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China Mobile replaces chairman with China Telecom head

Yang Jie to pursue state-owned companies' collaboration on 5G

Yang Jie stepped down as chairman of China Telecom Monday and was named chairman of China Mobile.   © Reuters

BEIJING -- China Mobile Communications Group on Monday named China Telecom head Yang Jie as chairman in a move that will speed cooperation on 5G technology among the country's three major state-owned telecommunications companies.

Yang, 56, will also serve as Communist Party secretary of the China Mobile group. He will guide the company as both party chief -- in China, the Communist Party oversees domestic businesses -- and head of the management team. The personnel move is part of Chinese President Xi Jinping's effort to promote 5G technology at home.

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