Chinese technology company Huawei is collaborating with internet service provider China Mobile to provide 5G network access to communities in villages near the karst mountains of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to promote the region's signature brown sugar tourism.
One of the villages that received the service is Buhua Village located in Jiangzhou District, Chongzuo County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and is known as the "Sugar Capital of China" because it has 266,000 hectares of sugarcane plantations and contributes about a third of Guangxi's total sugar production or a fifth of China's total national production.
"After 10 years of telecommunications service development, even in remote areas that are difficult to reach and only have three houses there, China Mobile continues to strive to provide internet networks so that rural areas now have high-speed networks with quality equal to that of urban residents so that they can become the foundation for smart tourism in the future," said General Manager of China Mobile Guangxi Chongzuo Branch, Zhou Peng.
As of March 2026, according to China Mobile data, 99 percent of rural areas in Chongzuo, located in southern China, had 4G coverage, and 95 percent were covered by 5G coverage.
"The challenge is the unique karst landscape, which forms conical mountains, karst hills, basins, underground rivers, and even giant holes. There are also several families living in the interior, but we still want to reach them so they can truly escape poverty," added Zhou Peng.
