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BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of Internet users in China jumped nearly 42 percent to 298 million by the end of 2008 from the previous year, cementing the country’s position as the world’s largest Internet population, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said.
The number of mobile Web surfers surged 113 percent to 117.6 million in 2008 and mobile Internet is expected to grow explosively in the next few years after the recent issuance of third-generation (3G) licenses, the state-run agency said.
The Internet penetration rate in China has risen to 22.6 percent, slightly higher than the world’s average of 21.9 percent, CNNIC said in a report on Tuesday.
In addition, the number of Internet news readers has risen to 2.34 million and websites have become a crucial area for publicity, the report said.
News portals in China, such as Sina Corp and Sohu.com Inc, are the major sources of information for a large number of Internet users across the country.
Wary of threats to its grip on information, Beijing launched a crackdown on “vulgar” Web content this month after conducting numerous censorship efforts targeting pornography, political criticism and web scams in the past.
(Reporting by Michael Wei; Editing by Anshuman Daga)
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Since the Chinese government began supporting domestic open source communities in 2005, hundreds of thousands of young people in the world’s most populous country have become a part of the open source world.
With the help of the government-supported Leadership of Open Source University Promotion Alliance (LUPA), Zhejiang Technology Institute of Economy (ZJTIE) founded its Linux Training & Examination Center in 2006. The center started out offering a simple 48-hour course; upon completion, students received a Linux operator certificate or a Linux network administrator certificate or both. According to ZJTIE, 1,500 students in the last two years have passed the examination. However, those students who wanted to learn more had to learn by themselves.
Now, however, LUPA offers nine Linux certificates, including certificates for software engineers, C programming language engineers, and LAMP system engineers. In response to a requirement from China’s Ministry of Education, LUPA published 11 new Linux textbooks in July. The Ministry hopes that these textbooks will help Chinese students learn more advanced Linux technologies.
Some Chinese schools believe that Linux education has helped students gain employment. According to ZJTIE, 90% of the students in its Economic Information Department received the LUPA certificates in 2006; as a result, employment rose to the highest the school has seen. This may be a result of the booming open source market in China. According to CCID Consulting, the sale of Chinese open source software increased 17.1%, while sales of Linux increased 20.2% in 2007.
As Linux accounts for 66.5% of China’s open source market (according to a 2007 survey from CCID Consulting), open source education has been focused mostly on Linux. However, its success has encouraged ZJTIE to expand its teaching and certification. In March 2008, ZJTIE worked with LUPA to expand its education system from Linux to the whole open source industry.
According to LUPA, more than 300 Chinese universities and colleges have joined its system. Open source technology has become a required course in many of these schools. Although the total number of students who have been trained for open source technologies is not available yet, Zhang Jianhua, chairman of LUPA, estimates that LUPA will train 100,000 students in Linux per year.
Besides developing open source courses, government-supported communities also regularly hold activities such as open source conferences, speeches, contests, festivals, and campus marches to attract students to learn more about the culture, history, ideas, and technologies of the open source industry. At the same time, open source communities without government support have brought many young Chinese to the open source world by offering free open source information, translation of open source articles from other countries, and forums for open source technologies communication.
Thanks in part to promotion by these communities, open source has become a powerful idea among Chinese programmers. In a survey by PHPChina in June 2007, 32.6% of PHP professionals said that they chose PHP mostly because it’s open source, and 64.8% of interviewees who would start to learn PHP believed that “open source is the strong point of PHP.” The same survey also showed that more than three quarters of the Chinese PHP professionals learned something from or received information through domestic PHP communities.
The rapid growth of China’s open source expertise has yet to result in much contribution to the development of the global open source industry. This may be because young Chinese people are still novices in the open source industry, or it may be due to the fact that they have to work more than 60 hours a week to fight for their new jobs and have no time to work on open source projects for the time being. However, as the open source education system improves and as more young people become open source veterans, the global open source community will benefit from China’s presence.
Chen Nan Yang is a Chinese freelance journalist and former IT director in the Chinese government.
The Chinese government Denies any involvement in the reported infiltration of US electric grid systems. Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu as saying that any sort of involvement from China in the incident “doesn’t exist at all.”
The denial follows a report in the Wall Street Journal which claimed that agents from China and Russia along with several other countries had infiltrated the computer systems charged with managing electricity in the US and left behind software payloads which could be used to control or disable electric grids in the US.
