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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, January 28 (Xinhua) — China's telecom sector maintained robust growth in 2025, with the country exceeding the 5G infrastructure and gigabit fiber optic network development targets outlined in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), according to data released Wednesday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
By the end of 2025, China had 4.838 million 5G base stations. There were 34.4 such stations per 10,000 people, 8.4 units higher than the target set during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
In 2025, the country's telecommunications revenue was expected to reach 1.75 trillion yuan (approximately $250.8 billion), an increase of 0.7 percent year-on-year. In particular, 25.7 percent of this revenue came from emerging areas of the sector, such as cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and data centers.
In terms of technological innovation, China's share of the total number of global patent applications required for the 5G standard reached 42 percent. The country also achieved interim results in validating the system architecture and key technologies of 6G.
By the end of 2025, China will have provided every county with access to gigabit fiber optic networks, covering all townships and urban-type towns and over 95 percent of the country's administrative villages with 5G networks.
By the end of 2025, more than 330 Chinese cities were covered by 5G-A (5G-Advanced) networks. The total length of fiber-optic cable networks in the country reached 74.99 million km.
According to the aforementioned agency, by the end of 2025, China will have 1.827 billion mobile phone users, including 1.204 billion 5G mobile phone subscribers. The number of mobile IoT end users reached 2.888 billion, an increase of 8.7 percent year-on-year. Mobile IoT terminals are widely used in many areas of China, including the Internet of Vehicles and public services.
The aforementioned ministry also reported on the deep integration of digital technologies into the real economy. 5G networks and gigabit optical networks are being used in 91 key sectors of the national economy, and 41 key industries in the country have been covered by the industrial internet.
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