BEIJING, April 28 – RIA Novosti. The number of Internet users in China under the impact of the epidemic COVID-19 exceeded 900 million people, to be the 45th report on the Internet development in the country, published by the China network information center.
the Report compiled for the period from the second half of 2019 to March 2020.
According to data as of March this year, the number of Internet users in China reached 904 million, 75 million more than compared to the end of 2018, the prevalence of the Internet has made 64,5%. Thus 99.3% of users went online via mobile phones, 896 million people used the services of instant messaging, which is 100 million more than at the end of 2018.
More than 80% of Internet users (731 million) read the news on the network, nearly 56 million more than in 2018.
Meanwhile, the number of people making purchases on the Internet, has reached 710 million, 16.4% more than at the end of 2018.
Under the impact of the epidemic has dramatically increased the percentage of use of entertainment online platforms. As of March 2020, the movies online has become the second most popular product type among users, second only to the services for instant message exchanges. Figures show that the number of users of the platforms of online videos in the country reached 850 million people, 126 million more than in 2018, it is more than 94% of all Internet users.
in addition, sharply increased the number of users of the platform of distance education, reaching 423 million (46.8 per cent of the total number of all Internet users), or 110,2% more than as at the end of 2018.
the Number of users of online government services as at March reached 694 million (76,8% of the total number of Internet users), which is 76.3% greater than in 2018.
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