China Development Gateway launched a new Chinese version of its website on the Spring Festival Eve. The updated site will focus on China's economic development, share China's development experience with the world, and contribute to poverty reduction, development, and international cooperation.

More than 140 new columns and features such as Latest Development Report, China Economic Statistics, Definition of Economic Terms, Regional Development, Urban Issues, AIDS, Anti-corruption, and Food Safety, have been added to the new version. Economic issues are clearly classified as macroeconomics, regional economics, industry economics, and finance. Reports about economic boom, macroeconomic forecast, GDP, statistics in western development, industry analysis, corporation boom, rural society, and farm produce prices, are available for research purposes. Poverty reduction and development are two major tasks of China Development Gateway, so the Social Development column is enhanced in the new Chinese version. Services such as travel, weather, map, search engine, global tender bidding information, and netizen survey, are also available in the new version.

16 new economic features were added, including economic data statistics of ten year's development, 2007 industry reform, Green GDP, 2007 capital flow of central government, and economic data statistics of China's western areas.

Much positive feedback has been received since the new version came online. Officials of World Bank China Office and Washington headquarters highly praised the new version and recommended it to other Country Gateways immediately. Many economists in China sent congratulatory letters to China Development Gateway, "China Development Gateway is a professional website that focuses on economics, obviously it is maintained by senior editors." said He Chuanqi, director of China Modernization Strategy Research Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

(China Development Gateway by Wang Sining, March 2, 2007)