The AmazeNews story below was first posted on May 8 as part of the ongoing series Scenes from the Golden Age (盛世一景). CDT Chinese carries all AmazeNews posts (here).

On April 28, under the guise of a conference, the township government of Beiye, Pingshan County, Hebei Province arrested the chief and secretary of Mimishui Village. On April 29, a group of women from the village kneeled on the ground to beg Zhang Dongli for the release of the arrested village officials.

In the images, a group of female villagers are shown kneeling in front of Zhang. Some of them tug at his legs while they beg for the release of the detained officials. But Zhang Dongli is unfazed. His face remains expressionless as he stands with his hands behind his back and his nose in the air.

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According to Radio Free Asia [zh], the local government sold the villagers’ land over ten years ago to someone surnamed Su to build a sightseeing attraction. Since then, many villagers’ homes have been forcibly demolished.

Images of stoney-faced Zhang began to circulate on Weibo around May 6. Netizens have dubbed him “Brother Emperor” (皇帝哥). While a Weibo search for “Brother Emperor” only returns 750 results as of 4:15 p.m. EST, weibo from @拍客视线 and @获鹿县令 have together been reposted over 6500 times.

Translation by Wen Xin Liu.

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The dangers of China’s environmental degradation go well beyond the country’s borders, as pollution threatens global health more than ever. Chinese leaders have argued that their country has the right to pollute, claiming that, as a developing nation, it cannot sacrifice economic growth for the sake of the environment. In reality, however, China is holding the rest of the world hostage — and undermining its own prosperity.

[…] The economic costs of pollution have been the focus of various government-backed studies in China. A recent study by the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning found that environmental damage to forests, wetlands, and grasslands shaved 3.5 percent off China’s 2012 GDP. The World Bank puts the total cost of China’s environmental degradation in the late 1990s at between 3.5 and 8 percent of GDP. China’s pollution problem is holding back its economy — and poisoning its own people and the rest of the world in the process. The international community should push China to realize that if it continues to ravage the environment, it will be unable to secure its future health and prosperity — or avoid a global disaster.

Xi Jinping signaled a shift in the balance of priorities earlier this week. From Andrew Browne and Carlos Tejada at The Wall Street Journal:

Speaking before business leaders at the Boao Forum for Asia in southern China on Monday, Mr. Xi said “it’s not impossible to grow faster,” but added, “we don’t want to grow too fast.”

“I don’t think China can sustain super-high or ultra-high-speed growth,” he said, citing the need to balance economic growth with other issues. He said China’s slowdown last year to 7.8% economic growth is “partially due to our efforts to control the speed of growth.”

[…] Speaking at a roundtable discussion with Asian and global business leaders at the Boao forum, Mr. Xi said China will sustain “relatively high” growth but will also look at fostering green development. “Realizing those goals will bring vitality and strength to China’s economy,” he said.

But at Economic Observer, Chen Yongjie of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges argued that based on projections of future energy consumption and carbon emissions, China’s economy must slow further still:

There is a chance that China’s new leaders may start to take environmental problems seriously, having even set the construction of an ecological civilization as one of its five national priorities. However in the face of the severe haze we see every day, China has to dig even deeper.

[…] China has to effectively reduce the pace of its development, aiming to keep its overall economic growth below 7 percent between now and 2014; and during its “13th Five-Year Plan” (2015-2020), growth should be kept under 6 percent.

It’s only by reducing the speed of China’s economic growth that we can reduce excessive resource extraction and curb high pollution emissions. Only by reducing the over-consumption of resources and the amount of pollution can China protect and save itself, and the world as well.

The problem is compounded by China’s heavy reliance on coal, often labeled the dirtiest of the fossil fuels. “Even if China’s economy slowed to 5% growth each year,” wrote Lily Kuo at Quartz last month, describing a Deutsche Bank report on the relationship between environment and economy, “its annual coal consumption would still rise to 6 billion tons (5.4 tonnes) by 2022, from the current 3.8 billion tons.” At chinadialogue, Greenpeace’s Li Shuo and Lauri Myllyvirta illustrated the scale of China’s coal dependence:

A quick flick through China’s energy statistics book tells us just how coal-addicted Beijing’s neighbours are. In 2011, Shandong and Hebei collectively consumed nearly 700 million tonnes of coal, making them the first and fourth biggest consumers among China’s provinces. Each burned through more coal than Germany, Europe’s largest economy, and together they exceeded India’s total coal consumption. Putting it another way, more coal is consumed within 600 kilometres of China’s capital than in the entire United States.

[…] Two pathways are unfolding in front of China’s policymakers. The path of unbridled, unsustainable GDP growth at all costs that ignores the health of its citizens, or a greener, cleaner kind of growth powered by smart investments in new energy, and guided by effective environmental policies and practices. As the nation’s renowned respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan bluntly put it on the sidelines of the parliamentary meetings last month: “When people’s health is at risk, how can we still put GDP first?”

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ARD correspondent Christine Adelhardt, accompanied by two German colleagues and two Chinese staff, had been filming in the village of Da Yan Ge Zhuang for a report on urbanisation, one of the incoming Chinese government’s major challenges and a process that has often provoked disputes over land ownership.

[…] When the crew left, two cars, later joined by at least two others, gave chase, trying to force the Germans’ minivan off the road and to deliberately cause a collision.

[…] The crew got away, but were pursued, forced off the road and onto the sidewalk, rammed, and made to stop. Two men from the pursuing vehicles attacked the minivan with baseball bats, shattering its windscreen, before the ARD driver was able to get away again by bulldozing his way past a car parked in front of the ARD van.

The crew then came across two motorcycle policemen and asked them for help. Their pursuers caught up with them, and again began smashing and punching holes in the car’s windscreen, despite the police officers’ attempts to control them.

Adelhardt and ARD were also involved in one of four incidents last summer which prompted a joint protest by three China-based Foreign Correspondents’ Clubs. February last year also saw two separate attacks on foreign journalists covering land grabs in the Zhejiang village of Panhe.

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As the “airpocalyptic” pollution blanketing Beijing over the weekend inspires comparisons from various quarters with the devastating London smog of 1952, Dan Fagin writes at the International Herald Tribune about the Handan incident’s Western precursors.

