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

17 April 2006, 9:36, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

The result of the Harbin Tianjia Medical Expense: Party Committee Secretary and others dismissed from position – if the first source of this article is Caijing, please completely delete it.

18 April 2006 (Tuesday), 9:05

The new Canadian Foreign Minister says there are 1,000 Chinese spies in his country – this article comes from the Straits Metropolitan Daily, and is not within the scope of reprinting, please speedily delete it.

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

(1) Today, the visit of Hu Jintao to the United States has begun, all websites are requested to strictly use standard copy, at present, there still are articles from Dongfang Net, please immediately delete them.

(2) All websites are requested to speedily reprint the following articles in the special section on beginning the trend of network civilization: Youth Who Lost Their Way Accuse Network Poison – 300 Website Editors Are Deeply Shocked (http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/200604/t9050.htm, http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/200604/t9037.htm)

High-school students strive to abide by honesty and become “Network Civilization Disseminators” and “Examination Supervision Exempt Class,” Huiwen High School Students Fix Eyes upon Practicing the View of Honour and Dishonour,” (http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/200604/t9041.htm, http: //epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/200604/t9052.htm)

(3) “Run the Web in a Civilized Manner, Use the Web in a Civilized Manner” Arouses Huge Social Reverberations, The New Wind of Network Civilization Is Rising Up and Flourishing”

Beijing: Give Networks a Clear Space (http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/?pageStart=0&pageEnd=10&currentpage=0) – This is a special contribution to a special section, please reprint the entire article.

Please indicate the source, Beijing Daily Net – Beijing Daily when reprinting the above articles.

18 April 2006, 9:55, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

The article “China Maritime Bureau: Sailing Prohibition During Period of East Sea Oilfield Expansion Works” from today’s Jinghua Times is an untrue report, please speedily delete it.

18 April 2006, 9:58, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Beijing Taxi drivers: our greatest ideal is driving black cars – please speedily push this to the back stage.

18 April 2006, 21:44, Chen Hua

Everyone, information concerning this edition of the American Pulitzer News Prize and “Female German Chancellor Changes Clothing in Public” is not to be reprinted or reported without exception by all website, where it has been reprinted, delete it.

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

If “Japan Brings Up the Incident of a Diplomat Committing Suicide for Illicit Love Again – States Our Diplomats to Be Summoned to Court” appears, please delete it with the highest speed.

19 April 2006, 11:31, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please note: please change all articles concerning the Beijing taxi price increase without exception into copy from the Beijing Daily: http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060419/200604/t14298.htm, http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060419/200604/t14303.htm. Please indicate that the source is Beijing Daily, please acknowledge receipt, thank you. Please speedily change them.

19 April 2006, 12:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Reports concerning the matter of Beijing taxi price adjustment, news trackers may now be opened, apart from discussions attacking the government not being permitted to be published, positive and negative opinions may both be posted.

19 April 2006, 21:49, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please reprint the Qianlong Net information “Taxi Price Adjustment Hearing Representative Discussion- Attacking Black Cars Becomes Focus Point,” (http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/04/19/134@3128582.htm).

19 April 2006, 12:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

All websites are requested to reprint this article in the network civilization special subject section: http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2006-04/19/content_4449507.htm.

20 April 2006, 11:27, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao

Please timely reprint the People’s Daily People’s Commentary in the special subject section: “What Is It that Shocked 300 Network Editors?”（http://opinion.people.com.cn/GB/40604/4314195.html). Please acknowledge receipt.

2006年4月北京网管办发出的禁令（二）

2006年4月17日9时36分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

哈尔滨天价医费案结果公布：党委书记等被撤职——此稿如果稿源是第一财经的，请全部删除。
2006-4-18 (星期二) 9:05

加拿大新外长称本国有千名中国间谍——

此稿为海峡都市报的，不在转载范围，请迅速删除。
2006年4月18日9时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

1、今天胡锦涛访美开始，请各网严格使用规范稿源，目前还有用东方网的稿件，请立即删除。

2、请各网在大兴网络文明之风专题内迅速转载以下文章：失足少年控诉网络毒害三百网站编辑深受震撼 （http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/200604/t9050.htm、http: //epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/200604/t9037.htm）

高中生争作“网络文明传播者”“考试免监班”信守诚信
汇文中学学生小处着眼践行荣辱观（http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/200604/t9041.htm、http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/200604/t9052.htm）

