The reporter learned from the 2022 World Telecommunication Day commemoration conference that at present, Guangdong ranks first in the country in terms of 5g base stations and user scale, 4K users and industrial scale, and digital economy scale. It is expected that by 2025, the number of 5g base stations will reach 250000. At the conference, the Guangdong Provincial Communications Administration and the office of the Guangdong Provincial Working Committee on aging jointly issued the action plan of "caring for silver age and helping the elderly with wisdom". The action plan includes setting up special counters for the elderly, love channels and love commissioners in major business offices across the province; Set up a "love seat" service in the operator's customer service; Continue to promote app transformation; Create "smart station" services for the elderly. Cai Lizhi, party secretary and director of Guangdong Provincial Communications Administration, introduced that the province's information and communications industry will combine traditional telecommunications services with information-based elderly care services. First, enhance the intelligent elderly care enabled by information technology, and promote the integrated innovation and integrated application of information technologies such as animal networking, big data and cloud computing and intelligent devices such as mobile terminals, wearable devices and service robots in the elderly care field; Second, innovate the service mode, carry out the transformation of fitness for the elderly and accessibility, and improve the response ability of customer service hotline; Third, strengthen service collaboration and enhance the application ability of digital technology for the elderly through cross-border application integration. According to the conference, in 2021, Guangdong's basic telecom operators completed a total of 190.76 billion yuan of telecom business, a year-on-year increase of 26.3%, accounting for 11.2% of the country; The telecom business revenue reached 184.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%, accounting for 12.7% of the country; The investment in fixed assets was 37.88 billion yuan. According to the calculation of industry added value, the contribution rate of basic telecommunications industry to GDP is 0.35%, driving GDP growth by 0.03 percentage points; The tax paid was 10 billion yuan. In terms of 5g construction, in 2021, Guangdong will build 171000 5g base stations (accounting for 12% of the country), and 40.96 million 5g mobile phone users (accounting for 12% of the country), both of which are the largest in China. According to the relevant person in charge of Guangdong Provincial Communications Administration, this year, Guangdong plans to add 50000 5g base stations and 31.5 million 5g mobile phone users, and promote relevant departments and local governments to increase support for 5g power consumption and station site resources; Organize and carry out mobile network quality evaluation in key places; Dig deep into 5g typical application benchmark and create 2-4 5g application innovation leading areas; Promote the large-scale construction of virtual private network in 5g industry, accelerate the development of relevant standards, and reduce the threshold of 5g application in vertical industries, especially small and medium-sized enterprises; Actively cultivate 5g application solution suppliers, implement 5g personal application acceleration plan, and strive to launch a number of new terminals and apps for 5g personal applications. It is estimated that by 2025, the income scale of Guangdong's information and communication industry will reach a new level, reaching 1 trillion yuan, the cumulative investment in information infrastructure will reach 1960 billion yuan, and the added value of core industries of digital economy will account for 20% of the regional GDP; The number of 5g base stations has reached 250000. The relevant person in charge of Guangdong Provincial Communications Administration also disclosed that in order to implement the action plan for the coordinated development of "dual Gigabit" networks (2021-2023), this year, we will continue to deploy Gigabit networks in cities and key towns, and continue to expand the coverage of gigabit optical networks. Promote local governments to actively participate in the evaluation of "Gigabit" cities in 2022, and strive to add 3-4 "Gigabit" cities. (Xinhua News Agency)