China’s smaller city net users are mobile junkies, prefer short videos over chatting

According to the report, China

China’s internet users in smaller cities, representing more than half of total netizens in the world’s most-populous nation, remain heavily attached to their mobile phones and are spending an increasing amount of their online time glued to short video content, according to the findings of a newly-released report.

Over 80% of netizens in lower tier Chinese cities – classed as tier-three to tier-five in the study – described the mobile phone as their favourite pastime and said they were happy to spend almost all their leisure time on it, according to a report released by Penguin Intelligence, the research arm of China internet giant Tencent.