During the 9-day Spring Festival, a total of 8.783 million TB of 5G data was consumed, accounting for over 70% of total data usage.

According to the data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, during the Spring Festival in 2026, the total mobile internet user access traffic reached 8.783 million TB over 9 days (from 0:00 on February 15 to 24:00 on February 23), a growth of 18.7% compared to the Spring Festival in 2025 when adjusted for comparable conditions, with the growth rate accelerating by 8.8 percentage points compared to the previous year. On February 21 (the fifth day of the Lunar New Year), the peak mobile internet user access traffic reached 993,000 TB, an increase of 17.1% compared to the same period in 2025, higher by 17,000 TB per day on average during the Spring Festival. The mobile internet user access traffic of 5G maintained rapid growth, increasing by 39% compared to the Spring Festival in 2025, accounting for 71.4% of the total mobile internet user access traffic. Popular apps such as Douyin, WeChat, Kuaishou, Tencent Video, Bilibili, and Xiaohongshu were at the forefront in terms of app usage traffic, accounting for nearly 70% of all app usage traffic.