Digital divide narrows between Chinese youth in urban and rural areas

The digital divide between mainland Chinese youth in the country’s urban and rural areas has narrowed, according to the latest government data, helping expand the number of connected users in the world’s biggest internet market.The China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), an agency under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, reported on Wednesday that the difference in internet penetration rate between the two groups closed to 3.6 percentage points last year, from 5.4…

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