115. On January 1, 2001, the Internet project of “Every School Access the Network” entered the phase of formal implementation.

116. On January 11, 2001, the State Food and Drug Administration issued “Interim Regulations for the Administration of Internet Medicine Information Services”. It was implemented on February 1, 2001.

117. On January 17, 2001, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) published “the 7th Statistical Report on the Development of the Internet in China”. By the end of December 31, 2000, there were approximately 8.92 million computer hosts in China, about 22.5 million Internet users.122, 099 domain names were registered under .CN. China had approximately 265,405 WWW websites, and 2,799Mbit/s of international bandwidth.

118. In early February 2001, China Telecom began to provide the service of International Roaming on the Internet.

119. On March 2, 2001, research fellow Qian Hualin and professor Li Xing of Tsinghua University were elected members of the Executive Committee of APNIC.

120. On April 3, 2001, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), The Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Culture and the State Administration For Industry & Commerce jointly promulgated “Measures for the Management of Internet Cafés”, and put it into effect as of the same day.

121. On April 13, 2001, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), The Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Culture and the State Administration for Industry & Commerce started the special Rectification of “Internet Cafe”.

122. In April 2001, Professor Li Xing from Tsinghua University was elected the new chair of the Asia Pacific Network Group (APNG) Executive Committee.

123. On May 25, 2001, the Internet Society of China (ISC) was founded with the approval of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It was established under the direction of the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), and was formed by over 70 relevant organizations, including domestic ISPs, ICPs, facility manufacturers, system integration business, academies and educational institutions.

124. In May 2001, approving by the Central Establishment Committee, China National Information Security Testing Evaluation and Certification Center was founded. The main task of the organization was to examine and confer state certifications on information security products, information system security, information security services and information security professionals.

125. On June 1, 2001, leading by the Customs General Administration of the People’s Republic of China, the port law enforcement system that was developed by 12 relevant ministries and commissions finished its trial operation in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Thereafter China’s “Electronic Port” became functional all over domestic ports.

126. In July 2001, “NSFCNET” (a high-speed Internet, the biggest project invested so far by the Natural Science Foundation of China, 1999-2000), a momentous joint project of the national natural fund that was undertaken by Tsinghua University, Computer Network Information Center of CAS, Peking University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing Beihang University passed acceptance check, and established the first learning network of the next generation Internet in China. The contents include general design of China’s experimental network of the high speed Internet; density wave minute multiplexing optical fiber transmission system; high-speed computer network and key researches on applications and demo systems in the environment of high-speed networks.

127. On July 9, 2001, the Bank of China promulgated “The Interim Rules for the Administration of Online Banking Business”.

128. On July 11, 2001, the CPC held a lecture on legal affairs in Zhongnanhai Huairentang, with the theme of protecting and facilitating the sound development of information on the Internet by legal means. Jiang Zemin, the secretary general of the CPC chaired the lecture, and emphasized that China shall catch hold of opportunities, expedite the development of information and network technologies, and apply it to practice in economy, society, technology, national defense, education, culture and law.

129. On July 29, 2001, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) announced the Structure Guideline of National Informatization, which became the warranty and measure for analyzing and quantizing the current level of informatization.

130. In July 2001, “the Key Informatization Program of 10th five-year plan on National Economy and Social Development” was promulgated.

131. On August 23, 2001, the State Informatization Leading Group was reestablished. Premier Zhu Rongji chaired the group.

132. In August 2001, the National Computer Network and Information Security Administration Center established the national “Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team / Coordination Center of China” (CNCERT/CC).

133. On September 7, 2001, “The Program for the 10th Five-Year-Planning of Information Industry” was issued. This is the first industry program after establishing the strategy of informatization by the government.

