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Xinhua reported that, in order to follow up on a proposal at the Party’s fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Party Congress to “advance the rule of law,” the Central Network Information Office held a meeting on October 26. The meeting participants studied the key messages from the fourth Plenary Session and discussed the opportunities to further implement legal measures on Internet management. According to the Central Network Information Office, the information offices at the local levels often face obstacles due to an absence of laws on Internet management.

Source: Xinhua, October 26, 2014
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2014-10/26/c_1112981005.htm

Wang Qishan, Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, spoke at the 4th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection which was held in Beijing on October 25. Wang pointed out that some party officials do not study and understand the law. Wang said, “They neglect the law and are shameless and fearless.” Wang stressed that, the higher the rank the party officials have, the more authoritative power they have. Therefore they should be more fearful and focus on self-discipline. On October 26, Xinhua published a commentary in which it further endorsed Wang’s talk. It then reiterated that “the way the Party is managed and developed matters not just to Party’s legality and survival, but to the fate of the country and its people as well.”

Source: People’s Daily, October 25, 2014
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2014/1025/c70731-25907325.html
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2014/1026/c1001-25908590.html

Upon its close on October 23, 2014, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party Congress issued a communique on the subject of the rule of law. 

According to a Xinhua report, China’s current top authority has hunted down 55 “Big Tigers,” since the 18th Communist Party Congress [November 2012]. "Big Tigers" a name for top level corrupt officials.

A photo of Xi Jinping, China’s President, holding an umbrella on a rainy day last year won China’s top photojournalism prize in the National News Awards. 

It has been widely suggested that one of the major topics of the Chinese Communist Party’s Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee that is currently taking place in Beijing is "the rule of law." People’s Daily published an article with images quoting Xi Jinping’s past statements on this subject from December 2012 to September 2014.

Source: People’s Daily Online, October 20, 2014
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2014/1020/c1001-25866473.html

As the Chinese Communist Party is holding its Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, China News published an article suggesting that the meeting may adopt new measures on anti-corruption work.

The article quoted Wang Qishan, the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, who once said, "The current [anti-corruption work] should focus on treating the symptoms to win more time for the fundamental cure." Wang also said at the Seventh Meeting of the Twelfth Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference on August 25, "Anti-corruption work needs to achieve [the goal that officials] ‘dare not,’ ‘cannot,’ and ‘do not want to’ [be corrupt]. ‘Dare not’ is to cure the symptom. ‘Cannot’ and ‘Do not want to’ are to cure the problem permanently. We need to combine them together, curing both the symptom and the root cause."

The article quoted an experts’ opinion: It will take China at least 20 to 30 years to complete the undertaking of fixing the corruption problem, starting from punishing corrupt officials to making people "dare not" be corrupt, to building a system in which people "cannot" be corrupt, and to educating people so that they "do not want to" be corrupt, based on Singapore and other country’s experiences.

Source: China News, October 20, 2014
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2014/10-20/6693592.shtml

China Economy reported on a research and study forum on contemporary art that was held in Wuhan city in Hubei Province on October 17. During the forum, an art expert in attendance there said that 3,000 art exhibits had been held in China in 2013. However, very few of those displayed high quality art works or could be used for research purposes. The art works lacked depth or creativity. There was also shortage of artists and art works that could truly represent China or its culture, or which had any ethnic significance.

Source: China Economy, October 18, 2014
http://www.ce.cn/culture/gd/201410/18/t20141018_3727568.shtml