China HowNet Knowledge Discovery Network Platform-provides domestic and foreign readers with unified retrieval, unified navigation, online reading and downloading services for China academic literature, foreign literature, dissertations, newspapers, conferences, yearbooks, reference books and other resources.
China Knowledge Network refers to China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), which is a knowledge informatization construction project initiated by Tsinghua University and Tsinghua with the support of Ministry of Education, Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and State Planning Commission, aiming at realizing the dissemination, enjoyment and value-added utilization of knowledge resources in the whole society. Established in June 1999.