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"Keep Reporting On Bright Economic Future" - China Ministry Of Truth Demands Media "Properly Interpret" Data
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. As China Digital Times reports, propaganda directives issued by the Xinhua News Agency and the Central Propaganda Department show that Chinese media are being instructed to "properly interpret economic data," and "promote discourse on China’s bright economic future."
As China Digital Time reports, two leaked images of propaganda directives issued by the Xinhua News Agency and the Central Propaganda Department show that Chinese media are being instructed to report positively on the economy. CDT has translated both.
The first below is the Xinhua notice, which asks its various departments to draft plans for “promoting the discourse on China’s bright economic future.”
Office of the Xinhua News Agency Editor-in-Chief
Notice
To the departments of Domestic News (Central Government Procurement Center), International News, Domestic News for Overseas Service, Photography, Reference News, and Audio-Video; the CNC [China Xinhua News Network Corporation], Xinhua Online, the New Media Center; all media reporting platforms; and the Editorial Department:
In keeping with the spirit of notifications from superior authorities and Agency leadership requirements, the focus for the month of September will be strengthening economic propaganda and guiding public opinion (the related notification is in the attachment that follows). This includes taking the next step in promoting the discourse on China’s bright economic future and the superiority of China’s system, as well as stabilizing expectations and inspiring confidence. We request that your departments take immediate action to plan related reporting; identify individuals to take responsibility; and confirm reporting topics, individuals responsible for those topics, and publication dates.
Please plan related reporting. After the responsible parties within the relevant department have signed off on the plan, send it to the Creative Planning Center at the editor-in-chief’s office through 0A prior to 5 p.m. on September 9, and fax the leadership signature page to 63071200.
The topic formatting should be as follows:
- Topic (Responsible Party: Department Name, Individual’s Name; Publication Date: Month, Day)
Contact: Wang Xiaoshun [Office:] 51366 [Cell:] 13661390548
Office of the Editor-in-Chief
September 7, 2015 [Chinese]
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The second is the first page of a document issued by the Central Propaganda Department, marked as notice number 320 for the year 2015, asking state media and outlets affiliated with the state to “properly interpret economic data.”
Communist Party of China Central Propaganda Department
Notice 2015 #320
Notice Regarding Increased Economic Propaganda and Guidance in the Near Term
To the People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, Economic Daily, China Daily, China National Radio, China Central Television, China Radio International, China News Service, and subordinate emerging media outlets:
According to instructions from central leadership comrades, all news media outlets must continue to deepen their study and transmission of the spirit of Secretary-General Xi Jinping’s series of important speeches, revolving around the strategic positioning of the “Four Comprehensives,” combined with deep concern for public opinion. The focus for the month of September will be strengthening economic propaganda and guiding public opinion, as well as overall planning for domestic- and foreign-facing propaganda and Internet propaganda, in order to take the next step in promoting the discourse on China’s bright economic future and the superiority of China’s system, as well as stabilizing expectations and inspiring confidence.
- Properly interpret economic data. In September, the National Bureau of Statistics will successively release for circulation important information on changes in means of production and market prices and the monthly reports on the consumer price index, industry production price index, above-scale industry production, and total value of retail sales for consumer goods. In the near future, listed banks will also successively announce their annual reports for the first half of the year. Every news media outlet must interview representatives and experts from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, and other relevant organizations; properly interpret economic data; and correctly report on new changes in economic market conditions and relevant industry management.
- Strengthen propaganda related to economic highlights and their effects. Closely follow economic market conditions, and diligently… [Chinese]
Both state and independent media have been pressured to keep economic reporting upbeat and to downplay the stock market crash last month as well as slumps earlier in the summer.
Detained Caijing reporter Wang Xiaolu confessed on CCTV to “causing panic and disorder” with a negative story, while almost 200 others have been taken into custody for “spreading rumors” about stories including the stock market turmoil.
A directive from August 25 requires that Chinese websites delete specific essays about the crash, while in June the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television instructed TV and radio stations to “rationally lead market expectations to prevent inappropriate reports from causing the market to spike or crash.”
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A little late, the farmers and housewives have already lost their life savings. Their economic future isn't so bright no matter how the media 'interprets' the data.
The only one who "lost their life savings" was someone who bought at the peak using margin. They are back to what....erasing 6 months of the bubble gains? In any event, welcome to stock market investing.
Dictatorial countries consoring their people typically don't end well.
Reminds me of the U.S. What have the government and Mainstream Media outlets been repeating this past month about the Stock Market, the economy, and everything in between?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
The only difference between the US and China is that they prosecute financial fraud. The numbers are equally as cooked, and the US media is arguably more owned then the Chinese.
"The only difference between the US and China is that they prosecute financial fraud."
Only if it is politically expedient.
We do the same.
