The party leadership has decided to do whatever it can to uphold political stability in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic on October 1 next year.
And President Jiang Zemin's administration has ruled out the possibility of a 'second look' at the official verdict on the June 1989 democracy movement.
Beijing sources said yesterday the leadership had earmarked billions of yuan for the celebrations. The top attraction will be a huge military parade at Tiananmen Square, which will showcase ultra-modern weapons such as missiles.
The Beijing municipality has been given approval for a series of infrastructure and industrial projects, one of which will be a 'Chinese Silicon Valley' to be erected in the college district in northwestern Beijing.
Migrant labourers, mostly jobless men from the provinces, will be driven out of the city from the middle of 1999 to make way for the festivities.
A Western diplomat said the leadership had earlier re-activated a secretive Crisis Management Leading Group within the party Central Committee to handle challenges to the administration posed by dissidents and laid-off workers.