3、“文明办网、文明上网”激起巨大社会反响，网络文明新风正在蔚然兴起
北京：还网络一个洁净空间 （http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060418/?pageStart=0&pageEnd=10&currentpage=0）——这是一个特稿专版，请转载全部文章。

以上稿件在转载时，请注明出处京报网——北京日报
2006年4月18日9时55分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

今天京华时报的稿件《中国海事局：东海油田扩建作业期间禁航》为不实报道，请迅速删除。
2006年4月18日9时58分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

北京出租车司机：我最大的理想是开上黑车——请迅速压到后台。
2006年4月18日21时44分 陈华

各位，关于本届美国普利策新闻奖和“德国女总理当众换衣”的消息，各网站一律不转载报道，已转的删除
2006年4月19日9 时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

如有“日本重提外交官桃色自杀事件 称将传唤我外交官”请以最快速度删除。
2006年 4月19日11时 31分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请注意：关于北京出租车涨价的稿件，请一律换为北京日报的稿件：http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060419 /200604/t14298.htm http://epaper.bjd.com.cn/rb/20060419/200604/t14303.htm请注明来源为北京日报，收到请回复，谢 谢。请迅速更换。
2006年4月19日12时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

关于北京出租车调价一事的报道，现在可以打开跟贴，除攻击政府的言论不准放行外，正反意见均允许上贴。
2006年4月19日21 时 49 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请在新闻中心首页要闻区中下位置转载千龙网消息《出租车价调整听证代表质询 打击黑车成焦点 》（http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/04/19/134@3128582.htm）
2006年4月19日12时 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请各网站在文明办网专题转载：http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2006-04/19/content_4449507.htm 此文章
2006年4月20日11时27 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛

请及时在专题内转载人民日报人民时评：《让三百名网络编辑震撼的，是什么 》（http://opinion.people.com.cn/GB/40604/4314195.html）收到请回复，谢谢。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 21, 2012 (here).

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30 November 2005

A notification from Information Office director Chen Hua has been received: The case of “A man issued a threat from the Henan Commercial Daily to detonate explosives on his body, and was shot dead by police,” all websites may not report this without exception, already reported matters must be deleted.

It is prohibited to publish or reprint the book An Exploration of Hu Yaobang’s Thoughts on Reform, published by the Hong Kong Kunpeng Publisher. Already issued content is to be deleted immediately.

25 November 2005

A notification from Information Office director Chen Hua has been received: for online reporting on the pollution in the Songhua River created by the explosion in a Jilin chemical factory and Harbin cutting off the water supply, only use copy from Xinhua and the main provincial media in Heilongjiang, reports on this matter must be simplified and played down. Online, rethinking articles and article on pursuing responsibility may not be reprinted, this sort of reports must, in the end, have the conclusion made by relevant State departments as the norm, unsuitable reporting triggering social instability and dissatisfied emotions on the masses is to be prevented. Management over forums and news tracker must be strengthened, and all sorts of harmful information timely deleted.

22 November 2005

(1) The death of National Investment Corporation Board Chairman Liang Yuncai during a period of shuanggui.

(2) The rallies and disturbances created by personnel of the Shenzhen “Great Wall” and “Golden Masses” companies.

3, The Beijing lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s “rights defense,” etc.

The above incidents may not be reported or reprinted without exception.

16 November 2005

In recent days, there have been reports again about the new “spirit” of the Paris riots: objectively report it, do not censure the French government because of it, and do not link it up to domestic “reality.”

16 November 2005

(1) Recent discussions on the American president’s visit to China, involving his route in China, the judicial assembly, or harming social security and other content may not be touched upon;

(2) Recent activities commemorating Hu Yaobang may not be reported on the main page of websites, it may appear on forums, but only Xinhua Net reports can be reprinted;

(3) If the above content appears on websites, IP addresses and other information are to be absolutely recorded, and reported daily to the Haidian Public Security Office (General Police Office 82519319, 13911837664) and the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Bureau.

11 November 2005

Everyone: where information appears concerning terror attacks that will occur in Beijing are to be immediately deleted; tonight, the Olympic mascots are unveiled, strictly implement earlier requirements, keep post numbers within 200, mainly report positive appraisal, do not let negative public opinion emerge, do not engage in surveys and interview.

