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Viewing cable 07SHANGHAI77, CG VISITS YANGZHOU; DISCUSSES NEW SOCIALIST COUNTRYSIDE AND

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07SHANGHAI77 2007-02-05 09:46 2011-08-30 01:44 CONFIDENTIAL Consulate Shanghai
VZCZCXRO7646
RR RUEHCN RUEHVC
DE RUEHGH #0077/01 0360946
ZNY CCCCC ZZH
R 050946Z FEB 07
FM AMCONSUL SHANGHAI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5512
INFO RHEHNSC/WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHINGTON DC
RUEHOO/CHINA POSTS COLLECTIVE
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON DC
RUEATRS/DEPT OF TREASURY WASHINGTON DC
RUEHGH/AMCONSUL SHANGHAI 5864
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 SHANGHAI 000077 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR EAP/CM, INR/B, INR/EAP, AND DRL 
STATE PASS USTR FOR STRATFORD, WINTER, MCCARTIN, ALTBACH, READE 
TREAS FOR OASIA - DOHNER/CUSHMAN 
USDOC FOR ITA/MAC - KASOFF, MELCHER, MCQUEEN 
NSC FOR WILDER AND TONG 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL:  2/5/2032 
TAGS: PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS CH
SUBJECT: CG VISITS YANGZHOU; DISCUSSES NEW SOCIALIST COUNTRYSIDE AND 
CHINESE DEMOCRACY 
 
 
SHANGHAI 00000077  001.2 OF 004 
 
 
CLASSIFIED BY: Kenneth Jarrett, Consul General, U.S. Consulate, 
Shanghai, Department of State. 
REASON: 1.4 (b), (d) 
 
 
 
1.  (C) Summary. The Consul General visited Yangzhou City in the 
northern section of Jiangsu Province from January 29-30.  During 
a visit to a model "new socialist countryside" village, local 
officials showcased the progress being made in the 
municipality's rural areas and successes in moving labor from 
agriculture to industry without flooding urban centers with 
migrant workers.  Separately, the Mayor and a vice mayor 
discussed Yangzhou's democratic development.  According to these 
officials, Chinese democracy meant combining public 
participation--through public hearings, elections, and the 
like--with public supervision of officials.  Yangzhou had 
implemented several concrete mechanisms for expanding these key 
components of democracy.  However, according to these officials, 
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) alone was capable of 
representing the entire Chinese population and was the only 
party needed to govern China.   End summary. 
 
--------------------------------------------- --------- 
Jinhuai Village: Face of the New Socialist Countryside 
--------------------------------------------- --------- 
 
2.  (SBU) On January 29, Yangzhou FAO officials accompanied the 
CG and Poloff to nearby Jinhuai Village to showcase how Yangzhou 
was successfully implementing the call put forward at the 
October 2005 Fifth Plenum to build a new socialist countryside. 
Only a half hour drive from the city center, Jinhuai, with a 
population of 3,120, is a model of Yangzhou's vision for the new 
socialist countryside.  The village center consisted of: a 
massive auditorium; a new playground complete with several 
net-enclosed trampolines; a large modern supermarket (an 
official with the municipal New Socialist Countryside Department 
said the central government required new socialist countryside 
villages to have a place for villagers to spend money); a 
medical center that provided basic medical services and 
distributed free contraceptives; a small library; a gymnasium; 
an "old folks recreation center;" and row after row of newly 
minted three-level 400 square meter homes.  Officials said that 
Jinhuai was ranked in the top 33 most prosperous villages of all 
of Yangzhou's 1,248 villages.  Yangzhou's goal was to have 50 
percent of all its villages look like Jinhuai within five years 
and 100 percent within 10 years. 
 
3.  (SBU) According to village officials, the village was a 
great example of the "pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps" 
mentality required to effectively implement the new socialist 
countryside.  Funding for many of the major projects had come 
frQ local residents and tax revenues generated from local 
industries.  There were 17 factories set up in the village 
vicinity, all owned and managed by village residents.  These 
factories employed about 70 percent of the village work force, 
paying average salaries of 12,000 RMB (approximately USD 1545) 
per year.  Each family had bought its own home for around 
140,000 RMB in 2000--one official claimed the houses were now 
worth over 600,000 RMB--without government assistance.  One of 
the successful enterprise owners had donated the auditorium. 
The village government had provided the land and facilities for 
the supermarket--a privately-owned local chain--through tax 
revenues generated from the local industries. 
 
