Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: China's 5G Investment Reaches 184.9 Billion Yuan in 2021

On January 25, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the "Communications Industry Statistical Communiqué for 2021". 2021, 5G investment will reach 184.9 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), accounting for 45.6% of all investment, an increase of 8.9 percentage points from the previous year. The report said that in 2021, the total number of mobile base stations reached 9.96 million, a net increase of 650,000 for the year. Among them, 4G base stations reached 5.9 million, 5G base stations for 1.425 million, the annual new 5G base stations more than 650,000. In 2021, China's telephone subscribers increased by 47.55 million net, reaching a total of 1.824 billion households. Among them, the total number of cell phone users was 1.643 billion, with a penetration rate of 116.3 units per 100 people. Among cell phone users, 4G cell phone users amounted to 1.069 billion and 5G cell phone users reached 355 million, accounting for 86.7% of cell phone users. Consumer traffic consumption continued to grow at a high rate, with the average monthly mobile Internet traffic (DOU) reaching 13.36GB per household per month in 2021, an increase of 29.2% over the previous year; the DOU reached 14.72GB per household in December, a record high. The report also showed that, according to preliminary calculations, China's telecommunications business revenue in 2021 totaled 1.47 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.0% over the previous year, with a growth rate of 4.1 percentage points year-on-year. The total volume of telecom business reached 1.7 trillion yuan at previous year's prices, up 27.8% year-on-year. The development of emerging businesses such as cloud computing and big data accelerated, with revenue of 222.5 billion yuan in 2021, up 27.8% from the previous year, and accounting for 15.2% of telecom business revenue, up from 12.8% in the previous year. Among them, data center, cloud computing and big data business grew by 18.4%, 91.5% and 35.5% respectively compared with the previous year. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)