11 November 2005

(1) The annual exam will soon take place, pay attention to supervising content such as stealing questions, cheating methods, etc.;

(2) Recently, comments of residents and personnel in some localities on content related to their localities (services, construction, government cervices, basic infrastructure, etc.) have emerged, if you come across local governments or relevant local departments requiring deletion of this content, the counterpart may be required to contact the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Bureau, explain the matter, and the deletion of this content is only to occur after corresponding permission is received from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Bureau. At the same time, pay attention to grasping this sort of content, if you come across content about which there is uncertainty, timely ask for instructions with the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Department; (pay attention to judgment on this content).

(3) recently, a number of the American magazine Forbes has published a cover leading article “Attack of the Blogs,” this article extremely acutely attacked the phenomenon of a group of American blogs in which defamation and other criminal phenomena emerged. This article has already given rise to heated arguments in the media, on the internet and among personalities in the legal sphere. At a time where blogging activities spread like wildfire in America and across the globe, this article gave rise to a great disturbance. This matter may spread domestically, and deserves attention. In short, keep the gate of blog content well, avoid blunders, this may be extremely important at present.

10 November 2005

I. Today, in the afternoon, we attended the “Work Conference on Governing Websites Providing Obscene, Sexual and Violent Games” organized by the Beijing Press and Publications Bureau concerning the “Notice concerning Conducting a Limited Time of Rectification of Websites Providing Obscene, Sexual and Violent Gaming Content,” the following spirit is transmitted:

(1) games having clear content inciting ethnic emotions;

(2) gaming having content of hating State leaders;

(3) gaming having content sowing discord among ethnic sentiments;

(4) content of obscene, sexual and violent games;

(5) cases where the above content is disseminated through forums and blogs are focus targets for supervision and management.

10 November 2005

Concerning sexual and violent games not being permitted for publication,, existing searches are deleted, where they emerge in the future, they are to be deleted without exception, the games that have concretely been determined as sexual are: “Idiots Are Criminals,” the “Tail” series, “Lula 3D”, “Game 2 Taboo Trial,” “Love Sister,” “Man-made Girl,” “Stink,” “Posthumous,” “Pretty Girl Yakyuken,” “24 Hour Nurse,” “The Guilt of Seven Generations,” the “Happy Sex Life” series, “3Feel Online,” and “Bloodrayne 2.”

10 November 2005

Yesterday, a notice from the Information Office was received, the matter of “the statue of Qin Hui is removed from exposition” may not be played up. The details of the reason are unknown. For reference only.

10 November 2005

At present, relevant departments’ management over the Internet has further strengthened, from the middle of October, a “rapid supervision and management mechanism” concerning online public opinion has been officially and completely started up. All higher-level instructions concerning network content are also correspondingly concrete. For example, the recent strict prohibition of publishing of “The Rights Defense Incident in the Red Sea Gulf,” “Reports on Japan” as well as the so-called “42 Bank Presidents Who Fled Abroad” and other false news, the requirement that content not conforming to the spirit of the Center must be determinedly deleted and blocked, and putting forward that blogs, forums and websites with “relatively much harmful information,” gravely violating regulations and “that do not hear the call” must be firmly investigated and prosecuted or even closed.

Information Office director Chen Hua notifies: everyone, concerning the report that South Korean capital Seoul officially changes its Chinese name, do not play this up, do not put it in the important news section, do not place it on the front page of websites, close news trackers, forums are not to discuss this.

Our website’s supervision and control is to not have any channel on the front page, and delete forums without exception!

10 November 2005

(1) The Network Supervision Office issues a Notice: Articles concerning the production and sale of monitoring devices, bugging devices, etc., are to be deleted without exception.

(2) Matters concerning the adult game “Guilt of Seven Generations” must be deleted.

10 November 2005

A notice from Chen Hua was received: “How Can A Kept Woman Become Section Director?,” corresponding matters are to be deleted without exception.

Concerning the matter of the White Paper on Chinese Democratic Politics (that will be published tomorrow by the State Council Information Office), no VIP interviews are to be made without exception, do not set up trackers, forums are not to discuss this.

