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Google has announced that the Chinese government has renewed its Internet Content Provider license, earning it another year of business in China. 

The search giant said on Friday that it was granted the renewal after it agreed to make changes to the way it redirects users to its Hong Kong web site, where web search can be unfiltered under China's "one country, two systems" approach to Hong Kong.
Google's first solution to its China problem — which kicked off in January when Google declared that it no longer intended to censor search results in China — was to simply move Chinese-language search to Hong Kong in March. At the time, it admitted that it did not know whether or not this would actually work, with Google co-founder Sergey Brin citing a "lack of clarity" around what exactly Google was allowed to do and what it was not.