China’s internet is big, but every six months the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) checks in to let everyone know just how big. Now that we’re halfway through 2016, CNNIC has released its latest report, and the numbers show that – surprise, surprise – China’s internet is massive and still growing.
On the mobile side, China’s mobile internet is nearing total ubiquitousness among internet users. A full 92.5% of China’s internet users are accessing the web via their mobiles at least some of the time. China’s total mobile internet user count has risen to 656 million.
Data via CNNIC, chart by Tech in Asia.
China’s internet as a whole does still have a slightly larger userbase; according to CNNIC there are still around 54 million Chinese users out there who only access the web via computers. That puts China’s total internet user count at about 710 million users, or nearly 52 percent of China’s total population.
Data via CNNIC, chart by Tech in Asia.
In other words: even though China’s internet population is already the biggest internet market on earth, according to CNNIC it’s still likely to nearly double in size over the next decade as the rest of the Middle Kingdom’s population comes online.
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