New rules intended to make it easier for foreign journalists to report in China ahead of next year's Beijing Olympics may be extended, a senior government official said yesterday.
The rules came into play at the start of this year as part of communist China's Olympic commitments to give foreign reporters more freedoms, but they are officially due to expire next October, two months after the Games end.
"No document says that, once the policy expires on October 17, we are going to return to the previous regulations," said Cai Wu, minister in the State Council Information Office. "If practices show it is helping the international community know more about China and it is in China's interests ... it is not necessary at all to change a good policy."
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