The Chinese government today released the White Paper on China's Internet, a document on the status of the network in the country with more Internet users in the world and highlighting the long list of content that individuals and organizations can not "produce, duplicate, advertise or disseminate. "
Information "against the principles of the Constitution, which endanger state security, divulge state secrets, subverts state power and threatens the national unity" are prohibited, the document says.
Also data that "damage the honor and interests of the state", which instigate "ethnic hatred or discrimination" or those who disseminate "heresies, superstitions, rumors, ideas that break the social order and stability" and "obscenity, pornography , illegal gambling, violence, brutality and terror. "
The White Paper notes that the Internet in China must be subject to the laws of the country, and urges the international community to understand "the concerns about the safety of the network of each country."
However, the Information Office of the State Council, author of the report, explained in the book that the Internet "has had an irreplaceable role in accelerating economic development, enhance scientific and technological progress" and transform the society or information.
According to the document, the Chinese Government continues to drive network development in the country with more Internet users in the world (about 400 million today), so that within five years the number of users in the Asian giant to reach a rate penetration of 45 percent (about 600 million users).
The White Paper provides extensive data on the development of Internet, which came into use in China on April 20, 1994 (authorizing the district Beijing's Zhongguancun technology were the first to be connected to that network).
Among the figures brings the total figure of money invested by the country for the development of Internet (629 000 million yuan), the number of Chinese Websites (3.23 million) and the widespread use of broadband (346 million users , 90 percent of the total).
The document acknowledges still a great digital divide between urban and rural Chinese (72 percent of Chinese Internet users are urban, when more than half of China's population lives in rural communities).
It also highlights the growing importance of Internet in China as a business, where the industries related to the computer network and contribute 1.6 percent to national GDP and 10 percent in foreign trade.
Online shopping (which in China go about 100 million Internet users and prompting 526 000 million in 2009) and on-line games, which last year produced 25,000 million yuan in revenue, are some of the most important examples in this regard.
The country also has 220 million a million bloggers and discussion forums (BBS), one of the main tools for information exchange in the Chinese network, used by two thirds of Chinese netizens.
Also White Paper stresses the fact on the fight against spam (according to the Government, has reduced the percentage of spam from 23 percent of the total in 2002 to 4.1 percent in 2009).
It warns against the dangers of "hackers" and says that one million computers on Chinese soil have "their IPs controlled from outside", while 18 million computers "infected with the virus Conficker every month."
In the anecdotal, the paper named among the web-based communication tools to develop more rapidly in China at the Twitter microblogging service, which since last year is locked in the Asian country.
Internet is the main vehicle of communication and exchange of ideas in Chinese society, especially young people, despite the heavy censorship in the country, which prevents users from accessing sites such as Twitter or other widely used Facebook or global YouTube.
Information "against the principles of the Constitution, which endanger state security, divulge state secrets, subverts state power and threatens the national unity" are prohibited, the document says.
Also data that "damage the honor and interests of the state", which instigate "ethnic hatred or discrimination" or those who disseminate "heresies, superstitions, rumors, ideas that break the social order and stability" and "obscenity, pornography , illegal gambling, violence, brutality and terror. "
The White Paper notes that the Internet in China must be subject to the laws of the country, and urges the international community to understand "the concerns about the safety of the network of each country."
However, the Information Office of the State Council, author of the report, explained in the book that the Internet "has had an irreplaceable role in accelerating economic development, enhance scientific and technological progress" and transform the society or information.
According to the document, the Chinese Government continues to drive network development in the country with more Internet users in the world (about 400 million today), so that within five years the number of users in the Asian giant to reach a rate penetration of 45 percent (about 600 million users).
The White Paper provides extensive data on the development of Internet, which came into use in China on April 20, 1994 (authorizing the district Beijing's Zhongguancun technology were the first to be connected to that network).
Among the figures brings the total figure of money invested by the country for the development of Internet (629 000 million yuan), the number of Chinese Websites (3.23 million) and the widespread use of broadband (346 million users , 90 percent of the total).
The document acknowledges still a great digital divide between urban and rural Chinese (72 percent of Chinese Internet users are urban, when more than half of China's population lives in rural communities).
It also highlights the growing importance of Internet in China as a business, where the industries related to the computer network and contribute 1.6 percent to national GDP and 10 percent in foreign trade.
Online shopping (which in China go about 100 million Internet users and prompting 526 000 million in 2009) and on-line games, which last year produced 25,000 million yuan in revenue, are some of the most important examples in this regard.
The country also has 220 million a million bloggers and discussion forums (BBS), one of the main tools for information exchange in the Chinese network, used by two thirds of Chinese netizens.
Also White Paper stresses the fact on the fight against spam (according to the Government, has reduced the percentage of spam from 23 percent of the total in 2002 to 4.1 percent in 2009).
It warns against the dangers of "hackers" and says that one million computers on Chinese soil have "their IPs controlled from outside", while 18 million computers "infected with the virus Conficker every month."
In the anecdotal, the paper named among the web-based communication tools to develop more rapidly in China at the Twitter microblogging service, which since last year is locked in the Asian country.
Internet is the main vehicle of communication and exchange of ideas in Chinese society, especially young people, despite the heavy censorship in the country, which prevents users from accessing sites such as Twitter or other widely used Facebook or global YouTube.
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