China’s efforts focus on several different fronts. On the technical side, the government is licensing a limited number of networks that are connected to the global Internet though their gateways. Currently, only eight large networks have been granted rights to run the gateways. By installing filtering software and firewalls in these gateways, China’s Internet has virtually converted into a national intranet (Tan, 1999). Politically sensitive sites such as cnn.com and pornographic sites have been routinely blocked from access by Internet users in China. This intranet structure gives the Chinese government the power to block any E-commerce services or sites from its domestic consumers.