By April 30 this year, the registered Internet domain names on the
Chinese mainland totalled 692,490, websites 238,249, web pages
159,000,000 and on-line databases 45,598.
The above information was revealed by a survey on Internet
resources on the Chinese mainland, the first of its kind conducted
by China.
The survey shows that websites with such domain names as "com or
com.cn" account for 80.73 percent of the total, and those with "net
or net.cn" ranks second with percentage of 12.69 percent. As many
as 11 percent of websites with database provide paid on-line
database service and 60 percent of databases contain information
about certain products.
Enterprise websites account for 77.8 percent of the total while
their pageview makes up 43 percent of the total. Although
commercial websites merely account for 5.4 percent, their pageview
makes up 29 percent of the total; institutional websites ranking
second in terms of number, have their pageview lower than personal
websites, merely accounting for 7.6 percent of the total, the
survey says.
The pageview for commercial websites averages 5,342 pages every
day, ten times that of enterprise websites and six times that of
institutional websites, the survey notes.
According to the survey, 67 percent of websites were launched since
2000, and 49.2 percent of websites were set up in 2000. As many as
65 percent of websites have no more than three staff members, and
31.6 percent of websites have only one staff member each.
(Xinhua News
Agency 09/08/2001)