A professor in CUC (Communication University of China) e-mail me yesterday. She asked me download a listening list of BBC 4 for her teaching because she can not connect to the BBC website in China at the present.

    In China, people would hardly see the news reporting from BBC. Most of time, the BBC website is not available. Why? There is no technical reason but only because of the content of BBC news coverage. For example, this week, BBC reported a student “riot” in southern Jiangxi Province of China. Chinese people in other parts of country would never know this event because this kind of news could not be shown in front of  public. The news censorship of China is so strict and detailed and if a coverage  contained some information  which might destory the security or stability of the country, wherever it came from, it would be limited.