国内英语新闻:China issues white paper on Internet policy

Over the past few years, a great number of the problems reported through the Internet have been resolved.

In order to facilitate the public's reporting of corrupt and degenerate officials and suchlike, the central discipline inspection and supervision authorities, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and other relevant bodies have set up informant websites.

The informant website of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of Supervision, and the website of the National Bureau of Corruption Prevention are playing an important role in preventing and punishing corruption and degeneration among officials.

A sample survey found that over 60 percent of netizens had a positive opinion of the fact that the government gives wide scope to the Internet's role in supervision, and considered it a manifestation of China's socialist democracy and progress, the paper said.

"The Chinese government believes that the Internet is an important infrastructure facility for the nation. Within Chinese territory the Internet is under the jurisdiction of Chinese sovereignty," it said, stressing that the Internet sovereignty of China should be respected and protected.

According to the paper, computer crimes in China have been on the increase in recent years.

Public security departments dealt with 142 computer crime cases in 1998, 29,000 in 2007, 35,000 in 2008 and 48,000 in 2009.

"China is one of the countries suffering most from hacking," it said.