The following post by Lin Lushan (林滤山), a researcher at Guangdong Worker’s University (广东工业大学), about Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Guangdong province this week was deleted from Sina Weibo sometime before 6:15 a.m. today, August 27, 2012. Lin Lushan currently has just under 13,000 followers, according to numbers from Sina Weibo. [More on deleted posts at the WeiboScope Search, by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre].

[The Premier rides a bicycle in Zhuhai, Guangdong] Guangdong’s green lanes are truly famous the world round . . .

The post was accompanied by an image of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao riding a bicycle, purportedly taken during his visit to Guangdong this week.


The following is the original Chinese post:

【总理在广东珠海骑单车】广东的绿道真的是名扬世界……


NOTE: All posts to The Anti-Social List are listed as “permission denied” in the Sina Weibo API, which means they were deleted by Weibo managers, not by users themselves.


David Bandurski

CMP Director

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