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

10 August 2006, 9:09, Chai Yue

Today at 9:30 in the morning, Guangming Net will broadcast the Expert Forum on Preventing Online “Wrongdoing” Becoming Common Practice, all websites are requested to link to corresponding reporting of Guangming Net on the front page of websites, please use the content of this Forum to replace the article on “Rubbish Short Message Reporting Hotline” in the important news section of the front page of the news section.

10 August 2006, 14:00, Chai Yue

All search engines are requested to direct all search results including the three characters of “baby soup” to news websites, and manually delete harmful content in search results.

10 August 2006, 16:17, Chai Yue

“Clash Between Shanxi Taiyuan Railway Bureau and Commissioned Selling Points – 2 Yuan to Be Received Per Ticket” is false information, all websites are requested to delete this article.

10 August 2006, 17:52, Chai Yue

Recently, media reporting on the excessively high income in some monopoly sectors has been relatively concentrated, netizen discussion has been extremely ardent. After inspection, some reports and discussions do not completely conform to facts, and furthermore, continued reporting and hot discussion brings a certain influence on social stability. Against this, all websites are requested to achieve the following few points:

I. On reports and articles concerning excessively high income in monopoly sectors, only transmit Xinhua and People’s Daily articles, no longer transmit copy from other sources.

II. Do not actively guide netizen discussion in forums, do not conduct themed discussion, also, do not organize VIP interviews concerning this issue.

III. Existing reports, articles and forum posts online are to be pushed to the backstage without exception.

IV. Rumors, incitement as well as harmful information attacking the Party and the government must be timely blocked and deleted.

11 August 2006, 14:09, Chai Yue

All websites and forums are requested to make “selected works” into a keyword for screening.

11 August 2006, 17:30, Chai Yue

It is reported that the Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi is preparing to visit the Yasukuni Shrine again within the next few days. Concerning this visit, all websites are requested to achieve the following few points when reprinting or reporting: (1) Timely reprint the consistent position of our country’s government in opposing the visit of Koizumi and facing up to historical issues. In the near future, information related to Japan is not to be put in headers, do not make special subjects, do not open trackers, do not issue mobile short messages; (2) Timely reprint relevant comments from Xinhua, People’s Daily, Global Times and the China Youth Daily; (3) Public opinion is only to be directed at Koizumi individually, persons other than Koizumi or successors may not be involved, and the talks or writing of the Japanese Emperor may not be involved; (4) Strengthen effective supervision and control over forums, blogs, news trackers and other interactive columns. Discussions that incite troublemaking, successive name-signing, rumor-mongering, abuse and other extreme discussions must be timely deleted and blocked.

At the end of August, the president of Venezuela, Chavez, will conduct the 4th State Visit to our country, all websites shall stress the objective reporting of the visit activities itself when they reprint or report this. The anti-American discourse of Chavez may be appropriately and objectively reported, but it may not be excessively played up, do not comment on it, do not link it up with formulations of the sort of “Great Anti-America Link-Up.” All websites must, at the same time as timely reprinting copy form main central news work units, strengthen management over forums, news trackers, blogs and other interactive columns, timely block and delete all sorts of harmful information that do not conform to the above requirements.

11 August 2006, 22:03, Chen Hua

Everyone, posts related to “secret of Lin Biao’s diaries and files uncovered” are to be deleted, and it is to be made into a keyword for screening; concerning the matter of achengguancadre in Haidian, Beijing being stabbed, no reports are to be made without exception. This has already been sent to online service platforms, please receive this and deal with it.

12 August 2006, 11:20, Huang Jing

Recently, a few overseas media reported some information concerning the Beijing Municipal Grain Bureau purchasing 290,000 tons of old grain, and selling it again in 2006. The Beijing Municipal Grain Bureau news spokesperson pointed out: this information is gravely inconsistent with the facts. All websites are required to timely investigate whether or not rumors with corresponding information are present on their sites, and timely delete it. Keywords include “Beijing Municipality,” “Grain Bureau,” “old grain,” “Lu Hao,” etc.

12 August 2006, 12:00, Huang Jing

Everyone, please immediately begin to clean up classifieds concerning illegal installation of household satellite television in your websites, forums and blogs. All search engines will make “Beijing household satellite television installation” and “household satellite television installation” into keywords for screening.

13 August 2006, 12:50, Chai Yue

Everyone, please speedily clean up rumors concerning Vice-Mayor Lu Hao purchasing old grain according to propaganda requirements, at present, large amounts of rumour articles can still be searched for on many websites, please use keywords to screen for this in searches, naturally keywords cannot only be “old grain,” the propaganda requirements for platforms have been written clearly, these are also “Beijing Municipal Grain Bureau” and “Lu Hao.” Deal with discussions related to Lang Xianping, etc.

13 August 2006, 13:03, Chai Yue

1. All websites are requested to change “Hunan Provincial Committee Collects the Popular Will from the Entire World” into “CCP Hunan Provincial Committee Collects the Popular Will Broadly from the People in the Entire Province.”

2. Concerning the matter of a chengguan cadre being stabbed in Haidian, Beijing, please strictly control posts, the orientation absolutely must be to condemn the murderer, fingers may not be pointed at urban management cadres.

