Equipment is displayed at an event showcasing 5G applications for aircraft and other airline-related services. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The entire city of Tianjin is now covered by 5G broadband service, officials announced on Tuesday.

"To date, it has installed 32,000 base stations, with users topping 4.93 million. Plus, it has built 282 5G-application scenarios," said Yin Jihui, Party chief of the Tianjin Industrial and Information Technology Bureau.

Tianjin Mobile, a branch of China Mobile, announced that it has expanded its 5G network with 12,000 base stations, with total 5G users hitting 3 million. All urban and suburban areas in the city are covered, it said, adding that its 5G coverage along the coastline in Tianjin has reached 60 kilometers. Construction speed has ranked first in the country, it said.

Download speeds for 5G could hit 1,000 gigabits per second, while its extended speed has been accelerated to 1 millisecond.

Xu Binyan, vice director of the Tianjin Cyberspace Administration Bureau, noted that Tianjin has an ambitious target to be the country's top 5G city in a bid to benefit from the digital revolution and industrial upgrades.

Tianjin Mobile has launched a fiber-optic network through which the data exchange process is greatly increased. It has more than 500 optical nodes, which benefit Tianjin, its neighbor Beijing and Hebei province.

Its advantages in ultra low latency, ultra large bandwidth, and ultra high reliability, has become the primary artery of the smart city and the wider region, Tianjin Mobile said.

As of early September, China had built 993,000 5G base stations, covering more than 95 percent of counties and 35 percent of rural townships, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.