China has 103 million Internet users, up 18% in first half of year
An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
China's Internet population grew to 103 million at the end of the June, an increase of 9.0 million new web surfers in the first six months of the year, state press said.
The increase marked an 18.4 percent rise over the same period last year, making China the second largest Internet user in the world after the United States, the China Daily said.
Despite the growing number only some 7.9 percent of Chinese households have access to the web, far below the 67 percent in the United States, the paper, citing the China Internet Network Information Center, said.
posted by Fergie @ 7/22/2005 10:22:00 AM
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