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Cyberbullying has became a new phenomenon over the digital age. I would like to edit the section in China about this topic. It has not grasp the attention of scholarly in China, especially in the mainland. Victims mostly among teenagers and people with lower academic achievement participate more than those with good academic achievement. It will be an important section to explore.

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Cyberbullying refers to a bullying event that occurs in online life. It is a new phenomenon in the Internet age. It refers to people using the Internet to make malicious, repetitive and hostile acts against individuals or group in order to hurt others. This phenomenon occurs in adolescents and minors. With the popularity of social networking sites, "online bullying" began to evolve into a global wave, becoming more and more serious as social problems. This phenomenon will cause great psychological harm to people, affecting the healthy development and growth of people.

Over the mainland of China, cyberbullying seems has yet to receive adequate scholarly. A study investigated the risk factors of cyberbullying, illustrated a sample of 1438 high school students from central China. Data had shown 34.84% were participated bullied and 56.88% had been bullied by online. Students who spend more time on internet have themselves experienced traditional bullying as victims will be more likely to experience cyberbullying through different social media in instant-message.

A study investigated cyberbullying in Hong Kong chose 48 people out of 7654 students from elementary school to high school who were classify as potential aggressors that related to cyberbullying. 31 out of 48 students declared they barely participate in cyber-attack. In is more general among high school students (28 out of 36 students) to participate in social media platform. These students took a survey about cyberbullying: 58% admitted they changed nickname for others, 56.3% for humiliation, 54.2% make fun of someone, 54.2% for spread out rumors. The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups had interviewed 1820 teenagers, 17.5% indicated the experience of cyberbully. For example: insult, coarse abuse, publishes personal private pictures with candid camera, and spread out in social media without permission.