Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14570; Thu, 6 Aug 92 08:21:29 -0400 Received: from kentvm.kent.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15929; Thu, 6 Aug 92 08:21:01 EDT Message-Id: <9208061221.AA15929@Athena.MIT.EDU> Received: from KENTVM.BITNET by Kentvm.Kent.edu (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with BSMTP id 6789; Thu, 06 Aug 92 08:15:11 EDT Received: from KENTVM.BITNET by KENTVM.BITNET (Mailer R2.08) with BSMTP id 0744; Thu, 06 Aug 92 08:15:02 EDT Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 06:34:45 -0400 Reply-To: CND-US%DJOHN-SUN.KENT.EDU@Kentvm.Kent.edu Sender: "China News Digest (US News)" From: cnd-us%djohn-sun.kent.edu@Kentvm.Kent.edu Subject: CND-US, August 6, 1992 Comments: To: china-nd@kentvm.kent.edu To: Multiple recipients of list CHINA-ND +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ (US Regional) Thursday, August 6, 1992 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CND-US, normally 1 or 2 issues a week, is a supplement to CND-Global and | | has basically no overlap with the daily news. CND-US provides in-depth | | information concerning Chinese students/scholars in the United States. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ [Editor's note: for China-related Barcelona Summer Olympics News, please read CND-Global] Table of Contents # of Lines ============================================================================ 1. IFCSS Holds Emergency Meeting on Protection Bill Lobbying ............ 89 2. IFCSS News: Visa Appeal Program Call for Help; IFCSS Insurance Reduces Deductible ....................... 36 3. U.S. Computer Companies' Sales in China Pick up ...................... 75 4. Conference Announcements; Visiting Professor Position ................ 79 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. IFCSS Holds Emergency Meeting on Protection Bill Lobbying ............ 89 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: Jinghong Li, IFCSS Council Chair Source: China-Net, August 5, 1992 The emergency tele-meeting on IFCSS Protection lobby efforts, called by IFCSS Council Chairperson Jinghong Li, was held on August 4, 1992. The meeting started at 10:30pm EDT, and lasted for three (3) hours. Representatives from IFCSS HQ, 3rd term CCSA lobby group, Council, SVC and other IFCSS lobby related branches, total of sixteen (16) people, attended the meeting. A number of audiences were also on line as public observers. Participants, especially the IFCSS HQ and 3rd term CCSA people, discussed, with great sincerity, the current situation related to lobby efforts for the 1992 Chinese Protection Act . Facing the existing disputes and lack of communication among various lobby activities, both sides as well as other participants presented opinions from their own points of view. The meeting explored exhaustively possibilities on which common ground could be found. Based on understandings reached with the assistance of IFCSS law firms and three hours of further sincere and friendly discussion, the following understandings are agreed upon: 1. Leadership for Lobby Activities All lobbying forces shall unite and be under the leadership of IFCSS. While the IFCSS HQ is responsible for nationwide coordinations, the Committee for Chinese Student Affair (CCSA) of IFCSS shall be in charge of congressional lobbying activities including formation of lobbying strategies and instructions. During the meeting, Dr. Geng Xiao, President of IFCSS, appointed Dr. Zhao Haiqing to be the Acting Chairperson of CCSA. Dr. Zhao gladly accepted. Formal appointment has been waiting for approval by the upcoming Council teleconference. 2. Lobby News Release and Urgent Information Package Regular lobbying related news and information shall be released to the public through the HQ News Release Packages. The CCSA shall release special packages when situation warrants. Information releases from CCSA shall be posted under the name of IFCSS/CCSA, and they should include addresses such as email or phone numbers where further information or help can be obtained. The HQ may forward, if necessary, technical questions to the Student Affairs Committee. 3. Nationwide Lobby Activities The IFCSS HQ shall continue its efforts in organizing the nationwide lobby activities including the following areas: -- Email network, newly established lobby network CCNL, more than 400 addresses are currently on the list; -- Nationwide Coordinator System, more participants/volunteers needed; -- Lobby Task Force, will be responsible for overall coordinations; 4. Banking Accounts for Donations Due to the uncertainties on their legal status of the two currently available accounts proved by the Headquarter and CCSA respectively, it is agreed that: A. Further examination shall be pursued after formal response from IFCSS Attorney Offices, which should be received in the next few days according to a meeting conducted on August 3, 1992 between IFCSS HQ and the Law Firms. B. The IFCSS shall start the process to register for a new account as required by the resolution passed in the IFCSS 4th Congress. The current two accounts shall be replaced and cease functions upon formal establishment of the new account. C. For the time being, the account given by IFCSS HQ shall be used mainly for the purpose of coordination and communication while the CCSA account, provided by May 4th Foundation, is for congressional lobby activities. The two accounts shall be managed separately, and are all under the supervision of IFCSS Council and are subject to auditing by the IFCSS SVC or Council. Detailed regulations shall be worked out under the leadership of Council Finance Committee. A detailed report on the meeting will be ready in about one week. Interested people can obtain an audio tape record of the meeting by sending a request to the Council Chair. A $7.00 cost/shipping fee is needed and should be sent to: Jinghong Li 557 Wiltshire Blvd. #D, Kettering, OH 45419. Jointly written by : Ji, Yingqaun (IFCSS 3rd term CCSA Chair) Li, Jinghong (IFCSS Council Chair) Zhang, Qingshong (IFCSS HQ Executive Director Nominee) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. IFCSS News: Visa Appeal Program Call for Help; IFCSS Insurance Reduces Deductible ....................... 