Internal media of the Chinese Communist Party

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]

  1. ^ He Qinglian: THE FOG OF CENSORSHIP - MEDIA CONTROL IN CHINA Archived 2017-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, published in Chinese in 2004 by Human Rights in China, New York. Revised edition 2006 published by Liming Cultural Enterprises of Taiwan. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Kang, Dake (31 October 2022). "In Xi's China, even internal reports fall prey to censorship". Associated Press. Retrieved 31 October 2022.

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