A documentary by State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) has revealed how the Dalai Lama clique manipulated self-immolations in China’s Tibetan-inhabited areas.

The documentary, which was aired on Thursday evening, was created through in-depth research and interviews conducted by CCTV reporters in areas where the incidents took place.

In March, Banmajia, a 26-year-old villager, attempted to carry out a self-immolation in Seda county, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, but was stopped by police.

Local police found a suicide note written by him together with dozens of photocopies of the note. Banmajia said he wrote the suicide note in accordance with the so-called Self-immolation Guide, which circulated on the Internet.

[...]CCTV said there is no doubt that the guide is irrefutable evidence of the Dalai clique’s manipulation of self-immolations.

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Back in February, CCTV aired a report blaming U.S.-government funded Voice of America for “fomenting” Tibetan self-immolations with their broadcasts. By citing Tibetan blogger Woeser and looking to the CCTV special report, The South China Morning Post shows how CCTV’s media campaign is an effort to gain leverage in global perception of the Tibet situation:

The half-hour news feature is part of recent efforts by Chinese state media to change the narrative of Chinese control over Tibet. It is the fifth such video aired over the last year, writes Beijing-based Tibetan activist Tsering Woeser in a tweet.

[...]The report also accuses foreign media of perpetuating the symbolic suicides. “By continuing to speculate about immolations, Radio Free Asia and other foreign media participate in their propagation in Tibetan areas,” it claims.

To back up its claims, it – somewhat bizarrely – quotes a German language lecturer at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

“It’s a problem of the Western media and it’s a problem of the interests of the exiled Tibetans who … it’s a fact, the more trouble there is in Tibet, the more money they get,” says Otto Kölbl.

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More on the contents of this newest CCTV report and its aspirations to reach a global audience from the BBC:

The documentary, which will also be released in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian, is aimed at letting “the international community recognise the truth about self-immolation incidents”, CCTV says.

A transcript of the documentary outlines how “Dalai clique” members of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India allegedly posted “self-immolation instructions” on the internet to incite Tibetans in China to set themselves alight.

[...]“There is no doubt that this ‘self-immolation guidebook’ is irrefutable evidence on the Dalai clique planning and inciting Tibetan self-immolations,” the documentary asserts.

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The Dalai Lama himself has made efforts not to comment either for or against the practice of self-immolation, which has been used in Beijing’s campaign to emphasize the spiritual leader’s responsibility. A post from the Council on Foreign Relations “Asia Unbound” blog looks at the politics behind the Dalai Lama’s decision:

If the self-immolations have failed to galvanize international support, why hasn’t Dalai Lama used his moral authority to issue a public statement asking for Tibetans to stop the practice? It is widely believed that self-immolation cases would drop significantly if he makes such a move.  But Dalai Lama is facing a major dilemma over this issue. As a voice of peace and reason, he privately does not support self-immolation. Indeed, from the outset, he was said to be skeptical of how effective this approach would be.  But he has refrained from calling for an end of self-immolation. While he is still the unrivaled spiritual leader among Tibetans, his Middle Way Approach to resolve the Tibetan issue—which does not accept the status quo or political independence—through nonviolent means is increasingly challenged by the young generation, as represented by the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest NGO in the exile community.  They are increasingly frustrated and many have been radicalized by the lack of breakthrough in the negotiation between Dalai Lama’s representative and the Chinese central government that began in 2002.  Against this backdrop, self-immolation has been viewed by some as an extreme form of collective frustration and anger among the Tibetans.  Unless Dalai Lama is able to offer a viable alternative, his call for ending the practice would likely alienate his supporters, even draw backlash from the radical wing of his own constituency.  It’s because of this that he has expressed respect for the courage and motives of the self-immolators, despite his general disapproval of their behavior.[...]

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Since it opened its first restaurant in China in 1990, the American chain KFC has blanketed the country with thousands of outlets that offer Western-style fried chicken, hamburgers, and fries. While in the U.S. KFC symbolizes speedy, inexpensive food, in China it’s a symbol of quality. “Being able to dine in KFC once a month was a pride of my childhood,” said Wanqing He, a New York University student from Xinjiang. “It is still some kind of high-end restaurant in my hometown to average income families.”

But the aura of quality has faded fast in recent months, ever since China Economic Net, a government-owned online publication, published a November story revealing that a Chinese KFC supplier used banned antibiotics and hormones to raise its chickens.

The report set off a huge wave of criticism of KFC on weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. Then, in December, state-run China Central Television (CCTV) joined the critics, and the story accelerated.

In the CCTV story, reporter Yun Zhang reprimanded Yum Brands, KFC’s corporate owner. “Yum reaches a large group of consumers who trust in its food quality,” said Zhang, who challenged the company to “offer clear information about the number and consumption of these chickens. It has to give the public a satisfactory answer.”

The story was an unusual one – a relatively rare example of investigative journalism by CCTV, and even more attention-getting because the target was a foreign company. In fact, the KFC report may have signaled a shift in media rules in China: Foreign companies are now fair game for criticism and investigation. Apple learned that when it was compelled to apologize this month over criticism of its customer service policies.

The CCTV report on KFC, 15 minutes long, offered strong visuals. Tight video shots showed listless chickens, who spend 45 days from birth to slaughter, growing in overcrowded coops filled with waste. The CCTV reporter asked one farm worker if he would ever eat the meat he helped produce. No, came the answer. “Even the flies won’t come to this place, because it’s toxic.”

After that report, KFC, which earned 44 percent of its global revenues in China last year, saw sales in the country plummet by 24 percent in January and February. Bad feelings persist. One recent post on Weibo said, “I hope companies like KFC that sells these garbage foods will go bankrupt soon.”

But while foreign companies take a lashing, domestic enterprises are still far less likely to get investigative scrutiny in social or mainstream media.

According to an analysis by the Chinese news website 163.com, domestic food companies were not featured in any of the special Consumer Rights Day programs for the past three years in China, while McDonald’s and Carrefour were both criticized for food safety lapses. Another online site, China Food, reported that Chinese media exposed food scandals at 30 companies last year – nearly a third of them foreign firms, including KFC, McDonalds, Starbucks, Heinz, Nestle and Coca Cola. An editor at China Food, who declined to be identified, said Chinese media clearly feel freer to criticize foreign companies. “They have less concern when they deal with foreign companies because the companies are less connected with the government,” said the editor.

How CCTV reacted to another food safety scandal, this one involving domestic wine producer, Maotai, illustrates the different standard that appears to apply when media report on Chinese enterprises.

In December, a Weibo user posted a quality report, done by an independent company in Hong Kong, stating that toxic ingredients had been found in Maotai, a high-end wine often served at banquets for top officials. Mainstream domestic media largely ignored the independent assessment, but instead aired the accusations of a Maotai executive, who charged that the reports were a smear campaign instigated by competitors. The account of the Weibo user who posted the Hong Kong report was later suspended.

Jason Lee, a reporter from China Daily in Beijing, said that the mainstream media’s softer treatment for domestic firms was probably due to self-censorship, rather than any specific government order. But he said that the increasingly popular Weibo platform creates pressure on China’s state-owned media, particularly when it comes to reporting on foreign companies.

“People on social media would blame the problems of domestic companies on the lack of government regulations,” said Lee. “But they don’t make that kind of excuses for foreign companies.”

Wenxiong Zhang studied international affairs and English literature at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. He is currently a graduate student at Columbia Journalism School in New York, where he reports about China and Chinese immigrants in New York City. He contributed this article to CDT.

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Even China’s soft-power triumphs, such as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, have quickly turned stale. Not long after the last international athletes had departed, China’s domestic crackdown on human rights activists undercut its soft power gains. Again in 2009, the Shanghai Expo was a great success, but it was followed by the jailing of Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo and screens were dominated by scenes of an empty chair at the Oslo ceremonies. Putin might likewise count on a soft power boost from the Sochi Olympics, but if he continues to repress dissent, he, too, is likely to step on his own message.

