China had 68 million Internet users as at the end of June, 8.9 million more than half a year ago, according to statistics from the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC).
China’s netizens now constitute 5.3 per cent of its 1.3 billion population, said the information centre in its latest assessment of the Internet industry.
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Netizens surfing the Internet via telephone accounted for 45.01 per cent of total users, while broadband Internet users reached 9.8 million, a significant rise from 6.6 million.