Source: CNNIC
According to CNNIC, Chinese netizens reached 384 million by the end of December 2009, which increased the penetration to 28.9%. Mobile netizens increased 120 million during one year, and reached 233 million users, which is 60.8% of all netizens. There are 30.7 million users that surf internet only through the mobile, accounting for 8% of all netizens.
Broadband users reached 346 million, increased 76 million compared to the year of 2008. Countryside netizens keep increasing also, and reached 106.81 million, accounting for 27.8% of all netizens.
According to CNNIC survey, 83.2% of netizens choose to surf internet at home, 30.2% choose to access internet at office. The top usages of internet in 2009 are online music (83.5%), news (80.1%), search engine (73.3%). However, the e-commerce related usages increased dramatically last year, by 68% on average. Payment usage increased by 80.9%, which is the fastest one. Travel booking, stocks online dealing, e-bank, and online shopping users increased by 77.9%, 67.0%, 62.3%, and 45.9% respectively. According to CNNIC, online shopping transactions scale reached 250 billion RMB in 2009, and will increase more in the coming year of 2010.
