China Wants Party’s Voice “Strongest in Cyberspace”
The Cyberspace Administration of China announced after a two-day work conference this week that...
Internet development
CDT Bookshelf: Liz Carter on “Let 100 Voices Speak”
Based in Washington, D.C., Liz Carter translates Chinese-language textbooks and writes at A Big...
The Extreme Tilt of Chinese Internet Politics
China Real Time’s Yiyi Lu describes a recent survey which found heavy liberal leanings among...
BBC Forum on the Internet in China
BBC’s The Forum held a roundtable discussion in Beijing focusing on the Internet, featuring...
China’s Online Population Rises to 591 Million
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...
Five Books: Gady Epstein on China and the Internet
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...
China Now Has 564 Million Internet Users
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...
Analyzing the Five-Year Plan for Internet Development
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...
Four Trends on China’s Internet
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...
China Readies New Microblogging Measures
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...
China's Online Population Passes 500 Million
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...
China’s Online Population Rises to 485 Million as Access by Mobile Phones Spreads
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...
Donald Clarke: Who Owns the Chinese Internet?
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...
Number of Chinese Websites Drops 41%
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...
450 Million Chinese Use Internet
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,...
Lu Yiyi: Chinese Protest in the Age of the Internet
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...
How the Internet has Changed China
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...
Gao Xinmin (高新民): New Media, New Challenges
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...
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