dec 13, 2005 - Kingsoft acquired Beijing Huayi (华义), importer of mainland's first online game.

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Beijing Huayi United Software Development Co., Ltd. (Beijing Huayi) was founded in August 2000 with investment from Taiwan’s InterServ International. It specialized in online game development and publishing. In January 2001, it introduced and operated "Stone Age" (《石器时代》), the first online game officially launched in mainland China. Featuring turn-based combat and a pet-raising system, the game became a major hit with over 200,000 concurrent players and was hailed as the “ancestor of Q-style online games.”

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