China restricts imports of TV programs

China will limit satellite TV stations to broadcast one foreign program each year from 2014, part of the move to push “morality-building” and educational shows, Reuters reported, citing state media on Monday. The new rules are an intensification of an earlier policy announced in February, which capped the broadcast of foreign television series to 50 episodes, and will result in fewer foreign series being broadcast in China. The Chinese government is increasingly concerned about what it sees as rising vulgarity in domestic television programming. At the same time, it has been moving to limit domestic channels’ reliance on imported content.