Facebook gains by aiding nation's exporters

United States-based Facebook Inc, operator of the world's largest socialnetworking site, said its business aiding China's exporters to reach global markets is seeing fast growth even as its main Internet services remain blocked in the nation.

Facebook also has "thousands" of application developers in China, Vice-President Vaughan Smith told the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

Smith didn't comment on the outlook for offering Facebook's social network in China, where it's accessible only through proxy services that sidestep government censors.