On the 23rd, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology revealed that in the first half of this year, China's telecommunications business revenue accumulated 894.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3%. By the end of June, the number of broadband Internet access ports nationwide had reached 1.17 billion, a net increase of 33.54 million over the end of the previous year; The total number of 5G base stations reached 3.917 million, a net increase of 540000 from the end of last year, accounting for 33% of the total number of mobile base stations. The relevant person in charge of the Operations Monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that in the first half of the year, the operation of the communication industry was basically stable. The revenue from telecommunications services has achieved positive growth, and the total volume of telecommunications services has maintained double-digit growth. The construction of new infrastructure such as 5G, gigabit optical network and the Internet of Things has been orderly promoted, the number of network connected users has grown steadily, and the mobile Internet access traffic has maintained a rapid growth. In terms of overall operation, the revenue of fixed Internet broadband business grew steadily. In the first half of the year, three basic telecom enterprises completed Internet broadband business revenue of 136.5 billion yuan, up 5.4% year on year, accounting for 15.3% of telecom business revenue, 0.4 percentage points higher than that in the first quarter, driving the growth of telecom business revenue by 0.8 percentage points. The revenue from mobile data traffic business has slightly declined. In the first half of the year, three basic telecommunications companies completed mobile data traffic business revenue of 328 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 2.3%, accounting for 36.7% of telecommunications business revenue. The revenue from emerging businesses is growing rapidly. The three basic telecom enterprises actively developed emerging businesses such as IPTV, Internet data center, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. In the first half of the year, they achieved a total business income of 227.9 billion yuan, up 11.4% year on year, accounting for 25.5% of telecom business income, and driving the growth of telecom business income by 2.7%. Among them, cloud computing and big data revenue increased by 13.2% and 58.6% respectively year-on-year, while IoT business revenue increased by 12.5% year-on-year. In terms of the development of telecommunications users, the number of fixed broadband access users has steadily increased, and the scale of gigabit users continues to expand. By the end of June, the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users of three basic telecom enterprises had reached 654 million, a net increase of 18.1 million over the end of the previous year. Among them, there are 620 million fixed Internet broadband access users with access rates of 100Mbps and above, accounting for 94.8% of the total number of users; The number of fixed Internet broadband access users with access rates of 1000 Mbps and above reached 187 million, a net increase of 24.16 million over the end of last year, accounting for 28.6% of the total number of users, 1.2 percentage points higher than that of the first quarter. The scale of mobile phone users is steadily growing, and the number of 5G users is rapidly developing. As of the end of June, the total number of mobile phone users of three basic telecommunications companies and China Radio and Television reached 1.777 billion, a net increase of 24.01 million from the end of the previous year. Among them, the number of 5G mobile phone users reached 927 million, a net increase of 105 million from the end of last year, accounting for 52.4% of mobile phone users and an increase of 2.6 percentage points compared to the first quarter. (New Society)