The decision to donate to an institution outside mainland China was not taken lightly. “My first impulse was to give these artworks to a museum in Beijing or Shanghai,” Mr. Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China, said in an interview. But he said he was concerned that works by artists who are blacklisted in China’s state-run museums might never be exhibited in public. Before making a gift to one of these state citadels of culture, he said, he “wanted China to reveal its standards of censorship — what could be shown and couldn’t be shown in the collection.”

[...]Mr. Sigg, who is a friend of the artist’s, said that if he had donated to a government museum in mainland China, it was “highly likely that Ai Weiwei’s works would not be exhibited.” Deeming this unacceptable, he took his collection beyond the reach of China’s cultural commissars.

The executive director of M+, Lars Nittve, predicted that other art patrons and philanthropists would, like Mr. Sigg, bypass museums in mainland China in favor of M+ because of Hong Kong’s “long tradition of freedom of expression.” He added, however, that M+ would seek to foster exchanges with museums on the mainland.

The importance of reaching out to mainland China was echoed by Mr. Sigg, who said he hoped Hong Kong’s free and independent art world would increasingly interact with and influence the mainland’s government-dominated system. “M+ could become an avant-garde model for all mainland Chinese museums,” he said.

[Source]

While Mr. Sigg and Mr. Nittve hope that interaction with the mainland will influence Beijing’s stance on free expression in art, players in the mainland art world are hoping that China can soon establish a position in the global scene. Citing an article from The Art Newspaper, The New York Times’ View From Asia blog reports:

“How do artists see the issue of Chinese art getting on to the horizon of world art?” the article asked. The solutions seem to lie in growing the infrastructure at home and focusing on quality, it suggested.

“In the beginning when art went overseas, Chinese artists had political and ideological labels stuck on them by curators but the individual’s learning and technique was not heavily considered,” said Zeng Fanzhi, an artist, in the article.

“As the years passed, these artists sorted out their individual careers, but there was no corresponding industry here in China. What China most needs today is still museum-level, high quality, serious, good exhibitions, to sort out and explore the atmosphere surrounding artistic worth and learning,” he said.

The artist Wang Jianwei told the newspaper that art was a mirror of social capability. What is most lacking today is knowledge about art and respect for creativity, he said.

[Source]

Dissident artist/activist Ai Weiwei is of the opinion that, due to Beijing’s restriction of individual freedoms, China’s contemporary “art world does not exist.”

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Sotheby’s and Christie’s have been operating in Hong Kong for several decades and have seen their business explode in the city, which is governed separately.

But the world’s two biggest auction houses have long sought greater access to mainland China to cultivate collectors, hold auctions and compete with China’s own formidable auction houses, Beijing Poly International and China Guardian, entities that have recently moved into the ranks of the world’s biggest auction houses.

Last year Sotheby’s formed a joint venture in Beijing with the state-owned Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group to hold auctions in China. Sotheby’s is the 80 percent owner of that enterprise.

Now Christie’s has signed its own agreement with the City of Shanghai and plans to hold its first auction this fall, although the company said the agreement restricted it from dealing in “cultural relics.” The company can operate throughout China but will be based in Shanghai and pay taxes there

The presence of Christie’s should enable Shanghai to steer affluent mainlanders away from Hong Kong, according to George Chen of the South China Morning Post:

In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, Christie’s chief executive Steven Murphy said the move would significantly boost the mainland art business.

“Chinese collectors, especially those new to the art market, will have the opportunity to participate in our auctions without having to travel overseas,” Murphy said.

Until now Christie’s has held China- and Asia-themed auctions in Hong Kong, and art patrons from the mainland have had to travel to take part.

“Our launch in China will be a game changer and it’s all about right timing, right conditions, with the right people,” he said.

The move also indicates that the Chinese government is willing to ease market restrictions for foreign firms, though the playing field will not be completely level yet. From Jason Chow of The Wall Street Journal:

But the new license has restrictions that the local houses aren’t subject to. Christie’s isn’t allowed to trade so-called cultural relics—items that predate 1911 and are deemed vital to the country’s heritage by the Chinese government. That means Christie’s won’t be able to sell classical paintings and antiques that have traditionally been the most valuable collectibles among Chinese buyers.

