I don’t think China will be releasing its grip so soon though. China has 2 great walls: the Great Wall of China, and China's giant network of internet censors – the Great Firewall of China. This Great Firewall uses several tools.
All internet traffic into China passes through a small number of gateways, giving the government a chance to control the information. Sometimes Beijing will block access to a site that has been blacklisted by the government. The authorities may also prevent the look-up of certain domain names, thus causing a "site not found" error message on the user's screen.
There are also other more subtle ways to censor, for example by filtering posts with prohibited keywords on the country's social media platforms and erasing comments shortly after they have been posted on microblogging sites. In fact, Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like service with 300 million users, has been under increasing government pressure in recent months to more aggressively censor its content. It has recently rolled out a new set of guidelines that forbids posting material that is considered “untrue,” “harms national unity,” or “destroys societal stability,” among other things.
In March, Beijing introduced new rules requiring all of the country's microblog users to register using their own names, in an effort to better control what is being posted online. But many of the country's microblog services have struggled to enforce the rule.
Recently, China's censors blocked internet access to the terms "six four", "23", "candle" and "never forget", in an effort to silence talk about the 23rd anniversary of the bloody 4th June crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
So I guess the Great Firewall will still stand strong like the Great Wall of China for now
