The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently announced that the overall operation of China's digital industry will be stable in 2024, with a business revenue of 35 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.5%, and a total profit of 2.7 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.5%. By the end of 2024, the total length of optical cable lines in China will reach 72.88 million kilometers, with a cumulative construction of 4.251 million 5G base stations and 207 gigabit cities, achieving gigabit connectivity in every county and township, and over 90% of administrative villages achieving 5G network coverage; The number of standard racks in the national computing power center exceeds 8.8 million, and the total computing power scale has increased by 16.5% compared to the end of last year; A total of 55000 5G virtual private networks have been built, and the number of mobile IoT terminals has reached 2.66 billion households. In 2024, the electronic information manufacturing industry will comprehensively rebound and improve, with the added value of computers, communications, and other electronic equipment manufacturing industries above designated size increasing by 11.8%, an increase of 8.4 percentage points from the previous year. The consumer electronics market has fully recovered, driving year-on-year growth of 7.8%, 2.7%, and 4.6% in the production of mobile phones, microcomputers, and color TVs in China. Driven by emerging businesses such as artificial intelligence and cloud platforms, the software industry achieved a business revenue of 13.7 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10%. The communication industry achieved a business revenue of 1.74 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.2%. (New Society)