David Dollar, the World Bank country
director for China and Mongolia, and Austin Hu, the World Bank
country deputy director for China and Mongolia, visited the offices
of China Internet Information Center (CIIC) and China Development
Gateway (CnDG) on Wednesday afternoon.
Dollar joined the Bank in 1990 as an
economist for the Asian Region. He was appointed country director
for China and Mongolia on July 1, 2004.
This was Dollar's first visit to
CIIC.
Under the administration of CIIC,
CnDG is a comprehensive website that is part of the Global
Development Gateway sponsored by the World Bank.
CnDG began a trial run on September
1, 2001. By May 28, 2002, the website was providing comprehensive
information services in both Chinese and English.
Dollar also spoke highly of the
developments made by CIIC and CnDG after he was briefed on their
working procedures and technologies.
On Wednesday morning, Dollar met
with Zhao Qizheng, minister of the State Council Information
Office.
Dollar told the minister that CnDG
had made much progress in the past four years, especially in
relation to the website's introduction of China's poverty-relief
efforts and developments to the rest of the world.
(China.org.cn by Unisumoon June 16,
2005)
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