Number Of China’s Internet Users Rises To 564 Million Despite Gov’t Control On Content

In this Feb. 1, 2012 photo, job seekers use laptops connected with Internet at a job fair in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province. China’s population of Internet users rose 10 percent last year to 564 million even as communist authorities tightened controls on content, according to data released Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013. <AP/NEWSis>

Passengers kill spare time with mobile devices aboard an urban subway train in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Jan. 15, 2013. A report released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said that the population of Chinese Internet users had risen up to 564 million till the end of 2012. <Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing>