The Chinese government said Friday its Internet population has soared to 210 million people, putting it on track to surpass the U.S. online community this year to become the world's largest.
That figure puts China just 5 million users away from becoming the world's largest wired nation -- and with only about 16 percent of the population online. At its current growth rate, China will become the world's top Internet market sometime in the next few months.
The greatest growth came from users under 18 and over 30, CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) said. China's most popular Internet application is online music, used by 86.6 percent of those surveyed, followed by instant messaging with 81 percent. E-mail placed only fifth, with 56.5 percent using it.
--------------
technorati tags: china, internet population
China Showing Their Numbers on the Internet
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment