China's Internet User Grow by 1.06m Last Year

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, January 04, 2002

China's Internet User Grow by 1.06m Last Year

Thanks to reduced Internet surfing charges and expanded bandwidth, the number of China's net users grew by 1.06 million last year.

China Has 26 Million Internet Users

Thanks to reduced Internet surfing charges and expanded bandwidth, the number of China's net users grew by 1.06 million last year.

During the telecom fee adjustment last year, the 4 yuan/hour Internet access rate for dial-up users has been left decided by different ISPs (Internet Service Providers), and the telephone fee has cut from half of 0.08-0.11 yuan/three minutes to 0.02 yuan/minute. Statistics show the average charge has dropped to 150-200 yuan per month, affordable to the users.

Besides, from January to November a national investment totaling 197.9 billion yuan on telecom fixed property had been made, 54 percent higher than that of the same period of previous year, especially that on solving the bottleneck of bandwidth. Now only few users complain about time delay on accessing and roaming the net and people can enjoy the net more conveniently.

'Fourth Media' Grows Fast, Internet Users to Top 200m by 2005

China will devote more attention to the "fourth media" -- the Internet and information super-highway -- and adjust its policy to cope with the revolution of news media.

There were only 620,000 Internet users in China in October 1997. But by the end of 1999 this had hit 8.9 million before spiralling to 26.5 million by the end of June 2001.

It is estimated that by the year 2005, the number of computers connected to the Internet will reach 40 million and Internet users will total 200 million.(More)

By PD Online Staff Li Heng

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