For me, reading about Handan prompted a sick feeling of déjà vu. For the last five years I have been writing a history of the chemical industry’s egregious 60-year involvement in the New Jersey shore town of Toms River, which gained unwanted notoriety in the late 1990s thanks to a remarkably well-documented cluster of childhood cancer cases and a long history of often hidden industrial pollution.

[…] The reality of 21st-century globalism […] is that none of us can pretend that by pushing the chemical industry out of our communities we have stopped enabling its dangerous practices. The industry jobs that started in Basel, and then migrated to Cincinnati and Toms River, are now in Shanxi Province and other coal-rich areas of China. BASF alone now owns or invests in 45 Chinese ventures. Meanwhile, hundreds of smaller companies like the Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group, whose Changzhi factory was the source of last week’s leak, are busy turning coal into aniline and a host of other chemical products.

Business is booming. If you don’t believe me, head over to the Ocean County Mall in Toms River, where you can get a pair of jeans dyed just the right shade of faded blue, thanks to aniline-based indigo dye. They’re made in China, and they’re cheap — if you don’t count the long-term cost.

From Tea Leaf Nation’s Yi Lu:

The price, however, is already being paid. According to Caixin, the chemical spill in Changzhi on December 31 was the latest in a series of 18 major water pollution accidents in the span of just eight years⁠. From Jiling to Guangdong, Jiangsu to Yunnan, industrial centers across China have been embroiled in a spate of water calamities whose damage and frequency are staggering. For ordinary people who depend on these water sources, however, the crisis last week — and the hasty cover-up that ensued — only revived their misgivings about government accountability. Suppression of news from the source, a common practice of local officials, was arguably more deadly than the contamination itself.

[…] Even as toxins seeped in, altering the fate of residents who depended on it, Zhuo Zhang River continued its normal flow — slow, steady, as if nothing had changed. The human lives that it traversed, however, changed course suddenly, though the full impact of spill on human health and the environment will take years, if not decades, to reveal. In the meantime, however, some have chosen to decisively shape the flow of events that follow: On January 9, @吴喆华, a journalist of Radio China, reported on his Weibo account that the Winter Swimming Association of Handan had decided to sue Tianji Coal Chemical — the first civil litigation after the crisis. More, he suggested, will follow.

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At least 10,000 couples were due to tie the knot in Beijing, with many more turning up without an appointment.

On Friday – nicknamed “love you forever day” – couples were once again crowding into civil affairs departments in provinces around the country.

Couples in the southern island province of Hainan even braced bad weather and lined up in the rain, waiting for their chance to say “I do”.

Numbers play an important role in China, with eight – which sounds like the word “prosperity” – being considered particularly auspicious, the BBC’s Viv Marsh says.

Previously, China was part of the global wedding rush on 12/12/12 as it was considered an auspicious date. The Huffington Post reports the wedding rush was seen throughout China’s different provinces:

According to Sky News, approximately 10,000 couples were married in Beijing on Friday. Additional government staff were reportedly called in to deal with the nuptials surge.

In Guangdong province, CNTV reports that nearly 5,000 couples got hitched; while in Hong Kong, the city’s five marriage registries were said to have been fully booked since September 2012. And in Shanghai, according to Shanghai Daily, more than 7,000 couples tied the knot.

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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 March 2007, 16:04

All websites: Concerning the issue of unlawful construction in Qinglongtou Village, Fangshan District, there may be no reports.

2 March 2007, 17:10:17

All websites: Please appoint a special person to report situations daily during the “Two Sessions” period.

All websites: The national “Two Sessions” will convene tomorrow, during the period of the “Two Sessions,” all websites are requested to appoint a special person to report that day’s propaganda and reporting situation concerning the “Two Sessions” to the Network Management Office Network Management Section. Content reported by portal websites must include the number of articles (including pictures) issued between 12:00 the previous day and 12:00 of the day in question, the situation of content increase in the “Two Sessions” special subject, newly set-up columns, undertaken VIP interviews and titles, and audiovisual real-time report situations; websites other than portal websites may report all sorts of propaganda and reporting related to the content of the “Two Sessions” in integration with the specialties of that website. All websites are requested to report the above content before 14:00 of every day to Huang Jing at the Network Management Office Network Management Section (e-mail: huangjing@bjwgb.gov.cn, telephone: 671966780). All websites are requested to start reporting the situations starting from 12:00 this Sunday, when reporting matters, ensure that these are succinct and correct.

4 March 2007, 13:35

All websites: please link to the live broadcast URL of Qianlong Net (http://live.qianlong.com/live/news/2007/3/1920/2@1920.htm) on the main page of websites, with the title “The ‘2007 New Spring Well-Wishing Text Message Recommendation Selection Event Award Ceremony’ to Be Held at 15:00 Today” (on a red background), and begin transmitting the award ceremony at 15:00.

5 March 2007: 9:25

All websites: during the “Two Sessions” period, all websites are requested to appoint a special person to report that day’s propaganda and reporting situation concerning the “Two Sessions” to the Network Management Office Network Management Section. Content reported by portal websites must include the number of articles (including pictures) issued between 12:00 the previous day and 12:00 of the day in question, the situation of content increase in the “Two Sessions” special subject, newly set-up columns, undertaken VIP interviews and titles, and audiovisual real-time report situations; websites other than portal websites may report all sorts of propaganda and reporting related to the content of the “Two Sessions” in integration with the specialties of that website. All websites are requested to report the above content before 14:00 of every day to Huang Jing at the Network Management Office Network Management Section (e-mail: huangjing@bjwgb.gov.cn, telephone: 671966780). All websites are requested to start reporting the situations starting from 12:00 this Sunday, when reporting matters, ensure that these are succinct and correct.

5 March 2007, 13:59

I. (1) Please remove all column forms about the Two Sessions concerning “I have a question to ask the Premier, to ask the Foreign Minister, advice to offer,” etc., that directly create an interactive relationship with netizens to within the special subject on the Two Sessions, it is not permitted to directly put them on front pages and the important news section of news centers. (2) Netizens’ making statements shall first register and then make statements, anonymous statements are not permitted.

II. First Finance and Southern Metropolis Daily are non-standard copy sources, it is stressed again that from this day, they may not be reprinted, including that it is not permitted to reprint First Finance copy from International Online, Eastern Net and other focus news websites or Southern Metropolis Daily copy reprinted on Southern News Net of Southern Newspaper Net. If copy related to the national Two Sessions has been reprinted, please delete it.

