The number of 5G base stations in my country accounts for 70% of the world, the number of terminals accounts for 80%, and the number of patents ranks first in the world
A new engine for high-quality development
The 5G version of the six-axis dual-arm drinking robot with millions of data-level visual training and reset error accurate to 0.1 mm. It is a battle interactive game integrating physical robots, virtual interactive projection, and 5G edge computing. It uses upstream shunting, authorized frequency bands, and 5G. Slicing and other technologies to achieve a fully connected, high-secure government affairs network... At the 2021 World 5G Conference held in Beijing from August 31 to September 2, various new applications based on 5G not only detonated the technology circle, but also triggered all walks of life. focus on.
The conference disclosed that in the past two years of commercial use of 5G in my country, 993,000 5G base stations have been opened for construction, and the number of 5G terminal mobile phone connections exceeded 392 million. These two data accounted for more than 70% and 80% of the world, respectively.
5G has enabled thousands of industries to turn their previous vision into reality and become a new engine leading my country's high-quality development.
There are more than 10,000 5G application cases nationwide, covering 22 important industries and related fields of the national economy, including steel, electric power, and mining.
Reporters interviewed at the exhibition site and found that, whether it is the scientific and technological achievements exhibition, the theme forum, or the content of the 5G application design unveiling competition, they all echo the theme of "5G deep cultivation, inclusiveness and symbiosis".
A digital world based on 5G technology, with perception of everything, interconnection of everything, and intelligence of everything is coming.
From "model room" to "commercial housing", 5G application scenarios accelerate replication and promotion
Entering the Beijing Yichuang International Convention and Exhibition Center, the 2021 World 5G Conference Science and Technology Achievement Exhibition gave reporters the biggest feeling of "real".
34 companies exhibited more than 620 5G and traditional industry integration results, covering tangible industry empowerment practices, business model exploration and technological application innovation.
If the industry's exploration of 5G applications before commercialization is still a "model room", after two years of intensive industry cultivation, "commercial housing" that has been built and put into use has been seen everywhere.
Booth staff no longer need to popularize the characteristics of 5G high-speed, low-latency, and wide connection to the audience, but go straight to specific application scenarios, ready-made cases, and technical details.
As one of the key points of the "new infrastructure", the development speed of 5G in China has exceeded the industry's original expectations.
According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, my country's 5G base stations have covered all prefecture-level cities, more than 95% of counties and districts, and 35% of townships across the country.
A total of 463 models of 5G terminals in China have been licensed for network access. In the first seven months of this year, the cumulative shipments of 5G mobile phones were 150 million units, with prices as low as 1,000 yuan or less.
This is where my country has the confidence to vigorously promote 5G inclusiveness and symbiosis.
20% of 5G application scenarios are communication between people, and 80% of scenarios are communication between things.
The 5G application design unveiling competition held simultaneously at this conference is also mainly focused on applications such as the industrial Internet.
The organizing committee selected 13 out of 175 solicited projects to enter the finals, including 5G empowering port new-generation automated production, 5G-based multi-integration high-precision positioning system and other technical applications, as well as "Technology Winter Olympics" smart car networking Key technology research and business demonstration, Shanxi Lu’an Chemical Industry Group’s Xinyuan Coal Mine 5G smart mine project, JD Logistics 5G fully connected smart warehouse and other specific projects, including Beijing Jishuitan Hospital based on 5G customized network remote surgery multi-scenario application pilot, etc.4 A smart medical project.
The 5G fully-connected factory jointly established by China Telecom and Sany Heavy Industry is one of the top ten application cases released by the organizing committee.
Staff at the China Telecom booth told reporters that they deployed a 5G virtual private network in the Sany Nankou Industrial Park to achieve 8 categories and 30 sub-scenario applications such as 5G data collection and 5G machine vision, and access to more than 230 industrial equipment , The goal is to launch 500 5G terminals by the end of this year.
