| Hello, 中国! |
| 22 Jan 2018 |
| Tags: community, china |
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| Andrew Bonventre |
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| * Introduction |
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| We are thrilled to announce that the content on |
| [[https://golang.org][golang.org]] is now available in mainland China through |
| the name [[https://golang.google.cn][https://golang.google.cn]]. |
| The growing Go developer community in China can now directly access official |
| documentation, technical articles, and binaries. |
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| The Go community in China is bigger than ever. |
| In 2015, Robert Griesemer [[gopherchina][visited Shanghai]] to attend |
| GopherChina, the first Go conference in the country. |
| In the years since, it has become one of the largest Go conferences in the world |
| with over 1200 attendees at their 2017 event. |
| Over the same period, one of the most popular |
| [[https://gocn.io][community-built Go forums]] saw their traffic increase |
| threefold and the number of participants in Go-specific groups on social |
| platforms like WeChat and QQ has grown to over 11,000 people. |
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| Go adoption within China-based companies has also increased, with |
| [[https://www.qiniu.com/][Qiniu]], [[http://www.huawei.com/][Huawei]], |
| [[http://www.alibabagroup.com/][Alibaba]], and countless others using Go heavily |
| in their production stacks. |
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| We’re excited to provide even more resources for Go developers in China to |
| supplement the excellent material already available to them, but this is just |
| the beginning. We’ll be focusing on making Go more accessible to non-English |
| speakers in 2018, so keep watching this space. |
