The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source.
(1) The media are kindly asked to delete the piece “The Secret of Li Ka-shing’s Disinvestment on the Mainland: No Sense of Security.”
(2) Please delete the report titled “Local Financial Offices Will Be Relieved of Financial Capital Duties; Many Games of Chess Still Being Played Among Levels of Oversight,” first published by the Economic Information Daily.
(3) Delete “Grassroots Commentary: Is Harvard’s Biggest Problem That Its Politics Are Incorrect?” (May 8, 2014)
1，关于“李嘉诚内地撤资有隐情：因找不到安全感”一稿，请媒体删除稿件。
2，请删除题为《地方金融办将被剥离融资职责 分层监管仍存多重博弈》的报道，首发源为经济参考报。
3，查删《草根评论：哈佛的最大问题是不是政治不正确》。
Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, one of the richest people in Asia, has been selling many of his mainland properties. Li is nicknamed “Superman” for his uncanny ability to predict the market, and many sense that he could be leaving his Chinese real estate behind before a crash.
The Economic Information Daily, owned by Xinhua, reported that the central government’s “Recommendations for Improving the Central and Local Administrative Management System” stipulate that local financial management services cannot assume responsibility for local development capital or financial sponsors [Chinese].
Xi Jinping spoke to students at the prestigious Peking University on May 4. A “grassroots commentary” on the Tianya bulletin board website, already deleted, stated that Xi Jinping warned students not to turn their school into a “second Harvard.” 姚文嚼字 asks, “If Peking University has the misfortune to became a Second Harvard, and has the further misfortune of producing several dozen Nobel prize-winners, and in doing so destroys its red landscape–how could our nation agree to that?”
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