The Quandary China's Journalists Find Themselves In

A coal mine in Yunnan Province

Chen Yong Zhou, a reporter at Guangzhou's New Express newspaper, was detained in mid-October by police who had come all the way from Hunan Province. They accused the reporter of damaging the reputation and commercial interests of Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Development Co. Ltd., a Hunan construction machinery and sanitation equipment firm about which Chen had reported.