President Xi Jinping will elaborate on China's Internet policies on Wednesday at a key meeting as the country explores ways to upgrade its online governance.
It has been more than twenty years since China first dipped its toe into the ocean of possibilities that is the Internet, a move that has grown from tiny ripples to a mighty wave of economic growth.
In an era when cyberspace has become a domain so important as land, sea, the sky and outer space, cybersecurity should be safeguarded by all countries around the world, or it could become an Achilles' heel in the development of the Internet.
It took Wuzhen just 30 years to turn from a remote quiet town with its newly first built road to reach the outside world into a test field covered with Internet-oriented services and a hotspot for people from around the globe to connect.
China aims to cover all its urban and rural areas with 4G network by 2018, according to an action plan published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Monday.
China's online retail sales are expected to rise to 10 trillion yuan (1.6 trillion U.S. dollars ) in 2020 with the penetration rate doubling from the 2014 level to 22 percent, according to a report unveiled on Monday by Bain&Company and Alibaba.
E-commerce has facilitated cross-border trade between China and Russia, bringing cheaper Russian goods, especially food, to Chinese doorsteps, quicker than ever before.
The Internet will play an increasingly important role in reshaping China's economy, as more people are online here than anywhere else in the world, experts said.
The China-ASEAN Information Harbor Forum kicked off in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Sunday to discuss cooperation between China and Southeast Asia in the Internet and technology industries.
Under a new cybersecurity law, Web operators are urged to provide safe products and services Kou Fei recently got a call at work from her mother, who was anxious to know that she was safe.
Foreign media reported that the economic slowdown in China has affected the automobile, iron and steel as well as other traditional pillar industries. It even affects Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA), a leader in the emerging industries.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday urged faster and stronger development of the country's advanced manufacturing to fuel the slowing down economy.
China's Internet giants Alibaba and Tencent on Thursday announced they would invest in a China Media Capital (CMC) Internet-TV startup.
Chinese Internet finance players are having mixed feelings about a raft of new policies designed to regulate the rapidly growing sector.
The U.S. government has secretly expanded the National Security Agency's warrantless Internet surveillance to search for evidence of what it called "malicious cyberactivity," The New York Times reported Thursday, citing classified documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
When Cen Shen gave up a big salary with a foreign company in Guangzhou and went back his rural home in south China's Guangxi to run an online mango shop in 2012, most people thought he was crazy.
The United Nations (UN) has a leading and crucial role to play in coordinating a country's use of cyberspace, said Chen Xu, Chinese ambassador to The Netherlands, at the 2015 Global Conference on CyberSpace (GCCS) which opened here Thursday.
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