2005年11月北京网管办发出的禁令

2005-11-30

接新闻办陈华通知：“一男子在河南商报扬言引爆身上爆炸物，被警方击毙”一事，各网站一律不得报道，已报道的要删除。

禁止发表转载由香港昆鹏出版社出版的《胡耀邦改革思想初探》一书。对已发布的内容立即删除。
2005-11-25

接新闻办陈华通知：关于吉化厂爆炸造成松花江污染和哈尔滨停水事件的网上报道，只使用新华社和黑龙江省主要媒体的稿件，要简化、淡化此事的报道。网 上不得转载反思和追究责任的文章，此类报道最后要以国家有关部门公布的结论为准，防止由于报道不当引发社会不稳定和群众的不满情绪。要加强对论坛和新闻跟 贴的管理，及时删除各类有害信息。
2005-11-22

1、国投公司董事长梁云才双规期间死亡。

2、深圳“长城”“金众”公司员工聚众闹事。

3、北京律师高智晟“维权”等。

以上事件一律不准报道转载。

2005-11-16

近日又有关于巴黎骚乱的新“精神”：客观报道，勿为此指责法国政府，也不要联系国内“实际”。
2005-11-16

1、近期美国总统访华的涉及到在华线路、司法集合、危害社会安全的言论等内容不要涉及；

2、近期为纪念胡耀邦有相关活动，网站主页不可报道，在论坛里可出现，但只能转载新华网的报道；

3、如在网站上出现以上内容，一定记录IP等信息，每天向海淀公安局（董警官 82519319，13911837664）、北京市公安局网监处报告。

2005-11-11

各位：有关北京将遭恐怖袭击的消息发现即删除；今晚奥运吉祥物发布，严格此前要求，跟贴200以内，正面评价为主，不得出现负面舆论，不作调查和访谈。

2005-11-11

1、一年一度的考研马上到了，注意贩卖考题、作弊方式等内容的监管；

2、最近有地方居民或人员评论本地（服务、建设、市政服务、基础设施等）相关内容出现，如碰到地方政府或地方的相关部门要求删除此内容的，可要求对 方与北京市公安局网监处联系，说明，此类内容的删除必须得到北京市公安局网监处的相关许可后可进行。同时，注意这类内容的把握，碰到拿不准的内容，及时和 北京市公安局网监处请示；（注意此内容的判断）

3、最新一期美国《福布斯》杂志发表封面重头文章《博客的攻击》，这篇文章十分尖锐地批评了美国博客一族中出现的诽谤等犯罪现象。这篇文章已经引起 传媒、互联网以及法律界人士的激烈争论。在美国和全球博客运动如火如荼之际，这篇文章引起轩然大波。此事或将波及国内，值得注意。总之博客网在内容上把好 关，免出纰漏，这在目前可能是至关重要的。
2005-11-10

一、今天下午参加了北京市新闻出版局举办的针对《关于对提供淫秽色情、暴力游戏内容的网站进行限期整改的通知》的《治理提供淫秽色情暴力内容游戏网站工作会》会议，传达以下精神：

1、带有明显煽动民族情绪的内容的游戏内容；

2、带有仇视国家领导人的游戏内容；

3、带有挑拨民族感情的游戏内容；

4、淫秽、色情、暴力游戏的内容；

5、通过论坛、博客传播的以上内容为新形式下的监管重点对象。
2005-11-10

关于色情暴力的游戏不准发表，已有的搜索删除，以后发现的一律删除，现具体已明确为色情暴力的游戏有：《痴汉是犯罪》、《尾行》系列、《露拉 3D》、《游具2禁忌试玩》、《爱姐妹》、《人工少女》、 《臭作》、《遗作》、《美女野球拳》、《护士24点》、《七宗罪》、《性福人生》系列、《The 3Feel Online》、《吸血莱恩2》
2005-11-10

昨接新闻局一通知，“秦桧塑像撤展”一事一律不得炒作。原因详情未知。仅供参考。
2005-11-10

目前有关部门对互联网管理进一步加强，从十月中旬起，对网上舆情的“快速监管机制”已经正式全面启动。上级对网络内容的各项指示也相当具体。如近期 对“红海湾维权事件”“涉日报道”以及所谓“42名行长外逃”假新闻等严禁刊登，要求对不符中央精神的内容要坚决删除封堵，提出对“有害内容较多”和严重 违规和“不听招呼”的博客、论坛和网站要坚决查处甚至予以关闭。

2005-11-10

新闻办陈华通知：各位，关于韩国首都汉城正式更名为“首尔”的报道，不炒作，不放要闻区，不上网站首页，关闭新闻跟帖，论坛不讨论。

我们网站的监控是各频道不上首页,论坛一律删!

2005-11-10

1、网络监察处有通知：关于监听器、窃听器等制作和销售的帖文一律删除。

2、关于成人游戏七宗罪的要删除。

2005-11-10

接陈华通知：“三陪女是怎样当上部长的”，相关的一律删除

有关（明天国新办等将）发布中国民主政治白皮书一事，一律不做嘉宾访谈，不开跟帖，论坛不讨论。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 13, 2012 (here).

