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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.



 
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