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Communist Party meets the growing audacity of microblogging users by threatening to "punish the dissemination of harmful information"

China agreed to tighten controls on social networks and instant messaging tools, in the official response to the highest level with the extraordinary increase in the micro-blogging in the country.

The declaration of the Central Committee of the Communist Party is the growing audacity of users, who discussed sensitive issues, scandals and abuses attacked prominent official or ineffectiveness.

rail this summer at high speed in an accident Wenzhou has led to a torrent of fury on microblogs on disaster management. This was extended to the media.

China already has the largest control system and sophisticated Internet world. However, the censors have trouble following the flow of information on popular micro-blogging. The number of registered users reached 195 million domestic service at the end of June, three times the figure six months earlier, according to the Information Centre of China Internet Network.

"It [the statement] is what we have been waiting, have been signs for weeks," said David Bandurski, a project of China in Hong Kong University of media. "It is important, but do not tell us exactly what will happen the signal is sent:." Everybody attention "

"Typically, these policies [] are followed by more specific actions, but it is often very difficult to draw a line between a political crisis like this and government action in particular because control is a constant in China. "

social media sites, because they are just too popular, and their closure would lead to a backlash. The Chinese authorities have attempted to use social media proactively, launching their own accounts.

Instead, it is likely to increase pressure on operators with large teams of internal staff to monitor, block and remove sensitive content.