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Visitors taking photographs with their mobile phones in front of blossom peach trees in Beijing, China. One billion of the country’s 1.4 billion people are online. Photograph: WU Hao/EPA The restaurant was upmarket enough to have printed menus rather than just a QR code on a small steel plate in the corner of the table. But when it came to ordering my companion took out his phone and started scrolling down, clicking on a picture and a block of text here or there. “I’m checking the reviews to see what’s good,” he said. He was on Dianping, an app that...
