Xi's iron grip on China's internet extends to social media

10m personal accounts and 13,000 corporate sites shut down since 2015

1226N China internet cafe (REUTERS)

Customers at an internet cafe in the city of Hefei in China's Anhui Province in 2012.

SHUNSUKE TABETA, Nikkei staff writer

BEIJING -- China has shut down nearly 10 million online accounts in the last three years as it continues to exert greater control over the internet under President Xi Jinping, and government efforts are only expected to accelerate thanks to a new cybersecurity law that took effect in June.

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress was briefed Sunday on the impact of the cybersecurity law, as well as on greater online controls implemented by the Communist Party and the government.

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