The growth of smartphone sales may be declining , but the reach of mobile internet in China has now reached the notable threshold of 50 percent for the first time.
That’s according to the China Internet Network Information Center — CNNIC, the government agency responsible for the internet — which this week announced ( Google Translate link ) the latest internet stats for the country.
As of December, 2016, China had 731 million internet users. That figure represents 53.2 percent of China’s population, meaning that it is almost on par with the population of Europe: 743 million people.
