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Chinese state owned enterprise

China Mobile is the trade name of both China Mobile Limited and its ultimate controlling shareholder, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd., is a Chinese state owned telecommunications company. It provides mobile voice and multimedia services through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network across mainland China and Hong Kong. China Mobile was ranked #25 in Forbes' Global 2000 in 2023. China Mobile Limited is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It is the world's largest mobile network operator by total number of subscribers. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue. as of 2020, China Mobile Limited's total market value stood at HK$965 billion, which is the largest red chip company.

Incorporated in 1997 as China Telecom (Hong Kong) Limited, China Mobile was born from the 1999 break up of China Telecommunications Corporation. This company continues to provide mobile services, however. and the then third largest broadband ISP in China adding Internet services to its core business of mobile services. In October 2014, Nokia and China Mobile signed a $970 million framework deal for delivery between 2014 and 2015. In December 2021, China Mobile announced that its international arm would cease operations in Canada due to national security concerns by the Canadian government.

In November 2020, President Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting any American company or individual from owning shares in companies that the United States Department of Defense has listed as having links to the People's Liberation Army, which included China Mobile. On 31 December 2020, the New York Stock Exchange announced that it would suspend trading in China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom from 7 to 11 January 2021 and start the delisting process, causing stock values to drop. On 4 January the decision to delist was suddenly reversed; two days later, the NYSE said that the delistings would proceed. In the aftermath of the delisting, the company announced its decision to raise up to US$8.8 billion ahead of the Shanghai stock exchange listing, according to an official Weibo post by the company. In March 2022, the Federal Communications Commission designated China Mobile's U. S. subsidiary, China Mobile International USA, a national security threat.

A state owned enterprise directly controlled by the government of the People's Republic of China as of 2010, China Mobile controls the vast majority of its domestic mobile services market with a 70% market share. but also experiences frequent government intervention in its business affairs. Government control is maintained through a presumably government owned holding company, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. (formerly: China Mobile Communications Corporation; CMCC), that owns 100 percent ownership of China Mobile (HK) Group Limited, which in turn holds over seventy percent ownership of China Mobile–the remainder being controlled by public investors.]] China Mobile was one of six state owned companies that implemented the Connecting Every Village Project, which the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology began in 2004 to promote universal access to telecommunication and internet services in rural China. The MIIT required that China Mobile and the other state owned companies build the communications infrastructure and assist in financing the project. By 2006, its network had expanded to provide reception to 97% of the Chinese population, and the company has since seen a sustained stream of new, rural mobile customers.

The company branched out in 2007 with the purchase of Paktel in Pakistan launching the Zong brand there a year later. In 2013, China Mobile eyed expansion into Myanmar expressing interest in bidding for one of two licences on offer in a partnership with Vodafone although this plan ultimately fell through.

In 2023, China Mobile's digital wallet users were able to make payments by scanning WeChat QR codes as part of a program to remove barriers between the ecosystems of technology companies in China.

CMHK is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Mobile. It offers GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSPA+ (MVNO), FD LTE and TD LTE technologies to customers in this the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Zong is China Mobile's brand in Pakistan and is operated by China Mobile Pakistan (CMPak), a subsidiary.