China‘s 5G construction leads the world, and 5G base stations are the first to exceed one million

Zhao Zhiguo, spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China and director of the Information and Communications Administration, revealed that as of August 2021, a total of 1.037 million 5G base stations have been built, exceeding one million, covering all prefecture-level cities in the country, and 95 more base stations. More than 100,000 5G application innovation cases have been created in more than 30% of the county and 35% of the townships and towns.

Industry experts said that 5G has profoundly affected the industrial ecology, digital economy and social governance. Compared with traditional mobile communications, 5G brings three important expansions. The first is to expand from the past enhanced mobile broadband to the Internet of Things; secondly, 5G expands from public consumption applications to vertical industry applications; finally, from the past traditional mobile communication technology to information technology, that is, the integration of ICT.