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China, the wave of microblog

A first - so - "taste" was recorded on Sunday. In Wangfujing, the shopping street in Beijing not far from Tiananmen Square, have appeared with the jasmine and they formed a small gathering. Chinese police acted in a "fair" to disperse the crowd who had responded to an anthemic call to revolt in Tunisia. Appeals traveled through a microblog. A tool that blog that is proving more insidious for Beijing. And that is experiencing a veritable explosion in China . The figures speak for themselves. According to the report "China microblogging annual report", licensed from the University of Shanghai, users microblog (the Chinese version of Twitter, which is blocked by the censors in China) are already over 125 million , and at least 65 million use the half regularly.

Coma reads the Beijing Review, the "microblog have penetrated into every aspect of Chinese society," capable to address with a good dose of open-mindedness, including hot topics, from corruption to health to food security . It is a medium that is gaining the confidence of a wider audience. According to research conducted by China Youth Daily newspaper 73.7% of respondents' microblog considered the major source of news. " An experiment in "democracy" from below? One thing is certain: the party is aware of the possibilities - almost unlimited - the vehicle. And he decided to use it. Firsthand. The Chinese Communist Party chief of Chongqing in southern China, Bo Xilai has launched the first "red microblog ', with the stated purpose of" collecting the positive suggestions "of citizens in government and is part of the campaign for the" Red Culture "launched by the same Bo Xilai. Not only that: according to People's Daily, the official organ of the Communist Party, at least 500 police stations have set up their accounts.

The system is showing all its ambiguity toward the Internet and its tumultuous growth. As reported by China Agi 24, the CNNIC - China Internet Network Information Center - published the first semi-annual report on the state of development of the Network in Dragon. China has 457 million users, 23.2% to 55.4% of users worldwide and Asian users. Also increased the weight of mobile telephony in 2010 than 303 million Chinese access the Internet through your mobile . As regards the distribution of users in terms of geography, the highest density is concentrated in coastal areas, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are still the most important places with a pool. It consolidates the age group ranging from 20 to 29 years (now 29.8%) while the level of education average remains the predominant one (35.7%). Students are therefore the most exposed section of society using the Internet (30.5%), followed by white collar workers (16.2%) and professionals (14.9%).
A boom before which the regime is ambivalent. On the one hand promotes the development of the Internet, multiplied by the other controls. Last week the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhaoxu But he rejected "interference" American "to promote the use of the Internet ', calling the intrusion" its internal affairs. " Moreover, the White Paper on the Internet has made it clear to Beijing once and for all that the Party is not willing to take the hands off the Net: "The Internet in China remains under the sovereignty of the Republic of China .