According to a recent poll, China considers the Internet as its most important source of information.
More than 90 percent of China’s college students and white-collar workers regard the Internet as the most vital source of information, as revealed by the results of a recent Horizon China survey.
The survey was conducted via Web-based questionnaires and phone interviews in 30 cities in Feb. 2015. The respondents--college students, white-collar and migrant workers, and senior citizens--tallied to 10,702 individuals.
The poll showed that the Internet has taken over traditional media as the country’s most significant source of information. The traditional media includes newspaper and television.
Based on the poll, the Internet serves as the information hub for around half of the migrant workers and township residents and for a quarter of urban-based senior citizens.
The survey further showed that college students as well as white-collar laborers have an average Internet usage time of six hours. Meanwhile, migrant workers spent around three hours and senior citizens spent two.
The Horizon China poll is an empirical evidence that the youth now tend to link their lives to the Internet, showing that they are more willing to put trust on online information.
Around 13 percent of the respondents who were born after the year 1990 stated that they wish to participate in the real-life activities they have known and encountered over the Internet.
Apart from these statistics, the survey also reported the Chinese’s social networking behavior, particularly when using two of the country’s most famous applications, WeChat and Weibo.
According to the survey, people tend to use WeChat for personal purposes such as personal information sharing. On the other hand, Weibo is used to follow and gather news-heavy and news-related posts and information.
