Internet in China
The People's Republic of China has been on the Internet intermittently since May 1989 and on a permanent basis since 20 April 1994. Since 2008, China has become the country with the largest population on the Internet (and remains so as of 2025). As of December 2024, 1.09 billion people in China (77.5% of the country's total population) use the internet. China's first foray into the global cyberspace was an email (not TCP/IP based and thus technically not internet) sent on 20 September 1987 to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, reading, "Across the Great Wall, towards the rest of the world" (Chinese: 越过长城，走向世界; pinyin: Yuèguò chángchéng, zǒuxiàng shìjiè). This later became a well-known phrase in China and as of 2018, was displayed on the desktop login screen for QQ mail. By law, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) governs the country's Internet. China's Internet is heavily censored by the CCP, with numerous foreign websites blocked by the Great Firewall. China has one of the lowest cross...
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