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Pranesh Prakash on 25 May 09By the end of last year, China's internet penetration rate - roughly, the percentage of the country that has access to the Internet - had surpassed the global average, according to the China Internet Network Information Center's latest report. They counted 298 million users, 88 million more than at the end of 2007, mostly because of the huge increase in Internet usage in rural parts of the country. As of last month, there were a total of 13,594,604 domain names registered under ".cn."