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Feasibility Study of New Media Technology
on Constructing Online Public Sphere

Figure 3. The development of internet users and mobile users in China.
Table 1 summarises the symbolic events in the internet development in China
from 1987 to 2013. Figure 4 gives a timeline of the launch dates of the principal events
during the internet development. These two charts include technology development, the

government’s usage of the internet, commercial development, and the regulations and
conventions of internet management.

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