CNNIC published the "15th Statistical
Survey Report on the Internet Development in China"
January 19, 2004
Some 94 million Chinese on the mainland became Internet users
by the end of last year, unveiled from the "15th Statistical
Survey Report on the Internet Development in China" by
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on Jan, 2005
in Beijing, presenting a year-on-year growth of 18.2%. Among
them, the number of broadband users was 42.80 million. In the
mean time, the number of computer hosts in China has raised
to 41.60 million, an increase of 14.6% over the past 6 months.
The numbers of domain names and websites registered under .CN
were 432077 and 668900, increasing by 50000 and 43000 respectively,
compared with the figures of 6 months ago. The bandwidth of
international connection has reached 74429M; the total number
of IPv4 addresses allocated to China has been 59945728, presenting
a half-year growth of 38 percent and 21 percent respectively.
It can be been seen from the report that after one decade rapid
development, China Internet has been developed in scope, and
that the application of the Internet is becoming diversified.
People are using Internet more and more, on their work, study
and lives. The whole society has taken on the express train
of Internet, branded the mark of Internet. Interne has evolved
from an isolated industry to the one popular for the masses
of different professions.
As for the Internet usage in China, the report shows that the
using of the Internet is becoming more diversified, whether
the concerns are the content of the Internet of the functions
of it. More and more subjects have been involved in the Internet.
The information concerned by the netizens was no longer just
focused on news. The figures from the report unveil the following
results: as for the information that was mostly inquired, 29.3%
users believed educational information was the mostly inquired
information, 13.8% took automobile info and 24.2% considered
recruitment info; as for the Internet services, the following
Internet services or functions are still developing rapidly:
Email, search engine, online banking, online trading, online
advertisements, news, Internet games, among which, Email is
still one of the most concerned Internet applications. The satisfactory
degrees of the users for charged email and free email are 32.6%
and 71.9% respectively.
As for the Internet accessing time, Internet users were on
the Internet averagely 13.2 hours or 4.1 days per week, an increase
of 0.9 hour over the past 6 months. These figures tells that
people use Internet more and more frequently, from using email,
browsing news at the beginning, to the diversified services
or functions offered by the Internet, the penetrability of the
Internet to our daily lives is becoming greater and greater.
The application of the Internet is very promising in the future,
to both deep and wide extent. No matter it is Internet centered
industry or connected with traditional industries, the demands
for Internet are considerable, asking for not only the online
services provided led by the requirements of the Internet users,
based on the research of Internet enterprises and traditional
industries on the demands of Internet users, but also more diversified
Internet services.
The report tells that the primary reasons for non-Internet
users not to access the Internet are that they do not know how
to use computer/Internet (40.1%) and that there is no facility
to access the Internet (23.1%). The level of the development
of education and economy is still the main factor to limit the
improvement of Internet. Thus, to facilitate the enhancement
of the Internet in China, the promotion of the fundamental knowledge
of Internet must be intensified and the local economy be greatly
developed.
