Young Chinese "Lonely kids Ruling Cyberspace": Credit Suisse

China’s “post 90s” generation is rapidly adapting to the fast-evolving digitized world, with Internet penetration among this generation at 79.6%—31.7% higher than the national average of 27.9%, notes Credit Suisse.

Vincent Chan and team at Credit Suisse in their October 28, 2015 research note titled: “Young China” highlight the characteristics of “post 90s” young Chinese and the implications for various aspects of the Chinese economy.

“Post 90s” – large influence on trend of cyberspace

According to the CS analysts, the “post 90s” generation (people born in the 1990s) has three distinguishing characteristics: it is the first generation of young Chinese to feel the full impact of the one child policy, and they are growing up in a prosperous environment. Second, the...