Plenum in the first position, and make it into a special subject entry point.

(2) Timely reprint focus articles and focus reports from focus Central news and network media. The People’s Daily, Xinhua, and other main Central news media will successively publish a series of theoretical articles, expert interviews, hot spot interpretations, comments, and discussions in the near future, and roll out a batch of advanced models in building a harmonious society, websites must timely follow up, and prominently, timely, and correctly reprint these reports.

(3) Meticulously design special subject column content, strengthen attractiveness and infectiousness. All websites must earnestly plan special subjects, ensure that propaganda on home pages and main pages and special subject or special column propaganda is mutually coordinated and mutually resonating, and fully use text, images, audiovisuals, and many other propaganda methods to shape momentum and shape influence.

(4) Open up an online study and tutoring garden. All websites are to give rein to the dissemination superiority of the Internet, and provide online study and tutoring support for the propaganda of the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Committee. They must provide inquiry services for important documents, materials, and data to netizens, and may invite expert academics for online interviews under the condition of asking the Municipal Network Management Office for permission, to provide theoretical and policy tutorial services.

(5) Arrange propaganda on forums, blogs, and other interactive columns well. Constructive discussion topics may be set up, strengthen propaganda through VIP interviews, special subject discussion, excellent article recommendations, hot spot listings, online article soliciting, and other methods, to vigorously and actively guide netizen discussion.

(6) Strengthen reports on studying and implementing the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress in Beijing. Qianlong Net will set up a special Beijing column, and strengthen reports concerning Beijing City studying the spirit of General Secretary Hu Jintao’s important speech and the “Decision,” and timely reprints important articles and reports from the Beijing Daily and other municipally-subordinate traditional media; all other commercial websites must appropriately strengthen reports on all walks of life studying, propagating, and implementing the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress.

IV. Strengthen guidance and management over online public opinion. In the near future, public opinion guidance work in the following few areas must be stressed, all websites are to strengthen management over trackers and forums with reference to them. First, the nature and deep connotations of the Socialist harmonious society must be completely elaborated. Second, it must be fully explained that building a harmonious society reflects the Party’s persistent putting the basic interest of the broadest people as the starting point and stopover point for all Party and government work. Third, it must be deeply elaborated that the Party and government pay even more attention to the development of social undertakings, pay even more attention to resolving the problems of imbalanced development, and promote the coordinated development of economy and society. Fourth, guidance must be strengthened over social security, labor, and employment, education fairness, healthcare and hygiene services, and other hot sports and issues that the masses are concerned about. Fifth, public opinion guidance over running the web in a civilized manner and using the web in a civilized manner must be continuously strengthened, forcefully build an online harmonious culture.

V. Assessment and rewards. In order to encourage all websites to do propaganda and reporting of the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress, the Municipal Network Management Office will conduct assessment and rewards of all websites’ propaganda situation concerning the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress. At the end of November, the Municipal Network Management Office will organize experts, to comprehensively mark all websites’ arrangement of special subject positions, special subject content, propaganda forms, propaganda and public opinion guidance in interactive columns, website and news front pages, management situations, etc., and the first three sites will be given material and spiritual awards, those with insufficient propaganda are criticized (comparative assessment and award standards are notified separately).

VI. Propaganda requirements. First, training for website editors concerning the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress must be strengthened. The Municipal Network Management Office will organize and convene special subject lectures to study the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress. All websites must also internally organize editors to focus on studying the spirit of General Secretary Hu Jintao’s important speech and the spirit of the “Decision,” to raise their understanding of the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress, raise the level of online propaganda work, and realistically implement online management work measures. Second, a harmonious network must be forcefully built, and harmonious culture construction stimulated. All websites must strictly implement laws, regulations and rules, standardize news sources, and resist false news; correctly grasp well the propaganda specifications, proportions, strength, and rhythm. The major theoretical viewpoints and major policy deployments put forward by the Plenum must on the one hand be propagated on a grand scale, and on the other hand, it is necessary to strive in terms of complete understanding and correct grasping, to assist the broad cadres and masses to deeply comprehend the new viewpoints, new thoughts, new measures, and new requirements put forward by the Plenum. Third, network management must be grasped, creating harmonious online public opinion. Propaganda and reporting of the spirit of the 6th Plenum has a strong political nature, policy nature, and theoretical nature, all websites must strengthen management and strictly abide by propaganda discipline. They must pay close attention to online public opinion, strengthen management over forums, news trackers, blogs, mobile phone messages, and search engine services, they must timely and firmly block and delete harmful information that seizes the opportunity to attack the Party and the government, attack the Socialist system, disseminate so-called major personnel arrangement rumors, disseminate illegal mass incidents and activities, incite incidents influencing social stability, destroy the unity of the nation, violate State religious policies, etc. For uncertain cases, instructions must be sought from the Network Management Office, and it must be examined first and issued afterwards.

