Microblogging in China in spreading the news quickly and discussing and evaluating government response. In 2012, there were 309 million people microblogging in China. "Wei boke" (微博客) and "weixing boke" (微型博客), commonly abbreviated as "weibo" (微博), are Chinese words for "microblog". A China-based microblogging service often names itself a weibo by putting it after the name of the service (e.g. Tencent Weibo, Sina Weibo). A similar word "围脖" () is used as Internet slang for "weibo". Fanfou () is the earliest notable weibo service. It was launched in Beijing on May 12, 2007 by the co-founder of Xiaonei (now Renren) Wang Xing ().
Billboard China partnered with company Vision Music Ltd.. On December 29, the website was establised online by the China branch. Initially, the site only published the U.S. publications' two mainly infulencial album and single charts. On April 21, 2017, Billboard China partnered with Nilsen Company and Chinese leading social website Weibo to create a social media music chart. Billboard China Billboard China is a music publication associated with American music business trade magazine Billboard. It was first established in 2016. On that same year,the website was launched online,with its mainly focus on music news,new music,etc. With the global expansion of Billboard to