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February 17, 2006

New phase of internet cafes

China Tech News notes that Shenzhen is one of the cities officially allowed to ramp up Internet cafe development. 

According to a representative from the Shenzhen Municipal Cultural Bureau, Shenzhen has been listed as one of the nine trial cities in China to set up Internet cafe long-term management mechanisms and been approved to develop a total of 1060 new locations.

You can read all about Beijing's plans to develop a franchise system for managing and controlling Internet cafes in Jack Linchuan Qiu and Zhou Lining's "Through the Prism of the Internet Cafe: Managing Access in an Ecology of Games."

Posted by on February 17, 2006 at 01:47 PM in Internet cafe |

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Victor

Let it be, let it be... What a strange place here.
;)

Posted by: Victor | July 15, 2007 at 10:06 AM

Basil

I have been looking for sites like this for a long time. Thank you!
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Posted by: Basil | July 17, 2007 at 12:22 AM

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