ChinaCache Numbers: Unforgettable Moment under Parade-Blue Sky

In September 2015, Beijing welcomed a cozy autumn as ever. In addition to comfortable and cool weather, one new word was frequently mentioned and appeared in Weibo, WeChat and other social platforms. The new word is parade-blue, which not only means nice weather with blue sky, but also embodies the expectation and reverence of Chinese people towards the grand military parade on the V-day anniversary. The excitement and pride has been left in us by the military parade ceremony though it has passed several days. As a Chinese, what do you feel? And what kind of images are there in your heart under the parade-blue sky? ChinaCache CC Index platform will take you back to September 3, 2015. 

Exclusive parade moments

On September 3, 2015, with tremendous roaring sound, 6 helicopters are escorting two giant national flags and military flags in a triangle form above the Tiananmen Square. Then 20 helicopters and 7 training planes fly over Tiananmen Square in a form of 70 leaving colored smoke in the sky. Now starts the military parade. At that moment, are you waiting in front of your TV or watching live webcast? 

According to ChinaCache CC Index platform, 43.6% of the audience chose to watch live webcast, almost the same proportion as TV live broadcasting audience (56.4%). Live webcast is always online, making the audience to watch the military parade at the same rate as onsite audience, no matter what kinds of networking equipment they use. Considering the better visual effect brought by large screen PCs, as many as 21% of the audience chose PC terminals to watch. There is no big difference between the audience to use mobile phones and tablets, 11% and 10% respectively. It can be seen that different from commuters carrying their mobile phones to watch TV series such as "Mary Sue", most of the audience would rather to have a special moment, watch the broadcasting in front of TV or with PC.

 In terms of viewing scenes, the vast majority of the audience watched the live broadcasting of the parade at home, accounting for 62.4% of the total number of viewers. Of course, those audiences on their trips would have to use their mobile equipment such as mobile phones to watch in order to watch the live broadcasting in the first place. If you and your friends meet in public places such as restaurants, we believe that you also won't miss this important event, because it’s shown in the data from ChinaCache CC Index platform that 12% of the audience watched the live broadcast of the parade in public places.

Online with you at the same time

According to CCTV news report, on September 3, more than 1 billion Internet users worldwide browsed and watched the parade through Internet. At the same time, it’s indicated from the data of several video websites that the number of concurrent online users during the peak hours of the military parade set another historic height in the period of live broadcasting. Then, what platforms do people use to watch the live webcasting?

 Data shows that the vast majority of the audience watched live broadcasting through video websites, such as SOHU TV, Youku, and Tencent TV, while less people chose media platform or search engine platform, such as Baidu and Sina, to watch. As a whole, the TV video websites with the top three live broadcasting views are CCTV Network, Tudou and SOHU TV, with 579 PVs, 369PVs and 276.28 PVs respectively. CCTV Network, as the platform to first release live webcasting, has gained an obvious viewing advantage.

Endless pride

The anti-Japanese war V-day military parade is the 15^th grand military parade in the history of People’s Republic of China, the 2^nd grand military parade since entering the 21^st century, also the 1^st grand military parade not held in the National Day.  The pride in our great nation, the pride in our strong arms, and the respect towards the veterans all makes us tempted to get involved in heated discussions while watching parade live broadcasting. ChinaCache CC Index platform had a statistics listing 8 heated discussion topics such as respect for veterans, advanced equipment, and military parade scenes.

Meanwhile, many people noticed some details, such as "leadership positioning in the Tiananmen Gate, and disarmament of 300,000 soldiers. These detailed observations indicate close attention of the audience to the military parade and national development. Although they could not experience the grand momentum on site, the audience has the same feeling towards the country. In addition, the little boy from Belarus is the only foreign topic among the 8 heated topics, a memory worth remembering in the parade.

Take a time machine, and ChinaCache CC Index brings you back to those important moments under the parade-blue sky. You may live in Beijing, or you may live in any other parts of the world. But in September 2015, the above data can help you to remember the moment that all the Chinese people are proud of.

About ChinaCache CC Index platform

The ChinaCache CC Index (also called Network-aware Platform) is a member of Broadband Development Union Council, mainly used to issue broadband environment related index. Combining service nodes in cities of all levels all over the country, and real-time data collected from many networks, ChinaCache CC Index will create an accurate and comprehensive Internet panorama. The platform offers this window free of charge to China’s entire Internet world, providing six application modules such as local speed test, roaming speed test, website detection, national bandwidth, link performance and UA statistics. CC Index always takes both understanding Chinese Internet current situation and promoting Chinese Internet development as its own duties, focuses on building a bridge between network providers, content providers and Internet users, witnesses with you the development of Chinese Internet, and shares the joy of network development.