13 August 2006, 15:50, Chai Yue

“Private Reception of Foreign Television in Beijing May Be Subject to Criminal Liability”

Please control negative comments on trackers concerning this news item.

14 August 2006, 16:34, Network Management Office

All websites are required to pay attention: please do not transmit reports concerning ticketing issues during the Beijing Olympics Period; if ticketing issues are touched upon in reports concerning the Olympics, please only transmit them after deleting the part concerning the issue of ticketing; where it cannot be deleted, do not reprint the said report with the part involving ticketing issues.

15 August 2006, 8:30, Network Management Office

All websites are requested to publish this article on the top of the domestic news section of the main page of the news centre, and manage posts well. http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2006-08-14/14009745137s.shtml, Beijing Municipal Party Committee Secretary Liu Qi visits the relatives of chengguan personnel who died in the line of duty.

15 August 2006, 9:01, Network Management Office

All websites are requested to put the two articles “Koizumi Visits Yasukuni Shrine Again Today” and “Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Protests Strongly” on the main page of websites and a large header in the news centre. Only use Xinhua and People’s Daily copy. Manage trackers well.

15 August 2006, 11:23, Network Management Office

All websites are requested to add the following keywords again: large dish receiver, large dish, large satellite dish, television reception dish, television dish, non-dish receiver, non-dish satellite receiver, satellite dish, little ear satellite aerial, satellite antenna installation, please ensure that there are no search results for all keywords that require to be screened.

18 August 2006, 9:14, Network Management Office

Information concerning Jung Chang’s book Mao: The Unknown Story is to be deleted without exception!

18 August 2006, 17:23, Network Management Office

Please search for and delete the post “Statement Concerning the Demand to Immediately Cease the Detention of Doctor Xu Zhiyong” in forums.

18 August 2006, 19:58, Network Management Office

Matters related to the book The Spring of Weeping Blood of which the Beijing Municipal Ruibo Times Cultural Center organized the compilation, are not to be disseminated or reported, all search organs shall make “Beijing Municipal Ruibo Times Cultural Center” and “The Spring of Weeping Blood” into keywords for screening.

2006年8月北京网管办发出的禁令（二）
2006年8月10日09时08分 柴玥

今天上午9：30，光明网将直播“防止网上‘恶搞’成风专家座谈会”（http://www.gmw.cn/content/wseg.htm），请各网站在首页链接光明网的相关报道，并用此座谈会内容替代现新闻中心首页要闻区中“垃圾短信举报热线”一稿。
2006年8月10日14时00分 柴玥

请各搜索引擎将包含有“婴儿汤”三个字的所有搜索结果全部指向新闻网站，并手工删除现结果中的不良内容。
2006年8月10日16时17分 柴玥

《山西太原铁路局与代售点起冲突 每张票要收2元》为假消息，请各网删除此稿。
2006年8月10日17时52分 柴玥

近期以来，媒体对某些垄断行业收入过高问题报道比较集中，网民讨论十分热烈。经核实，有些报道和言论并不完全符合事实，而且，持续的报道和热议给社会稳定带来一定的影响。对此，请各网做到如下几点：

一、关于垄断行业收入过高之类的报道和文章，只转新华社和人民日报文章，不再转发其他来源稿件。

二、论坛中不主动引导网民讨论，不要进行点题讨论，也不组织有关此问题的嘉宾访谈。

三、网上现有有关报道文章和论坛帖文一律压至后台。

四、对造谣、煽动以及攻击党和政府的有害信息，要及时封堵和删除。
2006年8月11日14时09分 柴玥

请各网站论坛都把“文选”设为关键字屏蔽
2006年8月11日17时38分柴玥

●据悉，日本首相小泉准备于近日再次参拜靖国神社。对此次参拜请各网在转载报道时做到如下几方面：（一）及时转载我国政府反对小泉参拜、正视历史问 题的一贯立场和日本社会各界健康的声音。近期涉日消息不作头条、不作专题、不开跟帖、不发手机短信；（二）及时转载新华社、人民日报、环球时报、中国青年 报的有关评论；（三）舆论矛头只对准小泉个人，不要涉及小泉以外的人或继任者，不要涉及日本天皇谈话笔录等。（四）加强对论坛、博客、新闻跟帖等互动栏目 的有效监控。对煽动闹事、串联签名、造谣谩骂等过激言论要及时删除和封堵。

●8月下旬，委内瑞拉总统查维斯将对我国进行第四次国事访问，各网在转载报道时应侧重对访问活动自身的客观报道。对查维斯的反美言论可作适当客观报 道，但不要过分渲染，不作评论，不与”反美大串联”之类说法挂钩。各网站在及时转载中央主要新闻单位稿件的同时，要加强对论坛、新闻跟帖、博客等互动栏目 的管理，及时封堵和删除与上述要求不符的各类有害信息。
2006年8月11日22时03分 陈华

各位，有关“林彪日记档案揭秘”相关贴文删除，各搜索设为关键词屏蔽; 有关今天北京海淀一城管干部被刺伤一事一律不报道。已发网上服务平台，请查收并办。
2006年8月12日11时20分 黄婧

