Ren Media
Ren Media
Published on 8th June 2010
A White paper has been released today by the Chinese Government, specifically the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
The paper discusses the current state of the Chinese internet and looks forward to the future.
Some key points:
- "In 2008 Internet-related industries generated a turnover of 650 billion yuan, with sales of Internet-related equipment reaching 500 billion yuan-worth, accounting for 1/60 of China's GDP, and 1/10 of its global trade. Its software operations had a turnover of 19.84 billion yuan, up 26% over 2007."
- "Online retailing is expanding quickly, and its market is being gradually regulated. According to a sample survey, over 50% of big enterprises have established an e-commerce system, over 30% of small and medium-sized companies find their product suppliers through the Internet, 24% of them are engaged in marketing via the Internet, and there are over 100 million online buyers in China. In 2009 the trade volume of e-commerce in China surpassed 3.6 trillion yuan-worth."
-"In the past five years, the average annual increase rate of online advertisement has maintained a level of 30%, with its turnover reaching 20 billion yuan in 2009. The online gaming industry in China had a turnover of 25.8 billion yuan in 2009, an increase of 39.5% over 2008, ranking top in the world."
- "Over 80% of China's netizens mainly rely on the Internet for news."
- "China's websites attach great importance to providing neti-zens with opinion expression services, with over 80% of them providing electronic bulletin service. In China, there are over a million BBSs and some 220 million bloggers. According to a sample survey, each day people post over three million messages via BBS, news commentary sites, blogs, etc., and over 66% of Chinese netizens frequently place postings to discuss various topics, and to fully express their opinions and represent their interests."
- "The newly-emerging online services, including blog, microblog, video-sharing and social networking websites, are developing rapidly in China, and provide greater convenience for Chinese citizens to communicate online. Actively participating in online information communication and content creation, netizens have greatly enriched Internet information and content."
- "China advocates the rational use of technology to curb dissemination of illegal information online." (The Great Firewall will continue to be enforced)
It has been reported in some media (WSJ for example) that the Chinese government had "Praised Twitter" in this report. This doesn't appear to be the case. Certainly there is no mention of Twitter in the version online.
See full text of the white paper in English here and in Chinese here
goulniky said:
English link doesn\'t seem to work but Chinese link fine
Contribution made 25/06/2010 19:15