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The Nebulae system at the National Supercomputer Centre in Shenzhen in southern China has been ranked the world’s second-fastest machine in a list issued by U.S. and European researchers, highlighting China’s ambitions to become a global technology center. 

According to Tang Jianhua, the deputy director of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, Chongqing has built the largest police intelligence center in China. As of today, the "big intelligence" system has classified 1.28 billion intelligence items into 200 categories and issued 140,000 orders capturing “Internet fugitives,” reported China News Net on May 28, 2010.

Tang Jianhua said, “Chongqing’s ‘big intelligence’ system operates 24 hours per day, closely tracking the activities of the targeted people, which has raised the level of dynamic control and improved the ability to analyze the intelligence data comprehensively …”

Source: China News Net, May 28, 2010
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2010/05-28/2311025.shtml

 Xinhua Recently reported on the results of research conducted by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on young Chinese Netizens. The research shows that 50.7% of Chinese Netizens are people below 25 years of age. This section represents around 200 million individuals. It was discovered that 3G based mobile devices are the number one tool for the young Netizens to get on to the Internet. In 2009, 74% of the young Netizens used their cellphones to surf the Internet. That’s an increase of 73.5% from the previous year. Cellphone Internet access is especially popular in rural areas where computers are not widely available. The importance of “Internet bars,” as a place to get online, is on the decline. Usage decreased from 57.5% to 49.4%. The bars are more popular in rural areas. 

Source: Xinhua, May 11, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/internet/2010-05/11/content_13479226.htm

China Central Television is merging its web site CCTV.com with China Network Television’s CNTV.CN. The new website will point to CNTV.CN. All CCTV video content was copied to CNTV since it was founded last year. Now Network TV has online channels for news, the economy, sports, entertainment, movies, TV series, and documentaries. Network TV will include all CCTV videos plus various other content sources such as province-level satellite TVs and international programming. The new web site strategy is centered on “interactive audio visual media” and will provide a “public web video service platform.” Although CNTV is considered “national class,” its management team admits that the network is still behind the private sector.

Source: Netease, May 5, 2010
http://media.163.com/10/0505/10/65TNH2RS00763N4O.html

According to China Review News, the Information Office of the State Council has admitted that key news websites and major commercial websites have effectively eliminated the function that allowed anonymous blogging following news threads. This is the first time that it publicly confirmed that it is actively exploring and promoting a real name user registration system for online blogging, BBS, and other interactive services. Regarding the State control of the Internet, currently Ministry of Information Industry is responsible for development and administration of the Internet, Ministry of Public Security is in charge of monitoring and enforcement, and propaganda department is leading other information dissemination departments to exercise control over content.

Source: China Review News, May 4, 2010
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1013/1/1/1/101311149.html?coluid=45&kindid=0&docid=101311149&mdate=0504121253

The first quarter in 2010 saw an increase of 20 million Internet users in China, with the total reaching 404 million. About 191 million use online social networking services. As of Feb. 25, IPV4 addresses amounted to 235 million, the second largest in the world. There were over 3.22 million websites at the end of 2009, up 12.3% from a year ago.

Source: Xinhua, April 23,
2010 http://news.xinhuanet.com/tech/2010-04/23/content_13408048.htm

According to the “2010 Mass Communication Bluebook” released by the Chinese Social Science Academy, the State Council Standing Committee decided to merge the business scope of the three network industries – telecommunications, broadcasting (radio and TV), and the Internet. Telecommunication companies will be allowed to be involved in production and broadcasting of TV/radio programs; while TV/radio networks may also begin operation of some basic or value-added telecommunication business. The Committee also planned the stages of the merge: 2010 through 2012 would be the trial period; 2013 through 2015 would be the promotion of the merge on a larger scale to promote certain competition and to set up corresponding institutions and regulatory bodies for the merged business models of the three networks. 

According to Xinhua on April 16, 2010, the Yunnan Province Public Security Department has made a decision requiring all websites and network units in Yunnan province to log onto the “Yunnan Public Security Office Network Record Management System" (http://www.yn.cyberpolice.cn:81) between April and September 2010 in order to be registered for being monitored constantly. All Internet users are asked to identify the Public Security icon and only use the websites monitored by the cyberpolice.

According to a Xinhua reporter, the number of Internet users in Yunnan province has reached 8.44 million.

Source: Xinhua, April 16, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/internet/2010-04/16/content_13367551.htm