Market Size and Forecast of China Online Friends

According to the survey of iResearch, the China online friends-making market develops very rapidly and the market size reached 127 million RMB at the end of 2004 among which the market size of general friends-making is 90 million RMB, online dating is 37 million and there is no income of business friends-making market. iResearch expects that with the rapid development and maturity of Internet users, the market size of online friends-making will continue to grow and it will reach 991 million RMB in 2008 among which the market size of online dating will reach 653 million RMB, general friends-making will reach 320 million RMB and online business friends-making will reach 16.2 million RMB. The average growth rate of the whole online friends-making market is 71.7%.