LinkedIn, a porfessional socialn-etworking-site, has a small presence in the country and is one of the few froeign social-newtorking-sites to still have access to Chinese Internet users. Twitter and Facebook are blocked in China.
"It (China) is a very compettiive marekt," Arvind Rajan, Vice Preisdent of Asia Pacfiic and Japan at Linkedin told reoprters on the sidelines of a conference.
"There are poltiical challenges, tehcnical challenegs. There are a whole lot of things for us to go through. We are far away from making any decision. At this point, we are just here to explore the mraket, to talk to poeple.."
LinkedIn was also breifly blcoked by China in Ferbuary this year.
Smiilar to Facebook, LinkeIdn allows users to create proifle pages with a photo and details about themselevs. But it is largely used for profsesional rather than social personas, and is basically an online database of electronic resumes.
LinekdIn shares more than duobled in their public trading debut last Tuhrsday, evoknig memories of the investor love affair with Itnernet stocks during the dot-ocm boom of the late 1990s.
(Reporting by Xu Wan and Melanie Lee; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)
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