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Shijingshan gets Digital Entertainment Demonstration Base
2005/08/14
A Beijing Digital Entertainment Demonstration Base will be
built in Shijingshan District, according to Ma Lin, director of
the Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology.
On July 21, Ma said the Beijing Digital Entertainment
Demonstration Base will be established in Shijingshan District
within two years and that it will focus on research into online
games, mobile games, animation creation, digital films, and
other products.
The Shijingshan District Government has added the digital
entertainment industry to its list of major projects this year,
because they consider it a very important industry. More than
180 million yuan collected from the Beijing Municipal
Government, the Shijingshan District Government and the
enterprise itself, have been invested in the enterprise.
The 20,000-square-metre base will be located in the Xishan
scenic area in Beijing; work on it will begin at the end of
this year.
Although the digital entertainment industry in China is just
beginning, it is expanding rapidly. Online-game players are
increasing by 100 percent per year and there are now more than
300 million mobile phone users. This has created a solid
foundation for the rapid development of computer games.