Environmental, Social and Governance Report

The report describes China Telecom's 2016 expansion of 4G and fibre broadband, including 95% population coverage for 4G. It highlights extensive emergency communications deployments, including over 190,000 relief workers and over 40,000 rescue vehicles. Employee initiatives included care visits covering 630,000 employees and construction of more than 5,400 frontline facilities. Community programmes included almost RMB100 million invested in farmer-benefiting platforms and support for more than 18,000 cooperatives.