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30 September 2005

On 1 October, the main media in Guangdong Province will publish a news article on “The Earlier Motion to Dismiss the Village Committee Chair in Taishi Village Has Become Invalid, Safeguarding the Lawful Rights and Interests of the Villagers of Taishi According to the Law,” all websites are requested to not transmit this news article, forum trackers are also not to post this article.

30 September 2005

(1) It is not permitted to publish “Zhuhai Municipal People’s Congress Launches Appraisal and Judgment Activities, Designs Dismissal Rules” and other reports, existing reports must be promptly removed. Do not disseminate or discuss the viewpoint that “major matters must go through the National People’s Congress.”

2005-9-30

(2) The Yannan Community has already been closed, no website may discuss this topic!

29 September 2005

(1) Concerning the “Wang Binyu Case” and the “Panyu Taishi Village Incident,” only use Xinhua copy, it is strictly prohibited to use copy from any other source. Concerning the Wang Binyu case, only positive guiding posts can be issued, and these may only been posted after the Foreign Propaganda Office appoints a special person to examine and verify the “keeping the gate,” other posts must be completely cleaned up. Concerning the incident of recalling village officials in Taishi Village, Panyu, all posts already on forums are to be completely deleted without exception.

(2) Concerning matters of “civil servant salary system reform,” the following requirements are reiterated: websites are only to reprint Xinhua copy, without permission, they may not reprint information from any other source. Articles concerning this matter are not to be dealt with prominently, do not set up news trackers, do not set up special subject pages, forums are not to discuss this.

(3) Concerning the matter of “the Suicide of the Major of Korla City, Xinjiang,” without permissions, websites may not report this without exception. They must strengthen management, and timely block and delete relevant information.

28 September 2005

Do not report or play up the “Minister of Communications Zhang Chunxian Welcomes Information on Honest and Clean Government Supervision,” corresponding reports and commentaries must be immediately deleted.

28 September 2005

This week, focus on inspection and control of: online information aimed at the Beijing “Aircom” company withholding donations from netizens to the plaintiff in the Harbin “Japanese Army Gas Shell Case.”

This week, focus on inspection and control of: domestic and online information concerning incidents on the strike of workers of Special Steel in Chongqing, the incident of the rally of Anshan Steel workers in Liaoning, the incident of student protest of Sichuan Science and Engineering Institute students, and on the cholera epidemic in Fuzhou.

Matters concerning the Anshan Steel worker rallies may not be reported online without exception, timely block and delete corresponding information.

26 September 2005

(1) It is prohibited to explore the 17th Party Congress (The 17th National People’s Congress); note: regardless of whether netizens themselves start discussion or news media reports are reprinted, it is to be deleted without exception.

(2) Content related to foreign reports on any epidemic happening in our country is to be deleted without exception. Note; regardless of whether it is foreign or domestic, all media reports concerning disease epidemics (past ones that the masses know about are not included, such as SARS, etc.), are to be deleted first, afterwards, obey Notices.

25 September 2005

Matters related to the construction of a luxurious schoolhouse in Linhai, Zhejiang are not to be reported without exception!

22 September 2005

On 25 September, Xinhua will issue the “Copy concerning Website Clean-up and Rectification,” this may not be transmitted and may not be discussed. Content related to this is to be deleted without exception once discovered.

20 September 2005

The recent matter of a Henan person hijacking a taxi in Wangfujing, killing the driver and hitting some people, is not to be reported without exception.

10 September 2005

(1) Do not report on the event concerning the walkout of Peking University student Liu Jianfeng anymore. Existing content is to be deleted, forums are not to discuss it.

(2) Xinhua foreign-oriented copy concerning the Chinese Catholic leader responding to journalists’ questions may not be reprinted.

2 September 2005

During supervision, if the text “Notes from Birth Planning Investigation in Linyi, Shandong” is encountered, it is to be immediately deleted!

