On January 20th, the Information Office of the State Council held a press conference on the development of industry and information technology in 2021. It was introduced at the meeting that the annual telecom business revenue in 2021 increased by 8% year-on-year, and the revenue of software and information technology services increased by 17.7% year-on-year.
The construction of the "Dual Gigabit" network was accelerating, a total of 1.425 million 5G base stations were deployed, 5G mobile phone users reached 355 million, and 512,000 administrative villages across the country have fully realized "Extending Broadband Coverage to Every Village". The above achievements provided the historic solution to the problem of communication difficulty in poor areas. The gigabit fiber-optic network has the capacity to cover 300 million households. The establishment of the industrial internet, platform and security system has been accelerated, and more than 2000 "5G+ Industrial Internet" projects are under construction in China.