For the past eight years, Christie’s has been limited in China to a licensing deal with Forever International Auction Co. But Mr. Curiel said Christie’s would rather go on its own, even if independence meant restrictions on what it can sell. Christie’s said it intends to end its relationship with Forever in September.

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The original film, based on the novel of the same name, spanned 172-minutes long for European and American markets but was cut to just 137 for its mainland version, according to the film’s directors.

[…] “Although the mainland version is a bit constrained, [we] fully believe in the regulator’s editing standards,” said Cloud Atlas co-director Tom Tykwer, who was in Beijing on Tuesday to promote the movie ahead of its January 31 release.

[…] Material deleted mainly comprised of love scenes, gory sequences and nudity. A number of same-sex love scenes between actors Ben Whishaw and James D’Arcy were also cut from the film due to the Sarft’s strict ban on homosexual content.

Details of changes to the latest Bond film, Skyfall, also emerged last week following its belated Beijing premiere. While The Atlantic’s Matt Schiavenza dismissed the edits as “little more than a government tailoring a popular film for its audience“, Xinhua reported that the altered film had prompted calls for a less capricious censorship process:

Shi Chuan, a professor from Shanghai University’s school of film & TV arts and technology, proposed the enaction of relevant laws and the establishment of norms for movie censors to follow.

[…] “Movie regulators should respect the producers’ original ideas, rather than chopping scenes arbitrarily,” Shi said.

However, he said that he believes the censorship system is necessary for China’s film industry.

[…] During an annual session of China’s political advisory body held in March last year, Yin Li, vice chairman of the China Film Association, said Chinese film-making faces too many restrictions regarding sensitive topics such as public security, diplomacy, ethnic minorities and religion.

“I hope China can offer more freedom to film-makers so that a more favorable environment can be created for the country’s movie industry,” Yin said.

While money from the mainland has attracted attention recently, SCMP’s Vivienne Chow wrote that Cloud Atlas‘ financing suggests a role for Hong Kong in the global film industry:

According to veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Philip Lee, an executive producer of Cloud Atlas responsible for its fund-raising in Asia, Hong Kong has a unique edge in film financing, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.

“Hong Kong is the Asian financial centre and has a long history in filmmaking. With more collaboration with foreign projects or companies, knowing how to find the right match is very important, and Hong Kong has the expertise,” says Lee, who served as an associate producer of the international hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and a line producer for Batman film The Dark Knight during its filming in Hong Kong.

[…] “The mainland certainly has capital, but can they find the right people? Not necessarily. Hong Kong can be more active in bridging this gap,” [Media Asia's head of distribution Ricky Tse Chi-keung] says.

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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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“They said the Maos won’t work,” Eric Shiner, director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, said in an interview in Hong Kong. “This is disappointing because his imagery is so mainstream in Chinese contemporary art.”

A person familiar with the show, who asked not to be named because of the political sensitivity of the issue, confirmed the Mao works had been rejected by the Ministry of Culture. The Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn’t immediately respond to faxed questions seeking comment today.

[…] According to the Christie’s auction website, Warhol chose Mao as “the ultimate star”, using an image of him taken from the portrait photograph reproduced in the Chairman’s so-called Little Red Book.

“He wasn’t being disrespectful,” Shiner said.

Christies’ Beatriz Ordovas commented that the portraits did “playfully subvert” the original image, its subject, and the personality cult that surrounded him. “These works were considered rare examples of a more political Warhol. However, it is likely that Warhol was drawn to Mao not through any Cold War connotations, but through the image’s mass appeal.”

Christies’ notes on a recently auctioned print further explain Warhol’s choice of Mao as the portraits’ subject:

Against the background of the Cold War and Nixon’s visit to China, the figure of Mao was one of the most reproduced images in the world. The origin of Warhol’s choice of this picture has traced back to a conversation between Warhol and the dealer Brubo Bischoftberger who suggested the idea of producing a series of work depicting the most important figure of the twentieth century, initially suggesting Albert Einstein. Thinking about this proposition, the artist is said to have replied, ‘Oh, that’s a good idea. But I was just reading in Life magazine that the most famous person in the world today is Chairman Mao. Shouldn’t he be the most famous person, Bruno?’

