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China to invest US$1.8 bn to develop online games
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-07-31 10:40 China plans invest 15 billion yuan(1.8
billion US dollars) to develop 100 kinds of online games with independent
property rights in the next five years, the Shanghai Youth reported.
Yu Yongzhan, deputy director with the Press and Publication Administration of China
(PPAC), was quoted as saying that the PPAC will make joint efforts with other
government departments to speedup the construction of game software development
centers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou cities and Sichuan province
where 10 to 30 home-made online game companies are expected to be
launched within the next three years.
"This will give impetus to the growth of game industry across the country, "
Yu was cited as saying.
The number of Internet users in China, the world's second-largest Internet
market, grew by nine million in the first half of this year to reach 103
million.
The development represented an increase of 18.4 percent over the same period
last year in a market that still has a vast potential for further growth, the
China Daily reported on July 22.
The burgeoning online gaming market proved especially lucrative, with
Internet gamers spending some four billion yuan (483 million dollars) on virtual
equipment for their online alter-egos in the first six months.
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