China and Russia make the mistake of thinking that government is the main instrument of soft power. In today’s world, information is not scarce but attention is, and attention depends on credibility. Government propaganda is rarely credible. The best propaganda is not propaganda. For all the efforts to turn Xinhua and China Central Television into competitors to CNN and the BBC, there is little international audience for brittle propaganda. As the Economist noted about China, “the party has not bought into Mr. Nye’s view that soft power springs largely from individuals, the private sector, and civil society. So the government has taken to promoting ancient cultural icons whom it thinks might have global appeal.” But soft power doesn’t work that way. As Pang Zhongying of Renmin University put it, it highlights “a poverty of thought” among Chinese leaders.

Nye’s Economist quote is from a 2011 article on ‘Sun Tzu & The Art of Soft Power‘ which was previously featured, with additional commentary, on CDT.

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CCTV America Business News Anchor Phillip T.K. Yin was born and raised in the U.S. by parents who emigrated from mainland China. Yin used to work in investment and for CNBC and Bloomberg. He says he is mindful of the tension between the American tradition of an independent press and Chinese expectations that the media serve the state. And yet, he says, CCTV America has broadcast interviews involving allegations of major computer hacking incidents originating in China — hardly a flattering story.

“It’s changing very quickly,” Yin says. “I can tell you even from the time that we came onboard here to where we are today, we’ve changed a lot. We’re covering stories from sometimes very controversial angles.”

[...]Orville Schell, a veteran journalist and founder of the website ChinaFile, sees a somewhat different dynamic at work: the Chinese state seeking to exercise soft power, a way to project influence through ideas and culture rather than the display of military might.

“This fixation on soft power arises from their deep and abiding insecurity and sense of not being respected and of being hectored and bullied by the world over the last century and a half,” he says.

CCTV’s entrance into the American media landscape comes as part of larger soft power campaign to expand China’s presence in overseas news media, which has also seen Beijing increase its media presence in Africa. While CCTV America has been criticized for downplaying sensitive China stories, it has also been noted that their coverage of some topics sensitive in the U.S. have been harder-hitting than many of America’s domestic media outlets.

For more on soft power, external propaganda, or China’s state-run media, see prior CDT coverage.

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Extensive non-coverage of the H7N9 bird flu, which has sickened and killed several patients in Shanghai and surrounding provinces.

The April 5th edition of CCTV’s flagship evening news program News Simulcast did not mention a word about the H7N9 strain of bird flu, which has already claimed six lives. Instead, it dwelt on the tidal bore coming up the Amazon River and, taking advantage of the “Sino-African honey moon” following Xi Jinping’s visit, the Great Migration on the Serengeti. CCTV has manifest its “selective blindness” before, such as when it covered Hurricane Sandy but ignored protests in Ningbo.

This has triggered harsh criticism online. One Weibo user posted a list of topics covered in today’s broadcast:

News Simulcast Program, April 5, 2013

1. Xi Jinping holds ceremony to welcome Bruneian Sultan Hassanal’s visit to China.
2. Xi Jinping holds talks with Bruneian Sultan Hassanal. The two heads of state decide to promote the Sino-Bruneian relationship to the level of “strategic cooperation.”
3. Xi Jinping holds ceremony to welcome Burmese president’s visit to China.
4. During his meeting with Burmese president Thein Sein, Xi Jinping emphasizes the need to strictly hold to the correct direction, ceaselessly push forward the Sino-Burmese friendship.
5. Li Keqiang meets with Bruneian Sultan Hassanal.
6. Zhang Dejiang meets with Bruneian Sultan Hassanal.
7. For the first time, the Boao Forum for Asia will include political leaders and issues from all five continents.
8. Amazon River awaits tidal bore. Our reporters are carefully preparing for live broadcast.
9. Report on 2013 Great Migration in East Africa.
10. President of Tanzania: CCTV’s live broadcast on Great Migration is exceptionally meaningful.
11. Shanxi: Getting through “the last kilometer” of agrarian hydraulic project.
12. 【News Feature】Morticians: Understanding is as precious as life.
13. Domestic news bulletin.
14. Second round of dialogue of Iran nuclear crisis takes place in Almaty.

Popular “weiber” Zuoyeben weighs in:

@作业本: Sina Weibo is brimming with discussion of the bird flu, while News Simulcast doesn’t even say a word. Now that’s the biggest gap in the world.

Zuoyeben has 5.51 million followers on Sina Weibo.

新浪微博满屏都是禽流感的消息，新闻联播一字没提，这就是世界上最遥远的距离。

“H7N9″ is currently the second hottest topic on Weibo, followed by “bird flu.” At the same time, some weibo critical of the government’s delay in reporting flu cases have been deleted.

More Weibo commentary:

@温州张宏良: Nothing about the H7N9 avian flu. News Simulcast has been reduced to a journalistic disgrace!

没有H7N9禽流感新闻，《新闻联播》已沦为新闻的耻辱！

@袁道唯: If the virus were had taken lives in Europe or the U.S., you can imagine how much CCTV would flog the story.

要是这病毒是在欧美整出人命，可以想像央视会多么地连篇累牍。

@ 威尼斯的彩虹-ljf: CCTV is no longer the people’s television station–if it ever had been! It only exists to make profit and numb the masses. Is anyone still watching CCTV? Does anyone still need the brain-washing?

央视已经不是人民的电视台，或者一直都不是！它只不过是追求利润，麻木大众的工具而已。大家还要看央视，还要被洗脑吗？

@秦前红: The issues at home, the bird flu, water pollution, the dead pigs, none of these get covered, but you run around reporting on tidal waves in Brazil and Africa’s Great Migration. CCTV is pretty damn sick!

自己的禽流感、水污染、死猪事件等全部不播，却跑去播巴西潮水、非洲动物迁徙，央视真TM有病！

Via CDT Chinese. Translation by Mengyu Dong.

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Mr. Cook said in the letter that the company deeply reflected on recent “feedback” on its warranty policies and apologized for misunderstandings created by poor communication with consumers.

“We are aware that a lack of communications…led to the perception that Apple is arrogant and doesn’t care or attach enough importance to consumer feedback,” Mr. Cook said, according to the letter. “We express our sincere apologies for any concerns or misunderstandings this gave consumers.”

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In the letter, Mr. Cook said the company would amend its warranty policies for the iPhone 4 and 4S, streamline its customer feedback, give further training to Apple authorized resellers on warranty policy, and more clearly post its warranty policy on its website. He added that about 90% of consumers had been satisfied with its earlier repair policy.

Cook’s apology comes nearly three weeks after an annual CCTV program about consumer safety and rights criticized Apple for charging Chinese customers a fee to replace the back cover of iPhones, a service offered free of charge in other countries. Apple did not respond at the time, and other state media organizations stepped up their coverage of the issue. A number of celebrities chimed in on social media as well, though netizens suspected that some had done so at the request of CCTV. Then, last week, China’s quality inspection regulator said it would tighten its oversight on the company.

Reuters noted that Cook’s letter “highlights the importance of the market for Apple,” given that revenue from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong grew 60 percent in the first quarter this year. Apple may have played it smart by apologizing, according to observers who spoke with The New York Times:

Bill Bishop, a Beijing technology analyst and publisher of the online newsletter Sinocism China, said it was difficult to know what prompted the investigation by the state media, but he noted that Apple’s explosive growth in China might have outpaced the company’s ability to fully train and prepare its work force and management team to deal with the challenges of the Chinese market.

“Whatever the merits of the case, Apple’s not going to win here,” Mr. Bishop said in an interview Monday. “Apple can’t fight this.”

Anna Han, an associate professor of law at Santa Clara University, said Mr. Cook’s letter of apology was a smart tactic and a “very Chinese thing to do.” She compared it with public apologies that plaintiffs will sometimes ask for from defendants in Chinese courts. That action, combined with the change in its warranty policy, “sort of takes the wind out of the government’s sails,” said Ms. Han, who advises American companies doing business in China.

“It says, ‘We’re accused of something and we’re doing something about it.’ ”

In his weekly China Insider column for The New York Times, which was published before Cook’s letter was issued, Sinocism’s Bill Bishop reiterated his stance that “Apple cannot win this fight”:

Apple looks to have a serious government and public relations problem that will require a much more proactive and forthright response than what the company has done so far. Dribbling out a petulant apology akin to its response to the problems with the 2010 iPhone 4 antenna will not work in China.

