CNNIC released the 42nd Statistical Report on Internet Development in China.

　　On August 20th, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released the 42nd Statistical Report on Internet Development in China. As of June 30, 2018, the number of netizens in China reached 802 million, and the Internet penetration rate was 57.7%.

　　The amount of basic resources has increased steadily, and the application of resources has maintained a growing trend.

　　As of June 2018, the number of IPv6 addresses in China was 23,555 /32, an increase of 0.53% in half a year. Since the release of the Action Plan for Promoting the Scale Deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in November 2017, China’s operators have basically been able to support IPv6 at the network level, and are promoting the transformation from network capability to application popularization. China’s international export bandwidth is 8,826,302Mbps, with a half-year growth rate of 20.6%. Internet users have faster Internet access, better quality of cross-border roaming calls and better network quality. At the same time, mobile Internet access traffic and the number of apps both achieved significant growth in the first half of 2018.

　　The number of netizens in China exceeds 800 million, and the popularization of the Internet has achieved remarkable results.

　　As of June 2018, the number of netizens in China reached 802 million, and the Internet penetration rate was 57.7%. In the first half of 2018, there were 29.68 million new netizens, an increase of 3.8% over the end of 2017; The number of mobile phone users in China is 788 million, and the proportion of netizens accessing the Internet through mobile phones is as high as 98.3%. China’s Internet infrastructure construction has been continuously optimized and upgraded, and network poverty alleviation has become a way of precise poverty alleviation. The steady implementation of the policy of speeding up and reducing fees has promoted the significant growth of mobile Internet access traffic, and network information services have developed in the direction of expanding network coverage, increasing speed and reducing fees. Transportation, environmental protection, finance, medical care, home appliances and other industries have deepened their integration with the Internet, and Internet services are characterized by intelligence and refinement.

　　The utilization rate of Internet financial management has improved significantly, and the market has developed in a standardized and orderly manner.

　　The utilization rate of Internet wealth management in China increased from 16.7% at the end of 2017 to 21.0% in June 2018, and the number of Internet wealth management users increased by 39.74 million, with a half-year growth rate of 30.9%. The scale of Internet wealth management users in China continues to expand, and netizens’ wealth management habits are gradually cultivated. The asset management business breaks the rigid redemption to effectively reduce the business risks of financial institutions and reduce regulatory arbitrage. At the same time, it further promotes institutions to actively improve their management capabilities and accelerate the transformation of Internet capital-guaranteed wealth management products into net-worth wealth management products. The slowdown in the issuance of money funds has promoted the development of the Internet financial management market in a reasonable and standardized direction.

　　The integration of e-commerce and social applications has deepened, and the usage rate of mobile payment has maintained growth.

　　As of June 2018, online shopping users and users who use online payment accounted for 71.0% of the total netizens in China, and online shopping and Internet payment have become applications with a high proportion of netizens. On the one hand, e-commerce, social applications and digital content are integrated with each other, and the social e-commerce model has expanded e-commerce business. On this basis, e-commerce has maintained a stable development as a whole, playing an important role in coordinating supply-side structural reforms, stimulating employment, and helping rural revitalization; On the other hand, the vast majority of payment institutions are connected to the Internet, which improves the transparency of funds and the security of online payment, and the proportion of mobile payment users reaches 71.9%.

　　Internet entertainment has developed healthily, and short video applications have risen rapidly.

　　In the first half of 2018, the demand for online entertainment market was strong, and corresponding policies were introduced to encourage and guide the healthy development of Internet entertainment ecology. Original works of online music have been supported, users of online literature have diversified reading methods, and the trend of diversification of online game types and quality of game content is obvious. Short video applications have risen rapidly, and 74.1% of netizens use short video applications to meet the fragmented entertainment needs. At the same time, the content of online culture and entertainment has been further standardized, the copyright environment of online music and literature has been gradually improved, the illegal content in online games has been rectified, the video industry has built a content-centered ecosystem, and the live broadcast platform has entered a stage of refined operation.

　　Shared travel users grew rapidly and market resources were further integrated.

　　In the first half of 2018, 30.6%, 43.2% and 37.3% netizens used bike-sharing, reserved taxis and reserved special cars/express trains respectively, and the number of users increased by 11.0%, 20.8% and 26.5% respectively compared with the end of 2017. The bike-sharing market has returned to the multi-strong competition pattern from the top two at the end of 2017. Bicycle companies have tried to expand their revenue sources in various ways and started to provide deposit-free services to avoid risks. Cross-border integration has occurred in the network car industry, and platform enterprises have made a comprehensive layout around the field of travel services, starting from a single business to a platform-based ecological expansion.

　　Nearly 60% of netizens use online government services, and the intensive process of government websites has accelerated.

　　As of June 2018, the number of online government service users in China reached 470 million, accounting for 58.6% of the total netizens, and 42.1% of netizens obtained government services through Alipay or WeChat city service platform. First of all, the government actively introduced policies to promote the online development of government affairs, break through information barriers, build an integrated online service platform for the whole process, and build a service-oriented government that the people are satisfied with; Secondly, the degree of intensification of government websites at all levels has improved significantly, with a total of 19,868 government websites nationwide, a decrease of 70.1% compared with the first census in 2015; Finally, party and government organs and mass organizations at all levels actively use Weibo, WeChat, client and other new media to release government information, respond to social concerns, promote collaborative governance, and constantly improve the level of local government information disclosure and online service.

　　Important progress has been made in emerging technologies in the information field, and industrial applications have been steadily advanced.

　　In the first half of 2018, China’s emerging technologies in the information field, such as quantum information technology, communication between heaven and earth, brain like computing, artificial intelligence, supercomputers and industrial Internet, developed well. China has a layout in quantum chips, quantum programming and quantum software. The integration process of information network between heaven and earth has been accelerated; Brain like computing chip products with independent intellectual property rights were launched; Artificial intelligence online retail stores, family and children’s education, old-age care, housework, medical health, investment risk control and other scenarios quickly landed; Supercomputers have made breakthroughs in self-control, peak speed, continuous performance and green indicators; Enterprise information systems have further migrated to cloud platforms, and industrial Internet platforms have developed rapidly.