If you know some Chinese language, you could visit the official website of CCTV, Chinese Twitter Sina Weibo, Chinese Quora Zhihu, as well as several other websites like news.163.com to have a glance of Chinese social media.
CCTV, which is the official TV station, definitely supports the central government as well as the communist party. However, it is generally okay for CCTV to point out the problems existing in the government agencies of local levels.
- Retrieved from CCTV.com:
13–06–2015, About the extremely low efficiency of local police system
Netease news is one of the most popular web portals of China. It is more objective than CCTV.
- Retrieved from Netease News:
Northeast in Deep Trouble: Pension Fund of Heilongjiang Province Will be Used Up in One Month
Weibo is the twitter in China. Basically you can post anything you want in it.
There are several restricted areas in Weibo. For example, if you post something like “六四英雄永垂不朽” (Long live the 1989 heros!!) your post will probably be deleted. Generally, posting things like that will not bring any threat to your safety.
- Retrieved from Sina Weibo:
Shaanxi: Rural official fractured four ribs of a peasant. Comment: Bastards are in power, people are unfortunate. (Shared from Phoenix News)
- Retrieved from Sina Weibo:
The air quality of Linfen Shanxi has been out of control, just look outside the window on the high-speed trains… No investigation is needed, it is obvious just at a glance. Officials, come and see!
- Retrieved from Sina Weibo:
Even Buddhas cannot deal with the evictions forced by the government (cry) 『A legal temple in Shanxi was demolished- Phoenix News 』
Zhihu is Chinese Quora. It is not as free as Weibo. Search 文化大革命 (The Cultural Revolution) in Zhihu, and you get the following topics:
What was international society doing during the CR? How many ancient architectures were destroyed in the CR? …
- Retrieved from Zhihu:
Is the high-speed railway system a modern Great-Leap-Forward?
The pictures of Weibo and Zhihu shows that it’s generally okay in China to criticize the government.
You don’t believe we are brain-washed idiots living far away from real life, do you?