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(1) Xinjiang's Ethnical Economy Ready for a
Leap
(2) Xinjiang to Become China's 2nd Largest Oil Production Center
(3)Mobei Oilfield in Xinjiang Goes into Operation
(4)Xinjiang to Build China's Biggest Wind Power Plant
(5) Foreign Fund Allowed to Hold Shares in West-East Gas Transmission
Project
(6) Human Rights Watch's Report Unfair, Irresponsible: Article
From: Mavlan Yasin <MYasin@UniversalCare.com>
(1) Xinjiang's Ethnical Economy Ready for a Leap
(12-12-2000)After half a century's development and construction, Xinjiang
Uygur Autonomous Region saw a rise in its economic highland, thus laying a
material foundation for realizing an economic takeoff in the new century.
Currently, people of different nationalities in the autonomous region are
actively pitching into the great cause of western region development and
setting off a new round of upsurge in economic construction.
In the first half of this century, Xinjiang people suffered from chaos
caused by frequent wars. Although all the previous government and military
officials had planned the exploitation of resources and economic
construction, they could not get rid of the shadow of failures. By the
peaceful liberation in 1949, there was not an inch of railway, nor sound
factories and mines in such a large region. Even people's fear of the lack
of grain came to the extreme. In some famine-hit areas, county heads could
not but resign and go home.
Xinjiang gained its real prosperity only after the founding of the People's
Republic of China, especially in the age of reform and opening up centered
on economic construction. For half a century in the past, Xinjiang has come
first among the country's border provinces and regions in term of economic
growth rate. From 1949 to 2000, Xinjiang's GDP is estimated to surge from
about 0.78 billion yuan to 136.5 billion yuan. financial revenue from 74
million yuan to over 13 billion yuan. With the coordinated development of
agriculture, industry and the tertiary industry, the national economy has
entered the initial stage of industrialization. Science and technology,
education, culture, public health, and other social undertakings have made
all-round progress. People's living standards have greatly improved.
For half a century, farmers and herdsmen of different nationalities of
Xinjiang Autonomous Region have united in the endeavor to open up oasis and
set up an irrigation system for the farmland and grassland, as a result, the
irrigated area had expanded from 18 million mu (15 mu=1 hectare) in the
early period after liberation to 47.54 million mu in 1999, and created
favorable conditions for achieving increase in the production of agriculture
and animal husbandry for years running. During the 50 years, Xinjiang's
annual grain output increased from 840,000 tons to 8.3 million tons, and
that of cotton from 5,100 tons to 1.35 million tons. Presently, Xinjiang has
become China's biggest commodity cotton production base, the second largest
animal husbandry production base and the largest beet-sugar, hop and ketsup
base in north China.
On the shambles shortly after liberation, Xinjiang set up a complete modern
industrial system to establish a relatively strong comprehensive production
capacity. Especially in the 1990s, Xinjiang leapt to become a significant
crude oil extracting base and petrochemical base of China. Presently, the
autonomous region has had 38 industries, including petroleum,
petrochemistry, coal, electric power, metallurgy, machine-building, building
materials, textile and food, and over 6,300 industrial enterprises with a
fairly high level of technology and equipment. During the 50 years,
Xinjiang's annual production capacity of crude oil climbed from 60,000 tons
to 19 million tons, that of coal from 180,000 tons to 29.27 million tons,
and iron and steel from 700 tons to 1.07 million tons.
After peaceful liberation, the central government and fraternal provinces
and cities gave Xinjiang special care and helped it build infrastructures
and basic industries, thereby enhancing its capability to sustain its
economic development. By the end of this year, the autonomous region's total
investment in capital construction will have exceeded 370 billion yuan, of
which over 60 percent are State investment. At present, there are railways
running through the east, north and south of Xinjiang. Even desert villages
and border trading ports are accessible to highways. Urumqi, capital of
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and nine cities in southern and northern
Xinjiang have civil aviation services. Telecom transmission can instantly
reach various parts of the world.
Looking forward to the new century, people of all nationalities in Xinjiang
are full of confidence in the prospect of economic development. The
autonomous region has set forth this goal: by 2005, Xinjiang's GDP will
reach 210 billion yuan, financial revenue exceed 23 billion yuan, average
annual increase in per-capita income of farmers will stand at about 150
yuan. During the 10th Five-Year Plan period, Xinjiang's fixed asset
investment is estimated to be 420 billion yuan, a group of key projects will
be built in the fields of infrastructure construction, ecological
environmental protection and feature industries, thereby setting up a
framework for the large-scale exploitation of resources.
(2) Xinjiang to Become China's 2nd Largest Oil Production Center
(12-07-2000)Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will become
the nation's second largest oil production center and largest natural gas
production center by the year 2005.
Over the next five years the region is expected to verify oil reserves
totaling 3.3 billion tons and gas reserves reaching 1.16 trillion cubic
meters. It plans to increase its annual crude oil production to 24 million
tons, and annual gas production to 18 billion cubic meters.
Xinjiang, known as the "sea of hope", has a lot of sediment basins
with a
total area of 900,000 sq km.
According to an official report on resource assessment, oilfields in
Xinjiang have oil deposits estimated at 20.86 billion tons and natural gas
deposits estimated at 10.3 trillion cubic meters. The region accounts for 30
percent and 34 percent of the nation's on-land crude oil and natural gas
resources, respectively.
To date, the China National Petroleum Corporation and the China National
Petrochemical Corporation., the nation's two oil giants, both have taken
Xinjiang as their priority investment areas.
