The first trial 5G base station, built by China Unicom, a telecom giant in China, in East China's Fujian province opened on April 10 in the provincial capital of Fuzhou.

The city is among the first 16 cities in China including Beijing to conduct mass trials of 5G technology, according to the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner.

Tests at the trial base station on the day showed that the peak rate of 5G technology reached 20 Gigabytes per second, 20 times the peak rate of 4G technology, signifying that a one-hour-long film of high definition could be downloaded within second under the network.

China is expected to be the world's largest 5G market by 2025, according to a report by GSMA Intelligence, a global mobile think tank, and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).

The CAICT predicted that 5G will drive 6.3 trillion yuan ($1 trillion) of economic output in China by 2030.

A worker installs the facilities of the first trial 5G base station in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province. [Photo/fjsen.com]