近期,海外个别媒体报道了一些关于北京市粮食局采购29万吨陈化粮,又在2006年售出的消息.北京市粮食局新闻发言人指出:此消息与事实严重不符.请各网站及时清查本网站是否有相关内容的谣言,并及时删除.关键词有”北京市”\”粮食局”\”陈化粮”\”陆昊”等.
2006年8月12日12时00分 黄婧

各位，请马上开始清理各自己网站、论坛、博客中关于非法安装家用卫星电视的小广告。各搜索将“北京家用卫星电视安装”、“家用卫星电视安装”设为关键词屏蔽。
2006年8月13日12时50分 柴玥

各位，关于陆昊副市长购进陈化粮的谣言，请按照宣传要求迅速清理一下，目前多家网站还能搜索出大量谣言文章，请用关键词在搜索里屏蔽一下，当然关键字不只是陈化粮，平台的宣传要求写清楚了，还有北京市粮食局、陆昊。朗咸平的有关言论都处理一下。
2006年8月13日13时03分 柴玥

1．请各网将将《湖南省委向全球征集民意》改为《中共湖南省委面向全省民众广泛征集民意》。

2．有关北京海淀一城管干部被刺伤一事，请严格控制跟帖，导向一定要谴责凶手，不要把矛头指向城管干部。
2006年8月13日15时50分柴玥

北京私接境外电视可被追究刑事责任

这条新闻的跟帖请控制负面评论。
2006年8月14日16时35分 网管办

请各网注意：请不要转载有关北京奥运会期间票务问题的报道；如有关奥运会的报道中涉及票务问题，请删除关于票务问题的部分再转载；如无法删除，就不转载部分涉及票务问题的该篇报道。
2006年8月15日08时30分 网管办

请各网站将此稿发在新闻中心首页国内新闻上部，管好跟贴http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2006-08-14/14009745137s.shtml 北京市委书记刘淇看望殉职城管家属
2006年8月15日09时01分 网管办

请各网将《小泉今日再次参拜靖国神社》、《 中国外交部强烈抗议》两稿放在网站首页，新闻中心大头条。只用新华社、人民日报稿件。管理好跟帖。
2006年8月15日11时23分 网管办

请各网再添加以下关键词：大锅接收器 、大锅、 卫星大锅 、电视接收锅、 电视锅 、无锅接收器、 无锅卫星接收器、 卫星锅 、小耳朵卫星天线、 卫星天线安装，请将所有要求屏蔽的关键词做到搜索无结果。
2006年8月18日09时14分 网管办

关于张戎著《毛泽东不为人知的故事》的消息一律删除!
2006年8月18日17时23分 网管办

请在论坛内查并找删除〈关于要求立即解除对许志永博士羁押的声明〉的帖文。
2006年8月18日19时58分 网管办

有关北京市瑞博时代文化中心组织编写《泣血的春天》一书相关事宜不传播不报道，各搜索引擎将”北京市瑞博时代文化中心”、《泣血的春天》设关键词屏蔽

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 3, 2012 (here).

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Li Yuanlong, who once worked as a reporter for the state-run Bijie Daily in the city of Bijie in Guizhou province, was taken to the airport along with his wife early Wednesday afternoon and “told to take a vacation” his son, Li Muzi, told China Real Time on Friday.

[…] The Bijie Public Security Bureau could not be reached for comment. A person answering the phone at the Bijie city government propaganda office said Mr. Li was traveling with his wife, citing messages posted to former journalist’s account on the web portal KDnet. “They are very happy now! That’s his own personal matter – why are you asking us?” the person said before hanging up.

[…] Li Fangping, a Beijing-based lawyer who has been keeping track of the situation, said that he had talked to Li Yuanlong when he was on his way to the airport. “I can confirm that he is travelling under control,” the lawyer, who is not related to Li Yuanlong, said.

“This is a way for (the local government) to maintain stability,” he added. “The public still wants more details, even though the local government has already dismissed the relevant people. Because Li Yuanlong is the main information provider, and because he was a reporter who has a lot of friends in the media, they authorities are afraid that people will continue to contact him in search of more clues or that Li might even leak out information about other instances of social injustice.”

Chin had previously explored why this story in particular resonated so deeply with the public. Also from China Real Time Report:

Stories of suffering children are always hard to stomach, but they tend to hit with particular impact in China, where the one-child policy and a strong belief in the family as the most basic unit of society have combined to imbue the young with an aura of unsurpassed importance. In this case, the impact of appears to have been amplified by similarities between what happened to the brothers and the Hans Christian Anderson short story “The Little Match Girl.”

The story, about a poor Danish girl who dies from exposure on New Year’s Eve after running away from her abusive father and trying to sell matches on the street, was once included in Chinese primary school text books as an example of the difficulties faced by the poor in capitalist countries.

[…] Cao Lin, a columnist for the state-run China Youth Daily, [wrote:] “At a time when we’re crowing about the rise of the nation and the creation of a moderately well-off society, to have five children die while seeking warmth in a trash bin is truly bizarre [….”]

