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The head of Cyberspace Administration of China Zhuang Rongwen said such efforts were crucial to build a "modern socialist country", given that China had over 1 billion netizens and was the world's largest digital society, according to an article published on the front page of the Study Times newspaper on Wednesday.
The Party should take advantage of the internet's ability to facilitate communication, he said, and use it to "let the party's innovative theories 'fly into the homes of ordinary people'". After years of runaway growth and rapid change, China's regulators have been trying to further strengthen control over society and its cyberspace.