Sina Weibo Censors Searches Related to Thousands of Dead Pigs Found Floating in Shanghai River

On March 27, 2013, China's official news service Xinhua published an article entitled " Coordinate Social Management, End Pig Dumping ." An excerpt: In his 2006 novel "Life and Death are Wearing Me Out," China's Nobel Laureate Mo Yan tells a story of dead pigs being illegally dumped into a river at night, after authorities refuse to offer farmers subsidies to properly dispose of the carcasses. Unfortunately, life recently imitated art, and over 14,000 pig carcasses had been retrieved from a section of the Huangpu River near Shanghai as of last week. While the dead pigs didn't end up on dinner tables, they did become a point of concern for Shanghai's 20 million residents, for whom the Huangpu River is a major source of drinking water. The case had revealed a lack of coordination in China's social management strategies, in which solving one problem often creates another. This screenshot was taken on March 15, and shows that a search for &quo