China had 19.87 million Internet bloggers at the beginning of November -- a 24 percent increase over the past 12 months. While more than 15 percent update their blogs at least once a week, only 4.6 percent do it daily, Baidu found. Blogs devoted to medicine and education are particularly popular.

China intends to require its millions of Internet bloggers to emerge from the shadows and register under their real names in a move that is raising privacy concerns.

Under the system, bloggers would be allowed to continue using their online pseudonyms, but must register with authorities under their real names. Some bloggers used their anonymity to disseminate "irresponsible and untrue" information, and called them a "bad influence".

Several of the world's top Internet search engines have also come under fire for bowing to Chinese censorship demands and for turning over personal user data to Chinese authorities, a move that has resulted in some Web users being jailed.

Source:佚名