New law protects news media

The authorities of Kunming, capital city of Yunnan province have created a law that will punish any person or organization obstructing the work of the media or reporters in telling the news.

The law says that the media plays a sort of supervisory role over public institutions, state enterprises and official departments, by telling the news and offering public opinion.

"Those who refuse, interfere with, or obstruct this news media supervision will be seen as violators of the law," reads the draft of the law, published on the Kunming government website.