The Chinese electronics and information industry group Hisense has announced in Beijing that following the start of its strategic transformation to the intelligent product sector, the company has launched its first personal intelligent TV product named I-TV in China.

Chinese information technology company Hasee and the Internet video website Qiyi.com have jointly announced in Beijing that the two parties have reached strategic cooperation, and Hasee will invest CNY30 million to place advertisements on Qiyi.com.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has signed a deal with China's QiMing Information Technology Company Ltd. to establish a joint-venture company to develop, manufacture and sell car multimedia products in China.

Ericsson has signed separate framework agreements with China Mobile and China Unicom, with the total value of USD1.8 billion.

Rectification of Internet audio-visual services in China has been raised to a new level and more than 530 Internet video service providers in China, including well-known BitTorrent-based download service providers like Btchina.net, have been shut down for "irregular operations".

China Broadcasting Corporation, the operator of China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting service, has published its charging standards for this mobile TV service.

Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has set up a video center in Shanghai to develop its online and mobile video businesses.

Chinese search engine company Baidu.com has announced that it will launch a Chinese-language website for the U.S. television and multimedia giant Discovery Communications.

Chinese video website Youku.com has announced that it has established a strategic partnership with the Internet shopping website Taobao.com to promote video shopping in China's e-commerce sector.

China's TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Limited announced its unaudited consolidated results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009, showing turnover decreased by 8.8%.

According to the report on China's Internet video market for the fourth quarter of 2008 released by the market research firm Analysys International, China's Internet video sector generated CNY130.7 million in revenue during the three months, an increase of 0.5% compared with the third quarter of 2008.

Communication on China's new 3G network can now make it to the roof of the world, as China Mobile Tibet branch has announced that its first TD-SCDMA trial base station in Tibet has been opened in Lhasa and the first TD-SCDMA mobile phone call in the history of Tibet was made this week.

The telecommunications company Peoples, China Mobile's subsidiary in Hong Kong, announced that the company has changed its registered name to China Mobile Hong Kong from December 5, 2008, though its service brand Peoples will be maintained.

China's State Administration of Radio Film and Television has released a report on an audit of the Internet audio-visual services in China and it has ordered ten websites to suspend their online video and Internet music operations.

Sharp is jumping into the Chinese mobile video broadcasting sector with a new mobile TV tuner that supports China Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting.