MIIT Announces Information Consumption Pilot Cities Notification

In the spirit to promote the State Council's "Regarding the Promotion of Information Consumption Domestic Demand Opinions"[National Law (2013) No. 32], the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced "MIIT Notification (2013) No. 701" on Oct. 23rd to announce a national selection of 50 pilot cities to participate in a two-year 1st phase pilot program starting Jan. 2014.

MIIT's Working Group shall begin reviewing applications in mid-november and the Leading Working Group shall nominate 50 cities based on Working Group recommendations by December 2013. For more information, please refer to MIIT's notification in Chinese.