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Internet in China: broadband users top 99.33 million

China added 16.45 million broadband users in the first nine months of 2009, bringing the total to 99.33 million, data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently showed […]

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Internet in China: Timeline of the Pre-Installed Internet Filter required for All New Computers

China announced recently it would have all new computers in China pre-installed with a filter software, in a bid to “protect minors” from “unhealthy information” from the Internet. All computers produced or sold in China after July 1 would be installed with such software, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MITT). Check a round up of news about the Green Dam internet filter (and how conflicting the information is, depending if the source is Chinese or from abroad):

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Information Technology in China: software industry maintained rapid growth in 2008

In spite of the impact of the international financial crisis, China’s software industry has maintained a growth rate of over 20 percent since the second half of 2008, making it one of the fastest growing industries […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: consumer goods industry maintains stable growth

China’s consumer goods industry kept stable development in the first four months this year, thanks to rising domestic demand that offsets falling export triggered by the Financial Crisis, said the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently […]

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Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: China Telecom starts 3G trials

China Telecom, the country’s largest fixed-line operator, started trials of the third-generation (3G) mobile services in Shanghai recently, and plans to extend the same nationwide soon. Shanghai Telecom, China Telecom’s subsidiary, said it would invest 6 billion yuan (nearly 1 Billion US dollars) on various projects including the 2010 Shanghai Expo World, 3G-network construction, and enterprise services this year […]

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China’s software export hit $14.2 bln in 2008

China’s software export soared 39 percent last year to 14.2 billion U.S. dollars from 2007, despite the international financial crisis, announced the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The export included 1.59 billion dollars from outsourcing services, up 54.3 percent year on year. MIIT said the software industry maintained a rapid growth last year, with the business revenue increasing by 29.8 percent to 757.3 billion yuan (110.8 billion U.S. dollars). The growth rate was 8.3 percentage points higher than a year earlier

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Internet in China: over 80 million chinese access internet through mobile phone

There are 84.5 million users of mobile internet in China, which means 30 per cent of Chinese internet users surf the internet by mobile phone, said Yang Zemin, official from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently. Yang said the number of phone subscribers was 354 million by the end of August, 2008, decreased for the first time by 11 million. However, the number of subscriber of mobile phone was 616 million, up by 68.7 million from January to August this year […]

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China’s Software Service Industry Achieved US$50 Billion Revenue in the first half of 2008

According to Zhao Xiaofan, an official in charge of the software industry with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China’s software service industry maintained a rapid growth in the first half of 2008 and its revenue reached CNY345.67 billion (over 50 billion US dollars).
Zhao said at the ongoing 12th Xiamen International Trade and Investment Fair that in the first six months of 2008, China’s software industry realized a year-on-year increase of 30.4% […]

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Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: users top 960 million

The number of phone users in China had exceeded 960 million as of July/2008, including over 600 million mobile phone users, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on recently. Fixed-line subscribers dropped 10.6 million from January to July/2008, or a reduction of 1.35 million monthly, with the total at 355 million as of July/2008…

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Chinese People and Their Mobile Phones: China Mobile Will Start Nationwide TD-SCDMA Commercial Trial In China

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has announced its approval on China Mobile’s (CHL) nationwide commercial trial network based on TD-SCDMA technology. A spokesman from China Mobile confirms that the group has already received the formal approval from the MIIT, but insists it does not mean a 3G license has been issued. The 3G licensing has been continuously delayed in China in the past few years, mainly because the TD-SCDMA technology is not mature…