Xiao Liu, a staff member of the Longhua District government, Haikou City, South China's Hainan Province, has recently received xinhuanet.com's special edition of Mobile Phone Newspaper for the annual sessions of China's National People's Congress (NPC) and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Particularly, Liu is interested in the interactive sector in which questions are solicited for an exclusive interview program. People can join the interview via Fetion, a mobile instant messaging service. So, Liu sent out a message asking his questions about the social security insurance for migrant workers.
Liu said with excitement that the Fetion-based interview is a program that can truly go into the inner heart of the common people. All what they want to know, to express or just to chat about can be done via the mobile phone messages.
Upon the opening of China's NPC, CPPCC annual sessions, major websites in the nation, including xinhuanet.com, people.com.cn, sina.com.cn and QQ.com, have run more new applications of Internet communication technology, and thus further expanded the channels for netizens to receive news or express views about the sessions.
Fetion-based interview brings common people closer to NPC, CPPCC sessions
At 9:00, March 3, China's first Fetion-based interview about the sessions was conducted at Xinhuanet.com. Soon after Kang Houming, NPC deputy and also a migrant worker of the No.1 Municipal Works Company under Chongqing Urban Construction Group, entered the studio, numerous migrant workers throughout China fired their questions via the mobile phones.
One of them asked, "I have been a migrant worker for nearly ten years, and yet the balance in my social security account can't be transferred to my hometown. Would you please report my problem to higher authorities?" Kang replied, "I have already put forward a proposal on the matter to enable migrant workers to use a kind of social security account credit cards. Being highly mobile, the migrant workers social security will be effectively ensured if they could use the cards."
This first Fetion-based interview was jointly hosted by xinahunet.com and China Mobile. Fetion users can join any of the number group from "888000" to "888099" to interact. By using the chatting tool, all the 85 million mobile phone users across the country can directly participate in discussions or chat.
Some users said in their messages that the Fetion-based interview platform has brought them closer to the annual sessions.
"Dig" began focusing on news about the annual sessions, trying to select the most popular pieces
At 16:20, March 2, a digger dubbed "duyan" posted the news of "the first press conference for the First Session of the 11th CPPCC National Committee" telecast by the central government news websites, inducing a large number of netizens to read and collect the web page.
At 16:30, this piece turned up on the home page of the "digg" channel of people.com.cn, becoming the first piece about the annual sessions on its home page. In the evening of the same day, news stories, such as "the Internet becomes direct channel for public opinion," debuted on the home pages of various dig websites including digg.cn and zhuaxia.com. Thus the diggers have pooled the news about the annual sessions into a new channel of Internet communications of their own accord.
The "dig" is a new Internet application that combines bookmarks, blogs, RSS and non-hierarchical editorial control. Its unique feature is that, without full-time website editors, any user can submit articles at his will whereas readers will judge whether the articles could be used or not.
The dig websites entered China in 2003, and are still at an initial stage for growth at present. The core idea of the "dig" is to mobilize the public to search for news and let netizens to decide by vote which news stories should be displayed on the home page of a website. Undoubtedly, the close attention paid by dig websites to news about the annual sessions has shown the Internet's infinite vitality to spread the advanced culture.
"Online political assembly" demonstrates netizens' expectations of the sessions
During their on-going, netizens' enthusiasm to learn more and talk about the annual sessions is on a constant rise. QQ.com has opened a column named "online political assembly." By 15:00, March 3, netizens have posted as many as 82,819 messages on the column.
In fact, many major websites in China have all launched similar columns. People.com.cn opened its "Speak out online," while xinhuanet.com created "I have a piece of advice for Premier Wen." Also, other websites offered similar platforms for their netizens to be involved.
These interactive columns have tremendously aroused netizens' zeal to make suggestions or discuss state policies and have created an "open" and "interactive" atmosphere for the sessions. The large numbers of messages posted by them in these columns have fully proved the general public's attention and expectations for the sessions.
Source:Xinhua
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