The total number of websites in China had reached 3.51 million by the end of last year, huge step up since China's first website two decades ago.
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The websites, with 4.61 million domain names, were owned and operated by 2.82 million founders, 70 percent of which were organizations and 30 percent individuals, said a report released by Internet Society of China.
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Over 16,000 websites provided professional information for education, medicine and news. After years of advance, China's homegrown search engine Baidu.com and e-commerce platform Taobao.com were capable of competing their global peers.
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China's first website connected with the global network was built by researchers at the Institute of High Energy Physics under Chinese Academy of Science in 1994. The site, along with high-tech articles, contained a column "Tour in China" introducing China's culture, news and economy to the world.
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There were over 618 million online at the end of 2013 in China, nearly half of the nation's total population. Â