Perspectives
China’s Internet industry can’t seem to stay out of the limelight. That’s not a surprise. In a country that is flocking online by the millions, the social, economic and even political force of the Internet is formidable. And it’s likely to stay that way for some time, according to Robin Li, the multimillionaire founder and CEO of Baidu, the country’s largest search engine. In a recent interview with China Knowledge@Wharton, the 42-year-old, Beijing-based executive predicted that the number of Internet users in China could double in the next 10 years to nearly one billion.