Chinese online game operator 9you.com has announced that the company has gained an Information Network Communicated Audio-Video Program License, with the license number of 0910541, enabling it to operate online video businesses in China.

Communications technology service provider UTStarcom has announced that it has gained USD48.5 million investments from three strategic investors.

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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".

The "2009 Radio, Film and Television Development Report" has been published in Beijing by the State Administration of Radio Film and Television and the report states that China's total revenue from these industries, including financial subsidies, reached CNY166.721 billion in 2008, a year-on-year increase of 20.49%.

Sichuan-based electronics manufacturer Changhong has announced plans to invest CNY150 million to establish an Internet content platform named Lejiao Web.

China's first China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting provincial operator Shandong Zhongguang Communication Company was established on February 24, 2009, which represents the start of CMMB operation at the Chinese provincial level.

According to China's State Administration of Radio Film and Television, the official website of China Central Television CCTV.com will soon open a nationwide Internet TV station.

Seven Chinese government departments held a teleconference in Beijing today and announced that they would start a nationwide campaign to fight websites that spread pornography and vulgarity on the Chinese Internet.

Wang Xiaojie, director general for the Science and Technology Department of the State Administration of Radio Film and Television, said at the Fourth China Digital Media Summit that the country will invest CNY2.5 billion to extend the coverage of terrestrial digital TV, marking the beginning of the application of the Standard of Digital Television Terrestrial [...]

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.

The State Administration of Radio Film and Television of China held a teleconference last week on China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting, in which the administration clarified the direction for the future development of CMMB.

According to Xie Jinhui, vice director of the Academy of Broadcasting Planning of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of China, the administration is planning to build a central-level company for China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting.

An investor of 56.com says that with the approval of its board of directors, 56.com, the former Chinese video website, will shift to social networking services.