Web users rise 10% to 564m to become world's biggest
By Ding Yining |
January 16, 2013, Wednesday
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THE total number of web users in China rose 10 percent to 564 million at the end of December from a year earlier to become the world's largest due to the growing popularity of smartphones and mobile devices, according to latest industry data.
China added 50.9 million new Internet surfers last year, with the number of web visitors using mobile devices contributing to most of the increase, the China Internet Network Information Center said in a report yesterday.
The overall number of Internet users accounted for 42.1 percent of the country's total population, trailing the more than 70 percent in the United States.
The number of users of mobile Internet, the most widely used online access mode among domestic web users, gained 18.1 percent from a year ago to 420 million.
The proportion of mobile Internet users to the total Internet population jumped to 74.5 percent at the end of last year from 69.3 percent a year earlier, while accessing the web from desktop computers and laptops fell. Online shoppers who placed orders through mobile devices amounted to 55 million, 2.36 times that of 2011.
Web users spent an average of 20.5 hours on the Internet each week last year, up from 18.8 hours a year earlier.
An overwhelmingly 82.9 percent of web surfers used online chatting. Microblogging was also a fast growing segment, with an annual 47.9 percent rise in users to 202 million.
China added 50.9 million new Internet surfers last year, with the number of web visitors using mobile devices contributing to most of the increase, the China Internet Network Information Center said in a report yesterday.
The overall number of Internet users accounted for 42.1 percent of the country's total population, trailing the more than 70 percent in the United States.
The number of users of mobile Internet, the most widely used online access mode among domestic web users, gained 18.1 percent from a year ago to 420 million.
The proportion of mobile Internet users to the total Internet population jumped to 74.5 percent at the end of last year from 69.3 percent a year earlier, while accessing the web from desktop computers and laptops fell. Online shoppers who placed orders through mobile devices amounted to 55 million, 2.36 times that of 2011.
Web users spent an average of 20.5 hours on the Internet each week last year, up from 18.8 hours a year earlier.
An overwhelmingly 82.9 percent of web surfers used online chatting. Microblogging was also a fast growing segment, with an annual 47.9 percent rise in users to 202 million.
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