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Chinese human rights activist Zhang Wuzhou was prosecuted with disturbing social orders, and trial begins next tuesday

(20 Nov) Chinese human right activist Zhang Wuzhou was arrested, as she was displaying slogan 'never forget June 4, no evil law' to commemorate the June 4, 1989 incident and show support for Hong Kong's resistance against the National Security Law on the streets in Guangzhou, China. The trial will open next Tuesday in the Court in Guangdong Yuanqing city Qingcheng district. The Procuratorate described that Zhang has no regards to the national laws and shall be punished severely.

The Procuratorate pointed out, in the prosecution letter, that Zhang displayed the slogan in Guangzhou Baiyunshan park on 4 June, and sent the footages and photos to wechat groups, twitters and facebook. She refused to sign on documents, destoyed evidence, slapped the police, and refused to cooperate with the body check at detention facility.

The prosecutor believed that she was obstructing the public servants to execute their duties using violent means, speading fake information, causing disturbance and chaos to social orders. And she shall be charged with disturbing social orders and obstructing government administration.

Source: Radio Television Hong Kong

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#China #June4 #HumanRightsActivist #Arrest #Prosecut #ZhangWuzhou

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Several Chinese banks paused processing applications for personal precious metal investment accounts, due to the international fluctuating price

(27 Nov) Numerous middle and large scale commercial banks in mainland China have announced the pause of processing new investment account applications for trading precious metal such as gold and silver, as the market price is subject to recent international politics environment and Covid-19 pandemic, and is experiencing an extreme fluctuation, enlarging the risks of trading and investing.

The Bank of China, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the China Construction Bank and the Agricultural Bank of China indicated that they will pause opening new personal bank accounts and gold and silver accounts for investment, while the existing accounts are not affected by the arrangement. For other banks such as the Bank of Communication, the China Merchants Bank and the Industrial Bank, they also have similar arrangements.

Source: Radio Television Hong Kong

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#ChinaBanks #Pause #NewAccount #Investment #Gold #Silver

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Chinese people are rich? "560 million people do not have bank savings", reported by the Chinese media

(19 Nov) Lots of people have the impression of generosity and spending money like water for Chinese consumers. However, the savings rate in China has gone down to the lowest in the record and is still having a downtrend. From the 50% in the past to the current 45%, China has become the "country of debit" instead of the "country of savings".

According to the news report by Sohu (《搜狐網》), there are 5.6 billion people in China that do not have savings. The debt ratio of the Chinese citizens used to be almost zero, but it has risen rapidly in the past ten years with the total debt exceeding 200 trillion CNY, and 130 thousand as the per capita debt amount.

Sohu reported that China was still the "country of savings" in 2010, and the reason for turning into the "country of debit" in ten years is divided into four main issues. First, "the rising speed of wage could not keep up with the inflation, citizens are bearing a lot of debt, not to mention saving money." In most private enterprises, income growth is often unable to beat the rise of commodity prices. Many of the families have an offset at income and cost and do not have much money for savings. Some people even use payment by installments when buying things, "It is not strange to see the rise of debt ratio."

Second, "since the marketization of real estate, the price of houses is like a wild horse without the leash and became tenfold or even more in twenty years." In the past, although people had a low salary, there were not many places for spending money, housing was also arranged by welfare organizations. People nowadays clear out their bank account for the down payment of houses, leading to a low savings rate. Because of the over-expensive housing price, over 95% of people could not pay one loan but took second or third loan from the bank for 20 to 30 years. For that, the debt ratio goes up sharply after 2015.

Third, "Many citizens have to buy cars except houses." When people go out for work, it is more effective to drive a car. Although a car only costs 100 to 200 thousand (CNY), which is not so high compared with housing price, there is still stress for a normal family to pay for the installments in 24 months. Except, the installment for the car, it requires an annual check-up and other expenses, which could be stressful for a working-class.

Fourth, "The rise of debt ratio is related to the rise of the consumption view of youngsters", according to the data, the debt per capita of groups born after 1990 is 127 thousand, and they have to pay off with the salary of 18 months. At the same time, 1 in 4 people in the debted young group is using the microfinance mechanism, Huabei, by the Ant Group; and 2 in 3 young people tend to buy a mobile phone paid by installment. The reason is the young group prefers to enjoy life and pursue the quality of life, tend to after the consumption view in European countries.

Source: Hong Kong Yahoo News

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#China #Chinese #InDebt #SpendMoney #NotSaving

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“...China threatened to kill my family members in China” Uighur people who exiled to Canada were requested to “be good” over the sea

Source: Apple Daily

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Wuhan Pneumonia - Tragic Wuhan style lockdown appeared in Sichuan, China; Chinese netizens were shocked: History repeated itself too soon

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(14 Dec) Wuhan Pneumonia (also known as COVID-19) spreads further in China and the situation is getting worse (instead of the fake official data by the Chinese government), shown by certain new lockdown policies by various local governments in China prohibiting people leaving their homes. In Sichuan, people in a blocked residential area sang in night together. The video was exposed to internet and many China netizens marvelled "history repeats itself so soon".

