In 2021, China's 5G mobile phone shipments reached 266 million 5G end users approaching 500 million

On January 14, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, released a 5G development report in 2021, pointing out that 266 million 5G mobile phones will be shipped in the Chinese market in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 63.5%, accounting for 75.9% of mobile phone shipments in the same period. Much higher than the global average of 40.7%.

As of the end of November 2021, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications companies including China Mobile Unicom Telecom reached 1.642 billion, of which 497 million were connected to 5G mobile terminals, accounting for about 30% of the total number of users, a net increase of 298 million over the end of the previous year.

In terms of infrastructure construction, as of the end of November 2021, China has built a total of 1.396 million 5G base stations, covering all cities and urban areas above the prefecture level, more than 97% of counties and 50% of townships and towns, including telecom operators. More than 800,000 shared 5G base stations.

So far, more than 2,300 5G industry virtual private networks have been built and commercialized in China.

For comparison, in November 2021, Xie Cun, director of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that at present, China has built more than 1.15 million 5G base stations, accounting for more than 70% of the world's total. It is the world's largest and most advanced 5G technology. Independent networking network.

At the same time, all prefecture-level cities, more than 97% of county-level urban areas, and 40% of townships and towns in the country have achieved 5G network coverage, and 5G terminal users have reached 450 million, accounting for more than 80% of the world.

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