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4 | Absolute general authority: Official sites of national-level governments. Absolute industry authority: Official sites of national-level authoritative industry organizations.
| Chinese Government official site: www.gov.cn People's Tribune: www.rmlt.com.cn Economic Information Daily, published by Xinhua News Agency: jjckb.xinhuanet.com www.12306.cn (Official China Railway site)
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3 | General authority (sites, official accounts): state-owned media. Provincial or major municipal governments and their official media outlets. Authoritative KOL: Top-tier KOLs in their respective industries. Top industry sites. High-quality vertical sites. Baidu Baike, Wikipedia.
| Baidu Baike: baike.baidu.com The Paper: www.thepaper.cn CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure): www.cnki.net Zhejiang Provincial Government official site: www.zj.gov.cn
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2 | Large general sites and prefecture-level city governments. | Baidu Zhidao: zhidao.baidu.com Sohu: www.sohu.com Docin: www.docin.com Zhihu: www.zhihu.com Yibin Municipal Government official site: www.yibin.gov.cn
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1 | Small general sites, small industry-specific sites, and general Q&A sites. | Baijiahao: baijiahao.baidu.com Chazidian: m.chazidian.com Sina's UGC Q&A site: iask.sina.com.cn
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0 | Low-quality sites and ephemeral sites/accounts. | An introductory site on I Ching (Zhouyi Rumen): www.zyrm.com A small travel information site: www.365135.com
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-1 | Crawl failure or non-existent homepage. | |
N/A | Site not covered. | |