Every Tuesday and Thursday, Inkstone Index features a single, illuminating number that helps you make sense of China.
3.6 percentage points: the gap between the ability for rural and urban Chinese youth to access the internet.
Young people in rural China are catching up with their city counterparts when it comes to going online.
About 94% of urban Chinese youth have access to the internet, compared to 90.3% of rural youth, according to the China Internet Network Information Center, a government agency.
The difference of 3.6 percentage points shrank from last year’s number of 5.4 percentage points, the center said in a report on internet access for people between the age of 6 and 18.
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Jun 01, 2020