China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. (China Unicom) has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2025, reporting revenue of 103.35 billion yuan ($14.21 billion), marking a 3.9 percent year-on-year increase. Total profit reached 7.57 billion yuan, while net profit attributable to the parent company rose by 6.5 percent year-on-year to 2.61 billion yuan.
The company continued to make solid progress in its high-quality development strategy, with a strong focus on connectivity services and integrated computing-network-intelligence solutions.
Connectivity services maintained steady growth. The number of mobile users reached 349 million, with a net increase of 4.78 million, while fixed broadband users grew to 124 million, adding 1.92 million new subscribers. Average revenue per user (ARPU) for bundled packages remained above 100 yuan. Internet of Things (IoT) connections totaled 663 million, representing a quarterly net increase of 38.4 million.
Cloud computing and intelligent infrastructure services also expanded rapidly. Revenue from Unicom Cloud reached 19.72 billion yuan, and data center business grew by 8.8 percent year-on-year to 7.22 billion yuan. To date, the company has deployed over 30,000 “5G + Industrial Internet” projects and more than 7,500 5G factories across various industries.
China Unicom accelerated its transformation across networks, technologies, and services. In infrastructure, it operated over 1.44 million 5G mid-band base stations and more than 2 million shared 4G base stations. Intelligent computing capacity surpassed 21 EFLOPS, providing robust support for AI training and inference. In technological innovation, the company boosted R&D investment by 6.7 percent year-on-year, deepening the integration of communication, data, AI, and operational technologies. In service transformation, China Unicom launched a series of AI-driven products and services, with paying users for digital lifestyle and smart home offerings approaching 230 million. Revenue from data services reached 1.84 billion yuan, up 11.3 percent year-on-year, while intelligent service revenue rose by 14 percent to 2.1 billion yuan.
(Executive editor: Yuan Ting)
