China has vowed an even stronger push to entrench digital infrastructure’s role as an economic growth engine, after a rapid 5G roll-out in recent years that has helped lift its computing power to the world’s No 2 ranking, trailing only the US.
In the five years to June this year, the number of 5G base stations in China had grown fivefold to 4.55 million and the number of gigabit broadband users had risen 34-fold to 226 million, substantially lifting the country’s computing power, Liu Liehong,…
