Chinese telecom group China Mobile has announced the formal establishment of its board of directors, and Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, signed services contracts with five outside directors.

Information from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is that in 2009 a total number of 784.04 billion mobile short messages were sent in China, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%, with an average of 2.1 billion sent daily.

Ten Chinese technology service providers have jointly signed a self-discipline convention on anti-virus services in China.

According to Xi Guohua, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, the number of Chinese netizens increased by 16.2 million in the first quarter of 2009, reaching a total number of 316 million.

After a five-month negotiation, HP (HPQ) has signed a memorandum of understanding with China's Chongqing Municipality to build a computer manufacturing plant — the company's second computer plant in China following the plant in Shanghai.

Xi Guohua, vice minister of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, has said that the ministry plans to launch sharing measures to limit the redundant network constructions of Chinese telecommunications operators and to avoid the waste of resources caused by the redundant systems.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was silently, formally launched on June 29 to replace the old Ministry of Information Industry.

China's State Council has appointed seven people — Wang Xudong, Xi Guohua, Miao Wei, Chen Qiufa, Lou Qinjian, Ou Xinjian and Yan Xueshan — as vice ministers of the newly established Ministry of Information Industry which is reportedly to be officially licensed sometime this week. However, the State Council has not disclosed the detailed duties [...]