CND Celebrates 10th Anniversary on March 6, 1999 (GL99-029)
CND-US Editors
(Global News, No. GL99-029)
Special Issue: China News Digest Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
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Saturday, March 6, 1999
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CND is a community-based free news/info service provided by volunteers.
Views expressed are those of the contributor or the original author. Due
to lack of staff, facts are not verified and readers' discretion is advised.
All CND publications are copyrighted. Archiving and redistribution are
hereby permitted provided that it is with proper acknowledgment to CND and
that CND publications are not used in part or in whole to generate any form
of revenue directly or indirectly. See trailer of this package for more
information about CND and its services.
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ISSN 1024-9117
Table of Contents # of Lines
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1. Ten-Year Volunteer Operation to Disseminate News: "What's CND?"
-- from the Editor-in-Chief .......................................... 58
2. CND Tenth Anniversary Golf Shirt and Mouse Pad Made to Order ......... 50
3. Frequently Asked Questions About China News Digest .................. 212
4. Listing of 1998 CND Volunteers ....................................... 40
5. The Making of "China News Digest" ................................... 205
6. CND Readers Around the Globe ......................................... 42
For CND Golf Shirt, see http://www.cnd.org/shirt or e-mail cnd-...@cnd.org
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1. Ten-Year Volunteer Operation to Disseminate News: "What's CND?"
-- from the Editor-in-Chief .......................................... 58
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Written on March 6, 1998 by Bo XIONG, Updated on March 6, 1999 by Bo XIONG
Time flies! It was like yesterday when CND started sending China-related
news to our initial 400 readers over the Internet on March 6, 1989.
Although China News Digest has been around for 10 years on the Internet,
the question "What's CND?" is still emerging, explicitly and/or implicitly,
in letters from readers to CND everyday.
To me and volunteer workers of CND, the answer is short and clear: CND is a
volunteer news organization operating on the Internet to disseminate news
about China.
The world is no longer what it was, the Internet is no longer what it was
and the free services provided by CND are greatly expanded. The answer has
been unchanged since March 6, 1989 when CND was founded.
Beside many changes in CND's daily operation, we are unchanged in many
aspects: CND maintains its voluntary and non-profit nature of the
organization, continues to aim at providing news and other information
services to readers who are concerned primarily about China-related
affairs, remains independent and strives to be impartial on issues and
news it reports. For short, we stick to the very reasons for CND's
existence.
Continuous growth of readership (currently overall 180,000 worldwide) and
supports in various forms from readers, commitment and dedication by CND
volunteers and our unchanged mission are the keys to bring CND to what it
is today.
To maintain and improve our free services to readers, we still need
supports from readers beside the efforts by CND volunteers. Supports
from readers can come in many forms: making donations to CND, joining
CND's volunteer team work, etc. CND greatly appreciates the thousands of
readers and organizations that have made generous donations to CND since
March 6, 1989.
This year, we updated "Frequently Asked Questions About China News Digest"
for our 10th anniversary special issue. We hope our readers find more
answers to their questions, understand more about CND and provide
more help for us to serve the public better, after reading the new FAQ.
Finally, let me conclude with what my CND colleague Bing WEN wrote in
the 1996 CND Anniversary Issue: "Believe it or not, we are doing this out of
our own free will. While each of us in CND is different, we share the same
vision: a prosperous and democratic China, where access to information is
a right - not a privilege."
Thank you very much!
Bo XIONG
Editor-in-Chief
China News Digest
March 6, 1999
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2. CND Tenth Anniversary Golf Shirt and Mouse Pad Made to Order ......... 50
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Source: http://www.cnd.org/shirt/ and cnd-...@cnd.org
As CND's Tenth Anniversary approaches, China News Digest offers CND Golf
Shirt/CND Mouse Pad to readers who donate US$50/$20 or more to support CND's
continuous operation as a not-for-profit organization.
The CND Golf Shirts are the first series of Golf Shirts to mark CND's Tenth
anniversary for those who donate US$50 or more. They are of limited edition,
superior quality, and highly collectible. The CND Mouse Pads are also highly
collectable item for these who donate US$20 or more, but less than US$50 (See
detailed description below.)
To order your CND Golf Shirt, please write the following information on a
piece of paper and send it to the address below, along with your US$50
donation check or money order, payable to CND/HXWZ.
