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Reactions to China’s reform roadmap
A 60-point roadmap detailing plans ranging from opening up the banking sector to reducing the number of crimes subject to the death penalty … the Chinese government announced the ambitious economic and social reforms at the end of the Communist Party’s third plenum, setting social networks abuzz.
One of the measures drawing the most commentary: the loosening of the one child policy. Couples in which one member is an only child will be allowed to have two children. But a lot of web users are saying they would not be able to afford to bring up an additional child because of the growing cost of living in big cities.
Another top talking point: the abolition of the "re-education through labour" detention system. News which has raised high hopes for human rights activists who have been campaigning for years to convince the government to scrap these camps. Some are less enthusiastic however and point out that there are still other arbitrary detention centers in use in China.
Chinese bloggers are also worried about Beijing’s announcement of tighter government control over the Internet which it sees as a threat to the country’s stability. Since taking office, Xi Jinping and his new Chinese government have been stepping up measures to tighten the reins on the web’s opinion leaders.
And the latest victim of censorship: Zhang Qianfan, a constitutional law professor at Beijing univers... Go on reading on our web site.
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