Most prominent was the announcement of a Chinese government-sponsored Linux distribution called Yangfan Linux. Built by a coalition of government, universities and private companies, the distribution will eventually replace Windows on all government computers.
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,54572,00.html

There have been rumors of this for a while, but this is an interesting development.
Once you get a couple of billion Chinese users introduced to Linux, it will become the
world standard by sheer force of numbers. I guess Gates will have to trot out the
standard accusation that "they are communists" Duh!