The development history of Xiaochun Forum

In March 1999, the prototype of "Koharu.com", "East Sakura Information", was established to introduce Japanese affairs and study abroad in Japan.

In January 2002, after two years of stumbling and everyone's unremitting efforts, the website was officially renamed "Koharu Japan Study Abroad".

In August 2004, the website could not provide stable services for a long time, and the original senior management staff also lost their jobs due to various reasons.

In September 2004, after various moderators met and discussed, Oh Saka became the forum moderator, set up a computer room, and purchased new servers and network equipment.

On October 1, 2004, the website was completely redesigned, members were re-registered, moderators were re-selected, and various management systems were adjusted and improved.

In November 2004, the preliminary establishment of the "Koharu Japan Study Abroad Forum" was completed and began to provide stable services.

On December 1, 2004, the entertainment section "Xiaochun Never Sleeps" was officially opened to the public.

In February 2005, the "2004 Jintan Award" event was held, and 1 "2004 Jintan Century Highest Honor Award" and 10 "2004 Jintan Century Outstanding Member Award" were selected.

On September 22, 2005, the first anniversary of the establishment of the "Koharu Japan Study Abroad Forum" was held. The "Jiujiu Chinese Cup Third Forum Original Essay Contest" and the "Jiujiu Chinese Cup Second Forum Photography Works" were specially held Competition", "The First Forum of the Nine-Nine Chinese Cup Boxing Championship Competition".

In March 2006, management reforms were carried out and a tenure-track system for editors was implemented.

In April 2006, it continued to transform from a single study abroad website to a comprehensive website, and successively opened non-study abroad sections such as commercial streets.

In August 2006, the number of registered members exceeded 60,000, and as of now, the number has reached more than 69,000.

On August 31, 2006, the overall PK of the 2nd anniversary beauty pageant of "Koharu Japan Study Abroad Forum".

In December 2006, the 2006 forum sent out more than 800 new international students.

On January 7, 2007, the website was revised and upgraded to fix loopholes. Two more servers were added to offload the load to cope with the increasing number of visits.

The international telephone service was launched on December 7, 2008, to facilitate the international communication of Xiaochun users.

On April 26, 2008, netizens of the "Koharu Japan Study Abroad Forum" organized a trip to Nagano for the Olympic torch relay.

On May 12, 2008, a major earthquake occurred in Wenchuan, Sichuan, China. The "Koharu Japan Study Abroad Forum" set up a temporary fund to donate to the people in the disaster area. *** donated 6.8 million yuan in cash and passed all the donations through the Consulate General in Osaka Forwarded to the Red Cross Society of China.

On May 14, 2008, the "Koharu Japan Study Abroad Forum" called on all Chinese netizens to take to the streets to raise donations. The organizers submitted the raised funds to the local consulate.

On December 29, 2008, a set of detailed rules and regulations were formulated based on the problems encountered since the development of the forum to standardize posting requirements.

On May 12, 2009, the "Koharu Japan Study Abroad Forum" successively carried out activities to commemorate the Wenchuan earthquake.

In December 2009, the number of users exceeded 200,000, and multiple database servers were added to alleviate the strong data pressure.

On February 12, 2010, the forum began to suffer from DDOS attacks that lasted for half a year.

The technical team was changed in May 2010, with Lu and Taoo taking over as Xiaochun’s technical maintenance.

In June 2010, a trial upgrade of the forum was carried out, Xiaochun Home was launched and a series of applications such as Xiaochun Farm and Xiaochun Fish Pond were added to prepare for the portal route.

In July 2010, the line was changed to 1G dedicated line access, and a double-layer firewall was enabled to effectively defend against attacks.

In July 2010, the "Koharu Japan Study Abroad Forum" Constellation Leader Beauty Contest was held.

In August 2010, an office was established in China, and Ruohai and several other technical personnel joined the technical team.

On September 1, 2010, high-end servers were purchased in China to provide more stable service support for domestic users.

In September 2010, the technical team began to develop a more complete portal platform, online home, online mall, real estate portal, online Weibo, game community, etc.

In October 2010, it developed into a large forum with 275,429 registered members, 19,288,212 posts, a PR value of 5, a daily volume of 40,000 independent IPs, and more than 600,000 PV views. And it has been accelerating growth. The website keywords "Study in Japan" and "Study in Japan" are among the best in the natural rankings on Baidu and Google.

In November 2010, the "Koharu Forum for Studying in Japan" was officially renamed "Koharu.com", and the Koharu.com portal was officially launched.

In December 2010, the "Xiaochun.com Business District" was put into trial operation and received a lot of praise and attention.

In December 2010, due to the great influence and wide scope of "Xiaochun.com", it attracted the attention of China's Internet surveillance department and restricted its domestic access.

On January 27, 2011, "Xiaochun.com Weibo" was officially launched online.

On February 6, 2011, "Xiaochun.com Business District" was officially put into use for all Internet users.

On February 11, 2011, "Xiaochun.com Electronic Magazine" was officially launched, providing everyone with another media enjoyment.

On March 2, 2011, the IPhone mobile App software tailor-made by "Xiaochun.com" was grandly launched.

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake occurred in Japan. The strong membership power of "Xiaochun.com" is one of the important channels to establish and find Chinese people in Japan.

In August 2011, the "Xiaochun.com" computer room was relocated. The forum owner "Oh Saka" and technicians "Ruohai" and "Taoo" moved the server to an international earthquake-resistant computer room to provide browsing security. Perfect technical support.

In September 2011, "Xiaochun.com" Alexa ranked 8990th in the world. After ten years of development, Xiaochun.com has developed from a small communication community into the largest Chinese community in Japan integrating portal, forum, SNS, Weibo and entertainment.

In December 2011, the "Xiaochun.com" template was officially changed to a portal style, paving the way for further portalization in the next year.

In February 2012, the short domain name *.xchun.net was provided to users to facilitate more netizens to log in to their own space.

In March 2012, the "Xiaochun Club" physical store was established.

In August 2012, the new intelligent dns and cdn caching technology was launched to provide stable services to domestic users.

A new beta version of the portal was launched in December 2012.

In February 2013, the Xiaochun netizen Spring Festival Gala event was held.

On April 1, 2013, the new version of the LOGO was launched, and the portal and forum were completely revised.

In April 2014, an office was established in Tokyo, and Xiaochun New Media was officially launched.

In May 2014, a cooperation agreement was reached with China Telecom Japan Branch to provide faster and more stable services to domestic users.

In June 2014, "Xiaochun.com" Qingdao company was officially established.