According to forecast, by 2030, 5G is expected to drive China's direct economic output to 6.3 trillion yuan, and the economic added value will be 2.9 trillion yuan.
A drone equipped with the world's leading 5G communication technology module hovered over the Huangpu River. People on the shore can not only watch the 360-degree panoramic 4K HD video transmitted by the drone on the screen in real time, but also can be in VR (virtual Reality) The immersive appreciation of the beauty of the riverside on the terminal ... This scene appeared on the Shanghai Bund shortly before, marking the success of Shanghai's first comprehensive 5G field test. According to the plan, by the year 2020, Shanghai will take the lead in completing 5G as the core The overall architecture of the new generation of information infrastructure.
In March of this year, Hangzhou built the first 5G trial site based on 3GPP standards. By the end of this year, 300 5G trial sites will be built. The 5G pilot area will cover Zhejiang University, Xihu Scenic Area, Qianjiang New City, and the Internet of Things. Network scene, the total construction area covered over 100 square kilometers.
According to reports, before the end of this year, focusing on the layout of 5G network sites, the Guangdong Province will also formulate plans for the construction of mobile communication tower sites in each city, and strive to fully launch the large-scale deployment of 5G networks in the Pearl River Delta within three years. The province's 5G base stations will achieve 7,300 seats. In addition, Chongqing, Tianjin and other cities also competed for 5G commercial 'first shuttle', or opened 5G trial network, or set up a 5G network open laboratory.
The three major domestic operators are even more rigorous. They have comprehensive layouts in 5G R&D, testing, industrial chain and application. China Mobile announced the establishment of the first open laboratory with end-to-end capabilities based on the latest 5G standard - 5G The Central (Beijing) laboratory provides customized 5G end-to-end technical services around innovative applications such as smart transportation, video entertainment, industrial energy, smart cities, education, artificial intelligence and robotics, and medical care. According to the person in charge, in 2016, since China Mobile launched the 5G Joint Innovation Center, it now has 119 industrial partners. It has established 12 open laboratories worldwide, established a 5G multimedia innovation alliance, and announced it in 17 cities in China. Carry out 5G pilot projects.
China Unicom announced that it will conduct 5G pilot projects in 16 cities including Beijing, Fuzhou, and Chengdu. It is reported that China Unicom's 5G operations in China include smart Olympics, smart cities, smart transportation, smart ports, smart education, smart logistics, etc. Telecom added six pilot cities on the basis of the six 5G pilot cities previously announced, and also launched a high-speed railway 5G scenario solution developed jointly with partners for use in high-speed environments.
According to the authoritative industry organization Global Mobile Communication Systems Association, it is expected that by 2025, there will be 1.1 billion 5G connections worldwide, a large part of which will come from the Asia-Pacific region. Among them, the number of 5G users in China will reach 100 million. China Institute of Communications and Communications released The 5G Economic and Social Impact White Paper predicts that by 2030, 5G is expected to drive China’s direct economic output by 6.3 trillion yuan, and the economic value added will be 2.9 trillion yuan. Industry experts say that such a huge market will bring huge business opportunities and New applications, '5G cake' will naturally become a hot market.
5G opens the era of the Internet of Everything, supporting higher transmission efficiency and greater network capacity
Autopilot, wireless charging, one-touch calling, fully automatic parking, On the complicated urban road network, cars move fast like fish in the deep sea without colliding, cars become mobile offices, lounges or even high-definition theaters ... 8 years ago, people who had watched “2030, OK” in the SAIC-GM Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo will certainly not forget about the 2030 self-driving car in the film.
To achieve full-autonomy driving, the support of 5G network is inseparable. Miao Wei, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, said that in addition to having a variety of sensors to receive information on all aspects, auto-driving cars must also be built between vehicles and vehicles. The information links between the roads, which will impose very high requirements on the high reliability, low delay, wide bandwidth, and wide coverage of data transmission. The delay is less than 1 millisecond and the transmission rate is 10 times that of 4G networks. Automated driving is essential to the network infrastructure.
