Chinese telecom operator China Unicom's Beijing branch has recently launched a promotion by providing free trials of broadband "green" accounts to help protect Chinese youth from harmful information.

Baidu Wireless, a service of Chinese search engine Baidu, has signed a proposal letter with about a hundred of mobile internet service providers in China — including Sina.com — on creating a green mobile Internet.

Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp has announced that it will launch a mobile phone product with a solar panel in China in early February 2010.

Siemens AG said it had signed a range of new orders worth about CNY2 billion with Chinese firms and its environmental business accounted for a significant proportion of those deals.

A letter of intent has been signed between Yandu District of Yancheng in Jiangsu province and the China Electronics Enterprises Association at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the building of an eco-friendly electronic industrial park in Yandu.

Global IT giant IBM has turned its eyes to China's new energy industry.

Bamboo from a forest in Jiangxi will soon be part of some of Dell's computer packaging used around the world.

China's top mobile communication services provider China Mobile has signed a commitment agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to save energy.

China's first Children and Network Research Lab has been formally established in Shanghai.

In response to the "Protecting Children in Cyberspace" theme adopted by the International Telecommunication Union for this year's World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, Shanghai Telecom has launched an initiative to create a "green" online environment for teenagers.

Cisco and China's Tsinghua University have jointly set up a laboratory for green technology.

China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation is focused on lowering power consumption in the release of new digital-to-analog audio converters.

Samsung has adopted the VIA Nano processor, made by Taiwan's VIA Technologies, in the new Samsung NC20 mini-notebook.

According to Dell (DELL), starting from October 10, 2008, the company launched a three-day IT products recycling activity at the door of Buynow computer store in the Pudong area of Shanghai.

Chinese home appliance retailer Suning has announced plans to launch a Green Channel for expatriates from July 1, 2008.