Top 10 Chinese Internet Events in 2012

Top Ten (Chinese) Internet Moments 2012
1. Chinese intellectuals were forced to take side in a duel between Dr. Shimin Fang and Mr. Han Han. Han was ambushed after he wrote three political essays in which Han advocated for citizen actions for progressive reforms.
2. Director of the Central Bureau of Compilation and Translation, the ideological think tank, was accused of adultery, corruption and taking bribes by a postdoc trainee in the Bureau in a detailed account literature, which was posted online.
3. A post by a Hunan police went viral when people found the government paid $30k to some Urghur Muslims for some fruit cakes. The incident renewed public skeptical in China's Affirmative Action which was perceived as leaning against majority.
4. A Green Peace post triggered an outcry on an unauthorized human test of Genetic Modified Golden Rice on school age children. The experiment was explicitly banned by Chinese authority, but the US based researchers from the Tufts University smuggled testing materials into China, and conduct the experiment in a rural elementary school in disguise of a state sponsored lunch project without informing parents.
5. Violent mobs destroyed Japanese cars and attacked drivers in the heated anti-Japan campaigns across China following the dispute over Diaoyu Islands. Online photos and accounts showed many of the most violent mob were actually plain cloth police.
6. Two Chinese graduate students at USC were killed outside their residence. Because the Associate Press mistakenly reported the two were rich kids, and then refused to issue a correction upon request, Chinese communities felt the AP was conducting an Anti-Chinese spinning of the tragedy.
7. Beijing municipal government was criticized for its handling of a heavy rain. Dozens of people died, including one driver drown in his car on the street in the heart of its CBD area. Many likened the incident to the chaos and cover-up in the bullet train accident last year.
8. Following former deputy mayor of Chongqing Wang Lijun's failed asylum bid at the US Consulate in Chengdu, a big political drama unfolded in the course of months, often proceeded by online rumors which were later turned out to be the truth.
9. Chinese learned from Internet that an affordable luxury brand Zadig & Voltaire announced they would not serve Chinese as a sales pitch.
10. Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress's Financial and Economic Committee Mr. He Keng blamed westerners who donate to Chinese were shameless. The comment backfired, and forced He quit from online social networks.

Top 10 Chinese Internet Incidents in 2009

• The Terminal reality show
  Chinese citizen Mr. Feng Zhenghu was kidnapped by Air Japan with brute force from Shanghai in November 2009. Feng refused to enter Japan and chose to camp in the airport. With one cell phone, Feng was able to update his twitter feeds to allow thousands of fans real time update of the development. Feng is a social activist who help poor city dwellers in Shanghai. The Chinese government was annoyed by Feng's frequent criticism and asked Japanese government to take Feng out of the country.
  
• Persecution of online criticism
  Multiple lawsuits were filed by prosecutors across country to deter online criticism to government officials. Some posters were thrown into jails.
  
• Caonima
  In defiant to the government's censorship in name of cleaning out indecent Internet contents, Chinese Netizens created new words by composition of forbidden characters.
  
• Qishima
  PedXing safety was brought into attention after Hangzhou police faked the real speed of the car which caused the death of a new college graduate. Qishima literally means 70 km per hour.
  
• Deng Yujiao
  Waitress Deng Yujiao was sentenced when resisting gang rape from communist officials. Deng became an icon of a lower level people's courage to stand off exploiting from the government.
  
• Officials behavior scrutinized
  A Henan senior official was quoted asking a reporter, 'Who do you stand by, the Party or the People?'
  A Nanjing official was singled out when one of his work picture was put online, in which he was seen smoking a $1000 dollar cigarettes.
  
• Mass network blocking and the defeat of 'Green Dam'
  All Web 2.0 sites were blocked in China, including Wikipedia, Twitter, Youtube, Pacasa, among others. The government also requires all computers sold in China must have a filter program Green Dam pre-installed.
  
• Under water traps
  The country was stunned after two college students died trying to safe drowned kids. It turned out each segment of the Yangtze River was controlled by a local savage company, who made money by killing swimmers than asking high price to savage their bodies.
  
• Farmsville popular among white collars
  Government employees are indulged with an online gardening program (usually found as add-on component at social networking sites), in which people plant in virtual world.
  
• Citizen challenge unfair treatment with help from the online community and courage to cut open own chest
  A Henan man opened up his chest to show journalists his miner's lung after denied treatment by government agencies.
  A Shanghai resident cut his fingers to vow he was innocent after being wrongfully caught a government sting operation.
  A Sichuan entrepreneur set herself on fire (and died) to protest government eviction for commercial development
  

Most Competitive Cities in China

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published 2009 edition of Blue Book of City Competitiveness. The top ten most competitive cities in China are:

Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Guangzhou, Qingdao, Tianjin, Suzhou, Kaohsiung.

