4G comes of age with 400m users likely by end of year

Voice and messages make way for data as carriers search for the next big telecom idea

Editor's Note: The Communist Party of China Central Committee meets later this month in Beijing to set the course for the world's second-largest economy over the next five years. China Daily takes stock of the major economic progress achieved during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15).

Less than two years after China first started getting used to fourth-generation telecom technology, the country has become the world's largest 4G market, with the biggest user population and most sophisticated networks.