For 2007, Nielsen tells us that 216 million users are connected to the Internet. However, based on their current estimates and the rate of expansion of the Internet in China, there are probably more internet users in China than in the USA currently.

Consider that the entire communication of China’s mobile phone network is also 560 million users, a number that almost doubles the population of the United States.

As China’s economy grows stronger and stronger, getting websites translated into the Chinese language is going to be more and more important. Hiring a Chinese translator could be expensive or cheap depending where you look. Considering the current low wages in China and the number of students learning English, it might be profitable to hire a few students to translate your websites into Chinese. However, absolutely make sure that your webpage is even viewable in China, since we all know how strict China’s government is on the internet.

Original story adapted from Yahoo News