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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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SAY THAT NOW THAT THEIR LAND CONTRACT HAS DOUBLED FROM FIFTEEN TO THIRTY YEARS, THEY WILL INVEST IN CROPS WITH A LONGER PAYBACK TIME. QUANZHOU, LIKE MANY CHINESE CITIS, IS ONLINE WITH A NEWSPAPER (QUANZHOU WANBAO), PERSONAL WEBPAGES, BBS, FORUMS WITH SOME VERY OUTPOKEN PARTICIPANTS AND CHATROOMS. QUANZHOU REGION FAMILY PLANNING REGULATIONS ARE APPENDED TO THIS REPORT. END SUMMARY. 2. QUANZHOU IS BOTH A REGION OF 6.5 MILLION PEOPLE AND A CITY OF ABOUT 500,000 PEOPLE. QUANZHOU LIES MIDWAY BETWEEN THE OTHER TWO MAJOR COASTAL CITIES OF FUJIAN PROVINCE -- THE XIAMEN SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE TO THE SOUTH AND THE CAPITAL CITY OF FUZHOU TO THE NORTH. QUANZHOU'S NORTHERN AND SOUTHERNTHE SOUTH FUJIAN DIALECT (MINNAN YU) OF QUANZHOU IS ALSO SPOKEN IN TAIWAN AND IN SOME PARTS OF SOUTH ASIA BY THE MILLIONS OF DESCENDANTS OF QUANZHOU PEOPLE WHO SETTLED THERE OVER THE PAST SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS. EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS AGO QUANZHOU IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S BUSIEST SEAPORTS. THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT WAS LONG RELUCTANT TO INVEST IN QUANZHOU, AS IN NEARBY XIAMEN, BECAUSE OF THE MILITARY CONFRONTATION WITH NEARBY TAIWAN. THE QUANZHOU INFRASTRUCTURE IS BEING BUILT UP. NOW THERE IS A FINE XIANMEN-QUANZHOU HIGHWAY AND THE RAILROAD FINALLY REACHED QUANZHOU IN 1998, QUANZHOU MAY BE ABLE TO ATTRACT MORE OF THE INVESTMENT CAPITAL THAT HAS FUELED THE GROWTH OF XIAMEN AND FUZHOU OVER THE PAST DECADE. QUANZHOU HAS LITTLE HEAVY INDUSTRY, SO AIR POLLUTION IS NOT A BIG PROBLEM. QUANZHOU IS VISIBLY LESS PROSPEROUS THAN XIAMEN AND FUZHOU. UNLIKE THOSE TWO CITIES, MOTORCYCLISTS WORKING AS UNOFFICIAL TAXIS AND PEDICAB TAXIS ARE COMMON SIGHTS IN QUANZHOU. ## SIGNS OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN THE QUANZHOU REGION? 3. A LOCAL BUSINESSMAN TOLD ESTOFF THAT THE ECONOMY IS STARTING TO LOOK BETTER FOR THE AVERAGE MAN BUT MOST BUSINESSES HAVE NOT YET SEEN ANY IMPROVEMENT. THE BUSINESSMAN ATTRIBUTED THE IMPROVEMENT TO LOWER INTEREST RATES AND OTHER MEASURES TAKEN TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. ACCORDING TO THE QUANZHOU EVENING NEWS, THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE QUANZHOU CITY COMMUNIST PARTY COMMITTEE, THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX IN THE QUANZHOU AREA CLIMBED DURING NOVEMBER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MANY MONTHS. IN OCTOBER 1998, THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR THE ENTIRE QUANZHOU REGION WAS DOWN 3.9 PERCENT AND FOR QUANZHOU CITY PROPER BY 2.3 PERCENT COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS OCTOBER. DEFLATION WAS SOMEWHAT GREATER IN THE RURAL OUTLYING COUNTIES AND SMALL CITIES OF THE REGION - JINJIANG CITY WAS DOWN BY 5 PERCENT AND HUIAN COUNTY HAD THE GREATEST DECLINE WITH DROP IN THE RETAIL PRICE INDEX OF 5.5 PERCENT COMPARED WITH OCTOBER 1997. A RANDOM SAMPLE SURVEY OF 600 DEPOSITORS IN 20 CITY AND RURAL SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS REPORTED IN THE DECEMBER 14 QUANZHOU WANBAO FOUND THAT THE PROPORTION OF REPORTS OF HIGHER INCOME DECLINED OVER THE PAST YEAR (HALF REPORT NO CHANGE). THE SURVEY ALSO REVEALED A BROAD CONSENSUS THAT
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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.