On Jan. 16, the State Council, China's cabinet, authorized the official Xinhua news agency to "supervise" the dissemination of overseas economic news.
Further, the wire services will no longer be permitted to directly solicit subscribers and all foreign economic news will be routed through the Chinese agency.
The agency will not only have the power to grant approval to economic news services and subscribers but it will also determine how the news can be distributed and at what price.
Newspapers including the Chongqing Economic Times and China Daily published only a report by the official Xinhua News Agency in their inside pages, without further commentaries.
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