“The growth of the Internet in China is, and will be, a significant force for health care development in the country. So I thought I would put together a short compilation of some history as well as facts and statistics on this amazing social and technical phenomenon. This information was gleaned from a series of articles thanks to Beijing Review.com.
First a brief China Internet history.
In September 1987, with the support of a scientific research group led by Professor Werner Zorn, of Karlsruhe University in Germany, a working group built up an email node and successfully sent out an email to Germany on Sep 20th. The email title was “Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world.”
See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog.
