Susan Shirk Quoted in China Daily
Information game changer
02/24/2011
Zhang Yuwei,
China Daily
With more than 5 million articles, homegrown online encyclopedia Hudong.com is what Chinese netizens are accessing for their bits and bytes. Zhang Yuwei reports from New York.
In 2005, when Pan Haidong founded Hudong.com in Beijing, he had a simple goal: to provide information. Today, Hudong has become the world's largest Chinese encyclopedia website, with more than 5 million articles and more than 13 million users.
Pan, 37, was recently named a Young Global Leader 2011 by the World Economic Forum.
Pan says he is just one of China's "innovative brains" and has seized an opportunity created by the country's booming Internet market.
By December, China's Internet users numbered 450 million - more than the population of the United States. Many experts say that with the current 31 percent Internet penetration rate (compared with more than 70 percent in the US), there is still much room for growth.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
