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China is 1st In World In No. Of Internet Users

By apurba on Aug 11, 2008
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China is the largest market for Internet users (253 M as of June 2008) despite the fact that only 19.1% of the country’s population is online. By contrast, the United States is estimated to have about 220 million Internet users, or about 70% of its population.
TrendSspotting's blog post on the Handbook Of Online China summarizes the unprecedented growth of Chinese Internet.

The rapid growth in Internet usage can be estimated from the fact that around half of top 20 trafficked Asia Pacific sites are in China.
Chinese Internet is for Virtual Fun. Chinese are much more addicted to Internet than their US counterparts.
Local players outperforms western players. Tencent’s QQ leads the IM market with whopping 78% market share. Google has a mere 19% market share in Chinese search market. Baidu leads the search market with 65% market share.
China ranks above the daily global average across all social media. More than one-third of Chinese netizens spend 1-3 hours daily on BBS.
Online ad market & gaming in China are HOT.

While the rest of the world may be ranting against China's Internet censorship, 85% of Chinese Citizens approve Internet Censorship. —apurba