china's parliament. the national people's congress is gathering for it's annual meeting in ba beijing. people's congress connecticut siss of three thousand delegates representing the country's 55 minority groups. as well as the majority chinese. officially the national people's congress is the top decision making body an legislative assembly. it's also responsible for electing the country's president. two-thirds of the delegates belong to china's communist party.

it's the world's largest political party and has held power for more than six years. [speaking foreign language] >> he teaches at the central party school in beijing where party elites are educated. he is editor a and chief of a nw book about the communist party. he has no doubt as to why the communist party is still in power. [speaking foreign language]

the 300 3000 dealt 300 3000 delt elected in general direct election. instead middl most of a a pointy regional and provincial assemblies having been first approved by the communist party. in northwestern china it's one of the five aton mist regongs. .

one. 60 delegates representing the people's congress. she is a pro professional dance instructor. in 2003 she was appointed a member of the national people's congress. [speaking foreign language]

despite growing prosperity there are conflicts for those that seek independence and the more settled chinese in july of 2009 violence erupted and 200 people were killed. many were jailed and others fled the country. but she dismisses the weaker demands for independence.

[speaking foreign language] she is not a member of the communist party. but she is a supporter of government policies. particularly economic policies inspired by the west. the communist party calls it socialism with chinese characteristics and is trying to combine socialism with the economy. >> i think it's quite compatible. we are pursuing a strategy of promoting socialist market markt

economy. it boils down to an issue of how to strike a balance between fairness, social justice and market competition to achieve the best result. that is the direction in which we are moving. >> but this balance between social justice on one hand and a market economy on the other is hard to achieve. this is made a parent by the a t by the mass demonstrations taking place throughout china every year. professor wong wee is a well known representative of a group of marxists. one of a ininfluential group in china. they are called "the new left". because of these developments

the social clash and the conflicts are even more sometimes intensified. these two faces will be the features of chinese future in the next case. this is my basic judgments. >> the most common protest are against municipal appropriation of farmer's land. the state owns the land the farmers have the right to cultivate it. the land is approac aapproach . the farmers are poorly compensated. this land wil will be demolisheo make way for state land.

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>> many of the protest in china are aimed at this kind of economic development. when residents of this village called a protest meeting police came and ended it. >> most of this mass evidence has to do with land appropriation in the rural areas. it's something that is occurring in the process of masszation. these mass in incidents do to te represent a th the current systf

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desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you. >> protests that just one of the signs of change in china, another is that increasingly, people are running as independent candidates, in local >> pro toast toastprotests are e for china. an independent candidate has no party support, only voter support. language professor has taken part in local pa politics in beijing since the mid 1980s.

>> some people say i'm against the party. against socialism, against this and against that. i feel i survived the cultural revolution. >> there is nothing i'm not afraid of anymore. >> once a week she meets with her si constituents in a small office on the university campus. >> i think, you know, being the people's deputy the most important thing is supervision, oversight. so you have to note the constitution, the policies, the laws very well. you should use the same yardstick to mis measure everyb. and the yardstick, the standard yardstick would be the constitution. and then that is fair. >> but i would say, in determines oin terms ofthe conse

progress. especially since 2004. two very, very important concepts have been added to the constitution. one is about human rights. another point is about private property. citizens lawful private property is in valuable. i think these two are very important. according to the constitution, the national people's congress has the supreme power. and then also in the constitution it says, no organization or individual is privileged to be beyond the constitution of the law. and yet, the chinese communist party is always above the

constitution. even in the part that's chatter it says the party should obey the constitution. and yet that is china. even in the party there is not enough over sight. oversight. with absoulte power, it produces absoulte corruption. this is a big, big problem. but you know, i'm confident with a future of china. why? because now more and more people are aware of their rights and they are fighting. they are standing up for their rights. and that is why i'm quite optimistic. >> corruption is one of the major problems facing chinese society. it can be found at every level and has remained deeply rooted

even during the last three deck decades of economic development. ♪ professor is a well known liberal representing another visible current in chinese politics. western observers compare them to social democrats. glinchaccording to china's libes capitalism is a prerequisite for capital development and they also want to see political reform. jirkjierks[speaking foreign lan]

ththe right to free speech is something china's liberals marxist and independents all emphasize. for them an for half a billion china nice, the internet has become a vital way of expressing their opinion. >> we need our space. a bigger space, i mean for the public fee bait and the discussion. that is very important. the media situation is not great. the first, we know that there is sensor ship issues. but it's not only the sensor ship. media on one hand links with the power and another hand is linked with the interest groups. they want the certain sayings to making money.

>> in the su summer of 2011 twof the country's high speed trains collided in a high speed crash, that was embarrassing to say the least for the chinese government. between the accident happened, you know, people didn't really respond so happily initially. but some of the local internet users went there to cough. cover. and they found that it's really horrible that an official of the train department they directed the team to bury the whole train cabin and they didn't check exactly how many people inside or if they are still ahive.

alive. so it caused a big anger an big dispute on-line over this case. and this case becomes many people's, i mean their waking up. ♪ isaac is one of china's middle t well known bloggers >> his organization is aiming to bring chinese users with technical systems to avert censocensorship. >> we need technical improvement to by pass the censorship system. we enable people u on how to go through that.

not just the edg engineers we nd the common people to have such knowledge. i don't plee pleef believe thata government will be able to disconnect the whole internet from the world, it's impossible. >> blogs and microblogs have become sort of a political platform. here one can say things which cannot be said anywhere else.

