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710 million Chinese citizens, or 51.7 percent of China’s population, use the internet as of June 2016. That percentage might seem low. But a new report from the China Internet Network Information Center, or CNNIC, tells a different story. Twenty-first century Chinese are going online at striking speeds, and their internet use habits are changing fast as well.
截止到2016年6月，中國網民數量達到7.1億人（51.7%總人口）。百分比看似不高。但中國互聯網絡信息中心（CNNIC）的報告卻極為不同。21世紀的中國網民數量急速攀升，上網習慣也在迅速改變。
CNNIC released its 38th “Statistical Report on Internet Development in China” on August 3rd. The report showed that China has gained 21 million new internet users since the end of 2015. Almost three-quarters of China’s internet users were under the age of 40, with users between 10 and 19 years of age accounting for more than 20% of the total. The average Chinese internet user spends 3.8 hours on the internet every day.
8月3日，中國互聯網絡信息中心（CNNIC）公布了第38次《中國互聯網絡發展狀況統計報告》。根據報告顯示，自2015年底開始，網民數量新增2100萬。40歲以下網民占據近四分之三，10-19歲網民數量超過20%。平均日上網時間為3.8小時。
What are Chinese netizens doing on their computers for four hours a day? As it turns out, many of them aren’t using computers at all. 656 million Chinese citizens, or over 90 percent of Chinese internet users, now use their cell phones to go online. About one-quarter of China’s internet users exclusively use smartphones to access the internet.
每天花費4小時的中國網民會干什么？結果顯示，許多網民并不使用電腦。6.65億網民（超90%網民）使用手機上網。約四分之一網民只使用智能手機上網。
CNNIC data showed that 603 million people, or 92 percent of China’s mobile internet users, use instant messaging apps like WeChat or QQ. Other popular app categories include news websites, online broadcasts, music or video streaming apps, and internet finance tools. The mobile app category that showed the most striking growth was online food delivery, with carry-out orders surging 38.1 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2016. According to the report’s analysis, growing disposable incomes among China’s urban middle class have piqued China’s appetite for carry-out.
據中國互聯網絡信息中心（CNNIC）數據顯示， 92%手機網民使用微信或QQ等即時通訊應用。其它熱門應用種類包括新聞網站、網絡播客、音樂視頻以及互聯網金融工具。根據應用類別分析，增長速度最快的應用為在線送餐，2016年上半年叫餐訂單同期激增38.1%。根據報告分析指出，中產階級可支配收入的增加激發了叫餐業務。
But not all twenty-first century Chinese are glued to their screens. CNNIC’s report shows a striking divide between city and countryside, with internet usage rates in rural China lagging urban rates by over 35 percentage points. 68 percent of the rural residents surveyed in the report said that a lack of technical knowledge prevents them from going online. CNNIC executive Liu Xin told Xinhua reporters that outreach and education efforts will be necessary to close the online urban-rural divide.
21世紀的中國，不是所有人都被叫作網民。據中國互聯網絡信息中心（CNNIC）報告顯示，城鄉差距巨大，鄉村網絡使用率落后城市35%還多。在所有接受調查的村民中，有68%稱因缺少技術知識而無法上網。中國互聯網絡信息中心主任劉鑫在接受新華社采訪時指出，擴大服務范圍，增加教育程度對縮小差距至關重要。
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