During the 2024 Spring Festival, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's data showed that the communication network operated safely and stably, communication services were smooth and orderly, and mobile data traffic, international and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan roaming services grew rapidly, achieving a good start for 2024.
During the 9-day period of the 2024 Spring Festival (from 0:00 on February 9 to 24:00 on February 17), the cumulative mobile internet user access traffic reached 6.745 million TB (1TB=1024GB), a year-on-year increase of 21.7% on a comparable basis compared to the 2023 Spring Festival, with the growth rate accelerating by 15.4 percentage points. Among them, on February 10 (the first day of the Lunar New Year), mobile internet access traffic reached its peak (781,000 TB), a year-on-year increase of 14.8%. The access traffic of 5G mobile internet users increased significantly, with a year-on-year growth of 72.7% on a comparable basis compared to the 2023 Spring Festival, accounting for 49.9% of the mobile internet user access traffic. The top five apps (mobile applications) in terms of data usage during the Spring Festival were Douyin, WeChat, Kwai, Tencent Video, and Toutiao, accounting for over 75% of the total app data usage.