The latest issue of the Communist Party theoretical journal, 'Qiushi', in an article entitled "How to carry out ideological work at universities under new historical conditions", disclosed that Peking University, Shanghai's Fudan University and Guangzhou's Sun Yat-sen University  plan to strengthen ideological control over students and teachers. The Qiushi article said: "In recent years, some people with ulterior motives have added fuel to the flames on the Internet ... ultimately targeting the Chinese Communist Party and the socialist system," 

Peking University has said it would tighten control of the “internet battlefield” and build a sound monitoring and management system for online public opinion. The school has set up a task force to monitor online opinion on a 24-hour basis. It has also vowed to fight any comments that sabotage the Communist Party and socialism. Fudan University has focussed on teaching staff under 45 years of age, saying that some of them do not have “correct understandings” of the problems China is facing in its transitional stage.