36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: IFCSS HQ, Source: IFCSS HQ NR No. 4001 & Special Report No. 4028. August 5, 1992 In the last two years, the IFCSS Family Reunion Program have helped hundreds of Chinese students and scholars to obtain visa for their spouses and children to come to U.S. We now have another opportunity to improve the visa application process to benefit those who may apply for visa to come to the U.S. in the future. At present, the U.S. Consuls abroad have the sole authority to issue visas. As many of us experienced, sometimes the visa application process at the U.S. Consulates could be very frustrating. Now there is a legislative initiative in the U.S. Congress proposing a review procedure, in which applicants whose applications are denied by Consuls may appeal to the U.S. State Department for reconsideration. Groups supporting this legislation have contacted IFCSS HQ for help. If you, or someone you know, have a case showing the necessity of the visa application review procedure, please contact the IFCSS HQ. The HQ is collecting such cases. We hope that this legislation would increase the opportunities for our families and friends in China to get a visa to visit the United States. ___ ___ ___ In shortly two years, the IFCSS-IGS Medical Insurance project has become a well-established program providing affordable and quality services to thousands of Chinese students and scholars and their families. August and September are the golden months to promote IFCSS-IGS Insurance since many new students are coming to campuses and many students/scholars have to renew or buy insurance policies. To make the IFCSS-IGS Medical Insurance even more competitive, IGS has just announced that it will reduce the deductible for the IFCSS Medical Insurance program to $25 from $50 for THOSE SCHOOLS that have 75 or more enrollments in the program and the on campus student health facility is used first. For information and brochures, please call Mr. Andrew Colbert at 1-800-327-6438. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. U.S. Computer Companies' Sales in China Pick up ...................... 75 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: Huijie Source: AP-DJ, August 3, 1992, By Hongmin Qi HONG KONG -(AP-DJ)--While plagued by weak sales at home, many big U.S. computer companies are starting to do well in China, where high-technology imports have been getting a boost from a stronger economy and the enactment of copyright protection, The Asian Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The companies decline to give details about their revenues from China's market, but the consensus is that in the past two years, sales of hardware and software, as well as investment for computer-related business, by U.S. concerns have grown by 50% to 60%. American computer companies dominate China's market with about a 75% share. "In 1991, our business in China increased 50% over 1990, and it is expected to grow at a 40% rate this year," says Lee S. Ting, managing director of Northeast Asia operations for Hewlett Packard Inc. International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has seen "double-digit growth for its business in China in the past few years," says Chris Chan, a spokesman of IBM China/Hong Kong Corp. The rise in business follows some tough years for these companies in China's market, especially in the period following the 1989 Tiananmen Square killings, when the international censure that hung over China coincided with Beijing's renewal of a tough austerity program to rein in credit and imports. In the past year, however, the country's economy has grown robustly, bolstered by renewed support for economic reform. China's foreign-exchange reserves, considered a key factor in the rise in computer imports, have swelled to 40 billion dlrs this year, compared with about 19 billion dlrs at the end of June 1989. "China does have money to buy really high-tech computer systems," says Tom Gorman, president of CCI Asia Pacific Ltd., a technical publishing company in Hong Kong. At the same time, "computer prices have dropped sharply in the world market recently," says Ming L. Li, managing director of Digital Equipment Corp.'s China/HK Group. Some industry analysts estimate that prices for many types of products have dropped about 50% in the past two to three years. And the buying is likely to continue. Li points out that China is heading into "the third and fourth year of its eighth Five-Year Plan (1991-95), the shopping peak of the five-year period." The hot products at the moment are workstations for computer-aided design and computer-aided management, large and medium-size computers and high-end personal computers. China wants such equipment to modernize the financial sector, information storage and commercial transactions, and to improve management efficiency in industry, Li says. Digital Equipment, for example, already a leading vendor of smaller-scale systems, has been making a push in workstations, according to International Data Corp. China/Hong Kong Ltd., a subsidary of a U.S.