Chinanews, October 23, "In the past five years, the average tariff of our country's fixed broadband and mobile phone traffic has dropped by more than 95%." The spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the director of the Information and Communication Development Department Wen Ku said today.

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　　The State Council Information Office today held a press conference on the development achievements of the industrial communications industry during the 13th Five-Year Plan.

At the meeting, a reporter asked: during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, network speed and fee reduction have brought a lot of changes to people's lives. Network speed and fee reduction are related to the people's sense of gain. What achievements have we achieved in this regard in the past few years?

　　In this regard, Wenku said that network speed and fee reduction not only "send red envelopes" to the people, "it is also of great significance to boost consumption, promote entrepreneurship and employment, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the national economy."

　　He pointed out that since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the following results have been mainly achieved:

　　First, network capabilities have been significantly enhanced.

Starting from 2015, we will continue to increase network speed and reduce fees, and vigorously promote the construction of high-speed broadband represented by optical fiber and 4G.

In 2019, industry and informatization proposed "dual-G double-promotion" to accelerate the construction of gigabit fiber and 5G, and continuously improve the service capacity of broadband infrastructure.

Through various efforts, since the "13th Five-Year Plan", our country has built the world's largest information and communication network. "Our 4G base stations account for more than half of the world's 4G base stations. We have less than a year from last year to now. More than 690,000 5G base stations have been built."

　　The second is to double the network speed.

With the evolution and upgrading of technology and the advanced deployment of network infrastructure, the network speed is doubling and increasing.

In the past five years, the proportion of fiber optic users has increased from 34% to 93%.

4G users, at that time, was only 7.6%, and now it is 81%, which is much higher than the global average.

According to the data recently monitored by the Broadband Development Alliance, the end-to-end average download rate of China's fixed broadband and 4G users has increased by more than 7 times compared with 2015. The end-to-end rate of the fixed network is now 43M, and the mobile network (4G) end The end-to-end rate is 2M, and this network speed has significantly improved user experience.

　　Wenku emphasized that, secondly, we have also done a lot of work on "affordable", and continue to promote telecom tariff reduction.

　　One is to improve the people's sense of gain.

Promote enterprises to launch various preferential tariff plans, cancel domestic long-distance roaming charges and data roaming charges for mobile phones, and introduce measures such as "traffic is not cleared for the month", "speed is increased without price increase" and other measures, and are targeted at the needs of low-income and elderly groups. Introduced the "floor price" tariff plan; gave the greatest discount to the poor households with established files and registered cards to help targeted poverty alleviation through the Internet; promoted the reduction of production and operation costs of enterprises and helped the development of the real economy.

"In the past five years, the average tariff for fixed broadband and mobile phone traffic in our country has dropped by more than 95%. It is now a small part of the unit price at that time. The various measures benefited more than 1 billion mobile phone or communication users each year, which has actually increased The common people’s sense of gain."

　　He pointed out that the second is to promote network popularization and application promotion.

"The price is cheaper. In the past, everyone took their mobile phones and walked to a place to look up and scan to see if there are free wireless LANs around. Now the price is cheaper and there is no need to look for WiFi everywhere. This is the most intuitive experience of our users. "The lower tariffs have promoted the popularization of the network and the promotion of applications.

User traffic, especially monthly consumption traffic, is now 10.86G on average, which is 38 times higher than the average monthly traffic used by a user in 2015.

At that time, the mobile phone traffic used by users every month was 287.9M, and two episodes of the series were used up.

The rapid popularization of various mobile APP applications, e-commerce, mobile fast payment, Internet + education, Internet + medical, Internet + pension and other basic service areas have also continued to innovate, which has promoted the systematization and efficiency of government public services.

　　Furthermore, deepening the integration of applications, the digital economy has achieved leapfrog development.

　　The first is the development of emerging industries.

The implementation of network speed and fee reduction has promoted the rapid development of the Internet industry. Online shopping, online education, mobile payment, short video, and a variety of applications have all-rounded influence on people's food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Among the latest Fortune Global 500, 7 global Internet companies are on the list, 4 of which are from China, namely JD.com, Ali, Tencent, and Xiaomi.

　　The second is to revitalize traditional industries.

In recent years, due to the strong support of network infrastructure, the integration of information and communication technology and the real economy has accelerated, the coverage of "smart" tags has become wider and wider, and the integration of smart manufacturing, smart agriculture, smart tourism, etc. Application has accelerated the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, allowing more industries to run smoothly on the information highway.

Driven by new information and communication technologies and new business formats, my country's digital economy is developing strongly. In 2019, my country's digital economy totaled more than 35 trillion yuan, accounting for 36.2% of GDP, and its contribution to GDP was 67.7%.

　　In addition, while the urban broadband network is developing in great strides, he said, "We are very concerned about the coverage of broadband network construction in rural and remote areas." During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, in accordance with the "central funding guidance, local coordination support, and enterprise entities" The overall principle is to increase the investment of central financial funds, and basic telecommunications companies actively play the role of the "national team" to continuously increase investment in rural construction.

In the past five years, with the joint efforts of all parties, the proportion of optical fiber and 4G in the country’s administrative villages and poverty-stricken villages in the "three regions and three prefectures" has reached more than 98%, and the pilot administrative villages that have been connected to optical fibers have reached a speed of more than 70M, rural and remote areas. The level of regional information infrastructure has been significantly improved, reaching the "same network and same speed" in rural cities.

Rural e-commerce, rural tourism, smart agriculture and other industries have emerged, and high-quality public resources have accelerated to the countryside. The "digital gap" between urban and rural areas has been greatly reduced. The people vividly call it "happiness at the fingertips."

　　“In the next step, we will continue to promote network speed and quality improvement, further promote network evolution and upgrade, and continuously increase network speed. On the other hand, we will also promote basic telecom companies to continue to implement fee reduction measures to ensure that all targets for this year Complete, and continue to improve the quality and level of services to meet the new needs of network information technology and the integration of economic and social development." Wenku said.