Beijing Municipal Internet Propaganda Management Office

26 October 2006, 11:53, Beijing Municipal Network Management Office

(1) Concerning the Jinghua Times news “19 Melon Growers Claim Damages From Ministry of Agriculture,” this has been verified, the said report is inaccurate, all websites already having this news are to push this to the back stage without exception.

(2) Starting tomorrow, look for articles concerning traffic control during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation period every day, and issue it in in the important news section.

26 October 2006, 12:43, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chai Yue

All websites are not to use the word “live” for the Chirac speech.

26 October 2006, 18:08, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chen Hua

Concerning discussions on real-name systems for blogs, do not make this into special subjects, do not publish headers on blog pages, do not conduct surveys, do not engage in contention, controversy, name-signing, etc.; forums are not to actively set up topics. Concerning these topics, they are to be removed without exception from main pages of websites and main news pages, the main pages of blogs and forums, approving voices must occupy the mainstream.

27 October 2006, 14:23, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Yang Le

Instructions concerning the news “Tickets May Be Purchased with a Real-Name System on Tieliu Net ” published by the Chongqing Evening News, this has been verified, and the said news report is inaccurate, all websites that have already published this, please delete it.

27 October 2006, 14:23, Beijing Municipal Information Office

(1) Instructions concerning the news “Tickets May Be Purchased with a Real-Name System on Tieliu Net ” published by the Chongqing Evening News, this has been verified, and the said news report is inaccurate, all websites that have already published this, please delete it.

(2) All websites are requested to immediately delete the content of the text “Masterstroke Confuses Bureau” published in the “News Survey” column of CCTV on 23 October. Concerning the mass incidents in higher education institutes, no reports are to be made without exception, and strengthen management over forums, blogs, instant communications, and other interactive columns, delete all relevant text, image, and video content.

27 October 2006, 15:41, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Yang Le

Concerning the Xinhua Net news flash “145 Measurable Earthquakes Occurred in the Three Gorges Reservoir Since Filling up with Water,” all websites are requested to push this to the back stage without exception.

27 October 2006, 15:41, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chen Hua

The information on “70% of Beijing Olympic Ticket Sale Estimate of 7 Million for Domestic Market” reported by the Beijing Evening News on 17 October is incorrect, websites are requested not to reprint it, where it has been reprinted, please delete it.

30 October 2006, 14:36, Beijing Municipal Information Office

If articles with content similar to this are discovered, please delete them immediately (the State Council Information Office is currently investigating this issue) http://bbs.people.com.cn/bbs/ReadFile?whichfile=13123062&typeid=14.

30 October 2006, 15:12, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites: In recent days, some websites reprinted reports from Caijing magazine, etc., concerning the Guomei Group chairman Huang Guangyu, which do not conform to provisions on news reprint sources. All websites must strictly implement corresponding regulations, and may not reprint information from sources not conform to regulations, where it has been reprinted, it must be immediately deleted.

30 October 2006, 17:21, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites: please reprint this text on the main page of news centers: http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2006-10/30/content_11572323.htm.

31 October 2006, 17:31, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

(1) All websites: Recently, the well-known sexologist Li Yinhe has successively published discussions on the legality of “wife-swapping” and “incest,” all websites are requested to immediately delete corresponding reports, and to push special subjects that are being discussed to the back stage.

(2) Today, some websites have reprinted the Zhang Yimou article “West Lake Impressions” on destruction of the ecological environment, which triggered netizen discussion. According to the opinion of Hangzhou City, these articles diverge relatively largely from facts, all websites are requested to immediately delete corresponding articles. Online forums and blogs are no longer to discuss this.

31 October 2006, 17:58, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites, please delete the article “‘Glamor Community’s Selection Being Questioned – Community Streets Solicit Votes by Giving Gifts” published by the Jinghua Times today.

