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China has 450 million netizens: official

Updated: 2010-12-30 13:07

(Xinhua)

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BEIJING - The total number of netizens in China reached 450 million at the end of November, up 20.3 percent year-on-year, said Wang Chen, head of China's State Council Information Office Thursday.

China has seen a rapid expansion of Internet popularity since 1994 when it was connected to the Internet and had the biggest online population, said Wang, at a press conference.

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