1. Amount donated:
2. Shirt Size: (Available sizes are: M, L, XL, XXL)
3. Name:
4. Email:
5. Full Shipping Address: (Including street, city, state/province,
zip/postal code and country)
Send your order to:
CND/HXWZ
P.O. Box 7113
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089-7113
USA
The Golf Shirt will be mailed to you upon receipt of your order form and
donation. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
A description of CND Golf Shirt as a gift for donation of $50 or more:
Deluxe light grey Golf Shirt with collar and buttons; 100% cotton with three
woodtone buttons, short sleeve, one color silk screen on left crest (the CND
10th Anniversary logo will be printed on the left upper front, approximately
100 mm in diameter).
CND will send you a complimentary CND 10th Anniversary Mouse Pad instead (a
8 inches round, rubber base and hard top mouse pad with CND Logo imprinted
on it) if your donation is US$20 or more, but less than $50.
For more information and sample pictures of CND Golf Shirt and CND Pad,
please visit our web site http://www.cnd.org/shirt/ or send an e-mail to
cnd-...@cnd.org (Bo XIONG, Bing WEN, Wei LIN)
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3. Frequently Asked Questions About China News Digest .................. 212
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_From: Bing WEN, Fang WU, Wei LIN, 03/06/97
Supplemented and Updated by: Bo XIONG, 03/06/98
Updated by: Bo XIONG, 03/06/99
Source: CND Board of Directors <cnd-...@cnd.org>
The following commonly asked questions are answered in this FAQ:
[Q] Whose opinions do you represent and what purpose does CND serve?
[Q] What can I do if I feel that CND is biased in news reporting?
[Q] Do you take part in political activities?
[Q] What services does CND provide?
[Q] Who supports CND financially?
[Q] Is my donation to CND tax deductible in the U.S.?
[Q] What document do I need to claim "tax-deductible" donations?
[Q] How to make a donation and receive a CND gift?
[Q] Do you accept very small donations?
[Q] Does CND accept money from political organizations or governments?
[Q] Do you get paid at CND?
[Q] What attracts you to work for CND as volunteer?
[Q] Do you need more volunteers?
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[Q] Whose opinions do you represent and what purpose does CND serve?
[A] CND volunteers are not here to represent all opinions or a specific
opinion. We are here to disseminate news about China.
Founded on March 6, 1989, CND is an independent news organization.
We present news and information when they are freely available, ready
to use by us and deemed of reference value to a portion of our readers.
Any views in any way expressed in news do not necessarily represent
CND's stand, nor necessarily represent opinions of the majority or
minority of our readership.
The purpose of our operation is very simple:
We strive to (1) timely disseminate news and information related to
China or other information considered to be of special interest to
CND readers, (2) serve the overseas Chinese community, and (3) promote
Chinese culture and Chinese computing.
[Q] What can I do if I feel that CND is biased in news reporting?
[A] You can do something very simple: make what you consider as unbiased
news freely available for CND to use.
i.e., you can do just like CND volunteers are doing everyday:
find the news you think as unbiased, transcribe it into e-mail format
and rewrite it into a copyright-free piece if it's copyrighted.
Then mail it to cnd-e...@cnd.org (hx...@cnd.org if it's in Chinese
language) -- it's so simple. This is much more effective than
sending comments and complaints on a specific piece of news to CND.
Or better yet: you can join CND to improve our service (see later
portion of this FAQ for details).
Also, please remember that CND is here to serve as a news provider,
and sometimes as an alternative news source for those network users
who usually do not have many choices of news media coverages.
A side note is that "balance in news reporting" is usually realized
over a certain time period. One or two issues of publications
on certain topics would not best serve the basis for judgement.
If worst comes worst, you can always unsubscribe from CND and turn to
other widely available Internet news publishers, which are not run
by volunteers and operate out of Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
and the rest of the world. To sign off CND, send an e-mail to
cnd-...@cnd.org
[Q] Do you take part in political activities?
[A] CND as a non-profit news organization does not conduct political
activities.
Established on March 6, 1989, CND reports all issues related to
China, political, economic or cultural, and does not take side on
those issues. CND does not prohibit its members from pursuing politics
and in fact many of them have their off-CND activities in a broad range
of political areas. However, we have strict rules to avoid conflict of
interests in CND news reporting so that unbiased news reporting can be
ensured.
[Q] What services does CND provide?
[A] Many, and all of them are free of charge.
CND currently provides the following services:
CND-Global: General news about China for global readership,
usually publishes three times a week.
Hua Xia Wen Zhai (CND Chinese Magazine): A weekly Chinese publication.
CND-US: News concerning Chinese community in the U.S., biweekly.
