(Yicai Global) June 6 -- China will continue to welcome foreign companies to take an active part in China's fifth-generation communications market and share its fruits.

Miao Wei, the minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reiterated at a ceremony for the issue of China's first set of 5G service licenses today.

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Broadcasting Network were the first operators granted the 5G licenses.

Editor: Ben Armour