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             * C h i n a   N e w s   D i g e s t *

		    (ND Canada Service)

                       -- Feb 26 (I), 1990


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1. On UBC LYH Election and Its Story ................................... 78
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1. On UBC LYH Election and Its Story 
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Editor's Note:

In  every  university  in  Canada there is a Lian Yi Hui (LYH) to
serve  for  Chinese  students' benefits.   As a student organiza-
tion, LYH is elected annually by students.   This has been a com-
mon  practice  for  many years and has been recognized by Chinese
consulates.  But this year, when Chinese students in UBC informed
the  education  consul Mr Li Wong-Rong of the preparation for the
annual election, he strongly opposed to holding the election. The
consul  replied that it is pre-mature to hold election now, while
giving no hint on when it will be the "right time".

However,  the  annual  election was eventually held in UBC with a
record high voters' turnout.  The following is a very interesting
story about this event.

Mr.  Li Wong-Rong, a teacher from Chemistry Department of Beijing
University,  has  just replaced Mr. Liu Zaixiang as the education
consul in Vancouver.  We (NDCanada editors) would like to express
warm welcome to Mr. Li.  NDCanada is a widely-spread news channel
for Chinese students. It might also be an ideal choice for educa-
tion  consuls  in  Canada  if  they  have  any message concerning
Chinese students.

We are very interested in knowing the reason why Consul Li thinks
"it  is  not  the right time to hold annual election in UBC"  and
when  it  will be the right time?   It will be very much appreci-
ated  if  somebody  can send Consul Li a copy of this message and
ask  for an answer.   ND Editorial Board hereby promises that any
reply  message  from Consul Li will be carried in ND, without any
editing.      Please    send    reply   message,   if   any,   to
<rzhu@violet.uwaterloo.ca>.  Thank you very much.

--- NDCanada Editorial Board
    February 25, 1990
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               Story about LYH Election in UBC
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A general meeting of UBC LYH was held last Friday  and a new exe-
cutive  committee  of  four members who are all pro-democracy was
elected at the conference.

About  250  people, including students, scholars and their family
members,  showed  up.  174 members voted at the meeting.  This is
probably  the  largest  election  gathering in the history of UBC
LYH.   The  four  members in the new LYH execution committee were
elected with 170, 170, 158 and 151 yes votes.

After  the  election,  two  movies,  one of them from the Culture
office of the Consulate General of PRC in Vancouver, were shown.

Before  the  beginning  of  the meeting, some leaflets were found
around  the  Woodward  Library  where the meeting was to be held.
The  leaflets,  coming  from the Culture Office of PRC Consulate,
say  in  Chinese  that the sole purpose of lending movies  is  to
promote  Chinese culture and is not to support the election.  "If
we  knew  the movies would be shown in such an occasion, we would
not have provided it", say the leaflets.

Two  of  the preparing committee members borrowed two movies from
the  Culture  office without mentioning the election meeting.  It
seems that the officials felt they had been fooled when they were
told (most likely by the student spies at UBC) where, when and by
whom the movies would be shown.

Those  people  who  have close contact with the Consulate did not
show  up,  although they always claim themselves as Chinese movie
fans.

--- NDCanada Correspondents at UBC

NDCanada News Editor:  Rupert Zhu     rzhu@violet.uwaterloo.ca
NDCanada News Transmission:  Bo Chi   chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca
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