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Shanghai: China plans to launch its own online encyclopaedia next year, hoping to build a “cultural Great Wall” that can rival Wikipedia as a go-to information source for Chinese Internet users who Beijing fears are being corrupted by foreign influences.
China is under pressure to write its own encyclopaedia so it can guide public thought, according to a statement by the project’s executive editor Yang Muzhi published last month on the website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He once listed Wikipedia, which is available in China, and Britain’s Encyclopaedia Britannica as potential rivals and said the project aims to exceed them, according to an article he wrote late last year.
The project, which will be under the guidance of the state-owned China Publishing Group, “must have Chinese characteristics,” he wrote, adding it would be a “symbol of the country’s cultural and technological development” and increase its softpower and international influence.
Beijing issued a new restriction for online freedoms, requiring Chinese Internet users to provide their real names when accessing online news sources.
The new restriction will come into effect on June 1.(AFP)
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