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This Clinton Presidential Library folder holds NSC cables from January 1999 to December 2000, filed under the heading "Flying Saucer or UFO". A withdrawal sheet lists eleven cables that were withheld in full or in part under Presidential Records Act and FOIA restrictions. The released cables include an FBIS summary of a Bogota TV newscast, which notes that a UFO photograph printed by El Espectador was a hoax. They also include a US Embassy Beijing report on Quanzhou, Fujian, and a Vladivostok cable on Governor Yevgeniy Nazdratenko.
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30 YEAR LAND CONTRACTS AWARDED IN RURAL QUANZHOU 15. FROM THE NOVEMBER 3, 1998 QUANZHOU WANBAO: "TAIPING VILLAGE IS THE TRIAL SITE FOR THE FOR YONGPING COUNTY VILLAGE COLLECTIVE LAND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY CERTIFICATES AND THE FIRST VILLAGE IN QUANZHOU CITY TO BE SO DESIGNATED. THE CERTIFICATES HANDED OUT IN THIS CEREMONY INVOLVED 14 VILLAGE ORGANIZATIONS, 510 HOUSEHOLDS COMPRISING 2200 PEOPLE, AND CONTRACTS COMPRISING 296.314 MU [NEARLY 20 HECTARES]. THERE WAS A FESTIVE AIR AS THE CERTIFICATES WERE HANDED OUT IN THE VILLAGE COUNCIL MEETING ROOM. VILLAGER LI CHUBIN SAID HAPPILY AS HE RECEIVED HIS CERTIFICATE, "WHEN PLANTING TREES, BAMBOO, AND FRUIT WE NEED AT LEAST THREE - FIVE YEARS AND USUALLY TEN OR MORE YEARS BEFORE WE CAN GET A HARVEST. THE FARMERS ARE AFRAID THAT GOVERNMENT POLICY WILL CHANGE SO THEY DON'T INVEST. THIS MAKES THE SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE LAND DECLINE. BUT WITH THE CERTIFICATE IN MY HAND I WON'T HAVE THESE CONSTRAINTS AND CAN GO OUT A GET A LOT DONE." FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, QUANZHOU CITY HAS MADE STABILIZING AND IMPROVING THE CONTRACT RESPONSIBILITY SYSTEM A TOP PRIORITY. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT WORK. SOON FUJIAN PROVINCE WILL GIVE ALL FARMERS VILLAGE COLLECTIVE LAND MANAGEMENT AUTHORIZATION CERTIFICATES." UNCLAS SECTION 05 OF 09 BEIJING 000475 WHITE HOUSE FOR OSTP/DBEHRING AND OVP DEPT FOR EAP/CM AND PRM/POP/MARGARET POLLACK DEPT PASS USAID/POPULATION/BARBARA CRANE USDOC PASS CENSUS USDA FAS FOR CMP, ARS, AND ERS STATE PASS USTR FOR CASSIDY AND POPOVICH E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: SENV, SOCI, ECON, EAGR, PGOV, NTDB, UNFPA, CH SUBJECT: QUANZHOU, FUJIAN -- A TRAVELER'S TALE COMMENT: CHINESE ACADEMICS SAY RESTORATION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY CAN HELP SOLVE AGRICULTURAL ILLS --- 16. EXTENDING THE TERM OF LAND CONTRACTS FROM FIFTEEN TO THIRTY YEARS BEGAN WHEN MANY LAND CONTRACTS GIVEN OUT IN THE EARLY 1980S CAME UP FOR RENEWAL IN THE MID 1990S. ACCORDING TO A LATE 1997 PRESS REPORT, THE 30-YEAR CONTRACTS HAD BEEN EXTENDED IN MANY BUT NOT ALL AREAS OF CHINA. GIVING THE FARMERS MORE DECISION MAKING POWER AND A LONGER TERM CONTRACT ARE SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TRENDS IN CHINA TODAY. CHINESE LEADERS SAY THAT THEY WANT TO REDUCE INTERFERENCE BY LOCAL OFFICIALS IN THE INDEPENDENT DECISION-MAKING OF FARMERS. THIS POINT IS MADE EMPHATICALLY IN THE REPORT OF THE GUANGDONG CP PARTY CHAIRMAN LI CHANGCHUN [STC: 2621 7022 2504] TO THE GUANGDONG PROVINCE PARTY CONGRESS PRINTED ON PAGE ONE OF
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 64 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.