BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- The number of bloggers who use Chinese reached
19.87 million in early November, according to a report released by Chinese
Internet company Baidu on Wednesday.
The figure represents a 24-percent rise over from the 16 million people who
wrote their own blogs at the end of November last year, according Baidu.
Bloggers updated their blogs every 7.6 days on average and 3.02 million
were active bloggers who posted new writings within seven days. Just 4.6 percent
of web writers updated their blogs every day.
The number of blog service providers rose nearly 55 percent in the past
year to 1,460.
Qzone, which was run by Tencent, had the most bloggers and visitors. It was
followed by Sina.com, MSN Spaces and Sohu.com.
The growth in the number of Chinese bloggers slowed over the past year,
leading to 20 percent of the top 100 providers to abandon the service.
Professional blogs specializing in topics such as medicine and education
grew rapidly in the past year.
Baidu released its first report on Chinese bloggers last December. The
Internet search company plans to launch a special blog search service soon.
A survey made by the Internet Society of China says the population of
Chinese bloggers was 17.5 million at the end of August and the society confirmed
that the government is considering requiring people to provide their names to
register a blog or post online comments.
