China's mobile internet traffic during the 2025 Spring Festival holiday, which ran from Jan 28 to Feb 4, increased by 9.9 percent year on year to 6.603 million TB, with 5G data accounting for 60.9 percent, official data showed.
Mobile data consumption of 5G users in China was 35 percent higher than that during last year's Spring Festival holiday, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Currently, China has 4.25 million 5G base stations, more than 200 million gigabit broadband users, more than 4,000 5G factories, and more than 1 billion 5G mobile phone users, according to the latest data from the ministry.
Short video applications such as Douyin, WeChat and Kuaishou accounted for more than 60 percent of the total mobile data consumption of application users during the holiday.
Roaming services in foreign countries and China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions also increased significantly in the period, data showed.
AI empowerment has emerged as an important field for telecom companies to carry out innovative services. All the three telecom giants, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile, have fully accessed the DeepSeek open source large model achieving applications in multiple scenarios and products, and providing exclusive computing power solutions and supporting environments for the popular DeepSeek-R1 model to help unleash the performance potential of domestic large models, the ministry said.
5G accounts for over 60 pct of China's mobile data consumption during Spring Festival holiday
China's commitment to its path of opening up will continue as a long-term national strategy and should increasingly be defined by inclusiveness, a national political advisor said Friday.
Zhou Hanmin, a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and president of the Shanghai Public Diplomacy Association, made the remarks in an interview with China Media Group (CMG) during the annual political "two sessions" underway in Beijing.
"Opening-up is and has been a long-term national policy and a strategy ever since China opened itself up (to the world) some 48 years ago. Ever since China joined WTO (World Trade Organization), you could see it has fundamentally changed the formats of economic movements. So opening-up is a reference and also a driving force," he said.
Zhou stressed China must also invite less privileged nations to share in the prosperity of a more open world.
"Inclusiveness is one word that should be used to modify China's opening-up. I (previously) submitted a bill in CPPCC for the zero tariff for those least developed nations' exportation to China. Because for each and every China International Import Expo, you can see quite a large number of exhibitors coming from the least developed countries. We need to give them very genuine help. We are just in the situation of that. We just try to do not only with developed nations, but the Global South and rest of the countries, all together," he said.
Zhou's comments come amid the ongoing "two sessions", the annual meetings of China's top legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), and the top political advisory body, the National Committee of the CPPCC. Both bodies serve a five-year term and hold a plenary session each year, generally in March.
The fourth session of the 14th NPC and the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC kicked off in Beijing on Thursday and Wednesday, respectively. A main focus is the adoption of the country's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), a key blueprint guiding China's drive toward modernization. When asked about key signals from the plan that the international community should closely watch, Zhou outlined several key issues.
"We are now carrying on this Five-Year Plan in the most crucial period of time. We are going to generally modernize the country (in) another 10 years. In this five-year period of time, we need to focus more on creation. Creation not necessarily in the field of technology. Creation means the modernization of the governance, create lots of new things in the system and methods of governance. This is also important," Zhou said.
"The modernization of industrial systems, the further expansion of the ability of consumption, and we try to know very well the longevity, whatever solves people's daily needs. The last but not least, we try to understand fully international collaboration. Opening-up is still a driving force," he said.
China's opening-up should continue path of inclusiveness: political advisor
China's opening-up should continue path of inclusiveness: political advisor
