China's State Council releases information on chatting app( Xinhua) 19:56, September 18, 2013 China's cabinet, the State Council, has begun to release government information on Wechatvia a public account.
The account on Wechat, a hugely popular Chinese messaging app with over 400 millionusers, is named after and managed by the Gazette Office of the State Council.
The Wechat account is aimed at publicizing administrative laws and orders of the StateCouncil, personnel appointments and removals, and important government rules anddocuments, according to its profile.
The account released its first notice on Tuesday, with the debut concerning changes ofpersonnel in the state forestry fire-prevention office.
On Wednesday, it used the account to issue a circular on the urban planning approval of aneastern city.
Wechat, developed by leading Chinese IT company Tencent, has become a hot platform forofficials and governments at different levels to release information and show transparency,following such a trend on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
Followers can view, download and share information and documents released by a publicWechat account, but they cannot comment as they do on Weibo.
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