Main Background in China on Mobile Internet.
China had 772 million netizens by the end of 2017, with a penetration rate of 55.8 per cent, and 40.74 million more than the number in the previous year. Among them 753 million (97.5%) surfed the internet via mobile phones, 57.34 million more than the last year (95.1%), the report said.
Mobile social software has become an absolute necessity for mobile phone uses, with nearly half of them using this software more than three times each day. The top three most used social apps are WeChat Moments, Qzone and Sina Weibo, with the usage rate of 87.3 per cent, 64.4 per cent and 40.9 per cent respectively. This will be related to why I choose this topic.
Children’s scale of using the Internet
Up to June 2017, 72.1% of Chinese Internet users were aged 10-39. Specifically, 29.7% of Chinese netizens were aged 20-29, 19.4% aged 10-19 and 23.0% aged 30-39. We can calculate that the proportion of Children (below 12 years old) can be over 3.1%. There have over 23.9 million children that are surfing on the Internet.
Mobile Payment in China.
China had 531 million online payment users at the end of last year, 11.9 per cent or 56.61 million more than the previous year. Among them, 527 million people use mobile online payment, 12.3 per cent or 57.83 million more than the last year. Since the end of 2016, the proportion of internet users that pay with their phones offline rose from 50.3% to 65.5%.
Immense Contrast between popular mobile payment and small consideration for Children
In today’s China, online shopping and mobile payments have become a part of life. How to help children to deal with money in the digital world should be one of the most critical factors that designers must consider when designing digital payment experience. What’s more, the mobile payment is simultaneously connecting online and offline events, which makes developing mobile payment interaction and experience for children significant and vital.
Links:
https://cnnic.com.cn/IDR/ReportDownloads/201807/P020180711387563090220.pdf
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201807/13/WS5b48384ea310796df4df64ec.html
https://technode.com/2018/01/31/chinese-internet-users-772-million/
/Shuhao MA
/24.01.2019
