China has nearly 100 new Internet users per minute.
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China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) Wednesday released the 20th "Statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China". It was right in 10 years ago when CNNIC published its first report.
According to the report, as of June 30, China has had 162 million Internet users, only second to the United States, 211 million. Comparing to the end of 2006, it has 25 million new Internet users, which means the country reports nearly 100 new Internet users every minute.
Penetration rate below global average and most are young users
Although the annual growth rate of Internet users in China reaches 31.7%, entering a new stage of rapid growth, China's Internet penetration rate is only 12.3%, lower than the 17.6% as the global average. In some countries with more developed Internet construction such as the United States, Japan and South Korea, the penetration rate even exceeds 65%. So the gap is still significant. To be specific, China's Internet penetration rate of urban residents is 21.6%, and in rural areas, only 5.1%.
The age structure of Internet users is out of balance. Young people accounts for a large proportion. Internet users under the age of 25 account for over 50%. The proportion of users under the age of 30 even exceeds 70%.
Gender gap is gradually narrowing down. The proportion of female Internet users reaches 45.1%, rising to a record high point.
Internet infrastructure resources show explosive growth
China's Internet infrastructure resources are growing vigorously. At present, the total number of domain names in mainland has exceeded 9.18 million. The major impetus for the growth comes from the Chinese top-level domain names "CN", the annual growth rate of which reaches 416.5%. As of the end of June this year, the total number of "CN" domain names has reached 6.15 million, accounting for nearly 60% of the total number of domain names in China. It is for the first time for the number of registered "CN" domain names to exceed that of "COM". In a global context, China is only second to Germany in terms of the volume of CN domain names.
The report points out that every 10,000 Chinese people have 10 websites. As of June this year, China's website has reached 1.31 million, an increase of 470,000 in the past six months. Again, websites with "CN" domain names are growing the fastest, numbered 810,000. The substantial increase in website volume demonstrates the rapid development of Chinese information resources.
It is noteworthy that distinguishing from broadband and dial-up access, WAP Internet access has become the trend. Currently China has 55.64 million users using wireless access to the Internet, of which, about 44.3 million get to the Internet by using cell phones.
Users favor Internet for news reports but not "life tool"
About 13% of the Chinese families have access to the Internet at home, accounting for 73%, the report points out. Internet cafés have become the second largest Internet access sites. |
