Photo taken on Aug 19, 2013 shows an announcement on the email web page of Yahoo China. Yahoo China said in the announcement that it decided to shut down its email service on Aug 19. [Photo/Xinhua]

It was once the top email of choice, but now, yahoo.cn's market share is only 2 percent.

20 year old Zhou Yiqiu has been using her Yahoo account for 5 years.

"I think it's convenient..."

But the news of the shutdown caught her off guard.

"I was shocked..."

Before the service is completely shut down, users are advised to register with AliCloud run by Alibaba, which became yahoo China's parent company in 2005. China has some 200 million email users, and nowadays it's common to have multiple mailbox accounts, as consumers' demands are changing all the time.