China Sees Four Million Families Surf on InternetA sample survey conducted recently by China Mainland Marketing Research Co. Shows that 4.303 million families among the cities above prefectural level in China were found surfing on the Internet by the end of last June, taking up 11.2% of those having telephones at home. The Internet surfers in their households total 14 million.The survey indicates that the Internet surfing families are on a downhill tendency from coastal cities and provinces (including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shandong, Liaoning, Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu) and southern inland areas of (Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou), to northern provinces including (Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia) and further to northwestern regions of (Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang). Among them, urban Internet surfing families reached 2.710 million in coastal area, exceeding far beyond other regions. It is respectively 3.2 and 4.3 folds of southern and northern inland areas with each numbering 846,000 and 626,000 families and 22.4 folds of northwest inland area with a total of 121,000 families. The survey also shows that among the leading consumer cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, 473,000 and 521,000 families go online in Beijing and Shanghai respectively, 141,000 and 113,000 in Guangzhou and Chengdu. |
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