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Why Do Chinese People Go On The Internet?

Following the article I wrote on how huge the internet market has become in China, there is yet another article that explains the "why" behind the "what". That is, why China has become the largest internet user in the world and what it... ...full story at Zhonghuarising

from Zhonghuarising on Wed, Jan 23 2008

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19 Jan 08		China To Become World's Largest Internet User » Zhonghuarising According to the Wall Street Journal, China is on the verge of becoming the world's largest internet market by the number of users. In some figures released by the state-owned China Internet Network Information Center, the number of internet users in...
05 Sep 07		alt view on Chinese internet addiction » Virtual China From CDT, this repost of a useful article from China Youth Daily, in English on china.org.cn. Article is titled, "My Kid is an Internet Addict", and it challenges the popular Chinese view that juvenile internet addiction is rampant in China, and that...
19 Jul 07		163 Million INternet Users and Counting » China Snippets China has now 162 million internet users according to the CNNIC. A big jump form the previous 137 million at the end of 2007. I wrote a short article including charts comparing the end of 2006 with the stats from June 2007. Check Chinese internet stats...
30 Oct 08		China becomes world's largest internet market » People's Daily By July 2008, China had become the world's largest internet market with 253 million internet users including 40 million Internet game players, journalists learned from the 2008 China-ASEAN Cultural Industry Forum, which closed in Nanning city on October...
25 Jan 07		China Internet Slow Again » China Snippets It isn’t any news that the Internet in China is still slow and it bugs a lot of people I noticed . My previous article about the slow speed of the Internet gets a lot of visitors searching for terms related to the incompetent structure of the...

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