1.0China Media Projecthttps://chinamediaproject.orgStella Chenhttps://chinamediaproject.org/author/stella-chen/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="n5ogM1q0Xv"><a href="https://chinamediaproject.org/the_ccp_dictionary/chaoyang-masses/">Chaoyang Masses</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://chinamediaproject.org/the_ccp_dictionary/chaoyang-masses/embed/#?secret=n5ogM1q0Xv" width="600" height="338" title="“Chaoyang Masses” — China Media Project" data-secret="n5ogM1q0Xv" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},!c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(t)if(t.secret||t.message||t.value)if(!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var r,a,i,s=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=0;o<n.length;o++)n[o].style.display="none";for(o=0;o<s.length;o++)if(r=s[o],e.source===r.contentWindow){if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(i=parseInt(t.value,10)))i=1e3;else if(~~i<200)i=200;r.height=i}if("link"===t.message)if(a=d.createElement("a"),i=d.createElement("a"),a.href=r.getAttribute("src"),i.href=t.value,i.host===a.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(!o){o=!0;for(var e,t,r,a=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),i=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),s=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<s.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=s[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(a||i)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> https://chinamediaproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CMP-dictionary-CHAOYANG-MASSES.jpg22001238The term “Chaoyang Masses,” or chaoyang qunzhong (朝阳群众), is used by Chinese media, local police and internet users to refer to Beijing’s community network of public informants, essentially groups of neighborhood volunteers empowered to monitor their areas for illegal activities as well as breaches of moral and even political norms. While the Chaoyang Masses refers specifically to such volunteer groups within the Beijing district of Chaoyang, the term has gradually come to stand in more generally for such forms of mass mobilization for the public security (political security) objectives of the Chinese Communist Party. Similar district-based “community groups” (群众组织) in Beijing include the “Old Neighbours of Shijingshan” (石景山老街坊), the “Xicheng Aunties” (西城大妈) and the “Fengtai Advising Squad” (丰台劝导队). The growing prevalence of groups like the Chaoyang Masses across China points to deeper changes in the Xi era around the idea of “innovated” social governance, including the contemporary application of the so-called "Fengqiao experience" (枫桥经验), a Mao-era notion re-introduced by Xi Jinping.