Cao Lin was one of many in the state media to ask what had gone wrong, and who was to blame. Eight local officials were swiftly identified and fired. From Lin Xi at Global Times:

Eight local officials including two district chiefs in charge of civil affairs and education were dismissed or suspended from their duties by the Bijie municipal party committee on Monday because of the accident. Some people believe that these boys’ families and society should bear the primary responsibility for the accident instead of the officials. They think that it was the ignorance and indifference from the boys’ relatives and society which caused this tragedy.

However, the officials are not innocent because it is their duty to guarantee every citizen’s safety. The death of the five boys reflects management problems within government.

If the education system was better, these boys would have been taking lessons in warm classrooms instead of leaving school. If the assistance system was more active, they could have been found earlier and may have escaped death. Indeed, governments and officials have done nothing which directly caused this accident. However, it was the officials’ inaction which left the boys to die in the cold.

Many doubted, however that the sacking these eight officials had adequately addressed the root of the problem. From Rachel Wang at Tea Leaf Nation:

[…] As @bll2012 opined: “We are used to finding scapegoats when we encounter problems, then they give you a scapegoat! Then you shut up! You are so pathetic! Why not find the real cause: The failure of the social protection system.” Independent Chinese media Caixin (@财新网) also sounded a note of caution: “The tragedy in Guizhou did not only reflect management loopholes in Bijie alone, but also the defects of the mechanism protecting Chinese children’s rights. China is among the few countries that does not have a professional child welfare department. Administrative systems for child protection and rescue urgently need to be built.”

Therefore, according to the lawyer Li Fangping, Li Yuanlong was detained to prevent the damage from spreading any further. At The Daily Beast, Duncan Hewitt linked his treatment to the cases of Zhai Xiaobing (@stariver) and Ren Jianyu, and suggested—as did Charles Custer at ChinaGeeks—that while local government may be directly responsible, the political climate in which such actions are tolerated and encouraged is one of Beijing’s making:

Li’s detention echoes what is now a common pattern in China, in which sensitive individuals are removed from circulation at sensitive times, and held either under effective house arrest at home, or in what are known as “black [i.e. unofficial] jails.” During the run-up to the recent Communist Party Congress, rights groups say over a hundred people faced such treatment—including the well-known human-rights activist Hu Jia, who was only released from a three-year jail sentence last year.

In some cases the hard line taken against dissidents may be the choice of local authorities rather than necessarily being decreed from the center, says Professor Kerry Brown, executive director of the China Studies Center at the University of Sydney, but he adds that it is nevertheless a sign of the prevailing mood in Chinese political circles:

“The golden rule seems to be that no one gets bad marks for picking on dissidents and others labeled trouble makers,” he says, “while for those who are lenient, on the other hand, the risks if things go wrong are still high.

Furthermore, a Central Propaganda Department directive previously published by CDT suggested that Beijing, while allowing some coverage, had chosen to grant local government considerable control:

[… Y]ou may report moderately on the incident according to Xinhua wire copy and authoritative information released by the local government. Do not put this news on the front page, do not lure readers to the story, do not link to the story, to do not comment on it, and do not dispatch journalists to the scene.

Li, the primary remaining conduit of information on the case, had long been a thorn in the side of local authorities. In 2006, he was sentenced to two years in prison for allegedly inciting subversion in a series of articles posted to overseas Chinese websites. From the Committee to Protect Journalists’ report on his trial in May 2006:

“Like many committed reporters in China, Li Yuanlong began posting his articles online after facing censorship at his newspaper,” CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper said. “He is guilty of nothing more than expressing his criticism of official actions and should never have been brought to trial. We call for his immediate and unconditional release.”

Li reported for Bijie Ribao on rural poverty and unemployment in his native Guizhou province and had frequently been censored in recent years because of complaints by local officials embarrassed by his reports, according to the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights in China and CPJ sources.

[…] Li pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, and his lawyer rejected the notion that his criticism threatened state authority.

“He only criticized wrongdoings of some Communist Party officials or local governments,” the lawyer told Reuters. “The Communist Party and state power is not the same concept.”

At EastSouthWestNorth, Roland Soong translated one of Li’s essays, On Becoming an American Citizen in Spirit, originally posted to exile site Boxun under the pen name Ye Lang (Night Wolf). In it, Li pecked at the raw nerve of China’s ‘crucifixion’ by foreign imperialists, defending former Peking University professor Jiao Guobiao‘s suggestion that it would have been better for the U.S. to “liberate” China from Communist rule at the end of the Korean War:

[…] If America really sent its soldiers to drive for Beijing, then this is more than ‘interfering internal politics of other countries’ and it is really the invasion by the ‘world police.’ I have been pondering why interfering in the internal politics of other countries and being the world police man have become terms of denigration that are natural and indisputable in “our” vocabulary. If your internal politics is a totalitarian regime covered up by dark curtains, then why should not the police in charge of maintaining world peace come and show you? As a common example, I am beating my wife and kids at home and someone else (such as the police) comes to stop me. I yell: “I’m beating my wife and my kids. What is this to outsiders? Why are you entitled to mind my family business?” Is that acceptable? As another example, a Chinese person falls into the river, or his house catches fire. There is an American on the side, but the patriots won’t let the Chinese person accept the help of the American. Instead, the Chinese person must wait for other Chinese to save him. The Chinese person will have to “sacrifice himself for the greater good.” Is this not the modernized version under the cover of patriotism of the old saying “It is a minor matter to starve to death; it is a major matter to lose your chastity”?

