Shou Xiaoli:

The last two questions, please.

Jiemian News:

In recent years, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and other departments have focused on dealing with problems affecting sound online environment, such as vulgar pornography, chaos in the digital fandom circles, and cyber violence, which gained support from many internet users. May I ask what the cyberspace administration department has done to foster a sound online environment? What's the plan for the next step? Thank you.

Niu Yibing:

Thank you. I mentioned in the introduction that the "Clear and Bright" campaign by the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission has carried out more than 30 special rectification actions, and we have cleaned up a lot of illegal and harmful information and accounts. I would like to ask Mr. Zhang Yongjun to answer your questions in detail.

Zhang Yongjun:

I can answer the questions. Cyber ecological governance has always been an important part of cyberspace management and governance. In recent years, under the great attention and strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission has aimed to improve the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security in cyberspace. We have solidly carried out cyber ecological governance work, mainly in three aspects.

First, we emphasize establishing rules and regulations to tighten the institutional cage of ecological governance. With the implementation of the Regulations on the Ecological Governance of Network Information Content in 2020, we officially opened the prelude to comprehensively and profoundly managing the cyber ecology. We have successively issued circulars to rectify the fandom circle's chaos and standardize entertainers' online information, significantly reducing the room for irrational fanatic acts. We have formulated and revised regulations on user accounts, public accounts, and applications, to strengthen the supervision of the whole process and all elements. Moreover, we have published documents on subjects such as livestreaming marketing and livestreaming rewards, and refined the standards of conduct. At the same time, we issued relevant opinions on ensuring the primary responsibility of websites and platforms is fulfilled, and clarified the substance and tasks of the primary responsibility. The introduction of these documents has laid an excellent institutional foundation for cyber ecological governance. Of course, we have issued more documents than these, but I will not mention them all here one by one.

Second, we will strengthen routine supervision, prevent and deal with various kinds of ecological problems, urge platforms to improve community rules and firmly guard the first pass to ecological governance. Meanwhile, we will focus on key platforms, key website pages and important links, strengthen inspection in areas where most problems occur and have great impact, and deal with problems in a timely manner. We will focus on key issues and continue to crack down on deep-rooted problems. We will conduct strict investigation into and publicly expose platforms that have the most concentrated problems and fail to carry out rectification, so as to generate sufficient deterrence among participants. We will get to the root of problems and identify the causes and profit chains behind disorder online, striving to solve problems at the source.

Third, we will conduct special campaigns and resolutely crack down on prominent improper online behavior. The "Clear and Bright" campaign has produced notable results over the last few years and become a byword for purifying the online environment. Every year, we have addressed issues related to the online environment of public concern, including by following leads provided by many journalists in this room, conducted extensive research into identifying key targets for crackdowns and carried out multiple special campaigns targeting various kinds of problems online such as undesirable fan culture, fake view data, unhealthy short video content, cyberviolence and the protection of minors. We conducted more than 10 campaigns in 2021, removed over 22 million pieces of illegal information, punished 1.34 billion accounts, removed 2,160 mobile applications, and closed over 3,200 websites. During the process of network ecological governance, many network platforms have actively cooperated with us, worked proactively and made constant efforts, so as to jointly improve the network ecological environment. It is clear that our cyber ecological governance work has achieved notable progress in recent years. However, it also goes without saying that there are still some problems. Therefore, going forward, we will focus on prominent issues of great concern to the public, adhere to a problem-orientated and result-oriented working approach, constantly explore new methods, and continuously promote network ecological governance, in a bid to create a clean and healthy cyberspace for the many netizens in China. Thank you.