China blocks stock index online search following Tiananmen link

Published:  6 Jun at 6 PM

China has barred access to the phrase "Shanghai Composite Index" on many of the nation’s most frequented microblogging sites.
It occurred after the index fell by 64.89 points last Monday. The figures correspond to June 4 1989, or the date of the government crackdown on protesters at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

China sternly prohibits any references to the Tiananmen Square crackdown and has even censored other phrases relating to the conflict.
A web search for "Shanghai Composite Index" through Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, came up with in the note: "According to the relevant laws, regulations and policies, the results for this search term cannot be displayed".

This figures correlation was not restricted to just the fall in the stock index. As the market opened at 2,346.98 points, many bloggers concluded that 23 referred to the 23rd anniversary of the government crackdown, while the rest of the figures, 46.98, formed the date of the crackdown, but when rearranged.

Reuters news agency quoted a blogger who said that the opening number and the fall were “both too creepy".
During the 1989 crackdown, the Chinese army fatally shot hundreds of civilians demonstrating for democracy.