Number: RL30636
Title: China's Internet Industry
Authors: Thomas Lum, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: The Chinese Internet industry is one of the fastest growing in the world; the number of users is expected to grow from 9 million to nearly 20 million in 2000 alone. Chinese scientific research institutes, the Chinese government, and Chinese high tech entrepreneurs, many of them backed by American venture capital, have forged the development of the Internet in China. Upon its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), China has promised to open its telecommunications sector and Internet industry to much greater foreign investment and trade.
Pages: 11
Date: Updated August 14, 2000