In China, Online Shopping Is Now More Popular Than Social Networking [CHART]

Online shopping is one of the fastest-growing Web activities in China, with nearly half of Internet users in the country now shopping online.  Roughly 618 million people in China used the Internet last year (approximately 46% of the total population), according to data from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) compiled by BI Intelligence. Of those Internet users, 48.9%, or 302 million, shopped online.  Approximately 60 million people became first-time online shoppers in China ...