(Photo : Data from CNNIC( China National Network Information Center))

On 17^th July, CNNIC( China National Network Information Center) published a research shows that, till end of June, 2013, there's 0,416 billion people using Internet news. Comparing to that of June,2013, this number increases 68.6 million, and the increase rate is 17.5%. In other words, 78% of people are using Internet news.

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The research reveals that Internet news is a basic tool for citizens and is one of the main methods how citizens reach the news everyday. For this reason, the rate of using Internet news is high. There are some reasons can explain why the rate increase continuously. Firstly, in such an Internet era, reading news is one of the main activities citizens do during their time fragmentation. Secondly, there are more methods for citizens to reach the news as Chinese twitter and wechat getting more and more popular. For example, Chinese twitter can express the hotspot news effectively and fast and stimulate hotspot topic, which can increase the rate citizens know about those news. Third, the majority of news media improves their internet section, makes news app for smartphone and increase the reading frequency of cellphone users. Besides, those news apps is more effective than PC.