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Note 1 - Organization and Nature of Operations | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements |
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1. | Organization and nature of operations
ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) is a holding company, which, through certain contractual arrangements with operating companies in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”), is engaged in providing advertising, precision marketing, online to offline sales channel expansion and the related data services to small and medium enterprises in the PRC, through distribution of the right to use search engine marketing service the Company purchased from key search engines, online advertising placements on the Company’s advertising portals, sales of effective sales lead information and provision of TV advertising service.

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