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China will open up seven telecom value-added services to foreign capital in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, with five allowing for full foreign ownership.
A senior telecom official says services with no cap for foreign ownership will include app stores, store and forward, domestic multi-party communication, call centers and home Internet access.
That was according to Wen Ku, head of the telecom development department of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Online data and dealing analysis services will allow a foreign ownership of no more than 55 percent.
The move is another step in opening up China's telecom sector as the country has already committed under the World Trade Organization to open information service, store-and-forward, and online data and dealing analysis services, with a 50-percent cap for foreign stake.
Enterprises that apply for the services should register and base their infrastructure in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, and all services may be available to the whole country, except home Internet access services. This service will be confined within the zone.

The cloud computing center of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has officially started operations. This is a key step for Xinjiang in building a regional information hub for Central and Western Asia.
The center has been built by Dawning Information Industry Company, a national high-tech enterprise. The company currently provides cloud computing services for electronic government platforms, urban management, language and culture, and new energy development.
Xinjiang named the cloud computing industry as a strategic and new industry in 2011. The region has invested about 30 billion yuan, or some five billion U.S. dollars, in the industry with a number of projects launched.
In the next ten years, Xinjiang aims to realize an annual output value of 32 billion yuan in the industry and become the largest data center in western China.
Cloud computing generally refers to services, including software and storage, accessed by users through the Internet.