Just saw this on RB:
China's Major Websites Open Mirrors in the U.S.
BEIJING (Aug. 24) XINHUA - China's five "key news websites" opened their
mirror
sites Thursday in the United States to speed up overseas visitors' access
to the
five portals and increase viewers.
Mirror sites for China.org.cn, peopledaily.com.cn, xinhua.org,
chinadaily.com.cn
and cri.com.cn (China Radio International) were set up in Boston in
cooperation
with the Genuity Inc. of the United States.
According to an agreement signed in July in Beijing, the five portals will rent
five servers from Genuity for each as mirror site and another one as audio
and
video server for joint use.
The mirror sites in Boston for the five are chinaguide.org (207.
121.189.113),
peopledaily.net (207.121.189.139), chinaxhs.com (207. 121.189.115),
chinadaily.net (207.121.189.112) and crinews.com ( 207.121.189.117).
According to an official from china.org.cn, the six servers each own a band
width at 100M (100 million bytes per second), and are expected to increase
the
speed of overseas viewers' access by more than ten times.
This is the first time for China's cyber-news websites to launch joint mirror
sites in the United States, the official said. The five news portals provide
abundant and authentic news information from China to viewers around the
world,
he said.
Genuity Inc., formerly GTE Internetworking Incorporated operating business
with
China for many years, is an e-business network provider delivering
managed
Internet infrastructure services to enterprises and service providers.
The rapid development of China's Internet industry is providing benefits to
U.S.
firms, and the current move is a good example, the official said.
With deepened Sino-U.S. relations, bilateral economic and trade
cooperation,
people in the United States are keen to bolster understanding of China, he
said.
An official from the xinhua.org said that as China's Internet news output is
being increased when key news websites are improving, overseas viewers
can learn
more news from China.
The Xinhua News Agency is the state's largest wire service, while the
People's
Daily is China's largest newspaper and china. org.cn is a major Internet
information provider.
Chinadaily.com.cn is one of the country's largest English news provider on
China
and CRI is one of the world's most influential radio stations, broadcasting
each
day with 208.5 hours in 43 foreign languages and Chinese dialects. |
