206 million Chinese rely on Internet for news...

About 206 million Chinese, or 68.6 percent of the country's Internet users, are using the web to get their main source of news, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) reported.

CASS, a top academic institution, released the figure in the Blue Book of China's Economy (2009) report.

Disasters such as snowstorms during the Lunar New Year holiday, the massive earthquake that struck the southwestern Sichuan province in May as well as the Olympics stimulated the growth of the online news population, said Zhu Huaxin, author of the report. More...

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