⚡ Programming Languages in China

Programming languages are sets of instructions, syntax, and rules used by developers to create software such as applications and websites.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, programming languages are detected on 80.7% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top programming languages on websites in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is JavaScript with a substantial share of 84.5%, followed by PHP with 44.4% and C# with 12.9%.

JavaScript 84.5%
PHP 44.4%
C# 12.9%
Lua 7.7%
ASP 5.3%
Java 3.7%
Ruby 0.8%
TypeScript 0.4%
Go 0.1%
Python 0.1%
Perl 0.05%
Scala 0.03%
CFML 0.02%
Elixir 0.003%
Rust 0.003%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top languages that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

5. ASP ^(-2)
9. Go ^(-3)
11. Perl ^(-2)
14. Elixir ^(-1)
15. Rust ^(-4)
16. Dart ^(-1)
17. C/C++ ^(-1)

✨ Best Programming Languages

Below is a more detailed list of 17 programming languages used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	JavaScript Austin, Texas, United States An interpreted programming language and a core technology of the web, alongside HTML and CSS, used to add interactivity and logic to websites and web applications.	84.5%
2	PHP A widely used server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.	44.4%
3	C# Redmond, Washington, United States A high-level, statically typed, object-oriented programming language developed for the .NET platform.	12.9%
4	Lua Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A lightweight scripting language designed primarily for embedded use in applications.	7.7%
5	ASP Redmond, Washington, United States A server-side scripting language and dynamic web page engine. FreeLegacy	5.3%
6	Java Austin, Texas, United States A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995, designed to run across different systems through the Java Virtual Machine.	3.7%
7	Ruby Matsue, Japan An interpreted, object-oriented, open-source programming language designed for simplicity and productivity, commonly used for web development.	0.8%
8	TypeScript Redmond, Washington, United States A high-level programming language developed by Microsoft that adds optional static typing and advanced language features to JavaScript for building complex applications.	0.4%
9	Go Mountain View, California, United States A high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google for building efficient, scalable software and backend services.	0.1%
10	Python Wilmington, Delaware, United States A high-level, general-purpose programming language that is dynamically typed and widely used for scripting, automation, data analysis, and machine learning.	0.1%
11	Perl A high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language.	0.05%
12	Scala Lausanne, Switzerland An object-oriented programming language designed to improve and address the limitations of Java.	0.03%
13	CFML San Jose, California, United States A scripting language for web development, usually associated with Adobe ColdFusion.	0.02%
14	Elixir A dynamic, functional programming language that compiles to bytecode for the Erlang virtual machine and is designed for building scalable, fault-tolerant applications.	0.003%
15	Rust Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States A systems programming language developed at Mozilla with a focus on performance, type safety, and concurrency.	0.003%
16	Dart Mountain View, California, United States An object-oriented, class-based, garbage-collected programming language developed by Google for building cross-platform applications from a single codebase.	0.001%
17	C/C++ C and C++ are high-level, compiled programming languages known for their efficiency, portability, and close-to-hardware performance.	0.001%

👉 See Also

🌎 Programming Languages in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 83,408 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 23 programming languages across the web.
Of these, 17 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.