[photopress:Liu_Yunshan_is_center.jpg,full,alignright]The country’s top propaganda official Liu Yunshan, head of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Publicity Department and shown here, has put forward the idea of ‘building a web culture with Chinese characteristics’.
This seems to be a most excellent idea.
Addressing a national meeting on Internet culture, Liu Yunshan called for the molding of the Internet into ‘the new means of promoting a culture of advanced socialism, the new platform for public cultural services, the new area for spiritual fulfillment and a new channel for China to present itself to the outside world.
‘It is a significant decision made by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) to build a web culture with Chinese characteristics.’
Promoting such a web culture, said Liu, is vital in ‘maintaining social harmony, complying with public will and protecting the country’s young minds’.
‘There is also an urgent need to promote a positive national image.’
All of which is sort of happening. The Internet in China is not as the Internet of other countries and caters very carefully to Chinese ideas, Chinese needs and the Chinese language.
It may be that this call partially includes a campaign against online pornography but the idea of moving the Internet in China more and more until it truly reflects the country seems both obvious and excellent.
Source: Xinhuanet
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