The number of Web users in China has expanded sevenfold in eight years
to 94 million.
The Chinese government has paved the way for Internet growth by
investing $138 billion in telecommunications networks in the past five
years.
China's online revenue - which includes sales from advertising and from Internet gaming and wireless services - grew 35 percent last year to $1.1 billion and will rise 30 percent in 2005, according to MindShare, the media-buying unit of the London-based WPP Group.
China had 667 million active fixed and mobile-phone lines at the end of
2004, according to the Ministry of Information Industry - about one for
every 1.9 people.
China's per-capita gross national income was $1,290 last year,
according to statistics from the World Bank in Washington.
IHT 21 July 2005
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