Top China stories 2011 Official version

People’s Daily Online packaged a politically tidy version of China’s headlines in 2010. Missing from the list of options to be selected from web users between December 17 and December 27 — with the winners announced afterwards — were not just odd favorites, but critical and defining stories, such as the ongoing burden of housing prices and a series of violent attacks on school children in April and May.

Some unofficial lists

1. Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize
CMP (People’s Daily): “Liu Xiaobo can’t possibly understand”
CMP: “China Youth Daily attacks Liu Xiaobo Nobel”
CMP/Comic China: “Dove of peace caged”
CMP/Bei Feng: “Viewing the Liu Xiaobo response through Twitter”
CMP/Comic China: “Nobel languishes behind bars”
CMP: “China’s responds to Liu Xiaobo Nobel”

2. Seven Mentions by Premier Wen Jiabao of Political Reform
CNN: “Transcript of Interview with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao”
CMP/He Weifang: “First Steps Toward Political Reform”
CMP/Hu Shuli: “We Must Act Quickly on Political Reform”
CMP/Du Daozheng: “Democracy should not be divided into capitalist and socialist”
CMP (People’s Daily): “China must take its own road”