China built the world's largest information and communication network

The reporter learned from the recent "New Era Industry and Information Development" series of press conferences: In the past ten years, my country's information infrastructure has achieved leapfrog development, and the world's largest optical fiber and mobile broadband network has been built. Broadband "," 5G for counties "and" Gigabit for cities and cities ".
The number of 5G base stations opened and the number of mobile phone users is the first in the world. By the end of July, 1.968 million 5G base stations had been completed and opened nationwide, with 5G network coverage in all prefecture-level cities, county towns and 96% of townships, and 0.475 billion 5G mobile phone users, a net increase of 0.12 billion over the end of 2021.
The world's largest fixed broadband network. As of the end of July, China's gigabit optical network has the capacity to cover more than 0.4 billion households, has reached all urban areas of the country, gigabit broadband access users of more than 65.7 million households, a net increase of more than 3100 million households over the end of 2021. In the first half of this year, the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users in China reached 0.563 billion, a net increase of 27.05 million over the end of last year. Since 2015, special actions have been organized and implemented for many years to speed up and reduce network charges. The average end-to-end download rate of fixed broadband and 4G users has increased by 7 times, and the average tariff per unit of traffic has dropped by more than 95%. In the first half of this year, the cumulative mobile Internet traffic reached 124.1 billion GB, up 20.2 per cent year-on-year.
The "digital divide" between urban and rural areas has narrowed significantly. We have established and improved the compensation mechanism for telecommunications universal services, and successively supported the construction of 130000 administrative villages with optical fibers and 70000 4G and 5G base stations. Promote basic telecommunications enterprises to continue to offer basic communication service tariff concessions of 50% or less to rural poverty-stricken households, benefiting more than 28 million rural poverty-stricken households, with a cumulative profit of more than 8.8 billion yuan.
The number of Internet users ranks first in the world, from 0.564 billion in 2012 to 1.032 billion in 2021, and the Internet penetration rate has increased from 42.1 to 73%. The proportion of mobile Internet access reached 99.7, and the monthly mobile Internet traffic per household increased by more than 130 times in ten years. The integration of applications has gone deeper and deeper, driving the continuous expansion and upgrading of information consumption. By the end of 2021, the national online retail sales will reach 13.1 trillion billion yuan, ranking first in the world in terms of digital consumption market scale. The industrial Internet has accelerated its rise, fully integrated into 45 major national economic categories, and the industrial scale has passed the trillion yuan mark.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the next step will continue to promote the construction of new information infrastructure represented by 5G networks and gigabit optical networks, and accelerate the deep integration of dual gigabit networks and various fields.
(Reporter Wang Zheng)
 

Source: People's Daily