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In recent report of BBC released on Monday, a Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s spokesperson has denied the involvement of country in the Cyber attacks on Google and other 33 companies in December last year. He said that the state has nothing to do with the recent attacks on the giant search engine.

"The accusation that the Chinese government participated in [any] cyber attack, either in an explicit or inexplicit way, is groundless. We [are] firmly opposed to that," the unnamed spokesman told the government-run news agency, Xinhua. "China's policy on internet safety is transparent and consistent."

Google came up very strongly on the cyber attack issue and blamed China nearly two weeks ago. It also threatened to stop the services in the country and vacate it in case of not reaching a negotiation with the government. It asked government to stop censoring of results on the local search engine.

The main matter was of restriction of email accounts of Human Rights activists of China. Google said that attacks on two Gmail accounts inside the company were largely unsuccessful, but that a subsequent investigation showed that the accounts of dozens of activists in the US, China, and Europe “have been routinely accessed by third parties.”

“We continue to follow their laws. We continue to offer censored results,” he said. “A reasonably short time from now we will be making some changes there. We have made a strong statement we wish to remain in China. We like the Chinese people. We like our Chinese employees. We like the business opportunities there and we would like to do that on somewhat different terms than we have. But we remain quite committed to being there.”

“Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech,” she said. “If businesses in your nation are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably reduce growth.”

The Chinese Government’s first firm denial came after Google postponed the launch of its two Android Phones in the country. The statement of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also compelled China to come straight on the issue. According to Hillary, "Countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of Internet users risk walling themselves off from the progress of the next century."