SLAM project - Digital Divide in China

1. DIGITAL DIVIDE

3. China’s has a vast indifference in between its rural as well as urban areas. Comparing and contrasting the geographical conditions and population density in rural and urban areas in china, it has to spend a huge sum of money for its ITC Infrastructure . By the end of 1998, China’s rural areas had about 70 percent of the national population but only 20 percent of its total number of telephones. Compared to an urban telephone density of 27.7 percent, the rural telephone density of 2.85 percent is 10 times lower than urban telephone density in 1998. DIGITAL DIVIDE IN CHINA