China-controlled agency releases a statement advising China is on track to outnumber US Internet users within two years
By: Captain Maverick
Jan 25, 2007 02:42 AM GMT
China Internet Network Informations Center (CINIC) is a state-controlled agency of China. It released a statement Wednesday stating that China is on track to outnumber U.S. Internet users withing the next two years. Their justification for this statement is that computers will continue to become cheaper and people are adopting a more mobile lifestyle.
The CINIC statement reports that they believe that it will take two years at the most for China to overtake the US. An increasing number of people are now getting hooked on to the Web as PCs and Internet access are becoming affordable, and Internet-based offerings diversified. It continues to state that China saw strong growth in wireless Internet use, with about 17 million people online on mobile phones out of a total of nearly 461 million mobile phone users in the country.
CINIC statistics show that over one in 10 people in China have become Internet users. The online population now makes up 10.5 percent of the total population, and in Beijing, it now exceeds 30 percent of the total population for the first time ever.
It's really kind of ironic that a country where the government chooses what its people can look at on the Internet, where the government has time and again blocked accesses to the Internet and certain content, calling much of the Internet subversive and obscene, and yet we still see that this country has the second highest Internet usage in the world. This will lead to greater business opportunities in this communist country that is becoming more and more capitalistic.
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