Experts predict mobile end users to surpass PC in three years

China Internet Network Information Center experts in the 2012-year value-added Telecommunications business Cooperation Development Conference, said that mobile internet users have become the key driving force for China's internet penetration.　　It is expected that in the future years, China Mobile end users will surpass the number of PC terminals. As a result of the popularity of smartphones, the drop in mobile internet charges and the variety of mobile phone applications, mobile internet users have grown rapidly.　　China Internet Network Information Center released earlier "29th China Internet Development Status Statistics report" shows that by the end of 2011, China's internet users reached 513 million, the size of our mobile internet users reached 356 million, an increase of 17.5%. "China Mobile internet is entering a period of rapid development. 2011 China Mobile Application downloads accounted for 11% of the global total, after the United States, ranked second.　　Chen Jiachun, deputy director of the Communications Development Division, Ministry of Industry and Information technology. More than half of Internet users use their mobile phones every day for more than 100 minutes.　　Jiangong, deputy director of the Internet Development Research Department of China Internet Network Information Center, said that according to the current development situation, the number of mobile end users will surpass the number of PC end-users in the future years. At the same time, the mobile Internet application domain further expands, from the entertainment-oriented to the consumption and the electronic Commerce type transformation.　　Mobile internet based mobile phone payment, shopping, booking and other services will be further popularized. Experts believe that reducing the security risks of mobile payment and strengthening the privacy protection of mobile phone is still an urgent problem to be solved. Xinhua)