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China's Investment In Human Capital
White Papers This paper discusses evidence on human capital investment in China. When economists began to measure the sources of economic growth, what previously had been considered an unexplained residual - an unexplained factor - became identified as human...
[July 19, 2005, 0:00]
China Reveals Massive Smart ID Card Plan
News China will replace paper national identification (ID) cards with electronic identity cards starting in 2004, according to wire agency Dow Jones. The embedded microchip in the plastic card stores an individual's personal information, which can be...
[August 13, 2003, 16:05]
China Draws Back The Curtain On New Windows
News News that a consortium of China's universities and commercial interests want to develop a Windows-like desktop operating system could indicate that its government wants to squash software piracy in the country.
[July 23, 2002, 6:27]
China Opens Windows Code Lab
News A lab to study the Microsoft Windows operating system source code was set up last week in Beijing, China. Called the Source Code Browsing Lab, it is part of the existing government-run software site, the China Testing and Certification Centre for...
[September 29, 2003, 12:15]
China Clamping Down On Google?
Talkback There is no contrast - they say essentially the same thing: China is big business and we want a piece of the action. Brin contrasts with Yang? The only values businessmen have are those of business.
[June 10, 2006, 3:31]
China Netcom Achieves High Management Efficiency With A Smooth Flow Of Information
White Papers China Netcom, one of China's major emerging telecom carriers, faces increasingly intense competition both at home and abroad. From its founding in 1999, China Netcom sought to establish a viable enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
[November 14, 2005, 23:00]
China To Take Notebook Crown
News China is expected to displace Taiwan as the world’s largest notebook PC manufacturer by the end of the year, according to market research firm IMS Research. Most major foreign notebook PC makers have either completed or are starting to relocate...
[August 6, 2003, 12:20]
China Dictates Purchase Of Local Software
News A new policy by China's governing body, the State Council, will rule that all ministries have to buy only locally-produced software at the next upgrade cycle. At a special congress held to encourage ministries to upgrade to WPS Office 2003, a China...
[August 18, 2003, 9:30]
China Leads Asia In Malicious Online Activity
News China leads Asia in malicious online activity, racking up 42 percent of the action in the first half of 2007, up from 39 percent last year. According to Symantec's biannual internet security threat report released on Wednesday, China topped the...
[September 20, 2007, 8:25]
China Telecom Selects Cisco As Primary Supplier For ChinaNet 2006 Expansion
White Papers As a global leader and China's largest IP service network, ChinaNet is a public communication platform supporting China Telecom's Internet value-added service development. China Telecom selected the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network...
[March 9, 2007, 23:00]
China Rejects Western Mpeg Format
News China will have its own audio-video compression standard, as part of moves to shift reliance away from Western formats. China, a key manufacturing hub, is also keen to avoid Mpeg licence fees, said the report.
[August 1, 2003, 10:25]
Oracle Case Study: China Development Bank
White Papers China Development Bank was established in 1994 by the State Council of China to support national economic development. The challenge was to establish an open, integrated, and scalable business management platform to support efficient operations and...
[November 8, 2005, 23:00]
China Wants Place On Supercomputer Charts
News China plans to create the world's third most powerful supercomputer, which will also be among the first such machines to use the Opteron processor from US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). The race to make powerful computers is a matter of...
[July 25, 2003, 9:31]
China Advances Home-grown Chips
News Chinese scientists say they have developed the country's first mobile phone chip, and are readying a 64-bit processor for servers, major steps forward in China's ambition to control its own microprocessor intellectual property.
[March 6, 2003, 13:52]
China Will Censor Text Messages
News Chain SMS (short message service) on mobile phones are causing comment in India, but in China, authorities plan to censor messages that are sexual or offensive in nature. About 10 million text messages are sent every day in Liaoning, while in China...
[July 22, 2003, 8:45]
China Gives Native 3G Standard The Nod
News However, China has continued to back the homegrown standard, developed by a group of Chinese companies, over foreign alternatives. China Mobile and an unnamed fixed-line operator are already thought to be likely winners.
[January 23, 2006, 16:00]
China Opens Up To E-tail
News On 16 March, businesses outside China will be able to register .cn domain names for the first time ever -- providing Western e-tailers the opportunity to gain access to the country's vast and rapidly growing online population.
[March 11, 2003, 9:03]
China Sees Massive Rise In R&D
News By the end of 2006, China will be the second-highest investor in research and development, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The rapid rise of China in both money spent and researchers...
[December 5, 2006, 7:42]
China Poised To Impose Limits On Overseas Software
News China is about to issue rules about the extent to which government departments must favour local software, according to a report by The Financial Times. For software vendors to be defined as domestic they must prove that at least 50 per cent of its...
[November 26, 2004, 12:35]
China Suffers Virus Epidemic
News A record number of China's computers have been hit by viruses this year, according to a ministry survey. About 85 percent of computers in China were affected by viruses in 2003. Earlier this year, the Slammer and Blaster worms hit China hard...
[October 21, 2003, 9:54]
