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China booms more, cracks down

January 17th, 2008

Reuters reports that China’s online market grew by 23% in terms of users last year, on the back of 70 million new Internet users. But China is also going to crack down, citing in part concerns that the games are disreputable and regarded as being equivalent to opium. The tone of the quote is that of a government saving an important industry from itself.

Meanwhile, one-fifth of Internet users in China are connecting via phone.

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