Children start using Web at younger age

Report says one-fourth of students are online before 5

More than half of children in China under 18 started to use the Internet before they reached age 8, two years younger than was the case in 2010, according to a report released on Wednesday.

A fourth of the 10,000 students in the research learned to use the Internet even before they were 5, according to the report by the Chinese Youth Pioneers Business Development Center.