China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) jointly announced the country's mobile roaming service charges would be lowered starting from March 1.
Mobile phone users would be charged 0.6 yuan (about 8 US cents) per minute for making calls outside the local service area, and 0.4 yuan, or about 5 cents, per minute for receiving calls when they travel to another province, according to the new plan.