Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 17 (Reporters Zhang Xiaojie and Zhang Xinxin) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the 17th that my country's digital industry will operate smoothly in 2024, with business revenue of 35 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.5%, and a total profit of 2.7 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.5%.

Among them, the electronic information manufacturing industry rebounded comprehensively and improved, and the added value of the computer, communication and other electronic equipment manufacturing industry above the scale increased by 11.8%, an increase of 8.4 percentage points from the previous year. The consumer electronics market has recovered in an all-round way, driving my country's mobile phone, microcomputer and color TV production to grow by 7.8%, 2.7% and 4.6% year-on-year. Driven by emerging businesses such as artificial intelligence and cloud platforms, the software industry achieved business revenue of 13.7 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10%. The communications industry completed business revenue of 1.74 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.2%.

Digital infrastructure has improved in both quantity and quality. As of the end of 2024, the total length of optical cable lines nationwide reached 72.88 million kilometers, a total of 4.251 million 5G base stations were built, 28.2 million 10G PON ports with gigabit service capabilities, and 207 gigabit cities were built, achieving 5G network coverage in counties and counties, and more than 90% of administrative villages achieved 5G network coverage. The number of standard racks of computing power centers in use nationwide exceeded 8.8 million, and the total computing power scale increased by 16.5% compared with the end of last year. New integrated infrastructure has accelerated coverage, with a total of 55,000 5G virtual private networks built and 2.66 billion mobile Internet of Things terminals.

In addition, the industrial ecosystem continues to be improved, with the number of open source Hongmeng equipped with more than 1 billion devices and the number of open source Ora users exceeding 3.8 million, providing services to more than 150 countries and regions around the world. New industry momentum continues to increase, emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and humanoid robots maintain a high investment and financing popularity, and the commercialization of large models is accelerating. The industrial agglomeration trend is obvious. A number of national advanced manufacturing clusters have been laid out around digital fields such as information and communication, artificial intelligence, new displays, and integrated circuits, becoming an important engine for the development of the digital industry.