When the digital era occupies this world, people are moving towards the electronic devices to complete their routine activities. This era has involved in lots of evolution in the field of science and technology. Researchers and scientists all around the world are performing various analyses to discover any new inventions.
The major innovation of this era was the introduction of the Internet, which makes lots of changes in this world. The Internet has made many modifications in around all the sectors. In recent times, there was a rapid growth in the number of Internet users worldwide.
China’s Internet using community[/b]
In the list of countries with more number of Internet users, China placed in the first place followed by India and the United States. For the first time, more than half of the total Chinese were in online. China’s Internet users at the end of 2015 were around 688 million, which was higher than twice the population of the US.
China was undergoing a drastic increase in adopting the Internet for their searches. In 2014, the percentage of China’s population using Internet through a mobile was increased to 83.4 percent. It was the first time in China, where the percentage of people accessing the Internet through mobile exceeds the percentage of Internet users via desktop. The percentage of users access the Internet through computers was about 80.9 percent. Most of the Internet users in China prefer to browse the Internet on their mobile devices; over two-thirds of the Chinese Internet users prefer to use their smart phones for surfing.
Enhancement of Internet usage in China[/b]
The percentage of Internet users in China has been increasing for the last few years where in 2016 the total number of users was about 1.38 billion. But at the same time, percent of users access Internet through the traditional computers and desktop devices were reduced and the number of mobile Internet users increases gradually.
At the mid of 2014, the penetration rate of new Internet users found to be 46.9 percent that is 1.1 percent higher than the end of 2013. At the same year, China’s Internet users were around 632 million, whereas the mobile Internet users were about 527 million. The average time an Internet user available in online was about 25.9 hours on an average of a week.
The penetration rate of Internet users in China gradually increases in the last few years. It was 51.3 percent in 2015 and the next year it becomes 52.2 percent.
Chinese shifted towards mobile apps[/b]
Most of the surveys revealed that the people are moving towards the use of smart phones for browsing the Internet than using the computers. This change over happened due to the increase of smartphones and the availability of various types of mobile applications.
In China, there is a continuous growth in the production of smart phones, where it was estimated that it would grow by 11.6 percent year over year. According to the data, the number of search engine users via desktop was about 566 million and utilization rate was 82.3 percent. The number of mobile search engine users was around 478 million and with the utilization rate of 77.1 percent.
Baidu is a company provides web services in China had received 87.5 percent of mobile searches, whereas 360 search and Sogou had 20.9 percent and 22.7 percent of penetration rates respectively.
Factors behind the rise of the mobile Internet users[/b]
The growth in mobile search engine users was due to the growth of mobile apps, online trading, mobile payment services and much more mobile services. According to the report, it cited that China’s Internet users have spent much time on online through the mobile devices; it was about more than double the time on mobile devices.
Smartphone use spreads widely throughout the world and the Chinese people are moving towards many recent media channels. From the collected data, 65 percent of people used video apps or websites, 50 percent used the internet to watch TV and 58 percent used news apps. On the other hand, 19 percent of people only used newspapers and just 26 percent watch TV without the Internet.
Addition to this, some other revelations has been opened to the world where these modern users are multitasks. Around 78 percent of customers used smart phones to access the social media. Messaging apps are continuing to be well-liked apps for China’s smart phone users and there was huge growth in these mobile apps.
Analogy of the China’s Internet growth with other countries[/b]
The growth of the Internet has been attained several variations inits growth in different countries. Every nation has its own statistics of Internet users, network usage and more. Mobile phone becomes the motive force to drive the China’s Internet usage.
· Comparison of China’s internet usage with India[/i][/b]
Both China and India have a large number of Internet users where in India about a quarter of India’s population accessed the Internet, but nearly half of the total Chinese people are accessing the Internet. It shows that about one-fourth of 1.32 billion people in India are using the Internet and in China, half of the 1.38 billion are engaging with the Internet. Some of the most interesting facts were Chinese spend three and a half hours on the internet for each day, which was a full one hour less than the India’s internet users average time on the internet for a day.
Indians were using social media for three hours per day where Chinese people used above two-and-a-quarter hours. India has fewer numbers of online shopping users that was about less than the quarter of the total population. It has almost 70 percent of people who are not yet using the Internet.
In India, most of the online traffic was made by the mobile phones with the average broadband speed of 2.5 megabits per second that was just half of the global average. The number of smartphone users in India was one-third of the India’s total population of 1.3 billion people.
· China exceeds America in internet usage[/i][/b]
The average time of smartphone usage by a single user for a month in China was 49 hours whereas in America it was 45 hours. The mobile-only Internet users in the United States are only around five percent, but China has nineteen percent of users who simply used their smartphones to access the Internet.
Smartphone users of China were about 94 percent, which was higher than the number of people using smartphones in the US where the US has 70 percent of smartphone users. Americans spend more time on gaming consoles, e-book reading and media streaming devices. But in China, the desktop users are lesser. The U.S customers mostly watch traditional television; in contrast, Chinese peoples’ entertainment was mobile-centric.
Conclusion[/b]
The advancement in mobile commerce and online payment services increases the usage of smartphones. Mobile apps are also playing a vital role in the hike of Internet and smartphone users. China is a developed country with lots of new technologies and advancements that had the largest economy in the world.
The rise in theInternet usage of China was mainly because of the innovative mobile apps and other online services. People in China prefer to use mobile devices because of the readily available applications like entertainment, commercial, health, education, utility and more. Hence, these unique features made China exceed the Internet usage through smartphones.
