(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Accelerate the Development of 5G and Industrial Internet

  China News Agency, Beijing, April 25 (Li Jingze) On the 25th, the joint defense and control mechanism of the State Council of China held a press conference on e-commerce's promotion of consumption and economic upgrading. Li Ying, a first-level inspector of the Information Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the meeting that 5G, industrial Internet and other new infrastructures are the key support for the booming e-commerce and will accelerate the development of these areas.

  During the epidemic, new formats such as direct sales from the origin and live broadcasts continued to emerge throughout China. Li Ying said that the accelerated expansion of e-commerce from the consumer side to the production side has put forward higher requirements for infrastructure construction. "We will continue to promote the realization of a larger range, a wider range of fields, a deeper level of online and offline integration, production and consumption continuity, and a coordinated balance of supply and demand to help the high-quality economic development."

  Li Ying said that since the outbreak, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has launched a new generation of information technology to support the outbreak prevention and control and resume production, accelerate the development of 5G and industrial Internet, and serve the sustainable development of small and medium enterprises through the new generation of information technology. A series of policy measures.

  She said that the next step is to speed up the construction of 5G, and strive to build a high-quality, wide-coverage 5G commercial network at an early date, and accelerate the creation of an industrial Internet infrastructure with full interoperability between people, machines, and things; at the same time, cultivate and expand rich application scenarios to promote The integration of new infrastructure and manufacturing, energy, transportation, agriculture and other real economy fields will build a network security system to strengthen the security of 5G, industrial Internet, data centers, cloud platforms and other facilities.

  Li Ying also emphasized that in the future, it is necessary to continue to strengthen scientific and technological innovation breakthroughs, accelerate the collaborative research of core technologies and application technologies, increase the support of 5G enhanced technologies, and constantly optimize the development ecology of the industry, study and formulate corresponding support policies, and activate the market Vitality, to build a multi-level, high-quality digital talent team.

  At the meeting, Cai Yudong, deputy director of the Department of E-commerce of the Ministry of Commerce of China, said that there will be 105 comprehensive test areas nationwide covering 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). pattern. "The comprehensive pilot zone will continue to promote the development of cross-border e-commerce by carrying out first-in-first-trial, and applying cross-border e-commerce retail export tax and retail import supervision and other policy measures." (End)