III. All websites: Concerning the matter of the person who petitioned the Hebei Provincial Government, Ping Shuangxi’s “Journalist notification conference accusing the Hebei Public Security organs of persecuting petitioning masses,” no website may reprint this, interactive segments are not to disseminate or discuss this.

6 March 2007, 21:09

Concerning the matter of Chen Liangyu still being an NPC representative, do not open trackers without exception. Where they are open, please close them, thank you.

13 March 2007, 16:43

All websites: Please close trackers on images concerning “Tyranny on Chang’an Avenue During the Two Sessions Period” and corresponding information, push it to the back stage at the same time.

13 March 2007, 17:33

All websites: Foreign hostile forces disseminate “Son of a Bitch,” “Kill Kill Kill,” “Avenging the People,” and other harmful audiovisual information on foreign websites, all websites are requested to not reprint corresponding information, forums and blogs are not to reprint or discuss this.

15 March 2007, 14:51

All websites: Please immediately cease advertising and propaganda articles related to “Ant Strength God” capsules.

16 March 2007, 18:36:01, Chen Hua

The data concerning netizens’ questions to Premier Wen provided at Premier Wen’s press conference of this morning is corrected as follows: “Only on the Internet, more than 100,000 questions were asked to Premier Wen, the number of individual clicks exceeded 26 million.” All websites are requested to rapidly correct this.

2007年3月北京网管办发出的禁令（一）

2007年3月1日16时04分

各网:关于房山区青龙头村违法建设问题不得报道.
2007-03-02 17:10:17

各网：请指定专人在“两会”期间每天上报报道情况

各网：全国“两会”将于明天召开，在“两会”举行期间，请各网指定一名专人将当天“两会”宣传报道的情况上报网管办网管处。 门户网站上报的内容要包括前日12时至当日12时新闻发稿（含图片）的条数，“两会”专题里内容的增添情况、新开设的栏目、所开展的嘉宾访谈及题目、音视 频实时报道的情况； 门户以外的网站可以上报结合本站特点开展的与“两会”内容相关的各种形式的宣传、活动。 以上内容请各网在每天14时前，传网管办网管处黄婧（邮箱：huangjing@bjwgb.gov.cn 电话：67196678 ） 请各网从本周日12时前开始上报情况，上报时办求简短、准确。
2007年3月4日13时35分

各网:请在本网站首页以《“2007年新春祝福短信推荐评选活动抽奖仪式”今日15时举行》为标题（套红），链接千龙网的直播地址 （http://live.qianlong.com/live/news/2007/3/1920/2@1920.htm），并在15时准时开始转播抽 奖仪式。
2007年3月5日09时25分

各网：在“两会”举行期间，请各网指定一名专人将当天“两会”宣传报道的情况上报网管办网管处。 门户网站上报的内容要包括前日12时至当日12时新闻发稿（含图片）的条数，“两会”专题里内容的设置情况、新开设的栏目、所开展的嘉宾访谈及题目、音视 频实时报道的情况； 门户以外的网站可以上报结合本站特点开展的与“两会”内容相关的各种形式的宣传、活动。 以上内容请各网在每天14时前，传网管办网管处黄婧（邮箱：huangjing@bjwgb.gov.cn 电话：67196678 ） 请各网从今天14:00前开始上报情况，上报时办求简短、准确。
2007年3月5日13时59分

一．1、请把两会中关于“我有问题问总理、问外长、建言献策”等直接和网友发生互动关系的各个栏目形式，一律撤到两会专题页内，不允许直接放到首页和新闻中心要闻区。 2、网民发言应当是先注册后发言，不允许匿名发言。

二．第一财经和南方都市报为非规范稿源，再次强调，从即日起，不得转载，包括不得转载国际在线或东方网等重点新闻网站转的第一财经稿件、南方新闻网或南方报业网转的南方都市报稿件。有关全国两会的稿件，如已转载，请删除。

三．各网：有关河北省上访人员冯双喜“控诉河北公安机关迫害上访群众记者通报会”一事，各网站不要转载，互动环节不传播、不讨论。
2007年3月6日21时08分

关于陈良宇仍为人大代表一事一律不开跟帖.已开的，请关闭，谢谢
2007年3月13日16时43分

各网:关于”两会期间在长安街横行霸道！”的图片及相关信息请关闭跟帖,同时压后台
2007年3月13日17时33分

各网：境外敌对势力在境外网站传播”狗崽子”、”杀杀杀”、”为人民报仇”等有害视听信息，请各网站不要转载相关信息，论坛、博客、播客不转发、不讨论。
2007年3月15日14时51分

各网：请立即停止”蚁力神”胶囊的相关广告及宣传文章。
2007年03月16日 18:36:01 陈华

今天上午温总理记者招待会上有关网民向总理提问题的数据更正如下：“单就互联网上向总理提问题的已经超过10万多条，点击的人数超过2600万人次。”请各网站速更正。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 18, 2012 (here). This post is the 41st in the series.

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

23 July 2006, 14:30, Network Management Office, Chen Hua

“The ‘Problem Loan’ of 3.2 Billion Eliminates Zhang Rongkun” in the 21st Century Business Herald is not to be reprinted without exception, or to be discussed in forums. It cannot be put on blogs. Where it is discovered, delete it immediately. Make “Zhang Rongkun” into a keyword on blog networks. No corresponding content may appear on forums, columns and individual blogs.

25 July 2006, 10:00, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

Please direct all search results for “Hu Haiqing” and “Lang Xianping” towards news websites, clean up all information about these two persons, including forums and blogs, which must be cleaned op, only maintain the content of news websites.

26 July 2006, 10:11, Chen Hua

(1) Concerning the issue of the North Korea nuclear crisis, forums are no longer to actively set up discussion topics; (2) Discussions concerning the household situation of Kim Jong-il or against South Korea may not be played up, lower the temperature on forums; (3) Please remove the First Financial Daily report concerning reform of undertaking work units from the front page of news and the front page of websites; (4) It is strictly prohibited to gather news or translate foreign news dispatches about the attack on United Nations observers, manage posts and forums well; (5) do not play up the incident of the Italian woman who was murdered in Chaoyang Park.

26 July 2006, 14:06

Propaganda and reporting requirements for activities to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake.

