Google withdrew from the mainland market on March 23. Zhang Hongbo, deputy director of the China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS), who was also responsible for formal negotiations with Google, said Google's withdrawal was just a commercial act which could not  erase any of its infringement liability. CWWCS would be in touch with copyright societies in North America and EU, and would not stop fighting for the rights of writers.

Wang Ziqiang, spokesman of the National Copyright Administration, said that he does not buy Google's excuse in misunderstanding due to the disparity between the Chinese and U.S. copyright systems. The Chinese government will continue its support to the action of Chinese Writers Association (CWA) and CWWCS.
In October 2009, CWWCS revealed 17,922 titles by 570 Chinese writers, were scanned by Google and put in its online library without authors' authorization.

(China IP News)