Type of site | Political reform website [1] |
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Available in | Chinese and English |
Founded | July 2002 |
Founder(s) | Yawei Liu [2] |
URL | chinaelections.org |
The China Elections and Governance Website, [3] or China Elections and Governance Net, [4] is a Chinese and English website focusing on political and election issues of China. [5] It was co-launched in July 2002 [6] by the Carter Center's China Program and the Institute of Comparative Politics and Economics of Renmin University of China. [7] The website is operated by the Beijing Center for Policy Research [8] and was funded by the Carter Center. [9]
China Elections and Governance Website ( chinaelections.org) was repeatedly censored by the Chinese authorities. [10] In 2012, the site was shut down for "making negative remarks about the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party". [11]