4.  (SBU) Perhaps more important than the creature comforts, 
Jinhuai has successfully implemented the new socialist 
countryside program's main goal of moving people out of farming 
and into local industry.  This has allowed the village to reach 
relative economies of scale in agriculture while absorbing 
excess labor without further burdening overcrowded urban 
centers.  According to village officials, only 10 percent of the 
population now worked the land--compared with 20 percent in some 
of Yangzhou's other villages.  This 10 percent of the population 
cultivated approximately 3 million mu of rice, 1.2 million mu of 
aquaculture, and did a brisk business in ducks.  Seventy percent 
of all of the Yangcheng Lake "hairy crabs"--a local freshwater 
crab delicacythat is popular in Shanghai--actually started out 
in the area surrounding Jinhuai.  They were then "dipped" in 
Yangcheng Lake so they could sell at the higher price commanded 
by Yangcheng crabs.  Farmers earned an average of 5,000-8,000 
RMB.  Very few residents actually left Jinhuai for work in the 
cities, finding the employment situation in the village 
 
SHANGHAI 00000077  002.2 OF 004 
 
 
sufficient for their needs. 
 
5.  (C) Despite the facade of independence, it appeared that 
significant municipal funding and planning had gone into the 
construction of this model village.  The architecture and feel 
of the village--with its uniform pink housing and drab cement 
covered store fronts--had a distinct "planned economy" flavor. 
Most of the new housing had been constructed at the same time. 
Trees surrounding the fish pond in the village center were only 
a few years old, and were the only sign of vegetation in the 
village.  While official press reports have said that localities 
have received monies for building the new socialist countryside, 
there was no discussion of what funds Jihuai had received or for 
what purposes they had been used. 
 
6.  (SBU) Village officials did note that local residents 
received a subsidy of 145 RMB per month per person in rent for 
land used in the public works and private enterprise projects. 
They also said that the central government's "Four Agriculture 
Subsidies" (i.e. the cancellation of the agriculture tax and 
subsidies for education, purchasing better crop strains, and 
agricultural modernization) accounted for approximately 1,000 
RMB of farmers' annual incomes. 
 
------------------------------------- 
Meeting the Mayor: Food, Fun, and FDI 
------------------------------------- 
 
7.  (U) After the countryside visit, the CG met with Yangzhou 
Mayor Wang Yanwen and Vice Mayor Wang Yuxin.  Mayor Wang said 
that economic development had really picked up with the 
renovation and expansion of the river port, the building of 
several new bridges over the Yangtze River, new rail 
connections, and a modern highway over the past decade or so. 
Much of the investment coming into the city came from Guangdong, 
southern Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai.  Investors included 
foreign firms as well, such as Colgate, and Asimco.  Yangzhou 
was determined to encourage more investment--particularly 
foreign investment--into the city and had a target of USD 1 
billion of FDI for 2007.  Even the Foreign Affairs Office had a 
specific target they must meet for bringing in investment--for 
2007, it stood at 20 million RMB. 
 
8.  (U) Mayor Wang noted that the living environment was 
particularly suitable for foreign investors, praising "Huaiyang" 
cuisine--the style of food traditionally prepared in 
Yangzhou--as some of the best in China.  She also noted that the 
city government was deeply concerned with protecting and 
maintaining its tourist areas.  Indeed, any new construction in 
Yangzhou required the approval of the Cultural Bureau to ensure 
that no sites of historical value--whether above or below 
ground--would be damaged.  Wang did say, however, that Yangzhou 
lacked any quality international schools that would be crucial 
to encouraging foreign companies to have a significant presence 
in the city. 
 
-------------------------------- 
Chinese Democracy Yangzhou Style 
-------------------------------- 
 
9.  (SBU) During the dinner, Vice Mayor Wang noted that in line 
with building a Harmonious Society, Yangzhou was striving to 
deepen democracy throughout the municipality.  He quoted from a 
recent article by Yu Keping titled "Democracy is a Good Thing," 
noting that democracy was a process.  Wang said that 
participation and public oversight were the keystones of Chinese 
democracy and that Yangzhou had implemented several concrete 
reforms along those lines in recent years. 
 
10  (C) For instance, rural areas now held direct elections for 
village head.  Yangzhou had also established a "1-2-3-4-5 
hotline" allowing people to call in with questions, complaints, 
and suggestions.  Indeed, Poloff noticed several billboards 
around the city advertising the hotline.  The city had also 
begun implementing public hearings on draft legislation that was 
of particular importance to the lives of local residents. 
Yangzhou had also begun publishing all government actions on 
line and had strengthened the People's Congress oversight 
function with its 2006 "Supervision Law," although he did not 
provide details about the law itself.  Wang also pointed out 
that the party's Discipline Inspection Commissions (DIC) and 
their government equivalents also played an important role in 
allowing the public to supervise the government.  People were 
 
SHANGHAI 00000077  003.2 OF 004 
 
 
allowed to write to these organizations with tips on corrupt 
officials.  In fact, according to Wang, the Chen Liangyu case 
was sparked by just such a tip from a citizen in Shanghai. 
 
