Web user reactions to Chen’s apparent suicide fall into two broad categories. While there was little controversy that Chen’s actions were wrong, a significant portion of comments analyzed evinced a soft spot for individuals whose lives are worsened by mismanagement and negligence from government agencies. To these sympathetic Web users, Chen’s life represents a tragic example of what someone born in 1950s China had to face. He suffered through the Cultural Revolution when, like many youth, he was forced to relocate to the countryside. Chen eventually returned to the city but struggled financially ever since. In order to claim post-retirement benefits, he faced endless tangles with bureaucrats, and Chen’s helplessness turned into desperation.

[…] Other users posited that Chen could have been called a martyr, if only he had aimed at a different target. Weibo user @天边那抹残阳 wrote, “We ought to punish the system and bureaucracy that caused this tragedy. He should have targeted the people who caused his problems, and he would have become a hero!”

[…] Another strain of online argument tilted in the other direction; netizens in this camp expressed sympathy for Chen’s struggles but argued that criminal intent to end innocent life should not be tolerated or forgiven. A series of images from a Japanese drama, frequently posted in connection with this case, eloquently argues that as difficult as Chen’s life had been, the mind of a criminal does not deserve sympathy. As a journalist for the Beijing News remarked after covering the news in Xiamen, “There is a significant difference between sympathizing with the citizen Chen Shuizong and sympathizing with the suspect Chen Shuizong.” [Source]

See also two propaganda directives on the case at CDT.

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Explosions were heard in this bus soon after it caught fire. (Xinhua)

State Council Information Office: Regarding the “Xiamen, Fujian BRT bus explosion,” reprint only Xinhua reports and photos. Do not use reports from any other sources. Do not use the contents of blogs or weibo as news. Do not show bloody images. Strengthen management of interactive platforms such as forums, blogs, and weibo. Promptly delete harmful contents that are speculative, provocative, or accusatory in nature. Every malicious, sensationalizing weibo account must without exception be closed. (June 7, 2013)

国新办：有关＂福建厦门BRT公交车爆炸＂的报道，只转发新华社稿件和照片，不转发其他来源稿件，不把博客、微博客内容作为新闻刊发，不刊发血腥图片，加强论坛、博客、微博客等互动栏目管理，及时删除猜测性、煽动性、攻击性有害信息。凡恶意炒作的微博客帐号一律关闭。

A rapid transit bus in Xiamen caught fire during this evening’s rush hour, leaving at least 47 dead and 34 injured.

CDT has collected the selections we translate here from a variety of sources and has checked them against official Chinese media reports to confirm their implementation.

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 on CDT Chinese 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.

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A captive in Dongqiao, Fujian Province, May 11, 2013.

The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online.

Guangdong Propaganda Department: Do not report, republish, or comment on Gu Chujun’s May 22 news conference or related activities. (May 22, 2013)

广东省委宣传部：对顾雏军22日举行新闻发布会及相关类似活动，不报不评不转。

Gu Chujun, former CEO of Kelon Electrical Holding Group, was convicted of overstating profits and embezzling funds. He is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence which began in 2009.

Central Propaganda Department: Do not report or comment on the May 11 villagers’ attack on government workers in Dongqiao Township, Hui’an County, Fuzhou, Fujian Province. (May 22, 2013)

中宣部：福建泉州惠安县东桥镇5月11日村民围攻政府工作人员，不报不评。

At the beginning of the month, Dongqiao officials clashed with locals about plans to requisition land for an oil refinery. On May 11, villagers captured one of the town’s vice mayors and a riot police officer. See more photos from Dongqiao at CDT Chinese.

CDT has collected the selections we translate here from a variety of sources and has checked them against official Chinese media reports to confirm their implementation.

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 on CDT Chinese 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.

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Wu Changlong embraces his father. He was found innocent and released from prison after serving 12 years. (Wu Huaying)

As of May 19, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function).

Intertwined Injustices in Fujian: On June 24, 2001, a bomb exploded at the Fuqing City Discipline Inspection Commission in Fujian Province, killing one person. Wu Changlong and Chen Keyun were charged with the bombing, although they have always claimed innocence. The Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court found them and several others guilty in 2004. The case was appealed and went to the provincial courts. In December 2005, the Fuzhou Supreme People’s Court again found Chen and Wu guilty and gave them both suspended death sentences. Wu’s sister, Wu Yinghua, continued to advocate for her brother.

This month Mr. Wu was found not guilty and released from prison. VOA reports that a censorship directive has been issued to the press barring them from reporting on his case [zh].

In 2009, Ms. Wu began assisting Lin Xiuying to seek justice after Lin’s daughter, Yan Xiaoling, died the year before after being gang raped. The police claimed that Yan had instead died from an ectopic pregnancy; Lin suspected the local police were involved. Ms. Wu helped Lin, who is illiterate, to blog and post video testimony about her daughter’s case. Ms. Wu and two others were detained in July 2009 and prosecuted. Ms. Wu was released from prison a year later.

