Gao Xinmin, a member of the National Informatization Expert Advisory Committee, said that in the first half of the year, the number of rural netizens in my country reached 293 million, and the Internet penetration rate in rural areas was 58.8%, an increase of 1.2 percentage points from December 2021. In the first half of 2022, my country's mobile Internet access traffic reached 124.1 billion GB, a year-on-year increase of 20.2%; fixed Internet broadband access users with an access rate of 1,000 Mbps and above reached 61.11 million, accounting for 10.9% of the total fixed Internet broadband access users .