Research questions related to Internet in China

1. How many people in China are using the Internet and the expected increase rate?
Result: Until 30th,June,2004, there are 87 million who uses Internet for some purpose and the increase rate compared to the same time 2003 is 27.9%.
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2. What are the main methods for Chinese people to get access to Internet?
Result:Until 30th,June,2004
-people using personal direct line:28.7 million,increase 22.5% from 2003
-people using dial-up:51.55 million,increase 14.5% from 2003
-people using ISDN:6 miallion, increase 22.4% from 2003
-people using broadband connection:31.1 million,increase 217.3% from 2003
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The Power Line Communication has just started, there are some experimental uses in Beijing and Xinjiang Province. Wireless connection is not very common in China because of the standard issue. China is not satisfied with the security performance of the WiFi and has developed its own wireless standard called WAPI. These two standard is not compatible.So there is still not a definit answer of using which standard.
3. What is the attitude of government to the E-commerce, E-government, online-game and etc?
Result: Based on the research down by IDC, we found that China government is investing a lot in E-government, about 23.1 billion RMB in 2003, an expected 22.3% increase in 2004, an expected average increase of 15.3% between 2004 and 2008 and the investment are expected to be 55.4 billion RMB in 2008. And because of the maturity of the purchase procedure, more and more hardware and software were purchased seperately. So the percentage of investment on hardware would decrease in the future years but the percentage of software and services would dramatically increase. In 2003, the Chinese government has spent 6.9 billion RMB on application solution and service and it will reach a 7.6 billion RMB market capacity on 2008 with an average annual increase rate of 15%.
China government always advocate the development of e-commerce. China government are now dealing with the issue of taxes, laws and prodedures about the e-commerce. According to Morgan Stanley the aggregate potential and scale of technology, media and market is ranked No 3 in the world. And also intel stated that the potential of e-commerce in China has been under-estimated. In a research, it is said that only 4.5% of the company with international business has developed mature e-commerce,31.2% has just started and 23.6% has not think about it. About online-games, Chinese government has stated that there would be 2 billion RMB invested in Chinese online game development. And Chinese government has given the GAPP the rights to manage online game.And now competetive online game as regard as a sport in China.
4. Is there any laws or policies related to the Internet development, Internet crime and issues about copyright?
5. How is the infrastructure of the Internet in China?
6. How many national projects based on the Internet is in progress and planned?
Result: -NSFCNET, the research on the next generation Internet.
-coroperation with Japan on IPv6.
-CADLIS digital library connected by all the unversities in China
7. How many Internet crime or sues happened last year in China?
Result: The Internet crime is increasing dramatically these years. There are only about 100 Internet crimes in 1998, and it jumped to about 400 in 1999. In 2000 the number is around 2,700 and 4,500 in 2001.It is almost doubled and is believed to keep on increasing.This issue may cause some negative influence on the development on Internet and needs the government do more job.
8. How many websites are there in China and the average increase rate?
Result:The number of registered Website is 626600 until 30th June,2004.And te increase rate is 32.2% compared to 2003.
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9. What is the revenue and the stock price of the 4 portal Website of China?
the financial status of 4 portal website
Chinese Website going to public
http://www.jstv-ad.com/yej/027.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/it/2004-12/24/content_2374636.htm
10. How many Internet Infrastructure Suppliers are there in China and who is the biggest and its market share?
11.How many infrastructure suppliers are owned by the government and how many are owned by individuals?
12.Are there special policies related to the Internet in different provinces in China?
13.What is the impact of joining in the WTO to the telecommunication industry in China?
14.What is the annual chip production of Taiwan?
15.How many telecommunication equipments were imported to China in recent years?
16.Can people access to all kinds of online information?
17.What are the available online services right now?
18.How is China's economy going?
19.How much is the payment for Internet?
20.How many different paying methods are there,such like subscription,by time, or by data flow?
21.How much is the band width?
22.How much do the hardware devices cost?
23.How do users pay for Internet devices?
24.How much do people enjoy entertainment on Internet?
25.How much do people shop on Internet?
26.How much do people communicate with each on Internet?
27.How much news and information can be found on Internet?
28.Compared with some other information channel,say TV,How much information do people get on Internet?
29.How much do people or companies use online facilities, such like online bank?
30.How many companies introduce in e-business?
31.How much can Internet help companies doing advertisement and survey online?
32.How much do companies spend on Internet, for instance, building web site or advertising?
33.What convenience does Internet bring to people?
34.What advantage does Internet bring to companies?
35.How much do people depend on Internet?
36.How much do companies depend on Internet?
37.How much is monthly income for a common Chinese family?
38.How much would a family like to spend on Internet?
39.What's the percentage would a company like to spend on Internet?
40.How long does a family surf on Internet per week?
41.What can people do on Internet with the current band width?
42.What do people do on Internet most of time?
43.How is Internet economy going?
44.How many web sites are available for Chinese users?
45.What's the future development of NGN (Next Generation Network) ?
46.What's the number of computers with Internet connection in China?
47.What's the affect of Bejing 2008 Olympic Games to China Internet?
48.How about the development of IPV6 in China?
49.What's the China goverment's budget for the research of IPV6?
50.What's the business opportunity of NGN?
51.How about the Mobile Network in China?
52.What's the major security issues of Internet?
53.How about the Hacker activities in China
54.What's the future of Semantic Web?
55.How about the development of Grid in China?
56.How about the development of Web Service in China?
57.What's development of Linux?
58.How about the Junk email in China?
59.How about the social status of the IT practitioner in China?