Human Rights in China and Deutsche Welle [zh] have more information on both cases.

• Fuqing Discipline Inspection Commission Bombing Incident (福清纪委爆炸案)
• Wu Changlong (吴昌龙)
• Wu Yinghua (吴英华)
• Lin Xiuying (林秀英)
• Chen Keyun (陈科云)

Other:

• Pantu (潘涂)

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

Browse all of CDT’s collected sensitive words in this bilingual Google spreadsheet.

CDT Chinese runs a project that crowd-sources filtered keywords on Sina Weibo search. CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We welcome readers to contribute to this project so that we can include the most up-to-date information. To add words, check out the form at the bottom of CDT Chinese’s latest sensitive words post.

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He drew a rough map of his hometown from memory, before posting it on “Bring Lost Babies Home”, a Chinese website devoted to locating missing children through the help of volunteers.

Soon afterwards, a volunteer wrote back with valuable information – a couple from a small town in Sichuan’s Guangan city had lost a son 23 years ago. The time matched Luo’s abduction perfectly.

Luo searched for pictures of the Sichuan town and found they looked familiar to him. To confirm his suspicions, he turned to the satellite version Google Maps. The minute he zoomed in on an area called “Yaojiaba” near the Sichuan town, Luo recognised the two bridges.

“That’s it! That’s my home,” shouted Luo, in tears.

[Source]

This case bears a striking resemblance to a similar case of an Indian orphan who used Google Maps to find his hometown after being adopted by an Australian family. See also previous CDT coverage of child trafficking in China.

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Police in Nanjing county, Zhangzhou, detained a 44-year-old woman surnamed Lin and a 33-year-old man, busting an illegal operation in which 40 tonnes of pork was allegedly sold in three months, according to the Strait Metropolis Daily, a newspaper affiliated with the propaganda department in Fujian.

The report added that both suspects were hired by the county government to properly dispose of pigs killed by a viral disease called pseudorabies and by the highly infectious porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, also known as blue-ear pig disease.

Lin, the prime suspect, allegedly saw potential for profit and began buying dead pigs cheaply from local farmers at a price of 10 to 80 cents per half kilogram, as well as collecting dead pigs dumped on the sides of roads.

The business reportedly grew so big that they leased a refrigerated warehouse. In just three months they allegedly sold 40 tonnes of such meat to processing plants in Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi .

Some netizens said the two suspects should receive the death penalty, according to TIME’s Yue Wang. A China Daily report claimed that police are investigating how the pork was transported and who bought it:

Lin began to produce pork products in August using the pigs she collected and made huge profits. In January, Wu joined her business. They built a freezer compartment that could store up to six tons of pork, according to police.

They also hired three workers from Henan province to cut the dead pigs and package the carcasses.

The two collected dead pigs that local residents discarded and purchased them from farmers.

They were caught after Zhangzhou police received a report in March that someone was storing sick pigs in a freezer at Xiexin Frozen Foods.

The report comes less than a week after China’s Ministry of Public Security announced that it had arrested more than 900 people for similar “meat-related crimes.” And in a separate crackdown, authorities in Shanghai raided a wholesale market and seized lamb meat which lacked proper labeling. Reuters reported that eight cooked food stores and a hotpot restaurant were ordered to shut down in connection with the incident:

Shanghai’s food safety office said it raided wet markets and seized about 70kg of fake mutton from the cooked food stores.

The stores bought “frozen mutton” from a Jiangsu businessman surnamed Wei, who was arrested earlier for selling rat, mink and fox meat.

The arrested person is a key member of a 63-member gang in Wuxi. The gang bought raw meat cheaply in Shandong and added gelatin nitrate salt and colouring to make it look and taste like frozen rolled mutton.

The Shanghai authorities said they were taking samples of other products in the stores and would severely punish offenders.

A statement from the Shanghai Municipal Food Safety Committee claimed that authorities were conducting DNA tests to determine the composition of the meat, according to The Wall Street Journal:

Inspectors found invoices in the warehouse stating that the product had been sold to local restaurants, the statement said, including Mongolian-hot-pot chain Little Sheep Group Ltd., acquired by Yum Brands Inc. in 2011.

Yum on Monday said it doesn’t have records of these invoices and hasn’t been contacted by the agency.

Yum on its official blogging site that Little Sheep doesn’t purchase the lamb brand that Shanghai authorities are investigating. “After thorough examination, we’ve concluded that the merchant is not one of Little Sheep’s suppliers and does not match any of our purchasing records,” the company said. Yum said the vendor is “not an approved supplier.”