The report is based on study of 294 largest cities in China. The same report placed Hong Kong the 26th among 500 competitive cities in the world. However, 40 out of 50 fast growing cities are from China. This is the seventh annual blue book on Chinese city competitiveness published by the agency.

Top 10 Chinese Internet Events in 2008

Fuzhou Marina Affairs Director tried to grab a teenage girl into the man's restroom. When confronted with the girl's parents, Lin threatened the parents when they refused to take his money offer. The entire incident was caught on tape by surveillance camera. Lin was removed from the position.

A few foreign websites, such as New York Time and the Wikipedia was unblocked during the Olympic Game in the summer.

A local official lost a new appointed position after the information was leaked online. A Nanjing Housing Director was placed under investigation after network pictures showing him wearing luxury watches.

Explicit pictures depicting sexual adventures of Hong Kong actor Chen Guanxi with many other actresses were spread online.

Concerned citizen used Internet to investigate the motivation led to the slain of Shanghai cops by Beijing resident Yang Jia. One person was arrested after leaking the information that Yang Jia had been wrongfully tortured by the police.

Netizens were divided by the authenticity of a photo taken by a peasant of a wild tiger in Shannxi. Citizen Reporting an innovative idea;

First Online slander case ruled;

Popular new jargons:
1) Push up
2) Buying Soy Sauce;
3) Five Times Better;
4) To be Suicides;
5) Very Yellow, Very Violent

Duke University freshman Wang Qianyuan was criticized for appearing with Tibet Independent Parade

Top 10 Chinese Internet Events in 2007

• Property owners Yang Wu and Wu Ping resisted real estate developers from demolishing their home with martial art, 5 star flag, barrels of gasoline and netizen support
  
• Online video revealing Beijing high school students mocking their instructor in classroom
  
• Naked photos of a white collar office lady sleeping with foreigners were leaked online. Shi Jing, assistant to CEO of Electrolux, was exposed with nothing on her young body when her foreign playboy sex-mate's online photo albums were cracked. Shi's naked pictures were among hundreds naked pictures of some dozens of other Chinese women.
  
• Good Samaritan sentenced by Nanjing court. A citizen who tried to help an old lady fell at a Bus station was ordered to pay her medical expenses by a Nanjing court. The court questioned if he hadn't caused the old lady's problem why did he offer the help;
  
• Shanxi Slave Labor. It had been many years that brick factories owners in Shanxi abducted young boys, mostly from Henan province, to be slave labor until a desperate father revealed this online and thus caught the attention of the higher ups in Beijing. Many earlier rescue attempt, even those made by TV stations were omitted.
  
• The Information Ministry and Broadcasting Bureau announced 12/29/2007 that Video websites, (Youtube alike) will have to be stated owned, or state controlled before 1/31/2008. Many news spread by homemade videos shot by widely available video cell phones. Now the channel is closed;
  
• Oversea Chinese discriminated for opportunities in China, as trivial as involuntary blood tests, as absurd as senior research position recruiting. Online revelations of these kind of discrimination had provoked mass demonstration in the past;
  
• Mass shutdown of websites by the CCP propaganda department, including servers operated by oversea service providers before the Party Congress;
  
• Bakers lost guardianship of Anna Mae He. Jack He, a self-promoted national hero, is collecting more money after acquired Mae;
  
• Nightmare in Nanjing, a homemade documentary depicting the massacre of 400,000 Nanjing residents by Japanese occupation, was rescued for a permanent presence on Youtube by prompt donation from oversea Chinese students and scholars. The author Dr. Rhawn Joseph and his Chinese co-producer Haiyan Wu, however, were also put under spot lights of many of their conflicts with other scholars and anti-Japanese groups.
  

The Happiest Chinese

Chengdu residents were seen playing Mahjong along the river in summer days. The curving colorful line formed by Mahjong tables winds up to dozens of miles in nearby Hongkou National Reserve.

According to an online survey published by the Xinhua on September 29, Chinese live in Chengdu, Sichuan are the happiest, followed by those who live in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The full list of top ten happiest city are:

Happiest City in China, 2007 Data

1. Chengdu, Sichuan
   
2. Hangzhou, Zhejiang
   
3. Qingdao, Shandong
   
4. Dalian, Liaoning
   
5. Kunming, Yunan
   
6. Suzhou, Jiangsu
   
7. Guilin, Guangxi
   
8. Xiamen, Fujian
   
9. Hong Kong
   
10. Dali, Yunan
    

Chengdu tops the list thanks to its beautiful landscape, leisure lifestyle, low price and low work pressure. It's also not a surprise that those who are living in fast pacing metropolitans such as Beijing, Tianjin or Shanghai were found not planing to move to any other places, because the could enjoy luxury of modern life.