World's biggest online population: 538M Chinese

[beijingwalker]

World's biggest online population: 538M Chinese
Associated PressAssociated Press – 10 hrs ago

BEIJING (AP) — China's population of Internet users, already the world's biggest, has risen to 538 million, driven by rapid growth in wireless Web surfing, an industry group said Thursday.

The latest figure represents an 11 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the report by the China Internet Network Information Center. The government-sanctioned group said that raised the share of China's population that uses the Internet to 39.9 percent.

The number of people who go online from mobile phones and other wireless devices rose to 388 million, the group said. That was up 22 percent from a year earlier.

China's communist government encourages Internet use for business and education but tries to block access to material considered subversive or obscene. Authorities tightened controls after social networking and other websites played a key role in protests that brought down governments in Egypt and Tunisia.

The rise of Internet use and the explosive popularity of wireless access have driven the growth of a series of new Chinese industries from microblogs to online video.

This month, regulators tightened control over online video, telling providers they must prescreen all material before making it available. The government complained that some online video was vulgar, pornographic or too violent.

 

[Korean]

Yet the rest of the world can't feel Chinese presence thanks to the Great Firewall.

 

[Fazlu]

A great deal of them work for illegal sweat shops which offers items, gp/virtual money, skill advancements in various online MMORPG.

Usually they steal accounts--which they sell---steal--and resell over and over again.

This is also part of the reason why many online gaming firms completely avoid China.

 

[Rechoice]

He he, how many trolls have you posted recently, do the same chinese in China ?

 

[ayachyan]

when consider of the amount of population
not a surprise result
and still remain potential for a further increase

 

[beijingwalker]

Yet the rest of the world can't feel Chinese presence thanks to the Great Firewall.

actually we don't feel Korean and Japanese presence while I go to tons of foreign English websites and there are always full of Chinese,like popular Topix,but very few Koreans and Japanese,don't know why.

 

[Icewolf]

Indians have no right to be talking BS... Only 7% of ther population go to internet yet they have opened most **** sites... perverted freaks

 

[Fanling Monk]

It's safe to say: News spreads through China faster than any place on earth.

 

[ayachyan]

Yet the rest of the world can't feel Chinese presence thanks to the Great Firewall.

i think the rest of the world should send their thanks to the Chinese Great Firewall
because that can prevent countless Chinese Netizens occupying every corner of internet world

 

[Rhino]

Indians have no right to be talking BS... Only 7% of ther population go to internet yet they have opened most **** sites... perverted curries

and Pakistani's are the largest audience of this websites

 

[ayachyan]

A great deal of them work for illegal sweat shops which offers items, gp/virtual money, skill advancements in various online MMORPG.

Usually they steal accounts--which they sell---steal--and resell over and over again.

This is also part of the reason why many online gaming firms completely avoid China.

China has enough power to build his own style of internet environment
when you decide to share the cake of the biggest market you have to adapt to its unique environment
sure everyone get a right to avoid this just because they don't adapt to it

 

[ayachyan]

and Pakistani's are the largest audience of this websites

when consider of the population
i think that should be india

 

[Fazlu]

China has enough power to build his own style of internet environment
when you decide to share the cake of the biggest market you have to adapt to its unique environment
sure everyone get a right to avoid this just because they don't adapt to it

Dude they avoid it because you folks dont even spare small time gaming firms from Chinese trolls/fakers and account thieves.

As for other online firms, every form of international online company has their own Chinese horror story to tell.

 

[KingMamba]

Yet the rest of the world can't feel Chinese presence thanks to the Great Firewall.

This comment was so hilarious made my night. Even though it was obvious troll.

 

[beijingwalker]

China's Internet users go mobile

10:20, July 20, 2012

BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) -- China is going mobile as mobile phones have overtaken desktop computers as the primary source of Internet access in the country, a report showed Thursday.

Some 388 million Chinese were connected to the Internet through mobile phones as of the end of June, compared with 380 million people who connected through their desktops, according to a report released by the China Internet Networks Information Center (CNNIC).

"While mobile Internet grew fast, the utilization of desktops for Internet access has kept sliding," the report said. "A whole new pattern of Internet access is emerging in China."

Liu Bing, CNNIC deputy director, attributed the shift to cheaper smartphones that have become affordable to migrant workers and rural residents.

China surpassed the United States to become the world's largest smartphone market by volume in the third quarter of 2011, when smartphone shipments reached a record 24 million units in the country, according to data from U.S. market research company Strategy Analytics.

While global giants like Apple and Samsung Electronics dominate the high-end market, domestic smartphone makers such as Huawei and Xiaomi Technology have eyed middle- or low-end markets with lower-priced products.

The rapid expansion of the mobile Internet population has boosted mobile online payment, which in turn is expected to stimulate the development of mobile e-commerce.