134. On September 7, 2001, the State Office of Informatization Promotion published “the Survey Report on Quantity of Information Resources of the Internet in China”, the survey was entrusted by the State Office of Informatization Promotion, and jointly conducted by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute and Nanjing Researching Base of the National Information Resources Administration. This is the first domestic survey aiming at the information resources on the Internet. By the end of April 30, 2001, China had 692,490 domain names, 238,249 websites, 159,460,056 web pages and 45,598 online databases.

135. On September 20 2001, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) issued “Measures for Inter Accounting among Internet Backbone Networks”.

136. On September 29 2001, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) issued “Interim Regulations for Connecting Services of the Internet Backbone Networks”.

137. On October 8, 2001, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) published “The Interim Regulation for the Management of the Connection of Backbone Networks”.

138. On October 27, 2001, after the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress, “the Information Network Dissemination Right” was formally included in the revised version of “The Copyright Law of People's Republic of China”. Relevant regulations would protect copyrights by legal means in the environment of Internet spreading.

139. On November 4, 2001, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) began to provide the service of Internet Keyword.

140. On November 20, 2001, the demonstration project of Chinese electron government affairs application was approved by the relevant departments, which marked a momentous advancement of China’s “E-government”.

141. On November 22, 2001, the Central Committee of Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture, the State Council News Office, All China Youth Federation, National Students' Federation, the National Working Committee on Young Pioneer and China Youth Network Association jointly presented “the Civilized Internet Pact of All Country Teenagers”, a set of criteria for millions of domestic teenagers to regulate their behaviors when using the Internet.

142. In November 2001, Academician Hu Qiheng, the vice Chair of Chinese Association of Science, the director general of CNNIC Steering Committee was appointed as the member of ICANN Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Committee.

143. On December 3, 2001, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) published the first “The Survey Report on the Internet Bandwidth in China”. By the end of September 30, 2001, the international bandwidth in China reached 5724M.

144. On December 20, 2001, “The Project of Families Access the Internet” was formally initiated. The project was led and directed by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the National Women's Federation, the Central Committee of Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Culture.

145. On December 20, 2001, the Telecommunication Administration Bureau of MII promulgated “Regulations for Financial Accounting of the National Internet Exchange Center”.

146. On December 20, 2001, the 10 domestic backbone networks signed the inter-connection agreement, which implied more convenient accessing of the Internet by users in difference regions.

147. On December 22, 2001, China Unicom announced in Beijing that the first-phase project of China Unicom CDMA mobile telecommunication network had accomplished on time, and started its operate since December 31, 2001 in 31 provinces, municipalities and cities. The building up of China Unicom’s CDMA network indicated that the telecommunication technology of China Mobile had stepped into a new era.

148. On December 25, 2001, Premier Zhu Rongji, Chair of the State Informatization Leading Group (SILG) moderated the first SILG meeting. As Premier Zhu pointed out, the construction of China’s informatization should be push forward by attaching greater importance to unified planning, persisting with marketing, and preventing repeated construction of a same project.

149. At the end of December 2001, “China Education and Research Network CERNET”, a high-speed backbone network project (1999—2001) was obtained its qualification from the government. The project was a main element of “the modern remote education project” in “the national education promotion plan of 21st century”, and also the important base for constructing the lifelong education system in China. Based on DWDM/SDH, the project finished building the high-speed transmitting network with a capacity of 40Gbps and backbone transmit rate of 2.5Gbps. Except for Lhasa in Tibet, CERNET connected with other 35 provinces and central cities at speed of 55Mbps. Nearly 100 colleges were connected at speed of 100~1000Mbps.  Based on CERNET, the Ministry of Education had approved 47 colleges’ setting up network educational institutes (later enlarged to 67 colleges), and also allowed 19 online cooperative research centers to carry out remote education and scientific research through CERNET.

150. On December 31, 2001, the National Internet Exchange Centers began their operation in Shanghai and Guangdong respectively.

151. On January 15, 2002, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) published the 9th “Statistical Report on the Development of Internet in China”. By the end of December 31, 2001, there were about 125.4 million computer hosts and 33.7 million Internet users in China. 127,319 domain names were registered under .CN. China had over 277,100 WWW websites and 7597.5M of international bandwidth.

