At the press conference on the development of industry and informatization in the first half of the year held by the Information Office of the State Council today, Tian Yulong, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, revealed that the development of information and communications was accelerated in the first half of the year, and the integration of innovative applications was strong. At present, a total of 961,000 5G base stations have been opened. As of the end of June 2021, it covers all prefecture-level and above cities in the country, with approximately 365 million 5G terminal connections. At the same time, the deployment of “dual gigabit” networks has been accelerated, and the number of gigabit broadband users reached 13.62 million. Tian Yulong said that my country’s 5G industry ecology is gradually expanding, and integrated applications are becoming more active, and the system has formed a leading