The NB-IoT Network Construction and Application Project aims at providing Information infrastructure in the rural poverty-stricken area in Yunnan Province, China, promoting the poverty alleviation in these areas.
Through this project, more than 3,800 LTE-800M NB-IoT base stations have been built in 3,500 poverty-stricken administrative villages in Yunnan, which initiate the large scale Internet connectivity for smart agriculture and smart tourism in poverty-stricken rural areas for the first time.
After the deployment and utilization of the project, including the network and related applications, the agricultural production in rural areas effectively improved, and the user perception of the tourism industry enhanced, thus injecting new power for the long-term and sustainable development of agriculture and tourism industry which are two pillar industries in Yunnan.
IoT network and informatization construction in poverty-stricken areas and related applications have strong reproducibility.
Until now, this project has formed a large scale support capacity for the characteristic agriculture and tourism industries in the poverty-stricken areas of Yunnan, and helping benefit about 350,000 people. It is expected that with the evolution of new technologies, the model will be further improved, and then better promote the resource efficiency and boosts sustainable development.

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• China

• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• The poor
• Remote and rural communities

The project has explored replicable experience for the low-cost construction of Internet of things network in poor rural areas. It also avoids unnecessary waste of resources by determining the height of the tower on the actual condition.
Through the network construction and application promotion, it has proved that the technology utilized in the project is applicable to rural poverty-stricken areas in other communities and countries.

The project exploring and improving the application and experience of IoT network in poor rural areas, especially in smart agriculture and smart tourism. Combined with a mobile phone application" travel to Yunnan”, the project is much more vital.

Based on the successful experience, it is expected that there will be more applications developed in the near future, from which, the resources of agriculture and tourism industry in Yunnan Province can be exploited in a more effective way, and the local economy will be better promoted.

The project has the following characteristics: 1. It not only concentrates on short-term benefits, but also focuses on the long-term support of information infrastructure to poor areas; 2. Strive to effectively and long-termly eliminate the urban-rural “digital gap” problem through the construction of the latest information infrastructure; 3. Combining with the construction of wireless base stations, corresponding towers and transmission networks, the project helps improve the sales network in poor rural areas. Through the construction of low-cost and high-efficiency narrow-band IoT technology, it provides a sustainable and reliable information infrastructure for the rural poverty-stricken areas, and cooperates with other IoT application companies to build a practical application platform. These initiatives have effectively guaranteed the achievement of sustainable development goals.