Microsoft China and the municipal government of Jinan have signed a three-year strategic memorandum of understanding to implement comprehensive cooperation in cloud computing, talent training, outsourcing, and protection of intellectual property, and the technology company will set up a new branch in Jinan.

Chinese electronics and home appliances maker Midea has announced that it plans to invest CNY392 million to acquire a 32.5% stake in Egypt's Misr Air Conditioning Manufacturing Company (Miraco) from United Technologies Corporation.

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's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and National Development and Reform Commission have jointly issued a notice for simplifying fees for long-distance mobile phone calls, and the have decided to implement a single fee method to reduce the fee level.

Foreigners often complain that Chinese technology firms lack innovation, but a new initiative where non-Chinese technology companies have ganged up to fight China's Indigenous Innovation Product Accreditation Program shows that foreign companies appear to actually want to keep China away from ever innovating.

Nokia's distributors have submitted a report to China's National Development and Reform Commission, State Administration of Taxation and State Administration for Industry and Commerce which alleges how Nokia has been involved in tax evasion and tax fraud in China.

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.

The Nanjing branch of China Mobile has reportedly been involved in illegal charges of up to CNY30 million.

U.S.-based Qualcomm (QCOM) has granted China's LT Mobile Communication a worldwide patent license to develop, manufacture and sell subscriber units implementing the CDMA2000 standard.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and National Development and Reform Commission have jointly published a notice which orders Chinese telecom operators to set a unified price before January 15, 2009 for short messages sent within a network and between different networks.

The National Development and Reform Commission of China has published the fourth edition of its energy efficiency labeling catalog, which states that six kinds of home appliances should now be sold with energy efficiency labels.

According to a report on investments in China's high-tech industry in the first nine months of 2008 released by the High Technology Industry Department of the National Development and Reform Commission of China, by September 30, 2008, about CNY153.37 billion has been invested in China's electronics and communication equipment manufacturing industry and the investments in [...]

According to Zhou Jianming, general manager for China Mobile's (CHL) Technology Department, the company has been jointly implementing tests with relevant operators to set up TD-SCDMA long term evolution model networks in 2010.

The National Development and Reform Commission of China has released a special notice on the commercial trial and the equipment industrialization of IPv6 on its official website.