Facebook to target 1 billion users in China and Japan

According to foreign media reports, the next phase of the Facebook expansion is targeting China, Russia, Japan and South Korea markets to change the growing slowdown in the situation. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of Facebook, the world's biggest social networking site, said that while Facebook already has more than 500 million members, it seems unlikely that it will be able to maintain rapid growth.　　' We have been experiencing rapid growth for a long time and are still growing, ' Mr. Zuckerberg said in an interview with inside Facebook. Mark Zackerberg, who attended the International Advertising festival in Cannes in Wednesday, said Facebook would soon implement its first strategic move. "The future will focus on four countries in China, Russia, Japan and South Korea, where Facebook is not a leader in the social networking market in these four countries," he said. This is also the first time we have focused on special measures in special countries.　　"However, Zuckerberg did not disclose whether there would be a localized Facebook service or some entrepreneurial activity in these countries," he said. "I think if we succeed, Facebook will have the opportunity to extend social networking services to 1 billion of users," Mr Zuckerberg said.　　"To this end, Facebook will face these market strong, mature competitors, such as Japan's Mixi, China's Tencent QQ and Russia's VKontakte." In other countries and regions, Facebook's users are vastly outnumbered by the local social media, such as Bebo and MySpace.　　In other non-English speaking countries, especially in French, Spanish, Turkish and Indonesian, Facebook's number of users is growing rapidly. Zuckerberg believes Facebook is widely accepted around the world, and that the "core requirement" of the service is for people to share and experience community life.　　Although the platform's advertising and application development vary across the world, the service is almost across countries. Mr Zuckerberg also said the mobile internet would be a big motivator for social media development. "We will focus on countries with more mobile internet use," he said. "(Edit Zhang Xing)