According to a survey on China's digital reading consumers conducted in August 2020, most of the e-reading product users were living in first-tier and new first tier cities, such as Chongqing and Wuhan. The same survey revealed that a majority of digital reading users had attained a bachelor degree or a higher education level.
Distribution of surveyed digital reading users in China as of August 2020, by city tier
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