China\u2019s southernmost province of Hainan is piloting a programme to grant select corporate users broad access to the global internet, a rare move in a country known for having some of the world\u2019s most restrictive online censorship, as the island seeks to transform itself into a global free-trade port.<\/p>\n
Employees of companies registered and operating in Hainan can apply for the \u201cGlobal Connect\u201d mobile service through the Hainan International Data Comprehensive Service Centre (HIDCSC), according to the agency, which is overseen by the state-run Hainan Big Data Development Centre.<\/p>\n
The programme allows eligible users to bypass the so-called Great Firewall, which blocks access to many of the world\u2019s most-visited websites, such as Google<\/a> and Wikipedia.Applicants must be on a 5G plan with one of the country\u2019s three major state-backed carriers \u2013 China Mobile<\/a>, China Unicom<\/a> or China Telecom<\/a> \u2013 and submit their employer\u2019s information, including the company\u2019s Unified Social Credit Code, for approval. The process can take up to five months, HIDCSC staff said.<\/p>\n Once approved, users will gain access to the global internet at no additional cost, according to an HIDCSC representative, who declined to be named because the person was not authorised to speak to news media. There are currently no restrictions on company size or business scope, and the service has attracted significant business interest, the person said.<\/p>\n However, while platforms such as YouTube, X<\/a> and TikTok<\/a> would be accessible, some websites would remain off-limits, according to the staff member, who did not elaborate on what type of content would still be blocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s southernmost province of Hainan is piloting a programme to grant select corporate users broad access to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[1395,67643,67645,67644,67642,67638,13213,67641,67639,3082,53,449,16,67640,15,1737],"class_list":{"0":"post-160406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-china-mobile","10":"tag-china-telecom","11":"tag-china-unicom","12":"tag-global-connect","13":"tag-great-firewall","14":"tag-hainan","15":"tag-hainan-big-data-development-centre","16":"tag-hainan-international-data-comprehensive-service-centre","17":"tag-internet","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-tiktok","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-unified-social-credit-code","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114631189778522445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}