China First Half Tender

The reporter recently learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that my countrys information consumption has become a rapidly growing innovative and widely radiated consumption field and the market size has grown from 2.8 trillion yuan in 2014 to 6.8 trillion yuan in 2021. In the first half of this year my countrys information consumption reached 3.24 trillion yuan a year-on-year increase of 6.Significant results have been achieved in speeding up information infrastructure and reducing fees and mobile Internet traffic has grown rapidly. As of the end of July the total number of fixed Internet broadband access users in my country reached 566 million and the number of 5G mobile phone users reached 475 million. Every village has broadband access county and county access to 5G and city and city access to gigabit. In the first seven months the cumulative traffic of my countrys mobile Internet reached 146.3 billion GB a year-on-year increase of 19.1.The connotation and extension of information consumption continue to expand and new formats and models for integrated development emerge at an accelerated rate. In the first half of this year the e-commerce platforms monitored by business big data accumulated over 60 million live broadcasts and over 517 billion viewers.The national online retail market stabilized and rebounded and the rural online retail market continued to recover. In the first half of this year rural online retail sales reached 975.93 billion yuan a year-on-year increase of 2.5. The scale of mobile payment transactions ranks first in the world. In 2021 my countrys banking institutions will process more than 100 billion online payment transactions with an amount of 2354 trillion yuan. Reporter Wang Zheng