MIIT published "2012 The Top 100 of Chinese Internet Company".

MIIT(Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China) published "2012 The Top 100 of Chinese Internet Company".

According to the report, this ranking is based their sales revenue in 2011, and their total revenue exceed 70 billion RMB(= 11.07 billion USD).


Well, I will introduce the companies that was ranking in the top 10 in its English name.

#1 Tencent
#2 NetEase
#3 Baidu
#4 Sohu
#5 SNDA  *Online game company
#6 Alibaba
#7 Wanmei  *Online game company
#8 GIANT  *Online game company
#9 BestTone  *China Telecom group
#10 Sina


The full version of top 100 ranking is as follows.

Source => Takung.cn

Chinese listed internet company analysis report

Recently, iResearch consulting group published "Chinese listed internet company analysis report".


First, this is a distribution map of those company headquarters location.

Beijing      : 22 companies (52.3%)
Shanghai   : 11 companies (27.3%)
Hangzhou  : 2 companies (4.5%)
Guangzhou : 2 companies (4.5%)
Shenzhen   : 2 companies (4.5%)
Hongkong  : 2 companies (4.5%)
Fuzhou     : 1 company (2.3%)





Next is the establishment year of each companies.

These are summary of it.

1988  Kingsoft(*1)

1997  NetEase

1998  Sina, Tencent, Sohu

1999  Alibaba, SNDA

2001  Baidu(*2)

2004  Giant

2005  Renren, Tudou, 360

2006  Youku





*1 According to their homepage, establishment year was 1989.
*2 According to their homepage, establishment year was 2000.


Next graph is their listed market.

Nasdaq  52.3%
NYSE     22.7%
HKEx     18.4%
SSE         2.3%
SZSE       4.5%




Next graph is the listed year of each companies.

These are summary of it.

2000  Sina, Sohu, NetEase

2004  Tencent, SNDA

2005  Baidu

2007  Giant, Kingsoft, Alibaba

2010  Youku

2011  Tudou, 360, Renren




Last is a graph of their market cap and sales growth rate.

Tencent : 51.75 billion RMB (sales growth rate 45.0%)
Baidu    : 40.07 billion RMB (sales growth rate 83.1%)
NetEase :  7.69 billion RMB (sales growth rate 131.9%)
Sina      :  3.34 billion RMB (sales growth rate  19.9%)
Youku   :  2.38 billion RMB (sales growth rate 131.9%)

* Alibaba, SNDA, TOM, CRIC and china.com were already delisting.


Source => 91.com

CNNIC released a report "The 30th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China".

Today, CNNIC released a report "The 30th Statistical Report on Internet Development" that is written about the situation of the latest Chinese internet market.

According to this report, internet users in China was 537,600,000 people.

The user increased 24,500,000 people compared with the end of 2011, the diffusion rate of internet was 39.9%.



Next, mobile internet users in China was 388,250,000 people.

The user increased 32,670,000 people, the ratio of mobile internet user was 72.2% of a whole.


The growth speed of mobile internet user is really rapid, mobile device became the top of all method connecting to the internet.

Red line : Mobile

Blue line : Desktop PC

Green line : Laptop PC









And according to this report, Chinese internet user was on internet 19.9 hours per a week.

And the component ratio of Internet users by age is as follows.

  age     2012,1H     2011E
> 10       1.2%         1.7%
10-19    25.4%       26.7%
20-29    30.2%       29.8%
30-39    25.5%       25.7%
40-49    12.0%       11.4%
50-59     4.3%         4.1%
50 <       1.4%         0.7%  





Today, I reported the summery of this report. But the next time, I will report the detail and the situation of each Web services.


Source =>  CNNIC "The 30th Statistical Report on Internet Development"

Baidu Union reported they already have over 600,000 membership. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Baidu Union(*) reported the summery of their membership as follows:

The cumulative revenue sharing of Baidu Union paid to their partner will become over 5 billion RMB(= 0.79 billion USD) in the end of 2012.







Now Baidu Union have over 600,000 membership.








The PV of Baidu is over 5 billion times per a day. It means that a Chinese internet user connect to Baidu 9.8 times per a day.








Baidu Union helped 30 corporate members to go public in the past 10 years.









Now 1,280,000 websites are using tools provided by Baidu Union.







Baidu Union provide the public welfare platform, and they already donated 20 million points to the public.

And at the event held on 1 June, they donated 1.08 million RMB, and gave lunches to 360,000 children.





The history of  revenue sharing is as follows:

2011        1,100,000,000 RMB
2010          759,100,000 RMB
2009          697,670,000 RMB
2008          418,400,000 RMB
2007          204,700,000 RMB
2006           75,180,000 RMB
2005           21,210,000 RMB
2004           10,900,000 RMB
2003           10,640,000 RMB
2002             4,130,000 RMB





* Baidu Union consists of several third-party websites and software applications.[35] Union members incorporate a Baidu search box or toolbar and match its sponsored links with the content on their properties. Their users can conduct search via the Baidu search box or toolbar and can click the sponsored links located on their properties. Baidu has also launched programs through which it displays the online advertising of its customers on Baidu Union websites, and share the fees generated by these advertisements with the owners of these Baidu Union websites.
(Source = Wikipedia)



Original article => The official account on Sina Weibo 

The current situation of Chinese Internet industry. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Following is a infographic written about "The current situation of Chinese Internet."

