China renews Google s operating license

BEIJING - China has confirmed Sunday that Google's license to operate in the most populous country in the world renewed, marking the end month long deadlock over Internet censorship.
An official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Internet operations in China matters, said the government had the license for Beijing Guxiang Information Technology Co. Ltd., operator of Google's China Web site, which was approved by the official Xinhua News Agency.
Officials with U.S. headquarters based Google announced Friday that the company received approval for one year.
China's decision to continue operations in Google has solved a month long dispute that had threatened the company forward in the country.
The conflict arose in January when Google decided four years the practice of leaving out search results that the Chinese government considers subversive or pornographic purpose. Google made the decision after accusing the Chinese hackers to attack it said was intended to steal the company's technology and e-mail information from human rights activists.
The Ministry official, who was not identified, said Guxiang had agreed to "abide by Chinese law" and "ensure the company does not breach legal content," Xinhua said.
The website of the government said Guxiang by some 200 companies whose license was extended until 2012.
"After our evaluation, we decided that Guxiang principle, the requirements are met," the official was quoted.
Guxiang also agreed that all the content it provides is subject to supervision by the government to regulate, the official said.
The Chinese government operates the world's most extensive system of monitoring and Web filtering to block pornographic sites and seen as subversive to the communist regime.
Google has permission from the bow to pressure to an automatic online detour around the country to eliminate censorship demands.
Since March, Google will automatically redirect searches from the mainland to Hong Kong's service. But searches on Google.cn from mainland China now require an extra click on that then the user needs to the Hong Kong site, which is not subject to censorship rules in Beijing.
That small concession was enough for China's regulators to persuade the license renewal, the company said.
China is still not a big moneymaker for Google, accounting for an estimated $ 250 million to 600 million dollars from the company expected 28 billion U.S. dollars in revenue this year. But the number of Internet users in China is estimated at 384 million, over the nearly 200 million in the United States.