China News Network, Guangzhou, March 31 (Cai Minjie) Yang Pengfei, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, said at a press conference organized by the Provincial People's Government News Office on the 31st that Guangdong will invest more than 500 in new information infrastructure this year. 100 million yuan.

In this epidemic, the use of new technologies and infrastructure such as 5G, big data, artificial intelligence, etc. has led to many new services, new products, new business models and new consumption models.

Yang Pengfei said that Guangdong will speed up the construction of 5G networks, and plans to build 60,000 5G base stations throughout the province this year to further improve the rural information infrastructure and promote network speed reduction and fee reduction.

Yang Pengfei said that it will focus on developing new industry consumption represented by smart medicine and smart education, and improve the level of digital government construction; accelerate the informationization of public health emergency management systems, public health emergency response systems, and disease prevention and control systems. Construction, in the areas of public health security, epidemic surveillance analysis, virus traceability, etc., popularize digital technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and improve public health management capabilities. By the end of 2020, more than 100 medical institutions in Guangdong will implement 5G networks cover.

In promoting personal information services and consumption, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology will expand consumption of 5G mobile phones and 4K / 8K UHD TVs, and encourage telecom operators, mobile phone and TV manufacturers to jointly develop 5G mobile phones, 4K / 8K UHD TV promotions, trade-in and other activities.

Yang Pengfei predicts that Guangdong ’s 5G-based personal information consumption will drive more than 10 billion yuan this year.

In addition, in order to ensure the development of new information services and consumption, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology will formulate special support policies for the development of 5G industries. It is understood that the policy will encourage Internet banking, commercial banks and other fields of innovative information consumption and financial credit products. (Finish)