The number of internet users:
#1  China  513 million
#2  U.S.    245 million
#3  India   121 million
#4  Japan  101 million
#5  Brazil   79 million


The feature of internet user in China.

- Male : Female = 55% : 45%
- 10 - 40 years old user is accounting for 80% of all.
- Access internet 2.7 hours per a day.
- .com 47% , .cn 45%, other 8%




E-Commerce:

- Market scale = 6 trillion RMB(0.95 trillion USD)
- Annual growth rate = 45%
- The number of online shopping user = 190 million people
- The number of joint purchasing provider = 6000

C2C provider TOP3   B2C provider TOP3
#1 Taobao  90%           Tmall    49%
#2 PaiPai     9%           360buy 18%
#3 Eachnet   1%           Amazon  2%

B2B provider TOP3
#1  Alibaba   55%
#2  Global sources   11%
#3  HC360   6%

Alipay users = 600 million users
The number of trading = 11 million times



Search market:

-The number of search = 35 million per an hour
- Baiud and Google dominate 95% of it.





Social Media:

- The number of Instant Messenger user = 450 million people
- The number of Weibo user = over 300 million
- 50% of Chinese people have at least one social media account.
- 30% of Chinese people login the social media at least once everyday.

- Yao Chen have over 15 million followers in Sina Weibo.

- LBS provider "Jiepang" have 1.4 million users.

- The number of online video users are over 400 million people.

- Hudong is registered over 6 million items.
* Hudong is a site similar to Wikipedia.









Original article => 199it

Baidu published the report of Chinese mobile internet trends in the first quarter.

Baidu published the report of Chinese mobile internet trends in the first quarter, so I would like to introduce its summary.

1. The market share by each mobile device company.

#1 Nokia      22.0%
#2 Shanzhai  16.1%
#3 Samsung  10.4%
#4 Apple       5.9%
#5 Huawei     4.6%
#6 HTC         4.1%
#7 Motorola   3.0%
#8 ZTE          2.8%
#9 Sony Ericsson   2.6%
#10 Lenovo    2.3%

Other  26.2%






2. The market share by each mobile OS.

#1 S60        17.2%
#2 MTK       16.7%
#3 Feature Phone  16.1%
#4 Android   14.4%
#5 iOS          5.8%
#6 S40         4.8%
#7 Windows   1.4%

Other  23.6%







3. The market share by each smartphone OS

#1 S60          17.2%
#2 Android     14.4%
#3 iOS            5.8%

About Windows, LinuxOS and Blackberry, it's not written actual number. But I estimate the market share of Windows and LinuxOS are about 1.4%, and Blackberry's is about 0.3%.





4. The market share by each mobile devices.

#1 iPhone            7.9%
#2 Nokia 5233     1.8%
#3 Nokia 5230     1.2%
#4 Huawei c8650  1.1%
#5 HTC Desire       0.7%
#5 Samsung s5830 0.7%
#5 Nokia 6120C     0.7%
#8 Miui mi-one      0.6%
#8 Nokia e63        0.6%
#10 ZTE v880       0.5%
#10 Nokia 5250    0.5%




5. The using status of network environment by each communication system

Although its percentage is going down gradually, but 85.5% of users are mainly using 2G as their means of communication.











6. Mobile internet usage by each time zone.

The blue line is accessing internet by mobile devices, and the red line is accessing internet by PCs.


From 9 to 18, the percentage of accessing by PCs is higher than mobile device's, but it's usage is reversed at night after 20.






Now mobile internet is explosive expanding in China market, and this is proven by this report.

This is the graph that is written about the ratio of increase each mobile internet users and PC's.


Blue line signify the ratio of increase for mobile internet users, and red line signify for the PC user's.






We have to keep attention when the number of mobile user will be beyond PC's :)



Original article => Baidu development center

Tencent Forms Six Business Groups To Embrace Future Internet Opportunities.

Today, Tencent formally published that they will forms six business groups.

The detail of its six business groups are as follows:

1. Corporate Development Group (CDG)
2. Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG)
3. Mobile Internet Group (MIG)
4. Online Media Group (OMG)
5. Social Network Group (SNG)
6. Technology and Engineering Group (TEG)


In addition, they will set up Tencent E-Commerce Holding Company (ECC), a wholly-owned subsidiary, to focus on managing its fledging e-Commerce business in China’s large and fast-growing consumer e-Commerce industry.


Chairman and CEO of Tencent Mr. Ma published his comment as follows:

“Through the reorganization, we hope to unleash the Company’s potential capabilities to capture the opportunities of the evolving Internet industry. Our goals are: to strengthen our social networking services, to embrace the expanding global online games market, to extend our presence in mobile Internet, to integrate our online media platforms, to nurture our search business, to build out our e-Commerce platforms, and to enhance our capabilities to incubate new businesses. At the same time, we will pool certain of our technology and engineering teams to further develop core technologies and operational platforms so as to better support future business growth.”




Tencent is a one of the biggest company in Chinese internet industry, so this movement bring big impact to the market and their partner too.


We have to pay attention to the trend of their new system making.


Original article => Press Release by Tencent[PDF]