“Chinese youths more comfortable making friends online … “     

• China’s youth is large and growing…There are now 200 million Chinese born after 1980 and by 2015 there will be 300 million. (Nearly half the size of Europe’s total population.)
• At least 70 percent of youngsters in China are engaged in social networks and have on average 37 online friends, they have never met, compared to 18 friends in the US.