China will have 300 million Internet users by 2005 . By then, the United States will have just 214 million. China now has 61 million stock investors compared with 60 million Chinese Communist Party members. More than 33 percent of China's 1.3 billion citizens are under age 21. American high-tech exports to China grew 500 percent between 1990 and 1998 alone.
China now possesses the world's largest number of cable TV viewers .
World Trade Organization entry may increase China's gross domestic product by between 2 percent and 3 percent annually, translating into 5 million jobs for each additional percentage point of growth. China is already MasterCard's second largest market. SInce getting internet access, more than 63 percent of Chinese Internet users reported they spent less time watching TV and 62 percent said they slept less. China attracts more direct foreign investment than any country other than the United States. China will have more Internet users than any other Asia-Pacific nation by 2001, with 40 million people online.