China Telecom plans to establish a product center and will set up six content bases in five cities in China to develop a wider array of 3G software applications.

Taobao.com, the Internet shopping subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, has announced that it has started to deploy authorized offline stores to provide convenience to consumers who cannot shop online in China.

Just days after China Mobile slammed shut the ability for wireless value-added service providers to gain revenue from their mobile services, specific Chinese technology companies have been named in the crackdown to rid China of mobile and Web-based pornography.

Chinese business-to-business e-commerce group Alibaba has announced the establishment of its education subsidiary in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

Chinese telecom operator China Mobile has reached cooperation with ten Chinese content providers to jointly promote the development of the mobile phone reading industry.

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.

Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba has signed a cooperative agreement with Chengdu Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone on its new western base project, making Chengdu the first stop for the group's domestic distribution apart from its Zhejiang headquarters.

Chinese domain name service provider and registrar DNSPod has reported hacking activities that affected its services and caused network outages in various provinces this week to its local public security organ under the requirement of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

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%.

China Mobile Zhejiang branch has announced plans to cooperate with Zhejiang Alipay Internet Technology, the online payment subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce company Alibaba Group, to provide an additional payment channel for the customers of its online store.

Alipay, the Internet payment subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has published its latest statistics and states that by the end of February 2009, the number of its registered users reached 150 million, accounting for about 50% of the total number of Chinese netizens.

Chinese online auction website Taobao.com has announced plans to join forces with Zhejiang Provincial Department for Industry and Commerce to begin a pilot program for the online sale of healthcare food and products within Zhejiang province.

Alcatel-Lucent will soon deploy 3G WCDMA networks in 14 Chinese provinces and municipalities.

Wang Hai, China's famous consumer rights advocate, has submitted to a 3000-word report to both the Zhejiang Provincial Department for Industry and Commerce and the Consumer Rights and Interests Protection Department of China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce, accusing Chinese online auction website Taobao.com of infringing on consumers' rights.

William Ding, founder of the Chinese Internet portal NetEase, says the company will invest at last CNY10 million to set up a pig farm in Zhejiang province and establish a website to connect the Internet industry with agricultural pursuits.