The standard response by a foreign company in China facing this kind of onslaught is to make public and private apologies, emphasize its commitment and contributions to China and dispatch senior executives from headquarters to make the rounds of the relevant Chinese government entities. Apple may also have to begin a new service for China, one it may also be able to sell to other foreign enterprises. It’s name? The iKowtow.

Investors have reason to be concerned. Between this brouhaha, the increased competition from Samsung and other high-end Android phones and the crackdown on corruption that is denting the gifting culture, Apple’s results in China for its current quarter may be disappointing, even though this is the first full quarter in which the iPhone 5 has been on sale in China.

The state-run Global Times claimed in a Tuesday editorial that the apology “benefits all sides:”

As the world’s leading high-tech enterprise, Apple can adjust its attitude in a timely manner, showing its professionalism and flexibility. Its reaction is worth respect compared with other American companies. CCTV also deserves our respect and encouragement for daring to criticize a business giant like Apple.

China’s market economy has experienced soaring development, while its rules are not mature enough and laws not so sound. Some international companies have not behaved well in China, and even treated Chinese customers differently to customers in other countries.

The blame should not only lie in foreign companies, but also China’s business environment. Having said that, the supervision by Chinese media is absolutely justified. Making sure the Chinese market is more regulated and Chinese law binding to both Chinese and foreign companies will benefit global investors, including companies such as Apple, which relies more and more on the Chinese market.

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The public mood seemed to be favourable for CCTV until around 8:26pm, when Taiwanese actor Peter Ho, posted the following message on his Weibo: “Apple plays so many tricks with their customer service? I feel hurt as an Apple fan. Have you done right by [Steve] Jobs? Have you done right by boys who sell their kidneys [to buy iphones], he asked, adding: “this is an example of big-name shops bullying customers.”

Ho’s message ended with a short line which soon became notorious: “To publish around 8.20pm.”

But it was nothing to be missed by sharp-eyed netizens and eager fans.

Minutes later, criticism, speculation and theories were posted on Weibo about Ho’s 8.20pm statement.

Within two hours, Ho claimed in a new post that somebody had commandeered his Weibo account and posted the controversial message. But the post had gone viral before authorities censored it, according to the Atlantic’s Liz Carter, and the incident was picked up by every major Chinese news organization. Netizens ridiculed both Ho and CCTV, and one well-known author who had denied on his Weibo that he had accepted money to post supportive comments. Kaifu Lee, the Google executive and well-known blogger who had not joined the fray, admitted that CCTV had invited him to post comments.

The chatter continued into Monday, according to David Bandurski at the China Media Project, who posted a screenshot of Peter Ho’s Weibo account. Bandurski also partially translated a blog post from Chinese writer Li Chengpeng which chided CCTV for its behavior:

It’s not that you can’t do some things on and off the air to go along with the fight against fakes. But you cannot use public power to make targeted strikes against those who aren’t your major advertisers. Of course you can criticise Apple, but you cannot let all of these domestically manufactured fraudulent goods off the hook when you could so easily investigate them, then turn a harsh and uncompromising eye on a mobile brand that leads the world in overall quality — even making it out to be something of great concern to the people, a form of national discrimination . . . The thing is, you’ve always done things this way. You act all the time like you don’t give a damn about your own face, and then you place the condom of state power over the instrument of your own private profit.

Those enterprises are bad, but what you’re doing is disgusting. A massive network like yours, with massive channel resources in your grasp and high-level contacts, but your creativity is such that you can only be compared to [propaganda] megaphone shouting over the countryside . . . .

You turn your eyes from knife attacks on our own children, but focus your attention on tragedies at schools overseas; you don’t criticize the way our own congresses have gathered like so many artificial limbs for 60-odd years, but always mock the way shoes have been thrown again in a parliament in some other country. You’ve never questioned why officials in our country don’t open up about their assets (great, so on this issue we must thank foreign reporters for asking this question at press conferences), but you take great joy in reporting about some government official overseas who got caught using public funds to buy a bottle of wine. Yes, there are certainly many untoward things happening outside China — poisonous foods, corrupt officials, poverty. But no matter how many of these dirty stories there are overseas, what the hell do these have to do with me? I don’t have family there. I criticize ugly things in China because these do harm to my own family (Oh, I see, so perhaps you criticize things overseas so much because you own relatives have already . . . ?). You are China’s national television network, so you should be criticizing more things happening right beside you. That’s how you contribute to your own country. Is it so hard for you to understand this simple concept?

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Naw Kham’s wry smile belied his macabre circumstances. “I haven’t been able to sleep for two days. I have been thinking too much. I miss my mum. I don’t want my children to be like me,” the 44-year-old Burmese druglord, chained to a chair, told a Chinese TV interviewer.

On Friday – two days after the interview – the Burmese freshwater pirate was executed for allegedly murdering a crew of Chinese sailors on the Mekong river in October, 2011. His last moments were aired on state television.

In the two-hour live broadcast, black-clad police officers hauled Naw Kham from a detention centre in southern China, bound him with ropes and chains, and bundled him on to a bus bound for the execution site. Three of his alleged henchmen followed in similar fashion. They were each killed – off camera – by lethal injection.

Though a rumored live broadcast of the actual executions failed to materialize, the TV coverage attracted heavy criticism. “It’s hard to see how that spectacle doesn’t violate [the] prohibition on parading condemned in the streets,” tweeted human rights researcher Joshua Rosenzweig, referring to a 1984 ban introduced to avoid unfavorable foreign media coverage. Human Rights Watch’s Nicholas Bequelin commented that China had “just wiped away any perception that it was making progress on the death penalty issue.” Within China, reactions to the broadcast were deeply polarized. From Andrew Jacobs at The New York Times:

“Rather than showcasing rule of law, the program displayed state control over human life in a manner designed to attract gawkers,” Han Youyi, a criminal law professor, wrote via microblog. “State-administered violence is no loftier than criminal violence.”

[…] In one segment, Liu Yuejin, director general of the central government’s Narcotics Control Bureau, cast the executions as a pivotal moment for a newly confident China and for ethnic Chinese across the globe. “In the past, overseas Chinese dared not say they were of Chinese origin,” said Mr. Liu, who led the task force that spent six months hunting the culprits. “Now they can hold their heads high and be themselves.”

Supporters of the program were many, and enthusiastic. One blogger suggested that death by lethal injection was too lenient, adding “These beasts should be pulled apart by vehicles.”

Some critics said the broadcast, and the subsequent public gloating, displayed an ugly side of China and would hurt its image abroad. To Murong Xuecun, a well-known Chinese author, the program revealed a national psyche, fed by decades of Communist Party propaganda, that craves vengeance for the years of humiliation by foreigners. “It proves that hatred-education still has a market in China,” he said in an interview.

At Bloomberg World View, Adam Minter described the spectacle as a “graphic extension” of a broader political strategy:

[…] Over the last two years the Chinese government has found itself embroiled in increasingly dangerous sovereignty disputes with its Southeast Asian and Japanese neighbors. So far, diplomacy has been the preferred course of action. Yet on China’s decidedly nationalistic and highly influential microblogging platforms, diplomacy — especially on sovereignty issues — is unpopular and viewed as a sign of weakness.

In response, the Chinese government and its official media tribunals have carefully ratcheted up the aggressive rhetoric, especially toward Japan, since the fall of 2012, reminding Chinese that they will not be bullied by outside forces. Rather, if there will be any bullying, China will be doing it.

A 2012 Reuters investigation into the Mekong murders described the web of trafficking in drugs, humans and endangered animals in Southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle”, and Naw Kham’s legendary or perhaps mythical place in it. The report also highlighted the possible involvement of an elite Thai anti-drugs unit in the killings.

China’s Global Times recently revealed that authorities had considered killing Naw Kham with a drone strike instead of capturing him. See more on China’s drone programs, and more on the death penalty in China, via CDT.

