China has increased its online population by 30%

Over the past year, the Internet population of China grew by 30% compared with the previous year and amounted to 132 million people. For comparison, the population of Russia as of August 1, 2006 was 142.4 million (according to Rosstat). As of the end of June 2006, there were 123 million Internet users in the Celestial Empire.

In addition, according to the China Network Information Center ( CNNIC ), about 52 million people access the Internet via broadband. All this has a positive impact on revenues from online trading, advertising and online games, reports AP .