China’s Internet Users by the Numbers
Submitted by Bill Belew on Wednesday, 18 July 2007No Comment
The number of Internet users in China has grown to 162 million, up 33% from last year.
More than one in four (27.3%) use their mobile phones to surf the Web.
Mainland-based websites now number 9.18 million.
The most popular uses are search engines and reading news was second (76.3%).
Instant messaging was second with 69.% using QQ or MSN type tools everyday.
55.4% use email.
Viewing and downloading videos or
movies – 68.5%
50% played games online.
Primary and secondary students were reached at 36.7%, double last year's figure making it possible for 60 million of China's 200 million students to go online.
The average time online for students – 11.6 hours compared to 15 hours last year.
Wait till the newbies get used to surfing…it'll go back up.
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