Aerial photo taken on April 15, 2020 shows people working at the construction site of a 5G base station in Chongqing, southwest China. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)
BEIJING, April 28 (Xinhua) -- China has newly built 134,000 5G base stations in the first quarter of this year, with a total of 1,559,000 5G base stations being put into operation, reported Economic Information Daily on Thursday.
It is learned that China's 5G network covers all prefecture-level cities and counties nationwide.
Zhao Zhiguo, a senior official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said that the Industrial Internet has been available in 45 major categories of the national economy, with 2,400 5G + Industrial Internet projects under construction.
MIIT will continue to roll out construction of 5G base stations and gigabit optical network, Zhao added.
(Edited by Dai Jingjing with Xinhua Silk Road, aime_jenny@163.com)
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