China Has World's 2nd Largest Number of Netizens: Report

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China Has World's 2nd Largest Number of Netizens: Report

China had 59.1 million Internet users by the end of last year, the second largest number in the world after the United States, according to an industry report released Thursday.

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China had 59.1 million Internet users by the end of last year, the second largest number in the world after the United States, according to an industry report released Thursday.

The number of netizens accounted for 4.6 percent of China's population of some 1.3 billion, said the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) in its latest report on the country's development of the Internet industry.

The report predicted to number of net surfers in China would jump 46 percent to 86.3 million this year.

This is the 11th report released by CNNIC, which has surveyed the growth of the Internet twice a year since 1997.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development estimated there were 655 million Internet users worldwide by the end of last year. Based on that figure, China's net surfers account for nine percent of the global total.

At the end of last year, according to the CNNIC report, China had 20.83 million computers connected to the Internet, and 371,000websites including 179,000 websites under the domain name of "CN",which meant increases of 66.1 percent, 34.1 percent and 41 percent respectively over 2001.

The latest CNNIC survey showed that Chinese Internet users on average spend 9.8 hours each week on-line. Each user has an average of 1.5 e-mail addresses including 1.2 free ones.

The report includes statistics about IP addresses and Internet growth in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

According to the report, there are 29 million IP addresses on the Chinese mainland, 3.42 million in Hong Kong, and 7.85 million in Taiwan.

Hong Kong has 2.75 million Internet surfers and 1.26 million computers connected to the Internet while Taiwan has 8.61 million Internet users, making up 38.25 percent of the total population inthe island province.

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