China Recreation District
I’m finding this intriguing - China Recreation District. A project sponsored by the Beijing government (I’m taking this to read the municipal government, rather than the Beijing-based national government) to connect Chinese businesses to the world. Projects like this are nothing new, of course! After all, my first-ever internet job, way back in the early 90s, was at a company working on something similar, funded by the Welsh Development Agency. The scope and ambition of this Chinese effort is something new, though, since they’re buying in an existing and very popular European-developed virtual game world; this is going to be one avenue for us Western consumers to go talk directly to Chinese manufacturers! Very cool; I’m definitely going to have to try to visit these people once I’m in Beijing!
- Introduction
- Press release on creating an e-commerce network to directly connect individual consumers to Chinese manufacturers.
- The CRD as a virtual world
- The basis of the virtual world - Entropia Universe, created by Swedish company Mindark.
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
