V. Creating healthy and orderly internet environments, and strengthening international exchanges and cooperation in the field of the internet.
On May 4, 2011, the National Internet Information Office was established, which means that the internet information service and administration work in China have entered a new stage. Within the guidelines of active utilization, scientific development, administration by law and security insurance, we have actively boosted the healthy and orderly development of the internet in China. By the end of 2011, China’s netizens had amounted to 513 million; cell phone web users were nearly 360 million; and nearly half of Chinese netizens were using microblogs. The number of Chinese netizens ranks first in the world. We have actively boosted the use of the internet in the field of national economy and social life, making it more extensive and more profound. Jointly with related departments, the Information Office has made special efforts to restrain erotic and rustic information on the internet and cell phones, the illegal information on adult appliances and drugs in the internet, illegal public relation activities in the internet, and illegal multi-level marketing in the internet. After a period of special rectification, the pornographic and rustic styles in the internet and cell phone media have been effectively held back, and internet cultural environments have been notably improved. So, it has received both praise from the people and active response from all circles of the society. And also, we have staged a national activity to build civilized websites, vigorously developed the style of internet civilization, constantly improved the legal consciousness and legal attainment of website practitioners, and really improved the levels of websites in running civilized websites by law. We have organized and performed the internet activity to “express warmth and solicitude”, promoting the truth, good and beauty and denouncing falseness, evil and ugliness, developing the internet morality characterized with caring about others and taking pleasure in helping others. The Information Office pays much attention to the international exchanges and cooperation in the field of the internet, and it has successfully held The Fourth China-UK Internet Roundtable and The Fifth China-US Forum on the Internet, which has helped the international community to understand the development status and policies of the internet in China.
VI. Giving comprehensive introduction to the human rights development status and human rights assertions in China, and extensively performing international exchanges and cooperation for human rights.
We have organized and held an assessment and summarization meeting on the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010), and published the Assessment Report on the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010), summarizing the implementation of the action plan on human rights and the important achievements of the cause of human rights in China in these two years from all aspects, and started the making of a new edition of National Human Rights Action Plan. We have helped the China Society for Human Rights Studies and the China Foundation for Human Rights Development to successfully hold the “Fourth Beijing Forum on Human Rights”, profoundly discussing the theme of “Cultural Tradition, Values and Human Rights”. This activity has made positive achievements. We have published The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010, in which we have employed many facts and data to systematically disclose the misdeeds committed to human rights in the USA and its double standards in the issue of human rights, in view of the distortion and denouncement of the human rights status in China made by the State Department of the USA in its 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. It is for the 12th time that we publish the human rights records of the USA in succession. We have organized the compilation of China’s Human Rights in Action in 2010, fully recording the laws and regulations concerning human rights, newly passed, amended and put in force in 2010, the particular measures and activities that both the Chinese government and the people have performed in boosting the development of the cause of human rights, and typical cases for the protection and relief of all human rights of citizens. We have held two sessions of training courses on human rights knowledge, and established national bases of human rights education and training, really improving leading cadres’ theoretical level and knowledge of human rights.
2012 is an important transitional year for the implementation of China’s “12th Five-year Plan” and a key year for the implementation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee. The CPC will hold its 18th National Congress. We sincerely welcome friends from the media of all countries to pay visits to, gather information on and report China. We will seriously carry out the interview rules for foreign countries’ resident news agencies and foreign reporters, and continue to provide services for friends of the media to comprehensively, in time and precisely learn about the economic and social development of China. In this new year, we will adopt an opener attitude and take more vigorous measures to make the voice of China be widely heard throughout the world, improve the international community’s knowledge and understanding of China’s basic national information, values, development path, and its domestic and foreign policies, and present the image of China’s civilization, democracy, opening and progress.
