MONTHLY REPORT -- HONG KONG BUREAU -- JANUARY 1985

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• Publication Date: February 2, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
HONG KONG BUREAU
MHK-5001
2 February 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
THROUGH : Chief, Operations Group
SUBJECT : Monthly Report -- Hong Kong Bureau -- January 1985
I. OPERATIONS
A. Monitorial/Editorial
For the second consecutive month the bureau set a new monthly
production record, again surpassing the one million words benchmark.
Publishable wordage in December was 1,000,530, but January output shot
well ahead of that figure: 1,134,070.
This record-breaking effort was due in part to faster receipt time
on several major journals (we were processing four issues of HONGQI ,at one
time) and the receipt of other papers and journals not previously
obtainable by subscription. Through arrangements with our Beijing
contractor, copies of HONGQI, LIAOWANG, GUOJI WENTI YANJIU, and SHIJIE
ZHISHI are being purchased off the newsstands as soon as they are
available and pouched immediately to us. So far this has cut the receipt
time from about 3 weeks to 7-10 days after publication. We are try r4 to
get BANYUETAN through the same arrangement. Beginning in January w )' 'also
started receiving, among others, CHANGJIANG RIBAO (Wuhan), CHONGQIN ,RIBAO
(Sichuan), NONGMIN RIBAO (the Peasant's Daily), and FAZHI BAO, the
mouthpiece of the central legal authorities. One major event which upped
our wordage was the 50th anniversary of the Zunyi Conference. The media
carried many items in connection with this historic meeting, including one
32-take piece from HONGQI. .-
The bureau's coverage of the Hong Kong AFP service also
contributed to the record wordage, with output surpassing 72,000.
B. Lateral Services
1. The bureau has reduced its file to the American Consulate in
Guangzhou, at their request. Consulate political officer Roberta Chew
visited the bureau on 7 January for a briefing and discussion of our file.
She said their circuit could no longer cope with all the FBIS traffic, as
much as they would like to continue receiving it. It was agreed to reduce
the file to items from nearby provinces of interest to the Consulate, Hong
Kong press items on those provinces, and some select items from the major
central press. Okinawa Bureau was also notified of the request to cut
down on the file. In followup correspondence last week, Ms. Chew advised
that the reduced file had greatly eased their communications problem and
that they might be able to receive some additional types of materials.
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2. At the personal request of Sharon Horton, head of the U.S.
Trade and Development Corporation/Asia Region, assigned to the Consulate,
the bureau translated into Chinese the text of an agreement between TDC
and the Government of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. Ms. Horton had
learned only late in the afternoon of the 31st that the Shenshen
Government wanted the agreement in Chinese, and the signing ceremony was
the following morning. Senior monitor Francis Ng produced the document in
beautiful calligraphy.
3. The bureau chief received a letter from the Consul ?ics
Section commendin the bureau in general, and senior editor
specifically, was praised for his quick assistance in racing down
requested articles on PRC economic reform. The letter expressed
appreciation for the "invaluable support" the bureau provided through its
"voluminous and accurate translations of the Chinese press" and its
"cooperative and professional on-the-spot responses to nebulous requests."
C. Technical
The bureau's microwave antenna--whose communications path with Mt.
Butler was threatened by a new 55-story building in Wanchai-- was
relocated on 18 January at the opposite end of the 14th floor, in the area
which had been our communications room. While the in-house relocation
solves our immediate problem, efforts to come up with a more secure
communications link to Mt. Butler continued during the month. The bureau
chief and senior technician Yeung held further talks with representatives
of Hong Kong Telephone Co. They have promised to let us know by late
March what kind of a system they could provide for us and its cost. (See
also Buildings and Grounds)
II. ADMINISTRATION
A. Personnel
1. Monitor gave notice on 25 January of his intent
to resign h.As bureau is presently one over
monitorial I/O, we do not intend to replace him for the time being.
2. an applicant for our teletype operator vacancy,
received medical and security clearances and is expected to EOD in late
February.
3. The Consulate has advised that the annual review of local
employee pay scales will be more extensive this year. The annual review
includes a study of pay scales for workers doing comparable work in
private industry and local government. The review this year will involve
a greater number of firms and a more concerted effort to match up types of
work when comparing pay. The notice seemed to acknowledge that pay
increases in private industry in 1984 had greatly exceeded those approved
by the State Department.
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B. Buildings and Grounds
All renovation work undertaken in late November to relocate the
bureau's communications room and microwave antenna was completed by the
end of the month. After relocation of the communications room in late
December, the old comma area (excluding the space which now houses the
microwave antenna) was converted into an employee dining area.
III. VISITS
A.
on 3 January during a private visit to Hong Kong.
visit to the bureau since taking over the job
to tie up some loose ends on arrangements we had made
publications.
This
visited the bureau
was her second
and it allowed us
with her to procure
B. were in town the first week of
January. While did not visit the bureau (having seen it during his
last visit here), some official matters did get discussed during a New
Year's Day lunch at the bureau chief's residence, a dinner at the deputy
chief's residence, and a trip to Stanley Market.
C.
Barbara Schrage, chief of the Consulate
Political Section,
political officer
Pat Delvecchio, and Roberta
Chew from the Consulate
in
Guangzhou visited
the bureau on 7 January for
a briefing on FBIS and
the
bureau.
STAT
D.
visited the bureau the afternoon Of the 24th during
an 8-hour
layover
en route
to Australia.
STAT
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