China welcomes print and online publishing partnership

AMID debate over tighter regulation of the Australian media, one of the most powerful officials in Chinese print and online publishing visited Sydney last week to remind our federal politicians how it's really done.

Wu Shu Lin is vice-minister of the Chinese government's General Administration of Press and Publications, which, according to the press material handed out for his visit, has key roles including monitoring and managing all news publishing activities and book copyright, dealing with imported publications, managing the printing industry, supervising the credentials of news reporters throughout the country and overseeing and regulating all domestic newspapers, periodicals and "branch organs of news agencies and reporter stations".