Shanwei

The protest in the city of Shanwei is being blocked by the authorities as known, yet at 10: 20 p. m I saw it reported on TV with video clips by the so-called Dragontv, (or 东方卫视 as in Chinese) which I think is a station based in Shanghai and personally I think it a pioneer on some level.

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I heard something happened in Shanwei and wanted to find out whether it was true or just the invention of a few people.

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Until Tuesday, Web users who turned to search engines like Google and typed in the word Shanwei, the city with jurisdiction over the village where the demonstration was put down, would find nothing about the protests against power plant construction there, or about the crackdown.

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The Saturday report, posted on the website of Shanwei—a city with jurisdictional responsibility over Lufeng—said the situation had "basically settled down."

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Government officials struck a compromise with leaders from Wukan village on Saturday, promising a full investigation of all land sales if locals would halt the protests, according to a report in the official Southern Daily posted late on Saturday on the website of Shanwei city, which oversees Wukan.

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The comments by Wu Zili, the acting mayor of Shanwei prefecture, which includes Wukan, suggested that authorities were taking a cautious, carrot-and-stick approach as they attempt to resolve the situation without embarrassing Beijing by prompting further violence or emboldening other protesters.

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A publicity official for the city of Shanwei, which has jurisdictional responsibility over Lufeng, didn't comment beyond the government's written statement.

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Leaders from the Shanwei municipal government, which has jurisdiction over Wukan, became increasingly active over the past week in trying to settle the dispute.

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The village of Wukan falls under the city of Shanwei's larger jurisdiction.

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In a video of a speech delivered Sunday, Shanwei municipal Communist Party chief Zheng Yanxiong, is seen as saying that a resolution to the dispute was still possible, but accused villagers of using foreign media to draw unwanted attention to the situation there.

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