According to the official website of the Ministry of industry and information technology, the economic operation of the communication industry in the first half of 2022 showed that by the end of June, 5g mobile phone users in China had reached 455 million, a net increase of 100.55 million over the end of the previous year, accounting for 27.3% of mobile phone users. Overall, in the first half of the year, the telecom business revenue totaled 815.8 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3% year-on-year. The total volume of telecommunications business, calculated at the same price last year, increased by 22.7% year-on-year. Revenue from fixed Internet broadband services grew steadily. In the first half of the year, the revenue of Internet broadband services completed by the three basic telecom enterprises was 122 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 9.2%, accounting for 15% of the telecom business revenue, with a year-on-year increase of 0.1 percentage points, driving the telecom business revenue to increase by 1.4 percentage points. (the cumulative growth rate of telecom business revenue and total telecom business. Photo source: operation monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of industry and information technology) from the perspective of users, the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users of the three basic telecom enterprises reached 563million by the end of June, a net increase of 27.05 million over the end of the previous year. Among them, there are 527million fixed Internet broadband access users with access rates of 100Mbps and above, accounting for 93.7% of the total number of users, accounting for an increase of 0.6 percentage points over the end of the previous year; Fixed Internet broadband access users with access rates of 1000Mbps and above reached 61.11 million, a net increase of 26.56 million over the end of the previous year, accounting for 10.9% of the total number of users. It is worth noting that by the end of June, the total number of mobile phone users of the three basic telecommunications enterprises had reached 1.67 billion, a net increase of 25.52 million over the end of the previous year. Among them, 5g mobile phone users reached 455 million, a net increase of 100.55 million over the end of the previous year, accounting for 27.3% of mobile phone users, accounting for an increase of 5.7 percentage points over the end of the previous year. In terms of 5g construction, by the end of June, the total number of mobile communication base stations in China had reached 10.35 million, a net increase of 387000 over the end of the previous year. Among them, the total number of 5g base stations reached 1.854 million, accounting for 17.9% of the total number of mobile base stations, an increase of 3.6 percentage points compared with the end of last year, of which 429000 5g base stations were newly built from January to June. In terms of regions, 5g construction and user penetration rate in the eastern region are leading. By the end of June, there were 901000, 386000, 450000 and 116000 5g base stations in the East, middle, West and northeast respectively, accounting for 20.1%, 17.2%, 15.4% and 16.8% of the total number of mobile phone base stations in this region respectively; 5g mobile phone users reached 203.63 million, 105.5 million, 116.75 million and 29.51 million respectively, accounting for 28.1%, 27.4%, 26.5% and 25% of the total mobile phone users in this region. (Xinhua News Agency)