China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently announced that during the 2024 Spring Festival holidays, spanning nine days from February 9th to February 17th, mobile internet users consumed a staggering 674.5 million TB of data.
This represents a 21.7% increase from the previous year, with the growth rate accelerating by 15.4 percentage points.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, February 10th, data consumption peaked at 78.1 million TB, marking a 14.8% rise compared to the same day in 2023.
The surge in data usage is partly attributed to the significant uptake of 5G services, which saw a 72.7% increase in consumption, accounting for nearly half (49.9%) of the total mobile internet traffic.
During the holiday period, the top five most-used applications were Douyin, WeChat, Kuaishou, Tencent Video, and Toutiao, collectively comprising over 75% of the total app traffic.
This dominance underscores the central role these platforms play in Chines...
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