Internet service industry is the emerging industry with the development of internet. It is integrating with communications services and displaying great development potential. Recently, internet in China has maintained a growth momentum with a remarkable number of internet users and growth speed. Network industry has changing its focus of Eye-catching to Profitability.
Internet service industry has two major categories: applicative services and infrastructure network services.
Applicative services focus on applications in network service industry, e.g. network games, online transaction, network advertisement, network education and network short messages, of which the major two items are network games and online transactions (Electronic Business).
Infrastructure services refer to network infrastructure platforms and data communications guarantee offered by professional service providers to network application service industry, of which corporate network services such as ICP and IDC are important.
In network services, network games have become the industry with the greatest potential following network advertisement and network short messages. The industry chain of network games are pretty long ranging from communications value-added services, PC hardware and software to game software developers, technical service providers, game portal service providers, net bars and professional game developers, which can stimulate the effects ten times of itself.
Revenue of network services is growing quickly with the number of internet game users growing at an annual rate of over 100% and network game market scale at an annual rate of nearly 200%.