The population numbers over one billion, and according to a survey by the China TV Program Ranking Commission, on average every citizen watched Chiung Yao's Romance in the Rain, the top ranking show in 2001, for some 514 minutes.
大陸有十幾億人，根據中國電視節目榜組委會調查，二○○一年中國收視率排名第一的瓊瑤連續劇《情深深雨濛濛》，大陸全國每人平均收視時間竟高達五百一十四分鐘。