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Advancing the party committee spokesperson system will be a major task for the development of a systematic press release system in 2010, said Wang Chen, director of the State Council Information Office.

“To establish the party committee spokesperson system” was mentioned for the first time in the “Decision” of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Party committees, from the local level to the central committees, should increase the release of information, using press releases, media interviews, and other approaches to publish information about party activities.

As of now, several local party committees including Changsha City, Hunan Province, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, and central committees including the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, the Department of Organization, and the Department of United Front Work have already established a spokesperson system.

Source: Xinhua, December 29, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-12/29/content_12723244.htm

According to Xinhua, China Network Television (CNTV), the national network television broadcasting organization of China, with ties to CCTV, held an opening ceremony on December 28, 2009. Li Changchun, member of the CCP Central Committee Political Bureau Standing Committee, attended the ceremony.

Focusing on audio-visual interaction, CNTV is a global-focused, multi-language, and multi-terminal public service platform that combines the features of an old-school television network. By deployment of mirror sites across the world, this platform covers Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Russia and more.

Li hopes that CNTV will provide the correct guidance for public opinion and become an influential network television broadcasting organization in the world.

Source: Xinhua, December 28, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-12/28/content_12718694.htm 

China News Net reported that the Nanjing Municipal Government held a press conference for the first time on December 29, 2009, at which over one hundred newly assigned news spokespersons for the variety of the CCP committees in Nanjing presented themselves. It is rare that a municipal government in China opens more than one hundred news spokesperson positions at one time.

The news spokespersons are the major leaders of each ministry, of the CCP committees, and departments. Representing all levels of Party committees, they will strengthen the connections with domestic and foreign news media. For urgent incidents, news spokespersons must be able to respond to reporters’ phone calls 24 hours a day.

Source: China News Net, December 29, 2009
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2009/12-29/2044175.shtml
 

Xinhua reported on December 28, 2009, that 170,000 urban government officials in Guangdong Province have been sent down to the countryside to ensure that at least one urban official resides in each rural village. In order to guarantee every rural Party branch is helped by an urban Party branch, 19,513 rural Party branches have been teamed up with urban Party branches. The process has a positive effect in building low-level Party organizations in the countryside.

Source: Xinhua, December 28, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/local/2009-12/28/content_12719326.htm