Some good granularity here on the state of the internet in China, the full report is attached as a pdf.
"On January 23, 2007, CNNIC published "the 19th Statistical Survey Report on Internet Development in China".
The report shows that by the end of 2006, the Internet users in China reached 137 million, account for 10.5% of Chinas population. The Internet penetration in Beijing exceeded 30% for the first time. The total amount of domain names in China increased remarkably. Over 1.8 million .CN domain names had been registered.
The registration increased 64.4% in just one year. 75.9% of Chinese Internet users or 104 million people use broadband connections that include xDSL, Cable Modem and leased line. The scale of mobile phone Internet users has also expanded with the total number reached 17 million.
Comparing to the same period last year, Chinas Internet users increased by 26 million. The growth rate (23.4%) rose again since the rate dropped in 2004 (18.2%) and 2005 (18.1%).
Under the native environment of rapid development of the Internet, China show greater demand and developed broader application on Internet addresses.
Total domain names in China now touched 4,109,020, which is 1.16 million more than 6 months ago, averaged at 200 thousand net growths per month.
The .CN domain name reach 1,803,393, which are 706,469 or 64.4% greater than the same period last year. The .CN today ranks fourth among all ccTLDs and brings Chinas Internet into the .CN era.
The report newly added the survey on network resources of domestic webpage number and byte quantities of website contents.
The results show that by the end of 2006, China has 4.47 billion webpages and 122,306 GB of webpage contents, the annual growth rates of these two are 86.3% and 81.7% respectively. Along with vast growth of these domestic Internet resources, the total websites and IPv4 addresses in China also grow rapidly and reached 843 thousand and 98 million respectively."
