A serious comment and semi-serious comment:

Serious comment:whole GAPP/SPPA is very interesting to me. More reporting on this topic in the future would be appreciated, especially as it pertains to book publishing.

Semi-serious comment: The ce.cn source page linked to, which features those stylin' headshots of Li, Yan and Sun, also feature some nontrivial cleavage in the sidebar. At least, when I just checked, the sidebar had ample Skinhua-type breastage.

I'm not trying to be funny. It's beginning to depress me how much flesh you find on official sites in China. I mean, I'm reading this from the US in a cafe and I open that page on China Economic Web (ce.cn), and it's like a solid third of the page is littered with Chinese hotties with lots of "unoccupied territory" showing.

The middle-aged woman next to me in the cafe thought perhaps I was checking out some Asian porn.

And I'm like, "No-no-no! It's a serious article about the General Administration of Press and Publications! Really! They've changed their acronym and -- "

And she's like, "Whatever," and then sort of moves a few inches away from me, you know, to make it clear that she doesn't approve.

And I'm like, "Wow, that's so ironic. An article ABOUT the GAPP/SPPA, which governs the very same content on that site, and yet not even those three powerful regulators -- with such powerful hairstyles -- can manage to subdue the cleavage explosion on otherwise quite staid websites like ce.cn and xinhua and etc.

Is the Onion expanding its operations again?

Serious, I don't advocate any type of censorship, but there's a seriously ubiquitous amount of cleavage on Chinese websites that really have no business doing so. It's making it hard to read business news in a public place.

Am I advocating a nationwide breast reduction policy?

Yes, I think so.