The icon for the Tencent Holdings Ltd. WeChat messaging application is seen in this arranged photograph taken in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Regulators elsewhere may be clamping down on the financial industry's use of private messaging apps, but in China the practice is flourishing. Players in the country's $11 trillion bond market use personal accounts on WeChat and QQ for everything from distributing research to soliciting orders. Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg
China's cabinet has warned government departments to clean up their social media image amid a drive to bolster the government's online presence to help reach tech-savvy young people who get their information from smartphones.
The State Council issued the guidelines late on Thursday saying that authorities' social media presence needed more regulation and vowed to clean up dormant "zombie" accounts and "shocking" comment from official channels.
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