At a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council today, relevant officials from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that in the first half of the year, the total telecom business increased 7.9% year on year, and the overall information and communication industry showed a positive trend of four “steady improvements.” Xie Cun, press spokesman for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Information and Communications Administration, explained that infrastructure support capacity has been steadily improving. By the end of June, the number of 5G base stations reached 5.102 million, and the number of 10 GPON ports with gigabit network service capabilities reached 32.86 million. Actively promote the construction of 5G-A commercial networks, and achieve pilot deployment of 10,000 gigabit optical networks in residential areas, factories, parks, etc. The scale of intelligent computing power in China reached 2185 EFLOPS, an increase of 177% over the previous year.