Scientists and leaders have frank interchange at study

In September 2016, Professor Wei Shaojun received a notice to make a presentation at a collective study about five weeks later of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau on Oct 9. The topic was implementing the strategy of building an internet power.

"Among collective studies of the Political Bureau since the 18th CPC National Congress, only a small part focused on natural sciences. And the study that I attended was the only one on information and internet technology. So the Central Committee paid a lot of attention to it," Wei, vice-president of Tsinghua University's School of Information Science and Technology, told China Daily before the start of the 19th CPC National Congress.

Though the theme was set, there were almost no limitations on the content. Wei said he was given only a few general requirements and the content should be correct and not mislead. The figures should be genuine and accurate.