Crackdown on rumors effective, says regulator
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China’s campaign against online rumors has been highly successful, a top official with the country’s Internet regulator said yesterday.
Ren Xianliang, vice minister of the State Internet Information Office, emphasized China’s commitment to clearing the web of content it deemed critical or offensive.
“The fight against rumors has received a positive response and has been quite effective,” he said. “The Internet has become clean. The frequency of slander has declined, but it has not impacted the orderly flow of information.”
The number of Internet users in China had hit 604 million as of the end of September, with mobile phones becoming the main method of accessing the web, the office said.
About 464 million people, or 77 percent of the country’s Internet users, were regularly getting online via their phones as of June this year, Ren said.
Mobile phones’ replacement of computers as the most common Internet terminal signals that China has entered the mobile Internet era, he said.
The office’s statistics also showed that all China’s cities and 99 percent of its townships were now connected to the Internet.
Ren said that the Internet had provided new channels for interaction between the government and the public and had become an incubator for China’s booming electronics business.
China would work to strengthen regulation of the Internet by training local Internet regulators and net companies, Ren added.
It would also expand the management of search engines and microblogs as well as Tencent’s popular WeChat app.
“We will meet the demands of the people to create a cyberspace with Chinese characteristics,” Ren said.
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