With more than 500 million internet users, widely available high speed internet access, fragmented families, growing wealth and urbanisation, a generation of children with no siblings and a mistrust of government controlled media, China has seen social networking grow exponentially in the last few years.   The infographic below outlines what’s behind the growth in greater detail, provides numbers, and names the digital destinations this world changing power is increasingly using.   The data sources are listed at the foot of the infographic.