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Information policy of the Peoples Rebuplic of China
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Report on the Information Policy of the Peoples Republic of China The purpose of this report is to examine the information policy of the Peoples Republic of China. This will incorporate information infrastructure, distribution and access to information technologies and government policy regarding the growth and distribution of these technologies. China is a vast country in terms of land mass (9.9 million sq. Km) and population (1.3 billion), these are important figures to remember when considering the relative information infrastructure when compared to other countries. What is first apparent is the massive growth in telecommunications over the last 5 years. Telephones in use (fixed line and mobile) have risen from 66.8 phones per 1000 people in 1997 to 177.6 in 2000, this is estimated at around 135 million fixed lines (2000) and 65 million mobile phones (2001) in total. However there is an unevenly distributed domestic system that serves only the key cities and industrial centres. The national network compromises inter-provincial fibre-optic trunk lines and includes a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations in operation. The international network makes use of 5 intelsat, 1 intersputnik and 1 inmarsat satellites giving extensive coverage over the Pacific and Indian Ocean areas. There are also several fibre-optic links to Japan, South Korea, Russia and Germany. Another area of communication that has seen massive growth is the use of the Internet. In 1997 there was merely 400,000 Internet users, this had grown to 22.5 million by 2000 and 26.5 million by 2001.
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