Chinanews Client Beijing, February 3 (Reporter Wu Tao) On the 3rd, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the 47th "Statistical Report on Internet Development in China", which shows that as of December 2020, Chinese Internet users The scale reaches nearly 1 billion.
What is the composition of these netizens?
What do you usually do?
The number of Chinese Internet users is nearly 1 billion
The report shows that as of December 2020, the number of Internet users in my country has reached 989 million, an increase of 85.4 million from March 2020, and the Internet penetration rate has reached 70.4%, an increase of 5.9 percentage points from March 2020.
The size and penetration rate of Chinese Internet users.
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Among them, the number of mobile Internet users reached 986 million, an increase of 88.85 million from March 2020, and the proportion of Internet users using mobile phones to access the Internet reached 99.7%.
Zhang Xiao, deputy director of CNNIC, said that with the continuous improvement of Internet popularity and application level, more people can enjoy the convenience brought by the Internet, and the world's largest group of netizens has gradually formed.
It is worth noting that the number of non-netizens in my country is 416 million, a decrease of 80.73 million from March 2020.
From a regional perspective, my country’s non-netizens are still dominated by rural areas. The proportion of non-netizens in rural areas is 62.7%, which is 23.3 percentage points higher than the proportion of the national rural population.
Reasons for non-netizens not to go online.
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Lack of skills, limited education, age factors and insufficient equipment are the main reasons why non-netizens do not go online.
The proportion of non-netizens who do not go online because they do not know the computer/network is 51.5%; the proportion of non-netizens who do not go online because they do not understand Pinyin and other cultural restrictions is 21.9%.
The "portraits" of netizens look like this, is there your shadow?
As of December 2020, the number of rural Internet users in my country was 309 million, accounting for 31.3% of the total Internet users, an increase of 54.71 million compared with March 2020; the number of urban Internet users was 680 million, accounting for 68.7% of the total Internet users, an increase from March 2020 30.69 million.
In terms of income, the proportion of netizens with a monthly income of 2001-5000 yuan is 32.7%; the proportion of netizens with a monthly income of 5000 yuan or more is 29.3%; the proportion of netizens with income but with a monthly income of 1000 yuan or less Is 15.3%.
Netizens' monthly income structure.
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In terms of education, the proportions of netizens with junior high school, high school/secondary school/technical school degrees are 40.3% and 20.6% respectively; the proportion of netizens with elementary school and below has increased from 17.2% in March 2020 to 19.3%.
Age structure of netizens.
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Zhang Xiao said that the main body of the growth of Internet users has become increasingly obvious from the youth group to the underage and the elderly group.
As of December 2020, my country has nearly 260 million “silver Internet users” (over 50 years old) and 160 million Internet users under 20 years old.
"Among the new netizens, netizens under the age of 20 accounted for 17.1% higher than the proportion of this group in the overall netizens; netizens over 60 accounted for 11.0% higher than the proportion of this group in the overall netizens."
What do netizens usually do?
Among these netizens, the average online time per person is 26.2 hours per week, 4.6 hours less than in March 2020.
What have you been doing online for so long?
The average amount of time Internet users spend online each week.
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The report shows that Chinese netizens like to play short videos.
As of December 2020, the number of online video users in my country has reached 927 million, an increase of 76.33 million from March 2020, accounting for 93.7% of the total Internet users.
Among them, the number of short video users is 873 million, an increase of 100 million from March 2020, accounting for 88.3% of the total netizens.
Video user scale.
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In addition, games have a heavy "weight" in the hearts of netizens. As of December 2020, the number of online game users in my country has reached 518 million, a decrease of 13.89 million from March 2020, accounting for 52.4% of the total netizens; the number of mobile online game users reached 5.16 Billion.
Data shows that in 2020, the actual sales revenue of my country's game market is 278.687 billion yuan, an increase of 47.81 billion yuan from 2019, a year-on-year increase of 20.71%.
Among the number of apps monitored in the domestic market, the number of game apps reached 887,000, accounting for 25.7% of the total number of apps.
It is worth noting that in the first half of the year, affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the remote office market showed explosive growth.
As of December 2020, the number of remote office users in my country has reached 346 million, an increase of 147 million from June 2020, accounting for 34.9% of the total Internet users.
Fields such as online healthcare are also growing rapidly.
CNNIC Director Zeng Yu said that public service applications such as online education and online medical services continue to emerge, continuously promoting the extension of high-quality public resources to impoverished and remote areas, promoting the coordinated development of netizens across the country and sharing the fruits of Internet development.
On the contrary, affected by the epidemic, as of December 2020, the number of online travel booking users in my country reached 342 million, a decrease of 30.52 million from March 2020, and an increase of 55.96 million from June 2020, accounting for 34.6% of the total Internet users.
In addition, industries such as online shopping, live broadcasting, food delivery, and online car-hailing still maintained rapid growth.
As of December 2020, the number of online shopping users in my country has reached 782 million, an increase of 72.15 million from March 2020, accounting for 79.1% of the total Internet users.
The number of online food delivery users in my country reached 419 million, an increase of 21.03 million from March 2020, accounting for 42.3% of the total netizens.
Look, are these talking about you?
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