{"id":164119,"date":"2013-10-17T22:14:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T05:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=164119"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:47:26","slug":"death-threats-housing-market-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/10\/death-threats-housing-market-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Threats Over Housing Market Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Blum at South China Morning Post reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china-insider\/article\/1333025\/zhejiang-journalist-receives-internet-death-threats-over-housing\"><strong>Chen Zhouxi, a\u00a0Zhejiang journalist,\u00a0received online death threats for his reports on Wenzhou&#8217;s cooling real estate market<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 8, administrators of the popular Wenzhou message board\u00a0703804.com\u00a0discovered a post made by a user named \u201cLuoju Luoshui\u201d. The post entitled \u201cIf you want to save the Wenzhou economy, first kill\u00a0<em>Diyi Caijing Ribao<\/em>\u00a0reporter Chen Zhouxi\u201d incited an uproar amongst forum readers.<\/p>\n<p>Administrators deleted the post, but it re-appeared the next day, complete with a multiple choice voting poll, where the options were \u201ckill\u201d, \u201cdo not kill\u201d, and \u201cabstain from voting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe changes in Wenzhou\u2019s economy and the actions of this double-crossing finance reporter are connected,\u201d a section of the post read. \u201cAll of the negative reports about Wenzhou were done by him \u2026 For the sake of Wenzhou\u2019s economy, it\u2019s necessary for Chen Zhouxi to become a victim of the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] In statements released in a\u00a0<em>Diyi Caijing Ribao<\/em>\u00a0follow-up article\u00a0after the incident, Chen speculated that the forum post had been motivated by a number of articles he had written about the regional economy of Zhejiang province \u2013 particularly the cooling housing market in Wenzhou city. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china-insider\/article\/1333025\/zhejiang-journalist-receives-internet-death-threats-over-housing\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/violence-against-journalists\/\"> violence against journalists in China<\/a>, via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Blum at South China Morning Post reports that Chen Zhouxi, a\u00a0Zhejiang journalist,\u00a0received online death threats for his reports on Wenzhou&#8217;s cooling real estate market: On October 8, administrators of the popular Wenzhou message board\u00a0703804.com\u00a0discovered a post made by a user named \u201cLuoju Luoshui\u201d. 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