'On the major e-commerce platforms, about 170,000 businesses are run by those people.

He added that the construction of digital China also benefits people with disabilities. Fiber optic internet connections and 4G are available in more than 98 percent of villages.Ībout 12 million poor families in China benefit from preferential policies providing internet services at much lower prices.'We will launch some pilot programs in the future, aiming to increase internet speed in rural areas,' Yang said. Yang emphasized that China has paid special attention to supporting digital construction in rural areas. He said the country's digital economy has grown rapidly in the past year, with added economic value hitting 35.8 trillion yuan ($5.29 trillion), contributing 36.2 percent of the country's GDP. Moreover, the complete Beidou-3 global satellite positioning system also has improved the resolution to less than 10 meters, providing greater accuracy. Yang, speaking at a news conference, also said China now has about 130,000 5G base stations in operation nationwide. IPv6 allows a much higher theoretical limit on the number of IP addresses than the more widely used IPv4 system. That number of users accounts for 33 percent of the country's total internet users, said Yang Xiaowei, deputy head of the Cyberspace Administration of China said. IP is an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the internet.

The achievements have benefited people from both home and abroad, they said.īy end of 2018, active users of IPv6－the most recent version of Internet Protocol, had reached 270 million in China. The construction of 'digital China' has made great achievements, with significant progress in the country's digital economy and innovation, information authorities said on Thursday.

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