The number of Internet surfers in China is expected to have reached 78 million by the end of 2003, making China the country with the second most users in the world after the US.
By the end of the year there were 500,000 websites and 30 million online computers in China.
The number of Internet users in China has been increasing by 5 to 6 percent monthly in recent years but still only accounts for 5.2 percent of the country's total population, while the percentage in the US is 63.2 and the average percentage among all countries is 10.7.
The Ministry of Information Industry estimates that by 2005, online computers will reach 40 million and 15 percent of the population of China will be surfing the Internet.
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