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

26 January 2006

(1) On the basis of the opinions of relevant departments and localities, concerning the matter of Golden Trust Credit ceasing business for rectification, networks are only to use Xinhua or People’s Daily copy, do not use information from other sources, do not set up special subjects, close news tracker, do not organize online discussion. Management over forums, news trackers and other interactive columns must be strengthened.

(2) If the text “Yuan Weishi: Modernization and Historical Textbooks” appears, please delete it immediately!

26 January 2006

Concerning the matter of the China Youth Daily Freezing Point Magazine ceasing business for rectification, this is not to be reported without exception, forums are not to discuss it, if discovering this sort of information, delete it immediately.

24 January 2006

Everyone, no special subjects may be made without exception concerning “Hanxin,” promptly make “Hanxin” into a keyword, relevant false reports are to be deleted without exception, please act quickly.

23 January 2006

Recently, tendencies of so-called “Activities of Soliciting Articles to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution” have appeared on a number of websites, some seized the opportunity to disseminate harmful information. Realistic attention must be paid to this, strengthen management, firmly block and delete harmful information.

(1) Grasp online public opinion strictly according to the spirit of the Center. Websites may not report or reprint the so-called “Activities of Soliciting Articles to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution,” must firmly block and delete harmful discussion of using the so-called “commemoration of the Cultural Revolution” to attack the Party and the government, guidance must be strengthened over untrue discussion.

(2) All localities must conduct examination of websites in their localities, and timely deal with problems they discover.

(3) All localities must strengthen analysis and discussion concerning online public sentiment, and timely report important trends to our bureau.

18 January 2006

Relevant sides have reflected that the “Public Times” article “Weinan, Shaanxi, Reduces Migration Scale without Authorization, 100 Million in Funds Go Missing” of 17 January is gravely inaccurate, websites are requested to not transmit it, where it is already transmitted, please delete it. – Fan Tao, Municipal Network Propaganda Office.

Fan Tao: Beijing Municipal Network Management Office Network News Management Department Vice-Director

17 January 2006

Websites are requested to not publish the report “Beijing No Longer to Be Economic Center, Changing Its Development Encumbers Neighboring Provinces and Municipalities” sourced in the “China Industry and Commerce Times,” and delete it where it is already published. Please indicate the name of the website in response after receiving this, thank you!

17 January 2006

All websites are requested to not place “AIDS Patients Infected through Blood Transfusion in Bei’an Farm, Heilongjiang Farm to Be Compensated 30 Million” on the website front page and in the important news section of the news center.

16 January 2006

Concerning the matter of the Zhejiang Development and Reform Commission Director Shi Jiuwu jumping off a building and dying, without permission, websites may not report this without authorization. Management must be strengthened, and corresponding information timely blocked and deleted.

 

2006年1月北京网管办发出的禁令
2006-01-26

1：根据有关部门和地方意见，有关金信信托停业整顿一事，网站只使用新华社、人民日报稿件，不使用其他来源的消息，不设专题，关闭新闻跟帖，网上不组织讨论。要加强对论坛、新闻跟帖等互动栏目的管理。

2：《袁伟时：现代化与历史教科书一文 》此文如有发现请立即删除！
2006-01-26

有关中青报冰点周刊停刊整改一事，一律不报，论坛不讨论，发现此类消息立即删除。
2006-01-24

各位，关于“汉芯”的专题一律不要做，近期将”汉芯”设为关键词，有关报道造假的报道一律删除，请速办。
2006-01-23

近期，一些网站出现所谓“纪念文革40周年征文活动”等动向，有些借机散布有害信息。对此要密切关注，加强管理，坚决封堵和删除有害信息。

1、严格按照中央精神把握好网上舆论。网站不得报道、转载所谓“纪念文革40周年征文活动”，对借所谓“纪念文革”攻击党和政府，歪曲历史的有害言论要坚决封堵和删除，对不实言论要加强引导。

2、各地要对本地区网站进行检查，发现问题及时处理。

3、各地要加强网上舆情的分析和研判，重要动向及时向我局通报。
2006-01-18

有关方面反映， 1月17日《公益时报》”陕西渭南擅自压缩移民规模 一亿资金失踪”一文严重失实，请网站不要转载，已转的请删除。—-市网宣办范涛

 

范 涛 北京市网络管理办公室网络新闻管理处副处长
2006-01-17

来源于《中华工商时报》的报道《北京不再做经济中心 改变自身发展拖累周边省市》，请各网站不要刊 登、已经刊登请删除。收到后请注明网站名回复，谢谢！

2006-01-17

《黑龙江北安农场输血感染艾滋病者将索赔3000万 》请各网站不要放在网站首页和新闻中心要闻区。
2006-01-16

关于浙江发改委主任史久武坠楼身亡事，未经允许网站不得擅自报道。要加强管理，及时封堵和删除相关信息

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 15, 2012 (here).

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

26 August 2005

(1) Close news trackers on “Anti-Corruption: More than 10,000 Leading Cadres Actively Handed Over More than 60 Million Yuan in Cash, Etc.” Existing ones are to be deleted, it is not to be discussed.

