January 25, 2006

www.miibeian.gov.cn


The red link in the screenshot points to www.miibeian.gov.cn.

Here is the list of the most visited sites in China:

1 www.mofcom.gov.cn 1301.84
2 www.cofortune.com.cn 1007.39
3 www.miibeian.gov.cn 670.901

www.miibeian.gov.cn is the website of a special management system of the Ministry of Information Industry, which decided to close down all web sites that failed to register with local telecommunications authorities before June 30 2005. The registration aimed to control domestic Internet information services.

The Chinese government is using a new internet content management system named the "Night Crawler System" (pa chong) to block access to websites that have not been registered with authorities.