The newspaper reported August 15 that Hu’s online chat on the Chinese “Strong Nation Forum,” one of the county’s most popular and nationalistic Internet sites, led “many leaders to become active to learn website browsing to observe public opinion and acquire knowledge.”
The report said Hu uses the Internet to read domestic and international news.
The newspaper said that the military’s “informatization building,” the term to describe advanced technology forces, is of the “utmost importance” to the nation.
Therefore, the report continued, military leaders “should form a habit of web browsing" to learn about the world, their country and to gather intelligence about their people. Through the Internet, they can "hear the voice of the officers and soldiers, consult the vast number of officers and soldiers, improve their work and promote their work," the paper stated.
The report said that using the Internet is a modern version of the ancient Chinese practice of imperial officials conducting “unofficial inspections in private in plain clothes."
“It is expected that more and more leaders walk into the net, and get acquainted with the net, pay attention to the net, use the net so as to understand the practice of units of the same or similar category and learn from them therein for any experience or shortcomings in an attempt to prepare their own internal work schemes in more extensive view and to improve effect of their study and work or even to enrich their personal spiritual life,” the report said.
“That will help prevent unreasoning in decision-making or judgment misses, and makes their own decisions closer to practice, closer to the officers and soldiers, closer to the grass roots and closer to life,” the report declared.
