According to the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) the daily average number of sms in China has reached 1,098,000,000 - over a billion sms every day.

Phew...

And Chinese internet users also spend longer online than their American counterparts. There may be plenty of handwringing in the West about censorship of the net in China, but Chinese people are embracing the internet as their most open and participative source of information and entertainment.