Govt blogs remain active amid shift to new media

Governmental departments and officials continue to use their micro blogs as channels to listen to residents and publicize services, despite a slowdown in the growth of accounts, according to a report released on Tuesday.

The number of micro blog accounts operated by government departments and individual officials increased by only 46 percent in 2013, the report said, a mild rate compared with the 249 percent growth seen in 2012 and 776 percent in 2011.

The report was issued by the E-Government Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Governance, which has provided such data annually since 2011.