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Internal media of China enables high-levelChinese Communist Party (CCP)cadres to access information that is subject ofcensorship in China for the general public.
AsHe Qinglian documents in chapter 4 ofMedia 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 certainadministrative level – such as county level, provincial level or down to certain official levels in a ministry. Some Chinese journalists, includingXinhua correspondents in foreign countries, write for both the mass media and the internal media.
SinceXi Jinping became CCPgeneral secretary, internal reports have been increasingly subject to censorship previously reserved only for public media.[2]
The PRC State Secrecy Protection Law[3] (保守国家秘密法;bǎoshǒu guójiā mìmì fǎ) Section Nine stipulates three grades ofstate secrets: top secret (绝密;juémì), secret (机密;jīmì) and confidential (秘密;mìmì) as well as a fourth grade of information, internal materials (内部资料;nèibù zīliào) that may be read by Chinese citizens only.
The Chinese State Secrecy Protection Law Implementing Regulations (国家秘密法实施办法;guójiā mìmì fǎ shíshī bànfǎ) section two defines these grades of secrecy and the permissions allowed to government departments at each level. In each Chinese administrative region, Party organizations such as committees and disciplinary committees, government organizations such as people's congresses, governments, and consultative congresses, and military organizations such as military districts and their provincial military districts, and the hundreds of agencies subordinate to them issue these three types of internal documents.[4]
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