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Internal media of China enables high-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres to access information that is subject of censorship in China for the general public.
As He Qinglian documents in chapter 4 of Media Control in China,[1] there are many grades and types of internal documents (Chinese: 内部文件; pinyin: nèibù wénjiàn). Many are restricted to a certain administrative level – such as county level, provincial level or down to certain official levels in a ministry. Some Chinese journalists, including Xinhua correspondents in foreign countries, write for both the mass media and the internal media.
Since Xi Jinping became CCP general secretary, internal reports have been increasingly subject to censorship previously reserved only for public media.[2]