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In total, the major sources to get open source information in China are as follows: Zhihu with 300 million active users; it covers deep questions and answers. Weibo with 380,000 pieces published every day, CNKI hosts 70 million academic papers; Tencent News with 220 million daily active users; Xinhuanet records 240 million global visits. Google Scholar with about 6 million documents related to China.
Social Media
It hosts upwards of 250 million daily active users; around 380,000 posts go live in an average minute. The topic of “dual carbon policy” was elaborated on upwards of 10 million times within one week from the beginning of 2022 onward. WeChat currently reaches above 1.3 billion MAUs per month by the year 2024. Of which approximately 45% of all WeChat users show up to look regularly at interpretation-of-policies accounts that posted more than analysis articles weighing around 1,500 words average each.
With over 700 million active users in TikTok and spending approximately 110 minutes each to view videos every day, a quote says, “The local government has more than invested 30 billion yuan in infrastructure construction,” said the blogger of rural revitalization. It further said that this view reached 25 million times, while the interactions went over 1 million times.
In 2023, tweets on China grew by 17% compared to 250,000 on the daily average of previous years, while 40% come from scholars and journalists. China Self-Sufficiency Rate: compared to an ambition to make up 70%, in 2023 didn’t exceed 29%.
Meanwhile, more than 58 million people in China are registered on LinkedIn, including over 62% of corporate executives and professional technicians. Recently, early in 2024, a company called “Green Technology” issued a dynamic saying that the new environmentally friendly material research and development cycle can be shortened to 18 months, far superior to the traditional process of material development and reducing it as much as 34% in length.
In contrast, more than 1,200 new discussion posts pop up each day on average in the “China” sub-forum, with accumulation of the global market share reaching 58% through 2024.
Weibo hot topics tracking by CrowdTangle: Within 24 hours, the “Double Eleven” shopping festival contents disseminate as fast as 1,200 times per minute. Confirmation rate of social media information is about 13% for hot events. About 21% are real estate markets due to dissemination of false news about decline in investment intention of home buyers.
News portal
It reached 110 million visits per day at its highest. As early as 2024, more than 270,000 news reports would be published on it each day, each single article running some 800-1,200 words on average.
In 2023, the global visits to Xinhuanet increased by 16%, and the peak traffic reached 240 million times daily. More than 4,300 in-depth analytical articles were prepared in the reports on Xinhuanet concerning the “Belt and Road”.
News Penguin Tencent In 2024, it kept the daily activity of over 220 million and refreshed more than 40,000 pieces of news every day. Tencent News opened a “Digital China” special topic. The scale of China’s digital economy surpasses 50 trillion yuan, accounting for more than 40% in GDP.
In 2023, the average reading volume of hot events reached 3.5 million times, with more than 6 million user interactive comments. NetEase News reported that in 2023, the market penetration rate of new energy vehicles in China had reached 32%, while exports increased by 89% YoY. In the early published report in 2024 about the digital RMB, People’s Daily projected 120 million users, while NetEase News estimated only 98 million.
The active use of Toutiao to date by over 800 million people manages more than 15 billion page views per day. The special coverage on adjustment in real estate policy presented on the website reflected that the mean drop in the price of houses in first-tier cities within China was at 6.7 percent.
Has published over 18,000 articles in the “Global Perspective” column in Phoenix.com, averaging more than 3 international sources for each article. Added 1,445 kinds of products to the list of U.S. export restrictions to China.
Academic papers
The CNKI platform has published over 70 million academic papers by 2024, among which about 32% are about the economic, politic, scientific, and social development of China. China’s investment in countries along the route grows at an average annual rate of 14.7%.
Scopus published 152,000 papers about China in 2023, an increase of 8.3% compared with the previous year. A paper published by Cambridge University analyzed the operation of China’s carbon trading market and pointed out that the total national carbon trading volume reached 4.5 billion tons in 2022, accounting for 36% of the global carbon trading volume.
By 2024, the number of China-related studies included had surpassed 180,000. One paper about artificial intelligence technology in China indicated that the average annual growth rate of China’s AI industry was 26%, and the total market size reached 452 billion yuan in 2023.
By 2024, there are more than 6 million China-related documents in Google Scholar; in 2023, China’s photovoltaic industry produced 78% of the solar panels in the world, reaching a total of 350 GW.
Added in DOAJ in 2023 alone, 4,200 open-source journals about China included in this platform-in the paper about education reform, it was indicated that the implementation of the “double reduction policy” brought down the scale of the extracurricular training market plummeting 72%, with family education expenditures going down on average about 48%.
