Did you know more than half of China’s population is online?

Believe it or not, but China now has 688 million users – a record figure! The new data from 2015’s China Internet Information Centre (CNNIC) shows that’s not the only major milestone.

For the first time ever, China now has more than half of its population online, that’s 50.3%.

Mobile web access actually accounted for a record high proportion of the total citizens on the internet. China had a total of about 620 million mobile internet users last year, which means that 90.1% of all web users access the internet from their phones (when they’re not logging on from other devices like laptops and desktops).

The graph above shows that China’s internet users have almost doubled in number since 2009. The number of people accessing the web from their phone has grown faster with the nation’s smartphone boom, more than doubling since 2010.

As huge as the numbers may seem, there is still room for growth. With an estimated 73% of China’s 1.355 billion population aged 15 to 64, the country may eventually have about one billion users on the internet!

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