China has surged past the United States as the country with the most Internet users, Gipp.ru reported Monday.

Today, about 253 million Chinese citizens access the Web on a regular basis. In the United States, 218 million people use the Internet regularly.

However, the figures do not point towards a digitalisation of the country, since just 19 percent of the 1.3 billion Chinese inhabitants use the Internet, Gipp.ru reported.

The part of the total population that has regular Web access is higher in Russia (21 percent), as well as in South Korea (71 percent), the United States (72 percent) and Iceland (85 percent), according to Gipp.ru.