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很黄很暴力 (hěn huáng hěn bàolì): very erotic, very violent

“Very erotic, very violent!”

In a December 2007 segment produced by CCTV’s flagship program News Simulcast (新闻联播 Xīnwén Liánbō) on the easy availability of “unhealthy and vulgar Internet content,” a young girl fretted, “The last time that I got on the Internet to search for information, a web page popped up suddenly. It was very erotic and very violent. I hurried and closed the page.” (Her appearance is available in Chinese on YouTube here.)

Netizens wondered how a web page could be both violent and erotic (sadomasochistic web pages are extremely rare in China) and how such a website could appear unless the girl was looking for such content (which would be unlikely given her age). People suspected that she had been fed her lines.

Her statement is similar to that of Gao Ye, who claimed that his friend had become very disturbed from viewing pornographic content on the web. Gao Ye was later outed as a CCTV intern.

“Very erotic, very violent” has stood the test of time: a search for the phrase on Weibo in February 2013 returned over two million results.

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CCTV reported on the People’s Daily article “The Internet is Not Outside the Law” on its prime-time news show.

When CCTV aired V for Vendetta, uncut, last Friday, netizens thought it was a sign that reform is truly on its way. They were a bit crushed, then, to read a signed article in Tuesday’s People’s Daily entitled “The Internet is Not Outside the Law.” The official media should at least hold itself to the same standards as netizens are now being asked to, savvy commenters complain. Some worry the article marks an official response to a series of “Internet anti-corruption” efforts in which human flesh searches and vocal complaint about abuses of power have forced the government’s hand. Everything from luxury watch collections to bedroom antics have been exposed online, costing a number of officials their jobs. Will the censors now crack down on Internet justice?

From Weibo:

author-blessing: The Internet is not outside the law? In that case, please respect the constitution; do not delete comments as you please, do not detain people as you please, and do not wield labor re-education as you please.

作家-天佑:网络不是法外之地？那请你们尊重宪法，不要随便删帖，不要随便抓人，不要随便劳教。

JinningMantouMonster: On the one hand, you people take in an astronomical amount of advertising money, and on the other, you enjoy lucrative government funding. On top of all that, you retain exclusive privileges to the Spring Festival Gala and special rights to broadcast your news show over every local satellite channel every day from 7-7:30 p.m. You’re half government and half business, and yet you have the audacity to talk to me about the rule of law? Piss off!

馒头妖在金宁：你们，一边收着天价的广告费，一边享受着财政拨款，还占着除夕晚会的特权、每天19:00-19:30强制地方卫视性转播你家新闻的特权，半官半商，居然还有脸给我说法制？死滚！

ZhaoChu: CCTV’s News Simulcast publicized a People’s Daily article about how “the Internet is not outside of the law.” Not bad. According to the universal, modern principles of the rule of law, nothing should fall outside the boundaries of the law. However, I wish to inform CCTV and People’s Daily of the following: every office of every level of the Party and the government, all heavily guarded secret government locations, and even the two of you, which are government-funded and operated, should even more so not exist outside the boundaries of the law.

赵 楚 : CCTV新闻联播高调转发《人民日报》文章，说什么“网络不是法外之地”，不错，按照普世的现代法治原则，没有任何地方应该成为法外之地，但是，我想在这 里告诉央视和《人民日报》：各级党政的办公楼以及各种戒备森严的官家秘密场所，连同你们两家以公帑运营的媒体，更不应该成为法外之地。

HeBin: So CCTV is the only one outside of the law?

何兵: 央视才是法外之地？

Evan_Chen: Government officials should not do their work outside of the law, yet your corruption is impossible to ignore. News Simulcast should not speak outside the law, yet you continue to spew nothing but lies. No offense, but my level of acceptance for this government and this TV station is zero.

Evan_Chen的微博：国家公务人员也不是法外职务，但你照贪不误；新闻联播不是法外之言，但你依旧谎话连篇。不客气的说，我对这个政府和这个电视台的认可度是零。

PoliteYoungMaster: Totally, man! It’s only the government that is outside the effing boundaries of the law!

和气大少爷：那是，那是！官场才是尼玛法外之地！

chuyoo: What the crap… I’m a law-abiding citizen! But are you sure you’re in accordance with the law?

chuyoo：卧槽，我可是遵纪守法滴。。你们有没有按照法律来呢？

NanQianZhu: In today’s China, justice is found mostly online. Democracy is found mostly online. Law-abiding citizens, for the most part, I’m afraid, are found mostly online. The Internet is virtually the only channel through which Chinese can freely access information. The Internet and the country’s citizens aren’t outside the law–that’s the domain of the government and corporations.

南千住：现在的中国，最多的正义在网上，最多的民主在网上，最守法的公民怕也多在网上。网络几乎是唯一可以自由得到信息的途径。法外之地不在网络不在民众，在官在商。

HeartwoodLife: For the most part, signed People’s Daily articles don’t actually represent the work or views of an individual. Even though an author’s name is given, it name obviously represents the combined views of a given organization. For example, take Zhong Xuanli. That’s obviously the Central Propaganda Ministry’s Indoctrination Bureau. And Zhong Zuwen is the Central Organization Department. Actually, precedent for this kind of tactic dates back to ancient times.

心木生活：人民日报的署名文章一般都不是代表个人，尽管都有署名，其实这个署名一看就知道是某个机构的谐音。比如仲轩理，就是中共中央宣传部理论局，仲祖文就是中共中央组织部。其实这种传统古而有之。

China Media Project all points out that the name of the article’s author, Mo Jinjin, is likely a fictional commentator representing an entire government department.

WenZhige: These fucking mouthpieces… First they say the law is not a shield, and then they say the Internet is not outside the law. What kind of ass-backwards logic is this?

文止戈：这些狗日的喉舌，一会儿说法律不是挡箭牌，一会儿说网络不是法外之地，这是什么狗屁逻辑？

Accener: Those watch brothers and house uncles must be scared now.

Accener：表哥房叔们害怕了

LiZhiyongLawyer: Can’t take it anymore?

李志勇律师：受不了了？

ToriWine: Of course they’ve come out with an article like this. All those watch brothers are really taking a hit from Weibo.

东篱把酒V：这是必然的，微博已经严重影响各种表哥的发展。

LeisurelyFuton: In that case, I want to say something too: the Communist Party should not retain the special right to override the constitution.

悠闲居士的蒲团：那我也想说一句。共产党不是凌驾宪法的特权政党。

Read more untranslated comments at CDT Chinese.

Translation by Little Bluegill.

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The CCTV logo, with a vendetta.

V for Vendetta, the 2005 film about a secretive, anti-totalitarian masked crusader, has long been banned in China. So when CCTV aired the uncut film today, viewers couldn’t believe their eyes. The event is now the second-most discussed topic on Weibo.

The official Weibo account @CCTV6WatchMoviesonTV announced this breakthrough moment:

CCTV6WatchMoviesonTV: V for Vendetta is on tonight at 9:52 p.m. We’ll post the plot synopsis in advance. Movie-lovers, get ready for a treat!

CCTV6打开电视看电影：《V字别动队》今晚21:52播出，提前预告剧情，影迷们可以先过过瘾哦

CCTV acknowledges that plenty of people have seen V for Vendetta despite the ban. Pirated DVDs and downloads make it easy for savvy people to see any film or TV show they like.

CCTV6’s weibo was reposted over 400 times, but has zero comments. It’s likely any comments posted were deleted.

Shocked netizens are wondering what this moment could mean for the future of censorship in China:

NotKouDe: These past few months, not only has CCTV broadcasted an interview with “Labor Camp University Village Official Ren Jianyu,” last night they also aired a film that is considered a metaphorical criticism of government–“V For Vendetta.” It’s been one unbelievable action after another! Could they be testing the waters for greater room for free speech? Or perhaps this was just the new leadership trying to butter up us rabble?

