{"id":142456,"date":"2012-08-30T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=142456"},"modified":"2012-08-30T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:04:25","slug":"new-series-from-the-censorship-vault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/08\/new-series-from-the-censorship-vault\/","title":{"rendered":"New Series: From the Censorship Vault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/directives-from-the-ministry-of-truth\/\"> Directives from the Ministry of Truth<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/category\/%E7%9C%9F%E7%90%86%E9%83%A8%E6%8C%87%E4%BB%A4\/\">\u771f\u7406\u90e8\u6307\u4ee4<\/a>). These instructions, issued to the media and\/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. CDT has collected the selections we translate here from a variety of sources and has checked them against official Chinese media reports to confirm their implementation. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The original publication date is noted after the directives; the date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The series opens with the very first \u201cdirective\u201d posted on CDT Chinese:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/2000\/08\/%E4%B8%AD%E5%AE%A3%E9%83%A8%EF%BC%9A%E8%BF%9C%E5%8D%8E%E6%A1%88\/\">Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China<\/a><\/strong>: All information concerning the Yuanhua case in Fujian must come from the Central News Office. Reporting must be unified. Do not produce \u201cside stories\u201d or distribute news through improper channels. Do not use this case as a soapbox for other matters. Do not spread news through unusual methods. Do not reprint news reporting from overseas or foreign media. (August 30, 2000)<\/p>\n<p>\u4e2d\u5ba3\u90e8\uff1a\u5bf9\u798f\u5efa\u7701\u53a6\u95e8\u8fdc\u534e\u6848\u6848\u60c5\u5ba1\u7406\u7684\u62a5\u5bfc\uff0c\u5fc5\u987b\u7531\u4e2d\u592e\u65b0\u95fb\u529e\u5ba1\u7a3f\uff0c\u4f5c\u7edf\u4e00\u62a5\u5bfc\uff0c\u4e0d\u641e\u300c\u5c0f\u9053\u300d\u6d88\u606f\uff0c\u53ca\u975e\u6b63\u5e38\u6e20\u9053\u6d88\u606f\uff0c\u4e0d\u51c6\u641e\u501f\u9898\u53d1\u6325\uff0c\u4e0d\u51c6\u4ee5\u4e0d\u6b63\u5e38\u624b\u6bb5\u53d6\u5f97\u6d88\u606f\u5916\u4f20\uff0c\u4e0d\u51c6\u8f6c\u8f7d\u6d77\u5916\u3001\u5916\u56fd\u4f20\u5a92\u7684\u6709\u5173\u62a5\u5bfc\u3002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yuanhua Group, a foreign import business based in the Xiamen Special Economic Zone in Fujian Province, was once the darling of China\u2019s nascent capitalist economy. Founded by Lai Changxing in 1994, Yuanhua brought luxury cars, oil and cigarettes into the country. Lai also <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/04\/chinas-most-wanted-fugitive-stands-trial\/\">masterminded a smuggling ring that averted hundreds of billions of yuan in taxes<\/a>. Lai eventually fled to Hong Kong, then Canada, where he remained from 1999 until April 2012. The Canadian government agreed to extradite him on the condition that he not receive the death penalty if found guilty. Lai is currently serving a life sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (\u771f\u7406\u90e8\u6307\u4ee4). These instructions, issued to the media and\/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. CDT has collected the selections we translate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":142457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,116,2,7,10,14745,14746,642,4202],"tags":[53,15574,15456,3380,2083,330,690,875],"class_list":["post-142456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-world","category-economy","category-information-revolution","category-law","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-media","category-translation","tag-censorship","tag-censorship-vault","tag-directives-from-the-ministry-of-truth","tag-fujian","tag-lai-changxing","tag-media-censorship","tag-propaganda","tag-xiamen","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Series: From the Censorship Vault<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/08\/new-series-from-the-censorship-vault\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Series: From the Censorship Vault\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Editor\u2019s Note: From the Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (\u771f\u7406\u90e8\u6307\u4ee4). 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