China's online research boom

This article discusses the issues raised by doing online research in China. Online research has grown rapidly in the main population centres, but mostly through foreign companies; local manufacturers have mostly avoided it.

China's online research boom

Shaun Griffin

A massive 40% of the world's online population now resides in Asia, with a third of them living in China. In terms of the number of online users, China is now second only to the United States. Indeed, with an annual growth that was due to top 18% in 2007, its current 162 million users will eclipse the US as the dominant online population within three years.

The scale of the internet population is leading companies increasingly to consider online research as an alternative survey platform for Chinese projects. Led by multinationals, interested in...

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