At Foreign Policy, Joshua Keating noted that Warhol’s incitement of playful subversion among Chinese artists may have influenced the decision to reject the prints:

Warhol was not a particularly political artist and was more interested in Mao’s status as a cultural icon than his actions or ideas. But some of China’s more daring contemporary artists have obviously been inspired by him. Ai Weiwei’s painting of a Coca-Cola logo on a Han dynasty vase is an obvious Warhol homage. There’s also pop art influence the work of the Gao brothers, whose most famous works depict Chairman Mao in a variety of compromising positions, including “as a kneeling penitent, with giant breasts, a detachable head, and in one of their most famous works, as a firing squad of clones about to execute Jesus Christ. “

[…] So while Warhol may never have intended his prints as a criticism of the Chairman, the authorities may not want any more subversive artists getting ideas.

There have also been recent calls for the real Mao to be removed from display in Beijing. The suggestion came amid efforts to reshape traditional funeral preferences, an issue brought to a head by a deeply unpopular campaign of grave-flattening to reclaim farmland in Henan. From The Economist:

Officials say it was not Mao’s wish for his body to be put on permanent display in a purpose-built hall covering nearly three hectares in the middle of Beijing. Soon after coming to power in 1949 he was reportedly the first leader to commit himself to being cremated, a practice advocated by the Communists who wanted to put an end to grave-building that wasted precious land. But despite the winding down of the cult of Mao in the years after his death in 1976, the mausoleum has remained inviolate. Calls for its dismantling have been all but taboo. Queues of tourists (especially Chinese ones) still form outside, eager for a glimpse of Mao’s waxen corpse.

[…] But an appeal by one scholar, Yuan Gang of Peking University, […] suggested that Mao’s body be removed from its “lavish” memorial hall in Tiananmen Square, cremated, and the ashes delivered to his ancestral home in Shaoshan in the central province of Hunan. This, said Mr Yuan in an article republished on several websites run by official newspapers, would allow Mao to “rest in peace forever” and give a boost to the government’s efforts to change burial customs. But his proposal is as likely to be adopted as farmers are to end their ancient practice of erecting higgledy-piggledy mounds on their tiny plots of land. In August a Beijing official confirmed (to the horror of some) that the government was likely to apply for the mausoleum to be listed by UNESCO as part of a World Heritage Site.

The portraits were previously the subject of controversy in 2009, when Obama critics took issue with a Warholian Mao ornament on one of the White House Christmas trees.

Beijing Cream has posted video from Warhol’s 1982 visit to China. The current exhibition, 15 Minutes Eternal, is showing at the Hong Kong Museum of Art until March 31.

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In Thursday testimony, expert witness Capt. Nigel Pryke said his analysis suggested the main fault for the crash lay with the captain of the Sea Smooth, a commuter ferry that was carrying passengers from Hong Kong Island to the dock at Lamma Island, an idyllic bedroom community popular with expatriates located off the coast of Hong Kong.

Maritime rules dictate that when two vessels are about to experience a head-on collision, each are supposed to turn starboard, or right, thus avoiding a crash. While the Lamma IV altered its course 13 degrees starboard, Mr. Pryke noted that the Sea Smooth captain turned 16 degrees to the left-hand port side, instead.

While the Lamma IV could have done more to avoid a collision, including by being more attentive to radar readings, Mr. Pryke—whose analysis relied on radar tracking information and other evidence provided by Hong Kong authorities—said that the fault was mostly the Sea Smooth’s.

“Even at the very last moment she could have very easily avoided contact with a small alteration of course to starboard,” he said. The Sea Smooth, he said, “was primarily responsible for the collision,” and human error was “undoubtedly” responsible for the crash—error perhaps fueled by the fact that the captain had been alone in the wheelhouse.

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

12 July 2006, 17:09, Network Management Office, Duty manager

Everyone, the Century China Century Salon Forum will be closed according to the law, no website may report this without exception, forums, trackers, blogs and mobile phone messages may without exception not be published.

14 July 2006, 17:18, Network Management Office, Duty manager

Everyone, concerning the matter of Houma criminal police hitting traffic police, three requirements:

(1) only use Xinhua copy;

(2) do not open trackers, no discussion;

(3) posts that maliciously exaggerate the influence of the matter to be deleted without exception.