I. Give prominence to propaganda and reporting focus points. Propagate the magnificent achievements of the recovery and rebuilding in Tangshan in the 30 years since the earthquake and changes in economic and social development, propagate the “quake-proof spirit” of “being selfless in official duty, going through tough times together, keeping fighting in spite of setbacks and advancing bravely.”

II. Report important events online well. On 27 and 28 July, Xinhua and the People’s Daily will respectively transmit news reports reflecting the huge developments and changes in Tangshan’s economy and society in the 30 years since the Tangshan earthquake and especially since the 16th Party Congress; on 28 July, Xinhua will transmit copy concerning a large remembrance conference for the 30th anniversary of the Tangshan earthquake of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government; on 28 July, China National Radio and China Central Television will respectively produce and broadcast special subject programs, reflecting the huge economic and social developments and changes in the 30 years since the Tangshan earthquake and especially since the 16th Party Congress; at the end of July, main Central news work units will issue information about Hebei provincial leaders meeting with and consoling orphans who survived the Tangshan earthquake and people who were disabled. All websites must timely and fully report the important above activities well, and must timely transmit information, comment and remembrance articles from the People’s Daily, Xinhua and other main central news work units.

III. Strengthen online public opinion guidance and management. For all websites’ corresponding copy, only copy from main central news work units and main Hebei provincial news work units may be used, important copy must be checked and inspected by the responsible person himself, it is strictly prohibited to translate and issue foreign media copy, instructions must be requested for issues of uncertainty. A good atmosphere must be created for remembrance activities, do not discuss and do not play up predictions of the Tangshan earthquake in that year, the level of the earthquake, the refusal to accept foreign aid, the fact that casualty numbers have not been officially published, etc., prevent that there are people who slander the image of the Party and there government under the guise of so-called “rethinking” “uncovering,” etc. Management over forums, blogs, news trackers and other interactive columns must be strengthened, timely block and delete rumors, attacks, distortions and all other kinds of harmful information.

26 July 2006, 17:31, Network Management Office

Concerning the matter of the closure of Century China, is not to be reprinted or discussed without exception.

26 July 2006, 21:04, Network Management Office

Everyone: Concerning the matter of Chinese peacekeeping personnel being killed in Israeli air raids, pay attention to grasping the following six points in reporting:

(1) Strictly use standard sources, it is prohibited to self-gather news, do not engage in VIP chats, continuous interviews, etc.

(2) Strictly manage posts, do not point fingers at the Israeli people.

(3) Focus on reporting our leaders’ comforting and caring for the killed personnel and their relatives.

(4) Confirm the spirit of our peacekeepers of devotion to duty in the chaos of war, and brave contributions and sacrifices, as well as the contribution made in preserving peace.

(5) According to the central theme of the talks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, condemn the action of bombing. Pay attention not to point fingers at the Israeli people.

(6) Objectively report the declarations of the United Nations and relevant countries.

27 July 2006, 20:55, Network Management Office, Duty Manager MSN

“The Qinghai-Tibet Railway Infrastructure Operation Situation Is Good, There Are A Few Sections Where the Trackbed Subsides”

(1) Do not issue it in the important news section.

(2) Do not issue it on the main page of websites.

(3) Do not open trackers.

(4) No longer send short messages.

(5) Deal with this in a low-key manner.

Please immediately deal with this.

28 July 2006, 16:20, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

“Beijing Puts Forward Design Plan for a Capital of Five Colors – Central Park to Be Built in Wangfujing,” this articles is only an internal discussion paper, and is not the final plan, reports are inaccurate. All websites are requested to immediately delete it.

31 July 2006, 18:51, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

(1) All websites will make “democracy course” and “democracy course – electronic version” into keywords and block it.

(2) Concerning reporting on the periodical elections of district and county people’s congresses, all websites are only to report matters once, do not set up special subjects.

(3) Continue to earnestly block and screen out the article Nine Criticisms of the Communist Party.

31 July 2006, 21:10, Network Management Office, Duty Manager

NetEase Community: Concerning the survey of the ethnic emotions in China in the near future, there are 11 problems in total, please delete it, other websites may not reprint it.

2006年7月北京网管办发出的禁令（三）
2006年7月23日14时30分 新闻办 陈华

《21世纪经济报道》“32亿问题借款张荣坤落马”一律不转载，论坛不讨论。博客也不能放。发现立即删除。在博客网将“张荣坤”设置为关键词。论坛、专栏、个人博客均不得出现相关内容。
2006年7月25日10时00分网管办值班

请把“胡海清”，“郎咸平”搜到的全部结果指向新闻网站，清理关于此二人的全部信息，包括论坛，博客，都要清理，只保留新闻网站的内容
2006年7月26日10时11分 陈华

1、关于朝鲜核危机问题，论坛不再主动设置讨论话题；2、关于金正日家事、反韩言论不要炒作，论坛降温3、第一财经日报关于事业单位改革的报道请撤 出新闻首页和网站首页4、联合国观察员遇袭事件，严禁自采、编译外电，管好跟贴和论坛5、意大利女子朝阳公园被害事件，不要炒作
2006年7月26日14时06分

唐山地震30周年纪念活动网上宣传报道要求：

一、突出宣传报道重点。宣传唐山地震30年来唐山市恢复重建的巨大成就和经济社会发展变化，宣传”公而忘私、患难与共、百折不挠、勇往直前”的”抗震精神”。

二、做好重要活动网上报道。7月27日和28日，新华社和人民日报将先后播发反映唐山地震30年来特别是十六大以来唐山经济社会巨大发展变化的通 讯；7月28日，新华社将播发河北省委、省政府举行唐山地震30周年纪念大会通稿；7月28日前后，中央电台、中央电视台将分别制作播出专题节目，反映唐 山地震30年来特别是十六大以来经济社会巨大发展变化；7月底，中央主要新闻单位将刊播河北省领导走访慰问唐山地震中幸存孤儿和伤残人员的消息。各网站要 及时、充分地报道好上述重要活动，要及时转发人民日报、新华社等中央主要新闻单位刊发的消息、评论和纪念文章。

