Wang Zhiqin, head of China's 6G promotion team and vice president of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said a few days ago that the commercial time of 6G technology is basically around 2030, and its standardization will be formulated in 2025.
With the large-scale commercial use of 5G networks, the global 6G R&D curtain has already begun, and 6G, as the next generation of mobile communication technology, can meet the unlimited connection needs of safe and reliable "human-machine-things" anytime and anywhere, bringing new possibilities. At present, the two-wheel drive of policies and industry parties, the pace of 6G development is becoming clearer.
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The construction of 6G continues to advance
There is a saying in the industry: in the development trajectory of China's mobile communication industry, 1G blank, 2G follow, 3G breakthrough, 4G parallel running, and 5G leading. 5G has achieved large-scale commercial use around the world, and facing 2024, 5G is about to enter the fifth year of commercial development”。6G, the sixth generation of mobile communication standards, is becoming one of the world's most important developments.
In recent years, China has continued to promote the R&D and innovation of 6G technology, and cultivated the 6G application ecology in advance. In 2019, with the 4 5G licenses issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China officially entered the 5G era, and in the same year, under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Science and Technology, the IMT-2030 (6G) Promotion Group was formally established to comprehensively lay out the research on 6G vision requirements, key technologies, spectrum planning, standard development, test verification, etc., and actively promote international exchanges and cooperation. Since then, China has successively put forward relevant measures in the "Outline of the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035", "The 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Information and Communication Industry", and "The 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Digital Economy" to promote the development of 6G.
Zhang Yunming, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, previously said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with all parties, will systematically promote the research on the needs of the 6G vision, technology research and development, international cooperation and other work, guide the establishment of the IMT-2030 (6G) promotion group, and clearly allocate the 6GHz frequency band to 5G 6G use, providing policy guarantee for 6G innovation and development.
Operators race to the 6G track
6G can promote more immersive holographic**, realize the linkage of the physical world, the virtual world, and the human world, and also bring development opportunities for operators. For 6G, China's operators are actively exploring.
In terms of 6G technology, China Telecom has led the national project "6G Network Architecture and Key Technologies" in the research direction of 6G network architecture, and proposed a new network architecture of "three layers and four sides" of data-driven distributed autonomyChina Mobile has laid out a number of 6G key technologies in the three major technical areas of "wireless communication", "wireless networking" and "network architecture", and has systematically designed the 6G network architecture of "three bodies, four layers and five sides" for the first time in the industryChina Unicom put forward the 6G vision of "intelligence, integration, green, and trustworthiness", and the industry took the lead in establishing a high-frequency communication joint innovation laboratory, an intelligent metasurface technology alliance, and held seminars and development forums for industry organizations to drive collaborative innovation in the industrial chain.
In terms of 6G achievements, at the 2023MWC Shanghai, China Telecom released 6G ***, including 6G reconfigurable intelligent surface, 6G full-duplex technology, 6G wireless intelligent network, 6G communication and perception integration, backscatter communication technology and 6G intelligent spectrum sharingChina Unicom released the "China Unicom 6G Network Architecture", China Unicom 6G Business, etc. 4 ***, and China Mobile released the "Network Collaboration, Synaesthesia Integration Technology, Intelligent Metasurface Technology for Network Collaboration, etc. at the Global Partner Conference", including 5 6G series
Jointly build a new ecosystem for the healthy development of 6G
At present, the development of the mobile communication industry is in full swing, and the development of 6G is solidly promoted. At present, the development of 6G around the world is still in the stage of technological research, and 6G is facing problems such as theoretical innovation breakthroughs, a wide range of key technical points, and the risk of differentiation of technical standards.
Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that at the beginning of 6G, attention should be paid to the coordinated promotion of ecology, and the creation of ecology needs to start from 5G 5Starting with 5G, the application ecosystem needs to strengthen collaboration with upstream and downstream industries in the industrial chain. Bi Qi, chief expert of China Telecom, said that in terms of joint innovation, China Telecom focuses on the key technology direction of 6G and carries out joint research with universities, research institutions and industry partnersChina Unicom pointed out that the ecological construction of 6G is facing more complex challenges, and the communication industry needs to closely integrate with vertical industries to jointly conduct in-depth and solid research on 6G business needs, and then condense 6G network characteristics, indicator systems, and network architecture, and improve the native capabilities of 6G to empower vertical industriesChina Mobile said that it will carry out the "foundation building action", rely on the collaborative innovation base, lay out an open and shared industrial ecology, open up the whole innovation chain from theory to experiment to application, systematically layout and promote the development of the whole industrial chain such as chips, devices, instruments, and basic software, and ensure the healthy, open and prosperous ecology of the 6G industry.
The development of 6G has kicked off, and the three major operators are setting sail for a new journey of 6G.