Information & Telecommunications in China On the Internet

Breaking News and Articles!!

Taiwan: Riding the Wireless Tidal Wave - A review of IT industry in Taiwan (03/03).
China’s CNNIC publishes its January 2003 survey on Internet in China (01/03).
A comprehensive overview of China’s IT industry in the past 13 years by MII’s Minister Wu (10/15/02, in Chinese).
A comprehensive status quo of China’s 3G (in Chinese, 10/02).
China's Tenth Five-Year Plan for the Information Industries (translated and hosted by Telecommunications Research Project in HongKong, 10/02).
3G license in China – A comprehensive news summary and analysis of spectrum allocation, potential licensing scenarios, challenges to TD-SCDMA and UT-Starcomm, and other relevant issues (in Chinese, 09/02).
China publishes its Provisions on the Administration of Foreign-Invested Telecommunications Enterprises (Chinese version, English translation and preliminary analysis by Paul, Weise, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison) (12/01).
Focal concerns of the "north-south" split model by domestic experts (12/01).
China's State Council finally approved the "north-south" split model of the current China Telecom (12/01).

2002 EuroChina Co-operation Forum on the Information Society in Beijing on April 16-20, 2001, jointly organised by the European Commission (DG INFSO), and China's MOST and MII. (09/01).

While the battle between China's Cable TV sector and telecom sector heats up, Financial Times offers an interesting discussion titled as "China's tangled broadband revolution" (08/01).
China’s MII published its rules regarding domestic joint ventures between Chinese telecom carriers and other Chinese corporations. (09/01, in Chinese).
While the battle between China's Cable TV sector and telecom sector heats up, Financial Times offers an interesting discussion titled as "China's tangled broadband revolution" (08/01).
CRITO (UC Irvine) Working Paper Series (06/01): "Creating a Computer Industry Giant: China's Industrial Policies and Outcomes in the 1990s" by Ken Kraemer & Jason Dedrick (08/01).
An essay of 'China's "Government Online" and Attempts to Gain Technical Legitimacy' by Junhua Zhang (07/01).
MA thesis - Internet Control and the Chinese Government, by Lokman Tsui (07/01).
New Rules for Resolving Chinese Domain Name Disputes - A Comparative Analysis (by Richard Wu at University of HongKong, 04/01).
Growing Influence of the Internet in China ( A report from U.S. Embassy Beijing, 04/05/01).
Rising out of the fall of dotcoms (talks by several CEOs of China's dotcom industry, 03/15/01).
A background article about why "Railway Telecommunications and Information Corporation" is approved (in Chinese, 03/01).
Sino-US submarine optic fiber cable was broken down again on 03/09/01.
News Corp. stake in Chinese Net firm, A big move of FDI in China's telecom service sector. (02/20/01).
The Great Net of China, a paper by Dr. Dali Yan, an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago. (February, 2001).
China's CNNIC announces the results of its January 2001 survey of Internet in China (Chinese version, 01/17/01).
China's MII also published its Regulations on BBS Services (Chinese Version, 11/06/00).
China's MII published its Regulations on News on the Internet (Chinese version, 11/06/00).
China published its Measures for Managing Internet Information Services. This is an English version by BBC Monitoring (10/05/00).
PRC's newly published Telecommunications Regulation of the People's Republic of China (English version, 10/01/00).
QUALCOMM Signs CDMA Intellectual Property Agreement with China Unicom. This could be significant for the CDMA deployment in China. (01/2000).
State Secrecy Protection Regulations For Computer Information Systems On The Internet. (From www.chinaonline.com, 01/2000)
China's CNNIC announces the results of its 5th survey on Internet in China (01/2000).
China's Internet'2000 will be hold in Beijing in June 2000. (12/99)
WWW.GOV.CN - the point to all the government related websites. This is the result of China's project of "Government-on-line" (The content is in Chinese, 11/30/99).
Some comments by Chinese stake holders, including China Telecom and China Unicom, on "After China Join the WTO". (in Chinese, 11/18/99).
U.S. and China Sign an Agreement: Paving the Way for China to Enter the WTO. China will allow 49 percent foreign ownership in telecommunications companies immediately after accession into the WTO, followed by 50 percent after two years (by Bloomberg News, 11/15/99).
China plans to launch its "third telecom carrier - China Netcom corporation (CNC)" while its business might not cover the full range offered by China Telecom and China Unicom. It is now questionable whether CNC is a real third Chinese telecom carrier or it is just a baby MCI positioned to be the future third telecom carrier. (09/23/99)
The consulting firm IGI will host its conference - China Telecom 2000: on Chinese Internet and Broadband Markets, Nov. 2-3, 1999, San Francisco.
Minister Wu's comments on Foreign investment in China's Internet and WTO. (This is really a re-iteration of the current/old policy. There is no any new changes. The Internet is part of the telecom services where foreign direct involvement in operation is banned by China's regulations. To better understand this, you are recommended to STUDY this original Chinese version of Minister Wu's statement from China Telecom's website). (09/18/99).
China's CNNIC published its 4th survey on Internet in China (Chinese version, 07/99).
A summary of recent policy and organizational changes in China's telecommunications (by IGI , 06/23/99)
There are many news reports on the WTO and China's telecommunications industry. This article touches this issue in depth while it is in a general sense. (04/29/99)
China Regulates Internet Calls This is a short report by Wired. (03/26/99)
China Telecom has been OFFICIALLY approved to be split into three - Telecoms - Plan for 3-way split approved (03/06/99).
Wired News reported that MII has confirmed that China Telecom will be splitted into three parts - wireline, mobile and paging. The final plan needs the approval from the State Council, as reported. (02/04/99)
The MII reiterates that IP telephony and fax-over-IP are basic telecom services. Only China Telecom and China Unicom are licensed to operate the services. Other operations are ILLEGAL (in Chinese, 01/22/99).
The top Internet information center in China, CNNIC, published results of its third semi-annual survey. The total users of China's Internet have reached 2.1 million by 12/31/98. (unfortunately, it is in Chinese, 01/21/99).
Report claims that China Telecom will be divested into different lines of business including wireline, cellular, satellite and paging. However, cross-ownership is permitted (no official confirmation yet, 01/02/99)
Ken Zita at Network Dynamics published his paper - "Will China Embrace Competition? Foreign Equity in Telecoms Hangs in the Balance" (Will be presented at PTC'99 in Hawaii, 12/31/98)
News report on the possible break-up of China Telecom re-surfaced (China Daily's Business Weekly, 11/29/98)

Introduction

This site contains comments, references, and links to information sources relating to policy, economic, social, and industry aspects of information and telecommunications in China. It attempts to integrate the information field and telecommunications industry though it will focus mainly on telecommunications. The intent is to provide top-level pointers to other WWW servers both inside and outside China as well as to present a comprehensive analysis of relevant issues based on my research. The site aims to serve the global academic and business communities to facilitate and promote informatization, and economic development, in China.

For a more detailed understanding of China's information and telecommunications, please refer to Milton Mueller and Zixiang Tan's book China in the Information Age: Telecommunications and the Dilemmas of Reform jointly published by the CSIS and Praeger, 1997. This book has been endorsed by James Lilley, former US Ambassador to China; Professor Eli Noam at Columbia University; Jonathan Solomon of Cable and Wireless; and William Warwick, CEO of AT&T China.

This site has been created by Zixiang (Alex) Tan. It is supported by the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University in New York, USA.

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