Chinese in Current Affairs --0023(Sentence: 162--164): How to Say "Number of Chinese Broadband Subscribers Reaches 77 Million"

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Hi friends, do you use the Internet very often? How do you connect to the Internet? By the end of June this year, China had 788 thousand websites and 54.5 million computers connected to the Internet.. The number of Chinese Internet users totaled 123 million of whom 77 million people were broadband subscribers.

So today I would like to present you with some new sentences relating to this topic and hope that they are a little help to you in your Chinese learning...


NEW WORDS:

Please click on any Chinese character that you need help with to see its Chinese pinyin, pronunciation and meaning, and then follow me to read it.


No.162: -- 截至今年六月底，中国的因特网用户总数一亿二千三百万，其中七千七百万人是宽带用户。
               -- At the end of June this year the number of Chinese Internet users totaled 123 million, of whom 77 million people were broadband subscribers.

No.163:   -- 中国现有七十八万八千个网站和五千四百五十万台计算机连接互联网。
                 -- China has 788 thousand websites and 54.5 million computers connected to the Internet.

No.164: -- 国际互联网在中国被广泛地应用，正在成为一种更为个性化的和更多交互式的新兴服务。
               -- The Internet is now used widely in China and it is becoming individualized and more interactive as new service.

Note: The English news cover is from People's Daily

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Written and Recorded On Sat, Sep 24, 2006