China plans to increase its resources to advance the construction of 5G networks. The country also wants to expand the implementation of 5G in various sectors.
At the same time, China is also starting to develop a 6G network. The country, located in East Asia, has started its research in developing the 6G network. That way, China could be at the forefront of adopting 6G.
Zhao Ce, Deputy Head of the Information and Telecommunication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, explained that the development of the 6G network is very important at this time. What's more, their 5G network is strong enough.
"China has built the world's largest 5G network with the most advanced technology. The number of 5G base stations in the country has surpassed 2.64 million by the end of March this year," Zhao Ce said at the 6th China Digital Summit, launching from China Daily on Thursday, November 6.
To date, China has implemented its 5G wireless technology in 52 of the country's 97 main economic categories. Its implementation is now being expanded to a larger scale, such as to the mining, port and electricity sectors.
Meanwhile, to focus on developing the 6G network, China has formed the IMT-2030 (6G) Promotion Group. This platform will be used as a means to promote 6G and international collaboration.
Zhang Wang, deputy head of China's Maya World Administration informatization development bureau, stressed the importance of 5G's role as a foundation. He said efforts to explore 5G application scenarios should be improved to support artificial intelligence, large data, and industrial transformation.
Cui Chunfeng, President of China Mobile Research Institute, explained that 6G research is still in its early stages around the world. According to him, this technology will, "integrated with telecommunications, perceptions, cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), large data, and security".
Although the definition of 6G does not yet exist universally, this technology is predicted to offer a much higher speed than 5G. In addition, latency is believed to be much lower than the previous generation.
