As the honorary director of the Professional Committee for reviewing online media news and information, Professor Zheng Baowei, director of Research Center of Journalism and Social Development (RUC), was invited to attend the second meeting of Beijing’s Professional Committee for reviewing online media news and information in 2012. The theme of the meeting was ‘the construction of weblog self-discipline systems.’ Present also at the meeting were representatives from Sina, Sohu, Netease, Phoenix, Soufun, mobile microblog and other network media, as well as relevant industry associations and the competent departments in Beijing.

At the meeting, Professor Zheng voiced his opinions on such matters as the function and role of weblog and users’ self-discipline. He proposed that, in order to promote the healthy development of weblog, the network media should enhance the sense of responsibility and be strict with the media management, the weblog users should enhance the sense of self-discipline, comply with relevant laws and regulations and social morality, as well as make good use of and maintain weblogs. He also mentioned that, in the near future, he would open a micro-blog himself to feel and recognize the weblog through his own practices.