Chinese government departments have jointly issued a notice about key software enterprises included in China's national planning layout for 2009, stating that these enterprises can pay their corporate income tax at the preferential rate of 10%.

China and South Korea have jointly launched an economic and trade cooperation online initiative to provide comprehensive and timely information services to enterprises aiming at information technology exchanges and cooperation in both countries.

China's Ministry of Commerce has recently published the latest performance statistics for the country's rural home appliances and electronics subsidy scheme and stated that by October 31, 2009, the total sales within the scheme had reached CNY50.842 billion.

It was almost too good to be true for Focus Media Media Holding — they thought they had found a buyer for their lackluster digital out-of-home advertising networks.

China's Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Commerce have jointly focused on the management of virtual money for online games with a new regulation which states that virtual currency should not be used in trade of real goods and services.

According to Qiu Changheng, vice president of Alipay, China's first e-commerce credit system is expected to be launched by the end of 2009 and the system will fully cover small and medium-sized enterprises and individual users.

Attempting to both jumpstart the consumer economy and provide rural Chinese with access to cheaper goods, China's Ministry of Commerce has started a subsidy scheme for farmers buying designated brands of home appliances.

Chinese Internet auction and e-commerce website Taobao.com has announced that its trade value in 2008 reached CNY99.96 billion, making it one of the largest comprehensive shopping platforms in China.

After much preparation, American electronics retailer Best Buy (BBY) will open its second flagship store in China in Shanghai's Zhongshan Park area on August 26, 2008.

The International Department of the Central Committee of CPC, the Ministry of Commerce of China, and the State Archives Administration of China have started to promote the Chinese-made Uniform Office Format standard, and it will be promoted in at least six ministries in China before the end of 2008.

Statistics from China's Ministry of Commerce show that 12 companies, including Nokia, Google China, and Texas Instruments, have not fulfilled their promise of making donations to China's earthquake areas, but most of the companies say that they have been wronged as Ministry of Commerce's statistics are incomplete.

To better regulate online transactions in China, the Ministry of Commerce has drafted and is soliciting comments from the public on two new rules: the E-commerce Pattern Regulation and Online Shopping Service Regulation.

Zhengjiaweb.com, a new B2C portal website jointly promoted by China's Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Commerce, has been formally unveiled.

Seven Chinese ministries, including the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce, have jointly issued a circular on strengthening the online transaction of goods banned by the government.

Xie Linhai, a deputy director from China's Ministry of Commerce, has disclosed at the Third Medium and Small Enterprise E-commerce Application and Development Conference that the ministry will issue the Online Business Data Protection Rule in June this year, and the new rule will be the first of its kind regarding online transactions in China.