Mr. Fan engaged in media is not used to stopping paying attention to the stock market by exploring the Internet with his mobile phone even when he is sent to gather news in London. For him, it is okay to go into the street without wallets on him but going into the street without a mobile phone on him is not acceptable. In fact, even if you have no experience in exploring the Internet with your mobile phone, you can manage to find some people around you who often explore the Internet with their mobile phones: they receive, send and look through e-mails and download ring bells and music with their mobile phones ...As shown by the latest statistics, 44.3 million out of the 162 million netizens in China use their cell phones as a mobile terminal to explore the Internet and they account for 27.3 percent of the total number of netizens in China. The mobile Internet is become a new growth point for the rapid development in the field of information communications technologies.

While the communications industry is developing rapidly in China, the ever-emerging new businesses are attracting attention. The mobile Internet as the very combination of the powerful growth points in the two industries of mobile communications and Internet communications get information technologies and services applied more extensively to every aspect of social production and people's life. Today, exploring the Internet with a mobile phone is not only a fashion but also practical; and innovations in the mobile Internet technology make it possible for users to have more new experiences. Statistics show that the mobile Internet business is developing rapidly in China for the moment. Just take WAP users for an example. Till March 2007, active WAP users had amounted to about 39 million in China; and such a scale is corresponding to the level of traditional Internet in China five years ago. At present, the proportion of revenues from mobile data businesses in which priority is given to mobile Internet business in the total revenues from mobile communications businesses has amounted to a quarter or so; and enterprises engaged in mobile value-added services have amounted to about 10,000.

It is known that among the over 500 million users of mobile communications, subscribers of telephone services offered by China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) amount to over 350 million. In large cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, the penetration rate of mobile phones has approached nearly 100 percent; and the total number of users of mobile phones around the world has also broken through 3 billion. Mobile phones are not only phones in people's hands but also a kind of multifunctional necessity in daily life. Take CMCC for an example. Now, the corporation's revenues from non-voice value-added businesses have accounted for 25 percent of the corporation's total revenues from all its businesses and such a proportion is still enlarging steadily. Mobile phones as mobile terminals are featured in individualization, mobilization, and broadband orientation; and the Internet also has three characteristics: mutually open-up, combining communications with media, and quickly changing technologies. The mobile Internet get those six characteristics integrated, plus the large scale of subscribers of mobile services, the primary impetus for the development in the market has come into existence. The development of the mobile Internet will forcefully boost innovations and transformation in the communications industry and bring along the development of the Internet industry and the communications industry. So far as technologies are concerned, the trends of mobilization, broadband orientation, Internet Protocol orientation and media orientation for telecommunications technologies and businesses are becoming increasingly evident at present; and the mobile communication technology is in a key phase for the development of network technology. The trend of integration between such sectors as Telecommunications, broadcasting, television, and Internet services is further accelerating, and vaster spaces have been opened up for the development of the mobile Internet; and the rapid growth of mobile communications and the Internet will lay a solid foundation for the development of the mobile Internet.

As a matter of fact, the mobile Internet is not as simple as copying the contents and operations of Internet onto mobile phones; instead, special Internet application services, including mobile phone television, mobile phone music, mobile phone blog, etc., shall be developed for users of mobile phones according to the characteristics of mobile phones as mobile terminals. Those services mentioned above are only the media-oriented applications based on the mobile Internet, and it is possible to get mobile phones provided with more uses on such a platform. For instance, mobile phones can be used to work as a search engine, make payments, remit funds, realize remote control, play games, and realize orientation and so on. CMCC has taken value-added businesses, new clients, and new voice traffics as three impetuses to drive the growth of its businesses. The integration of mobile communications and the Internet has become a trend; especially after the invention of intelligent mobile phones, mobile phones are getting more and more integrated with the Internet. And their contents and applications are even further integrated: all applications on the Internet can be used on mobile phones; in the meantime, mobile phones have further expedited new business forms for the Internet. For the moment, CMCC's research institutions are actively developing technologies; especially, they are cooperating extensively with enterprises at home and abroad in the R&D of operating systems for mobile phones to develop mobile phone operating systems as required in the market. Thus, a foundation has been laid for the development of the mobile Internet.

On November 27, Xi Guohua, Deputy Minister of Information Industry, gave his substantial affirmation to the direction for the development of China's mobile Internet on the International Workshop on Mobile Internet sponsored by CMCC and expressed that such an industry would become the most expected development field in the information industry.