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BEIJING — More people go online in China than there are people in the United States. The country’s rapid economic growth and expansion of Internet access has fueled a sharp increase in Internet users, totaling 338 million by the end of June, a government-sanctioned research group said Thursday.
That is a 13.4 percent jump since the end of 2008, the China Internet Network Information Center said in a report.
The latest U.S. Census Bureau’s figure says the population of the U.S. is just under 307 million. China’s population is more than 1.3 billion. China’s population of Internet users has been growing despite government efforts to block access to material deemed subversive or pornographic.
