Officials: Inflation Biggest Concern – People Online
Translated by CDT from People Online via sina.com: With skyrocketing housing and pork prices, inflation, not surprisingly, has topped the list of concerns in a recent survey of officials who are in...
View ArticleThe Rigged Jiangsu Public Opinion Poll
Roland Soong of ESWN translates a piece from China National Radio on the discovery of rigged answers to a Jiangsu public opinion poll. Villagers complained that questions regarding annual incomes,...
View ArticleChina’s Far Too Rosy Self Image
John Pomfret writes on his blog about a recently released poll indicating that 92 percent of Chinese believe their country has a mostly positive influence on the world. From Pomfret’s China: To me this...
View ArticlePolls Show US Concerns Over a Rising China
Committee of 100 (百人会), a non-partisan, non-profit organization striving to bring “a Chinese-American perspective to issues concerning Asian Americans and U.S.-China relations” recently released the...
View ArticleChina Missing From Global Corruption Report
When China placed 80th out of 176 countries in Transparency International’s 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, some netizens suggested that the organization must have been bribed to give it such a high...
View ArticleBeijing Listens to the People. What Does That Mean?
At The Washington Post last week, Simon Denyer reported on the expansion of Beijing’s efforts to gather data on public opinion, both online and through surveys: [… T]he government is trying to...
View ArticleWhat Do Chinese Want From the Third Plenum?
As the Party’s Third Plenum approaches, the Pew Research Center’s Jacob Poushter looks at recent polling for signs of what issues ordinary Chinese are hoping to see addressed. He focuses on inflation,...
View ArticleChina’s Top Social Problem: No Faith in the State
According to a poll on the top 10 national concerns in China taken by the People’s Tribune [Chinese], a magazine affiliated with the Party-run People’s Daily newspaper, China’s top concern is...
View ArticleNetizen Voices: The Real Source of Social Ills
People’s Tribune, a magazine published by the official People’s Daily, released a survey on social ills afflicting contemporary China. The Wall Street Journal summarizes the results, which found a lack...
View ArticleA Problem of ‘Religion’ and Polling
A recent Gallup poll on global religious trends shows unusually high level of atheism in China, with nearly half of all respondents identifying as atheist. The New York Times’ Ian Johnson reports that...
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Minitrue: No Comments on De-gated Communities
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source....
View ArticleU.S. Views of China Improve as Economic Concerns Ease
The Pew Research Center has released new survey results showing that Americans’ perception of China has improved in recent years. The overall increase in favorable views is due in part to diminishing...
View ArticleRecord Low Turnout for Hong Kong’s “Patriots Only” Election in Rebuke to Beijing
Sunday’s election for Hong Kong’s legislative council yielded the lowest turnout in the history of the city’s legislative elections under both Chinese and British rule. In this “patriots only”...
View ArticleSurveys Show Xi’s Hardline Foreign Policy Increasingly Unpopular Among...
A series of recent surveys shows how Chinese diplomacy in the era of Xi Jinping has soured attitudes toward China in many developed countries. At the same time, Chinese officials are doubling down on...
View ArticleGuangzhou Public Opinion Poll Showing Record Dissatisfaction Is Deleted from...
A post about a Guangzhou public opinion poll showing the largest drop in public satisfaction in 30 years has been deleted after being published by the WeChat account of He Wenwei, a Guangzhou-based...
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