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UPDATED: September 7, 2007 NO.37 SEP.13, 2007
互联网改变中国 (1)
Transforming China
It's a short time for a country with a history of 5,000 years, but those 20 years appear destined to make a major difference to the nation
By ZHANG ZHIPING
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1987年9月20日,北京计算机应用技术研究所研究员钱天白代表中国通过互联网向前西德卡尔斯鲁厄大学发出了中国第一封电子邮件,文件名为:"穿越长城,走向世界"。至今,中国的互联网事业已整整走过了20年的路程。

In 1987, with the support of a scientific research group led by Professor Werner Zorn of Karlsruhe University in Germany, a working group in China built up an email node and successfully sent out an email to Germany on September 20. The email's title was "across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world."

20年对于一个有着5000年文明历史的国度来说很短,但是,有互联网的20年却让整个民族的历史进程发生了真正的加速度。

Two decades have passed since that historical day. It's a short time for a country with a history of 5,000 years, but those 20 years appear destined to make a major difference to the nation.

在经历了几番起落之后,互联网再一次以惊人的速度在中国发展。最近的中国互联网络信息中心(CNNIC)发布的《第20次中国互联网络发展状况统计报告》显示,截止2007年6月30日,中国大陆的网民总人数达到1.62亿,排名世界第二。半年来平均每分钟就新增近100个网民,半年的增长接近去年全年的增长量;互联网普及率已达到了12.3%,几乎每10个中国人就有一个人在使用互联网;由于电信事业的发展,互联网的用户群已延伸到偏远的山区和农村地区,从而使跨跃数字鸿沟,这一目标变得更加现实。

Having gone through many ups and downs, the Internet in China is developing at an astonishing speed. According to the 20th China Internet Development Statistics Report published by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), as of June 30, 2007, there had been 162 million Internet users in China, which ranked the country second in the world next to the United States in terms of Internet population. The report said the Internet had penetrated 12.3 percent of China's total population and over the first half of 2007, every minute would witness an increase of 100 netizens. As telecommunications develop in rural areas, people there will also begin to have access to the Internet, making it possible to narrow the digital divide.



 
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