What festival is May 17?

May 17 is the anniversary of the signing of the first international telegraph convention and the establishment of the International Telecommunication Union 1865. In 1973, this day is designated as World Telecommunication Day. Since the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2005 and the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in 2006, May 6-7 every year has been designated as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.

Communication industry is the basic and leading industry of national economy. Since the reform and opening up, the communication industry has developed in the process of reform and reform in the process of development, achieving leap-forward development, with outstanding characteristics such as rapid development, great reform and obvious service improvement, and its ability to serve economic and social development has been significantly enhanced. Since last year, affected by the international financial crisis, the growth rate of the communication industry has shown a downward trend. From June to March, 2009, the total telecom business of the whole industry was 586.77 billion yuan, up by 10.8% year-on-year. Telecom business income was 202.42 billion yuan, up by1.86% year-on-year; The total profit of the industry was 37.65 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 18.7%. The overall scale of users has continued to grow, and the comprehensive price level has steadily declined. From June 5438 to March, the total number of telephone users exceeded 1 billion, reaching10.06 billion. Among them, the total number of fixed telephone users is 335 million; The total number of mobile users reached 670 million. Among them, the number of new mobile users in February and March was 1007 and 1055 respectively. Since the introduction of 3G mobile communication service in China, the number of new mobile users in a single month has exceeded/kloc-0.00 million for two consecutive months. There were 654,380,800 new netizens, and the total number of netizens reached 365,438,600. The comprehensive price level of telecommunications declined steadily, with a decrease of 6.76% compared with the same period in 2008.