China Digital 2025

China Has 13 Social Platforms.
Most Foreigners Know One.

WeChat Video has 800M monthly users. Douyin has 700M. Baijiahao has 648M. Most of the world has never heard of any of them. Here's the full picture.

13
Major platforms
800M
Largest: WeChat Video
70%
Female: Xiaohongshu & WeChat Video
4.9M
Smallest: Sohu (SouhuHao)
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Scale Comparison

Monthly Active Users: All 13 Platforms

The sheer scale of Chinese social media is hard to grasp. WeChat Video's 800M users would make it the 3rd largest platform on Earth — and most people outside China have never used it.

📕 Data source: 小红书 Xiaohongshu / RedNote, citing platform official reports

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📕 Data source: 小红书 Xiaohongshu / RedNote, citing platform official reports & industry data