The Asian Studies WWW Monitor recently profiled a go-to site for understanding basic demographic data and coming changes in China.  Gerard K. Heilig has an impressive body of work that presents data on Chinese demographics, fertility, land use, and food production, through animations, CD-Roms, and maps.  Heilig’s homepage links to some of his publications, such as Can…

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China’s official internet research group, CNNIC, has translated its 17th Survey Report with stats that are up to date as of 12/31/05.  There’s a nice analysis section that shows trended data over the last 9 years since CNNIC has been doing these surveys.

Of note:

• majority of users are (still) male, unmarried, under 30, with educational levels below…

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CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) recently released (in pdf and ppt) its 17th Survey on the current development of the Chinese Internet. These twice-yearly surveys are Chinese governmental basic data on the Chinese ‘net. It’s not translated into English yet. In the meantime, some of the topline results:

• 111 million internet users

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