The fire wall of China, popularly known as the Golden Shield project is a Internet Censorship radar which is under the control of Ministry of Public Security China now has opened up its gates for Wikipedia. The Great Firewall of China does URL, Packet and DNS filtering, IP Blocking, Connection resetting etc which is none other than the traditional firewall job and it is one of the highly impenetrable security system that exists now. Read more about Golden Shield Project here in wikipedia. As world has started the count down of Beijing Olympics, china has opened up its Golden shield firewall against the world most powerful and popular encyclopedia Wikipedia, says Sydney based free news paper MX. MX, the free commuter magazine claims that the site is accessible in parts of China including its capital Beijing which is gonna host the Olympics.

It has been told that China has opened up because of the pressure from International Olympic committee ahead of Olympics. Probably the firewall has opened up to please the International visitors who are arrriving in china for Beijing Olympics. Also MX confirms that this decision comes up on the same day as Hu Jia, a Chinese dissident was jailed for 3 plus year under “subversion of state power” over the articles on the Internet. Still 125 days to go lets wait and watch for more.