China's Internet industry: from childhood to youth, People’s Daily Online, 21 Feb 2005

“The Internet has become a spectacle in the Chinese society. In the last ten years China's Internet has grown from a marginal industry to a mainstream and still continues to gain ground in the society. It started from scratch on a non-existent market and seems to be expanding to the limitless. The population of Internet users has kept rising. By June 30, 2004, there were 87 million Internet users in China. The number topped 90 million by the year end.�

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