From Shanghai Daily
IMPORTANT Websites run by city government departments have adopted domain names using Chinese characters to make them easier for elderly people and others not fluent in pinyin to use, the city's IT commission said yesterday.
Names using Chinese characters have been adopted by the Websites run by the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Website (
www.spcsc.com) and the local government's portal (
www.shanghai.gov.cn), which attracted 200 million page-views in 2006, according to Shanghai Municipal Informatization Commission. They can still be reached using their old domain names.
"Sites with long names are hard for us to remember and I am glad to hear about the change," said Cai Xiqin, a 50-year-old woman who sometimes surfs online.
City government Websites include information on everything from bus stop locations and how to apply for a passport to daily weather forecasts.
"We are not young and I don't know complicated skills like doing a search. We depend on the government Websites to get information," Cai added.
Across the country, more than 90 percent of government bureaus above the provincial level have adopted Chinese character domain names followed by ".cn" instead of ".com."
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