To: kemble s. matter who wrote (89602 ) 1/17/1999 6:49:00 PM From: HDC Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Kemble, Here's the latest from your favorite growth market CHINA:The number of Internet users in China surged to 1.5 million in 1998 from 600,000 in 1997, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. China has 540,000 computers linked to the Internet and 14,000 Internet service providers, of which 3,550 were based in Beijing, it said. The Internet remains the bastion of the young in China, with 84.1 percent of users under 35 years old. Of those, 43.3 percent spend one to five hours each week on the Internet, Xinhua said. Xinhua said the country planned to inject one trillion yuan, or roughly one-seventh of its 1998 gross domestic product, into the project but gave no details of when or how the money would be spent. Speaking in Beijing last week, U.S. Internet guru Nicholas Negroponte predicted the number of Internet users in China would balloon to 10 million by the year 2000.