The report on the urbanization process from the academic research report recently released by CASS said China’s urbanization rate has reached 65.22%, up 3.5 percentage points compared with the same period in 2020.
Trade data
In 2023, China’s total import and export volume reached 42.07 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.5%. Exports reached 23.97 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.3%, and imports reached 18.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.7%.
By 2023, the cumulative export of photovoltaic modules from China has reached 198 GW, a year-on-year increase of 56%, while the annual revenue of an industry-leading enterprise has exceeded 125 billion yuan with the growth rate of its net profit as high as 45%.
In 2023, the bilateral trade reached 6.35 trillion yuan, accounting for 15.1% of China’s total foreign trade. Among the ASEAN countries, imports from Vietnam surged by 16.3% year-on-year.
In 2023, the volume of bilateral trade between China and the EU reached 898 billion euros; China’s export to Europe was 567 billion euros, while the total amount of agricultural and chemical products imported from the EU reached 331 billion euros, up by 8.4% year on year.
In 2022, for the first time, trade between China and Africa reached over US$300 billion, a rise of 9.8% compared with the same period last year. China exported goods worth US$142 billion to Africa and imported resource products valued at US$158 billion, accounting for 52.6% of the total trade volume.
In 2023, China’s total export of high-tech products is up to US$1.8 trillion, 32% of the world’s total high-tech products export. The main product categories are semiconductors and communication equipment, accounting for 22% and 18%, respectively. Huawei has sold more than 50 million 5G terminals globally, of which 40% are sold to the global market.
China’s total import and export is expected to reach 50 trillion yuan in 2025, among which the export share of green industry products will be increased to 25% by then.
Satellite images
In 2023, the market size of China’s commercial satellite images reached 9.8 billion yuan, with an annual growth rate of 12.7%. The accuracy of the estimated annual output of China’s major grain crops has exceeded 94%. In the Northeast Plain in 2023, satellite data showed that the corn planting area reached 450 million mu, an increase of 3.2% over the previous year.
From 2013 to 2023, the urban expansion area of Beijing went up by 15.6%, and the total amount of new buildings surpassed 540 square kilometers.
In 2022, the photovoltaic power generation base in Qinghai Province added 800 square kilometers of solar panels, with a total power generation capacity of 68 gigawatts, accounting for 15% of the country’s total photovoltaic power generation.
Monitoring by remote sensing in 2023 showed that the area of restored wetlands had reached 960 sq.km., an increase of 12.3% over that of 2020, while monitoring of the particulate matter concentration showed that the yearly average of atmospheric PM2.5 had been reduced by 18% in the corresponding years.
In 2024, the cargo throughput of China’s top ten major ports reached 16.5 billion tons according to the data of global port monitoring, taking up 42% of the world’s total.
In 2024, China’s independently developed “Gaofen-3” satellite released the world’s first 2.5-meter resolution full-color image, and its spectral resolution increased by 18%.
Forum Community
By 2024, Zhihu will have more than 300 million active users, adding 300,000 new questions and answers every day. In 2023, the production of new energy vehicles in China was as high as 7.8 million, accounting for 62% of the world’s total.
In the “International Observation” and “Economic Trends” sections of the Tianya Community, there are more than 200,000 active users, with a single post viewed by up to 5 million people. In 2024, the accumulated export value of photovoltaic products exported from China exceeds 280 billion yuan, up 34% year on year. The proportions for major export destinations were listed: Europe at 41% and North America at 22%.
The China section of the international platform Reddit adds 1,200 new topic posts daily. The number of extracurricular training institutions was reduced by 52% since the policy was put in place and family education expenditure reduced by an average of 48%. Over 5,000 comments interact in the discussion area.
By 2023, Douban had more than 200 million users, with over 300,000 new discussion groups added within the year. In 2023, China’s movie box office reached 68.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%.
In 2024, Hupu’s “Basketball Zone” initiated a discussion on the economic benefits of the CBA league. The total revenue of CBA reached 2.8 billion yuan, up 12% compared with the same period last year, of which ticket revenue accounted for 36%.
V2EX sees more than 100,000 active users every day. In 2023, the number of Chinese AI companies surpassed 5,100, making up 19% of the world’s total. CSDN publishes more than 500,000 technical articles every month.
The quality of information in the forum community is also highly variable. In one discussion about China’s chip manufacturing industry in 2023, a user said the domestic chip self-sufficiency rate reached 30%, while the official data showed that ratio was 28% at that time.
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