The number of Internet access to a new turning point two years is expected to exceed the United States

Analysis of the 19th China Internet Development Statistics Report

January 23, 2007, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the 19th China Internet Development Status Statistics report. The report shows that by the end of 2006, the number of Chinese Internet users reached 137 million, accounting for 10.5% of the total population of China, the Internet penetration rate for the first time in Beijing more than 30%. The report also shows that the total number of domain names in China increased significantly, of which CN city name total of more than 1.8 million, compared with the same period in 2005, the growth rate reached 54.4%. The survey results of Internet access show that internet users with xDSL, Cable Modem and special line have reached 104 million people, accounting for 75.9% of the total number of Internet users. And the new way of surfing the internet---Mobile internet also take shape, reaching 17 million people.

The report shows that, compared with the same period last year, the number of Chinese Internet users increased by 26 million people, the number of Internet users in the year, the largest growth rate of 23.4, compared to the previous year and 18.2% and 18.1% of the growth rate, the growth rate of Internet users this year rebounded. Since 1994, China has fully functional access to the Internet, and in more than 10 years, 1 people are netizens for every 10 persons. 10% of Internet users will be the high-speed inflection point of development, after a breakthrough of 10%, China's internet will usher in a faster growth period.

Internet surfing has become an indispensable part of people's daily life, then what is the Internet Statistics report worthy of our discussion content?

1. The total number of Chinese netizens is 137 million, accounting for 10% of the total population

The rapid growth of the total number of Chinese netizens has been the world's attention, as of December 31, 2006, the total number of Chinese netizens reached 137 million, compared with the same period last year, the total number of Chinese Internet users increased by 26 million people, the growth rate of 23.4%, is the annual survey of the number of netizens increased the most. Especially important, this data makes the number of users in China accounted for 1.31 billion of the total population of 10.5%, the first breakthrough in 10%, the same period last year, the proportion of 8.5%. Among them, the internet penetration rate of the first 30% in Beijing, is the most developed area of China. The number of Chinese Internet users in 2006 has increased by two consecutive times, which indicates that Chinese netizens will develop more quickly in 2007.

2.2008 Internet users are expected to be the world's first

According to CNNIC, director of information Services, Enhai, the United States netizens are currently 210 million, our country and the United States still have some gaps, but this gap will become smaller. Because the number of Internet users in the United States is basically in a stagnant stage, about 70% of them are netizens, and we only account for 10% of the total population, so it is only a matter of time before we catch up with the United States. More optimistic estimates, 2008 China's Internet users should be able to reach more than 200 million, thus becoming the world's largest number of internet-surfing countries.

3. China's internet has entered a fast-growing broadband period

As of December 31, 2006, China used xDSL, Cable modem and other means of broadband Internet users to 90.7 million people, the number of Internet users using a dedicated line of 27.1 million people. If the number of dedicated line to the Internet into the Broadband Access section, remove overlapping broadband netizens, then in China 137 million netizens, using xDSL, Cable Modem, Broadband internet users such as Green Line to reach 104 million people, according to this calculation, China's broadband Internet users in the proportion of the total number of users as high as 75.9%. Of the 59.4 million Internet computers in China, the number of computers with broadband access to the Internet is 41.2 million, and the number of computers using broadband in China accounts for 69.4% of all Internet computers. China's internet has stepped into a fast-growing broadband era.

4.3G arrival triggered the new trend of Internet, mobile internet people olive reached 17 million

With the advent of the 3G era, mobile phones become the Internet users of the emerging network equipment, as of December 31, 2006, China through the mobile phone internet users of 17 million people, accounting for 12.4% of the total number of users, China's use of mobile internet users have begun to take shape. This data represents the diversified development of Internet access and terminal equipment for Chinese netizens.

And the overall internet users of the same sex ratio, the use of mobile internet users, men occupy the main body of netizens, this ratio is also higher than the proportion of the overall internet users of male users. Compared with female netizens, male netizens prefer to try new Internet and Internet devices. The survey shows that users who use mobile phones to surf the internet are men, unmarried, 18-24-year-olds, workers in business units and netizens living in towns.

5. Cost from, slow to become mobile phone access to an important obstacle

According to the survey, Internet users typically use their mobile phones to access their Web services by "emailing" and "browsing information", accounting for 72.2% and 30.9% respectively. And the use of mobile phone when the internet often encountered problems, 86.4% of netizens chose the "high cost", 33.4% of the netizens chose the "slow speed." Because of the high cost, 69.6% of the Internet users gave up their mobile phone, and 41% of the Internet users because they can not endure the shortcomings of "slow", did not choose to use mobile phones to the Internet, in addition, inconvenient, access to information is too small to become netizens do not use mobile phone Internet.

6. Internet users ' access cost is lower

The survey shows that Chinese netizens spend an average of 83.5 yuan per month on the actual cost of Internet access (Internet access fees and internet phone charges, excluding the cost of using Internet services). Compared with the same period last year, Internet users spent an average of 20.1 yuan a month on the actual cost of surfing the net, down 19.4. The decreasing of the access cost shows that the development of Chinese Internet is becoming more and more popular, which will benefit the popularization of Chinese Internet, and help more people to reach the Internet and become a member of the Internet Army.

7. Large disparities between towns and villages

The survey results show that the overall number of China's Internet growth trend, the Chinese urban and rural internet penetration rate also showed a growth trend, in which urban internet penetration rate is the fastest growing, urban Internet users are 6.5 times times the prevalence of rural areas. In addition, the average weekly Internet access time for urban users is 18 hours, the average weekly Internet users in rural areas is 13.2 hours, the average monthly Internet access fee for urban internet users is 89.6 yuan, rural internet users average monthly internet access costs of 77.4 yuan. On the whole, the Internet's development level in towns is higher than that in rural areas.

Mao Wei, director of China Internet Network Information Center, said the survey of the large proportion of data growth is only the beginning of China's high-speed Internet development, I believe that 2007 China's Internet will achieve greater results.