Chinese mobile internet use soars

China has risen rapidly in the mobile internet industry with the number of mobile internet users reaching 820 million in 2018, up 9 percent year-on-year, driven by the explosive growth in the short video market, an internet trends report said.

The data flow of China's mobile internet surged 189 percent last year compared with the same period in the previous year, with growth rate accelerating year by year, said the much-anticipated annual report of Mary Meeker, a partner at venture capital provider Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers.

Up to April 2019, Chinese internet users spent more than 600 million hours watching short videos per day on average, Meeker, a US venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst whose primary work is on internet trends and new technologies, said in her report.