2006年10月北京网管办发出的禁令（二）

2006年10月23日19时00分 北京市网管办值班

《瞭望东方周刊》“重庆公务员编写短信针砭时弊致上百人遭调查”稿件，请不要转载，已转载的请即撤除。论坛、博客也不要贴发此稿件。
2006年10月24日09时08分 北京市公安局网监处孙颖

删除涉及江西赣江学院学生闹事的视频，文字和图片，请备份后删除，并查ip
2006年10月24日15时30分 网管办值班

江西赣江职业学院、江西服装学院等民办学院相继发生学生群体性事件,此事仍在蔓延，请各网站加强管理,禁止在论坛、新闻跟帖、博客中贴发关于江西高校学生群体性事件 文字、图片、视频信息，请认真检查网上情况，及时删除此类信息。
2006年10月24日13时27分 北京市新闻办

一：各网站，将sk2化妆品的新闻都撤到后台，论坛博客中不再讨论。

二：美女网上征集男子下体图的新闻，不再炒作，撤到后台，论坛博客中不引导讨论。
202006年10月24日 海淀分局科技信息通信处

关于在中非论坛期间保障互联网信息安全的通知

各网站：

中非合作论坛北京峰会将于11月1日至5日在北京召开，届时将有40多个国家的3400余名代表参加，是今年我国重大的外事活动之一，为给中非论坛创造一个良好和谐的网络氛围，保障论坛期间我区互联网网络信息安全，现提出如下工作要求：

1、请各单位严格落实网络安全管理制度，制定中非论坛期间应急保障方案，并立即落实专人值班制度，将值班员的姓名、联系电话于10月30日前通过电子邮件（e-mail:hdwj@263.net.cn）上报我处；

2、为保证对设有论坛、聊天室、BBS、电子公告栏等服务项目的网站更好的进行管理，有效防止突发事件的发生，请各提供论坛服务的网站为我处网络监察中心开通超级用户管理权限（即删贴权限），并在10月30日前通过电子邮件上报我处；

3、在中非论坛期间要坚持对帖子的先审后贴制度，重点监控敏感话题、活跃栏目，积极发现有害信息，特别对出现的群体性治安事件、法轮功等情况，要做到第一时间发现、立即予以删除并注意及时保存线索并及时上报我处。联系电话：82571260，联系人：于海洋。

海淀分局科技信息通信处

202006年10月24日
2006年10月25日10时00分 北京市新闻办

各网站有关SK-II稿件不在新闻中心要闻区转载,贴文不在首页推荐,不再制作新专题\专栏,已有专题要放至后台,新报道稿件不再与原先专题链接.
2006年10月26日10时51分 北京市新闻办柴玥

请各网站立即删除中央电视台10月23日在《新闻调查》栏目播发的《高招迷局》文字内容。有关高校群体性事件一律不得报道，并加强论坛、博客和即时通讯等互动栏目的管理，删除所有相关文字、图片和视频内容。
2006年10月26日10时51分 北京市新闻办

关于进一步做好党的十六届六中全会精神网上宣传报道工作的通知

各网站：学习、宣传、贯彻党的十六届六中全会精神，是当前和今后一个时期互联网新闻宣传工作的一项重要政治任务，千龙网和各主要商业门户网站要进一步做好十六届六中全会精神的网上宣传报道和管理工作，努力营造和谐的网上舆论氛围。

一、总体要求认真贯彻执行中央的总体要求和统一部署，充分发挥互联网的优势和特点，深入宣传胡锦涛总书记在全会上的重要讲话精神，深入宣传《中共中 央关于构建社会主义和谐社会若干重大问题的决定》（以下简称《决定》），推动十六届六中全会精神的学习和贯彻，为迎接党的十七大胜利召开、构建社会主义和 谐社会、全面建设小康社会、开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面营造浓厚的网上舆论氛围，进一步增进国外对我各项方针政策、工作举措和中国发展进步情况的认识 理解。

