23 Years of Connectivity
Online stars simultaneously livestream the press conference of the film White Dear Plain
An “online-to-offline” (O2O) model job fair was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi, where job-seekers could use smartphones to scan QR codes to read the recruitment information
The “Internet + Longmen Travel” Project has been introduced in Luoyang, Henan. Visitors can use smartphones to scan the QR code within the Longmen Grottoes to book tickets, access the park and enjoy the free audio guide service
What happens every minute online in China? According to statistics provided by tech news site TechinAsia in 2016, every 60 seconds, the Uber-like Didi hails 1,388 cabs and 2,777 private cars; 395,833 people log in to the mobile-messaging service WeChat; 194,444 people are video or audio chatting; 64,814 posts and reposts are published on the Twitter-like Weibo; 4,166, 667 queries are asked on the search engine Baidu; and 774 people buy something on Alibaba’s marketplaces Taobao and Tmall.