Top 10 Chinese Internet Events in 2011

• Detail account information of more than 600 million users of CSDN was released for download in December. Other sites Tianya, Renren, Kaixin and Weibo were followed. It is notable that all password are in plain characters without any form of encryption. It is suggested websites store plain password information because of censorship regulations.
• Sina Weibo started 'real-ID' in major cities.
• A young woman Guo Meimei showed off her luxury belongings on the Internet. She also claimed to be a manager with the Chinese Red Cross. The online community were outraged and many vowed never to donate a penny to the Red Cross.
• Jobs' death was censored in China, after people raised the question, why China did not have such figures.
• Chinese knock-off of Paypal, a division of Yahoo, was transferred to a domestic holders group, without go-ahead from Yahoo, citing national security concerns (VIE).
• Pro-democratic netizens made numerous high profile attempts to visit blind lawyer, who was jailed in his own house in Dongshigu Village in Shandong.
• The Chinese knock-off of Twitter, Sina Weibo, has become the de facto news media of the time. With over 300 million registered users, celebrates such as actress Yao Chen have as many as 15 million followers.
• The bullet-train accident on July 28 ignited anger among Netizens.
• School bus accidents in many places further saddened the online community, especially when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a donation of school buses as foreign aids.
• Many Chinese Internet companies went IPO in overseas stock markets.

Twelve Chinese Universities Ranked in ESI Citations

Twelve Chinese Universities were ranked top according to the Essential Science Indicators (ESI).

181 Beijing University, Beijing

219 Qinghua University, Beijing

241 Zhejiang University, Hanghzou

291 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei

302 Fudan University, Shanghai

307 Shanghai Communications University, Shanghai

325 Nanjing University, Nanjing

418 Sun Yet-sen University, Guangzhou

495 Shangdong University, Jinan

635 Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan

657 Lanzhou University, Lanzhou

774 Beijing Normal University, Beijing

China's Internet Population Reaches 485 millions

According to data released by CNNIC, as of end of June 2011, the online population in China has reached 485 millions. 36.2% of Chinese are online, comparing to 77.3% of Americans. 318 millions use their mobile phones to surf the Internet. Their average time online is 18.7 hours per week. The number of individual domains dropped to 7.86 millions from last year's 11.21 millions due to government censorship.

The College Entrance Exam: 2011

College Admission of Shandong Province in 2011

school	total	high	low
Qinghua University	65	719	682
Beijing University	30	708	682
Fudan University	32	682	672
Shanghai Communication University	50	680	670
Zhejiang University	61	694	668
University of Science and Technology of China	40	676	667
Medical College of Shanghai Communication University	12	676	666
Chinese People's University	35	681	665
Nanjing University	65	680	664
Nankai University	60	671	658
Tongji University	108	673	651
Central University of Finance and Economics	62	674	646
University of International Business and Economics	34	670	646
Beijing University of Science and Technology	111	669	646
China University of Political Science and Law	33	665	645
Huazhong University of Science and Technology	128	664	642
Wuhan University	174	664	633
Shandong University	1774	667	629
Shanghai Foreign Languages University	13	652	627
Beijing Foreign Languages University	10	660	626
Huadong Normal University	36	650	626
Northwestern Polytechnical University	135	658	625
Sun Yet-sen University	130	664	623
China Oceanic University	858	659	619
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	156	648	615
Zhongnan University	272	662	614
Nanjing University of Science and Technology	138	651	613
Hohai University	167	637	607
Northeastern University	180	637	605
Lanzhou University	120	631	605
Sichuan University	251	653	604
Shangdong University at Weihai	865	644	603
Southwestern University of Communications	284	638	603
Wuhan University of Science and Technology	380	630	603
Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology	276	658	601
harbin University of Engineering	256	643	600
Hebei University of Technology	47	626	600

What's interesting from the numbers:
• The top 2 universities swiped all high score students with no exception. In other words, the best student getting in any other school is not as good as the worst student who gets in either Beijing University or Qinghua University;
  
• The Fudan University, Shanghai University of Communications, Zhejing University, USTC, People's University and Nanjing University together formed the second tier group.
  
• There is little difference among tier three schools going forward;
  

The above observations echoed the choice made by students in entire mainland China, compiled from another study:

Qinghua University (1.25), Beijing University (1.61), Fudan University (3.36), Shanghai University of Communications (3.60), Zhejing University (5.40), People's University (6.24), USTC (6.28), Nanjing University (7.76)

Number represented ranking of lowest admission score by province.

Twenty years ago, 2nd tier universities and some 3rd tier universities could share a scoop of high score students with 1st tier universities. At the time, there was no clear divide between say, Beijing University and Nankai University. Today, privileged employers should look no further than the top 2 schools. With exclusive access to talents and exclusive resource backed by the national government, Beijing University and Qinghua University leave no air for any other school to breathe.