China's advertising market revenue reached 386.6 billion yuan ($49.9 billion) in 2006, led by television, which claimed 81 percent of the total, Nielsen Media Research said on Friday.
CHINA'S media slammed its Olympic football team today for shaming the nation in a mass brawl that forced a match against London club Queens Park Rangers to be abandoned yesterday.
China's Communist Party propaganda department has launched a points-based penalty system to try to rein in the increasingly muck-raking print media, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Friday.
Chinese authorities will shortly release details on the collection of copyright payments in the media sector, a government official said.
At a time when China's government has granted the foreign media greater freedom, it is tightening controls on Chinese who write about politically sensitive or embarrassing topics, human rights activists and journalists say.