China is to announce the ten cities chosen to test its three-system convergence plan around June 25, the Beijing Times reported Thursday.
China passed a draft plan on the three-system convergence earlier this month, which is to integrate the country’s telecom, Internet and TV broadcasting.
As stated in the plan, local governments should apply to participate before June 18. The final list is to be released June 25, the paper said.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT), the two government agencies involved in the plan, will each select five cities, according to Wu Chunyong, an industry analyst.
Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Harbin, Shenyang, Chongqing, Wuhan, Changsha, and Xinzhou, may be chosen as the pilot cities, said Zhao Zishen, an academician with Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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