Microblogging in China Committee of the Communist Party of China, the People's Daily, also launched its own People's Weibo (人民微博) in February 2010, with some governmental organizations and officials blogging on it. Recent studies have shown that official microblogging has become a sophisticated e-government effort for social management, especially for local governments and state units. It has led to a gradual change in local government's social governance strategy and functional change from being a service provider to a 'service predictor'. The latter requires enhanced capabilities to deliver individualized services and institute state surveillance via commercial service providers. In doing so, government units are
Weibo (Tang dynasty) Weibo (Tang dynasty) Weibo (; alternatively written Wei–Bo), also known as Tianxiong (), was a province or circuit (, "dào") of the mid to late Tang dynasty. The area was governed from the capital of Weizhou () in modern Daming County, Handan, Hebei, and controlled the southern Hebei and northern Shandong regions. In the post–An Lushan period, Tang Suzong combined Weizhou and Bozhou () under the command of the Weibo Army, and Tian Chengsi became the first "jiedushi" or military governor of Weibo. The Weibo region, ruled autonomously by the Tian family, subsequently became one of the revolting garrisons of