China is one of the most heavily populated countries in the world, but it is also has a large proportion of poor citizens without access to technology. As a result of the huge numbers of Chinese citizens the number of internet users in China is growing rapidly. The Chinese government commonly censors the Internet and has only recently begun allowing Chinese citizens to have access to English-language websites. According to numbers released from the Chinese Ministry of Information, China now has 221 million internet users. This number is up significantly from the end of 2007 when China reported 210 million internet users. At the end of 2007 the U.S. had 205 million internet users. The Chinese Xinhua News Agency quoted the Chinese Information Ministry as saying, “Despite rapidly increasing the Internet population, the proportion of Internet users among the total population is still lower than the global average level.”
The global average for percentage of Internet users in a country is 19.1%; China only has an average of 16%. Chinese authorities expect to have 280 million internet users by the end of 2008. The internet is an outlet for Chinese citizens to voice opinions in a country where traditional new media is strictly controlled. The lack of control over the internet compared to the control China exerts on other forms of media led Chinese President Hu Jintao to call for a purification of the internet in 2007.
Source: DailyTech
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Wow, thats just crazy. I knew they had many, but even more than the US.
O.O !
“…has only recently begun allowing Chinese citizens to have access to English-language websites.”
That’s a pile of crap. I’ve been living in China for almost a year now and almost all english sites are open except for the traditional Wikipedia, blog sites, BBC, and Flickr. Other than that, i’ve been able to access almost all the sites i’ve needed to go to.
Just last week though, the internet has been completely open in China…in anticipation of the Olympics. No censorship!
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Let’s put this in perspective, shall we? According to the official census, China’s population (including Taiwan) is 1.26 billion. At the last census, in 2000, the United States had approximately 280 million citizens. That means about two thirds of all US citizens are connected. So, for China, 221 million internet users is a mere drop in the bucket. When they get to 75% like the US, let me know and I’ll applaud. Loudly.
#7: A bit testy are we? It’s not a contest
Fuc king gooks.
You have always had access to English language sites in China, don’t post things which are simply not true.
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They might have more, but USA has the better pirates of them all
Ermm.. given that they’ve got the biggest population in the world… wouldn’t they conversely have the largest net pop in the world too?
Common sense isn’t it?
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China has most boring internet users in the world.
no english, no own ideas, nothing new.
copycats bore me to death.
I wonder what they do on internet…
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Gooks and rice eaters are the king when it comes to pirated CDs!! I can never live w/o them cheap cds!!
If the communist party in china was so great they wouldn’t need to block criticism of it. Pathetic.
@Nycleback
Trying to steal premium accounts, you’re ^@&^&^!
and yet they don’t get all of it to see….
I almost spit onto my screen reading the first paragraph.
@Shady IIV - (IIV?) Is that a new Roman numeral for 3?
“I knew they had many, but even more than the US”
Step outside the front foor one day or buy a globe and you’ll notice that the USA is just one small and rather insignificant part of the rest of the world.
With China’s population being 4 times that of America, why is it surprising that they have nore internet users?
I would be more surprised to find out it was the USA. The North American infrastructure and technology is a country mile behind many other nations. Just because Gore thinks he invented the Internet and Americans feel that the USA leads the world in all they do, it doesn’t make it so.
As for the little boy suggesting that China copies the USA, get over yorself, 99% of your so called ‘inventions’ were actually invented by others. Your wannabe inventors just had the cash to buy the patents and market the products then claim them to be American inventions.
“Gooks and Rice eaters” yet don’t bother calling uneducated, ignorant, red-kneck, Yankee co*ksuckers stupid, those are a terrorists words and Amerikuntz don’t like it, m’kay?
okay now i plame them for my high ping >_>
Them Chinese People are online all day long!! I get msg’s from them on my msn. they always trying to hustle me bootleg handbags, shoes and what not!! They good bootleggers and I love their fake designer products. I make a lot of money out here in NYC!! You can find me on Canal Street with a table full of goodies!!!
This was estimated for 2010, so it’s two years ahead of schedule. That’s the big news!
lol Zhongguo
一帮衰人在这里意淫华夏子民，真是可笑之极。
-23 and which good for nothing nation are you from? and if the US was “small and insignificant” as you say, why spend all that paragraph writing about. I’m sure that wasn’t your first time either. By the way, you’re welcome on behalf of American innovations that you can spew the hate on your PC via the WWW.
楼上的中国人真可爱
美国总体来讲还算是个不错的国家
@32 在哪方面, 在说要看跟那个国家比比较。
@29 同一
@16. “no english, no own ideas, nothing new.” - talk about being ignorant. Chinese are smart at doing business, if copying certain things (not always western) will generate profit, why not? (from their perspective). Also, no english? how is that even relevant to what you’re trying to say..pathetic
@17 again, the common stereotypical ignorant person. hentai is from japan, and pornography is censored a lot by the chinese government, unlike the US, we dont want our children to have perverted minds, we try to prevent it, while the US advertises it (literally, in ads). It’s not taboo, but its unhealthy for a child.
Obviously, people here are quite ignorant. I mean, a lot of the population live in non-urban areas (rural) where they don’t have access to the internet because its very far away from big cities, hell, some places dont even have TV. Basically, the rich are very rich and the poor are very poor. that’s why statistics never give the full picture, and should not be a way to compare countries.
The Giant of the East arises, it wont be long till the young chinese fully embrace their unique culture that has been somehow lost due to the regimes propaganda in the past but badly needed now by the same regime that feels the pressure of the westernization of the masses, and emerge not as foolish indoctrinated westernized copycats but fully fruitioned to their own unique culture/ethics/history.
@30 - James :”which good for nothing nation are you from?”
Originally, The United States of Amerikunt, what a toilet.
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How many percent of their population that use internet, and for what ? A jobless person who don’t even have a computer at home goes to a internet cafe to play online games can be counted as an e-citizen ? what a joke.
And btw, people in Taiwan are Taiwanese, they’re not Chinese, Taiwan is an independent country.
@23: yes, they have been copying everything. Brand names like Nokia, Apple, Nike, Adidas, Honda, Apple……Chinese just copy their shape of products (not quality, definitely), change some characters of the products’ names and sell them with cheap price. USA don’t do that, and the rest of the world don’t do that, either…but Chinese, there’s nothing they can’t do and won’t do, they’re incredible that way. If you’re a Chinese, I know you don’t even feel ashame but proud of that…and defend the way you did: fooling yourselves.