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September 9, 2011

China renews Google's operating licence

Google China
China said that it has renewed Google's licence to operate in the world's largest online market, after the US company last year moved its Chinese search engine overseas in protest over censorship.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology named Google's China website operator, Beijing Guxiang Information Technology Co. Ltd., as one of 137 firms whose licences were renewed following adjustments in their operations.

The ministry had ordered the adjustments after some firms had changed shareholding structures without official permission, provided services beyond their approved business range or had lax information security controls.

The ministry, which posted the license renewals on its website, did not specify the kind of changes individual companies had to make.

Google spokeswoman for China Marsha Wang confirmed to AFP that the company had been granted the licence renewal.

"We have passed the 2011 annual assessment (of the licence)," she said.

This means Google's Internet content provider licence in China has been extended for one more year, she said.

Google said in March last year it would no longer bow to government censors and effectively shut down its Chinese search engine, re-routing mainland users to its uncensored site in Hong Kong.

Google has maintained that such an approach complied with Chinese law. 

Description about Google China :   

Google China was founded in 2005 and was originally headed by Kai-Fu Lee a former Microsoft executive and the founder in 1998 of Microsoft Research Asia.Microsoft sued Google and Kai-Fu Lee for the move, but reached a confidential settlement. Google's Beijing based office was initially located at NCI Tower.


In 2005, a Chinese-language interface was developed for the google.com website. In Jan 2006, Google launched its China-based google.cn search page with results subject to censorship by the Chinese government.


The Beijing office was moved to Tsinghua Science Park in early 2006. The newest office has been in use since September 2006. It is a 10-floor building located in Tsinghua Science Park, near the south gate of Tsinghua University.


In Mar 2009, China blocked access to Google's YouTube site; access to other Google online services is denied to users on an ad hoc basis.


On September 4, 2009, after four years leading Google China, Kai-Fu Lee announced his surprise departure to start a venture fund amid debate about the Chinese government's censorship policies and Google's decreasing share to rival Baidu.


In Jan 2010, Google announced that they and other US tech companies had been hacked and that Google is no longer willing to censor searches in China and may pull out of the country.

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