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China has the world’s largest Internet in terms of the number of Internet users and Internet coverage. As of December 2014, there were 649 million Internet users in China, including 31.17 million new ones in 2014, and the Internet penetration rate was 47.9, 2.1% points than the end of 2013. Meanwhile, mobile Internet has developed by leaps and bounds in China.
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Xie, Y., Liu, C., Qiao, R., Chen, W., Zhang, X. (2017). Survey of Chinese Internet Users’ Internet-Using Habits. In: Xie, Y. (eds) New Media and China's Social Development. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3994-2_2
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