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China Internet Penetration Map 2012 (EN)

After CNNIC released its recent report on internet use in China, one of the key datasets that was worth a second look is the internet penetration by province [Map]. The whole CNNIC’s report and the data is available here.

The Bill of online shopping from Taobao in 2011 (CN)

Taobao launched an annual report “the bill of online shopping in 2011”. It shows for example, that the south of China has more consumption power than the north such as Guangdong province (14.2%), Zhejiang province (12%) and that people who are older than 30 spent more money (15.000 RMB per year) on online shopping than young people (1.0000 RMB per year).

5 Insider Predictions for China’s Mobile Internet (EN)

MobiSights, a blog by the Great Wall Club, has an insightful collection of predictions for China’s mobile Internet in 2012. I’ve chosen my 5 favorite, but I also recommend you check out the entire series of 30+ predictions.


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With Weixin Lifestyle, Tencent Is Finally Building A White-Collar Brand (EN)
Tecent is internally testing Weiyun, a cloud-based system that allows you to view Weixin messages from not only your mobile, but also via a web and desktop client. With Weixin, Tencent finally has a product for white-collars (50 million registered, 20 million actives), an objective that had eluded the firm for over a decade. We at TechRice thinks that’s a very big deal.

Yunyun (云云): Social Search Meets Q&A (EN)
On the heels of Google’s new social search features, I’d like to introduce a Chinese social search startup by a team of ex-Googlers: Yunyun.com. Yunyun’s social search merges websites, question-and-answer (Q&A), and Weibo (microblog) results.

Third Party Payment in 2011 Exceeded 2 Trillion Yuan (EN)
China’s third party online payment continues to maintain strong growth in 2011 with an estimated total transaction exceeding 2 trillion yuan (2,203.8 billion yuan or USD 349 billion), up 118%. Alipay is still the dominant player in China’s online payment with 49% market share, followed by Tenpay and China Pay. Online shopping in China continued rapid growth in 2011, reaching 800 billion yuan.

Baidu +1 ? New version for baidu (CN)
Baidu has a new beta version with a functionality similar to “google +1” and “facebook like”. In some search results users can see how many times this link was recommended by other users. But until now there is no official communication from baidu.

Top 10 Fast Growing Chinese B2C Websites in 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC] (EN)
According to iResearch, the fastest growing B2C website in 2011 by total number of orders is womai.com (owned by China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation; or, COFCO), followed by vjia.com (owned by VANCL) and yaodian100.com.

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