"The factory's machine tools, welding, cutting machines and other equipment are all steel structures, which have a great impact on signal shielding. The connection through WiFi is extremely unstable, but the use of 5G can solve this problem." The staff said, replacing optical fiber access with 5G The realization of "cutting the pigtails" enables real-time monitoring and real-time identification and real-time alarming of the management of personnel, materials and equipment in the park.
In addition, the 5G edge cloud network can greatly reduce the computer room, reduce operation and maintenance costs, and ultimately achieve the goal of eliminating the computer room and reducing the number of people.
The multi-point flowering of 5G applications is also directly reflected in the network management of operators.
The reporter saw from China Unicom's 5G slicing and MEC (edge computing) operating platform that there are 17 companies in a specific area in Beijing that are using 25 5G network slicing services.
According to the staff of China Unicom’s booth, network slicing can be networked on-demand, that is, operators can cut out multiple virtual end-to-end networks on a unified infrastructure. Each slice ranges from the wireless access network to the bearer network to the core network. Logically isolated, adapt to different types of business applications.
In the past, important applications that needed to re-route fiber dedicated lines can now be directly configured on the 5G operating platform, including self-service order slicing, and full-process tracking control.
From manufacturing products to setting standards, strengthening technical reserves has become the consensus of the industry
At the 2021 World 5G Conference, the 5G VoNR+ (New Voice) working group under the 5G Deterministic Network Industry Alliance was formally established.
As the world's first 5G new voice industry cooperation position, this working group is composed of more than 10 units including China Mobile, led by Huawei, and is committed to promoting the development of VoNR+ standard technology and industrial ecology.
The operator's voice service has always been the most reliable call choice for users.
The combination of 5G and AR, VR and other technologies has evolved interactive call services such as visual menus, multimedia display, and remote collaboration, opening up new imagination for the ascendant 5G market.
For example, in the remote collaboration business, when the elderly are alone at home and cannot operate home appliances, family members can directly circle the place to be clicked in the phone video, and the elderly can see the marked content in real time.
According to reports, the new voice service can be widely used in daily life scenarios such as elderly care, remote maintenance, item searching, and child counseling, and may give birth to new industries.
In December last year, based on Huawei's 5G new voice solution, Zhejiang Mobile achieved the world's first call for visual menus and caller ID services.
This service can be used directly without downloading any APP, and the user experience is convenient and friendly.
Today, my country's 5G standard support capacity continues to increase, and the 5G standard system continues to improve.
Han Xia, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, revealed at the conference that the 447 industry standards including the overall technical requirements for the core network of the 5G mobile communication network have been released one after another, providing an important technical specification guarantee for the innovative development of 5G converged applications.
At present, my country's 5G standard essential patents account for more than 38%, ranking first in the world.
Unlike the previous focus on product manufacturing, China is participating more in upstream standard formulation and ecological cultivation.
During the interview, the reporter found that many companies emphasized "technical reserves" and paid more and more attention to technology research and development and innovation.
SIMCom, a Huawei eco-chain company, brought a variety of 5G modules and terminal exhibits to the conference this time.
Among them, SIM8210C and SIM8210C-M2 are 5G communication modules developed based on Qualcomm 315 5G Internet of Things modem, with a maximum rate of up to 1.5Gbps.
The SIM9350 smart module also supports the secondary development of the Android platform.
Yang Huiming, director of SIMCom’s sales department, told reporters that their 5G modules are compatible with multiple communication protocols, have strong expansion capabilities and rich interfaces.
The 5G CPE with the built-in SIM8200EA-M2 module helps smart unmanned mines, connects to many mining equipment systems, and returns data, voice, video and other information in real time to realize the intelligence of underground coal mine operations.
Electronic Science Instruments, a subsidiary of China Electronics Technology Group, focuses on 5G technology testing, and brings a variety of instruments and solutions including base station testing, field testing, optical fiber link testing, data communication testing, etc., which can be used for 5G terminals and baseband chips. R&D and production, calibration, testing, certification, maintenance and teaching and other fields, and the testing efficiency is very high.
