(Economic Observation) China has incorporated satellite Internet into new infrastructure or become a new grasp of economic growth
China News Agency, Beijing, June 23 (Xia Bin) Satellite Internet has recently become a hot word for new infrastructure in many cities in China. Chongqing has recently released an action plan for the construction of major new infrastructure projects (2020-2022). The plan clearly states in its key tasks that it will step up efforts to plan for the construction of global low-orbit satellite mobile communications and space Internet to build a national space Internet headquarters and base Orbit Internet small satellite constellation application demonstration base.
In addition to Chongqing, Shanghai and Beijing have successively released new infrastructure action plans, all of which plan the construction of space Internet or satellite Internet in important or major tasks.
For example, Beijing proposed to promote satellite Internet technology innovation, ecological construction, operation services, application development, etc.; Shanghai proposed 25 construction tasks including four new construction activities of new networks, new facilities, new platforms, and new terminals. "Facility construction" is one of 25 construction tasks.
As early as April 20, the National Development and Reform Commission of China included "Satellite Internet" into the new infrastructure for the first time. The industry believes that 2020 is the first year of China's satellite Internet development, and the satellite industry chain is expected to usher in major development opportunities.
In recent years, high-throughput satellite technology featuring high frequency bands, multiple beams, and frequency reuse has become increasingly mature. This technology has increased the satellite communication rate by more than ten times, and major changes have taken place in the traditional satellite communication field. Among them, the satellite Internet represented by low-orbit broadband communication satellites, due to its advantages of full coverage, large bandwidth, small delay, and low cost, has gradually emerged and has become a new solution to global network coverage.
The satellite communications industry is becoming a new engine driving global economic growth. According to the "White Paper on the Development of China's Satellite Communications Industry" released by CCID Think Tank Radio Management Research Institute, the global aerospace industry will reach approximately US$400 billion in 2018, of which the satellite industry will reach approximately US$300 billion. This number will increase year by year.
The satellite Internet industry also involves multiple links such as satellite manufacturing, satellite launch, ground equipment, and satellite operations, and thus will become a new engine driving global economic growth.
In the face of broad market prospects, countries are actively deploying satellite Internet, and the Internet constellation plans of American space exploration technology companies, Amazon, Canadian Telesat, Boeing, Samsung and others are all actively advancing.
Wang Peng, an associate researcher at the Chongyang Institute of Finance at Renmin University of China, believes that under the downward pressure on the global economy and a profound industry transformation, it is necessary to seize the opportunity of strategic emerging industries. The Chinese economy is in a difficult period of transforming the development mode, optimizing the economic structure, and transforming the growth momentum. It is promoting the close integration of aerospace science and technology with a new generation of information technology industry and high-end manufacturing. The innovation-driven upgrading of traditional industrial structure is one of the local transformation and upgrading Important opportunity.
"The satellite Internet industry is a high-tech, high-input, high-output strategic emerging industry." Wang Peng believes that in the face of fierce competition in the international market, how can local governments take effective measures to promote the development of the satellite Internet industry and promote the construction of strategic industries Cluster, this is very important.
Liu Chang, a partner and vice president of Galaxy Aerospace, said that as the satellite Internet is included in the new infrastructure, it will promote the accelerated development of the entire upstream and downstream of the entire industrial chain, which is of great significance for helping the construction of 5G networks and cultivating the digital space economy. At present, Galaxy Aerospace has initially verified a low-cost path through the development of the launch star and other products, and is currently building satellite mass manufacturing capabilities.
Liu Chang said that in the next step, it will also deploy a new generation of Internet satellites through technological innovation, computer concepts, low cost and mass manufacturing, and drive the development of a new industrial chain to help China's satellite Internet construction. (Finish)