Relying on ultra-high reliability, self-driving cars with low latency communication is just one of the 5G application scenarios. Researcher Liu Guangyi of China Mobile Research Institute pointed out that to understand 5G-rich applications, we must first understand the technical characteristics of 5G. Compared with 4G, 5G can support more antennas (up to 192), greater frequency bandwidth, and a wider frequency range from 400MHz to 40GHz to support higher air interfaces (air interface between mobile terminal and base station) ) Transmission efficiency, higher user data transmission rate and greater network capacity, satisfying augmented reality, virtual reality, naked-eye 3D video and other ultra-high-speed services.
In addition, 5G can increase the number of mobile network access by nearly 100 times through network virtualization and software definition, so as to meet the differentiated business demands of future enterprise-level applications and vertical industry applications through a single network. From the consumer to the production of the whole link, covering the entire scene from person to object, that is, 'All things connected'.
'The interconnection of all things is the biggest difference between 5G and 4G.' Huang Yuhong, vice president of the China Mobile Research Institute, said that 5G will once again increase the rate of human information exchange by tens or even hundreds of times. The leap in informationization will greatly promote economic and social development. Development, production and lifestyle will undergo tremendous changes.
China is rapidly and steadily promoting the 5G commercial process, and will initially have commercial conditions in the second half of 2019
In order to meet the 5G era, 3G has followed and 4G has been running. As early as the beginning of 2013, the 5G promotion group for production, education and research was established. In early 2016, the technology R&D experiment was started. The Director of the Department of Information and Communication Development of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology introduced Wenku. It said that the first phase of the technical trial was completed in September 2016 and verified the feasibility of the 5G single point key technology. In September 2017, the second phase of the wireless part of the test results was completed, and the 5G technology integration solutions of each vendor could meet key indicators; In December 2017, China also launched a 5G phase 3 trial focused on commercial use.
According to the plan of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China will begin construction of 5G commercial base stations in the first half of 2019, and produce the first batch of 5G handsets in the second half of the year. Currently, China is rapidly and steadily promoting the 5G commercial process, and will initially have commercial conditions in the second half of 2019.
After the 5G standard freezes, what challenges does the industry face? Liu Guangyi believes there are four main aspects: First, compared to 4G industrialization, the time for industrialization of 5G is shorter, and there are only two years left before commercial use in 2020; Second, 5G The requirements of the base station are higher. More antennas, more bandwidth, and higher power bring new challenges to the optimization and improvement of the performance of the core components and the complete machine. Third, the new core network will use virtual processors based on general-purpose processors. Implementation of a software-based and software-based platform requires iteration and gradual improvement. Fourth, 5G needs to expand new markets for enterprise-level applications and vertical industries, break through barriers in the vertical industry, and build new businesses and new business models that are mutually beneficial. It is not easy for operators.
To this end, Liu Guangyi suggested that China's industrial sector needs to do a good job in the next step: As soon as possible, the 5G initial deployment frequency band and bandwidth of each operator should be clearly defined, so that industrialization work focuses on the needs of the initial 5G deployment; For the industrialization of 5G, focus on operators. Network deployment needs, around laboratory testing and field scale testing, start multi-vendor interoperability testing as early as possible, accelerate the mature R&D of base stations, terminals, chips, core networks, transmissions, etc.; gear toward 5G new services, new applications and new business models Cultivate and incubate, carry out cross-industry collaborative innovation between traditional communication industry and vertical industry extensively, face future application scenarios, accelerate the maturity of new applications. In addition, we must promote the integration of traditional communication industry and vertical industry, encourage operators to actively explore New business, new applications and new business models.
Luo Wen, deputy minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated that for China, which has huge application scenarios and markets, the future 5G will accelerate the digital transformation of traditional industries, and mobile data traffic will grow in a turbulent manner in the next few years, effectively supporting the vigorous development of the digital economy.