CND-Canada: News concerning Chinese community in Canada, biweekly.
CND-EP: News concerning Chinese community in Europe/Pacific, biweekly.
CINET NL: China's InterNET Technical Forum Newsletter, monthly.
CND Community Services on WWW: CND Publications
CND InfoBase Photo Archives, Libraries
Match Making "Cupid"
Bridge of Friendship
CSSA Directory
CSS Job Central
Alumni Associations
World Wide Web: http://www.cnd.org & http://ww2.cnd.org (mirror server)
http://proxy.cnd.org (proxy server)
http://proxy1.cnd.org:8000/ (proxy server at port 8000)
Anonymous ftp: ftp.cnd.org & canada.cnd.org (mirror server)
Gopher: gopher://cnd.org or gopher://cnd-b.cnd.org
For detailed information on the scope of the services, how to subscribe
to CND publications and how to access CND's www, ftp and gopher sites,
please send an e-mail to: CND-...@CND.ORG
[Q] Who supports CND financially?
[A] Mostly are readers like you.
You can support CND in many ways:
(1) Send a donation check to CND
(2) Click links on CND's WWW site to CND's corporate sponsors
(3) Find a corporate sponsor for CND
[Q] Is my donation to CND tax deductible in the U.S.?
[A] Yes, it is. Please refer to the determination letter
CND received from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for
more information. <http://www.cnd.org/determination.html>
[Q] What document do I need to claim "tax-deductible" donations?
[A] If requested, CND will send you a copy of the Letter 947 which
is the same as the "determination" letter mentioned above. The
US IRS has confirmed that that letter should be sufficient for
you to make the claim.
[Q] How to make a donation and receive a CND gift?
[A] Make your check payable to CND/HXWZ and send it to:
CND/HXWZ
P.O.Box 10111
Gaithersburg, MD 20898-0111, U.S.A.
To make a contribution and receive a CND Golf Shirt and/or
CND Mouse Pad, please send an e-mail to cnd-...@cnd.org
or go to http://www.cnd.org/shirt/ for detail information.
[Q] Do you accept very small donations?
[A] Yes, we do. Every penny counts. However, it takes our time and cost
money to cash a cheque at the bank. We appreciate your generosity.
If you use CND services on a regular basis, we suggest you make a
donation of US$20 or more annually and send to the address listed
above.
Your donation will enable us to do regular maintenance/upgrade of the
CND servers and network connections and hence keep the free services
going.
[Q] Does CND accept money from political organizations or governments?
[A] CND is a community-based free service. We welcome donations and
support from all sources. But we do not accept unreasonable strings
attached. For example, we have received donations from a few sources
for the "Virtual Museum of Cultural Revolution" project in the past
few years. The only condition attached to the contributions, which
we accepted, is that the money must be used on Cultural Revolution-
related projects, such as obtaining, inputting, and maintaining the
historical documents, articles, and photos for the electronic archive
on our website. We would have refused the money if the donor had
requested, for example, that we must include or exclude certain material
for our collection. We would also refuse any money if the donor
requested any favorable news coverage for any particular political
organizations or governments.
[Q] Do you get paid at CND?
[A] No, all volunteers don't.
CND publishes five weekly English newsletters and one comprehensive
Chinese magazine serving an estimated readership of 180,000 across
five continents. In addition, we have several Sun workstations
running 24 hour per day, 7 days a week supporting CND's website and
anonymous FTP service.
An active CND volunteer spends on average 20 hours a week to keep
these services running. We currently have about 20 most dedicated CND
members who login to CND servers daily to perform various duties.
We also have a volunteer news writing team supporting CND-Global.
Because of these people's generous efforts, CND's free services have
been available to the readers around the globe since March 6, 1989.
Our volunteers' time, efforts, and dedication are priceless.
The donations CND receives are used for purchasing, maintaining, and
upgrading CND machines, as well as purchasing and processing
documents/materials for our news service, Chinese magazine, and
the InfoBase projects such as June 4th Archive, Virtual Museum
of the Cultural Revolution, and Sino-Japanese War InfoBase.
Starting January 1, 1999, CND uses part of the WWW advertising
revenue to hire external contractors/consultants to perform some
routine work at reasonably low rate. The use of external hands
frees up CND voluteers from tedious routine work and allow them to
spend more time on improving CND services in various areas.
[Q] What attracts you to work for CND as volunteers?
[A] Not the money - that's for sure, since there's none for volunteers.
