China companies have earned nearly 11 billion dollars from their Internet activities last year, a research group said Monday as the nation with the world's largest online population is becoming more web-savvy.Online revenues from advertising, gaming, shopping and other activities, which grew more than 30 percent annually to 74.3 billion yuan, Cao Junbo, senior researcher on the internet iResearch Consulting Group, told AFP.
The research group expects online sales to reach 112.3 billion yuan this year and 273.4 billion yuan in 2013, said Cao.
China has more than 384 million Internet users, more than any other country in the world, shows a new line released last week by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a government-linked industry body.
By the end of June 2009, the number of online customers in China reached 87.88 million, meaning about one in four Internet users shop online, according to a report from the center.
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