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China's state news agency Xinhua has denied widespread rumours that railway authorities tried to conceal evidence by burying carriages damaged during a high-speed rail crash that killed at least 40 people last weekend. Credit: Reuters/Tyrone Siu By Chris Buckley BEIJING | Mon Aug 1, 2011 3:25am EDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's media are curbing combative reporting of a high-speed train disaster after what observers said were orders from the ruling Communist Party's propaganda arm to stop criticism that has echoed public outrage over the tragedy. For a week, many Chinese newspapers defied censorship pressure and pursued unusually aggressive reporting of the crash on July 23 that killed at least 40 people on two high-speed trains -- a technology the government had promoted as a shiny symbol of the nation's growing technological prowess. But censors have stepped up demands for news media to wind down often withering criticism over the train disaster near Wenzhou in eastern China, according to the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong. "A notice demanded that Chinese media immediately cool down their reporting and commentary on the July 23 Wenzhou train crash, and scores of Chinese media had to move frantically to fill the gaps as planned reports on the crash were suddenly off limits," Qian Gang and David Bandurski of the Media Project wrote in a comment about the fresh censorship push that they said began on Friday. China's press coverage of the train accident appears likely to follow an arc seen after other recent sensitive disasters, with state-controlled media first bucking and then bowing to censors whose priority is protecting the ruling Party's image. But in a sign of the power of China's Internet to challenge censorship, users of Sina.com's Weibo site (weibo.com), China's most popular version of Twitter, posted messages denouncing the clampdown. Some cited Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's vow last week to pursue the truth of the accident openly and thoroughly. "Whatever (comments) you cut, we'll post again," said one message on Weibo, which often removes comments deemed too critical of the government. "I really don't understand what the government thinks it can hide." Chinese newspapers and magazines are all ultimately controlled by different arms of the state, but they compete for stories, readers and revenue in a fiercely commercial environment, encouraging more adventurous editors to skirt around, even sometimes defy, censorship. "These days, efforts to seal off the flow of opinion can't work like it did before," said Lu Yuegang, a former investigative reporter for the Party-run China Youth Daily who denounced censorship and was removed from his job. "These crude censorship steps used to have some effect, but now the speed of the flow of information has surpassed them," he said. "On the contrary, the word about such restrictions simply deepens people's distrust in government." On Monday, several popular newspapers at the forefront of reporting the train disaster had shifted to more upbeat news, including a Chinese world record at the world swimming championships in Shanghai. Qian and Bandurski of the China Media Project showed several Chinese newspaper columns and commentaries that were quashed and never appeared after the censors stepped in (cmp.hku.hk). "The only path to re-establishing public confidence is thoroughly investigating the truth," was the title of one quashed editorial in China Business View. China blocks Twitter. But Weibo and other homegrown micro-blogging sites have served as lively arenas for public outrage over the train accident. Many citizens have used the Internet to lambaste what they have called government efforts to cover up culpability for putting expanding high-speed train lines ahead of public safety and then covering up embarrassing aspects of the disaster. Officials have blamed faulty signal technology for the crash, but many commentators on the Internet have said China's high-speed rail push has much deeper problems, and some have accused officials of elaborate efforts to hide evidence. "Why have the people been robbed of the right to know? How long do they want to hide" said one comment on Sina's Weibo site. "We won't accept being treated like idiots." 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