2005年9月北京网管办发出的禁令

2005-9-30

10月1日，广东省主要媒体将刊发”太石村原罢免村委会主任动议失效 依法维护太石村民合法权利”新闻稿，请各网站不转发此新闻稿，论坛跟帖也不贴发此稿
2005-9-30

1：不准发“珠海市人大开展述职评议活动、设计罢官规则”等报道，已有的要迅速撤除。不传播讨论“重大事项必须通过全国人大”的观点。

2：燕南社区已被关闭，关于此话题任何网站不准讨论！
2005-9-29

1、关于“王斌余案”和“番禺太石村事件”只使用新华社通稿，严禁使用其他任何来源稿件。关于王斌余案，只能发正面引导的贴文，并由外宣办指定专人审核把关后方可贴发，其余的贴文要全部清理。关于番禺太石村罢免村官事件，对论坛已有贴文一律全部删除。

2、有关“公务员工资制度改革”事，重申要求如下：网站只转发新华社通稿，未经许可，不得转载其他任何来源的消息。关于此事的文章不突出处理，不开新闻跟帖，不设专题，论坛也不讨论。

3、有关“新疆库尔勒市市长自杀”事，未经允许，网站一律不得报道。要加强管理，及时封堵和删除相关信息。
2005-9-28

不要报道和炒作“交通部长张春贤欢迎廉政监督的消息”相关报道和评论要立即删除。
2005-9-28

本周重点监控：网上针对北京“易索得”公司截留网民对齐齐哈尔“日军毒气弹案” 原告团捐款的相关信息。

本周重点监控：境内外网上有关重庆特钢工人罢工事件、辽宁鞍钢工人集会事件、四川理工学院学生抗议事件、福州霍乱疫情的信息。
有关鞍钢工人聚集事网上一律不得报道，及时封堵和删除相关信息。
2005-9-26

1、禁止探讨有关十七大（第十七届全国人民代表大会）；注：不论是网友自发讨论还是转载新闻媒体的报道，一律删除。

2、有关境外报道我国出现任何传染病疫情的内容一律删除。注：不论境外境内，所有媒体关于传染病疫情（以往众所周知得不包含在内，如非典等）的新报道一律先删除，事后听通知。
2005-9-25

有关浙江临海兴建豪华校舍之事一律不报道！
2005-9-22

25日新华社将发布关于“网站清理整顿的通稿”，不要转发，不要议论。有关此内容发现一律删除！
2005-9-20

近日一河南人在王府井劫持出租车杀害司机撞伤几人之事，一律暂不报道。
2005-9-10

1.不再报道关于北大学生柳剑锋出走之事。已有内容撤除，论坛不讨论。

2.新华社对外稿关于中国天主教负责人答记者问一律不得转载。
2005-9-2

监管时如遇《山东临沂计划生育调查手记》一文立即删除！

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 11, 2012 (here).

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“It’s not right to treat them as toys. They are humanoid and should be treated in the same way as the growth of humans – from infancy first.”

Hong expects more robots to take on household duties in the near future and that explains why he has added some special items for the first time in the contest, including carrying trays, pulling carts and collecting rubbish.

“Robot is a lovely mechanical spirit which mixes math, electronics, computer science and machinery together,” says Li Deyi, chief of CAAI and an academician at Chinese Academy of Engineering. “But people tend to feel disconnected from it in their daily life. We have to create public awareness so that the general public accepts the wider use of robots. That is the aim of this competition.”

[…] Hong says he is happy with the creativity of the young contestants in the contest. “We need the inspiration of more young people. I’m 77 years old, and I cannot be a general without an army. I want to retire, but it is not the right time yet,” he says.

A non-humanoid American robot took gold in the 563 billion meters on Sunday with a time of eight and a half months.

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The gold-encrusted hallways, marble foyers, and imposing granite frontage are not from Versailles, or the Vatican, or even Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. They are from the newly completed corporate headquarters of state-owned Harbin Pharmaceutical, in northeast China. No word on exactly how much the literally palatial offices cost to construct, but the mind boggles. One prominent journalist from Chinese state TV severely criticized the company for its garish use of funds, explicitly comparing it to the Palace of Versailles, but some netizens posting online defended the monument as a natural expression of China’s prosperity:

What happened…? This is very normal. What’s the big deal? This is what the healthy development of a business looks like. So Chinese state-owned enterprises aren’t allowed to do this? I support Harbin Pharmaceuticals… Hope there will be even more enterprises like Harbin Pharmaceuticals…

For the last several months, I’ve been just waiting for the moment when somebody rolls up a big wad of 100 Renminbi notes into a cigar, sticks it in their mouth, and lights up. In the meantime, I’m going to have to settle for this as the next best thing.

