China Internet Use Soars

by Taylor Flatt on January 14th, 2009 at 8:54 pm EDT - 307 views

While China imposes strict regulations on their internet and in some cases jailing writers and web developers, they continue moving up the ladder. Ever since 2001 when it began catching the attention of the internet world, they have been under the Global Watch.

China has now reached almost 300 million internet users in 2008 and has doubled since 2006. Unlike the US, 90% of Chinese users are using broadband to access the internet.

With over 560 million mobile subscribers, BDA (Chinese Marketing and Researching Firm) still stated the e-commerce and content is the better quality in the US. This isn’t surprising since a lot of businesses and entrepreneurs begin in the US and China is still relatively new to the “market”.

Since China is emerging as a “superpower” of the internet, could more and more websites begin supporting Chinese based content rather than rely on translation programs to do it for them? I believe China will continue to impact the internet economy for many years to come and we may see a switch over to a more Chinese usability thought in mind.

Source: IW  
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