According to China Today, the Wuhan Pneumonia returned to Sichuan. In Chengdu, the Capital of Sichuan Province, while a residential area was blocked from any access for quarantine, the people sang loudly at night from their balconies and windows under the shining lights. The most interesting was that, they were singing songs from Taiwan.

After the video was exposed to the internet, many Chinese netizens were surprised such familiar picture happened again so shortly - this was the exact picture in Wuhan, the first place being locked by the CCP in early 2020. At that time, many Wuhan people started by quarantining at home and singing at night, but were eventually found died at their apartments. "The Sichuan is repeating what exactly happened in Wuhan, shortly. History always repeats itself", "it's terrible (just waiting to die like this), this does not even happen in America where hundreds of thousands of people died", "it was really like the screams by ghosts or spirits. To be honest, I’d rather quarantine at home quietly", commented by those netizens.

Source: The Liberty Times

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#WuhanPneumonia #Conorvirus #LockDown #Sichuan #HistoryRepeated

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China New National Flag Law: People Living In Fear - Any Act can be Offensive

(2 Jan) Starting 1 Jan 2021, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacted a new National Flag Law, governing (prohibiting) new sets of activities that may dishonor the China National Flag, including hanging up the Flag upside down, using the Flag in a disrespectful means, or abandoning the Flag. After the new law started, Chinese netizens are scared and dared not to touch on the Flag anymore: "won't make any mistake if I never show or use the Flag anymore". The new law has been enacted on 1 Jan 2021, together with the new National Emblem Law. The reason for introducing new laws was to ensure the dignity of the China National Flag and Emblem and require the people to respect such national symbols. Apart from respectfully using the flag, the new laws also criminalize those who abandoning the flag and disposing of the flag in any improper way after events. All the comments by the Chinese netizens who didn't support the new laws believe the laws are not reasonable. Many among them scared and believed: "what is improper disposal and how can I dispose of it after events?", "my flag was destroyed by my dog, am I a criminal?", "tons of National Flags found in garbage cans after National Day", "how can I dispose of those old and unused flags, (if I want to dispose of the flag) I will be directly sent to jail?", "I am speechless, the easiest way to become criminal", "China should require people to kowtow (kneeling and bowing) to the National Flags at least 3 times a day otherwise it must be an insult to China", "the Cultural Revolution comes again", "why does the CCP always enact unreasonable and ridiculous laws?", "what happens if I draw a flag on my face and then I pose handstand?", "will not buy flags anymore.

Source: Sanlih E-Television News

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#NationalEmblemLaw #NationalFlagLaw #China #Control #ChinaFlag

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Fears of unemployment causing social unrest, Beijing re-ignites street vendor economy, official media denies "disorder"

(17 Oct) The boom of the street vendor economy first advocated by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in June 2020 quickly waned, with government officials immediately reproaching the method as impractical.

//Li had never encouraged “disorderly vending”. Government officials were deliberately tarnishing his name, rather.

//ever since Li’s advocacy for the “street vendor economy”, he had come under fire by state media. However, similar policies for the street vendor economy were maintained at the local level and included night markets and small storefronts.

//Economist Law Ka-chung indicated that the phenomenon of street-vending was proof of China’s struggling economy.

//He believed that “street-vending” would do little to help the Chinese economy because it was not part of its formal economy; there is no taxation or official records [of the businesses].

Full Translation Here: Hong Kong Echo

Source: Apple Daily

#Chinese #Economy #Struggle #StreetVendor #LiKeqiang #Premier

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Japanese Corporate CEO bought monitors at Chinese e-commerce platform Later found out the “monitor” was just a printing pattern on an Iron plate

(Jan 3) Many people have tried shopping using an online shopping platform for its convenience and low price, but the possibility of getting the falsely advertised item is not low due to no actual physical product display for reference. The president and CEO of a famous Japanese corporate Maywa Denki, 土佐信道 san, shared on Twitter that he recently found a 10.1” inch monitor, costing JPY2,500 (around HKD186 / USD25) each, at a Chinese online shopping platform Wish. He thought it was a good deal and ordered 5 monitors. However, when the shipment arrived, he found out the “monitor” was actually a “monitor” picture printed on an “iron plate”.

Maywa Denki (土佐信道) san ended up to add a few magnetic Maywa Denki musical equipment on these iron plates and resold them on the company website at JPY2,600, all of which were sold up within a few hours. He shared this story on Twitter of successfully earning JPY500, which matches the company style of fun, laugh, and jokes.

Source: Unwire HK

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#FakeAdvisement #China #Wish #Japan #MaywaDenki

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Many Doubts on million negatives results on COVID-19 Testing Campaign in Qingdao China

//Recently, Qingdao Government in China announced the completion of 5 days COVID-19 Testing campaign in the community. The result showed that there is no positive case in more than 10 million citizens tests; however, people including Qingdao citizens, are doubting the result.

//The Epoch Times found that no creditable or trustable institution on controlling COVID-19 in China participates in this Testing Campaign in Qingdao.

//Website of the National Health Committee in Qingdao published on 30 Sep the “List of Venues on Testing/Sample Collection of COVID-19 Test in Qingdao City”, showed 74 institutions, but only 37 of which are qualified to conduct COVID-19 Testing.

