毫无疑问,中国的互联网市场正在以加速度前进:到2000年6月底,中国内地的网民数量已达1690万——分别是6个月前的2倍和一年前的4倍。靠这个数字,中国内地已经跻身为世界第二大互联网市场。但北大教授周其仁指出,中国发展互联网经济的要害仍然是扩大规模,道理很简单,“水不大不可能长出大鱼。” Undoubtedly, China’s internet market is accelerating: By the end of June 2000, the number of netizens in Mainland China reached 16.9 million - twice as much as six months ago and four times as one year ago. By this figure, mainland China has become one of the world’s second largest Internet market. But Zhou Qiren, a professor at Peking University, pointed out that the crux of China’s development of the Internet economy is still to expand its scale. The reason is very simple. “It is not impossible to grow big fish without water.”