” March 19 — The China Education and Research Net 2 (CERNET2), a backbone network based on IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol, was put on trial Friday. The network now connects three Chinese cities, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, with 6,000 km of optic fiber, so far the world’s largest backbone network totally based on IPv6, […]
Read MoreThe Mercury News reported today that Peking University’s School of Software, which opened in October 2002 as part of an ambitious effort by China to develop its technical brainpower. According to the report, Peking University is one of 35 Chinese universities chosen three years ago by the central government to build software colleges. And “U.S. […]
Read MoreAfter Jiang Yanyong’s letter was publicized on the internet last week, an AP reporter in Beijing raised a question about Jiang’s petition to China’s premier today. Wen Jiabao did not respond directly to the question. Instead, he said that the survival of the country and the Communist Party “hung in the balance” during the 1989 […]
Read MoreNumerous efforts are under way in the West to help Chinese web users get around China’s censorship of the internet, reports BBC technology correspondent Clark Boyd. The full text is here.
Read MoreThis is the English translation of Dr. Jiang’s letter, retained from CND. It is a powerful document. “Chairman and vice chairmen of the National People’s Congress [NPC] Standing Committee Chairman and vice...
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