China's Internet celebrities are estimated to create a whopping 58 billion market in 2016, far surpassing the 44 billion yuan in box office sales generated last year, according to an industry report.
日前一份行业报告显示，2016年中国网红预计创造收益高达580亿元，远超2015年中国电影440亿元的票房收入。
The report by iResearch Consulting Group and Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblogging platform, was released at a forum in Shanghai, co-organized by Weibo and telecom giant Huawei .
根据这份由艾瑞咨询集团与新浪微博联合发布的报告表示，由新浪微博和电信巨头华为联合主办的2016超级红人节高峰论坛在上海举行。
The top 10 Weibo celebrities now have a combined 40 million followers. One of the most famous online figures, Papi Jiang, already signed a contract for video ads worth a staggering 22 million.
网络红人前10名的微博粉丝数加起来超过了4000万。其中最著名的Papi酱签署的视频广告价值竟然达到了令人震惊的2200万元。

Among 36,000 who have reached celebrity status on the Internet, 74 percent are women and 87.8 percent are between 17 to 33 years old, while 89 percent have a college education.
在360000个网红账号中，女性达到74%。而87.8%的网红年龄都在17-33岁之间，89%的网红接受过高等教育。
Followers are also getting younger and better educated, with 77.8 percent in the 17-to-33 age group and 75 percent with a higher education.
网红的粉丝也具备年轻化、高学历的特点。在关注网红的用户中，77.8%的人年龄在17-33岁之间，而接受过高等教育的比例达到75%。
The report also showed regions with a better-developed economy produce more cyberstars, with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang leading the rankings.
数据还显示，网红的分布和经济发展水平也有密切关系，北京、上海、广东、江苏和浙江等较发达地区是网红分布最多的五个地区。
China's booming cyberstar economy has gone through three stages -- the first based on text, then text and images, and now video thanks to the availability of broadband networks.
中国的网红经济发展到今天，经历了三个阶段：第一个阶段是文字时代，第二个阶段是图文时代，现在这一阶段是要归功于宽带的可用性的视频时代。
Social networking platforms, including Weibo and mobile app WeChat, proved to be the best tools for cyberstars to magnify the power of communication, making it possible to create an industry that combines advertisements, e-commerce and fans.
微博和微信等社交平台是网红扩大交流的重要平台，而广告、电商和粉丝的付费使网红经济成为可能。
Agents and investment institutions are now flooding the sector, causing additional changes to content and platforms in the world's second-largest economy, the report said. A number of Internet gurus, including Lei Jun, investor and founder of tech firm Xiaomi, Zhou Hongyi, CEO of Qihoo 360 Technology, and China's richest man Wang Jianlin have all directly supported live video-streaming websites, a strong indication of the growing interest from capital investment.
该报告指出，代理商和投资机构的涌入导致世界第二大经济体的增长方式和平台发生了额外的变化。小米科技公司的投资人和创始人雷军、360董事长周鸿祎、中国首富王健林等众多互联网大咖都大力支持流媒体的网络直播，这强烈表明了投资网红经济的巨大利润。