Dear Sir, As the last New Year of the decade approaches, HURRAH would like to wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous holiday season. By all estimates, China has become the world's most lucrative, largest economic frontier waiting to be explored in the next decades to come. An increasingly full-fledged reform to bring the country into the international economic track , which culminated in its recent agreement with U.S. on market access in many areas covering both goods and services to the world, has turned it into a gigantic market no businessman can afford to overlook. >From a handful of users in mid-1995, China officially had more than 4 million people on-line by July-1999. This figure by CNNIC, however, was greatly underestimated. A more credible number by mid-1999 was over 5 million and set to rise over 10 million by mid-2000 as the fastest growing region in Asia-Pacific. This figure has not yet included those in Hongkong and Taiwan, where net population is estimated to reach 8 million by 2003 . The internet is reshaping the lives of millions of Chinese. Accompanying by the geometric growth in internet population is an increasingly intense demand for localized web content. A recent report by IDC indicates this "clear, consistent preference of viewing website in their own languages" in Asia-Pacific. To reach out to this market, to get an internet edge over your competitors , or simply to introduced yourself to the greatest number of people, there's nothing better than localization, i.e., creating your own Chinese website. Localization---a small step towards a new horizon . Please meet us at http://matrix.crosswinds.net/~localization/ for more details and the latest, hottest news in and about China. Denise. H Marketing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1999/12/9 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
