China aims for 'civilized internet’

Beijing: China is reportedly working to build a ‘civilized internet’, aiming at reforming country’s online performance and use it as a platform to publicize new party models and endorse socialist standards.

China’s cyberspace controller said that the country will strongly effort to build this civilized internet.

As per the head of Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) Zhuang Rongwen, “Such determinations were vital to build a "modern socialist country", given that China had over 1 billion netizens and was the world's biggest digital society.

On Wednesday, the state newspaper, Study Times also published an article in this regard.

The Study Times is published by the Central Party School, which trains rising officials in the ruling Communist Party. The CAC reposted the article on its official WeChat account.

The Party should take benefit of the internet's ability to facilitate communication, Zhuang Rongwen said, and use it to "let the party's ground-breaking theories 'fly into the homes of ordinary people”.

Zhuang added that good role models should be better publicized and young internet consumers should be directed to progress good cyberspace habits rather than behaviors such as cyberbullying.

“Internet firms should improve their self-discipline,” he further added.

The Asian country’s regulators have been trying to further brace control over society and its cyberspace following swift change and growth over years.

In September, country’s cyber regulators applied a wide-ranging crackdown against the technology and other areas.

The State Council published strategies towards building a "civilized" internet last month, saying that the cyberspace should be used to promote education about the ruling Communist Party and its achievements.