China Wants Party’s Voice “Strongest in Cyberspace”
The Cyberspace Administration of China announced after a two-day work conference this week that...
Jan 8, 2016
The Cyberspace Administration of China announced after a two-day work conference this week that...
Aug 30, 2015
Based in Washington, D.C., Liz Carter translates Chinese-language textbooks and writes at A Big...
Nov 4, 2013
China Real Time’s Yiyi Lu describes a recent survey which found heavy liberal leanings among...
Nov 3, 2013
BBC’s The Forum held a roundtable discussion in Beijing focusing on the Internet, featuring...
Jul 17, 2013
According to new figures from the China Internet Network Information Center, there are now 591 million Internet users in China. AP reports: China’s population of Internet users has grown to 591 million, driven by a 20...
Jun 17, 2013
For the Five Books series, The Economist’s Gady Epstein suggests five books which helped him understand how the Internet in China works. In April, Epstein produced a special report for the Economist called China’s...
Jan 15, 2013
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has released their annual report on Internet usage in China. Fifty-one million people went online for the first time in China in 2012, bringing the total number to 564...
Jun 21, 2012
Last month, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a five-year-plan for Internet development. Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media blog has translated the document in full. Creemers has now also...
Jan 16, 2012
At China Media Project, Hu Yong describes three trends in the developing tone, role and political context of China’s Internet over the past year: Looking back at China’s internet in 2011, there were three broad trends that...
Oct 6, 2011
The Chinese government looks set to roll out a series of recently-passed regulations targeting microblogs such as Weibo as part of its efforts to manage information flow and control the spread of rumors on the web, according to...
Sep 29, 2011
Two months ago, China’s Internet Network Information Center reported that the country’s online population had reached 485 million. Now that figure has reportedly passed half a billion. From Xinhua: Wang Chen, chief...
Jul 19, 2011
The number of people online in China has been skyrocketing over the past decade. The statistics this year are still impressive, with 485 million people now using the Internet, but growth has slowed ever so slightly. From the...
Jul 16, 2011
In an article in Caixin, George Washington University Law Professor Donald Clarke looks at the contractual role of foreign IT companies operating in China: An article recently published in Xuexi Shibao (Study Times), an organ of...
Jul 13, 2011
The number of Chinese websites has fallen by 41% over the past year, according to a new report from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From AFP: The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) said there were 1.91 million...
Dec 31, 2010
The number of Internet users in China has reached 450 million, an increase of 20% over last year, Xinhua reports: Around 33.9 percent of the population are online, a ratio above the world average of 30 percent, Wang Chen,...
Dec 14, 2010
Lu Yiyi, research fellow at the University of Nottingham’s China Policy Institute and an associate fellow at the U.K.-based Chatham House, writes on the China Real Time blog of the Wall Street Journal about the impact of the...
Oct 24, 2010
China Media Project translates an article from Today’s Mass Media, published by the Shaanxi Administration of Press and Publications, about how the Internet has changed the mechanisms of public opinion in China: The sheer scale...
Sep 21, 2010
China Media Project translates an article by Gao Xinmin (高新民) in the official CCP journal Study Times about the impact of new media on China’s politics: For example, the Internet has already become a channel by which the...