This Day, That Year

Item from Jan 19, 1991, in China Daily: At a newspaper and magazine stall on central Beijing's Dongsi street people line up for the latest news on the war in the Gulf. Newspaper circulations have doubled or tripled in the capital since the start of the war.

During the past few decades, newspapers have been one of the most common channels for Chinese people to receive the news and other information. But with the digital age, the Internet has become the fastest way for people to get their news fix.

According to a 2014 report from the China Internet Network Information Center research group, the number of Chinese netizens hit 632 million by the end of June last year, 14.42 million more than in 2013. The Internet covered 46.9 percent of the Chinese population, 1.1 percent more than in 2013.