| CNNIC
statistics: interesting times for China's Internet?
The latest official statistics on Internet use in China come at an interesting
time as the country celebrates the Olympics in Beijing on the one hand while having
suffered a tough and tragic half year of natural and man-made disasters, international
political protests and heightened media attention. The Internet has played a key
role in each of these areas of contemporary Chinese experience and that is reflected
in some areas of the CNNIC report. However, at the same time, Internet use continues
to expand in China becoming faster, more widespread and more sophisticated. In
this report China also celebrates becoming the country with the largest Internet-using
population. In this Market Report, China Media Intelligence assesses the latest
statistics for what they show and don't show about China's Internet development
while keeping a critical eye on how the Chinese authorities want the statistics
to be read |