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Issue No. 51, September 15, 1995
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1. News/Info Brief (8 Items) ............................................ 95
2. ANU Launches Chinese Library and Information Research Network ........ 40
3. Workshop on Information Super-highway in China, US and World ......... 58
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1. News/Info Brief (8 Items) ............................................ 95
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(1) Piratic Chinese Windows 95 Sweeping in China
(2) CCTV Asks for Information Feed from Internet Users
(3) TRW Considers Chinese Long-March Rockets to Launch Satellites
(4) NTT Japan Helps to Computerize Postal Saving System in China
(5) Sino-Singapore Cooperation in Satellite Mobile Phone System
(6) Liming ComNet Ltd to Continue Computerizing Chinese Financial System
(7) Information on Internet Access in China
(8) Internet Aids Delegates to Access Women Conference Information
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(1) Piratic Chinese Windows 95 Sweeping in China
[CINET-L, 09/01/95] -- Large number of illegal copied Chinese version of
Microsoft Windows 95 are being sold in China's market, a Microsoft
official said as AP reported. In many cities in China, one can get
pirated Windows 95, both English and chinese version, in only a small
fraction of the price of the legal versions. China has promised to pay
more energy in protecting copyrights, patents and trademarks in response
to US' threats of $1 billion of sanctions in February. More courts will
be set up and new laws will be created on this issue.
Early last month Microsoft sent out a trial version of Chinese Windows 95
in simplified characters. The final version is scheduled to be out in
later December. (LI Tongbiin, LIU Jian)
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(2) CCTV Asks for Information Feed from Internet Users
[CINET-L, 09/08/95] BEIJING -- China Central Television Station (CCTV) is
going to shot a TV program about Internet and invites readers to
offer your opinions/answers to following questionaires: (1) Which country
are you from and what is your profession? (2) How do you benefit from
Internet connections? (3) Any interesting stories you have about Internet.
CCTV is making its own Web homepage and it will be available in a few days.
Readers who are interested in offering your opinions about Internet please
send your email to xurs@bepc3.ihep.ac.cn. (Jie XU, Cindy ZHENG)
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(3) TRW Considers Chinese Long-March Rockets to Launch Satellites
[CINET-L, 09/09/95] BEIJING -- American communication company TRW is
considering to use Chinese "Long-March" rockets "to launch some of the
12 satellites into space" for its ambitious global mobile telephone system
Odyssey, Reuter reported Saturday. The Odyssey system is planning to operate
by year 2000. Its rival is Motorola's Iridium system that is designed to be
networked by 72 satellites. (Jie XU, Jian LIU)
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(4) NTT Japan Helps to Computerize Postal Saving System in China
[CINET-L, 09/07/95] TOKYO -- Japan Economic Newswire reported the NTT Data
Communications Systems Corp. has signed a contact to build a computer
network for postal savings systems in eight Chinese cities. Of about
54,000 post offices across China there are over 20,000 post offices having
postal savings bussiness. Tianjin, Qingdao, Jinan and Hangzhou are among the
eight cities. (Jie XU, Daluo JIA)
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(5) Sino-Singapore Cooperation in Satellite Mobile Phone System
[CINET-L, 09/06/95] SINGAPORE -- Singapore Technologies and Singapore Telecom
are cooperating with four Chinese partners in a $800 million mobile phone
system project, AP quoting Straits Times report. Names of Chinese companies
are not disclosed. The mobile phone system is based on satellite technology
and will let its customers to use their mobile phones anywhere in the
Asia-Pacific region, either in remote deserts or in the ocean. Covered areas
include China, Japan, the Indian subcontinent and all of Southeast Asia.
(Jie XU, Jian LIU)
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(6) Liming ComNet Ltd to Continue Computerizing Chinese Financial System
[CD, Business Weekly, 09/02/95] -- Liming ComNet Co Ltd has vowed to aid
computerization in China's fledgling financial reform. With a total
investment of 33 million yuan, the high-tech firm completed computer
networks for China's two securities exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
"We are now focusing our attention on providing network service to big
companies and banking organizations," said Deng Yihui, general manager
of Liming ComNet, one of China's earliest computer network establishments.
