Unfairness, insecurity widely expressed on China Internet: report

Unfairness and insecurity are widely expressed online in China, with over 40 percent of Internet users venting such feelings, a report shows.

Nearly 45 percent of 1,800 Internet users surveyed demonstrated a sense of unfairness, and 41.3 percent of them showed insecurity, according to the report released Thursday by Shanghai-based Fudan University.

Titled "China Internet community mentality," the report is based on the analysis of posts written or forwarded by the Internet users on social networking services in two years.

The report said people born in the 1970s felt the strongest senses of unfairness and insecurity, with a percentage of 51.2.

Business elites and rich people are the second most to express insecurity, which is also widely felt by groups in poverty, it added.

Education is the most talked about among Internet users, followed by corruption, housing prices and income distribution. The fight against corruption ranks number one among issues found most satisfactory, the report said.

The report also pointed out that web rage in China is lower than expected. Only 14.6 percent of the 1,800 took up online protests or other actions for certain demands, and 3.3 percent organized such actions.

Eighty-four percent of Internet users have no fixed targets to criticize, while 6.8 percent always fire at certain specific policy, system or organization, it said.

Regarding the nation's future, 53.3 percent of the surveyed are positive about the political situations and 82.5 percent are positive about the economy.

More than 64 percent of the Internet users believe the government will lead them to "change the status quo," the report said.