[Ten years of Chinese style] "5G + everything", Chinese people break into a new world of digital life

　　China News Service, Beijing, October 3rd.

　　Reporter Song Yusheng

　　"The 5G signal at the top of the mountain is particularly good." In May 2020, the mountaineers made a call through the 5G network at the summit of Mount Everest.

The high-definition video footage of the mountaineering team's summit measurement has also been shared in real time around the world through the 5G network.

　　This year, the world's highest 5G base station, the 5G base station located at the 6,500-meter forward camp on Mount Everest, was put into use.

In the same year, China’s 5G went 534 meters underground, and the country’s first underground 5G network in a coal mine was built, setting a record for the world’s deepest underground 5G network at that time.

　　Within a year of commercial use, China's 5G has created a record of "going up the mountain" and "entering the ground".

Now, three years later, how wide is the coverage of 5G in China?

The world's largest 5G network

　　In 2019, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 5G licenses to operators, which opened the prelude to the first year of 5G commercial use.

In the same year, the three major operators officially announced 5G package tariffs, and the 5G commercial process in China was fully launched.

　　At that time, some foreign media pointed out that this marked a key step in China's journey to become a technological superpower.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) directly reported the development of 5G in China with the title of "China launches 'the world's largest 5G network'".

　　After the issuance of 5G licenses, China's 5G network construction has entered the "fast lane", and China has accelerated into the era of the Internet of Everything.

　　In July of this year, Monaco became the first country in the world to have a 5G network all over the world.

In the process, the Chinese company became one of Monaco's most reliable partners.

　　Since then, the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has made the world see the forward-looking of China's 5G layout.

　　In 2020, Reuters reported that "the network load was full during the epidemic. China has withstood this test, and the moderately advanced construction of the network obviously contributed. This has also allowed everyone to taste the sweetness of the 5G network."

　　The Hong Kong "South China Morning Post" article believes that after the outbreak of the epidemic, a large number of users need faster network connections and low latency to support a variety of applications, such as live broadcasts and remote meetings, and the long-term development of China's 5G mobile service industry will be accelerated.

　　According to a report released by the Broadband Development Alliance, in the fourth quarter of 2021, the comprehensive average download rate of China's mobile broadband users using mobile broadband networks to access the Internet has reached 59.34Mbit/s.

And this data is less than 20Mbit/s in 2017.

Data map Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Jimin

The hard-won 5G lead

　　This "new world" of digital life was created by the Chinese.

　　Once upon a time, China Mobile's telecommunications industry has fallen behind for a long time.

Since the 1980s, there has been a new generation of revolutionary technology in mobile communications every 10 years.

But the starting 1G is almost a blank for China.

　　It is reported that China's mobile communication technology before 5G has been sorted out in this way: In 1987, China officially entered the 1G era, and the "big brother" shape was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but the core technology and standards were firmly grasped by foreign companies; In China, it became possible to send text messages, and mobile phones became more and more popular. In 2009, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 3G licenses. Higher bandwidth and more stable transmission speed made mobile Internet a reality, and domestic mobile phones took advantage of the trend. In 2013, The 4G license has arrived as scheduled, and the TD-LTE standard independently developed by China has been widely used, giving birth to new formats such as mobile payment and short video.

　　From "3G breakthrough" and "4G synchronization" to "5G leading", in the past ten years, China Mobile communication technology has finally completed the process from "catching up" to "leading".

　　The data shows that the proportion of 5G standard essential patents declared by Chinese enterprises has reached 38.2%, and there have been more than 20,000 5G industry application cases.

　　In current China, 5G is interconnecting everything: 5G+Industrial Internet, 5G+Education, 5G+Medical, 5G+Agriculture, 5G+Transportation, 5G+Energy, 5G+VR, 5G+AI…

5G life envied by foreign netizens

　　The large coverage of 5G technology in China has also made foreign netizens envious.

　　In 2019, on the YouTube platform, a video "Remote ethnic group rises above poverty in Yunnan, China" received rave reviews.

It records the comparison between the past and present life of the Dulong ethnic group in China.

　　The main settlement of the Dulong people is in Dulongjiang Township, Yunnan, with deep canyons and harsh natural conditions.

In the early days of the founding of New China, the Dulong people "crossed the millennium in one step" and directly transitioned from the end of the primitive society to the socialist society.

When the world enters the digital age, can the Dulong people keep up with the times?

　　Many netizens found in the video that such a remote village actually has 5G, and many people expressed their envy.

　　Since 2019, efforts to bridge the "digital divide" with 5G technology have continued.

In July this year, 6 administrative villages in Dulongjiang Township achieved full 5G network coverage.

Products of the digital age, such as e-commerce and live streaming, are gradually being integrated into the daily lives of local people.

　　Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao noticed that there are more and more bloggers active in the field of "Sannong", a short video platform, in China.

　　This depends on the leap-forward development of China's information infrastructure in the past decade.

　　Data shows that China currently ranks first in the world in the number of 5G base stations opened and the number of mobile phone users.

As of the end of July, 1.968 million 5G base stations have been built and opened nationwide, all prefecture-level cities, counties and 96% of townships and towns have achieved 5G network coverage, and 5G mobile phone users have reached 475 million, a net increase of 120 million over the end of 2021. .

　　In the National Museum of China's "Century Changes - Sculpture Exhibition", a sculpture called "5G Era" records the specific moment of digital life in contemporary China's rural areas - two elderly people are happily sitting on the stone bin at the head of the village, Hold your phone high and make video calls with your relatives far away.

　　Of course, what is fixed in the sculpture together is the unique Chinese 5G imprint of this era.

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