China's mobile Internet market revenue will surpass the United States to be the world's No. 1 regional market in 2015 as 4G phones become more popular and Internet speed improves, an industry summit held in Beijing heard yesterday.

Wireless technologies integrating with other industries like automotive, robotic, medical and consumer electronics and a new technology that is set to double and even triple mobile bandwidth are expected to fuel China's mobile Internet development, Shanghai Daily learned during the Global Mobile Internet Conference, the biggest mobile Internet summit and exhibition in China, which ends tomorrow.

China's mobile Internet revenue, which was US$1.8 trillion in 2014, is likely to continue growing rapidly to surpass that of the US for the first time this year, Huai Jinpeng, vice head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, told GMIC, without revealing more figures.

At the end of March, China boasted over 162 million 4G users, according to data from the MIIT.

Wen Ku, an MIIT official in charge of telecommunications, expects the country's total 4G users to reach 250 million by the end of this year.

Users can look forward to higher average 4G download speed of 450 megabytes per second, triple the current 150Mbps, based on the LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation technology offered by Qualcomm. The technology will be ready for commercial use "within about one year" in China, Matt Grob, Qualcomm Inc's chief technology officer, told the GMIC summit.

In China, the technology will support some models from Xiaomi, ZTE, OPPO, Letv and Coolpad in coming months. China Mobile and China Unicom are testing the technology.

Xiaomi aims to sell 80 to 100 million phones, mostly 4G models, this year, up from 60 million in 2014, Lin Bin, Xiaomi's president, told GMIC.