三、加强网上舆论引导和管理。各网站相关稿件只转发中央主要新闻单位和河北省主要新闻单位稿件，重要稿件要由负责人亲自把关审发，严禁编译转发境外 媒体稿件，拿不准的问题要及时请示。要为纪念活动营造良好氛围，对当年唐山地震预报、地震级别、拒收外援和未正式公布伤亡数字等问题不争论、不炒作，防止 有人借所谓”反思”、”揭秘”之名诋毁党和政府的形象。要加强对论坛、博客和新闻跟帖等互动栏目的管理，及时封堵和删除造谣、攻击、歪曲等各类有害信息。
2006年7月26日17时31分 网管办

关于世纪中国被关闭一事，一律不转载不讨论。
2006年7月26日21时04分 新闻办

各位：对中国维和人员在以色列空袭中遇难一事，在报道中请注意把握以下六点：

1、严格规范稿源，严禁自采，不搞嘉宾聊天和连线访谈等。

2、严格管理跟贴，不得将矛头指向以色列人民。

3、重点报道我领导人对遇难人员和家属的慰问和关怀。

4、肯定我维和军人在战乱中忠于职守、勇于奉献和牺牲的精神，以及为维护和平做出的贡献。

5、按外交部发言人谈话的基调，对轰炸行径予以谴责。注意不要将矛头指向以色列人民。

6、对联合国和有关国家对此事的表态客观报道。
2006年7月27日20时55分 新闻办值班MSN

青藏铁路设备运行情况良好 有个别地段路基下沉”

1、不发要闻区；

2、不发网站首页；

3、不开跟贴；

4、不再发短信；

5、低调处理

请即刻进行处理
2006年7月28日16时20分 网管办值班

“北京提五色之都设计方案 王府井建中央公园”，该稿件只是内部讨论稿，并不是最后方案，报道失实。请各网站立即删除
2006年7月31日18时51分 网管办值班

1、各网将“民主教程”、“民主教程电子版”涉为关键词屏蔽；

2、关于区县人大换届选举的报道，各网只一事一报，不要搞专题；

3、继续认真屏蔽、清查《九评共产党》一文

 

2006年7月31日21时10分 网管办值班

网易社区：关于中国近期民族情绪的调查，共有11个问题，请删除，其他网站不要转载。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 1, 2012 (here).

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

9 March 2006

Concerning reports on the reform of the Beijing Qianmen area, please do not reprint matters, where they are already reprinted, please immediately delete them. Forums are also not to discuss this matter.

Reports on the university student Wu Yujie being imprisoned for engaging in ticket scalping activities, are not to be discussed. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

9 March 2006

Please speedily delete “Man Leaving Crime Scene Beaten to Death, Bystanders Seek Help from Police Without Response.” Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

9 March 2006

News Notice (Fan Tao): Please make “Yujie” (personal name) into a keyword, filter all articles about this person.  Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

8 March 2006

News Notice (Chen Hua): Yesterday, after minister of foreign affairs Li Zhaoxing organized a press conference, Japan put forward an impertinent protest against us, websites are requested to strengthen management, do not disseminate information or comments about this matter, forums, trackers, blogs, etc., are not permitted to carry discussions of this kind.

9 March 2006

Everyone:

Please delete reports on the matter of serial murder of children in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang as soon as possible;

The text “The Chinese Communist Party Must Know How to Control the New Bourgeoisie” must not be permitted to appear on websites;

If there are online articles smearing the Lei Feng Spirit, especially the text “The Truth about One Corrupt Element: Lei Feng,” they must be firmly deleted;

If there are blogs set up by the earlier China Public Opinion Supervision Net leading person Li Xinde on your website, please delete them;

For reprinting the case of the only daughter of a Tsinghua University professor being throttled to death by a public transport ticket seller, please wait for our notification, do not reprint anything before then.

6 March 2006

Network Supervision notice: Focus supervision and control points from 4 March until 10 March:

(1) Online information trends concerning the national “Two Sessions”;

(2) Clues on activities of a number of retired military personnel, bank personnel “bought out of seniority,” households moved away because of confiscation, house owners and other groups planning, organizing and linking up for petitioning and “rights defense” activities, etc.;

(3) Domestic and foreign hostile forces playing up the “relay fasting activity” started by Gao Zhisheng and other situations.

(4) Pay attention to finding and dealing with the “Online Publication of an ‘Open Letter’ Incident” of People’s Policeman Wu Youming from Huangshi, Hebei and corresponding information;

(5) Pay attention to finding and dealing with information related to “the incident of Hui-Han clashes in Xinzheng, Henan,” as well as “Terrorist Suitcase Bomb Construction Plan.”

Explanation: the first item is a focus target for attention, delete negative reports on and attacking content concerning the Two Sessions! Items 2-5 are to be immediately deleted when found.

6 March 2006

Please delete the articles on Premier Wen opening a blog according to requirements.

6 March 2006

News notice:

(1) The matter of “serial killing of children happening in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang,” please do not put it on the main page of websites or the main news page. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

(2) Please remove surveys stating that 67% of citizens believe that the current amount of civil servants should be reduced from front pages and main news center pages of websites. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

Attention: if it is not on the front page, it may be reported.

6 March 2006

Network Supervision Office notification: Articles on Wang Xiaoya having a dubious relationship with some high Ministry of Public Security official, Minister Zhou or Minister Zhou Yongkang may not be issued without exception, existing ones are to be all deleted.

4 March 2006

Information Office notice: Everyone, the Political Consultative Committee member Wu Bowei stating that receiving read envelopes may make doctor-patient relations more harmonious, no website may report this without exception, existing matters must be deleted as soon as possible, it may also not be discussed in forums.

3 March 2006

Please immediately delete the following content:

(1) Police ban unlicensed dispensaries creating havoc for villagers in 200 villages, villagers state unlicensed dispensaries’ prices are reasonable;

(2) A batch of improper professional personnel is to be repatriated during the Two Sessions period;

(3) Shenzhen deals with ringleaders unlawfully gathering crowds.

3 March 2006

Recently, a piece of news has circulated on the Internet, entitled “Beijing Railway Station Traffic Police Inspect Driver Violating Regulations Are Blocked – And Kneel Before 70 Year Old Lady In Street.” The said new has had great repercussions in society. Some netizens have seized the opportunity to slander Beijing police, vainly attempting to play up this matter, and creating an opposing situation between the masses and the police.

On the instruction of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau director, your company is requested to strengthen supervision strength, and news or comments related to “Beijing Railway Station Traffic Police Inspect Driver Violating Regulations Are Blocked – And Kneel Before 70 Year Old Lady In Street” are to be deleted without exception.

