5G drives 5.6-trln-yuan economic output in China: official


BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) -- 5G commercialization has directly spurred a total economic output of approximately 5.6 trillion yuan (787.53 billion U.S. dollars) in China over the past five years, an official said Thursday.

Zhao Zhiguo, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), released the figure at a mobile communications forum, citing research from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.

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