China-based blogs total 107 million, with more than 42 percent of netizens running a blog, a senior information official said here on recently. Cai Mingzhao, deputy director of the Chinese State Council Information Office, made the comment at the 2nd U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum. The number of blogs was about 40 million just a year ago […]
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About 353.8 billion junk text messages were sent in China in 2007, 92.7 percent year-on-year, the anti-spam committee of the Internet Society of China said recently. Illegal and fraudulent messages accounted for 49.7 percent, while ads made up 45.48 percent. Group spam companies accounted for 36.67 percent of the total, service provider firms made up 32.18 percent and net operators 20.75 percent. At the end of 2007, China’s cell-phone users topped 500 million.
The year-long survey, Netguide 2008, conducted by the Data Center of the China Internet (DCCI) and the Internet Society of China (ISC), polled more than 300 websites, 270 enterprises and 50,786 persons.Results suggest that the number of Chinese online gamers will likely surpass 59 million in 2008, a 20 percent increase on 2007’s 48 million, reports China View. The survey also found that the market value of Chinese online gaming in 2007 rocketed 57 percent from 2006’s 9.36 billion yuan (1.2 billion US dollars) […]
Chinese Web users will spend 45.8 percent more this year on online games and booking hotel and flight tickets, among other services available online: total spending by Chinese Internet users will hit 581.5 billion yuan (US$77.53 billion), said an Internet Society of China report issued recently. The report’s findings are based on data collected from a survey of 50,786 mainland Internet users and 270 companies across the country, as well as from seminars and interviews with industry experts […]
China is likely to overtake the United States to become the world’s largest Internet market by Web population size: its web population will hit 244 million by the end of 2008 from last year’s 182 million, an increase of 34 percent, said an Internet Society of China report issued recently. The report’s findings are based on data collected from a survey of 50,786 mainland Internet users and 270 companies across the country, as well as from seminars and interviews with industry experts […]