China's Internet users have exceeded 900 million ⋆

China’s Internet users have exceeded 900 million

On April 28, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the 45th “Statistical Report on the Development of China’s Internet.” As of March 2020, the number of Chinese Internet users reached 904 million, an increase of 75.08 million from the end of 2018. china internet users

The internet penetration rate reached 64.5%, an increase of 4.9 percentage points from the end of 2018.

Among them, the proportion of Internet users using mobile phones to access the Internet was 99.3%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points. The scale of rural netizens in China is 255 million, accounting for 28.2% of the total netizens, an increase of 33.08 million; the scale of urban netizens is 649 million, accounting for 71.8% of the netizens, an increase of 42 million.

The report data shows that the per capita online time of netizens in China is 30.8 hours per week, an increase of 3.2 hours from the end of 2018. Affected by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in early 2020, netizens have significantly increased the length of time they spend online. china internet users

The graph shows the internet penetration rate in China from 2008 to June 2022. As of the first half of 2022, about 74.4 percent of the Chinese population had used the Internet. The penetration rate denotes the share of the population that has access to a certain communication medium.

Internet coverage in China

For comparison, the worldwide average internet penetration rate had remained at about 63.1 percent as of July 2022. Internet penetration in China had also been above the average rate in the Asia-Pacific countries. However, neighboring countries such as Japan and South Korea displayed substantially higher internet penetration rates than China. It is worth noting that internet usage in the country has faced a large regional disparity. Some of the remote western regions had penetration rates of below 45 percent.

Chinese online population

Over the past decade, the number of Chinese internet users has grown at a remarkable pace. By June 2022, the total volume of internet users in the world’s most populous country had amounted to approximately 1,051 million, up from 829 million at the end of 2018. Apart from extended access to broadband internet connections, mobile internet took up a large share in internet user growth. The share of users accessing the internet via mobile devices had significantly exceeded that of those via desktop in the country. About 99.6 percent of Chinese internet users access the web via mobile phone.