Top China stories 2011 Official version

With a list of candidates for the “Top Ten Domestic Stories of the Year“, an online survey feature released over the weekend and shared on most major news portals, 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”