China: A Progressive country with Censorship

According to BBC News, China is known to be the top mass producing country in the world. China receives most of its profit through trading with a surplus of foreign countries. As lovely as this may sound, China hosts a strict control over the mass media and govern online content. Ordinary website sites like "YouTube," "Skype," even "Google" had been closely monitored or banned by the chinese Communist government. As stated in the Council on Foreign Relations,

"But the most powerful monitoring body is the Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department (CPD), . . .The CPD gives media outlets directives restricting coverage of politically sensitive topics--such as protests, environmental disasters, Tibet, and Taiwan--which the CPD considers dangerous to state security and party control."

The Chinese government has taken over all citizens "freedom of press" and blatantly chose what they felt was worthy of being published. But, even with censorship, internet and television are the most popular form of media in China. TV being the largest with an incredible 1.2 billion viewers. Wow! In a country profile of China by the BBC News stated:

"In 2009, China launched new international TV channels and publications, spending billions of dollars to extend its political influence and boost its image abroad. It has been less keen to allow foreign players into the domestic market."

China has nearly 420 million users on the internet and even a larger number of television viewers. with the Media being  politically and socially censored, China still remains to be on the "up and up" against foreign countries when it comes to  producing things, including media.