According to China Communications, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China is planning to reclaim its right to monitor telecommunications service providers' marketing activities.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was silently, formally launched on June 29 to replace the old Ministry of Information Industry.

Wang Lijian, a spokesperson from the Ministry of Information Industry of China, has told local media that China's new MII will possibly be licensed at the end of this month. However, Wang says that the plans on the functions, organization and personnel arrangements of the new MII have not yet been fully approved.

China's Ministry of Information Industry issued a circular on yesterday in which it says that it will carry out a special campaign against spam short messages across the country before the end of this year.

China's Ministry of Information Industry has published an announcement on its official website that it will cancel the license of 15 service providers offering trans-regional value-added services.

China Mobile (CHL) has published an announcement on the second round of TD-SCDMA bidding.

According to China's Ministry of Information Industry, the May 12 earthquake has caused a direct economic loss of up to CNY3 billion to China's communications industry with 3833 telecommunications bureaus and 25735 mobile base stations affected, 24496 kilometers of communications lines damaged and 117112 communications poles broken.

A new spam message reporting center has been formally set up in Beijing.

Just days after Hong Kong announced enhanced policing of telemarketers who annoy people with pre-recorded telemarketing telephone messages using a "missed call" tactic, China's Ministry of Information Industry says it too is now probing these activities.

In cooperation with the State Council Information Office and the Ministry of Public Security, China's new Ministry of Information Industry has made an SMS Management Rule which is expected to provide oversight on short message services and the related management issues and will be unveiled in a few weeks.

China's State Council has appointed seven people — Wang Xudong, Xi Guohua, Miao Wei, Chen Qiufa, Lou Qinjian, Ou Xinjian and Yan Xueshan — as vice ministers of the newly established Ministry of Information Industry which is reportedly to be officially licensed sometime this week. However, the State Council has not disclosed the detailed duties [...]

The Telecom Research Institute of China's Ministry of Information Industry has begun to issue the first batch of TD-SCDMA network licenses, and ZTE and Potevio have been among the first Chinese communications equipment providers to obtain their licenses.

Chinese mobile phone users will be able to backup or re-save their address list with the unification of the mobile phone data format and exchange file format unveiled by China's Ministry of Information Industry.