A live streamer (L) sells seafood products via internet at Haitou Town in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Yuze)
BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) -- China Unicom, China's major telecom operator, will make more efforts to boost digital rural development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) by drawing on its strengths in digitalization, according to the company at a conference on Wednesday.
During the conference, China Unicom launched its digital village brand and cloud platform and published a white paper and a product brochure concerning digital village.
The company will put forward four new projects, including new infrastructure construction, new rural governance platform, new digital service and new agriculture cooperation model, according to He Biao, vice general manager of China Unicom.
He said that funded digital industrial projects will exceed 2,000 by the end of this year and reach over 10,000 by 2025. Besides, over 100,000 administrative villages will have access to the rural governance platform in 2021.
Responding to the country's rural revitalization drive, China Unicom supported more than 3,000 poverty relief projects during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), lifting 316,000 people out of poverty. It constructed fiber optic network in more than 325,000 administrative villages, and thus 98 percent of rural areas in China have been covered by 4G network.
(Edited by Li Shimeng with Xinhua Silk Road, lishimeng@xinhua.org)
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