China's Net Usage Tops 87 Million
The number of Chinese people surfing the Internet has touched a ecord 87 million by June this year, witnessing a near 28 per cent rise, latest survey results show.
By June 30, 2004, the total number of Internet users in China had reached 87.0 million, which increased by 27.9 per cent over a 12 month period, the 14th Statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China said.
The report, published by China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) said that by June 30 China had 6,27,000 Web sites, a rise of 32.3 per cent over the previous year.
Experts say this is a demonstration of the country's vigorously moving Internet industry. Viewing from regions, 84 per cent Web sites still gathered in north, east and south China.
Domain names registered under CN had reached 3,82,000, of which 79.1 per cent were from north, east and south China.
Beijing had the biggest number of domain names, (24.3 per cent of national total), about 240 times that of Qinghai (0.1 per cent), the province in northwest China which has the smallest number of domain names.
The huge regional gap in Internet development can never be ignored, CNNIC officials said, since the digital gap will further intensify the imbalance between west and east China, between urban and rural areas and between mental and physical workers, and may bring serious social problems.
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Taking this into account and the information in this thread it looks like China is going to become one of the next dot boom markets in the next couple of years.
Wonder how many adult companies will be targeting Chinese surfers shortly?
Regards,
Lee