“We are working with the government to get to the bottom of it,” a spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. “We have very high food quality standards and we will take swift and immediate action if any supplier has violated these.”

Tea Leaf Nation’s Minami Funakoshi wrote Sunday that Chinese web users expressed outrage at the notion that fake meat had been served at such a popular hot pot chain:

“This is absolutely nauseating!” wrote many users, attaching images of vomiting emoticons to their comments. “Just imagine—you think you’re eating some lamb skewers, but what you are actually eating is some furry rats. How will I dare eat lamb again?” lamented user @无锡24小时.

Sadly, this incident is not an anomaly but part of a larger trend of food safety crimes in China. A widely circulated image on Weibo lists ten food hazard scandals that have surfaced in the past few years. Fake beef, fake lamb, toxic chicken feet, diseased ducks—almost all types of commonly consumed meat made the list.

“The dead pigs made people taste pork soup [in their tap water]. The emergence of H7N9 virus made us shrink back into our own homes. The head of the twelve Chinese zodiac have now finally risen, too…Give us a reason to eat without worry,” challenged @无锡微生活 in the image mentioned above. The tweet has since been deleted.

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Hu Chunhua has been appointed secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), replacing Wang Yang, the CPC Central Committee announced Tuesday.

Wang Jun will replace Hu as secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC, according to the announcement.

Hu, born in April 1963, is currently a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Wang Yang is also a Political Bureau member.

Hu previously served as deputy secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the CPC, first secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Youth League of China Central Committee and governor of north China’s Hebei Province.

At the South China Morning Post, Mimi Lau described a range of views on Hu’s appointment and prospects:

Liu Kaiming, director of the Institute of Contemporary Observation, a labour rights NGO in Shenzhen, said Hu lacked the track record of outstanding political achievements necessary to impress Guangdong officials.

“After spending extensive time in remote inland areas, Hu might find it hard to fit in at first in Guangdong, especially when dealing with vested interests,” Liu said. “I’m not very sure about officials from remote regions because they often appear very conservative and arrogant, but Hu might be different because he’s young.”

[…] Dr Peng Peng, a researcher with the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, said Hu would have to hunker down after arriving in Guangdong because it was unlike any other mainland region.

“The press here is outspoken and the public can often complain directly to leaders,” Peng said. “In order to do a good job in Guangdong, Hu needs to be even more open-minded than Wang Yang.

“Wang Yang laid a solid foundation. Hu is much younger than Wang. I’m guessing Hu is more likely to flow with the open atmosphere in Guangdong.”

But at The Diplomat, David Cohen sounded a cautious note on the prospects for bold reform:

A Guangdong posting will give “Little Hu” a chance to burnish his reformist credentials, like Wang Yang before him. If Xi follows through on his talk of reform, that may prove to be a valuable skill. Guangdong is China’s most liberal province and frequently given to experimentation — if Xi is looking for models for national reform the leader of Guangdong may get some chances to influence the direction of national policy with some inventive provincial initiatives, such as Wang Yang’s much-ballyhooed “Wukan model.”

This trend should also give us some pause before rooting for Wang or Hu as reformers — neither of their records shows particularly bold action before traveling to Guangdong, so to some extent Wang’s liberal policies in the southern province may simply reflect institutional momentum. In fact, besides his time in Tibet, Little Hu initiated a harsh crackdown at the first signs of protests in Inner Mongolia in the spring of 2011. Some felt Hu had overreacted but he did not shirk from his decision, recently telling the Financial Times, “When we deal with mass incidents, there is no question we will take compulsory measures . . . We will be tough when we need to be tough, and we will be soft when we need to be soft.”

Reuters’ Sui-Lee Wee outlined Hu’s earlier career:

In Inner Mongolia, Hu Chunhua, also known as “Little Hu”, has been referred to as a future president. While there, Hu Chunhua oversaw rapid economic growth and dealt successfully with protests last year by ethnic Mongols.

Hu Chunhua came to Inner Mongolia following a brief stint in Hebei, the arid province which surrounds Beijing, where he was rapidly moved after a scandal over tainted milk in which at least six children died and thousands became ill.

Hu Chunhua remains something of an enigma, even in China. He has given few clues about his deeper policy beliefs. One of the best known things about him is that he does not appear to dye his hair jet black like many politicians.

In meetings with the public, Hu Chunhua comes across as low key and self effacing, in line with an image of a loyal, humble Communist Party member. People who have met him describe him as relaxed, easy-going and spontaneous, unlike stiffer party leaders.

Hu and newly appointed Chongqing Party chief Sun Zhengcai were both elevated to the Politburo last month, and are likely to rise further to the Politburo Standing Committee in 2017 and the presidency and premiership in 2022. (See Cheng Li’s profiles of the two men at the Brookings Institution.) None of this can be taken for granted, however: neither of their predecessors, Wang Yang and Bo Xilai, has followed the trajectory widely anticipated even at the start of this year. The Associated Press’ Didi Tang focused on Wang Yang, Guangdong’s previous Party chief, whose next assignment has not yet been revealed:

Xinhua gave no indication of Wang’s next job, but China watchers said he is likely to be named a vice premier when China’s legislature meets in the spring.

Wang, 57, is seen as a politically liberal figure. He failed to win a seat on the party’s ruling seven-member Standing Committee when new leaders were installed last month but was named to the lower-ranking Politburo.

[…] Wang was seen at Xi’s side when the general secretary visited Guangdong in early December. Li Cheng, an expert on China’s elite politics at Washington-based think tank Brookings Institute, said the appearance of the two together was to show the solidarity of the party leadership, because Wang is not considered to be in Xi’s camp in China’s factional politics.

“It’s a symbol of unity,” Li said.

Hu’s replacement in Inner Mongolia, Wang Jun, has extensive experience related to the autonomous region’s heavy mining industry. Wang was appointed governor of coal-rich Shanxi province following an accident which claimed more than 270 lives at an iron mine in 2008, and had previously headed the national work safety agency. His acting replacement in Shanxi is Li Xiaopeng, son of former premier Li Peng. New Party chiefs for Zhejiang, Shaanxi and Jilin were also announced on Tuesday, with appointments for Fujian and Guangxi following the next day. The blizzard of new posts sent a “subtle message”, according to a Global Times editorial, which hailed the new provincial leaders as offering the public a fresh start.

The Party secretary is the very top leader in a province. The prominence of this position differs from Western systems and is the key to ensuring that the Party rules the country’s political system.

[…] The population and economic scale of many provinces exceed those of middle-sized countries. As China is undergoing rapid development and social conflicts, the difficulties in managing a province can be much greater than managing a global power.

[…] Party secretaries should make efforts to improve communication with the public. We are looking forward to those who are outspoken and can interact with the public.

A new political style has been showcased by the Party’s top leadership. These new provincial leaders are expected to emulate it in solving local problems.

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

1 August 2006, 10:12, Yang Le

All websites must bring up the special subject of propaganda on the Long March, put it at the top of the important news section, put it side by side with the scientific development view, and jointly line up the three matters of the scientific development view, running the web in a civilized manner and the 70th anniversary of the victorious Long March.

1 August 2006, 11:00, Yang Le

All websites are to transmit the People’s Daily Online articles on the Long March, march carrying the special subject, the position is to be the second line of the important news section.

http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/8198/68298/68550/index.html

1 August 2006, 14:24, Chen Hua

On information related to the grave illness of Cuban leader Castro and corresponding matters, websites are only to reissue Xinhua articles, they are not to set up news trackers, and those already having news trackers must delete them as quickly as possible.

2 August 2006, 22:36, On-Duty MSN of the Internet Management Office

Concerning the People’s Daily Online article on “Zhou Jinhuo” (the Fujian Provincial People’s Congress Standing Committee has dismissed Zhou Jinhuo from his duties as a National People’s Representative), all websites are not to reprint this on the main page of the website or the important news section of their news centers, do not set up trackers, do not make corresponding news links, do not send short messages, do not handle it prominently, it may be put at the bottom of the domestic news sections of news centers.

7 August 2006, 9:00 Yang Le

All “Two Years Count-Down to the Beijing Olympics” special subject sections are to go online today in the morning, put them on the front page of websites and the second line of the main news page, lay this out in red colors, timely reprint corresponding reports from all news media.

7 August 2006, 19:22 Chen Hua

Everyone, concerning the matter of the Beijing police successfully dealing with the case of hijacking long-distance passengers with guns and explosives today, do not send short messages without exceptions, do not write articles from the time being, wait until our office wires copy before issuing matters.

7 August 2006, 19:30

Everyone: (1) Approaching 15 August, please handle management of Japan-related news and posts according to the following principles: do not disseminate posts related to anti-Japan signing activities; block up all information on anti-Japan activities having a mass action nature; do not disseminate activities conducted by anti-Japan groups that might easily attract attention; if related activities occur, do not make reports without exception, do not issue short mobile messages; if activities of the type of important cabinet members visiting the Yasukuni Shrine occur on the Japanese side, adopt Xinhua copy without exception, do not issue short mobile messages; strengthen management over news tracking, extreme language must be deleted.

(2) Don’t continue to play up recent news related to the government hitting dogs, pay attention to the use scope and source of relevant news, corresponding images are to be deleted without exception.

(3) Henceforth, if epidemics occur in provinces and regions close to Beijing, all websites must wait for notification, and report this according to the instructions propagated by our Office.

(4) Do not report and do not disseminate the matter of Zou Tao running for the Luohu District People’s Congress.

