China continued to expand its optical fiber network in the first quarter of 2025, with the total length of national optical fiber cables exceeding 74 million kilometers, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The scale of China's data centers has increased at an average annual growth rate of. Fiber now underpins nearly all fixed broadband in China – With 99% of lines on fiber, operators and policymakers rely on it as the backbone for gigabit services, smart cities and national digitalization efforts. Next-gen fiber helps stabilize ARPU amid saturation – Multi-gigabit tiers, smart-home. As of 2024, China boasts the world's longest fibre optic cable network, with substantial investments made in access networks and local trunk cables. This study also explored China's "East Data, West Computing" plan, which is a project that aims to improve the efficiency of data transmission. From supporting the ultra-high-speed communications of 5G networks to driving the massive data flows of cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), fiber optic technology is reshaping human society's interconnected landscape at an unprecedented pace. On April 7, 2025, China's Ministry of. BEIJING, Feb. Last year, the country installed nearly 4.