CCP Is Now Listening to Its People!

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In China, Communist Party Takes Unprecedented Step: It Is Listening. Associated Press, Aug 2, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wo ... c363c3bf_story.html

Quote:

"Most of the 'opinion mining' work carried out by the People’s Daily team is for consumption by officials or state-owned enterprises. The monitoring center advises officials on how to deal with crises * * * Again, most of that advice is conveyed in private, but sometimes it makes its way into the publicly available report

"There is a similar monitoring unit at Xinhua, while at Remnin University, a team analyzes the search terms on Baidu, China’s equivalent of Google, to gauge society’s mood. Indeed, almost every university in China now has a department devoted to public opinion research.

Note:
(a) "Victor YUAN Yue, chairman of Horizon Research Consultancy"  零点研究咨询集团 董事长 袁 岳
(i) English-language website:

Horizon Research Consultancy Group
http://www.agmr.com/members/horizon.html
(ii) Chinese-language website:

零点研究咨询集团
http://www.horizon-china.com/cn/index.html
("Horizon (零点)")

(b) "XIAO Qiang, an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and the founder of the China Digital Times news Web site"

Xiao Qiang 萧 强
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Qiang