China's telecom industry registered more than 3% growth in the first half of this year, according to official data, at a time when the economic recovery is gaining momentum.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the sector's revenues amounted to 692.7 billion yuan (about 99.1 billion dollars) during the first six months of this year, an increase of 3.2 percent year on year.
The total revenue of fixed-line communications of the three major telecom companies - China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom - reached 236.3 billion yuan during the same period of the year, an increase of 12% on the basis of Annual, according to the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.
The Ministry clarified that the revenues of those companies from data and internet business - which constitute a main pillar for increasing the sector's business revenues - witnessed stable growth.
The ministry's spokesman Huang Libin said that the steady growth in the sector's business revenue shows that China's economic recovery and the development of new applications and new business patterns are areas that are gaining momentum.