https://wccftech.com/china-pushes-ahead-with-5g-rollout-while-huawei-strikes-russian-deal/

While the US races to secure rare earths supplies from across the globe in the face of possible Chinese export controls of the crucial materials, we begin to see that it does indeed look like China is gearing up for the long haul in its trade war/technology cold war with the US. China is pushing itself as much as it can to get 5G rolled out across the country with licences given to several of its large, state-owned telecoms operators.

This is no doubt in an effort to ensure that what business Huawei loses from the West it at least in part substituted with home-grown demand for products and services. Executive sources at the telcos are pointing to expanding their 5G pilot schemes across the country with an expectation that almost 800,000 5G base stations should be in place by the end of this year across China, with 3 million base stations in the country within the next 3 years. To give that some context, that would comprise about 50% of the total global numbers of 5G stations.