From: john@jho.com (John Ho)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: Fidonet in China
Summary: Fidonet
Keywords: Fidonet in China
Date: 15 Sep 92 01:24:57 GMT
Organization: Software Programming, Inc., Dallas, Texas USA

My friend Samson Luk has just come back from Shaghai after a lot of
Fido talk with the people there and the result is that Fidonet will
spread all over China in the near future.  Here is his summary for his trip.


From stu.ust.hk!gu_jc3 Sun Sep 13 02:09:43 1992
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 > what happened in Shanghai. :)

In Shanghai, I have a meeting with Zone 6 Coordinator (Honlin Lue),
SysOp of Beijing Great Wall BBS (Roy Luo),  a friend of Roy who is going
to setup another BBS in Beijing real soon, one SysOp (his board not yet
on the NodeList) in Shanghai and a group of government official whom
take charge in educational programs.
   
I am glad to kown they are a group of people who really serious and
enthusiast about how to spread this FidoNet technology all over China.
We have plan to promote and introduce the idea and required technology
to setup FidoNet node and how to dial up a BBS, etc. by conducting
seminars and submit article to local magazine in a regular basis.  Due
to special situataion in China, we all agreed that we will have a better
chance to success if we can promote this FidoNet technology for general
purpose use between companies for their business communications.  We
also need to avoid bring in Non-Technical conferences into China - we
need to avoid 'politic' otherwise, FidoNet will died before it get
spread out.

Line quality of public telephone network in China are much better than
before especially good in big cities like Shagnhai and Beijing, etc.
However, it is still not too easy to apply a telephone line, cost of the
phone line is not a major problem - application to install a telephone
line takes 6 months to 1 year to process.  I was told PCs in Beijing are
become more a more popular (an XT clone cost RMB 2,000).  Form what I
can see in the street of Shanghai, the most popular computer there is
the Japanese game machine (cost RMB 500-600)... So it shouldn't be too
difficult for people to affort a PC in the near future if we can have
something like BBSing to dig out their interest.

Telephone call within China are cheap - from Beijing to Shenzhen cost
only RMB 1.8 per minutes (RMB 0.9 during non-peak hours).  China has
became an indenpend region in FidoNet (Region 65) after my visit.

Regards,


From stu.ust.hk!gu_jc3 Mon Sep 14 21:10:22 1992
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In addition, China has her own region (Region 65) in FidoNet
after I came back from Shanghai!  We are in progress of assign Net No. to
every major cities...  Future arrangement will be as follow:

   0. Beijing
   1. Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang
   2. Hebei, Neimenggu, Shanxi, Tianjin
   3. Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanghai
   4. Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian
   5. Henan, Hubei, Anhui
   6. Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan
   7. Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet
   8. Shannxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang

Regards




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