(2) Search websites, if there are articles such as “North Korea’s Fall-out with China,” these are to be deleted.

23 August 2005

Heading: Corpse of Old Person Discovered Exposed on Hospital Roof, Ten Days After Hospitalization (Images), the content of this article is about an incident of a violent struggle between the hospital and relatives after an old person died in Xi’an Gaoxin Hospital. This incident may not be reported, if discovered, immediately delete it!!

22 August 2005

Everyone, a small number of people in Meishan Town, Changxing, Zhejiang used the masses’ emotions of appealing to enterprises to protect the environment, and took advantage to create a mass disturbance, at present, the situation has already calmed down. It is only permitted to reprint Xinhua copy, forums and other interactive columns may also not disseminate or play up this matter. Our websites do not have news qualifications, no channel may disseminate this news, please immediately delete this when examining and verifying matters.

18 August 2005

Gong Xiantian’s “Open Letter on the ‘Property Law’ (Draft)” may not be reprinted by any website without exception. Concerning “Li Datong’s Open Letter on the China Youth Daily’s New Assessment Methods to Editor-in-chief Li Erliang and the Editorial Committee” and corresponding content inspection of forums must be strengthened, and relevant information timely blocked and deleted.

13 August 2005

The incident of the Heilongjiang Higher Procuratorate Director’s suicide may not be reported.

13 August 2005

Phoenix Net issued three articles on the 11th, with the respective titles: (1) Japan and the U.S. Plan to Use Military Exercises to Probe China and Encircle China’s March to the Oceans; (2) Japan Blocks China’s Gas Exploration in the East China Sea, Related Persons Point Out China and Japan May Come to Blows Within the Year; (3) Chinese Ex-diplomat in Japan: China and Japan May Come to Blows Within the Year Because of the East China Sea Dispute. Content corresponding to this and netizen discussion must be deleted without exception.

11 August 2005

“China’s Ten Worst Cities,” this article is pure foreign fabrication, and is to be deleted without exception.

The article “SARFT Notice concerning Further Strengthening Radio and Television Channel Management” must be deleted.

7 August 2005

Concerning the mass attack on the Huangshi Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government building that took place in Huangshi City, Hubei Province, networks may not report without exception, corresponding information on forums is to be deleted without exception.

2 August 2005

(1) Online information related to demobilized military personnel. (Information referring to treatment and corresponding demobilization systems must be deleted.)

(2) Domestic online information concerning hotspots and commentaries that shareholders pay attention to, as well as information concerning inciting and arousing netizens to conduct rallies and demonstrations. (Apart from incitement of rallies and demonstrations, it is permitted to not delete this.)

(3) Online matters related to Japan, activities and trends of organizations and individuals to protect the Diaoyu Islands. (Where language is radical and destructive to the Sino-Japanese relationship.)

(4) Online information related to rights defense and petitioning by workers and peasants. (To be deleted where the cause of the matter is related to the government.)

(5) Online information on activities concerning Tibetan independence and Xinjiang independence, East Turkestanists planning terror activities during the 50th anniversary celebrations. (All pieces containing this information are to be deleted.)

(6) Online information concerning network real-name systems. (Maintain the positive side, delete the negative side.)

(7) Online interest paid to information concerning the Sichuan illness that has no clear cause. (Do not manage the past, delete the pieces maliciously playing this up this week.)

(8) Foreign websites’ attention paid to peasant land rights defense at the South China Sea, as well as the level of domestic attention. (Those clashing with the government are to be deleted, others are provisionally not to be deleted, but must be reported.)

(9) Online information related to unemployed laborers’ rights defense as well as the issue of the Three Rurals.

2005年8月北京网管办发出的禁令

2005-8-26

1：关闭《反腐：万余领导干部主动上交现金等6000余万元》一文的新闻跟贴。原有的删除，论坛中不讨论。

2：搜索网站,如有”朝鲜对中国翻脸”相关文章做删除处理.
2005-8-23

标题：老人住院十日后被发现暴尸于医院天台 [组图] ，此文章内容是一老人死于西安高新医院后发生的医院和家属的暴力纠纷事件。此事件不准报，发现即删！！
2005-8-22

各位，浙江长兴煤山镇少数人利用群众最企业环保诉求情绪，趁机聚众闹事一事，目前事态已经平息．只许转载新华社通稿，论坛等互动栏目亦不得传播炒作此事。我们网站没有新闻资质，任何频道不转转载此新闻，请审核时看到立即删除！
2005-8-15

巩献田关于《物权法（草案）》公开信》各网站一律不得传播。《李大同就中国青年报新的考评办法致李而亮总编辑并编委会的公开信》及相关内容，要加强对论坛的检查，及时封堵和删除有关信息。

2005-8-13

黑龙江高检检察长自杀事件，不准报。
2005-8-13

凤凰网11日发了三篇稿子，标题分别为：1、日美拟借军演试探中国围堵中国走向海洋 2、日阻华东海采气 相关人士指出中日年内或动武 3、中国前驻日外交官：中日年内或因东海纷争动武。与此相关的内容及网友讨论一律删除.
2005-8-11