15 July 2006, 14:50, Network Management Office, Duty manager

Today, the Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe stated in a press conference today that he had received a threatening letter from Hong Kong, warning him not to go and worship at the Yasukuni Shrine. In view of the fact that this matter involves the issue of the Yasukuni Shrine, its sensitivity is high, blog networks may not play up this matter, only use Xinhua copy for corresponding reports, do not set up news trackers, do not  put it on the main page or on the important news section of the news center. Management over forums, blogs and other interactive columns must be strengthened, timely block and delete all sorts of harmful information that does not conform to the above requirements.

17 July 2006, 18:16, Network Management Office, Duty manager

On the evening of the 17th, Xinhua will issue an article of relevant responsible persons from the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security responding to questions from journalists on the income allocation system. All websites are requested to timely transmit this article, the interview article may be put on the website and in the important news section of the new column, but do not make it into a header and do not set up news trackers. Forum discussions must be guided and grasped, discussions that seize the opportunity to attack the Party and the government must be timely deleted.

18 July 2006, 13:42, Chen Hua

Everyone, today, 21st Century reported “Taiyuexi Boss Liu Jun Detained, Shock in Beijing Real Estate Circles,” do not reprint this without exception. Forums and blogs are not to discuss this, do not report this matter for the time being, please notify all your real estate, finance and economics channels.

19 July 2006, 9:56, Network Management Office, Duty manager

Please make “Zhou Jinhuo” into a keyword, and block it.

20 July 2006, 14:52, Network Management Office, Duty manager

The Guizhou Metropolitan Daily Published an article “A Few Hundreds of People Surround Police Station, Riot Police Dispatched Deep At Night,” all websites are requested to no longer reprint this article, where it has been reprinted, it must be immediately removed, forums, news trackers, blogs and other interactive trackers may not disseminate this sort of information.

21 July 2006, 21:22, Network Management Office, Duty manager

All websites are requested to completely remove negative reports concerning Wen Jiabao and his family members, this will be inspected within two days, and websites where this sort of reporting is discovered will be subject to severe punishment.

2006年7月北京网管办发出的禁令（二）

2006年7月12日17时09分网管办值班

各位，世纪中国·世纪沙龙论坛，将依法被关闭，各网站一律不要报道，论坛、跟贴、博客、手机短信一律不准登载。
06年7月14日17时18分 网管办值班

各位，关于侯马刑警打交警的事，三点要求：

1、只用新华社的通稿

2、不开跟贴，不讨论

3、对于恶意扩大事情影响的贴文一律删除
2006年7月15日14时50分 网管办值班

近日，日本官房长官安倍晋三在记者招待会上称收到来自香港的恐吓信，警告其不要参拜靖国神社。鉴于此事牵扯靖国神社问题，敏感度高，博客网不得炒作 此事，相关报道只使用新华社通稿，不开设新闻跟帖，不在网站和新闻中心首页要闻区摆放。要加强对论坛、博客等互动栏目的管理，及时封堵删除与上述要求不符 的各类有害信息。
2006年7月17日18时16分 网管办值班

17日晚，新华社将发人事部、财政部、民政部、劳动和社会保障部有关负责人就改革收入分配制度答记者问稿件。请各网站及时转发此稿，答问稿可放网站及新闻栏目要闻区，但不作头条，不开设新闻跟贴。对论坛讨论要引导和把握，对借机攻击党和政府的言论要及时删除。
2006年7月18日13时42分 陈华

各位，今天21世纪报道的“泰跃系掌门人刘军被押 北京房产界巨震进行时”，一律不转。 论坛博客不讨论，关于此事暂不报道，请务必通知到各自房产类、财经类频道。
2006年7月19日09时56分 网管办值班

请将“周金火”设为关键字，屏蔽
2006年7月20日14时52分网管办值班

贵州都市报刊载了《几百人围住派出所 防暴警察深夜出动》一文，请各网站不再转载此文，已转载的要立即撤除，论坛、新闻跟贴、博客等互动栏目中也不得传播此类消息。
2006年7月21日21时22分 网管办值班

请各网站全面清理关于温家宝及其家属的负面报道，两天后检查，发现有此类报道的网站将受严厉处罚

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 30, 2012 (here).

