Based on a report released by the Development Research Centre of the State Council, there are almost 40 cities in China building or planning to add 3,000 km of urban rail lines.

The projects that setting up and operating about 1,700 km in 15 cities by 2015 while other cities getting a green light will spend at least 600 billion yuan ($88 billion), according to the report.

Liu shijin, deputy chief of the centre said last Friday that the unexampled Read more…

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China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) reported on Jul 24th that 253 million Chinese log on the Internet regularly making the country the largest web-user market. To put it another way, China has overtaken the US in terms of the number of netizens in the first half of this year, according to the semi-official organization, the most authoritative source of statistics on the country’s Internet users.

According to www.internetworldstats.com, there were 218 million net-users in the US till December 31, 2007, while China, 210 million. CNNIC estimated the number could have reached 230 million by the end of June based on the growth in the US.

Based on the interview with 16,000 people across China and an unspecified umber of people on the Net in the 22nd CNNIC study since 1998, Liu Bing, the chief writer of the CNNIC semi-annual report, wrote Read more…

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