China Releasing Guidelines for Business on Privacy Policies
On April 7, 2012,
in Ethical Government, social-mixdown,
by Brent
Non-binding guidlines being released by their state agency are expected to be very pro-user.
Read more:
http://english.people.com.cn/90882/7778787.html
More according to http://www.statista.com
- In 2011, the total population of China was around 1.35 billion people. Life expectancy in China was 73.3 years for people born in 2009.
- The country is on track to overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy within the next decade. In 2010, the GDP of China was 5.88 trillion U.S. dollars.
- China overtook Germany as the world’s leading exporter and now tops the ranking of the world’s largest export nations with a total export value of 1.58 trillion U.S. dollars in 2010. 20% of all exports go to US.
- Distribution of the workforce across economic sectors in China from 1998 to 2008. In 2008, 39.6 percent of the workforce were employed in agriculture, 27.2 percent in manufacturing and 33.2 percent in services.
- 4th Quarter 2009 to 4th Quarter 2011 – In the fourth Quarter of 2009, the index value for the business expectations in China stood at 127.7 points.
Infographic stolen from Mashable

China shuts down Twitter – Tiananmen Anniversary
On June 2, 2009,
in social-mixdown,
by Brent
China shuts down Twitter and Bing in lead up to Tiananmen anniversary
from Techcrunch…
Ryan McLaughlin, an ex-pat Amercian writer and web designer/developer based outside Beijing, said [updated:] that VPNs, which many Chinese use to get around the Great Firewall, are not being affected by the shutdown. He also blogs “Undoubtedly the blocks are in an effort to curb online commentary and the dissemination of information about the , which on celebrates its 20th anniversary.”
More splogging from Techcrunch the all mighty…
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