7 August 2006, 20:38, Chai Yao

Do not issue the article that was just notified on the Beijing police successfully uncovering the West Station Case, tomorrow morning, wait for information from Qianlong Net. Requirements: not appearing on main pages of websites, the position on news centers is in the lower half of the domestic news section, do not make special arrangements, manage forums well, it is not permitted to send short messages.

8 August 2006, 14:20, Internet Supervision Office

(1) At the internal CCTV party (the complete version of The East Is Red)

(2) River Elegy (full text)

(3) Flash minigames … Koizumi falls to death.

Information with the following content is not allowed to be carried, please self-examine, if these articles are present, they must be deleted.

8 August 2006, 17:14, Chai Yue (Internet Management Office)

Concerning the matter of Yue Chengtong challenging Peking University’s attracting false talents, please do not play this up, it may not be recommended on the main page of forums or main page of blogs, if there are too many forum posts, they must be deleted.

9 August 2006, 15:21, Chai Yue (Internet Management Office)

Make “China’s Third Reform Controversy and Its Trends” into a keyword, please clean it up if it is reprinted.

If it appears on forums, please delete it.

9 August 2006, 17:34, Chai Yue (Internet Management Office)

All websites are requested to not reprint the article of Red Online “The Mass Public Order Incident of 25 July in Xiangyue County Has Been Put Down, Urban Order is Normal, People’s Lives are Stable.”

2006年8月北京网管办发出的禁令（一）

2006年8月1日10时12分 杨乐

各网今天长征宣传的专题要上来，放在要闻区上部，与科学发展观并排，共列出科学发展观、文明办网、长征胜利70周年三个。
2006年8月1日11时00分 杨乐

各网站转发人民网长征稿，带着专题走，位置在要闻区二条

http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/8198/68298/68550/index.html
2006年8月1日14时24分陈华

有关古巴领导人卡斯特罗病重及相关消息，网上只转发新华社稿件，不开设新闻跟帖，已有跟帖要尽快删除。
2006年8月2日22时36分 网管办值班MSN

关于人民网“周金伙”（福建省人大常委罢免周金伙全国人大代表职务）一稿，各网站不发网站首页和新闻中心要闻区，不开跟贴，不作相关新闻链接，不发短信，不作突出处理，可放在新闻中心国内新闻区下部
2006年8月7日09时00分 杨乐

各家“北京奥运倒计时2周年”专题今天上午上线，放在网站首页和新闻首页2条位置，套红处理，及时转载各媒体的相关报道。
2006年8月7日19时22分 陈华

各位，关于今天北京警方成功处置一起持枪和爆炸物劫持长途乘客案件一事，一律不发短信，先不发稿，等我办通稿再发。
2006年8月7日19时30分

各位，1、临近8.15，有关涉日新闻与帖文的管理，请按照以下原则处理：不传播有关反日签名活动的帖文；对所有带有群体行动性质的反日活动信息进 行封堵；不传播反日群体所进行的容易引起关注的活动；如果有相关活动发生，一律不做报道，不发手机短信；日本方面如果有类似于重要内阁成员参拜靖国神社的 活动发生，一律采用新华社稿件，不发手机短信；加强对新闻跟帖的管理，过激言论要删除。

2、近期与政府打狗有关的新闻不再炒作，有关新闻注意使用规范稿源，相关图片一律删除。

3、今后，北京周边省市与地区如果有疫情发生，各网站要等候通知，并根据我办宣传提示进行报道。

4、对邹涛竞选罗湖区人大代表一事，不报道，不传播。
2006年8月7日20时38分 柴钥

刚才通知的北京警方成功破获西客站案件的稿子，今天不发了，明早等千龙网的消息。要求：网站首页不出现，新闻中心的放置位置在国内新闻下半部，不做特殊处理，管理好论坛，不允许发手机短信。
2006年8月8日14时20分 网监处

1.CCTV的内部晚会(东方红时空完整版)上

2.河*殇(全文）-

3.FLASH小游戏…………….摔死小泉

以上内容的信息都不让登,请自查一下,如果有这几篇文章，要作删除处理
2006年8月8日17时14分 柴玥（网管办）

关于丘成桐质疑北大引进假人才事，请勿炒作，论坛首页、博客首页不要推荐，论坛帖文太多的要删除。
2006年8月9日15时21分 柴玥（网管办）

把“中国第三次改革大争论及其走向”设为关键字，还有转载的请清理一下

如果论坛有发，请删除
2006年8月9日17时34分柴玥（网管办）

请各网不要转载红网播发的《湘阴县7·25群体治安事件已平息，城区秩序正常，人民生活安定》一稿。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 2, 2012 (here).

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Residents said police were stopping cars and checking people for driving after drinking on Saturday evening when the accident happened on a main road in Fuan.

