We have built and opened over 4.1 million 5G base stations.
By Wang Jinghan, a reporter of China Business News
According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's website, the 5G application scale development promotion conference was held in Beijing on December 5. The data released at the meeting showed that as of now, China has built and opened over 4.1 million 5G base stations, and 5G networks are continuously extended to rural areas, achieving "5G coverage in every township". 5G has been integrated into 80 categories of the national economy, with more than 100,000 application cases, and its application breadth and depth are constantly expanding, profoundly changing people's lifestyles, production methods, and governance.
Over the past five years of 5G commercialization, the 5G technology industry ecosystem has been continuously improved, and its enabling effects have been continuously highlighted. The integration ecosystem has been accelerated, and fruitful results have been achieved in 5G application development.
Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and eleven other departments issued the "Upgrade Plan for 5G Scale Application 'Sailboat'" to clarify that by the end of 2027, a development pattern of "universal capability, widespread application, and all-round empowerment" will be formed, and 5G will be fully applied. The 5G penetration rate of personal users will exceed 85%, and the 5G network access traffic will account for more than 75%; the number of 5G IoT terminals will exceed 100 million, and the 5G application penetration rate of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises will reach 45%; the number of 5G base stations per 10,000 people will be 38, and the 5G network stay rate will exceed 85%, fully supporting IPv6 technology.
The conference emphasized that, with the implementation of the "Plan" as a lever, all efforts should be made to promote the scale application of 5G, support the modernization of industrialization and the modernization of the information and communication industry, and lay a solid foundation for the construction of a network power and the advancement of China's modernization.
The relevant official of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that one is to adhere to systematic promotion, further integrate industrial policy forces. Strengthening departmental cooperation, encouraging relevant departments to deeply excavate the needs of their own industries, and promoting the application of 5G services in the digital transformation of industry. Two is to adhere to precision, further enhance the basic support capacity. Guided by market demand, strengthen technological research and development and standardization, and perfect the industrial system to continuously enhance the supply capacity of 5G technology and industry. Three is to adhere to coordinated development, further stimulate the vitality of the application ecosystem. Information and communication enterprises, industry application enterprises, and upstream and downstream enterprises of the industry chain should deepen cooperation, strengthen leading and coordinated development, integrate innovative resources, strengthen supply and demand matching, and gather industry forces to drive the industry chain to jointly build the 5G industry application ecosystem.