MIIT issued the 14th 5-year plan for information and communications industry development in Nov 2021, acknowledging that China's ICT industry, network services capacity industry   regulations and security safeguards have improved significantly in the last five years, MIIT highlights 

• ICT industry must become 

• contributor to domestic industry security
• innovation growth driver
• key component of the digital society and       economy
• protector of cyberspace and data security

• 5-year plan outlines

• major principles

• innovation-driven
• balanced and coordinated
• green and environmentally friendly
• open and collaborative
• inclusivity
• law-based governance
• secure and controllable

• quantitative development goals by 2025

• overall volume of industry revenue,       infrastructure investment and telecom service revenue
• infrastructure, including

• 5G base stations
• 10G-PON
• data centre computing power
• industrial internet identifiers
• IPv6 traffic
• international internet speed

• energy efficiency of telecom services       and large-scale data centres
• application and devices, including

• communications end devices
• 5G penetration rate
• 1,000 Mbs broadb and internet
• 5G virtual networks

• R&D intensity of basic telecom firms
• inclusivity goals, including

• 5G penetration rate in the countryside
• overall customer  satisfaction rate among telecom services users
• complaint handling

• major tasks

• new infrastructure

• new-generation telecommunications infrastructure, including

• 5G
• 1,000 Mbs network
• backbone network
• IPv6
• mobile internet
• satellite network
• international network

• green and smart data and  computing facilities, including

• high-quality development of data centres
• multi-level computing facilities
• data sharing
• AI
• blockchain infrastructure

• integrated infrastructure, including

• industrial internet
• Internet of Vehicles
• new-generation social and urban  infrastructure

• industrial emission  reduction and green development
• core technology R&D  and innovation

• digitisation

• high-quality internet and services, including

• promotion of new business  models
• barrier-free internet  environment

• digitised production  services, including

• online services
• industrial internet  applications

• digitised governance and pandemic control
• data flow and application innovation,  including

• flow of data as factor of production
• promoting the use of big data applications

• digital services  industrial environment, including

• industrial chain collaboration
• development environment
•  improvement

• industrial management system

• basic governance capacity, including

• internet governance
• management of radio        frequency resources
• telecom code resources
• data resources
• industrial internet resources

• market governance capacity, including

• market entry
• ex post facto governance
• internet market order
• telecom  devices regulations
• new technologies and services

• network stability and emergency communications, including

• cross-network connection
• emergency safeguards

• industrial services capacity,  including

• services industry regulations
• consumer rights
• protection

• regulatory innovation
• reform and open-up

• cybersecurity and data security protection and capacity building

• critical information infrastructure  protection capacity
• internet data security governance
• new digital infrastructure security management, including

• 5G
• industrial internet
• new applications

• cybersecurity industry growth, including

• supply-demand matching
• pilot schemes
• ecosystem development

• emergency management capacity
• secure and principled internet ecosystem

• cross-regional and cross-sector coordination

• regional coordination
• digitised countryside,    including

• infrastructure
• riding digital divide

• cross-industry infrastructure development, including

• overarching planing and rollout
• promoting sharing

• internet market optimisation,  including

• 'going global' measures
• international collaboration

• safeguards

• law implementation and drafting, including a new Telecom Law
• policy and funding support
• talent development implementation and overall coordination

BESTAO experts are making detailed and insightful analyses of this plan. The final report will be available before Christmas.

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