Wanting to avoid being tested, a driver in a sedan accelerated away and police started chasing the car, said a resident, who would give only his surname, Lin. About three motorcycles were hit during the chase, said Lin, adding he wasn’t sure who hit them.

“About 10,000 to 20,000 onlookers became angry because police officers and paramedics took nearly one hour to arrive,” said Lin.

He estimated that 1,000 to 2,000 people clashed with police and overturned three police vans.

Photos of the incident are circulating online. These were posted by Zhongguo Molihua Geming (China Jasmine Revolution):

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

17 October 2005

I. There are to be no online reports concerning the matter of Guangzhou laborers blocking the road and demanding salaries without exception, already published matters must be immediately removed, communities and forums may not discuss this.

Concerning the Wang Binyu case, without authorization, there is to be no more online reporting, communities and forums may not discuss this.

II. Concerning network propaganda after Koizumi visits the Yasukuni Shrine:

(1) Websites having news publishing qualifications must timely and correctly transmit the declarations of our country’s government.

(2) Concerning reports on issues involving Japan, websites are only to transmit the corresponding reports and commentaries of the People’s Daily and Xinhua, without permission, no copy from any other source may be used, and especially information from foreign media may not be edited and issued.

(3) Management over forums, news posts, chat rooms, short mobile message information, instant communication groups, etc. must be strengthened, forum posts must be examined first and issued afterwards without exceptions, harmful information of rumor fabrication, rumor dissemination, inciting demonstrations and rallies, organizing signings, attacking the Party and government as well as our foreign policies, etc., is to be deleted without exception.

13 October 2005

The Network Supervision Office today notified: because of the “graduate student” registration work as well as news reports concerning the “adult higher education examination,” etc., many information related to “sharpshooters sitting the exam,” “online question selling,” etc., has emerged in large numbers, websites are requested to strengthen supervision and control on information in this aspect, as soon as it is discovered, report it upwards together with the daily post deletion situation.

11 October 2005

(1) Concerning online reporting requirements on the “Shanghai Dongqian Company Arson Incident.”

Reports concerning the arson incident in the Dongqian Company, Shanghai, must not be played up by any website, do not set up special subjects, forums are also not to discuss this anymore, existing discussions are to be removed without exception. Management over forums and news trackers must be strengthened, discussions that are wantonly accusatory, distorted or inflammatory must be timely deleted.

(2) Concerning instructions on not transmitting two articles on “Tengzhou Seeks to Be Under Provincial Governance.”

All websites may not transmit the two inaccurate articles published by the “Caijing Times” on 7 October, “County Level Is ‘Losing Blood,’ Tengzhou Seeks Provincial Governance” and “How Long Is the Wait for a ‘Provincially-Managed County’?,” already transmitted matters must be removed as soon as possible, it may not be discussed in forums. All websites must strengthen management over forums, and timely block or delete corresponding harmful information.

(3) Concerning instructions on online propaganda on the “Fujian Typhoon Disaster Situation”

Concerning reporting the Fujian typhoon disaster situation, all websites may not play this up, are to use copy from main central and local news work units, and are to handle it as an ordinary news item. Management over forums and news trackers must be strengthened, timely block all sorts of harmful information of rumor fabrication, rumor dissemination, incitement, etc.

Concerning the requirements on online reporting of the “Especially Large Fire on 2 October in Some Armed Police Camp in Fujian,” all websites are only to use Xinhua copy, it is strictly prohibited to use information from any other source, do not set up news trackers, forums may not discuss this. Management must be further strengthened, timely block up and delete rumors, inciting organizations to “appeal” and all other sorts of harmful information.

11 October 2005

Focus points for supervision and control this week:

(1) All online comments aimed at the 10th National Games, the 5th Asia-Pacific City Mayor Summit and the Second China-ASEAN Exhibition, as well as information all sorts of mass incidents, sudden incidents and other matters influencing social stability during those times.

(2) Domestic and foreign online information related to the Chongqing Special Steel labor strike incident, the rights defense incident of the Chongqing Special Steel laborers, the case of the Shanbei People-Run Oil case and all other rights defense activities and mass-type incidents.

(3) All sorts of online comments aimed at the 5th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress and all sorts of information during that time on mass incidents, sudden incidents and other information influencing social stability.

(4) Domestic and foreign information playing up the Guangdong Taishi village case.

(5) Domestic and foreign information on activities and persons related to Japan’s preserving the Diaoyu islands.

6 October 2005

Delete the article titled “Police Chase Police to Kill Them–Only Because Reporting that the Police Commissioner Supports Mistress Police Officer,” its content is that officer Xu Jian from the Qinhuangdao City Public Security Bureau Port Office’s Second Criminal Section, because the wife of the Public Security Bureau Commissioner let him kill a mistress police officer supported by the Commissioner, reported this to the relevant provincial authorities after refusing.