“中国十大最差城市”此文纯属境外造假，一律删除。

“广电总局关于进一步加强广播电视频道管理的通知”一文要删除。
2005-8-7

关于湖北省黄石市发生群众冲击黄石市委市政府大楼的事件，网站一律不报，论坛中相关信息一律删除。
2005-8-2

1.网上有关复转军人的相关信息。（提到待遇和相关复转制度的要删）

2.境内网上股民关注热点、评论以及煽动、鼓动网民进行集会、游行的相关信息。(除煽动集会游行外可不删)

3.网上涉日、保钓组织、人员的活动动向。(言词激进的破坏中日关系的）

4.网上有关工人、农民维权、上访的相关信息。（事情原因与政府有关系的删）

5.网上藏独、疆独活动信息，东突分子策划50周年大庆之际进行恐怖活动。(凡有与此信息的删除）

6.网上关于网络实名制的相关信息。（正面保留，负面的删）

7.网上对于四川不明原因疾病相关信息的关注。（以前不管，对于这周的恶意炒作的删）

8.境外网站对南海农民土地维权问题的关注，以及境内网的关注程度。(与政府相冲突的删，其他先不删，但要上报）

9.网上有关下岗工人维权以及三农问题的相关信息。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 10, 2012 (here).

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Recently the Internet Society of China has proposed trying out a limited real-name registration system for the Web, so that when a user registers their account with a blog or bulletin board (BBS) site, they must provide their identity card, other necessary documents, their real surname, etc. But when they are onstage they may use whatever name pleases them. This proposal has brought animated discussion from a number of quarters.

The real-name Internet registration system first became a hot topic in 2003 after a conversation involving Tsinghua University professor Li Xiguang was leaked, in which he advised the People’s Congress to prohibit anonymity online and roll out an Internet real-name registration system. At the time this proposition was strongly opposed by the vast majority of Web users. In recent years, as space on the Web and the population of Internet users has grown by leaps and bounds, the role of the Web in [China's] daily work culture has become more obvious by the day. [Full text]

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The mainland’s environmental problems are grave and local governments are bent on economic growth at the expense of the country’s ecology, according to the majority of respondents to a nationwide online survey.

The survey, organised by the China Youth Daily and Tencent, China’s largest instant messaging service provider, found that about 95 per cent of the 6,600 respondents rated the nation’s environmental degradation as severe and 70 per cent felt local government paid little regard to green priorities.

Water pollution topped the list of respondents’ concerns, with 87.1 per cent of people worried about its effects, followed by air pollution, domestic and industrial waste, food contamination, desertification and noise pollution. [Full Text]

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Liu, an investigative reporter for the China Youth Daily’s watchdog supplement Freezing Point, got a quite a fright on Tuesday in Liaoning province, where he went to cover the trial of retired Fuxin mayor Wang Yachen. The 74-year-old Wang, along with his son and two others, is accused of abusing his position to commandeer a huge department store project. He also allegedly arranged for an estranged business partner to be locked up for nearly a year. It was Liu’s expose in Freezing Point, last May, that turned the tables on the Wangs. The Wangs did try to return the favor, suing Liu for libel in December. But a Beijing court threw out that claim because the Wangs were already indicted on corruption charges.

So naturally the Wang family was none too pleased to see Liu show up at the trial this week. Lucky for him, the proceedings were held in Dandong, not Fuxin. Liu survived to write a sidebar about his brush with danger and the predicament of reporters like him, which ran in Freezing Point on Wednesday alongside his whimsical account of the trial. You’ll find a rough translation below.

For Chinese muckrakers out there, one lesson to be learned from Liu and the Youth Daily is: hit ‘em when they’re down. Pix of journos and cameramen taking a whooping at the hands of roughnecks are sprayed over Internet bulletin boards regularly nowadays, but it’s still quite rare for a paper to run meta-coverage as lofty and explicit as Liu’s (he cites Wen Jiabao). His is the kind of tattle tale that tends to emerge after a ugly, protracted struggle: Some powerful big-city media outlet has won a decisive ruling over some small-town official or businessman, and such is the spoils of victory.

Another recent example was the case of Liu Binglu, the Beijing News reporter who broke the story of the village siege in Dingzhou in June 2005, which helped bring down top government officials there the same day it ran. Things didn’t come off so smoothly for Liu Binglu a few weeks later, though, when he returned to Dingzhou in pursuit of a tip about slave labor practices. Dingzhou police and propagandists were waiting. Liu was interrogated at his hotel and by the next morning his subject, a migrant named Chen Zhongming, had vanished mysteriously. So less than a few later, the paper shot back with a damning two-page account, entitled, “In Search of the Missing Informant, Chen Zhongming.” The piece implied the Dingzhou government was responsible for the man’s disappearance. A couple months passed before Liu Binglu tracked down Chen in Shenzhen. He still doesn’t know what exactly happened to Chen in Dingzhou (Chen wouldn’t say).

