Economy
China's online population reaches 477m by March
Updated: 2011-05-16 16:43
(Xinhua)
BEIJING -- The number of Internet users in China reached 477 million as of end of March while websites registered with the authorities had climbed to 3.82 million, a senior telecommunication official said Monday.
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At the meeting, representatives from some 140 major Chinese websites signed a self-discipline pact, vowing that they would never organize or take part in any form of illegal publicity activities on the Internet.
The number of people using the Internet in China rose to 457 million at the end of 2010, up 73.3 million from a year earlier, according to an earlier report issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
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