2 March 2006

Information Office notice (Chen Hua): In the case of four students jumping off buildings in the Huanan Agricultural University in Guangdong, websites are no longer to reprint reports and copy on this, existing copy is to be transferred to the back stage, forums and trackers are no longer to track this sort of posts

2 March 2006

Concerning the dispute  of Qiu Chengtong with professor Tian Gang, no online reporting is to occur without exception.

2 March 2006

Grasp the few matters needing attention in online forum discussions concerning Chen Shui-bian “ending his term.”

(1) Forums and other interactive columns must be strictly grasped according to relevant principles and policies of the Center on Taiwan, ideologies and actions are to be unified around the spirit of the Center, it is necessary to let the broad masses believe the Center has the determination, the capacity and the ways to smash “Taiwanese independence” forces’ plotting to split the motherland, and move the grand cause of reunification of the motherland forward.

(2) Online discussion must fully reflect that the realization of peaceful unification of the two shores, and stimulate the grand rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, is the common wish of the sons and daughters of China inside and outside the country, including Taiwan compatriots. The malicious nature of “Taiwanese independence” causing quarrels in the peace in the Taiwan Straits and causing stress in the relationships between the two shores must be deeply exposed, and it must be put forward that the line of Chen Shui-bian in insisting on “Taiwanese Independence” completely instigates opposition and conflict within Taiwan and between the two shores, and can only bring disaster to Taiwanese society.

(3) Interpretation of the important statements of our Party and State leaders must be strengthened, fully and deeply propagate the principles and policies of the Chinese side well.

(4) Declarations of foreign governments and overseas personalities that are beneficial to us must be timely transmitted.

(5) Discussions of netizens on “military unification,” “sending soldiers,” etc., must be earnestly grasped, they are not to be excessively concentrated, this sort of posts may not be more than two on the main page of forums and trackers.

(6) Articles or posts seizing the opportunity to attack or censure the Party and government, or attack the Central principles, policies and uniform deployment concerning Taiwan must be firmly blocked or deleted. Discussions seizing the opportunity to incite uproar or destroy social stability may not be encouraged to be signed or passed on online, illegal activities may not be encouraged.

(7) Strictly implement requirements on the scope of reprinting, do not gather news yourself, corresponding VIP interviews must be approved.

2 March 2006

Please inspect whether or not the content “Complete Notes and Pictures on the Appalling News of Cannibalism in Guangdong” is present on your website, if it is, please delete it. Furthermore, please notify the full-time public opinion officers to receive a message in his own mailbox, if they do not understand, let them contact us. Thank you.

2006年3月北京网管办发出的禁令（一）

2006-03-09

有关北京前门地区改造的报道，请不要转载，已经转载的，请立即删除。论坛也不讨论此事。

对从事倒票活动大学生武玉杰被刑拘一事不报道，不讨论。收到请回复，谢谢。
2006-03-09

“男子搬迁现场被打死 旁人向警察求助无回应”请迅速删除。收到请回复，谢谢。
2006-03-09

新闻通知（范涛）：请将“余杰”（人名）将为关键词，过滤此人的所有文章。收到请回复，谢谢。
2006-03-08

新闻通知（陈华）：昨天李肇星外长举行记者招待会后，日本对我提出无礼抗议，请网站加强管理，不传播有关此事的消息、评论，论坛、跟帖、博客等也不允许刊发此类言论
2006-03-09

各位：

黑龙江佳木斯发生杀童连环案”一事的报道，请尽快删除；

《中国共产党要懂得驾驭新资产阶级》一文，不要让其在网站中出现；

如果网上有污蔑雷锋精神的文章，特别是《一个贪污分子的真相?D?D雷锋》一文，要坚决删除；

在自己网站中，如果有原中国舆论监督网负责人李新德开设的博客，请删除；

清华大学教授独生女被公交售票员掐死一案的转载，请等候我的通知，此前不要转载。

2006-03-06

网监通知：3月4日至3月10日监控重点

1、网上有关全国“两会”的信息动态；

2、部分军队退役人员、银行“买断工龄”职工、征地拆迁户、房产业主等群体策划、组织、串联上访“维权”等活动线索；

3、境内外敌对势力针对高智晟发起的“接力绝食活动”等进行炒作的情况。

4、对湖北省黄石市民警吴幼明“网上发表‘公开信’事件”及相关信息注意发现处置；

5、对“河南新郑市回汉冲突事件”以及“恐怖分子皮箱炸弹构造图”相关信息注意发现处置。

说明：第1项为重点关注对象，对于两会负面报道攻击性强的内容删除！第2-5项为审核时发现立即删除。

2006-03-06

请将要求温总理开博客的文章删除
2006-03-06

新闻通知

1、”黑龙江佳木斯发生杀童连环案”一事，请不要放在网站首页和新闻首页。收到请回复，谢谢。

2、调查称67%公众认为现有公务员数量应该减少，请从网站首页、新闻中心首页撤下。收到请回复，谢谢。

注意：是不上首页，可报道。

2006-03-06
网监处通知：有王小丫与公安部某高官或周部长、周永康部长关系暧昧的文章一律不发，已有的都删除.
2006-03-04

新闻办通知: 各位，政协委员吴博威称收红包可令医患关系更和谐的消息，各网站一律不得报道，已有的要尽快删除，论坛中也不得讨论。
2006-03-03

请立即删除下列内容――

1、警方取缔无证诊所遭200村民围困，村民称无证诊所价格合理

2、两会期间将集中遣返一批无正当职业人员

3、深圳处理违法聚众首要分子
2006-03-03

最近互联网上流行一则新闻，题为《北京站交警查违章司机受阻当街向70岁老太下跪》。该新闻在社会上产生很大反响。有些网民借机诋毁北京警方，妄图将此事炒大，造成民众与警方的对立局势。

经北京市公安局局长批示，请贵公司加强监控力度，对涉及《北京站交警查违章司机受阻当街向70岁老太下跪》相关的新闻、评论一律删除。
2006-03-02

新闻办通知（陈华）：广东华南农业大学连续发生4起学生跳楼事件一事，网站不再转发此类报道稿件，已有稿件转至后台，论坛、跟帖不再贴发此类帖文
2006-03-02

有关丘成桐与田刚教授的争论，网上一律不报道。

2006-03-02

把握好网上论坛有关陈水扁”终统”讨论几点注意事项

1、论坛等互动栏目要严格按照中央有关对台方针政策把握，将思想和行动统一到中央精神上来，要让广大群众相信中央有决心、有能力、有办法粉碎”台独”势力分裂祖国的图谋，推进祖国统一大业。

