1. Regional Review---China Carrie Yang May 5, 2010

2. History of Transparency Cultural Revolution1966-1976 (Mao Ze dong) Reform and Opening-up 1978 (Deng Xiaoping) Tian An Men Incident 1989 Hong Kong ---Handover of Sovereignty 1997

3. Trends and Successes Mass Media---Party Inc. New Media---Forums, Blogs, Micro-Blog The Riseof Urban Middle Class

4. Challenges Censorship “50 cent” Party Agenda Setting Great Firewall Policy>Law

5. Case Study I: Jiang-Wai-Jiang Community Forum Waste Incinerator Construction Non-official Information and mobilization Community members protested The government suspended the project

6. Case Study II: Inmediahk.com Protect the Freedom of Speech in Hong Kong Independent Investigation Influence on High Speed Railway Construction Self-Sustainable Model

7. Case Study III: Ai Weiwei’s List on Ai Wewei’s blogs Sichuan Earthquake 2008 Investigate the Name List of Student Victims Encourage civic participation through blogs Government: various measures to impede the investigation

8. Case Studies IV: Freemoren Sea Turtles Prime Time Twitter News Influence on FengZhengfu’s case Experiment: Duplicate on Twitter’s CN version

9. Conclusions The uncontrollable Internet succumb to the CCP’s political control

10. Recommendations Faith: A sparkle can inflame a plain Cooperation: Mainland-Hong Kong Inter-platforms (SMS, SNS, blogs, mass media) Consideration What Chinese people really needs?

11. The End Thank you for your attention!