{"id":17,"date":"2011-08-25T15:43:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/technophile\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T15:44:52","slug":"chinas-booming-internet-users-hits-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/chinas-booming-internet-users-hits-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s booming Internet users hits milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_VBF4xFCnWtM\/TQe6iA1hLgI\/AAAAAAAAABc\/tS32X7tOnqA\/s1600\/INTERNET+USERS+INDIA%252C+CHINA+AND+USA.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nIt was only a matter of time before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2011\/08\/23\/todays-top-tech-stories-china-is-the-new-pc-king-o.aspx\">China&#8217;s PC sales surpassed<\/a> those of the U.S. While China experienced a 14% growth in the PC market compared to last year, the world&#8217;s largest country has also reached twice as many Internet users as the U.S. According to the World Bank, China&#8217;s Internet users as a percentage of population <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/publicdata\/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&amp;met_y=it_net_user_p2&amp;idim=country:CHN&amp;dl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;q=china+internet+users#ctype=l&amp;strail=false&amp;nselm=h&amp;met_y=it_net_user_p2&amp;scale_y=lin&amp;ind_y=false&amp;rdim=country&amp;idim=country:CHN&amp;ifdim=country&amp;hl=en&amp;dl=en\">exploded from 10% (2006) to 28.8% (2009)<\/a>&#8212; More than double in a mere 3-year period. <\/p>\n<p>Mainland China has roughly 485 million Internet users, yet a lower than average Internet penetration when compared to other first-world nations. With a booming younger Chinese generation actively playing online games and browsing websites, one can only assume that the country&#8217;s interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2011-08\/23\/content_13175594.htm\">increasing its Internet infrastructure<\/a> may result in a billion or so Internet users over the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was only a matter of time before China&#8217;s PC sales surpassed those of the U.S. While China experienced a 14% growth in the PC market compared to last year, the world&#8217;s largest country has also reached twice as many Internet users as the U.S. According to the World Bank, China&#8217;s Internet users as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/technophile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}