In iResearch's recently issued '2006 China Online Economy Research Report', according to the user statistics of Internet segment markets, the penetration rate of search engines, instant messenger and email is the highest of all and takes 87.4%, 83.8% and 79.3% of Internet users in China representatively in 2005.
According to integrated data from CNNIC, Chinese netizens' main purpose of surfing online is to get information. The figures of that is up to 39.1%. Only 1.2 % of Chinese netizens use online banking.