Operators have accelerated the realization of "broadband through villages and villages" and opened up the road to rural happiness

Xie Cun, director of the Department of Information and Communication Development of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, recently said that as of the end of November 2021, China's existing administrative villages have fully realized "broadband access to villages and villages", and problems such as communication difficulties in poor areas have been historically solved, providing solid network support for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and accelerating agricultural and rural modernization.

With the continuous strengthening of rural information infrastructure construction, the pace of rural e-commerce has been accelerated, the agricultural and rural digital economy has been continuously cultivated and expanded, and the construction of digital villages has been promoted in an all-round, multi-field and deep-level manner.

100% village broadband,

Telecom universal service has been upgraded again

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has good news that by the end of November 2021, the proportion of broadband in China's existing administrative villages has increased from less than 70% to 100%; the proportion of broadband in poor villages has increased from 62% to 100%; the proportion of broadband in the "three districts and three states" deep poverty areas has increased from 26% to 100%; the average download rate of the administrative villages that have been connected to optical fiber has exceeded 100Mb/s, achieving the same speed as the same network as the city.

It is reported that since the improvement of the telecommunications universal service mechanism guided by the central government, coordinated support by local governments and promoted by enterprise entities in October 2015, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Finance have deployed 7 batches of telecom universal service construction tasks, and the central government has allocated more than 22 billion yuan in subsidies to support the construction of optical fiber networks in 130,000 administrative villages and 60,000 rural 4G base stations across the country, of which 1/3 of the tasks are deployed in poor areas. Today, 512,000 village-level units in rural and remote areas in China have achieved network coverage, and problems such as communication difficulties in poor areas have been historically solved.

The network "golden key" opens the road to rural happiness

"Without a cell phone signal, without a broadband network, our good stuff is hard to sell. Now that the base station is connected, the broadband network is also good, and the problems encountered in aquaculture can not only consult experts remotely, but also the products can be sold to counties, cities and even Nanning through the network. A farmer from Shengli Village, Yalong Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi Province, said.

And in Sanchahe Village, Sanchahe Town, Zhaojue County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, before the implementation of the universal service of telecommunications, many ordinary people there did not know what the network was, most people did not use mobile phones, and now the villagers have completely bid farewell to the days of "looking for signals in the mountains", with the help of the Internet, children are now receiving the same education as the city, and the villages have greatly increased their income through e-commerce platforms and live streams.

With the opening of the "information artery" of the vast rural access to the digital economy era, a picture of farmers' happiness and rural prosperity has slowly unfolded... Broadband networks have effectively driven e-commerce, distance education, telemedicine and other applications to take root and blossom in rural areas, and the "digital divide" between urban and rural areas has gradually disappeared. Yan Hongqiang, director of the Tibet Autonomous Region Communications Administration, said that Tibet has implemented seven batches of telecommunications universal service projects, with a total investment of more than 5.5 billion yuan, with a network foundation, the whole region began to promote e-commerce into the countryside, build online and offline sales channels for plateau characteristic agricultural products, accumulatively serve more than 57,300 people, add more than 1,971 new agricultural products online sales, achieve online retail sales of 258 million yuan in agricultural and pastoral areas, and online shopping amount of 307 million yuan.

Operators are deeply engaged in digital technology to help rural revitalization

The arduous task of "broadband through villages and villages" to reach 100% has been achieved in China, and in addition to effective policies, operators have also played an important role. With the continuous improvement of network coverage, the application of the Internet of Things for rural areas has also become an important weapon for rural revitalization, especially in the application of the Internet of Things for agricultural production and agricultural industry chain, which is injecting new innovative elements into modern agriculture.

To this end, operators actively act, for example: China Telecom, as the main force in building a network power and digital China and maintaining network information security, gives full play to the advantages of cloud-network integration, security and credibility of digital capabilities, actively connects with provinces, cities, districts, counties and townships across the country, and builds a "1+3+3" model with The Tianyi Digital Rural Cloud Platform as the base, the smart big screen, the small wing butler, the township TV as the entrance, and the rural governance, cloud broadcasting, and the township TV as the application scenarios, and explores and promotes it in various places. Promote the development of the national rural digital economy. While improving the construction of communication facilities, China Unicom has continuously expanded and extended the chain and field of serving the three rural areas, and recently cooperated with local governments to promote rural revitalization in Tianjin, Shaanxi And weinan and other places. China Mobile has launched "cloud + 5G + AI" to empower digital rural construction.

I have seen the flowers bear fruit, and I am more determined to write a new chapter. "Broadband through villages and villages" has opened up the "main artery" of rural revitalization information, and operators will continue to play an important role in the new era and strive to paint a magnificent picture of rural revitalization.