A booth promoting 6G technology at an exhibition in Beijing. [DU JIANPO/FOR CHINA DAILY]
China’s top industry regulator said on Tuesday that 6G is a new generation of intelligent and comprehensive digital information infrastructure that requires consensus, collective thinking from all parties involved in global industry, academia, research and application fields. , said close cooperation is necessary. Innovation, breadth of integration, and strength of cooperation.
Zhang Yunming, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said further efforts are needed to strengthen communication and deepen cooperation in order to promote the formation of a unified 6G global standard and create a new model of global industrial innovation cooperation. He said via video link. 6G communications conference in Chongqing.
Mr. Zhang said that it is important to pursue innovation-driven development, and efforts should be made to deepen research and development of key technologies.
Wang Zhiqin, head of IMT-2030 (6G), said that 6G has moved from a concept to a critical stage towards technological breakthrough, and several Chinese and foreign telecommunications and smartphone companies are planning to It said it is participating in China’s 6G technology trials and tests. Promotion Group is a government-affiliated flagship platform for promoting domestic 6G and international cooperation.
Wang said that Shanghai Nokia Bell, Ericsson, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Huawei, ZTE, Vivo and Inspur participated in China’s 6G technology trials and tests in 2023.
China’s 6G development adheres to the principle of open cooperation, strengthens international exchanges, and signs cooperation memorandums with partners in South Korea, Europe and India, he added.
In June, the International Telecommunication Union approved the 6G Vision Framework, the foundational document for global 6G work, kickstarting new research and development around the world.
The newly approved 6G standard includes six major usage scenarios, compared to only three for 5G technology.
China Unicom is enthusiastically working on exploring the key potential technologies of 6G. According to China Unicom, the company plans to complete technology research and explore initial application scenarios for 6G technology by 2025, and the commercial launch of 6G in China is expected to begin in 2030.
Gao Tongqing, deputy general manager of China Mobile, said now is an important time to identify key 6G technologies.
China Mobile has launched a 6G public experiment verification platform. It provides industrial partners with an open and scenario-based collaborative R&D testing environment, supporting the validation of various new business and application scenarios, and lowering the threshold for his R&D of key 6G technologies.
