Many things are banned in China, especially web services, in order to create an internal (was possibly exportable incubation, but not since 'progression' over the past 5 years after the government - hegemony of leaders and follows on, rather than government workers, themselves the mules).

But translate.google.cn is not banned on the mainland and Google services work very finely in Hong Kong.

And forcing Mandarin does people's throats is not all bad, in terms of literacy and considering that 70 years ago most of the country was illiterate, no only in language but also in ideas, such as basic western ideas in medical - which led to a huge reduction in infant mortality - the doctors and the literate going to the countryside.

And the across the sea, river, passing swamp, was Hong Kong, which figured out very much earlier and flourished.

But.. translate.google.cn is not blocked in China.