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Media, police controls for CCP congress
Willy Wo-Lap Lam, CNN Senior China Analyst
(CNN) -- Unprecedented security measures are being adopted across China to ensure the smooth opening and success of the 16th Communist Party Congress due early next month. Minister of Public Security Jia Chunwang has called upon police units in the provinces and cities to raise their guard against anti-government activities and other mishaps. At the same time, the media has been asked not to report -- or at least to play down -- news considered "socially destabilizing". "The overriding, central task of police departments is to do well the safety and protection work related to the 16th Congress," official papers on Friday quoted Jia as saying. Police departments in Beijing and nearby areas such as Tianjin and Hebei Province have been asked to be particularly vigilant. Security units in railway and airlines units were also called upon to pay attention to suspicious-looking passengers going into the Beijing area. Jia said a responsibility-designation system would be adopted for different police jurisdictions as well as communities to prevent "various kinds of incidents" from happening. This meant the leading cadres in different districts would be held accountable for mishaps, including protests and labor unrest, as well as accidents such as fire and food poisoning that entail large numbers of casualties. Earlier this week, Politburo member in charge of legal affairs Luo Gan also urged the police and other government departments to help "create a favorable social law-and-order environment" for the 16th Congress. Media gaggedLuo said top priority should be adopted to handle possible "trouble-making and disruption by enemy elements, violent and terrorist activities as well as major, vicious crimes" in addition to serious industrial and traffic accidents. The media has also been asked to refrain from reporting incidents deemed unsavoury to the Congress gathering. Recent cases of the collapse of classrooms in two schools in Sichuan and Inner Mongolia have not made it into official media. The same is true of a protest by 500 workers at a military factory in Xian over the withholding of pension benefits.
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