On a busy Beijing street popular with tourists it seems that Ipads and smart phones are everywhere you look as local Beijingers and out of towners are taking photos and keeping in touch with friends back home. With more than a third of the population now online and over 300 million weibo users, China's society has been transformed by the communications revolution. We asked some of them how important the internet has become in their daily lives.
"I'm a student from the Beijing Film Academy, If I'm not on the internet then I'll be using my ipad, no matter the time or place there's always internet. if there's nothing else then i'll be on my
phone. I think that the influence the internet has had on us is that it allows us to see the world outside of our own circles.&
