From January to May, my country's telecommunications business revenue totaled 612.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%.

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On June 23, according to the "Economic Operation of the Communications Industry from January to May 2021" released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from January to May 2021, my country's telecommunications business revenue totaled 612.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%, and the average growth rate over the past two years was 4.7%, an increase of 6.4 percentage points from the same period in 2019 before the epidemic. The total volume of telecommunications business calculated at the same price as last year was 657.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.9%.

Figure 2020-2021 Telecommunications business revenue and total telecommunications business volume cumulative growth rate from January to May

Specifically, from January to May 2021, the three basic telecommunications companies completed fixed data and Internet business revenue of 105.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.9%; completed mobile data and Internet business revenue of 272.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.7%. The three basic telecommunications companies completed fixed voice and mobile voice business revenues of 9.74 billion yuan and 49.3 billion yuan, down 4.7% and 3.6% year-on-year respectively.

It is worth mentioning that the revenue from emerging businesses has grown rapidly. The three basic telecommunications companies have actively developed emerging businesses such as IPTV, Internet data centers, big data, and cloud computing. From January to May 2021, they achieved a total revenue of 91.8 billion yuan from emerging businesses, a year-on-year increase of 25.7%. Among them, cloud computing and big data businesses have shown the most outstanding growth, with year-on-year revenue growth of 94.7% and 35.3% respectively.