152. On March 14, 2002, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) approved “Rules for the Administration of Internet Domain Names in China” in its 9th session. The regulation was put in force on September 30, 2002.

153. On March 26, 2002, the Internet Society of China (ISC) issued “Self-Discipline Treaty of Internet Industry in China” in Beijing, establishing the foundation of domestic self-discipline mechanism.

154. On May 17, 2002, the Ministry of Culture issued “Notification on Strengthen the Market Supervision of Internet Culture”.

155. On May 17, 2002, China Telecom made a start on “China Vnet” plan in Guangzhou, which indicated the alliance of ISPs and ICPs in building the industrial chain on broadband Internet.

156. On May 17, 2002, China Mobile took the lead in providing GPRS services in the whole country. On November 18, Telecommunication Corporation of China Mobile and AT&T jointly announced the starting of the GPRS International Roaming Service between the two companies.

157. On June 27, 2002, the State Administration of Press and Publication and the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) jointly issued “Interim Regulations for the Administration of the Internet Publications”. The regulation was formally put into force on August 1, 2002.

158. On July 3, 2002, the State Informatization Leading Group hosted its second meeting. During the meeting, three documents were approved, i.e. “Informatization – the Key Program in the 10th five-year plan on National Economy and Social Development”, “Guiding Suggestions on Constructing China’s E-government” and “Proceeding Program on Promoting Software Industry”.

159. On September 25, 2002, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) issued “Detailed Rules for the Registration of Domain Names”,  “Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy” and “Rules for Accrediting Domain Name Registrars”.

160. On September 29, 2002, Premier Zhu Rongji signed “Regulations for the Management of Places of Internet Accessing”, the order No. 363 of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, It was put into effect on November 15, 2002.

161. On September 30, 2002, “Rules for the Administration of Internet Domain Names in China” was put into force.

162. From October 26 to 31, 2002, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) held its meetings in Shanghai. This was the first ICANN meeting in China. The conference was hosted by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) and the Internet Society of China (ISC).

163. On November 1, 2002, ISC formed the Counter- junk mail coordinated group in Beijing with assistance of 263 Group and Sina.com. The main task of the working group is to protect the proper benefits of Internet users and E-mail service providers in China, fairly use the Internet resources and regulate domestic E-mail service system.

164. On November 22, 2002, the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) issued “The Bulletin about Internet Domain Name System in China”.

165. On November 25, 2002, approving by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the first Internet Conference and Exhibition of China was held in Shanghai with the Internet Society of China as the host. The conference mainly discussed the innovation of the Internet application in China, directing the further development of China’s Internet industry. The theme of the conference was “The application of the Internet – long for innovation”.

166. On December 16, 2002, as a sole registry of .CN, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) transmitted its customer services to the accredited registrars. This is a fundamental innovation in domain name registration service system since the deployment of .CN ccTLD in 1990 in China.

167. On January 16, 2003, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) published the 11th “Statistical Report on the Development of the Internet in China”. By the end of December 31, 2002, there were about 20.83 million computer hosts and 59.10 million Internet users in China; 179 thousand domain names were registered under .CN. China had about 371 thousand WWW websites and 9380M of the international bandwidth.

168. On March 17, 2003, China opened the name space of the second level domain under .CN ccTLD. People now are permitted to register names directly under .CN.

169. On March 20, 2003, a youth from Hubei province named Sun Zhigang was beaten to death in Guangzhou. Online Medias around the nation actively participated in reporting this tragedy and raised high concerns of the society. The Internet demonstrated its great power as a media to voice public opinion. The pressure urged the related authority to successfully close the case, and pushed the state council developed policy to protect homeless people.

170. On April 9, 2003, China Netcom (CNC) announced in Beijing that it was officially independent from CHINANET of China Telecom, and ceremoniously launched its new service brand – “Broad Band CHINA 169”.