The honor results are determined by Sina Weibo's annual "Weibo Index" to determine the candidates for each honor, and then make the final evaluation based on the number of votes of the candidates' netizens and comprehensive expert opinions.
[2] Since 2000, every December, Sina and Southern Weekly will host the "Southern Weekend-Sina Annual Person Selection";[3] since 2002, every January, Sina and Xinhuanet will held the "Annual Top 10 Domestic and International News Selection Activities”.
[4] These two annual selection activities are also the embryonic form of Weibo Night.
In January 2004, Sina teamed up with Southern Weekly and Xinhuanet to hold the "Sina.com 2003 Top Ten News Selection Awards Gala (1st Weibo Night)".
[5] In December 2004, Southern Weekly began to independently hold the "Person of the Year Selection"; in the same month, Xinhuanet stopped holding the "Annual Top 10 Domestic and International News Selection Activities".
These include the hot events and figures that attracted the most attention from netizens on Weibo last year.
Each user can solicit votes for different artists once a day through the Sina News client.