我不是寇德：最近这个月，央视不仅播放了被“劳教的大学村官任建宇”的采访，昨晚更是播放了被认为是带有暗喻政府意味的#V字仇杀队#，接二连三让人惊讶的行为，这会是言论放宽的探路石么？又或者只是新领导上台给我等屁民的一点甜头而已？

HulijunBigAdventure: Artists use lies to tell the truth. Politicians use lies to cover up the truth. In an unprecedented move, CCTV broadcasted “V For Vendetta” for the very first time, and it’s cause for celebration. It has given people hope for reform. Ideas are bulletproof.

狐狸君的人生大冒险：艺术家用谎言道出真相，政客用谎言掩盖真相。央视第一次在大陆破天荒地播放《V字仇杀队》是可喜可贺的，让人民看到了改革的希望。思想是不怕子弹的。

BeijingGrassrootsPeoplesRadio: At 10 p.m. this evening, CCTV will broadcast the film V For Vendetta. Because of this film’s anti-dictatorship, freedom-fighting message, it was previously banned by the government. Although everyone online is very familiar with the film, this is its first open broadcasted on television–by none other than CCTV. Does this signal that the government will relax its control of the media and the Internet a bit? Let’s all tune in at 10 and witness this historical moment together.

北 京草根人民广播电台：今天晚上十点，CCTV6将播出电影《V字仇杀队》，这部反对独裁，争取自由的电影历来是被政府列为禁片的，虽然在网络上为众人所熟 知，但是在大陆公开放映这还是第一次，并且还在中央电视台，这似乎也向大家传递出一个信号，政府对于媒体和网络的管制在一点点解除？十点让我们来一起见证 这一历史性的时刻。

HammerheadScrewdriver: Holy crap! Later tonight I’ll to have go check to see if it was cut off.

锤子头镰刀刃：我擦,今晚上回去看看有没有删改. (12月14日 16:28)

“CCTV airs V for Vendetta” is the second-most discussed topic on Weibo right now.

In fact, it wasn’t cut off.

Qiushuidanyuou: December 21, 2012 is coming! Unbelievably, Imperial Court TV is going to broadcast V For Vendetta! And to think, when I wrote an online review of the movie back in the day, it was deleted.

秋水淡于鸥：2012，12，21就要到了~朝廷台居然也放V字仇杀队了，想当年我写在天涯的影评都被结扎了

Some people have pointed out that CCTV has rendered the film’s title as “V Commando Team” (V字别动队), instead of using the common “V Revenge Killing Squad” (V字仇杀队):

ZhanZhaofengNoSuspense: #V Commando Team# Christ, what is this “V Commando Team” crap? They can’t even type out the two characters for “vendetta”?

湛兆丰无悬念：#V字仇杀队# 天，什么V字别动队，仇杀两个字不能打出来么

Netizens who have scaled the wall are sharing their excitement on Twitter:

CCTV连《V字仇杀队》都能播放了，这难道不是新班子决心改革的前兆？莫非是临时工干的？

— 此俊杰非彼俊杰 (@chengjunjie001) December 14, 2012

chengjunjie001: Even something like “V For Vendetta” can be aired on CCTV now. Could this be sign the new leadership team has really committed to enacting reform? Unless this was just another temp worker mistake…

CCTV6完整播出了《V字别动队》（《V字仇杀队》），并未中断。

— 北风（温云超） (@wenyunchao) December 14, 2012

wenyunchao: CCTV6 aired the entirety of V for Vendetta, and didn’t cut it off in the middle.

这部好片子现在这个形势下放映太合时宜了。独裁者、牢狱、秘密警察、媒体控制、人祸横行、清除“异端”…… 恐惧、逃避、质疑谎言、战胜恐惧、反抗、推翻暴政…… 中国的专制者和公民也是如此关系。RT@wenyunchao CCTV6完整播出了《V字别动队》（《V字仇杀队》），并未中断。

— Hu Jia 胡佳 (@hu_jia) December 14, 2012

hu_jia: This great film couldn’t be any more appropriate for our current situation. Dictators, prisons, secret police, control of the media, man-made disasters, eliminating “heretics”… terror, evasion, questioning lies, victory over fear, resistance, overthrowing tyranny… So, too, is the relationship between China’s dictators and its citizens.

@Kunshou shared a Photoshopped version of Xinwen Lianbo, paraphrasing the scene in which V hijacks the state broadcasting system to issue a call for revolution:

Back on Weibo, Southern Weekend elicited hopeful comments from its readers:

SouthernDaily: -CCTV Airs “V Commando Team”- People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.–V Commando Team will air on the evening of December 14 on CCTV6. As one Internet user said, “[The protagonist] is a terrorist, a crazy person, a gentleman, a thinker, a revolutionary and, in the eyes of the government, a major villain. He symbolizes resistance and advocates the use of violence to liberate the minds of an oppressed people. Tonight, CCTV’s broadcast has many Internet users feeling ‘very surprised.’”

南方日报：【央视播出“V字 别动队”】人民不应该害怕政府，政府应该害怕人民——V字别动队(12月14日晚CCTV6）原名“V字仇杀队”。有网友评价说：他是一名恐怖分子，疯 子，绅士，思想家，革命家，政府眼里的大反派。他象征反抗，崇尚暴力主义来解放被压迫的人民的心灵。今晚，央视播出让很多网友“很意外”。

This reader rejoices:

Jingtingsongfeng: Sooner or later, there will come a day when we’ll all become V!

靜聽松風-：终有一天，我们都会变成V！

Translation by Little Bluegill.

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Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The original publication date is noted after the directives; the date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source.

Central Propaganda Department: Regarding personnel changes and the disclosure of personal finances of officials at the provincial level and above, without exception employ Xinhua wire copy, do not change headlines, and do not independently produce other reports or commentary. (December 4, 2012)

中宣部：对省部级以上官员工作岗位职务变动以及官员财产申报相关问题，一律采用新华社通稿，不改标题，不自行作其他报道评论。

Central Propaganda Department: In covering international issues, especially those involving Japan and North Korea, strictly adhere to the approach of Xinhua wire copy and declarations by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Do not voluntarily investigate or comment these issues. (December 4, 2012)

中宣部：对国际问题特别是涉日、朝的报道严格按新华社通稿和外交部对外表态口径刊播，不自采自评。

Central Propaganda Department: Follow previous notices and requests in reporting on Mo Yan’s trip to Sweden to receive the [Nobel] prize. Utilize copy from Xinhua, CCTV and similar major media outlets. Do not reuse related information from online sources or foreign media. (December 7, 2012)

中宣部：对莫言赴瑞典领奖的报道按此前通知要求，采用新华社、央视等中央主要媒体的稿件，不转载网上和境外媒体相关消息。

Central Propaganda Department: All media are not to republish, report, or comment on the report issued by the civic group Beijing Xing which says 90% of migrant workers in the construction industry do not have contracts or insurance. (December 7, 2012)

中宣部：对民间组织北京行发布报告称九成建筑业农民工无合同无保险，各媒体不转载不报道不评论。

Central Propaganda Department: All media are not to republish, report, or comment on the online rumor that Beijing Traffic Management Bureau Director Song Jianguo has been investigated. (December 7, 2012)

中宣部：对网传北京交管局长宋建国被调查，各媒体不转载不报道不评论。

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The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media.

21 June 2006, 8:59, Fan Tao

If the comment article “Changes in the Final Structure of the Allocation of Our National Income, Tilted Towards Government” from the Shanghai Securities Daily appears on any website, please speedily delete it! Please acknowledge receipt!

22 June 2006, 9:00, Chen Hua

Search for, comb out and shield “Summary of the Xishan Meeting” and corresponding content; concerning the matter of a female student being killed in a collision on the campus of Guangdong Agricultural University, do not report or discuss it.

22 June 2006, 11:32, Chen Hua

I:

(1) Concerning “Removing Officials and Bringing Down the Cabinet,” “The Nasty Case of the Son-In-Law of Chen Shui-bian” and other matters on Taiwan, only report it, do not comment or guess on it, it is not permitted to use foreign media commentary.

(2) The development of the main reporting on the state of affairs, must be subject to quantity control of news reports in this regard, about 100 articles.

(3) Do not make netizens’ posts or blogged articles into official news for transmission, where forum, tracker or blog discussions become extreme, irrational or not beneficial to the grand scheme of achieving national unification, where discussions seize the opportunity to attack our policies towards Taiwan or attack our social system, or where there is unlawful or harmful information, this must be timely deleted.

