Industry insiders predict that the scale of China's digital economy will reach 60 trillion yuan in
2025-5G accelerates commercial use and maintains a moderately advanced
Economic Daily · China Economic Net reporter Huang Xin
Since the beginning of this year, my country has continued to accelerate the promotion of 5G commercial use. At present, more than 600,000 5G base stations have been built and opened, and the number of 5G terminal connections has exceeded 150 million.
It has achieved a historic leap from 1G blank, 2G follow-up, 3G breakthrough, 4G synchronization to 5G leadership, and completed the catch-up of mobile communication technology.
In the next step, my country will adhere to the principle of moderate advancement, steadily advance the deployment of 5G networks, and continue to consolidate the foundation for the development of the digital economy.
You can use your mobile phone to deeply interact with your favorite products and complete online order shopping, put on a VR (virtual reality) helmet and use the handle to smash your own fruits, take photos with virtual stars, and follow the 5G drone to overlook the beauty Countryside... At the 2020 China International Information and Communication Exhibition (hereinafter referred to as the "Communication Exhibition") that opened on October 14, the application of 5G+ various new technologies in the consumer and industrial fields dazzled the audience and praised them.
Liu Liehong, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that since the beginning of this year, my country's 5G commercialization has accelerated. At present, more than 600,000 5G base stations have been built and opened, and the number of 5G terminal connections has exceeded 150 million.
In the next three years, my country is in the "lead-in period" of 5G development and will adhere to a moderately advanced pace of construction.
5G network accelerates coverage
In the "5G Arena" of China Telecom, a 5G-VR self-service arcade game machine has been favored by many visitors.
The VR boxing match on the arcade not only allows players to fully immerse themselves in it, but also allows visitors to watch every move and style of the player duel in all directions.
In addition, in China Telecom's 5G+ Smart Medical, 5G+ Smart Education and 5G+ New Commercial Areas, visitors can use supporting equipment, or test training, or be in a "real" classroom, or visit a "real" shopping mall.
Relying on 5G's large bandwidth, wide connection, and low latency, various new applications are emerging in an endless stream.
At the forum held at the same time as the Communications Exhibition, Fan Yunjun, deputy general manager of China Unicom, revealed that China Unicom and China Telecom have carried out 5G network construction and sharing, which has doubled the coverage and frequency of the 5G networks of both parties, and doubled the customer experience rate. With carrier aggregation technology, the peak download rate of users exceeds 2000mb/s, which is currently the fastest network rate.
According to Zhao Dachun, deputy general manager of China Mobile, as of September this year, China Mobile has completed its annual construction target ahead of schedule, opening more than 350,000 5G base stations, and commercializing 5G networks in all prefecture-level and above cities and some key counties across the country.
At the China Tower booth, the relevant person in charge said that China Tower and telecommunications companies have worked closely to promote the intensive and efficient construction of 5G.
Up to now, more than 500,000 5G sites have been built, and 97% of 5G base stations have been upgraded through shared inventory, effectively saving industry investment costs and greatly improving the efficiency of 5G scale deployment.
Zhang Quan, deputy general manager of China Tower, said that China Tower is actively exploring innovative construction service models, transforming the traditional resource allocation model of unified design and unified standards, placing more emphasis on local conditions, implementing policies on demand, and changing "standard configuration" to "customization."
"my country's network speed has been at the upper-middle level in the world, and mobile communication technology has been catching up and surpassing it. It has achieved a historic leap from 1G blank, 2G following, 3G breakthrough, 4G synchronization to 5G leadership. In the next step, my country will adhere to a moderate advance Steadily promote the deployment of 5G networks.” Liu Liehong said.
Accelerate the empowerment of thousands of industries
At the Ericsson booth, the smart factory has undergone a radical change after being empowered by 5G.
According to Wang Zhong, director of the intelligent manufacturing project of Ericsson Northeast Asia, in 2020, the Ericsson Nanjing Smart Factory has launched 6 5G applications, which shortens the preparation of temporary project security monitoring from 2 days to 15 minutes; experts can remotely "visit" on-site guidance, which reduces 5% of the project cycle and one-third of the cost of expert travel; 5G drones replace manual inventory, which has increased efficiency by 50 times; production line adjustment does not require rewiring, saving millions of wiring costs.
The industrial field has always been regarded as an important force for 5G applications.
According to the on-site staff of China Telecom's booth, China Telecom's 5G application cooperation has covered ten vertical industries such as police, transportation, ecology, party building, medical care, car networking, live media, education, tourism, and manufacturing.
"China Mobile has been continuously advancing 5G technology to accelerate its integration into thousands of industries, and has established 100 5G industry application benchmarks involving all industries, and has the ability to apply 5G vertical industry applications on a large scale in 15 subdivisions. Such as 5G vehicle-road collaboration, 5G+ high-end manufacturing and 5G+ smart logistics, etc." said Zhao Dachun.
In addition, China Unicom demonstrated the application of 5G technology in many vertical fields such as industrial manufacturing, car networking, smart cities, medical care, and education.
General Technology Group demonstrated the application of 5G technology in automotive R&D, testing and production.
Wen Ku, director of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that my country will be in the "lead-in period" of 5G development in the next three years.
It is necessary to actively promote the in-depth integration of new generation information technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence with the real economy.
Focus on the application needs of manufacturing, energy, transportation, agriculture, education, medical and other fields, actively explore and cultivate diversified application models, and accelerate the transformation of thousands of industries to digital, networked, and intelligent.
Liu Liehong believes that my country’s 5G network must form a benign model of “building to promote use”, carry out gigabit construction in hundreds of cities, strengthen the promotion of gigabit fiber networks, guide orderly investment in data centers, rational layout, and solidly promote the overall development of the Internet of Things. We will deepen universal telecommunications services in rural and remote areas, accelerate the promotion of 5G+ industrial Internet, and continue to provide solid network support for high-quality economic and social development.
Create a new engine for the digital economy
The accelerated construction of new infrastructure such as 5G has laid a solid foundation for the development of my country's digital economy.
Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that 5G, as a link connecting the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the industrial Internet, "rides the clouds, drives the fog, and empowers the intelligence", opening up new forms of social governance and economic development. Becoming the new engine of the digital economy, the new infrastructure with 5G as an important platform will stimulate a larger market, accelerate the deepening and expansion of applications, create new opportunities for digital and intelligent transformation and innovation, and open a new horizon for the integration of informatization and industrialization.
"The new infrastructure represented by 5G is the foundation of the development of the digital economy. my country must deepen the opening up of the digital economy, so that countries can share China's development opportunities, achieve win-win cooperation, and make the digital economy a new driving force for development." Wenku said.
According to statistics, the scale of my country's digital economy reached 35.8 trillion yuan in 2019, and its contribution to GDP growth reached 67.7%.
In this regard, Liu Duo, President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said that my country's digital economy currently ranks second in the world, with an increase of 15.6%, which has led the world.
At the same time, my country's service industry has a relatively high penetration rate of the digital economy, and continues to release the dividends of the digital economy to promote further transformation and upgrading of my country.
"The digital economy is becoming a new engine and core driving force for global economic growth. It is estimated that China's digital economy will reach 60 trillion yuan in 2025." said Zhang Wenlin, president of Huawei's strategy department.
Wenku said that the next step is to increase the coverage of Gigabit optical fiber networks, accelerate the construction of new infrastructure such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and data centers, continue to improve IPv6 network service capabilities, and steadily promote the traditional infrastructure "digital + X" and " "Smart+X" upgrade, advanced deployment of innovative infrastructure, and continuous consolidation of the foundation for the development of the digital economy.
Huang Xin