Research on the Priority of China's Internet Development

According to the development indexes of China's netizens and sites number, this paper simulates the life cycle of Chinese Internet development adopting the Logistic growth curve, and verifies the development priority of netizens and Internet sites in Chinese Internet development process. The result shows that the starting point of Chinese website growth period lags behind the starting point of Chinese netizen growth period, the starting point of Chinese website mature period is ahead of the starting point of Chinese netizen mature period, which presents a typical late-mature and premature senility curve, and the average lagging time is two years. The result also indicates that the Chinese Internet development is of abundant breadth and insufficient depth, China should improve the priority of domestic website development, promote site construction, and encourage the Internet websites and netizens to develop with benign circulation. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of ICAPIE Organization Committee.