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WeChat Impact Report 2016 – latest data about Chinese social media

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I've been in China for 5years now. Wechat payment is awesome and made my life way easier! I pay my rent/taxi/friends/errands/restaurants with wechat. It's faster to pay with it than cash or credit card. Almost every shop accept it.

It also change my life when dealing money with people. Everyone can transfer money to each other, and people assume that everyone has it (what is 95% true in my social circle). I don't need to have cash, credit card, and don't have to deal with change/money issues anymore with them. You do not need to see people physically, or ask any bank information.

There is also pretty fun to I see in many group I am in (from 2 to 500 people). You can send "Red envelopes". You set the amount of it, to how many winner you want, and if the ammount is random across people winning or not). The others don't know the amount of money in it. The X first(s) to open the red envelope get the money. I believe this increase the stickiness of the group you're in. I know some group sending many red envelops a day (for any kind of reasons). I also believe the number of red envelops sent increased a lot during the Chinese new year (It's a tradition to give red envelope during CNY).

For the fee: After 20k RMB , you'll have to pay a 0.1% fee on on every transfer. The limit is reset every month. You can also put back the money in your bank. The limit is 1K rmb/week, if that exceeded, you pay some fee (can't remember how much).

Re: WeChat Impact Report 2016 – latest data about Chinese social media

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I'm actually really surprised at the 67% male statistic. I guess all I have to go on is personal observation, but I have a very hard time believing the gender imbalance is that big.

On the other hand, I live in Beijing, and just looking around you'd be hard-pressed to believe that China as a whole has a gender imbalance – if anything, there seem to be more women than men. Perhaps the majority of men have remained in the countryside? Where they're spending their time on WeChat? I'd be very curious to see if anyone's done a population study of gender by region...

Re: WeChat Impact Report 2016 – latest data about Chinese social media

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Is there any way I can ascertain the validity of the report? Although it says "Translated from Tenscent penguin intelligence and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), 2016 WeChat impact report", I wanted to make sure.

Is there possibly a link to original source?

Re: WeChat Impact Report 2016 – latest data about Chinese social media

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post #13

Is there any way I can ascertain the validity of the report? Although it says "Translated from Tenscent penguin intelligence and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), 2016 WeChat impact report", I wanted to make sure. Is there possibly a link to original source?

The Chinese title of this report is 微信影响力报告 (Report of the Influence of WeChat) or simply 微信报告 (Report of WeChat). And the issue number is 43 (2016.3). Those are the keywords can be googled.

And this is the link of the report from QQ (Tencent) official website:

http://tech.qq.com/a/20160321/007049.htm

Re: WeChat Impact Report 2016 – latest data about Chinese social media

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I've been in China for 5years now. Wechat payment is awesome and made my life way easier! I pay my rent/taxi/friends/errands/restaurants with wechat. It's faster to pay with it than cash or credit card. Almost every shop accept it. It also change my life when dealing money with people. Everyone can transfer money to each other, and people assume that everyone has it (what is 95% true in my social circle). I don't nee…

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Re: WeChat Impact Report 2016 – latest data about Chinese social media

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I've lived in China off and on for the last 13 years, and my wife is Chinese. She, her family, and her friends all use it, and they constantly try to get me to use it.

I refuse to use any Chinese social media. They wouldn't allow something they couldn't control or monitor, and I don't feel like giving them a direct eye on all my private chats, pictures, finances, etc. At least Facebook gives me the illusion of privacy.

Re: WeChat Impact Report 2016 – latest data about Chinese social media

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post #13

Is there any way I can ascertain the validity of the report? Although it says "Translated from Tenscent penguin intelligence and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), 2016 WeChat impact report", I wanted to make sure. Is there possibly a link to original source?

I found a link at QQ.com, which is the portal and news site operated by Tecent itself: http://tech.qq.com/a/20160321/030364.htm

Actually this report is so popular in China Internet circle that it seems that everybody has read it.

Re: WeChat Impact Report 2016 – latest data about Chinese social media

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post #12

I'm actually really surprised at the 67% male statistic. I guess all I have to go on is personal observation, but I have a very hard time believing the gender imbalance is that big. On the other hand, I live in Beijing, and just looking around you'd be hard-pressed to believe that China as a whole has a gender imbalance – if anything, there seem to be more women than men. Perhaps the majority of men have remained in…

I'm surprised too. I'm also curious about whether the male/female stat is asked directly to the user or is just the gender indicated on the person profile. If it is the second option (I doubt it tho...), I know quite a number of girls that set their profile as "male" for various reasons... It is also indicated that default gender is "male" so maybe a lot of persons didn't wanted to disclose this information and were set up as male (doesn't seems likely either).

Re: WeChat Impact Report 2016 – latest data about Chinese social media

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post #12

I'm actually really surprised at the 67% male statistic. I guess all I have to go on is personal observation, but I have a very hard time believing the gender imbalance is that big. On the other hand, I live in Beijing, and just looking around you'd be hard-pressed to believe that China as a whole has a gender imbalance – if anything, there seem to be more women than men. Perhaps the majority of men have remained in…

I'm surprised too. I'm also curious about whether the male/female stat is asked directly to the user or is just the gender indicated on the person profile. If it is the second option (I doubt it tho...), I know quite a number of girls that set their profile as "male" for various reasons... It is also indicated that default gender is "male" so maybe a lot of persons didn't wanted to disclose this information and were…

You are right, the default gender is male. This maybe the main cause of the difference in gender distribution.
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