Business Insider (via Stan Abrams) finds a less gloomy timeline on which to place these stories: an HSBC luxury market research report suggests that China is simply passing through a normal “Show Off” phase of “luxury evolution”:

According to HSBC:

The urge to splurge, China at the ‘show-off’ stage

In Chinese and Russian communist societies, individual property was not allowed and private wealth was traditionally suspicious. With the liberalization of the economy, a new class system was created where your place on the ladder may depend on how much money one earns, and owning luxury goods can help display the level of one’s wealth.

The report cites a book that details the five stages of luxury evolution in Asian countries from “subjugation” to “way of life,” and China is smack dab in the middle at “show-off.” (In comparison, India is still moving out of “subjugation,” where people are deprived and start to build a desire for luxury brands. Japan has totally evolved to “way of life.”)

Uncertainty still surrounds the photos, which have been variously described as showing offices, an employee recreation centre and, according to an anonymous source at the company itself, an art museum. From the AFP:

The Beijing Business Today newspaper quoted an unnamed spokesperson for the company as confirming the pictures were genuine, but said they were of an art museum located in the same building as the firm’s offices.

“The design and decoration of the office’s section are very simple. But we hoped the design of the museum would have some sense of art,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying.

However, photos of the museum posted on the company’s website showed an area of white-painted walls and brown wooden floors, and did not look anything like the opulence seen in the pictures released online.

Sources:

Après Nous, Le Déluge – Patrick Chovanec
China Has Entered The “Show-Off” Stage Of Luxury Evolution – Business Insider
China state firm’s sumptuous office causes outrage – AFP

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After flying to Beijing from my current home in Hong Kong, I headed to Harbin to attend the opening of the Wu Lien-teh Memorial Hospital and the 60th anniversary of another hospital affiliated with Harbin Medical University, one of several medical institutions founded by Wu. Some 700 government officials as well as doctors from China and abroad attended the elaborate, televised event. Walking around the Wu Lien-teh hospital and associated museum, and listening to trained docents shed light on my own family history, I was deeply moved. But I also wondered: Why, after so long, is China honoring my great-grandfather? Read “China’s Medical Boom.”

The answer, on reflection, lies as much with how China has changed since the People’s Republic was founded 60 years ago as with Wu’s vital work. Over the decades China has lurched from serial revolutions to social experiments to, now, the wildly successful pursuit of wealth. In the process, hundreds of millions of lives have been both upended and uplifted. My great-grandfather and his family were buffeted by some of those forces too (though with nowhere near the terrible consequences experienced by countless other Chinese). While his achievements have long been recognized by epidemiologists worldwide, they were largely forgotten in China after the communists took over. In the aftermath of “liberation,” foreign links and laurels, once celebrated, became perilous liabilities. Wu’s relatives, including my father, fled in 1949, in part because they feared that their overseas ties might hurt them in the new China.

Yet as the nation continually transforms itself, so does its idea of what is acceptable and what, indeed, constitutes a hero.

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The policeman, Qi Xin, was charged with the intentional injury of 22-year-old Lin Songling during a fight and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Harbin Intermediate People’s Court, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The incident last October in the industrial city of Harbin cast further public attention on China’s police forces, which are often accused of corruption and abuse of power. The sentencing comes as the country seeks to cap smoldering unrest directed at authorities amid a souring economy.

Six police were involved in the fight, but only two were convicted. Qi’s colleague, Liu Linan, was given leniency after turning himself in and was sentenced to 12 years in jail… Liu and Qi, both members of the Harbin Railway Public Security Bureau, were also ordered to pay nearly US$50,000 in compensation to the victim’s family.

A Chinese news report from when the death happened:

 

A previous CDT post on the event.

See also past CDT posts on police brutality.

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What is perhaps the world’s most famous ice festival has become another of the world’s Disney theme parks, with a Disney licensing company taking over operations from the local Communist government. It is the first time a private company has run the ice festival.

Snow White has replaced snow dragons. Children wander through the frozen hallways of Aladdin’s Castle instead of a Qing dynasty palace. “It’s a Small World” plays in one corner of the park. (What better theme music for globalization?)

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At night the whole complex is illuminated with multi-coloured lights and ice-lanterns.

There is also a 160m high Father Christmas which organisers say is the tallest ice sculpture in the world.

The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, which is in its 25th year, expects to welcome 800,000 visitors over the next few weeks with the festival expected to close at the end of February, weather permitting.

NPR has reported that the Santa Claus sculpture, the scene of a mass wedding ceremony, is melting.

