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1. Various of 5G base station
2. Various of workers of telecommunications operator China Mobile working on 5G base station
3. Various of worker of telecommunications operator China Telecom installing 5G network servers
4. Various of servers for 5G communications
5. Worker maintaining servers for 5G communications
6. Various of servers for 5G communications
7. Various of store of China Mobile, equipment
8. Various of store of China Telecom
9. Sign of telecommunications operator China Unicom
10. Various of people using mobile phones on subway
11. China Unicom's slogan for 5G

FILE: Shanghai, China - June 5, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
12. Various of worker installing facilities on telephone booth
13. Sign reading "covered by 5G network"

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14. 5G equipment
15. Various of workers maintaining 5G base stations
16. Aerial shot of cityscape

China has made initial achievements in building the world's largest 5G mobile network, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Monday.

The country has built a total of 792,000 5G base stations by the end of February this year, with the number of mobile terminals connected to the network reaching 260 million, Liu Liehong, vice minister of the MIIT, told a press conference.

The ministry also estimated 5G mobile phone shipments in China would account for 80 percent of the total shipments in the second half of this year.

China aims to build more than 600,000 5G base stations in 2021. The MIIT has pledged efforts to promote the construction and application of 5G networks in an orderly manner, accelerate 5G coverage in major cities and advance co-construction and sharing.