2006 0214 china 600 thumb Report estimates China Web users equal to U.S. citizens

On a lighter note, BBC reported that China’s population of Internet users are growing significantly, and have reached to the extent of equaling to the number of U.S. residents. The population of Chinese that surf the Internet is approximately 298 million, though they still have a long way to go in terms of catching up on Web penetration (current: 22.6 percent).