Chinanews.com, April 1st. According to the official WeChat news of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from January to February, China's Internet and related service companies above designated size (Internet companies) completed business revenues of 199.0 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29%, compared with the same period last year. Compared with the low base level (4.5%), the growth rate increased by 24.5 percentage points year-on-year.

　　From January to February, the Internet and related service industries got off to a good start, with business revenue growth reaching a relatively high level, profits continued to grow in the second half of the previous year, and R&D expenses increased rapidly.

The normalization of epidemic prevention and control has promoted the active consumption of online goods and services, the growth rate of online sales business income has increased significantly, and the production and life service platforms have resumed growth.

Overall operation

Internet business revenue achieved rapid growth.

From January to February, China's Internet and related service companies above designated size (Internet companies for short) completed business revenue of 199 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29%. Compared with the lower base level (4.5%) in the same period last year, the growth rate increased year-on-year 24.5 percentage points.

Internet business revenue growth from January to February 2020-2021

Industry profit growth is lower than revenue.

From January to February, Internet companies above designated size achieved operating profit of 15.17 billion yuan, an increase of 17.3% year-on-year, and the growth rate continued the good growth trend since the second half of the previous year; however, operating costs rose rapidly, with a year-on-year increase of 31.1%, which was affected The growth rate of operating profit was 11.7% lower than the growth rate of revenue over the same period.

R&D expenses are growing rapidly.

From January to February, Internet companies above designated size invested 11.6 billion yuan in R&D expenses, an increase of 19.7% year-on-year, and the growth rate increased by 9.1 percentage points year-on-year.

Operation status by business

Information services grew steadily on the whole, and the growth trends in different fields diverged.

From January to February, Internet companies completed a total of 118.5 billion yuan in information service revenue, a year-on-year increase of 14.4%; accounting for 59.5% of Internet business revenue, a year-on-year decrease of 7.6 percentage points.

Among them, the online game field has cooled significantly; the audio and video service field has continued to grow rapidly; news and content service companies continue to transform and upgrade; companies that mainly provide search services have reversed the downturn of the previous year.

Various platforms are booming, and Internet platform service income is growing rapidly.

From January to February, driven by policies such as "Chinese New Year in situ", Internet platform service companies achieved business revenue of 62.92 billion yuan, an increase of 84.8% year-on-year, and the growth rate increased by 74.2 percentage points year-on-year; it accounted for 31.6 percent of Internet business revenue. %, an increase of 9.5 percentage points year-on-year.

Among them, companies that focus on online education services have continued to grow rapidly due to factors such as the epidemic; driven by promotional activities such as the "2021 National Online New Year Festival", the business income of online sales platform companies has increased rapidly; life service platform companies in the same period last year Affected by the epidemic, business income has achieved positive growth in the first two months of this year; the income of enterprises that mainly provide manufacturing and production logistics platform services has increased rapidly.

Revenue from Internet access services has recovered steadily, and revenue from Internet data services has seen a remarkable growth.

From January to February, Internet companies completed 5.23 billion yuan in Internet access and related services revenue, a year-on-year increase of 17.2%; Internet data services (including cloud services, big data services, etc.) revenue was 3.24 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 45.2%, with a year-on-year growth rate An increase of 21.7 percentage points.

Operation status by region

The development of the Internet industry among regions is uneven, and the growth is diverging.

From January to February, the eastern region completed Internet business revenue of 165.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.2%, accounting for 91.8% of the country's Internet business revenue (excluding cross-regional enterprises), an increase of 0.6 percentage points from the same period last year.

The central region completed Internet business revenue of 5.87 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 2.6%.

The western region completed 8.18 billion yuan in Internet business revenue, a year-on-year increase of 45.2%, and the growth rate was 16.2 percentage points higher than the national average.

The Northeast region completed 620 million yuan in Internet business revenue, a year-on-year increase of 25.8%, reversing the continuous negative growth situation last year.

Major provinces and cities have achieved steady and rapid growth, while other provinces and cities have differentiated development trends.

From January to February, Guangdong (increased by 9.6%), Beijing (increased by 21.7%), Shanghai (increased by 82.7%), Zhejiang (increased by 64.5%) and Fujian (increased by 8.3%), which ranked the top 5 in cumulative Internet business revenue, completed Internet business income was 159.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.5%, and the growth rate exceeded the national average by 2.5 percentage points. It accounted for 87.6% of the country (excluding cross-regional enterprises), which was an increase of 1 percentage point from the same period last year.

There are 22 provinces and cities that have achieved positive growth in Internet business revenue growth. Among them, Sichuan, Henan, Shanghai, Shandong, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Guangxi, and Guizhou have increased by more than 50%, and Xinjiang, Hubei, Shanxi, Tianjin, Anhui and other provinces have decreased. More than 30%.

Growth in the number of mobile applications (APP)

The number of mobile applications (APP) rebounded slightly from the previous month.

As of the end of February 2021, the number of apps monitored on the Chinese domestic market was 3.28 million, an increase of 40,000 over January. This is the first rise since the decline for eight consecutive months.

Among them, the number of apps in the local third-party app store was 1.92 million, and the number of apps in the Apple Store (China) was 1.36 million.

In February, 130,000 apps were added to the shelves and 90,000 apps were removed.

The scale of game applications stayed ahead.

As of the end of February, the number of apps with the top 4 types of mobile applications accounted for 58%, and 10 types of apps such as other social communications and education accounted for 42%.

Among them, the number of game apps continued to lead, reaching 789,000, accounting for 24% of all apps, a decrease of 14,000 from the previous month.

The number of daily tools, e-commerce and life service apps reached 499,000, 324,000, and 295,000 respectively, ranking second, third, and fourth in scale of mobile applications, accounting for 15.2%, 9.8% and 9.8% of all apps, respectively. 9%.

The total distribution of game applications ranks first.

As of the end of February, China's third-party application stores had distributed 1,738,800 million applications on shelves.

Among them, the top three downloads were games, daily tools, and social communications. The downloads reached 261.9 billion, 216.8 billion, and 207.5 billion, respectively. Among them, daily tools and social communications were active in downloads, respectively. Increased by 12.2% and 11.2%; music and video, life services, system tools, news reading, and e-commerce were ranked 4th to 4th with 202.1 billion times, 156.1 billion times, 152.8 billion times, 137.5 billion times, and 103.2 billion times respectively. Eight people.

Among the other types of applications, applications that have been downloaded more than 50 billion times include financial (92.5 billion times), education (81.3 billion times), and photography (60.7 billion times).