2、网上讨论要充分反映实现两岸和平统一、促进中华民族伟大复兴，是包括台湾同胞在内的海内外中华儿女的共同心声。要深入揭露陈水扁恶意挑衅台海和 平、制造两岸关系紧张的”台独”本质，指出陈水扁执意推行”台独”路线，在台湾内部和两岸之间全面挑起对抗冲突，只能为台湾社会带来灾难。

3、对我党和国家领导人重要表态要加强解读，充分深入宣传好中央的方针政策。

4、对外国政府和海外人士对我有利的表态要及时转发。

5、对网民”武力统一”、”出兵”等言论要认真把握，不过于集中，此类贴文在论坛和跟帖主页面不多于两条。

6、对借机攻击指责党和政府、攻击中央对台方针政策和统一部署的文章、帖文,坚决封堵和删除借机煽动闹事、破坏社会稳定的言论，不得在网上鼓动签名、串联和鼓动非法活动。

7、严格执行转载范围的要求，不得自采，相关嘉宾访谈必须经批准。
2006-03-02

请检查网站有无“广东人吃人骇闻全记录组图”内容，如有，请予删除。另外，请通知专职舆情员到自己的邮箱收一个邮件，如有不明白，让他们与我联系。谢谢。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 17, 2012 (here).

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

27 July 2005

Matters concerning petitions and demonstrations concerning the treatment of military cadres transferred to civilian work, are to be deleted without exception. [CDT translated a similar directive from March 2012.]

25 July 2005

It is not permitted to report on the incident of the death of Hebei International Investment board chairman Liang Yuncai.

19 July 2005

Everyone: Online, it is not permitted to report and copy the speech of General Zhu Chenghu of the National Defense University concerning nuclear weapons, it may not be reported in forums, the original articles must be deleted.

15 July 2005

“Retired Central Security Officers Make Iron Coffin to Rob and Kill Vice-Deputy” as well as corresponding articles reprinted under similar titles. They are to be deleted without exception!!!

6 July 2005

On the text “(Re.) Japanese Kawasaki Wins the Bid to Speed Up China’s Railways, German Siemens Out of Office,” everyone is requested to delete this text where they discover it is posted again.

24 June 2005

(1) Activities and tendencies of online anti-Japanese organizations and persons.

(2) Online information related to demobilized military personnel.

(3) Domestic online hotspots and discussions that shareholders pay attention to, as well as corresponding information that is reactionary and incites netizens to hold rallies and demonstrate.

(4) Online information related to rights defense and petitioning by workers and peasants.

(5) Online information related to reporting public security team problems.

When seeing content listed in the above clauses, immediately delete it

15 June 2005

Matters concerning the case of the Henan Vice-Governor’s hired killing of his wife, are to be deleted without exception, and articles must be renewed.

The internal speech of Zeng Peiyang on housing must be deleted.

Articles concerning the treatment of military cadres transferring to civil posts must be deleted.

All articles concerning clashes between the people and the police must be deleted.

1 June 2005

The Information Office notifies that when seeing any article or discussion on “underground network commentators” when supervising content, immediate deletion is requested!

2005年6、7月北京网管办发出的禁令

2005-7-27

关于军转干部待遇等上访，游行的，一律删除！

2005-7-25

有关河北国投董事长梁云才之死的事件不准报道。

2005-7-19

各位：网上不得报道和炒国防大学朱成虎少将有关核武器的言论，论坛中不得讨论，原的要删除

2005-7-15

退役中央警卫为劫财订做铁棺材劫杀女副总”以及以类似标题转发的相关稿件。一律删除！！！

2005-7-6

《【转】日本川崎中标中国铁路提速，德国西门子出局》一文，请大家发现再有此文贴出要删除

2005-6-24

1、网上反日组织、人员的活动动向。

2、网上有关复转军人的相关信息。

3、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。

4、网上有关工人、农民维权、上访的相关信息。

5、网上反映公安队伍问题的相关信息。

看到以上几条内容的立即删掉

2005-6-15

关于河南省副省长雇凶杀妻一事，一律删除，且必须更新文章。

曾培炎关于房产的内部讲话要删除

关于军转干部待遇的文章要删除

关于一切有警民冲突的文章要删除

2005-6-1

新闻办通知所有监管内容里要是看到有谈到”地下网络评论员”的一切文章评论请立即删除!

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 9, 2012 (here).

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

(1) Anti-Chinese content from Indonesia (images and text), images of sky burials, any article concerning Liu Xiaobo or Yu Jie.

(2) Reports concerning the great fire in Karamay: let leaders walk first.

(3) Concerning the access system of Zhang Weiying [Note: Zhang Weiying, a professor at the Institute for International Relations at Renmin University, had advocated to set up a system regulating the access of rural migrants, as their "moral quality" [素质 suzhi] was deemed to be low, they would turn to crime due to unemployment, and would harm social safety].

(4) Notice from the Information Office, it is without exception not permitted to report on the conflagration that occurred on 5 March in Zhengzhou, Henan.

(5) Requirement of the Information Office, do not disseminate anything on anti-Japanese permanent Security Council membership signatures and resisting of Japanese goods, there may be no proposals and signatures on forums related to sponsoring a resistance of Japanese goods.

(6) Concerning the matter of a small numbers of criminals selling human bodies in Guangdong and Guangxi, no online reports may be made without exception, existing reports must be immediately deleted.

(7) On the case of the mistaken killing of Nie Shuwu in Hebei, corresponding information and news must be immediately screened out, no discussion is permitted.

(8) The letter of the Shanghai resident making 10.000 yuan per month but who cannot afford to buy a house to the Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng, and Han’s response.

(9) The incident of peasants opposing the pollution from a chemical plant in Dongyang, Zhejiang.

(10) Concerning the shootings of the offices of some of our country’s banks in Japan and the threatening letters received by our consulates in Japan, no reports are to be made without exception.

