parents are willing to pay high tuition fees for it, which boosts the development of the market; online hospital registration services keep improving, but telemedicine and medical big data are in the exploration stage and face with many challenges; online car-hailing services, a typical service of sharing economy, are playing an important role in meeting personalized travel needs of users and will be more standardized and safer with related measures introduced; with the help of online public welfare platforms, charities prompt more people to participate in public welfare actions and smaller, more convenient and diversified charitable donations are underpinned by online donation, public welfare crowdfunding and social network fundraising. Table 7 Usage Rate of Internet Applications by Chinese Netizens in 2015 / 2016 2016 2015 The The percentage of Number of percentage of Number of Internet Annual Applications Internet users Internet users Internet users users using growth rate (10,000) using the (10,000) the application application Instant messaging 66,628 91.1% 62,408 90.7% 6.8% Search Engine 60,238 82.4% 56,623 82.3% 6.4% Online news 61,390 84.0% 56,440 82.0% 8.8% Online video 54,455 74.5% 50,391 73.2% 8.1% Online music 50,313 68.8% 50,137 72.8% 0.4% Online payment 47,450 64.9% 41,618 60.5% 14.0% Online shopping 46,670 63.8% 41,325 60.0% 12.9% Online games 41,704 57.0% 39,148 56.9% 6.5% Online banking 36,552 50.0% 33,639 48.9% 8.7% Online literature 33,319 45.6% 29,674 43.1% 12.3% Travel 29,922 40.9% 25,955 37.7% 15.3% 17 booking E-mail 24,815 33.9% 25,847 37.6% -4.0% Forum/bbs 12,079 16.5% 11,901 17.3% 1.5% Internet financing 9,890 13.5% 9,026 13.1% 9.6% Online stock or 6,276 8.6% 5892 8.6% 6.5% 17 Travel booking: It is defined in this report as booking air tickets, hotel, train tickets and travel & vacation products via Internet in the last 6 months. 5555 The 39th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China