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Internet Café in Mainland China
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''This page is mainly focusing on internet cafe condition in mainland China. For the definition and history of Internet café, see Internet café.''

An Internet Café, or sometimes called an Internet bar, is a public profit-making place that provides Internet services. Internet cafes usually provide computer host, monitor, mouse, keyboard, headset, microphone, and other related hardware, consumers can freely control the software after paying and ID-check. Fees usually can be charged by hour commonly or overnight charge. An Internet cafe also provides a few food and beverage service.

In China, all Internet cafes are required to register, while the government will conduct a three-month review of the service. If the Internet cafe does not hold the operating license issued by the government, or the operating license expires, then it will be regarded as an illegal Internet cafe, which will be force to be closed.

History
In 1995, "3C + T" became the first Internet cafe in Shanghai, China. In the following decade, Internet cafes blossomed all over the streets and lanes of China. By 2015, there were at least 146,000 effectively registered Internet cafes in the Chinese mainland, and at least 20 million users spent money in them every day, both of which are now growing year by year.