BEIJING, July 23, 2015 (AFP) - China has 668 million Internet users, accounting for 48.8 percent of the country’s total population, as e-commerce boomed in the world’s second-largest economy, authorities said.
A total of 18.94 million new users -- more than the population of Chile -- were added in the first six months of this year, the semi-official China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said in its biannual report.
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