China now has the second highest number of home Internet users in the world, and is rapidly catching up with the US. China’s home users now number 56.6 million, about a third of the 166 million wired American homes, says a survey by the Nielsen/NetRatings Internet consultancy in Stamford, Connecticut. And with Net subscriptions rising by 6 per cent a month, China could quickly become the world’s biggest market, with a quarter of the population wired within five years.
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