二、宣传重点加强十六届六中全会网上宣传报道，关键是要把握好以下重点，做到七个深入：一是深入宣传胡锦涛总书记重要讲话精神和《决定》的重大意 义。宣传胡锦涛总书记关于构建社会主义和谐社会的深刻阐述，关于贯彻落实全会精神的重要部署，以及对做好当前工作提出的明确要求。宣传《决定》提出的构建 社会主义和谐社会的指导思想、目标任务、工作原则和重大部署。二是深入宣传构建社会主义和谐社会的重要性和紧迫性。宣传社会和谐是中国特色社会主义的本质 属性，是国家富强、民族振兴、人民幸福的重要保证。三是深入宣传构建社会主义和谐社会的指导思想、目标任务和原则。四是深入宣传中央关于构建社会主义和谐 社会的一系列重要举措。五是深入宣传加强党对构建社会主义和谐社会的领导。六是深入宣传全党全国各族人民深入学习贯彻全会精神、迎接十七大胜利召开的实际 行动。七是深入宣传中国共产党和中国政府坚持走和平发展道路、倡导建设和谐世界的良好愿望和实际行动。

三、宣传安排

(一)各网站办好“六中全会”或“和谐社会建设”专题。在网站首页和新闻首页继续加强对十六届六中全会精神的报道。专题要保持在焦点专题第一的位置，在要闻区内用实时新闻作专题入口；各网站推出时政新闻专区后，将六中全会实时报道放在第一位置，并作为专题入口。

（二）及时转发中央重点新闻和网络媒体的重点文章和重点报道。人民日报、新华社等中央主要新闻媒体，将在近期陆续刊发系列理论文章、专家专访、热点解读、评论言论，推出一批建设和谐社会的先进典型，网站要及时跟进，突出、及时、准确转发好这些报道。

（三）精心设计专题专栏内容，增强吸引力和感染力。各网站要认真策划专题，使主页、首页的宣传与专题、专栏宣传相互配合、相互呼应，充分利用文字、图片、音视频等多种宣传手段形成声势、形成影响。

（四）开办网上学习辅导园地。各网站发挥互联网传播优势，为十六届六中全会精神的宣传提供网上学习辅导支持。要为网民提供重要文件、文献、资料查询服务，可在请示市网管办许可的情况下邀请专家学者在线访谈，提供理论、政策辅导服务。

（五）安排好论坛、博客等互动栏目的宣传。可开设建设性话题，通过嘉宾访谈、专题讨论、优秀文章推荐、热点排行、网上征文等形式加强宣传，积极主动引导网民讨论。

（六）加强对北京学习、贯彻十六届六中全会精神的报道。千龙网要开设北京专栏，加强对北京市学习胡锦涛总书记讲话和《决定》精神的报道，及时转载 《北京日报》等市属传统媒体的重要文章和报道；其它各商业网站要适当加强对北京市各界学习、宣传、贯彻落实十六届六中精神的报道。

四、加强对网上舆论的引导和管理近期要着重做好以下几个方面的舆论引导工作，各网站参照加强对跟贴和论坛的管理。一是要全面阐释社会主义和谐社会的 性质和深刻内涵。二是要充分说明构建和谐社会体现了党始终把最广大人民的根本利益作为党和政府一切工作的出发点和落脚点。三是要深入阐明党和政府更加注重 社会事业的发展，更加注重解决发展不平衡问题，推动经济社会协调发展。四是要加强对社会保障、劳动就业、教育公平、医疗卫生服务等群众关心的热点问题的引 导。五是要继续加强文明办网、文明上网的舆论引导，大力建设网上和谐文化。

五、评比表彰为鼓励各网站做好十六届六中全会精神的宣传报道，市网管办将对各网站开展十六届六中全会精神宣传情况进行评比表彰。 11月底，市网管办将组织专家，依据各网站安排专题位置、专题内容、宣传形式、互动栏目、网站和新闻首页宣传、舆论引导、管理情况进行综合打分，对前三名 予以物质和精神奖励，对宣传不到位者予以批评（具体评比和奖励标准另行通知）。

