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▲ Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin (right) died of illness. (Photo/AP/ Authorized by Vari)
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin reported on November 30 that due to blood cancer and multiple organ failure, he died at the age of 96 after the rescue failed. China’s official media, government agencies and other websites are later changed to “black and white” to express China TV Taobao shopping platforms, JD.com, Pinduoduo, etc., all changed their interfaces to black and white. However, netizens found that current President Xi Jinping’s products are still “colorful”, which aroused heated discussions, and some netizens bluntly said that Xi Jinping deserves to be a “single lottery”.
▲ Bilibili, Taobao and other Chinese pages are all black and white to express condolences. (Picture / flip from station B)
After the news of Jiang Zemin’s death was exposed, Chinese state media broadcast the report for nearly an hour. The official websites of China’s state media “Xinhua News Agency”, “CCTV” and “Global Times” are become all black and white, including “Taobao”, “Little Red Book” “, “Bilibili (commonly known as Station B)”, “Weibo” and other pages are all black and white.
▲ The app page of the “Pinduoduo” e-commerce platform is black and white, but Xi Jinping-related products are still in color. (Image / Reposted from Twitter)
A netizen who used the “Pinduoduo” e-commerce platform found that the APP page was black and white, but Xi Jinping-related products were still in color. The screenshots released on Twitter can be seen in the book “On Perseverance in Promoting Community-Building a Shared Future for Mankind” is quite prominent on the platform page.
A Twitter user named “Wall Country Frog and Clam” shared a screenshot, which claimed that during the time China’s State Administration for Radio, Film and Television ordered Jiang Zemin to mourn, all online platforms should change the color to black and white, but “be careful not to use General Secretary Xi’s related content, the content of the top twenty topics has become black and white.” Some netizens have ridiculed that Xi Jinping is a “sole lottery player”, but the news has yet to be confirmed whether it is true.