The major innovation of this era was the introduction of the Internet, which makes lots of changes in this world. The Internet has made many modifications in around all the sectors. In recent times, there was a rapid growth in the number of Internet users worldwide.
China’s Internet using community[/b]
In the list of countries with more number of Internet users, China placed in the first place followed by India and the United States. For the first time, more than half of the total Chinese were in online. China’s Internet users at the end of 2015 were around 688 million, which was higher than twice the population of the US.
China was undergoing a drastic increase in adopting the Internet for their searches. In 2014, the percentage of China’s population using Internet through a mobile was increased to 83.4 percent. It was the first time in China, where the percentage of people accessing the Internet through mobile exceeds the percentage of Internet users via desktop. The percentage of users access the Internet through computers was about 80.9 percent. Most of the Internet users in China prefer to browse the Internet on their mobile devices; over two-thirds of the Chinese Internet users prefer to use their smart phones for surfing.
Enhancement of Internet usage in China[/b]
The percentage of Internet users in China has been increasing for the last few years where in 2016 the total number of users was about 1.38 billion. But at the same time, percent of users access Internet through the traditional computers and desktop devices were reduced and the number of mobile Internet users increases gradually.
At the mid of 2014, the penetration rate of new Internet users found to be 46.9 percent that is 1.1 percent higher than the end of 2013. At the same year, China’s Internet users were around 632 million, whereas the mobile Internet users were about 527 million. The average time an Internet user available in online was about 25.9 hours on an average of a week.
The penetration rate of Internet users in China gradually increases in the last few years. It was 51.3 percent in 2015 and the next year it becomes 52.2 percent.
Chinese shifted towards mobile apps[/b]
Most of the surveys revealed that the people are moving towards the use of smart phones for browsing the Internet than using the computers. This change over happened due to the increase of smartphones and the availability of various types of mobile applications.
In China, there is a continuous growth in the production of smart phones, where it was estimated that it would grow by 11.6 percent year over year. According to the data, the number of search engine users via desktop was about 566 million and utilization rate was 82.3 percent. The number of mobile search engine users was around 478 million and with the utilization rate of 77.1 percent.
Baidu is a company provides web services in China had received 87.5 percent of mobile searches, whereas 360 search and Sogou had 20.9 percent and 22.7 percent of penetration rates respectively.
Factors behind the rise of the mobile Internet users[/b]
The growth in mobile search engine users was due to the growth of mobile apps, online trading, mobile payment services and much more mobile services. According to the report, it cited that China’s Internet users have spent much time on online through the mobile devices; it was about more than double the time on mobile devices.
Smartphone use spreads widely throughout the world and the Chinese people are moving towards many recent media channels. From the collected data, 65 percent of people used video apps or websites, 50 percent used the internet to watch TV and 58 percent used news apps. On the other hand, 19 percent of people only used newspapers and just 26 percent watch TV without the Internet.
Addition to this, some other revelations has been opened to the world where these modern users are multitasks. Around 78 percent of customers used smart phones to access the social media. Messaging apps are continuing to be well-liked apps for China’s smart phone users and there was huge growth in these mobile apps.
Analogy of the China’s Internet growth with other countries[/b]
The growth of the Internet has been attained several variations inits growth in different countries. Every nation has its own statistics of Internet users, network usage and more. Mobile phone becomes the motive force to drive the China’s Internet usage.
· Comparison of China’s internet usage with India[/i][/b]
Both China and India have a large number of Internet users where in India about a quarter of India’s population accessed the Internet, but nearly half of the total Chinese people are accessing the Internet. It shows that about one-fourth of 1.32 billion people in India are using the Internet and in China, half of the 1.38 billion are engaging with the Internet. Some of the most interesting facts were Chinese spend three and a half hours on the internet for each day, which was a full one hour less than the India’s internet users average time on the internet for a day.
Indians were using social media for three hours per day where Chinese people used above two-and-a-quarter hours. India has fewer numbers of online shopping users that was about less than the quarter of the total population. It has almost 70 percent of people who are not yet using the Internet.
In India, most of the online traffic was made by the mobile phones with the average broadband speed of 2.5 megabits per second that was just half of the global average. The number of smartphone users in India was one-third of the India’s total population of 1.3 billion people.
· China exceeds America in internet usage[/i][/b]
The average time of smartphone usage by a single user for a month in China was 49 hours whereas in America it was 45 hours. The mobile-only Internet users in the United States are only around five percent, but China has nineteen percent of users who simply used their smartphones to access the Internet.
Smartphone users of China were about 94 percent, which was higher than the number of people using smartphones in the US where the US has 70 percent of smartphone users. Americans spend more time on gaming consoles, e-book reading and media streaming devices. But in China, the desktop users are lesser. The U.S customers mostly watch traditional television; in contrast, Chinese peoples’ entertainment was mobile-centric.
Conclusion[/b]
The advancement in mobile commerce and online payment services increases the usage of smartphones. Mobile apps are also playing a vital role in the hike of Internet and smartphone users. China is a developed country with lots of new technologies and advancements that had the largest economy in the world.
The rise in theInternet usage of China was mainly because of the innovative mobile apps and other online services. People in China prefer to use mobile devices because of the readily available applications like entertainment, commercial, health, education, utility and more. Hence, these unique features made China exceed the Internet usage through smartphones.