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Credit Cards in China Boost Internet Marketers

The rapid expansion of the Chinese economy was a result of China’s entering the World Trade Organization, and it hasn’t looked back. Companies and individuals alike who recognized the opportunities have made a killing. Yet the market has so much more growth potential.

China has a population of over 1.325 BILLION people. China is a vast country and as such, immediate internet access to all is not a sound economic proposition. However, over 253 million do. And the incredible thing is, over 84% of them connect via Broadband.

However, the main obstacle for many marketers was the poor infrastructure to support credit card processing. As well, there has been the perception that Chinese consumers are very sober in the shopping habits and have always preferred to transact in cash. This theory was dispelled in an article on Forbes.com which illustrated that it was the slow access to credit cards that prevented more online shopping.

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Cnnic: 2009 Survey Of Internet Development In Rural China

CNNIC published the “2009 China Internet development in rural areas report”

Rural netizens for the first time billions of dollars of urban and rural “digital divide” widening

HC Communication Network April 15, 2010, China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released in Beijing “2009 China’s rural development of the Internet Survey Report” (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”). “Report” shows that at the end of December 2009, the scale of China’s rural Internet users has reached 10 681 million, although the scale of Internet users to grow, but penetration, Internet users in the structure of the three in terms of network applications, Internet access gap between urban and rural areas continued to widen.

Rural netizens for the first time billions of dollars in rural areas Mobile An increase of more than 3000 million Internet users

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