China Internet Users
According to CNNIC, there are 1.6b internet users in China currently. Every minute will increase 100 Internet users.
There are more than 44.3 millions mobile internet users in China too. The increasing rate is very high partly due to decrease in mobile surfing fee. Mainland has 1.31 millions website, and the increasing rate is over 137% per year.
Internet usage in China:
20% users use Internet banking and online stock trading.
77.3% reads online news.
74.8% uses search engines. (So it is important to make your site accessible in search engines, and it is the value of SEO)
69.8% uses instant messaging. Current leader in the market is qq
47% plays online games
25.5% shops online regularly. (trend is increasing and encouraging to online business)
55.4% uses email (mainland people tends not using email and it is a trend quite different with Hong Kong)
68.5% enjoys and download online music.
61.1% download or watch video online.
15.5% uses online job search.
24% participates in online education and training.
September 16th, 2007 at 12:35 am
china is definitely a big market. everyone just using the internet. e.g. when a time I went to chaoxing, all the shops there have computer and internet access. it is a huge market if you’ve got internet business around.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:11 am
“According to CNNIC, there are 1.6b internet users in China currently.”"
Isn’t that the POPULATION of China?