By Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions With just over 1.3 billion people (as of mid-2008), China accounts for about 20 percent of the world population and needless to say, is the world’s largest and most populous country. Although the country’s population growth has been somewhat slowed by the one child policy (in effect since 1979), its internet population has been growing leaps and bounds over the last ten years. (Figure 1) As of June 2010, China’s netizenship climbed to 420 million, more than the population of the entire United States. However, the penetration…
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