August.20 (China Defense Mashup Reporting by Johnathan Weng) — The official website of the Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China starts has been online for trial operation today. The domain name of the website is www.mod.gov.cn and it offers English language versions beside the Chinese version.
Screeshot of Website of Chinese Defense Department
Chinese Government says that the website of the Chinese Ministry of National Defense mainly releases authoritative information of China’s national defense and army building and the website is designed to let the outside world have a better perception of China’s national defense policy, display before the world the fine image of the PLA as a mighty, civilized and peaceful force and better promote the national defense and army modernization drive.
In fact this website is powered by Chinamil.com, which is one Internet propaganda agency under “PLA Daily” Newspaper. So the most content of new MOD website is simply copied from Chinamil.com and less attractive, especially in English language version. Besides, the style of new website need to be improved for western browsers.
Unlike the United States DOD website, Chinese Ministry of Defense Website dose not provide high-resolution photos and the video service speed is also sad for the poor bandwidth. Of course, we can not require too much on this new website. But the question is: where the yearly 20 million RMB (nearly 3 million U.S dollar) government investment is spent?
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