Society

China has 130,000 registered cyber cafes by 2010

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-02-06 14:20

BEIJING - China had around 130,000 registered Internet cafes by the end of last year, an official with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce said Sunday.

More than 100,000 unlicensed cyber cafes were shut down over the past five years during a crackdown on Internet pornography and violence, he said.

Local authorities had raised the entry threshold for Internet cafes and stepped up monitoring of entertainment venues, especially cyber cafes and video game halls, to protect children, the official said.

China's population of Internet users jumped 19 percent to 457 million last year, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.