Watch videos of polar bear swimmers:

[Thanks to China Rising for the link]

Ice sculptures:

And the mass wedding:

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Two police officers have been arrested over the beating death of a college student in a nightclub in northeastern China — a move apparently aimed at quelling increasing public anger at a force often accused of corruption and abuse of power.

Recent weeks have seen a series of riots and attacks against government offices and police, sparked by alleged assaults on citizens and more general complaints over corruption and opaque decision-making. The arrests in the industrial center of Harbin come as the government has expressed concern that a souring economy could further stoke the unrest.

Harbin police on Tuesday called a news conference to announce the arrests of Liu Linan and Qixin over the beating death of Lin Songling, a 22-year-old student at the provincial university of physical education. Both were identified as officers with the city police’s railway division.

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Gender imbalance

In and around Harbin, Shukan Bunshun talks to Chinese women seeking Japanese husbands, and asks them why. It’s a leap into the unknown. Are they worried? Do they harbor apprehensions?

“I’ve heard living conditions in Japan are good and Japanese men have a sense of responsibility,” says a 22-year-old woman from a farming family. “I have friends and relatives who married Japanese men, so no, I’m not worried.”

“I’m ready for a change,” says a 28-year-old shop clerk who also has friends married to Japanese. “No particular worries. Japanese men are nice — aren’t they?”

Meanwhile, in 2007, the Los Angeles Times noted that “roughly 120 boys are born in China for every 100 girls. Within 15 years, the country may have 30 million men who cannot find wives.”

So why Japan, asks The Japan Times, with China’s own economy surging?

The countryside may be poor, but the cities are booming. Aren’t Chinese cities a more accessible mating ground?

No, says Kenji Doi, a China-based broker of international marriages. “The chances of an ordinary country girl making a rich match for herself in Shanghai or Beijing are very slim. International marriage is still the fastest route to prosperity.”

Earlier this year, former Tokyo reporter Yang Yi, who herself emigrated from Harbin in 1987, was nominated for the prestigious Akutagawa Award for her first novel in Japanese, “Wang-chan.” The novel chronicles the life of a “Chinese woman who moved to Japan as the bride of a Japanese factory worker and then tried to carve out a career as a marriage broker for other Chinese women seeking to marry Japanese men living out in the sticks.” She spoke with Tomoko Otake with The Japan Times Feb. 3:

“I realized that if I was to really make a living out of writing, I would have to be accepted in mainstream Japanese society… So decided to create a story that has both Japanese and Chinese characters. Where would Chinese people interact most with Japanese? Probably if a Chinese gets married to a Japanese. That’s how I came up with this story.”

Your descriptions of an “arranged-marriage tour” — in which a Chinese woman, as a marriage broker, takes Japanese men looking for brides to a Chinese village, are very vivid. Are such situations happening in real life?

“I think they are. Many people told me after I wrote the story, “I didn’t know you were doing that marriage-broker work!” Well, I have never been engaged in such work, so the story is based on my imagination and real-life inquiries from such brides to the newspapers. I don’t know what the situation is really like.”

…Both “Wang-chan” and [earlier work] “Roshojo” feature a Chinese woman living in Japan as a lead character. Do you have any observations on the social position of Chinese women today?

“Yes, that’s exactly why I wrote these novels. The sense of morals and the values that they (the Chinese characters) brought from China are no longer accepted in China. Not only I, but many Chinese women in my generation who came to Japan around the same time as I did, have certain fixed ideas about morals and about how women should behave, but they are shocked at the sense of morals Japanese people have. After living here for a long time, they get used to how Japanese feel. But when they go back to China, they see a Chinese society that has completely changed. The problem is, they haven’t lived the changes themselves. So they are shocked again and feel lost.”

Photo: YOSHIAKI MIURA

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- Read also China’s “City of Ice” Feels Effect of Global Warming via CDT

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Chinese scientists have warned that climate change is hurting the most famous draw in the northern city of Harbin — its annual ice sculpture contest.

Average annual temperatures in the city perched on the edge of Siberia hit 6.6 degrees Celsius (44 Fahrenheit) last year, the highest average since records began, and the ice sculptures are feeling the heat.

“In the beginning of December 2002, ice lanterns in Harbin melted right after they were sculpted. What came out of the work was sweaty ice sculptures,” Yin Xuemian, senior meteorologist at the Heilongjiang Observatory, told Reuters. [Full Text]

Read also Warming fears for China ice show by BBC.

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