Number of Chinese Cybersurfers Exceeds 10 MillionThe number of Chinese Internet surfers has exceeded 10 million, statistics provided by the China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) show.Local analysts say that this marks a milestone in China's history of Internet development. Internet was available in China in 1994. Since then, the number of Chinese cybersurfers has kept increasing. By October of 1997, the number of Internet users reached 620,000, and by the end of 1999, the number topped 8.9 million. CINIC, who is in charge of disclosing information on China's Internet development, began issuing the numbers of net users and PCs twice a year since November of 1997. China is expected to become one of the world's largest Internet markets. |
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