People join CND to volunteer for various reasons. CND, as a
volunteer-based organization, never questions a volunteer's motive
to help, nor conducts any background checking for volunteers. All
CND expects from the person offering help is accountability of
his/her time. CND volunteers are either established professionals in
their own careers or students working on their graduate degrees.
[Q] Do you need more volunteers?
[A] Yes, we do. Volunteering is another form of donation. Currently,
we are in urgent need of people who are able and willing to take some
time to read a couple of news feeds each week and write news summaries
for our various CND English newsletters. We are also in need of
Chinese typists who can help to type in articles for the CND Chinese
Magazine. Please contact cnd-...@cnd.org for more information.
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4. Listing of 1998 CND Volunteers ....................................... 40
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_From: Bo XIONG
Source: CND, 03/06/1999
CND had about 64 volunteers in 1998 from Australia, United Kingdom, Finland,
Japan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Canada and U.S.A. It is a friendly and
cooperative team that works very hard to deliver news and other services
to readers on a daily basis. We welcome more of our readers who can make
serious long-term commitment for volunteer work with us.
It is impossible for us to list everyone who have worked in CND in past
ten years. However, when you read through CND/HXWZ back issues and access
files in CND's WWW, FTP and GOPHER sites, you can find several hundred
names of those who have worked as editors, writers, reporters, technical
staff, web masters and other helpers in CND since March, 6, 1989.
Listing of 1998 CND Voluteers:
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BAO Ruixian CHEN Jian DING Yungui Fabian Fang
GUAN Weihe HUA Xinmin LI Jianmin LI Tongbin
LIN Wei LIU Dong LIU Jian LIU Weijun
Ray Zhang WANG Chaohua WEN Bing WU Fang
WU Xueyi XIONG Bo XU Mingyang YU Zijian
ZHANG Ronggang ZHENG Liedong ZHOU Haosheng
Andrew Marble BU Qiujing CHEN Hailin CHEN Xiaofen
Cindy Wang CONG Xioaping CUI Ying Ding Ding
GAO Hualin Jenny Huang LI Shangjing LI Xiaolin
LIN Zhanglin Linda Wu LIU Yanping LUO Zhenyuan
KE Xiayi MA Sifeng MING Reiguang Monica Wang
Peter Li Peter Neville-Hadley Phil Stephens Sam Huntings
Sherman Teng SHEN Shiji Sue Bruell TANG Jijun
Terry Thompson WANG Damin WANG Yan WU Feng
XIAO Yi XU Jingdong YANG Jianhua YANG Shanlin
ZHANG Kewen ZHANG Ming ZENG Min ZHOU Zhenbing
ZHU Junhua
Note: Some of those in the lists voluteered their time for part of the 1998.
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5. The Making of "China News Digest" ................................... 205
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Originally by: Bo XIONG and Gang XU, 02/1991
Updated by: Yagui WEI, 3/6/1991; Deming TANG, 3/6/1992; Wei LIN, 3/6/1993;
Mingyang XU, 3/6/1994; Fang WU, 3/6/1995; Bing WEN, 3/6/1996;
Bo XIONG, 3/6/1997; Bo XIONG, 3/6/1998; BO XIONG, 3/6/99
China News Digest was born out of the ever-increasing need for information
exchange on the network among Chinese students and scholars.
On March 4, 1989, two Chinese students in Canada, Luping LIANG and Roupeng
ZHU proposed a plan for a communication network for Chinese students in
Canada and asked two Chinese students, Bo XIONG and Ziye ZHOU in the United
States, for help. This cross-border arrangement was intended to evade the
pressures from the Chinese Consulates in Canada, which had a higher degree
of control on Chinese students than their U.S. counterparts.
After less than two days of preparations, the first CND package was
broadcasted on March 6, 1989 to about 400 readers in Canada. The package
was first written by Bo XIONG, edited by Roupeng ZHU and distributed by Ziye
ZHOU. The initial distribution list was provided by Luping LIANG.
At the beginning, CND was broadcasted two or three times a week. By April
1989, it became a daily service. As the unforgettable events in China began
to unfold, the list of CND readers began to expand rapidly and the service
was eventually expanded to the United States and the rest of the world.
