“The popularity of the Internet in China has driven the explosive growth of profitable Web companies and made fortunes for some Chinese entrepreneurs despite government controls on what the public can see online. The number of mainland Internet users rose to 513 million in December, up 12 percent from a year earlier, the government-sanctioned China Internet Network Information Center said”. – AP Business Writer

A reporter writes the news report with her laptop during a press conference of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress, known as the CPPCC at the Great Hall of the People on March 2, 2011 in Beijing, China. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)

Shi Yongxin, abbot of the Shaolin Temple, works on the computer April 8, 2005 in Dengfeng, Henan Province, China. (Photo by Cancan Chu/Getty Images)

A man surfs the web in a netcafe on July 29, 2008 in Youyang County of Chongqing Municipality, China. The China Internet Network Information Center has reported, the number of Chinese people using the internet on a regular basis has reached 253 million, making China the largest web user market. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

A girl tries to open the door of a taxi as she holds her assembled personal computer in front of an electronics city at Beijing's main computer district in Zhongguancun, northeast of the capital city on February 20, 2006 in Beijing, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

A student learns to surf the Internet at the Wuhan School for the Blind June 14, 2007 in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China. The school is the only school of its kind in Wuhan and one of the earliest in the country built to provide education for blind children. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)