Thing is, when Chinese journalists go so far as to print their trials, colleagues are not uniformly sympathic. In fact, they’re increasingly quick to wince at the questionable ethics at play whenever the media becomes the story. On BBS’s like Reporter’s Home last year, Liu Binglu and the Beijing News were skewered by some commentators who they contended they put Liu in harm’s way. “Bob Woodward would never reveal his sources,” quipped one. Likewise, Liu Wanyong got razzed a bit on Reporter’s Home this week. “Congratulations,” cracked one commentator, “You’re famous.”

To read Liu’s sidebar, click here.
Here’s a China Times (Huaxia Shibao) pick-up of Liu’s piece, which was in turn picked up in other papers.
Liu’s piece about the trial is here.
Read this post by HKU’s China Media Project for more background on the libel suit
A translation of Liu’s sidebar follows…

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Read the rest of Hah! Wen Jiabao Said We Could Run It… (948 words)

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Li’s removal wasn’t elaborated by China Youth Daily, and the reason behind this is also unknown.

Chen Xiaochuan was appointed as the editor of Freezing Point after its former editor Li Datong was fired. Li’s dismissal was widely publicized.

The newspaper’s Party chief, Wang Hongqiu, was also removed, Wen Hui Po said.

-Click HERE to read the report (Chinese)

-Click HERE to read the report from China Times. The Taiwan Newspaper indicated that Li’s removal is due to the Freezing Point event early this year.

-More from CDT on Freezing Point

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Number 2, Ocean Transport Warehouse, Dongzhimen South Little Street, Beijing, is the address of China Youth Daily. There is half a century between 1956 and 2006, but two historical events occurred in this same compound. In the former case, the newspaper’s reporter Liu Binyan (ÂàòÂÆæÈõÅ) published “On the Bridge Worksite” and “Internal News at our Newspaper” and was then branded a “rightist” one year later. In the latter case, the Freezing Point weekly magazine was suspended for re-organization, and the chief editor Li Datong and the deputy editor Lu Yuegang were both relieved of their duties. Incredibly, in this “historical replay,” the person who led the struggle against Liu Binyan during the Cultural Revolution is the Central Propaganda News Critical Reading Group director who wiped out Freezing Point in 2006.

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Read the rest of From Binyan to Freezing Point – Qian Gang (243 words)

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Mainland journalists are experiencing their worst censorship in recent years, with outspoken media outlets being crushed one by one.

Journalists and academics said the momentum to mute forthright journalists and media outlets reached a peak on Tuesday with the closure of the popular four-page China Youth Daily weekly feature section, Bingdian.

A mainland journalism researcher said: “This is the worst it has been in recent years and we have no idea what will be next.”

Just weeks ago, the popular Beijing News also fell victim to the clampdown with the sacking of chief editor Yang Bin, a move that sparked a rare collective walkout by the newspaper’s reporters.

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On January 24, 2006, Tuesday, which the deadline for the Freezing Point weekly magazine, the Beijing editorial staff of Freezing Point worked as usual to edit and proof-read the weekly edition scheduled for January 25. At just after 4pm, we were ready with everything and the pages were forwarded to the editor-in-chief for review and print. The unusual aspect was that there was no reaction for a long while. We gathered that all the newspaper leadership had been called to the League Central Office for an emergency meeting and nobody was minding the store. This meant that something extraordinary was about to happen.

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Read the rest of A public protest against the illegal stoppage of the Freezing Point weekly magazine – Li Datong (292 words)

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China’s ruling Communist Party on Tuesday suspended one of the premier publications in Chinese journalism, escalating a campaign to rein in the state media, part of the government’s toughest crackdown on freedom of expression here in more than a decade.

The decision to shut down Freezing Point, a four-page weekly feature section of the state-run China Youth Daily that often tested the censors and challenged the party line, came less than a month after the authorities replaced the top editors of another daring newspaper, the Beijing News.

See also “China Shuts Down Influential Weekly Newspaper in Crackdown on Media” from the New York Times.

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A rare protest by Chinese journalists at a leading national newspaper offers a window into the intensifying severity of information control in China and the sometimes sophisticated resistance to it by Chinese journalists.

A frank 19-page letter by Li Datong, a senior editor at China Youth Daily, details a struggle between the news staff and senior party officials over policies that the journalists say would encourage propaganda. The paper has been seen as a progressive organ within Communist Party media, tackling stories on corruption.

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Read the rest of Chinese media resisting party control – Robert Marquand (86 words)

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A leading state-run newspaper has scrapped a controversial appraisal system linking reporters’ pay to government approval after a high-profile protest by a veteran editor.

Li Datong , a senior editor at the China Youth Daily, launched a rare attack on his employer over the plan to link salaries and bonuses to the amount of praise journalists receive from government and party officials.

The unexpected move to drop the proposal was announced yesterday after the management held meetings to discuss concerns by Li and other editorial staff, said senior staff members.

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A row at an official Chinese newspaper over a fawning article about Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has broken into the open, with some staff saying it rekindled memories of a Mao Zedong-style personality cult.

Newspapers are controlled by the party and required to sing its praises, but many and have become increasingly outspoken in the past two decades after state subsidies were slashed and they were left to fend for themselves.

Li Fang, 34, the chief commentator of the progressive China Youth Daily, had tendered his resignation after coming under pressure from superiors to praise Hu in the newspaper commentary in July, colleagues said.

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