The number of Internet users also rose 12.2% in 2010, according to the official data.
The number of Internet users subject to the new system is a sizable chunk of the U.S. population.
The report also said that the number of Internet users in rural areas also increased by 8.9% to 136 million.
The number of Internet users represents 38.3% of the 1.3bn population.
In the 10 years that the outgoing leaders have been in power, the number of internet users in China has grown tenfold to more than 500 million.
The government expects the number of Internet users will rise to 4m by 2000, although many people in the computer industry reckon the numbers will be far higher.
If current growth rates continue, it says, the number of Internet users accessing the Internet in languages other than English (predominantly, in Chinese) will overtake English language users by 2015.
The number of Internet users globally has consistently risen from around 660 million in 2003 to 1, 670 million in 2009 as a result of rising PC penetration amongst consumers and the growing prevalence of internet access.
The new survey, which was conducted in the third quarter of this year, shows that the number of Internet users has nearly tripled since the first survey, which estimated the number of Internet users to be 34 million.
According to the CINIC, Beijing residents account for 30 percent of the country's total number of internet users, so it is safe to assume that a majority of the ruling communist party leaders are "surfing the web" daily without prohibition.
Last year China overtook America as the country with the largest number of internet users.
Germany had the highest number of Internet users in Europe, going from more than 5 million in 1997 to more than 8 million last year.
Singapore has the highest number of Internet users in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), with 46 percent of people over age 15 going online in the past month.
Forrester Research, a technology consultancy, estimates the number of European Internet-users almost doubled last year.
The number of U.S. Internet users is expected to continue to grow, according to Zona's researchers.
With the rapid adoption of mobile devices, an increasing number of users are using these devices to access the internet.
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Still, the number of Google Web searches by mainland-Chinese Internet users has risen over the past two years, said Mr. Alegre, who is based in Tokyo and often visits Beijing and Shanghai.
This bill would prohibit a social networking Internet Web site, as defined, from displaying in a designated text field, to the public or other registered users, the home address or telephone number of a registered user of that Internet Web site without consent, as defined.
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By the end of 2001 the number of telephone lines in Thailand was up 86% and there were 3.5 million Internet users.
Net Applications, a StatCounter rival that Microsoft says is more reliable and which shows Internet Explorer to have more than twice the number of users as Chrome, says its methods do better at removing bots from data.
Such research has a number of weaknesses, not least the fact that it excludes non-internet users, so it is not about to replace telephone surveys and focus groups any time soon.
Hence a higher number of Internet users than we expect will have a marginal impact on the stock price.
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However, as PC growth slows and more users adopt smartphones to stay connected on the move, an increasing number of Internet searches will be performed on mobile phones and online ad dollars will shift to mobile advertising.
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Furthermore, we have expanded and enhanced the VIERA connect internet functionality by employing cloud technology, enabling users to access an infinite number of apps, " said Henry Hauser, Vice President, Panasonic Marketing, the Merchandising Group "Panasonic is continually striving to surpass the previous year's commercial and critical success, as well as listening to what consumers are saying.
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According to Ipsos Insight, a marketing research consultancy, 56% of Internet users in the U.S. subscribe to broadband service, and that number is expected to climb to 70% by early 2006.
Difficulties accessing Google Play, the company's application store, have led users to rely on a number of alternative stores run by local Internet companies and telecommunications carriers.
Unlike paid networks, where less than 1 percent of consumers actually connect to the Internet, a typical free network has, on average, more than 10 times the number of users consuming over 20 times the bandwidth.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said "a possible glitch" had allowed a limited number of users to view each other's details.
Look at the number of PCs and how long it took to get to 100 million users, then (what happened) for Internet users and now with mobile usage.
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