The Constitutional Forum, [2] whose domain name was xianzheng.net, [3] was a Mainland China-based academic thought forum dedicated to constitutional theory and China's constitutional transformation, [4] with constitutionalism as its core content. [5] It was founded in 2002, [6] and Chen Yongmiao was its webmaster. [7] The site was banned several times by the Chinese government. [8]
On September 9, 2003, Beijing telecommunications regulators ordered the shutdown of Constitutional Forum [9] for posting articles about political and constitutional reforms. [10]