It is worth noting that the company also displayed a variety of millimeter wave measuring instruments, of which the frequency of millimeter wave waveguide testing instruments covers 500GHz, and the overall technical performance is at the domestic leading and internationally advanced level.
At present, the global 5G network frequency bands are mainly divided into two major ranges: Sub-6GHz and millimeter wave, and my country uses the former, which is characterized by strong signal penetration, but the data transmission speed is slower than millimeter wave.
"Although millimeter wave has not been applied in China for the time being, with the development of my country's new infrastructure and the continuous increase in 5G data transmission requirements, it may be officially launched in the future." According to the staff of Electrosys, the company has made technical reserves. New equipment such as millimeter wave signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and vector network analyzers have been developed.
From construction and promotion to open cooperation, 5G technology R&D and application will benefit the world
5G technology has only appeared in a few short years, and it has affected people's lives in many ways.
The 5G ATG ground-to-air broadband solution brought by ZTE will greatly improve the Internet experience of airplane passengers.
Traditional aircraft networking requires satellites, while ATG uses existing land mobile communication technology to develop customized development for high-speed aviation characteristics, and build dedicated base stations that can cover the sky on the ground to achieve high-speed ground-to-air data transmission.
ZTE built the industry's first 3G ATG commercial network as early as 2009, and undertook the construction of a 4G ATG network in 2014. 5G will bring this technology to a new level.
According to Han Ying, ZTE's 5G industry marketing director, the maximum coverage radius of a single station of 5G ATG ground-to-air broadband is 300 kilometers, and the maximum downlink rate is 800Mbps, which is 100 times faster than the rate of traditional satellite solutions.
The world’s first test flight was completed last year. After two 5G ATG test routes are determined this year, cooperation will be promoted on a larger scale with the help of the World 5G Conference platform.
As the world's first professional event in the 5G field, the World 5G Conference has witnessed and assisted the process of 5G from accelerating construction, deepening applications, and integrating development.
5G is not only the key driving force of the fourth industrial revolution, promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, but also is expected to play an increasing role in solving problems in the fields of climate change, energy, and public health.
At present, a new upsurge of 5G enhancement technology research and development and industrial layout is setting off globally.
Many experts participating in the discussion of the Global 5G Technology Cooperation Forum believe that 5G development itself has the characteristics of division of labor and coordination, and deepening cooperation and expanding openness are the only way for development.
In the 5G era, countries are highly connected and highly dependent, and the general trend of open cooperation is unstoppable.
Countries must work together to ensure that 5G growth can benefit the world.
The technical direction of the 5G enhanced version R18 is the focus of this year's work.
R18 will start the 5G-Advanced standard stage, stimulating new 5G potential in terms of continuous enhancement of broadband, and the precise positioning of 5G in the industrial field in the future is expected to reach the centimeter level.
How to promote 5G enhancement technology to mature?
Li Meng, Vice Minister of Science and Technology, said at the forum that he is willing to continue to uphold the concept of open cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win, with a more open attitude, more pragmatic measures, and relying on China's foundation in 5G technology applications and industries to further strengthen 5G. International cooperation in technological evolution, exploring the secondary development technology system for 5G vertical industry applications, carrying out 5G enhancement technology standards, equipment research and development, and testing research, improving the adaptability of 5G vertical industry applications, and addressing urgent development needs such as 5G frequency expansion and coverage enhancement.
Ten departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "5G Application "Sailing" Action Plan (2021-2023)" in July this year, proposing that by 2023, the penetration rate of 5G individual users in China will exceed 40%; in the vertical industry field, the 5G of large industrial enterprises The application penetration rate exceeds 35%; in the field of social and people's livelihood, a batch of 5G+ smart education, 5G+ smart medical, 5G+ cultural tourism model projects will be created, and the level of 5G+ smart city construction will be further improved.
It can be expected that the pace of 5G enhancement technology research and development and application development will accelerate significantly in the next two years.
Application scenarios support and adaptability will continue to expand to better meet the technical needs of large-scale digitalization of vertical industries.