(4) For reports concerning the situation on Taiwan, only reprint Xinhua copy, it is not permitted to edit and translate foreign media information.

(5) For major sudden incidents, propaganda discipline must be strictly obeyed, only transmit Xinhua copy, it is not permitted to gather or edit information by oneself, it is not permitted to publish comments without authorization, it is not permitted to edit and release foreign media information, articles or comments.

II: Some media reported that the “Pioneer” group president Liu Xiaoguang is under investigation of the Central Discipline Inspection Committee and that the Hong Kong traded company “Pioneer Enterprises” has been removed from the stock market in Hong Kong, on the basis of reports from the Beijing side, the above information does not conform to the facts, websites are not to reprint it without exception, existing information must be immediately removed, forums and blogs are also not to post this.

22 June 2006, 11:54, Wu Haihong

(On the basis of telephone content records, 1, 2 and 4 are titles, 3 is the corresponding event, there is no title.)

I: Female Student Dies on Some Guangdong University Campus After Being Hit by Military Vehicle

II: Power Outage at Some Sichuan University Incited Student Riot

III: Delete all reports concerning the student riot in Zhengzhou University (there is no title).

IV: Riots at Shanxi Zhongbei University Because of Dormitory Move.

22 June 2006, 12:48, Chen Hua

Urgent. Please rapidly screen out the matter of a large-scale student riot at Zhengzhou University Economy and Trade Faculty, rapidly screen out, search for and block this, do not report anything influences stability at Beijing higher education institutes, notify educational channels and blogs.

22 June 2006, 17:17, Fan Tao

Search for and delete non-Xinhua copy concerning the “incident of the Fujian Industry and Commerce Bureau Director Zhou Jinhui fleeing abroad” published on websites, strengthen supervision and control.

26 June 2006, 10:23, Fan Tao

Original notice text: All websites are to speedily delete “Female China International Economy and Trade Arbitration Commission Deputy Section Director Murdered.”

27 June 2006, 18:45, Network Management Office, Duty manager

(1) The special subject of the 85th anniversary of the Party’s founding is to be put in one line with running the web in a civilized manner and red memories, on a red background. When there are important remembrance activities and important speeches by central leaders, the World Cup special subject must make room at the large header position. Persist in preventing the playing up of negative news, and create a positive and upward online public opinion atmosphere for remembrance activities. Strengthen management over forums, blogs and news trackers, rumours, attacks, distortions and all other sorts of harmful information must be firmly and timely deleted.

(2) If there is information on “Chinese Navy Ship 774 Sinks after Collision” on forums, speedily delete it, and strengthen blocking.

(3) Concerning the matter of “CCTV Statement on Cancelling the Evening Broadcast of the National Anthem after Revision,” websites are no longer to reprint matters, report this or comment on this, existing news is to be pushed to the back stage, management over forums and blogs must be strengthened, timely delete attacks, abuses and other harmful information.

Please earnestly implement the above requirements!!

28 June 2006, 10:09, Network Management Office, Duty manager

Everyone, today in the afternoon, the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Council Information Office convened the teleconference on “Soundly Move Running the Web in a Civilized Manner and Using the Web in a Civilized Manner Activities Forward, Deeply Launch the ‘Sunlight and Green Network Project,’” all websites are requested to transmit the conference press releases published on People’s Daily Net and Xinhua Net on the main page of their website in the important news section, as well as the speech of director Cai Wu and Minister Wang Xudong, and leave them there for 24 hours. Put it in the section on running the web in a civilized manner, replace the special subject with the title.

28 June 2006, 10:56, Network Management Office, Duty manager

All websites, close all trackers without exception for articles concerning the 85th anniversary of the Party. It is reiterated again that when there are large remembrance activities and speeches by central leaders, they must be put on the header of the main page of websites on a read background, and the header of the news center, the World Cup must make way. This must be implemented.

28 June 2006, 14:56, Network Management Office, Duty manager

All websites are requested to continue to delete content related to Chen Qiuhua (airplane crash expert).

28 June 2006, 18:38

All websites are requested to reprint the report about the teleconference convened today in the afternoon by the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Council Information Office on the main page of websites and the important news section of news centers.

The article link is: http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2006-06/28/content_4762266.htm.

This article must be maintained on the main page for at least 24 hours.

28 June 2006, 18:40, Chen Hua

To report the gas explosion accident at the Wulong Colliery of the Liaoning Fuxin Mining Group, websites are only to use Xinhua copy and news conference copy from Liaoning province, do not set up news trackers; concerning the matter of deliberating the “Sudden Incident Response Law” (Draft), websites are only to use Xinhua copy or corresponding copy from the People’s Daily, must strengthen management over news trackers, forums and blogs, and timely delete attacks, abuses and other harmful information; for articles related to income allocation and other problems, only use copy from main central news work units, this may not be played up, also don’t do online surveys. Management over forums, trackers, blogs, etc. must be strengthened, timely block misrepresentations, attacks, extremes and other harmful discourse.

29 June 2006, 9:30, Fan Tao

The “Sudden Incident Response Law” (Draft) has been submitted to the 22nd Meeting of the 10th National People’s Congress Standing Committee for deliberation a few days ago. In order to guarantee that corresponding work proceeds smoothly, concerning the matter of deliberating the “Sudden Incident Response Law” (Draft), websites are only to use Xinhua copy and corresponding People’s Daily comments, must strengthen management over news trackers, forums and blogs, and timely delete attacks, misrepresentations and other harmful information.

29 June 2006, 17:17, Fan Tao

Recently, posts about a mass incident at the Qingdao Feiyang Professional and Technical College in Shandong emerged on a number of websites and forums, and some people seized the opportunity to stir up things. In order to maintain stability, websites are not to disseminate information related to the mass incident at the Qingdao Feiyang Professional and Technical College without exception, must strengthen management over forums and blogs, and timely delete relevant information.

 

2006年6月北京网管办发出的禁令（三）

2006年6月21日08时59分 范 涛

各网如发现有《上海证券报》的评论文章”我国国民收入分配最终格局的变化 正向政府倾斜”请迅速删除！收到请回复！

2006年6月22日09时00分 陈华

搜索、清查、屏蔽“西山会议纪要”及相关内容；关于广东农业大学校园内一女生被撞死一事，不报导、不讨论。

2006年6月22日11时32分 陈华

一：

1、对岛内“罢免和倒阁”及“陈水扁女婿涉弊案”等事件，只报道不评论、不猜测，不得引用境外媒体评论。

2、主要报道事态的发展，这方面新闻报道跟帖要控制数量，100条左右。

3、不得将网民帖文、博客文章作正式新闻稿转发，对论坛、跟贴、博客中过激的、非理性的、不利于祖国统一大业的言论，对借机攻击我对台方针政策、攻击我社会制度的言论，对违法有害信息要及时删除。

4、关于岛内局势的报道只转发新华社稿件，不得编译境外媒体消息。

5、重大突发事件，要严格遵守宣传纪律，只转新华社通稿，不得自采、自编消息，不得擅自发表评论，不得编发境外媒体消息、文章、评论。

二：

有媒体报道“首创”集团总经理刘晓光被中纪委调查以及香港上市公司“首创置业”在港停牌的消息，据北京方面告，上述消息均与事实不符，网站一律不转发，已有的要立即撤除，论坛、博客也不贴发。