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

21 June 2006, 8:59, Fan Tao

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

22 June 2006, 9:00, Chen Hua

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

22 June 2006, 11:32, Chen Hua

I:

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

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

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

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

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

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

22 June 2006, 11:54, Wu Haihong

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

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

II: Power Outage at Some Sichuan University Incited Student Riot

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

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

22 June 2006, 12:48, Chen Hua

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

22 June 2006, 17:17, Fan Tao

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

26 June 2006, 10:23, Fan Tao

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

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

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

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

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

Please earnestly implement the above requirements!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

28 June 2006, 18:38

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

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

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

28 June 2006, 18:40, Chen Hua

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

29 June 2006, 9:30, Fan Tao

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

29 June 2006, 17:17, Fan Tao

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

 

2006年6月北京网管办发出的禁令（三）

2006年6月21日08时59分 范 涛

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

2006年6月22日09时00分 陈华

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

2006年6月22日11时32分 陈华

一：

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

2、主要报道事态的发展，这方面新闻报道跟帖要控制数量，100条左右。

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

4、关于岛内局势的报道只转发新华社稿件，不得编译境外媒体消息。

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

二：

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

2006年6月22日11时54分 吴海红

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

一；广州某大学女生被军车在校园内撞死

二；四川某大学因停电引发学生骚乱

三：删除所有关于郑州大学学生骚乱的报道（没有标题）

四：山西中北大学因宿舍搬迁引发骚乱

2006年6月22日12时48分 陈华

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

2006年6月22日17时17分 范 涛

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

2006年6月26日10时23分范 涛

通知原文: 各网速删《中国国际经贸仲裁委员会女副处长遭劫杀》

2006年6月27日18时45分网管办值班

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

2、论坛中如有“中国海军774舰被撞沉”的消息，迅速删除，并加强封堵；

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

以上要求请认真执行！！

2006年6月28日10时09分 网管办值班

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

2006年6月28日10时56分 网管办值班

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

2006年6月28日14时56分 网管办值班

各网请继续清除有关陈秋华（坠机事件中的专家）的内容

2006年6月28日18时38分

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

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

此文章至少要在首页保留24小时。

2006年6月28日18时40分 陈华

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

2006年6月29日09时30分 范 涛

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

2006年6月29日17时17分 范 涛

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

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

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By its peak in the 1990s, the 6.5 acre Kowloon Walled City was home to at least 33,000 people (with estimates of up to 50,000). That’s a population density of at least 3.2 million per square mile. For New York City to get that dense, every man, woman, and child living in Texas would have to move to Manhattan.

[…] Kowloon Walled City began as a military fort in Kowloon, a region in mainland China. In 1898, China signed a land lease with Great Britain, giving the British control of Hong Kong, Kowloon, and other nearby territories. But the lease stipulated that the fort in Kowloon would remain under Chinese jurisdiction.

Over time, the fort became abandoned, leaving the area subject to neither Chinese nor British authority. This legal gray zone was attractive to displaced and marginalized people. Thousands of people moved there after the war with Japan broke out in 1937. Even more people moved there after the Communist Revolution. It attracted gangsters, drug addicts, sex workers, and refugees. And it also drew a lot of normal people from all over China who saw opportunity there.

Click through to 99percentinvisible.org for photos and video of the Walled City. Host Roman Mars also tweeted a link to a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ session with user Crypt0n1te, who claims to have lived there as a child.

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

30 December 2005

(1) Websites may not play up the case of Cui Yingjie in Guizhou, for relevant information, only Xinhua copy is to be transmitted, information from other sources may not be used, do not set up special subjects, those already set up must be immediately removed, it may also not be discussed in forums. Management over forums, news trackers and blog websites must be strengthened, timely block and delete attacks, rumor fabrication, incitement and all other harmful information.

(2) Concerning the issue of litigation and compensation for the Songhua River pollution, without permission, this may not be reported on any website without exception, forums may also not discuss this, existing matters must be immediately removed. Management over forums, news trackers and other interactive columns must be strengthened, timely block and delete corresponding information.

30 December 2005

(1) All websites shall promptly make “Beijing News” into a filtering keyword for forums, news trackers and blog websites, and immediately implement this.