六、宣传要求一是要加强对网站编辑人员十六届六中全会精神的培训。市网管办将组织开展学习十六届六中全会精神的专题讲座。各网站也要在内部组织编辑 重点学习胡锦涛总书记重要讲话和《决定》精神，提高对十六届六中全会精神的理解力，提高网上宣传工作水平，切实落实网上管理工作措施。二是要大力构建和谐 网络，促进和谐文化建设。各网站要严格执行法律法规和规章，规范新闻来源，抵制虚假新闻；准确把握好宣传的口径、分寸、力度和节奏。对全会提出的重大理论 观点和重大决策部署，一方面要大张旗鼓地进行宣传，另一方面要在全面理解、准确把握上下功夫，帮助广大干部群众深刻领会全会提出的新观点、新思想、新举 措、新要求。三是要抓好网络管理，营造和谐网上舆论。六中全会精神的宣传报道，政治性、政策性、理论性很强，各网站要加强管理，严格遵守宣传纪律。要密切 关注网上舆情，加强对论坛、新闻跟帖、博客、手机短信、搜索引擎服务的管理，对借机攻击党和政府、攻击社会主义制度、散布所谓重大人事安排谣言、传播非法 群体事件活动、煽动影响社会稳定事件、破坏民族团结、违反国家宗教政策等有害信息，要及时、坚决地封堵和删除。拿不准的问题要请示市网管办先审后发。

北京市互联网宣传管理办公室
2006年10月26日11时53分 北京市新闻办

1.关于京华时报《十九户瓜农向农业部索赔》的新闻，经核实，该报道失实，各网站已有新闻一律压到后台。

2.从明天起每天从千龙上找关于中非论坛期间交通管制的稿子发要闻区
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关于重庆晚报刊登的“铁流网可以实名制购票”的新闻提示，经核实，该新闻报道失实，各网站已经刊登的予以删除。
2006年10月27日14时23分 北京市新闻办
1. 关于重庆晚报刊登的“铁流网可以实名制购票”的新闻提示，经核实，改新闻报道失实，各网站已经刊登的予以删除。

2. 请各网站立即删除中央电视台10月23日在《新闻调查》栏目播发的《高招迷局》文字内容。有关高校群体性事件一律不得报道，并加强论坛、博客和即时通讯等互动栏目的管理，删除所有相关文字、图片和视频内容。
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10月27日《北京晚报》报道的”北京奥运门票预计将售700万张70%面向国内”消息不准确，请网站不要转载，已转载的请删除。
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若有发现跟这篇内容相同的文章，请立即删除（国新办正在查这个问题）http://bbs.people.com.cn/bbs/ReadFile?whichfile=13123062&typeid=14
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各网站：近日，一些网站转载《财经》杂志等有关国美集团董事长黄光裕的报道，不符合新闻转载来源的规定。各网站要严格执行相关规定，对不符合规定来源的消息不得转载，已转载的要立即撤除。
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各网：请在新闻中心首页转发此文：http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2006-10/30/content_11572323.htm
06年10月31日17时31分 北京市新闻办黄婧

1. 各网：近期，著名性学家李银河相继发表了“换妻”、“乱伦”合法的言论，请各网马上删除相关报道，并将讨论的专题压到后台。

2. 近日，一些网站转载了张艺谋”印象西湖”破坏生态环境的文章，并引发网民的讨论。据杭州市的意见，这些文章与事实出入较大，请网站马上删除相关文章。网上论坛、博客中不再讨论。
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各网：请删除京华时报今日刊发的《”魅力社区”评选遭质疑 社区街头以送礼方式拉票一稿》。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 9, 2012 (here).

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The state-owned China Aerospace & Technology Corporation (CASC) will team up with China Telecom to provide communication satellite in-orbit delivery for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a commercial contract inked Saturday in Zhuhai.

The satellite, CongoSat-01, will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province within three years from when the contract takes effect, according to Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), a CASC subsidiary that signed the contract with DR Congo’s National Network of Satellite Telecommunications (Renatelsat).

DR Congo is the second African country to ink a satellite delivery contract with China. Nigeria became the first in December 2004, when it signed a contract with CGWIC.

The satellite is expected to cover DR Congo and the whole of Southern-Central Africa, CGWIC said.

Aside from the satellite itself, AsiaOne reports China will also build the ground control and training facilities for the Democratic Republic of Congo:

China Telecom, one of the country’s biggest telecommunications companies, will also play an active role in the project by upgrading the operation system and providing management services to the network.

“Today is a big day, a historic day, for us,” Richard Achinda Wahilungula, director-general of the Congolese network, said after signing the contract.

“China has abundant experience in satellites and telecommunication. We came here because China can help us develop a satellite and telecommunication, and we never contacted anyone else for this project.”

