Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (真理部指令).
Central Propaganda Department: Do not hype up the following: the Chen Guangcheng incident, negative information on the drought in Yunnan, the purchase of Maotai with public funds, tobacco legislation, the hubbub about Lei Feng on Weibo, media legislation, and the case of missing people in Kekexili. Do not mock the Two Sessions or make them into entertainment news. Ensure that you republish the Xinhua News Agency dispatch on the human rights record of the U.S. (March 6, 2012)
中宣部:以下内容不炒作:陈光诚事件、云南干旱负面消息、公款消费茅台、控烟立法、雷锋班微博风波、新闻立法、可可西里失踪人员。禁止娱乐化两会、调侃两会。做好新华社美国人权纪录稿件转载工作。
Translation by Mengyu Dong.