Li Yizhong, director for China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at 2009 China Internet Conference held in Beijing that the scale of China’s network users has been increasing. By the end of September 2009, China had 1.044 billion phone users, including 324 million fixed telephone users and 720 million mobile phone users. The number of websites in China had reached 3.2 million. The number of China’s mobile Internet users had reached 192 million, a year-on-year increase of 62.7%.

The 720M cell phone user number is amazing and that represents only 54% of the population, in comparison, US has about 270M cell phone users and the cell penetration is already 88%. India is next to China in term of number of cell phone users, with about 510M cell phones and at 43% of penetration.