The Impact Of Media On Public Opinion And Chinese Politics

Introduction 1. Background Media in China has a tremendous influence on public opinion and Chinese politics, the significant increase of state owned media outlets beging from 1949 to 1980s and marketable ones since 1979 indicates the state’s purpose to address the following two major issues: 1) to reduce the government’s financial burden. 2) to help modernize China’s economy. (in-class teaching material) Since those media began to be allowed to support themselves in various ways, several hundred broadcasters, more than 2,200 newspapers, and 7000 magazines, and countless web-media compete fiercely for attention and over a lucrative advertising market. The development of new technology and the prevalent use of internet have also triggered a massive explosion on internet users, according to the national survey, there are approximately 668 milion online users by 2015, 88.9% of them use their mobile devices to get access to the internet and the number is still steadily increasing . 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