(Yicai Global) Sept. 15 -- With the increasing number of writers becoming famous on the internet and the growing impact of online works, the semiofficial Shanghai Writers' Association has stretched out its hands to web authors, offering them creative allowances while providing support for all aspects of their literary creation, The Paper reported.

As stipulated in the relevant regulations, internet writers signing with the Shanghai Writers' Association will have contracts lasting up to two years. If an author performs well in the first year, the association will automatically extend his or her contract for a second year. Otherwise, it will terminate the contractual relationship.

The Shanghai Writers' Association will offer contracted internet authors USD382 (CNY2,500) per month as an allowance to support their literary creativity. The Shanghai Writers' Association will provide publicity and other services for the writers.

The association requires contract writers to consciously accept its management and abide by the laws and regulations of the nation as well as the association's relevant provisions.

As they devote themselves to writing, these internet writers need to actively take part in relevant creative tasks and public welfare writing activities organized by the Shanghai Writers' Association and its superior departments.

"We are not supporting the poor but supporting the excellent," said Ma Wenyun, secretary general of the Shanghai Writers' Association. With proper world views, senses of worth and outlooks on life, the first batch of sixteen contract internet writers cover rich subject matters and deliver positive energy. "In 2014, we set up the Shanghai Internet Writers' Association which has absorbed more than 200 internet writers as members. Many of them have become writing masters while some of them are young."

"Many of these writers are freelance writers," Ma said. "By signing with the internet writers, Shanghai Writers' Association aims to enhance the sense of social responsibility of them, offer them with living support and creation help, and keep track of their creations so as to recommend excellent Internet literary works to the readers." The association will ask critics to focus on the works of these contractual writers, he said.