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Mobile phones are an increasingly popular way to surf the Internet in rural China, but a “digital divide” is still growing between the country’s rural and urban areas, a survey found.

Rural China had over 100 million Internet users at the end of last year, accounting for just 15 percent of the rural population, according to a report put online Thursday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the government-controlled overseer of Internet domain names in the country. That compares to 45 percent of people online in bigger cities, a gap that has widened for the last two years, the report said. To read this IDG report in full, see: www.pcworld.com/article/194383/.html www.networkworld.com/news/2010/041610-more-rural-chinese-surf-the.html www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/04/16/urnidgns852573C400693880482577070024A85E.DTL