Analysts say: Now more internet users in China than in the US
(heise online, 25.03.2008 10:33) According to market analysts BDA, China now has 228.5 million internet users, while there are 217.1 million users in the US.
China now has more internet users than the US, say the analysts of Chinese consulting firm BDA. According to a news report, the analysts based their prognosis on figures provided by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) in January and assumed that markets grew at the same rates as they did in 2007. Based on the figures, they believe that the 210 million Chinese internet users estimated at the end of 2007 have now increased to 228.5 millions, while the US currently has 217.1 millions. However, the BDA analysts say the United States still outstrips China in the value of internet content, advertising and e-commerce. According to their calculations, in China in 2007 online advertising turnover was 1.3 billion dollars, which corresponds to 5 percent of the total advertising market. In the US, it was 21.4 billion or 10 percent in the same period. As more and more consumers can be reached via the internet, analysts said they believe that e-commerce will be the next industry to boom in China.
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It's just amazing. Given that China is still a communist state, the fact that there are more internet users than in the US is just amazing. The power of the Internet lies in enabling people to be aware of what's going on outside. Usually dictator regimes maintain their power by blocking news and information from outside world. That's why it is all the more interesting that China has such a large internet population.
I think that it's already foreseen phenomenon. The population of China is approximately more than 1.3 billion. So we call China as 'the land of opportunity'.
The global marketing using internet will be the first choice and the most beneficial method for all corporations that have global goal.
how interesting this is!!! even though population of China is bigger than US, this might be amazing news~
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