5 October 2005

Everyone: on the case of relevant personnel of Beiqing Media being arrested, only report copy from central focus websites, do not let it on website main pages, do not issue it in the important news section, do not create special subjects, corresponding links, short messages or trackers, forums are not to discuss this.

3 October 2005

Everyone: Camp 1 of the Fujian Armed Police is destroyed by a typhoon, a number of personnel is missing, all websites are to use Xinhua copy without exception: auditing departments announced the auditing report results of 32 departments, report the vigorous reform situation of all work units more. Also, on 4 October, on 12:29, information is received: trackers must examine first and post later, and only positive discussion can be issues, forums are to be strictly managed.

2005年10月北京网管办发出的禁令
2005年10月17日

一、

有关广州工人堵路讨薪事网上一律不报道，已转载的要立即撤除，公社及论坛中都不要讨论。

有关王斌余案，未经授权，网上不再报道，公社及论坛中都不要讨论。

二、

关于小泉参拜靖国神社后的网络宣传

1、具有登载新闻资质的网站要及时、准确地转发我国政府对此事的表态。

2、有关涉日问题的报道，网站只转发人民日报和新华社的相关报道和评论，未经允许，不得使用其他任何来源的稿件，尤其不得编发境外媒体的消息。

3、要加强对论坛、新闻跟帖、聊天室、手机短信息、即时通讯群组等的管理，论坛帖文一律先审后发，对造谣、传谣、煽动示威游行和集会、组织签名、攻击党和政府以及我对外政策等各类有害信息一律删除。
2005-10-13

网监处今日通知：由于近日“研究生”报名工作以及“成人高考”等考试方面新闻报道。网上出现大量关于“枪手代考”、“网上卖题”等相关信息，请网站加强这方面信息的监控，一经发现随每日删贴情况及时上报。
2005-10-11

1、关于“上海动迁公司纵火事件”的网上报道要求

有关上海动迁公司纵火事件的报道，各网站不要炒作，不开设专题，论坛也不再讨论，现有讨论一律撤除。要加强对论坛和新闻跟帖的管理，对肆意攻击、歪曲、煽动性言论要及时删除。

2、关于不转载《滕州谋求省辖》等两篇文章的提示

各网站不要转载《财经时报》10月7日登载的《县域“失血” 滕州谋求省辖》和《“省管县”还要等多久？》等两篇失实文章，已转载的要尽快撤除，论坛中不讨论。各网站要加强对论坛的管理，及时封堵删除相关有害信息。

3、关于“福建台风灾情”网上宣传提示

有关福建台风灾情的报道，各网站不要炒作，只使用中央和地方主要新闻单位的稿件，做一般新闻处理。要加强对论坛和新闻跟帖的管理，及时封堵删除造谣、传谣、煽动等各类有害信息。

关于“‘10?2’武警福建某营地特大灾害”事网上报道要求，各网站只使用新华社通稿，严禁使用其他任何来源消息，不开设新闻跟帖，论坛也不讨论。要进一步加强管理，及时封堵删除散布谣言、煽动组织“上诉”等各类有害信息。
2005-10-11

本周监控重点

1：网上各种针对十运会、第五界亚太城市市长峰会、第二届中国－东盟博览会的评论及期间各种群体性事件、突发事件等影响社会稳定的信息。

2：境内外网上有关重庆特钢工人罢工事件、重特钢工人维权事件、陕北民营石油案等各类维权活动、群体性事件的信息。

3：网上各种针对十六届五中全会的评论及会议期间各种群体性事件、突发事件等影响社会稳定的信息。

4:境内外网上炒作广东太石村案的相关信息

5:境内外有关涉日保钓的相关活动和人员信息。
2005-10-6

删除标题为《警察追杀警察 只因举报公安局长包养二奶警察》的文章，其内容为秦皇岛市公安局海港分局原刑警二队侦察员徐健，因为公安局局长夫人让他杀局长包的二奶警察被拒绝后向省里有关部门做了举报的文章。
2005-10-5

各位：北青传媒有关人员被捕一事，只发中央重点网站稿件，不上网站首页，不发要闻区，不做专题，相关链接，短信，跟帖，论坛不讨论。

2005-10-3

各位：福建武警一营地被台风冲毁，部分人员失踪，各网站一律用新华社通稿：审计署公布32个部门审计报告结果，多报道各单位积极整改情况。另外10月4日12：29收到消息：跟帖必须先审后发且只发正面言论，论坛严格管理。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 12, 2012 (here).

