On April 20, 1994, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing achieved China’s first fully functional connection to the Internet. This pilot network was designed to support education and scientific research, making China the 77th member country of the global Internet community.
At that time, it was difficult to imagine that by December 2023, approximately 77.5 percent of Chinese citizens would be Internet users, with their number exceeding 1.09 billion.
In the past three decades, China’s Internet has seen remarkable and rapid growth, leading to the rise of many well-known related companies.