At the beginning of 1993, the Liming equipped China's first 64K DDN
(digital data network) to connect the Shanghai Stock Market with several
hundred clients across the country. It has maintained an annual growth
rate of 200 percent over the past four years. Sales volume reached more
than 200 million yuan last year. About 80 percent of the firm's employees
are computer network professionals with an average age of 26. (Sun Ping)
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(7) Information on Internet Access in China
[CINET-L, 09/07/95] -- Readers who are interested in getting access to internet
in China may refer to following URL for detail:
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~tcyang/html/China_internet.html. (Jie XU,
Bo XIONG)
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(8) Internet Aids Delegates to Access Women Conference Information
[CINET-L, 09/04/95] BEIJING -- Many delegates from developed countries to the
NGO women forum in Huairou are resorting to internet for more detailed
news about debates in the forum and about the UN women conference in
Beijing city, according to a Reuter report Monday. Xinhua News agency also
gives a highlight on the extensive usuage of the global Internet by conference
delegates. The two conference are not only the two largest UN-sponsored
meetings in history, but also two biggest via "wired" internet, the report
said. (Jie XU, Jian Liu)
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2. ANU Launches Chinese Library and Information Research Network ........ 40
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_From (GAO Jie) gaojie@info.anu.edu.au
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Launches Chinese Library and
Information Research Network and The Chinese Internet Serials Database
The Australian National University is set to forge closer links between
Australia and China with a cooperative project, the Chinese Library and
Information Research Network (CLIRNET) and the Chinese Internet Serials
Database.
The launch will be conducted by Senator Gareth Evans today at 11.30 am, in
the A.L.G. McDonald Room, R.G. Menzies Building, Library, Australian
ational University.
CLIRNET
The Chinese Library and Information Research Network (CLIRNET) is funded by
a substantial grant from the Australia-China Council and is built on the
already extensive personal and technical links between China and the ANU.
The first phase will establish an Australian Electronic Information Centre
in the National Library of China and facilitate links to the ANU Library
enhancing the flow of information between the two libraries. The Centre
will enhance the existing close cooperation between the two institutions
and significantly strengthen the exchange of information between Australia
and China.
Chinese Serials Database
This database is a cooperative project between the ANU Library and the
National Library of China to make information in current Chinese serials
available via the Internet. Utilizing the National Library of China's rich
collections and the ANU Library's technological expertise, the project also
involves two personnel from the National Library of China training at the
ANU in Information Technology related to the project. The database
provides bilingual access to information from, and about, China to a wide
international scholarly and business community.
The URL of the home page is:
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/AJC/CHIN/China-jrnls.html
Susan Prentice
Senior Librarian, East Asia
Collection Management Division
ANU Library
email susan@info.anu.edu.au
telephone 06 2493513
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3. Workshop on Information Super-highway in China, US and World ......... 58
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Forwarded by: Prof. MengChu ZHOU <zhou@ece.njit.edu>, 09/08/95
Workshop on Information Super-highway in China, US and World
-- Opportunities and Challenges
Sponsored by CASEIT/CAST (Chinese Association for Science & Technology-USA)
and Center for Urban Education Policy, CUNY
Two feature speeches are
1. Making China an Information Society: Opportunities and Challenges
Qi Li, Professor of Beijing University, Chief Technical Consultant to
several key national information super-highway Programs
Present the background of three national information highway related
projects in China, their architecture and features, engineering
applications, and development status, as well as the related business
opportunities.
2. Internet, NII and GII - A US and Global Perspective
Ifay F. Chang, Ph. D., Prof. of Polytechnic University
Present a status report of the US NII, based on the publicly available
information, along with a historical review of the Internet progress
and a discussion of its potential impact. The various opportunities and
key applications stimulated by NII will be analyzed. Recommendations
are made on the NII's implementation from a US and a global perspective.
Bio of Main Speakers
Prof. Qi Li is Associate Director of Institute of Remote Sensing and GIS
Research, Beijing University. She has participated in and led a dozen of
key national R&D programs, including well-known "Golden Bridge" program.
She won several national, provincial and university-level science and
technology awards. She has more than 40 publications and is actively
promoting SIS (Spatial Information System) and GISNET (Global Information
System Network). Prof. Li is a board member of several national technical
organizations.
Prof. Ifay F. Chang is the Executive Director of Polytechnic Research
Institute for Development and Enterprise (PRIDE). He was a senior
manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. During 1985-88, he
established and directed the Institute for System Science, a premier
research institute in Singapore. Prof. Chang is a fellow and past
president of Society for Information Display, life member of American
Physical Society, and senior member of IEEE. He is a board member and
past president of Chinese American Academic and Professional Society
and present president of Global Information and Software Society. He has
over 20 year R&D experience and over 100 technical publications and
numerous inventions.
After their speeches, a special round-table meeting will be arranged
to exchange the ideas related to information super-highway in China, US
and World.
Time: 2:00-5:00pm, September 16, 1995
Place: Graduate School, CUNY, 33 W. 42nd St. (between 5 and 6 Ave), Manhattan
Fee: $5 for CAST members and $10 for others
For information: Dr. Charles Q. Huang, (212) 642-2681 or (212) 877-3479
Email: EDUGC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU, or
Prof. MengChu Zhou, (201) 596-6282 or 334-8168, zhou@njit.edu
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