2006年6月22日11时54分 吴海红

（根据电话内容记录，一，二，四为标题，三是相关事件，无标题）
请删除以下新闻：

一；广州某大学女生被军车在校园内撞死

二；四川某大学因停电引发学生骚乱

三：删除所有关于郑州大学学生骚乱的报道（没有标题）

四：山西中北大学因宿舍搬迁引发骚乱

2006年6月22日12时48分 陈华

急。请速清查郑州大学达经贸学院发生大规模学生骚乱一事 速各自清查 搜索屏蔽 影响北京高校稳定的不报道 通知教育频道 博客

2006年6月22日17时17分 范 涛

搜索并删除站内发布的关于“福建工商局长周金伙外逃事件”的非新华社稿，加强监控。

2006年6月26日10时23分范 涛

通知原文: 各网速删《中国国际经贸仲裁委员会女副处长遭劫杀》

2006年6月27日18时45分网管办值班

1、建党85周年的纪念专题与文明办网、红色记忆放在一行，套红摆放。有重要纪念活动和中央领导的重要讲话时，世界杯专题必须让出大头条位置。坚决 制止负面新闻炒作，为纪念活动营造积极向上的网上舆论氛围。加强对论坛、博客和新闻跟帖的管理，对造谣、攻击、歪曲等各类有害信息必须坚决、及时删除。

2、论坛中如有“中国海军774舰被撞沉”的消息，迅速删除，并加强封堵；

3、有关“央视就改版后取消晚间国歌播放声明”事，网站不再转载、报道、评论，已有新闻压至后台，要加强对论坛、博客跟帖的管理，及时删除攻击、谩骂等有害信息。

以上要求请认真执行！！

2006年6月28日10时09分 网管办值班

各位，今天下午信息产业部和国务院新闻办将联合召开”扎实推进文明办网 文明上网活动 深入开展’阳光·绿色网络工程’”电视电话会议，请各网站在首页要闻区突出转发好人民网、新华网登载的会议新闻稿，以及蔡武主任、王旭东部长在会上的讲 话，并保留24小时。放在文明办网位置上，以标题带专题。

2006年6月28日10时56分 网管办值班

各网：关于建党85周年的稿件，一律关闭跟帖。再次强调，有大的纪念活动和中央领导讲话时，必须套红放网站首页头条，新闻中心面头条，世界杯必须让路。务必执行。

2006年6月28日14时56分 网管办值班

各网请继续清除有关陈秋华（坠机事件中的专家）的内容

2006年6月28日18时38分

请各网在网站首页、新闻中心要闻区位置转发今天下午信息产业部、国新办联合召开的电视电话会议的报道。

文章链接为：http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2006-06/28/content_4762266.htm

此文章至少要在首页保留24小时。

2006年6月28日18时40分 陈华

有关辽宁阜新矿业集团五龙煤矿瓦斯爆炸事故的报道，网站只使用新华社通稿和辽宁省新闻发布会稿件，不设新闻跟帖；有关审议《突发事件应对法》（草 案）事，网站只使用新华社通稿和人民日报相关评论，要加强对新闻跟帖、论坛、博客的管理，及时删除攻击、歪曲等有害信息；收入分配等问题有关文章只使用中 央主要新闻单位稿件，不得炒作，也不搞网上调查。要加强对论坛、跟帖、博客等的管理，及时封堵删除歪曲、攻击、偏激等有害言论。

2006年6月29日09时30分 范 涛

《突发事件应对法》（草案）已于日前提交十届全国人大常委会第二十二次会议审议。为保证相关工作顺利进行，有关审议《突发事件应对法》（草案）事，网站只使用新华社通稿和人民日报相关评论，要加强对新闻跟帖、论坛、博客的管理，及时删除攻击、歪曲等有害信息。

2006年6月29日17时17分 范 涛

近日，一些网站论坛出现山东青岛飞洋职业技术学院群体性事件帖文，一些人借机煽动。为维护稳定，网站一律不传播有关青岛飞洋职业技术学院群体性事件的消息，要加强对论坛、博客的管理，及时删除有关信息。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 28, 2012 (here).

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9 May 2006, 10:57, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please timely reprint the Xinhua article “Who Heads Online Harm” in the header position of the special subject section for Initiating the Wind of Network Civilization.

Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

9 May 2006, 11:05 Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

The Xinhua special subject article Exclusive Issue: Who Heads Online Harm? contains many articles, it suffices for all websites to make one link in the header, and netizens can directly click to the Xinhua webpage. This may reduce the workload of all websites.

9 May 2006, 11:59, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to reprint the article “‘Perceiving China? ‘Korea Can’ Activities to Be Organized in Seoul, in September” in the important news section (http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2006-05/09/content_4525184.htm). Please acknowledge receipt, thank you

9 May 2006, 12:29, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to speedily delete articles and corresponding content on the Central Discipline Inspection Committee having made regulations on the time limits for shuanggui. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

10 May 2006, 18:15

Correction of the recent notification: all websites are requested to reprint the Beijing Municipal Commercial Internet Online Service Venue Association “Open Letter to the Internet Cafe Managers in the Entire City.”

Please acknowledge receipt, thank you

11 May 2006, 10:50, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to delete the article “Investigating the True Facts of the Murder of the Beijing Forestry Bureau Director” and corresponding links, and it is reiterated that this matter may not be played up. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

11 May 2006, 14:02, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to reprint the Qianlong Net Information “Beijing Concentratedly Launches Special Campaign to Discipline Internet Cafes” in the header of the special subject section on Initiating the Wind of Network Civilization. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

11 May 2006, 14:23, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please close trackers concerning the news on the Yangtze bridge in Nanjing. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

11 May 2006, 15:09, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please close trackers on the CCTV “News Investigation” article “Xi’an Communications University Kaiyuan Group Runs Into Financial Problems – 1,000 Teaching and Administrative Staff Assemble,” push it towards the back stage tomorrow, forums are also not to discuss this matter.

Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

11 May 2006, 18:03, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All sorts of news concerning the demolition of the Nanjing Yangtze bridge may not be reprinted from now on, where they are reprinted, please delete them immediately. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

2006年5月北京网管办发出的禁令（一）

2006年5月9日10时57 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请在“大兴网络文明之风”专题头条位置，及时转发新华网＂网络危害谁为首＂一文．

http://news.xinhuanet.com/focus/2006-05/08/content_4494204.htm

收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月9日11时05 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

新华网的专题“独家发布：网络危害谁为首？”http://news.xinhuanet.com/focus/2006-05/08/content_4494204.htm

内有多篇文章，各网可在头条位置做一个链接，网民点击后直接进入新华网页面即可。这样可以减小各网的工作量。

2006年5月9日11时59 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网在要闻区内转载《“感知中国?韩国行”活动９月将在韩国首尔举行》一文（http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2006-05/09/content_4525184.htm）收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月9日12时29 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

关于中纪委对“双规”时限做出规定一稿及相关内容，请各网迅速删除。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月10日18时15 分

更正刚才的通知：请各网转载北京市互联网上网服务营业场所协会《致全市网吧从业者的一封公开信》

http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/10/178@3162913.htm

收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日10时50 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网删除——《北京林业局长被杀真相调查》一稿及相关链接，并重申不得炒作此事。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日14时02 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网在“大兴网络文明之风”专题头条位置转载千龙网消息《北京市集中开展整治网吧专项行动》（http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/10/2601@3163862.htm）收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日14时23 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请关闭关于南京长江大桥新闻的跟贴。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日15时09 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

央视《新闻调查》“西安交大开元集团遭遇资金问题 千名教职工集会”一文，请关闭跟贴，明天压到后台，论坛也不讨论此事。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年5月11日18时03 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

有关炸毁南京长江大桥的各类新闻以后不要转载，还在转载的，请立即删除。收到请回复，谢谢。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 23, 2012 (here).

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21 April 2006, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Everyone, concerning the matter of Beijing taxi price adjustment, only use copy from the Beijing Daily and Evening News, other content is to be deleted without exception, forums may not have too much extreme discussions (such as a taxi ride strike, etc.).

21 April 2006, (Friday), 18:27

All websites are requested to rapidly delete all articles sourced from the Jinghua Daily, the Beijing News and the Huaxia Times concerning the Beijing taxi price adjustment, please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

19 April 2006, (Wednesday), 11:41

It is stressed again that the following must be implemented: the matter of the Beijing taxi price increase, is not to be published in the important news sections, do not open news tracker, do not send short messages, do not make it into a special subject!

18 April 2006, (Tuesday), 10:55

Please lead the special subject about the trend of civilization today with “Youth Who Lost Their Way Accuse Network Poison – 300 Website Editors Are Deeply Shocked,” the speech of Liu Qi may be lowered.

