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, May 18 (Xinhua) -- China has set up nearly 1.6 million 5G base stations at present, according to an official of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) at an ongoing telecommunication and information conference on Tuesday.
Zhang Yunming, vice minister of the MIIT, said that the fixed broadband in the country sees its bandwidth being upgraded from 100M to gigabit, and the proportion of fiber-optic subscribers increased from less than 10 percent in 2012 to 94.3 percent in 2021.
As of March 2022, the number of active Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) users in the country had accounted for 63.01 percent of all Internet users, he added.
The robust development in the telecommunication infrastructure has contributed to the booming digital service market.
For example, the 5G applications have covered such life fields as transportation, medical care, education, culture and tourism, etc., and the industrial Internet has been applied to 45 major categories of the national economy, covering R&D, design, manufacturing, marketing and services, with the industrial scale exceeding 1 trillion yuan.
According to the MIIT, it will beef up efforts to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional infrastructure with new technologies such as big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain.
It is reported that the World Telecommunication & Information Society Day Conference 2022 is held in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in May 17-18. (Edited by Hu Pingchao with Xinhua Silk Road, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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