IV. Enterprise Application The number of China's listed Internet companies amounted up to 91, with a total market value of more than RMB 5 trillion. 3 Up to December 2016, China’s Internet companies going public at home and abroad totaled 91, with a total market value of RMB 5.4 trillion. Among them, Tencent and Alibaba are two representatives of China's Internet companies whose market value accounted for 57% of the total, standing at over RMB 3 trillion. Chinese companies have gained universal access to computer and the Internet. In 2016, the computer usage rate, Internet usage rate and fixed broadband access rate of Chinese companies respectively reached 99.0%, 95.6% and 93.7%, up by 3.8, 6.6 and 7.4 percentage points respectively from 2015. In addition, in terms of Internet applications for internal support such as those applications for information communication and finance and human resource management, the proportion of enterprises launching Internet activities maintained a growth momentum. More than 40% companies carry out online sales and procurement, with the integration of the traditional industry and the “Internet +” being expedited. In 2016, the proportion of Chinese companies conducting online sales and procurement respectively reached 45.3% and 45.6%, increasing by more than 10 percentage points. Against the backdrop of the fast integration of the new and traditional media, the Internet has played an increasingly important role in the marketing system of enterprises, with the proportion of companies doing marketing via the Internet amounting to 38.7%. In addition, 60% of enterprises have built a system of IT applications, increasing by 13.4 percentage points compared with 2015. In the transformation of supply chain, companies have given high priority to and brought into full play the role of the Internet. 3 Internet companies in this report refer to those enterprises whose revenue in Internet business accounts for more than 50% of the total, and Internet business includes Internet advertising and marketing, personal Internet value-added services, online games, e-commerce, etc. The standards for the above definition need to be set by seeing whether these companies mainly depend on Internet products in their operation including mobile Internet 4 operating systems, mobile Internet Apps and traditional PC Internet sites. The 39th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China
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