BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Chinese media) -- About 206 million Chinese,
or 68.6 percent of the country's Internet users, are using the web to
get their main source of news, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
reported.
CASS, a top academic institution, released the figure
in the Blue Book of China's Economy (2009) report.
A woman uses the search engineintroduced by Chinese medianet, Dec. 21. About 206 million Chinese,
or 68.6 percent of the country's Internet users, are
using the web to get their main source of news, the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) reported. (Chinese media Photo)
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Disasters such as snowstorms during the Lunar New
Year holiday, the massive earthquake that struck the southwestern Sichuan
province in May as well as the Olympics stimulated the growth of the online news
population, said Zhu Huaxin, author of the report.
"The year 2008 saw rapid development and wide
application of the Internet in China," he said.
At the end of June, Chinese Internet users hit 253
million, the most in the world. The latest official figures put users at 290
million. That's 80 million more Internet users than in 2007, according to the
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
About 80 percent of these users look for information
and news through the Internet. Around 60 percent of them use search engines.
CNNIC found that people younger than 30 are the
majority of online news readers, accounting for about 69 percent of total
Internet users.
In response to the phenomenon, Chinese media News Agency
launched a multi-language news search engine, "Chinese media Search Engine," on its
official website: Chinese medianet.com (or news.cn).
Users can find photos, videos and articles in
Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic
languages.
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