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1956


  • A computer scientist and designer in China, Xia Peisu , edited the first article of computer theory.

  • 1958

  • China began making the first generation of electronic tube computer

  • The first computer technical journal, Developments in Electronic Computers, started publication in Beijing.

  • 1960

  • In 1960, the first computer technical conference was held in Shanghai.

  • 1964

  • Completed make first generation of electronic tube computer.

  • 1964

  • Completed make first generation of electronic tube computer.

  • 1965

  • The first transistorised computers (109B, DJS-21, 441B, DJS-5 and X-2) were launched, one after another in less thanAyear.

  • 1966

  • Acomputer made in China (DJS-5) was sent abroad (to Japan) and exhibited toAforeign public for the first time.

  • 1973

  • The third generation of middle or smallscale integrated circuit computer (1973-1980).

  • The first large-scale integrated circuit computers, DJS-11 (or 150) and 655 (or TQ-6) went into operation.

  • 1974

  • Chinese character information processing systems started to develop.

  • 1976

  • Cangjie Method : Asystem by which Chinese characters may be entered into the computer was Invented by Chu Bong-Foo (朱邦復, pinyin: Zhū Bāngfù)

  • 1977

  • The first microcomputer, DJS-050, was launched.

  • 1979

  • The first national conference on computer applications was held in 1979.

  • 1979

  • GB2312 Code of Chinese Graphic Character Set for Information Interchange-Primary Set. It contains 7445 graphic symbols, including 202 common symbols, 60 serial numbers, 22 digits, 52 Latin letters, 169 Japanese Katakana, 48 Greece letters, 66 Russian letters, 26 Chinese phonetic symbols, 37 Chinese phonetic alphabet and 6763 simplified Chinese characters. It could be used character communication systems.

  • 1982

  • The Shanghai Bureau of Education chose 8 elementary students and 8 middle-school students from each area, carried on most basic computer training to them. This is the first experiment using computer in Children's education.

  • 1979

  • Powerful large scale computers and supercomputers were developed and manufactured and put to good use. include the Model 757 large-scale computer rated at 10 Mflops.

  • 1984

  • The New Technology Developer Inc. (the predecessor of the Legend Group) funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  • 1987

  • In September 1987, China sent out first email: "Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world."

  • 1988

  • The first 386 microcomputer GreatWall 386 came to market.

  • First computer virus was found



1990

  • Prof. Qian Tianbai registered the Country Code Top Level Domain .CN.

  • Top/level Domain .cn was temporally located on the server at University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

  • 1994

  • NCFC connected to the Internet Since then, China has been officially recognized asAcountry with full functional Internet accessibility.

  • The High Energy Physics Institute, CAS, set up China's first web server and made the first set of web pages.

  • Dawn BBS, the first BBS in Chinese mainlandthe was opened by National Research Center for Intelligent Computing Systems.

  • 1995

  • In this year, about 20% of the PC market was accounted for by home computers.

  • Directorate General of Telecommunications began to provide Internet accessing services From then on, the Internet began its commercialization process in China.

  • 1996

  • China's first Internet café , Spark-ice was set up in Beijing in Novermber.

  • 1997

  • On June 3, operated by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Under the authorization and direction of the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), CNNIC was founded China Internet Network Information CenterAnonprofit organization.