Statistics Report on China Web Development from CNNIC
(Issued on January, 2000)

China Network Information Center (CNNIC) published its authoritative statistics report on China Web Development in January and July every year. Here's the main content in the lastest report.

Net Computers: 3,500,000 with 410,000 by special lines and 3,090,000 by dialing connection

Net Users: 8,900,000

Domain Registration:

Websites: 15153

Total International Bandwidth: 351M with the connection to USA, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Korea, etc.

Investigation Results:

1, Personal Information of Web Users

1-1, Sex: 79% of male, 21% of female

1-2, Age:

1-3, Marriage Status: 64% of unmarried, 36% of married

1-4, Geographical Distribution

1-5, Education

1-6, Profession

Government officials: 3%; administrative officials: 6.2%; foreign enterprise clerks: 8.7%; private owners: 2.5%; business traders: 7.4%; general staff members: 6.2%; service clerks: 2.6%; medical: 2%; army: 1.5%; post and communication: 5%; art/music/movie/sports: 1.8%; other professionals: 8.6%; media: 1.8%; computer: 12.9%; students: 21%; teachers: 4.8%; workers: 1.8%; farmers: 0.3%; others: 1.9%

1-7, Average Income (US$/month)

2, Usage and Habit on Web

2-1, from where to access Internet?

2-2, who covers the cost of surfing web?

2-3, what's the cost that web user can afford (US$/month)?

2-4, Average surfing time monthly: 17 hours

2-5, Total e-mail accounts: 35,600,000 with 26,700,000 for free

2-6, Average e-mails received weekly: 21; average e-mails sent weekly: 10

2-7, Main target on web: obtain information 57.97%; learn computer and its technology 12.10%; entertainment 9.75%; work 6.75%; obtain free resources 5.47%; communication 5.10%; reduce communication cost 1.13%; stock 1.11%; others 0.43%; just fashion 0.19%

2-8, Popular web services (multiple choice): e-mail 71.65%; search engine 50.40%; upload and download 44.16%; information searching 39.31%; chat 25.47%; newsgroup 16.99%; BBS 16.32%; web game 13.64%; free personal website host 13.49%; ICQ 13.17%; stock 8.50%; shopping 7.77%; IP phone 7.58%; web payment 1.79%; other services 0.21%

2-9, What information web users are looking for? (multiple choice)
news 65.52%; computer 51.70%; e-book 38.04%; entertainment 38.79%; science and education 31.43%; finance and stock 21.22%; job 19.25%; business 17.26%; advertisement 12.79%; travel 11.94%; medicine 9.39%; friend 8.20%; others 0.73%

2-10, Do you have business website?
Yes 46.69%; No 42.70%; Don't know 10.61%

2-11, Do you receive any spam e-mail?
Yes 62.88%; No 37.12%

2-12, How to deal with the spam e-mail?
Delete 88.78%; reply the e-mail, tell the sender not to email me again 6.94%; contact with webmaster 3.25%; wish to get more 1.02%

3, How Web Users Think of Some Questions?

3-1, what's the most unsatisfied item on web currently?
low speed 52.98%; high cost 34.28%; lack of Chinese information 7.35%; inconvenience because of much technics needed 2.22%; poor service of ISP 2.05%; others 0.68%; worthless on web 0.44%

3-2, what should be included in a successful website?
much more information, update quickly, attractive service (free e-mail, free software download, stock information, etc.) 66.35%; fast speed to load web pages 18.96%; interactive function 7.59%; good website design 6.28%; others 0.82%

3-3, which kind of banner you may click through?
news 42.56%; entertainment activity 31.82%; promotional sales 29.78%; welfare activity 29.26%; science activity 26.93%; website issue 22.53%; product information 22.30%; style advertisement 14.13%; commercial company 0.07%

3-4, what do yo think of banners?
seldom to click through unless it interests me 49.04%; sometime click through in order to support prefered website 25.18%; never click through but not care of its appearance 14.09%; used to click through and obtain worthy information 7.68%; hate banners because of expanding loading time 4.01%

3-5, what's the most concerned as for e-commerce?
security 52.26%; cheap price 16.52%; service after sales 11.13%; kindly platform and easy to understand 9.08%; deliver in time 7.73%; product reputation 2.63%; others 0.65%

3-6, Do you have experience in web shopping or hiring a service through web in the past year?
Yes 8.79%; No 91.21%

3-7, Does your company have experience in web shopping or hiring a service through web in the past year?
Yes 2.91%; No 54.53%; don't know 42.56%

3-8, Are you satisfied with e-commerce?
Don't know 62.75%; unsatisfied 18.42%; satisfied 14.7%; very unsatisfied 2.41%; very satisfied 1.72%

3-9, what do you expect e-business in the coming year? (multiple choice)
information service (for example, e-zine) 56.14%; book and magazine 38.11%; low price of customer products 34.52%; flower and gift 30.32%; computer and software 25.78%; finance transaction service 20.23%; electric products 9.54%; insurance 7.98%; others 0.51%

3-10, what's the most prospect e-business? (multiple choice)
e-shopping 47.64%; web communication 46.39; web education 39.09%; information service 33.97%; web stock 29.78%; web hospital 26.48%; web entertainment 25.71%; virtual community 24.98%; online music/movie 22.00%; web establishment 16.51%; others 0.27%