China Internet users rises and could overtake US
China’s online population has rised to 210 million people and could surpass the United States population on 2008 to become the world’s biggest internet users, the China government said. The figure reported by the official China Internet Network Information Center was a 53 percent jump from 137 million Chinese Internet users reported at this time last year.
“Currently China’s online population is about 50 million less than that of the United States and is the world’s second-largest,” the agency, also known as CNNIC, said on its Web site. “CNNIC forecasts that (China) will become the largest online country in 2008,” it said.
The U.S. Census Bureau said last year that about 218 million of the country’s 310 million people used the Internet. China promotes Internet use for education and business but tries to block the public from seeing material deemed pornographic or that opposes communist rule in China.
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