33.3% of laptop internet users (who use laptop to access to the Internet) are from the east area. The details are shown below:
- The east: 33.3%
- The south: 23.01%
- The north: 16.78%
- The middle: 9.85%
- The northeast: 7.42%
- The southwest: 6.17%
- The northwest: 3.47%
The south and middle people are more interested in local brand (mainland China), the northeast pay more attention to the US brands, the south people are more interested in Taiwan brands, the east are more interested in Japanese and Korean brands, and the north are not particularly interested in any country brands. Lenovo brand is the market leader in terms of Internet user interest.
Top Laptop User Cities
The top ten cities with the most laptop internet users:
- Beijing: 9.46%
- Shanghai: 5.38%
- Shenzhen: 2.91%
- Tianjin: 2.62%
- Guangzhou: 2.59%
- Hangzhou: 2.52%
- Suzhou: 2.45%
- Wuhan: 2.28%
- Zhengzhou: 2.07%
- Chengdu: 1.91%
Beijing users are more interested in American brands, Shanghai in foreign brands, Shenzhen in local Chinese brands (and the least interested in American brands), Hangzhou in Taiwan brands (and then American brands), Tianjin the least interested in Taiwan brands, and Hangzhou the most interested in Taiwan brands.
Source: Baidu Data Centre
via FT.com,
Beijing has ordered Google to stop users of its Chinese-language service accessing overseas websites in the biggest blow to the world’s leading search engine in China since it started operating there four years ago.
As I tried just now, I was still able to access overseas websites listed on Google.com search results.
Chinese online video site tudou.com announced partnership with Nokia to promote online video show “Internet Millionnair” campaign. Whoever answers some questions with internet enabled mobile phone stands a chance to win one million yuan.
The campaign, which will start on July 6, 2009, consists of four phases lasting for three and half months. Anyone can become a challenger by logging in www.nokia.com.cn/97 or www.nokia97.mobi and registering personal information.
Japan now works with Baidu to promote Japan travel online. The deal is said to be over one million yuan.
There are about one million Chinese travelling to Japan every year. Japan tourism board starts promoting Japan travel to Chinese, giving individual travel visa to affluent Chinese in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou from this July.
Google China has announced the beta launch of products search, which covers hundreds of e-commerce websites including its competitor’s online C2C store youa.baidu.com. Google China products search interface is quite similar to that of Google Products search:
Not surprisingly, Taobao ranks high in most product specific searches. No doubt Google product search is helpful; yet it takes time to promote it.
MySpace China recently launched micro-blogging site 9911.com. It allows posting with each no more than 140 characters by 9911.com, mobile site, desktop software, MSN robot, and SMS.
iResearch’s recent travel related research found that 66.6% people gather travel information from friends and relatives, which shows potential of word-of-mouth marketing. Other ways people get travel information are shown below:
- Recommendations from friends: 66.6%
- Travel websites (e.g. ctrip): 45.2%
- Search engines: 44.4%
- Traditional media (newspaper, magazine, TV): 35.4%
- Travel section of portal sites: 33.8%
- Social networking sites (like tianya, mop): 33.1%
- Travel agency: 27.5%
- Others: 0.9%
It also found out 49.8% of people in the survey gathered information ONE WEEK before they went travelling; and, 30.2% looked for information half month before going on vacation.
Source: iResearch [via eNet]
Huawei has expanded into online social networking business by launching AiMi, another SNS targeting the white collar.
Now, all China Mobile users can register at 139.com. Users currently can manage and send their SMS messages, manage contact book, use free online storage, and play online games. 139.com also provides unlimited email storage.
