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Voice of America reported that on May 16th overseas pro- democracy activists in San Francisco, issued a plea. These "preparatory team" members called on the public to sign the declaration of reinstating Tiananmen University. Tiananmen University was founded on June 3rd 1989. Less than 24 hours after the class began, the students and teachers were attacked and shot by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s tanks and submachine guns. They were forced to withdraw from Tiananmen Square. Yan Jiaqi, then honorary president of the university, gave the first class late at night at the Square. Conveners of reinstating the university are Fang Zheng, a victim of June 4th crackdown, and Xiong Yan, Feng Congde, Zhang Boli and Ge Xun. Currently over 40 public figures in China and overseas have signed the declaration. They include Yan Jiaqi, Jiang Henglan, Xu Wenli, Chen Kuide, Wan Runnan, Zhengyi and Su Xiaokang. Freeweibo: A Website Of Online Posts Censored In China "Martin Johnson" is a pseudonym of the founder of a website "Freeweibo.com". The website holds all posts that have been censored by Sina Weibo (microblog) and other major microblog services in China. 　 Deutsche Welle's report quoted Johnson, who said that his website does not engage in illegal acts. It just collects those censored online weibo posts. He explains that China's major websites and micro-blog service providers have all hired censors. Their jobs are manually removing any "sensitive" posts. This creates a time delay of a few minutes or a few hours before the post is removed. Freeweibo just collects these posts during these intervals. Now on Freeweibo, people can get information on mass protests against Kunming refinery project, and on the 1989 pro-democracy movement. So far, "Martin Johnson" hasn't yet been identified by the Chinese Communist Party. Partial Administrative Approval Power Decentralized On May 15th the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) released a regulation on cancellation and decentralization of administrative approval on 117 projects. BBC reported on comments made by Shujie Yao, School Head of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham. He said dismissing Liu Teinan, China's former Energy chief, shows excessive concentration of power creates corruption. Yao said by decentralizing power to grant approval to local authorities it may turn big corruptions into many small ones. He believes that it's important to set up an effective monitoring mechanism. This is because the core issue is China's poor social morality and officials' lack of qualities. He considers that Xi Jinping's reform aims to alleviate corruption.