Internet Use in China Soars 75% in Six Months to 2.1 Million Online
Drew:
Here is a bit of good news,particularly if one stands to benefit from the proliferation of the Net anywhere particularly China.
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(Chinaonline)
(2/19/1999) China has 2.1 million internet users, up from an estimated 1.2 million users last July, according to a recent survey by the China Internet Network Information Center (www.cnnic.cn) published in the January 27 Tongxin Chanye Bao (Communications Weekly).
The majority of China's Internet users are men (86%) in their twenties (68%), who hold masters degrees (77%), and spend at least five hours a week online (65%).
Most of China's Internet users are online to access "information" (95%) and to e-mail (94%). The most common complaints about Internet use in China are the high connection fees (74%) and the lack of China-related online content (49%).
Most of China's web surfers are concentrated in Beijing and Guangdong Province, which not surprisingly is where most of China's high-tech companies are located. Beijing already lays claim to China's Silicon Valley, the city's Haidian district, where over 230 scientific research institutes are located.
China currently has 5,300 web sites, according to the survey, although there are 18,396 registered domain names in China requesting the familiar ".cn" extension.
The survey also queried internet users for their favorite destinations on the Net. The top ten web sites in China, in order, are Netease, Sohoo, Beijing Online, SinaNet, Shanghai Online, yeah!, Popular Computer Week (the e-version of China's Computer News), Chinabyte, and Shenzhen Online.
The sites are evenly divided between Beijing- and Guangdong-based companies, although one Shanghai-based web site managed to make the list.
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