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China to have 200 million online by 2005

15/11/2001

China will have an estimated 200 million internet users by 2005 and most will be hungry for news, according to reports from a media forum in Beijing.

The Asia-Pacific Symposium on Press and Scientific Progress was told that in four years China would have 40 million computers connected to the Internet, meaning that roughly 200 million people would have access to the web.

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