PoliTech's Journal: China internet users to outnumber US users in two years

China internet users to overtake US in two years, report says

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dpa German Press Agency Published: Tuesday January 23, 2007

Beijing- China is likely to overtake the United States as the world's largest online population within two years, after the estimated number of internet users soared by 23 per cent to 137 million last year, state media said on Wednesday. "We believe it will take two years at most for China to overtake the United States," Wang Enhai of the state-run Chinese Internet Network Information Centre told the official China Daily.

"We are expecting even faster growth in 2007 and 2008 given that internet penetration now has exceeded 10.5 percent in the country," Wang said.