Sensitive: PX Protests, Tigers, More

Sensitive: PX Protests, Tigers, More

As of March 31, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).

Crackdown on Environmental Protest: The call to halt construction of a paraxylene (PX) processing plant in Maoming, Guangdong has been met with violent police suppression, according to online accounts.

 

Power Tigers Felled: On March 24, the central government announced the dismissal of Three Gorges Corporation’s chairman of the board and president, leading to speculation about an oncoming “seismic shift” in China’s energy industry [zh].

  • Three Gorges+tiger (三峡+老虎)
  • electric power+tiger (电力+老虎)

 

Blocked Name: Tan Zuoren (谭作人), who just completed a five-year prison sentence following his investigation of school collapses in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Via CDT Chinese.

weibo_enBrowse all of CDT’s collected sensitive words on our bilingual Google spreadsheet.

All Chinese-language words are tested using simplified characters. The same terms in traditional characters occasionally return different results.

CDT Chinese runs a project that crowd-sources filtered keywords on  search. CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We welcome readers to contribute to this project so that we can include the most up-to-date information.

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