“Compared with Western nations, China’s satellite technology may arguably not be the most advanced, but it definitely suits the demand of Africa. China has reduced African countries’ satellite operation costs and trained a great number of professionals for us,” said Bode Agusto, who was senior budget adviser to former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, according to an earlier report from Xinhua News Agency.

Earlier this year, according to Xinhua, China launched its own navigation satellite to serve the Asia Pacific region.

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The killings bring to four the number of Chinese workers killed in the last month in Borno, after gunmen suspected of being robbers killed two construction workers in October.

Radical Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed hundreds in bomb and gun attacks in Borno state since it launched an uprising there in 2009, mostly targeting figures of authority.

“At about 8 a.m. (Wednesday) some gunmen shot and killed two Chinese construction workers at Benisheik in Kaga local government of Borno state,” Police Commissioner Abdullahi Yuguda told Reuters.

Boko Haram’s insurgency has contributed to a breakdown in order across the north of Africa’s most populous nation and security sources believe criminal gangs carry out deadly armed robberies knowing Boko Haram is likely to be blamed.

While Boko Haram’s attacks have killed hundreds in the region, the identity of the killers of the two Chinese workers is still unknown, according to the BBC:

The BBC’s Bashir Abdullahi in the capital, Abuja, says the general insecurity has also allowed robbers to take advantage of the situation – using the militants as a guise.

Chinese workers are involved in many construction works across the north – most of them funded by the Chinese government.

According to an official at the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, four engineers had just arrived in Benisheikh from Damaturu in neighbouring Yobe state.

“Some unknown gunmen trailed them to the yard and opened fire, killing two Chinese engineers,” the official told the AFP news agency.

As Africa’s Chinese diaspora faces more pressure, China is urging Nigeria to ensure the safety of Chinese nationals, from China Daily:

“The Foreign Ministry has instructed the Chinese embassy in Nigeria to deal with the incident immediately. The embassy lodged representations with the Nigerian side,” spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily news briefing.

The embassy also urged the Nigerian government to take concrete measures to ensure the safety of Chinese nationals in the country, Hong said.

The attack was the third involving Chinese working in Nigeria in the last month. A cook working for a Chinese construction company was killed in the city of Maiduguri in north Nigeria’s state of Borno on Oct 8.

A Chinese construction worker was shot dead in the same city on Oct 19.

Read more about China’s investment in Africa, via CDT.

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The ministry gave few details in an online statement. It said Ghanaian authorities have cracked down on illegal gold mining this year and arrested the Chinese “recently.”

Last month, the Chinese Embassy in Ghana announced that 40 Chinese had been detained on suspicion of illegal gold mining. Thirty-eight were deported.

China is eager to be seen as capable of maintaining the security and rights of its citizens abroad.

Aside from the detentions, China has claimed that one Chinese national was killed, Xinhua adds:

A 16-year-old Chinese national was killed and more than 100 others were detained by Ghanaian police for suspected illegal gold mining, the Chinese Embassy in Accra said on Sunday.

On one mining site near Manso, a township close to the region’s capital Kumasi, policemen on Thursday destroyed mining facilities and work sheds. In the operation, the boy, known as Chen, was shot dead when he tried to escape, the embassy said.

Upon learning the news, Chinese Ambassador Gong Jianzhong urgently met Ghanaian Deputy Foreign Minister Chris Kpodo and National Security Coordinator Larry Gbevlo Lartey and expressed serious concerns over the death of Chen and the detention of Chinese workers. The ambassador demanded thorough investigation into the shooting and compensation for the family of the victim.

The Ghanaian government has expressed deep sorrow over the death of the Chinese boy and promised to investigate the case.

According to Bloomberg, this is not the first sign of tension in Ghana over illegal gold mining:

“The Chinese destroyed our land and our river, they are sitting there with pick-ups and guns, plenty of guns,” Maxwell Owusu, acting chief of the village in the central Ashanti region, said last month. “They operate big machines and it makes it very difficult to reclaim the land for farming when they are done.”

As global gold prices climb amid economic uncertainty in Europe, Ghana is facing an influx of illegal small-scale miners from China using machinery villagers say they can’t afford. The operations are raising concern over environmental damage in Africa’s second-biggest gold producer and sparking anger among Ghanaians who say they sold their farmland without knowing Chinese gold miners would move into camps nearby.

