China: 100m use internet
2005-06-28 14:32
Beijing - China's population of internet users has surpassed 100 million, said the government on Tuesday.
China already had the world's second-largest population of people online after the United States, which had 135 million.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the latest Chinese figure was announced by Xi Guohua, an official with the ministry of information industry.
Last week, China's government threatened to shut down websites that failed to register with regulators in a new campaign to tighten controls on what the public could see online.
China's communist government promoted internet use for education and business, but also tried to block its public from seeing material deemed pornographic or subversive.
Authorities also were trying to tighten controls on what children could see online.
- AP