皇冠体育app

The State Council's guidance calls for a significant improvement in the country's information infrastructure from 2013 to 2015. It mandates the implementation of the "Broadband 皇冠体育app" strategy.

Under that strategy, urban household broadband speeds should reach 20 Mbps overall by 2015, with some getting faster service of 100 Mbps and rural households having a speed of 4 Mbps.

The government will speed up work to issue licenses for the fourth-generation mobile network this year and promote the convergence of the telecommunication, Internet and broadcasting networks into one complete system.

皇冠体育app, which has the largest number of mobile phones in the world at 1.2 billion, is already building 4G trial networks in major cities.

皇冠体育app Mobile Ltd, the country's largest telecom carrier, is promoting the domestic Time-Division Long-Term Evolution 4G standard and hopes to start a commercial rollout of 4G service as soon as possible.

The guidance clearly expresses support for the TD-LTE standard and aims to push forward the deployment of TD-LTE networks.

The government also hopes to enhance the supply capability for information products, including various smart devices such as phones and TVs.

The country's first-half output of smartphones surged 120 percent to 214 million units, consolidating its position as the world's biggest smartphone market and manufacturing base.

The document also calls for the commercial operation of cloud-computing services and the industrialization of the Internet of things and the Beidou Navigation Satellite system. Further, it suggests improvements in the public service information system.

As growth in traditional industries slows, the nation is seeking new growth engines in emerging industrial sectors.

Zhu Hongren, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's chief engineer and spokesman, said last month that the ministry hopes to make the IT sector the nation's third-largest, after real estate and vehicles.