China said the number of Internet users in the country reached about 253 million last month, helping China overtake the United States as the world's biggest Internet market. The estimate, released by the China Internet Network Information Center in Beijing, shows a powerful surge in Internet adoption in this country over the past few years, particularly among teenagers. The estimate, based on a national survey, shows that the number of Internet users jumped more than 50 percent, or by about 90 million, during the past year, suggesting that China could soon have more than 300 million people using the Internet for everything from news to online shopping. The new estimate of Internet users from the information center, which operates under the government-controlled Chinese Academy of Sciences, only represents about 19 percent of...
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