Chinese people is the most active on the web

Reuters agency says that China is the nation which has the largest number of Internet users, preceding even the United States, with 221 million users reported at the end of February.

However those are the data published by the official Chinese government via the China Internet Network Information Centre.
Another consideration is that of the Chinese population amounts to over 1 billion and 300 million people, and then in reality it is only 16% of the population access to the Internet (which, IMHO, I seem a little overestimated).

There's also to understand the meaning for the Chinese government of "access to the Internet," for example if the count includes about 1 annually uses e-mail.

Considered that in China the search engine results are filtered and that the accessible sites will be around ten (in ironic sense) in my opinion all these data should be considered also the quality of these accesses.

It seems the classic message for propaganda to quiet the public and the media the rest of the world, especially after the recent events in Tibet and some days before of the Olympic Games.

link: http://it.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idITLAN42177120080424