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Here are two reports about the China Internet Conference 2007 Day one.

China Internet Conference kicks off in Beijing
Source:CCTV.com

The 2007 China Internet Conference has kicked off in Beijing. Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan addressed Monday’s opening ceremony, noting the rapid development of the internet in China. There are more than 1.3 million portal operators in China, nearly a four-fold increase since the end of 2000. And dot-cn domain names number 6.15 million now, the first time they have exceeded the registered number of dot-coms.

Chinese internet users spent more than 160 billion yuan on the internet in the first half of the year. This makes sense, considering China has over 160 million web users, about an eighth of the population.
P2P services slashed
Source: china.org.cn

During the 2007 China Internet Conference, a senior official from the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) accused peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading of occupying too much of the Internet bandwidth, making it impossible to launch other new Internet services.

Han Xia, Deputy Director of Telecommunications Administration Bureau under MII, pointed out that many problems have appeared during the growth of Chinese internet industry. In Han’s opinion, P2P downloading is one of the most serious problems.

Although the number of Chinese broad brand users is below the world’s average level, the P2P fluxes in China are 3 to 4 times of those in the US. According to statistics from Chinese Internet service providers, P2P downloading accounts for 35 to 60 percent of the whole fluxes in the day and 50 to 90 percent during the night. For Chinese users, the Internet is used mainly for downloading movies and music.

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