>> in china today i believe the public plays very much the roll position in the west. the pu public is becoming increasingly influential. the public is china is becoming very independent in it's judgment. and the cos government has to te

public concern very seriously. we have had numerous cases in which initiative in the public has caused policy changes b and adjustment by the government. there's more to financial news than the ups and downs of the dow. for instance, could striking workers in greece delay your retirement? i'm here to make the connections to your money real. millions who need assistance now. we appreciate you spending time with us tonight. up next is the golden age of hollywood going golden but elsewhere. why l.a.'s mayor has declared a state of emergency for the entertainment industry there. next.

a country that is rich in history is also rich in stories. three thousand years of story telling, chinese literature is considered among the oldest and the richest. even such a strong literary tradition images are taking over thank you television, the internet and the movies.

glcialtiotoday china is a movien with huge visions with plenty of money and many film directors film in china. and not far from the old chinese film metropolis of shanghai, a chinese hollywood is being built. >> the chinese film industry is booming and is fraught with problems. and has great potential. if you go to cinemas on weekends or not tuesday, because tuesday is half price, it's crowded. that is it a big change say from

i15 years ago when chinese cinea was pronounced to be dead. nobody was going to see any films. because people felt you can get anything you want at home from television screens or computer screens. that was a sign of change. the first sign of change came in is th191994 when ten big moviesm china and other countries were imported. they were not the first foreign movies that the chie chinese had seen. there were foreign movies before. starting in 1 19 1994 the forein movies were seen on a particular

basis. before that you went to the cinema to experience art or see a reflection of reality. but never as a consumer kind of experience. >> one. reasons foreign film directors want to come to china is this studio. it started with a farmer start g to build a chinese hollywood in his village. here you can see parts of shanghai as they were in the 1930s. it's also a tourist attraction.

>> what is special is that the founder of the group invested a lot of money in the late 1990s in this place and he waived the fees for directors and drama television makers to make films there. instead he makes money from tourists. >> if you look at his project 15 years ago, this guy is crazy. to come up with a plan, i want to build hollywood from scratch. right now he has the economy of

skill because he ha can attracte most groups.

>> one of china's middl most prt female film directors, decisions revenge". >> in tw 2000 i moved to the u.. an after i graduated i moved to los angeles for a couple of years. i had this dream. every film maker's dream, i

wanted to be a hollywood director one day. i got some cows from china. ther i got some calls from chin. chinese producers called me to come back and make a chinese feature. by then there is not a suc successful romantic comedy. in comie china the genre is stil young. sometimes they mix it up and they don't know how to sell romantic movies. a romantic comedy it must be a good chance to make it. ♪

>> warnewarner bros. china were interested and she read it and fell in love with the character an liked thand liked the script. that is how we started. it was very simple. it was like everyone told me in la, just write a good script, if the movie star likes it, you are in and you have a good movie. i think in the u.s. if you say, i want to make an action movie, they will say no. they only want you to make what you ar already made. but in china now i think there are the investor and the producer are more open minded. they are like, yeah, anything you want to do.

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♪ >> the extreme success of "crouching tiger, hidden dragon" opened the doors for many chinese film makers to let them know if you do your movies really well, not only can you be successful in china in your own home turf, but you can be accepted by a worldwide you a ae and that is really important. so that is an icon that did something totally unimaginable

to many people. and to follow suit the hero it's a martial arts movie with a lot of spectacles and lots of money in promotion. that was totally a new road for chinese films. we have tons of stories because we have a long history, we have 5,000 years of civilization. we have in absoulte terms, we have many, many more wonderful stories than the united states. it's the inability of our film makers to mine this richfield for good stories. it's the inability of them to tell these stories in a language that can be understood by everyone in the world. >> the chinese film industry may

rival the u.s. market in capital terms. that is all possible. another possibility is the bubble busting. >> so far chinese films have brought in a lot of money. popular movie topics are the literary classics. for example "dream of the red chamber" the dramatic events of china's modern history before, during and after the chinese revolution also inspire film makers. and many films are based on contemporary literature. take for example a 2011 film called "love for life". the film is based on a novel and is recounts aids in the 1 1990s

and thousands of farmers were infected with hiv through blood transfusions. ♪ [ he is one of china's most respected you a yo authors. his work has been translated into many languages. "love for life" is a highly acclaimed film. but the book it's based on cannot be sold in china.

the book was published in the province where he was born in the 195 1950s. his parents, who were farmers, could neither read nor write.

he has lived in beijing for many years. right now he is in the process of moving because his house is to be demolished to make room for an even taller building. a part of china's large peasant population in three decades has taken an economic leap. in a newly built big city.

a process not lacking in the absured. something which is a cherished topic. his writing is classified as magical realism and not without reason. but critically acclaimed and award winning novel "lennon's kisses" is referred to by many as china's 100 years of solitude.

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up next is the golden age of hollywood going golden but elsewhere. why l.a.'s mayor has declared a state of emergency for the entertainment industry there. next. >> many of china's contemporary writers get their inspiration from the cultural revolution. but two to topics are taboo. the protest in tiannamen square and the end of the 1950s when chiechina was looking for indusl rerevolution.

in his books he writes about the catastrophic consequences about the great leap forward which led to 3 30 million people dying frm starvation. it was in the 1980s after the

modermodcultural revolution thae chinchinese literature took sha. after that china needed an educational initiative to help develop the country. textbooks and fiction flourished. but today the interest in pick fiction seems to have waned.

more and more chinese readers are going on-line because it's here that the new book, new writers and the literary debate can be found. but beijing literary blogger is pessimistic about the new generation.

one o of the young authors that she blogs about is joh jiang fa. fangaz. she is very well known. two and a half million readers follow her microblog. at the age of 22 she has already written several books. she wrote her first one at the tender age of nine.

today she studies journalism in beijing. she has her own column in the magazine "new weekly" where she also writes editorials.

she is currently working on a new novel. she find herself unable to resist looking back. this young writer is trying to process the history of the people's republic of chinanat

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