-based market research firm. "Digital Equipment has become the third-biggest vendor for workstations in China after Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett Packard," Li says. Besides China's growing economic strength, the other inducement for many U.S. computer makers to enter the market was Beijing's announcement on June 1, 1991, of its first copyright law, which provides 50-year protection for any software registered in China. "There was very limited protection for software in China before June 1991," says Gorman of CCI Asia Pacific. "Some specialized software was copied and even resold." The copyright law led to an influx of investment to develop software for Chinese-language applications. Three weeks after China announced the law, IBM, a major player in China's PC market, opened its first software joint venture in Shenzhen, with a total investment of 2.2 million dlrs. IBM also recently introduced in China its Hanzi or "Chinese character" Information System, which includes a wide range of application software for use in information-management systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Conference Announcements; Visiting Professor Position ................ 79 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: Zhenqin Li, . Forwarded by George Zhu, August 3, 1992 34th IUPAC Congress: Chemistry for the 21st Century -- The Central Science Beijing, August 15-20, 1993 (Organized by the Chinese Chemical Society) The organizers cordially invite you to attend the 34th Congress of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The scientific programme will be mainly devoted to eight sections of chemistry: 1. Life science and organic chemistry 2. Chemistry for a better enviroment and analytical chemistry 3. Advanced materials and inorganic chemistry 4. New polymer materials and macromolecular science 5. Petrochemistry, fossil fuels chemistry and catalysis 6. Physical chemistry 7. Chemical information and computer in chemistry 8. Popularization and education of modern chemistry For details of information please contact: Prof. Xinqi Song, Secretary- General of 34th IUPAC, c/o Chinese Chemical Society, P. O. Box 2709, Beijing 100080, PR China. Tel.: 86-1-2568157 or 2564020 Fax: 86-1-2568157. ___ ___ ___ [Editor's Note: Please contact the following contributor for details on the following two conferences.] >From: Xiaohan Yu, Forwarded by George Zhu, August 3, 1992 CALL FOR PAPERS: The 1993 IEEE region 10 International Conference on "Computers, Communication and Automation" October 19-21, Beijing, China The IEEE region 10 is pleased to invite you to attend TENCON'93. TENCON is the premier event of region 10 with previous conferences being held in India, Hongkong, Singapore, Korea and Australia. This time TENCON is to be held in China. It is not restricted to IEEE members and is aimed to all those involved with technologies of computer, communications, control and power engineering. Attendees are welcome from not only region 10, but from other parts of the world. Working language of the conference is English. Authors should Prepare a 400 words summery of the paper. The author's name, correspondence address, telephone and/or FAX number must be included. Four copies of the summery should be send to: Professor Yuan Baozong, Institute of Information Science, North Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China by Nov. 1 1992. ___ ___ ___ CALL FOR PAPER: IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'93/Beijing) The second International Conference on Signal Processing will be held in Beijing, China on October 26-30, 1993. It will include sessions on all aspects of theory, design and applications of signal processing. Prospective authors are invited to submit four copies of each paper. The abstracts should be composed of title of the paper, authors, names, addresses and a text of about 300 words in length, and must be sent before November 1, 1992 to: Professor Yuan Baozong, Institute of Information Science, North Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China ___ ___ ___ >From: Zhiqi Zuo, Source: SCC, August 2, 1992. [Editor's Note: The original message did not give a detailed address for contact. Readers are suggested to contact the contributor of this news for details] Southern Methodist University has an opening for a visiting assistant professor in its physics department for one year, (1992-93). The teaching load would be two courses in fall, one in spring. SMU is a private university with about 5000 undergraduates located on a gracious campus about ten minutes from downtown Dallas. The physics department is a small one specializing in particle physics. Its experimental group is part of CLEO at CESR and GEM at SSC; its theorists' interests range from light cone physics to structure functions to higgs physics to astrophysics. It enjoys close relations with SSC. Interested candidates should contact Vigdor L. Teplitz, Chair, Physics. 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