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Internet in China: scale ranks first worldwide, reaching 360 million users

As the end of November, 2009, the number of Internet users in China had reached 360 million, an increase of 20.8 percent on last year. The figure marks China as having the most extensive Internet in terms of scale in the world […]

As the end of November, 2009, the number of Internet users in China had reached 360 million, an increase of 20.8 percent on last year. The figure marks China as having the most extensive Internet in terms of scale in the world, according to a CCTV report.

As of June 30, 2009, the number of Chinese Internet users had increased continuously to 338 million, and the penetration rate of the Internet had risen steadily to 25.5 percent, exceeding the world average of 21.9 percent.

By June 2009, the total number of Chinese domain names had reached 16.26 million, including 12.96 million CN domain names.

According to statistics released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as of the end of October/2009, the total number of broadband Internet access users had topped 10 million.

via China’s Internet scale ranks first worldwide – People’s Daily Online.

By Itamar Medeiros

Originally from Brazil, Itamar Medeiros currently lives in Germany, where he works as VP of Design Strategy at SAP, where he leads the design vision for the entire Human Capital Management product line, ensuring cohesive product narratives and establishing best practices.

Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar has helped truly global companies in multiple continents create great user experience through advocating Design and Innovation principles. Itamar has also served as a juror for prestigious design competitions and lectured on design topics at universities worldwide.

During his 7 years in China, he promoted the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk and Local Coordinator of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Shanghai.

Itamar holds a MA in Design Practice from Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), for which he received a Distinction Award for his thesis Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments.

One reply on “Internet in China: scale ranks first worldwide, reaching 360 million users”

I think that it is no surprise that China has registered nearly 13 million .cn domain names, but I think you will definitely see a drop. China’s government will now be monitoring exactly who owns .cn domains and wanting picture identification. GoDaddy has stopped selling .cn names because of this.

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