“The involvement of the Chinese has changed the dynamic of small-scale mining,” Toni Aubynn, head of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, said in an interview in the capital, Accra. “They use bulldozers, pay loaders and really heavy machinery. They have in fact mechanized artisanal mining and as a result the level of environmental devastation is huge.”

Ghana has a fast-growing Chinese population, with Chinese shops and restaurants cropping up in the Ashanti Kumasi. Bilateral trade between the two countries jumped to $3.47 billion last year from $2 billion in 2010, according to the website of the Chinese Embassy in the capital, Accra.

Read more about China-Africa relations, via CDT.

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As well as angering local rivals, these newcomers also raise the heckles of African governments who prefer Chinese migrants to be large-scale investors creating new employment rather than direct competition for established local enterprises.

[...]The influx of Chinese traders has corresponded to deepening China-Africa economic ties. But while major investments are planned, the migration of small traders is not.

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The article also identifies the belief that, while many of the migrants are not part of Beijing’s official investment strategy, China may have found in Africa an opportunity to get rid of its less-desirable citizens:

Research carried out across five southern African countries by the Brendhurst Foundation, a South African think-tank, found that as “the poorest and least educated of the Chinese diaspora” Chinese small traders in Africa were “divorced” from Beijing’s Africa strategy.

Nonetheless, rumours circulate that China is using Africa as a means of getting rid of unwanted citizens. Indeed, Michael Sata, Zambia’s president, claimed while in opposition that Zambia was becoming a Chinese “dumping ground”.

To see video documentation of a Chinese migrant family in Zambia, see an Al Jazeera video from January, via CDT. For more on the controversial implications of China’s interactions with Africa, also see prior CDT coverage of the Chinese manager who was killed last weekend in a Zambian mine known for discordant ethnic relations, a recent documentary on China in Africa, a US secretary of state known for criticizing Beijing’s Africa strategy, or some voices approving China’s African campaigns.

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Scores of irate coal miners on Saturday attacked their supervisors after complaining that their employer had failed to pay them the recently revised minimum wage. Wu Shengzai, 50 years old, was killed after he was hit with a mining trolley truck pushed by rioting miners.

Two other injured Chinese managers at Collum, located 200 miles south of the Zambian capital of Lusaka, were airlifted Sunday for treatment in Lusaka, according to Rayford Mbulu, Zambia’s deputy labor minister. Mr. Mblulu said Zambia’s minister of labor, Fackson Shamenda, had traveled to the mine site on Sunday with a team of investigators to establish what exactly happened. Details of the investigation haven’t been released.

Last September, Zambia elected a new president, Michael Sata, who had campaigned against what he called the corrupting influence of Chinese investment. The Financial Times’ beyondbrics blog put Sunday’s killing into this political context, quoting The New Scramble for Africa author Padraig Carmody:

“Sata wants to re-position Zambia towards the west, but has had to moderate his stance because China is so important to Zambia in terms of trade and investment. He appears very conscious of the need to be diplomatic – his first visitor after the election was the Chinese ambassador.”

Accordingly, the government has played down political aspects of the violence at Collum, with labour minister Shamenda referring to those involved as merely “a bunch of criminals who took advantage of the disturbance.” He explained that the higher minimum wage does not apply directly to unionised workers like those at the mine, except as a guide to their own subsequent salary negotiations. From Voice of America:

“The law does not cover for those who are represented by the trade unions but, in the same law, it indicates that when unions are negotiating with their employers, they should bear in mind that they should not negotiate below what is the minimum wage. So, these people want to take advantage of that, and that’s how they caused this problem at the mine,” he said.

Sata softened his earlier stance towards China even before gaining office, but Chinese companies in Zambia have still found themselves under increased pressure since his election. Another Chinese copper mine responded to Sata’s victory by giving workers a sudden 85% pay rise, a gesture slightly tarnished by the appearance of two sets of payslips: one with raise and one without, apparently intended for use according to the results of the vote.

Conditions in Zambia’s Chinese-owned mines were the subject of a controversial Human Rights Watch report published last November. Deborah Brautigam hosted both a critique of the report and HRW’s response at her China in Africa: The Real Story blog. For broader discussion from Brautigam of China’s role in Africa, see a recent interview, ‘What is China Doing in Africa?’, and her argument against the motion in an Intelligence² debate, ‘Beware of the Dragon: Africa Should Not Look to China‘, via CDT.

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