(11) Concerning the matter of where the equestrian events of the 2008 Beijing Olympics are to be organized, no reports are to be made without exception.

(12) Concerning whether or not the organization opening ceremony of the Money Forum at the Temple of Heaven damages cultural relics, no reports are to be made without exception.

(13) On the evening of 15 April, our embassy in Japan was raided by right-wingers, this information can absolutely not appear in news, on forums and on trackers.

(14) Concerning resisting Japanese goods and opposition to Japanese permanent Security Council membership, the content of demonstrations may not be reported.

(15) All comparisons of the present government and the late Qing government of the Li Hongzhang period must be deleted.

(16) Concerning posts on North Korea and Kim Jong-il, the extreme ones must be deleted.

17, “The Guangzhou 3000 Yuan Baby Soup,” this content must be deleted. (May 2005)

2005年5月北京网管办发出的禁令

1、印尼反华的内容（图片和文字）、天葬的图片、有关刘小波、余杰的任何文章。

2、有关克拉玛依的大火的报道：让领导先走…

3、有关张惟英的准入制。

4、接新闻办通知，3月5日发生在河南郑州的火灾一律不许报道。

5、接新闻办要求，对于反日入常签名和抵制日货等一律不转，论坛中不要有发起抵制日货的倡议和签名。

6、关于广东、广西少数不法分子买卖尸体一事，网上一律不得报道，已有的要立即删除。

7、河北聂树斌被错杀案 相关的信息与新闻等务必马上清查，不许谈论。

8、月收入１万买不起房子的上海市民致上海市长韩正的信，和韩的回信。

9、浙江东阳发生农民反抗化工厂污染事件

10、有关我国某银行在日本办事处遭枪击和我驻日领事馆收到恐吓信，一律不报。

11、关于2008北京奥运会马术比赛在哪里举办事，一律不报

12、关于财富论坛开幕式在天坛举办是否损害文物，一律不报

13、4.15号晚我驻日使馆遭右翼分子袭击，此消息坚决不能出现在新闻、论坛、跟帖中。

14、关于抵制日货和反日入常，游行示威的内容不准报。

15、把现在政府与晚清李鸿章时期的政府对比的要删。

16、有关朝鲜金正日的帖子，要有偏激一面的删。

17、“广州3000元婴儿汤…”这一内容要删。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 8, 2012 (here).

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Even three decades into the country’s rapid industrialization, China’s leadership still pays heed to its heritage as a party of peasants, and it has tended to promote officials who can claim to be deeply rooted in the rural struggle. But it has also tended to favor “princelings,” the privileged offspring of former leaders who had ties to the party’s revolutionary history.

After his time in Zhengding, Mr. Xi could check both boxes.

[…] Zhengding was a grain-growing center, with peasants forced to grow huge amounts for central granaries. Mr. Xi formed a clever alliance with Maoists and used his family ties in Beijing to cut Zhengding’s grain quota by one-quarter. That freed up farmers to use their land more lucratively, such as for raising fish, geese or cattle.

[…T]he time in Zhengding helped Mr. Xi hone his skills, setting a template for his rise. It also cemented his bond with Liu Yuan, who is now a senior leader in the People’s Liberation Army. He also made an ally in Li Zhanshu, who was a local official in Hebei at the same time as Mr. Xi. Mr. Li has now been tapped to take over the party’s nerve center, its General Office.

See more on Xi Jinping via CDT.

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The ring abducted babies in Yunnan and sold them in Hebei and Shandong provinces in northern China, according to the bureau.

Railway police in Yunnan’s provincial capital of Kunming have arrested 76 suspects so far after traveling to seven different cities in the three provinces since November 2011 to bust the ring.

The ring purchased the infants at a price of 8,000 to 10,000 yuan (1,266 to 1,582 U.S. dollars) each in Yunnan and sold them in Hebei and Shandong for 20,000 to 50,000 yuan, according to the bureau.

The family-based ring is connected by well-organized members who are responsible for abducting, purchasing, transporting, introducing and adopting infants, said Wang Ansi, an official with the public security bureau of the Kunming Railway.

The ring could achieve one trans-provincial trade in three days to traffic the infants, who were stolen from the Zhuang-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Wenshan in Yunnan province, he said.

The kidnapping and trafficking of children has long been a problem under the one-child policy in China. Police reportedly rescued more than 8,000 children last year, and Xinhua reported last week that the China Social Assistance Foundation (CSAF) had launched a fund dedicated to utilizing microblogs to curb child abduction:

The CSAF said the public fund, which was initiated by some Chinese celebrities, will encourage people to report child trafficking, volunteers to trace abducted children and media to publish related information, combining the efforts of police, judicial departments and online volunteers to fight against child trafficking.

The fund will also try to promote public awareness of child abduction, as well as enhance the capacity for families and children to fight child trafficking, the CSAF said.

In the meantime, a non-profit miniseries named “Seeking the Lost Children” will debut on the Internet next week. The eight-episode miniseries exposes the previously untold stories of some families that have suffered from child abduction.

Read more about the plight of kidnapped children in China via Charles Custer of China Geeks, who is producing a documentary film on the subject.

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The film features interview segments with Ma Jun of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs on China’s water “time bomb”. Groundwater extraction lowered the water table in Hebei by 130 feet between 1996 and 2006, and with inadequate supplies, there is not enough clean water to reclaim the polluted. The real extent of the problem is unknown, Ma says: while 90% of the shallow groundwater flowing through the cities is thought to be polluted, no complete data exists.

Local officials did eventually come up with a solution of sorts for the farmers’ plight: they confiscated the land on which the orchard had stood.

The film ends on an optimistic note regarding the South-to-North Water Diversion project. In addition to long-standing doubts about its practicality, however, severe droughts in southern China have raised questions about the core assumption underlying the scheme.

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According to the police, the person, surnamed Liu, used the website he operates to spreadrumors on Feb 19 that SARS infections had occurred in Baoding-based PLA 252 Hospital inorder to boost the website’s traffic.

On Sunday, local authorities decided to punish Liu by sentencing him to spend two years in alabor education institution, the report said.

The Ministry of Health published an online note on Feb 25 to clarify that the infections in the hospital were actually caused by adenovirus type 55. The note said there has been no reportof any fatal or critical cases.

Reuters reported that Lin spread the rumors in a bid to improve traffic, according to the announcement by the Baoding public security bureau.

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