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In the Jiangkou township of Putian, I found Liying, the sister of Xu Yuhua, who drowned in Morecambe Bay with his wife Liu Qinying. Liying looked frail and worn out, but was strong in spirit, as she had been in her letters and phone calls. She had supported her orphaned nephew, Xu Bin, with the income from her job as an assistant to an overseas Chinese businessman. In fact, the whole family’s livelihood – her father, sister, daughter and unemployed husband – depended on her. Xu Bin had studied hard and passed the university extrance exam. He wanted to fulfill his parents’ ambition for him, and was planning to go to Britain to further his studies before building a career back home.

Liying and I went to visit a woman named Jinyun in her village near Fuqing. The winding lanes led to a semi-furnished two-storey house where she lived with her entire family. We talked on an old couch set against the concrete walls. I had been exchanging letters with Jinyun and her two sons, who were in high school when their father, Lin Guo Guang, drowned in Morecambe Bay. “Guo Guang’s first job in England was on a building site where he got paid £40 a day,” Jinyun said. “That was why he resorted to cockling.” Jinyun has brought up her sons on her own, working as a nanny and earning £60 a month. By summer 2009, she had managed to pay off half the debt of 200,000 yuan (£20,000) left by her husband (the remainder was paid by donations from the UK). “I pretend he’s still working in England and just hasn’t sent money home,” she said. “It’s much easier than thinking he’s gone forever.”

For details of the tragedy, see The Guardian’s 2004 report.

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If every modern president needs a creation myth, then Xi Jinping’s begins on the dusty loess plateau of northwest China. It was here that Xi spent seven formative years, working among the peasants and living in a lice-infested cave dug into the silty clay that extends around the Yellow River. Gradually, the selfless peasants and the unforgiving “Yellow Earth” — a term for China’s land that symbolizes relentless toil and noble sacrifice — transformed this pale, skinny, and nervous-looking teenager into the man who in November will take control of the world’s second-most powerful country.

“When I arrived at the Yellow Earth, at 15, I was anxious and confused,” wrote Xi in 1998, by which time he was working his way to the top of the Communist Party hierarchy in the prosperous coastal province of Fujian. “When I left the Yellow Earth, at 22, my life goals were firm and I was filled with confidence.”

[…] The Yellow Earth story matters, says Geremie Barme, director of the Australian National University’s Centre on China in the World. “It is … the log cabin of American politics, and Xi Jinping can claim it.” It’s a narrative that affirms that he “suffered hardship” and “knows what it’s like at China’s grassroots,” says Zhang Musheng, an intellectual whose father was a high official, explaining why Xi and others of his leadership cohort are more qualified than their predecessors to represent the Chinese people.

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Strict Control Over Anti-Japanese Demonstrations: Public Employees Forbidden to Encourage or Take Part

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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.

The directive below, from the Fujian city of Quanzhou, refers to two propaganda theories:

Quanzhou Municipal Department of Propaganda Internet Office: Articles posted on websites must execute the principles of “differences inside and outside” and “differences among the outsides.” Articles which will have a negative influence on Quanzhou must be posted discreetly and checked thoroughly. (September 7, 2010)

福建省委泉州市委宣传部网络处：网站用稿要做到内外有别、外外有别，对泉州有负面的影响的稿件，要慎重，要把好关。

“Differences inside and outside” (内外有别) is usually translated “keeping insider information from reaching outsiders.” In propaganda work, it means producing different types of material for domestic and foreign audiences. In 1986, then-Central Committee General Office Director Hu Qili brought up “differences among the outsides” (外外有别) in reference to propaganda targeted at foreign audiences [zh], which he said must be tailored to the particular sensibilities of different nations and cultures.

It is unclear what incident this Fujian directive is specifically responding to. It could be making the distinction between material on the “Chinternet” and the free Internet, or it could simply indicate a poor understanding of the flow of information online.

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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.

The series opens with the very first “directive” posted on CDT Chinese:

Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China: All information concerning the Yuanhua case in Fujian must come from the Central News Office. Reporting must be unified. Do not produce “side stories” or distribute news through improper channels. Do not use this case as a soapbox for other matters. Do not spread news through unusual methods. Do not reprint news reporting from overseas or foreign media. (August 30, 2000)

中宣部：对福建省厦门远华案案情审理的报导，必须由中央新闻办审稿，作统一报导，不搞「小道」消息，及非正常渠道消息，不准搞借题发挥，不准以不正常手段取得消息外传，不准转载海外、外国传媒的有关报导。

Yuanhua Group, a foreign import business based in the Xiamen Special Economic Zone in Fujian Province, was once the darling of China’s nascent capitalist economy. Founded by Lai Changxing in 1994, Yuanhua brought luxury cars, oil and cigarettes into the country. Lai also masterminded a smuggling ring that averted hundreds of billions of yuan in taxes. Lai eventually fled to Hong Kong, then Canada, where he remained from 1999 until April 2012. The Canadian government agreed to extradite him on the condition that he not receive the death penalty if found guilty. Lai is currently serving a life sentence.

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