China's Internet users exceed the U.S. population

Number of internet users in China are now greater than the population of the United States. This data after the end of June showed an increase to 338 million users.According to the Xinhua news agency reports, internet users in China is the largest in the world. Have increased the number of 40 million in the first six months of 2009.Number of broadband internet connections rose to 10 million to 93.5 million in the first semester this year.
Approximately 95 percent of the city have been connected to broadband at the beginning of June and 92.5 percent of villages have a telephone connection that can be used for Internet access.
Rural coverage is expected to continue to increase because of three of China's telecommunications operator China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom invested 280 billion yuan (U.S. $ 40 billion) on 3G network nationally next year, according to excerpts China Mobile Vice-President Lu Xiangdong week.
The increase of internet users to express their opinions to be irony because China is very strict in overseeing the media.

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