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• China's one-child population is very wired. They have mobiles, broadband internet, Ipods etc. and so they are used to communicating with multiple individuals daily. At the moment they do this one-to-one but over time they may begin to see the value of extending the model to build communities
• China took to the Bulletin Board much quicker than other countries. This model is still strong in China and could provide a springboard to new, more open communities based on a social software or an industry portal model.
• Companies in China are moving more and more to the matrix model of management. This is a community on a micro-scale and we may see people taking this thinking into their social and public lives.
• There is a strong stated desire among Chinese professionals for 'Community', of any kind. The most common response that I received to my communications on this issue was, 'Community? Sounds great. Where do I sign up?'
• The business potential of the community model and the arrival of the international social software sites. These sites are still currently restricted to speakers of English but local sites are beginning to appear.
• There is the possibility that some smart individual in China may build a community based on slightly different model from the ones that we have seen and it may take off like LinkedIn and OpenBC did.