On January 20, Ministry of Information Technology released a national standard on multi-channel digital radio coding and decoding technology for the digital radio industry.  The standard which be widely used in digital television and digital radio will shake few foreign companies' dominance in the field. 

Drafted on the basis of self-generated digital radio technology of Guangzhou Digirise Technology, the standard was eventually developed by the administrative authority for the setting of electric industry standard.  Many performance specifications of the new technology is up to par of the latest international technology, particularly in high compression efficiency, high-quality sound, less complexity in decoding and broad error tolerance.  The technology could be applied in digital television, digital radio, broad-band multimedia and mobile multimedia.