With a whopping 253 million Internet users, China has surpassed the United States to become the world's largest Internet user base.

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released that number last week and noted that more than 80 percent of Chinese Web surfers use broadband, according to Xinhua News Agency.

The United States had an estimated 223.1 million Internet users in June, the Associated Press said, quoting Nielsen Online's data.

A July report from the Boston Consulting Group spoke highly of the quality of China's online population, which spends more time online than their American counterparts and is quicker to adopt new technologies.

"Many people in the West think that China is still early in its digital development. In fact, in many activities such as instant messaging and blogging, China is more advanced than the United States and other Western economies," Xinhua quoted Christoph Nettesheim, a senior partner and managing director in BCG's Beijing office as saying.