Jiang Yu said at a regular press conference, “We hope that the concerned media will prudently deal with some groundless remarks, especially those concerning accusations against China.”
“I have also noticed that the U.S. White House had denied the media reports,” she said.
A report in the state-run China Daily cited Chinese experts who rejected the so-called “China threat” theory and tied it to the financial crisis.
“Chinese scholars Wednesday rebutted US’s allegations that China was engaged in spying and forging secret nuclear deals with foreign countries, saying these were induced by the perceived ‘China threat’ worrying Washington,” the report said. “U.S. politicians have been debating the country’s foreign and military strategy shifts in the wake of the financial crisis, and some took the opportunity to play up the ‘threat’ posed by China for their own gains, experts in Beijing said.”
From: http://www.waiqi8.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-14002
BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of Internet users in China jumped nearly 42 percent to 298 million by the end of 2008 from the previous year, cementing the country’s position as the world’s largest Internet population, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said.
The number of mobile Web surfers surged 113 percent to 117.6 million in 2008 and mobile Internet is expected to grow explosively in the next few years after the recent issuance of third-generation (3G) licenses, the state-run agency said.
The Internet penetration rate in China has risen to 22.6 percent, slightly higher than the world’s average of 21.9 percent, CNNIC said in a report on Tuesday.
In addition, the number of Internet news readers has risen to 2.34 million and websites have become a crucial area for publicity, the report said.
News portals in China, such as Sina Corp and Sohu.com Inc, are the major sources of information for a large number of Internet users across the country.
Wary of threats to its grip on information, Beijing launched a crackdown on “vulgar” Web content this month after conducting numerous censorship efforts targeting pornography, political criticism and web scams in the past.
(Reporting by Michael Wei; Editing by Anshuman Daga)
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BEIJING, China (CNN) — China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world’s top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group.
Nearly 91 percent of China’s Internet users are surfing the Web with a broadband connection.
The number of Web surfers in the country grew by nearly 42 percent to 298 million, according to the China Internet Network Information Center’s January report. And there’s plenty of room for growth, as only about 1 in every 4 Chinese has Internet access.
The rapid growth in China’s Internet use can be tied to its swift economic gains and the government’s push for the construction of telephone and broadband lines in the country’s vast rural areas, the report says.
The Chinese government wants phone and broadband access in each village by 2010.
Nearly 91 percent of China’s Internet users are surfing the Web with a broadband connection — an increase of 100 million from 2007. Mobile phone Internet users totaled 118 million by the end of 2008.
While China’s Internet usage has been growing in leaps in bounds, the government limits the Web sites its citizens can visit.
Earlier this month, China released a blacklist of 19 major online portals and Web sites, including Google and Baidu, that it claims provide and spread pornographic or obscene content. The move came as several Chinese government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security, launched a month-long campaign to clean up the Web, according to the state-run Xinhua news service.
China has come under criticism for restricting Web access to ordinary citizens as well as on local and foreign media covering last year’s summer Olympics in Beijing. The U.S. State Department noted in a 2008 report that China had increased its efforts to “control and censor the Internet, and the government had tightened restrictions on freedom of speech and the domestic press” and bloggers.
In an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in September 2008, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said, “the freedom of Internet in China is recognized by many, even from the West.”
“Nonetheless, to uphold state security, China, like many countries in the world, has also imposed some proper restrictions. That is for the safety, that is for the overall safety of the country and for the freedom of the majority of the people.”
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/14/china.internet/index.html
Google China Music Search (English translation), a service launched last year by Google to better compete in a market dominated by Baidu, is now publicly accessible worldwide and it has a new homepage. The service has been created in partnership with Top100.cn to offer legal MP3 downloads.
“The venture goes directly after Baidu’s music search audience, by offering high-quality music files embedded with a digital “watermark” that lets record labels track how often their songs are downloaded. The idea: Better-quality files will draw users away from unlicensed downloads, and give labels and search companies valuable data needed to make money from advertising,” explained Wall Street Journal.
While the service is now accessible everywhere, you can only download music if you are in China (or if you use a proxy). Google Music has a large collection of music and there’s visual tool that lets you find songs by choosing the tempo, the genre and other characteristics.
Except for this regional service, Google doesn’t have any full-fledged music-related product. There’s a YouTube category for music videos, a very limited music search engine, a music player and a media server for Google Desktop.
Source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-china-music-search-now-available.html