China is considering restrictions on non-public capital from entering the news media sector. A China expert says this move would ruin private news agencies and individual journalists. On Oct. 8, China’s National Development and Reform Commission released a list of “negative aspects” in market access for 2021 (pdf) to seek public opinion. The 78-page document includes a subject that restricts “non-public capital” from engaging in news collection, editing, broadcasting, and from participating in news organizations’ set-up and operation. Regulators are suggesting to ban private capital from a wide range of the daily business activities of news agencies. Private capital could not be used to run news agencies’ pages, radio frequencies, channels, programs, official accounts on social media, republish news by foreign entities, as well as to hold forums, summits, and awards events in the industry, said state media China News Service. Private capital would also not be allowed to cover live streaming …