And who have we done here other than Madoff? Corzine is still wandering around
This is the fatal conceit part, right?
I'll say again, China has all our modern (western) vices and none of the erstwhile virtues that once made western civilization vibrant and dynamic. China really ain't shit. Actually, on second thought, they're shit alright.
They are going about it all wrong, they need CNBC.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Nobody could have forseen this. Utterly unpredictable that a YET ANOTHER Communist, centrally planned economy would implode and employ such tactics to cover up the ugly reality.
Beyond comprehension.
Good thing it couldnt happen here.
Report the truth and you could end up in jail.
Obama would love to have such power. So far the lies by the white house and in the media are working.
Here if you report too sensitive of a truth they just blow your car up. Or, you could end up like Gary Cadori who was the chief investigator for a Nebraska subcomittee investigating a portion of the Franklin Washington DC pedophile ring. His cesna blew up killing him and his 6 year old son, child pornography pictures which were in his briefcase were blown all over a farmers field. The FBI showed to collect the pictures, needless to say they were never used as evidence.
Outstanding re-post, thanks, apparently things are not going too well in the big smoke.
Leaking like a sieve about it too. They must be tiring of the ruse and oppression.
You spend your waking hours dreaming.
The Chinese obviously don't know how to deal with their media. In this country the media and the government get along just fine...
Why is it a big deal if a few housewifes lost Money in western style Stock market casino?
Are the Chinese pension funds in trouble?
Are Chinese central Bank borrowing trillions?
If you properly interprete the data, it is quite clear that Chinese finances are in good shape.
Those western Banks who financed Ghost towns and unfeasible factories are in trouble. But nobody talks about them.
The Chinese are smart to not even bail out state owned companies with bad debt.
The Chinese should learn from the west. Buyout all the media through proxies. Then all will be fine.
Western MSM doesn't need to be told..... they just do it
China, there is no need to regulate the media you just need to own it.
This is the Western way.
Lying bastards.
At least the Fed is honest enough to call ours a "seven year long weak recovery with a side order of QE"
Central banking at its most forthright.
God bless the Fed.
China needs to get themselves a Jim Cramer
Dim Kwa Mao
As you may or not know, the Ministry of Truth has issued other directives. To not hype the recent articles that express support for SOEs:
'The state-owned enterprises and stronger, is to make state-owned enterprises have become the strong competition in the market, the concentrated expression of corporate independent innovation ability, strong resource allocation capabilities, strong marketing capabilities, strong risk management and control capabilities; the state-owned enterprises do good, that is, let the state-owned enterprises to become management leader, the concentrated expression of excellent corporate governance and internal control excellent, excellent brand image, excellent operating results; the big state-owned enterprises, is to make state-owned enterprises to become the industry leader, concentrated expression of the state-owned enterprises while ensuring the necessary size, body mass and gravity, there must be a large strategy, big thinking, market-oriented, promote corporate mergers and acquisitions, asset concentration of resources to promote the advantages of agglomeration, and strive to achieve a large market, big resources large joint, large configuration, and strive to create state-owned enterprise with international competitiveness fight, influence of the "pillars of the country." (this is a bad translation).
In other words, there are internal Party disagreement. It is still a Bo Xilai faction fighting with their doppelganger, Xi Jinping vs the Jiang Zemin remnants that have not been totally purged (not by a lack of trying).
Xi doesn't want his support for regressive economic policies to undermine his 'reformist' i.e. anti-corruption credentials.
State-ism uber alles. No matter the spin.
And this is happens China alone??
Let's see... who coined the terms "SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA"? CPI index that seems to show "PERPETUAL LOW INFLATIONS DATA"? Or how about unemployment data. That shows "TERRIFIC PERCENTAGE OF EMPLOYMENT DATA"?
Tell me, which govt don't do "ADJUSTMENT" of those figures..
We deride "Cargo cults" "Voodoo" and "Simpathetic magic" with good reason, and then create "Economics" . Guess people still want to believe.
The same shit happens in the USA.
Rather than bother translating this incarnation, it would have been easier to get the giant Post-it that's been hanging on every CNBS studio camera for the last 10 years
And this deviousness is part of what the Federal Reserve bases their policies on...because they are NOW concerned with GLOBAL economies not just the US economy which is their instructed mandate.
Yes. Deviousness. Weird ain't it.
Commies go straight for the jugular in maintaining the 'proper' perspective.
The leftist in America wish they could... and are doing their best to implement it.
Just announced " The Oligarch Recovery Group announces the "Up, Up With Financials" worldwide tour led by Jim Cramer along with many of your favourite financial cheerleaders."
WSJ - "Completely irresistible. Get your pension funds ready."
China should hire that scumbag David Lereah who used to cheerlead for the National Association of Realtors when the property bubble was bursting.