China selects top 10 Internet-related events of 2007
2008-01-15 09:05
BEIJING， Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- China selected its top 10 important Internet-related events and publicized the list on Monday， disclosing that the number of Chinese netizens exceeded 200 million.
The selection was sponsored by the Internet Society of China and Internet News Research Center with the guidance of the Information Office of the State Council.
At the top of the list was the event that "the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) proposed new requirements for Internet culture construction and management in China."
The second event on the list was the national Internet culture construction and management work conference was held from June 3 to 4， 2007.
The third event was websites for the first time broadcast the CPC"s five-yearly national congress.
The fourth was by December 2007， the number of Chinese netizens had reached 210 million， 73 million more than that at the end of 2006.
The fifth event was ten governmental departments jointly cracked down on online pornographic spread. A batch of criminal suspects were arrested.
The sixth was the Internet Society of China opened an anti-spam processing platform.
The seventh event was the Internet Society of China released a "self-discipline code for blog services"， as China had more than 70 million blogs at that time. The code， first of its kind in China， will play a significant role for blog development in China.
Other events included the country"s 188 websites jointly launched an online product contest; One million university students heard expert"s lectures online synchronously; And 11 China"s major websites opened online classroom for various topics. By December 2007， more than 330 lectures had been given and more than 100 million netizens hit the online classroom.