11.  (SBU) Mayor Wang said that there could be no democracy 
without economic development and bettering the lives of the 
people.  Moreover, it was not clear that there was a uniform 
style of democratic governance that could be applied to China. 
Given that China had so many people over such a large land mass, 
problems in some localities might not be problems in others. 
 
12.  (SBU) Vice Mayor Wang noted that there was no need to 
discuss multiparty democracy since there was no political party 
in China better able to represent all of the Chinese people than 
the CCP.  Mayor Wang added that one reason the CCP was such an 
effective governing party and able to bring about such rapid 
economic development to China was because it did not have to 
waste time and energy debating decisions with other parties. 
When the CG countered that the discussion and negotiation 
process between political parties enhanced the people's ability 
to exercise oversight, Mayor Wang simply said that the kind of 
political system in place did not matter if the country was 
developing well. 
 
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Yizheng: An Automotive Super Center 
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13.  (U) The following day, the CG visited two factories in the 
more prosperous nearby township of Yizheng.  At the Yizheng 
Shuanhuan Piston Ring Factory (YSPRF)--a joint venture with the 
American company Asimco--helpful signs in English and Chinese 
dotted the landscaping, encouraging employees to "Act as 
promised and work harder tomorrow," reminding them that "If you 
don't work hard today, you may have to look hard for a job 
tomorrow."  A former state-owned enterprise, YSPRF currently 
employed over 2,000 local Yizheng residents (although all of the 
managers were from outside of Yangzhou), paying an average 
annual salary of 20,000 RMB, and supplied over 50 million RMB in 
taxes to the Yangzhou government coffers in 2005 alone.  The 
second factory, Shanghai Huizhong Automotive, a subsidiary of 
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, produced passenger 
vans to order, employed over 8,000 local workers, and paid an 
average salary of 18,000 RMB per year. 
 
14.  (U) Foreign Affairs Office Deputy Director Zhang Liansheng 
explained that Yangzhou had emerged as an automotive center due 
to geography and good old-fashioned communist planning.  The 
city is situated on the Yangtze River, not too far from Shanghai 
and even closer to Nanjing, almost in the middle of China's 
coastal edge and is home to a relatively cheap and skilled labor 
pool.  As a river port city, Yangzhou had initially developed as 
a steel-manufacturing center, receiving ore from mines upstream 
in Anhui Province and transporting finished goods downstream to 
Shanghai.  During the planned economy era, central planners 
determined that it made sense to develop Yangzhou as a farm 
implement and automotive center, a niche that has persisted to 
this day. 
 
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Bio Comment: Wang Yanwen 
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15.  (C) Mayor Wang was animated and engaging in her mannerisms 
and had a good command of her briefing materials, needing 
neither notes nor cues from her subordinates.  She appeared 
knowledgeable about the history, culture, and economy of the 
city.  Born in April 1960, Wang is relatively young and we 
expect that she will move up and out of Yangzhou, although it is 
not clear to what level.  Wang is married and has twin 18-year 
old boys.  Her husband still resides in Nanjing.  Wang gave no 
indication of speaking or understanding English.  She was 
recently back from a trip to the States, focused on urban 
planning, together with other Jiangsu mayors and party leaders. 
Asked about the selection of the theme, Wang explained that 
Jiangsu Party Secretary Li Yuanchao had made the decision.  Li 
believed that unless municipal leaders knew more about urban 
planning, provincial cities would continue to develop in a 
chaotic way. 
 
16.  (C) Wang's career path resembles that of another Jiangsu 
noteworthy, Party Secretary Li Yuanchao.  After a few party jobs 
in the Nanjing Electronics Industry Bureau during the 1980s, 
 
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Wang served as Deputy Party Secretary and then Party Secretary 
of the Nanjing Municipal Communist Youth League (CYL) for the 
better part of a decade between 1991-98.  She served as Piaoshui 
County Deputy Party Secretary and County Head and then as Party 
Secretary from 1998-2001.  Wang returned to Nanjing in 2001 as a 
 
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member of the Municipal Party Standing Committee and head of the 
Propaganda Department.  Those positions would have put her in 
close contact with Li Yuanchao who had just returned to Nanjing 
as Municipal Party Secretary and Deputy Party Secretary of the 
province in 2000. 
JARRETT