Recently, MIIT posted on its website the list of 2015 Demonstration Cities (City Clusters) of "Broadband China". 3 cities in Guangdong Province made the list, including Shantou, Meizhou and Dongguan.

The period of creating such cities is 3 years. MIIT and NDRC will give priority support to the cities in the experimentation and demonstration projects of new technologies and new services of information and communication. To achieve the general goal of building a "Smart Shantou", a city that is an important gateway of the information-oriented "Maritime Silk Road" in the 21st century and a city that leads in China, a plan is now being implemented by Shantou to noticeably narrow the gap between urban and rural broadband facilities and accomplish the development objective of "gigabyte for enterprises, megabytes for homes, all-round coverage of wireless broadband" in urban areas and "optical fibers reaching every village, broadband reaching every home" in rural areas to form a satisfactory environment for broadband development.
 

Source:Shantou Daily, Oct 22, 2015

　　近日，国家工信部网站公布了2015年度“宽带中国”示范城市(城市群)名单，汕头与广东省内的梅州、东莞共同跻身今年“宽带中国”示范城市。
　　“宽带中国”示范城市(城市群)创建期为3年。工信部、发改委将在信息通信新技术新业务试点、示范项目等方面，优先对示范城市(城市群)进行支持。围绕建设“智慧汕头”，把汕头打造成21世纪信息“海上丝绸之路”重要门户、建成国内领先的宽带示范城市总目标，我市计划于“宽带中国”示范城市创建期末的2017年底，使城乡宽带设施差距明显缩小，全面实现城区“千兆进企、百兆到户、无线宽带全覆盖”、农村“光纤进村、宽带到家”的发展目标，形成良好的宽带发展环境。

来源：汕头日报2015-10-22