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Chinese internet use surges
Correspondents in Beijing
JULY 22, 2003
THERE were roughly 68 million internet users in China at the end of June, putting the world's most populous nation second behind the United States in terms of people online, a survey showed.
The number of internet users in China grew by 15.1 per cent or 8.9 million people in the first six months of 2003, according to the twice-yearly survey by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC).
It was a 48.5 per cent increase over a year earlier, according to the survey that has been conducted 12 times since 1997.
Nearly 66 per cent of China's internet users surf the web at home, with 9.8 million people connected using cable or DSL lines.
There are just over 32 million IP addresses in China, and websites ending with the suffix .cn numbered 47,400 while domain names with the same suffix hovered around the 25,000 mark.
Roughly two-thirds of China's web surfers (60.1 per cent) are male, 59.1 per cent are single and 56.2 per cent are under age 25. A stunning 84.3 per cent majority earn less than 2,000 yuan ($370) per month, the survey found.
Most of the users surveyed spend more than 13 hours a week online, receiving an average 7.2 emails per week for the 5.3 sent out. The proportion of junk mail received is steadily rising, the survey found.
An inability to use computers is the primary reason the majority of survey respondents do not use the internet (33.5 per cent), while nearly one in five respondents has no access to computers at all. A lack of money (11.2 per cent) and time (15 per cent) were also cited as reasons for being offline.
But within the year, 16.4 per cent of offline survey respondents said, they hoped to be hooked up to the web.
China has formulated a policy of developing the internet while concurrently limiting the content of Chinese sites and restricting access to certain foreign cites. The government passed a law last year that places the burden of responsibility for content on internet access providers.
No figures as to the number of people surveyed or the margin of error in the survey were available.
Agence France-Presse
Chinese internet use surges
Correspondents in Beijing
JULY 22, 2003
THERE were roughly 68 million internet users in China at the end of June, putting the world's most populous nation second behind the United States in terms of people online, a survey showed.
The number of internet users in China grew by 15.1 per cent or 8.9 million people in the first six months of 2003, according to the twice-yearly survey by the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC).
It was a 48.5 per cent increase over a year earlier, according to the survey that has been conducted 12 times since 1997.
Nearly 66 per cent of China's internet users surf the web at home, with 9.8 million people connected using cable or DSL lines.
There are just over 32 million IP addresses in China, and websites ending with the suffix .cn numbered 47,400 while domain names with the same suffix hovered around the 25,000 mark.
Roughly two-thirds of China's web surfers (60.1 per cent) are male, 59.1 per cent are single and 56.2 per cent are under age 25. A stunning 84.3 per cent majority earn less than 2,000 yuan ($370) per month, the survey found.
Most of the users surveyed spend more than 13 hours a week online, receiving an average 7.2 emails per week for the 5.3 sent out. The proportion of junk mail received is steadily rising, the survey found.
An inability to use computers is the primary reason the majority of survey respondents do not use the internet (33.5 per cent), while nearly one in five respondents has no access to computers at all. A lack of money (11.2 per cent) and time (15 per cent) were also cited as reasons for being offline.
But within the year, 16.4 per cent of offline survey respondents said, they hoped to be hooked up to the web.
China has formulated a policy of developing the internet while concurrently limiting the content of Chinese sites and restricting access to certain foreign cites. The government passed a law last year that places the burden of responsibility for content on internet access providers.
No figures as to the number of people surveyed or the margin of error in the survey were available.
Agence France-Presse
