The Rise of Social Media in China, With All-New User Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.

Here’s a useful infographic showing where the Chinese web is at in mid-2012, with all the updated stats for how many folks are online, and new social media user figures for a dozen of the nation’s most popular services.

Made for us by the folks over at BestFreeOnline, it highlights how Chinese net users are some of the world’s most social, with 91 percent of them in a sample survey saying that they’d visited a social media site in the past six months. By comparison, only 87 percent of Americans have done the same.

Tencent’s QZone remains the country’s most-used social site, featuring the web profiles and photo albums that are complementary to the Tencent (HKG:0700) QQ instant-messaging platform. Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) Weibo, as China’s hottest Twitter-like site, is growing at an amazing pace, recently surpassing 300 million registered users and now standing at 324 million.

Further down in the infographic, also look out for some amazing e-commerce revenue projections for 2015, sourced from our reporting on the subject earlier this month:

[Source: BestFreeOnline]