Short messages (SMS) sent by Chinese people in 2009 rose 8.4 percent year-on-year to 784.04 billion, or 2.1 billion per day on average, the Beijing Times reported recently citing a source with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Read More…
The Business Insider recently published a bar graph comparing the internet activities of United States of users with those of Chinese users. While some online behaviors, like pursuing an online education or watching online video (one in the same, really), were statistically similar between the two counties, other activities were far more common in one country than the other, revealing some fundamental differences in Chinese and American tendencies. Read More…
Results of a recent survey show that while Beijing and Guangdong residents have a reasonably high awareness of the issues surrounding intellectual property rights (IPR), the majority of their fellow countrymen know little about the question. Read More…
6 in every 10,000 people in China have a personal wealth of more than 10 million yuan ( nearly 1.5 million US dollars), shows the recently issued “Hurun Wealth Report 2009”. After the report came out, it immediately raised a lot of doubts among netizens: “Have Chinese people really become so rich?” Read More…
Not a recent piece of news, but it would be interesting to see if the trend has been updated since then: a Chinese expert predicted 55 percent Chinese households will have a yearly income over 60,000 yuan (8,0407 U.S. dollars) by 2020, the Beijing Morning Post reported in Beijing. Read More…
Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo elaborated on the essential differences between the system of China’s people’s congresses and Western capitalist countries’ system of political power at the Second Session of the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC) recently. The essential differences are listed as following: Read More…
China Telecom, the country’s largest fixed-line operator, started trials of the third-generation (3G) mobile services in Shanghai recently, and plans to extend the same nationwide soon. Shanghai Telecom, China Telecom’s subsidiary, said it would invest 6 billion yuan (nearly 1 Billion US dollars) on various projects including the 2010 Shanghai Expo World, 3G-network construction, and enterprise services this year. Read More…
China Telecom has launched a nationwide “mobile phones to the countryside” program, the company announced recently. Read More…
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently released two reports on China’s mobile Internet, according to the reports, there are already over 640 million mobile users in China by the end of 2008, among them about 117.6 million users have used mobile devices to access Internet in last six months, more than doubled from a year ago. The report said that about 34% of China’s mobile Internet users are active mobile Internet users everyday. Read More…
The large-scale report of “China in World’s Eyes” was issued in Beijing recently. Foreigners from more than 20 countries around the world were surveyed in the report.
When asked which can represent China best, most foreigners chose the Great Wall, Kung fu and Chinese food; and 21% of them considered the Great Wall as the best thing representing China. Influenced by Hollywood films, foreigners were greatly impressed by Kung Fu; many of them even thought most Chinese could play Kung Fu.
The report reveals that foreigners’ impression of China mostly come from films and other pop culture, which are very superficial. Compared with Chinese people’s knowledge about America and Europe, foreigners know too little about China.
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33% of the Chinese recipients of the survey thought the four great inventions of ancient China–compass, printing (movable type), gunpowder and papermaking, can represent China best. However, foreign interviewees did not seem to know the four great inventions very well, and only 6% of them voted for the four great inventions. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine only got 2% of votes due to lack of communication with world.
As for the animals that can represent China best, dragon and panda incontrovertibly lie in the top two with ratings of 45% and 42%.
