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A new survey shows that an average Chinese adult reads news and other material on smart phone app We Chat twice a day, for a total length of more than 40 minutes.

We Chat reading was included in the latest annual National Reading Survey conducted by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication (CAPP). According to the results, 66.4 percent of adults in China use We Chat to read, and among them, 72.9 percent read news, 67.1 percent read their friends’ updates and 20.9 percent read material published by verified accounts.

Xu Shenyang from CAPP says consumption of special coverage on hot topics has increased significantly on We Chat, and. the platform is now offering more systematic, coherent and well rounded information.

Professor Wang Yuguang of Peking university thinks We Chat can alleviate the problem of lacking public libraries to a certain extent, but he also believes people are spending too much time on it.

Most citizen are of the opinion that reading We Chat material is better than not reading at all, while some worry about the accuracy of certain information in We Chat articles.