---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 12.11.1998 New in IGCS - Internet in China: PRC Internet: Cheaper, More Popular And More Chinese Ed./Corp.: U.S. Embassy Beijing, China, Oct. 1998 URL: http://www.usembassy-china.gov/english/sandt/Inetcawb.htm Language: English. Self description: "Summary: Chinese efforts to popularize and boost the Chinese language presence on the Internet through a low-cost domestic-only service, a convenient non-registration Internet service added to the telephone bill, and increased Chinese language content will likely push the total number of Chinese users to over 5 million by the year 2000. [...] The PRC government strives to assure China’s place in what it sees as the coming global 'information-based economy' by promoting information networks. [...]" Included are the following appendixes: (1) Chinese Search Engines and Web Sites; (2) June 1998 Internet Survey by the China Internet Information Center; (3) "The Knowledge-Based Economy" (summary of a People’s Daily article, October 10, 1998). _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L