China: 32.5 hours online a week
CNNIC survey: 26.2 hours in 2020 → 32.5 in 2025. Self-reported per internet user aged 6+; all online time.
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Time spent online as reported by survey respondents.
Points are published December estimates of weekly hours, not daily hours.
Values transcribed from CNNIC charts without converting to daily hours.
Mainland China excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Telephone survey, residents aged 6+; internet users used the internet in the previous six months. Activity percentages use internet users as denominator; generative AI penetration uses total population under CNNIC’s separate definition. Categories overlap. Hours per week are self-reported internet time, not social-media time or device measurements. Short video is not TikTok or Douyin audience. Online-video definition includes micro-dramas from December 2024. June snapshots remain separate; only December snapshots enter annual charts. Published rounding retained. Report 57 states a 25.2pp AI increase in prose, while its chart levels 17.7 → 42.8 imply 25.1pp; chart levels retained. CNNIC telephone survey: mainland China excluding Hong Kong/Macao/Taiwan, residents6+; internet users used internet in previous6months. Percentages below are of internet users, not all residents. See report57 PDF pp73–75 (printed65–67). Values as published, rounded. No causal interpretation of changes. Self-report average daily hours during previous6months ×7. Not passively measured screen time; not specific to social media.
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How is this time split among different kinds of content?