Online young, women writers rise across country

BEIJING: Young and women writers have taken larger shares of China’s online literature industry, according to a recent report on the development of Chinese online literature in 2019.
The number of women writers rose faster than other groups, and writers from the post-90s generation made up 44.6 percent of the total to become a major force in online literature creation, according to the report released during the China Online Literature+ Conference. In 2019, the number of China’s online literature authors hit 19.36 million, and the number of contracted writers stood at 770,000. – Agencies