Now news is removed from the shelves of Ye Jianyuan's comments on the candidate of the vice president of the University of Hong Kong

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Written by: Wen Weiguang

2020-10-25 12:39

Last update date: 2020-10-25 12:43

"Hong Kong 01" recently reported that Shen Zuojun, the dean of the Industrial Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, was recommended as the Vice President (Research) of Hong Kong University. The website of Tsinghua University has shown that Shen Zuojun is a member of the "Department Party Committee" of the department, meaning that he has the status of a CCP member.

After the report was published, Shen Zuojun's name was deleted from the column of the "Department Party Committee" team list. The web page currently only shows Shen Zuojun as the head of the department.

Ye Jianyuan, a member of the Education Legislative Council, responded to the incident on the same day. NOW News reported on the subject of "Ye Jianyuan Ji Hong Kong University Clarify whether Shen Zuojun has a party member background", but the report was later removed.

It is reported that the move was decided by Chen Tiebiao, the head of Now News and Financial Information. He asked the Information Department to extract the content of Ye Jianyuan's response in the evening. Chen Tiebiao said in response to media enquiries that it was a normal editorial change.

It is reported that Chen Tiebiao, the head of Now News and Financial Information, decided to pick up Ye Jianyuan's response.

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The report cited Ye Jianyuan saying that he was worried that party membership would affect academic freedom

The Now news report originally reported about 48 seconds that Ye Jianyuan responded to the candidate of the deputy school of the University of Hong Kong. The content stated that Ye asked the University of Hong Kong to clarify whether Shen Zuojun has a party member background, and worried that if a party member becomes the university management, it will affect academic autonomy and freedom.

In it, Ye Jianyuan replied, "We are not discriminating against a certain background, but if the situation does not make everyone confident, the status of a party member will affect his work, approach, or direction in the university. Perhaps many things have to follow the party's command. It will have an impact on academic freedom and university development."

The Director-General of the Education Association Shen Weinan stated on Facebook last night (24th) that Now News reported on Friday that Ye Jianyuan commented on the response of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, "It disappeared strangely, and the click went into white. I can’t find that piece of news.” He said that he did not know that it was a technical problem, and that some people did it deliberately. “I just remember the earthquake of the two major pay TV stations earlier. Some people worry that news censorship will only become more serious. Will appear in places that may not be very eye-catching."

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The reporter checked the Now news website and App today (25th), and found that the news at that time was no longer found. The link to the report was still displayed on Google News Search, but no news content was displayed when entering the webpage.

Chen Tiebiao, the former head of the China Group of Wireless News, earlier airborne the Now News Channel. Last month, Chen Tiebiao planned to invite DAB chairman Li Huiqiong to host the current affairs program "Da Ming Da Fang". He was accused of telling employees that Li Huiqiong could make an appointment with Now " "People who can't meet" are the guests of the show.

Until the 9th of this month, Li Huiqiong quoted Chen Tiebiao as saying that in view of some intentional or unintentional speculation and attacks in the society, and Pan's mother in the Chen Tongjia case, because of the incident, Now refused to allow Now to obtain audio and video clips, so she decided to suspend the relevant invitation.

Chen Tiebiao earlier planned to invite DAB Chairman Li Huiqiong to host the current affairs program "Da Ming Da Fang", which later caused controversy and needed to be put on hold.

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