Chinese telecom operator China Mobile and the Ministry of Education of China have signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly promote greater online uses for education.

Just weeks after China's largest telecommunications operator halted paying firms for some wireless services, two foreign companies now ironically plan to join forces to push educational services to China's mobile phone citizenry.

China's Ministry of Education says that the networks of all China's schools shall be subject to monitoring and education departments at each level shall conduct regular checkups on these networks and guide the schools in installing green online filtering software to remove bad information.

IBM has announced that it will cooperate with Beijing University of Technology to set up a cloud computing experimental platform, providing high-capacity computing resources and services to schools, enterprises, government, and open source communities in China.

China's first Children and Network Research Lab has been formally established in Shanghai.

China Mobile Charity Foundation, the first fundraising foundation within China's telecommunications industry, has been unveiled in Beijing.

China Mobile Shenyang Branch has set up a high frequency transmission base station near a kindergarten in Shenyang's Dongling district, which parents and teachers think may threaten the health of the children in the kindergarten.

Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang province, has launched a program to train young people in China's rural areas on how to open online stores.

Lin Jialai, vice director of the China Association for Poverty Alleviation and Development, is pushing for Chinese companies and individuals to donate their used computers to schools in rural areas.

China's Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Council Information Office have jointly issued a circular which says that "green" software will be provided to primary and middle schools around the country to help them purify their online environments.

China Mobile, one of the world's largest mobile communications operators, has just published its corporate social responsibility report for 2008.

In cooperation with China's Ministry of Education, Autodesk has launched China Student Design Community to provide free digital design tools to Chinese students.