22 April 2006, 23:30, Chen Hua

Everyone, please immediately issue this article in the second or third position on the main page of websites and at the back of the second line on news centers: http://news.qianlong.com/28874/2006/04/22/1160@3134631.htm.

23 April 2006, 12:20, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

(1) Please note: for articles on the important process of Hu Jintao visiting Saudi Arabia, the original titles of Xinhua copy must be used, please immediately restore the original titles of those that have not been done according to requirements.

(2) Please immediately delete the article on there now being 72,000 black cars in Beijing, exceeding legitimate taxis (CCTV “Economic Information Broadcast”).

(3) All websites are requested to speedily reprint the Xinhua Net Article “More than 100 Website Jointly Sweep Away ‘Network Garbage’” and put it in the header position of the special subject section on greatly initiating the trend of network civilization (http://news.xinhuanet.com/it/2006-04/22/content_4460131.htm).

24 April 2006 (Monday), 14:38

Everyone, keep in mid to link with the People Net interview of 3:00, in a high position in the news section on the front page of websites and the second position in the news center, http://www.people.com.cn/GB/32306/33093/62957/index.html.

24 April 2006, 19:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please delete “Jinan Baoquan Water Project’s Imported Anti-Permeation Film Triggers Intense Dispute.” Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

26 April 2006, 10:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

To report the Beijing taxi price adjustment hearing, please use the wire copy from Qianlong Net of this afternoon; at the same time, the content of trackers and forum discussions must be managed well – netizens are permitted to fully express all kinds of views, but are not permitted to have tracker or forum posts attacking and abusing the government. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

26 April 2006, 14:16

Qianlong Net will publish the text “Beijing Organizes Hearing on Taxi Price Adjustment” in a little while, Qianlong Net will put it in the header position, but all other websites are requested to put it in the middle of the important news section when reprinting it, and the title may not be changed without exception. Trackers must be managed well, netizens are permitted to express all sorts of opinions and viewpoints, posts attacking or abusing the government must be firmly deleted.

27 April 2006, 7:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to immediately close trackers on the articles concerning the Beijing taxi price adjustments, forums are no longer to discuss this, please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

27 April 2006, 8:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

For articles on the Beijing taxi price adjustment, only copy from the Beijing Daily and Qianlong Net can be used, articles from Beijing News, Jinghua Times and other sources may not be used without exception, remember this well.

27 April 2006 (Thursday), 10:53, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please close trackers on the Fengtai forestry bureau vice-director and his wife being killed.

27 April 2006 (Thursday), 18:02, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

The article on the Chinese ambassador in Japan being enthusiastically welcomed on his first visit to Okinawa, contains mistakes. Please speedily delete it. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

28 April 2006, 9:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Many netizens responded to the article to unite nationally and not buy houses (Southern News Net), please immediately delete it. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

28 April 2006 (Friday), 13:50, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Notice from Fan Tao: please link to the Xinhua Net online symposium on “Using the Web in a Civilized Manner: Start a New Wind of Network Civilization” on the main page of websites and the header of the special subject section for starting the new wind of network civilization. The URL is as follows: http://forum.xinhuanet.com/detail.jsp?id=29885982. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

28 April 2006, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to pay attention to: please delete information on forums, blogs and military frequencies concerning images of new-generation (or next-generation) military uniforms as soon as possible. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

28 April 2006, 23:21:27, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

(1) Please issue this article in the news section on the main page of websites and on the second or third line in the important news section: http://news.qianlong.com/28874/2006/04/28/1160@3148109.htm.

(2) Please notify search engines to screen the names of the six websites that were closed today according to the law: Happy Sex Forum, Moon Goddess Net, Shenzhen Discussion Area, Free Film Forum, Adult Story Net and Entertainment Information Port.

29 April 2006, 10:57, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please add “Blog Net” to the scope of comparing and assessing the text “The Beijing Municipality Launches Comparing and Assessment Activities on Model Civilization Websites,” and at the same time change the original “42 websites” into “43 websites” in the announcement (Paragraph 1).

 

2006年4月北京网管办发出的禁令（三）

2006年4月21日 时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

各位，关于北京出租车调价一事，只用北京日报、晚报稿，其他一律删除，论坛不要有太多过激言论I（如罢乘等）

2006-4-21 (星期五) 18:27

请各网迅速删除稿源为《京华时报》、《新京报》、《华夏时报》有关北京出租车调价的所有稿件，收到请回复，谢谢。

2006-4-19 (星期三) 11:41

再次强调务必执行：北京出租车涨价的事，不发要闻区，不开跟帖，不发短信，不做专题！

2006-4-18 (星期二) 10:55

今天的文明之风专题请以《失足少年控诉网络毒害 三百网站编辑深受震撼》做头条，刘淇讲话可以往下放了。

2006年4月22日23时30 分 陈华

各位，请即在网站首页新闻区二，三条位置和新闻中心首页二条小腿的位置发此稿http://news.qianlong.com/28874/2006/04/22/1160@3134631.htm

2006年4月23日12时20 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

1、请注意：胡锦涛访沙特重要程序的稿件，必须用新华社稿原标题，现在未按要求做的，请立即改回原题；

2、北京黑车共达7.2万辆超过正规出租车（央视《经济信息联播》）一稿请立即删除；

3、请各网在大兴网络文明之风专题的头条位置，迅速转载新华网文章《100余家网站联合清扫“网络垃圾”》（http://news.xinhuanet.com/it/2006-04/22/content_4460131.htm）

2006-4-24 (星期一) 14:38

各位，想着做好3：00人民网访谈的链接 网站首页新闻区高处 新闻中心二条

http://www.people.com.cn/GB/32306/33093/62957/index.html

2006年4月24日19时分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

济南保泉水工程引进防渗膜引发激烈争议(组图)——请予删除。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年4月26日10 时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

关于北京出租车调价听证会的报道，请务必使用下午千龙网的通稿；同时要管好跟贴、论坛讨论的内容——允许网民充分表达各种观点，但不允许有攻击、谩骂政府的跟贴和论坛贴文。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006-4-26 (星期三) 14:16

千龙网过一会儿将刊登《北京市就出租车租价调整举行听证会》一文，千龙网是放在头条位置，但其它各网在转载时，请放在要闻区中部，一律不要改动标题。要管好跟贴，允许网民充分表达各种意见和观点，要坚决删除攻击、谩骂政府的贴文。

2006年4月27日7 时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网站立即关闭北京出租车调价一稿的跟贴,论坛不再讨论,收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年4月27日8 时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

有关北京出租车调价的稿件,只能用北京日报和千龙网的稿件,新京报、京华时报等其它来源的稿件一律不要用，切记。

2006-4-27 (星期四) 10:53 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请关闭丰台林业局副局长夫妇被杀害的跟贴。

2006-4-27 (星期四) 18:02 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

中国驻日大使首次正式访问冲绳获热情欢迎一稿，有误。请迅速删除。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年4月28日9 时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛
众多网民响应全国结盟不买房呼吁(南方新闻网)一稿,请予删除.收到请回复，谢谢。

2006-4-28 (星期五) 13:50 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

范涛通知：请在网站首页、大兴网络文明之风专题头条位置全文链接新华网“文明上网：大兴网络文明新风”网上座谈会。网址如下：http://forum.xinhuanet.com/detail.jsp?id=29885982

收到请回复，谢谢。

2006年4月28日时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网站注意：请尽快删除在论坛、博客、军事频道中关于新一代（或称下一代）军服图片的信息。收到请回复，谢谢。

2006-04-28 23:21:27 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

1． 请在网站首页新闻区和新闻中心首页要闻区第二条或第三第发此稿http://news.qianlong.com/28874/2006/04/28/1160@3148109.htm

2． 请通知搜索将今天依法关闭的6家网站名字屏蔽：性福论坛、月神网、深圳讨论区、免费电影论坛、成人小说网、娱乐信息港

2006年4月29日10时 57 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请在《北京市开展文明示范网站评比活动》一文的评比范围中加入“博客网”，同时在启事（第一段）中把原来的“42家”改为“43家”。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 22, 2012 (here).

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