(data source: Ministry of industry and information technology) the reporter learned from the Ministry of industry and information technology a few days ago that China's information consumption has become a consumption field with rapid growth, active innovation and extensive radiation. The market scale has increased from 2.8 trillion yuan in 2014 to 6.8 trillion yuan in 2021. In the first half of this year, China's information consumption reached 3.24 trillion yuan, an increase of 6% year on year. The information infrastructure has achieved remarkable results in speeding up and reducing fees, and mobile Internet traffic has increased rapidly. By the end of July, the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users in China had reached 566 million, and the number of 5g mobile phone users had reached 475 million. The "village to village broadband", "county to county 5g" and "city to city Gigabit" have been realized. In the first seven months, China's mobile Internet traffic reached 146.3 billion GB, up 19.1% year-on-year. The connotation and extension of information consumption continue to expand, and new formats and models of integrated development accelerate to emerge. In the first half of this year, the e-commerce platforms monitored by business big data have been broadcast more than 60 million times and watched more than 517 billion people. The national online retail market recovered steadily, and the rural online retail market continued to recover. In the first half of this year, the rural online retail sales reached 975.93 billion yuan, an increase of 2.5% over the previous year. The scale of mobile payment transactions is the largest in the world. In 2021, China's banking institutions handled more than 100 billion online payment transactions, with an amount of 2354 trillion yuan. (news agency)