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Hello, 中国!

Andrew Bonventre
22 January 2018

We are thrilled to announce that the content ongolang.org is now available in mainland China throughthe namehttps://golang.google.cn.The growing Go developer community in China can now directly access officialdocumentation, technical articles, and binaries.

The Go community in China is bigger than ever.In 2015, Robert Griesemervisited Shanghai to attendGopherChina, the first Go conference in the country.In the years since, it has become one of the largest Go conferences in the worldwith over 1200 attendees at their 2017 event.Over the same period, one of the most popularcommunity-built Go forums saw their traffic increasethreefold and the number of participants in Go-specific groups on socialplatforms like WeChat and QQ has grown to over 11,000 people.

Go adoption within China-based companies has also increased, withQiniu,Huawei,Alibaba, and countless others using Go heavilyin their production stacks.

We’re excited to provide even more resources for Go developers in China tosupplement the excellent material already available to them, but this is justthe beginning. We’ll be focusing on making Go more accessible to non-Englishspeakers in 2018, so keep watching this space.

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