As the total number of Internet users reflects the scale of Internet users and the potential of the Internet market, the total number of domain names, websites and the bandwidth can reflect the level of the application of the Internet, to some extent. There have been 25.40 million more broadband users in 2004, an increase of 146% over 2003. The total numbers of IP addresses and the domain names registered under CN are also growing rapidly, indicating the achievements of the application of the Internet in China. The rapid development of the fundamental Internet resources in China has helped the enhancement of China Internet, in both depth and width. On the other side, the usage of the Internet in China has resulted in the considerable demands for the fundamental Internet resources, above which formed a positive cycle to facilitate the comprehensive improvement of the Internet in China.

On the press conference, experts from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Macao SAR, China also published their local statistical survey reports. From their reports, it can be seen that the total number of the Internet users in Hong Kong SAR has reached 3.30 million, taking 51% of the total population in Hong Kong SAR; the average Internet accessing time there is 5.3 days per week. In Macao SAR, there are 201000 Internet users, taking 46% of their total population; the penetration rate of the household accessing Internet has raised to 59%; people there spent averagely 3.8 days per week online. This was the first time that Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Chinese Mainland conducted joint survey on the Internet locally, applying unified criteria to the questionnaires in the same period. Consequently, the statistical results from the reports of these three regions are comparable.