In the meantime, new volunteers began to join in. In June 1989, the group
had five members, broadcasting from two personal accounts, one to Canada,
one to the U.S. and other countries. There were about 1,000 readers at the
time. The group called itself News Digest (ND), with Gang XU as the first
manager. From then on, CND has held all-member elections annually, with
Yagui WEI, Deming TANG, Wei LIN, Mingyang XU, Fang WU, and Bing WEN
elected as managers, each for a one year term. Since January 1996, CND has
held election of board of directors every two years and the board appoints
the manager. Bing WEN also became the first appointed manager after CND
board was elected. The current CND Manager is Bo XIONG, who was initially
appointed in January 1997 and then appointed by the board for a second term
in February 1998. CND Manager is in charge of the daily operations and acts
as the editor-in-chief for all CND publications.
The readership of CND kept growing in the Summer of 1989, with two big
additions during this period:
1) The Electronic Newsletter for Chinese Students (ENCS) was closing due
to the shortage of manpower. The head of ENCS contacted ND staff members
during the IFCSS Chicago conference and expressed willingness to hand over
its reader list to ND so that the news service could be continued for the
ENCS readers. The merger of the lists was completed by the end of August,
1989;
2) Minghui YAO and Yaxiong LIN set up a listserver account at Arizona State
University and started their own news service to students in the United
States. They later joined the ND group and hence greatly improved ND's
broadcasting power.
In September, 1989, the group was renamed as China News Digest (CND), and
was serving about 4,000 readers, mainly in the U.S. and Canada, through
two listserv accounts at Arizona State University and Kent State University,
and a mailing list at University of Toronto in Canada.
It was also decided that regional services, CND-US and CND-Canada, would be
opened to provide readers with more local news. By the end of September,
1989 CND had about ten working staff volunteers.
In addition to providing China-related news, CND has been making extensive
reports on student activities on campuses in the U.S., Canada, Japan and
Australia. CND also established several special columns to meet special
needs of its readers. The first one, Organization Introduction was opened
in the winter of 1989. More columns and services were added later, such as
Books and Journals Review, Q & A, Market Watch and Sports Highlights columns.
CND also pays special attention to issues concerning CSS and gathers
information to make special news broadcasts for readers' reference, such as
the Olympic Games, and the Most Favored Nation trade status between the U.S.
and China, and issues of concern with regard to the Permanent Resident Status
for CSS overseas. Special packages on these and other special topics have
been archived for easy retrieval by CND readers.
On March 18, 1990, CND further expanded its service to areas outside of
North America by establishing its Europe/Pacific section -- CND-EP.
A major project was successfully launched on April 5, 1991. With
increasing readership, CND began to distribute its first issue of Chinese
Magazine named Hua Xia Wen Zhai. This weekly digest has quickly attracted
many CND readers and by the beginning of 1992, its readership reached more
than 4,000 (direct subscribers). Currently Hua Xia Wen Zhai has over 15,000
direct subscriptions via e-mail. In addition, every week, there are about
9,000 netters retrieving the magazine's PostScript and PDF files and printing
them on laser printers. There are also about 14,000 retrievals of the
magazine's GB-code file for each issue from CND's ftp server. Many other
readers access it via USENET newsgroups. With weekly Hua Xia Wen Zhai homepage
visits being about 126,000, the number of visits to individual issue pages is
about five times more.
The highlight of the year in 1993 was the generous donation from our readers
which enabled the acquisition of our own machine, cnd.org, with her own
Internet connections and the subsequent service to the CND readers. CND is
delighted to see that the machine is heavily accessed by our readers. Every
week, the two CND ftp servers send out more than 38,600 documents by request
from readers all over the world, with an average traffic rate of 7.2
Gigabytes per week.
In February 1993, a new working group within CND was formed. The objectives
of this new group, named CND-IB for "InfoBase," are to develop and maintain
an electronic information base for public access through the international
network. The information base would include information that is related to
China and/or Chinese and has historical and/or long-term service values to
the public. The group has already collected a large amount of information
for public access via the cnd.org machine. The CND InfoBase group is
continually expanding the database. Reader contributions are welcome and
can be submitted to cnd...@cnd.org.
To help facilitate more communications between the Internet community with
China, CND sponsored the China InterNET Letter (CINET-L) in August 1993, a
newsletter that serves as a forum for computer professionals in China to
exchange computer/technical information with the rest of the world. Since
May 1994, China has established direct Internet connections, while CINET-L
remains a useful resource to Internet users in Mainland China.
In January 1994, CND decided to establish another Internet site of its own
to ensure continuity in service. On June 4, 1994, CND opened its World Wide
Web server http://www.cnd.org/ to the public. Three years ago, the CND WWW
server was receiving 7,000 hits per day. It hosts all the CND publications
and the CND InfoBase material, and points to many other China-related sites.
CND also maintains a mirror ftp/www site at canada.cnd.org to provide faster
access for readers in Canada.
Special homepages have been added during the years to the CND web site. They
include: Land of Beauty -- China Scenery Pictures, Chinese Classics, Chinese
Calendars, Job Bulletin for CSS, Directory of Chinese Students/Professionals
Organizations, June 4th Victims Memorial, Virtual Cultural Revolution
Museum, Nanjing Massacre Victims Memorial and a newly added matchmaking
service. Meanwhile the hit rate to the CND site has increased dramatically
as the web itself becomes the main Internet communication channel.
In 1998, the main CND web server is receiving approximately 4 million hits
per week (with 30% being auxiliary graphics files), and sending out over 70
Gigabytes of information per week. The CND top homepage alone receives about
30,000 visits a day, while the Hua Xia Wen Zhai sub-homepage (in various
Chinese coding schemes) is visited by an average of 25,000 times a day. Other
popular pages are the aforementioned special homepages and the new issues of
all CND publications.
In November 1994, in order to voluntarily comply with the copyright law and
to reduce the EEs' heavy workload, a new working group, news-writer, was
established. This group consists of volunteers who are not current CND
staff members but are willing to contribute their time and skills to CND
English services. The main task of this group is to rewrite news-brief
items or to compile and rewrite full-item news based on the original news
sources for CND posting. Thanks to the hard working rewriters, this group
now has become a crucial sector of CND to ensure its smooth operation.
On February 13, 1995, as approved by the Maryland State Department of
Assessments and Taxation, CND was officially registered as a non-profit
organization with headquarters in the State of Maryland, U.S.A. The
registered name of CND is China News Digest International, Inc. On May 9,
1996, CND obtained its tax exemption status as approved by the US Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code as
an organization described in section 501(c)(3) (For details, please see
http://www.cnd.org/whatiscnd.html ). CND will continue its traditions of
being globally-oriented and providing quality service free of charge to its
readers.
While CND's total direct subscriptions have numbered more than 47,000 in
about a dozen mailing lists in the past few years, we serve tens, if not
hundreds, of thousands more readers via the CND www/ftp/gopher servers,
and about one hundred redistribution lists managed by others. The number
of CND active volunteers stays at around 60 people, about 40% of them are
"core members" who commit more time to do CND work daily for prolonged
periods. Each volunteer may be involved with news collection, writing,
editing, proofreading, coordinating, technical support to editing groups and
to readers, etc. CND volunteers are mostly overseas Chinese students and
scholars. They are full-time students, professors, researchers or other
professionals. Many of them are in the U.S. and Canada, some in Europe,
Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. Since 1996, CND has also
several volunteers in Mainland China who continued to work in CND while
they lived there for almost entire year as students. They work cooperatively
through the computer network. As the years pass by, groups of CND members
have held joyful mini-gatherings whenever they have the chance. Still many of
them have never met their colleagues in person.
During the year 1997, CND continued and completed its transformation from
a loose volunteer's group into a non-profit organization with much more
stable membership, while all the members remain volunteers. As time goes
by, the composition of CND core membership has greatly changed over the nine
years.
In March 1989, all members were students. In late 1989, there were fewer
than 3 professionals in the membership. Today, there are fewer than 3
current students in the core membership. Several CND veterans have been
working for CND for over 9 years, many members of the core group have been
volunteering their time in CND for more than 7 years. While having
contributed several hours per day to readers, they walked all the way through
schools and moved into professional lives.
In 1998, CND established several proxy servers, added and upgraded www
servers and set up new listserv lists to better serve our readers.
Several new services, such as "Match Making 'Cupid'" and "Bridge of
Friendship," were added to http://www.cnd.org site. Our corporate
sponsorship program and grants CND received have been providing supports
to extra internet connections for CND WWW sites.
As the making of history progresses in China, the making of CND also
continues.
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_From: Wei LIN Source: CND, 3/6/98; updated 3/6/99
CND Readers reside in more than 111 regions/countries in Africa, Asia,
Oceania, Europe, North America and South America. They are:
Argentina, Armenia(*), Australia, Austria, Azerbaidjan(*), the Bahamas(*),
Bahrain(*), Belize(*), Belgium, Bermuda(*), Botswana, Bosnia-Herzegovina(*),
Brazil, Brunei(*), Bulgaria(*), Cambodia(*), Canada, Chile, China(Mainland),
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