China’s online population hits 710m
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CHINA’S online population, already the world’s largest, has risen to over 700 million, authorities said yesterday as they seek to turn the Internet into a new growth driver.
The country had 710 million internet users — defined as those who have gone online at least once in the past six months — by June, up 3.1 percent from the end of December, the China Internet Network Information Center said in a statement.
It is more than double the population of the United States and means more than half of the people in the world’s most populous country are now using the internet.
E-commerce is a vital part of the government’s efforts to transform the economy into one driven more by consumer demand. The government is promoting a project called “Internet Plus,” which aims to expand the application of online technology in industry as part of attempts to modernize the country.
The CNNIC said 92.5 percent of Chinese users go online through their mobile phones.
“The social lifestyle formed by the mobile Internet was further developed and the Internet Plus project facilitated the diversification and mobilization of government and corporate services,” it said.
But the number of rural users remains low — accounting for less than a third of the total — as residents in the countryside either have no knowledge of computers or the Internet, or are not interested, said the CNNIC.
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