Google is getting ready to flee China, reports the China Business News citing an unidentified Chinese sales agent for the company.

A former Google China executive told Bloomberg, that Google would probably be unable to return to China should it withdraw from the market.

From Bloomberg

The public manner in which Google announced its intention to pull out of the country means they may have “burnt bridges and they’ve burnt the Google brand in China,” Peter Lui, formerly the company’s financial controller for the Asia Pacific region, said in an interview yesterday. “There is no way Google can ever come back.”

“China can do without Google. They have other search engines,” said Christopher Tang, professor of business at University of California, Los Angeles. Google “will have a difficult time re-entering the China market,” he said.

From CNN

“They’ve been very cagey about what they’ve been doing since that initial statement, so everybody’s been guessing,” said Jeremy Goldkorn, founder of Chinese media site Danwei.org. “I don’t think they will be able to persuade the Chinese government to let them run an uncensored search engine — it’s just not going happen.”

The departure of Google… probably won’t impact the average Chinese Internet user. There are many local alternatives and for a lot of Chinese people they are very used to using Baidu.com,” said Goldkorn.

Google’s publicly insulted and embarrassed the Chinese and has been trying to back track ever since. The company says is accusing the Chinese government of hacking its systems to gain access to human rights activists. Baidu is China’s largest search engine with a over 70% marketshare. Google has not been successful in China and sources says that if it was then it would not be talking about human rights.