BJEDU.CC specially launched an SNS (home.bjedu.cc) for primary and secondary students in Beijing. The site claims to use real-name registration system.

This morning, Chaoyang State Administration of Taxation officially launched it taxation service platform, BJCY.12366.NET.

Eco.gov.cn, a grand and brand-new website that takes “Ecology Civilization” as its thesis, is opened officially in Beijing Forestry University. This symbolizes the official initiation of “Planting trees together, Building an Eco-China”, an activity sponsored by National Afforestation Committee, State Forestry Administration and China Green Foundation.

The Beijing time-honored brand product online shopping mall will be opened in May of this year. Consumers could then purchase online those genuine time-honored brand products. Furthermore, the Ministry of Commerce has planned to legislate and research for the protection and the development of those time-honored brands.

China Family Education, www.chinajtjy.org.cn, co-established by All-China Women’s Federation and China Family Education Society and China.com, went live officially in Beijing yesterday.

Alipay (China) Internet Technolgy Co. Ltd announced its cooperation with Beijing Telecom. Not only post-paid E-Surfing users and firm network could pay on line through Alipay, but also prepaid users could buy recharging cards online via Alipay.

The websites focused on specific area seem to attract more investments even under the financial crisis. AIGOU.COM, a pet website, has recently received a joint investment amounting to tens of millions of USD from SoftBank, IDG and Alibaba.

China Telecom Beijing Branch has announced recently that it would reduce the price for users’ application for “ChangLiao Package”; the lowest monthly charge for phone calls is from ￥49 ($8.1), and the rate for local phone calls has been decreased to ￥0.11 ($ 0.02) per minute.

MAP.GOOGLE.CN, cooperating with WWW.J.CN, released 15 “Beijing Valentine’s Day Maps”, which include maps of restaurants, gifts, chocolate shops, parties, bars, and hotels etc.

Recently, Tiantongyuan service platform, TTY520.COM , launched its own community SNS website—KX.TTYSQ.COM, which is similar to China’s popular social networking site KAIXIN001.COM in terms of style and content.

On 8 November, QEEKA.COM CEO Deng Huanjin announced that, QEEKA has obtained $15m foreign fund. QEEKA is a website that specializes in group-buying of household supplies including building materials and furniture and so on.

On 24 November, XIXII.CN launched a new service of collecting tickets at the train station. With this, passengers could first reserve the tickets online, and then pick them up directly at a pre-arranged place in the Beijing South Train Station