(2) Online public opinion management concerning the “6 December” incident in the Red Sea Bay, Shanwei, Guangdong must be further strengthened, strictly implement the spirit of the Information Office’s notices, further strengthen management over forums, blogs and individual websites, timely and firmly block and delete corresponding harmful information.

29 December 2005

Concerning the matter of today in the morning, where a man shot a home-made pistol on bus 14, do not send short messages, forums are not to report this.

Concerning the news of high-level change at the Beijing News, this is not to be reported or discussed without exception, please strictly implement this!

26 December 2005

The Independent Chinese PEN, presided over by Liu Xiaobo, recently has awarded the third “Freedom Writing Award” to Wu Si (Executive editor of the magazine “The Spring and Autumn of Yan Huang”), and awarded the “Lin Zhao Commemorative Award” to Hu Xuesong, concerning this matter, there are to be no online reports, forums are not to discuss or disseminate this, “Independent Chinese PEN,” “Freedom Writing Award” and “Lin Zhao Commemorative Award,” etc., may be made into keywords.

Concerning the matter of the associate head of a police station in Qingyuan, Guangdong being held as hostage, and being killed together with three villagers, apart from Xinhua copy, there is to be no reporting without exception, it may also not be issued in the important news section, do not set up special subjects, do not send short messages, forums are not to discuss this or spread rumors.

9 December 2005

All websites must further strengthen management over online public opinion concerning the incident in the Red Sea Bay, Shanwei, Guangdong and the mass incident at the Victory Oilfields, duty forces must be strengthened, the first contact person is to maintain 24-hour connectivity via mobile phone, guaranteeing that relevant management requirements are implemented timely and firmly; “Dongzhou” and “Victory Oilfields” are to be made into filtering keywords; all website forums and news trackers must firmly implement the system of examination first, publication second, and guarantee that all sorts of harmful information is timely blocked and deleted.

8 December 2005

Today, it has been received that articles concerning sisters of the Sacred Heart being beaten in Xi’an. Everyone seeing this content is to delete it without exception!!!

8 December 2005

Concerning the matter of a dispute arising between the Shantou Armed Police and villagers, with deaths and injuries (carelessness), this may not be reported without exception, it may not emerge in forums.

8 December 2005

Reports concerning a Master abusing a cat may no longer be published on the main page of websites and the main news page, no more surveys or crossfire-type content may be made.

8 December 2005

On the disaster at the Tangshan mine, only issue Xinhua copy, do not make large headlines, do not issue it at the top of the important news section do not publish it on the front page of websites, do not open news trackers, to not make it into a special topic. Forums are not to discuss the disaster at the Tangshan mine, corresponding commenting articles are not to be published without exception.

7 December 2005

1. The case of a vice-mayor in Jilin committing suicide is not to be reported without exception;

2. The case of the sudden incident of occupation of offices at the Victory Oilfields is not to be reported without exception;

3. Only use Xinhua copy for the case of a Central inspection group going to Jilin Chemical for investigation;

4. Only use Xinhua copy without exception for sudden incidents and natural disasters until the end of the year, do not place it in a prominent position, do not make large headlines, do not make focus pictures, do not make large titles, tracker quantities are to be strictly controlled.

1 December 2005

Concerning information on “Head Surgeon Takes Phone Call During Operation, Paralyzed Patient Claims 180,000 in Damages from the Armed Police General Hospital,” all websites are to report this no longer, do not play this matter up, close news trackers, play it down as soon as possible; the case of Li Jindou is not to appear on websites and news front pages; recently, some departments have dealt with a number of heretical organizations, not report this in any way.

The Hong Kong SAR government and the Hong Kong Chinese Liaison Office will organize a joint “Forum on Issues in the Political Development of Hong Kong” on the morning of 2 December in Shenzhen. All websites must timely transfer Xinhua copy well, and are not to use copy from any other source. They must handle this as regular news, not play this up and not set up special subjects. Management over forums, news trackers and other interactive columns must be strengthened, timely block and delete all sorts of harmful information not conform to the spirit of the Centre.

