Dotcom Company Supports Internet Trek WestThe website www.21cn.com in south China's Guangdong Province is trying to popularize the Internet by supporting four people in their trek through western China.Lu De, executive deputy general manager of the State-holding website, said today that people will be able to follow the four explorers along their 35,000-km-long journey by accessing www.21cn. com, and can also chat with the four through visual messaging services. The website's budget for the exploration is 1.2 million yuan ( about 144,000 U.S. dollars), including visual messaging facilities and photographing and videotaping machines to record what the explorers experience along their trip. The team will pass through seven provinces and autonomous regions and a municipality in seven months, going through the Yarlung Zangbo Gorge, and crossing the desert, mountains, valleys, and grasslands of western China. Lu said this trip will help intensify knowledge of the Internet revolution in the western region of the country, as the four explorers intend to contact the news media organizations at every stop. The exploration team has left Guangzhou in south China for Xi' an in Shaanxi Province in north China via Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China, Lu said. The www.21cn.com site has been focusing on expansion in south China since it came into being on February 9, 1999, and its support of this activity is part of its attempt to expand into western China. |
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