China
urges the US to stop intervening in its press freedom
China seizes 84 mln illegal, obscene
publications in 2008 China confiscated about 83.84 million
pornographic, pirated and unauthorized publications in 2008, the
national anti-pornography and anti-piracy office said in a press release
Tuesday. Law enforcement departments investigated 25,384 cases involving
the production, sale and distribution of illegal publications last year,
including 328 criminal cases, according to the National Office for
Cleaning Up Pornography and Fighting Illegal Publications. It said
eight illegal disc production lines were closed and 46,000 shops and
1,420 printing and copying enterprises were shut down. Also, 14,000
illegal websites were closed and more than 490,000items of "harmful"
content were deleted, the release said. The office said a nationwide
campaign launched in October to crack down on false reports,
unauthorized publications and fraudulent journalists and media
organizations achieved "major progresses." It did not elaborate.
(Xinhua Jan.13, 2009)
China's population of Web users hits 298 million
by the end of 2008
China
easing restrictions for foreign journalists
China's official news agency
says the communist country is easing restrictions on foreign
journalists. Xinhua News Agency says the new rules will allow foreign
correspondents to interview Chinese citizens without special permission
from the government. The permission has been required in the past. China
had already lifted the requirement for the hordes of journalists who
covered the Beijing Olympics in August. Friday's announcement makes the
temporary arrangement permanent.
(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oct.17, 2008)
World
media eye China's two sessions, focusing on economic
stimulus - Xinhua
China's national English newspaper launches U.S. edition
- Xinhua News
Internet changes political
landscape in China - Xinhua
China has
more newspapers and magazines
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There are ten times as many
Chinese newspapers and magazines than there were 30
years ago. That's when the country adopted the reform
and opening-up policy.
Figures from the General Administration of Press and
Publication (GAPP) show there were 186 newspapers and
930 magazines in China in 1978. Today, the country has
2,081 newspapers and 9,363 different magazines.
In
the meantime, official figures show China has some 600
publishing houses producing nearly 300,000 kinds of
books. That's a dramatic increase from the 105
publishers of the past that produced only 10,000
different books.
Rapid
economic development and universal education since China
adopted the reform has helped fuel the need for more
information sources.
Under
the market economy, hundreds of publishing houses and
newspapers have taken steps to restructure management
systems into corporations listed on the stock market.
The
legal system overseeing the news and publishing sectors
in China has also changed over the last three decades.
Since 1990 a law and five relevant regulations were
adopted in 1990 to govern the sectors.
Since
it started in 1993, digital publishing has flourished.
Its industrial volume amounted to 20 billion yuan (2.93
billion U.S. dollars) in 2006. More than 500,000 kinds
of digital books were produced last year alone in China,
which is more than any other country in the world.
(Xinhua News 2008-10-08)
China's
publishing industry revamped in 30 years-
China's publishing industry is enjoying unparalleled
growth, 30 years after the implementation of the Reform
and Opening up policy. The numbers alone reflect the
industry buoyancy. Twenty-four publishing groups have
been reformed. And annual publication of new books has
risen to 130,000.
Lu
Jiande is a reacher fellow of the China Academy of
Sciences. His study holds a 30 year old collection,
"Walking to the World". It's a serial volume published
by Yuelu Publishing House in 1980. The books gathered
bits and pieces of China's understanding of the outside
over 120-years. Eighty-year-old Zhong Shuhe was the
editor of this 36-volume eight million word set.
Wu
Shangzhi, general administration of Press and
Publication, said, "The books advanced an important idea
- that the Chinese publishing industry should face the
world. That idea was later incorporated into a
government circular to strengthen and improve publishing
in China."
Under
the planned economy, a hundred publishing houses around
the country had little to show in the way of actual
publication.
A
cultural reform was initiated in 2003. Liaoning,
Jiangsu, Sichuan, Hunan and 17 other publishers took
part in the pilot project. The effect of the reform is
evident at the Xinhua bookstore in south China's Hunan
province. Once, the shelves contained a limited
selection comprised of several hundred books. Now there
are thirty thousand. The total stock amounts to around
300 thousand titles.
The
country's copyright trade has shown a vast increase.
Over seven million books have been exported on subjects
extending from acupuncture and martial arts to science,
culture and philosophy. (Source:
CCTV.com, Oct.9, 2008)
