100 million Chinese bloggers by 2007

Blogging is BIG in China. According to a report written by one of China's most prestigious universities, China will have 100 million bloggers by 2007. From Xinhua:

China expects 100 million bloggers to be writing about their life, love, angst and inspirations on the country's cyberspace by 2007...

The paper said there will be more than 60 million bloggers in China by the end of this year. The word "blog" was one of the most searched words on the Internet in China last year, the report said. A survey by Baidu.com, a major Chinese search engine, shows that there are 36.82 million blog sites in China that are kept currently by 16 million people.

Zhang Xiaorong, strategy development director of "Bokee", one of the first blog service suppliers in China, said his company adds about 100,000 blogs a day.