A Chinese writer has said that Chinese writers enjoy great freedom in what they want to write and a lot of good books have been written.
Lu Jiande, writer from Foreign Literature Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said that China's human rights situation has been greatly improved in an interview with People's Daily Online correspondent on Wednesday at the Writers' and Literary Translators' International Congress, the first ever being held in Stockholm.
Lu Jiande said freedom of expression has been achieved in China and people can talk and write whatever they like. There is little taboos in China.
In contrast, he finds that there are more voluntary censorship in the west and people's political stance are very obvious.
Talking about journalists' freedom of expression, Lu Jiande says that in China, journalists are actually having a lot of power. Due to incomplete laws and regulations as well as lack of better supervision, there are people who pretend to be journalists and go around to blackmail enterprises or local government for money.
The Code of Conduct in some media were sometimes not well observed, which caused negative impacts on social security. Some reporters are not very socially responsible and wrote sensational stories in order to catch more readers or sometimes even fabricate stories. And this is against the basic ethical standards of journalism.
But these are very few cases. Chinese writers do have freedom to write, he said.
"Some people think that Chinese writers don't have freedom, they cannot write excellent works. That is not true and that is also unfair comments to Chinese writers." Lu Jiande said. "In fact, there are many excellent works from Chinese writers and in recent years, more and more are translated overseas too."
By Xuefei Chen, People's Daily Online Correspondent.
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