//Because all the hospitals have daily routine duties, their equipment and staff are relatively stable, which is difficult to spare resources for this large scale testing in the community.

//Virology expert Dr. DONG Yu Hong explained in an interview with the Epoch Times, “if Qingdao could complete 10 million testings within 5 days, 10 health workers work as a group to collect samples, it implies that there are 200 laboratories to complete the testing of 1,000 samples daily.”

//SARS-COVID-2 is an RNA virus that can be very easy to be dissolved, collected samples needed to be kept in a professional liquid for storing the virus, which has to be sent for testing as soon as possible.

//the laboratory would not have sufficient fridges to store bundle samples from the community, and the huge numbers of test boxes and its supplies are also questionable.

//All citizens were tested and results are completed in 5 days but many not yet received the result.

//A woman in Qingdao expressed to our reporters that the government promised the result would be released within 2-3days, but we still did not know the result on the 5th day (now). “This is impossible for the public to know how to test, what method to test, and what is the result.”

//Netizens doubted the government’s result, “when the World is being annoyed by the serious epidemic, there is no local case in the origin of the epidemic, all positive cases are shifted to the responsibility of overseas imported travelers”.

//you all, outside the jurisdiction, should understand what is going on in our country, China. The public is unable to grasp any information, from our government.

//A man in Qingdao expressed to our reporters, “the collected samples number are high and the government is forced to do it. But it claimed that the sample would be sent to third-party institutions for test won’t, its quality is unknown.”

//He strengthened, “this government does not have any creditability, we don’t believe the government. This is an Authoritarianism, we can do nothing.”

Full Translation Here: Hong Kong Echo

Source: The Epoch Times

#China #Creditability #Qingdao #NegativeResults #Millions #False

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Shenzhen recruits civil servants for the first time for Hong Kong and Macao residents, 446 people compete for 5 positions

(Dec 14) Shenzhen’s civil service examination of 2020 was held on 12 and 13 Dec in China. There are five positions open for Hong Kong and Macau residents. The offices are mainly located in downtown areas like Futian, Luohu, and Nanshan in China. This is the first time that Hong Kong and Macau residents are allowed to participate in the China civil service examination. According to China News Service, the five positions are responsible for areas like administration, finance, urban planning, management of foreign affairs, and medical administration. These positions involved the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area development. A total of 446 Hong Kong and Macau residents applied for the examination. Among all, a position in the Futian District attracted 244 people to apply.

Source: Mingpao News

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#China #HongKong #Macau #Positions #Hire

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‘We’re coming to get you’: China’s critics facing threats, retaliation for activism in Canada

Cherie Wong, the convener of Alliance Canada Hong Kong, an organizatiom fighting for the autonomy of Hong Kong, has been facing repeated death and rape threats.

For instance, in January 2020, even when she had a friend book her a hotel room in Vancouver under a different name, she received threats over the phone.

“I sat in my room and just started shaking, realizing that I could be in very real danger and not knowing what to do,” she said.

Wong said activists who are critical of the China often have their families in China visited by government officials.

“They come and knock on your door and say, ‘we’re coming in to talk to you about your family,’” she explained.

“What dissidents face in Canada is often on the grey area of criminal harassment and just discomfort that you feel (in) daily life,” Wong said. 

Read the full article here:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7734158/china-pressure-activists-canada-uyghur-hong-kong-tibet-spying/

Source: Global News Canada #Apr2

#UnitedFront #CCPRules #Canada #HongKong #Uyghur #Tibet #ScareTactics

Happening now in #hongkong: another assault on #pressfreedom, if there is still any.
Referencing the “national security law” the Hong Kong government arrested multiple executives from the last standing pro-democracy printed-newspaper, @appledailyhk, and entered the company’s office for “conducting investigations”.
Photo from @thestandnews
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#Xi Crackdowns Look to Whip China’s ‘Lying Flat’ Youth Into Shape

//Piecing together President Xi Jinping’s recent speeches and a barrage of new regulations that have roiled markets, one savvy internet user this month created a satirical image of what passes for an ideal youth in today’s China.

“The socialist successor of the new era does not attend after-school tutoring, does not play video games, does not chase celebrities,” said the post, which was shared widely before it was censored.

“They finish all their homework at school, read President Xi’s selected works for one hour everyday, go to sleep before 10 p.m., take the initiative to do chores, urge their parents to have more children and help look after them.”

The description highlights how Xi’s push for “common prosperity” and wealth redistribution is about more than just reining in tech billionaires: The flurry of rules and state-media missives targeting industries from after-school tutoring to online gaming and entertainment are also aimed at ensuring the younger generation -- some of whom are starting to embrace a minimalist lifestyle known as “lying flat” -- turns into motivated, patriotic and productive workers.//

Source: Bloomberg #Aug18

Read more:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-18/xi-crackdowns-look-to-whip-china-s-lying-flat-youth-into-shape

US readers: there is much more traps than you might thought …. Especially anything related to Chinese - remotely or not - are all likely #ccp target for infiltration.
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