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The article in Chinese gives a lot more technical detail: http://finance.people.com.cn/n1/2021/1231/c1004-32321622.htm...

In short, every one of the over 600,000 “administrative villages” in China (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villages_of_China), with an average population of ~1000 each, now has broadband internet, which is either Fiber or 4G connectivity. Over 99% of villages have both. The average broadband fiber speed is 100Mbps.

This has been a long-term effort. At the start of the 13th Five Year Plan (2016), 50000 villages had no broadband internet at all, while another 150000 had speeds less than 4Mb/s. Since then, 130000 fiber networks and 60000 4G base stations were constructed.

The Chinese article also goes into detail on the efforts that were expended into getting the last few villages connected up; these were remote, hard to reach settlements with a high construction cost and a low number of viable subscribers. However, since the national plan was clearly 100% of all villages, the national and provincial governments covered much of the costs necessary to bring broadband to these remote areas.