China Tower (00788) announced its annual performance, with a net profit attributable to shareholders of 11.63 billion yuan, an increase of 8.4% year-on-year.

China Tower (00788) announced its annual performance for the year ending December 31, 2025, with the group achieving operating revenue of 100.411 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), an increase of 2.7% year-on-year; attributable profit to company shareholders was 11.63 billion yuan, up 8.4% year-on-year; basic earnings per share were 0.6653 yuan; it is proposed to distribute a final dividend of 0.32539 yuan per share. The company continues to play a leading role in the construction of 5G new infrastructure, deeply implementing the national "Dual Gigabit" network co-promotion project, solidly carrying out special actions such as "signal upgrade," "broadband frontier," and "broadband grassland," closely seizing the strategic opportunities for expanding and strengthening the coverage of 5G networks, focusing on enhancing the level of network resource intensification and sharing, comprehensively ensuring diverse and high-quality network deployment needs of customers, and maintaining stable development of operator services. In 2025, operator services achieved revenue of 84.725 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.7%. In the development of auxiliary businesses, the company seizes opportunities, continuously strengthens product competitiveness, and promotes the rapid growth of business. In 2025, auxiliary businesses achieved revenue of 14.985 billion yuan, accounting for 14.9% of operating income, an increase of 1.2 percentage points from the previous year. The company solidly promotes the "Four Lists" work mechanism of capability level, task projects, resource allocation, and results transformation, focusing on the "one core and two auxiliary" business areas, continuously strengthening key core technology breakthroughs, accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of the business. In 2025, R&D investment and the number of R&D personnel increased by 82% and 22% respectively compared to 2024, the number of patent applications and accumulated granted invention patents increased by 77% and 54% respectively, compared to 2024, participating in the formulation of multiple international standards, realizing the scale transformation and application of a series of innovative products such as micro base stations, visual communication platforms, and "one code to end" technology. The scientific and technological innovation system continues to strengthen, the development of six major scientific and technological innovation centers is of high quality, joint innovation platforms are improving in quality and expanding in scope, and the efficiency of scientific and technological innovation continues to increase.