Govt websites are a means to serve the public

THE BEIJING municipal government recently said that most of the official websites of its agencies and departments would be shut down, but this would not involve any online service being cut. Beijing News comments:

In August 2015, a national census on official websites was conducted with the aim of eliminating those that were redundant. Last month, a report showed the number of government websites nationwide had already been cut from over 84,000 to about 28,000.

Beijing has set a higher goal than the national average by reducing its official websites by more than 90 percent, from about 1,042 to about 80.