On January 17, 2008, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released ¡°The 21st Statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China¡± in Beijing. According to the data, the total number of netizens in China had reached 0.21 billion at the end of December 31, 2007. It¡¯s the second only to the USA with a gap of 5 million users. CNNIC estimated that China will become the largest country with scale of netizens in initial of 2008. Even the growth of netizens has raised the Internet popularity to 16%; it is still lower than the global average level, 19.1%. ?

The total number of domain names in China has achieved to 11.93 million, with the annual increasing rate as 190.4%. The dynamic growth come CN which is the top level domain names of country code. It has reached 9 million, which is 4 times increased of the same period in 2006. The number of websites under CN domain names has surpassed one million in the first time with the number of 1.006 million that occupies 2/3 of the total 1.5 million of website.