¡¡ BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched its China Office in Beijing for the purpose of inviting experts in China to join the international project of developing Web standards at W3C.

    The office is based at the School of Computer Science and Engineering of the Beijing Aeronautics and Astronautics University, where an opening ceremony for the China Office was held on April 27-28.

    By opening its China Office in Beijing, W3C actively encourages the Chinese industrial and academic communities in the development of Web standards, W3C announced at its website.

    The W3C China Office is also expected to offer support to innovations of Chinese IT enterprises and internationalization of home-developed IT technologies, said Hu Jinpeng, vice-president ofthe Beijing Aeronautics and Astronautics University, who is also manager of the W3C China Office.

    The Beijing Aeronautics and Astronautics University is a respected university in China with more than 50 years' history. The university has actively and intensively developed its international academic exchange and collaboration programs.

    The School of Computer Science and Engineering of the university ranks among the top computer science schools in China with more than 130 full-time faculty members.

    The school hosts four national, provincial and ministerial key laboratories, and has worked together with German counterpart on software technologies. It has achieved marked progress in research on computer software, new-type Internet technologies, design and development of highly-efficient software.

    W3C is an international consortium where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are members of the consortium.

    W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSALL) in the United States, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), Keio University in Japan, and has 16 offices worldwide. Enditem