 

2005年12月北京网管办发出的禁令

2005-12-30

1、网站不要炒作贵州崔英杰案，有关消息只转发新华社通稿，不得使用其他来源的消息，不设专题，已开设的要立即撤除，论坛中也不讨论。要加强对论坛、新闻跟帖、博客网站的管理，及时封堵和删除攻击、造谣、煽动等各类有害信息。

2、关于松花江水污染诉讼和赔偿问题，未经允许，各网站一律不得报道，论坛也不讨论，已有的要立即撤除。要加强对论坛、新闻跟帖等互动栏目的管理，及时封堵和删除相关信息。
2005-12-30

1、各网站近期将“新京报”设为论坛、新闻跟帖和博客网站过滤关键词，立即执行

2、要进一步加强广东汕尾红海湾“12.6”事件网上舆论管理，严格贯彻新闻办通知精神，进一步加强对论坛、博客和个人网站的管理，及时、坚决地封堵删除相关有害信息。
2005-12-29

关于今天早上一男子在14路公交车上用自制手枪鸣枪一事不报道，不发短信，论坛不讨论。

关于新京报高层变动的新闻，一律不报道，不讨论，请严格执行！
2005-12-26

由刘晓波任会长的独立中文笔会，近日把第三届“自由写作奖”颁给吴思（《炎黄春秋》杂志执行主编），把“林昭纪念奖”颁给卢雪松，关于此事网上一律不报道，论坛不讨论，不传播，可把“独立中文笔会”、“自由写作奖”、“林昭纪念奖”等设为关键词。

有关广东清远一派出所副所长被劫持，与三村民同被杀一事，除新华社通稿外一律不报道，也不要发要闻区，不建专题，不发短信，论坛不讨论，不传谣。
2005-12-09

各网站要进一步加强对广东汕尾红海湾事件、胜利油田群体性事件网上舆论的管理，要加强值班力量，第一通知人保持手机24小时开通，确保有关管理要求 得到及时、坚决贯彻落实；将“东洲”、“胜利油田”增设为过滤关键词；各网站论坛和新闻跟帖要坚决落实先审后发制度，确保及时封堵和删除各类有害信息。
2005-12-08

今接到删除有关西安圣心修女被欧打的文章。大家看到有关此内容的一律删除！！！
2005-12-08

有关汕头武警与村民发生纠纷致人死伤一事（大意）一律不得报道 论坛中不得出现
2005-12-08

硕士虐猫事的相关报道不再发网站首页和新闻首页，也不再搞调查，交锋类内容。

2005-12-08

唐山矿难事，只发新华社稿，不做大头条，不发要闻区上部，不发网站首页，不开跟贴，不做专题。论坛不讨论唐山矿难一事，相关评论性文章一律不发。

2005-12-07

1.吉林一副市长自杀一事一律不报;

2.胜利油田突发性抢占办公楼事件一律不报;

3.中央调查组赴吉化调查一事只发新华社通稿;

4.岁末有关突发性事件与自然灾害一律只用新华社通稿,不发突出位置,不做大头条，不做焦点图，不做大标题,跟帖数量严格控制.

2005-12-01

有关”主刀医生手术中接听电话，患者面瘫向武警总医院索赔18万”的消息，各网站不再继续报道，不要炒作此事，关闭新闻跟帖，尽快淡化；李金斗事不再上网站和新闻首页；最近有关部门对一些邪教组织进行处理，不做任何报道。

香港特区政府和香港中联办于12月2日上午在深圳共同举办“香港政制发展问题座谈会”。各网站要及时转发好新华社通稿，不使用其他任何来源稿件。要作正常新闻处理，不炒作，不设专题。要加强对论坛、新闻跟帖等互动栏目管理，及时封堵和删除与中央精神不符的各类有害言论。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 14, 2012 (here).

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

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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Wen Jiabao Family Wealth: See also reports from October 28 and 26.
- Wang Weidong (王卫东): One of the Wen family lawyers.
- Bai Tao (白涛): The other Wen family lawyer.
- 2.7b: Abbreviation for 2.7 billion, the estimated value of the Wen family personal assets.
- 27 + U.S. dollars (27+美元)
- Niu Shi (纽时): Abbreviation for the New York Times (纽约时报).
- Twisttimes (扭腰times): “Twist” (扭腰 niǔyāo, like the 1950s dance) sounds similar to New York (纽约 Niǔyuē).

