EMC announced its new 5-year development plan for its China business, covering channel expansion, cloud projects, and big data business.

China Internet Network Information Center recently published its 31st Internet survey report, stating that by the end of December 2012, the number of Internet users in China had reached 564 million and the Internet penetration rate was 42.1%, which was 3.8 percentage points higher than 2011.

While Google has had a difficult time making inroads into China's Internet sector via its search engine, it does seem to have some success tackling China from the hardware angle with partner Lenovo.

Qian Yue, HP's former global vice president and general manager for China HP's print and imaging systems group, has formally joined the consulting and training group Shengjing Wanglian as a senior partner in October 2012.

HP's software business group announced cooperation with the municipal government of Neijiang, Sichuan province, to build an information technology software talent training base in the city.

ZTE Corporation will open an innovation and training center in cooperation with the Universidad de Chile.

Oracle has joined with the Computer and Information Science Institute of Southwest University to establish a new education center in Chongqing.

Chinese Internet company Sohu.com has announced plans to build a new research and development center in Wuhan, Hubei province, and it will set up a joint laboratory in collaboration with Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Aiming to encourage Chinese university graduates to start their own businesses and spread capitalism through China, Chinese Internet company Tencent announced the launch of its new innovative application lab in Tianjin.

Li Yue, president of China Mobile, said that by the end of October 2011, China Mobile has signed wireless city construction agreements with over 160 cities in 26 provinces in China, of which nearly 150 cities in 22 provinces had completed construction of basic wireless city platforms.

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile and the Ministry of Education of China have signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly promote greater online uses for education.

Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba has announced plans to launch a CNY3 billion housing loan scheme for its employees and a CNY500 million education fund to solve the preschool and primary education problems of children of its employees.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has recently issued opinions on regulating the marketing activities of telecom operators on university campuses.

Tsinghua University and Mozilla China have jointly developed a new Internet browser product that is specially designed for IPv6.

ELL Technologies Limited has entered into an online distribution agreement with China Distance Education Holdings Limited.