China has built the world’s largest information and communication network

2117-001-105 “It is better to wait for the road than to make the car wait for the road.” Wen Ku, spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Department of Information and Communication Development, said that during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s information and communication industry maintained a steady and rapid development trend, built the world’s largest information and communication network, 4G base stations accounted for more than half of the world’s 4G base stations, and 5G commercial use took solid steps. At present, China has opened a total of 690,000 5G base stations, with more than 160 million connected users.

Wen Ku introduced that China continues to promote telecom fee reduction, 2117-001-105 promote enterprises to launch a variety of preferential tariff schemes, cancel mobile phone domestic long-distance roaming charges, traffic roaming charges, launched the “traffic in the month is not clear”, “network speed does not raise prices” and other initiatives, and for low-income and elderly groups, launched a “floor price” tariff scheme.

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2117-001-105 Since the “13th Five-Year Plan”, the average tariff of fixed broadband and mobile phone traffic in China has dropped by more than 95%. Each year, the measures benefit more than 1 billion mobile phone or communication users, and effectively improve the sense of gain of the people.

In the future, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will speed up 5G deployment, carry out technological model innovation such as network slicing and industrial virtual private networks, improve network coverage, continue to promote the construction and upgrading of gigabit optical fiber networks, and constantly improve the comprehensive carrying capacity of communication networks. We will further deepen network coverage in rural and remote areas so that rural 2117-001-105 people can better share the fruits of information technology development.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will also vigorously promote application innovation, with 5G and gigabit optical fiber application innovation as the focus, deeply explore the needs of vertical industries, encourage the information and communication industry and industry, transportation, medical care, energy, education and other industries to cooperate and innovate in a wider range and at a deeper level, constantly enrich application scenarios, and build a broad application ecology.