Revisited: CHINA SOON TO BE WORLDS LARGEST NET MARKET

Officially, China has now become the largest user of the World Wide Web a.k.a. the internet. This report I heard recently on one of my favorite techy shows, The Kim Komando Show and decided to dust off this blog from January of this year.

Career minded youngsters may consider the advantages of learning a second language with potentially a huge economic impact on America looming in the not so distant future... no, I don't mean Spanish, although, that may be a fairly solid second choice. But, clearly the biggest new language market to soon hit the globe will be Chinese.
In an article titled, 'China becomes world's 2nd biggest Internet user' from the Chinaknowledge.com site, it was reported on Jan. 18, 2008 (China Knowledge) that
"China is positioning to be the world's biggest user of the Internet, second only to the U.S, according to a report released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) yesterday. The nation had 210 million Internet users on the mainland last year, just 5 million short of overtaking the United States for the No. 1 spot in December 2007" .
This is an interesting developement for those of us in the web marketing industry. Chinese does not seem to be a very easy language to master. Which, as I see it, is a severe dissadvantage for me and many others who only know English. Perhaps it is just a misperception of mine, but, isn't it true that most Chinese people have a working knowledge of English?
Chinese web marketing. What a huge market. HUGE!