How big is China’s mobile web? So big that it’s genuinely hard to comprehend. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China is closing in on the one billion mobile web user mark.
Specifically, MIIT says that there are 946 million mobile web users in China. The vast majority of them, more than 900 million, are accessing the web via mobile phones (as opposed to tablets or other mobile devices). And more of those mobile users are accessing the web via 4G, too: China has hit 270 million total 4G users.
MIIT’s numbers only run through August, which means that by the time you read this, China’s total mobile web users should be well over 950 million and closing in on one billion. The number has been increasing at a rate of more than ten million each month for the past several months, and if that trend continues China could well break the one billion barrier before the year ends.
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