China’s future city Xiong’an just got a serious digital upgrade. This week, Huawei and China Unicom quietly launched the world’s first commercial 10-gigabit broadband pilot, powered by 50G-PON fiber tech. Translation: internet so fast that it makes your Wi-Fi look like dial-up.

Early tests clocked downloads at around 9.8 Gbps and uploads at roughly 1 Gbps. That’s enough to snag a full-length 4K movie in just a few seconds, or make cloud gaming feel like playing offline. For residents of Xiong’an—the state-backed “city of the future” just south of Beijing—this is more than bragging rights. It’s a preview of how China plans to wire up entire cities with blistering internet speeds.

And it doesn’t stop at home broadband. While Xiong’an experiments with fiber that rivals sci-fi, 5G-Advanced is rolling out across more than 300 cities in the Chinese mainland, pushing toward 10 Gbps-class mobile speeds. Think 8K livestreaming, VR meetups, and lag-free esports on your phone.

As the rest of the world debates AI regulations and infrastructure bottlenecks, China is quietly testing what life looks like at 10 gigabits per second. For Xiong’an’s residents, the future just loaded—instantly.

Cover image via Gadgets 360 Hindi.