Other:
- Moon Moon Bird (月月鸟): These are the components of the character 鹏 Péng, referring to former prime minister Li Peng, infamous for declaring martial law in Beijing during the Tiananmen protests. Li has recently donated RMB 3 million for student aid to Yanan University.
- Rita Fan (范徐丽泰): Former president of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and a member of the Hong Kong delegation to the National People’s Congress.

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

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

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You also include several U.S. cities — what was the reason for that?

The reason I included U.S. cities is because people who have not gone overseas can’t really see what a blue sky is. And when they can click through all the days in New York and Chicago, they can see that skies can be really blue and for a long time. That’s an interesting comparison.

[…] What’s there to be hopeful about?

I want to mention that my boss grew up in New York in the ’40s and ’50s and what he has been telling me is that when he was a kid, the air was very bad in New York City. There were all these smoggy days and when he woke up he could see a layer of soot and dust on the windowsill because New York was burning coal to heat up homes […]

I look at some of the photos from archives, I don’t feel that New York then was as bad as Beijing now. But the point I’m trying to get at is that it’s a very interesting project to be able to capture at this point in time in China with a few sample cities just to show day-by-day what air quality looks like. And I’m pretty sure that government and people and NGOs are trying to work together to get better. So maybe in 10, 20 years we’ll look back at these photos and people will start to appreciate that. Kind of a “you know what, I think we’ve done a good job. We’ve cleaned up, and look at those days.” So that is […] wishful thinking but I think it will be really interesting to see that happen.

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GDP reached 35.35 trillion yuan (5.61 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first three quarters of 2012, NBS spokesman Sheng Laiyun told a press conference.

“GDP grew 7.7 percent in the first three quarters, and the economy is generally stable,” Sheng said. During the first half, the GDP grew 7.8 percent.

“Compared with the first half, we have seen some improvements in the third quarter,” he said. Despite the growth slide, Sheng said that the economy had been stabilizing, especially since September.

He said a slew of evidence backed this, citing the trade rebound and other major economic indicators that showed growth picking up.

Asian stocks rose on the news, according to Bloomberg, and Reuters reports that Hong Kong’s benchmark index neared its 2012 high. And while David Pierson of The Los Angeles Times points out that growth has fallen to its slowest pace in more than 3 years, others agreed with both Sheng and Premier Wen Jiabao’s assessment that the economy is stabilizing. Specifically, according to MarketWatch’s Chris Oliver, analysts cited better-than-expected September data as a sign that growth could rebound back above the 8% level in the fourth quarter.

Bloomberg Businessweek’s Joe McDonald reports that the “painful downturn” may have begun to reverse:

In a sign of an emerging recovery, economic activity in the latest quarter was up by 2.2 percent from the previous three month period, the biggest quarter-on-quarter gain in a year, said Dariusz Kowalczyk, senior economist for Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong.

“This confirms that the economy is rebounding from the trough in the first quarter of this year,” Kowalczyk said. “There is no room and no need for further major stimulus.”

…

“We can see a clear sign of steady economic growth,” said Sheng Laiyun, spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics. “There is a smaller margin of decline and some major indicators have been growing faster.”

Forbes contributor Kenneth Rapoza adds that those anticipating a China hard landing may need to “wait til next year”.

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Ms. Cheng and her husband, Mr. Lui, 43, an employee at Hongkong Electric Co. for more than 10 years, took their two daughters on the passenger boat to view the Chinese national day fireworks, after winning a company lottery.

[…] People were orderly, they weren’t fighting for lifesavers. After taking two, I tried to go back inside the cabin, but I saw an old woman lying on the floor pleading for one of my rings.

I really felt like my life was at the crossroads. Do I give it to her? I didn’t even have time to think it through before I just gave her one. At this point, I was already touching the water.

Then I was quickly pulled deep under water. I think the fact that the other ferry drove away so quickly created some sort of whirlpool that pulled people under very fast. There was also a rope circling my neck, and I was afraid it would strangle me. All I could do at that point was pray. It took me a long time to swim back to the surface, where there was a lot of floating debris. I kept feeling like something was blocking me from getting my head back above the water. […]

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