CNN:中国网民，世界之最

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【原文标题】China tops world in Internet users
【来源网址】http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/14/china.internet/index.html
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China tops world in Internet users
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world's top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group.

The number of Web surfers in the country grew by nearly 42 percent to 298 million, according to the China Internet Network Information Center's January report. And there's plenty of room for growth, as only about 1 in every 4 Chinese has Internet access.

The rapid growth in China's Internet use can be tied to its swift economic gains and the government's push for the construction of telephone and broadband lines in the country's vast rural areas, the report says.

The Chinese government wants phone and broadband access in each village by 2010.
Nearly 91 percent of China's Internet users are surfing the Web with a broadband connection -- an increase of 100 million from 2007. Mobile phone Internet users totaled 118 million by the end of 2008.

While China's Internet usage has been growing in leaps in bounds, the government limits the Web sites its citizens can visit. Earlier this month, China released a blacklist of 19 major online portals and Web sites, including Google and Baidu, that it claims provide and spread pornographic or obscene content. The move came as several Chinese government agencies, including the Ministry of Public Security, launched a month-long campaign to clean up the Web, according to the state-run Xinhua news service.


China has come under criticism for restricting Web access to ordinary citizens as well as on local and foreign media covering last year's summer Olympics in Beijing. The U.S. State Department noted in a 2008 report that China had increased its efforts to "control and censor the Internet, and the government had tightened restrictions on freedom of speech and the domestic press" and bloggers.

In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria in September 2008, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said, "the freedom of Internet in China is recognized by many, even from the West."

"Nonetheless, to uphold state security, China, like many countries in the world, has also imposed some proper restrictions. That is for the safety, that is for the overall safety of the country and for the freedom of the majority of the people."
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中国网民，世界之最

中国北京（CNN）——据中国官方的一个研究组织的说法，中国在2008年超越美国成为世界上互联网用户最多的国家。

中国互联网信息中心一月的报告称，中国在2008年网民激增了42%，达到了2.98亿。这还有增长的空间，因为只有四分之一的中国人拥有互联网接入。



报告说，中国网民的急速增长可以归结于经济的迅速发展，以及政府对广大农村地区电话线路和宽带线路的建设的推动。

中国政府希望电话和宽带在2010年时覆盖所有的乡村。

大约91%的中国网民使用宽带接入，比2007年增加了一亿。在2008年底，手机网络用户达到了1.18亿。

虽然中国网络用户跳跃式的发展，政府却限制市民们可以访问的网站。在这个月的早些时候，中国给出了一个黑名单，包含主要门户网站和其他网站在内
的19家网站，例如百度和谷歌；政府声称他们提供和传播色情内容。据新华社的报道，这次行动是由包括公安部在内的数家部委联合展开的长达一个月运动。

中国因为限制公民接入网络，以及去年北京奥运会的国外和国内媒体报道的遮盖而饱受批评。美国国务院在2008年的一个报告中提到，中国增加自己‘控制和审查网络，并且政府加紧对言论自由、国内出版业和博客的限制，

2008年9月，在CNN的卡瑞亚·扎卡瑞亚采访中，中国总理温家宝说：“在中国，网络自由被很多人认同，甚至来自西方的”。
“尽管如此，为了保障国家安全，中国，像世界上其他国家一样，也采取了合理的强制措施。那是为了安全，为了国家总体的安全，为了大多数人的自由。”


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