(3)Mobei Oilfield in Xinjiang Goes into Operation
(12-08-2000)The Mobei Oilfield to pump out 510 tons of crude oil daily has
gone into operation in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Verified in July of 1998, the oilfield has oil reserves estimated at 50
million tons. It is located in the depth of a desert in the Junggar Basin.
By the end of November, 25 oil wells had been drilled and oil production
supporting facilities completed.
The oilfield's oil-bearing area has been verified at 40 sq km. Eventually
the oilfield will increase its annual production capacity to 800,000 tons.
(4)Xinjiang to Build China's Biggest Wind Power Plant
(12-06-2000)China's biggest wind power plant with a loan from the Asian
Development Bank and an aggregate 200,000kw generating capacity is to be
built in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
According to the Chinese Electric Power Enterprise Association, Xinjiang
Electric Power Company has by its "Feasibility Study Report on Using an ADB
Loan to Build Dabancheng No. 3 Wind Power Plant" obtained approval by the
State Electric Power Company.
Dabancheng lies in the central part of trunk power grids of Urumqi, Xinjiang
Uygur Autonomous Region. Standing on the way of airflow passage, convenient
in traffic, this is an ideal place for a big wind power plant to be built.
To 111 wind power units with a total of 57,500Kw generating capacity in
operation in the place there will be 61 new wind power units with an added
generating capacity of 31,500Kw of wind power to be developed by the first
half of next year.
Following completion of the first-phase construction work of No.3 Wind Power
Plant at a cost of RMB$290.15m a generating capacity of 30,000Kw will be
developed. In the place of these an annual amount of 40,000 tons of coal
will be saved along with a cut of 6,500 tons of dust and solid waste and an
annual total of 100mKw of wind power supply to Urumqi.
China to Boost Development of Wind Power
China will give a major boost to the development of wind power to benefit 23
million people living in hinterland areas or on the coastal islands by 2010.
The development of wind power is regarded as the second liberation for the
farmers and herdsmen living in remote areas, where electricity are badly
needed, according to Sinoprojects.com.
(5) Foreign Fund Allowed to Hold Shares in West-East Gas Transmission
Project
(12-05-2000)On December 4, Spokesman for the Office of the State Leading
Group in Charge of the West-East Gas Transmission Project Construction
announced in Shanghai two special policies on the Project: Opening the
whole line of the project to the outside for all-round cooperation, the
foreign side can hold share of the project; considering the particularity of
the project, the State Council has made an exceptional decision to include
the construction of the urban natural gas pipeline network into the
cooperative scope of opening to the outside world.
The spokesman indicated that the west-east gas transmission project would
not be exclusively funded by State-owned units, the foreign side is allowed
to hold shares, without restriction on the percentage of share or the method
of cooperation. The form of joint venture, cooperative venture or other
forms can be employed; besides, it is decided with special approval from the
State Council to incorporate the construction of urban natural gas pipeline
network into the cooperative scope of opening to the outside. In the
"Industrial Catalogue Guiding Foreign Investment", it is explicitly
stipulated that the above two items are prohibited, but they are specially
permitted in the west-east gas transmission project, this represents two
major breakthroughs.ĄŁ
Beginning in 2003, residents and enterprises of Shanghai will be able to use
the natural gas from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. According to the
current planned program, the annual volume of gas supply in the initial
period of the project will be about 12 billion cubic meters and the figure
will exceed 10 billion cubic meters in 2020. By then, gas supply to Shanghai
will be secured through two separate pipeline nets ( kerosene gas and
natural gas) and three gas sources (gas from the East China Sea, western
regions and LNG).. Large-scale use of natural gas will greatly improve
Shanghai's environment.
(6) Human Rights Watch's Report Unfair, Irresponsible: Article
The Human Rights Watch's World Report 2000, regardless of China's constant
progress in the human rights field, is extremely unfair and irresponsible in
its wanton distortion and attacks against China.
The annual report, which was issued this month, cites lots of so-called
facts, including over 30 fabricated cases, to depict China, where the human
rights situation has been improving steadily, as a country with a very poor
human rights record, according to a signed article by Xiao You.
It criticizes the report for its parallel ranking of China and Tibet saying
that Human Rights Watch shows no respect for China's state sovereignty and
territorial integrity and is attempting to separate China under the pretext
of human rights.
The article calls it a internationally recognized fact that since the 13th
century, Tibet has been an inalienable part of China and has been
effectively ruled by Chinese governments of different dynasties.
The report also attacks China for its lawful control on the Internet
business for security factors, which the article says is an international
practice.
According to the article, many human rights bodies in China are acting
freely across the country, but the report distorts the fact, saying that the
Chinese government bans "public activities by any human rights groups in
China's mainland and Tibet."
The Chinese people have the final say on the status of human rights in the
country, the article stresses, citing official statistics to prove that
China has achieved a sustained, fast and healthy economic development, with
the best human rights status in its history.
China ensures the people's basic freedom in press and publication with its
Constitution, and since 1979, the country has promulgated thousands of
national and regional laws and regulations on the guarantee of human rights,
and a legal system for this purpose has been established, according to the
article.
It points out that no country in the world can boast a perfect human right
status that leaves nothing to be desired. China still has many problems
concerning its human rights situation due to natural and historic factors as
well as the level of development.
However, these problems have to be resolved through constant reforms and
development with stability as a prerequisite, the article says, noting that
China's efforts to accelerate its economic and political reforms will bring
fundamental improvement to the country's human rights situation.
The article reiterates that China welcomes goodwill criticism and
constructive proposals on its human rights status by foreign and
international human rights organizations, based objective facts.
The Chinese people firmly oppose and resist all vicious attacks against
China under the pretext of human rights and in an attempt to alter the
course of China's development and interfere in the country's internal
affairs, the article says.
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